Ysamla lay sprawled across the Nai hotel bed, asleep, or more, sick of
being awake. They had been left to right, and left to right, looking for a
woman who had left the city anyways. "Celbie Almasy? Hmm... Yes, I have heard
of her. Yup, she left town a week ago!" the toothless old man had said to
the tired teenagers, as they were annoyed with the long four hours of
searching. Now, Ysamla Dincht and Sabbath Kinnease were more annoyed with
Salix, who was more annoyed with her own self.
"LOOK! I said sorry! What do you want me to do?! I didn't know she had already left! How much do you think a gorgeous 28 year old woman that writes for preppy teenagers keeps in contact with her family?" Salix snaps as Sabbath hadn't released his dirty glare.
He smiled, now dropping his mature and gentleman attire, ready to show he really was like his father "come here, sit on my lap, and make out with me. Then, I will forgive you".
"!? ARE YOU INSANE! Ugh, just like a man!" Salix turned around, making her way for the door, when suddenly it burst open and Nanto appeared, followed by an also annoyed looking Yuki.
"Where have you been!? It's been three hours since 8 PM, the time that you two said we'd meet up here again!" Ysamla shot up, wide-awake and angry eyed as she stared at the two adults who made their way into the three- bedded room.
"? Oh, umm... The mechanic..." Nanto smiled hopefully.
"The mechanic says we can't leave until late tomorrow, that the damn car is going to take too much time to fix. Why?!" Yuki snapped, making Ysamla shrink back into the sheets of her bed, whimpering.
"? Now, now, now, children, lets be nice... Looks like there are only three beds..." Nanto muttered, glancing around "and five people."
"I'll 'snuggle' up with Salix and Ysamla, if ya want..." Sabbath laughed drunkly, more likely just remembering something his dad did and mimicking it in his sleepiness.
"No, Sabbath. You can sleep by yourself. Yuki, Ysamla, you guys can sleep together. Salix, crash with me... There, arrangements made, lets all go to sleep" Nanto laughed.
"No, Uncle. I'll be by myself. I'd rather not sleep in a room filled with morons!" Salix turned, speeding through the door and out of sight before Nanto could even reach the doorway. He sighed, turning to Yuki "come on, Wakimura. Nights at Nai aren't as dangerous as many other places, but they aren't safe, either. Lets go find the littlest Almasy..."
BREAK
Sabbath glanced at the clock, frowning. It read 11:30. They had been gone for a half an hour.
"... Zip...? Do you think they are all right out there? It's been so long..." Ysamla frowned, as turned from the bed in front of him to look at him.
He sat up from his laying down position, sighing "I can't give false hope of anything... not how I was taught... You think we were to hard on Sal?"
'Fan-fucking-tastic! He's gonna talk about Salix all night now...' "Of course not! She's an Almasy! She should be able to handle being grudged on!" Ysamla snapped, slightly at herself.
"... Ysamla. You whine all the time, and you say Salix doesn't deserve a break?!" Sabbath shook his head.
"... Bu-... But..." Ysamla broke out in tears, hugging her knees to her chest, "Salix is meant to support us... She can't have a breakdown... Cause, then there is no more support..."
"?! No, wait, I didn't mean to make you cry! Your right! But... Salix still deserves a break..." he moved from his bed, sitting on the edge of hers and hugging her close to him.
"... I guess... But what about you, Sabbath, how do you feel? Don't you think you deserve a break too? I mean, you're always so nice to her, and she still treats you like trash..." Ysamla smiled slyly, still holding her sob act, laying her head on Sabbath's chest.
"You're right... so, I'm giving up on her. I'm not going to try anymore. Tomorrow, we're going home, and we're telling Se- No, Headmaster, right where Salix is."
"Oh, Sabbath, your so brave..." Ysamla smiled in a girlish way, flipping a strand of golden crown hair behind her ear, leaning up and kissing him. Lightly kissing him, a feathery kiss on the lips. As she tried to pull away, he held her there, deepening the kiss into more than light, his tongue sliding over her lips once or twice.
