Chapter2
"Xander, wake up!" Sylvia slapped him.
"Sylvia, you didn't have to bitch-slapped him," Carson said. It had been about 15 minutes since they had crashed. Alexander had saved them all by casting a barrier spell around them.
"Ow," Xander groaned. "Can't you be any more gentle?" He sat up. "My head hurts."
"Come on, move damn it!" Kelly shouted, trying to pry the door open with her scythe, but to no avail. The elevator was crumpled, and the overhead light was hanging by it's wires, flashing on and off sporadically. Carson was trying to help Kelly open the door.
"Try burning a hole in it," Xander said. "The metal is probably cheap, so it should burn easily. Does anyone have any fire magic with them?"
"Yeah, right here," Kelly said. She went to what looked like the front of the elevator, and burnt a square in the part that wasn't bent up. She kicked it out and it hit the floor. Immediately, a loud scuffling of claws could be heard from all over the place. They walked out of the elevator, and instinctively looked up. The area was like a cave at the top, but had a floor similar to that of an office. The top was at least 100 feet above them. "Where the hell are we?"
"Wherever it is, it has to be at least 15 or 20 miles below the garden," Carson added.
"How the hell are we gonna get back up there?" Kelly inquired.
"Why the hell do you insist on always saying 'hell'?" Sylvia asked, obviously agitated.
"Go to hell," Keli responded.
"I'm taking you with me, she said, slipping on her gloves.
"Hey," Carson ran between them, "no fights, today. Let's find a way out of here, first, then you can bash each other's brains out." They all look around.
"Hey, where's Xander?" Sylvia asked.
"I'm over here," Xander called back. He was leaning against a metal cabinet looking into another one. "Check this out."
"What is it?" Kelly asked, walking over.
"This cabinet has files in it for everyone who is trying to join SeeD, including all of us," Xander replied. "It's strange, though. According to these dates, these files were recently put in here."
"That means that either they have mind reading abilities, are really good guessers, or someone comes down here a lot," Carson said.
"There are also some charms in here," Xander said.
"Charms?" Sylvia repeated. "What kind of charms? Lucky Charms?"
"Pendants, Sylvia, pendants!" Xander yelled, annoyed. "They are pendants that would be on a pin, or a necklace. Here's yours." He tossed it to her. She caught it and looked at it.
"Hey, this is my GF, Ifrit!" She used her finger to trace the outline of Ifrit. She pulled out her GF orb(for the sake of argument, let's say the GF are like materia, little orbs that they can use to Summon their Guardian Forces. In the game, they never actually said what the things looked like.), and watched, in amazement, as it began to glow a bright red color.
"Um, you aren't summoning it, are you?" Kelly asked.
"No, I'm not," Sylvia responded. "It's doing this totally on its own." They all watched the pendant begin to glow. She held the pendant close to the orb, and they began to resonate.
"Wow, this is amazing," Sylvia whispered. "There's something about this pendant."
"Whatever it is," Carson said, snatching the pendant away, "we'll worry about it later. If you have forgotten, we're still stuck down here." He tossed the pendant back to Xander, who put it back where he found it.
"Why would there be pendants in here?" Xander asked himself. "There is one is each of our folders, but I've never seen any of them before. This doesn't make any sense!"
"This is really weird," Kelly commented. "Let's get the hell outta here." She turned to Sylvia and grinned.
"Got any suggestions on how we're supposed to do that?" Carson asked.
"I do," Xander said.
"How?"
"That." He pointed to another elevator.
"Oh, that." They walked over to it, and Carson read aloud, "Emergency use only."
"I think we should consider this an emergency,"Sylvia mumbled as she pressed the button.
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"They didn't understand?" a voice asked.
"They were not yet expected to," another voice replied. "They have passed part one. The next part awaits them."
"Will we not meet them before the exam is over?" a third voice inquired.
"We will, but remember, we have the power to manipulate time. If they do not, we will have to reverse time, to before we interfered.
"Can they do it?"
"I do not know."
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"Where have you been?!?!" Micheal yelled at them, in a rage. He had an ice pack for his groin, and everyone had to supress a laugh.
"Relax, Mike, we haven't been gone that long," Xander said, thoroughly enjoying seeing Micheal act that way.
"Because of you children, I got in trouble!" he scolded.
"First of all, Micheal, we aren't children," Sylvia cut in.
"I wasn't talking to, bitch," Micheal said. "I was talking to your fearless leader, and idiot for brains boyfriend."
"Uh-oh," Xander said.
"What the hell did you just say?" Sylvia growled.
"Who's saying 'hell' now?" Kelly muttered.
"You heard me," Micheal retorted. Xander quickly wrapped his arms around Sylvia's waist, seconds before she lunged at Micheal.
"I'm going to shove my foot so far up your ass, you'll think you were being raped by a horse(two comments here: this is the reason for the high rating, and: God help me, I'm turning into my friends!)!" Xander began to pull her back as she was yelling. Micheal sneered and said, "Carson, Kelly, line up with the others, and you," he continued, turning to Alexander, "take care of her, or she may end up seriously hurt."
"I can take care of myself," she yelled at him.
"Is that a threat?" Xander roared.
"You know what they say," Micheal responded, walking away, "it's not a threat, it's a promise."
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"Damn that Micheal!" Sylvia said. They were now on a large bus heading for the Northern area. Sylvia hadn't really calmed down at all.
"I'm gonna kick his ass, I swear it!" she yelled.
"Calm down, Sylvia," Carson said. "We all wouldn't mind whacking Micheal on the head right now, but get ahold of yourself!"
"Allow me," Kelly said. She slapped Sylvia.
"What the hell was that for?" Sylvia yelled at Kelly. "Carson's mini-speech was enough, thank you."
"You're saying 'hell' again," Kelly nagged.
"Kelly, would you please shut up!" Xander yelled. After she stopped talking, the other people on the bus applauded, and Xander stood up and bowed.
He sat back down, and Kelly mumbled, "What crawled up your ass and died?"
"I didn't mean to snap at you," he apologized, "but I couldn't think with you talking so much."
"What are you thinking about that is so important?" Carson asked.
"Earlier today, before the elevator got a mind of its own, I remember hearing someone's voice. It said something about destinies."
"Now is the time to learn of your destinies," Sylvia repeated.
"Don't forget, 'young warriors,'" Carson added. "You guys heard that too?"
"At least, now, we know we aren't crazy," Kelly said. "Or else, maybe we all are crazy."
"I don't think the elevator crashing was an accident," Xander said. "I thought I was going insane. Who's voice was that?"
"Now there's a good question," Carson replied. "At least, during your moment of temporary insanity, you were able to cast 'Barrier' on us, because f you hadn't, we'd be as crumpled as that elevator."
"I cast 'Barrier?'" Alexander asked, with a puzzled look on his face.
"Of course you did," Kelly said. "Don't you remember?"
"I remember waking up, looking around, and wondering how the hell we weren't killed, but I don't remember 'Barrier.'"
"Hmm, that is weird," Carson said. "Let's just say that we all are crazy and forget that any of this ever happened. Deal?"
"Sure."
"Whatever."
"Fine with me." Xander's gaze slowly returnedto the window, where there was no for miles around. He noticed that the bus was slowing down. "Hmm, we must have arrived at the starting point."
