**The usual disclaimers apply**
~In the last chapter…
He looked around and saw the person he expected to see... Ellone.
"yes?"
Ellone caught up with him and rested a little bit. When she found enough
strength to speak she said, "Squall, you have to accompany me outside!
I'm needed!"
"I was just going there myself." he casually said.
Notes:
~*~ - dream state
- thoughts
* * * - another place, time, space, (whatever)...etc.
THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS
By: Rhys Icewind
Chapter 12 - Risks and Sacrifices
The land started to shake.
Big and sharp formations of rock jutted from the ground.
Cloud was glowing a yellow-brown color and on his knees, holding his head.
Umi was floating, glowing blue, surrounded by a ring of water.
The others were holding on for dear life, looking out for the jutting forms
of rock, hoping that they won't be skewered.
Saturn floated overhead, with Clef beside her who was casting a floating spell
for the others. "Clef...." she said, holding Clef's wrist. Clef looked at her
and saw the seriousness of her eyes. Clef nodded his head and teleported the
others to where Squall and Ellone were.
"Oh my god! Squall!" Ellone said as she held his arm.
Squall concentrated on keeping balance on the shifting ground. Suddenly, he
was just floating with Ellone, Shayla, Clef...and Sakura who, amazingly to
Squall, had wings on her back.
"Clef, what do we do?" Ellone asked.
"let Saturn handle it."
Saturn looked at the two opposing powers and suddenly held her right hand forward
and a polearm with a huge blade appears. Silence Glaive.
* * *
Galaxia laughed at the object of Hotaru in her scrying mirror.
she thought and suddenly laughed when she had thought of her devious plan.
The "prophecy" that Saturn told the Magical One was no authentic prophecy. It
was fake. A hoax. This was her own cocktail of death.
Hotaru's death.
Galaxia had been able to penetrate the protection over Saturn's hidden shrine
and had embedded the so-called-prophecy in a dream. To her amusement, Saturn
had taken this dreamwarning seriously and contacted the Magical One before she
even awoke from the deep sleep Pluto put her in.
"Just do it....attack....with your Silence Glaive Surprise...." she told the
deaf picture of Saturn in the mirror. "and once you do.....BOOM!" then she
laughed evilly.
"Now....for the final step..."
* * *
Shayla-shayla and Sakura suddenly glowed red and mint green, respectively,
and disappeared.
"what happened?" Ellone asked the light-violet headded mage. Squall also
turned to head his explanation.
Looking at his face, both he and Ellone knew the answer:
He didn't know.
At the battle field, things didn't get any better when Sakura and Shayla both
appeared, both glowing.
I have to hurry she thought.
Saturn then raised her Silence Glaive...
Her body glowed...
"Death....Ribbon......Revolution!!!!!"
A series of silvery ribbons jutted out from the glaive, destroying everything in
it's path. The ribbons specifically went to the direction where the four pillars,
who were now fighting with magic, stood. But before the ribbons could even touch
the rocks near them, they hit a solid, invisible barrier.
"NO!" Saturn shouted, stopping her attack. "this won't work!" she said, as she
looked at the fighting pillars, who were practically killing each other with
ancient magics.
Saturn then raised her glaive, but higher this time, and the skies suddenly
truned dark...
Saturn's voice echoed in his mind.
Clef closed his eyes and concentrated. he asked.
she said, her voice trailing off.
Clef's eyes suddenly snapped back open.
Saturn's tone became grave.
Clef just sighed and nodded his head in fustration.
Saturn felt his answer and smiled. Clef smiled as he felt her sincere reaction of
thanks. This would be the last time they would see each other.
"Silence Glaive Surprise!!!!!!"
Suddenly, there was a huge white explosion.....
* * *
Emeraude was sitting silently by the window in her room silently reflecting on what
had happened before...
~FLASHBACK~
They were in another dimension, travelling towards the temple.
"E-emeraude....L-lantis.....I-I have to t-tell you something...." he said.
Lantis looked at his still staggering friend. "no, rest Eagle, rest."
"no.......Hotaru.....Saturn....shouldn't......"
"Shush...." Emeraude said as she cast a sleeping spell over him.
~END~
she wondered.
Suddenly, she felt a huge release of energy.
"what was that?" she said.
"I don't know" came a reply. Emeraude looked behind her to see Lantis standing
by her door.
"Lantis...what...?"
"Eagle wishes to see you" he simply said.
So, Lantis and Emeraude went to Lantis' room just to see Eagle looking grave
and pale. Presea and Ferio looked the same.
Emeraude immediately ran to Eagle's side. "Eagle? what is wrong?"
