Letting you go Again
Squall P.O.V
She was gone. I woke up in the morning with a dull headache and a note in my front pocket.
A few things have come up and I can't stay here anymore. I have to go and do this myself. Don't try to stop me please, I'm long gone by now. But I'm fine, I'll be ok. I might not ever see you again.
Rinoa.
I might not ever see you again. What did she mean? Where was she going, what did she need to do? She hadn't told me anything. Why couldn't I know…
The others woke up and I showed them the letter. They were about as confused as I was.
"I don't get it…why would she go? She could have told us. She can trust us right?" Meryl asked.
I nodded. I wanted the answers as much she did.
" Seifer", I asked, " What time was it, do you think, when she came to talk to you?"
"It was about midnight, she told me something was in the bushes then just put me to sleep"
" Damn…"
We'd find her. But what would be the most obvious spot for her to go to? The Sorceress Memorial. Of course.
" She's gone to the sorceress memorial. She probably wants to stop the Council alone…or something…I don't know"
Quistis didn't seem so sure. " But Squall, why would she want to go off alone? Wouldn't she know she would be better off in a group? There has to be more to it…"
" I agree Quisty, but until we know more, we can't do anything about it except go after her"
And so we packed up and got into the car, on our way to the sorceress memorial. We kept a close eye on everything, just hoping she wasn't there already. She would have gone on foot so it gave us an advantage.
Rinoa P.O.V
Lyra and I set off for the sorceress memorial. It was just west a little and we were almost there. Fortunately for us, we didn't run into any more of our Grat Friends. Lyra was able to scout ahead in her wolf form and look out for any danger, but we didn't run into anything else.
When Lyra was gone for a while, I was worried. She was a GF but I still worried about her. She was my friend.
"Lyra…are you there?"
No answer. I groaned and kept walking. She was probably just scouting further up ahead. We were getting so much closer to the sorceress memorial and it was getting windier. I was freezing.
"Lyra…" She was nowhere. I decided to keep going and just wait for her to turn up…she was good at that.
The wind really picked up. A tripped on a shrub and stumbled over but I was caught by the wind and thrown back again. Recovering form my shock I got down on my hands and knees to prevent being thrown off the cliff that loomed next to me. I got close enough to the edge and looked over.
" Made it…"
The sorceress memorial towered in from me. The three gardens were stationary out the front and I could see the students walking around in the Quad of Balamb Garden from where I sat.
Forgetting my current position I stood up to get a better view. A violent gust of wind pushed me from behind and threw me forward. Screaming, I tried desperately to grab hold of the edge but grasped air and plunged over the edge.
" Help!" I insisted on screaming out to no one even though I was alone. The scenery flew past in a flurry and I saw the sky appear as I tumbled through the air. But in this moment that I thought to be my last, something grabbed me by the feet. I jolted violently in the air, hanging upside down. My hair fell down over my face, blocking my view.
"Ugh…" I looked up and saw Lyra smiling at me.
She pulled me up and helped me get back behind a tall boulder away from the harsh wind.
" Are you ok Rinoa?"
I nodded, still dazed.
" You know you really shouldn't have stood up in that wind"
" I know I know, stupid me. But I was just so happy to see the gardens again. You know?"
Lyra seemed confused.
" But I thought you were running from the gardens?"
I shook my head.
" No no, I'm running from the Council, they're the ones that decided I had to taken to Esthar"
Running from the Council…well at the moment I'm running from Squall as well…
" Oh ok…but why would they want to send you away? You wouldn't do any harm. You fought for the people and helped bring down Ultemicia"
" Yeah that's what I don't get either, but maybe its because they following on what past sorceress's have done. They think I'll follow the same path"
I sighed and my thoughts were brung back to the 'stone'.
" And now I'm going to die. A Galbadian army couldn't kill me, dangling off the side of a garden couldn't kill me, space couldn't kill me, time compression couldn't kill me, a crazy psycho sorceress from the future couldn't kill me and now…a stone is going to kill me…"
I was almost shouting by now, my blood boiling.
" I mean I don't even know what colour this stone is. It could be as tiny as marble and be bright pink! I wouldn't care anyway really would I? Why would I worry about something that's going to KILL ME?!"
I dropped my head and started crying. I wasn't crying for the fact I would die. But I was crying out of confusion. I wanted closure. I wanted to know why…
Lyra sighed and held onto me.
" Rinoa, we'll think of something. We will…"
Author's Note: Wow…is it just me or am I going crazy on account of this fic? I am updating way too quickly! Oh please reward my hard efforts and leave a lovely review. Love you all!
