SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Disclaimer: accidents happen. The cast of ff8 are not mine. I own only what's in the story. I don't own the cast or its garden or any of the good stuff. This is a necessary chapter but I decided to make it interesting and not so moody so here it is chapter three. Its long. Special thanks to the reviewer…notice it's not plural –hint-hint- …anyway thanks for taking some time and writing a review. To Anime-diva ^ ^ .
Chapter .....3 accidents.
"Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, four.....teen, fifth....teen." Zell counted in between flips, stopping it there he saw where his girlfriend-to-be was reading one of her library books.
If I just go up to her and ask.....hey Lina wanna go out sum' time? Or hiya Lina, how about a date? Maybe… s'up Lina? Wanna get sum' thing to eat? His thoughts were different versions of these questions until he reached the quad area that she was sitting in.
"Hey Lina, how's it goin!'" he asked. She looked up from her book and smiled.
"...hm, he-hello Zell" she cleared her throat. He grinned at her.
"Whatcha up to?" whatcha up to? Hello moron she's reading a book, now she's gonna think I'm an imbecile, he thought.
"Reading." she responded shortly as she closed the book and passed it to him. He took it from her and looked at the cover his eyes lit up.
"Hey I love this book! Picha Puru adventures two. The songs so great!" he commented, she smiled in agreement as she took it back paying no attention to his loud voice.
"Yes, it's the best. I love Picha Puru" she agreed. Zell without thinking started to sing the song, remembering how great it was.
"Picha Puru will hang with you" he sang, she caught the gist of it and followed suit.
"Picha Puru rides the waves for you" she continued Zell grinned and sang.
"Picha Puru ventures the lands to find you" he sang. She was giggling hysterically as she sang .
"Picha Puru will do anything you ask him to" he laughed too.
"Picha Puru adventurer extraordinary is...." he sang
"Coming for you" she finished with having to hold on to Zell for support the two were laughing hysterically.
They thought they were alone in the quad but to their surprise Selphie popped up from her recruiting spot with her interviewing camera, she had caught the whole thing on video. Selphie was having the most difficult time controlling herself from exploding from laughter that they whole recording looks as though it were happening during an earthquake. She had been clutching her stomach for a few minutes and if she didn't get to laugh soon she was going cause an earthquake.
Zell and Lina were laughing so hard that they didn't hear her laughing with them. It wasn't until she fell over rolling in her laughter that they stopped laughing and noticed her. Zell frowned for a second as he tried to identify the object in her hands.
She had stood up but was still laughing extremely hard and Zell had stopped laughing altogether. Lina was looking at the situation and the two of them bizarrely. Selphie waved at him with the camera and took off in a run. Zell barked as though finally understanding she caught the whole thing on tape, and ran after her. Lina wasn't good friend of Selphie but knew her good enough to not want Zell attacking her for the tape and took off sprinting after Zell who went up the stairs inside garden.
Selphie turned a corner the glee in her eyes never left her, she had heard about him and Raijin singing that song once in front of the Qusity's class but she had never anticipated that it was this great. She had been trying to catch him singing that song forever it seemed, and now she had it in the palm of her hands. Deciding that she would not give this to him she sped up a little.
She had just passed the cafeteria when she saw Squall and Rinoa walking the opposite way as her. She tried to dodge the collision but ended up crashing into two people that were to the right of squall.
When she ran into the two students she tried to balance herself grabbing a hold of the first thing her hands felt; which happened to be squalls feathered collar his arms waved around and that tripped Rinoa who cried in surprise. The two people Selphie had originally crashed into were just picking themselves up when squall came sailing down on the male student causing him to lose his grip on the girl student who was gripping on to him fell due to the weight of her friend she tried to steady herself but did it on Rinoa who was bent over inspecting her scrapped knee, the two collided with Rinoa and Selphie after they fell and in the end it was Selphie the male student then squall, then the female student then Rinoa that had fallen.
Zell had made a complete circle around the hallway and almost added to the dog pile, but stopped himself a few inches from the pile-o-people. While squinting at the pile he scratched his head and tried to figure a way to get Selphie without causing more trouble for the rest of the innocent bystanders that had gotten in the line of fire....or pursuit he thought.
Lina had widened eyes as she looked at the pile of people she noted that it looked like a human pretzel with too many extra parts, turning her head to the side she tried to find all the heads. Not exactly sure of how many people were in there. Grabbing Zells shirt she asked him if he knew.
"Zell what happened?" she asked quietly her eyes still wide she had never seen anything so strange in her life. Zell turned to her and shrugged his shoulders not understanding how people could get stuck that way. I wish I had that camera I would tape this and send it to Balamb funniest video moments he mulled.
"That's how I found them" he said pointing to the masses. Squall was stuck in a accidental neck lock or he would have attacked Zell by now. Rinoa had half her body under someone she didn't know...she thought. Selphie was stuck in-between a few people in a strange fashion that prevented her from moving without extreme pain her head was under someone's back she thought that it was a back anyway.
The girl student has been recognized as Liz and is some how trapped by squalls arms...or legs...or someone's arms, or legs she thought wryly. The male student who as been identified as Jesse is partially on top of some part of Selphie and pinned roughly to the ground by squalls legs that are stuck in one position.
Lina poked Zell and told him to get help. "What are you going to do?" he asked.
"Try to unattach them, I guess." she said. Zell turned and ran to get Quistis because she was the reliable one and if anyone could help them it was Quistis he thought; as he ran to her dorm.
He knocked on the door, no answer knocked again.
"Quistis open up. Are you there?" then he remembered that she was away on business this whole week. Damn what am I gonna do? Who is as responsible as Quistis.....Xu...but I don't like her but she'd help. Deciding to try her he ran across the dormitories to her room knocking on it twice he heard her voice.
