Author's note: The chapter which you've all been waiting for. This chapter tells of what is the connection between this woman who looks like Ultimaecia and Anastasia. ENJOY!
Chapter 10 - To Believe
The un-named woman who looked like Ultimaecia stepped out of the shadows and showed her face to the entire crew. The SeeDs stared at her in awe and disbelief that she was actually alive. She snorted when she saw Anastasia alive and well. She never expected this to happen. She expected for the SeeDs to kill her.
"You are a naive young woman, Anya," the woman spoke, her voice the same as everyone remembered it to be.
Anastasia looked at her, a puzzled look sketched on her face. "Who are you?"
"I can not believe you don't recognize me, young one." The woman stepped further down the stairs and stopped a few centimeters from the young woman. "I am your mother."
"You can't be my mother!" she hissed, turning around to face her completely.
"Well, not entirely. I trained you to become this way. Rino and Squall were never your parents. Gabriella is not your sister. Everything you have ever known since you were a child was just an illusion so you could do the job for me, instead of doing this on my own." She noticed the young woman's distraught face. Smirking, she placed a hand on the young woman's cheek. "Awwww, I'm sorry to disappoint you. It was a good idea to send someone else to do your dirty work. You were just too easy."
Anastasia stared at her in disarray. How can this be? She was just fooled all along? Who was that woman she spoke to? Wasn't that her mother?
"Your mother was a weakling," the older Sorceress replied, reading her thoughts. "I decided to show up today, because I wanted to see the two babies I collected myself."
Anastasia glared at her. "You collected them?! I did the deed! You did nothing!" she spat.
"Tsk! Tsk, Anya! Don't speak to your mother like that. You have no idea how much work I had to do on you. You were stubborn at first. Your heart was stronger than I thought when I tried to take over your body and take Gabriella and Quistis' baby. I did all those. I just used your body to get to them. I had your body, but you had my mind." She watched Anastasia fell on her knees in bewilderment.
The SeeDs watched on, feeling sorry for the young woman. Seifer could understand how she feels. Like him, she was controlled by the Sorceress and became a lapdog, or rather, her pawn. Except, everything she believed existed in her mind was all an illusion to throw her off. An illusion to get her mind off of her real past that really existed a long time ago. She had become a puppet to the Sorceress. Seifer shook the thoughts away. That was a year ago and he wasn't about to let those feelings interrupt with his mission. Slowly, once more, he stepped closer to the two baskets. He was getting closer.
Quistis watched Seifer in worry. At the same time, she felt remorse for the troubled youth, who has thought that Rinoa and Squall were her parents in the future. She believed that Gabriella was her sister and believed that she had a duty to kill them. All of the beliefs she knew, erased the memory of her past that she has come to learn so long ago. The woman who looked like Ulimaecia, has taken her life.
Rinoa and Squall looked at each other, both relieved that the words Anastasia has thought she said, were false. But also felt pain for the girl. She was just an innocent child, taken from her parents and corrupted by evil, only to find out in the worst possible times that she was just like everyone on earth. A good child, influenced by the world of evil living on this earth. This girl has been doing the most dirtiest deeds that the Sorceress has not come to do on her own.
"Ultimaecia!" Zell shouted, his anger flaring on his face. How could he do such a thing to an innocent person?
The woman turned his way, shaking her head. "No, I'm not Ultimaecia! I'm Lucia! I'm the soon to be ruler of this world and rid the earth with you sickening mortals and plague it with powerful immortals such as myself! I will-"
Whip!
"Ah!" Something hit her at the side of her face. She placed a hand on the wound and glared at Quistis, her whip gripped between her palms. Roughly, she pointed a finger at Quistis. "You will pay for that, bitch!" she threatened, recovering from the wound inflicted upon her.
Quistis glaced at Seifer, who was out of sight. Her heart started to pound, worried that something must've happened to him. She glanced at the two baskets, but they weren't there. She breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that Seifer must've gotten to them, before anything else happened. She turned to everyone, who had gotten their weapons out and ready to do battle.
