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Warnings: Yaoi rated R.
Summary: CHAPTER 12 UP. (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?!
Sons of Elder Guardians
By Azure Knight
Chapter 12: Uncovered truth
The morning after brought tumult with it.
I awakened due to the noise of guards and knights passing in front of my door.
I cursed under my breath "What is going on? Can't a person sleep in peace anymore on this palace?" I guess I'm not much of a morning person but then again I had been awakened until late, last night with Sullen and I know I needed a good few hours of sleep.
Olian seems to disagree with me because he entered my room soon after the noise with a worried face.
"Seifer, wake up!" he ordered me.
"I'm already awaken thanks to the tumult outside. What happened and why can't I sleep a few hours. Do they know what time is it? Do you know what tim--" I started protesting.
"Esthar's attacking from inside." he interrupted me.
"What?!" I was shocked, was king Laguna crazy or something?!
"By the looks of it, it appears that king Laguna tried to speak with Elder Tellian early this morning and she accused him of treason against the Union by abetting with Elder Queen of Time. Of course she arrested him and condemned him to death. His attendants rebelled and started to attack from the inside. They closed the gates of the palace so the Union army in the city can't enter and doesn't know what's happening inside of it. However the rebels can't get out without being crushed either. The only way they have is by the palace's back door that leads to the barren lands near the sea. That's also the only way out. Or so we think. That's what you, me, Sullen and some other knights are to secure. So dress up quickly, we have to get going."
"We're going to fight Esthar? But I was so well treated there!" I protested again.
"We only attack them because they attacked us first. It was their fault."
"But they're only trying to save their king!" I said but already sheathing my gunblade.
"If he's a traitor, then ..."
"He's only trying to stop this stupid war. Don't you see? The ones dying are the poor and the loyal, not the rich or the leaders."
"That doesn't concern us even if it is true. We're only here to obey Sullen's orders. That's one thing you have to learn." Olian scolded me. I snorted but followed him to the West door meeting Sullen on the way there with five other knights. They all greeted me with a nod. Olian then asked Sullen.
"Your mother, milord?"
"She's in her quarters with the new counsellor. She didn't want to receive me. Said she was too tired. Only gave me this mission."
"That's strange, milord. She never refused an audience with you." Olian stated. Sulen nodded with a sad look.
"It's almost as if she's hiding something from you" I said. I regretted the words as soon after when Olian glared at me. When would I learn to shut my mouth?! Sullen looked at me sadly.
"She never hid anything from me, I always was her right arm. I don't understand her behaviour..." "I'm sure we're all just tired. I'm sure she just wanted to rest. You know she always liked king Laguna a lot. Having to condemn him to death might have been quite a shock for her." Olian said giving a meaningful look at the other knights. This conversation would have to wait until we got in private. But I'm sure we were the three thinking the same thing: that's exactly the reason why she would never condemn him. Arrest him, yes. Death, never. What right did she have to do that if she didn't allowed that to happen to Adel years ago?! She sure was changed, the Elder Queen of Space. Instead of the calm, kind Sorceress, she had become an horrid, implacable, cold bitch. And nobody knew why.
We were in the last corridor to the way out when the gate guards rounded the corner running very scared. When they saw Sullen, they obviously calmed down. Then started to talk all at the same time.
"STOP! That way I can't understand you. You, tell me what happened." Sullen ordered.
"It's the Dark Messenger, milord. And this time he brought a Human-bird with him and their Lord."
"What?! Where?"
"He said he's here to save the king of Esthar and to open the eyes of people." Other guard said. "They went to the North side of the palace, sire. To the Council Room." He completed.
"Did they harm any of you?" Sullen asked.
"No, milord. The young and beautiful Lord released us and let us go. He didn't let nobody get hurt, milord." The guard who had first spoken said.
"Very well. You may go." Sullen said. The guards left, probably to inform the Elder.
"Who do you think is that Lord, sire?" I asked. Sullen smiled sadly.
"My cousin. It's ironic. When I heard the rumors I wished so hard they were true. I wished so hard I could meet my younger cousin and teach him how a Son of Elder Guardian should behave. And I meet him in these circumstances. How sad. Anyway I've got to do something. Stop him and arrest him."
"You do realize if you do that your mother will kill him..." Olian stated.
"I know. But I don't have a choice...maybe I manage to change his mind. He's young; maybe he'll listen to me... Seifer! Go to the barracks and bring reinforcements. Then head to the Council Room, if we aren't there, go through the South passage and look for me in it. Olian and the others, come with me!"
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//Sullen's point of view//
I went through the north way and soon I reached the three mages. The Ancient, a tall man with long gray hair dressed in black, the female Human- bird and my cousin dressed in simple knight clothes with a gunblade in his hand instead of a long rod or wand.
