Magical Secrets
Chapter 21: Discovery
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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"How long have we been in here?" Seifer asked, pacing the room.
"37 hours, 25 minutes and 17 seconds. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22." Evan replied, looking at his watch. " 24. 25. 26."
"Evan, dear. Do us all a favor and shut up." Quistis said from the single bed in the room. The colourless room was starting to take effect on all it's occupants. Dreary gray covered the walls, ceiling, even the door to the small bathroom. No windows were placed in any of the wall, so they couldn't even see where they were being held. The only thing on the wall was a bookcase filled with books on magic.
"Sorry. I'm just really confused at who's behind all this." Evan sighed as he plunked down at the table. "There are no sorceresses around here, and even if they wear a bangle, I can usually sense them."
"So you're trying to say that whoever the hell we're suppose to be the guardians of is a phony?" Seifer asked, pulling out a book on knights and sitting down at the table with Evan.
"Well, I've never really been able to sense the sorceresses as much as Evan, but I can feel presenses. And I don't feel one." Quistis replied, then got up off the bed and headed towards the bathroom.
"Going to take a shower?" Evan asked, as Seifer began to noisily flip through the pages of the book.
"Yeah. I feel so gross in here." Quistis smiled a mere shadow of her former smile, then closed the door and locked it. As soon as the water started running, Evan and Seifer rushed to the bed and began to pull a few books out from under the bed. Quistis hadn't been herself since they had been transferred here and Evan knew it had something to do with not knowing where Zell was. She was taking a shower every couple of hours, not eating the sandwiches that were being brought every 10 hours, and barely sleeping. Combined with all the weird stuff she was experiencing with her magic, Evan wasn't sure how much longer it would be until something happened. So he and Seifer were taking the time while Quistis was in the shower to look through the books on blue magic to see if they could find out anything.
"What exactly are we looking for again?" Seifer asked as they began to pile the books on the table.
"Anything that will explain the power of her blue magic over the last few days, or even something about why she was able to talk to us telepathically yesterday." replied the redhead, as he quickly flipped through many pages.
"How the hell can you even tell what you're reading? Your going over each page so fucking fast." Seifer said, barely finishing a page everytime Evan seemed to be done a chapter.
"Photographic memory." The blue mage shrugged. " I never really thought about it being part of blue magic, but I read somewhere once that there are some common characteristics about each set of blue mages....." Evan trailed off, suddenly looking as if his soul had been sucked out through his ears at that persice moment.
"Brunnard? You all right?" Seifer started waving his hand in front of the redhead, trying to get his companion to acknowledge him.
"Go and see if there is a book, Blue Secrets by Unhada Kafuied." Evan said, putting his head into his hands trying to think. Looking at the blue mage, the blond knight decided that it was in his best interest to get the book without complaining. Standing up, Seifer walked across the small room and began to peer through the small selection of magic related material sitting on cloudy coloured bookshelf.
'What are the chances that there is the one book we're looking for here.' Seifer thought to himself, a little skeptical over the fact that Evan seemed a little confident that there was a certain book here.
"Who'd you say it was by again?" Seifer asked, reading over the spines of each musty book.
"Unhada Kafuied. " Evan said, still looking deep in thought.
Finally, after gazing over what seemed like every single book, Seifer came upon the one Evan had requested. A tattered binding barely held the age stained pages in. On the front was a faded picture of a stone. "Found it. Doesn't look like a book on blue magic. It looks like a book on magical stones. That looks like an Ultima stone if you ask me." Seifer grumbled, then handed Evan the book and sat down with him at the table.
"It's not an Ultima stone. It's dark matter. Remember that spell Quistis used when Zell was being taken away?"
"What was that anyway? It's not like anything I've ever seen anything use before. But, damn, that was one strong spell."
"It's called Shockwave Pulser. The most powerful blue magic ever. The only thing we can learn it from is Hyne's personal Guardian Force." Evan replied as he began to flip through the pages of the book.
