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A vacation to remember
Chapter 2
Everyone arrived back at the beach house.
"Hello, I need to speak to Cid, its important!" Quistis yelled to the phone. "He can't be busy!.... Alright, its alright." Quistis put the phone down on the hook. "Dammit."
"No luck?" Irvine asked coming into the kitchen.
"No, I don't get it." Quistis said, deep in thought.
"What's there not to get, that man's always busy. Come on, everyone's waiting for you in the living room." Irvine and Quistis went back in the living room.
"Alright everyone, I may have clue." Squall said, sitting on the couch. "When I was talking to him, he referred to that guy he killed as a boy. He seemed in his twenty's though."
"Maybe this guy is kind of old." Zell said, catching on to Squall's thoughts.
"So, what does age have to do with it?" Rinoa asked.
"Well, its most likely he's not from garden, but we can't be sure." Squall answered back.
"That he killed was kind of like a teenager anyway." Irvine said.
"Well, we have no description what he looks like, we don't know why he's after us, this night is all weird, I'm turnin' in." Rinoa said, walking up the stairs to her room.
"I think Rinoa's right, maybe we should work on this tomorrow." Selphie said, rubbing her tired eyes. She held her big teddy bear and fell asleep on the couch, with her feet crossed on the floor.
"Yeah, I'm tired too, I'm gonna' sleep." Zell said, walking up the stairs after Quistis. Irvine carried Selphie up the stairs and went bed. Squall was the only downstairs, trying to figure out what happened tonight.
An hour has passed now, but Squall for some reason couldn't get to sleep, knowing that someone out there was after them and no one paid attention to it. Squall sat on the couch and turning on the TV.
"Squall?" Rinoa asked, walking down the steps, tiredly. "How come your not in bed, your spot was cold, so I know you weren't in bed for a while." Rinoa laid next to Squall.
"Sorry, but I couldn't sleep." Squall apologized.
"Come on Squall, let's go to bed, please." Rinoa begged.
"I'll be up in a minute."
"No, now." Rinoa held on to his arm.
"What's wrong Rinoa?" Squall asked, with concern in his voice.
"I'm scared Squall, what if I wake up one day, and your not there. It got me thinking when that incident happened. I know you're a SeeD and its your job to fight, but still I don't want you to leave me." Rinoa said, with tears in her eyes.
"I'm not going anywhere, Rinoa." Squall said, embracing her.
"I hope you don't leave." Rinoa said, holding on to Squall.
"Listen Rinoa, you remember this?" He looked down at her. "I'll be here."
"For what?" Rinoa said, smiling and knowing what he was getting at.
"I'll always be here for you."
"Really?"
"Yes, as long as I'm here, you nor me is going anywhere, I promise." Squall said, smiling down at Rinoa and kissing her on the lips.
Rinoa grabbed him down to her an whispered in his ears. "I love you Squall leonhart."
"I love you too, Rinoa Heartilly." They went upstairs jumped in bed and held each other even in there sleep.
*
It was the next morning. Everyone was already up, still reminiscing about what happened the night before. "Hey, maybe we can try and reach Cid, he might not be busy." Quistis suggested, sitting at the breakfast table with everyone else.
"He's probably busy sleeping, it is 8:00 anyway." Selphie said, taking a bite of her cereal.
"Maybe, its nothing to worry about, or maybe we can check the spot out tonight, who knows maybe he'll be back?" Zell said, putting milk in his breakfast.
"Why would he return to the scene of the crime?" Quistis asked, looking at Zell as if she were asking, what are you thinking?
"He just might." Zell, picked up his spoonful of cereal and put it in his mouth.
"Let's get all of this off our mind and go swimming!" Selphie said, trying to get everyone to agree.
"Yeah, I think Selphie is right, maybe we do need a break from all this, we can have a pool party, after all Cid did send us here to have a good time." Rinoa agreed.
"Yeah, I'm came to have a good time and I'm gonaa' have a good time, no ones' gonna' stop me." Zell said, getting up from the table almost knocking everything off of it.
"Watch it Zell." Squall said, picking his bowl off the table. There was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it." Zell said, walking into the living room. He opened the door.
"Hello, Is there a Squall Leonhart, Zell din-" The petite woman was cut off.
"Yeah, that's us." Zell said, cutting her off.
"Oh, I'm your new tour guide, My name is Alice Stone." Alice held her hand out for Zell to shake.
"Hello, I'm Zell Dincht." Zell shook her hand and let her in. "What happened to Samuel?"
"Samuel?"
"Oh, never mind, I guess you don't know him."
"Hey Zell, who's at the door?!" Squall yelled thought the kitchen.
"It's the tour guide!" Zell yelled back. "Let me introduce you to the others." Zell lead, the Red head to the kitchen. "This is Squall, Rinoa, Selphie, Quistis, and Irvine."
"Please to meet you." Irvine said, Tilting his hat to the woman.
"Hello, everyone, as Zell said, I'm your new tour guide. My name is Alice Stone." Alice shook everyone's hand.
"Not to sound rude or anything, but we basically know the house well." Quistis said, After shook her hand.
"Oh, I'm just here to make sure you know your way around the place." Alice said, almost with nervousness.
"Aw, you don't have to be nervous we won't bite." Selphie said, Smiling at her. Squall turned his the other way. Quistis saw him and walked over to him.
"Um Squall can I speak to you in the Living room?" Quistis winked at him.
"Uh, sure." He looked at Rinoa. "I'll be right back." He headed to the living room. "What's up?"
"That new tour guide. She's acting strange." Quistis said, almost whispering.
"Yeah, I noticed too." Squall put his arm on his hip.
"What are we going to do?"
"Just play it cool." Just then, Alice came in.
"Well, I hope you have a lovely day, goodbye!" Alice walked to the door, with a smirk on her face.
"Well, what were you guys talking about?" Zell asked, coming in from the kitchen.
"That tour guide, she was acting kinda' weird." Quistis informed.
"Well, if you ask me, she was better than that stiff, Samuel." Zell said, plopping down on the couch. He started flicking the channels.
"I think I'll give Cid a call." Quistis said, walking into the kitchen. "Hello, Cid?.....Yeah, its me, Quistis....Yes we're alright...." Quistis gestured for everyone to come to the phone.
"Yeah, we're fine. You did? Well what are we supposed to do?!....Alright, I understand. Bye." Quistis hung the phone up and walked back in the living room.
"What did he say?" Rinoa asked, sitting down, next to Squall.
