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Meia
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A woman in black dress walked forward and took a glass of water from the table. She entered another room and sat down in a chair. For a few minutes she sat there doing nothing. She looked at the scar in her arm as it slowly disappeared. "Good, the potion I made worked," she thought. She drank the water and left it on the table beside her.
"Stupid brat, if it wasn't for her, I would have been able to kill her at first strike before any of her friends came to help her. Well, it doesn't matter now since I've made sure she won't bother me anymore," she thought.
"Her soul will stay asleep until I leave her body. For now, I'm going to let her soul stay asleep until I change my mind. Now I have to think of a new name, Eiko doesn't suit me. And how I wish to get rid of the name Matilda. But maybe, if I put together the name Matilda and Eiko, I can have a name much better and more pleasant," she thought again.
She went near the table and took out a paper and pen from the drawer. She wrote the two names and stared at the piece of paper for a while. Then she put together some letters from the two names.
MEIA
"Perfect," she thought. "Now I have a name which is more unique, it's time to start the plan. And I better stop thinking or I'll go crazy."
She went out of the room and went near a statue of Cid, she touched the clothes of Cid and a hole appeared beside it. It grew larger and larger until a staircase could be seen. She went down until she reached a hallway with three doors. She entered the one on the right. After a few steps, she stopped, in front of her was a tree. But only the roots were seen.
"Such a beautiful tree," she said. "It's such a pity that it stopped producing mist. But I'm going to let it start producing them again. And terror shall be back in Gaia."
She took a few steps back from the tree and raised her hands.
"Source of happiness and joy, source of beauty and love, source of peace and prosperity, source of luck and wisdom, and most important of all, the source of life. Come forth spirits of good and evil, share your power and revive this tree. Come forth essence of love and hate, fill this tree with everything you have. I call upon thee and ask you, give this tree the power to produce mist again. One that is indestructible unlike before. One that is handled by me," said the woman aloud.
A green light started to appear above and it entered the roots of the tree. Another light appeared and went near the woman. She reached out for it and the light stayed in her hands as it slowly disappeared.
"I feel the power," she said.
She went near the tree and touched it. The tree reacted and mist started to appear.
"Mist! You certainly are a wonderful tree," she said.
She went out of the room, smiled and said, "Iifa Tree."
She went up again. As she went up, the staircase started to disappear. When she finally reached the top, the hole vanished. She walked in the hallway and entered a room not too far from the stairs. The room was full of books and bottles with different kinds of colored liquid inside them. She went near a cauldron and started stirring the brew in it. She added a few things too. Then she put some of it inside a bottle and went out.
She went up the staircase and entered a room in the far end corner of the hallway. Inside the room were cages filled with different kinds of creatures. She approached a cage that holds a cute little flying creature. She poured the concoction in the food of the creature. It ate it and it started to enlarge. It grew larger and larger until the cage was broken. Then it stopped enlarging.
"Sleep," said Meia.
The creature fell asleep before it was even able to attack. Meia went out of the room smiling.
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"What happened?" asked Dagger when she saw Zidane and the other's faces.
"Take a look yourself," said Zidane.
Dagger went near the window and saw some fog.
"So, that's only fog," said Dagger.
"It's not, that's mist," Zidane said.
"What?" said Dagger.
"We didn't know what happened, there was mist already when we woke up," said Kuja.
"Could it be? Could it be that woman who tried to kill me? Then, this certainly has to have a connection with that strange dream of mine," said Dagger.
"Dream?" asked Zidane.
"Yes, in my dream, the woman who tried to kill me said something and revived a tree. I think it was the Iifa Tree if I was not mistaken," said Dagger. "She also said something about Eiko's soul sleeping until she leaves her body."
"So Eiko wasn't kidnapped, did you know what happened after that?" asked Zidane.
"Well, she went into some sort of room with lots of books and bottles with different kinds of liquids. Then I woke up," said Dagger.
"Wait, did you say she went to a room with books and bottles?' asked Mikoto.
Dagger nodded.
"What a coincidence! In my dream, a woman was inside a room making a potion and gave it to a creature that made it bigger. And she seems to be living in a castle," said Mikoto.
"Both your dreams have a connection to where that woman could be now," said Kuja.
"It's really strange," Zidane added.
Author's Note: Sorry if I haven't updated for a long time. So many assignments! Anyway, thanks for those who reviewed! ^_^
You don't need to understand about all those things I've written about school. I'm just expressing my emotions. Do you want me to end this happily or make it sad and continue with a sequel?