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Seven Days
Chapter 1. Against nature.
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Pacing near Balamb Garden, Roseita pulled down the dark blue sunglass to clear her vision. She stopped next to Sergan. A headache attacked her head came out of a sudden. Looking at the upcoming long hair woman, Sergan had a heart bouncing feeling. This special emotion made him frowned. "Is there anything I can help?"
Roseita smiled, she gave a hand shack to Sergan, and "I am Roseita Hartffaire A secretary of DDT Building company. The woman in charge of this building team."
"I see. I am Sergan Legency. A seed. Nice to meet you." Sergan gave a detail glance to the charming lady in front of her. The loud lever sound of machinery bought him back to realistic, "Amm….Do you think I can get in now?"
"I doubt it. Electricity would be a problem. Besides this building is too marvelous. Truly say. I have bad feeling about it. It doesn't look anything a thousand years old. Look at its exterior wall. The origin color remains. From my knowledge there shouldn't be any paint last more than three hundred years, especially in water." Roseita clearly stated her opinion.
Sergan gave a thought. "I feel the same. However, I only have seven days left to finish the survey. I need to get in as soon as possible. Do you have any idea, how long will your team take to reconnect the whole building?"
Reading through the reports in her hand, Roseita replied, "In a usual case, this will take two weeks. But your payment is ten times higher, thus we shall put all our effort and hope for the best. I estimate around the next two days. We have to figure out the location of main power generator."
"Faster?"
"Can't. As I said, it is impossible to get in under this situation." Roseita closed her files, look up to the young seed. "Even you pay high, you still can't get everything on earth you want."
Sergan calmly said, "I understand. But I do have my orders."
"Orders. Orders!! Are you seeds purely puppets? You obey orders. But, why not ask for more time? This would help a lot better." Roseita strongly stated her words.
"Seeds are not supposed ask questions."
Roseita disguised by what he said. Silence. Looking at Sergan, never believed he is so arrogant.
"Have we met before?" Sergan asked. "I have a feeling that we had this argument before."
Roseita bit her lips, as she got the same creep without stated out. "I believe this is the first time we met. Ammm…Just forget my impolite words. But You are not getting in. Understand?"
Sergan sighed. Why should he listen to her?
Then, a giggle came out somewhere in a short distant from them. "You should listen to this lady. There should be some toxic gas in the building due to the long time expose to the seawater." A tall, slim woman was approaching them. With a brown hair clip on the back, her blond hair fell into places, not messes effect but somewhat elegant.
Sergan raised his eyebrow. An instructor? I met her before. But Where? "You are?"
"Christine Trollope. An archeologist. Don't glare at me like that. I know what you are thinking. As well as a psychologist I guess, something like 'Oh I met this woman before'. Tell you, most of the archeologist or tomb raider always imagine of ghostly things when they explore the old ruins. It is not a surprise if you have same imagination." Christine shakes hands with both young fellows.
Sergan frowned. Yet another confidence woman appeared. "So, you are expecting us to let you get in and do some research?"
Christine smiled. "I had already received permission from the White Navy Ship. I should give you aids on this mission. Sir Sergan Lengancy. First of all, I should let you see something. That sure will give you a creep."
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"What?" Sergan shocked. As he approached to the Front entrance of Balamb Garden, the door was opened. The scary part was there was light came from inside Roseita grabbed her files tightly.
Christine stood in between them and the double-glazed glassy-metallic door. "More surprisely is the air is absolutely flesh when I stepped in."
Sergan frowned again. "You went in by your own?"
Christine nodded. "I have got a gate pass. The workers let me it after they forced the door open."
Sergan sighed. "They should inform me first."
Christine grinned. "I am afraid they just couldn't. In fact, some of them ran away when they saw this phenomena. Shall we stop talking rubbish and have an adventure inside?"
Sergan looked at both ladies. Shoot his head. "There's rumors about monsters inside while the Garden was in use. Historic record proved this. So, it is too dangerous. You two should stayed here."
Roseita cut his words flatly, "No no no no. I have the responsibility to make sure you seeds won't do any damage to this historic building. As the fact that this is our property."