"He knew about the incident. Before we left, he secretly had one of guards to keep watch on us, while we're on vacation. His guard kept watch all the way to the incident. I guess he's somewhere close by, keeping Cid informed on what we're doing a t this very moment." Quistis stood in front of the Tv with her arms folded to her chest.
"Okay... So what do we do, if he knows the situation." Zell asked, sitting down on the couch with his left leg on top of his right and his arms folded.
"Well, he said start packing up, we're leavin'. He said, be prepared." Quistis that same instructor tone.
"And, how are we supposed to be prepared if we don't have our weapons?" Squall asked.
"He said one of his 'secret guards' will bring our weapons, he's had them ever since he came hear."
"Well, I guess Cid was thinkin' ahead of time." Irvine said.
"Welp, this turned out to be a crummy vacation." Zell said, getting up and stretching.
"Hey you guys, we can still have our pool party." Selphie said, looking at everyone. "Then we can pack afterwards, right?"
"Oh yeah, we might as well have fun before we leave, by the way, when do we leave?" Zell asked.
"He said as soon as he can get his hands on 6 tickets to come back." Quistis said, sitting next to Selphie. "That's gonna' take forever, he said they were already sold out when he bought them."
"Come on everyone, lighten up, let's get changed into our swim suits!" Rinoa ran up the stairs in a hurry. Selphie followed after her, then Quistis, and everyone else.
*
"Fire in the water!!!!!!" Zell said, jumping in the water, splashing everyone in the process.
"Come on Zell! Stop doing that!" Rinoa and Quistis said in unison, then started laughing.
"Leave me alone Irvy!" Selphie said, laughing and swimming away from Irvine, who was pretending to be a shark.
"Come and get it." Squall yelled, holding up a fork, with a hotdog on it. Everyone came out of the pool, heading towards Squall, and of course Zell was the first to get to him.
"I'll have 3 Hotdogs!"
"Here you go." Zell snatched the hotdogs and ran to the picnic table. "Hey, these are pretty good!" Zell said, taking another bite of his hotdogs.
"I'll have the hamburger." Rinoa said, kissing Squall on the cheek.
"Hey Irvine pass me the camera." Selphie said, looking at Squall and Rinoa kiss. Irvine gave Selphie the camera that was on the picnic table. "Hey Rinoa and Squall! Say Cheese!" Squall and Rinoa looked at Selphie who was aiming the camera at them. Selphie was about to take the
picture, when Irvine and Quistis came in, then Zell. Rinoa kissed Squall on the lips and Squall blushed a light shade of red. He was kind of used to Rinoa giving him surprise kisses. The picture was taken.
"Alright, this time I want Me in it!" Selphie said, giving the Camera to Rinoa. Zell posed, holding his fist to Irvine, who was standing next to Quistis. He bumped Quistis and she bumped into Squall. Squall fell to the ground and so did Quistis, Selphie started laughing and the picture was taken. After they came out of the camera and developed, everyone started laughing
at the picture Rinoa took.
"Let's get back in the pool!" Rinoa said, throwing Squall in, then falling in on him. Zell saw Selphie and Irvine about to kiss so he grabbed the camera and shot it.
"Hey!" Selphie said, blushing. Irvine put his strong arm around her and kissed her, while she was still blushing. Quistis jumped in the pool and came between Irvine and Selphie, laughing and started teasing.
*
It was now 8:00. Zell and Irvine went to go get fireworks, without anyone knowing. They came back with a big box of them. "Ooooooooh, fireworks!!" Rinoa yelled, running up to Zell.
"We also got this." Zell held out a small cassette tape. Irvine put a battery operated, medium radio down on the ground. Zell put the tape in. "Alright everyone, grab a partner, and let's get this party started. "Rinoa grabbed Squall and Selphie grabbed Irvine. Quistis took Zell's hand. Zell turned on the music that sounded familiar.
"Hey, this is the song that played when we were first became SeeDs!" Selphie exclaimed.
"Yep!" Zell replied, while dancing with Quistis. They all danced the night away and watched fireworks, while Selphie went around taking pictures of her friends.
*
Rinoa woke up in the middle of the night. For some reason she couldn't sleep. She looked at Squall who was beside her, still sleep. 'Sleeping like a baby.' Rinoa thought to herself. She got out of bed and went to the bathroom that was right near there room. She poured cold water on her face. 'Why can't I get to sleep?' She asked herself, looking at herself in the mirror. Rinoa walked out of the bathroom and back to her show. Before she opened the door, she heard
someone downstairs. 'Its probably Zell or someone.' Rinoa decided to go downstairs to see who
it was. Her heart began to pound as she walked closer to the noise. It sounded like someone was breaking something. Rinoa grabbed a poker for the fireplace that was right near the kitchen. "She jumped into the kitchen only to find a muscular man in all black, sneaking in the house, from the pool door. Zell was the last one out of the pool room, so he was the one who didn't lock the door. "What do you want?!" Rinoa asked, half scared of what was going to happen
next.
"What do you think, winch! I want you dead!" The man in black said. He pointed a gun to Rinoa. "I suggest you put that thing down and shut your mouth!"
Rinoa put the stick down on the ground, making a loud sound, hoping it would wake someone up. The man walked over to Rinoa and sat her on the kitchen chair. He reached in his pockets and grabbed duck tape and a rope. He put a strip of tape on her mouth and put the rope around the chair and her body. "Now stay here and be a good girl. I might let you go.
Rinoa was scared to death. Tears started forming in her eyes. "Please let me go." Her voice was barely understandable because of the duck tape. She spoke in a whisper. "Please let me go." The man ignored her and wondered into the living room.
*
"Ummhmhmhm." Squall said, turning over to Rinoa's side of the bed which was empty. He opened his eyes. She was gone. 'She probably went to the bathroom.' Squall thought to himself. 'But wait, her spot was cold, like she wasn't there for awhile.' Squall decided to get up. He walked to the door with his pajamas still on. Squall walked out of hall to find Zell up.
"Yo Squall, you hear that?" Zell said in whisper.
"Here what?" Squall asked quizzically.
"I'm checkin' it out, it came from downstairs." Zell slowly walked down the stairs, followed by Squall.
"I guess you heard it too." Irvine said, looking at Zell and Squall and following them. They walked all the way down the stairs, only to find Rinoa tied up to the kitchen chair.
"Rinoa!" Squall yelled, coming to her side. "Are you okay?!" Squall asked, hugging her then
unfixing her Ropes and taking the tape of her mouth.
Rinoa hugged Squall tightly. "I was so scared, Squall." Tears fell down on Squalls chest.
"It's okay. Who did this to you?!"
"I don't know! All I know is he went down to the basement.
