Title: Stranger Thingsā¦
Author: Collaboration fic between Kasa no Miko and FalconIce
Disclaimer: Final Fantasy 8 is not ours and will never be and if you sue us, you won't get anything but cute and cuddly dust bunniesā¦^.^v
Warnings: An oddball sense of humor and plot holes! Spot them and win a prize!!! * sweatdrop*
Pairings: OCxOC and OCxOC
Rating: PG-13 For the violence and the implications, I guess?
Note: It's our first collaboration so it's a bit weird and we had fun with self inserts no da!
Archive: http://www.geocities.com/twilight_wings and http://www.geocities.com/shards_of_dewprism
Feedback: Is our livelihood, our food and our God! REVIEWS!!!!
Chapter V- All That's Happened by FalconIce
They arrived at Balamb Train Station and Zell walked towards the cashier that sold the tickets. He asked for four first class train tickets and was given the usual first class accommodations for the SeeDs here in Balamb. He then motioned the others to follow. They looked up to him with tired and down faces except for Koorime who's head was still bent low with brooding. He was starting to get worried at his new students since it was their first real time experience at a situation and now everything was turning way too complicated for first timers.
He hopped in the train and placed the key card on the slot. The door slid open with a low whine and parted to reveal the compartment housing their room for the all night trip to Timber. Zell sighed, even the huge plush couch in the middle of the room didn't cheer him up. His head spun around suddenly at the sound of Koorime dropping with exhaustion in the couch beside him. He looked startled to see her face pinched in pain. He touched her forehead and it was burning so hot that he had to withdraw his hand. He felt helpless at the situation and he noticed that his hand shook.
Zell felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned around to see Trinken looking at him worriedly. He motioned to the burning up Koorime on the couch and Trinken lightly traced her hands on her friend's forehead and nodded before sitting on the couch beside him.
"Won't you do anything?" Zell asked the calmly sitting Trinken.
"You really want to know what is wrong with her?" she asked, eyeing Zell with narrowed eyes, "you won't like the answer very much..."
"Of course I do! I'm responsible for the safety of my students!" he spoke, determined to persuade Trinken to tell him what's wrong with Koorime since it broke his heart to see her face bleed pain like that.
"Well...let's see...it started three years ago..."
Trinken was in this world for only a couple of months and she had already been able to get a decent job by delivering people's stuff. She wasn't very good at it since her Kasa kept teleporting her to weird places but when it did work it was very efficient and her employer understood this very well.
Today, she was off to mail some very important documents to Esthar from the new research center somewhere in the south. She tried going by Kasa and it always seemed to transport her to this weird tower somewhere in the Centra continent, she quit after she tried it and landed in a huge puddle of stagnant and insect-filled water. So now, she was using the bridge to get to Esthar. It would take her half the afternoon but at least she would be able to do her job and be paid then she could buy herself some hotdogs to eat.
She was skipping happily singing a No Da song when she tripped on something, just right when she was a few feet from the Esthar boundary. She sighed and lifted herself off the ground and carefully arranged her messed up robes. She looked down at what she tripped on and almost sat down heavily again.
It was a young girl...maybe older by one year. She had short golden-brown hair and a very pale complexion and by the look of it, she was beaten up pretty badly. Trinken took off her Kasa and rummaged around for a bottle of ointment. She noticed that the girl kept mumbling something about experiment and it hurts...curious Trinken decided to use her inborn magical talent to read people's memories. She slowly got some of the ointment she just found and ribbed her hands with them and started to massage the girl's temples with her warm hands and then closed her eyes.
She could see that she was in the body of someone very young who was currently romping on a mud puddle. Trinken smiled despite herself and she noticed then that the girl was raising her eyes to someone who was calling her but then, the memory faded. It was replaced by a memory that flashed by quickly but no matter how fast it passed by, Trinken could feel her body tremble at the pain of whatever the girl experienced there. She could hear the girl's physical and mental shudder as the memory passed by.
Trinken searched the girl's mind more and found a nice quiet memory tucked in between all the painful ones. The girl who she found out was Koorime was sitting in a beautiful room decorated with blue to match her Mako infused blue eyes. She was swinging her legs waiting for somebody to come. That somebody, Trinken thought, must be very kind to her since she was anticipating this visit so much after all the long days of torture she had to endure.
Trinken was just about to see the door open but the memory faded back into endless pain. Before that happened though, Trinken could hear the faint voice of a young boy who said to the happily waiting Koorime... "Koorime...I'm here...and I'll always be here whenever you need me...forever...".
Trinken felt a tear roll down her cheek but was soon cut off as a memory of the girl's escape flashed vividly through her mind. Koorime was running but her feet kept being tangled up and mostly she tripped. Her memory was very blurred and Trinken couldn't focus enough as the memory flashed faster through the scene.
Koorime was being supported by the boy again but this time he was older, about 13. Trinken couldn't see his face because Koorime was looking down and her eyes were just staring as if her mind wasn't there at all. Trinken could hear the boy whisper to Koorime's unhearing ear every few minutes or when they stumbled, and what he said almost broke her heart.
