Disclaimer: They are not mine (I wish they were). Don't sue.
Warnings: Yaoi rated R.
Summary: CHAPTER 13 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 13: The sides are draw...
"Seifer, arrest Squall!"
When I heard my cousin's command I immediately looked at Seifer. He had the most confused look on his face. He didn't know what to do. I didn't want to fight Seifer, on the other hand I couldn't let my father die. Then I remembered that without my poor guards, who were dragged in this nonsense of mine, I couldn't possible win, because Seifer was better than me as a swordsman and Sullen was a thousand times better than me as a mage. I looked at my guards. They were impotent to help me so I was certainly condemned to death as well as they were. The question was, had been worth it, this incursion in the palace? Had it been worth my death? Yes, if I had put doubts in Sullen's mind, if what I said would make him think. Had it been worth my friends' death? Never. But now I hadn't much choice either. I lowered my eyes in despair.
When I looked to Seifer again, the disoriented look had dissipated. He was now confidant and resoluted. He gave a step further, gunblade ready. I was doomed. I closed my eyes; waiting for those strong hands that had caressed me in Esthar with such amount of love took me under custody, leading me to my death.
But nothing came. I opened my eyes to see the most amazing and stupid thing happening. Seifer balanced his gunblade and its blade went almost in contact with Sullen's neck, staying there. Seifer commanded then.
"Release them, NOW!"
All looked shocked at Seifer. I couldn't believe my eyes.
"What do you think you're doing, Seifer?" Olian asked. And that was exactly my question. Had he gone crazy?! Didn't he realize he was risking his life?! Sullen was shocked, at a loss of words. His blood had run out of his face and he was deadly pale. He's only action was look at Seifer, blankly.
"Do as I said. Let them go or Sullen dies!" Seifer's serenity and his determination showed he knew exactly what he was doing, inclusive its consequences. He obviously wasn't crazy. Still, Olian continued looking at him shocked with Seifer's words, but then he seemed to understand and sighing ordered them to do as he had said.
Reluctantly, the knights released Sephiroth and Flora. I still looked confused at Seifer and then he looked at me holding my gaze. And then I understood. There was no need for words; his shining green eyes spoke as clearly. He wasn't doing this because he believed my cause nor was he doing this because he wanted to save my father. He was doing this because he just couldn't let me die.
Then he smiled sadly and sweetly at me. He loved me. In that instant, flashbacks of my harsh and cruel words towards him, his hurt look in the Esthar's palace gates, in my futile attempt to bury these unwanted feelings deep inside me, came to my mind. How could he forget them so easily, giving the supreme prove of love to someone who had rejected him so vehemently? And I wanted to tell him was that he was stupid, that he was crazy, but I couldn't because I had lost the ability to speak. All I could do was to be dragged from there by my guards, seeing Seifer farther and farther away but with that peaceful, tender smile on his face. Later I realized that was probably the last time I was seeing him alive and no matter how much I grieved I could never scream to him how much I loved him back. It was too late. All I could do now, while climbing into the carriage that would take me away from there, was cry reviewing times and times over in my mind the last beautiful smile he had given me.
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The moment Seifer smiled at my cousin I immediately knew Seifer hadn't gone crazy. He had fallen for the boy. He loved him. Him! Not me. I wanted to cry, scream, kill someone! How could he do this to me?! Betray me like this?! I became so mad, so jealous, so ANGRY! My words had venom in them.
"I'll have your head for this Seifer Almasy!!" I said when they were out of sight. The knights thought I was saying it because of the affront, but Olian, me and Seifer knew it was because he had dared to fall for the boy.
He lowered his weapon and his head.
"I know. I'm sorry..." he said and then he was taken to the dungeons where he was locked until my mother and I decided his fate. He offered no resistance.
ºººººººººº //Olian's point of view//
After the incident I managed to drag Sullen to his room. He was trying to hold the tears but as soon as the servants left he controlled them no more and started crying. I had never seen Sullen cry in all my years of serving him and it was the saddest thing I'd ever seen, perhaps because I loved him and his broken heart had left mine broken as well.
He let me comfort him and after he had cried everything he had to cry we started to talk about many subjects so as to keep his head out of the problems and sorrow.
