**The usual disclaimers apply**


~In the last chapter…

"Ultimecia?" Zell unbelievingly said.

Yue walked infront of Umi and summoned his sword, it had a long blade with a simple,
white hilt and a blue orb in the middle.

"Galxia." Lantis said.



Notes:
~*~ - dream state
*...*- thoughts
* * * - another place, time, space,...etc.

THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS
By: Rhys Icewind


Chapter 17 - War

"You think you can face me now?" she taunted them, "with such a crippling blow?"

"crippling blow?" Squall questioned.

"she's right..." Presea said, frowning, "Rinoa is down and she is a needed ally."

Squall looked at his dear Rinoa who was unconscious at that time. *Do you really
hold such power within you?* he questioned her in his thoughts. But then, her
face distorted for a bit and it made Squall worries even worse. "what do you want?"

"just her." Galaxia said, pointing at Rinoa.

Squall looked at her defiantly and snarled, "never!"

Galaxia smiled and gathered a small amount of magic in her finger tips. Small
blue orbs floated before her hand. "abeo!!" she shouted, sending the balls of
power Rinoa's way.

"confuto!!" Umi shouted, making the orbs disappear.

Hikaru looked at her strangely. "I didn't know you knew that!"

Umi just winked at her.

Galaxia's smile even became more wicked. "ahh....princess Atlantis.... how nice
that we meet once again."

"so unfortunate." she replied.

* * *

Rinoa floated in a white space.

It was plain and white.

"Am I in heaven?" she asked.

From afar, Rinoa heard a soft giggle.

"who's there??!?!" she shouted.

"you have nothing to fear from me..." a soft, female, child-like voice said.

Rinoa tried to extend her vision to the whiteness in the room. It made her remember
the place when they were going home from the Time Compression. After a few minutes,
Rinoa closed her eye to rest her aching eyes.

"please show yourself.." she said, almost to a whisper.

"open your eyes and you will see" she said.

Rinoa opened her eyes and the sight before her surprised her. In front of her stood
a young teen dressed in clothes that would fit a queen. She had long, black hair, nice
brown eyes and she looked like a youthful clone of herself.

"who are you?" Rinoa asked.

"I am your descendant from the future. My name is of no importance. Let me tell you
straight: what I will tell you now must NEVER be told to others. Otherwise, the future
that I live in might change or worse.....shatter." she told her.

Rinoa looked at her oddly. "Shatter?"

"If something changes in the future, we cannot say if it will be good or bad. As with
this present, sorceresses and sorcerers are widespread. In the future, there are many
beings that posess magic...."

Rinoa nodded her head. "I understand.."

The teenager smiled at her. "That's good. My message will be short. All I will say
to you is that the future is bleak. If you do not stop the evil that is spreading in
your time, the future will be destroyed. Right now, whatever happenings that are
occuring while you are here affects us greatly. One of my closest friends have died
because of it."

"So, are you here to stop others from dying?"

The girl's face turned serious. "No. I will die soon, for I have conjured a sickeness
that rooted from this evil. My kingdom is in great peril and so does the hope of the
future. In the farther future, my descendant is the only living person that could
turn back the whole humanity from turning to evil. Do you understand?"

Rinoa was taken aback by her words.

She was speechless.

"the 'pillars', as they call them in this time are what we call eidolons. It could
also be translated as Guardian Forces." she said.

Rinoa's eyes widened in shock. "GFs? Umi, Hikaru, Fuu and Cloud?"

The girl nodded.

Just as they were about to talk a bit more, their whole surroundings turned red
for a second and Rinoa noticed that the girl's straight standing faltered for a
moment.

"are you okay?" she worriedly asked.

"I-I'm fine. Now listen carefully, the eidolon of water holds....." she started to
say, but suddenly, her image, along with her voice, started to fade.

"holds what?!?!"

"k-.....e..."

...

She was gone.

* * *

Galaxia laughed as she looked at all the wriggling SeeDs at her feet. Only the
group, protected by Presea, Clef and Emeraude's already weakening powers, were
left standing with very little wounds. "how pitiful" she said.

"you....will never!" Fuu shouted as she unleashed a fury of her attacks. "ever
get Rinoa!!!"

Galaxia smirked. "oh really?" she dared as she effortlessly avoided her attacks.
"look at those pitiful offensives!"

Just then, Emaraude collapsed. But then, Rinoa's amulet and Saturn's pendant
glowed in unison. Color started to retun to Rinoa's face.

"Rinoa..." Squall said, as she was still in his arms.

"Squall......."

"shhh...just keep quiet. You still need rest." he said.

Looking around her, she saw the 'pillars' along with Yue and Lantis attacking....

*Ultimecia!*


"No one.... will escape.... my power!!!" Galaxia shouted, as she relased a wave of
fire.

"never." Umi simply said, and countered her attack with a wave of water.

Galaxia smiled as she saw how good the pillars fought. But she knew that they weren't
enough to give her enough fun. "I'm going to give you time to train for me....
but be ready at all times....I'll be back.." and she disappeared.

"she'll come back soon." Yue said, "I can feel it. She won't give us even a month."

"let's plot time." Lantis added, "shall we say 2 weeks?"

Cloud smiled. "that would be enough."

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END.



sorry for the short chapter. It's our finals and we've got a ton of
projects so I have't had the proper schedule of time for my works.
Soooo Sorry!!!

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