A/N: Hey guys! I'm SOOOO sorry I haven't updated this thing in a while, but
things come up, and I've been busy with other stuff (no, I didn't fall off
a cliff and hafta go get reconstructive surgury *eye twitch*) but anyway,
on to what you REALLY want to read...and no more of my ramblings...
It had been an hour Quistis had the smelly dye in her hair. She didn't know which she hated more, the color, or the smell. She could hardly breath with the nueasiating fumes radiating from her hair.
She sat down, papers in lap cross-legged on the floor, trying to concentrate on reading more about this mission. All she'd really gone over was the preperations, who knows how she'd actually carry things out.
She licked her thumb and turned the pages, ignoring most until she came to one that read "The Sabotage" at the top in big, bold print.
"The Sabotage...
The point of this mission is to eliminate any chance Galbadia has at taking control of Dollet. Right now, Galbadia and Esthar are negotiating for the same land. Things seem to be civil between the countries, however, this peace won't last for long.
Your job is to make sure Galbadia loses, no matter what the cost. If worst comes to worst, and a new war starts, any actions necessary are to be taken. This job is not for the weak, timid, or foolish.
Your fake identity, Maylee Rinthe, has been accepted to Galbadia. When you arrive, you'll be given a dorm room.
From here, you are to set up the laptop given to you aboard the airship, your transport to Galbadia.
Use the laptop to hack into the computer mainframe. Hacking instructions are included in this packet. Your first step will be to change negotiation and/or meeting dates/times with Dollet. This will give Esthar an advantage, more time with Dollet for negotiations.
If this starts to fail, you are to input the X009 Virus into Galbadia's mainframe, eliminating any contact between Dollet and Galbadia through computers, and at the same time, deleting all Galbadia's files concerning Dollet. Again, instructions are included.
If things are still not changing, and it appears as if Galbadia is going to win, you are to install the Decimation Bomb given to you along with the laptop. Set it up in your dorm, pull the fire alarm so all students evacuate the Garden, then detonate it. This will destroy Galbadia Garden, and Caraway will lose millions of gil, thus he will not have the funds to purchase Dollet. This is the last resort, and do this only when there is no other way to win. Things aren't meant to come to this unless necessary.
Good luck, Quistis Trepe. We trust you'll get the job done,
Cid and Edea"
Quistis could hardly speak. Destroy Galbadia Garden? They wanted her to become a terrorist?! Selphie was right, this mission was a hell of a lot more dangerous than she felt comfortable doing, yet she had already accepted, and now she was dying her precious golden locks.
She walked into the bathroom to wash the dye out. Two more hours, then she would have to board the airship...and things would get much more stressful.
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Seifer dozed, his feet propped up on a plastic crate, his fishing pole propped up against it. He rested his head against the concrete wall behind him, trying to keep his eyes open so that maybe when a fish did bite, he'd see it.
Raijin ran up, his big feet making loud stomps all the way across the dock, causing Seifer to sit up in alarm. He watched the big man run up, then stop breathless, holding his pole over his shoulder.
"Me and Fujin found applications. She's back at the hotel." Raijin plopped down next to Seifer. "She said something about me sticking to what I'm better at."
Seifer snickered. How sad...Fujin was making fun of his literary skills, and he hadn't even noticed.
"Whats so funny?" he asked, casting his line into the water.
"Did you guys get an application for me?" Seifer asked, changing the subject.
"Oh, yeah. Fujin's gonna do both of ours." Raijin said.
Seifer nodded, looking back into the water.
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Quistis finished drying her hair. The dark red she would have to get used to, but it definitly made her look different. She admired it in the mirror. The color was awful on her, but that could be just because she wasn't used to it. She shrugged, and picked up the box of contacts.
"Now...lets see..." she mumbled, opening the box. She opened the little plastic wrapper around one contact, revealing a strikingly pretty green color. "Better than the dye..." she grumbled, shooting a hateful glance at her hair in the mirror.