"Hang on 'Rime! We're gonna get out of this...you and me together forever just as we promised!" his voice choked as gunfire could be heard. "Damn! They're getting nearer."
He lowered Koorime on the ground and let her face him. Trinken could see that his eyes were watering as he softly bent down to kiss Koorime on the lips and started running to draw off the people who were chasing them.
Before he completely disappeared though he uttered his farewell to his beloved, "Koorime! I'll be back, I promise and we WILL live together forever! I just gotta take care of this first..." Trinken knew that, that was the last time Koorime ever saw of the guy.
Trinken wiped her tears with her hanky but cursed herself for not focusing more carefully...she still wasn't able to clearly see the guy but his eyes were all that she could remember. Trinken looked down at the girl who was moaning in obvious pain. She quickly scooped her up with her hands and collapsed like a house of cards when the full weight of the girl hit her like a ton of bricks. She was so busy with her conflicting emotions that she entirely failed to notice a huge sword, roughly twice her height, strapped to the girl's back.
She laid Koorime on the ground and sat down to think of ideas then she remembered the teleportation spell her old teacher taught her. Trinken started chanting the musical tones of the ancient spell.
Twin lights appeared in he ground as two dragons surged high into the air. One was blue and the other red. Both dragons descended to Trinken and Koorime, wrapping them in draconic hugs and with a flash, both girls were gone.
"So that's the story?" Zell asked. His throat was weirdly dry and his stomach felt like it was placed in a washing machine.
"Pretty much...I got some more of her memories later but I could barely understand them and now...her memories are totally gone except for a few snatches of pain or a few brief moments of happiness." Trinken contemplated.
"Do you think that Guy we saw back in Balamb's the one who loves Koorime?" Zell asked, everything falling together perfectly.
"I knew I heard that voice from somewhere...now as you said that, everything just kinda falls together doesn't it?" Trinken smiles sadly.
"Should we tell her?" Zell asked, concerned.
"No...Took her long enough to forget...if we remind her again... I wouldn't know what would happen to her mind."
"You're probably right...okay...let's just see what happens then... go get some sleep, you look tired Trinken." She smiled wearily at him before going to the lower bed bunk and promptly falling asleep.
"You too Instructor...(yawn)...D..." she mumbled a she drifted off.
Zell looked at Koorime and then to Trinka. These girls were more mature than they seemed and he smiled as he lay down next to the couch of the slumbering Koorime, he scanned the room once more before noticing that something was missing...
Where was Irvine?
Author: Collaboration fic between Kasa no Miko and FalconIce
Disclaimer: Final Fantasy 8 is not ours and will never be and if you sue us, you won't get anything but cute and cuddly dust bunniesā¦^.^v
Warnings: An oddball sense of humor and plot holes! Spot them and win a prize!!! * sweatdrop*
Pairings: OCxOC and OCxOC
Rating: PG-13 For the violence and the implications, I guess?
Note: It's our first collaboration so it's a bit weird and we had fun with self inserts no da!
Archive: http://www.geocities.com/twilight_wings and http://www.geocities.com/shards_of_dewprism
Feedback: Is our livelihood, our food and our God! REVIEWS!!!!
Chapter V- All That's Happened by FalconIce
They arrived at Balamb Train Station and Zell walked towards the cashier that sold the tickets. He asked for four first class train tickets and was given the usual first class accommodations for the SeeDs here in Balamb. He then motioned the others to follow. They looked up to him with tired and down faces except for Koorime who's head was still bent low with brooding. He was starting to get worried at his new students since it was their first real time experience at a situation and now everything was turning way too complicated for first timers.
He hopped in the train and placed the key card on the slot. The door slid open with a low whine and parted to reveal the compartment housing their room for the all night trip to Timber. Zell sighed, even the huge plush couch in the middle of the room didn't cheer him up. His head spun around suddenly at the sound of Koorime dropping with exhaustion in the couch beside him. He looked startled to see her face pinched in pain. He touched her forehead and it was burning so hot that he had to withdraw his hand. He felt helpless at the situation and he noticed that his hand shook.
Zell felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned around to see Trinken looking at him worriedly. He motioned to the burning up Koorime on the couch and Trinken lightly traced her hands on her friend's forehead and nodded before sitting on the couch beside him.
"Won't you do anything?" Zell asked the calmly sitting Trinken.
"You really want to know what is wrong with her?" she asked, eyeing Zell with narrowed eyes, "you won't like the answer very much..."
"Of course I do! I'm responsible for the safety of my students!" he spoke, determined to persuade Trinken to tell him what's wrong with Koorime since it broke his heart to see her face bleed pain like that.
"Well...let's see...it started three years ago..."
Trinken was in this world for only a couple of months and she had already been able to get a decent job by delivering people's stuff. She wasn't very good at it since her Kasa kept teleporting her to weird places but when it did work it was very efficient and her employer understood this very well.