Sergan signed. Not again.
Christine giggled as seeing Sergan showed up his most annoyed face. "I say. Shall we all go in? As the history records, the monsters are only kept in the training center. And as I know, no creature should live longer than five hundred years without food and air."
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Three of them were standing in front of the huge fountain. Water falling from the well craft statures. A place silence like hell.
"Yee. This is scary." Roseita whispered. She stayed very close to Sergan no matter he liked it or not.
Sergan narrowed his pair of brown eyes. He felt, familiar. "Everything is up-to-date working? Hey, have you got any explanation, Miss Trollpe."
"Please call me Christine. Nop. I don't. This place looks 'Live'. Someone must looked after it." Christine bent down, had a look on the floors. "As we walked around this lounge, I found no sign of blood stain. As you know, this Garden was attacked in the Third Impact, there should be many corpses lying around. But, there aren't any! Not even bones or ash……"
They walked in the library. Everything was very tidy, but no corpses found. Yet they saw a red circular object. Sergan studied it. "Could this be……" Christine finished his sentence, "A magic drawing point?" Sergan touched the red globe. Nothing happened.
"Does it work?" Roseita asked in enthusiastic. Sergan however, shook his head.
"Amm. As what I knew. Our ancestor said we need to junction to a GF in order to draw." Christine commanded.
"You sounds like an instructor." Roseita smiled. "Ma'am."
"Indeed I was." Come from a very serious tone. Sergan and Roseita looked at her. Her tone had changed slightly. Blanked. Christine was surprised as well. Then she said, "I…actually taught in Deling University last year." There was a cold feeling deep down her heart. This place was haunted.
Then, they bought back to the topic of magic. " We sure don't own any GFs. Yet, none of us are a sorcerer. Well. I have to find out if there is spell in this magic globe. But how?"
"That would be easy. You see the red light is flashing? The red light indicates there is magic inside. Blue light means none." Roseita said. This turn, both Sergan and Christine looked at her.
"How do you know?" Sergan asked.
Roseita opened her mouth. "I……I don't know! I just said it. Oh my god!! How would I know this stuff……" All their heart sunk. Then, a sound came out of the shelf behind them. Roseita wanted to scream, but Sergan quickly covered her mouth. He equipped his long sword. Waiting for an attack.
Then, "Wasssss up?!" An energetic blonde hair young man jumped out from the room behind the shelf.
Sergan, gave out a breath, "Ze…………" "…………?!"
"You know each other?" Christine asked. They all had the strange feeling.
They both said in unison, "Nop."
"But why?…."Asked Roseita, who was scared like hell.
"I don't know. Don't' ask." Sergan ran out of temper. Looking at the stranger. "Who are you?"
"Oh, I saw you in a computing magazine. You are……….." Roseita recorded. Zenith simply smiled. "Nice to meet you all."
The tattooed man scratched his neck. "I am Zenith Dorthart. You are Sergan Legency, right? You contacted me yesterday about hacking into the Garden computer system."
Sergan, quickly turned his head on the topic. "Have you found anything, then?"
Zenith bought back the serious mood. "Indeed I had." He got a few printed out sheets from his folder. As Sergan wanted to take it, Zenith said, "Remind you. This creeps, have you heart prepare." "Especially, ladies."
Sergan's hand shaked a bit. He placed the printed sheet on the nearby woody reading table. While they looked at the sheets, Roseita could not help but screamed. "Oh, my god!!!" Their breath rapider. Sergan pressed his forehead. "Could anyone explain this?"
Chirstine swallowed her saliva. "You…. Look like him." Looking at the scanned photo of fifteen people, Christine pointed at the browned hair young man with a scar on his forehead. "And Roseita looks like that woman in blue with the dog next to her." Christine closed her eyes. "Oh…I don't understand."
"And I look exactly like the young blond with the tattoo on his left face, right? And Christine is cloned to the woman with whips." Zenith whispered. "Holy shit."
Silent. Then…..ring……A loud ringing sound alarmed.
"Arrrrrrr….." Roseita screamed, with her face pale like snow.