AN: Yet another randomly begun fic. SxS - with plot!
Disclaimers: ff8 characters are © Squaresoft
Warnings: Angst, language and SxS
I can feel them all out there, waiting, making last minute preparations to fight me. Then they enter. I am in the lead, and now I understand why I merged with Eden. (1) For all I have changed, for all I have done and have become, I am still me. And so is he.
The 'Lion of Balamb' and Ultemecia are one and the same. No one would believe it, not even I would believe it, except, I know it is true. And I know what will happen, again, if I cannot break the cycle.
They stare up at me, all but one afraid. I, he, *we* are not afraid. I remember, I know exactly what he's thinking, because I thought the same. I thought, what great wrong has been done to her that she seeks revenge against the world. Hopefully this time, I will never know.
I stand, feeling one of the great black wings catch against the gilded throne. Irritably I shake it free, pulling loose a long black feather as I do so. It drifts free, floating down towards the SeeDs that have made it through time compression to fight me. I wonder how many would still be willing to fight if they knew who I was, who I really am.
A surprise. My former self has deftly snagged the feather, although none of the others appears to have noticed. I wish there had been some way of writing a warning on the feather, but, they must defeat me. I cannot have them seeking another way to end this, for there is not one. And I will fight to live, to have my revenge, for a part of me will not let me do otherwise, even though I know, when everything is over, my love will still be dead.
"...SeeD..." They are nervous. Selphie jumps as I suddenly speak, and Squall takes a protective half-step in front of Rinoa. I don't know why I did that. Some automatic instinct perhaps, but the raven-haired sorceress managed to take it the wrong way. It took quite some time to convince her otherwise.
"SeeD...SeeD..." They have bunched together, a cluster of scared children with me at their head. I could almost laugh at the beautiful irony of it all. "SeeD, SeeD, SeeD!" I sigh. Are they really so blind. Have I really changed so much? If they knew, would they see the sudden similarities between us? Who better to fight a war against than yourself, when one of you does not realise. Even more so when you have already fought the war from the other side.
"Kurse all SeeDs." And curse the damn impediment caused by becoming part of two immensely powerful GFs. "Swarming like locusts across generations. You disgust me." Not them personally, but SeeD in general. Sending mere children to their deaths at the hands of my monsters, and to be torn apart in time compression.
"The world was on the brink of that ever-elusive 'time kompression'." Although from the start I knew my cause was a lost one. How would they react to know that the only reason this happened was to give myself a chance of happiness? How would they react to know that I can see through their masks, right into their very souls?
"Insolent fools!" And they are fools. I've known that all along. Even I was a fool. Maybe I still am. Ellone kept saying and saying that you can't change the past, but, what time-compression I achieved managed to throw time and space into chaos. I am the future, they are the past, and I have to use them, and my defeat, to change the present. Or the present as it will be.
"Your vain krusade ends here, SeeDs." It does, and mine begins. Only, they believe that I am stating my invincibility. It almost makes me laugh. If I truly wanted to defeat them I could. After all, I've seen this battle from their point of view, I defeated me. In all honesty I would have it no other way. Unless Seifer were to... but I know he won't.
"The price for your meddling is death beyond death." Or perhaps I should say, life beyond death. For whilst they may believe they have died, they will not. I will make sure of that. At least in this I know I will not fail them.
"I shall send you to a dimension beyond your imagining." I now know why I thought the threats directed at us were empty. They are. Only by twisting the meaning can I find any glimmer of truth in the words. Who after all would imagine a dimension of pure, blinding white, with no direction and no sensation?
"There, I will reign, and you will be my slaves for eternity." I laugh, hastily changing the hearty guffaw to a menacing cackle. I can't believe I never suspected the truth. Or maybe I did. Maybe I just couldn't, wouldn't, believe it.
"Whom shall I exterminate first!?" I shout my challenge, leaping from the raised platform to hover over their heads. "I'll start with you three!"
AN: Hee! The fog has cleared at last!
(1) Eden imo, is a time-space GF. Squall/Ultemecia had to have Eden to prevent the nasty side-effects of meeting himself, i.e. to stop time rupturing completely.
Gwendoln-flight: Nope, not Griever – Ultemecia!
S. Wing: More for u, hope u like it!
Lady Yuskraven: I'm glad the sugar's still going – long live sugar!
Redrum: Hope it's clear now :) Squall is Ultemecia *grins* don't ask what I was on when I came up with the idea, cause I'm not too sure... I don't think it was sugar tho! lol
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