Disclaimer: No, I don't own Final Fantasy 8 or anything related to it... I just borrowed the characters for a little while. ^.^;;
All right, so here I go... What happens when Squall and Rinoa disappear after the Second Sorceress War and it's discovered that the Third War is about to start? Who's behind it? Who's going to stop it? How are they going to stop it?
"When the Heavens Cry"
[ - - Part Two - - ]
Quistis stared at the ceiling of the rebuilt stone home she had grown up in. She had been there three days already and no luck in finding any clues as to where her missing friends could possibly be. She turned to her side, the sofa bed creaking slightly. She wondered how everyone else was doing. Did they find anything? And where did she put that scroll? Should she ask Matron about it?
She sat up suddenly, hearing faint footsteps. Matron. "Are you all right, dear?" she asked the jumpy blond.
Quistis nodded. "Yea... I was thinking though... About a scroll you once gave me..."
Matron sighed. "That scroll is nothing but trouble," she told Quistis, sitting down beside her. "It's a prophecy, really... Just like the battle with my children was a prophecy from a scroll, the one I gave you as a child was one as well."
"A prophecy for what?" the former Instructor questioned.
"For you my dear... I didn't tell you this as a child, but before you came to us at this orphanage you were the princess of a great Centra power... But when you were a baby, the kingdom was wiped out by the Lunar Cry," her Matron explained to her. "A dying queen left you in my arms, telling me that you would one day rise and claim the throne over Centra once more... But you weren't the only one she was carrying... In her other arm, she held Seifer... She told me that Seifer was a nobleman's son, betrothed to you, and together you would resurrect the kingdom of Centra."
"The Knight will become a King... The Watcher will become a Queen..." she whispered. It made sense somehow; Seifer had been a Sorceress' Knight and as an Instructor, it had been her nature to watch over her loved ones... "But, Matron, why didn't you tell me?"
"It wasn't the right time, my dear..."
Quistis nodded. "But what is going to happen? Another Lunar Cry?"
Matron nodded. "No, my sweet Quisty... This time Heaven itself will Cry."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seifer watched the landscape race past him; What in the world was he thinking? Following Quistis Trepe around to give her a stupid scroll? No. He had to go. Something inside him told his heart she needed this scroll. It would save her life... And his. They had promised to be best friends long ago, although one of them seemed to forget when she started using a GF.
He glanced down at the rolled paper in his hands and unraveled it, reading it for the umpteenth time since he left Balamb, telling Raijin and Fujin he had business in Centra. This train was going to the growing city of Winhill, then he'd rent a car and drive to Centra via the newly developed bridge.
"The Knight will become a King..." he whispered to himself. He was a knight, but he was definitely no king. "...The Watcher will become a Queen..." And just who was the watcher... Plus the only queen he could think of was the Save the Queen that Quistis had oh so lovingly almost greeted him with three days ago. "Maybe, she'll have some answers for me..." He sat back in his chair as random thoughts entered his minds; Thoughts of memories long since stored in the back of his mind... A group of children, playing together, but two that always seemed to be together. Slowly, he drifted into a sound slumber, dreaming of days that once were.
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Quistis sat watching the ocean lap at the sandy beach before her. She had remembered this very spot somehow, as if it had called her to sit there, past the yard and down the stone steps. "I'm a Queen..." she tried to convince herself. "How can that be? I wasn't even fit to lead a couple of SeeD cadets, how can I possible resurrect a whole kingdom..."
She looked past the waves and saw a dark, eerie fog rolling in from the ocean. Things were going way to fast for comfort. Just last night, Matron tells her she was a princess... Betrothed to Seifer Almasy nonetheless! And now the mist, she remembered from the scroll, was starting to come around. To top it off, she still didn't have a decent lead as to where Squall and Rinoa were! She had asked Edea and Cid, but they didn't know a damned thing either.
She sighed, laying back on the sand, gazing up at the sky, showered with precious glitter. She closed her eyes for a moment and opened them slowly, seeing that the old lighthouse was working once more. She frowned; That hadn't been working a few minutes ago. She sat up and looked around. The mist was gone and there were two children sitting only inches from her. When she realized that they couldn't hear or see her, she gasped slightly, recognizing both the girl and the boy sitting before her, gazing up at the stars like she had been doing earlier.
It was her! And Seifer! As children? Did they even get along as children? Why were they sitting there now? The memories crept into her mind as she listened in as the little girl sat up, facing the boy, the scene becoming a blur to Quistis...