Tears rolled down from eagle's amber eyes. "It's too late" he said in a raspy
voice.
"too late?" Lantis asked, "too late for what?"
"to save her..."
"save who?" Emeraude asked.
"Hotaru!" he shouted at them. And from the looks on Lantis' and Emeraude's
faces, it was clearly seen that they were shocked by the news.
"AAARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
All the people in the room looked at each other in surprise.
"Yue!" Presea shouted as she hurried towards his room.
"what did he do now?" Ferio mumbled as he followed Presea.
Emeraude and Lantis stayed beside the weeping Eagle....
Yue was lying on the floor, a glowing medallion in his left hand, looking very pale
and was very still.
Presea immediately went to his side. "Yue! Yue!" she said, shaking him.
Ferio went to check for a pulse.
There was none.
Presea looked at him.
His face was pale.
He shook his head.
Presea went pale as well.
* * *
Galaxia laughed as she saw the events unfold before her.
"If this continues, I may not have so much trouble in trying to rule the universe!"
she told herself.
* * *
The white blast diappeared after a few minutes passed. The surrounding area was totally
unharmed due to Clef's protection. But the area below saturn and the pillars where almost
obliterated as a small but VERY DEEP crater was formed. The crater was so close to he
shore that the crater was immediately filled with seawater. The pillar's figures slowly
decended to the bottom.
"brother...." Hotaru whispered before falling from the sky and into the water-filled
crater and falling into the abyss.
"Curaga!!!" Ellone casted as Squall watched.
Whatever Clef did, almost drained him of his life-force. He lay still on Squall's
jacket and breathed slowly and heavily. "thank you..." he managed to say in a hoarse
voice.
Ellone looked at him worriedly. "don't speak. Rest."
Squall stood up and immediately ran outside and saw Rinoa, wounded and bloody, lying
beside a newly-formed channel of water, leading to a small body of water. He immediately
ran over to him and casted curaga on her, healing her wounds. Squall checked her pulse
and it was very weak. He then casted full-life on her. She slowly opened her eyes.
"Squall...." she said.
Squall looked at her effectionally and smiled. "Just rest Rinoa..."
"Favor...." she said, looking worried.
Squall nodded his head.
"swim....save.....others....lake..." she said, as she fell unconscious again.
"she must want me to swim this thing....." he looked at the surface of the water and
saw bubbles which told Squall of the urgency in this matter. Squall immediately removed
his boots and shirt and dived in the cool water with his gunblade...just in case.
Within a few minutes of diving (in which he finally discovered that the small body of
water was VERY deep), he saw the unconscious body of Hotaru, Sakura and Shayla drifting
not very far from each other. He immediately retrieved them and went to surface due to
the burning of his lungs. When he reached the surface, he discovered that Ellone was
now tending to Rinoa and so was Clef, who was finally able to stand.
"Oh my!" Ellone gasped.
"Saturn!!" Clef said.
Clef immediately helped Squall with the bodies and he and Ellone tended to them.
"where's Umi and Cloud?" Clef asked.
In reply, Squall went back in the water.
Umi opened her eyes to find out that she was in a black void.
"where am I?" she asked herself.
"you are safe here." a male voice replied.
Umi turned around to find a tall, handsome guy with long white hair tied behind him,
ice-blue eyes, charming smile and wings wearing a very regal-looking suit.
Umi's heart leaped as he saw the man, but she didn't know why. She felt happy and
there was a feeling inside of her that just wanted to run to him and hug him and even
kiss him but the other part was telling her not to go near this person.
"who are you?" she asked.
The man looked away, as if hurt, much to Umi's surprise. It was like she was supposed
to know him but didn't remember.
"have you forgotten me? you promised me that you'd never forget." he said.
"I promised?" Umi asked "when?"
The man sighed and looked at her once more with his charming smile. "try to remember.."
* * *
"Damn it!" Ferio shouted as he and Presea kept Yue's body from being clinically dead.
Yue was just dimension-travelling with his spirit. There were risks to it like being
comatosed or paralyzed for a few days but the worst was death. If the person doing the
travel stayed out of his body for too long, his body might die.
"what was he thinking?" Presea asked.
"don't know. Some crazy idea again, I s'pose." Ferio replied. "Yue! come back now!!"
* * *
Squall's ears were trying to pop off his head because of the buliding pressure. His
lungs burned for air. But still, he went deeper. He knew he saw Umi's hand in the abyss
and was determined to get to her.
