Chapter 24: Broken Dreams
Aeris giggled to herself as she was pulled along and up the narrow hallway of stairs by Zack quickly, to full on the small amount of alcohol he had given her shortly before. As he reached the door to his room, he quickly yanked her forward so she'd hit the wall in front of him, next to the doorframe. With a wide smile spread across his face, he swiftly pushed himself against her, breathing heavily after each kiss he captured from her lips.
They had so much time, and it had been going so much better that day that they didn't seem to have to worry about anything anymore, he knew he could give her everything this time, and she would surely last much longer awake with the vodka that he snuck into her water earlier.
He slipped his tongue in between her parted lips and pushed himself harder against her, gripping her shoulders tightly with his gloved hands as she raised her own to his face pushed back forcefully.
He regretting then released his tightly gripped hand from her shoulder and quickly dug it deep into his pocket, gripping the room key that was laying gently at the bottom and then tried hard to find the keyhole that it belonged to. He hit the sides of the knob a couple times before he hit the hole, and the key gently slid through and he quickly turned it and then kicked the door open.
Zack let his other hand then leave her shoulder and then drop to her hand. His lips left hers, but his smile still remained as he moved himself into the room, tugging her in with him and then kicked the door back closed after yanking the keys from their hole.
Tossing them on the floor, he then lifted Aeris and through her back against the nearby red covered bed, not caring what the room looked like and pushed himself against her again with the same amount of force as before, gently slipping his hands up her brand newly bought bright red shirt.
Aeris tried to lift herself so he could at least pull it the slightest bit off but he refused to let her sit up, as he pulled his hands back out from under it. He quickly then skidded them up on the top of it until he reached the bottom tip of the V shaped cut.
Instead of letting her take it off gently, he slid his fingers on the side and began to tear it down the center. Zack didn't care what she'd wear later, he'd worry bout it in the morning he thought as he yanked the last piece of her shirt apart and placed his hands back at her shoulders. He calmly and slowly then began to tear out the sides of the fabric on the shoulder pieces so that he could easily keep it off without having to ruin the moment by breaking their kiss to pull it off.
Aeris skidded her hands down the front of his own shirt trying to decide whether or not to do the same but thinking wasn't her style at the moment, especially since she was completely blocked by it from the vodka that coarse it way through her veins, taking all the thoughts from her mind, one after another to ease her stress.
Zack felt her tender touch against him and noticed her hesitation as she gripped the sides of his neckline on his white T-shirt.
He lifted her slightly upwards as he sat up with her in his arms. Finally he broke their long passionate kiss and looked across at her as she slowly opened her large glowing emeralds eyes, noticing the fire that burned in them as he slightly moved himself towards her again, tilting his head gently and forcing another longing kiss against her lips. He fell back softly with her laying against him on the opposite side of the bed.
Suddenly, Aeris's grip on his shirt tighten and she quickly pulled it apart down the center, with her warm lips leaving his, and creasing down the sides of his cheek towards his neck as she pulled away the last thread of his cotton shirt. Zack lifted his hands to her, sliding them under her arms, holding her to him tightly.
Aeris let a soft moan escape her lips as he lifted her again so she was sitting up now.
Her lips still creased the sides of his neck forcefully and he skidded his hands down her sides and skimmed the inside of her blue jeans as they finally reached the seam of it.
He drove them towards the buttons in the center and gently twisted it so it'd slip through the small thin fabric slot and become undone.
Zack yanked down the zipper quickly as he slid them down her thighs quickly and pulled them from under her. Carefully, he laid her back and gently lifted his hands to her hair and calmly began running his fingers through it even though it was pulled up tight in a ponytail.
Aeris wasn't thinking still though, the vodka had gone straight to her head for sure now, and she wasn't planning on playing any of this slowly.
Quickly, she shot up and yanked the ponytail out of her hair and shook her head swiftly to untangle it and let it fall back behind her loosely. Forcefully then, she slammed Zack back against the soft covers quickly.
Zack's eyes widened at Aeris sudden approach and he let out a heavy breath before she leaned over and gripped his sides tightly and pressed her lips against his bare chest.
She kissed forcefully against it, making her way up to his neck and then around his muscle lines, as Zack lied there, helplessly.
