Timber was as quiet as ever. From their window, Squall and Rinoa could see the TV Station broadcasting the latest news headlines. There was a special commemoration to SeeD at the front of the building for getting the TV Station working again. Squall felt proud at what he had accomplished.
Rinoa came up and stood next to him and looked up to the sky. It was a beautiful day, one of the hottest of the year, the hottest day in autumn - ever. She hugged Squall looking out of the hotel in the room they had borrowed out from Zone. He didn't need it, he was out of town for a few weeks, travelling the world with Watts. Those few days on the white SeeD ship gave him a thirst for travel and experience. Rinoa looked up at Squall, his face gleaming, she liked that look.
Squall looked down at Rinoa, her face was like a flower blooming in June, her eyes filled with happiness, she was an angel descending from heaven, she was his angel. Squall took a deep breath in and felt the cool breeze run through his body.
"God, I thought leaving the Garden would be hard, leaving everything behind, leaving my friends, but it's been easy thanks to you."
"Ah, thank you," Rinoa said. "It's great to see that obsessively attached anymore."
"Only to you,"
"This is going to be the beginning of a long and happy future. I can feel it Squall, I've never felt like this, not with anyone, but I feel it with you and I know it's gonna be something special. I love you Squall,"
"I love you too, Rinoa."
They kissed each other.
The days in Timber were fun and exciting, like a new spring they were young and in love and their days in Timber were filled with mystery and discovery, Squall had never felt so alive.
They took frequent walks around the area meeting all kinds of different people and seeing lots of new things. Sometimes they would walk all day, site seeing and making love and sometimes they would pause and reflect. They would sit on the benches at the train station look at the track leading far ahead into the distance, into the future that gave them a great sense of hope.
Rinoa looked around at all the people moving in all different directions, going to all different places, meeting all different people.
"I wonder how these people will all end up?"
Squall, a little bemused, replied: "Sorry?"
"All these people going in all these different ways I mean the adventures, they would take a lifetime to tell. I wonder what all these people are going to do and what lies up ahead for them in the future."
Squall laughed. "It's probably best if you don't think about things like that. I used to do it and it wasn't much fun, it just got you depressed. If it weren't for you I'd probably still be like that so I don't think you should start."
"No, no, it was just a thought, I guess I got it from you."
"Yeah, that'd most likely be it."
"I was just wondering what lies ahead for us in the future or whether we have a future, maybe this whole thing just goes round in one big circle ending up where it started."
"You mean life?"
"Yeah, and I know it's dangerous thinking too much but ever since we got married I've just been worried about these things. You never know, something may happen and we may never see each other again and I want to be with you forever."
"And I do too, darling."
"I'm sorry for asking a stupid question," said Rinoa lowering her head in embarrassment.
"What is it?"
"It seems that everything in our life has been destined to happed: the graduation ball, the Timber mission, the orphanage, me becoming a sorceress, us getting married. It seems to be one long chain being controlled be someone."
"Now you're being paranoid,"
"I believe that destiny has got us this far and will take us further into the future, but what happens if it stops."
"What do you mean?"
"What happens when destiny itself stops and everything is left on its own or if it comes back on itself, what'll happen then?"
Squall laughed again. He then put his arms around her neck and her pulled her closer towards her tenderly rubbing her back.
"It'll be okay," he said. "Nothing's gonna happen. We're going to stay here and live happily ever after and all these people are going to do the same. Ultimecia is dead, we don't have to worry about things like that anymore, our adventure is over, but our journey is just beginning."
"Those are pretty wise words Squall, did you think about those for long?"
"No," Squall said. "They came from the heart, where the future lies."
"Well, that's put my mind at rest for now,"
"It'll be okay, honey, it'll be okay."
"I hope that counts for the rest of the gang: Quistis, Selphie, Irvine and Zell as well."
"I'm sure it does, I'm sure they're fine."
Rinoa laid her head on Squall's shoulder and they stayed there until sunset. It was almost nightfall before they decided to go back to their house. Rinoa fell asleep in Squall's arms as they slept a very peaceful sleep with pleasant dreams.
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Galbadia was its usual self and Irvine tipped his hat to every pretty girl that walked down street. Selphie made residence in Galbadia now as well although they lived quite far apart but still tried to visit each other as often as possible to reminisce on old times and to stop themselves from going insane.
