Sins of the Father Dragon Attack


Chapter 5

Calash grinned for a moment as he looked down on the mangled body of Quistis; a pool of her own blood was spreading out quickly under her. He put the gun back into his belt and walked over to the unconscious Ellone, picked her up and threw her lazily over his left shoulder. Then he looked at Khan, gave him a mocking salute and left the room, but not without kicking the dying body of Quistis, sending her crashing against the wall.

Khan breathed a few times, he fought the rage inside of himself and tried to concentrate. He had to get out of this cell and stop his brother. He looked at the fallen Woman in the corner, life was pouring out of her and there was no one here to safe her in time. He could do nothing for her while he was in that cell, except…

Khan himself was uneasy about that option. All he could do was to try to pour some of his immortal life into the body of the woman, enough for her to survive and turn off the field that hold him, but not too much; she would be burned like a candle in a firestorm. Khan forced himself to relax, the end never justified the means but he could not let his brother roam free and kill more people. And more than that he had to rescue the Sister of the Lion, no one should be at his brother's mercy and he would surely enjoy torturing her to death.

He drew a deep breath again, looked once more at the woman, keeping an image of her in his mind, and then he closed his eyes and concentrated.


PAIN…

THE WHOLE WORLD JUST CONSISTS OF PAIN…

Quistis felt herself being washed away by the pain, she had barely felt it when Zell kicked her against the wall. Everything was pain, the raging pain in her stomach. She could feel the hot blood pour out of her body; she just waited for the merciful embrace of darkness to relieve her from this world of pain.

It never came.

Instead she felt a sudden rush of energy go through her body, it raged with fury in her and for a moment she was sure her mind would be lost in it.

Then the pain ebbed down to a level where it just was nearly unbearable. The strange energy that poured into her body replenished her strength almost as fast as the blood pouring out of her body could take it away.

She heard a voice in her mind; no, more the urge to do something. She had to turn of the force field and release the stranger, and then the pain would stop.

She looked at the stranger, her vision blurred and unfocused, the stranger was standing next to the force field, his face turned to her but his eyes closed.

The urge in her grew stronger, she somehow knew that the borrowed strength she felt would consume her in a matter of minutes and knew that she had to act to survive. She began to crawl into the direction of the control panel.

It was much harder than she would ever have imagined, even with the pain on a lower level she was still mortally wounded, her right wrist shattered, and most of her abdominal muscles gone.

She managed to pull herself forward, using only her left arm and some minor movements of her feet. She was terribly slow and drew a path of blood behind her like the trail of a slug.

She slowly came closer to the panel, feeling more and more tired, she knew that she would not be able to stay alive for much longer. Finally, she managed to pull herself right below the panel and reached up, her bloody fingers trailed over the panel, finally finding the needed switch.

With a last effort of will she flipped the switch and heard the field vanish. Suddenly, the warm stream of force in her body vanished and she once more fell into a dark void.


Calash hurried along the hallways of Garden, the weapon bag and the unconscious figure of Ellone on his left shoulder, leaving his right arm unencumbered and free to aim with the gun he had drawn again.

The halls where almost empty, most of the students were at class at the moment. Calash hurried towards the parking lot, just as he was about to enter, two SeeDs, both male, came his way. One them saw him and wanted to say something at the look of the instructor who had an unconscious body on his shoulder, but Calash just raised his hand and pulled the trigger.

The first SeeD was hurled against the wall, his chest ripped in shreds from the Glaser Round. The other Seed tried to grab his own sidearm, but he was too slow, Calash shot again, this time aiming for the leg.

The round hit again and the leg was severed at the knee, the Seed fell over in shock, his breathing was quick and shallow. Calash put away the gun and took the keys to a car from the cooling hands of the first SeeD.

Calash opened the door and placed Ellone on the front seat, tying her hands behind the seat with plastic handcuffs, and then with a slight smirk he even fastened the seatbelt around her. Shouts and quick steps where heard from the entrance to the lot.

He slammed the door shut, jumped over the car while pulling out his gun again and emptied the rest of the clip in the direction of the entrance as he got into the car. A cry of pain said him that he had at least gotten another hit.

He turned the ignition and let the car make a jump forward, nice thing that his host body was able to work the toys of this bright new age he thought with a smile.


Khan jumped forward out of the cell and cast the first series of curaga spells, even before he reached the mangled body of the woman. Something in his mind screamed to just let her die and get his brother before he could escape once again, but he could not do that, it just was not right.

He reached out and put the woman on her back, pressing his hands on her wounded stomach and abdomen, he concentrated and felt the warm flow of healing magic through his hands. Slowly he felt the tissue healing back, muscles and organs reforming themselves, the sharp bullet fragment's piercing the skin for a second as he drew them out of the wound magically.

