TO THE GIRL WHO'S GOT IT ALL


Chapter.6

Zidane crawled up the ladder to the bell tower.
He reached the top just in time to see a dark
shape disappear over the first roof-top.
"Hey! You! Stop!"
She didn't even look back. Zidane scowled after
her. How rude!
He got quickly to his feet and followed her. She
was fast. Very fast...
But Zidane had lived most of his life on the roof-tops,
and there was no way he was going to be out-run
by a girl. Specially not this girl...!
He ran as quickly as he could along the roof. It was
dark and slippery, probably also extremely dangerous
come to think about it. But then again, Zidane happened
to be Zidane! He moved with a feline grace, jumping
easily from roof to roof.
He even did a summersault just to prove to himself
that he could. The girl in front of him was starting
to get tired, he could see that.
Suddenly, she slipped and fell on her back. She
started to roll down towards the edge of the roof,
grasping, searching madly for something to grab onto.
She found nothing.... Soon she would fall!
Even though she was about to fall twenty feet straight
down, and probably break every single bone in her body,
she didn't call for help.
But Zidane saw her. He ran with twice the speed, careful
not to slip. The girl was hanging from the very edge now,
still holding on, and still not calling for help.
"Hold on!"
he panted. How to reach her? He layed down on his front
and held on to a chimney with his legs, sliding slowly
down towards the desperate girl. To short!
He couldn't reach her! Now what? Oh, this was just
great! What more could possibly go wrong today?
He'd gladly give his tail to-
Wait a second! Of course, he had a tail! Quickly, he
got up and tied his tail around the chimney.
Again he got down on his front and hoisted himself
carefully towards the edge.
"You... don't have to... do this, you know!"
she said trough gritted teeth.
"Shut up and take my hand."
She did. She wasn't very heavy, and he dragged her easily
back onto the top, where she collapsed in a heap.
"Are you OK?"
he asked. She shook her head. He could hear that she was
crying. He bent down and put a hand carefully on he shoulder.
"Aww, you're going to be fine... Come on, don't cry."
She kept on crying though. Suddenly, she threw herself into
his arms. Zidane was, of course, used to things like this,
but he was still a little surprised.
"Thak you for saving my life... Thank you so much! I'm sorry
I was so rude to you,"
she paused to sniff, then continued,
"my name's Teema, and I still got the orb. But,"
she sniffed again,
"it's not a wishing orb, though."
"Er... could you perhaps let go of me and tell me what it
is then?"
He could feel her nod. Teema let go and took out the orb
from a pocket. She wiped a tear from her face with the
back of her hand and laughed softly.
"'Wishing orb', huh?"
Zidane nodded,
"I asked it to throw those maniacs down the stairs, and
it did! How many... footballs, or whatever, can do that?"
"And you actually thought it was a wishing orb, did you?"
"Uh-huh. And I got a beer at the bar a couple of minutes
ago, for free! I never get anything at the bar for free."
Suddenly, Teema lifted his tail and looked at it with a
strange expression on her face. She was kind of pretty,
although she was nothing compared to Dagger!
"Hmmm.... Handy little fellow, this one,"
she muttered,
"well, well, that's the second time I'm saved by someone
with a tail. Lucky me..."
Zidane frowned and looked at her. 'Second' time?
"But I've never seen you before in my life. How can I have
saved you twice?"
Teema laughed again,
"no, it wasn't you who saved me last time. I met another one
with a tail once, he also saved me."
Seeing his confused expression, she added,
"he had long, white hair and very, very deep blue eyes..!
Very pretty, he was. Very, very pretty as a matter of fact.."
Zidane was shocked. Clearly, this girl had met Kuja. And Kuja
had saved her..?! Little Mr.Egoist had saved another human being?
This was essential!
"He's name wouldn't happen to be Kuja, would it?"
"Yes! Kuja, it was. Do you know him?"
"Umh... Yeah, sort of. He's like.. my brother."
This time, Teema was the one to be shocked.
"Your brother? Well, what's the odds of that happening? Lucky
me. He was the most wonderful kisser ever..."
Zidane held up a hand,
"I already have a girlfriend, I'm afraid."
Teema didn't even look disapointed. Which was lucky for Zidane,
or she might not give him his orb back. And speaking of which...
"Could I have my orb back please?"
he asked. Teema put it in his hand.
"I didn't want to give it back to you. But since you saved my
life, I guess I owe you that much."
"And one more thing,"
Zidane said,
"please tell me what it is!"
She laughed again.
"Sorry, I forgot. Actually, it was your brother, Kuja, who told
me about it. Last time I saw it, he had it. I also wondered
what it was, and he explained it to me. You might be a little
disapointed though.... Because it's certainly not a wishing orb."
"Yeah well, tell me anyway!"
Teema opened her mouth and started to speak, but before she had
uttered a word, another voice soared trough the silence of the
night. A, by now, very familiar voice....
"There he is! At ze very end vith that girl! Get him!"



[Authors note: Sorry about the little interuption ^_^
I'm seriously concidering telling you in the next chapter...?]