Rigid Ice, Raging Flame
A/N: Due to some requests, I have decided to turn this into a mini-story, so to say. I don't know if it will be as long as Fatal Obsession, but I will try and make it good just for you guys!! J Thanks to Alonia and Quistis Almasy for suggesting I continue and to anyone else who did! Oh yeah, and review you must!! Strikes pose with light saber
Chapter 2- Breakfast
She woke with the sun warming her skin.
Quistis Trepe was an original beauty. She heard it all the time, but she never could believe it. Why? Because, then she would become egotistical, and she dared not to enter that part of human actions. With her long, honey kissed wheat colored hair, and crystal orbs, it was hard to not see it. Yawning slightly, she opened her eyes. The sun was glinted off of her glasses and making sparkles along the far wall. The wonders of nature truly dazzled her. The clock read 8:00 AM. 'Time to get up' she thought somewhere in her brain.
A few minutes later, with the scent of vanilla in the air, Quistis was standing in the window, the breeze unsettling the edges of her SeeD uniform. 'My poem…' A sigh escaped her rosy lips. 'I wonder what happened to it…I'll go look for it after breakfast…'
For once, Zell was sitting down like a civilized man, eating a hotdog like any other normal person. Selphie was the one who showed him that, and she was the one stuffing her face this morning. Irvine was at another table, with a bunch of girls around him, and Squall and Rinoa were no where to be found. A certain handsome man was sitting alone off to the side of the large room. Quistis walked over to Zell and Selphie with a cup of orange juice in her hand. "Good morning." She smiled at nodded in acknowledgement. "Hey guys…" She sipped the juice. Selphie looked up. "I heard you took the day off. Am I right?" Quistis raised an eyebrow. "Everything sure does travel fast around here. But yes, I did take the day off." Zell was just silently laughing. " Well it's about time you took a day off Quisty!! You've been doing so much work lately!" Quistis smacked on a fake smile, followed by a hollow laugh. "Yes, well, I am going to go and change, then maybe head out to Balamb. See ya!" She rose, waved, and left the room. No one thought anything was out of the ordinary.
"Hey Seifer. Good morning, ya know?" Raijin sat down at the table. "MORNING." Fuijin settled herself across from him. "Hey you two, how's it going?" Raijin stuffed something into his face. " Priddy good, ya know?" Seifer rolled his eyes. "GOOD." While Fuijin sipped slightly on her coffee, no one noticed the jade turn darker when Quistis left the room.
The wind kicked her hair up around her eyes, and she blinked a few strands out of the way. 'Where was it…' She was walking around the maze of bushes. 'I know it fell down here…it has to be here' The sun glinted from the rims of her glasses. Her papers and folders were pressed against her chest, A strong wind blew in, and with it went all of her things. "Oh no!" Quistis jumped up and started to run after all of it.
After a few minutes of grabbing, she almost had everything, then she heard a snicker from behind her. "Well, Instructor, loose everything?" She turned her eyes on him sharply, her breathing quicker. "Seifer…don't start with me please." He raised one of his eyebrows slightly at the answer she gave him. 'Not what I had expected…' Seifer did not let his exterior show his thoughts. "Something the matter, my dear Instructor?" Her eyes glazed over at the question and her lips tightened noticeably. "Don't worry about it Seifer. I just lost something." This made him all the more intrigued. "Let me help you then." He bent down and started to pick papers up from around the bushes. The one thing Quistis noticed was that he was actually on his hands and knees.
Seifer stood up and wiped his hands on his pants. All of the papers were back in their rightful place. "Thank you Seifer. You were the last person I had expected to come along and help me." Seifer didn't know whether to take that as a compliment or an insult. "Well, we don't always get what we want. I am sure you could have called Puberty-Boy to come and help you." He knew he had succeeded. He was under her skin completely. Quistis began to glare at him. "I told you once, I don't have feelings like that for Squall anymore. Drop it." He began to walk away when a piece of paper fell from his pocket, and he took no notice. But she did.
After he had rounded the building, Quistis took the paper into her hands and opened it. Her eyes widened in complete shock. 'My poem.' It was her poem. Seifer had it…did he know she wrote it? 'How could he know? He couldn't…' At the thought, she sniffled and attempted in swallowing her tears. She started to run to a more secluded place. 'The cherry blossom trees.' She thought to herself.
Quistis arrived in a swirl of petals. She headed towards the bench in the center of a circle of trees. Only, she wasn't alone.
A Goddess. An Earthly Goddess. Look at her, in all of her beauty. I want to take away your pain, bring you love. I want you to see me, my soul, my everything. Let me be your knight lovely one.
A/N: What did you guys think? Yeah, it was kind of slow to me. But, no worries! I don't plan on make this that long, so there is going to be some Seiftis goodness in the next chapter! Don't forget to review! Ah, I think this story will be on pause for a week while I work on my story for the Seiftis Contest!!!