"You know, Olian, the Fortuneteller had warned me about this..." Inevitably we would end talking about this subject.
"About what? Seifer or your cousin?" I asked.
"Both. All of it. Now that I think about it, she told me something that in the time didn't make sense to me but now does." He said with a tired voice. Tired from the cries and the suffering.
"What?"
"She told me to believe my unknown blood and distrust my known one."
"You think she referred to your cousin and to your mother?"
"Yes" he said looking at me "Squall is an Elder so he has my blood and his existence was sort of unknown until now. She also told me that I would lose Seifer sooner or later because he was never destined to me, was never mine...that reminds me...Olian, why did you never like Seifer?" he asked looking at me with his beautiful black eyes under his blond lashes.
"It wasn't that I disliked him. It was you who liked him too much." I have the perfect notion I shouldn't have blushed but I did.
Sullen looked at me for a few more seconds and then went in deep thought again. I could see he still resented Seifer and Squall a lot.
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A few hours later I decided it was better to do something. And for the first time since this all story begun I knew exactly what to do. And those were two things. The first of all was to see my mother.
On the way to her quarters I was given knowledge that king Laguna and his attendants had managed to escape throughout the sewers. When I arrived my mother's quarters I entered without knocking. She was holding the keystone and had the Space key in it. Probably had been using it.
"No one ever taught you to knock before invading someone's privacy? She said quickly hiding the two objects.
"Yes, mother. Anyway, I'm here for an important business: Seifer Almasy of Balamb."
"Oh, right! I told you we shouldn't trust him. See what happened? Those rats escaped." She said scolding me.
"I'm totally desolated mother, but I have a request. I want him to be decapitated on my birthday's day. It's my present." I said smiling. I would have his head. She smiled evilly too.
"As you wish, my son! Seifer Almasy of Balamb will be decapitated in two weeks. After that, we march and crush Elder Queen of Time, and then all will be over my son. All will be over!" We both laughed.
Now I just had to seize my cousin to complete my plan. And that would be the easiest task. I just had to talk to some people.
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The night had fallen. I sighed. Through a hole in the stone I could see the night sky and the stars. I hadn't eaten anything since I had been thrown into this filthy cell. The stupid guard, who by the looks of it loved to see me like this, once again neared my cubicle and laughed at me.
"Sir knight, I have a present for you..." he chanted, "It's from your lovely master. It looks like he isn't as kind to you as he was, anymore. I wonder why?!" He threw something through the door hole and I saw it was a piece of mouldy bread wrapped in a silk scarf. I threw it aside and turned to look at the sky again. I thought my beautiful prince would be safe outside and smiled. Everything had been worth of that.
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Under the same dark blue sky speckled with white stars, a carriage went north to the frontier Dollet-Galbadia. Inside it, a beautiful boy with watery eyes stood sadly peeking at it through the window.
Beside him stood Flora looking worriedly at him.
"Thanks to him, you are safe. I'm sure he didn't want to see you sad like that." She said.
"You can't imagine the horrible things I told him in Esthar. He was a fool, doing that." The boy replied.
"He just wanted to show you how much you meant to him. He wanted you to be safe. That's the way love goes. People do crazy things for the loved one. I'm sure he isn't regretting what he did not even a little bit." She said smiling sadly.
Squall opened his mouth to answer when a sudden halt shut him and worried them.
"What was this? Why did we stop?!" Squall whispered instead. A commanding baritone voice was heard outside.
"Step out of the carriage and don't try anything!" It said.
"Stay inside" Squall said "they don't know me so they can't recognize me." The two others nodded reluctantly. And so Squall descended the carriage. What he saw shocked him. Four mages mounted in dragons surrounded them.
"We came to seize you, Elder Squall. Please do not resist or we'll have to harm your friend." The same baritone voice spoke. It came from a handsome man in his middle twenties with long black hair, riding a rather huge Blue Dragon. He seemed to be the leader.
The friend he was talking, Squall noticed few seconds later was the coachdriver, who was hang by his arms on the mouth of one of the dragons. If he didn't cooperate, the dragon was going to surely eat him.
The man's scared face did it. Squall's last though before surrender was 'Seifer, forgive me."
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End of chapter 13
Next week, as I said, Chapter 14 and 15 will be up. Maybe the epilogue too but I make no promises.