Life after Balamb Garden was hard, much harder than they had ever imagined, not even travelling around the world trying to defeat an evil sorceress from taking over the world was a shard as this. This was boredom.
Bright lights, star-studded parades, fireworks, the glitz, the glamour it was all her in Galbadia, but it was not always this way. To Squall and Rinoa it had been a heaven, the place where they spent their honeymoon and spent many a happy day spending time together and having fun. But to Irvine and Selphie, they saw it for what it was: a dirty, disgusting place that was plagued with bitterness and disappointment, shattered dreams and disillusionment. This was a dressed up version of hell.
The nights were long and lonely. Selphie often stayed awake until the early hours of the morning watching the stars wishing she could be one of them. Irvine sat hour after hour looking at his guns, he felt a sense of guilt build up inside him. He had to go and see if Selphie was okay, he couldn't just stand by and watch her be miserable. He went round to her place often when times got really bad.
"This is stupid," said Irvine. "You can't say your life's over, you're only 17, you've got ya whole life ahead of you. Geez, what's come over you Selphie?"
"I just wanna go on an exciting adventure again."
"You can't have everything you want all the time, ya know. Sometimes you have to be patient."
"I miss everyone, I miss the Garden, I miss my home."
"You survived when Trabia got destroyed, right?"
"Yeah,"
"Well, you can survive again, right?"
"S'pose so,"
"Of course you can. Now let's have no more of your crying Miss."
"Okay,"
Selphie went to sleep and Irvine felt some reassurance inside of him that things were going to be okay. Outside, another full moon.
Irvine watched over Selphie as she slept, an inner warmth ran through his body, he could feel it run up through his heart. The closing of the Garden had taken its toll on everyone and now everyone had to readjust and start new lives, different lives, not ones full of adventure, but a normal everyday life, quiet even. Irvine watched the second hand on the clock tick away as he slowly drifted off to sleep.
It made him feel secure watching over her like her protector. He wanted more out of life too. He felt a part of Selphie in him, he wanted a part of Selphie in him.
He wondered if she felt the same.
I love you Selphie, he thought.
He said it out aloud but it was too quiet for Selphie to hear. All that could be heard then was the wind.
Irvine woke up as the cool breeze ran through his long, brown hair. He looked around, confused. He must have fallen asleep after all. He looked over at the bed opposite him, it was empty, Selphie was gone.
He turned around and gazed out of the window for a moment, the streets were crowded and there was no sign of Selphie. Where could she be, he thought.
Irvine got up and went looking for her. He was a bit concerned, she hadn't been at her most happiest recently and things hadn't been going too well so he was concerned that she might have done something stupid. The look of concern grew on his face after each passing second. The streets were getting more and more crowded, Irvine was beginning to lose hope. Why didn't I tell her sooner, he thought.
Irvine sat down at a table in the restaurant on the floor below the Inn. He put his head and his hands and ran them through his hair. He stared at menu for several minutes not wanting what to order, how anything could cheer him up. Irvine then took his hands away from his face and looked up and noticed a young woman in a yellow dress sitting beside him. Irvine was shocked.
"I thought I'd find you here," Selphie said.
"Where have you been?"
"I've just been having a look around, it's a more interesting city than you think. I've been on a tour round the palace."
"I've been worried sick about you, I thought you might have been kidnapped or something, or dead."
Selphie was more than a little surprised that Irvine had thought this. "Well no, not this time anyway, but thanks for worrying about me, it's made me feel a lot better."
"Geez, you're in a better mood today. I thought you was going to hang yourself or something yesterday."
Selphie laughed. "Yesterday was ages ago, now comes a new day, a new start. Who cares what happens yesterday? It's in the past."
"Yeah, you're right. Today's a new day and we're going to make the most of it, aren't we?"
"Yeah,"
They smiled to each other. Irvine knew that she felt the same.
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Quistis was in Winhill. Why she was in Winhill she had no idea but it seemed to be okay, nice and quiet anyway. She remembered the place from the dreams. She could imagine Laguna and Kiros going around patrolling the area but it wasn't like it was then. The monsters had all been vaporized since Ultimecia had been defeated and there was no one that she had anything in common with, there was no one to talk to.