She held her eyelids wide apart with her left hand, and tried to put it in with her right forefinger. She ended up cursing to herself, blinking her eye rapidly as it watered to the point of tears. Poking your eye definitly didn't feel good.
She bent closer to the mirror to try again. This time she got it in, and blinked a few times to get it centered over her iris.
She opened the other one, and soon had it in with a little less trouble than last time.
She blinked a few times, examining the effect the contacts had on the red hair. She had to admit, they made the hair color look a lot better with her complexion. With a change in hair and eyes, she didn't even look like the same Quistis. She couldn't say she felt like Quistis either.
She sighed and glanced at the clock. One more hour. She hurriedly blow- dried her hair, put on some light makeup, and headed back into the bedroom of her dorm. It took her about thirty mins to pack all her belongings, and make sure she wasn't forgetting anything.
She headed for the door, when the phone rang. It was already fifteen til three, she had to get going! She hesitated, her hand around the knob, but finally decided to answer it. She hurried over to the side-table and picked up the reciever.
"Hello?" she asked.
Edea's soothing voice answered. "Hello Quistis. I just wanted to wish you good luck..." she said.
Quistis smiled. "Thank you Matron." she said.
"I want to tell you thank you, also. You've done so much for us." Edea said.
Quistis' heart melted. "Well, Dollet is more important than a few weeks of vacation, right?" Quistis said, trying to sound like she didn't really mind.
Edea gave a light laugh. There was a bit of silence before she spoke again. "Be careful Quisty."
Even though she knew Edea couldn't see her, she nodded anyway. "I'll be okay." she said. She heard Edea's phone click. The sound gave a final touch to everything. It was now she was just beginning to realize, no one was helping her on this mission. She was Maylee. She had to do this all alone.
She reluctantly hung up her cordless phone, picked up the briefcase, and closed her dorm room door as if it were the last time she'd close it again.
As she walked down the hall, she kept her head pointed slightly downward, keeping her eyes focused on the lines between the marble tiles, letting her wavy auburn hair help hide her face. She didn't know if anyone looked, because she didn't dare look anyone directly in the face. At least not here. No one knew her in Galbadia Garden. Well, maybe from her appearance in Newspapers or such, but no one really KNEW her.
She walked down the corridor, turned, and into the parking lot. She looked down at her watch, ten til three. She smiled inwardly. She had always been early, for everything.
She sighed in relief when she noticed there were no students dwelling in the parking lot of the Garden. She sat, holding her chin in her left palm, her legs crossed boredly, when she heard the wall rolling up, the parking lot opening.
She sat up straight a gazed out at the land. Garden was in mid-flight! She had no idea they would open the parking lot in mid-flight!
A small airship, about half the size of most of the vehicles in the parking lot, hovered into the garage slowly. She stood up, smoothed her skirt with her hands, and bent down to pick up her brief case.
A man in Estharian uniform shut off the aircraft and stepped out. He walked towards her.
"I've orders to transport a Miss Maylee Rinthe to the city of Deling. Are you Miss Rinthe?" he asked.
She nodded. "Yes." She followed him back to the little plane, stealing a glance outside. It sent chills down her spine to think of what would happen if the Garden were to suddenly lurch and she were to fall out, being as how the garage door was completely rolled up.
Her thoughts were broken as he took the briefcase from her hand, and shoved it into a compartment underneath the plane.
"Um, make sure that latch on the bottom is shut tight. I can't lose the papers in that briefcase." she commented. He grunted some reply she couldn't even understand and slammed the door shut. He pounded his fist on it a few times, just to humor her.
His rude nature seemed to fade when he took her hand to help her into the backseat. When she was situated, buckled in tight, he climbed into the front pilot's seat, lowered the top, and started the engine.
The plane hummed, seemingly more sleek and quiet than most aircrafts she'd been in. She glanced back at Garden, floating slowly over Timber's snowy mountains, before turning to face the back of the pilot's head.
Her journey had just begun...
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A/N: Whew. Once again, I'd like to apologize for taking so long to update. it's been really hard on me lately, I haven't wasn't even visiting the Seiftis board for a while *gasp* but now I'm back on my feet and feeling inspired XD. Anyways, cheers!
