DISCLAMER: USUAL DISCLAMERS APPLY
note: words inside mean their thoughts.
~*~ means they're in the dream mode.
THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS
by: Rhys Icewind
Chapter 4 - Strangers
It was a horrid dream.
Being transported to another world, in the request of the planet?
It _MUST_ be a dream.
*PINCH*
OW!!
*PINCH*
OWWW!!!!!!
Cloud stood up, hopeless, lost in another dimension.
It was just the other day, in a dream...
~*~
"Cloud, please, the planet needs your help!" Aeris looked at him with pleading eyes.
get transferred to another dimension? he tought. NO WAY!!
Aeris held his right hand. "I know that you're worried if you're going to get back....trust me... you ARE!" Aeris walked away. "If you don't go, then we will be destroyed."
Cloud turned to face her. "HOW??"
"I don't know. The planet does not reveal everything....as of yet..." she looked down.
"why me?"
Aeris looked straight into his glowing eyes. "you have a hidden power...a power that is strong. But, you just don't know it. No one does, no one but the planet."
"and?"
"the people you will help needs your power...to defeat an evil worser than Sephiroth."
Cloud backed a little. "an evil worse than sephiroth......?"
~*~
how did I get myself into this??? he held his head.
His flow of thoughts were disturbed by a battle roar. He looked up just in time to see an incoming Rubydragon.
"what the hell is THAT!!!???!?!"
* * *
"oh my goodnes!!!" Selphie gasped
Shayla looked at selphie oddly. "what?"
Selphie looked back at her with a pale face. "cyclone" she simply said.
Kero took another glance at the two people waving widly at them. "They sure look excited."
"excited?" Irvine asked. "are you sure?"
Kero nodded.
"No, they don't look excited to me..." Sakura said.
"how can they be? a cyclone is chasing us!!" he shouted.
Kero and sakura looked at him. "WHAT!!??!"
Quistis looked outside the window and saw the weather turning bad.
Quistis frowns. "that cancells the forest safari..."
After a few more minutes of staring outside, Quistis sees Umi just staring at space outside, on the terrace.
"ma'am! break's over!" announced one of her students, eager to battle.
She looks back and smiles. "sure." Ouistis walks over to umi and puts a hand on her shoulder, brining Umi back to reality.
"yes?" the blue-haired SeeD asked.
"let's get moving!" quistis smiled.
* * *
"NO!" a red-haired woman shouts in front of a blurring crystal ball.
A man with violet hair comes closer. And whispers something in her ear. The woman frowns and stands up.
"we will meet again soon......princess.." the woman said, gently caressing the crystal ball.
* * *
Sakura unbuckles her seatbelt and stands up, determination in her face.
"where you think you're goin'?" Irvine lookes at her.
Sakura just kept going to the exit.
"you're not going to do what I think you're going to do aren't you?" Kero asks.
silence.
"SAKURA!!! YOU'RE CRAZY!!!" Irvine shouts. Too late.
On the roof, sakura stables herself to prepare for her cyclone-stop plan. She then removes the magic wand from the scabbard attached to her back and concentrates. The orb glows mint green and starts to outline Sakura's body.
"let's go.... GREEN GAIL!!!!!"
Sakura swings her wand and twirls it above her head as a swirling wind force rises from the wand. She stops and swings the wand infront of her and the wind force is thrown in the direction of the cyclone.
Just as the wind force hits the cyclone, the cyclone just disappears.
"I DID IT!!" Sakura shouts, jumping on the Ragnarok's roof, sending her flying off the roof.
"AAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"
"gotcha!!" keroberos shouts as he catches sakura on his back.
"thanks... Kero.." sakura whispers.
* * *
Rinoa sleepily yawns inside the train heding for Timber. Eversince the last dream, she had gotten this tugging feeling that was sending her to Winhill. It was odd but the more she tried to ignore in the more it bugged her.
"Find me and you shall know the answer."
Chills ran down her spine as the words came back to haunt her. She had tried telling others, specially Ellone and Edea. But each time she tries, she just mysteriously forgets and when she had stopped trying to remember, the memories just flooded back in.
'DING! DONG! please check all your items, we are about to stop DING! DONG!'
Rinoa stretched herself as the train went to a halt. As she breathed the Timber air. It had been a long time since she visited this now free land and it was good to be back. She was about to head towards their train when the words came to present itself, pushing away all other thoughts.
'winhill....you will find a secret....'
The gostly voice made her shiver under the warm Timber air. Immediately, her body glowed white once more and the space she occupied became an empty lot.
* * *
"where did Rinoa go to?" Zell asked Squall.
"Timber."
"hmm...must be missing Zone and Watts..." Zell said.