Xu came and left and soon she found herself on her own again. The small village offered her nothing, nothing that she wanted. Her friends had all gone off to different places, Quistis had gotten herself into a right state and didn't want all her friends to see her like this. She cried herself to sleep most nights thinking about the others and thinking what might have been if only things had been different and Rinoa hadn't shown up at the graduation ball.
She wondered what would happen to everyone now that the Garden was closed, especially Cid. She felt so bad for him losing his home and everything he had worked so hard for. But SeeD was over and she was just going to have to accept that she was just a normal person now and wasn't responsible for saving the world, only responsible for herself. She missed Squall a lot.
Winhill was quiet which was nice at first, a nice change, but it soon got tedious and boring and Quistis wanted out. She wanted to see Squall and Rinoa again, get back her Save the Queen and go on another adventure. There was nothing there for her in Winhill and with Zell living with his mother in Balamb and Irvine and Selphie in Galbadia, and Xu, Squall and Rinoa in Timber, there was absolutely nothing left for her. She wondered if her life would ever be the same again.
She got up one day and thought to herself as she often did ad thought about leaving town. It would be an excellent idea, there wouldn't be any point in staying in Winhill. She had to go so Quistis collected her things and set out for Timber. There was one problem though: the trains had broken down and Quistis looked up at the long stretching road heading towards Timber and sighed. I guess this is the only way, she thought.
She was getting weary and the sun was beating down hard, she couldn't take much more of this but couldn't slow down either. She felt like she was sleepwalking, losing her coordination and going off in all sorts of different directions. She kept slipping off the road. Sometimes there would be a battle, but most of the monsters were now gone. The battles were long and hard, she hardly had the strength left to go on anymore, but she felt she had to.
Her pride took over and she passed out.
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Zell was having a slightly better time in Balamb. He and his Ma were back under the same roof cooking their famous fish stew. Zell hung up his fighting gloves, he was glad to take them off, they were giving him an itch. Ha, that wasn't as bad as I imagined it would be, he thought. This is easy, I don't need those gloves at all.
He stared at his punching bag and thought about giving it a huge whack. He ran up but at the last moment decided to pull back. Better not, he thought.
"Zell, dinner's ready," shouted Ma Dincht from downstairs.
"Coming Ma," Zell said.
Dinner was its usual best and life was looking pretty up. Zell didn't need to be like Squall, he didn't need the others either. He had Ma's home cooking and he was happy with himself. That's all he needed, he didn't need anything. Except maybe, no it doesn't matter, he thought. I'm happy enough at the moment and I don't want anything else to ruin that.
Life was perfect but he soon found the sunny days turning to rain. Ma's cooking was the best and his life was perfect in Balamb but something was missing, something that he didn't have before.
Zell would often dream of past days when would hang out with Squall and they were best buddies. Dream of days when he would just eat hot dog after endless hotdog. But those days were over and he had to move on. He couldn't dwell on the past anymore.
"The past?" said Ma Dincht, a little confused. "Is that it? Is that what you've been missing?"
"Yeah," Zell replied. "It's nothing, but it's sorry to see it go."
"Ah, come here, my boy."
Ma Dincht gave Zell a hug and smiled.
"You do whatever you think is right, Zell," she said.
"Thanks,"
Zell thought about it long and hard but realised that even though he had a perfect life in Balamb he wasn't living the kind of life he wanted, he never truly felt alive unless he was fighting with his friends and a life without living is not living at all.
Zell decided it was time to move on and find Squall and the others. He thought his first stop would be Galbadia, they were sure to stop there.
Zell took the cross-continental train to Galbadia, but soon found it stopping. The trains had all broken down and Zell was left in the middle of nowhere.
He looked around, nothing but desert. It was a long, hard road up ahead.
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The Esthar skies looked a little greyer than usual. Something must have been up, it was never normally like this at this time of year. This was Esthar's hot season and they hadn't met a cloudy day in over 75 years.
Laguna looked out of the window in the Presidential Palace and saw what was going on. The clouds were now circling around and a great storm was gathering. Laguna could feel a cold chill run up his spine. It made him shudder.
Laguna went outside to get a closer look. It looked odd, it looked out of place. There was a purple spiral in the sky going around and around. It was hypnotic, Laguna couldn't take his eyes off it, he'd never seen anything like it in all his years of travel.
It seemed to move closer towards him. He backed away holding his hands in front of his face to protect himself. Kiros and Ward watched him from afar. They had no idea what was going on. The grey clouds turned black and a huge bolt of lightning struck the Presidential Palace.
