Notes* all characters are square softs remember that please. This story is being broken in to many chapters and 2 parts. This is part 1 the calm. Read and enjoy. Please review, and drop me a line at my new email. abezley@earthlink.net Read, love, and peace.
And the bell rings
by:shadow
prologue
and the bell rings, it rings for life, and death.love and hate.pleasure and pain. contentment and jealousy. triumph and furious disappointment. it rings for us all. ready or not it will come. its rings are the tolls of life, and how we handle it shows what kind of persons we are.
part 1
the calm
chapter 1
squall stood naked, gazing out on to a rash green forest. his eyes seeing a million shades of green and brown, through the window he was looking out in the log cabin were he and rinoa had spent there honey moon.
the sun was just over the tree tops. sending beams of light through the forest canopy to the ground. the beams changed position slowly as the sun moved thought the sky. as squall watched the changes of the light and pitch. he reflected back on how his life had changed in the year sence he meet rinoa and defeated ultimecia
after the battle with ultimecia selphie put together a huge party that was held as the garden flew home to balamb. he didn't want to go. he was tired battered and bruised. but rinoa dragged him to it. the students come up to him all night, giving thanks and congratulations. he didn't know how to
reciprocate there words. he just smiled nervously and shaked there hands. he didn't see the big deal this is what they had been trained to do. rinoa had stood there the hole time laughing and teasing him on his lack of social skills. after a while he finally got away to a balcony, and watched the ocean and stars with rinoa. holding and kissing for the rest of the party. That was the reward the wanted, not some party.
he remembered feeling at peace for the first time. before when he realized he was in love with rinoa. he had felt happy but not at peace. there had been to many things looming ahead.[like staying alive in the chaos they went through.].
later that night more peace as he and rinoa made love for the first and only time till this honey moon. looking back on it the thing he chorused most about there first time was after it was over. as he laid holding her felling a warm sleep coming over him. it was quite, joyful peaceful beautiful quite. for the first time in his life the quite thoughts in his head were not sad and lonely. that night had been a night of first's for him. "all because of rinoa" he smiled at that thought.
when they got back to balamb the mayor of balamb city threw a parade
rinoa,irvine,selphie,quistis,and himself were put on a float and driven through the town. he didn't want to go to that ether. but rinoa did what she always does. and took him by the hand flashed a smile and dragged him there. he remembered people cheering and tiny pieces of color paper falling like snow. his arm was around rinoa's waist and a nervous smile was again on his face. rinoa laughing at him had to pretty much force his other hand up to wave to people.
selphie was eating it up making peace sings and waving both her arms at people. irvine stood there a smile on his face blowing kisses to every cute girl he saw. selphie saw him a few times and poked him in his rib cage. making squall and the rest of the group laugh. quistis stood there the
hole time a modest smile on her face. arms behind her back occasionally waving to the crowd. he could tell that she didn't want to be there ether. but like himself she was making the best of it. and zell was just being zell. as graceful as he could be at times he was also clumsy. he had been
showing off the hole parade doing backfilps and fighting moves. then he finally messed up as he always does when showing off and tripped over himself falling of the float and landing on his butt. they all laughed crowd included. he climbed back on the float and yelled at them for laughing. then
started laughing with them. over all looking back on it squall was happy he had went.
slowly things went back to normal. squall set up a counsel to run the garden. himself as commander,quistis in charge of student concerns, cid as head of administration kadowaki as the head of the medical department,and xu as the head of supplies and the gardens second in command. squall had often wondered why cid had chosen him as commander and not xu. she was 28 and the most experienced seed. she deceived it more then he did. he figured it was because cid had prepared him his entire life. from the time he come to garden when he was 5. by making him take classes in diplomacy and battle stages. cid wanted a trained leader and he was it not xu. he didn't like the idea that he never really had a chose in the matter. but he understood giving some one power who never wanted it but could do the job was a good way to insure fromcorruption.
the only real problem he had in command all year was when seifer showed up to ask for reentry in garden. the counsel agreed that seifer wasn't in control of his action's. but if he had't disobeyed orders and stayed in garden. he never would have been in a place where're the sorceress could brainwash him. plus they feared it would distract the students to much. they all still held bad feeling from what he did. squall remembered telling him that he wasn't going to get back in and how he thought seifer would blow up and start a fight. but he just sat there with a rejected look mouth wide open. he had never seen seifer like that he actually looked hurt. after a minute seifer just got up and walked out of garden and no one's seen him sence
squall felt sorry for seifer. he was a lot like him at one time just not as intense. they had know each other all there lives. they had grown up fighting. and in a way each other was a little responsible for the way the other become. he felt maybe if he would have walked away from the fights a few times things could have been different. he was sorry mostly because he could have ended up just like seifer. one or two things different and they would have been in each other's shoe's. he once heard that the line between cop and crock was thin each only a step from being the other. with
seifer he finally understood that and it scared him.
