Magical Secrets

Chapter 28: Heaven's Ray

Disclaimer:

I own Evan, Falcon, Raven, Ayana and Crowe! Pretty much most of the evil people. Too bad I don't own the rest of the characters though..............

Warning:

Same as always.

Enjoy!

Alexandra AKA ~*~Fantasy Dragon~*~

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"Holy mother of Hyne!" Irvine screamed out, scrambling to get to his feet. Zell rushed over and gave Irvine his shoulder to support his weight on. Watching the light coming off of Rinoa's body was eerie, but then again, so was the fact that Squall had giant silver wings and apparently was a sorcerer. To Zell, the fact of Squall being a sorcerer wasn't the big part, but the wings were what really surprised him. They were absolutely exquisite.

An ear piercing scream was heard as Raven watched for the second time in a day, some one she loved being at the wrath of her power hungry mother. Falcon grabbed his head in pain, the feeling of a hundred deaths weighing on his chest. Every punch and kick he ever delivered to a dying person was impacting his body. Doubling over in pain, Falcon forced his eyes open as he looked over to his princess. Raven.

"I love you." he whispered, knowing that those very well may be his last words. Falling onto the ground, the blood began to pool around his head as his minutes were numbered.

"NO!" Evan screamed, then ran and threw his body into Rinoa's, causing the girl to fall over and break the contact she had with Falcon's subconscious.

"You will pay for that!" Ayana screamed, then pushed Evan off of her. Likely, she pushed the lithe redhead towards Quistis and Seifer, the latter of which caught him.

"Are you fuckin' crazy, Evan?! Or do you have some sort of twisted death wish!" Seifer exclaimed, helping Evan get back to his feet.

"Raven isn't bad. I figure that if she's not all bad, neither is Falcon." Evan said, watching as Raven ran over to Falcon. "I don't think they need to die here."

"You've gotta a bigger heart then me." Seifer chuckled as they watched Ayana try to get to her feet. Even if she was trying to take over the world, this girl seriously had no coordination.

"At least he has a heart." Quistis muttered.

"I heard that, Trepe." Seifer glared.

Ayana was finally able to get to her feet, then turned towards Evan, Seifer, Quistis and Squall. "You are just digging a pit." She glared, then raised her hand towards the redhead.

"Stop right there, Ayana." A voice came from the doorway. Everyone whipped their heads towards the new voice, a silence falling over the room.

"And who are you to tell me, a great sorceress, what to do, you pathetic mortal." Ayana laughed a mechanical laughter, not at all afraid of the new threat.

"You are no sorceress. Only a person who is able to junction more then normal magic. You are not your sister." The girl glared at the enemy. She continued to walk into the room, calm as ever. "You have no magical powers what so ever. You plan on resurrecting your sister so that you can junction her sorceress powers and claim to be a sorceress."

"You know nothing of my powers." Ayana spat. This girl was small and pathetic. No weapon, more then likely no magic. How was someone as weak as this managing to stand up to Ayana?

"Really? I do know that you are a fraud, and it is my job to make sure you go nowhere!" Ellone screamed, then a golden light began to form a beam of light around the brunette, and everyone saw a pair of snow white wings coming out of the column of light.

"Another sorceress? How is this possible?" Ayana said in disbelief. From where Zell was standing beside Irvine, it was quite a sight to see. Ellone was now just in front of Squall, the light fading to see that she was too floating a foot off the ground. Squall was behind her, looking a more pissed off then usual, but at the same time was extruding an aura that calmed allies. And with Quistis, Seifer and Evan standing in an offensive position in front of them, it was a sight that would not be easily forgotten.

"Not only a sorceress. But the sorceress of purity. You will cease to exist, Ayana." Ellone said, then held both of her hands up, palms pointed directly onto Ayana's position. As if a giant fan had been placed beneath her, Ellone's short brown hair began to lift from her neck and shoulders and she began to focus on the spell. "Heaven's Ray." she whispered.

As the words left her mouth, white ribbons of light left Ellone's palms and began to surround Ayana, then wrap around the raven haired girls body, beginning to squeeze. Then a light similar to that of which just left Ellone, only smaller began to wash over Rinoa's body. The pain that Rinoa was feeling was becoming unbearable, the light burning her skin, the light paralyzing her from all movement. Every breath she took burned her soul, the white light flooding into her lungs.