All he could do was scream.
Rinoa came up and stood next to him and looked up to the sky. It was a beautiful day, one of the hottest of the year, the hottest day in autumn - ever. She hugged Squall looking out of the hotel in the room they had borrowed out from Zone. He didn't need it, he was out of town for a few weeks, travelling the world with Watts. Those few days on the white SeeD ship gave him a thirst for travel and experience. Rinoa looked up at Squall, his face gleaming, she liked that look.
Squall looked down at Rinoa, her face was like a flower blooming in June, her eyes filled with happiness, she was an angel descending from heaven, she was his angel. Squall took a deep breath in and felt the cool breeze run through his body.
"God, I thought leaving the Garden would be hard, leaving everything behind, leaving my friends, but it's been easy thanks to you."
"Ah, thank you," Rinoa said. "It's great to see that obsessively attached anymore."
"Only to you,"
"This is going to be the beginning of a long and happy future. I can feel it Squall, I've never felt like this, not with anyone, but I feel it with you and I know it's gonna be something special. I love you Squall,"
"I love you too, Rinoa."
They kissed each other.
The days in Timber were fun and exciting, like a new spring they were young and in love and their days in Timber were filled with mystery and discovery, Squall had never felt so alive.
They took frequent walks around the area meeting all kinds of different people and seeing lots of new things. Sometimes they would walk all day, site seeing and making love and sometimes they would pause and reflect. They would sit on the benches at the train station look at the track leading far ahead into the distance, into the future that gave them a great sense of hope.
Rinoa looked around at all the people moving in all different directions, going to all different places, meeting all different people.
"I wonder how these people will all end up?"
Squall, a little bemused, replied: "Sorry?"
"All these people going in all these different ways I mean the adventures, they would take a lifetime to tell. I wonder what all these people are going to do and what lies up ahead for them in the future."
Squall laughed. "It's probably best if you don't think about things like that. I used to do it and it wasn't much fun, it just got you depressed. If it weren't for you I'd probably still be like that so I don't think you should start."
"No, no, it was just a thought, I guess I got it from you."
"Yeah, that'd most likely be it."
"I was just wondering what lies ahead for us in the future or whether we have a future, maybe this whole thing just goes round in one big circle ending up where it started."
"You mean life?"
"Yeah, and I know it's dangerous thinking too much but ever since we got married I've just been worried about these things. You never know, something may happen and we may never see each other again and I want to be with you forever."
"And I do too, darling."
"I'm sorry for asking a stupid question," said Rinoa lowering her head in embarrassment.
"What is it?"
"It seems that everything in our life has been destined to happed: the graduation ball, the Timber mission, the orphanage, me becoming a sorceress, us getting married. It seems to be one long chain being controlled be someone."
"Now you're being paranoid,"
"I believe that destiny has got us this far and will take us further into the future, but what happens if it stops."
"What do you mean?"
"What happens when destiny itself stops and everything is left on its own or if it comes back on itself, what'll happen then?"
Squall laughed again. He then put his arms around her neck and her pulled her closer towards her tenderly rubbing her back.
"It'll be okay," he said. "Nothing's gonna happen. We're going to stay here and live happily ever after and all these people are going to do the same. Ultimecia is dead, we don't have to worry about things like that anymore, our adventure is over, but our journey is just beginning."
"Those are pretty wise words Squall, did you think about those for long?"
"No," Squall said. "They came from the heart, where the future lies."
"Well, that's put my mind at rest for now,"
"It'll be okay, honey, it'll be okay."
"I hope that counts for the rest of the gang: Quistis, Selphie, Irvine and Zell as well."
"I'm sure it does, I'm sure they're fine."
Rinoa laid her head on Squall's shoulder and they stayed there until sunset. It was almost nightfall before they decided to go back to their house. Rinoa fell asleep in Squall's arms as they slept a very peaceful sleep with pleasant dreams.
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Galbadia was its usual self and Irvine tipped his hat to every pretty girl that walked down street. Selphie made residence in Galbadia now as well although they lived quite far apart but still tried to visit each other as often as possible to reminisce on old times and to stop themselves from going insane.
Life after Balamb Garden was hard, much harder than they had ever imagined, not even travelling around the world trying to defeat an evil sorceress from taking over the world was a shard as this. This was boredom.
