Hey again! Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy Holidays! Thankie Frost for putting me on your favorite author's list! I just hope that when I post it people will be able to read it, since they are going through "changes" or whatnot!
~Jess~
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Seifer and Quistis had begun gathering materials from about the room and putting them into large bags. I looked at the swollen bags and hoped that the ship wasn't going to self-destruct. Seifer and Quistis seemed pretty enthusiastic about the happenings, hurriedly jogging about the room. I pulled at the cuffs bearing me to the platform, but they would not budge. I began to wish I still had strong sorceress powers, perhaps then I may have been able to free myself, or at least take out my captors.
Suddenly, I heard a knock at the door, and I watched Raijin let himself into the confines of the room. Upon entering, Seifer and Quistis greeted him as they were leaving the room. As they left, they placed a pair of shackles and a blindfold on top of one of the computers that I could only guess was for me. Raijin came over to me and began to free my legs from the cuffs, then he progressed to my right arm. His eyes were focused upon my left cuff as he began to liberate me. The left arm cuff started to give him a bit of trouble, so he began to lean over me. I decided this may be my chance to do something about the situation. I moved my head a little closer to the left arm cuff where Raijin had averted his eyes. Then I bit down on his hand as hard as I could.
Raijin shrieked and jumped back from me, as my teeth gnawed away at his flesh. I quickly released myself from my bindings and leaped off the table, running towards the door. I heard Raijin quickly follow after me. As I threw the door open and stepped out into the hallway I felt two strong hands grab my arms and drag me back into the chamber. There had been two guards standing outside the room the entire time, waiting for an attempted escape to foil. I felt aggravated as I felt hands put the handcuffs on my wrists behind my back, and as a black night covered my sight.
I began kicking when I felt them begin to carry me, I had become thoroughly scared of the torture that would be soon to come. They had carried me over a long distance and then placed me down and forced me to walk by continuously pushing me ahead. I began to feel a slight breeze I thought, but dismissed it as a trick created by my mind. One of the guards grabbed my arm and put it on a railing, and murmured to watch my step down the stairs. My mind raced at all the possible places they could be taking me, and hoped that they were not worse than the last.
Squall woke Selphie up at a decent time, so that he could get some sleep from his long watch. Selphie pretended to be angry with Squall for not waking her up sooner, but gave him a reassuring smile when he took her position in the pilot's chair. The black smoke hadn't disappeared yet, and it made it very hard for them to see the other submarine. Selphie was bored with keeping watch so strictly and started tapping her fingers roughly on the computer monitors. At one point she even started playing solitaire, and when it got too much to bear she decided to wake Irvine up and would try to make it look like an accident.
"Oops," Selphie said as she dropped a card on the floor and it went skittering across the floor over towards Irvine's sleeping form. She got up and placed heavy footfalls on her way over to the card. Bending over to pick it up, the rest of the cards slipped from her slippery fingers and all landed on Irvine's head. His eyes opened and looked around at the cards scattered everywhere and up at Selphie picking up the lone one on the floor. Selphie giggled at the half-asleep man and started picking up the cards, being sure to be clumsy by poking him so that he could not drift back off to sleep. Finally, Irvine sighed and sat up and started to help Selphie with the collection of the cards.
Later, after Selphie and Irvine had settled themselves in the front of the ship again, Irvine said a stupid joke and they both became quiet. Irvine sighed and looked to the smoke, it seemed to cover everything they looked at and was mighty disheartening. The darkness enveloped everything, and seemed to be engulfing the crew as well, for now they slept longer and ate less food. Irvine looked into the smoke and could not see the ship, or even the outline. Nobody had been able to see the ship since the smoke first arrived, but Irvine decided to question it. There had been nothing else to do in the ship besides punch bags, play cards, or watch the submarine, so he decided to capitalize on their boredom.
"Selphie, where is the ship? Which little dot is it on the radar?"
Selphie looked over to one of the radar screens thoughtfully, "Well Irvy, I don't see anything, but maybe its just a glitch from all this smoke."
"Well Selphie," Irvine turned to her, mimicking her, "I think we would all feel better if we knew where the ship was. I mean, what if we aren't following it anymore and were drifting further away from them?"
Selphie looked to him and asked, "Why don't you wake up Squall? Now that you got me feeling all worried."
