Seifer and Aadeane
Utimecia looked around the crowded hall nervously, clutching Cid's hand tightly as they sat in the pews. She saw her
mother and father as they stood taking their vows, both beaming with joy.
"I can't believe your parents are getting married!" Cid whispered in her ear, gripping her hand tightly.
"Yeah! You would have thought it wouldn't matter to them anymore…"
"Well, you're never to old to show an expression of love…" he sighed, glancing at Seifer and Aadeane
holding hands. "Maybe when you love each other that much time stands still…"
Selphie leaned in between them and hushed them harshly. Ultie giggled and turned her attention back to the momentous
event…
Aadeane looked down at the bloodstained white ribbon that wrapped round their hands. They were united in blood now,
as the Right of Hyne dictated was proper in marriage. She could hear the voice of her mother in her head, just as it was
those thirty-eight years ago… "His name is Seifer, my sweet. He is a knight of true valour, the saviour of the Raven
Feather… he looks like an angel, has the strength of a Dragon and the courage of a true man…"
You were right, mother. she thought to herself. And today she would marry him.
Seifer too remembered. He thought of the pain he felt when Rinoa chose Squall over him, how he never felt love like that
would ever come to him again. He remembered how, after his defeat, he thought he ad no place left in the world. He realised
now he had been wrong about everything. Rinoa was the wrong sorceress for him, and that summer was just fun, and he did
have a place. In the arms of the Raven Feather, his dearest Aidy…
The rest of the event flew by. Before Cid and Ultie knew it, they were following the procession out to the pavilion
outside. Cid smiled at Ultie. She looked so beautiful…
He kissed her softly and led her away from the crowds. "Do you think our love will be like that?"
She smiled back at him. "I think so. I will never stop loving you. I know that."
She frowned at what she had just said. Was she overreacting? Would he be scared of by a-
"I will never stop loving you, either."
She kissed him strongly, sure that nothing in life could go wrong.
Ultimecia looked around the crowded hall, her head swarming with the tears being shed all around her. She
was numb from shock; was this her fault? Had she lost her beloved sister through her own selfish desires?
She wanted to deny it, but she knew she couldn't. Yuna was dead, and it was her fault… tears started to run
down her cheeks as she looked at her love. He looked back at her, his face resembling a little boy who had
disobeyed his parents.
"It is done and cannot be changed Ultimecia… it is not your fault…"
How can you say that? It is most definitely my fault… if only I-
"-You did not kill her, child. If you are to blame anyone blame Seifer Almasy-"
That name. It sounds…
"-Familiar? It should be, my child. He left me to die. He is dangerous to sorceresses. You must go back one
day and change him…"
The history… the battles against Edea…. But he sided with her?
"He thought he did, my child. Yet in doing so he apposed your mother, the sorceress in the right. You must
teach him…"
She noticed a rugged man enter the hall and kiss the coffin that held her sister. He was old; maybe the same
age as her father… she looked closer… the same scar.
Seifer…
Squall approached him… something familiar…
"Hello, Squall."
"Who are you?"
"You do not remember? The power of the GF runs through you still…"
"I remember something… I don't know what…"
"I will take my leave now. Be on your guard, president Leonheart-Loire…"
He left the hall. Mecia followed him out still staring. Your fault… all of it… her death, my mother…
Mother… she had said it. Was she starting to believe it? She could not think of that now… all she could think
of was him…
She followed him through the darkened streets of Deling… through the crowded shopping mall, past the
canal… where they found her body, you monster… down past the gateway…
Finally he turned to look behind him. "Who…Who's there?"
She hid herself in the shadows… "You wouldst kill my sister…
Who's voice was that? It came from her, yet it wasn't…
"You wouldst damn my mother to solitude?"
It was her.
"You shall pay for this, mortal!"
No… what are you going to do…?
Mecia could feel the power surging through her. A gift… a curse? It concentrated in her hands as she
reached for the terrified man, stepping out of the shadows.
"Ultimecia? But you're not a Sorceress yet… unless…"
The realisation soon dawned on him. "A… Aadeane?"
"Silence!" the voice boomed, startling both the man and Mecia… it sounded sad… "You will pay for what you
have done!"
No! Mecia screamed, but no one could hear her.
"I always loved you, Aadeane."
Ultimecia felt the power in her hands fade. "You… You cannot tell me this now!!! The damage is done!"
The power surged once more, and her hand was raised towards the man. "You have damned our daughter,
Sir Knight. You shall pay!"
Damned their daughter…
Mecia's train of thought was interrupted by the screams of the man in front of her. A silence spell was cast
hastily so as not to attract attention… but Ultimecia could still hear his screams reverberating inside her
head. Then, with one foul swoop his body was torn in half and the screaming stopped.
Mecia collapsed to the floor as Aadeane left her body… she could feel the warmth of his blood on her
hands… the blood of the man who was her father?
She collapsed into his warmth. She would never know.