1 Final Part/Part six
Q/N: I know this is daft but I've decided not to add any more flashbacks seeing as you know what happens after the last flashback I wrote about. If you're like me and my mates I suggest you keep some tissues handy cos this is gonna be a sad one…
Chapter Six Perfect Beginning
Their first SeeD mission. The first mission issued to them as members of SeeD. This was all so daunting to Seifer, but he didn't have a clue how Mylina felt. Being 3 years younger than he was, Seifer assumed that she must be very worried, but in fact she was well and truly psyched. She was more confident that Seifer himself was. Zaine, who had also passed the exam, looked very nervous indeed. It seemed like Mylina was the only confident one there. If Seifer had nails to bite then he'd be biting them now.
"You all psyched up for this then Seifer?" Mylina asked happily.
"Oh yes…" Seifer said hesitantly. He wasn't looking forward to this at all. He felt so nervous. Zaine did too, he could tell. He'd been through tough stuff under Ultimecia and Edea, but with them he wasn't representing his Garden, and then again he wasn't taking care of an innocent little 15-year- old girl either. He still loved Quistis with all his heart but something drew him to Mylina, and he wasn't sure whether it was the romantic kind or the brotherly kind. It felt more like the brotherly kind to him though. All the romantic love he could spare he would always save for Quistis, whether she was alive or not. His heart would always belong to her. Even as he stood there ready to get on the train to Galbadia he always thought of her. Every moment he had was spent reminding himself of how beautiful she was and how much he loved her. He looked at Mylina and smiled. She was so innocent, such a pure-hearted girl, and so young. She was already a SeeD at 15. Seifer had tried many times to be a SeeD and at 18 he had only just succeeded. She was a real achiever. She reminded him of Quistis a lot. Despite having brown hair with blond strands, she still had those eyes that reminded him of Quistis. "Do you have a family?" he asked her. She giggled.
"Yes I do!" she giggled again. "I have you silly!" Seifer turned and looked at her. She had a cheery grin on her face. Was she really an orphan?
"So…are you an orphan like me?" he asked.
"Yep. My parents died when I was a baby. I was brought up in an orphanage in Timber." She leaned forward and tilted her head to see if the train was coming. "I can see the train!" she squealed, pulling her head back and grabbing onto Seifer and Zaine's hands. "Come on you guys this is gonna be fun! We're going to Galbadia!" as the train pulled into the station she leapt up and down with excitement. She pulled Seifer aside for a moment and whispered in his ear "It doesn't matter what family I did have cos I've got you now and that's all there is to it OK?" Seifer smiled and her and pulled her onto the train. They all walked through the carriages until they found the SeeD carriage. Mylina jumped about with excitement as they entered the homely little carriage. She sat down on the sofa and jumped up and down repeatedly. She was way beyond confident at this stage. She was filled with faith in her friends. She knew that if they worked as a unit then they could overcome any obstacle. Mylina fumbled in her pocket and pulled out what appeared to be her wallet. She called Seifer and Zaine to come and sit with her.
"Look at this!" she said as they sat. She opened up the wallet to show a picture of a pair of small collie puppies, looking cheerily at them. "These are my dogs Lori and Sabre. Aren't they so cute?"
"Is that what they look like now?" Zaine asked. Mylina nodded.
"They're only 7 weeks old and I miss them a lot. Pets aren't really allowed in Garden but if they were I'd bring them with me," she replied. She smiled at the picture and folded her wallet back up, replacing it neatly into her pocket. She began to fiddle with the cross neck chain Seifer had given her, humming along to a little song she must've made up herself.
"That song you're humming," Seifer asked. "Did you compose that one yourself too?" Mylina nodded.
"Yup! I compose my own music all the time! It's like a hobby for me! I like to sing it too," she replied cheerfully rocking back and forth as she did so.
