Nail in my hand from my creator.
Give us freedom...
Disclaimer: I do not own final fantasy 8.
WARNING: under inconceivable amount of stress while writing this chapter.
"What can you tell me?" Quistis asked as she sat down on the dusty chair.
The girl in front of her looked up from behind her laptop computer and gave Quistis a quick fleeting glance.
"Let me guess, you want to know about the whole Rinoa situation?" the girl enquired.
Quistis nodded her head and the girl stood up.
Her name was Kayla. She wasn't well known but she had a special gift. She had a different kind of beauty, which isn't to say that she wasn't beautiful. She had short black hair with red streaks and wore modern clothes which consisted of a long wrap up crimson skirt with a big meaty belt of the same color. She had a peach sleeveless t-shirt with a peach colored rose on the left side attached to the top by her collarbone. On her feet she wore blue wrap up sandals. Her eyes were light blue and stood out in her face really strongly.
"I can only tell you what you probably already know. She's gone to the hills north of here. They move by foot and with so many people they don't move terribly fast. I think that they will reach their objective in about a week of travel. It will take at least two days for your crew to catch them. If you leave now." Kayla said quickly.
Quistis started biting her nails in frustration.
'We can't just disappear for two days. Not to mention the additional two that it will take us to get back. And that's not adding the complications that we might encounter...' Quistis's thoughts were interrupted by Kayla.
"Will your parents mind if you're not in school for a week?" Kayla asked while absent mindedly pulling on a couple of strands of hair.
"...no..." Quistis replied dejectedly.
"Oh."
"What is it?" Quistis asked.
Kayla smiled softly.
"You know me too well Quistis. But as you know I know everything about you... your past, your present and your future. But there is one thing I feel I must inform you of before you decide to go... someone very close to you will need you by the end of this. It won't be the person you suspect either... if you aren't there for them they will die..."
*Camp!*
"What?" Squall enquired.
It was Quistis; he didn't know what the hell she was on about.
*Tell your parents that you're going on a PE camp.*
"Well I don't intend on being there for that long Quistis."
*No but it should take us about two days to catch up with them, and then an additional two to get back! Do you really think your parents won't start to wonder where you are? You can say that we're going on a defense camp or something. Those hills are crawling with monsters!*
"Yeah whatever... bye Quistis." Squall finished and then abruptly hung up the phone.
"Where do you think your going?" Raine asked suspiciously.
She eyed up the backpack under his arm. Her motherly instincts sensed a lie coming.
"PE camp."
"Is that so? Funny... I haven't heard anything about it."
"Really? I told you all about it last week."
"Uh huh, I can't say I remember it. I'll just have to call at the school to ask them..."
Raine got up and started walking towards the phone. It was a bluff of course; she had no intention of dealing with the school at all. Her faith in the education system had ceased to exist.
Squall watched her walk towards it, 'she's bluffing... she has to be... it's a trap... the woman's a fucking demon.' "That won't be necessary."
"Why? Do you have something to tell me?" Raine enquired innocently.
Squall glared at his mother and dropped his bag on the floor.
So much for saving Rinoa, he thought cynically.
"I'm going on a hike in the mountains to save this chick that's in a cult."
Raine raised her eyebrows and searched his eyes for signs of lie. She could always read her son like a book. But there was none there today.
"Well... is that so... are there going to be adults?"
Squall looked at her incredulously, how could she be so much of a... a .... Parent??!!
"I'm practically an adult!"
Raine shook her head disapprovingly and put her hands on her hips.
"So you expect me to let you go venturing out into the woods, with no adults just so you can find some girl that's part of a cult. Have you not thought about how dangerous this is? Do you realize what people like that can do to you? There could be wolves!"
Squall rolled his eyes and sat down on one of the stairs.
"And worse still you blatantly lied to me! Right to my face! Are you listening to me? Squall Leonhart I am talking to you!"
"No your not, your just taking the situation out of proportion and contorting it into your wild fantasy where enemy soldiers from Trabia are going to come over and pluck out our eyeballs or something!"
Raine stood in silence for a couple of seconds before continuing... "Well now that you mention it the Trabia continent is getting bigger and bigger nowadays and they could be building some sort of teleportation technology that is supposed to take you anywhere in the world and with that sort of power heaven knows if they ARE out in the..."
"You're just being stupid, why would Trabia care about this sh-dumb town?" Squall interjected.
As if fate had brought him Laguna walked in the room where his usually big happy grin. Squall saw his window of opportunity and ceased it.
"Dad, there's a hiking trip that me and my friends are going to be partaking in and I would really like to go... but Mum said that it was too dangerous..." Squall trailed off innocently.
