Kiara leant against the lifts wall silently, head bowed in silent thought, a lock of bright red hair falling to obscure storm grey, cold eyes. She didn't want to talk; in fact, she just wanted to be left alone, however Devran despised such isolation.
"Look,"
he remarked, trying to draw her attention, he failed but proceeded to talk
anyway, "I had to stop you, and you know I had to." he shifted uneasily,
"Remember what Synthrial said…"
"Since when have you listened to him?" she asked quietly, not turning.
"I don't have to like him to know good advice, damn it we're more than forty years in the past, we don't want to go screwing with it!" he sounded outraged, offended. She glanced to him; his eyes were narrowed dangerously, lips drawn closer together. He was getting angry or angrier or something like that.
"Isn't that why we're here?" she murmured, "to change things?" The lift stopped, she stepped out into the basement before he could reply, the basement of Balamb garden, how different it looked now to what she remembered, it still functioned for one thing. Still it looked like they could wait here undisturbed for a while, that was all that really mattered.
"Well yes," Devran admitted from behind her, "But not things like that, other things necessary things…" he hesitated, doubts? Kiara nearly laughed doubts was nothing, she'd had them ever since this idea was started, and it was too late to change course now. Devran chuckled; she looked at him, at the computer consol he was staring at.
Guardian Forces: Compendium
A listing of those GF's housed within Balamb garden, use except for SeeD purposes is prohibited, in the event of SeeD requirement; any available GF may be taken.
She glared at him; he at least had the decency to look embarrassed, however he still went on to glance over the files, browsing? No he was searching for something specific, she blinked when he loaded the page, quirking a brow in surprise, "Curiosity," he said with a slight shrug, and glanced back to screen. It was surprisingly lacking in facts…
Shiva
Elemental Ice
Current location: Balamb Garden *
Originally collected by: - Commander Squall Leonhart
Report on Combat efficiency:
Report on Personality:
Other Comments:
* While this GF may be found within Garden, it appears to be junction to Commander Squall Leonhart still, how this occurred we are currently unsure, investigations are underway as to the nature of this occurrence. Recommended caution and perhaps a different choice in GF. Headmaster Cid.
"Oh," Devran murmured in a disappointed tone, "I'd hoped for more," he shrugged, slightly then hit the enter key, a password prompt loaded, which he looked at startled, "That's it? Guardian Forces could help someone take over the world, and all they have defending it is one lousy password?"
"Who's crazy enough to summon a GF that would realise they were intruders straight away?" she murmured softly, before slumping to the floor, resting her head against the back of the computer terminal, right now they didn't need to do anything, but wait, and rest.
***
Kiros sat alongside Ellone's bed within the medical bay at Garden, dark eyes intent on her still form, he was barely conscious to events around him. He knew that those still awake and aware talked in hushed tones as to the nature of these problems, and how they could set about solving it. In the same ward, Quistis, Laguna and Rinoa were laid out, resting; all of them were exhausted, or least diagnosed as such.
Kiros doubted if either the two stuck in a past memory would wake up on there own, perhaps they would, he wasn't an expert on such. Rinoa he suspected, and Ellone he hoped would both wake and would then be able to retrieve the others. This he wasn't sure about either however.
"You're sure you can't think of anything." Selphie asked quietly, her little one had fallen asleep, been taken to a dorm, she looked tired as well, but showed no intention of following the child, "You were touched with sorceress powers."
Edea didn't answer she just sat still, silent, finger tips pressed together in thought, musing, thinking, whatever she was doing it seemed to take all her concentration, she was as still as the four the doctors had diagnosed, that was almost worrying.
Kiros attention was diverted back to Ellone, she was tussling and turning within the covers of her bed, dreaming? He hoped it was that and nothing more sinister, his fingers curled tighter around her hand, reassuringly.
***
Ellone looked around questioningly, she didn't know where she was, it looked like a lab of some sort, she jumped as loud roar, wounded pride, and pain… death. She looked again, claw marks of varying degrees of size and strength marred the metal of the room, the computers sparked, the floor slanted now, downwards. A battle?
"Apparently," she turned to see Squall, standing a little way from her, the left eye was glazed with a red hue he stepped forwards, she blinked, it was almost brotherly, there was no other way to describe that movement. "I don't know what happened here either."
He looked about for a moment, the nodded, "The GF research centre, I don't suppose you know why any one would want to trash this place?" Ellone shook her head and stepped closer to him, she felt safer to be so close, even if he couldn't answer her queries.
"Because, Doc. Odine came back here," Laguna stated, they both turned to him, he was wearing the monster hunter clothing Ellone remembered from when she was a child, his gun rested in the crook of his right elbow, the nozzle pointed skyward. He beckoned for the two of them to come towards him. "Right now though, I think you'd better come this way."
Laguna was standing at the bottom of the slant, next to a hole Ellone couldn't remember seeing before, by her side Squall had tensed, but as Ellone moved forwards he followed, relaxed by her familiarity maybe? When they reached the hole, Laguna jumped down through it, they both followed.
Ellone gasped as she saw what it was Laguna had meant, something so large It could only be a guardian force… more than that it had to be Eden, there was none larger that she knew of, yet the metallic GF was laying on it's side in an impossibly contracted position within the confines of the room, two shadows flitted across the prone form of what appeared a dying creature, one was hazy grey, the other darkest black.
The grey one seemed to grow as Eden died, becoming darker, more sinister. Both shadows radiated an evil presence, the black purer, but the grey was growing in intensity with every passing moment. Laguna watched with fascinated incomprehension. The image was spell binding the way a high cliff edge was, there was lure to jump, even though you knew it foolish.
"Ah," Squall murmured sadly. Ellone tore her eyes from the image to glance to him, he was regarding the picture before them differently, did he understand it? Or was he simply different in his reactions to such things.
"What is it?"
"Rael-tegl-aern." he remarked in an infuriatingly uninformative tone. Yet, it sounded like that was the answer. Before Ellone could ask about it, her gaze was pulled back towards the shadows, now fast approaching them, Laguna stepped swiftly in front of her, finger pressing the trigger of his weapon. Bullets flew through the air, then the shadows, finally ricocheting harmlessly from the exterior of a deceased Guardian Force.
The shadows continued to approach, a part of Ellone noted that the black seemed to be dissipating as it crossed the distance between them, the rest of her screamed. The scream was soon accompanied by a yell, Squall leapt forwards swinging his gunblade through the darkening grey shadow.
Everything was engulfed by darkness.