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                                           SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Chapter 4.   Plans and bathroom privileges.

       The minutes ticked away to an invisible clock as the two sleeping mages dreamt. One dreamt of her past, her family and friends. The other wasn't really dreaming but communicating with a godly like being. Inside his head she was standing, a optical resemblance of the real thing. With her shoulder length hair, and elegant dress she spoke to him.

 * Tobias can you get the two of you out of that prison.* she asked, her voice was demanding but sweet.

 "I don't think she would be able to get enough strength. We would need to get her energy, the barrier around this prison is like nothing I've ever seen." he answered quietly.

 * Well, Tobias I suppose your right. She is far too weak to learn her magic. You will have to educate her on all of her abilities and on how to use her powers in here. I will try to find the remaining mages.*

"I understand lady Anel. So I tell her everything?" he asked in his head.

*No, only what she needs to know. Little by little Tobias, we don't want to destroy her, her mind is fragile . . . maybe you could teach her how to meditate, it could help get her powers back.*

"She is very skeptical mi' lady I don't think she will be able to handle It." he said as he thought on how she reacted to who he was.

*hmm.....I will have to reach her, don't tell her anything about anything. Instead try to reason it out of her so she comes to her own conclusion. Hint at her powers through her own words. I'll be watching, I'll contact you when I'm sure she will be able to understand and believe in her powers.* She told him.

" I understand." he said before she left his mind, all that was left was the feeling of being well rested.  

   Anel let her mind relax as she disconnected from Tobias' mind; her thoughts roaming to Ellone. She had to get her to understand her responsibility without the problems of her not believing them. She also had to start looking for the rest of mages. if it isn't bad enough that they are in a world that had all sorts of powerful beings; sending off all kinds of energy waves making it impossible to distinguish the right ones...then the fact that one of them was presumed dead by a source is bad enough to make my head spin. I will just have to find out how to get to the guardian force that reported his death . . . damn wasn't that one of the guardian forces that died. Hyne I'll never find a dead G.Fs she thought lastly before entering into Ellone s' dream.

 *~~~~~~~~~~* Ellone's dream-

 "Tag!!" a small little boy with spiky hair blonde hair and a tattoo on his face yelled really loud. In all his excitement he had pushed a slightly taller little blonde haired boy to the ground as he ran around playing.


 "Hey! Thawts no fairs I wasn't playing! Stupwid Zelly! Cwrybaby Zelly!" he screamed at Zell, he ran up to the younger boy and pushed him to the ground. Just as he was about to punch him,

"No! Seify dwon't I don't think Matwron will like id if ywou...you hit Zelly, leave him awone." she said as she pried Seifer off of Zell. Seifer looked back at her and pouted.

"Aw, Quisty why ywo do that I was just gonna pwound on him." he whined. She tagged him and ran away, Seifer's eyes lid up as he went chasing after her. Quistis ran by squall and into the house, as Seifer ran by he saw squall and tagged him roughly. Squall was playing with his teddy bear.

" hiyas mistwer teddy, how are ywo twoday?" he asked when suddenly Seifer came and knocked him down, squall threw his small hands up in the air and waved them frantically in circles trying to balance himself.

 "Teddy!!" he screamed when he realized he had thrown him up in the air, his eyes were wider than a space alien saucer plate as he fell on his butt his eyes never left the bear.

        Ellone was watching as Seifer practically flew and tagged squall, she didn't want the teddy bear to be destroyed or ruined but she couldn't do anything so she screamed stop at the top of her lungs. No one heard her because she was kind of far away from the other kids. Squall stood up and looked at the bear with his mouth open and eyes wide like a statue for a few minutes. The teddy bear had been frozen in mid-air for a few minutes now. What squall found was even more unreal was that everyone outside had been frozen in place; except for Ellone and squall that is.

 "Teddy ywo fwy like a birdwie." he gasped and asked

 "Teddy can ywo talk two?...can ywo hear- he didn't get to finish asking the teddy bear questions because when it came falling down he had dive to get it. Ellone smiled down at him as he continued to study the little bear for signs of life.

       As if changing points of view she watched the younger version of her walk away from the scene and disappear behind a bush, frowning Ellone followed herself. She crept onto the clearing that her younger self was sitting in the middle of. The younger Ellone was humming a tune, Ellone looked around and noticed how completely foreign this place was to her; she then wondered if it was normal to be able to notice and analyze things your dreaming about while dreaming them. She waited for her younger self to do something, then out of nowhere a lady appeared. It looked like she phased from thin air Ellone thought.

 "Hello little one I'm Anel" she said as she bent down to the eye level of the younger version of herself. Her hair was a dark brown and she had honey colored eyes. Her gown was the color of the planet Uranus. Ellone got closer to listen in on the conversation they were having.

"Hi I'm Ellone, you're very pretty. What are you doin' n' da middle of da woods?" the young Ellone asked. 

 "I was looking for you, I want to tell you a secret." she said.

"Oh, yay I love secrets" she said.

"Want to hear it?" she waited for a nod and then continued.

 "What you did back there with the teddy bear was magic." she said.

 "Really? Wow." she said.

Then faster than Ellone could tell, her younger self and her older self were joined and Anel stood in front of her. Anel and her were no longer in the clearing with trees and beautiful flowers and butterflies, but in a black emptiness. Ellone could see herself and Anel but nothing else.

"Mental awareness" she said. It seemed to echo off the blackness. Then she woke up.

 ~*~*~*~*~*end of dream                                          

   Ellone woke up with a start from the dream; she wondered why she saw it, because what she dreamt never happened in the orphanage. She thought on it and how it might connect with what's happening now. Ellone tried to figure out the dream until she fell asleep.

        Tobias woke up to a stiff back and a warm feeling on his legs, he looked to where his thighs were and smiled as he saw Ellone using it as a pillow. She was still asleep when he started to shake her gently awake, he wasn't getting a response, he really had to go and she wasn't helping. So he used a spell on her and scrambled to the toilet seat. ^ ^

 "Wha?" She asked as She stirred and then opened her eyes, when she finally woke up she realized she wasn't on the ground, using a float spell he had left her hanging in mid-air as he ran for the toilet.

"Ahh! What are you doing?" she asked completely disgusted as she rotated in circles in the air.

 "I have to go!" he said as he positioned himself for release. ^ ^

 "Oh hyne..." she prayed as she closed her eyes and covered her ears. A minute later he had finished and she came slowly back down to the ground.

 "You're disgusting" she stated.

 "I had to go" was his defense.

"Don't you have to go to the bathroom?"

"Went while you were sleeping, I woke up went to the bathroom and went back to sleep." she answered.

 "Maybe I should do that" he said. Before they could continue their conversation the door swung open. Tobias was about to speak when she held up her hand to silence him, he nodded as the guards came in. They bounded their hands behind there backs and chained their feet together and eyes blindfolded, the first two guards took Ellone by the arms. Her feet were being dragged and scrapped as they led her into a room.

         Tobias was taken by the second pair of guards; blindfolded and bounded he too, was dragged toward the room next to the one she went in; his feet also receiving the same treatment as Ellone.  Throwing her in the room, they remove the blindfold and one of the guards comes in with a bundle of clothes; they lock the door and leave. Tobias was dragged into the room right next to hers and like Ellone they removed the blindfold and place a bundle in the corner; they snickered and left the room. The most disturbing thoughts ran through his mind to try and explain why he was in this weird little room. Hunched up against a corner he waited, for what? He didn't exactly understand what for yet.     

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