Chapter One
The Invitation
And
The Mysterious Woman
By Fallon Mail
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy 9 or any of its characters, they all belong to SquareSoft and bunch of other companies. The song How Can I Not Love You? Is sung by Joy Enriquez. Music and Lyric by George Fenton, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, and Robert Kraft. Produced by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds for ECAF Productions, Inc. And the song is from my favorite movie, Anna and the King. So I don't own any of that stuff BUT this song-fic. So whatever you do… don't sue me peoples! And um… the moogle Mogia belongs to me also. ^^;;
A/N: Okay… This is my first Freya and Amarant story… well first Fremarant (whatever you peoples call it!) song-fic. I wanted to use the song, How Can I Not Love You? because it fits Freya and Amarant in way. I mean, if you think about them and the song… its just SAD! *cries* But anywayz, this is sort of a love triangle too. Yeah, Freya/Fratley coupling in here peoples! But hey, we Freya/Amarant fans can dream can't we? Okay, enough with my talkin' and I'll let you peoples read this so do me a favor and READ & REVIEW!!! Flames won't be accepted--Mmmm… smores… (grabs a stick and marshmallow) Who wants some smores?
Snowflakes fell from the gray clouded sky over the busy streets of Alexandria, a young woman with short dark brown hair and brown eyes stood looking out the window watching her people move about and go along their lives. She sighed as she brushed her bangs from her eyes, as she looked up and seen a bevy of doves fly by her window for their wings were trying to handle the wind that blew and it was hard enough for them to fly in this sort of weather. Queen Garnet smiled weakly at the doves, for days like these she hated the most. Hated the cold, hated the snow, why if it were summer time she would be happy. But she is happy now. She had everything that she could ever have her people, her life, her friends, and especially her husband, Zidane Tribal. Queen Garnet accepted Zidane's hand in marriage two years ago after they had defeated that ungodly insane Kuja. Surely Zidane was not the suitable husband for a Queen (from the nobles' point of view) but he made her happy and he loved her and she met the world to him. That's all it matters. When one is in love, they would do anything for that person. And sure enough Zidane risked everything for his love.
"I've noticed you've been really quiet lately, Dagger." Said a smooth voice
that startled the young woman. She turned around and her lips curved into a
bright smile, "Oh, Zidane…" she said meekly, walking towards him. "You startled
me…" she told him. Zidane had always called his wife, Dagger instead of Garnet.
He stood in the doorway of their room; he had his arms crossed and he leaned on
the side of the door. He was not wearing his usual outfit for adventure or any
sort, as king he was looking like a natural noble. He wore a golden yellow coat
with a white shirt and golden yellow pants and a short red robe, which the
outfit really went with the color of his hair. The outfit was pretty much like
his original outfit but it had more of a noble's sense of style. Zidane didn't
seem to mind the nobles at first but after awhile, his opinion on the nobles
that they were a bunch of snots that bragged all day long and drank tea… to him
anyway.
He smiled warmly at his wife; he put his hands on her shoulders and
his lips brushed against hers. "Sorry if I gave you a scare, I just wanted to
see what you were up to." He said, Garnet smiled weakly. "I am doing nothing but
looking out over the people." She said as she turned her head towards the
window. Zidane looked in her direction and nodded, "So I've noticed." Garnet
moved away from the blonde-haired man, she gazed out the window once again and
she hugged her shoulders and sighed. "I miss them…" she muttered, bowing her
head. Zidane knew who she was talking about, their friends. "So do I." He
confessed. He came close behind her and embraced her, wrapping his arms around
her waist. "Sometimes I wonder what they're doing right now." He said in her
ear, Garnet nodded. "I, too, wonder what they are doing, maybe they miss us
too." Zidane scuffed, "Probably, most of them anyway. Like Vivi, Freya, Eiko,
Quina, and Amarant. Even though I know old Rusty doesn't miss us, he's near us
so we don't have to worry about him."
"But we do have to worry about the others, Zidane." Garnet concluded.
Zidane just laughed. "So what do you suppose we do about our little problem with
missing everyone? Besides, it's been awhile since we seen them."
"Hmm…
you're quite right, I don't know, we'll have to think about something won't we?"
