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Author's note: Thank you for your support (all the readers….). Do review please, cause I definitely want to break my review record. This chapter……..read it yourself la. Don't wanna spoil. Hope you enjoy.
Seven Days
Chapter 3 – Irvine Kinneas?!
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"Whooa. You are so early!! Zenith, aren't you sacred of this place? If I were you I would never step anywhere near here by myself." Secci shouted out loud again in excitement.
Zenith gave a sigh in the air. He had been stuck in the same position for the whole morning, who was busy with the data in front of him. The poor blonde was apparently working on the giant computer system in the second floor Balamb Garden classroom.
Seeing the fabulous-five gang coming upon him. He looked up, scratched his neck, showed his tiredness. Sergan folded him hands and asked, "Anything good?" Zenith shook his head and replied, "Nop. I got a lot of unsorted data here. Grrr….Give me headache. More of that, I have a slight problem here. The server was down few minutes ago. Amm, can you go and fix it?"
Sergan frowned, "Do you have any idea where the power is? This place is huge."
The hacker leaned himself on the seatback. "Probably at the basement? But I doubt the safety there. Thus, I only ask you to go. Or may be Marcus as well."
"What?! Me?" Marcus enlarged his already big-enough-to-scare-the-hell-out-of-here eyes. Secci heavily punched his chest, rolled her eyes, "Don't be such a coward! You ain't supposing us ladies to go, huh?!"
Roseita and Christine gave a nod and patted Marcus at the back for some kind of courage.
After Sergan and Marcus left, Christine asked, "How are you today?!" Looking back, Zenith grinned, "Me?! Nothing interesting. I should say, how were you and 'the General'?" Christine looked puzzled, "The General?"
Zenith laughed, "Don't tell me you don't even know who was that tall blonde flirting with you all time the night. He is the General of Ester Republic."
Christine blushed. "Oh!!!.." Roseita got interested. "You are saying the General had a crush on our Christine!!" Secci crapped. "That's new!!!"
Zenith smirked, 'You ladies donno have to be too jealous. Secci, you sure were having a great time with Marcus on the dancing floor. And yet, Roseita as well, you left *Very* early with Sergan."
Roseita stuck her tongue out, "And you ate all the food up!!" Zenith gave a bitter smile. "That's me. I confess, ya know? I broke up with my wife due to my great appetite."
Christine gave a it-is-impossible sign, "You were married?!"
Zenith rested his head on the table. Mummered. "And divorced" Secci covered her mouth, "I can't believe!"
Zenith, waved his hand, "Forget it. That's the past." Taking off the sunglass which he had been wearing the whole morning. With two big circles under his eyes, he looked like a panda. "I couldn't sleep last night. The whole night!!!!! That GF is weird."
Christine giggled, "That's why you were jealous at us?!" She gave him a comfort brush on his back. "What's wrong with that GF? Has it had a crush on you?"
"NOP……….He just keep talking to me the entire nite about his former host. That's boring!!" Zenith yelled.
"Ohh. His?! So they do have sexual distinguish?! That's interesting." Christine said as she dropped down some note oh her electric palm organizer. "What else did he tell you?"
"He told me that his former host was called Zell. One of the six heroes. A hyper kid, whom addicted to hot dogs. Due to his loyalty, Bahamut stayed to guard the garden, even after Zell died. And…………OH MY GOD." Zenith stood up and the force of his action crushed the chair down.
Christine jumped, "What's the matter?!"
"…..He just awoke and told me… Beside him, there is another GF in this Garden……..Eden was at the basement!!!"
"Oh my god. The most powerful GF in legendary?!" Christine dropped her jaws.
Roseita mummered, "Sergan……" as her heart sunk.
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"Pulse ammo!" as the word spilt out, dozens of gunshot were fired towards Eden. Sergan shook his head, tried to gain back conscious. He followed the explosive sound traced his sight on a western looking cowboy, who were busy with Eden. Who's he?
Inside Sergan's head, there was a more complex flashback of thousands of battle scenes. Then, his mouth shuttered, "Lionheart!", he dodged near Eden, followed by a strike of sixteen powerful attack. His long titanium sword was broken into two pieces. And as the result of exhaustion, he kneeled back on the floor.
Finally, after another round of gun power, Eden moaned in pain and vanished in Sergan's body. The cowboy grinned and put down his Exeter. Stepped towards Sergan, offered a hand of victory. Sergan asked with a hummering tone. "Who are you?"
The cowboy did not say a word, instead, he cast a curaga spell on Sergan. "Awwwwwwww……" Marcus screamed while the sharpshooter cast another full-life spell on him. "I am alive? Thank Hyne……" Marcus quickly checked him body, as if there were any hole on it.
