Chapter 5 – Revenge on my mind…and maybe something else?
A/N: Oopsss… now then I realise that I hadn't put up a disclaimer for all of four previous chapters. But you smart guys must know that I don't own FF8 at all… right? If I did… I'd be writing all of this into a game, not as a fic!!! And earn millions of royalties and revenue from it wahahaha. Sigh… simple folks like me can only dream on……
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I peered with anxious concern at SA's face. Even if I had always disagreed with him, and treated him with rude disregard, he was still my closest friend (Zell doesn't count). In fact, he was the brother I never had. No surprise, considering that we had grown up together since we first stepped into Angel Land.
He groaned painfully, and opened a reluctant eye.
"Well, that's a fine sight to wake up to." He grinned at me, even though he mustn't have been feeling too well.
I tried to grin at him too, only to find a wave of tears threatening to engulf me.
"What's wrong? So vexed to see me recover?" He teased me after realising that my eyes had turned kind of red.
"I… I'm sorry." I mumbled, my head kept at a very low position.
"For what?" He asked in confusion. He really was too sweet… anyone else would have remembered it.
"For distracting you with my unacceptable behaviour and indirectly causing you to be injured severely; for causing you to lose your Master to that evil Sorceress; and for ignoring you all those times. I didn't mean for this to happen!" I took his hand and held it in both my hands. "I just hate myself for causing it!"
"It isn't your fault, really." He smiled at me again. His smile, as always, was so warm and kindly. I could almost love him for it.
"Ultimecia was too powerful. I could not have defeated her even with my full power mode on." He stroked my hair reassuringly.
"I swear… if I see her again… I will exact a rightful revenge on her!" I declared, my eyes ablaze with rage. How dare she!
"NO!" He shouted suddenly, giving me the fright of my life. "You stay away from her! She's too powerful, maybe even for the Great Lord!"
"B…but!" My stubbornness started to creep up on me. However, when SA was determined, no one could ever defy him. His stern gaze made me promise him that I would wipe out the thought of revenge from my mind, completely and absolutely.
But I've been known to break my promises to him many times. And this time was probably no exception.
If she manipulates Seifer this time… there's no telling that she won't do it to my Master the next. I must haunt her down before she makes a move on him! Despicable hag… creeping up on SA like that. I'll make her scream for mercy if it's the last thing I do!
Sigh… the dangers of underestimating a despicable hag… I had never learnt until then.
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Author's Notes: We---ll, as you might have noticed, the past two chapters have been really short. That's because I really didn't know how to break them up into chapters, since I had written one whole big chunk of story when this first came out of my creative processes (gag…. what creative processes?). This isn't the worst one… the worst one is the seq… oops. *Zips mouth*