"Coming.......yes what can I hel-....oh what are you doing here?" she asked bored of him already. Zell scoffed.
"I need your help we have a problem." he asked
"Go ask squall." she said before trying to close the door, putting his foot in the way he stated.
"He's a part of the accident." he said lamely.
"What accident?!" she asked alarmed opening the door once more.
"It's not a death like crises but its bizarre you have to see it ....hey you have a camera." he asked lastly. She frowned at the question why would he need a camera...unless it's something hilarious she thought.
"Explain" she stated. He sighed but told her what happened but the end of the story she was laughing while clutching the door for support.
"Okay fine I'll help." she went back in and came out with a camera closing her door they took off in a jog to where the accident was.
When they got there they had their mouths open and looked like zombies for five minutes before erupting in laughter. When Zell had left Lina had tried to help the pretzel of people out of their dilemma. Fortunately she had gotten them unglued but when everyone was stretching and fixing the kinks in there back and shoulders and so on; the jogger boy had started his laps, he saw Liz bending over stretching and had sidestepped it to the left before hitting her with his torso. Unfortunately he didn't see squall waling towards Selphie who was just in back of Liz and ran right into squall he scrambled forwards into Selphie she let pure instincts take over and grabbed the first thing that was solid. Which was poor Lina who was cleaning Rinoas' knee busted knee, the three were thrown into the equation as squall tried vainly to grab something which was Jesse who had been inspecting his back for bruises. The seven human dominos fell and then tried futilely to unglue themselves from each other. The pretzel grew to almost twice the original size. In the background of the grunting the seven teens could hear the loud laughter of Zell and fast breathless laughter of ....Xu squall thought wryly.
They looked at the dog pile in pure amazement never before has there been a dog pile of people so tangled. Xu wiped out her camera and shot every angle three times. While Zell went around it in circles as he counted the heads.
"Seven!!" he shouted in astonishment.
"Seven.....seven..." she said dazed as she looked back at him for confirmation he nodded.
"Whoo-hoo! This is better than I could have anticipated." she shouted rejoicing.
Squall rolled his eyes, Selphie tried to pout, Rinoa scoffed, Jesse tried to say bless you because he heard Rinoa scoff and thought she sneezed. Liz agitated under Selphie making Selphie switch positions the best she could, which then caused the jogger boy to cry out as a leg cramp formed Lina winced because she heard him scream in her ears from above her head and tried to kick him to stop.
"Owww!!!" Jesse yelled from somewhere in the pile. Xu snickered while catching everything on tape.
"Mumble– sorfershy" Lina mumbled because feathers got in her mouth when she tried to apologize for kicking the wrong person.
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Dr.kadowaski shook her head at the mess; in her office were nine of the worst looking teenagers she had ever seen. After everyone was untangled the seven formally known as the seven human dominos had decided not to let that tape live. Selphie still had the glee in her eyes because the Picha Puru song tape was still okay and now they got to chase Zell and Xu. They had ended up at the parking garage and the nine of them collided with a few vehicles that had been arriving the same time as them. They were lucky that they weren't run over. Sighing, the good doctor finished with the last of them and sent them to the headmaster.
"What you have done is in strict violation to garden rules. I want an explanation." he stated as he looked at the strangely walking people. Zell volunteered to tell it. He took a deep breath and started.
"You see sir it all started when I was singing a song- ..." he was cut off.
"What song?" Cid asked Zell blushed.
"Picha Puru." answered Selphie with a smile; cid returned it and went back to Zell.
"And Selphie had taped it and I didn't want her to show it to anyone and she had run off so I followed her." he stopped to try to explain the next part when Selphie cut in and continued for him.
"And I was running and I saw squall come out of nowhere and I tried to dodge running into him and Rinoa so I went right. I didn't see the two of them" she pointed to Liz and Jesse and then continued.
" and ran into them both, they had fallen right away because they had gotten jittery when they saw me sprinting at them one of them grabbed Rinoa and she fell with them, but I didn't fall right away so I tried to balance myself and accidentally grabbed squalls collar. Squall went down and right on Jesse and then Liz tried to keep him from falling but grabbed Rinoa instead of a wall or something and then Rinoa fell again also. We tried to get up but we ended up in worse positions and then Zell came with Lina and tried to help but Zell left to get help and Lina tried to get us untangled and it worked. But then the jogger boy was doing is laps and saw Liz bending and stretching and sidestepped her but didn't see squall approaching me and he ran into squall the two were sprawled forwards into me I tried to stay up but grabbed Lina by mistake,. Lina got tangled with Rinoa and squall was finally getting up off of the jogger boy but the jogger boy accidentally kicked squalls legs from under him and squall grabbed Jesse for balance and Jesse fell onto squall we tried to move out of the pile but there were too many people and we got stuck. Then Zell came back and saw us and Xu was taping it and when they got us unstuck we chased them for the tape. They ran into the garage and we followed and then we saw the cars and panicked and the cars and us collided." she finished with the car collision as she looked at the headmasters chair he had turned around so they couldn't see him all they saw was the chair, from behind the chair the headmaster was shaking with silent laughter. A few minutes later he turned to them and looked at them and broke out into laughter at the sight. Squall frowned, Selphie pouted, Rinoa whined, Jesse and Liz looked at him like an alien and Lina chuckled understanding the humor.
When they had gotten out of the headmasters office each was assigned a different duty as punishments. Jesse and Liz and Lina and jogger boy were excused from the incident. Squall was warned and Selphie and Zell weren't allowed to drive the Ragnarok for a period of two months. They cried because of it but the headmaster was sure it would hurt them; they considered the Ragnarok their baby. Rinoa was excused as being an innocent bystander that got caught in the cross fire; After all it was an accident the headmaster mused as he saw them leave the office.
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