Okay, you guys better enjoy the beginning... cause' I thought it was a bit necessary to do this little opening part... ready? BTW: Thank yous will now be posted at the bottom of fics because I'm lazy to do them now.
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VIII and its characters... someday I will... someday...
The beginning is written in Squalls dreamlike-first person-point of view....thingy.
I miss you
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When I stared at her sleeping body... I knew it was her... I mean, I danced with her the night before right? There was a rumble I guess signifying that we had stopped.
She then stirred from her slumber and looked at me weirdly.
"Hey... You're...! You know, from the party..." She trailed off. "So... does that mean... You're a SeeD!" I nodded and walked over to her bed.
"I'm Squall, the squad leader. There's 2 others with me." I stated. She got up and hugged my neck tightly. I spun her around hoping I could get her off.
"YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!" She exclaimed. "SEED IS HERE!" I blinked.
"Take it easy." I muttered.
"It's just that, I'm so happy!" She squeaked. "I've been sending requests to Garden forever, but nothing..." She sighed. "I'm so glad I spoke to Cid directly!" I walked over to her and placed a hand on my hip.
"Oh..." I said quietly. "So you were looking for the headmaster at the party?" She shook her hands in front of her stating that she didn't mean it that way.
"You know Seifer?" I crossed my arms.
"...Yeah." She bent down discreetly.
"Well, he's the one who introduced me to Cid." She then smiled. "Cid is such a nice man." She blinked. "I really didn't think SeeD would come out to help a measly little group like us." Sigh. "But after explaining our situation to him, Cid gave the go ahead right away!"
She giggled... Hyne... what a heart lifting laugh she had... She then looked up at me. "Now that you guys are here, we'll be able to carry out all kinds of plans!" Then she walked to her dresser, and I followed her.
"Yes?" She asked.
I pointed backwards. "I'm goin' back to the others."
"Ok, let's go!" She jumped up and down for a second. "Umm, Squall. Is 'he' here?" I thought to myself, 'he'? She seemed to know what I was thinking. "Seifer." She answered.
"......No, he's not a SeeD." I said. She began walking out.
"...Oh." She then fully walked out, but then ran back in. "Oh yeah, my name's Rinoa."
*~* (A/N: God... that took me forever.)
'Rinoa...' Squall thought. 'Where are you?'
"Squall?"
'I'm really sorry, Rin... I wasn't able to protect you.'
"Get some sleep Squall."
'I can't dream tonight, I'll only miss her more...'
"Squall?"
'I need you Rin... I need you always...'
"God, I can't see you through the dark..." Zell tiptoed through the forest, careful not to stir any monsters awake. "Why won't you answer your cell either?"
'Stupid Zell...'
"Stupid dark..." Zell stepped into something gooey. "Awwww, this makes me sick!"
"What do you want Zell?" Zell turned his head in the direction of the voice.
"I want you to come back to the Garden, you've been out here for seven straight hours!"
"My my, aren't we motherly?" Squall muttered mockingly.
"Dude, we're all worried!" Zell spat.
"Whatever you chicken-wuss..." Squall said coldly.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Zell exclaimed angrily.
"YOU HEARD ME!"
"SAY IT AGAIN IF YOU'RE SO BRAVE!" Then, Squall ran out of the trees and stood right in front of him.
"FINE, CHICKEN WUSS!" It was now then that Zell noticed Squall's face... It showed a gleaming light shine down his face. Zell's eyes opened wide as he took notice of his friend.
Squall... was crying.
"Squall...?" Zell shivered, for some reason, everything got cold just now... "Are you okay?"
"Does it look like it!?"
"Well... no." Zell sat down and patted the ground next to him. "Come on... sit down."
"I don't want to..."
"Sit."
"...Whatever." With that Squall sat down.
"Now... tell me how you feel." Zell stated simply.
"Who are you? Oprah?" Squall sighed. Zell stared at him. "Fine..." Squall shifted uncomfortably. "I failed."