"Why don't you play it to us?" Zaine asked. "There's a piano in the next cart, you could sing along to it too." Mylina got excited at the prospect of being able to play and sing her new song. She grabbed hold of Seifer and Zaine and pulled them up.
"Come on! Let's go!" she gushed happily, dragging them through to the next cart. Zaine and Seifer took a seat as Mylina sat up in front of the piano. She started to play and sing her song. Zaine's head swayed gently as she played, and a pleasant smile spread across Seifer's face.
"Galbadia! We made it!" Mylina sighed happily. There wasn't a moment in the world when Mylina wasn't happy. She was always happy, unless Seifer wasn't.
"I have a question," Seifer began. "Why are you always so happy?" Mylina turned to him and gave him her trademark happy grin.
"Because you're with me! You and Zaine make me happy!" she giggled. "Knowing that I have friends like you to count on makes me feel really good." They stared around them at the desolate Galbadian wasteland that lay outstretched before them. Not a lot of Galbadian property had survived the Sorceress War, but there were problems with the newly rebuilt missile base in the middle of the Galbadian desert. The problems had started after the attack on Winhill. Galbadia were once again after power and rumour told that Winhill was going to be the test area for the new homing missiles that the Galbadians had been developing for some time now.
"Well…" Zaine began. "I suppose we should get going to the missile base." Mylina nodded.
"Yeah. Can't lose sight of our mission objective. Come on," she rallied on the boys as they made their way through the desert to the missile base.
"This is…bigger," Seifer gasped as he looked up at the now enormous missile base. "Wasn't this big last time I checked."
"It's enormous!" Zaine exclaimed.
"That means security must be real tight," Mylina said, her determination climbing up a notch. She twirled her handguns in her hands and held them up. "Let's go kill us some Galbadian bastards." She began to make her way to the entrance. Seifer and Zaine simply shrugged. Seifer drew out his Hypherion, Zaine cracked his knuckles, and they both ran off in pursuit of Mylina.
By the time they actually got to Mylina three-quarters of the main gate security were out and dealt with. Mylina had done pretty well for herself, seeing as she was the only girl and the youngest in the group. Out of friendship, she left one or two guards for the boys to deal with but otherwise this was her fight. They made their way through to the main missile base building without further difficulties. As they stepped into a dimly lit room everything started to glow red and all the alarms in the building let out a shrill squeal. The security system had detected them and now they were in trouble.
"Shit," Mylina mumbled. Seifer looked at her.
"Language young lady," he said, shaking his head disapprovingly. Mylina glared at him and smiled.
"As if you don't swear at all Seifer," she replied cockily. A whole wave of Galbadian soldiers flooded into the small room, but it didn't take much for the team to dispose of them. One Galbadian soldier refused to just lay down and die.
"Die fuck it!" Seifer yelled. Mylina smirked.
"Language young man!" she replied shaking her head. Seifer poked his tongue out defiantly.
"I know where you're from…Balamb scum!" the soldier replied weakly. He stumbled over to a panel and started to hit some buttons. "These new homing missiles will blow the town of Balamb to bits!" he added. He hit a red button in the centre of the screen before dropping down dead.
"Ah SHIT!" Zaine screamed. "Everyone in Balamb is gonna die!"
"No! This can't happen!" Mylina said in horror. "I won't let those people die! I won't!" Seifer approached the screen and pressed a few buttons.
"The missiles launched the moment he hit that red button," Seifer said. "I can relocate them to hit this missile base but they'd be here within a few seconds." Suddenly Squall, Irvine, Selphie, Rinoa and Zell ran in.
"Seifer I heard you guys were in trouble," Squall said.
"Seifer…we have to relocate those missiles!" Zaine said. "But to do that someone has to stay in the base…and…die…" Everyone fell silent.
"I will," Seifer spoke up. "I'll stay behind." Everyone gasped. Mylina clung onto Seifer's arm.
"No Seifer!" she cried. "I won't let you!"