Squall just looked at him with a look that locked his mouth shut. He didn't want Rinoa to go so far alone with all the faintings she was occuring. But still Rinoa was so insistent making him wonder why. She had just visited Timber last week which made missing Zone and Watts out of question.
* * *
Selphie and Shayla-shayla greeted Keroberos as he landed softly.
"that was a brave thing to do Sakura..." Shayla said as she gently put the little kid on her back.
Selphie smiled and patted sakura's head gently. Then, she turned to look towards the Ragnarok.
Irvine prepared the landing wheels for a smooth landing. He looked outside and saw Sakura being cared for by Shayla-shayla and Selphie.
"what a brave kid.." he murmured.
As he was preparing for the landing, the radio picked up a weird noise.
*PSHHHT* h--e--llo *PSHHHT* Ba--et? *PSSHHT*
Irvine suddenly stopped the Ragnarok from landing as he heard the voice. It was male, as far as he can tell.
*PSSSHHT* p--ase!! ans---r!! *PSSHHT* WHA---!! AKKK!!! *PSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHT*
Irvine immediately grabbed the radio. "HELLO!!! HELLO!!! this is the Ragnarok!!! please respond!!!!"
*PSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHTTT*
Irvine immediately revved the engines up ang withdrew the landing wheels and gained altitude. Pressing a few buttons here and there, the world map appeared on the screen. A small green square appeared and scanned over the map. It stopped and turned red over a small island near Galbaldia.
"Island Closest to Hell..." he murmured.
The engines fired up and headed towards the location.
Selphie looked up and knotted her brow. "where the heck is he going?"
Shayla-shayla looked up and saw the Ragnarok zoom towards to her left. "what the hell?"
* * *
Cloud breathed hard. He had no more energy left after fighting 16 beasts one after the other. The bite bug kept on biting him as he lay there.
"darn..." Cloud was going to faint when...
*BANG!!*
Irvine blew away the smoke that was coming fromout of his gun. On the ground lay a spikey, yellow head guy. Wearing a black sleeveless shirt, brown belt, and pants. He was also wearing a left shoulder armor, a metal wristband, gloves and brown boots. Irvine also noticed a HUGE sword that the stranger held.
Cloud heard the bug fall to the ground.
"Hey bud, are you still breathing?" a voice asked.
He tried to move his head to see who it was but it was painful. "ye..ah" came his reply.
"Good. Hold still for a sec........CURA!!" Cloud heard the voice say.
Suddenly, Cloud felt some of his wounds healing and closing up and some of the pain going away. It felt like he could stand up and fight 17 more monsters. He shakily stood up and a sturdy hand supported him. As he looked to his right, he saw a young man, taller than he was, wearing a hat, a treanch coat with a white shirt underneath, and long pants looking much like a cowboy.
"hiya! I'm Irvine Kinneas and you are?" the cowboy held his hand out.
Cloud straightened himself and shook the cowboy's hand. "Cloud, Cloud Strife." he smiled.
* * *
Rinoa recognized the room she was in as Laguna's old room. The room looked the same, rotten wood, the things scattered around, the room looking messy. The scenery was getting boring when violet beams of light seeped in between the doors of the cabinet.
"wha..."
The cabinet doors suddenly burst open and revealed the source of violet light. It was a small, beautifully decorated box with purple jewels glistening here and there. Rinoa reached for it as it floated in the middle of the cabinet.
When Rinoa touched it, the box suddenly opened and revealed a simple necklace with a violet-colored stone pendant. The pendant was shaped like a small letter H(h) with a line going across the stem of it.
Rinoa got the necklace and held it up, making it glisten. As the sunbeams hit it, rays of voilet light burst from it, giving Rinoa a small light show. But then, Rinoa noticed a beam shining brighter than any of the other beams, heading towards a certain direction.
Still holding the pendant up, Rinoa followed the beam which came to her that only she can see it, so she wore the pendant around her neck. The beam led Rinoa outside of the town. But as she walked towards the earth-wall, she noticed that she didn't encounter any monsters on the way but did not mind it. When she reached a the dead end, she touched the earth-wall and suddenly it opened, showing a cave in which the voilet beam shone through.
The cave twisted here and there, but Rinoa was never lost beacuse of the beam. The was led to a beautiful cave lined with crystal on the walls. In the middle of the room was large deposit of crystal. Rinoa walked up to it and saw a girl trapped inside.
"you...it's you..." Rinoa caressed the surface of the crystal lightly.
Rinoa noticed a depression and observed that the pendant would fit nicely in it. And so, he put the pendant on he hole and it fit perfectly. And as sudden as that, the body of the girl glowed violet and the cyrtal melted.
"who are you?" Rinoa asked.
The girl looked at her with her deep violet eyes. "Saturn."