Bright lights, star-studded parades, fireworks, the glitz, the glamour it was all her in Galbadia, but it was not always this way. To Squall and Rinoa it had been a heaven, the place where they spent their honeymoon and spent many a happy day spending time together and having fun. But to Irvine and Selphie, they saw it for what it was: a dirty, disgusting place that was plagued with bitterness and disappointment, shattered dreams and disillusionment. This was a dressed up version of hell.
The nights were long and lonely. Selphie often stayed awake until the early hours of the morning watching the stars wishing she could be one of them. Irvine sat hour after hour looking at his guns, he felt a sense of guilt build up inside him. He had to go and see if Selphie was okay, he couldn't just stand by and watch her be miserable. He went round to her place often when times got really bad.
"This is stupid," said Irvine. "You can't say your life's over, you're only 17, you've got ya whole life ahead of you. Geez, what's come over you Selphie?"
"I just wanna go on an exciting adventure again."
"You can't have everything you want all the time, ya know. Sometimes you have to be patient."
"I miss everyone, I miss the Garden, I miss my home."
"You survived when Trabia got destroyed, right?"
"Yeah,"
"Well, you can survive again, right?"
"S'pose so,"
"Of course you can. Now let's have no more of your crying Miss."
"Okay,"
Selphie went to sleep and Irvine felt some reassurance inside of him that things were going to be okay. Outside, another full moon.
Irvine watched over Selphie as she slept, an inner warmth ran through his body, he could feel it run up through his heart. The closing of the Garden had taken its toll on everyone and now everyone had to readjust and start new lives, different lives, not ones full of adventure, but a normal everyday life, quiet even. Irvine watched the second hand on the clock tick away as he slowly drifted off to sleep.
It made him feel secure watching over her like her protector. He wanted more out of life too. He felt a part of Selphie in him, he wanted a part of Selphie in him.
He wondered if she felt the same.
I love you Selphie, he thought.
He said it out aloud but it was too quiet for Selphie to hear. All that could be heard then was the wind.
Irvine woke up as the cool breeze ran through his long, brown hair. He looked around, confused. He must have fallen asleep after all. He looked over at the bed opposite him, it was empty, Selphie was gone.
He turned around and gazed out of the window for a moment, the streets were crowded and there was no sign of Selphie. Where could she be, he thought.
Irvine got up and went looking for her. He was a bit concerned, she hadn't been at her most happiest recently and things hadn't been going too well so he was concerned that she might have done something stupid. The look of concern grew on his face after each passing second. The streets were getting more and more crowded, Irvine was beginning to lose hope. Why didn't I tell her sooner, he thought.
Irvine sat down at a table in the restaurant on the floor below the Inn. He put his head and his hands and ran them through his hair. He stared at menu for several minutes not wanting what to order, how anything could cheer him up. Irvine then took his hands away from his face and looked up and noticed a young woman in a yellow dress sitting beside him. Irvine was shocked.
"I thought I'd find you here," Selphie said.
"Where have you been?"
"I've just been having a look around, it's a more interesting city than you think. I've been on a tour round the palace."
"I've been worried sick about you, I thought you might have been kidnapped or something, or dead."
Selphie was more than a little surprised that Irvine had thought this. "Well no, not this time anyway, but thanks for worrying about me, it's made me feel a lot better."
"Geez, you're in a better mood today. I thought you was going to hang yourself or something yesterday."
Selphie laughed. "Yesterday was ages ago, now comes a new day, a new start. Who cares what happens yesterday? It's in the past."
"Yeah, you're right. Today's a new day and we're going to make the most of it, aren't we?"
"Yeah,"
They smiled to each other. Irvine knew that she felt the same.
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Quistis was in Winhill. Why she was in Winhill she had no idea but it seemed to be okay, nice and quiet anyway. She remembered the place from the dreams. She could imagine Laguna and Kiros going around patrolling the area but it wasn't like it was then. The monsters had all been vaporized since Ultimecia had been defeated and there was no one that she had anything in common with, there was no one to talk to.
Xu came and left and soon she found herself on her own again. The small village offered her nothing, nothing that she wanted. Her friends had all gone off to different places, Quistis had gotten herself into a right state and didn't want all her friends to see her like this. She cried herself to sleep most nights thinking about the others and thinking what might have been if only things had been different and Rinoa hadn't shown up at the graduation ball.