"Get outta here Squall, all of you, now!" Seifer ordered. Everyone left except for Zaine, Squall and Mylina. "Zaine go!" Seifer ordered. Zaine nodded.
"Good luck Seifer. You're a good friend to me," Zaine said before leaving. Seifer smiled at the place where he had stood.
"Squall get her out of here," Seifer continued.
"Seifer…" Squall began. He held out his hand. "Take care my friend. Tell Quistis that I say hi." Seifer shook Squall's hand.
"I will," he replied.
"No Seifer no!" Mylina cried. "I'm not leaving you here to die! Please Seifer! Don't leave me! I need you!" she began to cry. "Seifer don't die! Please don't die! Don't go!" she clung onto him, sobbing heavily in his arms. He gently wrapped his arms around her. "Seifer…Seifer don't do this! Don't leave me here all alone! I can't lose you now not after all we've been through! Please Seifer! Please!" he pushed her away from him and reached for his Hypherion. He held it up and thrush it into her hands.
"Take this," he said. "That way we'll always remember each other." She looked down at the Hypherion that was in her hands. Her eyes were still filled with tears. Seifer nodded to Squall and Squall grabbed Mylina's arm and began to pull her out of the room. Mylina began to scream and cry.
"Seifer!" she screamed. "Seifer no! Don't do it! Seifer! Seifer!"
"I love you little one," he said, loud enough for her to hear. "Take care of her Squall."
"I will," Squall promised.
"I love you too Seifer!" she cried helplessly. "I don't want to leave you! Please don't make me go! Seifer!" she pleaded once more before she was taken out of the room. Seifer watched the cameras to insure that everyone got out of the building. He then reset the missile's co-ordinates.
"I'll see you on the other side Quistis. Until we meet again Mylina," he said before pressing the red button in the centre of the screen. The missiles whipped round and within ten seconds they had impacted with the missile base, and all that was heard above the explosion was Mylina screaming out Seifer's name.
Seifer's body had been recovered from the wreckage so that he could be buried. At Mylina's request, he was buried in the flower garden next to Quistis. It was that day. The day that Seifer and Quistis were to meet again…
Seifer walked carefully through the garden, insuring that not a flower was crushed beneath him. In the centre of the garden stood a beautiful blond woman. It was Quistis.
"You kept your promise to me Seifer," she said as he stood before her. "I'm glad you did." Seifer cupped her hands in his.
"I love you Quistis. I always have and I always will," he said softly.
"I love you too Seifer," she replied. For the first time, they kissed each other. In life they were not meant to be, but in death they could be together for the rest of eternity. Mylina stood on the edge of the garden, her hand resting on the handle of the Hypherion, much in the way Seifer used to do it. Seifer turned to her and waved. Quistis waved too. Mylina waved, tears slowly trickling down her cheeks as she did so. Zaine came up behind her and put his arm around her. She took comfort from this. Seifer and Quistis, hand in hand, then turned towards the setting sun. They then disappeared, two free spirits that died in a world filled with corruption, now able to love each other until the end of time.
1.1 A hero's heart
Can never die
His spirit shall live on
If he is to leave this world today
Then he will be free of hurt
Free of hate and corruption
Free of the bonds that tie us down
But I have to let him know
That he will forever be in my heart
And there he will always stay
You're no longer with me
But I feel you near
I can't help but wonder if you remember me
Because I'll always remember you
How can I forget your smile
How you made me laugh
How you made me cry
I'll miss you
Q/N: Oh my god! This has got me choked up! Man I'm such a sucker for these kind of stories. That last part was a song Mylina made up for Seifer after he died, and she sang it at his funeral. Aaaaaw! Peter, Alex, if you two ever read this then this chapter was for you guys. But this whole story is for Alonia Everclear, whom is one of the best writers I know. Let's all cry together now. OK maybe not. Anyways I hope you all liked it as I had a ton of fun writing it, and on a happier note Mylina and Zaine do get together in the end! Yay! Anyways (again), thankies for reading and please review!