"... When yoo become King, then I'll be yoo're Queen..."
"...What if yoo become Queen first?..."
"...Then yoo'll be my King... we'll meet here... this very spot..."
"...How will we know?... "
"...'Cause we're best friends..."
Quistis closed her eyes once more and took a moment before opening them again. She looked around; The lighthouse was dark, and the mist had returned. The children were gone, but... Footsteps?
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Seifer had finally reached the Stone House; Stepping out of the car, he looked up at the familiar place and sighed, gazing at it's rebuilt beauty. Walking up the path, he was surprised to see Matron sitting on the doorstep. "It's late, Matron..."
"I knew you'd come, my dear Seifer... I assume you've had you're fill of dreams lately... As did Quisty..." she said to him, standing up, and giving him a needed hug.
Seifer nodded, holding up the scroll. "Yeah, but I just came to give Quistis her scroll back..."
Matron nodded. "Come inside, Seifer... Before you see Quistis, you need to know a few things about that scroll..."
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Quistis stood, the wind wiping at her flowing hair, watching the ocean intently. "So we ended up here after all?" said a familiar voice, causing her to turn around.
"Seifer? What are you doing here?" she asked, watching him come closer.
He held up the scroll. "I came to give you this, but Matron told me a few things I probably could have lived without... Plus I had a dream about this very spot a few days ago, telling me that I'd find you here... Heh, well more like a memory than a dream..."
Quistis took the scroll. "Well, thank you... You can go now."
Seifer raised an eyebrow. "Hey, you aren't a Queen just yet, you can't be ordering me around like that..."
Quistis rolled her eyes as she sat down on the beach once more. "So, Matron told you?"
Seifer nodded, sitting beside her. "Yup... Heh, so about that scroll... 'The King will seek the Queen'... I didn't realize it until now, after Matron told me, but I ended 'seeking' you, now didn't I? You think this whole prophecy thing is real?"
The former Instructor shrugged and motioned toward the fog in the horizon. "Well, there's the mist that supposed to shroud the world... What do you think?"
"Does this mean we have to save the world?" Seifer asked, laying down in the sand.
"I don't know," Quistis answered. "I'm still trying to get over the fact that we were best friends..."
Seifer sat up and looked at her, genuinely hurt. "Why is that so hard to believe? I tried to be your favorite for, what, the 8 or 9 years Squall and me were at Garden?"
Quistis raised an eyebrow. "Are you serious? I thought you were just joking about that before..."
Seifer grunted in a slight resentment. "Of course I was serious, Instructor... I asked you if I was your favorite student, straight out, at Galbadia Garden.... Or did you're precious GF wipe that from your memory as well?"
Quistis sat silent. She did remember. Clear as day. "Not anymore..." she whispered.
"Yea, that's right, Quisty... 'Not anymore...' That's what you said to me..." Seifer told her, in a small angry tone. "My heart sunk... I was your favorite after all, but I wasn't anymore..."
"Seifer, I... I didn't know..." she said, turning to him, bringing her hands to her chest.
He shrugged. "I guess it's in the past now... But I always remembered, Quistis, that we promised to be right here... Even if it didn't register right away... I'm just sorry you didn't remember any of it..." he told her, standing up. "Guess I was right all along, you always did like Zell and Squall better, eh? Zell always running to you for protection and Squall looking up to you..."
Watching Seifer leave, memories seemed to attack her like a pack of wolves... Or maybe they were engulfing her in a ring of... A burning circle of Fire... Fire from Seifer's eyes. "Wait!" she called after him just as he reached the foot of the stone steps.
Seifer turned. "Hm?" He grunted lightly as he was almost knocked back into the small cliff beside the steps as Quistis came running into his arms. "Instructor?"
"I'm so sorry... I do remember... It's just that..." Quistis cried, looking up at him. "I remembered that day in Galbadia Garden... But when I spoke to you, it wasn't you... You were my favorite, you always were... The days at the orphanage stayed with me for so long while we were apart... But we grew apart... I know you saw that we grew apart."
Seifer gently pushed her off. "No. We didn't grow apart. You drifted away..." Seifer gestured toward the beach. "Look at this... Quisty, I've waited for so long just for you to remember; My heart has been at this very spot for years... And I was hoping you'd remember at Galbadia so that I'd have a reason to stay with you... But your answer drove me to where I ended up going... I don't blame you, but I do blame the fact that you didn't remember."