Ayana tried to scream, but no sound left her mouth as she began to lose her strength and slowly fell down to the ground.

"You will not ki..." The sentence fell dead from Rinoa's lips as all movement ceased, the body falling limp.

A long silence with the exception of Raven's sobs filled the room, no one believing the enemy was now finished.

Ellone started to gasp for breath, and slowly, her wings disappeared, and she fell to the ground on her knees. Irvine left his Zell perch and ran over to help the sorceress up. Squall also allowed his wings to go back into hiding as he floated to the ground, more used to his powers then Ellone, and walked over to Ellone slowly as well.

"Is she dead?" Evan asked the question everyone was dreading. No one dared make a move towards the lifeless body.

"You're all a bunch of chicken wusses." Seifer grumbled, then walked over and nudged the girls head with his boot. "Hey, psycho bitch, you still fuckin breathing?"

"Of course she'll answer to that." Quistis rolled her eyes as Zell walked over to her and took the blue mage into his arms.

"Like you'd do any fucking better." Seifer growled, then kneeled down to the lifeless girl. Checking for a pulse and breathing, the blond knight was relieved when her found no trace of either. "Dead as a forbidden."

The group let out a collective breath no one knew they were holding. Everyone was turning to leave the room in complete silence, no words to describe the feeling in the air at the moment. The sound no one thought they'd here again was the only sound able to break the tension.

"Raven." A hoarse voice whispered, causing everyone to stop and turn to see that Falcon was waving his hand in the air, as if he was looking for something.

"Falcon? Are you okay?" Raven panicked, grabbing onto the man's hand.

"No. I hurt a lot everywhere." He groaned. "I ain't gonna lie."

"I'll get you a spell." Raven whispered.

"No. No, I'm too far gone to be saved." Raven gasped at Falcon's words, a fresh set of tears beginning to form in her eyes.

"Don't talk like that. You can be saved." Raven cried, holding onto Falcon's hand with everything in her.

"There's too much damage done to my brain. Listen. I don't want you to mourn me."

Everyone in the room watched on in sadness as the scene unfolded before them. Zell had Quistis wrapped tightly in his arms as she buried her face in his chest, and cried, knowing how close she had been to losing Zell. There was no way she would have been able to stay that calm. Seifer had his arm wrapped around Evan's shoulder as the redhead openly cried for his friends. After everything that had transpired here today, he knew that they were still the friends he had made in Dollet, and to know that at least one was dead was hard enough. Losing another would be devastating. Even Irvine was having a hard time keeping in his tears for his former roommate. But deep inside, everyone knew that there was no way that Falcon would live.

"I'll find some one who can help." Raven insisted, knowing Falcon's fate as much as anyone else in the room.

"Just promise that you'll remember me, but don't mourn me." Falcon forced one more smile onto his face as he closed his eyes and slowly allowed the last breath of life to escape from his body.

"Falcon!" Raven screamed in a sob as Falcon's hand lost it's grip on hers and fell to the ground, his body now lying next to the slain body of his best friend.

Evan couldn't stand it anymore, then broke free of Seifer's embrace and ran over to his roommate. He took the sobbing girl into his arms and began to rock her back and forth.

"I don't know how you are able to look at me after what I put you through." Raven whispered.

"It's okay. You had a lot of pressure on you." Evan said, then a thought hit him. Removing one arm from around Raven, Evan reached into his pocket and after a little bit of rummaging, found what he was looking for. "I'll try this, Raven." Evan said, then pushed the item towards her.

Raven took it into her hands, then looked at it. "What is it?"

"It's a phoenix pinion. If I use it, my guardian will come and try to resurrect them." Evan smiled.

"You'd do that for me?" Raven asked, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"That's what friends are for." Evan smiled.

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To Be Continued..............................

Still not over! I've got a couple more chapters left in me! But I'm moving over the next week, so I'm not sure how many I will get out before then. I promise I will not forget about this, cause it's gone too far to not finish it now! So if I don't update for a while, it's only because I am moving and have no time to update. I'm going to try and get one more chapter out before I do move. Also, I'm offering a prize for the 175th reviewer. Same as last prize, a oneshot fic about any FF8 pair, any rating. I'm at 153 now, so over the next couple of chapters, cause I know it's not going to be that much longer, hopefully you all review and I get to write a oneshot foe one diserving fan. Until next time, love and cookies!