Q/N: I know this is daft but I've decided not to add any more flashbacks seeing as you know what happens after the last flashback I wrote about. If you're like me and my mates I suggest you keep some tissues handy cos this is gonna be a sad one…
Chapter Six Perfect Beginning
Their first SeeD mission. The first mission issued to them as members of SeeD. This was all so daunting to Seifer, but he didn't have a clue how Mylina felt. Being 3 years younger than he was, Seifer assumed that she must be very worried, but in fact she was well and truly psyched. She was more confident that Seifer himself was. Zaine, who had also passed the exam, looked very nervous indeed. It seemed like Mylina was the only confident one there. If Seifer had nails to bite then he'd be biting them now.
"You all psyched up for this then Seifer?" Mylina asked happily.
"Oh yes…" Seifer said hesitantly. He wasn't looking forward to this at all. He felt so nervous. Zaine did too, he could tell. He'd been through tough stuff under Ultimecia and Edea, but with them he wasn't representing his Garden, and then again he wasn't taking care of an innocent little 15-year- old girl either. He still loved Quistis with all his heart but something drew him to Mylina, and he wasn't sure whether it was the romantic kind or the brotherly kind. It felt more like the brotherly kind to him though. All the romantic love he could spare he would always save for Quistis, whether she was alive or not. His heart would always belong to her. Even as he stood there ready to get on the train to Galbadia he always thought of her. Every moment he had was spent reminding himself of how beautiful she was and how much he loved her. He looked at Mylina and smiled. She was so innocent, such a pure-hearted girl, and so young. She was already a SeeD at 15. Seifer had tried many times to be a SeeD and at 18 he had only just succeeded. She was a real achiever. She reminded him of Quistis a lot. Despite having brown hair with blond strands, she still had those eyes that reminded him of Quistis. "Do you have a family?" he asked her. She giggled.
"Yes I do!" she giggled again. "I have you silly!" Seifer turned and looked at her. She had a cheery grin on her face. Was she really an orphan?
"So…are you an orphan like me?" he asked.
"Yep. My parents died when I was a baby. I was brought up in an orphanage in Timber." She leaned forward and tilted her head to see if the train was coming. "I can see the train!" she squealed, pulling her head back and grabbing onto Seifer and Zaine's hands. "Come on you guys this is gonna be fun! We're going to Galbadia!" as the train pulled into the station she leapt up and down with excitement. She pulled Seifer aside for a moment and whispered in his ear "It doesn't matter what family I did have cos I've got you now and that's all there is to it OK?" Seifer smiled and her and pulled her onto the train. They all walked through the carriages until they found the SeeD carriage. Mylina jumped about with excitement as they entered the homely little carriage. She sat down on the sofa and jumped up and down repeatedly. She was way beyond confident at this stage. She was filled with faith in her friends. She knew that if they worked as a unit then they could overcome any obstacle. Mylina fumbled in her pocket and pulled out what appeared to be her wallet. She called Seifer and Zaine to come and sit with her.
"Look at this!" she said as they sat. She opened up the wallet to show a picture of a pair of small collie puppies, looking cheerily at them. "These are my dogs Lori and Sabre. Aren't they so cute?"
"Is that what they look like now?" Zaine asked. Mylina nodded.
"They're only 7 weeks old and I miss them a lot. Pets aren't really allowed in Garden but if they were I'd bring them with me," she replied. She smiled at the picture and folded her wallet back up, replacing it neatly into her pocket. She began to fiddle with the cross neck chain Seifer had given her, humming along to a little song she must've made up herself.
"That song you're humming," Seifer asked. "Did you compose that one yourself too?" Mylina nodded.
"Yup! I compose my own music all the time! It's like a hobby for me! I like to sing it too," she replied cheerfully rocking back and forth as she did so.
"Why don't you play it to us?" Zaine asked. "There's a piano in the next cart, you could sing along to it too." Mylina got excited at the prospect of being able to play and sing her new song. She grabbed hold of Seifer and Zaine and pulled them up.