Khan concentrated further and the warmth from his hands reached the ribs that were shattered when Calash had kicked the woman against the wall like a piece of trash. Soon her heart started to pump powerfully and regularly again. Then he concentrated on the shattered wrist, the least dire of the wounds. The bones in it obediently grew back together and the hand was healed.

Quistis opened her eyes and coughed up some blood, the pain was gone and not even a hint of it remained. She could think clearly again, the feverish heat that had filled her before was gone also. She looked down and saw the rest of a faint glow on the hands of the man called Khan, he was kneeling above her and had his hands pressed against her abdomen.

He looked at her, smiled, and got up, offering her a hand as help. She took it and he pulled her to her feet with ease. He let something slip into her hand and turned for the door.

"I need to save the other woman from my brother. You need to inform your Leader of what happened here." Quistis looked down into her hand, it was the bullet-fragments. She froze for a second as she realized that this where the bullets that nearly ended her life, then she hurried out of the room after the man as an alarm was sounded.


The white-haired woman looked down on the two dead SeeDs; she and 3 other people had barely avoided the rain of bullets that Zell had shot at them. If the two dead bodies in front of her were not so tragic she almost would have chuckled. In her point of view, it had been only a matter of time until Chicken-Wuss burnt a fuse and went postal.

Fujin looked over to the other survivors of the gunshots. Most were unhurt, or sporting only a few scratches, but one woman had gotten a Glaser round into the hip and was bleeding heavily. Two others were casting cure Spells and one was fiddling around with a first aid kit and some potions, the woman would survive and in a few months be fully recovered.

"YOU. TAKE. INFIRMARY." She barked at the people who nursed the hurt woman. "YOU. CLEAN. BODYS." She barked at another two that where standing around slightly shocked.

"What will you do?" asked one of them back, the woman smiled without any humor.

"KICK. CHICKEN-WUSS. HARD!" She set out to the parking lot; jumped into the first car that she found and turned the ignition, a manual transmission. She smiled again, suited her fine. She buckled up and ignited the car, putting it into the first. Just as she was about to drive away te door was opened and a man jumped into the front seat, slamming the door shut after him.

"We need to catch the Dincht Guy," he said without hesitating a second. Fujin hit the gas pedal and let the clutch go with a sudden movement, the engine howled and the car make a jump forward with screeching tires.

"AFFIRMATIVE!"


The motor howled and Fujin tortured the engine and transmission by letting the car accelerate till the needle hit the 20 mph mark, then she kicked the clutch again and slammed the handle of the gear down into second. She just let the clutch go and the car made another jump forward, rocking heavily, the needle hit the 40 mph mark as the car shot out of the Garden garage like a projectile.

Fujin hit the clutch again and let the gear handle snap back upward giving it another push into the third. Then she let the clutch go again, this time a bit softer, and accelerated further, without taking her eyes from the road, she hit the stereo and immediately music started blaring out.

Take me to the room where the red's all red Take me out of my head-'s what I said yeah Hey take me to the room where the green's all green And from what I've seen it's hot it's mean

"We have to save the woman Ellone," said Khan who looked to the street, a strange gleam in his eyes like a predator when the hunt is on.

"AFFIRMATE," the woman answered. The car made a good 70 miles per hour now on the mud smeared street that lead from the Garden to Balamb. In a good distance the car that Calash/Zell took was visible and it was clear that if the woman had not crashed the car, they would have caught them a few minutes before they came anywhere near Balamb.

-Gonna use my stack -It's gotta be Mack -Gonna get me on the track -Got a dragon on my back

The car literarily flew over the road, once or twice slithering a bit on the wet and muddy ground, but the woman had the complete control over the vehicle. Then a ripped off branch lay on the road and she had to make an emergency maneuver and barely avoided the obstacle. Khan was thrown forward against the windshield. A single drop of blood out of a barely visible wound that closed immediately ran down his forehead. "BUCKLE. UP." was all Fujin.

Take me to the room where the beat's all round Gonna eat that sound - (yeah yeah yeah!) Take me to the room where the black's all white And the white's all black take me back to the shack

The car got closer still, the road took a long straight turn now, and so the woman could put it into fourth and accelerate the car to almost 90 mph, the engine screaming. The distance between the two cars was now less than 300 feet and shrinking. The woman pointed to the compartment on the dashboard. Khan opened it and pulled out a pistol. "STOP. CAR. SHOOT. TIRES!" Fujin commanded him.

"How do you use this?" the man replied.

Get down - I said so Hey hey - All right

Fujin grabbed the gun while she drove. "SAFETY!" she commanded and clicked it off. "LOAD. THROUGH!" she took the other hand from the steering wheel and load the gun through. "POINT. AIM. PULL TRIGGER" she said and gave the gun back to Khan. Suddenly she let out a small scream, Calash had realized that he could not escape and the woman had slammed the brakes of the car to stop.