"I see, then. It's like that, huh? You only stayed by my side so that I might go out with you, right? Well, how wrong you are!" from the doorway, which was open anyways, Salix stood, watching the two make out. Sabbath dropped Ysamla on the bed, looking up, wide eyed at Salix.
"You heard us!?" Sabbath did his best from stuttering; which wasn't good.
"Yep. Been here about the part Sam started blubbering. Whelp, I suppose you can't tell my daddy where I am, if you don't know where I am, now can you!?" Salix yelled, turning and then speeding out of the door with her infamous strides. Sabbath stood up, chasing the girl out the door. But, like last time, the young woman had disappeared altogether.
BREAK
"SHE'S WHAT?! Gone?! What do you mean, she disappeared from Nai City Hotel!? Why?! Ask Sabbath!?" Seifer Almasy snapped into the cell phone, while doing his best to hold Fuijin back from ripping the machine apart.
Sabbath Kinnease stood in-between his two parents, both of which stared at him with disappointed eyes. Ysamla Dincht sobbed slightly as Zell whisper- yelled at her, hissing angry words into her ear while Quistis stood behind her daughter angrily. They all stood in a train station, Fuijin and Seifer Almasy upset that their daughter hadn't returned on the Pandemonium Express. Nanto had sent the two other children home by request of they're parents, and was too afraid to come and tell his older brother that his niece was still missing.
"... Sabbath... Where's my daughter?" Seifer slowly turned around, eyes narrowed.
"TELL, NOW, RAGE!" Fuijin snapped as Seifer held his arm around her waist.
"... We were in the hotel room... We umm... Ysamla and me... and Salix came in... We told her we were going home... and then she ran away... Then, Mr. Almasy sent us here on the train..." Sabbath looked down, doing his best to cover himself up.
Seifer yelled, turning and stomping off "FUIJIN, COME! IT'S TIME FOR US TO TAKE MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS! SUMMON RAIJIN, TOO! SHE'S GONE TOO FAR!!!"
Fuijin nodded, pulling out her cell phone. On the other end, there came a confused and muffled voice "Ya know, here, ya know?" "... RAGE!"
BREAK
"It's the fifth inning, 8-5, the Husky's are in the lead by three! This must be one of the first come backs all star Donald-" "Will you turn off that racket!"
Salix snapped at the young dark skinned male that sat across from her in the rusty old truck, as it rumbled through the Ore desert. The boy turned off the radio, smiling at the Almasy "sumtin' wrong, miss?"
"... I can tell you what happens, how the game ends. The Husky's will get one more point, and then the Chinks will gain fifteen points, and that'll be game. This is an old Baseball game, did you know that?" Salix muttered, turning to hang her sweaty forehead out of the rusty and filth covered door, letting wind blow over it.
"Hey, of course I do! This is from three years ago, I know exactly how it ends. The Chinks aren't winning much anymore, and they're my favorite team, so I tune into old baseball games. I try to find a new team all the time, but I can't get away from these Chinks! By the way, my name is Hega, Hega Borrin!"
"No duh, Borrin. Baseball is so 'borin' it's not funny. My name is Salix, Salix Almasy. High Level SeeD Candidate, and Almasy. So, respect me..." Salix, like her father, drew attention and respect, and would never say she was 'humble'. It was such a chubby, ugly word.
"Hmm... You're thirteen, huh?"
"No, fourteen."
"Oh? You're fresh fourteen, then. I'm sixteen. I'm workin' for Anna part time, so I can feed my three little brothers and older sister and her kid, and my poor old Grandma, who is Anna. Rough job..."
"Hmm? I live with my mom and dad, even though I attend a boarding school. My parents are the Headmasters there... I'm kind of running away, but I'm just looking for my aunt right now..."
"STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!" Salix was astounded by this answer. Only a fool calls an Almasy stupid. But, she regained composure after hearing Hega say "enough about me, now how about you?"
He mustn't have heard her the first time, so she repeated it to him, this time that whole story. He was more intoned with himself, but his looks, big buff and dark, and his personality, liking himself more than anything else, reminded her of Raijin and Seifer put together, and she was homesick, so she heard him out.