Slowly, Zack lifted his hands to her back and trailed his fingers from the seam of her panties up on her spine, to the center of her thin tan- like bra-strap. Aeris felt his tingling touch against her pale soft flesh and lifted her right hand placing it over his as she lifted her head to face him. A sly smile spread across her face as she looked to him and he lifted an eye brow to her curiously as he watched her lift his hand from her back before he could unsnap it and then shake her head at him slowly while sticking her tongue out at him.
"Hey, come on." He told her as he chuckled and he placed his hands out beside her and then curled his fingers towards him to signal her to come closer to him.
Aeris gracefully lifted her hands to his stomach and used it as a balancer as she sat up and strattled herself over his waist. He began to laugh at her as she kicked off her shoes and then yanked his off and through them both to the floor but she quickly stopped him by taking her pointer finger on her right hand to his lips and then pulled it back to her own. He quieted himself and then watched her carefully as she lowered her head to the side of his neck and started to forcefully kiss it while scrapping her pearly white teeth, teasingly against his skin.
He cringed slightly as he felt her gently bite him and he tightened his grip around her.
"Hey." He started as she bit him again. She looked up at him giggling to herself and he slid his hands down to her hips and started to slowly pull her panties from her under her, but she quickly stopped him and looked up and around her.
Confused, Zack pulled his one hand free from hers and lifted it to her face. He placed it gently on her cheek and pulled her gaze down to him.
"What's wrong?" He asked as he tried to pull her eyes to him, but she held a firm grip on her focus.
"Something." She whispered as she lifted her hands to his cheek and then pulled her lips over his mouth as he opened it to speak again.
"Shh. something's there." She whispered as he finally noticed her gaze was on the nearby window.
As her eyes lit up quickly, Zack noticed and swiftly shot his gaze from her to the window again and saw something in nearly a pitch-black robe vanish from the corner of his eye towards the main door.
Zack lowered his hand to hers on his lips and pulled them away slowly, setting them to the side of his face and then lifted himself up, pushing her up with him.
Carefully, Aeris wrapped her arms around Zack's neck and her legs around his waist for protection as he wrapped his own around her tender body.
"It's ok, Aeris. Whatever it was is gone, and I can bet it was just a tourist coming in late from a ship." He told her in comfort as he held her and then slowly pulled back so he could gaze at her calmingly.
"It's ok." He whispered again as he leaned forward to capture a kiss from her lips while she came towards his own.
A sudden crash from the window interrupted them though, the shards spilling everywhere around them as the cold ocean wind poured through and surrounded their stripped body's.
He held to her tightly though and pulled her head down so it would rest against his chest, to protect her as he pulled his left hand from her and grabbed the now wrinkled blanket from below him and yanked it from beneath them. Zack swirled it upwards and it wrapped around them quickly, repelling the last shards of the glass that shot at them.
Aeris's vodka had begun to wear off now, and she finally could focus on everything that was happening. The dim light that was around them from the now shattered window aloud her to peer through the blanket's thin coverings to see a man sneering at them angrily.
"He's still here." She whispered to Zack and he raised his hand to stroke her hair gently trying to stay completely still.
The man still watched them carefully as Zack held her and she continued to stare back into his cold angry eyes, to scared to release her gaze.
Cautiously then, the man began to move out of sight from her eyes until his last bit of cloak vanished. Aeris swallowed fierce fully then, taking a few seconds to secure herself that he was gone before she began to push herself up out of Zack's tight grasp. He turned to face the window and noticed the man was gone as well. The glass was spilled all around them, over their loosely thrown clothes on the floor and some laid quietly on the edge of their blanket that had been recently been repelled by it.
Zack looked to Aeris briefly before looking to the side of the bed where his large Buster Sword laid gently on the ground before them. He let go of Aeris carefully first, laying her back softly against the pillows with the blanket still over her and then reached over to grab his sword.
Her eyes were still locked onto the window though in fear, as if she knew he would return. Zack's fingers finally brushed against the handle of his sword when he heard a soft familiar click behind him. He swallowed in deeply as he closed his eyes slowly for a moment, refusing to move a muscle.
Aeris's heavy frighten breathing quickened and he knew that she saw what he knew was their now beside them, in the shadows. Soft footsteps came towards them, snapping against the shattered glass that they passed over and crushed as he continued to move towards them.
"Aeris." He whispered gently and she watched him as he trailed across the floor like a ghost towards Zack's bent body.
She pulled the blanket up to her chest, hugging her arms tightly to her as she sat there, completely pale and shuddering.
