~ * ~ CHAPTER #2 ~ * ~
"INSTRUCTOR!" Dante looked around frantically, there was no answer "INSTRUCTOR!? INSTRUCTOR TREPE!?" he looked around again, then shook his head as the four other SeeDs looked at him. "No answer" he looked out at the sea, the water rising and falling along the beach. Xu looked up at the sky
"She was just here a minute ago!" she looked at her crew "Where'd she go?" they shrugged
"I dunno! I dunno nothin'!" Eike grumbled innocently, Dante whacked him in the side of the head
"Shut up, dick" Eike pouted. Leliel's eyebrow rose
"Shut up, both of you!" she turned to the older SeeD
"Xu, I was with her last. I take full responsibility..." Xu placed her hand on the girl's shoulder.
"Don't take it so hard, it's not your fault if you can't even keep an eye on a can of opened baked beans..."
"EXCUSE me!?" She placed her hands on her hips "Well, at least I have a title!" she laughed "How old are you, Xu? 47, 48?" Xu frowned
"I'm 25" Lorie grunted
"Sure, we believe you"
"There's no need to hide it! Don't be ashamed of your age" Xu's eyes narrowed
"I'm telling the TRUTH!" Dante patted her head
"Sure you are" he looked around. "Now, maybe she's playing a game"
"What?" Eike asked, Dante turned to him
"You know, like hide and seek" Xu rolled her eyes
"She's a bit old for that" Lorie's eyes widened
"What!? You sayin' she's 48 too!?" Xu's shoulder's slumped in defeat. "She can't be!"
"She's not"
"Thank god, cos if she was it would be like... 'ewww, old fart'... ya know what I'm sayin'?" Dante frowned
"Shut up, dick" Leliel pulled out her hand blade's
"If YOU don't shut up, I'm going to very clumsily disembowel you with my trust pair of blades here" Dante frowned again
"Shut up, dick" she lowered her weapons and eyed him
"Is that the only witty retort you can come up with?"
"... Shut up, dick" she groaned
"What is up with men!?" Lorie began to wander down the beach. Leliel watched as he walked away, her risen hand sheltering her eyes from the sun. After Lorie had walked a few metres, she called out to him "SEE ANYTHING!?" he turned around and called back
"NO! I CAN'T SEE ANY SIGN OF HER OR ANYTHING!" he began to head back. Eike turned to Xu
"When will the SeeDs get here?"
"They should be arriving soon" she told him. He nodded and turned his attention back down the beach. He pointed towards the cliff,
"Hey! There's someone up there!" The SeeDs looked up towards where Eike was pointing. There sat a golden haired creature, sitting on top of the cliff, plucking away at a harp. One of the strings broke and the creature swore
"God Damnit! Those Estharians are a bunch of cheap arses" Xu looked more closely to the creature as she could, then she reared back slightly
"Quisty?"
~ * ~
Seifer and Irvine were fighting. Correction, they were fighting, but now they weren't any more. Something about who was cuter; Seifer or Irvine. Naturally Squall said Seifer, and then Irvine got all pissy, going
"No one understands me. We sharpshooters are loners by nature. We hone our instincts, pour our whole being into one bullet. The pressure of the moment..... An instant of tension....That's what I have to face alone. It's not easy...... So like..... do me a favour and just let me be." then Squall started to comfort him, and of course Seifer got jealous and threatened to electrocute Squall. But of course, Seifer never mentioned that Squall looked so hot squealing like a little girl; which is what Squall did best.
This lead to that, then that lead to this, then eventually that lead to another that, and the another this lead to another this. Somewhere in between there, Irvine called Seifer a cock-sucking arsehole and Seifer took it as a compliment. Ha! Seifer called Irvine a Bitch and that's how the fight started. Seifer kneed Irvine in the groin and he collapsed, gripping his sore area, whimpering in pain, and there he stayed all the way to Balamb.
"So how far are we now, Squall" Seifer asked. The Commander looked down at the control panel and checked the radar.