See ya next week.
Warnings: Yaoi rated R.
Summary: CHAPTER 13 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 13: The sides are draw...
"Seifer, arrest Squall!"
When I heard my cousin's command I immediately looked at Seifer. He had the most confused look on his face. He didn't know what to do. I didn't want to fight Seifer, on the other hand I couldn't let my father die. Then I remembered that without my poor guards, who were dragged in this nonsense of mine, I couldn't possible win, because Seifer was better than me as a swordsman and Sullen was a thousand times better than me as a mage. I looked at my guards. They were impotent to help me so I was certainly condemned to death as well as they were. The question was, had been worth it, this incursion in the palace? Had it been worth my death? Yes, if I had put doubts in Sullen's mind, if what I said would make him think. Had it been worth my friends' death? Never. But now I hadn't much choice either. I lowered my eyes in despair.
When I looked to Seifer again, the disoriented look had dissipated. He was now confidant and resoluted. He gave a step further, gunblade ready. I was doomed. I closed my eyes; waiting for those strong hands that had caressed me in Esthar with such amount of love took me under custody, leading me to my death.
But nothing came. I opened my eyes to see the most amazing and stupid thing happening. Seifer balanced his gunblade and its blade went almost in contact with Sullen's neck, staying there. Seifer commanded then.
"Release them, NOW!"
All looked shocked at Seifer. I couldn't believe my eyes.
"What do you think you're doing, Seifer?" Olian asked. And that was exactly my question. Had he gone crazy?! Didn't he realize he was risking his life?! Sullen was shocked, at a loss of words. His blood had run out of his face and he was deadly pale. He's only action was look at Seifer, blankly.
"Do as I said. Let them go or Sullen dies!" Seifer's serenity and his determination showed he knew exactly what he was doing, inclusive its consequences. He obviously wasn't crazy. Still, Olian continued looking at him shocked with Seifer's words, but then he seemed to understand and sighing ordered them to do as he had said.
Reluctantly, the knights released Sephiroth and Flora. I still looked confused at Seifer and then he looked at me holding my gaze. And then I understood. There was no need for words; his shining green eyes spoke as clearly. He wasn't doing this because he believed my cause nor was he doing this because he wanted to save my father. He was doing this because he just couldn't let me die.
Then he smiled sadly and sweetly at me. He loved me. In that instant, flashbacks of my harsh and cruel words towards him, his hurt look in the Esthar's palace gates, in my futile attempt to bury these unwanted feelings deep inside me, came to my mind. How could he forget them so easily, giving the supreme prove of love to someone who had rejected him so vehemently? And I wanted to tell him was that he was stupid, that he was crazy, but I couldn't because I had lost the ability to speak. All I could do was to be dragged from there by my guards, seeing Seifer farther and farther away but with that peaceful, tender smile on his face. Later I realized that was probably the last time I was seeing him alive and no matter how much I grieved I could never scream to him how much I loved him back. It was too late. All I could do now, while climbing into the carriage that would take me away from there, was cry reviewing times and times over in my mind the last beautiful smile he had given me.
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The moment Seifer smiled at my cousin I immediately knew Seifer hadn't gone crazy. He had fallen for the boy. He loved him. Him! Not me. I wanted to cry, scream, kill someone! How could he do this to me?! Betray me like this?! I became so mad, so jealous, so ANGRY! My words had venom in them.
"I'll have your head for this Seifer Almasy!!" I said when they were out of sight. The knights thought I was saying it because of the affront, but Olian, me and Seifer knew it was because he had dared to fall for the boy.
He lowered his weapon and his head.
"I know. I'm sorry..." he said and then he was taken to the dungeons where he was locked until my mother and I decided his fate. He offered no resistance.
ºººººººººº //Olian's point of view//
After the incident I managed to drag Sullen to his room. He was trying to hold the tears but as soon as the servants left he controlled them no more and started crying. I had never seen Sullen cry in all my years of serving him and it was the saddest thing I'd ever seen, perhaps because I loved him and his broken heart had left mine broken as well.
He let me comfort him and after he had cried everything he had to cry we started to talk about many subjects so as to keep his head out of the problems and sorrow.
"You know, Olian, the Fortuneteller had warned me about this..." Inevitably we would end talking about this subject.
