Eden moaned, her voice cracking meteors and opening wormholes. She thrashed her tail. That had hurt. That had not happened right. Not the correct way of things. And she was not happy.
Eden narrowed her yellow eyes; a nearby sun dimmed and went out.
She didn't belong here. She couldn't sense the doorway. Him. The one who had owned her path at the time. The one who had dragged her doorway out of the Earth Weapon.
She couldn't sense him anywhere.
She swam through the vastness, her tail and white hair floating in the emptiness.
She had to find him, or find the others who had used her power before. The memories her doorway had dislodged sifted to her. Heartilly. Almasy. Loire.
Find Heartilly. She'll know.
Her long tail flicked and she languidly turned to where she knew earth was. She began to head towards it.
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Squall woke up, and groaned.
He was on a hard surface. Yet somehow insubstantial.
It felt like glass and smoke.
He opened his eyes and gasped in shock.
Shouldn't he be... dead?
Was this some kind of purgatory?
He got to his feet and stared about himself. Then, after finding the courage, he looked down.
Space. He seemed to be in space. But he was breathing. And standing in a huge tunnel of light.
He knew this place. He saw it in his minds eye every time he summoned...
Eden.
He walked across the tunnel, and up the sides. Then back again. His boots clattering on the strange substance. He drew his gunblade and gave a wall a resounding smash. The blade bounced off it without making a noise. Without even seeming to come into contact with the wall. As though the direction of the force he'd exerted had simply been reversed.
He fell to the floor with a grunt.
Drat. Something like this /always/ happened. No matter what he did something would always come up and keep him alive.
He glared at his prison, then, his frustration reached it's maximum and he stamped his foot with fury. The tunnel began to rotate.
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"Are you sure this'll work?" muttered Laguna
Selphie glared at him, then waved her hands over Rinoa again.
"Curaga!" Her magic flowed through the dark haired girl, glowing blue under her skin and healing the basic injuries. But the brittle bone in the wing still needed to be fixed.
If only Squall hadn't had Leviathan junctioned to himself when he'd disappeared she'd just be able to use recover. Instead it was curaga over and over again.
The moomba waddled in, carrying a bowl of warm water with a cloth in. He laid it gently next to the bed, rinsed out the cloth and reached up to wipe away the blood and marks on Rinoa's face. Then the little orange feline licked the cloth, causing Selphie to wrinkle her nose.
"I wish you guys wouldn't do that. I know it's how you remember people n all but.. well.. yuck!"
A regular tapping noise could be heard from outside the room. It was Zell pacing back and forth in front of the door. Ignored by him a pink baby moogle was impersonating the pacing, an important look on it's face and fluttering it's wings occasionally to keep up.
Rinoa's eyelids fluttered and opened wide, her glinting sorceresses eyes gazed into nothing for a moment, before she became fully aware, and sat up.
Then she screamed.
"Squall!"
She cried out over and over.
Selphie tried to calm her but she didn't stop until her voice was hoarse.
"You said you'd always be there for me" she croaked, her eyes red from crying.
Selphie looked away, troubled. Things were confusing - unreal at the moment. And they all had their private sorrows. Also, how was she to trust this dark haired sweetheart now that they knew she was to become the dark hearted Ultimecia.
As though sensing this mistrust Rinoa became withdrawn and stood up.
"You shouldn't leave until we've fixed that wing...."
Rinoa turned to Laguna.
"Could you set it straight for me please?"
Laguna looked shocked.
"But won't it hurt?"
"Of course it will. But I can't fly on this!"
Laguna hung his head for a moment, steeling himself for what he was about to do. It was deeply ingrained and against his nature to hurt people.
"Okay."
Selphie hid her face.
Rinoa turned offering the broken wing to him.
"You just need to hold the bone at the end and pull as hard as you can. The bones will realign."
Laguna tentatively took her wing tip, nodded to Rinoa, then pulled.
Rinoa gasped, unable to cry out at the intensity of the pain, then her magic kicked in many times stronger than Selphie's. Her body glowed blue-green as she cast regenerate and curaga on herself repeatedly until she was well again.
"I'm leaving to find Squall. He had Eden and Leviathan, right? I have Diablos junctioned to me, may I take Tonberry, Carbuncle and Cerberus?"
"Those are the guardian forces designed to be summoned against yourself. What are you planning?" Said Selphie, suspicion dancing in her eyes.
"I think that wouldn't have happened unless Eden's attack was strong enough to have killed him. If you summon Carbuncle against yourself nothing like that happens, right? I think Eden closed the doorway through which she works before she could return through it." Replied the Sorceress, unhelpfully.
"I don't have a clue what you just said, but you can have them." Selphie concentrated, and transferred the junctionings across to Rinoa. "And if you're going off on an odyssey you should take a strong one - have Bahamut"
"Well.... I might take the brothers."
"They aren't that strong, take Bahamut too!" Selphie muttered, but she performed the transfer anyway.
"I'll be fine with these. I don't want to forget my name, do I?" She said with a wry smile.
