Chapter 9
Rufus rounded up his staff members after lesson four had finished, all except Jecht. He was too busy cleaning up after his last P.E class the come to the break time meeting. Not like they'd want him there any way.
"So did it work then? Transfer and all?" Ultimecia said as an eagle flew, unnoticed to the window and landed on the windowsill.
"I believe so." Xehanort said as he stroked his pet Heartless, that was coincidentally named Shadow, "It surely looks that way." Shadow enjoyed the nice strokes from her master.
'Rao' nodded her head, "I have gain every ability that pathetic girl had to offer. Now we're on our way to reaching the goal Rufus." she said in a dark tone.
"Excellent. One step closer. Now that you're on to the Warriors you can sniff out the others without anyone noticing that it was you."
"I agree." said Maleficent, "But hurry up though I want all the Warriors dead before we move on to the Guardians."
"Patience." Mathias said with an icy tone in his voice.
The eagle that was perched at the window ledge flew away from the meeting room.
The bird came to land on Aeon's shoulder and it squawked down the albino's right ear, but he understood every annoying noise that exited the bird's mouth. Aeon stood outside of the school with the autumn breeze in his hair, waiting for the bird.
"Galamoth has a right to be afraid." he said to the bird as Cloud came to stand next to him.
"What's the matter Aeon?" he asked.
"Tell the others everything that I tell you, ok Cloud?"
The blond nodded.
"Rao was killed for her abilities as a Guardian of the special realm. Which are some very powerful dark magic and strangely so are time powers. Your teachers, except for Jecht are planning to kill are the Warriors of Locus."
"What? So are they in the school?"
"They could be. The new Rao can sniff them out. So we better work quickly if we want to protect them."
"Ok. Who's the bird?"
"This is Zephyr another Guardian of Time." he said as the bird flew off his shoulder and turned back into his human form.
"Nice to meet you Cloud. I assume Aeon has chosen you and your friends for good reason." he said.
"How many of you are there?"
"Six not including our master." Zephyr replied, "You'll met them all in time don't worry. Keep the Warriors of Locus safe." he said as he turned back into an eagle and took off into the skies.
xxxxxxxxxxxx- 10 days later (Friday night)
Zelda sat in her bedroom doing her Maths homework. She puzzled over it. Algebra. She sat there on her bed with her cat, Louise at the bottom of her bed. Eventually, she understood what she needed to do, which took about five minutes. She let her white long haired cat sleep for a bit, whilst she went out for a bit.
She walked out into the forest, where all the monsters were. Aerith trailed behind the younger girl. The girls placed themselves in the centre of the dense thick forest, and summoned. Xigbar, to the girls for a confrontation and Lulu appeared too.
"I am afraid for mine and Aerith's safety. There's a Demon in the school and she wants to kill us. Rao has already fallen to her clutches." she explained as Aerith nodded.
"Well that's not good. Should we inform Locus?" Xigbar suggested.
"No, she does not need to know." Lulu said coldly, "One Demon we can-."
The sound of a twig snapping broke Lulu off in mid-sentence. The dark figure revealed herself from the trees. Ultimecia. She stood there, laughing as she charged up an ice spear and released it. Sending it flying. Straight into Aerith's shoulder.
"You Warriors are a lot easier to kill than the Guardians of Time. They will require something much stronger to take them out." she said, the sorceress laughed.
But the spear never hit Aerith. The frozen weapon was stopped in its tracks about an inch before it penetrated the girl's lung.
"What? Oh! I thought that this was going to be an easy kill for me. But alas, I suppose not. Have fun living, for now." She said as she vanished into the night.
The icy crystal dropped and shattered as it hit the ground. Aerith was shocked. As a white rabbit hopped over to her.
"Chronomage." Zelda said as she picked up the rabbit, "Thank you. I guess that Galamoth has sent all of his Guardians to deal with the teacher crisis."
The rabbit nodded. 'I should inform Aeon immediately.'
"I agree." Xigbar said, "We don't want anyone else ending up like Rao. Dead and possessed."
"She isn't possessed you fool. The Demon Lord has just taken her form." Lulu corrected.
"That fox is tricky." Aerith said as Zelda put Chronomage down, "How's Quistis?"
"She's fine. She's still whipping monsters to death, but ok. I don't think that the teachers or that Demon will find her." Zelda said.
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"I failed to kill the girl. Me fail! That's impossible!"
"Everyone fails Ultimecia. We learn from our mistakes. Just make sure that there's no Guardian in the area and you'll be fine." Rao said.
"It doesn't matter that you failed." Rufus said, "We already have on set of special abilities. We should be able to make it into the Dimensional Space Rift. Then we shall control Locus and then Galamoth."