Just as he was about to continue, a bright blur of gold streaked passed him. In
reaction, he drew his gunblade that was strapped on his back. He looked behind him
and saw a sea wrym looking at him with its golden eyes. The creature was beautiful,
mysterious and dangerous all at the same time. Its golden scales gave off its own
glow and gave a faint light in the darkness that they were in.
Squall loosened his grip on the gunblade and relaxed a little. There was a feeling
inside him that told him not to fear the creature or hurt it, but to just relax.
The creature opened its mouth and Squall immediately tightened his grip on the gunblade
and silently scolded himself for lowering his guard.
The creature just kept its mouth open, not attacking but just let its mouth stay open,
which puzzled Squall. Then suddenly, a bubble appeared from its mouth. Squall was
surprised when he realized what the thing was doing. It was blowing a bubble. The creature
blew until the bubble was big enough for Squall to fit in. And the bubble drifted toward
Squall while the creature closed its mouth. Squall just put the gunblade infront of him,
the tip facing the incoming bubble, thinking that it woud pop and whatever harm it would
cause would just pop away with it. But instead of popping, the bubble slowly got closer
to Squall, passing though the blade as if it was a ghost. Finally he was inside the bubble.
Inside, the bubble was dry but Squall held his breath thinking that there was some kind
of poison gas inside the thing. But finally, his lungs gave in and he breathed in and out
gasping and panting. Expecting to die any minute, he found out that the bubble was filled
with 100% oxygen and that the sea wyrm had actually saved him.
"Well....whudda y'know.." he said, "thanks." saluting to the sea wyrm. In reply, the
creature roared in glee.
The two just stared at each other until Squall spoke up in irritation.
"are you waiting for me to say something?"
The sea wyrm moved a little.
"hmm... that must be a 'yes', I guess.." he said.
Then the sea wyrm just went away in a streak of gold.
"that was nice." he said. But just when he was going to think of something else again,
the sea wyrm appeared again, this time with a stick in its mouth.
The creature put the stick in the bubble.
Squall touched the stick and an idea popped into his brain. "fetch?" he asked the wyrm.
The sea wyrm moved in excitement.
"hmm... can you fetch a woman? and a man? there? in the deeper parts??" he asked, not
sure if the sea wyrm understood him. But then, the sea wyrm took off.
* * *
END CHAPTER 12
whew!!!!! that was a long one.... well, I hope you liked this one! and thank you for
the people who are reading !!!!
Jaa ne!!!! ^____________^
~In the last chapter…
He looked around and saw the person he expected to see... Ellone.
"yes?"
Ellone caught up with him and rested a little bit. When she found enough
strength to speak she said, "Squall, you have to accompany me outside!
I'm needed!"
"I was just going there myself." he casually said.
Notes:
~*~ - dream state
- thoughts
* * * - another place, time, space, (whatever)...etc.
THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS
By: Rhys Icewind
Chapter 12 - Risks and Sacrifices
The land started to shake.
Big and sharp formations of rock jutted from the ground.
Cloud was glowing a yellow-brown color and on his knees, holding his head.
Umi was floating, glowing blue, surrounded by a ring of water.
The others were holding on for dear life, looking out for the jutting forms
of rock, hoping that they won't be skewered.
Saturn floated overhead, with Clef beside her who was casting a floating spell
for the others. "Clef...." she said, holding Clef's wrist. Clef looked at her
and saw the seriousness of her eyes. Clef nodded his head and teleported the
others to where Squall and Ellone were.
"Oh my god! Squall!" Ellone said as she held his arm.
Squall concentrated on keeping balance on the shifting ground. Suddenly, he
was just floating with Ellone, Shayla, Clef...and Sakura who, amazingly to
Squall, had wings on her back.
"Clef, what do we do?" Ellone asked.
"let Saturn handle it."
Saturn looked at the two opposing powers and suddenly held her right hand forward
and a polearm with a huge blade appears. Silence Glaive.
* * *
Galaxia laughed at the object of Hotaru in her scrying mirror.
she thought and suddenly laughed when she had thought of her devious plan.
The "prophecy" that Saturn told the Magical One was no authentic prophecy. It
was fake. A hoax. This was her own cocktail of death.
Hotaru's death.
Galaxia had been able to penetrate the protection over Saturn's hidden shrine
and had embedded the so-called-prophecy in a dream. To her amusement, Saturn
had taken this dreamwarning seriously and contacted the Magical One before she
even awoke from the deep sleep Pluto put her in.
"Just do it....attack....with your Silence Glaive Surprise...." she told the
deaf picture of Saturn in the mirror. "and once you do.....BOOM!" then she
laughed evilly.
"Now....for the final step..."
* * *
Shayla-shayla and Sakura suddenly glowed red and mint green, respectively,
and disappeared.
