Chapter 4- No pain, No Gain
Seifer viciously attacked the T-Rex, putting all effort into defeating the mighty foe,
I Punching. . ./I
This T-Rex was particularly difficult, it kept swinging its tail and Seifer kept having to dodge it to miss it,
I Kicking. . ./I
Seifer wished that it would just drop down and die, it was really starting to piss him off.
I Stabbing. . ./I
He almost fell over trying to avoid its tail. Like Seifer, the T-Rex was not going down without a fight and didn't care how injured it got in the process,
I Burning. . ./I
*WHACK* Seifer felt a tail fly into his ribs. The pain was overbearing, he doubled over in pain. He saw Quistis run over to him, slowly conscious escaped him. . .
Quistis ran up to her fallen student, she couldn't cure him here, she had to take him somewhere where there wasn't a T-Rex trying to eat them up, the secret area wasn't too far away. She summoned Shiva to distract the monster, while Shiva was fighting she brought Seifer into the secret area and Shiva returned, he had gone into shock.
"Damn it!" A T-Rex couldn't have done this, Quistis opened Seifer's shirt, there was severe bruising but it wasn't recent, she shook her head, "Seifer. . .who did this to you?" She mumbled to herself while carefully running her fingers over the violet hues. She cast a life and curaga spell on Seifer. He sat up with a start, but Quistis placed a firm hand on his upper chest and held him back.
"No Seifer, if you injure yourself anymore you'll go into shock again. Stay down!" Quistis commanded,
"It's no bother," Seifer growled, but Quistis noticed the contorted expression on his face, he was in a lot pain, even if he was reluctant to admit it.
"Seifer! Why are you doing this to yourself?! Just go see Dr. Kadawoki!" Quistis pleaded. "I've seen people fight in bad conditions, but what you're doing is dangerous! If you keep this up then you'll have problems for life! If you push yourself hard enough it could even kill you!"
"Will you shut up if I go to the damn doctor?" Seifer retorted.
"Yes! Now come on, lean on my shoulder!"
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Seifer sat on the bed, he had just been x-rayed. He hated hospitals, they were depressing, even though this wasn't a hospital it still had a hospital feel to it. Quistis eventually walked in,
"So? I've seen the doctor, what now?" Seifer asked rather rigidly,
"Seifer! I want to know what happened to you? You have broken fourteen different bones! Who did this to you?"
"Why do you care?" Seifer asked deviously,
"Seifer! Stop avoiding the subject!" Quistis demanded,
"You answer in my question first! Why do you care?"
Quistis glared at Seifer, suddenly remaining a SeeD rather than getting her license back didn't seem so bad. Why did Seifer try and make things so damn difficult,
"I don't care! I'm only asking because it's part of the job!" Quistis snapped,
"Well if you don't care, then I think I won't bother answering, because if you don't care then you probably won't care if I answer or not, and really I'd prefer not to answer." Seifer said slyly, Quistis felt her fists clenching in anger,
"Why do you have to be such a fucking prat!?" She found herself yelling, both Seifer and Quistis were very taken aback, Quistis had always managed to control her emotions, she never lost it.
"Well, we're quite the feisty one aren't we?" Seifer asked heedlessly. "I thought that Instructors were supposed to control their emotions. Maybe if you had controlled you're emotions with Squall-"
"You know what Seifer! Forget it!" Quistis felt the rage rising rapidly, she was about ready to murder Seifer, "If getting my instructing license back means teaching you then I quit! I'd rather be put into torture than teaching you!" Quistis didn't even wait to hear Seifer's response. She stormed out of the infirmary and up to Cid's office.
"Ah, Miss. Trepe!" Cid said pleasantly,
"Cid! I quit!" Quistis said abruptly, Cid's expression was dissatisfied,
"I can't say I'm not disappointed Quistis," He said calmly,
"CID! I can't teach Seifer!" Quistis yelled, "He is going out of his way to get to me! He's f-" Quistis paused, and took a deep breath, "He's impossible!"
"Quistis, as an instructor you will always be faced with difficult students." Cid began,
"Seifer is beyond difficult, he's hopeless!" Quistis protested.
"Please Quistis, if you can teach Seifer, then you can teach anybody. Think of this as a challenge." Cid sounded desperate to try and keep her to keep instructing Seifer. Quistis raised an eyebrow,
"A challenge? Oh goodie!" Quistis said sarcastically, "Cid! I can't do this!" Quistis pleaded. Cid sighed,
"Quistis, it's only been three days, talk to me at the end of the week, then we'll make a decision." Quistis scowled and took the lift down to the first floor, as soon as she stepped out, Seifer was there waiting for the lift,
"Did you quit?" He asked, he sounded slightly anxious,
"Cid wouldn't let me until the end of the week." Quistis said frostily,
"Look, I'm sorry." Quistis suddenly gave him a funny look, "About the whole Squall comment, it was below the belt." Seifer, genuinely apologising? It was one of those things that happened once in a blue moon. Quistis was more than slightly gob smacked.
"Forget it." Quistis said a bit too quickly, "Dr. Kadawoki said that you need to take it easy for a little while, if there are any signs of pain becoming a lot worse then you should stop and use cure." Quistis said dully, "You should avoid T-Rex's for a while, just fight Grats, bite bugs and any low level monsters, and she also said that fighting with any rivals would be the worst thing you can do." Quistis emphasised the last part, Seifer smirked,
"Damn I was hoping to make Squall cry again." He sneered; Quistis smirked if only for a split second,
"Seifer!" She scolded, Seifer noticed her trying not to smile, but he decided not to push his luck as he was already on thin ice. "Look let's just go up to the classroom and work on your magic and GF's. It might be a good idea while you're in this condition. When you improve we'll go back to attacking."
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"Will everything go to plan?"
"Yes, we've contacted SeeD for the attack,"
"Will they accept? They're allied with Trabia you know."
"They think they'll be fighting for Trabia, trust me, we'll get her and we'll kill her."
"But she'll be hard to kill, what if we fail?"
"Then we'll send her to a place worse than death, all of her kind fear it. Don't worry, we wont allow the mistakes of the future to happen. We will prevent it. We will be the hero's of our time, even if nobody ever hails us as hero's except for our followers."
"It's a plan that could easily go to hell."
"So are all plans, if we're careful it won't go to hell, trust me on this one, this has to be done. No pain, no gain, remember that!"