Notes: Sorry so long since I posted a ch. The past few days have been chaos. Well, the last chapter wasn't as gory as I had hoped, but oh well. sigh Oh, while I'm thinking about it, is the Great Hyne a guy, or girl? And thank you Warcrafter for your interesting ideas. I had to laugh as the hoof/mouth one. giggles Food is on my brain right now, because I just ate. Thus gross mental pictures will fill your mind! Mwahahahaha! It was vegetarian chicken ironically…
Chapter 22: Aftermath
[wreckage of Ragnarok]
Irvine awoke to find his arms twisted terribly. The pain of the broken arm had him cussing in a moment as he attempted to remove himself from the wreckage. He looked for Selphie, and the others. Then he saw Selphie. A large piece of shrapnel had trapped her left leg, and cut it pretty badly. If she wasn't helped soon, she'd die from the blood loss.
Irvine barely managed to remove the hunk of metal, but he did. Selphie lay trembling, and he picked her up with his good arm, and placed her on some grass. Then he saw them. Deling soldiers lay in heaps, and bloody piles around the Garden. Some were so slaughtered that you couldn't be recognized as human. Sloppy piles of organs lay across corpses, and bodies without appendages, and other parts filled Irvine's eyes. He shed a single tear. Perhaps it was from the feeling a failure, maybe from his feeling of responsibility, maybe from the fact that he knew some of them, or maybe from the fumes of decaying human remains.
Irvine: My gawd. What happened? Was this a bad spot…?
Selphie stirred, and Irvine rushed to her side. He had forgotten about the wound she was dieing from, and soon he was trying a makeshift tourniquets around her thigh from his jacket. Selphie said nothing, and passed out again.
Quistis climbed out from under a pile of parts, barely injured. A small abrasion was on her forehead, but little else other than bumps, and bruises. She ran to Selphie, an Irvine, and began working on Selphie.
Quistis: Irvine, look in the Garden for Dr. Kadowaki. I need her, and all the medical supplies you can find. If she's not in the Garden then she's in Deling somewhere. GO!
Irvine ran into the Garden, only to find the carnage. He took one whiff of the place, and threw up. Then he raced past the bodies to the medical station, trying not to step on them. It was impossible, however, for the bodies, and parts were everywhere. Bodiless head looked at him, and dismembered hands seemed to grab at him. The dead were restless, and cried out for vengeance. The haunting task of looking through them for his task seemed exasperating as he ran past.
Then he made it to the infirmary. He sighed as the room was empty of the dead. Then he heard a cry. He peered over the desk to find a body. The body of the still living Dr. Odine. The doctor had taken refuge there after the first set of soldiers perished. He knew that the sorceress had seen him, but for some reason let him live. It troubled his complex mind, and he was on the verge of a mental breakdown.
Irvine: Is Dr. Kadowaki in here?
Odine (rocking back, and forth,; covering his ears)(singing): No more sorceress---s. Death to all, but me---.
Irvine: No more sorceress? Is she dead? Who killed her.
Odine: The other sorceress….
Irvine: I don't have time for this. Is the doctor here?
Odine: I am a doctor…that leads people to their deaths…
Irvine: Is Kadowaki here?!
Odine: No, no. She's gone.
Irvine: Dead?
Odine: Many are dead.
Irvine: Is Kadowaki dead?
Odine: No, no, no. She's in the city. In the general's mansion.
Irvine: Okay. Come on. We need to hurry. We have to go get a car, and take Selphie to her. Let go.
Odine (grabs at Irvine's clothes): SHE'S OUT THERE! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE ALONE! SHE'LL KILL YOU!
Irvine: Who will kill me?
O: The sorceress!
I: Which one?
O: The one who dresses in the sorrow of her victims. The one who decides who will live, and who will die when they meet her. The one who corrupts the souls of men, and leads them to their dooms. The evil sorceress.
I: My gawd. You meant Rinoa is dead?
O (walks around aimlessly, and weeps): Dead. Ripped apart. Lives no more. She walks with Death. In pieces. My the carnage of you people.
I (remembers Selphie): I see. Come one. We need to go before it's too late.
O: It's already too late
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[Hall of Garden]
Odine grasped at Irvine for help, staring at the remains on the ground, on the walls, and other odd places. The seemed to scream in the madman's head.
O: Help me! I couldn't save them., so they'll kill me!
I: It's okay. We need to hurry.
O: We're to die!
I (slaps Odine): Get a grip. We are on limited time here, and you are wasting it. If you don't cut it out,. I'm going to leave you here alone. I don't have time for this!
O: …(complies)
The two work their way to the garage, and start a car. Soon the whimpering of a small child is heard, and Irvine finds a small girl in the back of it. She recoils from any physical contact, and realizes he doesn't have time for this. The three go to Quistis, and fins Zell with them.
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Zell rises to greet them, and holds his throat. It was cut too, but no really badly. The blood lightly gushed from his hand, and he looked pale upon them. They all load up into the car, and drive to Deling. Selphie was placed in Irvine's lap as she remained comatose. The child said nothing, and they drive in silence except for the occasional sob from Odine. The didn't even realize that Rinoa, Squall, and the sorceress were missing.
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Note: Still not really gross…Oh well, I guess I'll get better @ horrors w/ time. I hope…