Lucia got ready to fire back with her magic, but was interrupted by a discreet call from behind her. She didn't care at this point. She was eager to kill Quistis.
"Quistis!" Every head, including Quistis, glanced behind Lucia to find Seifer holding two baskets in his hands. Quistis shook her head in warning, telling him to be careful not to reveal himself , but it was too late. Lucia had turned her head towards Seifer and smiled evilly. He didn't have his weapon out and the two baskets he held in his hands were too fragile to even to an attack, in case she missed and gets them. She turned her head back at Quistis, her evil smil still in tact. She had a plan.
Quistis stared back at Lucia, standing her ground, her whip gripped tightly in the palm of her hands.
"You want to challenge me, bitch?!" Lucia hissed, circling her like a predator hunting its prey.
Quistis did a double take, not giving up easily. The rest followed suit. Rino and Squall stood beside Quistis, circling with her, while the other three, Selphie, Zell and Irvine took the back side,doing a round up with the others.
Lucia let out a hideous laugh. "Oh! So, you're all challenging me?!" She stopped circling and looked at everyone. "Which one of you should go first? Or am I battling all of you at the same time?"
"ME!" came a very loud voice from behind the Sorceress. Lucia turned around, forgetting about the wretched pest she left behind. She should've destroyed her after giving Quistis a dose of a 'fast birth' and taken Alexis herself. It was a waste of time to even have someone else do her work. Anastasia looked at her, standing up from her position in kneeling and walked towards her. "You fight me first, Lucia!" Anastasia yelled.
Lucia smirked, her cold eyes staring into Anya's own. She folded her arms across her chest. "Are you sure you want to fight me, little Anya? After all, I did raise you since you were nine and I taught you how to use magic!"
"Shove it, Lucia!" Anastasia glared at her. "You'll see how weak I can be! Fire 3!" She threw back her hand and jerked her palms towards Lucia. A burst of energy released itself from her hands and fired it at the Sorceress.
Lucia didn't even budge. She waited until it was close enough and, without any effort, flicked her fingers at it, bouncing it back to Anastasia. Anastasia easily dodged that attack, but as she turned, she was surprised to see an orange and red light mixed together, coming towards her. Without any time to move at all, the attack took her by force, hitting her in the chest, sending her flying ten feet into the air and landing on the concrete floor with a sickening thud! Her arms and legs flailed, but it soon became limp after that. Rinoa ran to her side and rested the young woman's head on her lap. Anastasia opened her eyes weakly and stared into the eyes of the young woman whom she believed was her mother.
"I..." Anastasia murmured. "I'm sorry to cause you this trouble," she said to Rinoa.
Rinoa shook her head. "Don't speak. Save your energy in the hospital."
Anastasia closed her eyes. She coughed up blood, the slick liquid sliding down from her face and into Rinoa's lap. "Even though I believed that you abandoned me to have another child, I still believed that you would come back to me someday and reclaim me as your daughter again and call you my mother." She turned her head towards the ceiling. "But now I know the truth, that you're not her. My mother is up there somewhere, waiting for me to run into her arms."
Rinoa felt a tear leaving her eye, but she wiped it away quickly with the back of her hand. She could understand the young woman's pain and suffering all these years. She was just a troubled child, controlled by the evil lurking in her heart, blinded by the presence of evil in front of her. She was trapped in evil and has never learned to release her good side, until now. Rinoa saw the good in her eyes. For a long time, Anastasia has been strugglin to let her good side go, but it was released a little too late. With one last breath, Anastasia closed her eyes and fell asleep forever.
"Now you and your mother can be together," Rinoa whispered in the dead young woman's ears. She wept quietly, burying her face in her chest. She hasn't known the young woman that long, or the fact that she wanted to kill them before, but Rinoa felt a closeness with her. Close enough to that it makes her cry. Close enough like a sister, rather than a mother-daughter relationship. 'Why do bad things always happen to good people?' she thought.
