============================================================Perfect Soldier 01 - clear up: Ultimecia was showing Edea the future as Ultimecia wanted it to be. Edea ended up coming to the conclusion that it didn't have to happen that way. Your welcome about Fujin's behaviour. Enjoy!
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The battle was going well. Balamb Garden had seen Galbadia Garden, and managed to swerve in time to crash Galbadia too, but something like that was to be expected, Seifer knew about Nida. The first two waves had already hit, and SeeD was reeling, Xu commanding the troops just as expected. The Lieutenant, who was still holding his bleeding chin, was leading the ground troops in to take the younger classmen off the playing field. Report had come in of Squall's airborne rescue of Rinoa, which caused the SeeD troops to fight with greater vigour. Many SeeDs were regrouping in front of Balamb Garden with Quistis barking orders as her Trepies cleaned up the infiltration units inside, and protecting Dr. Kadowaki, who stubbornly stayed in her office. Squall, Rinoa, & Zell, had made for the gaping flesh wound in Galbadia Garden's side, Irvine providing enough cover to stop a herd of dragons as Selphie covered them with wall spells. Some of the younger classmen surrounded the pair, helping where they could as Xu barked orders to the SeeDs not needed for medic duties. Squall's SeeDs were holding, but it would not take long after the full third wave for it all to be over, the lines were cracking and somewhere in Seifer's heart it hurt. It hurt for him to watch from his safe location with Sorceress Edea, to see classmates cut down brutally with guns and blades, it hurt to see the anguish on the faces of people he would see in the cafeteria line up waiting for hot dogs. Another part of his heart hurt because he wasn't out there, because he wasn't fighting with them, whichever side he would choose, he just wanted to fight. Seeing Squall, Rinoa and Chicken-wuss booting it into Galbadia Garden made him twitch, grabbing the hilt of Hyperion in a futile attempt to psyche himself. He wanted to fight, but them again, if he fought Squall, it would mean that Fujin and Rajin failed, it would mean they had conquered Cerberus and had the GF in their weaponry, it would mean there would be no hockey team this year... Seifer chuckled, catching the eye of Edea as she waited like a zombie on her Throne.
"You wish you were fighting, but for whom, I wonder?"
Seifer turned from the window and looked at the Sorceress, his saviour from childhood, the one he was expected to save.
"You know I could save her, I could take her out with you, always with you. What do you think Squall would do if he won? Would he let her live? Would he let you live? You know as well as I his morality, he would cause you great pain. Back out now, and Fujin's as good as dead, serve me, and I can give her to you. Fully, along with whatever you want. Do not fail me. Squall lives, she dies."
"What about Rajin?"
"To hell with Rajin! Do you really want more competition? I have seen the way he looks at her, you know of what I speak. He would have her for himself! Do you honestly think he is as stupid as he comes off as? Sacrifice him! He's worthless compared to her"
Seifer found himself disgusted, a sneer strewn across his face as he thought of Rajin & Squall, as he sat beside the Throne and put his arm on it's arm rest. He couldn't believe Rajin had it in him, but he had seen the solemn look on Rajin's face as they left for the battle, as he stayed behind and looked a Fujin. How dare he look at her? She's mine! Seifer thought, mind reeling as Edea's lips curled into a sleek, slippery smile, gloating at the progress Seifer's mind was making. Ultimecia knew she wouldn't have Edea for much longer, and had to keep working on Seifer, so she continued,
"What will you do to Squall?"
"Kill him."
"What will you do to Rajin?"
"Rajin doesn't matter anymore"
"What do you say?"
"Thank you, Sorceress Edea"
"Follow me."
"I promise."
"Good. They are coming, you know what to do."