She wondered what would happen to everyone now that the Garden was closed, especially Cid. She felt so bad for him losing his home and everything he had worked so hard for. But SeeD was over and she was just going to have to accept that she was just a normal person now and wasn't responsible for saving the world, only responsible for herself. She missed Squall a lot.
Winhill was quiet which was nice at first, a nice change, but it soon got tedious and boring and Quistis wanted out. She wanted to see Squall and Rinoa again, get back her Save the Queen and go on another adventure. There was nothing there for her in Winhill and with Zell living with his mother in Balamb and Irvine and Selphie in Galbadia, and Xu, Squall and Rinoa in Timber, there was absolutely nothing left for her. She wondered if her life would ever be the same again.
She got up one day and thought to herself as she often did ad thought about leaving town. It would be an excellent idea, there wouldn't be any point in staying in Winhill. She had to go so Quistis collected her things and set out for Timber. There was one problem though: the trains had broken down and Quistis looked up at the long stretching road heading towards Timber and sighed. I guess this is the only way, she thought.
She was getting weary and the sun was beating down hard, she couldn't take much more of this but couldn't slow down either. She felt like she was sleepwalking, losing her coordination and going off in all sorts of different directions. She kept slipping off the road. Sometimes there would be a battle, but most of the monsters were now gone. The battles were long and hard, she hardly had the strength left to go on anymore, but she felt she had to.
Her pride took over and she passed out.
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Zell was having a slightly better time in Balamb. He and his Ma were back under the same roof cooking their famous fish stew. Zell hung up his fighting gloves, he was glad to take them off, they were giving him an itch. Ha, that wasn't as bad as I imagined it would be, he thought. This is easy, I don't need those gloves at all.
He stared at his punching bag and thought about giving it a huge whack. He ran up but at the last moment decided to pull back. Better not, he thought.
"Zell, dinner's ready," shouted Ma Dincht from downstairs.
"Coming Ma," Zell said.
Dinner was its usual best and life was looking pretty up. Zell didn't need to be like Squall, he didn't need the others either. He had Ma's home cooking and he was happy with himself. That's all he needed, he didn't need anything. Except maybe, no it doesn't matter, he thought. I'm happy enough at the moment and I don't want anything else to ruin that.
Life was perfect but he soon found the sunny days turning to rain. Ma's cooking was the best and his life was perfect in Balamb but something was missing, something that he didn't have before.
Zell would often dream of past days when would hang out with Squall and they were best buddies. Dream of days when he would just eat hot dog after endless hotdog. But those days were over and he had to move on. He couldn't dwell on the past anymore.
"The past?" said Ma Dincht, a little confused. "Is that it? Is that what you've been missing?"
"Yeah," Zell replied. "It's nothing, but it's sorry to see it go."
"Ah, come here, my boy."
Ma Dincht gave Zell a hug and smiled.
"You do whatever you think is right, Zell," she said.
"Thanks,"
Zell thought about it long and hard but realised that even though he had a perfect life in Balamb he wasn't living the kind of life he wanted, he never truly felt alive unless he was fighting with his friends and a life without living is not living at all.
Zell decided it was time to move on and find Squall and the others. He thought his first stop would be Galbadia, they were sure to stop there.
Zell took the cross-continental train to Galbadia, but soon found it stopping. The trains had all broken down and Zell was left in the middle of nowhere.
He looked around, nothing but desert. It was a long, hard road up ahead.
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The Esthar skies looked a little greyer than usual. Something must have been up, it was never normally like this at this time of year. This was Esthar's hot season and they hadn't met a cloudy day in over 75 years.
Laguna looked out of the window in the Presidential Palace and saw what was going on. The clouds were now circling around and a great storm was gathering. Laguna could feel a cold chill run up his spine. It made him shudder.
Laguna went outside to get a closer look. It looked odd, it looked out of place. There was a purple spiral in the sky going around and around. It was hypnotic, Laguna couldn't take his eyes off it, he'd never seen anything like it in all his years of travel.
It seemed to move closer towards him. He backed away holding his hands in front of his face to protect himself. Kiros and Ward watched him from afar. They had no idea what was going on. The grey clouds turned black and a huge bolt of lightning struck the Presidential Palace.
All he could do was scream.