"Yes of course my darling." Zidane said in a noble-way tone. Garnet turned around and lightly punched his shoulder, "I thought you said you didn't like the nobles or how the way they are—"
"I don't, I was just teasing Dagger!" he said, grabbing her wrist and pulling
her close. Garnet hesitated for a moment, looking at Zidane. He gazed into her
eyes, letting go of her wrist. He was about to give her a passionate kiss but
then suddenly—"Supposedly we should start thinking about something to have some
sort of reunion for us and our friends." Garnet said moving aside and Zidane had
his eyes closed and his lips puckered up, ready to give his loving wife a kiss
and he ends up kissing the velvet red carpet. Garnet walked towards the door and
she stopped and raised her index finger up towards the ceiling. "I've got it!"
she exclaimed, "Why don't we have a party as a reunion!" she turned towards
Zidane and found him lying on the floor. She looked down at him with a
questioning look, her hands on her hips. "What on Gaia are you doing on the
floor?"
Zidane got to his feet and scratched the back of his head, "Gee, I
thought it would be a good day to give the floor some credit because we walk all
over it so much, I decided to kiss it!" he said sarcastically, Garnet was not
amused. "Did you hear any word I said?" Garnet snapped. Zidane nodded, "Of
course," he said, he brushed himself off and stood up straight. "It sounds like
a good idea to me. Except we just can't have five of them there, that'd be
boring! Why don't we invite some of the people from Burmecia, and of course we
can't forget about your Uncle Cid and Aunt Hilda and especially Eiko, since
she's the adopted princess of your relatives."
Garnet folded her hands and smiled, "That's a wonderful idea! Oh! what would I do without you Zidane?" and she hugged him. "You'd be a miserable and lonely if you didn't have me, and it'd be the same for me, but you'd probably marry some snotty, stuck-up young noble guy who is rich and—" Zidane was interrupted when suddenly Garnet kissed him. She stopped and looked up at him, Zidane's eyes widen. "Now that's what I'm talking about." Garnet laughed, "Oh please." She said, smiling sheepishly. "Now is there anyone else we would like to invite?" she asked, trying to change the subject before her husband could get all hyped up and chase her around the palace for some passionate love making. "Hmm… we could invite the black mages, Motoki, and the others?" Garnet nodded, "Splendid! I'm sure they'll all be happy to come, especially Vivi." She said, she exited the room with Zidane following close behind her. "And who else?" she asked, Zidane thought for a moment as they walked down the stairs to the Throne Room. "Hmm… can't think of anyone else." He said. "Well then!" said Garnet, pushing the doors open to the throne room. "I think that pretty much settles it for the people that are coming, but now we need to think about how we should decorate and have orderbs and food." Garnet went on babbling about the plans. Zidane sighed, "This could be awhile…" he mumbled to himself, hoping his wife wouldn't hear.
Later that evening, Garnet had received the copied invitations and everything was settle and going to according to plan. She walked down to the conference room where Zidane was planning the rest of the stuff out for the party. Garnet had told Zidane that she wanted it to be a wonderful and enjoying party, an evening their friends wouldn't forget. Of course Zidane had gotten everything down to what Garnet wanted, fantastic tasting orderbs, good foods, plenty of sampan and wine, and the best instrumental band. He had thought why couldn't she just have one big orchestra and then the whole party could be a success? Even though he had gotten through half the list, the only problem was choosing the decoration and that was the hard part of planning a huge party.
Garnet had agreed to take the last of the list and that was the decorations so Zidane wouldn't go under stress trying to choose decorations such as colors and such. She entered the room where she seen Zidane sat asleep, exhausted and overly stressed out from giving orders and doing half the list while Garnet was out making the invitations, decoration, and the choice of orderbs. She hummed to herself happily, humming the song she had always sung; she carried a rather large stack of invitations in her arms as she approached Zidane. He had both arms hanging out from his armchair and his eyes were closed, he opened them and seen that Garnet had returned. "Did you have a lovely day, dear?" she asked, giving him a peck on the cheek. Zidane yawned and stretched his arms, "Lovely? I wouldn't call my day lovely from what I was doing today, Dagger. You could've at least stuck around and helped me with the huge things to get for that party." He said, Garnet sat down beside him and sighed. "I'm terribly sorry darling, at least you're helping out." Zidane nodded, "True."
