I'm BAAAACCK. My computer got sick that's why I've been absent for a while. Anyway ffviii is owned by Squaresoft, even though I rock at this stuff. READ AND REVIEW OR ELSE A SEIFER/XU AND I AIN'T KIDDIN'!!!

Sleeping Beauty
Chapter1: Trouble in Heaven


Headmaster Cid was sitting at his desk with many papers scattered all over. He was humming a jaunty little tune as he wrote with a feather pen. Yes, pen not quill, it was one of those pens that looks like a quill. Xu walked in with a scowl on her face. By her side was a junior class-men about ten or eleven years old.


"Oh Xu how may I help you?" Cid asked kindly.


"Well, I found Mr. Jase fighting with an eight year old new transfer," she sighed.


"He deserved it!"


"Xu, leave this to me please, I have experience with this," Cid instructed Xu who promptly left. "Take a seat...Riley is it?"


"That's my name Riley Jase," he said as he sat down.


"Hmm, I've seen worse," Cid nodded his head slowly.


"Excuse me?"


"I've seen much much worse...That is than you," he explained.


"I doubt that headmaster," Riley spat indignantly.


"You don't think so huh?" he paused. "Do you like stories Riley?" Riley snorted.


"Yeah there okay for babies!" sarcasm is a great thing for 'rebels'.


"Let me tell you a story, its about one of the Gardens most prized instructors and a man with his life going down in flames," a thoughtful look graced his features as he recalled the events. "Yes, it all happened a little while after the sorceress Ultimecia was defeated....



Quistis Trepe walked down the hall, boots clanking against the newly polished floor. She looked just as elegant as before the battle, her hair shimmered as the fountains water glowed against her. Quistis held a clipboard and a book or two against her chest.


"Good morning Miss Trepe!" Trepie number 28 greeted her in his nervous fashion. She just smiled warmly at him.


"Good morning Hunter," her said, for some reason she had been in a good mood when she woke up that day. It was probably because the SeeD field test was that day and she was very confident in this batch.


Quistis reached her classroom and found her students talking to each other in their cliques. Selphie was sitting on Quistis's desk waiting for her because she was chaperoning half of Quistis's class for the field exam.


"Good morning Selphie," Quistis greeted her friend.


"Hi Quisty!" she chirped.


"All right class please take your seats," Quistis called out to her students and they obeyed. "You all know today is the field exam. Miss Tillimt and myself will be accompanying you to Centra where your...yes what is it?" a student was raising his hand.


"Why are you coming with us, Instructors have always just let us go on our own, what's up?" he asked.


"Well, due to circumstances in the last SeeD field exam before the Time Compression we feel that we need to be as safe as possible," Quistis explained. "Well, if you have no further questions we'll board the vessels," they all walked out and went to Balamb docks.



"Headmaster is there a point to this story?" Riley asked in a conceited tone.


"I'm getting there Mr. Jase I'm getting there! All right so they went on the ships and Xu explained that Some kind of disturbance was taking place in Odin's Blue Heaven. A team was to scout the terrain near there while B team was supposed to search the actual structure....



"Everyone take a minute to junction!" She approached Selphie who was junctioning.


"Hey Quistis do you have any sleeps, I'm weak against it," Selphie asked. Quistis looked through her mind to see if there were any.


"Take my last one," Quistis transferred her magic to Selphie.


"But what about you?"


"Don't worry about me I'll be fine," Selphie nodded and put on Irvine's cowboy hat for luck. "All right squads move out!"


Quistis and her team entered the quiet structure, it gave off a pure feel of evil. Quistis took a few steps out and looked around, it looked so much darker than when they first met Odin.


"Instructor, are there any really really dangerous monsters around here?" a red head named Molly asked in a meek voice.


"Don't worry I have enc-none junctioned, the only way we can get in a fight is if they have a very high level," there was a silence once again as Quistis scanned the area. "Nothing on the lower levels...But there seems to be something on the very top.


"Farnel, Munz, Visson, and Molly stay between the middle landing and here. Callington, and Culter come with me to the top," they began to run up the long spiral staircase. The three of them past the middle landing and proceeded up to the top landing.