"Hey, What's all the commotion about?" Quistis asked, followed by Selphie.
"We have to get em'." Zell said, ignoring the question Quistis asked.
"He had a gun." Rinoa said, still holding on to Squall.
"Cid's body guards didn't even bring our weapons yet." Quitis said, with frustration in her voice.
"Well, don't forget, my weapons are my fists." Zell said, looking at everyone, who were looking at him like they wanted him to shut up. "Okay, maybe there not that powerful without my gloves."
"Let's go, just grab something that will pass as a weapon." Squall said, walking to the poker, but still keeping Rinoa close. Zell looked around the living room, searching for a weapon.
"Hey, I know, I'll get the left over fireworks, we didn't use." Irvine said, heading to the pool area. "Since we don't have enough weapons, we're gonna' have to like split up in groups. I'll take Selphie." Irvine went in the pool area and got the left over fireworks.
"What are you suppose to do with those fireworks no it-all." Zell said, folding his arms.
"I'll throw it in there faces."
"Oh yeah, so we can bail you out from jail." Quistis said, taking the fireworks from him.
"Good point, I'm gonna' take em' anyway, they might come in handy." Irvine said, getting the fireworks back.
"I found a flashlight, we can go down to the basement and catch him." Rinoa said, holding the flashlight up.
"Alright let's go." Squall said, slowly opening the door to the basement.
"Wait. Do you guys hear that?" Quistis asked, stopping Squall from opening the door.
"What is now?!" Zell asked, impatiently.
"It sounds like chanting." Rinoa said, trying to find out where the sound was coming from.
"Well, let's get going so we can find out what it is!" Zell yelled.
"Calm down Zell." Selphie said, looking at him. Just then, the floor started shaking.
"Whooooooooo!!!!!" Everyone said in unison.
"What the hell is that?! A earthquake!" Zell yelled, falling to the floor. Everyone started bumping in to each other.
"It's coming from downstairs!" Squall yelled, falling on top of Irvine, who was on the ground.
"I'm gonna' check it out!" Zell yelled, getting up and opening the basement door.
"Zell wait!" Squall yelled, trying to get up.
"Whoooo!" Zell shut the door, behind him. "It's a hole army down there!"
"How?" Quistis asked, running up to Zell.
"Don't ask me! There's like a trillion of em'!" Zell held his back against the door, trying hard not to let the soldiers make their way in the kitchen.
"Here let me put a firework down there." Irvine pushed Zell out the way and lit the firework. He threw it down the basement. It made a loud noise. "Alright, I think I got em'."
"No you didn't man! There still runnin' up the stairs!" Zell shut the door. "You need aim practice!"
"What are they immortal!" Rinoa asked, helping Zell keep the soldier down in the basement. Quistis ran to the front door.
"The doors locked!" Quistis said, banging on the door.
"What!" Squall yelled, coming up from behind her.
"They locked us in! Who are these people!" Quistis asked, still banging on the door.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Zell and Rinoa yelled. "There comin' threw! Move out the way!" Rinoa and Zell let the door go and out they came, the Galbadian Army. They all lined up in front of them, not budging, they didn't pull there weapons out.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" A mysterious voice said. It was the man in black coming up from the basement. "Now, My little puppets! Kill them!"
"Nows' a good time to start running, AAHHH!" Selphie yelled. The Galbadion army chased them all. Squall lead everyone down to the basement. "Split up into your groups!!" Squall yelled, taking Rinoa to the attic. "Irvine now!"
"Gottcha'!" Irvine said, knowing what he met. He threw all the fireworks at the Army. The army stopped in there traces. They couldn't see a thing.
"You wont get away!" The mysteries voice yelled out. Once the smoke cleared, the targets were gone.
"The targets escaped us, Sir. They won't escape again." One of the Soldiers said, bowing to his leader. They all disappeared in thin air...........
*
"Who are they?" Rinoa asked, standing in a small closet with Squall. They managed to get to the attic before any of the Soldiers saw them.
"I don't know, but I have an idea who it might be. It might be that guy at the carnival." Squall informed.
"What does he want from us?" Rinoa asked in a whisper, hugging Squall.
"I'm just as clueless as you." Squall held Rinoa closely to him. Every time Squall held her that way, she felt safe. She held him close to her as well.
"Shhh. I think there coming." Squall rested his head on Rinoa's.
"Where'd they go?" A soldier said, talking to his partner.
"How should I know?" The second soldier snapped back.
"Come on, no one's in here." They both left in thin air.
"Did they go? I didn't hear the door shut." Rinoa asked, looking up at Squall.
"I don't tink there human. Come on, we have to find the others." Squall slowly walked out to see if the coast was clear. He made a signal for Rinoa to come with him.
*
"Really Zell, did we have to go in the vent?" Quistis complained.
"Be quiet, if you want to go and get caught, be my guest." Zell said sarcastically.
"Well at least we could of got in a cleaner vent." Quistis started picking the dust of her pajamas. They continued crawling in the small vent until there was a fork in the road. "Okay, which way?"
"Um.....How about left." Zell said.
"Okay, I'm goin' right." Quistis said, heading right.
"Hey, we're supposed to stay together." Zell said, stopping quistis.
"Alright, but you better not get us in any trouble because we don't have any weapons."
"Yeah, yeah." Zell replied, firmly. They continued until they heard talking.
".....Sir, the prisoner has escaped from our headquarters."
"Hey, its those Galbadion goons." Zell whispered to Quistis.
"Where did he escape too?!" The leaders voice asked.
"We don't know." The soldier replied.
"Ahhhhhh! You good-for-nothing!" With a zap of his power, the Galbadion soldier disappeared.
"Sir! Please, Ahhhhhh!" The soldiers cried out.
"Whoa. Did you see that?" Zell said, still in a whisper.
"No, if you move out the way, maybe I can see." Quistis yelled, pulling him out the way. Quistis looked through the air vent.
"Find him! He must not get to the targets!" The leader yelled to his soldiers.
"What the hell is he talkin' about? Move out the way." Zell pushed Quistis out the way, causing her to fall out, along with Zell into the living room.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" They both yelled.
"Huh?!" The leader yelled, standing in front of them. "You!" He zapped his fingers towards them.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Was all they could say.
*
"Irvy, did you that? It sounded like Zell and Quistis." Selphie asked worriedly.
"I didn't hear anything." Irvine said. They both were in the kitchen, hiding in the bottom cabinet. "I have to go and get more fireworks."
"But why? They don't affect them." Selphie asked.
"To bad, none of us stocked any magic." Irvine folded his legs closer, so he could give more room to Selphie.