Irvine turned himself on his haunches, where he had been sitting in between the two chairs, turning to Squall to wake him up by lightly shaking his arm. Squall's eyes opened quickly and he sat up looking at the two of them expectantly. Irvine looked to Selphie and tipped his head in Squall's direction, signaling to her to tell Squall what was going on.
Selphie shot Irvine a dissatisfied look, and then began saying to Squall, "Well, we haven't seen the submarine in a while, and were beginning to worry about it."
Squall blinked at her question and said, "Yes, it has been a issue in my mind also, I believe that we need to just wait, for there is nothing else we can do."
Hours later, Zell had awoken and they all became quite bored with all they had around them. Selphie began to tap again until Squall looked at her, she then dropped her hand down. Silence had befallen them once more.
Later, Zell while looking into the smoke, stood up from his position on the floor. His finger pointed steadily out the window at something very small. Selphie looked at the radar in the position of the object and said excitedly, "I think it may be our lost ship." Then she grasped the wheel of the submarine and drove fast into the direction of the object, praying it would be the correct ship.
They all sighed in relief when they saw the markings of Seifer on the ship, and began pursuit again. The ship began to smoke again and Zell tugged at Selphie's shoulder and asked, "Selphie, why don't you stay a little bit back, just a ways, so we can see the ship and not lose it again."
Selphie nodded and slowed the ship down to a slower knot. They followed the ship for an hour until something unexpected happened. Pieces, pieces of the escaping ship flew everywhere. It had been hit by something, or something in the ship had not been situated correctly. It had exploded, right before their watching eyes. Selphie had shielded her eyes when the blast occurred, Zell backed up a bit, Irvine hung his head low, while Squall stared at the wreckage of the ship. Tears began to roll down Squall's face, springing from the dam in his heart. Squall did not take his eyes off the wreckage, even after Selphie had begun to steer the ship away, just so they could begin to regroup and figure out what had just occurred before them. Once out of sight, Squall leaned against the wall of the ship and slid down it, coming to rest at the bottom, then he put his head in his hands once more.
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Well, another chapter done. What do you think caused the explosion? REVIEW, pweese? I recommend strongly everyone should go see LotR, because I am becoming quite a big dork of it! Sorry is not a long chapter but its 1475 words!
~Jess~
~Jess~
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Seifer and Quistis had begun gathering materials from about the room and putting them into large bags. I looked at the swollen bags and hoped that the ship wasn't going to self-destruct. Seifer and Quistis seemed pretty enthusiastic about the happenings, hurriedly jogging about the room. I pulled at the cuffs bearing me to the platform, but they would not budge. I began to wish I still had strong sorceress powers, perhaps then I may have been able to free myself, or at least take out my captors.
Suddenly, I heard a knock at the door, and I watched Raijin let himself into the confines of the room. Upon entering, Seifer and Quistis greeted him as they were leaving the room. As they left, they placed a pair of shackles and a blindfold on top of one of the computers that I could only guess was for me. Raijin came over to me and began to free my legs from the cuffs, then he progressed to my right arm. His eyes were focused upon my left cuff as he began to liberate me. The left arm cuff started to give him a bit of trouble, so he began to lean over me. I decided this may be my chance to do something about the situation. I moved my head a little closer to the left arm cuff where Raijin had averted his eyes. Then I bit down on his hand as hard as I could.
Raijin shrieked and jumped back from me, as my teeth gnawed away at his flesh. I quickly released myself from my bindings and leaped off the table, running towards the door. I heard Raijin quickly follow after me. As I threw the door open and stepped out into the hallway I felt two strong hands grab my arms and drag me back into the chamber. There had been two guards standing outside the room the entire time, waiting for an attempted escape to foil. I felt aggravated as I felt hands put the handcuffs on my wrists behind my back, and as a black night covered my sight.
I began kicking when I felt them begin to carry me, I had become thoroughly scared of the torture that would be soon to come. They had carried me over a long distance and then placed me down and forced me to walk by continuously pushing me ahead. I began to feel a slight breeze I thought, but dismissed it as a trick created by my mind. One of the guards grabbed my arm and put it on a railing, and murmured to watch my step down the stairs. My mind raced at all the possible places they could be taking me, and hoped that they were not worse than the last.
