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Disclaimer: I don't own them . . . I own everything that isn't in ff8. I wish I owned seifer. I called about that but they said I don't have enough money.said to talk to a wall, it didn't let me buy him either. This has been, revised completely, so a lot has been changed and it's not a prologue any more. Also I didn't revise it by myself. Credit to it's revisal is given to sesshou-obsessive.thanks.
Also the little things of music, it's not supposed to go with the chapters. It's just something that helped with the story.
Come up to meet ya, tell ya I'm sorry.
- The scientist.
~* chapter 1 . . . The start, a beating . . . and questions. *~
The prison cell was hidden away from the lights of the world, like all the other cells. Its rough walls of stone were painted by the dark. She didn't take well to the dark, terrified of it. She had to get used to it, she saw only in the dark since she was brought to that cell, the dark engulfed her and she grew used to the dark. The little light she did see was given to her when she was given food; that happened twice a day. She had been locked away in that shoe box of a cell for over a month and a half.
The cells had no beds, a disdained toilet sat at the corner of the room, a little left from the center of the wall where the door was. The door had a small window where she could get some touch of color allowing her to see the toilet and use it. She slept in the opposite corner of the room across from the toilet. In that area was an age-stale cloak that smelled like mud and a dead animal. She was laying on the floor-covered cloth, it provided no comfort as she slept on the floor.
The floor itself was damp from leaks on the ceiling. The stones' cracks were filled with a clay-like mud dried paste and it was as cold as ice water, her skin itched from being exposed to it. Her hair was in thick layers. Mud had stuck a lot of hairs in tangled clumps. It had hardened and grown disgustingly crunchy and it didn't look brown but black from neglect.
From the door's tiny window she could pick up voices, in her weak and fatigued state she didn't bother listening in. She did however look to the door, a small amount of hope that they might be letting her go. Or maybe they're going to kill me. She thought sullenly. She had hid in the corner of the cell, as far away from the light as possible.
The guards were cold-hearted and took joy in beating the prisoners that included her. Trying to save herself from future pain she avoided moving as the door twisted open, stopped breathing momentarily as the two guards came in.
She eyed them even though it was a danger, the light from the hallways gave away her position. They were dragging in another person, as they unchained him he muttered something under his breath.
"What was that you rat!?" the first guard hollered.
"You bastards" The person's voice was strained and raspy.
"What?! Well aren't you a fucking smart-ass, I'm goin teach you sum' proper manners!!" the second guard declared, soon right after the two guards had started to beat the already hurt man . Ellone watched as they kicked him in the gut, his long dark blue hair covered his face as he screamed in pain when they threw him against the wall.
"Enough! Stop! Please leave him alone" she said, the two guards snickered as they walked towards her. She saw them approaching her with spiteful looks for interrupting their fun, one of them picked her up roughly by the neck.
"What are you going to do about it?" he tightened his grip on her as he lifted her above the ground against the wall, her feet suspended above the wet floor. He waited a few seconds for her
to answer, his eyes taunting her to do it. She was fresh dry out of words, she swallowed back a
sob as he gripped her tighter. Bruises. Blood. Air. Can't breath. Can't think. Oh hyne. She thought. He didn't think too much of how tight he was holding on to her as he loosened up.
"I didn't think so." he laughed a lot at her dispense, as she watched him laugh at her, tears trailed down to her chin as she lost consciousness. The guards grew bored with them and left.
After the guards left, the new addition to the room had started to crawl to Ellone his face sour from the beating as he looked at her. He sat up and grunted at the broken ribs, I'll just have to fix that he thought.
"Acurio." he mouthed, only out of habit. He had placed his hands in the areas of the wounds, as his blood vessels pumped up energy his wounds began to heal. The orange tint that his hand produced the only sign of magic being used. When he was completely healed he walked to where Ellone had been tossed, he wandered blindfolded by the dark as he poked and prodded the cell floor for her body. He made the cell light up with a spell of fire, his hand kept it lit as he checked her for any injuries. The cell was left with a peach colored glow after the fire wasted away.
"Acurio" he whispered to her neck as the bruises healed he breathed in a sigh of relief.
He waited a few minutes for her to heal and regain consciousness, as she woke up she first felt the blood rushing to her head as she shot up into a sitting position because she saw a person holding her. The next impulsive reaction was to scream and she did. She screamed very loud.
"Whoa, hey relax." he tried to get her to calm down, her head hurt and she was afraid of why he was here. She started to wriggle around in an effort of getting out of his grasp, he let her go.
"Hey please relax, I'm not gonna hurt you or anything please just stop screaming ok?" She kept backing away as he came closer to her, every time screaming if he tried to speak. Fine, I'll just have to quiet her down myself he thought as he cast a spell.
"Stilente" he chanted under his breath as she panicked. Seconds later she had shut up, with wide eyes she stood still. Her eyes were all over the room, Oh my hyne I've been paralyzed, and I'm without vocal chords.. she thought.
"I'm Tobias, I am not going to hurt you ok. So stop freaking out." he said so slowly, it sounded as if he were talking to a child. He pointed to himself when he introduced himself, and then to Ellone when talking about her.
"I know your Ellone. I'm going to let the spell break now." he said. A few seconds pasted and she didn't respond so Tobias did.
"So . Hi" he said.
"How come there's light?" she asked.
"I used a spell that leaves an afterglow kind of thing" he explained
"why are you here? How do you know my name? How come you can use spells in here? how co-..." she asked and then was cut off as she asked too much.
"Calm down I have only one mouth. can't answer everything at once" he said.
"I'm here to help you, I've known about you for a long time, and I don't use G.F's so I don't cast and I don't use their power to use spells so it's not blocked off." he answered, and in order.
"You're the same man they brought in here a few minutes ago?" she asked.
"Yeah." he said. They didn't say anything for awhile after that.
Ellone looked at him as he looked at her. His dark blue hair was mostly out of his face now, leaving his eyes open to the world. Violet with just a hue of red in them they weren't slits but large and cheerful. She wondered momentarily why they were, we're in locked up in this hole, why is he so unaffected? She wondered. He was skinny but with a little muscle and just a bit of fat, very average on the outside. Ellone on the other hand was completely different. Skin and bones he thought as he looked at her. Definitely malnourished, from head to toe in dirt. Patches of dust and dirt on her arms and legs, her face was very thin and paled with circles under her eyes. She looks terrible he thought, but he didn't say anything about it. He suddenly had no idea of what to say.
"I'm sorry" he blurted out. Her brown eyes burned into his as she stared at him, not knowing what to say.
"What? Why apologize?" her voice was harsh, dry he noticed.
" I . . .should of come earlier." was his response.
They were huddled against the wall she had been thrown against as they fell asleep, the beating they had been through earlier had tried them. As they slept, Tobias battled with himself as he pictured her reaction to different versions of what he would have to tell her when she woke up.
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Also this won't get to any seifer or Quistis scenes until later so hope you can wait .
