CHAPTER 6 BAHAMUT



Zell ran back to the front gates. The Esthar soldiers turned and headed back to their country. It was over.

"Zell!" Seifer yelled.

Zell summoned Bahamut to watch their backs as they talked.

"I can't believe Squall is dead," Seifer told Zell.

"Everything is wrecked. There are only six people left alive from Garden, and all the people of Balamb City are dead. That means… my mother. Garden is dead." Zell said.

Nida, Jennifer, Jessica, and Rinoa got up.

"What happened?" Nida asked.

"Nothing," Seifer replied. "We won."

Bahamut turned his head and looked at Zell. They are weak, Bahamut thought. Bahamut turned and scooped Jessica up with his mouth. With one crunch and one gulp Jessica was gone.

"Bahamut!" Zell yelled.

Bahamut turned and flew away.

"We need Cloud again," Zell said.

He concentrated on Laguna but nothing happened. Laguna suddenly appeared.

"Seifer," Laguna said under his breath.

"Laguna Stop!!" Squall yelled.

Laguna stopped where he was.

"We need to make peace," Squall said. "Seifer may of killed Raine but we might be able to bring her back to life as we did you. Ultemecia wasn't Raine. Raine was a regular person and Ultemecia possessed her. We need to split up into parties to catch Bahamut. We'll make two parties. I will be leader of one of them and Zell will be the leader of the other. Laguna and Nida you will come with me, Seifer and Jennifer go with Zell."

"Why can't I lead a party?" Laguna asked.

"Because it's Zell's GF and in the end he'll be the one fighting it."

Zell's face went pale. "Aren't you guys going to help me?"

"Only if Seifer and Jennifer here want to help you. We're going to find a way to resurrect Raine," Squall told him.

"If we're lucky the boat that took me and Jessica here will still be at the port of Balamb," Jennifer said.

Laguna started to turn white. He disappeared and Cloud appeared in his place.

"The portal is all wrong," Cloud said.

"Cloud, can you help me defeat Bahamut?" Zell asked.

"Absolutely," Cloud replied.

"Could you revive Laguna's deceased wife too?" Seifer asked. "I need to do it for him."

"Could you also make a new GF?" Squall added. "One of Selphie, Quistis, and Irvine?"

"I can do all that for you. I am so powerful, that I will grant every wish for you in my power." Cloud told them.

"Like a magic genie?" Jennifer asked.

"Almost," Cloud replied. "Oh you lost this."

The portal opened in the sky and the Ragnarok came flying out of it.

"Thank you so much Cloud," Squall said.

Cloud and Squall shook hands.

"All your materia is in the ship," Cloud told them.

Cloud, Squall, Seifer, Zell, Rinoa, and Jennifer all climbed aboard the Ragnarok.

Off in the distance they saw Bahamut.

"Zell," Squall said from the cockpit. "He's at 3 o'clock you got him?"

Zell sat at the laser post.

"I got him," Zell replied over the intercom.

"Seifer how are the engines looking, they all set for hyper boost?" Squall asked over the intercom.

"Rinoa and Jennifer are checkin' them right now. They seem to be all right I looked myself." Seifer replied.

"Let's go," Squall said pulled the shift back. He looked at Cloud next to him.

The Ragnarok flew off the ground and hovered in the air for a while boosting up it's engines. The Ragnarok took off; it's chased after Bahamut. He saw it coming though. Bahamut reared around and swung its tail around. He barely hit the Ragnarok. At that time though Zell fired the laser at him. It burned of the skin on the edge of his tail. Bahamut's eyes turned red. He blew a puff of fire at the Ragnarok. Squall and Cloud spun the Ragnarok around. The fire hit the engines.

"Seifer get out of there!" Squall yelled over the intercom.

It was too late though. Seifer, Rinoa, and Jennifer jumped out of the engine vents into the ocean below. Zell fired at Bahamut while it was recharging his fire. Zell nailed Bahamut in the back.

"Oh yeah!" Zell yelled making a spin in his chair.

"Where's Nida?" Squall said looking at Cloud.

Suddenly down below, Nida came racing across the water on the motorboat Jennifer told them about. He swerved in the water and pulled Seifer, Rinoa, and Jennifer up.

Squall blew out a sigh of relief. Bahamut, still injured flew around in the air. He spit the fire again but this time Cloud had put his arm out of the window. His hand glowed with white and the fire turned to ice and dropped into the ocean. Bahamut landed on Balamb Island and fell to its knees. Zell and Cloud jumped out of the Ragnarok and tumbled onto the grass. Cloud ran up to Bahamut and Sliced Bahamut in the back where Zell shot him. Zell too ran to Bahamut and focused on the old Bahamut.

"Cloud! Materia ball!" Zell shouted.

Cloud tossed him a materia ball and Zell restrained Bahamut by the empty materia. Bahamut faded and dissolved into the materia ball. Zell turned and hauled the ball off into the ocean.

"Thanks," Zell told Cloud.

"You have lost a lot Zell. Your mother, town, friends, but here is somethin to be happy about." Cloud said.

Out of the ground rose Ellone. Zell's eyes lit up. She ran to him and leaped into his strong arms.

"Laguna is gone," Cloud told him. "Tell Seifer that Laguna has found her. She is in the portal with him." Cloud jumped up into the air and was gone.

The Ragnarok landed and Squall jumped out. He gave Ellone a hug and shook Zell's hand. Nida came to the shore and he got off with Rinoa, Seifer, and Jennifer.

"Let's all have the night with the ones we love," Seifer said.