"Not far," he told him. He could feel Seifer's warm breath down the back of his neck. Hmmm. Seifer. Your breath smells. "Not very far at all" the rebel nodded, then turned around and looked at Irvine
"Irvine, stop feeling yourself" Irvine whimpered again, Seifer groaned "I didn't knee you that hard" Squall turned his head
"I think you did" Seifer looked at Squall, then to Irvine, then back to Squall again.
"No I didn't, this is me being hard" he picked Irvine up and kneed him hard. Irvine buckled groaning "Whereas I kneed him like this" he kicked Irvine in the groin. Squall got up, and grabbed the whimpering Irvine by the collar.
"No you kneed him like this" Squall demonstrated, "But a hard one would be like this" he demonstrated. Irvine let out an interesting howl
"YEOWERAWHA!" Squall and Seifer frowned and looked at him.
"Irvine, stop feeling yourself" they told him. Seifer turned to him "Coffee?" Squall nodded
"Yeah, thanks" they walked off, leaving the whimpering Irvine by himself.
"Hello? Guys? Hello?" he slumped ". A little help?"
~ * ~
The creature stood up gracefully, her golden hair flapping gently in the breeze. Her blue eyes turned purple from the reflection of the setting sun, her skin a faint moon-light colour. She walked to the edge and looked up towards the sky, mesmerized by the colours she tripped and fell over the side.
"Oh shit!" she landed head first in the sand. Eike bolted towards the fallen figure, the others immediately following. She stood up, spitting out several grains of sand that found their way into her mouth. She looked and them and smiled weakly "Can I try that again?" Dante nodded. She started climbing back up the cliff and picked up her harp, she plucked several out- of-tune strings and looked down at them "I am the mythological sea goddess: Siren" she plucked the strings again, and another broke "Oh you are kidding me! I'm going to kill those Estharian scum!" she stepped to the edge again. "I right wrongs and triumph over evil" the group eyed her curiously, she looked at them "No good?" they shook their heads
"Nope" Eike told her
"Oh okay," she looked up at the sky again "I fight for love and justice" Leliel turned to Lorie
"This sounds like Sailor Moon" Siren looked at Leliel
"She's my cousin"
"You're kidding"
"I wish I was," she sighed "Anyway, I am the goddess Siren" Xu bowed down to her
"What do you want us to do, oh great one?" Siren eyed her
"Whoa, are you like 48 or something?" Xu groaned
"What is your desire my goddess?" Siren sighed
"Will you stop that!?" she turned to the crew "Is this what happens when you reach 48?" Dante nodded. "Sheesh! I'm only 23" Eike frowned
"If you're 23, how can you be mythological?" Siren frowned
"Shut up" Dante turned to him
"Yeah. Shut up, dick" Siren glared at him
"And you" Leliel laughed.
"Ha! Crash and burn!" she turned to the Siren "What are you doing, Quistis?" Siren sighed, tipped over the edge again and landed in the sand. again. She jumped up and glared at the cliff
"I'm never going to get that 'graceful landing thing' right" then suddenly straightened "When I was a child, I saw a dieing Siren crawl up from the sea and curl up on the sand. I headed towards it and it told me that the Siren's quest was to try and create love and peace between quarrelling bodies. She passed her powers to me and told me to continue the line" Leliel's eyebrow rose
"Uh huh, and how many people have to brought together?" she asked in a mocking tone. Siren frowned
"Uh. none, but I'm working on it"
"Uh huh, sure you are"
"I am!"
"Uh huh" Siren frowned
"Do you want me to fail you young lady?" Leliel rose her eyebrow
"I've passed my exam, remember Quistis?" Siren frowned
"You have? Damn" She frowned and pulled out a small tape recorder and pressed 'RECORD' "Note to self: Remember to check students ranks" she turned back to her ex-student. "Oh well" Dante looked at her
"So who are you putting together? Cos I know this really hot chick."