The man then suddenly stopped and looked to her again, turning it's coarse towards her again, away from Zack. She remained still though as he approached her and looked down upon her. His black hood that was attached to his jet-black robe though covered over his head, and the shadows within it, made it impossible to see into for a face.
"Long time." He whispered as he got to her side and looked down upon her. Zack moved slightly a bit lower and slid his fingers under the sword then and slowly began to tilt it so it would reflect like a mirror what was happening behind him to Aeris.
He watched in horror as the man dipped down so his faced reached hers and moved towards her. Her eyes lit up greatly as he began to make himself go closer to her face, seeming to want to kiss her and just as she felt his lips gently brush against her own, Zack gripped his sword's handle tightly and swung upwards at the man, as he quickly shoved it between the two before he could go farther.
Aeris took in a great sigh of relief and the man began to chuckle to himself as he slowly started to back away from Zack's sword's blade.
Zack moved himself so he could pull Aeris into his arms away from the other's reach and wrapped his hands around his sword's handle tightly once more.
His laugh was cold and unsoundly, as it started up in a soft tone but began to grow within volume. Aeris knew now that it was who she feared it to be as he laughed. It was to familiar, and it could not be anyone else no matter how much she wanted to believe it was.
"Zack. you have betrayed me again." He then began, as he stopped his insane laughter and stood still, looking to be now quite powerful.
"I did not betray you...Dyne.." He whispered and Aeris cringed at the name as she lied within his protecting arms.
The man lifted his hood and drew it back to show the wounded face of Dyne.
"Yes. you did. you let that bitch do this to me!" He screamed as he pulled his robe out of the way to show the large blood wound in his stomach from her past lightning bolt and then he quickly covered it back up as he began to speak again.
"And then you go and fuck her again!?!? You son of a bitch!" He hollered as he shot his right arm up and pointed it at Zack's head and then slowly started to move it to aim at Aeris's forehead.
"DYNE!" Zack suddenly screamed as he started to feel his cold heart and thoughts around him. He knew what he would do now and he quickly brought his gun blade up in front of him as Dyne blasted the bullet from his mounted gun at her.
It quickly reflected off of the cold steel and Dyne glared evilly at them both in the moon light that poured into the room from the broken window.
"What are you doing?!!?" Zack shouted as he pulled the blade from his eyes to see Dyne still standing there still, glaring at them both with the same blank, and cold expression.
"You will not live this time." Dyne mumbled to them as he raised his left hand up from his robe.
"I finally know the secrets that dwell within her! And I will have her powers!" He shouted as a blinding white light exploded from Dyne's lifted hand and began shooting towards them as, at first, icy cold wind, but soon transformed themselves into razor sharp spikes of death that hurtled towards them.
Zack swiftly placed his sword up in front of them again to block them off but the power of them as they reflected off pushed him from the bed and into the floor onto the opposite side of Dyne.
He chuckled to himself for a moment, watching Zack squirm so he could get up again but quickly afterwards stopped and lowered his hand back to his side.
Zack finally stood up, looking to him fiercely as Aeris remained on the glass filled floor, wrapped in the blanket in protection from them as he watched Dyne carefully.
"Fools. If I cannot have her power, another will come for it." Dyne whispered and his voice began to deepen but lighten as if his words were spoken through a ghost. Aeris then had a sudden thought and reached over towards her jeans that lied closely nearby her and shoved her hand into its fabric pocket, searching for something.
"What are you talking about, Dyne?" Zack asked, looking very confused now as he stood there in only his boxers, holding his sword up in defense.
"If I cannot have her power, another will come for it! Don't you see! We must have her, to take her power would mean being able to become like gods!" Dyne babbled on about.
"What the hell, Dyne?! She doesn't have any powers remember! Those things just happened because she was held up in all that mako!" Zack screamed and Dyne began to chuckle at him.
"Mako? MAKO!? HA! You don't remember the first time we met her!? When the Ultimate Weapon came and attacked the village!? She created a barrier, no. a wall! She created a wall with her own hands within mere seconds out of MAGIC! Yes, magic! She made it and stopped herself from becoming hurt! She has powers that neither of us can possibly imagine!" Dyne continued on about and Aeris frantically began searching for what she needed now as Dyne began to move around the bed's edge towards her and Zack now.
"If she had such powers and knew how to use them, then why hasn't she casted a spell on you then yet?" Zack demanded to know as he firmly began to focus his sight on Dyne now.