Garnet pulled a piece of the invitation out of the large stack and showed it
to Zidane, "This is how the invitations are going to look when everyone gets
them." Zidane took the small invitation and read it, he smiled and his sapphire
eyes turned towards her. "This is going to a great party," he said, Garnet
laughed. "Yes it will, I'll be sure of it." Zidane looked at the invitation one
again and then back at Garnet. "But the hard part about a party is getting it
all planned out and set up!" he exclaimed. Garnet sighed and nodded, "The
decorations will be set up within a week or so and then when we're finally
finish with the plans we can finally have the party."
"When will the
invitations be sent out?" Zidane asked. "A week early because everyone else
lives far away from Alexandria." Garnet responded; she sent the stack of
invitations aside and sat beside him. Zidane was silent for a moment and then he
finally spoke, "In that case… since it's the evening and…" he paused and looked
at his wife with an evil grin. Garnet smiled, she rose from her seat and walked
down the steps. She ran towards the door and opened it. She stopped and turned.
"If you want me, you'll have to catch me first." She giggled and in a flash she
was gone.
Zidane jumped up from his seat and ran towards the door and exited, "I'm giving you a running start Dagger!" he shouted. This was their way of playing… well let's just say "hide-in-seek". ^^()
During the following week, Garnet was busy helping the decorator and a few
assistants that were also helping, they were decoration the ball room. While
Zidane was busy consulting with the conductor on choosing songs for the party.
Throughout the day they both busy setting up the party and by the evening they
were finished.
Garnet sighed as she plopped onto the bed, "This day was
exhausting!" she said, and Zidane nodded. "Hey, do you think we should send out
those invitations now?" Garnet sat up with her eyes big as saucers. "Oh gods!"
she exclaimed, jumping up from the bed onto her feet, "I completely forgot about
the invitations! They were suppose to be sent out this morning!"
"Calm down Dagger! They can sent out right now, besides the party doesn't
start 'till next week, so no need to worry."
Garnet sighed in relief,
"You're right darling, I must be thinking too fast or either this whole planning
thing has really gotten to me." said Garnet. Zidane massaged her shoulders; "You
just gotta keep your cool and stay calm." He told her. Garnet smiled and closed
her eyes. "I'll do that, thank you darling."
Before Garnet went to sleep, Zidane told her he would give the invitations to a moogle and have them delivered right away. The first invitation was going out to the closest places near Alexandria, and that was Burmecia. As for the rest of the invitations were all going to Lindblum, Black Mage Village, and Quan's Dwelling. This that made Zidane wonder why Dagger wanted such a large pile of invitations since they were just sending them out to only four places. But he could understand that since Amarant moves around so much, it would be difficult to track him down… and maybe he wouldn't want to come to the party.
In the early dawn, a moogle named Mogia made her way through the heavy rain
fall as she was flapping her wings trying quickly as possible to get out the
rain. Her little paw knocked on the green metal door and she sighed. "Why do I
have to have morning shift?" she mumbled to herself when someone shouted, "Who
goes there?" she jumped and looked up. "I'm here to deliver a message to…" she
paused and looked at the back of the envelop and looked up, "Miss Freya
Crescent!" she shouted. The Burmecian solider waved his hand, "I see! I'll open
the gates!" he said and the little moogle waited for the two doors to be open.
The two doors slowly opened and Mogia stepped back and entered through the large
doors. "Thank you!" she said to the soldier and he saluted.
Mogia at first
had a difficult time finding "Freya Crescent" but had managed to find her home.
Freya lied in bed asleep. She slowly opened her emerald green eyes and turned
to her right side to find Sir Fratley asleep. She smiled at his sleeping form;
she had found Fratley in Lindblum at the local bar she always went to. He seemed
to have remembered her face but she could tell that he had little bit of memory
still lost. But she was so happy to see him.
That was two years ago, and
when they returned to Burmecia Freya helped Fratley regain some of his lost
memory but he had new memory to store. They had gotten together right after she
had met up with him.
Her thoughts were soon interrupted when there was a
knock on her door, 'Who could be knocking at my door on this ungodly hour?' she
thought to herself when she sung open the door and looked down at the little
moogle that carried an envelop in her arms. Mogia held the envelope and gave it
to Freya, "An invitation to Miss Freya Crescent! Kupo!" squeaked Mogia. "An
invitation?" Freya had a questioning look on her face; she tore open the
envelope and pulled out the message. "Yes, now I have other mail to send, thank
you and have a nice day! Kupo!" Mogia left in a flash and out of sight. But
Freya paid no attention to the moogle, for her eyes were glued to the
invitation. Freya read the invitation; the words were in green ink and nicely
written writing that read,
The time for the party to begin is at five o'clock a week from Friday and you are welcome to bring guest along.