I almost laugh at the irony of a mage needing a knight's weapon to defend himself. It was obvious that the boy had little knowledge in magic. But he was a magical creature indeed. And the most beautiful one I had ever seen.
The knights I had brought and Olian were stupefied with his beauty and I started to get jealous. How could a boy with ridiculous clothes and weapons to a mage's dignity manage to be more beautiful than me?! And then he spoke and I found in him things characteristic of myself.
His timbre of voice and the strange enchanting look of those gorgeous steel- blue eyes. He had definitely my blood. The blood of Elder Guardians.
"You're Lord Sullen, right?!" he asked me.
"Yes!" I answered "And you are my cousin, I suppose."
He nodded.
"So you do really exist. Why hide for so long?" I asked "Why show up now? Was that your mother's plan, conquer from inside with her son and outside with her monsters?" He sighed, exasperated.
"No! She doesn't know I'm here. I came for your help!" I arched my left eyebrow.
"I ask you to help me saving king Laguna." He resumed.
"And why do you want me to save him?" I asked. This was getting weird. He sighed again.
"My name's Squall. He's my father..." I know I looked shocked. And I wasn't the only one. Olian looked at me with a shocked face as well. This was a big bomb. The middle prince of Esthar is an Elder. It all makes sense. The rumors about the prince's beauty, the reason why he never showed up, why he dresses and acts like a knight. He always lived in a country that forbids magic. He's half human, half mage. I gathered my bearings.
"I understand. I will talk to my mother. She'll know what to do with you and maybe knowing about you, I mean that Laguna has a Mage as a son shall relieve your father from the death sentence. I can't do anything else. Swear obedience and loyalty to my mother and she'll understand, but of course the Dark messenger, your guard..." I looked to the tall Ancient" will be arrested. It's the only thing I can do for you and your father." I hadn't stopped speaking and already the boy - as insolent as an Elder - looked at me with an angry and challenging face.
"You don't understand, do you?" he said, "That woman isn't your mother! A sorceress from the future who wants to control time and space possesses her. The one who possessed Edea!"
"You understand what your words mean?! You can't be serious. It's your mother who wants the control of the world." I said not taken aback by his words. A sorceress from the future. Right.
"It isn't Lord Sullen. Believe me! Your mother's being manipulated and there's nothing your real mother can do to avoid it."
In that instant Seifer arrived with ten other knights, trapping their possible escape to the South. He passed the three and posed beside me. When he saw the boy's face, however, he almost fell of shock.
"Squall?!" he exclaimed astonished "What are you...where's the mage, your cousin, Sullen?" he asked me, he was clearly disoriented.
"He is." I pointed to the brown haired boy and I completed "The middle prince of Esthar is my cousin. Son of Laguna Loire and Elder Queen of Time, my aunt Raine." Squall looked at Seifer with an odd apologizing expression?! Seifer laughed incredulously.
"You're kidding me, right?" He asked me and then looked at Squall. When the brunette looked at the floor, Seifer finally believed it. If possible Seifer stood even more disoriented. I ignored his expression; I had more important business to care for the moment.
"You really don't want to change your opinion." I addressed my words to my cousin. "I'm giving you this one last chance because you're my cousin and I wish you no harm." To these words Squall responded calmly.
"It's you who have to open your eyes and see the truth or this world will fall into disgrace. Reflect into your mother's actions and you will find truth in my words. I've nothing more to say."
"Very well, it is that way, then. I'll feel no regrets when you'll be sentenced to death like your father. I tried."
Seifer and Olian looked at Sullen shocked. Sephiroth and Flora stood to protect their Lord but Olian and the fifteen knights seized them. Sephiroth even tried to fight them unsheathing his Masamune but Sullen's wand pointed at Squall's head didn't give him much choice but surrender. And then Sullen ordered.
"Seifer, arrest Squall!"
End of chapter 12
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A/N: Hi again. Yep, yep I'm back. I was away for a long time due to problems with school and then due to the making of my homepage. But I always come back. Anyway I came back but not with empty hands. I have this story all made, just finishing typing it. For now two chapters, next week possible the other two and the Epilogue, the last two I promise, the Epilogue I don't give guarantees I finish in time to post it next week, cause it's a little long. I'm working now also on Number 39, so as soon as I finish typing SOEG I'll start typing that story.
A/N: To my reviewers - GG; Miss Dincht; Squall Morpheus Leonhart; Googuru no Shoujo; S. Wing and Rikkali :
Yes! You can hit me! Not too hard, though. I'm so sorry I left you waiting but here I am. And this time I finish these hanging stories. Thank you all for your reviews.
