disclaimer: though I would love to, Gatekeepers, Final Fantasy or
CCS don't belong to me, but to their respective owners. This author
is merely borrowing don't sue me!! ;_;
note: to all the reviewers, a gazillion thanks!!
**Well, I've decided to go back to the narrating mode since I'm not doing so well
with the POV stuff (means lesser lines! ^^) so here we go again...
legend:
"...." their words (you should know this by now)
thoughts (though it won't be much use now)
*....* specific action while speaking
=== another place, dimension, time, group of people...etc.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
A MAGICIAN'S CURSE
by Rhys Icewind
~Chapter 7~
Saehri and another woman with long dark hair and matching black eyes faced off.
"you look just like your wicked mother, Wu" Saehri said.
Wu looked at her. "hmm....how observant."
Suddenly, they were on the move. Finely honed arm muscles weaved in and out of
intricate spells sending a blast that would send a normal person flying off or
simply disintegrated on the spot.
"not bad for simple card mistress" Wu mocked.
Saehri looked at her with a smile. "do not forget that this simple card mistress
is also the one who created them."
Wu faked a smile and went into weaving her next spell. On the other hand, Saehri
decided that if she could, she would end it now.
"death card....show your power..." Saehri raised her hands up high, palms facing
the skyless void. "show the mistress of the moon thy spell..." and a card, similar
to those of her twin's but colored a very dark blues and silvers, excep for an image
of a hodded man whose bone fingers held on to a scythe, appeared floating inbetween
her hands, twirling, releasing slivery-white ribbons that brought destruction in
their path.
For the first time in her life, Wu felt panic nipping at her, her fingers were cold
at the tips, frozen in the middle of a spell.
"Zell?" came the voice of a familiar person.
Wu smiled wickedly as she saw Saehri's face, surprised that the card mistress was
able to sense them here.
An opening.
She didn't waste any time in trying to cast a spell. And suddenly, a black ball appeared
before Saehri. And the balck ball exploded before her, sending her staggering back,
and also making the card disappear.
Sakura felt the aura of a very powerful clow card near her. she
asked. She then saw a very faint image of Zell floating in the middle of the room,
unconscious. "Zell!!"
Saehri scolded herself silently for letting her guard down so easily. But she wouldn't
let Wu get away with that. With a flick of a wrist, a card appeared in her right hand.
She threw it high up into the air. The card was the normal color of a Clow Card, hues
of browns and golds.
"the Flame"
Sakura felt it again, the strong power of a Clow Card but where was it?.
"brutalize" and with another flick of her wrist, the card glowed blue and the bright
colors became a dark mixture of very dark blues and silvers except for the image of
a flamming phoenix, which stayed an ivory color. "show the mistress of the moon thy
spell..." she whispered again, releasing a large bird of bright scarlet and yellow
into flight. Wu thought that her new powers were enough to ward off the beast, but
it was too late when she found out that she could not. The bird's flamming wings
sent a boiling draft toward her and it burnt some of her clothes and burned the
skin on her left arm.
Badly injured, Wu disapparated into the abyss.
Saehri smiled in victory. She then unspelled the area and left herself.
Sakura felt the power fade away and with that, a black screen seemed to have lifted
before her as she saw Zell's minorly-wounded body floating in midair. She was about
to get closer when she felt how hot the floor was.
"I wonder what happened here?" she asked herself. She then released the fly card,
flew to Zell and pulled him to safety.
===
Ruriko and Shun searched along with the others to find no sign of Zell anywhere.
Then they all met up by the directory.
Squall, being the commander, asked first. "Ruriko, did you find anything?"
Ruriko shook her head.
He looked at Shun only to get the same answer. Squall then looked at the bunch of
SeeDs just to get the same thing: nothing.
"what do we do now? we don't know where he is?" Selphie asked.
Ruriko then tapped Squall's shoulder. "what is it?"
"can we go to the Basement? I have a feeling that Sakura, whom I noticed isn't
here yet, is there with or without Zell." she said.
"how can Sakura be there? she can't get there without the key, which is with me."
Squall argued.
"Sakura's a Card Mistress, she can do that or much anything else without keys."
Shun said.
Qustis looked at him in question. "Card Mistress? what's that?"
Shun looked at Ruriko for help but help came from another source.
"Wait a second! Isn't it that Zell told us that they are not from this planet?"
Rinoa asked the group.
Everybody nodded.
Rinoa relaxed her tensed position, "well, if that is so, then, we should just
question them later and save Zell, in whatever trouble he may be, now?"
"I second the motion." Irvine replied.
So, in his own silent reply, Squall went over to the elevator and inserted the
key that opened the latch that covered the buttons heading for the basement.
Everybody got in, hoping that Zell was safe.
===
"darn that Saehri! she will pay for this!" Wu said in anger.
She held her bandaged arm and cradled it in the other. She was going to pay...
very badly.
"I'll make sure that her worst nightmares will come true..." she simled wickedly.
===
Saehri went back into her dorm and rested on her bed. It had been a long day.
But deep inside her, there was a feeling of contentment, a feeling that told
her that she had not been wrong when she cursed herself that lonely night...
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, that's that. I hope you liked it. See ya in the next chapter.