"So, what are we gonna do? The doors and windows are all locked, our friends are spread out everywhere and there gonna' find us if we stay here."
"We have to get a move on. Let's go back to the basement. Before I threw the fireworks at those soldiers, I saw Squall and Rinoa go to up to the attic. We're goin' to the attic." Irvine carefully opened the cabinet door. "Uh oh, I see some one comin'." Irvine shut the cabinet back.
"We already, searched here." One of the Galbadion soldiers complained.
"Well, Master Seifer already locked the doors on them, so they have to be in here somewhere."
"Master Seifer?" Selphie quietly asked, shocked.
"Come on. Let's check the pool area again." The Galbadion soldiers walked out of the kitchen.
"Whoooo. That was a close one. Come on." Irvine grab Selphie's hand and came out of the cabinet. They quickly walked over to the basement and opened the door.
*
"Squall, where to know?" Rinoa asked, coming down from the attic.
"Let's check this place out." Squall held onto Rinoa's hand and walked around in the dark, large basement." Rinoa held the flashlight in front of them.
"What's that?" Rinoa asked, looking back. "Soldiers?"
"Over here." Squall led Rinoa in a small closet that was built near the water heater. Squall looked through the crack of the closet. It was Selphie and Irvine coming down from the stairs. Squall opened the door, almost scaring Selphie and Irvine out of their skin. "Hey guys."
"Squall, I thought you guys were goners." Irvine said, relieved.
"Where's everyone else?" Selphie asked.
"We don't know, we were looking for you guys." Rinoa said, coming out of the closet.
"You guys, Seifer's the one we want, one of the galbadion soldiers called him Master Seifer.
"That guy will never quit, will he?" Irvine asked.
"I guess not." Squall said, putting his hand on his hip.
"Well come on, we have to find Quistis and Zell." Selphie said, getting worried.
"Right." Squall said, leading everyone back up the stairs.
*
"Uhh.....Were are we?" Quistis asked, slowly getting up.
"Oww, my head hurts." Zell said, ignoring Quistis's question.
"Shut up Zell, you're the one who got us here." Quistis said, frustrated. "Are we....In a cell?"
"It looks like it. I wander how everyone else is doing?" Zell asked, getting up from the ground. "Man, I really blew it."
"Yeah you did, now how are we supposed to help them, what if there in trouble?" Quistis got up and started walking around in the cell. Just then, red lights started flashing everywhere. There was a loud siren going off. "What's happening?!"
"Escapee! Escapee!" A loud voice bummed through the halls. "Escapee! Do not let them get Away!"
"Who's escaping?" Zell asked, walking to the bars that were right in front of him. "Hey, someones' comin'." Zell walked a few steps back. There was a tall and slender man running towards their cell. He pulled out a key and unlocked their cell. "Hey man, what are you doin'?!" Zell yelled, trying to shut the cell door back.
"Zell, what are you doing!" Quistis pulled him away from the door. "That's Samuel!"
"You fool! Let's get going if you want to save your friends!" They followed Samuel out of the cell and down the hall.
"Hey, those Guards are on our tail!" Zell said, pushing Samuel and Quistis out the way and running faster.
"Idiot!" Quistis yelled. Samuel just stood there. "What are you doing?! Let's go! huh?" Samuel started chanting a spell, stopping the guards from moving.
"Lets go." Samuel ran ahead, past Zell and out of the jail. "We must keep running, quick, over that hill!" They ran to the hill. Samuel stopped them before they could go any further. He started chanting again.
"Hey man! What are ya' doing?!" Zell asked, being stupid.
"Be quiet Zell." Quistis said, hitting him in the arm. They started disappearing into the ground.
"We're gonna' die. We're gonna' die." A panicked Zell said. They made it all the way to the ground. It didn't seem to be underground though. The stones on the long hallways were neatly in place. It was like someone built it. Quistis took in the whole place. Zell was to busy panicking to even notice. Two men in brown cloaks gave Samuel his own cloak. They greeted Quistis and Zell. "Hey..uh...N-Nice to meet you."
"Hello." Quistis said, shaking both the mens hands.
"These men are my students and servants." Samuel informed, holding his hand out for Zell and Quistis to follow him. "I am practicing sorcery. I am almost finished. You need not to worry. I plan not to use my powerful for evil, but to help people."
"Okay, we don't care, will ya' please get to the point. I have a place to be right now." Zell said, looking Samuel in his face.
"Your place is here, right now!" Samuel returned Zell's glare with a death glare. "Now as I was saying. You people must leave this Island immediately ."
"We know that, but what I want to know is, why are people out to kill us?" Quistis asked.
"Please take a seat." Samuel used his powers to materialize two chairs for them. "Rinoa, they are after Rinoa and her powers. The gods found your location and tracked you down. These people are the gods from the underworld. Seifer Almasy, I believe has been hired to carry out these Gods wishes. I'm sure you already in countered the Galbadion Army. They aren't living. They are from the underworld as well. They had evil and hatred in their hearts. They are used to carry out the ritual if they get Rinoa to the underworld. I have been keeping track of there progress for sometime.
"Excuse me, but how did Seifer get involved in all this? And how did you find us?" Quistis asked, interrupting him.
"Well, the underworld has records on each person that has evil in there heart. For instance, Seifer is the perfect guy to fall prey to someone under persuasion, so they are using him to
get to Rinoa. He has great potential, so they can use him. He has his own reasons as well for wanting Rinoa to be caught. They controlled his mind by sending one of their servants from the under world. Her human name is Alice Stone. She is one of the Gods from the under world. We identified her in her human form. She was posing to be one of your tour guides.
She told you that I was sick right?" Quistis nodded. "She lied, she came to you so she could give Seifer new orders. They locked me up because I was trying to get to you and warn you. I over heard one of the guards talking about two new prisoners, so that's when I decided to run and see who it was and it turned out to be you and the fool over there. We have to do everything in our power to stop them."
"Why didn't you just use your powers to stop them?" Zell asked, now interested.
"I told you, I'm studying sorcery, I do not know a whole lot of magic. The only way to stop them is to go to the underworld and kill them, you must go with everyone though."
"And how are we suppose to fight if we don't have weopons?" Zell asked.
"I'll shall materialize some. What do you need?" Samuel asked. Quistis named all of the weapons everyone was used to having. "It shall be granted." Samuel started chanting and materialized all the weapons Quistis asked for.
"All right, let's kick some ass!" Zell yelled, putting his gloves on.
"I shall bring you back to the beach house and get your friends out of out of there." Samuel lead Zell and Quistis out of his head quarters.
