CHAPTER 4 THE DREAM

Exhausted, Squall, Seifer, and the others fell asleep at the front gates.
Squall saw Ellone. Blood, Laguna, nothing else. Squall saw the WEAPONS. Cloud was fighting them. Cloud was killed, but brought back to life. Holy, what was Holy? Cloud kept saying it. "Get the Ancient." What's an ancient Squall wondered.
Ellone! Squall realized Ellone was still in Balamb Garden. So wasn't Zone and Watts. He saw them all dead. He saw Quistis looking at him. Squall held his hand out to her but Quistis faded away like a rock that was just tossed into calm water. He then saw Sephiroth appear there.
The glistening Green Eyes. The 6-foot Musame. It was too much. Esthar was losing to the WEAPONS; Squall could see all the lives taken. But then he saw a beautiful young girl. She had green eyes and brown hair braided into one big braid. She was holding a flower basket. She was praying.
Squall saw a huge meteor above the planet. The planets were aligned and he saw Sephiroth come from a ceiling to a big temple mad completely of marble and rock. Sephiroth drove his sword through the stomach of the brown-haired girl.
Is this a revelation? Squall wondered.
Squall was suddenly put in the time-compressed world. The world around him was black. Squall ran in circles but he never really moved. He could see Rinoa and his other friends, Irvine, Selphie, Quistis. Squall wanted to wake up, he had to get Ellone.
Squall saw Zell using a punching bag. He thought about Zell's mother. Mrs. Dincht lived in Balamb. Balamb was probably shredded to pieces by WEAPON by now.
Cloud fell through the portal, Cloud became Squall, and Squall felt a piercing pain in his side after that.
Squall woke with a start. Holy, he thought. What was it? The WEAPONS were starting to be tamed. Esthar was starting to win. Squall saw his friends still sleeping. Squall ran into Balamb Garden, he had to find Ellone. He ran into the ballroom. The ceiling was lying on the ground. Emerald WEAPON had put its foot through the roof.
Where was Ellone? Under the plaster maybe, no, Squall thought. She can't be. The poison was gone now since the poison had circulated and went out into the environment.
Squall searched the room, no Ellone. HOLY. The word kept on popping into his mind. Ellone was gone.
"What are you doing?" Zell said standing behind Squall.
"Ellone," Squall started. "She's not here."
They both looked in the room but neither of them found her. They both looked at the hole in the ceiling. There was something there but Squall hadn't noticed it before but it was there. A giant meteor. HOLY. What was happening?
Sephiroth was nothing but a reflection in the air. They could see Sephiroth but he wasn't really there. Then, the girl with the braid in her hair. Her and Sephiroth. What was happening?
The portal opened in the sky. Cloud, a man with a red cape and all dressed in black, and a tiger looking animal jumped out of the portal.
"What is going on Cloud?" Zell asked him.
"The time compressed world, it's kicking in to what my world was," Cloud told him. "This is Vincent," Cloud said pointing to the man in black. "And this is Red XIII," cloud said pointing to the tiger looking thing.
"Hello," Red XIII said.
Squall was taken back. The animal could talk?
"What's with the meteor?" Squall asked.
"Only the ancients can stop it," Cloud replied.