"what happened?" Ellone asked the light-violet headded mage. Squall also
turned to head his explanation.
Looking at his face, both he and Ellone knew the answer:
He didn't know.
At the battle field, things didn't get any better when Sakura and Shayla both
appeared, both glowing.
I have to hurry she thought.
Saturn then raised her Silence Glaive...
Her body glowed...
"Death....Ribbon......Revolution!!!!!"
A series of silvery ribbons jutted out from the glaive, destroying everything in
it's path. The ribbons specifically went to the direction where the four pillars,
who were now fighting with magic, stood. But before the ribbons could even touch
the rocks near them, they hit a solid, invisible barrier.
"NO!" Saturn shouted, stopping her attack. "this won't work!" she said, as she
looked at the fighting pillars, who were practically killing each other with
ancient magics.
Saturn then raised her glaive, but higher this time, and the skies suddenly
truned dark...
Saturn's voice echoed in his mind.
Clef closed his eyes and concentrated. he asked.
she said, her voice trailing off.
Clef's eyes suddenly snapped back open.
Saturn's tone became grave.
Clef just sighed and nodded his head in fustration.
Saturn felt his answer and smiled. Clef smiled as he felt her sincere reaction of
thanks. This would be the last time they would see each other.
"Silence Glaive Surprise!!!!!!"
Suddenly, there was a huge white explosion.....
* * *
Emeraude was sitting silently by the window in her room silently reflecting on what
had happened before...
~FLASHBACK~
They were in another dimension, travelling towards the temple.
"E-emeraude....L-lantis.....I-I have to t-tell you something...." he said.
Lantis looked at his still staggering friend. "no, rest Eagle, rest."
"no.......Hotaru.....Saturn....shouldn't......"
"Shush...." Emeraude said as she cast a sleeping spell over him.
~END~
she wondered.
Suddenly, she felt a huge release of energy.
"what was that?" she said.
"I don't know" came a reply. Emeraude looked behind her to see Lantis standing
by her door.
"Lantis...what...?"
"Eagle wishes to see you" he simply said.
So, Lantis and Emeraude went to Lantis' room just to see Eagle looking grave
and pale. Presea and Ferio looked the same.
Emeraude immediately ran to Eagle's side. "Eagle? what is wrong?"
Tears rolled down from eagle's amber eyes. "It's too late" he said in a raspy
voice.
"too late?" Lantis asked, "too late for what?"
"to save her..."
"save who?" Emeraude asked.
"Hotaru!" he shouted at them. And from the looks on Lantis' and Emeraude's
faces, it was clearly seen that they were shocked by the news.
"AAARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
All the people in the room looked at each other in surprise.
"Yue!" Presea shouted as she hurried towards his room.
"what did he do now?" Ferio mumbled as he followed Presea.
Emeraude and Lantis stayed beside the weeping Eagle....
Yue was lying on the floor, a glowing medallion in his left hand, looking very pale
and was very still.
Presea immediately went to his side. "Yue! Yue!" she said, shaking him.
Ferio went to check for a pulse.
There was none.
Presea looked at him.
His face was pale.
He shook his head.
Presea went pale as well.
* * *
Galaxia laughed as she saw the events unfold before her.
"If this continues, I may not have so much trouble in trying to rule the universe!"
she told herself.
* * *
The white blast diappeared after a few minutes passed. The surrounding area was totally
unharmed due to Clef's protection. But the area below saturn and the pillars where almost
obliterated as a small but VERY DEEP crater was formed. The crater was so close to he
shore that the crater was immediately filled with seawater. The pillar's figures slowly
decended to the bottom.
"brother...." Hotaru whispered before falling from the sky and into the water-filled
crater and falling into the abyss.
"Curaga!!!" Ellone casted as Squall watched.
Whatever Clef did, almost drained him of his life-force. He lay still on Squall's
jacket and breathed slowly and heavily. "thank you..." he managed to say in a hoarse
voice.
Ellone looked at him worriedly. "don't speak. Rest."
Squall stood up and immediately ran outside and saw Rinoa, wounded and bloody, lying
beside a newly-formed channel of water, leading to a small body of water. He immediately
ran over to him and casted curaga on her, healing her wounds. Squall checked her pulse
and it was very weak. He then casted full-life on her. She slowly opened her eyes.
"Squall...." she said.
Squall looked at her effectionally and smiled. "Just rest Rinoa..."
"Favor...." she said, looking worried.
Squall nodded his head.
"swim....save.....others....lake..." she said, as she fell unconscious again.