"Come on! Let's go!" she gushed happily, dragging them through to the next cart. Zaine and Seifer took a seat as Mylina sat up in front of the piano. She started to play and sing her song. Zaine's head swayed gently as she played, and a pleasant smile spread across Seifer's face.
"Galbadia! We made it!" Mylina sighed happily. There wasn't a moment in the world when Mylina wasn't happy. She was always happy, unless Seifer wasn't.
"I have a question," Seifer began. "Why are you always so happy?" Mylina turned to him and gave him her trademark happy grin.
"Because you're with me! You and Zaine make me happy!" she giggled. "Knowing that I have friends like you to count on makes me feel really good." They stared around them at the desolate Galbadian wasteland that lay outstretched before them. Not a lot of Galbadian property had survived the Sorceress War, but there were problems with the newly rebuilt missile base in the middle of the Galbadian desert. The problems had started after the attack on Winhill. Galbadia were once again after power and rumour told that Winhill was going to be the test area for the new homing missiles that the Galbadians had been developing for some time now.
"Well…" Zaine began. "I suppose we should get going to the missile base." Mylina nodded.
"Yeah. Can't lose sight of our mission objective. Come on," she rallied on the boys as they made their way through the desert to the missile base.
"This is…bigger," Seifer gasped as he looked up at the now enormous missile base. "Wasn't this big last time I checked."
"It's enormous!" Zaine exclaimed.
"That means security must be real tight," Mylina said, her determination climbing up a notch. She twirled her handguns in her hands and held them up. "Let's go kill us some Galbadian bastards." She began to make her way to the entrance. Seifer and Zaine simply shrugged. Seifer drew out his Hypherion, Zaine cracked his knuckles, and they both ran off in pursuit of Mylina.
By the time they actually got to Mylina three-quarters of the main gate security were out and dealt with. Mylina had done pretty well for herself, seeing as she was the only girl and the youngest in the group. Out of friendship, she left one or two guards for the boys to deal with but otherwise this was her fight. They made their way through to the main missile base building without further difficulties. As they stepped into a dimly lit room everything started to glow red and all the alarms in the building let out a shrill squeal. The security system had detected them and now they were in trouble.
"Shit," Mylina mumbled. Seifer looked at her.
"Language young lady," he said, shaking his head disapprovingly. Mylina glared at him and smiled.
"As if you don't swear at all Seifer," she replied cockily. A whole wave of Galbadian soldiers flooded into the small room, but it didn't take much for the team to dispose of them. One Galbadian soldier refused to just lay down and die.
"Die fuck it!" Seifer yelled. Mylina smirked.
"Language young man!" she replied shaking her head. Seifer poked his tongue out defiantly.
"I know where you're from…Balamb scum!" the soldier replied weakly. He stumbled over to a panel and started to hit some buttons. "These new homing missiles will blow the town of Balamb to bits!" he added. He hit a red button in the centre of the screen before dropping down dead.
"Ah SHIT!" Zaine screamed. "Everyone in Balamb is gonna die!"
"No! This can't happen!" Mylina said in horror. "I won't let those people die! I won't!" Seifer approached the screen and pressed a few buttons.
"The missiles launched the moment he hit that red button," Seifer said. "I can relocate them to hit this missile base but they'd be here within a few seconds." Suddenly Squall, Irvine, Selphie, Rinoa and Zell ran in.
"Seifer I heard you guys were in trouble," Squall said.
"Seifer…we have to relocate those missiles!" Zaine said. "But to do that someone has to stay in the base…and…die…" Everyone fell silent.
"I will," Seifer spoke up. "I'll stay behind." Everyone gasped. Mylina clung onto Seifer's arm.
"No Seifer!" she cried. "I won't let you!"