Seifer's lips sneered, his eyes shifting wickedly to the door wielding his Gunblade as Squall, Rinoa and Zell came barreling through. One last battle cry and he lept into them, knocking Rinoa over Zell as Squall parried and flung a blizzard in his face. Stumbling slightly, Seifer returned the blizzard with fire, streaking everything with crimson orange heat, striking Zell as Rinoa let loose her pinwheel, catching Seifer on the side as Zell backflipped away from the cold steel of Hyperion. Shrinking back, Seifer felt his body being protected as Edea cast Protect and Shell, stepping back to her throne as Seifer defended against Squall, and lept forward to counter Squall's blow. It worked, and Squall fell to his knees, Gunblade raucously skidding across the floor as he lost his grip. Lunging to grab it, Squall threw every bit of power into an ice spell, before hitting the floor hard and reaching his blade. Seifer cringed, letting loose a fire spell on himself exactly at the same time of ice, hoping to negate some of the blaring cold. It partially worked, but he still gasped at the sensation, Hyperion becoming heavy with frost, before he realised his mistake: Zell was wide open. Gritting his teeth, he threw Hyperion to the side where Zell lept forward, but Zell ducked and slammed his metal-knuckled fists into Seifer's stomac and chin, growling into it with enough force to plow through marble. If Edea hadn't... shoot! Seifer swore, cursing himself for thinking, for leaving a few seconds without attacking, enough for Rinoa to heal Squall's bleeding and burned gut and shoot her pinwheel at Seifer again, this time Seifer blocked it with Hyperion sending it skidding further into the massive marble throne room before running full blast at Rinoa and hacking Hyperion down and through in a fluid motion with a sickening shriek sending waves out from Rinoa. Squall screamed as Rinoa hit the floor, cringing but alive, and swung his Gunblade at Seifer, but Seifer lept back, blowing Squall a kiss before Zell struck at Seifer's side again. He swung mightly Hyperion at Zell's side, who faked right, and jumped over, flipping his body beyond Seifer, who at Zell's jump kneeled, raising Hyperion quickly above his head, cutting through Zell's shirt and graising the flesh of his belly enough that Zell landed hard on his side, doubling over holding himself. Fatal, Seifer thought, gloating over Chicken-wuss and preparing the final flame Zell would ever see... before feeling bitterly cold ice make the hair on his neck stand on end, before he turned around, fire spell running in an arc, melting a fraction of the ice Shiva, Ice Goddess of the GFs, had coated the room with. Squall stood behind Shiva, Rinoa cruxed in one of his arms, as Zell scrambled out of the way and Seifer cursed himself, defending as best he could, before feeling sick in the timeless moment that followed when he looked pleadingly in Edea's eyes. Except, they weren't Edea's eyes, they were cruel, relentlessly indifferent, she wasn't going to help him. His eyes turned back to the inhuman female before him, a towering vixen of eternal frost, and he thought of Fujin, so wonderful, so cold, so blue. Was this her fate? did she end like this? Did she utter his name before the ice surrounded her in an eternal frozen stillness? All the memories of him and his posse, of Rinoa, who stayed in Squall's arms now, of Zell who limped back to his fearless leader, at Squall... Squall. He looked triumphant, almost proud at summoning Shiva to finish him off, couldn't even fight himself, could he? Seifer's eyes connected with Squall's, he could feel the bitter cold running through Squall's veins, the scar Seifer gave him throbbing slightly as the muscles in Squall's face clenched in a visionless frown. I wonder if Rinoa likes the scar as much as Fuj... Seifer's mind again raced to the Silver haired woman who had lately graced his days, gasped his name in ecstacy, woke him in the morning, showed him what it was like to be a beggar, to be complete. Yeah, this is right. This is it, I hope they're happy, as much as I hate Squall, I hope they're happy, Seifer thought, smiling ironically at himself before just giving up.
"Fujin!!!" he shouted, groaning wildly but no one heard him as Shiva, Goddess of Ice, sculpted her magic, and Seifer, being of fire, was blown away.
