~Dream~
Silvur and Seifer sat at Edea's feet, a smile on their faces. It felt good to be back by her cousin's side. As kids, they were inseperable, until that tragic day, and now..after 12 years, they were together again. It was as if nothing had changed. As kids, they always were the best at everything; sports, fighting, their class studies, etc. Even when they weren't together fighting as a team, they both were powerful, but when together...they were nearly unstoppable. Silvur was just about to get transferred to Balamb to take her field exam, and Seifer had already pledged himself to being Edea's knight. Know, they were Edea's knights, for Silvur had pledged her loyalty to Edea just two days ago.
Now, they were preparing for a battle against Balamb Garden. First, they would ram Balamb, then proceed to launch paratrooper's and moto-trooper's into the Garden. Once that was finished, and the others in Balamb Garden incapacitated, Edea and her knights would make their appearance, and she would let her knights have their fun..which would be finishing off the SeeDs who attacked her in Deling City. This brought wicked smile's to her and Seifer's faces. She looked up at Edea from where she was sitting on the steps infront of her, her gunblade resting by her feet, and smiled. Edea smiled back, and looked to her and Seifer, and spoke softly, as if she were speaking to her own children. "It's almost time my precious knights. Seifer, I want you to go check on the trooper's, and direct them. Silvur, I want you to lead the cadet's and ground troops. I will summon you once I am ready to enter Balamb Garden.", she placed a hand on one of Seifer's cheeks, then one on Silvur's, "Now go, and make me proud."
They both nodded, bowing as they stood. "We will not fail you." And, giving her one last nod, they both exited what once was Headmaster Martine's office via the elevator. Upon arriving on the second floor, they immediately checked their junctions, and went down the steps that lead to the first floor. When they reach the main hall, they stopped. "Okay, Silvur. Wait for my signal, then you lead the troops and cadets into battle."
"Alright. Oh..and Seifer, be careful."
"You too cuz." With that, they went their separate ways. Seifer to the area with all the moto and para-troopers, while Silvur went to the entrance where all the troops and cadets waited. Her heart was beating fast, like it always did before a battle, it excited her and helped her focus more on what needed to be done. They were approaching Balamb Garden now, apparently they were going to ram them. "Hold on everybody, this is going to be rough!" She grabbed ahold of a railing, holding on tightly as Galbadia Garden shook from the impact. That was when she heard the revving of engines, and looked up to see the moto-troopers already soaring acrosss and landing in the Quad of Balamb Garden, when she noticed something blue hanging from a broken off piece of the Quad.."What the hell is that? Oh well, no time to worry about it now, they should fall right into our palms any second..." She grinnned as Balamb Garden started to maneuver around them, getting in position to ram Galbadia Garden. She turned to her troops, "This is it, once we land, I want you all to come out screaming and ready to fight. Give your all for the Sorceress Edea, and she will reward you handsomely.", she raised her gunblade high in the air. "FOR EDEA!! AND FOR GALBADIA!!" The cadets and troops raised their weapons hight and started cheering, getting themselves pumped for the ground strike.
The ram from Balamb Garden caused to them to land, albeit roughly, and leading the charge, Silvur being the first out. She immediately started battling with Irvine, knocking him out and going on to the next person who stood in her way. This one was no ordinayr foe, he fought just as gracefully and deadly as she did, meeting her every slash with his daggers, which seemed clear at first glance. After dueling for almost 20 minutes, her attention was caught by two people running across the battlefield towards Galbadia Garden, and she knew it was the same people who had first been assigned with assassinating Edea. She went back to fighting and was tired of fooling with the little Balamb cadet, she had more important matters at hand, and once he made a mistake, she immediately sent her gunblade across his chest, some of his blood spurting onto her coat. As he fell, she brought her Hyperion up to deliver the final blow, but was caught by surprise when the young cadet leg-sweeped her, and she fell to the ground. He was about to deliver a deadly blow to her, when a Galbadian soldier kicked him in the face. Silvur stood and nodded to the soldier, "Don't kill him, apprehend him if possible, Edea could use someone with his skills.", then she remembered the two assassins slipping into Galbadia Garden. She fought her way through the crowd, taking out any Balamb SeeD's or cadets who got in her way with a few slashes of her gunblade. After fighting her way through the fighting her way through the battling crowd for about 30 minutes, she finally reached the side entrance that the two people had entered earlier, and immediately headed for the third floor.
Upon reaching the third floor, she found no one was there, which made her worry. She waited for a few moments, and smiled when she heard the sounds of battle coming from the auditorium beneath her. She immediately turned and headed back down, and ran across past the waiting room, to the balcony above the main hall, and continued up a small set of stairs that lead to the auditorium. Once she entered, the sight before her was heart-clenching, her cousin Seifer, lay on the floor and Edea in a trance of some sort above them. She stood to the side, hiding in the shadows, when suddenly a bright flash of light appeared, and mysteriously, it stayed. That's when the figure appeared over Seifer, although this time it wasn't Ultamecia..it was Adel, and she knelt beside Seifer. It was when she looked over in Silvur's direction, that she felt a shiver go up and down her spine, a shiver of fear, which is something she had never felt before, for she feared nothing or no one. Adel smiled, for she knew that Silvur was afraid, and placed a sharp fingernail at Seifer's throat, and said, "You will be my knight..or I'll kill off each person you care about, one by one...slowly, and", Adel's grin widened. "painfully!" At that, Seifer awoke and a look of terror crossed his face, and Adel slowly dragged the claw-like nail across his neck, making him scream in pain.
