Magical Secrets

Chapter 19: Desert Pick Up

Disclaimer:

I own Evan, Falcon, Raven and Crowe! Too bad I did own the rest of the characters though..............

Warning:

Yoai....language...mush....Anti-Rinoa.....you know and all that jazz......I don't think you can change the warning half way through a story.

Enjoy!

Alexandra AKA ~*~Fantasy Dragon~*~

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Standing there in the hot sun, with no shade or water made for a long wait for a rescue team. Or at least Zell thought so. It was actually only a hour and a half wait from Balamb Garden to Winhill, so it wouldn't take quite that long for someone to get to the desert. Checking his watch for what seemed like the hundredth time, he saw that he'd been waiting for a little over 75 minutes.

"Shouldn't be too long now." Zell grumbled, then looked over to the person sitting next to him, arms and legs bound with the vest the prisoner once wore. He hadn't bothered with a gag because the brunet had mysteriously lost his voice.

"Zell? Come in Lt. Commander Dincht!" A crackling voice came over the small communicator in his watch. The voice was familiar.

"Dincht here." He replied, pushing the talk button.

"Zell? It's Selphie!" a chipper voice came over the waves.

"Selphie? What are you doing?" Zell was a little happy to hear her voice, a drastic change over the people he had been held captive by for the past 3 days.

"Trying to find you silly! We were walking into Garden just as Nida was leaving. So we tagged along."

"Good. Good." Zell answered.

"Anywhoo. Can you send up a spell or something? We're over the desert now. And we can't find you!" Selphie sounded just as happy that she couldn't find Zell then if she was told she was now a million gil richer.

"Okay." Zell then pulled a spell to the front of his mind and pointed his hands towards the sky. "Thundaga!" He yelled and the lightning was sent up to the skies.

"Thanks! We'll be there in a jiff!" The line went dead, leaving Zell in silence again.

"What's a jiff?" He wondered aloud and looked over to Falcon for an answer. The prisoner just shrugged his shoulders telling the blond that he too had no idea. Before he could ponder anymore, Zell heard the normal sound of the engines from the dragon ship. Just as the legendary spaceship came into view, Zell looked once again over to Falcon, whose eyes had become roughly the size of saucers.

"One of the perks of being the Lt. Commander. A simple pick up is in a spaceship." Zell grinned as the ship landed near them. After the dust cleared, Zell walked over and lifted Falcon up and over his shoulder with minimal effort.

The loading bay opened and there stood Selphie and Irvine, waiting for their friend. Zell trudged right passed them, into the cargo bay and put Falcon down. Quite surprised, the couple quickly followed him, meeting Nida on the way.

"Zell, where's Quistis?" Nida asked, astounded that the blonde instructor wasn't there beside her boyfriend.

"She was captured because of her blue magic. I want to get back to Garden before I explain anymore." Zell sighed.

Irvine leaned over to get a better look at the prisoner. He gasped in realization of who it was.

"Falcon? What the hell?" Irvine exclaimed.

"One of the people responsible for the capture of myself, Quistis and SeeD Evan Brunnard." Zell explained.

"Evan Brunnard? Tall, red hair, little on the fairy side and a blue mage?" Nida recalled.

"Yeah." Zell nodded.

"Falcon? Who the hell are you working with?" Irvine interrogated the prisoner.

"It's no use. He's been silenced by a really powerful spell and I can't seem to take it off him." Zell replied, sliding down on the wall, the thought of Quistis being in someone else's hands now beginning to really disturb him.

"Falcon and I used to be really good friends. We were roommate for 3 years." Irvine explained. " Are you working with Garden?"

Falcon slowly bowed his head and shook it no. This didn't seem to surprise Irvine in the least.

"You're working with the Noire's, aren't you." Irvine watched intensely as Falcon nodded. "Fuck. They are really tough enemies. They are powerful. Damn."

"So what exactly happened, Zell?" Selphie asked, as Nida headed back to the cockpit.

"I'd rather not talk about it. I need to make a plan in my head on how we're going to get them back." Zell sighed.

"Why don't you leave the brain work to Squall? He's the smart one." Selphie smiled, no doubt trying to cheer Zell up.

Then it hit Zell. Selphie and Irvine had been in Trabia for the last 6 months, so they had no idea about Squall's condition.

"I'd rather try and figure out it out for myself. Quistis is too special to me to let me give her over without giving it my all first."

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"Dammit, that stupid, mother fucking son of a bitch." Seifer cursed as he was thrown into the cell.

"Tell me about it." Evan muttered, now rubbing his ass from where he was thrown in.

"And here's your stupid excess baggage." Crowe said, then tossed Quistis limp body into Seifer's arms.

The door slammed once again and the three were once again stuck in a cell.

"Dammit. That was one powerful spell she used." Seifer whispered and laid Quistis down.

"It's Shockwave Pulser. The most powerful blue magic ever. Used by the guardians of the most powerful sorceresses." Evan whispered, sitting beside her and putting a hand on Quistis forehead, then taking her pulse. It was there, she just over exceeded her limits. Laying her head on his lap, he hoped she was comfortable.

"Is she gonna be okay?" Seifer was concerned out of surprised. He never thought there would be a magic of a non sorceress that could be even close to that powerful. And he knew sorceresses.

"Yeah. She's just recovering. That takes a lot out of you." Evan let out a breath, still surprised on what they needed to do. Seifer sighed as well, then sat down in a less then graceful manner.

"So, we are going to be the lackeys for some unknown sorceress? Great."

"Think what Quistis is going through. We let Zell go free, but we don't know if Falcon killed him or not, so now she has given up her freedom as well as her boyfriend. Then she just about killed herself when they tried to kill Zell infront of us. She saved him and probably us too."

"I just wonder what sorceress it is that we're suppose to be guarding."

"There are only three sorceresses right now, and none are near here. " Evan replied.

"How the hell do you know?" Seifer demanded.

"Part of being a blue mage. I can sense sorceresses and any major magical engeries." Evan admitted.

"So in other words you can't even tell who it is we're gonna be the lackeys for?"

Before Evan could reply, Quistis began to come to.

"Zell? Where's Zell?" She whispered.

"He was released." Evan whispered, smoothing her hair back.

"Good." She whispered. " As long as he's okay."

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To Be Continued......

Sorry about the little delay, it was done sooner, but stupid fanfiction wouldn't let me upload. Just to let everyone know, I recieved my 100th review, thanks to Joryuusakka. I will be writing the story as soon as I get the info and I will post it asap, maybe even with another chapter to this story. I will include the name of the prize story in my next chapter, so that everyone can go check it out! Thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far, you help my muse function! Love and cookies!