A vacation to remember
Chapter 2
Everyone arrived back at the beach house.
"Hello, I need to speak to Cid, its important!" Quistis yelled to the phone. "He can't be busy!.... Alright, its alright." Quistis put the phone down on the hook. "Dammit."
"No luck?" Irvine asked coming into the kitchen.
"No, I don't get it." Quistis said, deep in thought.
"What's there not to get, that man's always busy. Come on, everyone's waiting for you in the living room." Irvine and Quistis went back in the living room.
"Alright everyone, I may have clue." Squall said, sitting on the couch. "When I was talking to him, he referred to that guy he killed as a boy. He seemed in his twenty's though."
"Maybe this guy is kind of old." Zell said, catching on to Squall's thoughts.
"So, what does age have to do with it?" Rinoa asked.
"Well, its most likely he's not from garden, but we can't be sure." Squall answered back.
"That he killed was kind of like a teenager anyway." Irvine said.
"Well, we have no description what he looks like, we don't know why he's after us, this night is all weird, I'm turnin' in." Rinoa said, walking up the stairs to her room.
"I think Rinoa's right, maybe we should work on this tomorrow." Selphie said, rubbing her tired eyes. She held her big teddy bear and fell asleep on the couch, with her feet crossed on the floor.
"Yeah, I'm tired too, I'm gonna' sleep." Zell said, walking up the stairs after Quistis. Irvine carried Selphie up the stairs and went bed. Squall was the only downstairs, trying to figure out what happened tonight.
An hour has passed now, but Squall for some reason couldn't get to sleep, knowing that someone out there was after them and no one paid attention to it. Squall sat on the couch and turning on the TV.
"Squall?" Rinoa asked, walking down the steps, tiredly. "How come your not in bed, your spot was cold, so I know you weren't in bed for a while." Rinoa laid next to Squall.
"Sorry, but I couldn't sleep." Squall apologized.
"Come on Squall, let's go to bed, please." Rinoa begged.
"I'll be up in a minute."
"No, now." Rinoa held on to his arm.
"What's wrong Rinoa?" Squall asked, with concern in his voice.
"I'm scared Squall, what if I wake up one day, and your not there. It got me thinking when that incident happened. I know you're a SeeD and its your job to fight, but still I don't want you to leave me." Rinoa said, with tears in her eyes.
"I'm not going anywhere, Rinoa." Squall said, embracing her.
"I hope you don't leave." Rinoa said, holding on to Squall.
"Listen Rinoa, you remember this?" He looked down at her. "I'll be here."
"For what?" Rinoa said, smiling and knowing what he was getting at.
"I'll always be here for you."
"Really?"
"Yes, as long as I'm here, you nor me is going anywhere, I promise." Squall said, smiling down at Rinoa and kissing her on the lips.
Rinoa grabbed him down to her an whispered in his ears. "I love you Squall leonhart."
"I love you too, Rinoa Heartilly." They went upstairs jumped in bed and held each other even in there sleep.
*
It was the next morning. Everyone was already up, still reminiscing about what happened the night before. "Hey, maybe we can try and reach Cid, he might not be busy." Quistis suggested, sitting at the breakfast table with everyone else.
"He's probably busy sleeping, it is 8:00 anyway." Selphie said, taking a bite of her cereal.
"Maybe, its nothing to worry about, or maybe we can check the spot out tonight, who knows maybe he'll be back?" Zell said, putting milk in his breakfast.
"Why would he return to the scene of the crime?" Quistis asked, looking at Zell as if she were asking, what are you thinking?
"He just might." Zell, picked up his spoonful of cereal and put it in his mouth.
"Let's get all of this off our mind and go swimming!" Selphie said, trying to get everyone to agree.
"Yeah, I think Selphie is right, maybe we do need a break from all this, we can have a pool party, after all Cid did send us here to have a good time." Rinoa agreed.
"Yeah, I'm came to have a good time and I'm gonaa' have a good time, no ones' gonna' stop me." Zell said, getting up from the table almost knocking everything off of it.
"Watch it Zell." Squall said, picking his bowl off the table. There was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it." Zell said, walking into the living room. He opened the door.
"Hello, Is there a Squall Leonhart, Zell din-" The petite woman was cut off.
"Yeah, that's us." Zell said, cutting her off.
"Oh, I'm your new tour guide, My name is Alice Stone." Alice held her hand out for Zell to shake.
"Hello, I'm Zell Dincht." Zell shook her hand and let her in. "What happened to Samuel?"
"Samuel?"
"Oh, never mind, I guess you don't know him."
"Hey Zell, who's at the door?!" Squall yelled thought the kitchen.
"It's the tour guide!" Zell yelled back. "Let me introduce you to the others." Zell lead, the Red head to the kitchen. "This is Squall, Rinoa, Selphie, Quistis, and Irvine."
"Please to meet you." Irvine said, Tilting his hat to the woman.
"Hello, everyone, as Zell said, I'm your new tour guide. My name is Alice Stone." Alice shook everyone's hand.
"Not to sound rude or anything, but we basically know the house well." Quistis said, After shook her hand.
"Oh, I'm just here to make sure you know your way around the place." Alice said, almost with nervousness.
"Aw, you don't have to be nervous we won't bite." Selphie said, Smiling at her. Squall turned his the other way. Quistis saw him and walked over to him.
"Um Squall can I speak to you in the Living room?" Quistis winked at him.
"Uh, sure." He looked at Rinoa. "I'll be right back." He headed to the living room. "What's up?"
"That new tour guide. She's acting strange." Quistis said, almost whispering.
"Yeah, I noticed too." Squall put his arm on his hip.
"What are we going to do?"
"Just play it cool." Just then, Alice came in.
"Well, I hope you have a lovely day, goodbye!" Alice walked to the door, with a smirk on her face.
"Well, what were you guys talking about?" Zell asked, coming in from the kitchen.
"That tour guide, she was acting kinda' weird." Quistis informed.
"Well, if you ask me, she was better than that stiff, Samuel." Zell said, plopping down on the couch. He started flicking the channels.
"I think I'll give Cid a call." Quistis said, walking into the kitchen. "Hello, Cid?.....Yeah, its me, Quistis....Yes we're alright...." Quistis gestured for everyone to come to the phone.
"Yeah, we're fine. You did? Well what are we supposed to do?!....Alright, I understand. Bye." Quistis hung the phone up and walked back in the living room.
"What did he say?" Rinoa asked, sitting down, next to Squall.