* * *
END OF CHAPTER 4
note: words inside mean their thoughts.
~*~ means they're in the dream mode.
THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS
by: Rhys Icewind
Chapter 4 - Strangers
It was a horrid dream.
Being transported to another world, in the request of the planet?
It _MUST_ be a dream.
*PINCH*
OW!!
*PINCH*
OWWW!!!!!!
Cloud stood up, hopeless, lost in another dimension.
It was just the other day, in a dream...
~*~
"Cloud, please, the planet needs your help!" Aeris looked at him with pleading eyes.
get transferred to another dimension? he tought. NO WAY!!
Aeris held his right hand. "I know that you're worried if you're going to get back....trust me... you ARE!" Aeris walked away. "If you don't go, then we will be destroyed."
Cloud turned to face her. "HOW??"
"I don't know. The planet does not reveal everything....as of yet..." she looked down.
"why me?"
Aeris looked straight into his glowing eyes. "you have a hidden power...a power that is strong. But, you just don't know it. No one does, no one but the planet."
"and?"
"the people you will help needs your power...to defeat an evil worser than Sephiroth."
Cloud backed a little. "an evil worse than sephiroth......?"
~*~
how did I get myself into this??? he held his head.
His flow of thoughts were disturbed by a battle roar. He looked up just in time to see an incoming Rubydragon.
"what the hell is THAT!!!???!?!"
* * *
"oh my goodnes!!!" Selphie gasped
Shayla looked at selphie oddly. "what?"
Selphie looked back at her with a pale face. "cyclone" she simply said.
Kero took another glance at the two people waving widly at them. "They sure look excited."
"excited?" Irvine asked. "are you sure?"
Kero nodded.
"No, they don't look excited to me..." Sakura said.
"how can they be? a cyclone is chasing us!!" he shouted.
Kero and sakura looked at him. "WHAT!!??!"
Quistis looked outside the window and saw the weather turning bad.
Quistis frowns. "that cancells the forest safari..."
After a few more minutes of staring outside, Quistis sees Umi just staring at space outside, on the terrace.
"ma'am! break's over!" announced one of her students, eager to battle.
She looks back and smiles. "sure." Ouistis walks over to umi and puts a hand on her shoulder, brining Umi back to reality.
"yes?" the blue-haired SeeD asked.
"let's get moving!" quistis smiled.
* * *
"NO!" a red-haired woman shouts in front of a blurring crystal ball.
A man with violet hair comes closer. And whispers something in her ear. The woman frowns and stands up.
"we will meet again soon......princess.." the woman said, gently caressing the crystal ball.
* * *
Sakura unbuckles her seatbelt and stands up, determination in her face.
"where you think you're goin'?" Irvine lookes at her.
Sakura just kept going to the exit.
"you're not going to do what I think you're going to do aren't you?" Kero asks.
silence.
"SAKURA!!! YOU'RE CRAZY!!!" Irvine shouts. Too late.
On the roof, sakura stables herself to prepare for her cyclone-stop plan. She then removes the magic wand from the scabbard attached to her back and concentrates. The orb glows mint green and starts to outline Sakura's body.
"let's go.... GREEN GAIL!!!!!"
Sakura swings her wand and twirls it above her head as a swirling wind force rises from the wand. She stops and swings the wand infront of her and the wind force is thrown in the direction of the cyclone.
Just as the wind force hits the cyclone, the cyclone just disappears.
"I DID IT!!" Sakura shouts, jumping on the Ragnarok's roof, sending her flying off the roof.
"AAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"
"gotcha!!" keroberos shouts as he catches sakura on his back.
"thanks... Kero.." sakura whispers.
* * *
Rinoa sleepily yawns inside the train heding for Timber. Eversince the last dream, she had gotten this tugging feeling that was sending her to Winhill. It was odd but the more she tried to ignore in the more it bugged her.
"Find me and you shall know the answer."
Chills ran down her spine as the words came back to haunt her. She had tried telling others, specially Ellone and Edea. But each time she tries, she just mysteriously forgets and when she had stopped trying to remember, the memories just flooded back in.
'DING! DONG! please check all your items, we are about to stop DING! DONG!'
Rinoa stretched herself as the train went to a halt. As she breathed the Timber air. It had been a long time since she visited this now free land and it was good to be back. She was about to head towards their train when the words came to present itself, pushing away all other thoughts.
'winhill....you will find a secret....'
The gostly voice made her shiver under the warm Timber air. Immediately, her body glowed white once more and the space she occupied became an empty lot.
* * *
"where did Rinoa go to?" Zell asked Squall.
"Timber."
"hmm...must be missing Zone and Watts..." Zell said.