Author's note: That was sad, I know. I never expected it to make it this way, but you know me! I like making people depressed, j/k! Anyway, i hope you enjoyed this chapter! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! R/R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter 10 - To Believe
The un-named woman who looked like Ultimaecia stepped out of the shadows and showed her face to the entire crew. The SeeDs stared at her in awe and disbelief that she was actually alive. She snorted when she saw Anastasia alive and well. She never expected this to happen. She expected for the SeeDs to kill her.
"You are a naive young woman, Anya," the woman spoke, her voice the same as everyone remembered it to be.
Anastasia looked at her, a puzzled look sketched on her face. "Who are you?"
"I can not believe you don't recognize me, young one." The woman stepped further down the stairs and stopped a few centimeters from the young woman. "I am your mother."
"You can't be my mother!" she hissed, turning around to face her completely.
"Well, not entirely. I trained you to become this way. Rino and Squall were never your parents. Gabriella is not your sister. Everything you have ever known since you were a child was just an illusion so you could do the job for me, instead of doing this on my own." She noticed the young woman's distraught face. Smirking, she placed a hand on the young woman's cheek. "Awwww, I'm sorry to disappoint you. It was a good idea to send someone else to do your dirty work. You were just too easy."
Anastasia stared at her in disarray. How can this be? She was just fooled all along? Who was that woman she spoke to? Wasn't that her mother?
"Your mother was a weakling," the older Sorceress replied, reading her thoughts. "I decided to show up today, because I wanted to see the two babies I collected myself."
Anastasia glared at her. "You collected them?! I did the deed! You did nothing!" she spat.
"Tsk! Tsk, Anya! Don't speak to your mother like that. You have no idea how much work I had to do on you. You were stubborn at first. Your heart was stronger than I thought when I tried to take over your body and take Gabriella and Quistis' baby. I did all those. I just used your body to get to them. I had your body, but you had my mind." She watched Anastasia fell on her knees in bewilderment.
The SeeDs watched on, feeling sorry for the young woman. Seifer could understand how she feels. Like him, she was controlled by the Sorceress and became a lapdog, or rather, her pawn. Except, everything she believed existed in her mind was all an illusion to throw her off. An illusion to get her mind off of her real past that really existed a long time ago. She had become a puppet to the Sorceress. Seifer shook the thoughts away. That was a year ago and he wasn't about to let those feelings interrupt with his mission. Slowly, once more, he stepped closer to the two baskets. He was getting closer.
Quistis watched Seifer in worry. At the same time, she felt remorse for the troubled youth, who has thought that Rinoa and Squall were her parents in the future. She believed that Gabriella was her sister and believed that she had a duty to kill them. All of the beliefs she knew, erased the memory of her past that she has come to learn so long ago. The woman who looked like Ulimaecia, has taken her life.
Rinoa and Squall looked at each other, both relieved that the words Anastasia has thought she said, were false. But also felt pain for the girl. She was just an innocent child, taken from her parents and corrupted by evil, only to find out in the worst possible times that she was just like everyone on earth. A good child, influenced by the world of evil living on this earth. This girl has been doing the most dirtiest deeds that the Sorceress has not come to do on her own.
"Ultimaecia!" Zell shouted, his anger flaring on his face. How could he do such a thing to an innocent person?
The woman turned his way, shaking her head. "No, I'm not Ultimaecia! I'm Lucia! I'm the soon to be ruler of this world and rid the earth with you sickening mortals and plague it with powerful immortals such as myself! I will-"
Whip!
"Ah!" Something hit her at the side of her face. She placed a hand on the wound and glared at Quistis, her whip gripped between her palms. Roughly, she pointed a finger at Quistis. "You will pay for that, bitch!" she threatened, recovering from the wound inflicted upon her.
Quistis glaced at Seifer, who was out of sight. Her heart started to pound, worried that something must've happened to him. She glanced at the two baskets, but they weren't there. She breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that Seifer must've gotten to them, before anything else happened. She turned to everyone, who had gotten their weapons out and ready to do battle.
Lucia got ready to fire back with her magic, but was interrupted by a discreet call from behind her. She didn't care at this point. She was eager to kill Quistis.