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Fujin ran as fast as a whirlwind, surpassing Rajin's hulking form on their way up to the Throne Room. She knew Squall, Rinoa and Zell were going to be there, she knew he was going to try and kill Seifer, and she knew she had to stop them. This was madness! All for a Sorceress who hated them all. Rajin had told her of the Lieutenant's orders, that Seifer had known, had bartered his alliegance for the posse, for her and she couldn't just let him die. Directly in front lied the wreckage of monsterous bodies from a fight with Squall's group, she couldn't waste time on this. Fujin held her hand in front of her, weaving a tornado into the hallway, still running at breakneck speed towards the debris.
Rajin heard her scream as she intensified the spell, slamming the tangle of monster remains and tortured metal & machinery to the sides of the hall before flinging her arm down and blasting them up the stairs like missles. He could see the sweat drops soaking her eye patch, she was concentrating too hard, he thought, his feet landing on the floor before she tumbled backwards into him, losing her own footing and panting quickly.
"Breathe, ya know, just breathe" Rajin panted into her ear, holding her arms solidly in his own,
"SEIFER" Fujin wailed, filling her lungs to burst with air before pushing off Rajin's musculed chest and grabbing his hand as she ran, him following closely. They got to the doors of the Throne room, except the doors laid splayed on the floor in pieces, the scene beyond them making Fujin yelp and pick up her pace.
Shiva stood serenely before Seifer, weaving her magic around him like a blanket, she watched as his eyes changed from angered denial to acceptance of the price he was about to pay.
Not today. she thought, manipulating the wind to buffer him a bit from the final portion of Shiva's massive spell.
"Fujin!!!" she heard in the wind that trailed back to her before she gave up her strength to cocoon her lover in the wind, yanking the wind to her, sending Seifer with it, but it was too late: Seifer laid limp in the wind, Hyperion frozen into his palm as she saw Edea descend her throne, mutter something about useless mortals, snap her fingers and threw Shiva back into her icey corner of limbo. Whatever happened next didn't matter, she had to revive Seifer, who hung draped in her lap, blue with the cold. Fujin tore her gaze from Seifer to Rajin, who knelt reeling at the desperate wind display, all he could offer was a wave of thunder to shake the ice off, as Fujin cast a cure spell onto the pivotal blonde before laying him down and checking for a pulse.
There wasn't one, so Fujin did the only thing she knew, thrusting her clenched fists into his stomach, once, twice, thrice, then covering his nose and sealing his mouth, breathing into his lungs. She repeated this until Seifer's body surged, choking slightly as Fujin flipped him to his side, rubbing his side and back as he sputtered, droplets of melted ice shaking off his hair until she found herself sliding down to look into his face, grabbing it and rubbing it in her hands as he shivered, breath shallow.
"LIVE" Fujin said, kissing his nose as he faced her with his fragile green eyes, pleading with her to save his soul.
"Come on, ya know... This is not a place we want to be" Rajin said, grabbing Seifer up in one arm, flinging him over his shoulder and taking Fujin's hand to pull her up as she grabbed Hyperion. Stabilizing the still shivering, winded blonde better on his shoulder, Rajin bolted the room, Fujin beside him, head blaring in pain as she formed another tornado to get them down the pulverised stair.
Back in the center of Galbadia Garden, Rajin sat Seifer down, Fujin lept into his lap, straddling him, wrapping her arms around his body as best she could, surging forth capturing his lips powerfully. Perhaps this is what it's like to get another chance? To die and wake up on the other side? he thought, shivering only slightly as Fujin's warmth quickly faded into him. No, this isn't what it's like to die, this is what it's like to lose everything and beg for a second chance. Seifer gasped pathetically as Fujin disconected, as she let go, he didn't hold her down, he didn't even initiate another kiss, he just looked into her red eye and begged for it, knowing full well he could have taken charge of the moment, but also knowing it had to be Fujin's choice alone. He seemed to say all he ever wanted or needed was right there, in that moment, and words were very unnecessary, as she panted out a moan before giving him his wish.
