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Chapter 15 - Squall in distress!

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NOOO!!!!! I yelled but the words couldn't come out... I caught him. I actually caught Squall. I flew to him and caught him before he was dropped to the floor. Dust and rocks were flying everywhere.

"Rin...Rin..." Squall struggled to say.

"NNNOOOO!!!!" Quistis yelled in a sheer high pitched scream.

I felt my stomach being released and I could breath. I took the deep breaths I've been longing for and looked at Quistis high up in the air. She was holding her head in pain and trembling like a fly with one wing but... wouldn't you know it, Selphie was holding on to Quistis's head from behind. Bang! I heard and then another. It was Irvine shooting at her. Then I saw Zell running up to Quistis and did his all famous move. The 'My Final Heaven'.

"You die!" Selphie yelled and as she was falling to the ground (Duh! She has no wings to stay up in the air forever) she was heaved Quistis down with her. Holding on to her hair! Just before they hit the ground Selphie clipped her wings together with her hands and settled on her back. Boom! Quistis was smashed into the floor face down with Selphie on top of her. No damage had been done to her. I'm convinced Quistis took all the pain of falling to the floor.

"Ha!" Selphie said and jumped off Quistis's back and on to the floor. Then Selphie fell to her knees. "Oops! I forgot I need help walking! ...IRVINE!!!"

I laughed in joy and looked at Squall.

"Squall?" I whispered and moved the bangs from his face. He smiled lightly.

"I'm... ok" Squall said putting his hand to his forehead

"Really?" I said doubting him.

"No..."

"Here" Zell said and casted potion on him. Squall got to his feet and looked into my eyes.

"Thanks for... back there" Squall said slightly blushing and grabbing my hand. He grasped it tightly and then walked over to Quistis. He started to nudge her with his foot. To see if she would wake up. "Hmm... if sees dead she wouldn't mind a kick" Squall said suddenly stomping his foot on her but

"NOT YET!!!!"

Squall flew back to the wall. Quistis had grabbed his foot and pushed him into the air as if she was cleaning dirt off her. Zell ran to Squall. Irvine and Selphie retreated behind a car. I walked up to Quistis and looked at her lying on the floor. She was grinning at me. She was enjoying this.

"RINOA I'M NO ORDINARY MUTANT. I'M A GODDESS" Quistis scolded in her deep voice.

She held her hands out to me and among her physic powers she knocked me away into a van and the windows broke. I slid to the floor. The glass shattered on to me. Inserting into my skin and leaving bloody cuts all over. Quistis got off the ground and soared to the Parking Lot door opening it. Outside it was a stormy weather like all Halloween Night's.

"LET'S PLAY OUTSIDE IN THE NIGHT" Quistis said and turned around to walk out.

"Zell help Rinoa up" Squall told him and followed after Quistis.

Zell came to examine me and Irvine came holding Selphie in his arms.

"Ouch" Zell said backing his head away from me. He pulled out some of the shattered glass.

"What's wrong... wrong with... with Quistis? Why must... Why is she...?" Selphie tried to ask Irvine questions but stuttered too much. She clung to Irvine and kept her arms around his shoulders. She started to cry fairly, sniffing a lot.

"This can't be Quistis, sweetie. We lost her a long time ago" Irvine said comforting both me and Selphie.

"Hey!" I yelled at Zell. "Watch it… your getting them deeper in me"

"Chill girl! I got this under control" Zell said continuing to pull out all the glass off my shoulders and arms.

I could hear a faint sound of Squall's battle with Quistis. It sounded brutal. I can't wait till I get out there and give her a big piece of my mind. That bitch had done too much. I should have killed her from the foremost time I saw her.

"All done... but you have many cuts and I don't seem to have any bandages to wrap around your shoulders and arm" Zell notified me.

"It's alright. You three stay inside. If there's anyone who should die it should be me" I alleged and got myself up. I stretched my wings and my arms. I walked out of the Parking Lot and into the rain.

The ground was all muddy and the rain was falling hard. Squall was on the ground getting himself back up with the help of his gunblade. He took off his jacket and tried striking her but she just kicked him away and dashed in the air. Squall jumped and sliced her leg. The blood of the wound spilled all over Squall's face and body. Squall had a puncture on his chest. It looked like a gunshot.

"BACK OFF SQUALL... IT'S NO USE" Quistis said flying back down on the grass.

I ran to Squall and pressed him slightly away and whispered in his ear.

"Squall you can't fly. You can attack her when she's in your reach"

I turned around and stuck my hand out forcing an energy blast which she happened to block. She flew backwards high into the stormy air and called me forward with her finger. I felt myself being hauled to her. I couldn't stop it so if she wanted me she was going to get me. I flew forward and teleported behind her. I stabbed her with my sword and flew around her and casted Thundara. Her body twitched in pain then she pulled out the sword from behind her groaning a bit.

"RAY-BOMB" Quistis said and explosions came my way. My wings were in terrible shape and I could hardly keep me in the air.

I pulled off my necklace and kissed it. I unleashed the power inside it. A blast of radiance shined from it. I closed my eyes and turned away. Once the glow faded away I looked at what I had kept inside of it for so long. My second favorite animal you could say. Quistis opened her eyes wider in astonishment and flew away as my Black Panther leaped on to her and gnawed her all over. Quistis yelled and I clapped my hands as when suddenly the Panther vaporized into ashes all over her. Devouring her flesh. Where ever the ashes were on. If this didn't work then I'm sure I was done for.

"hehe... NOW THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR" Quistis said standing up perfectly.

I was in shock it didn't work. She wasn't dead. Her black shirt was eaten away on the right side by the ashes. The skin on her right arm and right leg was black and decayed. You could see her skin diminishing off more and more.

"Blasting Zone!" Squall roared and his gunblade formed a gigantic beam pillar that smashed her. She was on her knees laughing. She pulled her hair back and cleaned off the rain on her face. I couldn't believe it. Will she ever die? I checked out Squall and he was on his knees too. I love you for trying with everything you have I wanted to say. I shook my head in world-weariness.