The Revelries of the Knight
....Part Deux
by Andromache
Once again, I do not own the characters of FF8 nor do I own The Bacchae. Besides, the only thing I do own is the fact that I did the translation from the Greek myself. Ha. Neh.*sighs*
Onto the second and final part of The Revelries of the Knight! (There be cross-dressing within!)
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Quick summary: Seifer (in the role of Dionysus) has returned to the Garden to get his revenge on the SeeDs and especially on Squall. He drives the women out of the Garden to engage in the revelries of the Sorceress on the Centra continent. Cid and Edea tried to tell Squall to do what Seifer says, but the fearless leader will have none of it even after hearing from Irvine that the women tore a herd of toramas apart with their bare hands and unnatural strength. Here we begin....
Squall: What a haughty man this Seifer is! He thinks that I will bow to him because of his supposed sacred revelries. I will not do this. Never! He will not have the pleasure of me praising the Sorceress through his ministries.
(Zell brings Seifer with his gunblade gone and his wrists shackled together.)
Chorus: Oh, our bright leader comes! He will show this upstart that it is not right to go against the will of the Hyne or Her Children!
Squall: Quiet your cries! This man is nothing. He has no powers, and his revelries are a sham. These so-called mysteries are nothing but an excuse to service the beds of strange men.
Seifer: Even your own girlfriend, Rinoa?
Squall: She would never do such a thing!
Seifer: How can you be sure, Lion of the Garden?
Squall: Silence your foul mouth or else I will have you bound with more that shackles at your wrists! Now I have to raise a group of SeeDs and retrieve our women myself! Go rouse the best soldiers that we have. Arm them and be ready to do what it takes to bring them home.
Seifer: But did they rip a herd of the feared torama apart easily and with no weapons? It is very likely that you would not succeed where a fearsome creature like that failed. It is still possible to bring them home without weapons.
Squall: How? By obeying the orders of a prisoner? I won't have that!
Seifer: I can do what I say.
Squall: This is a trap against me!
Seifer: How could it be a trap if I want to use my abilities to aid you?
(Enter Irvine, tired and panting)
Irvine: Commander, the news is worse yet!
Squall: What now?
Irvine: The women...have repelled us!
We snuck back to their camp to take them by surprise when sweet Rinoa again warned them of our presence. This time, we initiated the attack, and we were driven back! They had nothing in their hands but the ivied fennel rod which they threw towards us and caused us to run with our tails between our legs. These women should not be able to do that. I beg you, commander, acknowledge the Sorceress and her Knight or else we will all end up as their slaves!
Squall: Enough of this! Rouse an army! We attack at once!
Seifer: But your well-trained men were just beaten back by women armed only with wooden rods.
Squall: Damn! You, be quiet. You are of no help.
Seifer: But I can be.
Squall: How so?
Seifer: Wouldn't you like to see them in their revelries?
Squall: Aye, and I would pay uncounted gil, too.
Seifer: Even in their debaucheries?
Squall: Even though it would pain me to see them at their worst.
Seifer: Ooh, what a worthy ruler, so willing to suffer for the good of the Garden!
Squall: (increasingly dazed due to Seifer now possessing him) Well, will I see them or not?
Seifer: Indeed, you will, but we must do something about your appearance.
Squall: What for? I like how I look.
Seifer: They will recognize you for being the man that you are and attack you.
Squall: No, we can't have that. What must I do?
Seifer: Here, I will aid you in dressing in the garments of the revelries. Let me brush your hair.
(a little while passes. Squall models the new look.)
Squall: How do you like this? Do I not resemble my own Rinoa with my dainty garb?
Seifer: You do, and how like the lovely Quistis you are with your light step! Shall we go to the plains where you may get your wish?
Squall: (laughs) Oh, certainly!
(They leave arm-in-arm and soon Zell stumbles in breathless and weeping. Cid and Edea follow in after him.)
Cid: Zell, my friend, why do you weep?
Zell: Dear Cid, I bear sad news. Our commander is dead!
I followed him and the Knight to the place of the revelries on the Centra plains. Squall sat in a daze on a rock on the outskirts, and then I heard the voice of the Knight cry out, "Here is the interloper who seeks to rebel against our revelries!" The women set upon him like dogs and before they reached him, he saw his beloved Rinoa. He threw up his hands to ward them off and said, "Rinoa, it is me, Squall! I am your beloved! Please do not hurt me!"
She paid his words no heed and planted her foot against his chest as she pulled with inhuman strength on his arm. It came clean off his body, surely a signal to the other women for them to attack as well. One tore his foot off, and another played with the flesh of his stomach like a child with a toy. Others mauled him and played games with balls of his skin and muscles.
It was awful....
(Enter Rinoa holding in her hand the Lionheart gunblade with....something on it.)
Rinoa: Look, Garden! Would Squall not be proud of me! I have killed a lion! I did it with no help at all! This kill is mine and mine alone! Do I not make a fine mate for our commander?
Cid: (softly) Rinoa, look at me. Do you know who I am?
Rinoa: No, I have never seen you before.
Cid: Look at the sky then. What color is it?
Rinoa: It is a vibrant blue, but yet it fades. Are my eyes deceiving me?
Cid: No, you are coming out of the frenzy that has gripped you. Now, what is on the tip of the gunblade that you hold?
Rinoa: It is only the head of the lion that I kille-- Oh, Squall! (removes Squall's head from the gunblade and cradles it in her arms) Did I do this to you?
(Rays of bright light break over the Garden. Seifer stands in the midst of it and his voice projects over the crowd.)
Seifer: Yes, you did. Gleefully, I might add. This is what the Garden deserves after rebelling against the Sorceress' Knight. Before I leave to spread the revelries to the rest of the Gardens, I will give you this prophecy:
The SeeDs will be kursed from this day forward. Cid and Edea will be exiled from the Garden, only to attack it later. Rinoa, I believe, needs no other punishment. She will never get over the loss of her lover by her own bare hands.
Now, I must go and win the other Gardens. Please, do enjoy your fates. (Exits laughing.)
(Rinoa, Cid, Edea, Zell, and Irvine weep as the Chorus finishes.)
Chorus: -The wrath of the angry Knight is nothing to take lightly, for mere mortals to rebel is a death sentence brought upon themselves.
-Many are the forms of divine intervention; many things beyond expectation does the Knight fulfill. That which was expected has not been accomplished; for that which was unexpected has the Knight found the way. Such was the end of the story.
(Exeunt)
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::dodges low-flying fruit:: Hey! I told you before that this did not have a happy ending. Yes, in the original, the king bites it the exact same way, only his mother is the one doing the tearing. She does say that she has killed a lion as well. So...what to do now....I think that I will finish up Rough Sex III. Yes. III.
Mwa ha ha.
Andromache