Rinoa vision clouded as she ran out of the room, unaware of where
she was going or people calling to her as she ran. Why! The word echoed
through her head and she stumbled through the burning building. Why me, Why
us, Why Beth? Why would somebody do this, Why help can't somebody us! She
fell to the floor; exhausted when she opened her eyes she saw she had fallen
right in front at a broken photograph. A man, a woman and two children all who
were smiling, she looked up and saw the woman in the photograph laying a few
steps away from her lying in a pool of blood, barely breathing.
"Help Me," she whispered, "I don't want to die, please I
don't want to die, I don't want to die, I can't die,"
"Ssh" Rinoa scrambled ungracefully over to her, scared
senseless, "Don't worry I'm here, you'll be okay" she lied,
"No I won't I can feel it… Take them from me please, take
them away, make them stop"
"Stop what? I don't understand, Oh my god" Rinoa saw the
woman's eyes turn a amber colour, a purple light streamed out of her.
"What's going on?" Rinoa screamed as the purple light rose
above her, the light screamed an unholy cry and dove straight for her,
Rinoa collapsed unconscious to the ground.
***
Seifer scrambled up the broken staircase
avoiding the dead body of an old man, where the hell is she? He waited
at the top for Quistis to hurry up, how did I get myself into this he
sighed.
"What?"
Seifer jumped, how the hell had Quistis
gotten up those stairs so quickly, he hadn't been thinking that long had he?
"Huh? What?"
"Something's up, what is it?"
"Nothing, it's just…how did this happen? Why
me? A few hours ago I was a mediocre reporter who had finally got a good story
and now look at me, stuck in a collapsed building looking for some one who is
probably dead, what's the point of doing anything we're going to die lets face
it, every body else has died you can't hear them screaming any more can you?"
"Just shut up right now okay! We are looking
for Rinoa, she is NOT dead, we're not going to die everything is going to be
alright they have rescue workers trying to get us out, we are going to be okay,
right…. Right?!"
"Yeah I suppose," murmured Seifer, "Well come
on"
Quistis grinned as Seifer took her hand and
pulled her along, even if Seifer had tried to kill her she decided that he
wasn't that bad after all.
***
Squall pushed passed a broken door, Where
the hell is she? Why did she have to run off? I swear when I find her I'm
gonna…
"Rinoa!" he spotted Rinoa laying on the
floor, he ran over to her, "Rinoa, oh Hyne, be okay please be okay." He turned
her over.
"Squall" She opened her eyes slightly, Squall
gasped as he saw that her eyes where no longer brown but strong amber colour.
"What's wrong Squall?"