Today, she was off to mail some very important documents to Esthar from the new research center somewhere in the south. She tried going by Kasa and it always seemed to transport her to this weird tower somewhere in the Centra continent, she quit after she tried it and landed in a huge puddle of stagnant and insect-filled water. So now, she was using the bridge to get to Esthar. It would take her half the afternoon but at least she would be able to do her job and be paid then she could buy herself some hotdogs to eat.
She was skipping happily singing a No Da song when she tripped on something, just right when she was a few feet from the Esthar boundary. She sighed and lifted herself off the ground and carefully arranged her messed up robes. She looked down at what she tripped on and almost sat down heavily again.
It was a young girl...maybe older by one year. She had short golden-brown hair and a very pale complexion and by the look of it, she was beaten up pretty badly. Trinken took off her Kasa and rummaged around for a bottle of ointment. She noticed that the girl kept mumbling something about experiment and it hurts...curious Trinken decided to use her inborn magical talent to read people's memories. She slowly got some of the ointment she just found and ribbed her hands with them and started to massage the girl's temples with her warm hands and then closed her eyes.
She could see that she was in the body of someone very young who was currently romping on a mud puddle. Trinken smiled despite herself and she noticed then that the girl was raising her eyes to someone who was calling her but then, the memory faded. It was replaced by a memory that flashed by quickly but no matter how fast it passed by, Trinken could feel her body tremble at the pain of whatever the girl experienced there. She could hear the girl's physical and mental shudder as the memory passed by.
Trinken searched the girl's mind more and found a nice quiet memory tucked in between all the painful ones. The girl who she found out was Koorime was sitting in a beautiful room decorated with blue to match her Mako infused blue eyes. She was swinging her legs waiting for somebody to come. That somebody, Trinken thought, must be very kind to her since she was anticipating this visit so much after all the long days of torture she had to endure.
Trinken was just about to see the door open but the memory faded back into endless pain. Before that happened though, Trinken could hear the faint voice of a young boy who said to the happily waiting Koorime... "Koorime...I'm here...and I'll always be here whenever you need me...forever...".
Trinken felt a tear roll down her cheek but was soon cut off as a memory of the girl's escape flashed vividly through her mind. Koorime was running but her feet kept being tangled up and mostly she tripped. Her memory was very blurred and Trinken couldn't focus enough as the memory flashed faster through the scene.
Koorime was being supported by the boy again but this time he was older, about 13. Trinken couldn't see his face because Koorime was looking down and her eyes were just staring as if her mind wasn't there at all. Trinken could hear the boy whisper to Koorime's unhearing ear every few minutes or when they stumbled, and what he said almost broke her heart.
"Hang on 'Rime! We're gonna get out of this...you and me together forever just as we promised!" his voice choked as gunfire could be heard. "Damn! They're getting nearer."
He lowered Koorime on the ground and let her face him. Trinken could see that his eyes were watering as he softly bent down to kiss Koorime on the lips and started running to draw off the people who were chasing them.
Before he completely disappeared though he uttered his farewell to his beloved, "Koorime! I'll be back, I promise and we WILL live together forever! I just gotta take care of this first..." Trinken knew that, that was the last time Koorime ever saw of the guy.
Trinken wiped her tears with her hanky but cursed herself for not focusing more carefully...she still wasn't able to clearly see the guy but his eyes were all that she could remember. Trinken looked down at the girl who was moaning in obvious pain. She quickly scooped her up with her hands and collapsed like a house of cards when the full weight of the girl hit her like a ton of bricks. She was so busy with her conflicting emotions that she entirely failed to notice a huge sword, roughly twice her height, strapped to the girl's back.
She laid Koorime on the ground and sat down to think of ideas then she remembered the teleportation spell her old teacher taught her. Trinken started chanting the musical tones of the ancient spell.
Twin lights appeared in he ground as two dragons surged high into the air. One was blue and the other red. Both dragons descended to Trinken and Koorime, wrapping them in draconic hugs and with a flash, both girls were gone.
"So that's the story?" Zell asked. His throat was weirdly dry and his stomach felt like it was placed in a washing machine.
"Pretty much...I got some more of her memories later but I could barely understand them and now...her memories are totally gone except for a few snatches of pain or a few brief moments of happiness." Trinken contemplated.
"Do you think that Guy we saw back in Balamb's the one who loves Koorime?" Zell asked, everything falling together perfectly.
"I knew I heard that voice from somewhere...now as you said that, everything just kinda falls together doesn't it?" Trinken smiles sadly.
"Should we tell her?" Zell asked, concerned.
"No...Took her long enough to forget...if we remind her again... I wouldn't know what would happen to her mind."
"You're probably right...okay...let's just see what happens then... go get some sleep, you look tired Trinken." She smiled wearily at him before going to the lower bed bunk and promptly falling asleep.
"You too Instructor...(yawn)...D..." she mumbled a she drifted off.
Zell looked at Koorime and then to Trinka. These girls were more mature than they seemed and he smiled as he lay down next to the couch of the slumbering Koorime, he scanned the room once more before noticing that something was missing...
Where was Irvine?