We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
King Zidane Tribal
&
Queen Garnet Til Alexandros
the 17th Tribal
Freya's mouth gapped open; it had been a while since she had last heard from
Zidane, she couldn't believe they had gotten married. Not that it was obvious
that they were in love but getting married and Zidane being king? It was almost
hard to believe that he was even king. Although she was more than happy to
attend this party, she wondered if Zidane had changed at all?
She walked
over to Fratley's bedside, "Fratley!" she said, trying to wake him up. He didn't
stir or open his eyes. "Fratley!" she said louder, still no Fratley. She shook
him and his eyes slowly open. "What is Freya? For the love of Gaia! I'm trying—"
"Fratley look!" Freya interrupted him, showing him the invitation. "What is it?"
he questioned. "It's an invitation from my friend Zidane and his wife Queen
Garnet, we're invited to a reunion!" she exclaimed happily, "This could be your
chance to meet Zidane!"
Fratley lazily laid his head back down and closed
his eyes, "Bloody hell woman, it's too early to talk about this now!" he
snapped. Freya just smiled and let her love go back to sleep. She sighed and
gazed out her window, the rain had stopped and the sun was coming out. Freya
looked down at the invitation; she couldn't wait to see everyone again. Although
she wondered if Amarant would come to the party… maybe so, there was only one
way to find out and that was to go to the party and see if he'll show up.
"Let's see… where to next?" Mogia pulled her list out as she examined through the names and places where she was to deliver the invitations to. "Hmm… Lindblum? I guess that's where I go to next!" she said to herself, pulling out the envelope from her bag. The back of the envelope read, "To Regent Cid and Lady Hilda" Mogia sighed. "I've got a long day ahead of me," she said, lifting herself off from the ground and heading towards Lindblum.
"Oh dash it all!" Shouted Cid, he was busily working on yet another one of
his inventions on another air craft and it was going to named the "Hilda Garde
IV", he was going to update the old Hilda Garde III and make it more
high-in-advance. But this time he could not think straight for a new model of
the new Air Craft.
Hilda came walking in as her husband was cursing and
tearing apart a blue print. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and
whispered into his ear, "Why are you so upset darling?"
Cid was startled at
first but then calmed down from his outrage. "Hilda my dear!" he said nervously,
turning around. "You gave me a fright—well the reason why I'm upset is because
my brain is not functioning with me today and I can not think of an advance new
model for the next Hilda Garde IV!" He spat, tearing the blueprint piece by
piece. "And if it were not for this blasted winter weather, I could at least
think of an idea but my ideas just aren't coming to me today."
"Well there
are other days, dear." Hilda told him, she ran her fingers through his hair,
down his face and she placed her hands on his shoulders. "That is true." He
said. There was a moment silent, Cid wrapped his arm around her neck and the
other around her waist. Hilda grabbed at his coat; their lips were about to meet
until a voice boomed,
"Regent Cid!" Cid stopped and cursed, "Who dare—"
"Sir you have a message, an invitation that is. I'm sorry for interrupting
your moment with Lady Hilda…" the solider paused and gave Cid the envelope. He
was going to open his mouth to say whom it was from but he then saluted Cid and
turned on his heel and disappeared from their sight. "I wonder who could send us
an invitation?" Hilda questioned, Cid torn open the envelope. "Only one way to
find out." He said. He pulled out the letter and read it, his face brightened
up. "Brilliant!" Shouted Cid as he threw the invitation up into the air and it
flouted down towards Hilda. She grabbed the letter and read it and she was also
happy. "How wonderful! Oh, it will be grand to see your niece and… her husband?
But seeing them again will be exciting!" she said, Cid turned around and
grinned, "Of course and I'm sure Eiko will be happy also! I must tell her at
once!" The Regent turned around and left Hilda by herself.
Regent Cid went down the hallway towards two large doors, which lead to the
library where Dr. Tott was teaching Eiko.
"Now Eiko my dear," said Dr. Tott,
pushing his spectacles up with his index finger and looking down at the
eight-year-old summoner, she was gazing out the window at the snow that was
falling. "Yes Dr. Tott?" Eiko said in a monotone voice, she was very bored and
all she wanted to do was to go outside and play in the snow. "Will you please
pay attention and open your book to—"
"Book shook! I wanna go outside and
play in the snow! Can't we do this some other time?"