"Squall and Seifer, as a matter of fact" Lorie shook his head
"Nah, they're technically together already" Siren frowned again
"Damnit!!" she pulled out a small tape recorder and pressed 'RECORD' "Note to self: Invade on friend's love life" she turned back to her crew "Selphie and Irvine?" Eike shook his head
"No, she like's Zell" Siren's eyebrow rose
"Really?" Leliel shook her head
"Don't even think about it, he's after Rinoa"
"What!? You mean Little Miss dump Squall for Zone?" Eike exclaimed, Dante turned to them
"WHAT!? ZONE!? YOU MEAN TO STOMACH GUY!?" they both nodded "Sheesh, you would've guessed since she's a Sorceress she could have anyone she wants"
"Yeah, but she's a bitch. No one would have her. well, except Zone of course" Leliel laughed
"You know, I heard they had a kid"
"You're kidding!" he shook his head
"No, kidding's for kidders. I'm a SeeD, see? Look at my jacket"
"Oooh"
"Yeah, look at me go"
"Yeah, look at you go, ya little racing horse" Eike and Lorie turned to the two.
"It'd be pretty hard looking after children when you're a Sorceress" Leliel turned to Eike
"Who are you talking about? Zone or the kid?" Eike thought for a moment, then answered truthfully
"I'd have to say both" Siren started tapping her foot impatiently.
"Right. Okay what about Dante and Leliel?" she asked Eike. He nodded, and she turned to the two. "Right. now how did that spell go? Love's eternal, but I have to do this or I'm gonna get by butt kicked by Hyne?" she shook her head "No, that's not it." she dove for a little book, that had fallen beside her. She picked it up and flicked through the pages "Ah! Here it is! Love's eternal, trust is forever, spells do nothing, cos I'm a little shit who isn't very clever" she looked up confused "WHO WRITES THIS CRAP!?" Dante looked at Leliel as if in a daze.
"Hey, wanna go out?" she shrugged
"Okay" they walked off, hand in hand. Eike turned to Lorie.
"You know, I've always thought you were pretty sexy" Lorie's eyes lightened up
"Really?"
"Damn straight, you are!" they too walked off.
"INSTRUCTOR!" Dante looked around frantically, there was no answer "INSTRUCTOR!? INSTRUCTOR TREPE!?" he looked around again, then shook his head as the four other SeeDs looked at him. "No answer" he looked out at the sea, the water rising and falling along the beach. Xu looked up at the sky
"She was just here a minute ago!" she looked at her crew "Where'd she go?" they shrugged
"I dunno! I dunno nothin'!" Eike grumbled innocently, Dante whacked him in the side of the head
"Shut up, dick" Eike pouted. Leliel's eyebrow rose
"Shut up, both of you!" she turned to the older SeeD
"Xu, I was with her last. I take full responsibility..." Xu placed her hand on the girl's shoulder.
"Don't take it so hard, it's not your fault if you can't even keep an eye on a can of opened baked beans..."
"EXCUSE me!?" She placed her hands on her hips "Well, at least I have a title!" she laughed "How old are you, Xu? 47, 48?" Xu frowned
"I'm 25" Lorie grunted
"Sure, we believe you"
"There's no need to hide it! Don't be ashamed of your age" Xu's eyes narrowed
"I'm telling the TRUTH!" Dante patted her head
"Sure you are" he looked around. "Now, maybe she's playing a game"
"What?" Eike asked, Dante turned to him
"You know, like hide and seek" Xu rolled her eyes
"She's a bit old for that" Lorie's eyes widened
"What!? You sayin' she's 48 too!?" Xu's shoulder's slumped in defeat. "She can't be!"
"She's not"
"Thank god, cos if she was it would be like... 'ewww, old fart'... ya know what I'm sayin'?" Dante frowned
"Shut up, dick" Leliel pulled out her hand blade's
"If YOU don't shut up, I'm going to very clumsily disembowel you with my trust pair of blades here" Dante frowned again
"Shut up, dick" she lowered her weapons and eyed him
"Is that the only witty retort you can come up with?"