Squall started looking down at the ground disappointingly and Raine just stood there glaring at him the whole time.
"Raine look at him..." Laguna said gloomily, "he looks so sad. How can you say no to that face?"
Squall smirked at the floor and quickly wiped it off again before Laguna could see it.
'Fools...'
"Well of course you can go Squall. And I expect you to come home and tell me all about it."
With that Laguna turned and left as abruptly as he had entered.
Raine pursed her lips together and felt an uncanny urge to hurt her only son.
Squall in return didn't make it any better by doing a small victory dance with a large grin on his face.
'The least person I expect... well then it'll probably be Seifer... or would I be expected to expect that? IRVINE! I bet its Irvine! No Zell... SELPHIE! Nah... SQUALL! RINOA! UGH!'
Squall walked out the door and dumped his bag on the front doorstep.
Selphie was the first to get there, and then Zell, then Irvine and finally Seifer and Quistis showed up together.
Seifer looking quite happy with himself and Quistis looking slightly flushed.
Irvine looked at them and started laughing in his sick demented way, which was quickly hushed by Seifer's iron melting glare.
"Anyway... I found out basically nothing. Just what we already knew..." Quistis concluded.
"Alright, shall we jit it then?" Zell enquired.
"HOLD THAT! HOLD EVERYTHING!" Raine yelled as she busted out of the front door.
Squall grimaced and clenched his fist to his side.
"Now, make sure you all stay together at all times, and if you hear anything suspicious come home..."
"Bye mum."
Finally their small town was out of site and the hills were leering closer. They'd been walking for about two hours and Selphie had been singing the whole way.
"I'm ganna kill her." Seifer threatened.
Selphie continued her mind numbing song even louder to raise it above the idle threats that had been going on for the last half an hour.
But then, an evil thought produced itself in her brain and she shuddered involuntarily at it. But anything that bad must be good....
"I KNOW A SONG THAT GETS ON EVERYBODY'S NERVES, EVERYBODY'S NERVES, EVERYBODY'S NERVES AND THIS IS HOW IT GOES! I KNOW A SONG..."
"SHUT UP! SHUT THE HELL UP!" Squall yelled while Seifer made a mock lunge at her.
"Whoa, someone forgot to take their Prozac this morning." Selphie muttered.
"Just ignore him Selph, he's ovulating." Quistis laughed.
Rinoa felt a cold shiver go up her spine. She wished that she had more than her flimsy black blouse to wear.
They'd stopped to rest, the entire community was getting quite restless, and it seemed that they'd been traveling for months. But her father kept reminding everyone of the trek that Moses led the Egyptians on in the Old Testament.
"My children. I am sorry for this journey being so tiresome, but it is all for the good of our devotion to God. He is mighty and our journey will not be in vain. Isolation will make our complete and utter devotion only stronger and surely will give us an opening into the Lords presence." Caraway concluded.
Rinoa lay on her back and looked at the bright blue sky. The ice from the ground started to pain her back and shit considered sitting back up. But something drew her to the sky.
She'd always done so since before she could remember. Her mother often told her it was her trying to get closer to God, but now she realized it was her asking God for freedom. She was a slave here, nothing more. Someone else's property.
Her father came down beside her then; he sat on a fallen log beside her. She sat up attentively. Waiting for whatever he was going to say for surely it would be magnificent.
"Rinoa, I realize that as of late you have been different. I am told that first borns always are. But nonetheless I am urging you to keep any and all thoughts of home out of your head. You have a future with us, you have nothing with them. Your past, your present and especially your future has and forever will be, with your people." Caraway explained.
"I am sorry for my lingering thoughts, but I was so used to my present where it was." Rinoa replied.
"I have been soft with you, it is my fault. I thought that your being female I should protect you from the real world of this community. But now your time has come Rinoa. You are going to be introduced to your people properly. It is time that you learnt what our way of life really is."
Sorry that chapter sucked. And I know it. Nothing actually happened.
Alright, this chapter took me ages and I am well aware of that. But I had a crisis. I'm upset at the small amount of knowledge I have produced in this fic about the cult and its traditions, I think that learning of these might seriously influence Rinoa's decisions of whether to leave or not. I'm not sure if I want her to... what do you guys think? Oh yeah and another question should anyone want to answer it, who do you thinks ganna need Quistis. Its at the top of the chapter that someone's ganna need Quistis, I think I know who it should be but I think this person is exactly who she would suspect that it would be. UGH! I'm so confused.
Your questions, comments and constructive criticism are always welcome.