"No Eiko, if you want
to be a proper lady, you must be well educated and—"
The door flung open as
Cid came rushing in shouting, "Isn't this wonderful?" Dr. Tott jumped when he
came rushing in, "Regent Cid… what are you talking about?" Cid picked up Eiko
and Dr. Tott twirling around the room. "We're going to see Garnet and Zidane in
Alexandria!" he exclaimed, putting Dr. Tott down. "Garnet and Zidane? Whatever
for?"
"Garnet and Zidane?!" Eiko repeated.
"We're invited to their
little reunion they're having, isn't it wonderful!"
To Dr. Tott, all of this
was really getting Regent Cid carried away, after not seeing Garnet for two
years was quiet awhile but a reunion party was a splendid idea.
"When does
this reunion start, if I may ask?"
"Within a week from Friday, so it may be
a while when we get there but not to worry! We're be in Alexandria before you
can 'oglops' because obviously we're taking the Hilda Garde III!" With that
said, Cid exited the library.
Dr. Tott laughed at his foolishness as Cid
walked down the hallway and kept babbling on about how happy he was.
And as
for Eiko, she was beyond excited.
After Mogia had delivered the invitation to Regent Cid, she could hear that he was very excited. "Well another happy customer." She said. She pulled her list out from her bag and sighed, "Now I have to go to… Quan's Dwelling? Oh well, I've only got three more invitations to deliver and my morning shift is finally done!" Mogia was more than happy to complete her morning shift; she then set out to Quan's Dwelling.
She reached her destination and she entered the swamp area, it was filled
with frogs and other swamp monsters. She pulled out the third envelope and on
the back it said, "To Miss Quina Quen". Mogia made her way through the tall
grass and found a rather strange animal in a pink dress. "Um… are you Miss Quina
Quen?" she asked meekly, the strange person in the pink dress turned around.
"Yes I Quina!" said Quina, or rather one who couldn't tell if it was a he or
she. "…Right." Said Mogia; the moogle handed the envelope to Quina. "You have an
invitation…" Mogia didn't know whether to call Quina Miss or Mister. Quina
jumped for joy and snatched the envelope from Mogia. "Wow! I thought I never get
letter from someone." H/she said. "Who from?"
"It's from Zidane Tribal…" the
moogle answered. She stepped away from Quina nervously. "Um… anyway, I've got
more invitations to give out bye!" with that said, Mogia was gone.
"I go
bring this to master!" Quina said and skipped off to see Quale. "Maybe at
Zidane's they have yummie-yummies."
(A/N: I do like Quina and all… but… nevermind.)
Mogia shuddered at the thought of Quina, "Ugh! I don't even know what to say about what just happened!" once again, she pulled her list out of her bag and examined it. "Hmm… it seems that I go to Black Mage Village? I hope it's not just as weird as that Quina back there! Kupo!" Mogia said, she set off for Black Mage Village, even though it would take some time for her to get there but invitations had to be delivered!
Mogia had managed to make it to Black Mage Village, since it was far away
from Alexandria. She wondered how the black mages would make it in time for the
"reunion" to start.
In Black Mage Village, the black mages and the people
that were saved from Terra were still learning new things. Mogia entered the
village; she pulled out the fourth invitation and on the back it read, "To
Mister Vivi Orunitia" she sighed once more. By the time she is done with this
one, she will only have one last invitation to deliver and all this hard work on
delivering invitations to place to place will finally be over.
Mogia
asked where Vivi could found and that he had an invitation. "I will deliver it
to Vivi for you, besides you look exhausted." Said the black mage.
Mogia
nodded, "Indeed I am, this whole thing delivering invitations is hard work and
that I have to go everywhere just to hand someone a letter."
"I see, well I
shall give this letter to Vivi and you must be on your way to deliver the last
invitation. Good luck!"
"Thank you! I'm going need it!" Mogia exited the
village, waving good-bye.
The black mage walked towards a hut where Vivi was teaching Motoki and the
others on how to use black magic.
"Now if you want to create a flame star
you'll—"
"Vivi," said the black mage, Vivi looked up. "I'm sorry to
interrupt but you have an invitation."
"An invitation?" Vivi repeated; he
walked towards the black mage and took the envelope from him. He opened it and
read that he was invited to a reunion in Alexandria. "I'm going to Alexandria!"
he exclaimed happily. "And you're all coming!"