Warnings: Yaoi rated R.
Summary: CHAPTER 12 UP. (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?!
Sons of Elder Guardians
By Azure Knight
Chapter 12: Uncovered truth
The morning after brought tumult with it.
I awakened due to the noise of guards and knights passing in front of my door.
I cursed under my breath "What is going on? Can't a person sleep in peace anymore on this palace?" I guess I'm not much of a morning person but then again I had been awakened until late, last night with Sullen and I know I needed a good few hours of sleep.
Olian seems to disagree with me because he entered my room soon after the noise with a worried face.
"Seifer, wake up!" he ordered me.
"I'm already awaken thanks to the tumult outside. What happened and why can't I sleep a few hours. Do they know what time is it? Do you know what tim--" I started protesting.
"Esthar's attacking from inside." he interrupted me.
"What?!" I was shocked, was king Laguna crazy or something?!
"By the looks of it, it appears that king Laguna tried to speak with Elder Tellian early this morning and she accused him of treason against the Union by abetting with Elder Queen of Time. Of course she arrested him and condemned him to death. His attendants rebelled and started to attack from the inside. They closed the gates of the palace so the Union army in the city can't enter and doesn't know what's happening inside of it. However the rebels can't get out without being crushed either. The only way they have is by the palace's back door that leads to the barren lands near the sea. That's also the only way out. Or so we think. That's what you, me, Sullen and some other knights are to secure. So dress up quickly, we have to get going."
"We're going to fight Esthar? But I was so well treated there!" I protested again.
"We only attack them because they attacked us first. It was their fault."
"But they're only trying to save their king!" I said but already sheathing my gunblade.
"If he's a traitor, then ..."
"He's only trying to stop this stupid war. Don't you see? The ones dying are the poor and the loyal, not the rich or the leaders."
"That doesn't concern us even if it is true. We're only here to obey Sullen's orders. That's one thing you have to learn." Olian scolded me. I snorted but followed him to the West door meeting Sullen on the way there with five other knights. They all greeted me with a nod. Olian then asked Sullen.
"Your mother, milord?"
"She's in her quarters with the new counsellor. She didn't want to receive me. Said she was too tired. Only gave me this mission."
"That's strange, milord. She never refused an audience with you." Olian stated. Sulen nodded with a sad look.
"It's almost as if she's hiding something from you" I said. I regretted the words as soon after when Olian glared at me. When would I learn to shut my mouth?! Sullen looked at me sadly.
"She never hid anything from me, I always was her right arm. I don't understand her behaviour..." "I'm sure we're all just tired. I'm sure she just wanted to rest. You know she always liked king Laguna a lot. Having to condemn him to death might have been quite a shock for her." Olian said giving a meaningful look at the other knights. This conversation would have to wait until we got in private. But I'm sure we were the three thinking the same thing: that's exactly the reason why she would never condemn him. Arrest him, yes. Death, never. What right did she have to do that if she didn't allowed that to happen to Adel years ago?! She sure was changed, the Elder Queen of Space. Instead of the calm, kind Sorceress, she had become an horrid, implacable, cold bitch. And nobody knew why.
We were in the last corridor to the way out when the gate guards rounded the corner running very scared. When they saw Sullen, they obviously calmed down. Then started to talk all at the same time.
"STOP! That way I can't understand you. You, tell me what happened." Sullen ordered.
"It's the Dark Messenger, milord. And this time he brought a Human-bird with him and their Lord."
"What?! Where?"
"He said he's here to save the king of Esthar and to open the eyes of people." Other guard said. "They went to the North side of the palace, sire. To the Council Room." He completed.
"Did they harm any of you?" Sullen asked.
"No, milord. The young and beautiful Lord released us and let us go. He didn't let nobody get hurt, milord." The guard who had first spoken said.
"Very well. You may go." Sullen said. The guards left, probably to inform the Elder.
"Who do you think is that Lord, sire?" I asked. Sullen smiled sadly.
"My cousin. It's ironic. When I heard the rumors I wished so hard they were true. I wished so hard I could meet my younger cousin and teach him how a Son of Elder Guardian should behave. And I meet him in these circumstances. How sad. Anyway I've got to do something. Stop him and arrest him."
"You do realize if you do that your mother will kill him..." Olian stated.
"I know. But I don't have a choice...maybe I manage to change his mind. He's young; maybe he'll listen to me... Seifer! Go to the barracks and bring reinforcements. Then head to the Council Room, if we aren't there, go through the South passage and look for me in it. Olian and the others, come with me!"
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//Sullen's point of view//
I went through the north way and soon I reached the three mages. The Ancient, a tall man with long gray hair dressed in black, the female Human- bird and my cousin dressed in simple knight clothes with a gunblade in his hand instead of a long rod or wand.
