Chapter 2: Visions from the Past
by: Vivi's Girl
Everyone was either sitting or walking around.
"What do you think we should do?" Freya asked looking over at the passed out Black Waltz. No one answered. The Black Waltz had fainted a little after Zidane, Eiko, and Vivi had found her, and so they carried her to Dr. Tot's home.
Dr. Tot was healing her bleeding wound. The only people who were missing were Eiko and Vivi. Vivi didn't want to go, but Eiko insisted that Vivi show her around. Everyone also thought it was best for Vivi to not see the young Black Waltz, so they encouraged him to go with Eiko.
"Well, she's healed and should wake up very soon" Dr. Tot broke the silence.
"I think we should just kill her..." Amarant told the group.
Everyone looked over at him in disgust.
"Never trust an enemy. For all we know, when she wakes up she could try to kill us."
"We don't know that for sure." Zidane said quietly.
"And what makes you think that?!"
"Damnit Amarant, just believe on this, alright?!"
Just then, the young female Black Waltz moaned and sat up. Everyone stared and gasped. The Black Waltz looked around the room at everyone, she seemed confused.
"W-Where am I?" she asked a little dazed.
Dr. Tot stood foreward, "You're in my house."
She stared at the man and blinked a few times. Freya walked over to the girl and sat next to her. "Are you a Black Waltz?"
"Black Waltz...?" The girl shook her head in more confusion.
"Don't act stupid!" Amarant went over to her and picked her up and started to shake her. "You know damn well what you are!"
"Stop! Please...you're hurting me!"
"Amarant!" Freya yelled.
Amarant dropped the now frightened Black Waltz.
"Hmph...if you actually think she's innocent, you're all idiots." Amarant left Dr. Tots house.
"Agh! That man is sooo...!" Freya turned to the frightened girl behind her. "Are you alright?"
"Y-yes, I'm fine."
Zidane went over to her. "Do you know who you are? Uh...or rather what you are?"
The girl just stared up at him. Zidane stared back. He looked into her glowing eyes as if searching her intentions. All he could see was sadness mixed with curiousity, but unlike the other Black Waltzes, she had no evil in her eyes, or hatred.
Who are these people?
"Zidane" Dr. Tot started, "maybe you should get going, the card tournament should be starting soon."
"What? Even after what just happened...?"
"Yes, even after what happened. The people decided to still have it. I don't know why though..."
"Ok, then I guess I'll go now." Zidane said and leaving the house afterwards.
Freya left a little afterwards to go look for Amarant, leaving the Black Waltz and Dr. Tot alone.
Dr. Tot looked at the Black Waltz. "You should get some rest. You can sleep here for tonight." He went upstairs to go read some books.
Rest? Maybe I should...
She layed down and drifted off to sleep in just a few minutes.
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What's that smell...?
In the air, there was a slight smell of smoke...
Smoke...?
No, not just smoke but also a scent of death and decay as someone would smell after their skin had no color left at all and started to fall off revealing thier white bones...
A loud explosion followed by some screams erupted from the crys of the pained as their lives slowly slipped away from them.
"Number 4..." A voice called out to the Black Waltz.
"Yes sir..." Black Waltz No. 4 answered almost automatically.
The figure who had called out walked into the room. He was wearing a strange outfit and had almost white hair that carelessly fell into his face from time to time.
"Isn't this lovely?" he started. "People fighting for their lives only to find out they're going to die? Their blood pouring from their doomed bodies like a drink dripping out of a tipped glass..." He laughed. "Now...Number 4, if you may, I want you to go help our weakened soldiers kill."
"Yes Kuja..." Black Waltz No. 4 walked out of the room...with a staff in her right hand.
Kuja chuckled to himself. "This is the strongest Black Waltz yet. She shall not dissapoint me."
Black Waltz No. 4 walked out from the main room to the outside of the airship she was on. A gentle wind blew eventhough the distant crys for help and the yells in the wind was anything but gentle. She had no idea why they were fighting like they were and killing innocent people, but she guessed it didn't really matter.
She only took a few steps until she heard running footsteps.
She faced to where she heard the sound and after a few seconds, a whole team of soldiers turned the corner. One of the soldiers who seemed to be the leader signaled the others to stop at the sight of the dark angel.
Black Waltz No. 4 chuckled to herself. "You're tresspassing on private property." She told the soldiers right before she lifted up her staff and did a powerful flare attack on them. It scorched half of the soldiers leaving them charred and burning. Some soldiers ran from the scene but some stayed because of their pride. Black Waltz No. 4 ran up to the soldiers and using the end of her staff, she plunged it into one of the unaware soldiers face right between the eyes. Blood spurted out on impact going onto Black Waltz No. 4 face but she ignored it. The soldier cryed out and his body twitched for only a few seconds before going limp. She pulled out her staff which made even more of his blood gush out and also some soft bloody tissue came out of his head and splattered over the deck of the airship. One of the soldiers called out an order but Black Waltz No. 4 couldn't hear it. The next thing she knew they were running and jumping off the ship except for one....
That one snuck up to the dark angel standing close to the edge of the ship, took his spear and jabbed her from the back causing her to fall off the ship but also to be passed out...not by the spear, but by the ice cold water that she fell in that felt like 1000 daggers digging into her body...and everything went black...
"Number 4...."
"Kuja...?"
Number 4...you did good. But also never forget your reason for life...
"I exist only to kill..."
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"No!" the girl woke up with a start and breathing rapidly, almost hyperventilating. She looked around, everyone was there. She was still in Dr. Tots house? Yes. But everyone was asleep. She felt something next to her. "What?" She looked down to find the same staff in her dream...was it a dream, it seemed so real...maybe a flashback...? But where did this staff come from?
Then she remembered something...I exist only to kill. To kill? Yes...it seems so right.
"U-um...you're awake?" A small voice asked from the other side of her. She looked over only to see another black mage, Vivi, with concern in his eyes.
No, he can't have concern...he doesn't work for Kuja...he is the enemy...
The girl stood up, staff in hand.
Vivi stared at her wondering what he should do, should he wake the others?
The girl looked at Vivi with murder in her eyes. "I am Black Waltz No. 4...I exist only to kill...."
"Z-Zidane...?!"
Black Waltz No. 4 walked closer to Vivi, brought up her staff and plunged the sharp object into Vivi's chest...
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Ooooooo! Don't you just hate me? What's gonna happen?? Well don't ask me cuz I don't even know yet...Darn writers block! That's why I stopped, I didn't know what else to write...soooo, I thought why not make this a cliffhanger? Hehe, aren't I evil? Well, that's all for now. Please review and tell me what cha think! ^_~