"She smacked her head! Remember! She hit it and fell into the lifestream as well! You, of all people, should know those things are both very damaging to the brain and memory bank to it!" Dyne quickly told him as he continued to make his way over.
"But now. since you are still refusing to help me. you will die too." Dyne whispered as he pulled his gun up so it aimed at Zack's stomach now, but as he was about to pull the trigger, Aeris jumped up with a bottle filled with green liquid in her hands. She quickly yanked the top cork off with her teeth and through the bottle at Dyne.
"AHHH!!!" He screamed as the bottle struck the ground at his feet and exploded around him, sending pieces of each droplet on his body.
"Aeris. what is that?" Zack whispered as he continued to watch Dyne become helpless and then fall into the floor below with a sicken thud. He then slowly began to fade as he laid there on the carpeted ground, smelling extremely foul now as they watched him and then Aeris looked up at Zack.
"Potion. a Hi-Potion that is." Aeris whispered as she fell over into Zack's arms, holding him tightly. Zack reached over and wrapped his arms around her as well, still confused on what Dyne had told him about another coming for her and stroked her hair comforting.
"But wouldn't that have cured him.?" He asked gently as he let her go gently and reached over to the blanket on the floor and lifted it, shaking off all the broken glass from its side and then placed it back on top of the bed.
"He is. not alive. he was. an undead." She told him gently as he turned to her noticing the smell was starting to cease around them.
"How can that be?" Zack asked cautiously as he turned to face where Dyne had fallen and finally died off and he noticed that his robe had faded away as well along with Dyne's.
"I.I don't know." She told him softly as he lifted her and placed her back gently against the pillows and then placed himself beside her, wrapping his arms calmly around her waist, still very confused about what Dyne had spoken.
".It's alright now. it's alright." He repeated to her as he gently lifted his hand to the side of her head and stroked the side of her cheek with the back of his hand, holding to her tightly with his other.
Aeris didn't want to upset Zack anymore then he was right then with her own questions that started to riddle through her mine and started to drift off into a dreamless sleep, quickly followed by Zack, as they both began to wish, that this was all a nightmare, and maybe they would wake up to the real world, the next morning.
Aeris giggled to herself as she was pulled along and up the narrow hallway of stairs by Zack quickly, to full on the small amount of alcohol he had given her shortly before. As he reached the door to his room, he quickly yanked her forward so she'd hit the wall in front of him, next to the doorframe. With a wide smile spread across his face, he swiftly pushed himself against her, breathing heavily after each kiss he captured from her lips.
They had so much time, and it had been going so much better that day that they didn't seem to have to worry about anything anymore, he knew he could give her everything this time, and she would surely last much longer awake with the vodka that he snuck into her water earlier.
He slipped his tongue in between her parted lips and pushed himself harder against her, gripping her shoulders tightly with his gloved hands as she raised her own to his face pushed back forcefully.
He regretting then released his tightly gripped hand from her shoulder and quickly dug it deep into his pocket, gripping the room key that was laying gently at the bottom and then tried hard to find the keyhole that it belonged to. He hit the sides of the knob a couple times before he hit the hole, and the key gently slid through and he quickly turned it and then kicked the door open.
Zack let his other hand then leave her shoulder and then drop to her hand. His lips left hers, but his smile still remained as he moved himself into the room, tugging her in with him and then kicked the door back closed after yanking the keys from their hole.
Tossing them on the floor, he then lifted Aeris and through her back against the nearby red covered bed, not caring what the room looked like and pushed himself against her again with the same amount of force as before, gently slipping his hands up her brand newly bought bright red shirt.
Aeris tried to lift herself so he could at least pull it the slightest bit off but he refused to let her sit up, as he pulled his hands back out from under it. He quickly then skidded them up on the top of it until he reached the bottom tip of the V shaped cut.
Instead of letting her take it off gently, he slid his fingers on the side and began to tear it down the center. Zack didn't care what she'd wear later, he'd worry bout it in the morning he thought as he yanked the last piece of her shirt apart and placed his hands back at her shoulders. He calmly and slowly then began to tear out the sides of the fabric on the shoulder pieces so that he could easily keep it off without having to ruin the moment by breaking their kiss to pull it off.
