What We Remember...

Chapter 3

Disclaimer: I had no relation in making or publishing the game... plz don't sue.

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"...," General Caraway looked across the crater and head down to the enter, "Something definitely happened here."

"Hmm," Laguna followed Caraway, examining the area, seeing an unusual straight path of vegetation from the center, "this isn't my ideal place for a garden, but hey, it has to start somewhere." He smiled.

"This is no time to joke, President Loire."

"Oh, come on, don't be such a stiff."

The general was quiet as they reached the center of the crater, he inspected the golden feathers on the floor. He lifted the feather and showed it to Laguna.

"Wow, shiny..."

The general's face started to turn red and almost looked like he's gonna steam, then he turned back to normal. "Please, concentrate on the project..."

"Geez, alright."

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"What happened?" A voice echoed in the cave, "Where am I?"

"Calm down, Irvine."

"Ouch, can you be a bit more gentle with that potion Quistis? You don't have to shove it in my mouth."

"Alright..." Quistis gently pours the Potion down Irvine's mouth as he lays on the sand covered surface.

"Where's everyone else?"

"Only we were swallowed."

"We?"

"Squall, you, and me..."

"Squall? Where is he?"

Quistis pointed to Squall direction, Irvine turns to see him rocking back and forth nervously. It was abnormal, it wasn't like Squall at all, in this situation, Squall would've just stood there and stare out into the darkness, not rocking back and forth holding his head. This wasn't like him, thats not how they remember him.

"Squall?" Irvine spoke, no response, still rocking back and forth, "Yo, Squall!" Irvine got up, Quistis helped him up a bit, Irvine approached Squall and looked into his widened eyes. Squall's eyes became pale white, the pupil was as small as a grain of sand, dark bags started to form underneath his eyes, and he stared straight foward, never moving from it's position. "Squall, snap out of it man!"

"I tried that minutes ago," Quistis said to Irvine, "its no use, I don't know whats wrong with him, no one has ever gone through this, even the person that carries 100 GFs at once doesn't go through this..."

"What happened to him?"

"I don't know, I tried stopping him from rocking back and forth, but his force forced me to rock along with him as I held him... this isn't normal."

"Well," Irvine got up and dusted his hat and coat, "I guess we'll have to drag him out..."

"What?" Quistis rose up abruptly, "you're kidding right? We don't even know where to go!"

"Wait, listen," they hear a small but heavy gust of wind, "head north."

"How do you know what's there?"

"Well, I clean my shotgun alot, and I listen through the barrel to see if everything is alright, and you hear that sound, that means its a clear exit, unless you hear s clanking sound, it means..."

"Alright, alright! Stop that... lets just go..."

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"Ummm, Seifer?" Selfie stood there half bruised and stare at Seifer pounding and slashing at the sand with his gunblade, "Seifer! Please stop! You won't get her back this way!"

"NO!" Seifer was still slashing at the sand, "I won't have this, you know as well, Irvine and Squall are in there too!"

"What're talking about? Squall is right here."

Seifer turned around and was shocked, there was the image again... The white Squall with the evil look, "I'm still not going to leave Quistis behind... I won't have it!"

"Please, Seifer..." Selfie's eyes started to bead with tears, "please... I lost my fiance, too."

Seifer stopped, his eyes widened and turned his head around to face Selfie, "Fiance?"

Selfie was about to burst into tears, before she did, she ran towards the Ragnarok, sobbing... Squall followed.

"No... He's your..." Seifer chased after her...

Zell sat there, got up, stretched out, and gave a big yawn, "Come on, Rinoa." Zell started to walk off, then he turned his head back to face Rinoa, "Rinoa? Why're you still sitting there? We got to go!"

Rinoa continued to sit there, eyes half closed, completely blank expression on her face, she didn't move...

"Oh no... you're not dead are you?" He ran and crouched down behind her and placed his hand on her back, "Good, at least you still have a pulse." Then he tried lifting her by the shoulders, "man! You're stiffer than a statue, but weigh half as much." Rinoa was still in the same sitting position... "Oh no... you're not petrified are you? I don't have a soft needle with me... oh man... Squall'll kill me if I leave you here and tan all day." Zell stood up... I guess that leaves me with no choice, he made sure nobody was looking... He gave out a frown and sighed.

There it was, Rinoa was sitting on Zell's back as he was crawling through the desert towards the Ragnarok, he stares up to the sky and says, "Oh why me..."

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A/N : Sorry, my computer busted 3 weeks ago and I just got it back recently, sorry I left you guys hanging... but please read and review!