Disclaimer: They are not mine (I wish they were). Don't sue.
Warnings: Yaoi rated R.
Summary: Esthar family is in trouble, including our Squall (yaoi: SxS beware). Balamb Garden is a knights' school. Seifer Almasy is one of those knights. Being the personal guard of Sullen, the most good-looking and greatest wizard, he is sent to find out why Galbadian army has attacked Dollet. Does Sorceress Edea have something to do with it?! And why does Elder Guardian of Time refuse to show in the Union council?!
Author's notes: Thanks for your e-mails Jo. I'm glad you like this story. I'm liking writing it too. If it weren't for that and the reviews I would had remove it already. And yes Nida is Squall, thank god, you'll see why in this chapter. Now I have the story totally planed, its just writing the rest of the ideas. It should take more 4 or 5 chapters without this one to be complete.
Nothing more to say. Hope you like it. Review if you feel like you should. I don't really care anymore, I'm tired of begging. ::sniff:: ,-_-,
Sons of Elder Guardians
By Azure Knight
Chapter 6: Tomorrow will come only to some...
The relationship between Seifer and Sullen had gotten worse since the Fortuneteller's visit. Sullen didn't even let Seifer enter in his bedroom. This was making Seifer more than a little bit frustrated. Also the situation in the palace was even worse than Sullen's changes. The day before Council had gotten the situation even worse. The king of Esthar had accused Galbadia and Sorceress Edea of the invasion of Dollet and the stealth of the Keystone (from the looks of it, he was more informed of the situation than they all had thought), accusing her of wanting to rule the world, sarcastically adding that she didn't have to gotten herself in such trouble, she just had to candidate for the election of the Council's ruler in a few months, infuriating Elder Tellian with his last words. After that, Tellian had defended Sorceress Edea, a friend of hers and Laguna had accused her of passivity and consequently aiding and abetting partnership in the crime.
The Elder who had not expected such aggressivity from that peaceful and somewhat beautiful man had been shocked with his words. But the fact was that he was right and many members of the council were adhering to his thoughts. However, she could not give him the reason she knew he had. Besides, she had to defend one of her best friends. So she had ended the Council claiming Esthar king had insulted her and she would suspend the Council for a week to calm the exalted parts of the discussion so they could think better on the situation in hand. She planned to talk to king Laguna in private so they could settle some things. He was one of the few humans that had the courage to confront the Mages, maybe because he had already defeated one Sorceress so she had to make peace with him, because she knew the lovely, peaceful and somewhat clumsy king of Esthar wasn't that frightened man she was seeing. The king was only saying that afraid of a new Sorceress war. Instructed by his counselors and older son he came out with those harsh words.
But she knew him. He was kind and peaceful and she had always liked him for that. She would talk to the wise man and together they would come out with a solution to that problem. After all, it was she who had stopped the execution of Sorceress Adel, the sorceress who had done horrible things to his kingdom and to his family. If he did listen to her that time and done what she had asked even disagreeing, he would now too. After all, he was there to help her. Of course it would also be a good time to speak with him about her future plans for the both. That is, being him a solitaire man with no wife and she also an alone woman, it was a good thing if they could get together and marry once their compromise to the society was over. After these harsh times were over, she would give up being the ruler of the Union Council, leaving in charge no other than her son Sullen, she was positive he would be the chosen one to it.
With a 23-year-old son, King Laguna would probably leave the kingdom to the young man (and a beautiful one she had to admit) and end his days with her. Since she met him, she had had secret wishes towards that handsome man and if in the time they both weren't married and parents already she would probably engage with him if he wanted. But that didn't happen and years had passed though she could tell she still held feelings for him. Even because the time had been kind to Laguna and she could tell he needed more than his children and peoples' love. And she would be perfect. She would summon him tomorrow to talk about all those things. Today they were all too tired.