She was on her way to a gas station in the middle of Ore desert, because that was where dark information circulated. The owner there was Anastasia Borrin, a great grandmother in her fifties that took care of her runaway young daughter, the whore's five children, and oldest and only female girl's son as well. It was said only Hega and Anna were the good one's out of the whole bunch, so this wasn't the first time Salix had heard of Hega Borrin. But, it was the first time she had met him. Hega was known for great skill with machinery, ability to pilot anything, and passion for baseball.
"... What's the latest news at the gas station, Hega?" Salix butted into a story about a baseball game "anything about mysterious people?"
"Actually, yeah, there is somethin' weird going on. They're sayin' that the President of Spiral, that Perry fool, he's got a cute girl locked up in a water filled tank. It's popular cause' she's naked. Isn't that a little kinky?"
"Naked? In a water tank? You mean, like a science experiment?"
"I guess... But, they say that the Quagmire dude jest sits there and watches her at night... As though, waiting for her to do something..."
Salix frowned. Rinoa Heartilly... She had gone missing around a few weeks ago. This girl, this cute girl, it couldn't be Rinoa could it? Rinoa was Zell's, Quistis', Irvine's, and Selphie's friend. No, best friend. This would be something to investigate.
The old truck rumbled up in front of the as usual crowded bar in the middle of nowhere, next to the only road that passed through Ore desert. Salix climbed out of the truck, followed by Hega, who began unloading pop cases immediately as a young woman came out of the bar. The woman was weird looking for a desert setting. Hega, with his covered in dust black skin and hair, overalls, bandanna around the neck, filthy white shirt, cap and goggles looked perfect for the crude desert folk, but this girl was different. She was paler than the moon, except for the fact the freckles sat everywhere on her nose and winging out under her eyes, had shimmering purple eyes, light blue hair that crowned her face, and wore a flowing blue dress, she looked more like somebody you'd see up in Nai mountains.
"Hega, please hurry. Mrs. Borrin will not wait much longer, and neither shall her customers, for their alcohol..." the woman's voice was straight and even, and mature, showing that she was small for her size but in the late teens.
"Okay then, Kega!" Hega said enthusiastic, as though her appearance brightened his day by a little. He was always cheerful anyways. The young woman nodded, turning and walking in.
"Who was that?" Salix asked, watching the young woman.
"Kega. She's sweet when she wants to be... but, she never wants to be. She's purdy, though, and I guess that's why she thinks she can be mean. She's sixteen... She's one of my friends."
"Oh..." 'Hega and Kega? Like... Fuijin and Raijin... Oh, please don't tell me there's gonna be some cocky blonde headed handsome boy with dreams!' Salix frowned, her memory suddenly being jogged from her strange dreams.
"Whose this OG?" came a smooth, yet hateful voice from the porch just as Salix turned her back. 'Oh, no...' Salix sighed, looking at Hega, who was about to laugh "let me guess, you and Kega are like little cronies, and your leader and a idiot who treats you like nothing but you all are still a posse?"
"Uh, yep. Salix Almasy, meet Livid Locksmith, he's also sixteen."
Salix turned around, to face a brown eyed, pale young boy with unkempt spiky brown hair and wearing none other than a... SeeD uniform!
"Excuse me, but where were you authorized to wear that uniform!? For one, my name is Salix, not OG. Do I look like a gangster to you!?" Salix snapped, not noticing the unmistakable resemblance of her father and that boy in the picture with Rinoa Heartilly on his lap.
"Look, you give me respect, for one, and I won't have to cut your damn head off!" the boy leapt off of the porch of the Gas Station "I'm a graduate SeeD of Balamb Garden, thank you very much!"
"... A Garden on a different planet... yea, I guess I see. I'm Salix Almasy..."
"I know, the infamous Seifer Almasy's daughter. He never became a SeeD, and neither will you!"
"He didn't have to be a SeeD, he's now the leader of his own Garden..."
"Yeah, a failure in Squall Leonhart's eyes..."
"Oh yeah, well Leonhart's dead!" Salix refused to believe this was true herself, but she did need a comeback.
"If he was, I wouldn't be following in his foot steps."