Rajin looked on at his two friends, his family and sighed contentedly, even though he kept a watchful eye for danger, after all they were in the middle of a war zone, this must be the eye of the hurricane.
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The battle was going well. Balamb Garden had seen Galbadia Garden, and managed to swerve in time to crash Galbadia too, but something like that was to be expected, Seifer knew about Nida. The first two waves had already hit, and SeeD was reeling, Xu commanding the troops just as expected. The Lieutenant, who was still holding his bleeding chin, was leading the ground troops in to take the younger classmen off the playing field. Report had come in of Squall's airborne rescue of Rinoa, which caused the SeeD troops to fight with greater vigour. Many SeeDs were regrouping in front of Balamb Garden with Quistis barking orders as her Trepies cleaned up the infiltration units inside, and protecting Dr. Kadowaki, who stubbornly stayed in her office. Squall, Rinoa, & Zell, had made for the gaping flesh wound in Galbadia Garden's side, Irvine providing enough cover to stop a herd of dragons as Selphie covered them with wall spells. Some of the younger classmen surrounded the pair, helping where they could as Xu barked orders to the SeeDs not needed for medic duties. Squall's SeeDs were holding, but it would not take long after the full third wave for it all to be over, the lines were cracking and somewhere in Seifer's heart it hurt. It hurt for him to watch from his safe location with Sorceress Edea, to see classmates cut down brutally with guns and blades, it hurt to see the anguish on the faces of people he would see in the cafeteria line up waiting for hot dogs. Another part of his heart hurt because he wasn't out there, because he wasn't fighting with them, whichever side he would choose, he just wanted to fight. Seeing Squall, Rinoa and Chicken-wuss booting it into Galbadia Garden made him twitch, grabbing the hilt of Hyperion in a futile attempt to psyche himself. He wanted to fight, but them again, if he fought Squall, it would mean that Fujin and Rajin failed, it would mean they had conquered Cerberus and had the GF in their weaponry, it would mean there would be no hockey team this year... Seifer chuckled, catching the eye of Edea as she waited like a zombie on her Throne.
"You wish you were fighting, but for whom, I wonder?"
Seifer turned from the window and looked at the Sorceress, his saviour from childhood, the one he was expected to save.
"You know I could save her, I could take her out with you, always with you. What do you think Squall would do if he won? Would he let her live? Would he let you live? You know as well as I his morality, he would cause you great pain. Back out now, and Fujin's as good as dead, serve me, and I can give her to you. Fully, along with whatever you want. Do not fail me. Squall lives, she dies."
"What about Rajin?"
"To hell with Rajin! Do you really want more competition? I have seen the way he looks at her, you know of what I speak. He would have her for himself! Do you honestly think he is as stupid as he comes off as? Sacrifice him! He's worthless compared to her"
Seifer found himself disgusted, a sneer strewn across his face as he thought of Rajin & Squall, as he sat beside the Throne and put his arm on it's arm rest. He couldn't believe Rajin had it in him, but he had seen the solemn look on Rajin's face as they left for the battle, as he stayed behind and looked a Fujin. How dare he look at her? She's mine! Seifer thought, mind reeling as Edea's lips curled into a sleek, slippery smile, gloating at the progress Seifer's mind was making. Ultimecia knew she wouldn't have Edea for much longer, and had to keep working on Seifer, so she continued,
"What will you do to Squall?"
"Kill him."
"What will you do to Rajin?"
"Rajin doesn't matter anymore"
"What do you say?"
"Thank you, Sorceress Edea"
"Follow me."
"I promise."
"Good. They are coming, you know what to do."