"... Shut up, dick" she groaned
"What is up with men!?" Lorie began to wander down the beach. Leliel watched as he walked away, her risen hand sheltering her eyes from the sun. After Lorie had walked a few metres, she called out to him "SEE ANYTHING!?" he turned around and called back
"NO! I CAN'T SEE ANY SIGN OF HER OR ANYTHING!" he began to head back. Eike turned to Xu
"When will the SeeDs get here?"
"They should be arriving soon" she told him. He nodded and turned his attention back down the beach. He pointed towards the cliff,
"Hey! There's someone up there!" The SeeDs looked up towards where Eike was pointing. There sat a golden haired creature, sitting on top of the cliff, plucking away at a harp. One of the strings broke and the creature swore
"God Damnit! Those Estharians are a bunch of cheap arses" Xu looked more closely to the creature as she could, then she reared back slightly
"Quisty?"
~ * ~
Seifer and Irvine were fighting. Correction, they were fighting, but now they weren't any more. Something about who was cuter; Seifer or Irvine. Naturally Squall said Seifer, and then Irvine got all pissy, going
"No one understands me. We sharpshooters are loners by nature. We hone our instincts, pour our whole being into one bullet. The pressure of the moment..... An instant of tension....That's what I have to face alone. It's not easy...... So like..... do me a favour and just let me be." then Squall started to comfort him, and of course Seifer got jealous and threatened to electrocute Squall. But of course, Seifer never mentioned that Squall looked so hot squealing like a little girl; which is what Squall did best.
This lead to that, then that lead to this, then eventually that lead to another that, and the another this lead to another this. Somewhere in between there, Irvine called Seifer a cock-sucking arsehole and Seifer took it as a compliment. Ha! Seifer called Irvine a Bitch and that's how the fight started. Seifer kneed Irvine in the groin and he collapsed, gripping his sore area, whimpering in pain, and there he stayed all the way to Balamb.
"So how far are we now, Squall" Seifer asked. The Commander looked down at the control panel and checked the radar.
"Not far," he told him. He could feel Seifer's warm breath down the back of his neck. Hmmm. Seifer. Your breath smells. "Not very far at all" the rebel nodded, then turned around and looked at Irvine
"Irvine, stop feeling yourself" Irvine whimpered again, Seifer groaned "I didn't knee you that hard" Squall turned his head
"I think you did" Seifer looked at Squall, then to Irvine, then back to Squall again.
"No I didn't, this is me being hard" he picked Irvine up and kneed him hard. Irvine buckled groaning "Whereas I kneed him like this" he kicked Irvine in the groin. Squall got up, and grabbed the whimpering Irvine by the collar.
"No you kneed him like this" Squall demonstrated, "But a hard one would be like this" he demonstrated. Irvine let out an interesting howl
"YEOWERAWHA!" Squall and Seifer frowned and looked at him.
"Irvine, stop feeling yourself" they told him. Seifer turned to him "Coffee?" Squall nodded
"Yeah, thanks" they walked off, leaving the whimpering Irvine by himself.
"Hello? Guys? Hello?" he slumped ". A little help?"
~ * ~
The creature stood up gracefully, her golden hair flapping gently in the breeze. Her blue eyes turned purple from the reflection of the setting sun, her skin a faint moon-light colour. She walked to the edge and looked up towards the sky, mesmerized by the colours she tripped and fell over the side.