Give us freedom...
Disclaimer: I do not own final fantasy 8.
WARNING: under inconceivable amount of stress while writing this chapter.
"What can you tell me?" Quistis asked as she sat down on the dusty chair.
The girl in front of her looked up from behind her laptop computer and gave Quistis a quick fleeting glance.
"Let me guess, you want to know about the whole Rinoa situation?" the girl enquired.
Quistis nodded her head and the girl stood up.
Her name was Kayla. She wasn't well known but she had a special gift. She had a different kind of beauty, which isn't to say that she wasn't beautiful. She had short black hair with red streaks and wore modern clothes which consisted of a long wrap up crimson skirt with a big meaty belt of the same color. She had a peach sleeveless t-shirt with a peach colored rose on the left side attached to the top by her collarbone. On her feet she wore blue wrap up sandals. Her eyes were light blue and stood out in her face really strongly.
"I can only tell you what you probably already know. She's gone to the hills north of here. They move by foot and with so many people they don't move terribly fast. I think that they will reach their objective in about a week of travel. It will take at least two days for your crew to catch them. If you leave now." Kayla said quickly.
Quistis started biting her nails in frustration.
'We can't just disappear for two days. Not to mention the additional two that it will take us to get back. And that's not adding the complications that we might encounter...' Quistis's thoughts were interrupted by Kayla.
"Will your parents mind if you're not in school for a week?" Kayla asked while absent mindedly pulling on a couple of strands of hair.
"...no..." Quistis replied dejectedly.
"Oh."
"What is it?" Quistis asked.
Kayla smiled softly.
"You know me too well Quistis. But as you know I know everything about you... your past, your present and your future. But there is one thing I feel I must inform you of before you decide to go... someone very close to you will need you by the end of this. It won't be the person you suspect either... if you aren't there for them they will die..."
*Camp!*
"What?" Squall enquired.
It was Quistis; he didn't know what the hell she was on about.
*Tell your parents that you're going on a PE camp.*
"Well I don't intend on being there for that long Quistis."
*No but it should take us about two days to catch up with them, and then an additional two to get back! Do you really think your parents won't start to wonder where you are? You can say that we're going on a defense camp or something. Those hills are crawling with monsters!*
"Yeah whatever... bye Quistis." Squall finished and then abruptly hung up the phone.
"Where do you think your going?" Raine asked suspiciously.
She eyed up the backpack under his arm. Her motherly instincts sensed a lie coming.
"PE camp."
"Is that so? Funny... I haven't heard anything about it."
"Really? I told you all about it last week."
"Uh huh, I can't say I remember it. I'll just have to call at the school to ask them..."
Raine got up and started walking towards the phone. It was a bluff of course; she had no intention of dealing with the school at all. Her faith in the education system had ceased to exist.
Squall watched her walk towards it, 'she's bluffing... she has to be... it's a trap... the woman's a fucking demon.' "That won't be necessary."
"Why? Do you have something to tell me?" Raine enquired innocently.
Squall glared at his mother and dropped his bag on the floor.
So much for saving Rinoa, he thought cynically.
"I'm going on a hike in the mountains to save this chick that's in a cult."
Raine raised her eyebrows and searched his eyes for signs of lie. She could always read her son like a book. But there was none there today.
"Well... is that so... are there going to be adults?"
Squall looked at her incredulously, how could she be so much of a... a .... Parent??!!
"I'm practically an adult!"
Raine shook her head disapprovingly and put her hands on her hips.
"So you expect me to let you go venturing out into the woods, with no adults just so you can find some girl that's part of a cult. Have you not thought about how dangerous this is? Do you realize what people like that can do to you? There could be wolves!"
Squall rolled his eyes and sat down on one of the stairs.
"And worse still you blatantly lied to me! Right to my face! Are you listening to me? Squall Leonhart I am talking to you!"
"No your not, your just taking the situation out of proportion and contorting it into your wild fantasy where enemy soldiers from Trabia are going to come over and pluck out our eyeballs or something!"
Raine stood in silence for a couple of seconds before continuing... "Well now that you mention it the Trabia continent is getting bigger and bigger nowadays and they could be building some sort of teleportation technology that is supposed to take you anywhere in the world and with that sort of power heaven knows if they ARE out in the..."
"You're just being stupid, why would Trabia care about this sh-dumb town?" Squall interjected.
As if fate had brought him Laguna walked in the room where his usually big happy grin. Squall saw his window of opportunity and ceased it.
"Dad, there's a hiking trip that me and my friends are going to be partaking in and I would really like to go... but Mum said that it was too dangerous..." Squall trailed off innocently.
