Chapter 1 "Dreams of Reality "
A thick fog hung in the air & a chilly wind blew through the broken
stained glass windows of the old castle church. The light of the pale full
moon seeped into the dim church & shown down onto Rinoa. Dark clouds were
slowly covering the full pale moon that hung high into the night sky. A
hard breeze blew through the stained glass, making the flames of the
candles flicker. As Rinoa lay on one of the benches asleep, she felt a
chilly breeze flow past her.
She suddenly awoke with confusion & terror upon her face. "Where am I?"
she whispered quietly. She got up from the church bench, felling cold &
stiff. The moon was now covered by the clouds, which gave an eerie look
upon the church. As she looked around, she found a large cross, large
enough to hang someone on it.
She suddenly saw something hanging on it, but light was to dim to tell
what it was. She slowly walked towards the cross, as she tried to make out
what the object. With each step she took, she could make out more & more
of it. She finally came within a few feet of the cross, when the moon
reappeared. Rinoa gasped in horror as she saw what the object that hung on
the cross was.
The object was the body of Squall hanging limply across, with a dagger
stabbed into his heart. The blood on it & Squall's black jacket was still
fresh. "Oh my God!! Squall no!" she uttered as tears slowly ran down her
pale cheeks. She stepped back, in horror & pain. "How did this happen?
When did it happen? How did it happen?" thought Rinoa as she fell to the
ground in shock.
"Well, I see you found you friend," said a woman's voice from behind
cross. "Who are you?! Did you do this?!" cried Rinoa with fury in her
voice. "No, but I know who did." said the voice again. "That voice, it
sounds so familiar." whispered Rinoa. "Show yourself!" ordered Rinoa.
Slowly, a figure appeared. "No! It can't be you! Ultimacia is dead!"
exclaimed Rinoa as she backed up into a bench. "You looked surprised to see
me again. Why? Is it because you thought I was gone for good?" said the
sorceress. "But you were killed by Squall's Lionheart attack!" Rinoa
cried out. "Fool, my body can be destroyed, but my soul can't." mocked
Ultimacia.
"You want to know who did this or not?" asked Ultimacia as she came
towards Rinoa. "Yes." said Rinoa with a hint of fear in her voice. "Well
then, I'll tell you." answered Ultimacia as she bent down in front of
Rinoa. "It was you." whispered the smiling sorceress.
"No!" cried the frightened girl, her eyes wide with fear. "Yes it was
you. You did this to him, out of hate & betrayal. Out of confusion. But
most of all, out of fear." mocked Ultimacia. "This can't be real! This
must be a dream!" Rinoa cried to the sorceress. "No, this isn't a dream.
It is a premonition of the future, of what will come. You can't stop it.
You can't stop what will happen to you & the ones you love!" laughed
Ultimacia as she pointed towards her left. Suddenly she & Rinoa were in a
large courtyard, & as Rinoa looked to her left, she saw thousands of stone
statues.
"Do you recognize them?" asked Ultimacia as she smiled happily. Rinoa
looked hard at one of the statues. It was a woman holding a long whip &
cowering in fear. "Oh my God! Quistis!" uttered Rinoa as she got up.
"That's right. And there is your father. And Selphie, Irvine, Zell,
Laguna, Kiros, Ward, & many other Seeds. They were all changed to statues,
by you!" said Ultimacia as she stood next to the horrified Rinoa.
"No!!!" cried Rinoa. "Rinoa! Wake up! You were having a nightmare," said
Squall as he held her in his arms. Rinoa look around, dazed & scared. She
saw that she was back in her room, in her bed & night gowned. "Oh Squall,
it was horrible!" she cried as she laid her head upon Squall's chest.