"But, you've done so well as Seifer... Wait, hold it, you don't think he's dead either!?"
"Nope, neither Hega nor I think so. Nor Kega, for that matter."
"... Really? You all used weapons, right?"
"Yeah. Kega uses a Pinwheel, go figure, Hega uses his knuckles, and I use none other than the Gunblade."
"... I don't think Squall's dead either... Nor, Saranie... I think all of us might find use in each other..." she smiled evily.
CONTINUED
Notes: Tee hee... Sorry I'm late. School's been a drag. Anyways, I'm gonna try to shorten the stories, so I may post them faster... Well, Bon buh bye!
Kiros: ... Huh?
Red VIII: You mean Bon Voyage?
Me: ... AHH SHAD UP!!!
"LOOK! I said sorry! What do you want me to do?! I didn't know she had already left! How much do you think a gorgeous 28 year old woman that writes for preppy teenagers keeps in contact with her family?" Salix snaps as Sabbath hadn't released his dirty glare.
He smiled, now dropping his mature and gentleman attire, ready to show he really was like his father "come here, sit on my lap, and make out with me. Then, I will forgive you".
"!? ARE YOU INSANE! Ugh, just like a man!" Salix turned around, making her way for the door, when suddenly it burst open and Nanto appeared, followed by an also annoyed looking Yuki.
"Where have you been!? It's been three hours since 8 PM, the time that you two said we'd meet up here again!" Ysamla shot up, wide-awake and angry eyed as she stared at the two adults who made their way into the three- bedded room.
"? Oh, umm... The mechanic..." Nanto smiled hopefully.
"The mechanic says we can't leave until late tomorrow, that the damn car is going to take too much time to fix. Why?!" Yuki snapped, making Ysamla shrink back into the sheets of her bed, whimpering.
"? Now, now, now, children, lets be nice... Looks like there are only three beds..." Nanto muttered, glancing around "and five people."
"I'll 'snuggle' up with Salix and Ysamla, if ya want..." Sabbath laughed drunkly, more likely just remembering something his dad did and mimicking it in his sleepiness.
"No, Sabbath. You can sleep by yourself. Yuki, Ysamla, you guys can sleep together. Salix, crash with me... There, arrangements made, lets all go to sleep" Nanto laughed.
"No, Uncle. I'll be by myself. I'd rather not sleep in a room filled with morons!" Salix turned, speeding through the door and out of sight before Nanto could even reach the doorway. He sighed, turning to Yuki "come on, Wakimura. Nights at Nai aren't as dangerous as many other places, but they aren't safe, either. Lets go find the littlest Almasy..."
BREAK
Sabbath glanced at the clock, frowning. It read 11:30. They had been gone for a half an hour.
"... Zip...? Do you think they are all right out there? It's been so long..." Ysamla frowned, as turned from the bed in front of him to look at him.
He sat up from his laying down position, sighing "I can't give false hope of anything... not how I was taught... You think we were to hard on Sal?"
'Fan-fucking-tastic! He's gonna talk about Salix all night now...' "Of course not! She's an Almasy! She should be able to handle being grudged on!" Ysamla snapped, slightly at herself.
"... Ysamla. You whine all the time, and you say Salix doesn't deserve a break?!" Sabbath shook his head.
"... Bu-... But..." Ysamla broke out in tears, hugging her knees to her chest, "Salix is meant to support us... She can't have a breakdown... Cause, then there is no more support..."
"?! No, wait, I didn't mean to make you cry! Your right! But... Salix still deserves a break..." he moved from his bed, sitting on the edge of hers and hugging her close to him.
"... I guess... But what about you, Sabbath, how do you feel? Don't you think you deserve a break too? I mean, you're always so nice to her, and she still treats you like trash..." Ysamla smiled slyly, still holding her sob act, laying her head on Sabbath's chest.
"You're right... so, I'm giving up on her. I'm not going to try anymore. Tomorrow, we're going home, and we're telling Se- No, Headmaster, right where Salix is."