And with those thoughts she abandoned the council room. But she wasn't the only one leaving the council room deep in thought. Her son left also in that state, but for four other motives. The first one was that he was totally agreeing with king Laguna, convinced of the non-innocence of Galbadia and it's rulers including Sorceress Edea and he didn't like the way his mother defended them. She was being too blind. Another thing that was disturbing him was the two new presences he felt in the council that day. They were very weak, but he almost could swear they were there, though none of the other Mages appeared to feel them. That weakness could only be from two sources: or the Mages were young ones, whose powers weren't very developed yet or the Mages had come inside of other people. And if they did, it couldn't be good thing, and that definitely had to be the answer because no one had been presented to the Council as a new Mage and being Mages held such power over other people that that person definitely would want to be considered one. And of course the Elder of Time hadn't been there. He had talked to his mother and she was starting to held rancor to her sister. He had also talked with her apprentice Ellone and she had declared that her Master had said that the only ones who could solve this problem were he and his cousin, because the Elders would be too weak to stop the invasion. Then she said she knew no more nor even knew what that had meant. Adding this to the words of the Fortuneteller, he found himself totally lost.
And the fourth motive, but this one a happy one, he had seen the Esthar family and yes the boys were beautiful and the girl was adorable but none of them could ever surpass his beauty. The older had the body and features of his father only his eyes were black. He was dressed in royal purple. The younger was very beautiful resembling more their mother; only his eyes belonged to their father. The middle prince had dark brown hair and black eyes and his features didn't resemble any of their parents, but he was beautiful none less. The girl was his mother face and body and she nodded at Seifer, who seemed a bit surprised when returning the compliment.
'He told me afterwards she was from Timber resistance, but I already knew that. After all I do have my own spies (usually my knights). Old king Laguna had make his appearance with his family and three counselors. Two of them I already knew: sir Kiros Seagil and sir Ward III. The other was wearing a brown cape, which hided him completely not showing his face or hair or body for that matter and I had no idea who it was but Seifer told me he was the middle prince's knight. I wondered how he knew and why did the middle need a knight when the older one had none. But I didn't bother. That family wasn't always the most logical one anyway'.
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After the supper, Seifer wandered through the halls of the palace, since Sullen had exempted his services for the day (and night) and he had nothing more to do and was still early. Pissed at himself, Sullen and at the world and bored to death, he didn't see where he was going. Suddenly, when passing a corner, he stopped at the sight in front of him. Admiring the sunset and framed by it, stood the beautiful boy from Esthar he had met a few days before, Nida. He stood under the corridor arcade staring at the red, orange, golden and pink sky in awe while Seifer was staring in awe to him. The last rays of sun that speared golden rays into his already auburn hair illuminated also its beautiful face and intensified his eyes' color, for he didn't have that vest hiding his head anymore. Seifer let out his breath he didn't know he had been holding and walked towards the boy. Sensing him somehow, the boy turned to him and tried to cover his head again.
"Don't...." Seifer said.
Pausing, the boy looked at the 6 and 2 inches of man towering over him, with those smoky eyes who in the moment had a tinge of golden in his blue depths. Seifer smiled saying he didn't need whatever-the-vest-was-for around him. The boy then let the vest fall again from his head and resumed staring at the beautiful sunset. Seifer stared at him for a few moments and then turned to see the sunset standing closer to the boy so that he could have a better sight of the sky; close enough to feel the faint scent of his hair, which moved slightly with the weak breeze, sometimes brushing his neck and shoulder. The boy feeling the proximity grew a little unquiet, not expecting the move.
"Do you remember me?!" Seifer said not turning to look at the boy.
"Yes...Seifer Almasy of Balamb." the boy answered, not turning either.
"That's right Nida of Esthar. I didn't forget you either..."
The boy flinched. 'That isn't my name' he thought. Not knowing what to say he remained silent. He looked at the man beside him who was standing way too close. He was handsome, that was no doubt, with those jade eyes, that blond hair and built up complexion. He was nice, charming and appeared an honest person, a person you could trust in hard times, and these were definitely very hard ones. In that instant Seifer looked at the boy, catching him checking his body and soul. He smirked. He knew he was handsome and by the boys' blush he could tell he also thought so. But the boy had something strange in those beautiful orbs, something that attracted him, something he knew but couldn't quite place.
