Chapter Four: Slow Torture

It had been three weeks since the incident between Ceres and Zell at the SeeD party, and she hadn't once seen the blonde youth. Not that she was looking for him, she made sure she stayed away from anywhere he might be, but it wasn't easy.

The events of that night had continusly played over and over in her mind. She had lied down on her bed for the longest, telling everyone it was the flu. She didn't venture outside of her room unless it was a life or death situation. Which wasn't very often.

She tried to watch some television, but there was nothing of interest on. Ceres was restless, and needed something to do to keep herself from going crazy. She looked over at her brother's weapon and grabbed it off the chair, deciding maybe a little monster-ass-kicking would do the trick.

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Ceres wondered about the training centre, looking for anything to fight. She silently dared something to come out at her, she was ready to seriously injure something. She sighed and gave up, deciding nothing was going to come out tonight. Just as she turned to walk away, a giant beast leapt in front of her.

Ceres gasped at the sight. She had never seen a monster so big before. It had to be a T-Rexuar. She had never fought one of them before, but heard that they were one of the most dangerous creatures alive. Ceres sighed and drew the gunblade.

The T-Rexuar moved quickly, and scratched Ceres with his sharp claws, making a dark pool of blood begin to form on her arm. She glared at the beast and struck at it with her weapon, but it didn't seem to do any real damage, just piss it off more.

Ceres swore silently to herself and backed up slowly, thinking of what to do now. She closed her eyes and concentrated and then opened up her palm and released an energy known as Firagra. The beast roared and turned, and for a moment Ceres thought he was going to run away, but his tail turned and side-swiped her, knocking her back several yards.

She tried to get back up, but something was wrong with her side. It hurt so bad, she could barely move at all. She groaned and tried to stand up, but the pain was too much to bear, she fell down almost immediatly.

Tears began to form under her eyelids. She couldn't die here, she just couldn't. Who would avenege her brother then? She had to do it. She HAD to..

"Help me..." She called, her voice barely above a whisper, "Please, somebody help me...."

The last thing she remembered was seeing a certain blonde SeeD throwing a sleep spell at the T-Rexuar, and then running over to her, his face full of worry, tears running down his face. "Come on, Ceres.. Don't die on me.. Please.. I love you...."