Squall started looking down at the ground disappointingly and Raine just stood there glaring at him the whole time.
"Raine look at him..." Laguna said gloomily, "he looks so sad. How can you say no to that face?"
Squall smirked at the floor and quickly wiped it off again before Laguna could see it.
'Fools...'
"Well of course you can go Squall. And I expect you to come home and tell me all about it."
With that Laguna turned and left as abruptly as he had entered.
Raine pursed her lips together and felt an uncanny urge to hurt her only son.
Squall in return didn't make it any better by doing a small victory dance with a large grin on his face.
'The least person I expect... well then it'll probably be Seifer... or would I be expected to expect that? IRVINE! I bet its Irvine! No Zell... SELPHIE! Nah... SQUALL! RINOA! UGH!'
Squall walked out the door and dumped his bag on the front doorstep.
Selphie was the first to get there, and then Zell, then Irvine and finally Seifer and Quistis showed up together.
Seifer looking quite happy with himself and Quistis looking slightly flushed.
Irvine looked at them and started laughing in his sick demented way, which was quickly hushed by Seifer's iron melting glare.
"Anyway... I found out basically nothing. Just what we already knew..." Quistis concluded.
"Alright, shall we jit it then?" Zell enquired.
"HOLD THAT! HOLD EVERYTHING!" Raine yelled as she busted out of the front door.
Squall grimaced and clenched his fist to his side.
"Now, make sure you all stay together at all times, and if you hear anything suspicious come home..."
"Bye mum."
Finally their small town was out of site and the hills were leering closer. They'd been walking for about two hours and Selphie had been singing the whole way.
"I'm ganna kill her." Seifer threatened.
Selphie continued her mind numbing song even louder to raise it above the idle threats that had been going on for the last half an hour.
But then, an evil thought produced itself in her brain and she shuddered involuntarily at it. But anything that bad must be good....
"I KNOW A SONG THAT GETS ON EVERYBODY'S NERVES, EVERYBODY'S NERVES, EVERYBODY'S NERVES AND THIS IS HOW IT GOES! I KNOW A SONG..."
"SHUT UP! SHUT THE HELL UP!" Squall yelled while Seifer made a mock lunge at her.
"Whoa, someone forgot to take their Prozac this morning." Selphie muttered.
"Just ignore him Selph, he's ovulating." Quistis laughed.
Rinoa felt a cold shiver go up her spine. She wished that she had more than her flimsy black blouse to wear.
They'd stopped to rest, the entire community was getting quite restless, and it seemed that they'd been traveling for months. But her father kept reminding everyone of the trek that Moses led the Egyptians on in the Old Testament.
"My children. I am sorry for this journey being so tiresome, but it is all for the good of our devotion to God. He is mighty and our journey will not be in vain. Isolation will make our complete and utter devotion only stronger and surely will give us an opening into the Lords presence." Caraway concluded.
Rinoa lay on her back and looked at the bright blue sky. The ice from the ground started to pain her back and shit considered sitting back up. But something drew her to the sky.
She'd always done so since before she could remember. Her mother often told her it was her trying to get closer to God, but now she realized it was her asking God for freedom. She was a slave here, nothing more. Someone else's property.
Her father came down beside her then; he sat on a fallen log beside her. She sat up attentively. Waiting for whatever he was going to say for surely it would be magnificent.
"Rinoa, I realize that as of late you have been different. I am told that first borns always are. But nonetheless I am urging you to keep any and all thoughts of home out of your head. You have a future with us, you have nothing with them. Your past, your present and especially your future has and forever will be, with your people." Caraway explained.
"I am sorry for my lingering thoughts, but I was so used to my present where it was." Rinoa replied.
"I have been soft with you, it is my fault. I thought that your being female I should protect you from the real world of this community. But now your time has come Rinoa. You are going to be introduced to your people properly. It is time that you learnt what our way of life really is."
Sorry that chapter sucked. And I know it. Nothing actually happened.
Alright, this chapter took me ages and I am well aware of that. But I had a crisis. I'm upset at the small amount of knowledge I have produced in this fic about the cult and its traditions, I think that learning of these might seriously influence Rinoa's decisions of whether to leave or not. I'm not sure if I want her to... what do you guys think? Oh yeah and another question should anyone want to answer it, who do you thinks ganna need Quistis. Its at the top of the chapter that someone's ganna need Quistis, I think I know who it should be but I think this person is exactly who she would suspect that it would be. UGH! I'm so confused.
Your questions, comments and constructive criticism are always welcome.