"He knew about the incident. Before we left, he secretly had one of guards to keep watch on us, while we're on vacation. His guard kept watch all the way to the incident. I guess he's somewhere close by, keeping Cid informed on what we're doing a t this very moment." Quistis stood in front of the Tv with her arms folded to her chest.
"Okay... So what do we do, if he knows the situation." Zell asked, sitting down on the couch with his left leg on top of his right and his arms folded.
"Well, he said start packing up, we're leavin'. He said, be prepared." Quistis that same instructor tone.
"And, how are we supposed to be prepared if we don't have our weapons?" Squall asked.
"He said one of his 'secret guards' will bring our weapons, he's had them ever since he came hear."
"Well, I guess Cid was thinkin' ahead of time." Irvine said.
"Welp, this turned out to be a crummy vacation." Zell said, getting up and stretching.
"Hey you guys, we can still have our pool party." Selphie said, looking at everyone. "Then we can pack afterwards, right?"
"Oh yeah, we might as well have fun before we leave, by the way, when do we leave?" Zell asked.
"He said as soon as he can get his hands on 6 tickets to come back." Quistis said, sitting next to Selphie. "That's gonna' take forever, he said they were already sold out when he bought them."
"Come on everyone, lighten up, let's get changed into our swim suits!" Rinoa ran up the stairs in a hurry. Selphie followed after her, then Quistis, and everyone else.
*
"Fire in the water!!!!!!" Zell said, jumping in the water, splashing everyone in the process.
"Come on Zell! Stop doing that!" Rinoa and Quistis said in unison, then started laughing.
"Leave me alone Irvy!" Selphie said, laughing and swimming away from Irvine, who was pretending to be a shark.
"Come and get it." Squall yelled, holding up a fork, with a hotdog on it. Everyone came out of the pool, heading towards Squall, and of course Zell was the first to get to him.
"I'll have 3 Hotdogs!"
"Here you go." Zell snatched the hotdogs and ran to the picnic table. "Hey, these are pretty good!" Zell said, taking another bite of his hotdogs.
"I'll have the hamburger." Rinoa said, kissing Squall on the cheek.
"Hey Irvine pass me the camera." Selphie said, looking at Squall and Rinoa kiss. Irvine gave Selphie the camera that was on the picnic table. "Hey Rinoa and Squall! Say Cheese!" Squall and Rinoa looked at Selphie who was aiming the camera at them. Selphie was about to take the
picture, when Irvine and Quistis came in, then Zell. Rinoa kissed Squall on the lips and Squall blushed a light shade of red. He was kind of used to Rinoa giving him surprise kisses. The picture was taken.
"Alright, this time I want Me in it!" Selphie said, giving the Camera to Rinoa. Zell posed, holding his fist to Irvine, who was standing next to Quistis. He bumped Quistis and she bumped into Squall. Squall fell to the ground and so did Quistis, Selphie started laughing and the picture was taken. After they came out of the camera and developed, everyone started laughing
at the picture Rinoa took.
"Let's get back in the pool!" Rinoa said, throwing Squall in, then falling in on him. Zell saw Selphie and Irvine about to kiss so he grabbed the camera and shot it.
"Hey!" Selphie said, blushing. Irvine put his strong arm around her and kissed her, while she was still blushing. Quistis jumped in the pool and came between Irvine and Selphie, laughing and started teasing.
*
It was now 8:00. Zell and Irvine went to go get fireworks, without anyone knowing. They came back with a big box of them. "Ooooooooh, fireworks!!" Rinoa yelled, running up to Zell.
"We also got this." Zell held out a small cassette tape. Irvine put a battery operated, medium radio down on the ground. Zell put the tape in. "Alright everyone, grab a partner, and let's get this party started. "Rinoa grabbed Squall and Selphie grabbed Irvine. Quistis took Zell's hand. Zell turned on the music that sounded familiar.
"Hey, this is the song that played when we were first became SeeDs!" Selphie exclaimed.
"Yep!" Zell replied, while dancing with Quistis. They all danced the night away and watched fireworks, while Selphie went around taking pictures of her friends.
*
Rinoa woke up in the middle of the night. For some reason she couldn't sleep. She looked at Squall who was beside her, still sleep. 'Sleeping like a baby.' Rinoa thought to herself. She got out of bed and went to the bathroom that was right near there room. She poured cold water on her face. 'Why can't I get to sleep?' She asked herself, looking at herself in the mirror. Rinoa walked out of the bathroom and back to her show. Before she opened the door, she heard
someone downstairs. 'Its probably Zell or someone.' Rinoa decided to go downstairs to see who
it was. Her heart began to pound as she walked closer to the noise. It sounded like someone was breaking something. Rinoa grabbed a poker for the fireplace that was right near the kitchen. "She jumped into the kitchen only to find a muscular man in all black, sneaking in the house, from the pool door. Zell was the last one out of the pool room, so he was the one who didn't lock the door. "What do you want?!" Rinoa asked, half scared of what was going to happen
next.
"What do you think, winch! I want you dead!" The man in black said. He pointed a gun to Rinoa. "I suggest you put that thing down and shut your mouth!"
Rinoa put the stick down on the ground, making a loud sound, hoping it would wake someone up. The man walked over to Rinoa and sat her on the kitchen chair. He reached in his pockets and grabbed duck tape and a rope. He put a strip of tape on her mouth and put the rope around the chair and her body. "Now stay here and be a good girl. I might let you go.
Rinoa was scared to death. Tears started forming in her eyes. "Please let me go." Her voice was barely understandable because of the duck tape. She spoke in a whisper. "Please let me go." The man ignored her and wondered into the living room.
*
"Ummhmhmhm." Squall said, turning over to Rinoa's side of the bed which was empty. He opened his eyes. She was gone. 'She probably went to the bathroom.' Squall thought to himself. 'But wait, her spot was cold, like she wasn't there for awhile.' Squall decided to get up. He walked to the door with his pajamas still on. Squall walked out of hall to find Zell up.
"Yo Squall, you hear that?" Zell said in whisper.
"Here what?" Squall asked quizzically.
"I'm checkin' it out, it came from downstairs." Zell slowly walked down the stairs, followed by Squall.
"I guess you heard it too." Irvine said, looking at Zell and Squall and following them. They walked all the way down the stairs, only to find Rinoa tied up to the kitchen chair.
"Rinoa!" Squall yelled, coming to her side. "Are you okay?!" Squall asked, hugging her then
unfixing her Ropes and taking the tape of her mouth.
Rinoa hugged Squall tightly. "I was so scared, Squall." Tears fell down on Squalls chest.
"It's okay. Who did this to you?!"
"I don't know! All I know is he went down to the basement.