"To Alexandria? To see Zidane
and Dagger?" questioned Motoki. "Yes! And we're leaving the day after tomorrow,
to get there a bit early, besides it will take a few days to get to Alexandria
anyway." Said Vivi. He was also more than happy that he will get to see the
others and Zidane and Dagger.
Mogia sighed and smiled, she was glad that she had one last invitation. She pulled the envelope out and the list; she examined through it and read the back of the envelope. "To Mister Amarant Coral? But he's not on my list! Hmm… they must've forgotten to add him or don't know where he is… but I may as well waste my time and look for this Amarant. Not unless they mean that guy whose wanted… The Flaming Amarant." Said Mogia. One last invitation and she had a feeling she wouldn't find Amarant but it was worth a shot, she flew her way back to the main continent.
"Hey Amarant!" Lani shouted, Amarant sighed and he was on the verge to kill
Lani. The bounty huntress was annoying the hell out of him and she just wouldn't
go away. Not unless if she seen a guy walking by and that caught her eye, she
would be chasing after him and that's the only way to get rid of her… or unless
he could get her drunk and wait until she passed out and then he could make his
escape. "What is it Lani?" Amarant snapped, "How 'bout buying me another drink?
Just for old time sake? Besides we haven't seen each other in quiet awhile, ya
know?"
Amarant wasn't in the mood to be around Lani or a drink, all he
wanted was to be by himself and that was all.
"Lani, we've been seeing each
other for the last few days and no I won't buy you another drink because you're
already drunk." He said, "Dumb-ass woman." He mumbled. Lani just laughed,
"Aw c'mon Amarant! When was the last thing did I do for you huh?" "Hmm… I don't
seem to remember that because you NEVER did anything for me!" he growled. Lani
continued laughing, "Whatever!" she said, she slammed her fist down on the
table. "Hey can I get some more of that fancy wine or whatever you have?"
Amarant rose from his seat and exited the Lindblum bar; he didn't care if
Lani stopped him. He just wanted to get away from her; the crazy woman was
stupid. To his opinion anyway.
Mogia sighed and looked out over Lindblum, flying over the shops and houses, she had to keep her eyes open if she saw a guy with huge red hair and blue skin. "This is hopeless but from the way I think seen Amarant, he could be that guy who's wanted in Treno… only one way to find out." And she continued searching.
Amarant roamed the streets of Lindblum, he sighed. 'God this sucks,' he
thought to himself, 'Right after I save the fucking world, I some how end up
with Lani again!' He had met Lani up unexpectedly (about a few months ago) and
at the same place he had just left. She followed her red-haired companion around
for a while and he dumped her off at that bar. 'And here I am again… all by my
lonesome. But what the hell! I don't need that shit for brains Lani! Or
anybody!'
He soon lost trail of thought when an old woman bumped into him,
falling on the ground the old woman looked up at Amarant.
He looked down at
her, "Hey watch you're going old woman." He said harshly, the old woman got to
her feet and brushed herself off. "Well excuse me!" she snapped, "Didn't you're
parents ever tell you to respect your elders, young man?"
Amarant scuffed,
"Lady, I didn't have any parents so leave me alone." He walked passed her, the
old woman watched him go and finally she said, "People like you who don't show
respect and kindness have problems." Amarant stopped, he turned and looked at
the old woman. "Ah, I see I got your attention."
"I don't have problems so
like I said, leave me alone."
"How can I not? You seem to have trouble in
your life, I can tell."
Amarant didn't need to listen to an old woman, but
he should think again. "What are you talking about?" he questioned, people
around them didn't seem to notice that Amarant had pushed the old woman down nor
could they notice that they were even there.
The old woman smiled, "You are what they call you Amarant Coral, am I
correct?" Amarant nodded. "Why? What are you, my fairy godmother?" he said in
sarcasm. "Probably… probably not." She said, she snapped her fingers and in a
flash everything went to darkness. "I have kept my eye on you Amarant, and I
could see that you have many problems in your life. You're a wanted criminal for
the crime you did not commit. And even though you helped your friends save the
world and that makes you hero."
The old woman soon turned from old and
wrinkly to strikingly beautiful. She had long sandy-blonde hair and crimson red
eyes. She waved her hand over the darkness and it showed a scene where he was
fighting along side with Zidane, Dagger, and Freya. The last enemy was difficult
to beat but they had managed to win and save Gaia.
