Chapter 2:
A cold breeze picked up, blowing through the girl's matted
hair. She tried sitting up, but found a great pain, like a knife cutting
into her side. She winced and lifted her hand slowly. She was bleeding,
bleeding alot. Where am I? ...Why am I here?
...Is anyone here? Then she blacked out.
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"Rinoa's gone?!" Zell cried.
Squall nodded and was silent. Quistis was getting
teary, as Selphie handed her a tissue. "It's all my fault..." She sobbed
and blew her nose.
"It wasn't..." Irvine reassured her.
Quistis sniffed, "If it wasn't for me who brought
a bottle of wine over and...and not have responsibility as an instructor!
I should have stopped Squall from drinking to much, and I should have never
drank more than a cup or two!"
"Quisty, it's not only your fault I guess...you
were drunk and so was Squall. You guys didn't know that you were...you
know..." Selphie said.
Squall remained silent. Rinny...where are you?
...Come back to me...
"We shouldn't just sit here and say whose fault
it is! It's obvious that Rinoa got the wrong idea," Irvine cut into the
group.
Zell nodded, "We should get parties to go out there
and search for her. We never know, Rinoa can think of many things to do
when she sees that Squall was in bed with another women!"
"We'll go search for Rinoa to..." Squall finally
spoke. "Zell and Quistis come with me. Irvine and Selphie, you guys can
manage with only two people right?"
"Of course!" Irvine smiled.
"Booyaka! Only Irvine and me!" Selphie hugged onto
his arm.
Squall left the room without another word, followed
my Zell and Quistis who were scared to question their commander when he
was so quite.
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She awoke to a dim light. Her eyes slowly opened
and she saw a white ceiling. She looked at her left arm which was in a
cast, and so was her left leg. Her head pounded. What happened to me?
"You're awake!"
She looked over to her right. She saw a woman around
thirty, with a white apron tied and her hair in a bun. She decided to try
sitting up.
"No no no! You have serious injuries! Just lye down,
" The women softly tucked her into the bed again.
She gave the women a little smile. The women sat
down on a chair beside her.
"Why on earth were you at the bottom of a cliff?!"
The women exclaimed.
She looked at the women, confused. "...I...was?"
She croaked her throat dry.
"You sure were! My husband went to shoot some dinner
when he found you right at the bottom of a cliff! Did you try to jump off
and kill yourself or what young lady?!"
"...I was at the bottom of a cliff..." She repeated
slowly. "...I...was?"
The women looked at her strangely. "Don't you remember
why you were at the bottom?!"
"...N...no..."
"Oh, you poor dear..." The women said softly. "What's
your name?"
"My name?" She closed her eyes in concentration.
"...My...name...my...name...I...don't know..." She said, her chocolate
coloured eyes were brimming with tears.
The women looked at her sadly. "You don't remember
anything? Anyone from you family?"
The girl looked at the women fearfully. "I don't
know! ...Do I even have family?!"
"You poor thing!" The women said. "You must have
fell from the cliff and you must have lost your memory..."
She felt a tear slide down her cheek. "...I don't
remember anything..."
"I'm going to take care of you until you arms and
legs and cuts are healed, then maybe I'll feel safe to let you go," The
women stood up and brought a cup of water over to her and helped her drink
it.
She drank it slowly, her mind still wondering who
she was, what was her pass...
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"Sorry, I did not see a young lady come by town,"
said a man from Balamb.
Squall kept on going. "Let's go to Timber. She probably
went to Zone or Watts."
So the trio rode a train over to Timber.
"What did you say?!" Zone practically screamed into
Squall's face.
Quistis nodded, "Rinoa's missing..."
"I thought you would take good care of our princess!"
Watts cried.
Zell threw his arms up. "She's missing cause she
ran away herself because she thinks Squall's slept with Quistis!" He said
quickly.
They fell silent.
"What?! How could you sir?! How could you dare!"
Zone started screaming again when one of his sick stomach aches started
again. "O....ow...."
Squall just frowned. "I guess Rinoa isn't here...
let's go to Deling...she might have decided to go home."
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She smiled up at the women. "Thank you for saving
me..."
"It's wasn't me! It was my husband! You know...I
haven't even told you who I am!" The women laughed. "Well, I use to be
the leader of the Forest 'Birds', but now these groups of people are not
needed since Timber got what it wanted from those Galabadians."
"F...forest.... birds..." She slowly repeated, as
if in a trance.
The women continued, "You see, we're in Timber right
now, in one of it's forests. After the Sorceress War, I got married and
we moved out here so we can live peaceful lives. Now back to the Forest
Birds. Back at that time, many of us weren't active groups, except for
the Forest 'Owls'."
"Forest...Owls..." She repeated again. "Forest...Owls...Z...one...?"
"That's right! Zone was one of the people in that
group! Although I have never met any of the Forest Owls, I sure wish I
could! They tried real hard to liberate Timber! The leader of their group
even got SeeD to help!"
She asked, "...The Forest Owls...w...who were the
people in it?"
"Good question. There was Zone, Watts, and their
leader, which I overheard some people saying, they call her princess. She
was named Rinoa Heartilly."
Her eyes started to wander over to the ceiling again.
"Rinoa...Heartilly..."
Author's note: So how did you like it so far? I think it is pretty obvious
who "she" is. For the people who haven't figured it out...then...you quite
odd...but anyway, please R&R.