"You mean Griever?" Seifer questioned, looking at the redhead.
Evan just nodded. " I see a certain knight has done his research on his predisestors." Evan chuckled, then stopped looking in the book for a minute.
"Not quite. When I was under Ultimecia's control, she spoke a lot of the unjunctionable GF, Griever. She told me a lot about that and knights. I'm not saying that she was a good person. Because in no way shape or form was she anything but pure evil, but she was very intelligent. She knew a lot about Hyne and his ways." Seifer replied, "So, how did Quistis come to learn that spell?"
"Well, you have to refine a dark matter from 100 curse spikes. Only Siren can do that. And it takes a lot of skill to actually use it. You saw it knock Quistis out. That's how powerful it is. She told me that she only had used it once before. And that was when fighting Ultimecia. I'm almost scared to use it." He confessed, then pulled the small shiny stone out of his pocket.
"Wait, you know how to use it too?" Seifer asked, not believing his eyes when he saw the small stone. Even sitting a few feet away from the blue mage, he could feel the power resonating from it.
"Yeah, but I've never used it before, and seeing what it did to Quistis, I'm not sure if I want to." replied the blue mage. " Anyway, we're trying to figure out why Quistis has been having so many problems, right? Not my being a scaredy cat." Evan then went back to reading pages.
"So what are we looking for again?" Seifer asked, as Evan flipped through the pages.
"I know there is something in this book that tells me how to enhance blue mages powers to include telepathy, and resistance to magic barriers." Evan then stopped dead in his tracks once again. "Leviathan."
"Huh?" Seifer looked at Evan like he had two heads. "What about Leviathan?"
"I should have known! I am a friggin' idiot!" Evan then smacked himself in the forehead. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!"
"Whoa, hold it there, dingleberry. You'll be needing that brain of yours a little later on." Seifer chuckled at Evan's antics, then grabbed the other's wrist. "So what about that sea serpent?"
"Quistis said that she never removes Leviathan. Leviathan is the blue Guardian. Like Hyne created Griever for himself, He also created GF's for his Guardians. For his knight, Alexander. So, if you ever got your hands on Alexander, you'd be a lot stronger. For his blue mages, he made Leviathan. That's why she's so much more powerful right now. The rest of the GF's were just like an army, but those 3 were given special jobs."
"But, there have always been 2 blue mages. How come there was only one guardian for both of them?" Seifer was becoming a little confused.
"There are 2. But it's a GF that you can't junction." Evan replied, then closed the book.
"A GF you can't junction? What do you mean?"
"Phoenix. Where the 2 blue mages and the knight were the last line of defense before Hyne, he wanted to make sure that they had as many chances as possible."
"How do you know all this stuff? I know that's not in the normal SeeD training."
"I took it upon myself to learn as much as possible...." Evan stopped short as Quistis walked out of the bathroom.
"Don't stop talking on a count of me. I'm just going to take a nap." She still had the faint fake smile on her face.
"Wait, Quist. I'll tell you why your powers have been enhanced here." Evan said, causing Quistis to turn around and look at the 2 males sitting at the table. It amazed her that when they had first been put into the room, Evan and Seifer couldn't seem to even have a civil conversation, and now they seemed to be getting along like old friends.
"So, what's going on?" Quistis sighed, a little skeptical on Evan knowing why.
"You junctioned yourself to Leviathan. He's the blue mages GF. In other words, he was destined to be your Guardian." Evan smiled, causing Quistis to become speechless.
At that moment, the door to the room burst open, Raven and Crowe standing there in a very menacing manor.
"You three are going to meet your mistress now." Crowe grinned as Raven laughed loudly.
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To Be Continued.........
Sorry about the wait once again, but I had a minor writers block. I obviously got over it. Anyway, I posted the prize story for Joryuusakka, called Caught in the Rain. Sorry about it taking so long. I hope that my life will allow me some more time to type up some more chapters. But now that I got over the little bump I was in, I hope that it all goes faster. Well, until next time! Love and Cookies!
