Disclaimer: I do not, repeat, do not own Final Fantasy 8 or any of the lovable characters on it. If I did, I would be out in the streets rejoicing instead of writing fanfics about it. (And I would get rid of Quistis and put in my own character ^_^oO)
Author's note: ok, for the past three chapters, we have had the authors write it in a first person perspective. Now, it will randomize as it goes along. I will mention in the beginning who is the lucky scapegoat… err… I mean author, of the section. We, um, had some disagreements about this, so the author for Luna will not be writing. But, my co-writer, Chloe, and I will still be writing. We will put up who the author is at the beginning, so sorry for the wait and inconvenience and enjoy!
Chapter 4
Vamp Queen
Third Person Perspective
Weapons, duels, and guys… and the problems with them.
While Luna was having her meeting with Selphie, Terra and Raven had a few encounters of their own.
Terra walked down the hallway with Squall, trying desperately to get him to talk.
"So, are you training later today?"
Silence.
"Well, I doubt that you need it, you're so good!" she said, mentally yelling at herself. 'Nice, Terra! Flirt with him. That's the way you win Irvine over, not Squall!'
More silence.
Well, at least he hadn't left her standing outside the headmaster's office. Raven was the one who knew her way around, not her. She was about to say something else but Squall finally spoke up.
"We're here." He said, stopping in front of a door.
"Oh…" was all that she was able to say. Squall opened the door and motioned for her to walk inside where Quistis was sitting on an overstuffed chair waiting for them.
"Hello," Quistis greeted them, getting up from her seat and walking over to them. "You must be Terra Briar. I'm Quistis Trepe."
Terra smiled. She liked Quistis already. "Thanks for letting me stay. I hope it won't be a bother."
"No, I'm fine. I just hope you won't mind Squall coming over at night. He sometimes spends the night." Quistis winked at Squall. "Right, Squall?"
"That's only because you're helping me with the extra work from being commander. Jesus, Quistis, you have everyone thinking that we're sleeping together." Squall pushed himself away from the wall that he was leaning on with his foot. "Oh, and Terra, you need to go to the equipment room by the training center at 1700 hours to get a weapon." Squall turned and started to walk out, but stopped at the doorway. "By the way, thank you for the compliment," he said over his shoulder and walked out.
Terra sighed and turned to Quistis. "Is he always like this?"
"Yes," said Quistis. "Why, are you trying to get him to open up?" When Terra nodded, Quistis laughed and shook her head. "Then you have your work cut out for you."
Meanwhile….
Raven stalked down the halls in front of Seifer, confident of where she was going. 'After all,' she thought, 'I was able to hack into Squaresoft's computers and find the layout of the dorms when we went on that fieldtrip.'
"Ok, that's it. Slow down," ordered Seifer from not far behind her. Raven could tell that she was pushing her luck, so she brought herself to a complete stop, causing Seifer to run into her. Their heads collided and, from what we've seen, they're both pretty hard.
"Ow, you moron. Watch where you're going." Raven snapped, angry about everything that had happened, not necessarily him.
"Me? What do you think you're doing, stopping so suddenly? Or were you trying to give me a concussion? Shit, you seem to think you rule the world and I'm the dung you stepped in. What's your problem?" Seifer seemed pretty mad right then as he pushed her into the wall.
"Well, you haven't been an angel either. I expected a guy who knew how to act, who could get what he wanted, who knew how to keep a girl around for five minutes."
"And now?" Seifer said, hands by either side of her head. Any normal girl would have realized that at this point, Seifer was hitting on her, but no, she wasn't normal. She grew up in a sheltered environment, with her seven brothers. Big brothers who killed guys for looking at her the wrong way.
"You're an arrogant bastard who has no manners and is worse than the dung I stepped in."
Seifer laughed. "Then you don't know me well enough." Seifer started to lean closer to her. Just as his lips were about to touch her quivering ones, they heard a loud, boisterous voice.
"Hey, Seifer, is that her? Fuu's been worried, ya know? Took you guys a while, ya know?"
Seifer jerked away from Raven as she let out a relieved sigh.
"All right, Raijin, we're coming. We're coming." With that, he started to walk to the big black man. He was almost there when he noticed that she was not following. He looked back, only to find her still in the same place she was in during their little "discussion". He smiled, not his normal arrogant smile but a nice, gentle one, and beckoned for her to follow. With a reluctant sigh, she followed after him to Fujiin's door.
"Fuu!" Raijin bellowed once he was inside. "I found 'em, ya know?"
"FINE! LEAVE, NOW. GIRL, STAY!" is what they heard from the bathroom.
"Oh, geez, I forgot, ya know? Fuu-sama was in the shower when I left, ya know? She's probably out, ya know? Let's, ya know, go, Seifer." With his speech completed, Raijin left the room in order to avoid the wrath of Fuu.
Seifer groaned at the idiocy that he had just listened to. "You'll have to get used to that," Seifer said, looking over his shoulder. "The idiotic babbling, I mean.'
"Well, I'm planning on being around you, so I think that I will." Seifer smirked at that.
"Hey, that reminds me of what we were doing before we were so rudely interrupted." In one swift movement, he closed the distance between them and pressed his mouth against hers. She gasped, and that was all the invitation that he needed. Seifer's tongue snaked in and contended in a brief battle with hers. She was screaming in her head, 'No! Stop it! Pull away! He'll just use you.' But she found that all she could do was stand there and kiss him back. Suddenly, they heard a female voice pierced the, ahem, "passion".
"SEIFER! OUT! HITTING ON, BAD! LEAVE, NOW!"
Seifer jerked away from Raven and looked over to the origin of the voice. It took him a few seconds to comprehend it but after that his trademark smirk graced his face once again.