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It had been an hour Quistis had the smelly dye in her hair. She didn't know which she hated more, the color, or the smell. She could hardly breath with the nueasiating fumes radiating from her hair.
She sat down, papers in lap cross-legged on the floor, trying to concentrate on reading more about this mission. All she'd really gone over was the preperations, who knows how she'd actually carry things out.
She licked her thumb and turned the pages, ignoring most until she came to one that read "The Sabotage" at the top in big, bold print.
"The Sabotage...
The point of this mission is to eliminate any chance Galbadia has at taking control of Dollet. Right now, Galbadia and Esthar are negotiating for the same land. Things seem to be civil between the countries, however, this peace won't last for long.
Your job is to make sure Galbadia loses, no matter what the cost. If worst comes to worst, and a new war starts, any actions necessary are to be taken. This job is not for the weak, timid, or foolish.
Your fake identity, Maylee Rinthe, has been accepted to Galbadia. When you arrive, you'll be given a dorm room.
From here, you are to set up the laptop given to you aboard the airship, your transport to Galbadia.
Use the laptop to hack into the computer mainframe. Hacking instructions are included in this packet. Your first step will be to change negotiation and/or meeting dates/times with Dollet. This will give Esthar an advantage, more time with Dollet for negotiations.
If this starts to fail, you are to input the X009 Virus into Galbadia's mainframe, eliminating any contact between Dollet and Galbadia through computers, and at the same time, deleting all Galbadia's files concerning Dollet. Again, instructions are included.
If things are still not changing, and it appears as if Galbadia is going to win, you are to install the Decimation Bomb given to you along with the laptop. Set it up in your dorm, pull the fire alarm so all students evacuate the Garden, then detonate it. This will destroy Galbadia Garden, and Caraway will lose millions of gil, thus he will not have the funds to purchase Dollet. This is the last resort, and do this only when there is no other way to win. Things aren't meant to come to this unless necessary.
Good luck, Quistis Trepe. We trust you'll get the job done,
Cid and Edea"
Quistis could hardly speak. Destroy Galbadia Garden? They wanted her to become a terrorist?! Selphie was right, this mission was a hell of a lot more dangerous than she felt comfortable doing, yet she had already accepted, and now she was dying her precious golden locks.
She walked into the bathroom to wash the dye out. Two more hours, then she would have to board the airship...and things would get much more stressful.
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Seifer dozed, his feet propped up on a plastic crate, his fishing pole propped up against it. He rested his head against the concrete wall behind him, trying to keep his eyes open so that maybe when a fish did bite, he'd see it.
Raijin ran up, his big feet making loud stomps all the way across the dock, causing Seifer to sit up in alarm. He watched the big man run up, then stop breathless, holding his pole over his shoulder.
"Me and Fujin found applications. She's back at the hotel." Raijin plopped down next to Seifer. "She said something about me sticking to what I'm better at."
Seifer snickered. How sad...Fujin was making fun of his literary skills, and he hadn't even noticed.
"Whats so funny?" he asked, casting his line into the water.
"Did you guys get an application for me?" Seifer asked, changing the subject.
"Oh, yeah. Fujin's gonna do both of ours." Raijin said.
Seifer nodded, looking back into the water.
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Quistis finished drying her hair. The dark red she would have to get used to, but it definitly made her look different. She admired it in the mirror. The color was awful on her, but that could be just because she wasn't used to it. She shrugged, and picked up the box of contacts.
"Now...lets see..." she mumbled, opening the box. She opened the little plastic wrapper around one contact, revealing a strikingly pretty green color. "Better than the dye..." she grumbled, shooting a hateful glance at her hair in the mirror.
She held her eyelids wide apart with her left hand, and tried to put it in with her right forefinger. She ended up cursing to herself, blinking her eye rapidly as it watered to the point of tears. Poking your eye definitly didn't feel good.