Something was pulling him to those smoky eyes. He didn't quite know what it was. He lowered his head to the boys' lips. The boy closed his eyes.
A scream echoed through the already night, breaking the magic moment and their non-yet kiss. They looked at each other both embarrassed.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what passed through my head." Seifer smiled nervously.
The emotion in the boys eyes disappeared, reappearing the indifference and the blush his cheeks had slowly fainted. He appeared worried and suddenly alert.
"What do you think was that?!" Seifer asked.
"I don't know, but I don't have a good feeling about this...From where came the scream...?"
"Let's see. From the North, I think. Two passages from here, by the sound of it..." Seifer supposed looking in the said direction. The boy immediately looked scared.
"That's the Esthar rooms!! Oh no!!" The boy put the cape in his head again and started running. Seifer stood shocked a few moments and then started running behind the boy.
"Wait!!!!"
When Seifer caught the boy he was trying to pass through the crowd of people who had gathered at the entrance of Esthar main room. There were besides common people and servants some knights and Mages including Ellone, Sullen and his mother and some senators and kings. Sullen's mother was devastated and Sullen was embracing her sad himself. They were looking at the floor where three people were crouched, sobbing. It was the Esthar family. When I passed the crowd and reached Nida he appeared serious and angered. But looking deep we could see sadness and guilt and I almost swear he had said, "He must left to go look for me".
Then also Nida crouched silently crying. It was then I looked further under Laguna, Rinoa and Lake and saw no other but the middle prince on the floor with blood covering his body. He was dead. On the white marble was written in red chalk:
#This is for messing on what isn't your business, king of Esthar. Be grateful it wasn't your older son#
End of chapter 6
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Geez, this was hard! I got a blank in the beginning of the chapter. Just then when I thought the worse had been done (the planning part!).
Next chapter "visitors" will be up Friday or Saturday. Seifer goes to Esthar and finds Nida's true identity. Till then.
Warnings: Yaoi rated R.
Summary: Esthar family is in trouble, including our Squall (yaoi: SxS beware). Balamb Garden is a knights' school. Seifer Almasy is one of those knights. Being the personal guard of Sullen, the most good-looking and greatest wizard, he is sent to find out why Galbadian army has attacked Dollet. Does Sorceress Edea have something to do with it?! And why does Elder Guardian of Time refuse to show in the Union council?!
Author's notes: Thanks for your e-mails Jo. I'm glad you like this story. I'm liking writing it too. If it weren't for that and the reviews I would had remove it already. And yes Nida is Squall, thank god, you'll see why in this chapter. Now I have the story totally planed, its just writing the rest of the ideas. It should take more 4 or 5 chapters without this one to be complete.
Nothing more to say. Hope you like it. Review if you feel like you should. I don't really care anymore, I'm tired of begging. ::sniff:: ,-_-,
Sons of Elder Guardians
By Azure Knight
Chapter 6: Tomorrow will come only to some...
The relationship between Seifer and Sullen had gotten worse since the Fortuneteller's visit. Sullen didn't even let Seifer enter in his bedroom. This was making Seifer more than a little bit frustrated. Also the situation in the palace was even worse than Sullen's changes. The day before Council had gotten the situation even worse. The king of Esthar had accused Galbadia and Sorceress Edea of the invasion of Dollet and the stealth of the Keystone (from the looks of it, he was more informed of the situation than they all had thought), accusing her of wanting to rule the world, sarcastically adding that she didn't have to gotten herself in such trouble, she just had to candidate for the election of the Council's ruler in a few months, infuriating Elder Tellian with his last words. After that, Tellian had defended Sorceress Edea, a friend of hers and Laguna had accused her of passivity and consequently aiding and abetting partnership in the crime.