"Oh shit!" she landed head first in the sand. Eike bolted towards the fallen figure, the others immediately following. She stood up, spitting out several grains of sand that found their way into her mouth. She looked and them and smiled weakly "Can I try that again?" Dante nodded. She started climbing back up the cliff and picked up her harp, she plucked several out- of-tune strings and looked down at them "I am the mythological sea goddess: Siren" she plucked the strings again, and another broke "Oh you are kidding me! I'm going to kill those Estharian scum!" she stepped to the edge again. "I right wrongs and triumph over evil" the group eyed her curiously, she looked at them "No good?" they shook their heads
"Nope" Eike told her
"Oh okay," she looked up at the sky again "I fight for love and justice" Leliel turned to Lorie
"This sounds like Sailor Moon" Siren looked at Leliel
"She's my cousin"
"You're kidding"
"I wish I was," she sighed "Anyway, I am the goddess Siren" Xu bowed down to her
"What do you want us to do, oh great one?" Siren eyed her
"Whoa, are you like 48 or something?" Xu groaned
"What is your desire my goddess?" Siren sighed
"Will you stop that!?" she turned to the crew "Is this what happens when you reach 48?" Dante nodded. "Sheesh! I'm only 23" Eike frowned
"If you're 23, how can you be mythological?" Siren frowned
"Shut up" Dante turned to him
"Yeah. Shut up, dick" Siren glared at him
"And you" Leliel laughed.
"Ha! Crash and burn!" she turned to the Siren "What are you doing, Quistis?" Siren sighed, tipped over the edge again and landed in the sand. again. She jumped up and glared at the cliff
"I'm never going to get that 'graceful landing thing' right" then suddenly straightened "When I was a child, I saw a dieing Siren crawl up from the sea and curl up on the sand. I headed towards it and it told me that the Siren's quest was to try and create love and peace between quarrelling bodies. She passed her powers to me and told me to continue the line" Leliel's eyebrow rose
"Uh huh, and how many people have to brought together?" she asked in a mocking tone. Siren frowned
"Uh. none, but I'm working on it"
"Uh huh, sure you are"
"I am!"
"Uh huh" Siren frowned
"Do you want me to fail you young lady?" Leliel rose her eyebrow
"I've passed my exam, remember Quistis?" Siren frowned
"You have? Damn" She frowned and pulled out a small tape recorder and pressed 'RECORD' "Note to self: Remember to check students ranks" she turned back to her ex-student. "Oh well" Dante looked at her
"So who are you putting together? Cos I know this really hot chick."
"Squall and Seifer, as a matter of fact" Lorie shook his head
"Nah, they're technically together already" Siren frowned again
"Damnit!!" she pulled out a small tape recorder and pressed 'RECORD' "Note to self: Invade on friend's love life" she turned back to her crew "Selphie and Irvine?" Eike shook his head
"No, she like's Zell" Siren's eyebrow rose
"Really?" Leliel shook her head
"Don't even think about it, he's after Rinoa"
"What!? You mean Little Miss dump Squall for Zone?" Eike exclaimed, Dante turned to them
"WHAT!? ZONE!? YOU MEAN TO STOMACH GUY!?" they both nodded "Sheesh, you would've guessed since she's a Sorceress she could have anyone she wants"
"Yeah, but she's a bitch. No one would have her. well, except Zone of course" Leliel laughed
"You know, I heard they had a kid"
"You're kidding!" he shook his head
"No, kidding's for kidders. I'm a SeeD, see? Look at my jacket"
"Oooh"
"Yeah, look at me go"
"Yeah, look at you go, ya little racing horse" Eike and Lorie turned to the two.
"It'd be pretty hard looking after children when you're a Sorceress" Leliel turned to Eike
"Who are you talking about? Zone or the kid?" Eike thought for a moment, then answered truthfully
"I'd have to say both" Siren started tapping her foot impatiently.
"Right. Okay what about Dante and Leliel?" she asked Eike. He nodded, and she turned to the two. "Right. now how did that spell go? Love's eternal, but I have to do this or I'm gonna get by butt kicked by Hyne?" she shook her head "No, that's not it." she dove for a little book, that had fallen beside her. She picked it up and flicked through the pages "Ah! Here it is! Love's eternal, trust is forever, spells do nothing, cos I'm a little shit who isn't very clever" she looked up confused "WHO WRITES THIS CRAP!?" Dante looked at Leliel as if in a daze.
"Hey, wanna go out?" she shrugged
"Okay" they walked off, hand in hand. Eike turned to Lorie.
"You know, I've always thought you were pretty sexy" Lorie's eyes lightened up
"Really?"
"Damn straight, you are!" they too walked off.