"NO!!!" Silvur drew her gunblade and charged forward at Adel, the gunblade in her right hand, while her right hand was out infront of her, a powerful Firaga spell slowly building around it.
Adel quickly finished off Seifer, and threw him aside like he was nothing, and stood focusing her attention on Silvur. She started laughing and raised her right hand high above her, and sent it down quickly, along with a powerful Meteor spell, which came crashing down on Silvur, and before Silvur could recover, she raised her left hand in the air, forming a large lighting bolt, and sent it flying at Silvur. Silvur manuevered to the side, causing the bolt to strike her in the side, instead of the stomach where it would have surely finished her off. When she turned back to face Adel, she found that Adel was gone. Looking around confused, the room returned back to normal, and she saw Edea walking away with her would-be assassins. Silvur didn't follow, for if she did, they would most likely kill her. She looked back to where Seifer's body lay, but found it missing too...."
~End of Dream~
Silvur awoke in a cold sweat, her legs tangled in the sheets of her bed. She looked around, and finally realized it was just a really terrible nightmare. "Ugh...I definitely need to stop watching those scary movies before I go to sleep." She considered going back to sleep, but thought it would be pointless since she would have to get up in an hour anyway. So she settled for going into the living room and watching TV for awhile. She threw the sheets off her and stepped out of bed, stopping to put on a pair of fuzzy chocobo slippers, and headed out of her room to the living room. Upon enetering, she was startled to find everyone else awake as well. They looked up at her and the looks on their faces told her that she wasn't the only one to have a bad night. "You guys have nightmares too?"
Seifer nodded. "Yeah, anything with Adel is a nightmare."
Silvur's jaw nearly dropped to the floor. "Holy shit! You mean she was in
your's too?"
"Yeah, she was in your's? This is really weird, cuz she was in mine, Raijin's, and Fujin's too."
Raijing nodded. "Yeah, scary, ya know."
Fujin simply nodded, then looked to the other's. "What do you think this means?"
"I don't know. I mean, Adel's dead, right? I think we might have got hit one too many time's last night, and it knocked a couple of screws loose." Silvur grinned.
Seifer smirked. "Silvur, you didn't have any screws for them to knock loose, but I guess you're right."
"Yeah..yeah..whatever." She waved a hand as if she was shooing him away, and yawned. She walked over to the coffee maker and poured herself a rather large mug to the top. "God...I really am not in the mood to put up with Quistis, Zell, Irvine..", she shivered, "and Selphie today." She went over sat down in her favorite chair, an old and too soft recliner that didn't even recline, and it's bluish color looked more like it had more gray in it than blue.
"Ughh..I totally agree, ya know. I think I would rather be trapped in a
closet with a hungry Grendel or kiss a Marlboro, ya know."
Seifer smirked. "I would rather spend a day with those idiots Biggs and Wedge than with those guys."
Silvur took a sip of her coffee, then added. "I, actually, would prefer being stuck on either the Island Closest to Hell, or the Island Closest to Heaven for a day, than be stuck on the Ragnarok for an hour with them."
"Here, here!" Fujin raised her coffee mug in a toast, and the other's did
the same.
"Anyways, what time are we leaving?" She looked over the rim of her mug as she took a sip.
"I have no idea. I guess we should just go to the hotel and wait."
"Sounds good to me."
"Yep, ya know. Heh, maybe if we could give them a wake up call, ya know."
Silvur laughed as she stood up from her chair and walked into the kitchen, placing her mug in the sink. "I'm going to get dressed, you guys should do the same."
She walked the bathroom, took a shower and brushed her teeth, then headed to her room and looked in the closet, trying to pick out something to wear. After a few minutes of debating, she finally picked out a pair of black jeans, with a white tanktop and a blue longsleeved, loose fitting jersey, which had a black hood and black sleeves, which covered up most of her hands, stopping at her knuckles. She grabbed her brown hiking boots and sat down on the bed, then proceeded to put them on. Before leaving the room she brushed her hair and, since it was apparent she was going to have a bad hair day, she covered it with a red Dollet Chocobo Wrangler's baseball cap, which she always wore backwards, and looked in the mirror. Heh, now I look every bit the street thug they think I am....that's a good thing.
She walked back into the living room, where the other's stood waiting and dressed. Seifer wearing a pair of loose cargo jeans with a tight black shirt that showed off his muscles. Raijin in a pair of baggy shorts and a jersey almost similar to Silvur, except it was yellow. Fujin was wearing a pair of jeans with a black tanktop and a black jean jacket that apparently belonged to either Seifer or Raijin because it was too big for her. She couldn't help but laugh as they headed out the door. "You guys, people are going to be hiding everything they own when we get to garden."
Raijin was puzzled. "What do you mean, ya know?"
Seifer laughed and hit him on the back of the head. "She means they are going to think we are nothing but common street thugs. I mean, we do look like we could play the part."
"Yeah...well, we might as well play it. I mean, picking on people and stuff, no need to steal..unless I happen to come across my gunblade." They left the apartment, Silvur locking the door behind them, and walked down the quiet streets of Dollet, towards the Dollet Hotel.