Chapter Nine: Chaos-Seishi
"Seifer...this is it. She's right inside this room. I'm not sure I can do this. She was like, my best friend. I can't kill anyone, much less her. Seifer, I can't do this!!"
"Sefie..."
"I can't...I can't..."
"More people'll suffer if we don't..."
He wasn't sure what to do to make her feel better. She took a few deep breaths, and he hoped she could recover on her own, because he wasn't sure how to help. He cast a cure on her, despite the fact he knew she was at full health.
"Thank you..."
Today, however, she looked completely awful. The worst he'd ever seen her. In fact, she seemed to look worse with every passing day, getting thinner and paler each day. Cid really, he thought, should ease up some on her.
Because if she dies from a stress attack, I'm gonna be out for revenge.
"Let's get this over with," she sighed, opening the door.
Seifer jumped back. The sorceress standing in the middle of the empty, solid white room looked nothing like the Seishi from Selphie's memories. She stood a good head taller then them, and was snow pale with midnight black hair and eyes to match. She didn't even look human, with the strange black wings she had.
"I am Chaos-Seishi, here to get my revenge against the world that rejected me. It's a shame we re-met on these circumstances, Sefie. Oh, and you even had the nerve to bring Seifer into this? What an awful person you are, killing your best friend and dragging her own--"
"--Shut up!" Seifer yelled. "We ain't here to talk with you, we're here to finish this up!"
"R-right," Selphie echoed. "You're not even the Sei I was friends with!" she cried, casting aura on Seifer and summoning...
"EDEN?!?!?! How'd you get Eden from Squall?!"
"Long story, I'll explain later, just fight her, Seifer!"
It was a battle he never wanted to experience again. It went by so fast, yet lasted forever...Seishi's agonizing screams and Selphie's pain-filled cries would forever haunt his dreams...
And then--a blinding white light. Seishi shrieked, falling to the floor, and shrinking down to a height that Seifer guessed to be somewhere in between his and Selphie's. The wings disappeared, her black hair turned blonde, and her eyes went back to a normal color.
"Oh, Sei!" Selphie cried, dropping beside the fallen girl.
"Seifer...Sefie, is that Seifer?"
"Yeah. Sei, what happened?!"
"My anger...consumed me. But you brought me...happiness. By being my friend anyway...and bringing him...Seifer, c'mere."
He dropped on one knee beside her, confused. How on earth did this girl know him?
"I'm going to give you my GFs," she said in a matter-of-fact voice. "I want you to remember the memories we shared. I wish I could have met you before my hatred got this out of control and killed me this much..."
"Dunno what you're talking about. I've never met you. Um...thanks for the GFs...I guess…"
"Yes, you've met me...you can't remember. Allow me, then, to introduce myself. My name is Seishi, but I simply go by Sei." She paused, then added on,
"Sei Almasy."
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