that was really the only hard thing he felt he had to deal with in the year sence they beat ultimecia. every body else settled in from what he saw. zell went on missions regularly. selphie went back to trabia for a month and helped with the rebuilding of her former garden.and was now back going
on mission's herself. quistis become a instructor again to his delight. he always felt she was a great teacher. irvine become a seed and was also going on missions. and rinoa was pursuing a musical career. playing the piano just like her mother. he liked to sit and lesson for hours. in his opinion she
was more talented then her mom was. her music helped clear his head from the days work. one night after she played in a bar in balamb, they had dinner and squall asked her to marry him. she said yes. he was surprised how nervous he was. he knew in his heart she would say yes, but when he showed her the ring his hand was shaking. and a voice in the back of his head keep saying she
may say no. but when she said yes that voice disappeared. and it seemed like a weight was off his shoulders. rinoa laughed when he tolled her that. she said "silly boy did you think i'd say no."
when they tolled every body,selphie instantly took it upon herself to plan the wedding with rinoa and put it together. and she did a good job he thought. the ceremony was beautiful. outside in a field of flowers. color's of purple,green,pink,and red in full bloom and it all had a wonderful sent.
the reception was hold in the quad. zell was his best man. selphie was the maid of honor. he was so afraid zell was going to do some dumb thing and lose the ring. but he come thought and selphie caught the bouquet. then they went on there honey moon in a lovely forest near timber that was 3
days ago.
and as squall looked back. he saw that he had changed. he wasn't cold to people he'd let his friends in . and he was glad he did. he was sad before and lonely. be missed out on so much. he never really was a kid or a teenager. but now things could be different. he was happy that rinoa
helped him out of his shell, and gave him a second chance. this had been the greatest year of his life. he wasn't doleful, he laughed and joked now. and although he knew trouble would most certainly come, as long as he had rinoa it would be ok
Notes* I wanted this chapter to show what has happened in the past year. How those changes have effected squall. I think that after the final battle and once every thing settled down that squall would start to change more and more. I hope i have showed a little of that so far. stay tuned for
more. In the next chapter we start setting up the main plot. So keep on reading reviewing and enjoying hopefully. [ I am bad at this writing thing huh?]
And the bell rings
by:shadow
prologue
and the bell rings, it rings for life, and death.love and hate.pleasure and pain. contentment and jealousy. triumph and furious disappointment. it rings for us all. ready or not it will come. its rings are the tolls of life, and how we handle it shows what kind of persons we are.
part 1
the calm
chapter 1
squall stood naked, gazing out on to a rash green forest. his eyes seeing a million shades of green and brown, through the window he was looking out in the log cabin were he and rinoa had spent there honey moon.
the sun was just over the tree tops. sending beams of light through the forest canopy to the ground. the beams changed position slowly as the sun moved thought the sky. as squall watched the changes of the light and pitch. he reflected back on how his life had changed in the year sence he meet rinoa and defeated ultimecia
after the battle with ultimecia selphie put together a huge party that was held as the garden flew home to balamb. he didn't want to go. he was tired battered and bruised. but rinoa dragged him to it. the students come up to him all night, giving thanks and congratulations. he didn't know how to
reciprocate there words. he just smiled nervously and shaked there hands. he didn't see the big deal this is what they had been trained to do. rinoa had stood there the hole time laughing and teasing him on his lack of social skills. after a while he finally got away to a balcony, and watched the ocean and stars with rinoa. holding and kissing for the rest of the party. That was the reward the wanted, not some party.
he remembered feeling at peace for the first time. before when he realized he was in love with rinoa. he had felt happy but not at peace. there had been to many things looming ahead.[like staying alive in the chaos they went through.].
later that night more peace as he and rinoa made love for the first and only time till this honey moon. looking back on it the thing he chorused most about there first time was after it was over. as he laid holding her felling a warm sleep coming over him. it was quite, joyful peaceful beautiful quite. for the first time in his life the quite thoughts in his head were not sad and lonely. that night had been a night of first's for him. "all because of rinoa" he smiled at that thought.
when they got back to balamb the mayor of balamb city threw a parade
rinoa,irvine,selphie,quistis,and himself were put on a float and driven through the town. he didn't want to go to that ether. but rinoa did what she always does. and took him by the hand flashed a smile and dragged him there. he remembered people cheering and tiny pieces of color paper falling like snow. his arm was around rinoa's waist and a nervous smile was again on his face. rinoa laughing at him had to pretty much force his other hand up to wave to people.