"You what?"
"I failed."
"Doing?"
"Being a Sorceress' Knight." Another tear leaked out of Squall's eye.
"Would you quit crying?" Zell asked quietly. "It's freakin' me out." He heard Squall give a small sniff. Never in Zell's life did he hear Squall even show this much emotion... ever.
"I miss her... terribly..."
"We all do... and we are worried about ya." Zell muttered with concern.
"I know, but..."
"This reminds all of us about how you were... before Rinoa."
"Rinoa..."
"I wonder where she is." Zell looked up at the stars. "Really shiny tonight isn't it?"
"I guess..." Squall curled his knees to himself. Zell got up and dusted his hand off, he then extended it to Squall and pulled him up.
"C'mon let's go."
**
"There they are." Selphie said quietly. For once, Selphie wasn't all-hyper. When Zell and Squall stood beside them, everyone stayed quiet.
"Listen... we need to go to the third floor." Quistis said. "Let's go." Squall took lead without saying anything, and the rest followed. As they entered the once been office, they were greeted by three men, Cid, Laguna, and General Caraway. Cid smiled weakly, while for the first time in Squall's life he saw Laguna without a childlike smile, and Caraway's face was emotionless.
"Hello." Cid greeted. "Squall... we know you are upset about Rinoa's capture, but we need you to keep in mind that you are the captain, the commander of this whole Garden." Squall nodded meekly, barely listening. 'Is that it...?' He thought.
"I know you're wondering if that's it... but it's not." Selphie murmured. "We
know why Rinoa was taken by Seifer." Squall folded his arms and waited patiently. "We're guessing he's working for someone... but you see... Rinoa has a rare blood."
"So?" Squall said passively, not thinking that was bad.
"It's her sorceress blood." Edea said while walking in. "Good evening children." The group of the teenagers nodded in response.
"And he's going to take it away from her..." Zell said sadly. "Probably taking away her sorceress powers."
"And that's bad?" Squall asked.
"Don't you understand?!" Caraway roared. "When Rinoa's powers had been awaken, the sorceress blood took all over all of her body, she has no human blood, just something close to it!" Squall took a short breath.
"She'll die if he takes it from her!" Squall yelled.
"Exactly!" Caraway hollered. "She will die!" He took a breath loudly. "And it's all your fault!"
"Well, now General... please... don't get that angry with my son..." Laguna tried pushing the two from each other.
"Shut it Laguna!" The both screamed. Laguna took a step back.
"Listen you two, Rinoa is as important to me as to you two... she's my daughter-in-law remember?" The two men paid no attention and continued they're bickering, until...
"WOULD YOU CALM DOWN!?" Quistis screamed. The two shut up completely. "We need to find out who Seifer is working for now."
"It's a Sorcerer." Edea sat down. "Sorcerer Leda."
**
"Put me down!" The man smirked.
"Rinoa, now please calm down before I have to hit you again!" Rinoa rolled herself into as close to a ball as she could... the only problem was that was strapped down.
"Seifer... what the hell are you doing?" Rinoa hiccupped.
"Taking you somewhere."
"Take me back... take me back to Squall." Rinoa sobbed.
"Puberty boy?" Seifer asked suppressing his laughter. "No way in hell."
"..."
"We're almost there..."
"..." 'I need to think of a way to escape... damn I wish I wasn't pregnant.' Rinoa thought.
"What was that?" Rinoa's eyes drifted quickly to the front mirror, and saw the black blurs next to the flying ship.
"What're those things?" Seifer shrugged.
"I dunno, for some reason they call themselves the 'Shuriken'." Seifer said thoughtfully. "Cool things huh?"
"..."
"I guess you liked em'." He grinned. "Here we are..."
"Why are you doing this?"
"Besides the pay?" He asked arrogantly. "Actually, to get back what I lost."
"What was that?" Rinoa looked at him to see if he was lying, but he had a serious face on.
"Being... a Sorceress' Knight... only in this case, it's a Sorcerer."