"Quistis!" Every head, including Quistis, glanced behind Lucia to find Seifer holding two baskets in his hands. Quistis shook her head in warning, telling him to be careful not to reveal himself , but it was too late. Lucia had turned her head towards Seifer and smiled evilly. He didn't have his weapon out and the two baskets he held in his hands were too fragile to even to an attack, in case she missed and gets them. She turned her head back at Quistis, her evil smil still in tact. She had a plan.
Quistis stared back at Lucia, standing her ground, her whip gripped tightly in the palm of her hands.
"You want to challenge me, bitch?!" Lucia hissed, circling her like a predator hunting its prey.
Quistis did a double take, not giving up easily. The rest followed suit. Rino and Squall stood beside Quistis, circling with her, while the other three, Selphie, Zell and Irvine took the back side,doing a round up with the others.
Lucia let out a hideous laugh. "Oh! So, you're all challenging me?!" She stopped circling and looked at everyone. "Which one of you should go first? Or am I battling all of you at the same time?"
"ME!" came a very loud voice from behind the Sorceress. Lucia turned around, forgetting about the wretched pest she left behind. She should've destroyed her after giving Quistis a dose of a 'fast birth' and taken Alexis herself. It was a waste of time to even have someone else do her work. Anastasia looked at her, standing up from her position in kneeling and walked towards her. "You fight me first, Lucia!" Anastasia yelled.
Lucia smirked, her cold eyes staring into Anya's own. She folded her arms across her chest. "Are you sure you want to fight me, little Anya? After all, I did raise you since you were nine and I taught you how to use magic!"
"Shove it, Lucia!" Anastasia glared at her. "You'll see how weak I can be! Fire 3!" She threw back her hand and jerked her palms towards Lucia. A burst of energy released itself from her hands and fired it at the Sorceress.
Lucia didn't even budge. She waited until it was close enough and, without any effort, flicked her fingers at it, bouncing it back to Anastasia. Anastasia easily dodged that attack, but as she turned, she was surprised to see an orange and red light mixed together, coming towards her. Without any time to move at all, the attack took her by force, hitting her in the chest, sending her flying ten feet into the air and landing on the concrete floor with a sickening thud! Her arms and legs flailed, but it soon became limp after that. Rinoa ran to her side and rested the young woman's head on her lap. Anastasia opened her eyes weakly and stared into the eyes of the young woman whom she believed was her mother.
"I..." Anastasia murmured. "I'm sorry to cause you this trouble," she said to Rinoa.
Rinoa shook her head. "Don't speak. Save your energy in the hospital."
Anastasia closed her eyes. She coughed up blood, the slick liquid sliding down from her face and into Rinoa's lap. "Even though I believed that you abandoned me to have another child, I still believed that you would come back to me someday and reclaim me as your daughter again and call you my mother." She turned her head towards the ceiling. "But now I know the truth, that you're not her. My mother is up there somewhere, waiting for me to run into her arms."
Rinoa felt a tear leaving her eye, but she wiped it away quickly with the back of her hand. She could understand the young woman's pain and suffering all these years. She was just a troubled child, controlled by the evil lurking in her heart, blinded by the presence of evil in front of her. She was trapped in evil and has never learned to release her good side, until now. Rinoa saw the good in her eyes. For a long time, Anastasia has been strugglin to let her good side go, but it was released a little too late. With one last breath, Anastasia closed her eyes and fell asleep forever.
"Now you and your mother can be together," Rinoa whispered in the dead young woman's ears. She wept quietly, burying her face in her chest. She hasn't known the young woman that long, or the fact that she wanted to kill them before, but Rinoa felt a closeness with her. Close enough to that it makes her cry. Close enough like a sister, rather than a mother-daughter relationship. 'Why do bad things always happen to good people?' she thought.
Author's note: That was sad, I know. I never expected it to make it this way, but you know me! I like making people depressed, j/k! Anyway, i hope you enjoyed this chapter! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! R/R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!