"Hey, What's all the commotion about?" Quistis asked, followed by Selphie.
"We have to get em'." Zell said, ignoring the question Quistis asked.
"He had a gun." Rinoa said, still holding on to Squall.
"Cid's body guards didn't even bring our weapons yet." Quitis said, with frustration in her voice.
"Well, don't forget, my weapons are my fists." Zell said, looking at everyone, who were looking at him like they wanted him to shut up. "Okay, maybe there not that powerful without my gloves."
"Let's go, just grab something that will pass as a weapon." Squall said, walking to the poker, but still keeping Rinoa close. Zell looked around the living room, searching for a weapon.
"Hey, I know, I'll get the left over fireworks, we didn't use." Irvine said, heading to the pool area. "Since we don't have enough weapons, we're gonna' have to like split up in groups. I'll take Selphie." Irvine went in the pool area and got the left over fireworks.
"What are you suppose to do with those fireworks no it-all." Zell said, folding his arms.
"I'll throw it in there faces."
"Oh yeah, so we can bail you out from jail." Quistis said, taking the fireworks from him.
"Good point, I'm gonna' take em' anyway, they might come in handy." Irvine said, getting the fireworks back.
"I found a flashlight, we can go down to the basement and catch him." Rinoa said, holding the flashlight up.
"Alright let's go." Squall said, slowly opening the door to the basement.
"Wait. Do you guys hear that?" Quistis asked, stopping Squall from opening the door.
"What is now?!" Zell asked, impatiently.
"It sounds like chanting." Rinoa said, trying to find out where the sound was coming from.
"Well, let's get going so we can find out what it is!" Zell yelled.
"Calm down Zell." Selphie said, looking at him. Just then, the floor started shaking.
"Whooooooooo!!!!!" Everyone said in unison.
"What the hell is that?! A earthquake!" Zell yelled, falling to the floor. Everyone started bumping in to each other.
"It's coming from downstairs!" Squall yelled, falling on top of Irvine, who was on the ground.
"I'm gonna' check it out!" Zell yelled, getting up and opening the basement door.
"Zell wait!" Squall yelled, trying to get up.
"Whoooo!" Zell shut the door, behind him. "It's a hole army down there!"
"How?" Quistis asked, running up to Zell.
"Don't ask me! There's like a trillion of em'!" Zell held his back against the door, trying hard not to let the soldiers make their way in the kitchen.
"Here let me put a firework down there." Irvine pushed Zell out the way and lit the firework. He threw it down the basement. It made a loud noise. "Alright, I think I got em'."
"No you didn't man! There still runnin' up the stairs!" Zell shut the door. "You need aim practice!"
"What are they immortal!" Rinoa asked, helping Zell keep the soldier down in the basement. Quistis ran to the front door.
"The doors locked!" Quistis said, banging on the door.
"What!" Squall yelled, coming up from behind her.
"They locked us in! Who are these people!" Quistis asked, still banging on the door.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Zell and Rinoa yelled. "There comin' threw! Move out the way!" Rinoa and Zell let the door go and out they came, the Galbadian Army. They all lined up in front of them, not budging, they didn't pull there weapons out.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" A mysterious voice said. It was the man in black coming up from the basement. "Now, My little puppets! Kill them!"
"Nows' a good time to start running, AAHHH!" Selphie yelled. The Galbadion army chased them all. Squall lead everyone down to the basement. "Split up into your groups!!" Squall yelled, taking Rinoa to the attic. "Irvine now!"
"Gottcha'!" Irvine said, knowing what he met. He threw all the fireworks at the Army. The army stopped in there traces. They couldn't see a thing.
"You wont get away!" The mysteries voice yelled out. Once the smoke cleared, the targets were gone.
"The targets escaped us, Sir. They won't escape again." One of the Soldiers said, bowing to his leader. They all disappeared in thin air...........
*
"Who are they?" Rinoa asked, standing in a small closet with Squall. They managed to get to the attic before any of the Soldiers saw them.
"I don't know, but I have an idea who it might be. It might be that guy at the carnival." Squall informed.
"What does he want from us?" Rinoa asked in a whisper, hugging Squall.
"I'm just as clueless as you." Squall held Rinoa closely to him. Every time Squall held her that way, she felt safe. She held him close to her as well.
"Shhh. I think there coming." Squall rested his head on Rinoa's.
"Where'd they go?" A soldier said, talking to his partner.
"How should I know?" The second soldier snapped back.
"Come on, no one's in here." They both left in thin air.
"Did they go? I didn't hear the door shut." Rinoa asked, looking up at Squall.
"I don't tink there human. Come on, we have to find the others." Squall slowly walked out to see if the coast was clear. He made a signal for Rinoa to come with him.
*
"Really Zell, did we have to go in the vent?" Quistis complained.
"Be quiet, if you want to go and get caught, be my guest." Zell said sarcastically.
"Well at least we could of got in a cleaner vent." Quistis started picking the dust of her pajamas. They continued crawling in the small vent until there was a fork in the road. "Okay, which way?"
"Um.....How about left." Zell said.
"Okay, I'm goin' right." Quistis said, heading right.
"Hey, we're supposed to stay together." Zell said, stopping quistis.
"Alright, but you better not get us in any trouble because we don't have any weapons."
"Yeah, yeah." Zell replied, firmly. They continued until they heard talking.
".....Sir, the prisoner has escaped from our headquarters."
"Hey, its those Galbadion goons." Zell whispered to Quistis.
"Where did he escape too?!" The leaders voice asked.
"We don't know." The soldier replied.
"Ahhhhhh! You good-for-nothing!" With a zap of his power, the Galbadion soldier disappeared.
"Sir! Please, Ahhhhhh!" The soldiers cried out.
"Whoa. Did you see that?" Zell said, still in a whisper.
"No, if you move out the way, maybe I can see." Quistis yelled, pulling him out the way. Quistis looked through the air vent.
"Find him! He must not get to the targets!" The leader yelled to his soldiers.
"What the hell is he talkin' about? Move out the way." Zell pushed Quistis out the way, causing her to fall out, along with Zell into the living room.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" They both yelled.
"Huh?!" The leader yelled, standing in front of them. "You!" He zapped his fingers towards them.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Was all they could say.
*
"Irvy, did you that? It sounded like Zell and Quistis." Selphie asked worriedly.
"I didn't hear anything." Irvine said. They both were in the kitchen, hiding in the bottom cabinet. "I have to go and get more fireworks."
"But why? They don't affect them." Selphie asked.
"To bad, none of us stocked any magic." Irvine folded his legs closer, so he could give more room to Selphie.