"Get outta here Squall, all of you, now!" Seifer ordered. Everyone left except for Zaine, Squall and Mylina. "Zaine go!" Seifer ordered. Zaine nodded.
"Good luck Seifer. You're a good friend to me," Zaine said before leaving. Seifer smiled at the place where he had stood.
"Squall get her out of here," Seifer continued.
"Seifer…" Squall began. He held out his hand. "Take care my friend. Tell Quistis that I say hi." Seifer shook Squall's hand.
"I will," he replied.
"No Seifer no!" Mylina cried. "I'm not leaving you here to die! Please Seifer! Don't leave me! I need you!" she began to cry. "Seifer don't die! Please don't die! Don't go!" she clung onto him, sobbing heavily in his arms. He gently wrapped his arms around her. "Seifer…Seifer don't do this! Don't leave me here all alone! I can't lose you now not after all we've been through! Please Seifer! Please!" he pushed her away from him and reached for his Hypherion. He held it up and thrush it into her hands.
"Take this," he said. "That way we'll always remember each other." She looked down at the Hypherion that was in her hands. Her eyes were still filled with tears. Seifer nodded to Squall and Squall grabbed Mylina's arm and began to pull her out of the room. Mylina began to scream and cry.
"Seifer!" she screamed. "Seifer no! Don't do it! Seifer! Seifer!"
"I love you little one," he said, loud enough for her to hear. "Take care of her Squall."
"I will," Squall promised.
"I love you too Seifer!" she cried helplessly. "I don't want to leave you! Please don't make me go! Seifer!" she pleaded once more before she was taken out of the room. Seifer watched the cameras to insure that everyone got out of the building. He then reset the missile's co-ordinates.
"I'll see you on the other side Quistis. Until we meet again Mylina," he said before pressing the red button in the centre of the screen. The missiles whipped round and within ten seconds they had impacted with the missile base, and all that was heard above the explosion was Mylina screaming out Seifer's name.
Seifer's body had been recovered from the wreckage so that he could be buried. At Mylina's request, he was buried in the flower garden next to Quistis. It was that day. The day that Seifer and Quistis were to meet again…
Seifer walked carefully through the garden, insuring that not a flower was crushed beneath him. In the centre of the garden stood a beautiful blond woman. It was Quistis.
"You kept your promise to me Seifer," she said as he stood before her. "I'm glad you did." Seifer cupped her hands in his.
"I love you Quistis. I always have and I always will," he said softly.
"I love you too Seifer," she replied. For the first time, they kissed each other. In life they were not meant to be, but in death they could be together for the rest of eternity. Mylina stood on the edge of the garden, her hand resting on the handle of the Hypherion, much in the way Seifer used to do it. Seifer turned to her and waved. Quistis waved too. Mylina waved, tears slowly trickling down her cheeks as she did so. Zaine came up behind her and put his arm around her. She took comfort from this. Seifer and Quistis, hand in hand, then turned towards the setting sun. They then disappeared, two free spirits that died in a world filled with corruption, now able to love each other until the end of time.
1.1 A hero's heart
Can never die
His spirit shall live on
If he is to leave this world today
Then he will be free of hurt
Free of hate and corruption
Free of the bonds that tie us down
But I have to let him know
That he will forever be in my heart
And there he will always stay
You're no longer with me
But I feel you near
I can't help but wonder if you remember me
Because I'll always remember you
How can I forget your smile
How you made me laugh
How you made me cry
I'll miss you
Q/N: Oh my god! This has got me choked up! Man I'm such a sucker for these kind of stories. That last part was a song Mylina made up for Seifer after he died, and she sang it at his funeral. Aaaaaw! Peter, Alex, if you two ever read this then this chapter was for you guys. But this whole story is for Alonia Everclear, whom is one of the best writers I know. Let's all cry together now. OK maybe not. Anyways I hope you all liked it as I had a ton of fun writing it, and on a happier note Mylina and Zaine do get together in the end! Yay! Anyways (again), thankies for reading and please review!