She's low down -She don't take no prisoners Go down -Gonna give me the business No time -Yeah chained to the rack! Show time -Got a dragon on my back Show down -Go find another customer Slow down -I gotta make my way

Fujin ripped around the steering wheel and slammed the brakes, the car went over the road into the plains, and it turned, hit an obstacle and was thrown into the air, where it turned around itself. It hit the ground and turned again over itself, after nearly 20 turns it miraculously landed again on the wheels and stood still.

Fujin looked around, blood pouring from both her nose holes. The man next to her was grinning with a maniacal gleam in his eyes. "Wasn't that the most fun you can have with your clothes still on?" he asked while laughing. Fujin stared at him in disbelief for a second.

"Hyne, you are right" she said, and then started laughing with him like a mad person.

Khan touched her shoulder and the warm feeling of a healing spell flew through Fujin's body, all the minor cuts and small injuries stopped hurting. The man still grinned. "What happened to the AFFIRMATIVE. TALK?" He asked with a grin. Fujin pressed the gas carefully.

"SCREW YOURSELF!" she answered. Khan laughed hard as the car managed to get back to the road again.


Ellone woke up in the other car, she opened her eyes and looked around carefully, she saw Calash, she could not any longer think of the figure as her friend Zell, sitting in the driver-seat. Her arms hurt terribly, she wanted to move them, but she could not, her nearly numb fingers tested around and found the plastic strips that held her fast. Her shoulders and arms hurt from the violent movements that had awoken her up she heard Calash laugh in Zell's voice, but she tried to keep her eyes closed.

"Hey faking it is not nice, in bed or outside!" she heard Calash say and was shook violently which sent new waves of pain through her already tortured arms. Ellone opened her eyes and saw that the car she was in was accelerating again, she also saw another Garden car, still spinning around, a short distance in front of them, away from the road. Her heart cramped as she thought of the hurt or maybe even dead SeeDs that where in the car.

Calash drove the vehicle further down the road, towards Balamb. Ellone risked turning her head so she could look into the mirror and her heart made another jump, this time of joy. The car behind them had started again and drove a bit of a distance behind them.

"My dear brother is really annoying, he just doesn't know when to stop and breathe, don't you agree? He is like a terrier, always on the chase," Calash said with an unfriendly grin on his face. "Well fortunately, like every terrier, it is an easy thing to turn his attention to a decoy," he continued and looked at her. "Right little decoy?"

Ellone felt new waves of fear as Calash drove the car from the road onto the railroad track that lead from Balamb to the deep Sea tunnel.

Khan cursed as he saw Calash jump from the car after he had parked it on the railway, the train was already visibly leaving Balamb and there was no way for the engineer to stop the train in time. The car would get crushed like a soda can by the steel giant.

Calash locked the doors; then he pulled out a machine gun from his bag and sprayed the tires with bullets. He raised the gun and emptied the magazine into their direction, but apart from a few scratches in the hood of the car the distance was to great and the gun sprayed the bullets to far to do any damage. Calash flipped them another mocking salute and ran next to the tracks towards the train.


"SHIT. WHAT. NOW," shouted Fujin.

"We get the woman," Khan replied without a moment of hesitation. Fujin just nodded and floored the gas to get closer. The other car was parked in as a cross towards the tracks, as she brought the car to an halt next to it Khan had already loosened his seat belt and was out of the car. He ran towards the other vehicle and smashed his arms through the window on the driver's side in a fluent motion.

Fujin was jumping out of the car as Khan ripped both doors open and got into the backseat, the train was just a few hundred feet away and got steadily closer. Khan was working hurriedly to cut through the plastic handcuffs. His arms where covered with cuts from the windows of the car and he used one of the shards to cut the bonds that held Ellone to her seat.

The train was less than a hundred feet away when he managed it; he grabbed Ellone at the shoulder and pulled her out of the car. Less than 50 feet of distance remained, the engineer pulled the emergency break and phoned the horn, but he knew that could never stop the train in time.

Khan got out of the car and in one fluent motion again stood up, turned around, and pushed Ellone towards Fujin who tried to grab the woman as the train was less than 20 feet from the car.

Ellone felt strangely detached from her body as she sailed through the air. She felt herself hitting something soft and felt that she was pulling it to the ground with herself. The last thing she saw before she and Fujin rolled down the hillside arm in arm was Khan; who tried a back flip to get out of the way of the train. Then she heard the screaming of ripping metal as the car she sat in only minutes ago was ripped into shreds.


A/N:

The bullets that fragment internally on a body hit are the "Glaser Safety Slug" (Named because it will not ricochet, and breaks apart on most hard surfaces.

The Song is Dragon Attack by Queen, Words and music by Brian May performed by Queen.


A/N: My greatest thanks go to Rhyein for patiently proofing this and helping me with useful critic while writing this.