DISCLAIMER : Final Fantasy Series belongs to Square-Enix.
"The Show" is a song from Lenka
RULE IN READING THIS: DROP YOUR LOGIC AT HOME; enter the world without questions coz THERE WOULD BE SOO MUCH (too much) odds here; just prepare!^^ coz I'm just too lazy to fix it ;
Chapter IX: "The Second Messenger"
Slow it down
Make it stop
Or else my heart is going to pop (the Show Lenka*)
Night at Deling. The bloody night at Deling. The mighty city was dark and eerie.
Destroyed.
A woman in blue long sleeveless cardigan stood.
A smile escape her lips.
Blood tinted her beautiful face.
Her glowing golden eyes laugh in arrogance and hidden pain.
-O.O-
"You owe me explanation on things."
It was night already, and both of blonde were walking in plains toward the 'terminal' near Timber where they could took the train to Deling City.
"If you walk so slow like that, then we'll arrive next month in Deling.", Seifer said to Quistis who's left behind.
"I said I demand you to explain things."
Seifer now stopped and turned his back. A doubt expression on his face. "I know nothing."
Quistis caught up. Now both of them walked in same pace.
"You do."
"Talking will slowing us."
"How did you meet her?"
"That night at Deling…"
"You WERE there too?"
"In the prison you could guess what information I got. Robin Oskman was jailed there for awhile and I knew that he's planning this thing with Rinoa involved.. I escaped the prison with unknown help. I was sure it was Esthar intelligence since you SEEDs must be hate me and want me dead…
But then it turned out this Oksman guy had died and Greyshade appeared in the scene. Likewise, it's nothing I'd care. I just had to take the chance. Esthar would welcome me if I brought her, dead or alive."
"Ok, that sounds like you."
"That's all. Satisfied, Instructor?"
And the remaining he wouldn't want to retell. How then he couldn't do anything. And there was that chaos, which he didn't do anything about that; not stopping nor causing.
Then, when the tsunami and earthquake happened and he almost died but suddenly the flood stopped.
What he did was almost all entirely running and running and that was so shameful for Seifer Almasy. Like a little hopeless and helpless coward.
Finally, the most so un-honorable part was that.
When he saw her beautiful angelic figure stood there. But it was soo eerie. He should admit that he was stiffened and terrified.
Her aura was so different, not like Rinoa he knew. This was more like her: Ultiemecia; so offensive.
Tensing.
So beautiful.
Her golden eyes and greyish wings. Magnificent.
He felt death approaching him fast as she laid her gazed on him.
He's so scared. Damn it, actually he was so scared. But he pointed his hyperion proudly instead, with determined smug eyes,
"You... too?", she murmured.
Damn it, it still couldn't cover the fact that he was totally terrified right now. Damn it!
But then there was tear flew from the terrifying golden eyes.
Then the sorcerer was crying.
Her eyes turned back to brown, at the same time, the arrogance was replaced by terrified eyes. and she collapsed in front of Seifer's eyes. She was severely injured.
And as she collapsed, she coughed a massive bloody one and fainted.
Seifer remembered how the girl had twice come to his place at Timber just to be refused harshly by him.
"...! listen to me first, Seifer.."
"Go away, Rin! Go to that puberty boy of yours. I don't have time to waste here."
"…I thought…. I thought if it is you, you'd understand… since Ultimecia-"
"-DON'T EVER SAY her name again in front of me!"
"It's not a dream. It's not just a dream!"
"Oh right. Absolutely."
She looked hurt.
"If you really miss me that much, you just say it directly. See? Leonhart is nothing compare to me.", Seifer opened the door widely and put straight his arm allowing Rinoa to enter. "miss our little romantic summer?", he said mockingly.
Rinoa's expression was extremely hurt and she left him by the door.
That. Twice.
And now he saw with his eyes what she had turned to be.
(and the story began,,,)
...
...
He nursed back her. It was a fast recovery. Just 2 days. Most all the time the sorcerer was just crying and crying in pain. Or screamed in agony, so eerie. And sometimes only the unconscious beautiful girl Rinoa.
"Why didn't you kill me?" was the first thing she said. The same soft alluring voice he knew.
"Now, tell me about your dreams."
"I…I'm so afraid….Seifer."
And man… there she was crying again at his shoulder.
"Something bad is going to happen. You must believe me."
"What?"
"I don't know. I just feel it."
"…"
"Seifer, am I Ultimecia?"
"..we'll find proofs that you're not."
"...what did I DO?"
"…"
"I- I don't have a knight. I might turn to be-"
"GOD. What a joke. Isn't Squall your knight?"
"No. Seifer. Please, I beg you… will you become my knight?"
"No." No, I'm going to deliver you to Esthar so I could be hero, Rinny.
She cried again so painful which Seifer could just keep silence and didn't fo anything.
"I'm so scared… I don't want to be Ultimecia… I DON'T WANT TO KILL A LOT of people!"
"I'm scared… now everybody hates me….why? WHY? Now Squall hates me…. Everybody wants to kill me…..I want to live…I just want to live. I don't want to die…."
"I don't want to be alone. Now I have nowhere to go home."
Rinoa just threw herself into him and he was taking advantage.
That night when they had intercourse, he was shocked to see suddenly her eyes changed golden again,and he swore he could hear clearly in his mind her voice said, "I make you my knight, boy."
Just like Ultimecia. Damn, what the hell?
In the morning she just woke up confused but didn't seem to remember anything.
"…Did we?", she said whe she first opened her eyes.
Siefer just saw her eyes.
"Yes. What did you?-" but then he halted "-forget it" and stood; took his clothes and left. "I just need to think."
The girl seems didn't remember anything.
Then days by days passed. They moved to a small house in FH where Seifer once lived. A very inadequate place to live in fact.
"…..he pierced me with his lionhart… here. Right here. You don't see how his eyes full hatred toward me. *a bitter laugh* "
Time was then flew quite calm for Rinoa. She had found her transient shelter.
Meanwhile, Seifer became more and more realized that Rinoa was actually depressed. The girl really needed help actually. She was suffering some kind of mental illness.
"We must find a way."
"Do you still dream that fuzzy things everynight?"
"Yes."
"….Anyway, Leonhart is currently approaching here. We must move soon. "
"I must tell him."
"Like he cares."
"Seifer, I'm scared. Please never leave me alone, OK?"
"…right. I promise."
Then a stormy night at Trabia. The sorcerer- no- Rinny was screaming in pain, giving birth to a baby boy, helped by none other than Seifer himself. It's ridiculous even to think about it.
"…..I can't take it anymore…", she was about t give up. Pale exhausted; and a lot of bleeding.
"No, you surely can! Damn it!"
"Please look for Squall and deliver the message."
But finally she survived.
Seifer was then confused to see that she was nowhere to be found that day after. Leaving him with Alexander and so many unsolved questions about that damn sorcerer and disaster thing.
And that was why he ended up bringing Alexander to orphanage at Dollet and started looking for Squall.
-O.O-
[end of chapter: the second messenger]
Note: drama; a short- boring chapter indeed.