The Elder who had not expected such aggressivity from that peaceful and somewhat beautiful man had been shocked with his words. But the fact was that he was right and many members of the council were adhering to his thoughts. However, she could not give him the reason she knew he had. Besides, she had to defend one of her best friends. So she had ended the Council claiming Esthar king had insulted her and she would suspend the Council for a week to calm the exalted parts of the discussion so they could think better on the situation in hand. She planned to talk to king Laguna in private so they could settle some things. He was one of the few humans that had the courage to confront the Mages, maybe because he had already defeated one Sorceress so she had to make peace with him, because she knew the lovely, peaceful and somewhat clumsy king of Esthar wasn't that frightened man she was seeing. The king was only saying that afraid of a new Sorceress war. Instructed by his counselors and older son he came out with those harsh words.
But she knew him. He was kind and peaceful and she had always liked him for that. She would talk to the wise man and together they would come out with a solution to that problem. After all, it was she who had stopped the execution of Sorceress Adel, the sorceress who had done horrible things to his kingdom and to his family. If he did listen to her that time and done what she had asked even disagreeing, he would now too. After all, he was there to help her. Of course it would also be a good time to speak with him about her future plans for the both. That is, being him a solitaire man with no wife and she also an alone woman, it was a good thing if they could get together and marry once their compromise to the society was over. After these harsh times were over, she would give up being the ruler of the Union Council, leaving in charge no other than her son Sullen, she was positive he would be the chosen one to it.
With a 23-year-old son, King Laguna would probably leave the kingdom to the young man (and a beautiful one she had to admit) and end his days with her. Since she met him, she had had secret wishes towards that handsome man and if in the time they both weren't married and parents already she would probably engage with him if he wanted. But that didn't happen and years had passed though she could tell she still held feelings for him. Even because the time had been kind to Laguna and she could tell he needed more than his children and peoples' love. And she would be perfect. She would summon him tomorrow to talk about all those things. Today they were all too tired.
And with those thoughts she abandoned the council room. But she wasn't the only one leaving the council room deep in thought. Her son left also in that state, but for four other motives. The first one was that he was totally agreeing with king Laguna, convinced of the non-innocence of Galbadia and it's rulers including Sorceress Edea and he didn't like the way his mother defended them. She was being too blind. Another thing that was disturbing him was the two new presences he felt in the council that day. They were very weak, but he almost could swear they were there, though none of the other Mages appeared to feel them. That weakness could only be from two sources: or the Mages were young ones, whose powers weren't very developed yet or the Mages had come inside of other people. And if they did, it couldn't be good thing, and that definitely had to be the answer because no one had been presented to the Council as a new Mage and being Mages held such power over other people that that person definitely would want to be considered one. And of course the Elder of Time hadn't been there. He had talked to his mother and she was starting to held rancor to her sister. He had also talked with her apprentice Ellone and she had declared that her Master had said that the only ones who could solve this problem were he and his cousin, because the Elders would be too weak to stop the invasion. Then she said she knew no more nor even knew what that had meant. Adding this to the words of the Fortuneteller, he found himself totally lost.
And the fourth motive, but this one a happy one, he had seen the Esthar family and yes the boys were beautiful and the girl was adorable but none of them could ever surpass his beauty. The older had the body and features of his father only his eyes were black. He was dressed in royal purple. The younger was very beautiful resembling more their mother; only his eyes belonged to their father. The middle prince had dark brown hair and black eyes and his features didn't resemble any of their parents, but he was beautiful none less. The girl was his mother face and body and she nodded at Seifer, who seemed a bit surprised when returning the compliment.
'He told me afterwards she was from Timber resistance, but I already knew that. After all I do have my own spies (usually my knights). Old king Laguna had make his appearance with his family and three counselors. Two of them I already knew: sir Kiros Seagil and sir Ward III. The other was wearing a brown cape, which hided him completely not showing his face or hair or body for that matter and I had no idea who it was but Seifer told me he was the middle prince's knight. I wondered how he knew and why did the middle need a knight when the older one had none. But I didn't bother. That family wasn't always the most logical one anyway'.