I almost laugh at the irony of a mage needing a knight's weapon to defend himself. It was obvious that the boy had little knowledge in magic. But he was a magical creature indeed. And the most beautiful one I had ever seen.
The knights I had brought and Olian were stupefied with his beauty and I started to get jealous. How could a boy with ridiculous clothes and weapons to a mage's dignity manage to be more beautiful than me?! And then he spoke and I found in him things characteristic of myself.
His timbre of voice and the strange enchanting look of those gorgeous steel- blue eyes. He had definitely my blood. The blood of Elder Guardians.
"You're Lord Sullen, right?!" he asked me.
"Yes!" I answered "And you are my cousin, I suppose."
He nodded.
"So you do really exist. Why hide for so long?" I asked "Why show up now? Was that your mother's plan, conquer from inside with her son and outside with her monsters?" He sighed, exasperated.
"No! She doesn't know I'm here. I came for your help!" I arched my left eyebrow.
"I ask you to help me saving king Laguna." He resumed.
"And why do you want me to save him?" I asked. This was getting weird. He sighed again.
"My name's Squall. He's my father..." I know I looked shocked. And I wasn't the only one. Olian looked at me with a shocked face as well. This was a big bomb. The middle prince of Esthar is an Elder. It all makes sense. The rumors about the prince's beauty, the reason why he never showed up, why he dresses and acts like a knight. He always lived in a country that forbids magic. He's half human, half mage. I gathered my bearings.
"I understand. I will talk to my mother. She'll know what to do with you and maybe knowing about you, I mean that Laguna has a Mage as a son shall relieve your father from the death sentence. I can't do anything else. Swear obedience and loyalty to my mother and she'll understand, but of course the Dark messenger, your guard..." I looked to the tall Ancient" will be arrested. It's the only thing I can do for you and your father." I hadn't stopped speaking and already the boy - as insolent as an Elder - looked at me with an angry and challenging face.
"You don't understand, do you?" he said, "That woman isn't your mother! A sorceress from the future who wants to control time and space possesses her. The one who possessed Edea!"
"You understand what your words mean?! You can't be serious. It's your mother who wants the control of the world." I said not taken aback by his words. A sorceress from the future. Right.
"It isn't Lord Sullen. Believe me! Your mother's being manipulated and there's nothing your real mother can do to avoid it."
In that instant Seifer arrived with ten other knights, trapping their possible escape to the South. He passed the three and posed beside me. When he saw the boy's face, however, he almost fell of shock.
"Squall?!" he exclaimed astonished "What are you...where's the mage, your cousin, Sullen?" he asked me, he was clearly disoriented.
"He is." I pointed to the brown haired boy and I completed "The middle prince of Esthar is my cousin. Son of Laguna Loire and Elder Queen of Time, my aunt Raine." Squall looked at Seifer with an odd apologizing expression?! Seifer laughed incredulously.
"You're kidding me, right?" He asked me and then looked at Squall. When the brunette looked at the floor, Seifer finally believed it. If possible Seifer stood even more disoriented. I ignored his expression; I had more important business to care for the moment.
"You really don't want to change your opinion." I addressed my words to my cousin. "I'm giving you this one last chance because you're my cousin and I wish you no harm." To these words Squall responded calmly.
"It's you who have to open your eyes and see the truth or this world will fall into disgrace. Reflect into your mother's actions and you will find truth in my words. I've nothing more to say."
"Very well, it is that way, then. I'll feel no regrets when you'll be sentenced to death like your father. I tried."
Seifer and Olian looked at Sullen shocked. Sephiroth and Flora stood to protect their Lord but Olian and the fifteen knights seized them. Sephiroth even tried to fight them unsheathing his Masamune but Sullen's wand pointed at Squall's head didn't give him much choice but surrender. And then Sullen ordered.
"Seifer, arrest Squall!"
End of chapter 12
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A/N: Hi again. Yep, yep I'm back. I was away for a long time due to problems with school and then due to the making of my homepage. But I always come back. Anyway I came back but not with empty hands. I have this story all made, just finishing typing it. For now two chapters, next week possible the other two and the Epilogue, the last two I promise, the Epilogue I don't give guarantees I finish in time to post it next week, cause it's a little long. I'm working now also on Number 39, so as soon as I finish typing SOEG I'll start typing that story.
A/N: To my reviewers - GG; Miss Dincht; Squall Morpheus Leonhart; Googuru no Shoujo; S. Wing and Rikkali :
Yes! You can hit me! Not too hard, though. I'm so sorry I left you waiting but here I am. And this time I finish these hanging stories. Thank you all for your reviews.