He looked towards Freya;
she was a good fighter, strong, brave and had honor.
"It seems that you had an interest in her, am I correct?" questioned the
sandy-blonde hair woman. Amarant scuffed, "What the hell are you talking about?
How could I possibly be in love with her?" he spat, the woman could see that he
was lying. "'Sides, I didn't have any interest in Freya, we're from
different species and it wouldn't work out between us anyway."
He had a
point, two people different from each other would be like a like an Angel
falling in love with a demon, darkness and light and vice versa. "But if you
were apart of her species, you still would be in love. And it wouldn't matter."
She said. Amarant had his back facing her and he nodded, "Yeah, but she's in
love with someone else. Besides it still wouldn't work out even if I was apart
of her species…" "Yes, but she probably could not love this man and she would
love you instead." Amarant was silent for a moment; he didn't know what to say.
Why was she even talking to him about this? How did she know? He could've sworn
he had no feelings or interest in Freya. Besides it would be impossible, if he
fell in love with her and she had his children… they would have the different
facial features and genes from both of them. It would all be too strange. Freya
was in love with Fratley, she said so herself and that one day she would find
him and help him regain his memory. But if she chased him around and said she
loved him, it would be like she was in love with a man she once knew but he
doesn't remember her. Being forgotten is worse than death, is what she said and
it was true.
The red-haired man shook his head, "Why am I even thinking about this?" he
said harshly, the woman smiled. "Over the years people change, Amarant."
"Yeah I know but… what is it that you want from me?"
The woman did not say anything for a moment, she held out her hand and a rose appeared. She handed it to Amarant, "Long ago my master once told me that, 'Love is all a great feeling that can not be let go,' and that a red rose represents love. That was his meaning of love, he used flowers to represent emotions." She said, Amarant took the rose and sighed. "Sounds interesting but have flowers represent emotions?" She nodded, "He like the idea of that," she sighed. "I can also tell that your feelings have changed for Freya Crescent. You don't want to admit to yourself that you are in love with her and back then you had no interest in her and she was just a friend." This was true; he did consider Freya a friend. They had some things in common with each other but the only difference was that they were both from different species. He nodded, not saying anything. "Ah… now we're getting somewhere, you seem to be opening up to me." she told him, Amarant turned around to face her. He looked down at the rose and back at the woman who had a large grin on her face.
"Is there anything else you'd like to know about me? Miss…" he said,
pausing because he didn't know her name. She bowed politely, "Just call me
Makoto." She answered. Amarant nodded, "…Right."
Makoto sighed once again,
"Now since I got through that closed shell, I may as well leave you be, because
I have other business to attend." She said. "That's it? That's all you wanted to
know was that if I was in love with Freya?"
She giggled and turned back into
an old woman, "Oh no," she said wiggling her index finger, "I know everything
about you, Amarant. I just wanted to get that whole love thing out of you.
Because you must learn not to lie to yourself and you must be honest and I
believe you could have a relationship with Miss Freya, but there will trouble if
you do…"
Amarant could understand what she meant; Fratley would probably
kick Amarant's ass if he knew that he had feelings for Freya. "But for now,"
Makoto said, "I must go. And remember this dear Amarant…"
Everything suddenly turned back to reality with the people of Lindblum passing by Amarant. A faint and smooth whisper in his ear,
Love is a rose
And love is apart of power,
If one does not
confess to the one they truly love,
They will suffer through pain and regret
…And the Roses Whither
And the voice disappeared, as did Makoto. Amarant looked around the people and he did not see Makoto anywhere in sight. He looked down at his feet and there he found the rose that Makoto gave to him. He picked it up and examined it for a moment and sighed. He did not want to admit that he loved Freya… but he considers her as a friend and nothing more. But something inside his mind he had to admit that he did love her, even if they were from different species. It didn't matter to him. But to her it probably did. Amarant walked through the streets, continuing to get away from Lani as far as he could. She's probably passed out by now.
A/N: Well that's the end of chapter one! Review and tell me what you think peoples! ^_^ Chapter two coming soon!
Teaser: Now since almost everyone has received his or her invitations, will Mogia be able to find and give Amarant's invitation? Will he decide and go to the dumb reunion anyway and tell Freya how he feels? Found out next time! ^^()