**
"Sorcerer Leda?" (A/N: Ha ha! It's Adel spelled backwards!)
"Yes, Sorceress Adel's twin brother." Edea replied. "He wants it... it's the only possible idea available." She sat down and looked out to the brightly lit water. She sighed heavily.
"Why does he want Rinoa's blood, Matron?" Squall inquired.
"It'll make him stronger." The once orphanage owner looked at her legs. Everyone looked at her with confused looks. As if she knew what they were doing, she opened her mouth and spoke. "Since she is a young woman, she has more power then a sorceress at my age and his... therefore, my blood is useless to him, but hers... is like a gold, so very precious and can be used so easily."
"But..." Squall muttered unconsciously. "...There has to be something we can do."
"Yes, there is..." Edea sighed.
"Fight him."
**
"Lord Leda, I have brought you Rinoa." Seifer said pointing his gun blade at the brunette in a wedding dress.
"Excellent Seifer...." A shadow said not to far in the distance. "I am assuming that everything went as plan."
"Yes, milord... even better... I believe Leonhart will go into a nervous breakdown, if not insane." He smirked and turned on his heel and motioned to the door.
"Where are you going Seifer...?" The shadow hissed.
"Outside, I need fresh air."
"Very well." Seifer opened the hatch and walked out, slamming the door behind him. "Bring her to me." The Shuriken took Rinoa by the arms and dragged her towards the mysterious figure.
"Who are you?" Rinoa managed to ask. How much pain she was in.... No one would ever know...
"I, am Sorcerer Leda, brother of Sorceress Adel." Behind the shadows an evil grin appeared. "I'm sure you know of her."
"Yes... I do." Rinoa twitched slightly but the Shuriken pulled her back.
"Do you know why you're here?"
"I have a guess, you want revenge on Squall for killing Sorceress Adel... but let me tell you bub, my husband is going to kick...your...ass!" Rinoa spat out. The shadow let out a chuckle.
"I doubt that... and no, I am not exactly angry at Leonhart for that... I actually very much loathed my darling sister." Out of the shadows, a head appeared and Rinoa gasped. The head looked very much like Sorceress Adel, only with black hair and not in a pony tail. "As for why you are here..." He took his hand under her neck and pulled it up to make her look at him in the eyes. "...You'll find out soon enough." He leaned his head back to his chair. "Take her away and put her in a cell!" Rinoa kept quite, keeping in her screams.
'I need you Squall!'
**
"What the!?" Squall said loudly as he awoke in his bedroom. His sweat ran down his face cold... his breathing had gotten heavier. He then realized something... Rinoa was calling for him, and he now knew where Rinoa was... with that, he got out of bed and looked at the clock. It showed 7:43. 'Might as well get up, I want to get her... now...' He changed quickly and ran out to Zell's room.
**
"Why am I doing this?" Seifer asked loudly. "Why do I want this so badly?"
"It is your destiny." Seifer turned to see Sorcerer Leda walking towards him.
"But what if it's not!?" Seifer asked angrily. "I don't even know why or how I got here!" He clenched his right hand on his gun blade. (A/N: I don't remember then name of his blade! Well, I do... but not how to spell it!... Maybe it's in the guidebook... crap... I can't find it... someone tell me the name of Seifer's gun blade!)
"You came here, because you were supposed to..." Before Seifer could make a reply, Leda jabbed him in the back of the neck and held onto it, his hand began to glow. "You will obey me Seifer..."
"The hell!?" Seifer gagged out.
"You're becoming more and more reckless..."
"Stop it!" Seifer growled.
"No..."
**
"You know where Rinoa is??" Selphie squealed. "Then let's go!" Squall smiled weakly.
"I have a good guess... it came in a dream, Rinoa spoke to me..." He trailed off.
"Whoa whoa, I've heard of mind readers and crap, but buddy... there ain't no way in hell you could have..." Irvine said.
"She's a sorceress, duh!" Zell said slapping his head. "Of course she can!"