Aeris skidded her hands down the front of his own shirt trying to decide whether or not to do the same but thinking wasn't her style at the moment, especially since she was completely blocked by it from the vodka that coarse it way through her veins, taking all the thoughts from her mind, one after another to ease her stress.
Zack felt her tender touch against him and noticed her hesitation as she gripped the sides of his neckline on his white T-shirt.
He lifted her slightly upwards as he sat up with her in his arms. Finally he broke their long passionate kiss and looked across at her as she slowly opened her large glowing emeralds eyes, noticing the fire that burned in them as he slightly moved himself towards her again, tilting his head gently and forcing another longing kiss against her lips. He fell back softly with her laying against him on the opposite side of the bed.
Suddenly, Aeris's grip on his shirt tighten and she quickly pulled it apart down the center, with her warm lips leaving his, and creasing down the sides of his cheek towards his neck as she pulled away the last thread of his cotton shirt. Zack lifted his hands to her, sliding them under her arms, holding her to him tightly.
Aeris let a soft moan escape her lips as he lifted her again so she was sitting up now.
Her lips still creased the sides of his neck forcefully and he skidded his hands down her sides and skimmed the inside of her blue jeans as they finally reached the seam of it.
He drove them towards the buttons in the center and gently twisted it so it'd slip through the small thin fabric slot and become undone.
Zack yanked down the zipper quickly as he slid them down her thighs quickly and pulled them from under her. Carefully, he laid her back and gently lifted his hands to her hair and calmly began running his fingers through it even though it was pulled up tight in a ponytail.
Aeris wasn't thinking still though, the vodka had gone straight to her head for sure now, and she wasn't planning on playing any of this slowly.
Quickly, she shot up and yanked the ponytail out of her hair and shook her head swiftly to untangle it and let it fall back behind her loosely. Forcefully then, she slammed Zack back against the soft covers quickly.
Zack's eyes widened at Aeris sudden approach and he let out a heavy breath before she leaned over and gripped his sides tightly and pressed her lips against his bare chest.
She kissed forcefully against it, making her way up to his neck and then around his muscle lines, as Zack lied there, helplessly.
Slowly, Zack lifted his hands to her back and trailed his fingers from the seam of her panties up on her spine, to the center of her thin tan- like bra-strap. Aeris felt his tingling touch against her pale soft flesh and lifted her right hand placing it over his as she lifted her head to face him. A sly smile spread across her face as she looked to him and he lifted an eye brow to her curiously as he watched her lift his hand from her back before he could unsnap it and then shake her head at him slowly while sticking her tongue out at him.
"Hey, come on." He told her as he chuckled and he placed his hands out beside her and then curled his fingers towards him to signal her to come closer to him.
Aeris gracefully lifted her hands to his stomach and used it as a balancer as she sat up and strattled herself over his waist. He began to laugh at her as she kicked off her shoes and then yanked his off and through them both to the floor but she quickly stopped him by taking her pointer finger on her right hand to his lips and then pulled it back to her own. He quieted himself and then watched her carefully as she lowered her head to the side of his neck and started to forcefully kiss it while scrapping her pearly white teeth, teasingly against his skin.
He cringed slightly as he felt her gently bite him and he tightened his grip around her.
"Hey." He started as she bit him again. She looked up at him giggling to herself and he slid his hands down to her hips and started to slowly pull her panties from her under her, but she quickly stopped him and looked up and around her.
Confused, Zack pulled his one hand free from hers and lifted it to her face. He placed it gently on her cheek and pulled her gaze down to him.
"What's wrong?" He asked as he tried to pull her eyes to him, but she held a firm grip on her focus.
"Something." She whispered as she lifted her hands to his cheek and then pulled her lips over his mouth as he opened it to speak again.
"Shh. something's there." She whispered as he finally noticed her gaze was on the nearby window.
As her eyes lit up quickly, Zack noticed and swiftly shot his gaze from her to the window again and saw something in nearly a pitch-black robe vanish from the corner of his eye towards the main door.
Zack lowered his hand to hers on his lips and pulled them away slowly, setting them to the side of his face and then lifted himself up, pushing her up with him.
Carefully, Aeris wrapped her arms around Zack's neck and her legs around his waist for protection as he wrapped his own around her tender body.
"It's ok, Aeris. Whatever it was is gone, and I can bet it was just a tourist coming in late from a ship." He told her in comfort as he held her and then slowly pulled back so he could gaze at her calmingly.