Squall woke Selphie up at a decent time, so that he could get some sleep from his long watch. Selphie pretended to be angry with Squall for not waking her up sooner, but gave him a reassuring smile when he took her position in the pilot's chair. The black smoke hadn't disappeared yet, and it made it very hard for them to see the other submarine. Selphie was bored with keeping watch so strictly and started tapping her fingers roughly on the computer monitors. At one point she even started playing solitaire, and when it got too much to bear she decided to wake Irvine up and would try to make it look like an accident.
"Oops," Selphie said as she dropped a card on the floor and it went skittering across the floor over towards Irvine's sleeping form. She got up and placed heavy footfalls on her way over to the card. Bending over to pick it up, the rest of the cards slipped from her slippery fingers and all landed on Irvine's head. His eyes opened and looked around at the cards scattered everywhere and up at Selphie picking up the lone one on the floor. Selphie giggled at the half-asleep man and started picking up the cards, being sure to be clumsy by poking him so that he could not drift back off to sleep. Finally, Irvine sighed and sat up and started to help Selphie with the collection of the cards.
Later, after Selphie and Irvine had settled themselves in the front of the ship again, Irvine said a stupid joke and they both became quiet. Irvine sighed and looked to the smoke, it seemed to cover everything they looked at and was mighty disheartening. The darkness enveloped everything, and seemed to be engulfing the crew as well, for now they slept longer and ate less food. Irvine looked into the smoke and could not see the ship, or even the outline. Nobody had been able to see the ship since the smoke first arrived, but Irvine decided to question it. There had been nothing else to do in the ship besides punch bags, play cards, or watch the submarine, so he decided to capitalize on their boredom.
"Selphie, where is the ship? Which little dot is it on the radar?"
Selphie looked over to one of the radar screens thoughtfully, "Well Irvy, I don't see anything, but maybe its just a glitch from all this smoke."
"Well Selphie," Irvine turned to her, mimicking her, "I think we would all feel better if we knew where the ship was. I mean, what if we aren't following it anymore and were drifting further away from them?"
Selphie looked to him and asked, "Why don't you wake up Squall? Now that you got me feeling all worried."
Irvine turned himself on his haunches, where he had been sitting in between the two chairs, turning to Squall to wake him up by lightly shaking his arm. Squall's eyes opened quickly and he sat up looking at the two of them expectantly. Irvine looked to Selphie and tipped his head in Squall's direction, signaling to her to tell Squall what was going on.
Selphie shot Irvine a dissatisfied look, and then began saying to Squall, "Well, we haven't seen the submarine in a while, and were beginning to worry about it."
Squall blinked at her question and said, "Yes, it has been a issue in my mind also, I believe that we need to just wait, for there is nothing else we can do."
Hours later, Zell had awoken and they all became quite bored with all they had around them. Selphie began to tap again until Squall looked at her, she then dropped her hand down. Silence had befallen them once more.
Later, Zell while looking into the smoke, stood up from his position on the floor. His finger pointed steadily out the window at something very small. Selphie looked at the radar in the position of the object and said excitedly, "I think it may be our lost ship." Then she grasped the wheel of the submarine and drove fast into the direction of the object, praying it would be the correct ship.
They all sighed in relief when they saw the markings of Seifer on the ship, and began pursuit again. The ship began to smoke again and Zell tugged at Selphie's shoulder and asked, "Selphie, why don't you stay a little bit back, just a ways, so we can see the ship and not lose it again."
Selphie nodded and slowed the ship down to a slower knot. They followed the ship for an hour until something unexpected happened. Pieces, pieces of the escaping ship flew everywhere. It had been hit by something, or something in the ship had not been situated correctly. It had exploded, right before their watching eyes. Selphie had shielded her eyes when the blast occurred, Zell backed up a bit, Irvine hung his head low, while Squall stared at the wreckage of the ship. Tears began to roll down Squall's face, springing from the dam in his heart. Squall did not take his eyes off the wreckage, even after Selphie had begun to steer the ship away, just so they could begin to regroup and figure out what had just occurred before them. Once out of sight, Squall leaned against the wall of the ship and slid down it, coming to rest at the bottom, then he put his head in his hands once more.
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Well, another chapter done. What do you think caused the explosion? REVIEW, pweese? I recommend strongly everyone should go see LotR, because I am becoming quite a big dork of it! Sorry is not a long chapter but its 1475 words!
~Jess~