"I don't see anything," Joleen Culter said looking around, wow you could see everything from up here.


"No....No something is definitely different," Quistis took off her glasses. Than she noticed it, nothing, that was it there was nothing up there but the platform! The statue had disappeared! "Everybody be reading, we aren't alone here..."


"But..." Rick Callington began but was silenced by Quistis's hand.


"Quiet....Listen, do you here that?" Quistis asked.


"I hear it," Joleen said. "What is that a gurgling?"


"No, it sounds more like a growl," Quistis responded. "Show yourself!!!"


"When the knight is destroyed I am realized. My keeper is no longer here to imprison me," the voice hissed sending chills down Quistis's spine.


"The knight? Odin?"


"Yes...Odin, he was your ally...Any ally of Odin is an enemy of mine!!!!" and it attacked. This was not what Quistis remembered this was a horrible devilish demon with the smell of acid and poison coming from it.


"Everyone be ready!!! Get in the first attack!!" Quistis shouted to her students. Munz was the first to attack, using Leviathan to attack. The sea serpent cast Tsunami on the demon.


"Uhh uh..," Joleen was hesitating. "Cerberus!!!" Cerberus came and cast double and triple on each of the party members.


"Good thinking Joleen," Quistis reached inside her mind and found what she needed. "Triple Meteor!!!!" the sky darkened and party members.


"Good thinking Joleen," Quistis reached inside her mind and found what she needed. "Triple Meteor!!!!" the sky darkened and giant rock formations plummeted downward to the beast, in triplet.


"Triple Flare!!!!" Callington cast letting the fire spiral and explode three times into the demon.


"Triple Water!" Munz went on with the rest of his party and attacked head on...But the demon didn't seem to be attacking back, no it seemed to be waiting.


"Hold it!!!" She cried to her team informing them to stop their attacks. "Stop attacking! Scan:
Mitulumdum
An ancient demon preserved in stone
by Odin who acted as the guardian of
the demon. It is said that if Odin is killed
the demon will awake and bring his one
aliminate attack on one person. He takes all
of the magic used on him and absorbs it
into the attack 'Sleeping Beauty'.
HP: 1042/20,000 Weak against: Physical attacks
Tips: Reframe from using magic in Triplet.


"That isn't a good thing," Quistis said quietly, or was it because she was afraid she talked like that.


"Instructor I'm going to finish this!" Munz shouted from the other side of the landing. "Triple Blizzaga!!" the ice surrounded the demon.


"NO!!!!" she screamed but she was to late to stop him from attacking. Mitulumdum smiled and looked at each of the people standing before him and then after a few seconds he turned his gaze to Quistis. She paled.


"Well, well, well, you look like a nice candidate. Unloved, that's perfect," Mitulumdum laughed. "Sleeping Beauty!!!"


"Oh shit!" Quistis began to run but was held back by a blue mist that pulled her to the landing and pinned her down. A green mist joined the blue and began to encircle her. "Let me go!!" she struggled to get free but to no avail. Finally a purple mist came and the three mists joined into one and entered Quistis's body. The struggling stopped and the demon disappeared into nothingness.


"Instructor?" Joleen came over to find Quistis unconscious. Joleen nudged her hard. "Instructor! You guys she won't wake up!"


"She isn't...Dead is she?" Callington asked his voice shaky.


"No she is still breathing and she doesn't seem to be in pain....Just sleeping," Joleen informed them. "Common you guys we got to get her to Miss Tillmit, she'll know what to do."


"Alright, Float" Callington cast the spell on Quistis to be sure not to hurt her. Munz was very quiet, he should have been paying attention he felt so bad.



"What happened!?!" Selphie shouted in a concerned voice.


"We...We didn't know Miss Tillmit honestly!!" Joleen told her as they met outside of their ship.


"Ugh! We'll discuss this later we just have to get Quistis some medical attention right away!," so they entered the ship and left to go back to balamb and hopefully help Quistis.



To Be Continued...