Squall just looked at him with a look that locked his mouth shut. He didn't want Rinoa to go so far alone with all the faintings she was occuring. But still Rinoa was so insistent making him wonder why. She had just visited Timber last week which made missing Zone and Watts out of question.
* * *
Selphie and Shayla-shayla greeted Keroberos as he landed softly.
"that was a brave thing to do Sakura..." Shayla said as she gently put the little kid on her back.
Selphie smiled and patted sakura's head gently. Then, she turned to look towards the Ragnarok.
Irvine prepared the landing wheels for a smooth landing. He looked outside and saw Sakura being cared for by Shayla-shayla and Selphie.
"what a brave kid.." he murmured.
As he was preparing for the landing, the radio picked up a weird noise.
*PSHHHT* h--e--llo *PSHHHT* Ba--et? *PSSHHT*
Irvine suddenly stopped the Ragnarok from landing as he heard the voice. It was male, as far as he can tell.
*PSSSHHT* p--ase!! ans---r!! *PSSHHT* WHA---!! AKKK!!! *PSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHT*
Irvine immediately grabbed the radio. "HELLO!!! HELLO!!! this is the Ragnarok!!! please respond!!!!"
*PSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHTTT*
Irvine immediately revved the engines up ang withdrew the landing wheels and gained altitude. Pressing a few buttons here and there, the world map appeared on the screen. A small green square appeared and scanned over the map. It stopped and turned red over a small island near Galbaldia.
"Island Closest to Hell..." he murmured.
The engines fired up and headed towards the location.
Selphie looked up and knotted her brow. "where the heck is he going?"
Shayla-shayla looked up and saw the Ragnarok zoom towards to her left. "what the hell?"
* * *
Cloud breathed hard. He had no more energy left after fighting 16 beasts one after the other. The bite bug kept on biting him as he lay there.
"darn..." Cloud was going to faint when...
*BANG!!*
Irvine blew away the smoke that was coming fromout of his gun. On the ground lay a spikey, yellow head guy. Wearing a black sleeveless shirt, brown belt, and pants. He was also wearing a left shoulder armor, a metal wristband, gloves and brown boots. Irvine also noticed a HUGE sword that the stranger held.
Cloud heard the bug fall to the ground.
"Hey bud, are you still breathing?" a voice asked.
He tried to move his head to see who it was but it was painful. "ye..ah" came his reply.
"Good. Hold still for a sec........CURA!!" Cloud heard the voice say.
Suddenly, Cloud felt some of his wounds healing and closing up and some of the pain going away. It felt like he could stand up and fight 17 more monsters. He shakily stood up and a sturdy hand supported him. As he looked to his right, he saw a young man, taller than he was, wearing a hat, a treanch coat with a white shirt underneath, and long pants looking much like a cowboy.
"hiya! I'm Irvine Kinneas and you are?" the cowboy held his hand out.
Cloud straightened himself and shook the cowboy's hand. "Cloud, Cloud Strife." he smiled.
* * *
Rinoa recognized the room she was in as Laguna's old room. The room looked the same, rotten wood, the things scattered around, the room looking messy. The scenery was getting boring when violet beams of light seeped in between the doors of the cabinet.
"wha..."
The cabinet doors suddenly burst open and revealed the source of violet light. It was a small, beautifully decorated box with purple jewels glistening here and there. Rinoa reached for it as it floated in the middle of the cabinet.
When Rinoa touched it, the box suddenly opened and revealed a simple necklace with a violet-colored stone pendant. The pendant was shaped like a small letter H(h) with a line going across the stem of it.
Rinoa got the necklace and held it up, making it glisten. As the sunbeams hit it, rays of voilet light burst from it, giving Rinoa a small light show. But then, Rinoa noticed a beam shining brighter than any of the other beams, heading towards a certain direction.
Still holding the pendant up, Rinoa followed the beam which came to her that only she can see it, so she wore the pendant around her neck. The beam led Rinoa outside of the town. But as she walked towards the earth-wall, she noticed that she didn't encounter any monsters on the way but did not mind it. When she reached a the dead end, she touched the earth-wall and suddenly it opened, showing a cave in which the voilet beam shone through.
The cave twisted here and there, but Rinoa was never lost beacuse of the beam. The was led to a beautiful cave lined with crystal on the walls. In the middle of the room was large deposit of crystal. Rinoa walked up to it and saw a girl trapped inside.
"you...it's you..." Rinoa caressed the surface of the crystal lightly.
Rinoa noticed a depression and observed that the pendant would fit nicely in it. And so, he put the pendant on he hole and it fit perfectly. And as sudden as that, the body of the girl glowed violet and the cyrtal melted.
"who are you?" Rinoa asked.
The girl looked at her with her deep violet eyes. "Saturn."
* * *
END OF CHAPTER 4