Seifer's lips sneered, his eyes shifting wickedly to the door wielding his Gunblade as Squall, Rinoa and Zell came barreling through. One last battle cry and he lept into them, knocking Rinoa over Zell as Squall parried and flung a blizzard in his face. Stumbling slightly, Seifer returned the blizzard with fire, streaking everything with crimson orange heat, striking Zell as Rinoa let loose her pinwheel, catching Seifer on the side as Zell backflipped away from the cold steel of Hyperion. Shrinking back, Seifer felt his body being protected as Edea cast Protect and Shell, stepping back to her throne as Seifer defended against Squall, and lept forward to counter Squall's blow. It worked, and Squall fell to his knees, Gunblade raucously skidding across the floor as he lost his grip. Lunging to grab it, Squall threw every bit of power into an ice spell, before hitting the floor hard and reaching his blade. Seifer cringed, letting loose a fire spell on himself exactly at the same time of ice, hoping to negate some of the blaring cold. It partially worked, but he still gasped at the sensation, Hyperion becoming heavy with frost, before he realised his mistake: Zell was wide open. Gritting his teeth, he threw Hyperion to the side where Zell lept forward, but Zell ducked and slammed his metal-knuckled fists into Seifer's stomac and chin, growling into it with enough force to plow through marble. If Edea hadn't... shoot! Seifer swore, cursing himself for thinking, for leaving a few seconds without attacking, enough for Rinoa to heal Squall's bleeding and burned gut and shoot her pinwheel at Seifer again, this time Seifer blocked it with Hyperion sending it skidding further into the massive marble throne room before running full blast at Rinoa and hacking Hyperion down and through in a fluid motion with a sickening shriek sending waves out from Rinoa. Squall screamed as Rinoa hit the floor, cringing but alive, and swung his Gunblade at Seifer, but Seifer lept back, blowing Squall a kiss before Zell struck at Seifer's side again. He swung mightly Hyperion at Zell's side, who faked right, and jumped over, flipping his body beyond Seifer, who at Zell's jump kneeled, raising Hyperion quickly above his head, cutting through Zell's shirt and graising the flesh of his belly enough that Zell landed hard on his side, doubling over holding himself. Fatal, Seifer thought, gloating over Chicken-wuss and preparing the final flame Zell would ever see... before feeling bitterly cold ice make the hair on his neck stand on end, before he turned around, fire spell running in an arc, melting a fraction of the ice Shiva, Ice Goddess of the GFs, had coated the room with. Squall stood behind Shiva, Rinoa cruxed in one of his arms, as Zell scrambled out of the way and Seifer cursed himself, defending as best he could, before feeling sick in the timeless moment that followed when he looked pleadingly in Edea's eyes. Except, they weren't Edea's eyes, they were cruel, relentlessly indifferent, she wasn't going to help him. His eyes turned back to the inhuman female before him, a towering vixen of eternal frost, and he thought of Fujin, so wonderful, so cold, so blue. Was this her fate? did she end like this? Did she utter his name before the ice surrounded her in an eternal frozen stillness? All the memories of him and his posse, of Rinoa, who stayed in Squall's arms now, of Zell who limped back to his fearless leader, at Squall... Squall. He looked triumphant, almost proud at summoning Shiva to finish him off, couldn't even fight himself, could he? Seifer's eyes connected with Squall's, he could feel the bitter cold running through Squall's veins, the scar Seifer gave him throbbing slightly as the muscles in Squall's face clenched in a visionless frown. I wonder if Rinoa likes the scar as much as Fuj... Seifer's mind again raced to the Silver haired woman who had lately graced his days, gasped his name in ecstacy, woke him in the morning, showed him what it was like to be a beggar, to be complete. Yeah, this is right. This is it, I hope they're happy, as much as I hate Squall, I hope they're happy, Seifer thought, smiling ironically at himself before just giving up.
"Fujin!!!" he shouted, groaning wildly but no one heard him as Shiva, Goddess of Ice, sculpted her magic, and Seifer, being of fire, was blown away.