Jaa ne!
CCS don't belong to me, but to their respective owners. This author
is merely borrowing don't sue me!! ;_;
note: to all the reviewers, a gazillion thanks!!
**Well, I've decided to go back to the narrating mode since I'm not doing so well
with the POV stuff (means lesser lines! ^^) so here we go again...
legend:
"...." their words (you should know this by now)
thoughts (though it won't be much use now)
*....* specific action while speaking
=== another place, dimension, time, group of people...etc.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
A MAGICIAN'S CURSE
by Rhys Icewind
~Chapter 7~
Saehri and another woman with long dark hair and matching black eyes faced off.
"you look just like your wicked mother, Wu" Saehri said.
Wu looked at her. "hmm....how observant."
Suddenly, they were on the move. Finely honed arm muscles weaved in and out of
intricate spells sending a blast that would send a normal person flying off or
simply disintegrated on the spot.
"not bad for simple card mistress" Wu mocked.
Saehri looked at her with a smile. "do not forget that this simple card mistress
is also the one who created them."
Wu faked a smile and went into weaving her next spell. On the other hand, Saehri
decided that if she could, she would end it now.
"death card....show your power..." Saehri raised her hands up high, palms facing
the skyless void. "show the mistress of the moon thy spell..." and a card, similar
to those of her twin's but colored a very dark blues and silvers, excep for an image
of a hodded man whose bone fingers held on to a scythe, appeared floating inbetween
her hands, twirling, releasing slivery-white ribbons that brought destruction in
their path.
For the first time in her life, Wu felt panic nipping at her, her fingers were cold
at the tips, frozen in the middle of a spell.
"Zell?" came the voice of a familiar person.
Wu smiled wickedly as she saw Saehri's face, surprised that the card mistress was
able to sense them here.
An opening.
She didn't waste any time in trying to cast a spell. And suddenly, a black ball appeared
before Saehri. And the balck ball exploded before her, sending her staggering back,
and also making the card disappear.
Sakura felt the aura of a very powerful clow card near her. she
asked. She then saw a very faint image of Zell floating in the middle of the room,
unconscious. "Zell!!"
Saehri scolded herself silently for letting her guard down so easily. But she wouldn't
let Wu get away with that. With a flick of a wrist, a card appeared in her right hand.
She threw it high up into the air. The card was the normal color of a Clow Card, hues
of browns and golds.
"the Flame"
Sakura felt it again, the strong power of a Clow Card but where was it?.
"brutalize" and with another flick of her wrist, the card glowed blue and the bright
colors became a dark mixture of very dark blues and silvers except for the image of
a flamming phoenix, which stayed an ivory color. "show the mistress of the moon thy
spell..." she whispered again, releasing a large bird of bright scarlet and yellow
into flight. Wu thought that her new powers were enough to ward off the beast, but
it was too late when she found out that she could not. The bird's flamming wings
sent a boiling draft toward her and it burnt some of her clothes and burned the
skin on her left arm.
Badly injured, Wu disapparated into the abyss.
Saehri smiled in victory. She then unspelled the area and left herself.
Sakura felt the power fade away and with that, a black screen seemed to have lifted
before her as she saw Zell's minorly-wounded body floating in midair. She was about
to get closer when she felt how hot the floor was.
"I wonder what happened here?" she asked herself. She then released the fly card,
flew to Zell and pulled him to safety.
===
Ruriko and Shun searched along with the others to find no sign of Zell anywhere.
Then they all met up by the directory.
Squall, being the commander, asked first. "Ruriko, did you find anything?"
Ruriko shook her head.
He looked at Shun only to get the same answer. Squall then looked at the bunch of
SeeDs just to get the same thing: nothing.
"what do we do now? we don't know where he is?" Selphie asked.
Ruriko then tapped Squall's shoulder. "what is it?"
"can we go to the Basement? I have a feeling that Sakura, whom I noticed isn't
here yet, is there with or without Zell." she said.
"how can Sakura be there? she can't get there without the key, which is with me."
Squall argued.
"Sakura's a Card Mistress, she can do that or much anything else without keys."
Shun said.
Qustis looked at him in question. "Card Mistress? what's that?"
Shun looked at Ruriko for help but help came from another source.
"Wait a second! Isn't it that Zell told us that they are not from this planet?"
Rinoa asked the group.
Everybody nodded.
Rinoa relaxed her tensed position, "well, if that is so, then, we should just
question them later and save Zell, in whatever trouble he may be, now?"
"I second the motion." Irvine replied.
So, in his own silent reply, Squall went over to the elevator and inserted the
key that opened the latch that covered the buttons heading for the basement.
Everybody got in, hoping that Zell was safe.
===
"darn that Saehri! she will pay for this!" Wu said in anger.
She held her bandaged arm and cradled it in the other. She was going to pay...
very badly.
"I'll make sure that her worst nightmares will come true..." she simled wickedly.
===
Saehri went back into her dorm and rested on her bed. It had been a long day.
But deep inside her, there was a feeling of contentment, a feeling that told
her that she had not been wrong when she cursed herself that lonely night...
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, that's that. I hope you liked it. See ya in the next chapter.
Jaa ne!