"About what? Seifer or your cousin?" I asked.
"Both. All of it. Now that I think about it, she told me something that in the time didn't make sense to me but now does." He said with a tired voice. Tired from the cries and the suffering.
"What?"
"She told me to believe my unknown blood and distrust my known one."
"You think she referred to your cousin and to your mother?"
"Yes" he said looking at me "Squall is an Elder so he has my blood and his existence was sort of unknown until now. She also told me that I would lose Seifer sooner or later because he was never destined to me, was never mine...that reminds me...Olian, why did you never like Seifer?" he asked looking at me with his beautiful black eyes under his blond lashes.
"It wasn't that I disliked him. It was you who liked him too much." I have the perfect notion I shouldn't have blushed but I did.
Sullen looked at me for a few more seconds and then went in deep thought again. I could see he still resented Seifer and Squall a lot.
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A few hours later I decided it was better to do something. And for the first time since this all story begun I knew exactly what to do. And those were two things. The first of all was to see my mother.
On the way to her quarters I was given knowledge that king Laguna and his attendants had managed to escape throughout the sewers. When I arrived my mother's quarters I entered without knocking. She was holding the keystone and had the Space key in it. Probably had been using it.
"No one ever taught you to knock before invading someone's privacy? She said quickly hiding the two objects.
"Yes, mother. Anyway, I'm here for an important business: Seifer Almasy of Balamb."
"Oh, right! I told you we shouldn't trust him. See what happened? Those rats escaped." She said scolding me.
"I'm totally desolated mother, but I have a request. I want him to be decapitated on my birthday's day. It's my present." I said smiling. I would have his head. She smiled evilly too.
"As you wish, my son! Seifer Almasy of Balamb will be decapitated in two weeks. After that, we march and crush Elder Queen of Time, and then all will be over my son. All will be over!" We both laughed.
Now I just had to seize my cousin to complete my plan. And that would be the easiest task. I just had to talk to some people.
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The night had fallen. I sighed. Through a hole in the stone I could see the night sky and the stars. I hadn't eaten anything since I had been thrown into this filthy cell. The stupid guard, who by the looks of it loved to see me like this, once again neared my cubicle and laughed at me.
"Sir knight, I have a present for you..." he chanted, "It's from your lovely master. It looks like he isn't as kind to you as he was, anymore. I wonder why?!" He threw something through the door hole and I saw it was a piece of mouldy bread wrapped in a silk scarf. I threw it aside and turned to look at the sky again. I thought my beautiful prince would be safe outside and smiled. Everything had been worth of that.
ºººººººººº
Under the same dark blue sky speckled with white stars, a carriage went north to the frontier Dollet-Galbadia. Inside it, a beautiful boy with watery eyes stood sadly peeking at it through the window.
Beside him stood Flora looking worriedly at him.
"Thanks to him, you are safe. I'm sure he didn't want to see you sad like that." She said.
"You can't imagine the horrible things I told him in Esthar. He was a fool, doing that." The boy replied.
"He just wanted to show you how much you meant to him. He wanted you to be safe. That's the way love goes. People do crazy things for the loved one. I'm sure he isn't regretting what he did not even a little bit." She said smiling sadly.
Squall opened his mouth to answer when a sudden halt shut him and worried them.
"What was this? Why did we stop?!" Squall whispered instead. A commanding baritone voice was heard outside.
"Step out of the carriage and don't try anything!" It said.
"Stay inside" Squall said "they don't know me so they can't recognize me." The two others nodded reluctantly. And so Squall descended the carriage. What he saw shocked him. Four mages mounted in dragons surrounded them.
"We came to seize you, Elder Squall. Please do not resist or we'll have to harm your friend." The same baritone voice spoke. It came from a handsome man in his middle twenties with long black hair, riding a rather huge Blue Dragon. He seemed to be the leader.
The friend he was talking, Squall noticed few seconds later was the coachdriver, who was hang by his arms on the mouth of one of the dragons. If he didn't cooperate, the dragon was going to surely eat him.
The man's scared face did it. Squall's last though before surrender was 'Seifer, forgive me."
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End of chapter 13
Next week, as I said, Chapter 14 and 15 will be up. Maybe the epilogue too but I make no promises.
See ya next week.