"Ok, Fuu, I'll leave. Just make sure that she gets to the weapons room in half an hour."
Raven grunted in an unladylike fashion. "I know where I'm going. And I'm a big girl. I can take care of myself. Don't talk to her like she's my caretaker, cuz she's not. In fact, get out. You're polluting her room with your foulness." She then proceeded to shove him out of the room; slamming and locking the door once he was out.
Raven sighed and leaned against the door. She felt eyes on her and snapped her head up. There Fujiin was in her normal ensemble. They stared at each other until Fujiin broke the silence.
"RAVEN?"
"Yeah."
"FUJIIN."
"Understood."
"HIM? JERK?"
"Think?"
"YEAH."
"Friends?"
Fujiin smiled. "AFFIRMATIVE"
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At exactly 5 o'clock, Raven walked into the weapons room to find Squall, Terra, Zell, Seifer, and Luna already there. Before he could say anything, Raven walked over in two steps and broke Seifer's pretty scarred nose. (J)
For a few seconds, no one said anything. Then, breaking the silence, Seifer said, "Ow," and collapsed. For about five more seconds no one else said anything. Then Terra opened up her mouth from where she had been flirting with Squall.
"See, Raven, that's why you never get a date." With the tension gone, everyone started laughing, save Squall, who just smiled slightly and Seifer, who's unconscious.
"Ok, Squall," Zell said, bending next to Seifer, "Let's take him to the med center. Let the girls pick out their own weapons. Help me!"
With Squall's help, Zell took Seifer's limp form to the med center. After the girls watched the three leave, Luna looked to Raven and said, "Ok, explain."
Raven sighed. "You two first. I'll pick out my weapon." With that, Raven started sifting through the pile of weapons before them.
Terra made a face. "I tried to get him to talk. I complimented, I flirted, I played the stupid girl." For a few seconds, she looked depressed, then brightened up. "At least he noticed that I gave him a compliment."
Luna smiled shyly. "Zell kissed me on the cheek," she said, turning towards the pile.
Terra hit Luna on the arm. "You suck!" she said. After Luna gave a mock bow, the two of them looked over at Raven. "So," Terra began, "What happened with Scarface over there?"
Raven made a face. "He French-kissed me."
"Wow! That's a lot better than anything I do. And you complain about me. So, did you enjoy?" Terra finally stopped as Raven snapped a long, black whip. "Do you know how to use that thing?"
"I think so. I picked it up and… I don't know. I just know that I can use it." With that, Raven snapped the whip and brought a bow and a quiver of arrows down to Terra's feet.
Terra picked the two items up and strung the bow. "Hey, cool. I've always wanted to use one of these." She sent an arrow whizzing over Luna's head, which hit with a thud next to something hanging on the wall. "Luna, can you get that?"
Luna shrugged. "Fine. If I must." She walked to the wall and pulled out the arrow. Then she stopped and took off the weapon hanging on a nail next to where the arrow had hit. "Cool. Found my weapon." She slipped on the gloves and took a few practice punches. "Perfect. Now, about what happened between you and Seifer."
Raven shrugged. "Nothing really. He was acting like a jerk, I refused to kiss him, and he shoved his slimy little tongue down my throat. That's it. So, anyone want to go train?"
Luna smiled and said, "Obviously, you just want to change the subject, but I'll go. Terra?" they both turned to their friend who shook her head.
"No, I don't think so. I'll just sit down and wait for them to get back." She then sat down. "Have fun," she called, but, upon looking up, she found that they were already gone.
Seifer groaned and sat up. Looking around, it took him a while to realize that he was in the med center, on one of the standardized, rock-hard beds, with Zell and Squall standing around him. His first question, however stupid, was an understandable one.
"What happened?" he asked, gingerly touching his sore nose.
Squall sighed. "What do you remember?" he asked, with obvious distaste for Seifer's memory, or lack thereof.
"Let's see," Seifer muttered, obviously trying to annoy Squall. Proof was shown that it worked when Squall hit Seifer upside the head. "Ow! Ok, ok, I'll talk. I remember waiting for Goth Girl while Chicken Wuss flirted with Moonie and The Brat tried to flirt with Puberty Boy. Then, Princess Cold Shoulder walks in and breaks my nose. Then I wake up here. Good enough for you, Commander?"
"…Whatever." Squall turned to the door. "If you feel up to it, Zell and I are going back to the training center and seeing how much trouble the girls have gotten into. You up for it, Blonde?"
"Oh, you think that with your newly acquired hormones, you got humor? That was really lame. Let's go before you try anything else stupid." With that, they walked out on their way to the weapons room outside the training center.
"Luna! Where are you?"
Raven was yelling at the top of her lungs. Luna, the track star she was, had disappeared once they entered the training center. 'Shit, can't she stay in one place for a little while? I'll spend all of my time looking for her and none-'
She was cut off in mid-thought by an alto scream. As a healer with slight empathy, she knew that she could not ignore it. Not that she wanted to, of course.
What she found at the source of the scream was Luna, being mauled by a T-rexaur. Instantly, she froze. All of her training could not have prepared her for this shock. It was only Luna's scream that brought her out of her shock and into action.
Muttering a spell that called for help, she started her attack on the monster. She was quick, and adrenalin made her even faster, but the T-rexaur was quicker. He might not be hurting Luna now, but maybe it was because she was beyond hurting.
Raven was cursing under her breath. She was wearing down and needed help. Pretty soon, she would be dino chow. 'Hello, spell, you can work now. It might be helpful.'
The monster looked at her with the laughing gleam of hunger in its eyes. She understood it, even if it didn't understand her. She flinched as she fell to one knee and the reptile's head came down to bite into her.
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Ok, that's the best for now. I'll get back to you for the rest!
Vamp Queen
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