"It's ok." He whispered again as he leaned forward to capture a kiss from her lips while she came towards his own.
A sudden crash from the window interrupted them though, the shards spilling everywhere around them as the cold ocean wind poured through and surrounded their stripped body's.
He held to her tightly though and pulled her head down so it would rest against his chest, to protect her as he pulled his left hand from her and grabbed the now wrinkled blanket from below him and yanked it from beneath them. Zack swirled it upwards and it wrapped around them quickly, repelling the last shards of the glass that shot at them.
Aeris's vodka had begun to wear off now, and she finally could focus on everything that was happening. The dim light that was around them from the now shattered window aloud her to peer through the blanket's thin coverings to see a man sneering at them angrily.
"He's still here." She whispered to Zack and he raised his hand to stroke her hair gently trying to stay completely still.
The man still watched them carefully as Zack held her and she continued to stare back into his cold angry eyes, to scared to release her gaze.
Cautiously then, the man began to move out of sight from her eyes until his last bit of cloak vanished. Aeris swallowed fierce fully then, taking a few seconds to secure herself that he was gone before she began to push herself up out of Zack's tight grasp. He turned to face the window and noticed the man was gone as well. The glass was spilled all around them, over their loosely thrown clothes on the floor and some laid quietly on the edge of their blanket that had been recently been repelled by it.
Zack looked to Aeris briefly before looking to the side of the bed where his large Buster Sword laid gently on the ground before them. He let go of Aeris carefully first, laying her back softly against the pillows with the blanket still over her and then reached over to grab his sword.
Her eyes were still locked onto the window though in fear, as if she knew he would return. Zack's fingers finally brushed against the handle of his sword when he heard a soft familiar click behind him. He swallowed in deeply as he closed his eyes slowly for a moment, refusing to move a muscle.
Aeris's heavy frighten breathing quickened and he knew that she saw what he knew was their now beside them, in the shadows. Soft footsteps came towards them, snapping against the shattered glass that they passed over and crushed as he continued to move towards them.
"Aeris." He whispered gently and she watched him as he trailed across the floor like a ghost towards Zack's bent body.
She pulled the blanket up to her chest, hugging her arms tightly to her as she sat there, completely pale and shuddering.
The man then suddenly stopped and looked to her again, turning it's coarse towards her again, away from Zack. She remained still though as he approached her and looked down upon her. His black hood that was attached to his jet-black robe though covered over his head, and the shadows within it, made it impossible to see into for a face.
"Long time." He whispered as he got to her side and looked down upon her. Zack moved slightly a bit lower and slid his fingers under the sword then and slowly began to tilt it so it would reflect like a mirror what was happening behind him to Aeris.
He watched in horror as the man dipped down so his faced reached hers and moved towards her. Her eyes lit up greatly as he began to make himself go closer to her face, seeming to want to kiss her and just as she felt his lips gently brush against her own, Zack gripped his sword's handle tightly and swung upwards at the man, as he quickly shoved it between the two before he could go farther.
Aeris took in a great sigh of relief and the man began to chuckle to himself as he slowly started to back away from Zack's sword's blade.
Zack moved himself so he could pull Aeris into his arms away from the other's reach and wrapped his hands around his sword's handle tightly once more.
His laugh was cold and unsoundly, as it started up in a soft tone but began to grow within volume. Aeris knew now that it was who she feared it to be as he laughed. It was to familiar, and it could not be anyone else no matter how much she wanted to believe it was.
"Zack. you have betrayed me again." He then began, as he stopped his insane laughter and stood still, looking to be now quite powerful.
"I did not betray you...Dyne.." He whispered and Aeris cringed at the name as she lied within his protecting arms.
The man lifted his hood and drew it back to show the wounded face of Dyne.
"Yes. you did. you let that bitch do this to me!" He screamed as he pulled his robe out of the way to show the large blood wound in his stomach from her past lightning bolt and then he quickly covered it back up as he began to speak again.
"And then you go and fuck her again!?!? You son of a bitch!" He hollered as he shot his right arm up and pointed it at Zack's head and then slowly started to move it to aim at Aeris's forehead.
"DYNE!" Zack suddenly screamed as he started to feel his cold heart and thoughts around him. He knew what he would do now and he quickly brought his gun blade up in front of him as Dyne blasted the bullet from his mounted gun at her.
It quickly reflected off of the cold steel and Dyne glared evilly at them both in the moon light that poured into the room from the broken window.