"she must want me to swim this thing....." he looked at the surface of the water and
saw bubbles which told Squall of the urgency in this matter. Squall immediately removed
his boots and shirt and dived in the cool water with his gunblade...just in case.
Within a few minutes of diving (in which he finally discovered that the small body of
water was VERY deep), he saw the unconscious body of Hotaru, Sakura and Shayla drifting
not very far from each other. He immediately retrieved them and went to surface due to
the burning of his lungs. When he reached the surface, he discovered that Ellone was
now tending to Rinoa and so was Clef, who was finally able to stand.
"Oh my!" Ellone gasped.
"Saturn!!" Clef said.
Clef immediately helped Squall with the bodies and he and Ellone tended to them.
"where's Umi and Cloud?" Clef asked.
In reply, Squall went back in the water.
Umi opened her eyes to find out that she was in a black void.
"where am I?" she asked herself.
"you are safe here." a male voice replied.
Umi turned around to find a tall, handsome guy with long white hair tied behind him,
ice-blue eyes, charming smile and wings wearing a very regal-looking suit.
Umi's heart leaped as he saw the man, but she didn't know why. She felt happy and
there was a feeling inside of her that just wanted to run to him and hug him and even
kiss him but the other part was telling her not to go near this person.
"who are you?" she asked.
The man looked away, as if hurt, much to Umi's surprise. It was like she was supposed
to know him but didn't remember.
"have you forgotten me? you promised me that you'd never forget." he said.
"I promised?" Umi asked "when?"
The man sighed and looked at her once more with his charming smile. "try to remember.."
* * *
"Damn it!" Ferio shouted as he and Presea kept Yue's body from being clinically dead.
Yue was just dimension-travelling with his spirit. There were risks to it like being
comatosed or paralyzed for a few days but the worst was death. If the person doing the
travel stayed out of his body for too long, his body might die.
"what was he thinking?" Presea asked.
"don't know. Some crazy idea again, I s'pose." Ferio replied. "Yue! come back now!!"
* * *
Squall's ears were trying to pop off his head because of the buliding pressure. His
lungs burned for air. But still, he went deeper. He knew he saw Umi's hand in the abyss
and was determined to get to her.
Just as he was about to continue, a bright blur of gold streaked passed him. In
reaction, he drew his gunblade that was strapped on his back. He looked behind him
and saw a sea wrym looking at him with its golden eyes. The creature was beautiful,
mysterious and dangerous all at the same time. Its golden scales gave off its own
glow and gave a faint light in the darkness that they were in.
Squall loosened his grip on the gunblade and relaxed a little. There was a feeling
inside him that told him not to fear the creature or hurt it, but to just relax.
The creature opened its mouth and Squall immediately tightened his grip on the gunblade
and silently scolded himself for lowering his guard.
The creature just kept its mouth open, not attacking but just let its mouth stay open,
which puzzled Squall. Then suddenly, a bubble appeared from its mouth. Squall was
surprised when he realized what the thing was doing. It was blowing a bubble. The creature
blew until the bubble was big enough for Squall to fit in. And the bubble drifted toward
Squall while the creature closed its mouth. Squall just put the gunblade infront of him,
the tip facing the incoming bubble, thinking that it woud pop and whatever harm it would
cause would just pop away with it. But instead of popping, the bubble slowly got closer
to Squall, passing though the blade as if it was a ghost. Finally he was inside the bubble.
Inside, the bubble was dry but Squall held his breath thinking that there was some kind
of poison gas inside the thing. But finally, his lungs gave in and he breathed in and out
gasping and panting. Expecting to die any minute, he found out that the bubble was filled
with 100% oxygen and that the sea wyrm had actually saved him.
"Well....whudda y'know.." he said, "thanks." saluting to the sea wyrm. In reply, the
creature roared in glee.
The two just stared at each other until Squall spoke up in irritation.
"are you waiting for me to say something?"
The sea wyrm moved a little.
"hmm... that must be a 'yes', I guess.." he said.
Then the sea wyrm just went away in a streak of gold.
"that was nice." he said. But just when he was going to think of something else again,
the sea wyrm appeared again, this time with a stick in its mouth.
The creature put the stick in the bubble.
Squall touched the stick and an idea popped into his brain. "fetch?" he asked the wyrm.
The sea wyrm moved in excitement.
"hmm... can you fetch a woman? and a man? there? in the deeper parts??" he asked, not
sure if the sea wyrm understood him. But then, the sea wyrm took off.
* * *
END CHAPTER 12
whew!!!!! that was a long one.... well, I hope you liked this one! and thank you for
the people who are reading !!!!
Jaa ne!!!! ^____________^