selphie was eating it up making peace sings and waving both her arms at people. irvine stood there a smile on his face blowing kisses to every cute girl he saw. selphie saw him a few times and poked him in his rib cage. making squall and the rest of the group laugh. quistis stood there the
hole time a modest smile on her face. arms behind her back occasionally waving to the crowd. he could tell that she didn't want to be there ether. but like himself she was making the best of it. and zell was just being zell. as graceful as he could be at times he was also clumsy. he had been
showing off the hole parade doing backfilps and fighting moves. then he finally messed up as he always does when showing off and tripped over himself falling of the float and landing on his butt. they all laughed crowd included. he climbed back on the float and yelled at them for laughing. then
started laughing with them. over all looking back on it squall was happy he had went.
slowly things went back to normal. squall set up a counsel to run the garden. himself as commander,quistis in charge of student concerns, cid as head of administration kadowaki as the head of the medical department,and xu as the head of supplies and the gardens second in command. squall had often wondered why cid had chosen him as commander and not xu. she was 28 and the most experienced seed. she deceived it more then he did. he figured it was because cid had prepared him his entire life. from the time he come to garden when he was 5. by making him take classes in diplomacy and battle stages. cid wanted a trained leader and he was it not xu. he didn't like the idea that he never really had a chose in the matter. but he understood giving some one power who never wanted it but could do the job was a good way to insure fromcorruption.
the only real problem he had in command all year was when seifer showed up to ask for reentry in garden. the counsel agreed that seifer wasn't in control of his action's. but if he had't disobeyed orders and stayed in garden. he never would have been in a place where're the sorceress could brainwash him. plus they feared it would distract the students to much. they all still held bad feeling from what he did. squall remembered telling him that he wasn't going to get back in and how he thought seifer would blow up and start a fight. but he just sat there with a rejected look mouth wide open. he had never seen seifer like that he actually looked hurt. after a minute seifer just got up and walked out of garden and no one's seen him sence
squall felt sorry for seifer. he was a lot like him at one time just not as intense. they had know each other all there lives. they had grown up fighting. and in a way each other was a little responsible for the way the other become. he felt maybe if he would have walked away from the fights a few times things could have been different. he was sorry mostly because he could have ended up just like seifer. one or two things different and they would have been in each other's shoe's. he once heard that the line between cop and crock was thin each only a step from being the other. with
seifer he finally understood that and it scared him.
that was really the only hard thing he felt he had to deal with in the year sence they beat ultimecia. every body else settled in from what he saw. zell went on missions regularly. selphie went back to trabia for a month and helped with the rebuilding of her former garden.and was now back going
on mission's herself. quistis become a instructor again to his delight. he always felt she was a great teacher. irvine become a seed and was also going on missions. and rinoa was pursuing a musical career. playing the piano just like her mother. he liked to sit and lesson for hours. in his opinion she
was more talented then her mom was. her music helped clear his head from the days work. one night after she played in a bar in balamb, they had dinner and squall asked her to marry him. she said yes. he was surprised how nervous he was. he knew in his heart she would say yes, but when he showed her the ring his hand was shaking. and a voice in the back of his head keep saying she
may say no. but when she said yes that voice disappeared. and it seemed like a weight was off his shoulders. rinoa laughed when he tolled her that. she said "silly boy did you think i'd say no."
when they tolled every body,selphie instantly took it upon herself to plan the wedding with rinoa and put it together. and she did a good job he thought. the ceremony was beautiful. outside in a field of flowers. color's of purple,green,pink,and red in full bloom and it all had a wonderful sent.
the reception was hold in the quad. zell was his best man. selphie was the maid of honor. he was so afraid zell was going to do some dumb thing and lose the ring. but he come thought and selphie caught the bouquet. then they went on there honey moon in a lovely forest near timber that was 3
days ago.
and as squall looked back. he saw that he had changed. he wasn't cold to people he'd let his friends in . and he was glad he did. he was sad before and lonely. be missed out on so much. he never really was a kid or a teenager. but now things could be different. he was happy that rinoa
helped him out of his shell, and gave him a second chance. this had been the greatest year of his life. he wasn't doleful, he laughed and joked now. and although he knew trouble would most certainly come, as long as he had rinoa it would be ok
Notes* I wanted this chapter to show what has happened in the past year. How those changes have effected squall. I think that after the final battle and once every thing settled down that squall would start to change more and more. I hope i have showed a little of that so far. stay tuned for
more. In the next chapter we start setting up the main plot. So keep on reading reviewing and enjoying hopefully. [ I am bad at this writing thing huh?]