"So, what are we gonna do? The doors and windows are all locked, our friends are spread out everywhere and there gonna' find us if we stay here."
"We have to get a move on. Let's go back to the basement. Before I threw the fireworks at those soldiers, I saw Squall and Rinoa go to up to the attic. We're goin' to the attic." Irvine carefully opened the cabinet door. "Uh oh, I see some one comin'." Irvine shut the cabinet back.
"We already, searched here." One of the Galbadion soldiers complained.
"Well, Master Seifer already locked the doors on them, so they have to be in here somewhere."
"Master Seifer?" Selphie quietly asked, shocked.
"Come on. Let's check the pool area again." The Galbadion soldiers walked out of the kitchen.
"Whoooo. That was a close one. Come on." Irvine grab Selphie's hand and came out of the cabinet. They quickly walked over to the basement and opened the door.
*
"Squall, where to know?" Rinoa asked, coming down from the attic.
"Let's check this place out." Squall held onto Rinoa's hand and walked around in the dark, large basement." Rinoa held the flashlight in front of them.
"What's that?" Rinoa asked, looking back. "Soldiers?"
"Over here." Squall led Rinoa in a small closet that was built near the water heater. Squall looked through the crack of the closet. It was Selphie and Irvine coming down from the stairs. Squall opened the door, almost scaring Selphie and Irvine out of their skin. "Hey guys."
"Squall, I thought you guys were goners." Irvine said, relieved.
"Where's everyone else?" Selphie asked.
"We don't know, we were looking for you guys." Rinoa said, coming out of the closet.
"You guys, Seifer's the one we want, one of the galbadion soldiers called him Master Seifer.
"That guy will never quit, will he?" Irvine asked.
"I guess not." Squall said, putting his hand on his hip.
"Well come on, we have to find Quistis and Zell." Selphie said, getting worried.
"Right." Squall said, leading everyone back up the stairs.
*
"Uhh.....Were are we?" Quistis asked, slowly getting up.
"Oww, my head hurts." Zell said, ignoring Quistis's question.
"Shut up Zell, you're the one who got us here." Quistis said, frustrated. "Are we....In a cell?"
"It looks like it. I wander how everyone else is doing?" Zell asked, getting up from the ground. "Man, I really blew it."
"Yeah you did, now how are we supposed to help them, what if there in trouble?" Quistis got up and started walking around in the cell. Just then, red lights started flashing everywhere. There was a loud siren going off. "What's happening?!"
"Escapee! Escapee!" A loud voice bummed through the halls. "Escapee! Do not let them get Away!"
"Who's escaping?" Zell asked, walking to the bars that were right in front of him. "Hey, someones' comin'." Zell walked a few steps back. There was a tall and slender man running towards their cell. He pulled out a key and unlocked their cell. "Hey man, what are you doin'?!" Zell yelled, trying to shut the cell door back.
"Zell, what are you doing!" Quistis pulled him away from the door. "That's Samuel!"
"You fool! Let's get going if you want to save your friends!" They followed Samuel out of the cell and down the hall.
"Hey, those Guards are on our tail!" Zell said, pushing Samuel and Quistis out the way and running faster.
"Idiot!" Quistis yelled. Samuel just stood there. "What are you doing?! Let's go! huh?" Samuel started chanting a spell, stopping the guards from moving.
"Lets go." Samuel ran ahead, past Zell and out of the jail. "We must keep running, quick, over that hill!" They ran to the hill. Samuel stopped them before they could go any further. He started chanting again.
"Hey man! What are ya' doing?!" Zell asked, being stupid.
"Be quiet Zell." Quistis said, hitting him in the arm. They started disappearing into the ground.
"We're gonna' die. We're gonna' die." A panicked Zell said. They made it all the way to the ground. It didn't seem to be underground though. The stones on the long hallways were neatly in place. It was like someone built it. Quistis took in the whole place. Zell was to busy panicking to even notice. Two men in brown cloaks gave Samuel his own cloak. They greeted Quistis and Zell. "Hey..uh...N-Nice to meet you."
"Hello." Quistis said, shaking both the mens hands.
"These men are my students and servants." Samuel informed, holding his hand out for Zell and Quistis to follow him. "I am practicing sorcery. I am almost finished. You need not to worry. I plan not to use my powerful for evil, but to help people."
"Okay, we don't care, will ya' please get to the point. I have a place to be right now." Zell said, looking Samuel in his face.
"Your place is here, right now!" Samuel returned Zell's glare with a death glare. "Now as I was saying. You people must leave this Island immediately ."
"We know that, but what I want to know is, why are people out to kill us?" Quistis asked.
"Please take a seat." Samuel used his powers to materialize two chairs for them. "Rinoa, they are after Rinoa and her powers. The gods found your location and tracked you down. These people are the gods from the underworld. Seifer Almasy, I believe has been hired to carry out these Gods wishes. I'm sure you already in countered the Galbadion Army. They aren't living. They are from the underworld as well. They had evil and hatred in their hearts. They are used to carry out the ritual if they get Rinoa to the underworld. I have been keeping track of there progress for sometime.
"Excuse me, but how did Seifer get involved in all this? And how did you find us?" Quistis asked, interrupting him.
"Well, the underworld has records on each person that has evil in there heart. For instance, Seifer is the perfect guy to fall prey to someone under persuasion, so they are using him to
get to Rinoa. He has great potential, so they can use him. He has his own reasons as well for wanting Rinoa to be caught. They controlled his mind by sending one of their servants from the under world. Her human name is Alice Stone. She is one of the Gods from the under world. We identified her in her human form. She was posing to be one of your tour guides.
She told you that I was sick right?" Quistis nodded. "She lied, she came to you so she could give Seifer new orders. They locked me up because I was trying to get to you and warn you. I over heard one of the guards talking about two new prisoners, so that's when I decided to run and see who it was and it turned out to be you and the fool over there. We have to do everything in our power to stop them."
"Why didn't you just use your powers to stop them?" Zell asked, now interested.
"I told you, I'm studying sorcery, I do not know a whole lot of magic. The only way to stop them is to go to the underworld and kill them, you must go with everyone though."
"And how are we suppose to fight if we don't have weopons?" Zell asked.
"I'll shall materialize some. What do you need?" Samuel asked. Quistis named all of the weapons everyone was used to having. "It shall be granted." Samuel started chanting and materialized all the weapons Quistis asked for.
"All right, let's kick some ass!" Zell yelled, putting his gloves on.
"I shall bring you back to the beach house and get your friends out of out of there." Samuel lead Zell and Quistis out of his head quarters.