Quistis took a deep breath. "Seifer, I want to be your best friend... If you'll have me... I can't even begin to tell you how happy you made me during our time here... Maybe it is the GF's fault, maybe it's mine... But I want to go back to the old days... And we're going to have to at least get along to face whatever this stupid scroll has in store for us..." she told him, looking into his deep, teal, greenish blue eyes.
Seifer shook his head and parted his lips to speak, but Quistis silenced him with a finger. "Wait a second... We were best friends then, and it was a promise we both should have kept... And now with what Matron tells us, we can really be a King and Queen... Please, Seifer, think about it... The very promise we made was to meet here... Here we are... Seifer, be my king?"
"Quistis, maybe I'm the only one that noticed this, but we did keep our promise in a complicated way... We did stay best friends... The teasing... The way we pushed other to our limits at Garden... The jealousy... The unanswered questions... We did stay close, but it didn't hit us then... Now we have a second chance..." He looked down at her, staring into her crystalline blue eyes. She had always been in his heart, as a best friend definitely, and at times more than that. Could he admit to her that he felt she was more than just a best friend? What could she be thinking?
Little did Seifer know, however, that she was thinking the same thing. She had been jealous of Rinoa, but not because of Squall... Not just Squall at least. She had been jealous because she took two the men that mattered most to her... First her best friend, and then her little brother. She had thought she lost them both... Until Seifer asked if he was her favorite... Yes, he was, he always was... He was her best friend, always in her heart... But was friendship all she wanted from him?
Both their questions were answered as strong field of gravity seemed to orbit around them, pushing them closer. Quistis moved slowly toward the Knight turned King as he leaned down toward her. Their lips lingered for a moment, but failed to connect as a loud voice echoed from the top of the stairway. "Yoooooooo!"
Both Knight and Watcher jerked their heads up toward the familiar voice. "Zell?" Quistis asked, bewildered as to why he and Kim were now walking down the stone steps.
"Quisty! We found out where Squall and Rinoa are... But, uh, we can't exactly get them back right now..."
To Be Continued...
Like it? Love it? Hate it? Despise it? (for other reasons than new characters) Good? Bad? Great? Sucked? Give me some input! ^.^ I hope that you liked it though... I'd like to know how you thought of it so leave a review or email me if you'd like! Thanks for reading! I hope to keep this series going for a bit!
All right, so here I go... What happens when Squall and Rinoa disappear after the Second Sorceress War and it's discovered that the Third War is about to start? Who's behind it? Who's going to stop it? How are they going to stop it?
"When the Heavens Cry"
[ - - Part Two - - ]
Quistis stared at the ceiling of the rebuilt stone home she had grown up in. She had been there three days already and no luck in finding any clues as to where her missing friends could possibly be. She turned to her side, the sofa bed creaking slightly. She wondered how everyone else was doing. Did they find anything? And where did she put that scroll? Should she ask Matron about it?
She sat up suddenly, hearing faint footsteps. Matron. "Are you all right, dear?" she asked the jumpy blond.
Quistis nodded. "Yea... I was thinking though... About a scroll you once gave me..."
Matron sighed. "That scroll is nothing but trouble," she told Quistis, sitting down beside her. "It's a prophecy, really... Just like the battle with my children was a prophecy from a scroll, the one I gave you as a child was one as well."
"A prophecy for what?" the former Instructor questioned.
"For you my dear... I didn't tell you this as a child, but before you came to us at this orphanage you were the princess of a great Centra power... But when you were a baby, the kingdom was wiped out by the Lunar Cry," her Matron explained to her. "A dying queen left you in my arms, telling me that you would one day rise and claim the throne over Centra once more... But you weren't the only one she was carrying... In her other arm, she held Seifer... She told me that Seifer was a nobleman's son, betrothed to you, and together you would resurrect the kingdom of Centra."
"The Knight will become a King... The Watcher will become a Queen..." she whispered. It made sense somehow; Seifer had been a Sorceress' Knight and as an Instructor, it had been her nature to watch over her loved ones... "But, Matron, why didn't you tell me?"
"It wasn't the right time, my dear..."
Quistis nodded. "But what is going to happen? Another Lunar Cry?"
Matron nodded. "No, my sweet Quisty... This time Heaven itself will Cry."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seifer watched the landscape race past him; What in the world was he thinking? Following Quistis Trepe around to give her a stupid scroll? No. He had to go. Something inside him told his heart she needed this scroll. It would save her life... And his. They had promised to be best friends long ago, although one of them seemed to forget when she started using a GF.