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Fujin ran as fast as a whirlwind, surpassing Rajin's hulking form on their way up to the Throne Room. She knew Squall, Rinoa and Zell were going to be there, she knew he was going to try and kill Seifer, and she knew she had to stop them. This was madness! All for a Sorceress who hated them all. Rajin had told her of the Lieutenant's orders, that Seifer had known, had bartered his alliegance for the posse, for her and she couldn't just let him die. Directly in front lied the wreckage of monsterous bodies from a fight with Squall's group, she couldn't waste time on this. Fujin held her hand in front of her, weaving a tornado into the hallway, still running at breakneck speed towards the debris.
Rajin heard her scream as she intensified the spell, slamming the tangle of monster remains and tortured metal & machinery to the sides of the hall before flinging her arm down and blasting them up the stairs like missles. He could see the sweat drops soaking her eye patch, she was concentrating too hard, he thought, his feet landing on the floor before she tumbled backwards into him, losing her own footing and panting quickly.
"Breathe, ya know, just breathe" Rajin panted into her ear, holding her arms solidly in his own,
"SEIFER" Fujin wailed, filling her lungs to burst with air before pushing off Rajin's musculed chest and grabbing his hand as she ran, him following closely. They got to the doors of the Throne room, except the doors laid splayed on the floor in pieces, the scene beyond them making Fujin yelp and pick up her pace.
Shiva stood serenely before Seifer, weaving her magic around him like a blanket, she watched as his eyes changed from angered denial to acceptance of the price he was about to pay.
Not today. she thought, manipulating the wind to buffer him a bit from the final portion of Shiva's massive spell.
"Fujin!!!" she heard in the wind that trailed back to her before she gave up her strength to cocoon her lover in the wind, yanking the wind to her, sending Seifer with it, but it was too late: Seifer laid limp in the wind, Hyperion frozen into his palm as she saw Edea descend her throne, mutter something about useless mortals, snap her fingers and threw Shiva back into her icey corner of limbo. Whatever happened next didn't matter, she had to revive Seifer, who hung draped in her lap, blue with the cold. Fujin tore her gaze from Seifer to Rajin, who knelt reeling at the desperate wind display, all he could offer was a wave of thunder to shake the ice off, as Fujin cast a cure spell onto the pivotal blonde before laying him down and checking for a pulse.
There wasn't one, so Fujin did the only thing she knew, thrusting her clenched fists into his stomach, once, twice, thrice, then covering his nose and sealing his mouth, breathing into his lungs. She repeated this until Seifer's body surged, choking slightly as Fujin flipped him to his side, rubbing his side and back as he sputtered, droplets of melted ice shaking off his hair until she found herself sliding down to look into his face, grabbing it and rubbing it in her hands as he shivered, breath shallow.
"LIVE" Fujin said, kissing his nose as he faced her with his fragile green eyes, pleading with her to save his soul.
"Come on, ya know... This is not a place we want to be" Rajin said, grabbing Seifer up in one arm, flinging him over his shoulder and taking Fujin's hand to pull her up as she grabbed Hyperion. Stabilizing the still shivering, winded blonde better on his shoulder, Rajin bolted the room, Fujin beside him, head blaring in pain as she formed another tornado to get them down the pulverised stair.
Back in the center of Galbadia Garden, Rajin sat Seifer down, Fujin lept into his lap, straddling him, wrapping her arms around his body as best she could, surging forth capturing his lips powerfully. Perhaps this is what it's like to get another chance? To die and wake up on the other side? he thought, shivering only slightly as Fujin's warmth quickly faded into him. No, this isn't what it's like to die, this is what it's like to lose everything and beg for a second chance. Seifer gasped pathetically as Fujin disconected, as she let go, he didn't hold her down, he didn't even initiate another kiss, he just looked into her red eye and begged for it, knowing full well he could have taken charge of the moment, but also knowing it had to be Fujin's choice alone. He seemed to say all he ever wanted or needed was right there, in that moment, and words were very unnecessary, as she panted out a moan before giving him his wish.
Rajin looked on at his two friends, his family and sighed contentedly, even though he kept a watchful eye for danger, after all they were in the middle of a war zone, this must be the eye of the hurricane.