She bent closer to the mirror to try again. This time she got it in, and blinked a few times to get it centered over her iris.
She opened the other one, and soon had it in with a little less trouble than last time.
She blinked a few times, examining the effect the contacts had on the red hair. She had to admit, they made the hair color look a lot better with her complexion. With a change in hair and eyes, she didn't even look like the same Quistis. She couldn't say she felt like Quistis either.
She sighed and glanced at the clock. One more hour. She hurriedly blow- dried her hair, put on some light makeup, and headed back into the bedroom of her dorm. It took her about thirty mins to pack all her belongings, and make sure she wasn't forgetting anything.
She headed for the door, when the phone rang. It was already fifteen til three, she had to get going! She hesitated, her hand around the knob, but finally decided to answer it. She hurried over to the side-table and picked up the reciever.
"Hello?" she asked.
Edea's soothing voice answered. "Hello Quistis. I just wanted to wish you good luck..." she said.
Quistis smiled. "Thank you Matron." she said.
"I want to tell you thank you, also. You've done so much for us." Edea said.
Quistis' heart melted. "Well, Dollet is more important than a few weeks of vacation, right?" Quistis said, trying to sound like she didn't really mind.
Edea gave a light laugh. There was a bit of silence before she spoke again. "Be careful Quisty."
Even though she knew Edea couldn't see her, she nodded anyway. "I'll be okay." she said. She heard Edea's phone click. The sound gave a final touch to everything. It was now she was just beginning to realize, no one was helping her on this mission. She was Maylee. She had to do this all alone.
She reluctantly hung up her cordless phone, picked up the briefcase, and closed her dorm room door as if it were the last time she'd close it again.
As she walked down the hall, she kept her head pointed slightly downward, keeping her eyes focused on the lines between the marble tiles, letting her wavy auburn hair help hide her face. She didn't know if anyone looked, because she didn't dare look anyone directly in the face. At least not here. No one knew her in Galbadia Garden. Well, maybe from her appearance in Newspapers or such, but no one really KNEW her.
She walked down the corridor, turned, and into the parking lot. She looked down at her watch, ten til three. She smiled inwardly. She had always been early, for everything.
She sighed in relief when she noticed there were no students dwelling in the parking lot of the Garden. She sat, holding her chin in her left palm, her legs crossed boredly, when she heard the wall rolling up, the parking lot opening.
She sat up straight a gazed out at the land. Garden was in mid-flight! She had no idea they would open the parking lot in mid-flight!
A small airship, about half the size of most of the vehicles in the parking lot, hovered into the garage slowly. She stood up, smoothed her skirt with her hands, and bent down to pick up her brief case.
A man in Estharian uniform shut off the aircraft and stepped out. He walked towards her.
"I've orders to transport a Miss Maylee Rinthe to the city of Deling. Are you Miss Rinthe?" he asked.
She nodded. "Yes." She followed him back to the little plane, stealing a glance outside. It sent chills down her spine to think of what would happen if the Garden were to suddenly lurch and she were to fall out, being as how the garage door was completely rolled up.
Her thoughts were broken as he took the briefcase from her hand, and shoved it into a compartment underneath the plane.
"Um, make sure that latch on the bottom is shut tight. I can't lose the papers in that briefcase." she commented. He grunted some reply she couldn't even understand and slammed the door shut. He pounded his fist on it a few times, just to humor her.
His rude nature seemed to fade when he took her hand to help her into the backseat. When she was situated, buckled in tight, he climbed into the front pilot's seat, lowered the top, and started the engine.
The plane hummed, seemingly more sleek and quiet than most aircrafts she'd been in. She glanced back at Garden, floating slowly over Timber's snowy mountains, before turning to face the back of the pilot's head.
Her journey had just begun...
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A/N: Whew. Once again, I'd like to apologize for taking so long to update. it's been really hard on me lately, I haven't wasn't even visiting the Seiftis board for a while *gasp* but now I'm back on my feet and feeling inspired XD. Anyways, cheers!
Address to Seiftis board, in case ya wanna check it out! :