He glanced down at the rolled paper in his hands and unraveled it, reading it for the umpteenth time since he left Balamb, telling Raijin and Fujin he had business in Centra. This train was going to the growing city of Winhill, then he'd rent a car and drive to Centra via the newly developed bridge.
"The Knight will become a King..." he whispered to himself. He was a knight, but he was definitely no king. "...The Watcher will become a Queen..." And just who was the watcher... Plus the only queen he could think of was the Save the Queen that Quistis had oh so lovingly almost greeted him with three days ago. "Maybe, she'll have some answers for me..." He sat back in his chair as random thoughts entered his minds; Thoughts of memories long since stored in the back of his mind... A group of children, playing together, but two that always seemed to be together. Slowly, he drifted into a sound slumber, dreaming of days that once were.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quistis sat watching the ocean lap at the sandy beach before her. She had remembered this very spot somehow, as if it had called her to sit there, past the yard and down the stone steps. "I'm a Queen..." she tried to convince herself. "How can that be? I wasn't even fit to lead a couple of SeeD cadets, how can I possible resurrect a whole kingdom..."
She looked past the waves and saw a dark, eerie fog rolling in from the ocean. Things were going way to fast for comfort. Just last night, Matron tells her she was a princess... Betrothed to Seifer Almasy nonetheless! And now the mist, she remembered from the scroll, was starting to come around. To top it off, she still didn't have a decent lead as to where Squall and Rinoa were! She had asked Edea and Cid, but they didn't know a damned thing either.
She sighed, laying back on the sand, gazing up at the sky, showered with precious glitter. She closed her eyes for a moment and opened them slowly, seeing that the old lighthouse was working once more. She frowned; That hadn't been working a few minutes ago. She sat up and looked around. The mist was gone and there were two children sitting only inches from her. When she realized that they couldn't hear or see her, she gasped slightly, recognizing both the girl and the boy sitting before her, gazing up at the stars like she had been doing earlier.
It was her! And Seifer! As children? Did they even get along as children? Why were they sitting there now? The memories crept into her mind as she listened in as the little girl sat up, facing the boy, the scene becoming a blur to Quistis...
"... When yoo become King, then I'll be yoo're Queen..."
"...What if yoo become Queen first?..."
"...Then yoo'll be my King... we'll meet here... this very spot..."
"...How will we know?... "
"...'Cause we're best friends..."
Quistis closed her eyes once more and took a moment before opening them again. She looked around; The lighthouse was dark, and the mist had returned. The children were gone, but... Footsteps?
~~~~~~~~~
Seifer had finally reached the Stone House; Stepping out of the car, he looked up at the familiar place and sighed, gazing at it's rebuilt beauty. Walking up the path, he was surprised to see Matron sitting on the doorstep. "It's late, Matron..."
"I knew you'd come, my dear Seifer... I assume you've had you're fill of dreams lately... As did Quisty..." she said to him, standing up, and giving him a needed hug.
Seifer nodded, holding up the scroll. "Yeah, but I just came to give Quistis her scroll back..."
Matron nodded. "Come inside, Seifer... Before you see Quistis, you need to know a few things about that scroll..."
~~~~~~~~~~
Quistis stood, the wind wiping at her flowing hair, watching the ocean intently. "So we ended up here after all?" said a familiar voice, causing her to turn around.
"Seifer? What are you doing here?" she asked, watching him come closer.
He held up the scroll. "I came to give you this, but Matron told me a few things I probably could have lived without... Plus I had a dream about this very spot a few days ago, telling me that I'd find you here... Heh, well more like a memory than a dream..."
Quistis took the scroll. "Well, thank you... You can go now."
Seifer raised an eyebrow. "Hey, you aren't a Queen just yet, you can't be ordering me around like that..."
Quistis rolled her eyes as she sat down on the beach once more. "So, Matron told you?"
Seifer nodded, sitting beside her. "Yup... Heh, so about that scroll... 'The King will seek the Queen'... I didn't realize it until now, after Matron told me, but I ended 'seeking' you, now didn't I? You think this whole prophecy thing is real?"
The former Instructor shrugged and motioned toward the fog in the horizon. "Well, there's the mist that supposed to shroud the world... What do you think?"
"Does this mean we have to save the world?" Seifer asked, laying down in the sand.
"I don't know," Quistis answered. "I'm still trying to get over the fact that we were best friends..."