"Actually, I agree with Irvine..." Quistis trailed off, she saw Irvine give a wave with his hat and grin. "...For once." The grin was wiped away clean off his face.
"But still Quistis!" Squall said. "We have to try!"
"Ugh... fine..." Quistis sighed and placed her hand on her head. "Let's go to the bridge." She started walking quickly. Zell noticed and ran after her.
"Look, I'm sorry okay?" Zell asked. "I don't think it woulda worked out..."
"It's alright, I'll get over it." She saw Zell smile and forced one herself. 'At this rate... I'll never have a good boyfriend' she thought. She sniffed and wiped her eyes when out of eyesight of Zell. Selphie sighed as she saw and heard the blond hiccup.
"What's up with Quistis and Zell darlin'?" Irvine placed his hands on Selphie's shoulders.
"Zell broke up with Quistis last night... something about it would never work out... or something like that..." Selphie began walking and Irvine jogged to catch up with her.
"I see, what an idiot!"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing." Irvine muttered. "But I think Zell always had the hots for the library girl."
"Tori?" (A/N: Yori... if you read this chapter, sorry I took your name for her, forgive me!)
"That her name?" Irvine asked as Selphie nodded. "Well then, yes." He turned and saw Squall standing in thought. "Yo, Squall!?"
"Yeah?"
"Let's go get Rin!" Irvine said with a grin. Squall couldn't help but smile.
'We're coming Rin... we're coming.'
'Good...'
'Rin? Are you there?'
'...'
'Rinoa!?'
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Black: What are these little passages with Squall talking to Rinoa in thought, is he insane or is it for real? And what about Quistis and Zell's little dilemma? Think Quistis will ever be the same? And what the bloody hell is Seifer's gun blade called!?
David: Just thank the reviewers.
Black: Very well... where's the list? Ah, here we go...
Meteor9: Well well, Meteor has a muse... I know how that feels... but trust me, if you're an idiot... I'm more of one... even though David has a lower I.Q. then anyone will probably have.
David: **drinks glue** Yum yum! Milk!
Black: I stand corrected, lower I.Q. then anyone will ever have.
Kiros1235: I thought you had died! It's great to hear from you! Thanks for the review!
PasifiKStaR: Maybe Seifer isn't doing it willingly? And yeah... I'd never wanna be like Rin and Squall at that time... Thanks with Caraway, I hoped very much that I'd get him right.
Kickass Kid: Nice little name you got... heh... K.K. I'd probably laugh my ass off if your name was Kool Kickass Kid... get it? No? **sigh** And... I don't think David means to be funny... I think it's just his idiocy.
Jamie223: Thanks for the review.
SquallRinoa4eva: Well, ya know... you could always get the author update on me... I can't wait for you to get the rights to FFVIII, yay Rinoa! ^^ Also, I do sooooo hope that there's a FF8-2, but... it's a movie. Didn't ya know? It's not a game but a movie.... at least that's what I saw. FF7-2 is a movie, right now... the 3-D graphics are soo freakin' good, that I almost drooled... but it looked so freakin' real. Thanks for the kind review, and I'm glad you love the story!
Lendmemoni: Thank you for the review, I know don't you just hate it when the fics say Rinoa's all evil and crap and then she dumps Squall... But sometimes, they're good because it's for the plot and setting and they eventually get back together, yippe! Hope you liked this chapter to!
Black: And that's a wrap! Ya know... I'm in a lotta shit... I can't find my guidebook anywhere.
David: **eating
something** What do ya mean?
Black: My FF8 guidebook, I need it.
David: The one with Rinoa, Squall, and Seifer on the front?
Black: Yep, do you know where it is?
David: **gulp** Um... no?
Lauren: **sigh** David ate it Black...
Black: WHAT!? OPEN YOUR MOUTH! **pulls David's mouth open and sees words all over his teeth** YOU BASTARD!
Lauren: While they're busy fighting, please update! We love reviews!
Black: Damn you David!