"What are you doing?!!?" Zack shouted as he pulled the blade from his eyes to see Dyne still standing there still, glaring at them both with the same blank, and cold expression.
"You will not live this time." Dyne mumbled to them as he raised his left hand up from his robe.
"I finally know the secrets that dwell within her! And I will have her powers!" He shouted as a blinding white light exploded from Dyne's lifted hand and began shooting towards them as, at first, icy cold wind, but soon transformed themselves into razor sharp spikes of death that hurtled towards them.
Zack swiftly placed his sword up in front of them again to block them off but the power of them as they reflected off pushed him from the bed and into the floor onto the opposite side of Dyne.
He chuckled to himself for a moment, watching Zack squirm so he could get up again but quickly afterwards stopped and lowered his hand back to his side.
Zack finally stood up, looking to him fiercely as Aeris remained on the glass filled floor, wrapped in the blanket in protection from them as he watched Dyne carefully.
"Fools. If I cannot have her power, another will come for it." Dyne whispered and his voice began to deepen but lighten as if his words were spoken through a ghost. Aeris then had a sudden thought and reached over towards her jeans that lied closely nearby her and shoved her hand into its fabric pocket, searching for something.
"What are you talking about, Dyne?" Zack asked, looking very confused now as he stood there in only his boxers, holding his sword up in defense.
"If I cannot have her power, another will come for it! Don't you see! We must have her, to take her power would mean being able to become like gods!" Dyne babbled on about.
"What the hell, Dyne?! She doesn't have any powers remember! Those things just happened because she was held up in all that mako!" Zack screamed and Dyne began to chuckle at him.
"Mako? MAKO!? HA! You don't remember the first time we met her!? When the Ultimate Weapon came and attacked the village!? She created a barrier, no. a wall! She created a wall with her own hands within mere seconds out of MAGIC! Yes, magic! She made it and stopped herself from becoming hurt! She has powers that neither of us can possibly imagine!" Dyne continued on about and Aeris frantically began searching for what she needed now as Dyne began to move around the bed's edge towards her and Zack now.
"If she had such powers and knew how to use them, then why hasn't she casted a spell on you then yet?" Zack demanded to know as he firmly began to focus his sight on Dyne now.
"She smacked her head! Remember! She hit it and fell into the lifestream as well! You, of all people, should know those things are both very damaging to the brain and memory bank to it!" Dyne quickly told him as he continued to make his way over.
"But now. since you are still refusing to help me. you will die too." Dyne whispered as he pulled his gun up so it aimed at Zack's stomach now, but as he was about to pull the trigger, Aeris jumped up with a bottle filled with green liquid in her hands. She quickly yanked the top cork off with her teeth and through the bottle at Dyne.
"AHHH!!!" He screamed as the bottle struck the ground at his feet and exploded around him, sending pieces of each droplet on his body.
"Aeris. what is that?" Zack whispered as he continued to watch Dyne become helpless and then fall into the floor below with a sicken thud. He then slowly began to fade as he laid there on the carpeted ground, smelling extremely foul now as they watched him and then Aeris looked up at Zack.
"Potion. a Hi-Potion that is." Aeris whispered as she fell over into Zack's arms, holding him tightly. Zack reached over and wrapped his arms around her as well, still confused on what Dyne had told him about another coming for her and stroked her hair comforting.
"But wouldn't that have cured him.?" He asked gently as he let her go gently and reached over to the blanket on the floor and lifted it, shaking off all the broken glass from its side and then placed it back on top of the bed.
"He is. not alive. he was. an undead." She told him gently as he turned to her noticing the smell was starting to cease around them.
"How can that be?" Zack asked cautiously as he turned to face where Dyne had fallen and finally died off and he noticed that his robe had faded away as well along with Dyne's.
"I.I don't know." She told him softly as he lifted her and placed her back gently against the pillows and then placed himself beside her, wrapping his arms calmly around her waist, still very confused about what Dyne had spoken.
".It's alright now. it's alright." He repeated to her as he gently lifted his hand to the side of her head and stroked the side of her cheek with the back of his hand, holding to her tightly with his other.
Aeris didn't want to upset Zack anymore then he was right then with her own questions that started to riddle through her mine and started to drift off into a dreamless sleep, quickly followed by Zack, as they both began to wish, that this was all a nightmare, and maybe they would wake up to the real world, the next morning.