Seifer sat up and looked at her, genuinely hurt. "Why is that so hard to believe? I tried to be your favorite for, what, the 8 or 9 years Squall and me were at Garden?"
Quistis raised an eyebrow. "Are you serious? I thought you were just joking about that before..."
Seifer grunted in a slight resentment. "Of course I was serious, Instructor... I asked you if I was your favorite student, straight out, at Galbadia Garden.... Or did you're precious GF wipe that from your memory as well?"
Quistis sat silent. She did remember. Clear as day. "Not anymore..." she whispered.
"Yea, that's right, Quisty... 'Not anymore...' That's what you said to me..." Seifer told her, in a small angry tone. "My heart sunk... I was your favorite after all, but I wasn't anymore..."
"Seifer, I... I didn't know..." she said, turning to him, bringing her hands to her chest.
He shrugged. "I guess it's in the past now... But I always remembered, Quistis, that we promised to be right here... Even if it didn't register right away... I'm just sorry you didn't remember any of it..." he told her, standing up. "Guess I was right all along, you always did like Zell and Squall better, eh? Zell always running to you for protection and Squall looking up to you..."
Watching Seifer leave, memories seemed to attack her like a pack of wolves... Or maybe they were engulfing her in a ring of... A burning circle of Fire... Fire from Seifer's eyes. "Wait!" she called after him just as he reached the foot of the stone steps.
Seifer turned. "Hm?" He grunted lightly as he was almost knocked back into the small cliff beside the steps as Quistis came running into his arms. "Instructor?"
"I'm so sorry... I do remember... It's just that..." Quistis cried, looking up at him. "I remembered that day in Galbadia Garden... But when I spoke to you, it wasn't you... You were my favorite, you always were... The days at the orphanage stayed with me for so long while we were apart... But we grew apart... I know you saw that we grew apart."
Seifer gently pushed her off. "No. We didn't grow apart. You drifted away..." Seifer gestured toward the beach. "Look at this... Quisty, I've waited for so long just for you to remember; My heart has been at this very spot for years... And I was hoping you'd remember at Galbadia so that I'd have a reason to stay with you... But your answer drove me to where I ended up going... I don't blame you, but I do blame the fact that you didn't remember."
Quistis took a deep breath. "Seifer, I want to be your best friend... If you'll have me... I can't even begin to tell you how happy you made me during our time here... Maybe it is the GF's fault, maybe it's mine... But I want to go back to the old days... And we're going to have to at least get along to face whatever this stupid scroll has in store for us..." she told him, looking into his deep, teal, greenish blue eyes.
Seifer shook his head and parted his lips to speak, but Quistis silenced him with a finger. "Wait a second... We were best friends then, and it was a promise we both should have kept... And now with what Matron tells us, we can really be a King and Queen... Please, Seifer, think about it... The very promise we made was to meet here... Here we are... Seifer, be my king?"
"Quistis, maybe I'm the only one that noticed this, but we did keep our promise in a complicated way... We did stay best friends... The teasing... The way we pushed other to our limits at Garden... The jealousy... The unanswered questions... We did stay close, but it didn't hit us then... Now we have a second chance..." He looked down at her, staring into her crystalline blue eyes. She had always been in his heart, as a best friend definitely, and at times more than that. Could he admit to her that he felt she was more than just a best friend? What could she be thinking?
Little did Seifer know, however, that she was thinking the same thing. She had been jealous of Rinoa, but not because of Squall... Not just Squall at least. She had been jealous because she took two the men that mattered most to her... First her best friend, and then her little brother. She had thought she lost them both... Until Seifer asked if he was her favorite... Yes, he was, he always was... He was her best friend, always in her heart... But was friendship all she wanted from him?
Both their questions were answered as strong field of gravity seemed to orbit around them, pushing them closer. Quistis moved slowly toward the Knight turned King as he leaned down toward her. Their lips lingered for a moment, but failed to connect as a loud voice echoed from the top of the stairway. "Yoooooooo!"
Both Knight and Watcher jerked their heads up toward the familiar voice. "Zell?" Quistis asked, bewildered as to why he and Kim were now walking down the stone steps.
"Quisty! We found out where Squall and Rinoa are... But, uh, we can't exactly get them back right now..."
To Be Continued...
Like it? Love it? Hate it? Despise it? (for other reasons than new characters) Good? Bad? Great? Sucked? Give me some input! ^.^ I hope that you liked it though... I'd like to know how you thought of it so leave a review or email me if you'd like! Thanks for reading! I hope to keep this series going for a bit!