As few speedy step sounds came along from the stairs, Roseita appeared. "Sergan!!" She rushed towards Sergan, and embraced him, "Are you all right? I was worried to death."
Taking a look at Sergan, Zenith, Christine, Secci, Roseita; the cowboy commended in his deep tone, "So, looks like everyone's here. Pardon me, I shall introduce myself. Irineo Kinneas is my name."
They all gave him a glare. Sergan inquired, "What do ya mean? ….Hang on….Kinneas?!"
Christine immediately tuned her brain to the topic, "Irvine Kinneas, one of the heroes?!"
Sergan frowned, "You are his grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grandson?"
The cowboy grinned, "Good guess. But nop…"
Christine, "Grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grandson?"
The cowboy shook his head. Then Secci screamed, "I got it, you are his GRANDSON."
Irineo brusted in joyful laugh. "Very close. Indeed I am his son."
"What?!" Everyone shocked. Then Marcus said, "That Irvine Kinneas was alive a thousand years ago right? And you said you are his son?! This just doesn't make sense."
"What about he was still alive for another nine hundred years?! That makes much more sense, right?! (the others shook their heads) Well, shall we get out of this shit place and start our fairy tale?"
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Books café. In Balamb.
"Whoa, this café is awesome! Look at all the decoration here, so antique." Secci cheerfully smiled. Books café was tiny situated on the main street of Balamb town. Inside, there were lots of shelves on the walls, and a few wooden tables.
They were sitting at the far back of the café, on two pallerel rattan couches. "Yea. It has a long history. This café mostly serve beverage, besides there are two famous dishes: Hometown fish and Turbo Hotdog. However, they only served during lunch hour. Anyway, shall we began." Irineo sipped a mouth of Jamaican Blue Mountain and started a tale.
"Once upon a time, there was a rebel leader and a seed. Under certain kinds of circumstances, they met each other, and fell in love. As a twist, the truth turned out that the rebel leader was a sorceress and the seed became her knight. As this tragic unleashed, they went against their fate and tried their best to fight against the devil inside the white sorceress. That, was the famous Ultimecia Battle. Among them, there were other four heroes on their side." There, Irineo gave a break. He continued his coffee.
"But this doesn't explain anything about your father right?!" Asked Sergan.
Irineo smiled. "Nop, but that was an intro… followed by an epic love story upon legend. The woman my father loved for centuries named Selphie Tilmitt, also one of the heroes. After the saving-entire-world battle, my father became a tutor in Balamb garden, while Selphie was a high rank seed. Their love grew deeper and deeper. Then a marriage they decided. From then onward, everyone assumed that they should live happy ever after. Sadly, a month or so before the great day, Selphie left the Garden and my father. With a note claiming that she had an affair and my father should deserve someone better. That was absolutely not true. My father did not believe all of that bullshit. The following year, he traveled across oceans, up through mountains, to find his beloved woman. However, he fell. On a calmly day, he received the death news. Selphie died of brain tumor. We believed that's the reason of her ridiculous depart. My father lost his soul by shutting himself down." Irineo sighed. Looking at the others, the ladies were having pairs of watery eyes. Everyone was so quiet.
"Then, the loyalty GF, Seren came to save her host. As the talent of seeing the future, she told my father that there is another chance to see each other again a thousand years later. The souls of the heroes will rebirth in another time, far beyond the future. Therefore, my father accepted the offer, he denied his friendship, his homeland, and sent away to the universe. After a long sleep of a thousand years, the day comes; this is the year of his long waited. My father woke twenty-five years ago, and he gave birth to me. I look exactly like him because I am a test tube born baby. I take after all the perfect genes from him. I don't know who my mother is. But that doesn't matter. My father loves me and taught me a lot of things. Include marksmanship." There is another pause.
"After centuries, he waited. His dream finally comes……." Irineo stopped a second time. He bit his lips, glared at the table for long long time. "He….but he……" Irineo bowed his head down.
With a sadden look on Secci's face, she hesitantly asked, "Does he….died?!"
Irineo nodded and signed. A stream of tear running down his cheeks. "He did so well in these twenty-five years,………. but….he….he died. Two years ago, he died from a car accident. That is so stupid!!! Absolutely stupid."
Author's note: Hey, hope you enjoyed it. I know this is short and the grammar mistakes. But I am really busy these days. Sorry about all of that. And please, help me out of the future chapters (If you decided to review……). Zelphie or Irvphie?! After all, thanks for reading.