Then without a backward glance she strode past the surprised Zell and out the door. The curious little moogle squeaked and fluttered after her.
Eden narrowed her yellow eyes; a nearby sun dimmed and went out.
She didn't belong here. She couldn't sense the doorway. Him. The one who had owned her path at the time. The one who had dragged her doorway out of the Earth Weapon.
She couldn't sense him anywhere.
She swam through the vastness, her tail and white hair floating in the emptiness.
She had to find him, or find the others who had used her power before. The memories her doorway had dislodged sifted to her. Heartilly. Almasy. Loire.
Find Heartilly. She'll know.
Her long tail flicked and she languidly turned to where she knew earth was. She began to head towards it.
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Squall woke up, and groaned.
He was on a hard surface. Yet somehow insubstantial.
It felt like glass and smoke.
He opened his eyes and gasped in shock.
Shouldn't he be... dead?
Was this some kind of purgatory?
He got to his feet and stared about himself. Then, after finding the courage, he looked down.
Space. He seemed to be in space. But he was breathing. And standing in a huge tunnel of light.
He knew this place. He saw it in his minds eye every time he summoned...
Eden.
He walked across the tunnel, and up the sides. Then back again. His boots clattering on the strange substance. He drew his gunblade and gave a wall a resounding smash. The blade bounced off it without making a noise. Without even seeming to come into contact with the wall. As though the direction of the force he'd exerted had simply been reversed.
He fell to the floor with a grunt.
Drat. Something like this /always/ happened. No matter what he did something would always come up and keep him alive.
He glared at his prison, then, his frustration reached it's maximum and he stamped his foot with fury. The tunnel began to rotate.
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"Are you sure this'll work?" muttered Laguna
Selphie glared at him, then waved her hands over Rinoa again.
"Curaga!" Her magic flowed through the dark haired girl, glowing blue under her skin and healing the basic injuries. But the brittle bone in the wing still needed to be fixed.
If only Squall hadn't had Leviathan junctioned to himself when he'd disappeared she'd just be able to use recover. Instead it was curaga over and over again.
The moomba waddled in, carrying a bowl of warm water with a cloth in. He laid it gently next to the bed, rinsed out the cloth and reached up to wipe away the blood and marks on Rinoa's face. Then the little orange feline licked the cloth, causing Selphie to wrinkle her nose.
"I wish you guys wouldn't do that. I know it's how you remember people n all but.. well.. yuck!"
A regular tapping noise could be heard from outside the room. It was Zell pacing back and forth in front of the door. Ignored by him a pink baby moogle was impersonating the pacing, an important look on it's face and fluttering it's wings occasionally to keep up.
Rinoa's eyelids fluttered and opened wide, her glinting sorceresses eyes gazed into nothing for a moment, before she became fully aware, and sat up.
Then she screamed.
"Squall!"
She cried out over and over.
Selphie tried to calm her but she didn't stop until her voice was hoarse.
"You said you'd always be there for me" she croaked, her eyes red from crying.
Selphie looked away, troubled. Things were confusing - unreal at the moment. And they all had their private sorrows. Also, how was she to trust this dark haired sweetheart now that they knew she was to become the dark hearted Ultimecia.
As though sensing this mistrust Rinoa became withdrawn and stood up.
"You shouldn't leave until we've fixed that wing...."
Rinoa turned to Laguna.
"Could you set it straight for me please?"
Laguna looked shocked.
"But won't it hurt?"
"Of course it will. But I can't fly on this!"
Laguna hung his head for a moment, steeling himself for what he was about to do. It was deeply ingrained and against his nature to hurt people.
"Okay."
Selphie hid her face.
Rinoa turned offering the broken wing to him.
"You just need to hold the bone at the end and pull as hard as you can. The bones will realign."
Laguna tentatively took her wing tip, nodded to Rinoa, then pulled.
Rinoa gasped, unable to cry out at the intensity of the pain, then her magic kicked in many times stronger than Selphie's. Her body glowed blue-green as she cast regenerate and curaga on herself repeatedly until she was well again.
"I'm leaving to find Squall. He had Eden and Leviathan, right? I have Diablos junctioned to me, may I take Tonberry, Carbuncle and Cerberus?"
"Those are the guardian forces designed to be summoned against yourself. What are you planning?" Said Selphie, suspicion dancing in her eyes.
"I think that wouldn't have happened unless Eden's attack was strong enough to have killed him. If you summon Carbuncle against yourself nothing like that happens, right? I think Eden closed the doorway through which she works before she could return through it." Replied the Sorceress, unhelpfully.
"I don't have a clue what you just said, but you can have them." Selphie concentrated, and transferred the junctionings across to Rinoa. "And if you're going off on an odyssey you should take a strong one - have Bahamut"
"Well.... I might take the brothers."
"They aren't that strong, take Bahamut too!" Selphie muttered, but she performed the transfer anyway.
"I'll be fine with these. I don't want to forget my name, do I?" She said with a wry smile.
Then without a backward glance she strode past the surprised Zell and out the door. The curious little moogle squeaked and fluttered after her.