Vryemnya
By Alex and Dave
I'm not going through the disclaimer BS. You all know how it goes.
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Rinoa felt a rush of relief fill her as she stood outside the cell. She was one step closer to getting out of there.
She took a deep breath in and started walking down the hall to her left. She froze in her footsteps after a few feet when she heard a loud moan from the cell on her left. She stopped breathing and slowly looked to her left.
She saw nothing. She figured she was hearing things and she continued on.
She reached the end of the hall without another incident. She grabbed the handle on the large door and pushed it down and pulled. Nothing. She pulled harder. Still nothing. It was locked. "Oh, shit…"
She backed up about 20 feet and cast a Firaga spell on the door. She stepped up to it and kicked it. It wasn't crumbling away like the bars. It didn't even move. She backed up again and tried a Blizzaga on the door. She tried again and still nothing.
She tried almost every spell she could think of to try and get past the door, but nothing worked. She had one spell left, but wondered if it would work. She had nothing to lose.
She stepped back and after a small while, she yelled "Ultima!" and a bright green light shot out of her and smothered the door in light. After it faded, the door still stood, but she went over to it anyway. She tried kicking it again. Nothing. She punched it. Her hand hurt, but still nothing. She stepped back a few steps, and rammed herself into it. "Dammit…" she muttered, and rubbed her shoulder. She couldn't get past the door.
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It would only take another day. If they didn't find her then, they probably wouldn't. Even Squall had come to except that it was a very good chance that he would never see her again. He had fallen into deep depression. He had lost all hope, and told them to stop looking, but they did anyway.
He was sitting on a collapsed wall in Matron's house. He was hunched over and had his hands linked behind his head. The feeling he was feeling was worse than any physical pain he'd ever felt. It was a dull aching in his chest. A broken heart. It had kept him from sleeping for the past three weeks. It kept him from doing anything for the past week or so. He just didn't feel like moving. It was eating him from the inside.
He heard a faint voice from outside. He looked up and heard it louder this time. "Squall!"
One of his men ran into the room. "Sir, we found something. I think you should come with me."
Squall slowly got up, expecting nothing. The man led him out of the house and onto the Ragnarok. They flew for about 5 minutes before landing on the northern Centra Island.
They exited the ship and got in a car. Squall started to wonder just what they had found. He doubted it was Rinoa. He would have said it first thing. Those were the words he wanted more than anything else to hear…Sir, we found her!
The car came to a stop and Squall got out. He looked around him, and saw nothing at first. When he did see it, he couldn't believe it.
Laying on the ground, torn to shreds, were Rinoa's clothes.
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Rinoa ran as fast as she could to the other end of the hall. It came to a right turn. She ran down that hall and halfway down, she heard heavy footsteps behind her.
She didn't know what to do. She kept running, and she sped up a bit, but as she did, the footsteps got faster.
Suddenly she stopped. The footsteps stopped suddenly. She whipped around and saw nothing.
She stared behind her for little while more, then turned back around. She took a deep breath and proceeded.
She took slow steps and listened carefully for the footsteps again. After a while she was convinced that whoever it was, was gone now.
She started to jog a little and eventually reached the end of that hall. There was another door, just like the one before. The same door. The same door she hadn't been able to get through before.
She screamed and started to cry as she sank to her knees and pulled on her hair. She bent over and sobbed into her knees.
She became instantly quiet when she heard a moaning voice say "R…r…rin…oa…"
Her heart thumped hard in her chest, and she slowly sat up. She turned around and, as usual, she saw nothing. But this time it didn't stop.
"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrinoaaa…"
She looked all over the hall before her, but saw no one. She took a chance and replied. "…Yes?"
For a moment, she heard nothing and thought she was imagining it, but then the voice spoke again. "Look…in the…cells…"
"W…why?"
No response.
She knew she was taking a big chance by following what a voice, probably one she imagined, was telling her to do. In an abandoned prison, nonetheless.
She walked cautiously past each of the cells, looking inside to find the source of the voice. After she had gotten to about the fifth one on the right side, she heard the voice again, from behind her.
"Too…far…"
She swore to Hyne she had looked in every cell, left and right. Was it hiding?
She turned around and looked carefully in each cell. When she looked again in the 3rd cell on the left side, she thought she saw something smallish in the corner. It looked like it was moving.
"Is that you?"
She watched, horrified, as the thing stood up and revealed itself to her.
She jumped back in absolute terror.
More to come! I have no idea how many chapters this will be. I have so many ideas running through my head for this story. I have no idea what to do with them all.