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After the supper, Seifer wandered through the halls of the palace, since Sullen had exempted his services for the day (and night) and he had nothing more to do and was still early. Pissed at himself, Sullen and at the world and bored to death, he didn't see where he was going. Suddenly, when passing a corner, he stopped at the sight in front of him. Admiring the sunset and framed by it, stood the beautiful boy from Esthar he had met a few days before, Nida. He stood under the corridor arcade staring at the red, orange, golden and pink sky in awe while Seifer was staring in awe to him. The last rays of sun that speared golden rays into his already auburn hair illuminated also its beautiful face and intensified his eyes' color, for he didn't have that vest hiding his head anymore. Seifer let out his breath he didn't know he had been holding and walked towards the boy. Sensing him somehow, the boy turned to him and tried to cover his head again.
"Don't...." Seifer said.
Pausing, the boy looked at the 6 and 2 inches of man towering over him, with those smoky eyes who in the moment had a tinge of golden in his blue depths. Seifer smiled saying he didn't need whatever-the-vest-was-for around him. The boy then let the vest fall again from his head and resumed staring at the beautiful sunset. Seifer stared at him for a few moments and then turned to see the sunset standing closer to the boy so that he could have a better sight of the sky; close enough to feel the faint scent of his hair, which moved slightly with the weak breeze, sometimes brushing his neck and shoulder. The boy feeling the proximity grew a little unquiet, not expecting the move.
"Do you remember me?!" Seifer said not turning to look at the boy.
"Yes...Seifer Almasy of Balamb." the boy answered, not turning either.
"That's right Nida of Esthar. I didn't forget you either..."
The boy flinched. 'That isn't my name' he thought. Not knowing what to say he remained silent. He looked at the man beside him who was standing way too close. He was handsome, that was no doubt, with those jade eyes, that blond hair and built up complexion. He was nice, charming and appeared an honest person, a person you could trust in hard times, and these were definitely very hard ones. In that instant Seifer looked at the boy, catching him checking his body and soul. He smirked. He knew he was handsome and by the boys' blush he could tell he also thought so. But the boy had something strange in those beautiful orbs, something that attracted him, something he knew but couldn't quite place.
Something was pulling him to those smoky eyes. He didn't quite know what it was. He lowered his head to the boys' lips. The boy closed his eyes.
A scream echoed through the already night, breaking the magic moment and their non-yet kiss. They looked at each other both embarrassed.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what passed through my head." Seifer smiled nervously.
The emotion in the boys eyes disappeared, reappearing the indifference and the blush his cheeks had slowly fainted. He appeared worried and suddenly alert.
"What do you think was that?!" Seifer asked.
"I don't know, but I don't have a good feeling about this...From where came the scream...?"
"Let's see. From the North, I think. Two passages from here, by the sound of it..." Seifer supposed looking in the said direction. The boy immediately looked scared.
"That's the Esthar rooms!! Oh no!!" The boy put the cape in his head again and started running. Seifer stood shocked a few moments and then started running behind the boy.
"Wait!!!!"
When Seifer caught the boy he was trying to pass through the crowd of people who had gathered at the entrance of Esthar main room. There were besides common people and servants some knights and Mages including Ellone, Sullen and his mother and some senators and kings. Sullen's mother was devastated and Sullen was embracing her sad himself. They were looking at the floor where three people were crouched, sobbing. It was the Esthar family. When I passed the crowd and reached Nida he appeared serious and angered. But looking deep we could see sadness and guilt and I almost swear he had said, "He must left to go look for me".
Then also Nida crouched silently crying. It was then I looked further under Laguna, Rinoa and Lake and saw no other but the middle prince on the floor with blood covering his body. He was dead. On the white marble was written in red chalk:
#This is for messing on what isn't your business, king of Esthar. Be grateful it wasn't your older son#
End of chapter 6
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Geez, this was hard! I got a blank in the beginning of the chapter. Just then when I thought the worse had been done (the planning part!).
Next chapter "visitors" will be up Friday or Saturday. Seifer goes to Esthar and finds Nida's true identity. Till then.