"Oh, Sabbath, your so brave..." Ysamla smiled in a girlish way, flipping a strand of golden crown hair behind her ear, leaning up and kissing him. Lightly kissing him, a feathery kiss on the lips. As she tried to pull away, he held her there, deepening the kiss into more than light, his tongue sliding over her lips once or twice.
"I see, then. It's like that, huh? You only stayed by my side so that I might go out with you, right? Well, how wrong you are!" from the doorway, which was open anyways, Salix stood, watching the two make out. Sabbath dropped Ysamla on the bed, looking up, wide eyed at Salix.
"You heard us!?" Sabbath did his best from stuttering; which wasn't good.
"Yep. Been here about the part Sam started blubbering. Whelp, I suppose you can't tell my daddy where I am, if you don't know where I am, now can you!?" Salix yelled, turning and then speeding out of the door with her infamous strides. Sabbath stood up, chasing the girl out the door. But, like last time, the young woman had disappeared altogether.
BREAK
"SHE'S WHAT?! Gone?! What do you mean, she disappeared from Nai City Hotel!? Why?! Ask Sabbath!?" Seifer Almasy snapped into the cell phone, while doing his best to hold Fuijin back from ripping the machine apart.
Sabbath Kinnease stood in-between his two parents, both of which stared at him with disappointed eyes. Ysamla Dincht sobbed slightly as Zell whisper- yelled at her, hissing angry words into her ear while Quistis stood behind her daughter angrily. They all stood in a train station, Fuijin and Seifer Almasy upset that their daughter hadn't returned on the Pandemonium Express. Nanto had sent the two other children home by request of they're parents, and was too afraid to come and tell his older brother that his niece was still missing.
"... Sabbath... Where's my daughter?" Seifer slowly turned around, eyes narrowed.
"TELL, NOW, RAGE!" Fuijin snapped as Seifer held his arm around her waist.
"... We were in the hotel room... We umm... Ysamla and me... and Salix came in... We told her we were going home... and then she ran away... Then, Mr. Almasy sent us here on the train..." Sabbath looked down, doing his best to cover himself up.
Seifer yelled, turning and stomping off "FUIJIN, COME! IT'S TIME FOR US TO TAKE MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS! SUMMON RAIJIN, TOO! SHE'S GONE TOO FAR!!!"
Fuijin nodded, pulling out her cell phone. On the other end, there came a confused and muffled voice "Ya know, here, ya know?" "... RAGE!"
BREAK
"It's the fifth inning, 8-5, the Husky's are in the lead by three! This must be one of the first come backs all star Donald-" "Will you turn off that racket!"
Salix snapped at the young dark skinned male that sat across from her in the rusty old truck, as it rumbled through the Ore desert. The boy turned off the radio, smiling at the Almasy "sumtin' wrong, miss?"
"... I can tell you what happens, how the game ends. The Husky's will get one more point, and then the Chinks will gain fifteen points, and that'll be game. This is an old Baseball game, did you know that?" Salix muttered, turning to hang her sweaty forehead out of the rusty and filth covered door, letting wind blow over it.
"Hey, of course I do! This is from three years ago, I know exactly how it ends. The Chinks aren't winning much anymore, and they're my favorite team, so I tune into old baseball games. I try to find a new team all the time, but I can't get away from these Chinks! By the way, my name is Hega, Hega Borrin!"
"No duh, Borrin. Baseball is so 'borin' it's not funny. My name is Salix, Salix Almasy. High Level SeeD Candidate, and Almasy. So, respect me..." Salix, like her father, drew attention and respect, and would never say she was 'humble'. It was such a chubby, ugly word.
"Hmm... You're thirteen, huh?"
"No, fourteen."
"Oh? You're fresh fourteen, then. I'm sixteen. I'm workin' for Anna part time, so I can feed my three little brothers and older sister and her kid, and my poor old Grandma, who is Anna. Rough job..."
"Hmm? I live with my mom and dad, even though I attend a boarding school. My parents are the Headmasters there... I'm kind of running away, but I'm just looking for my aunt right now..."
"STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!" Salix was astounded by this answer. Only a fool calls an Almasy stupid. But, she regained composure after hearing Hega say "enough about me, now how about you?"
He mustn't have heard her the first time, so she repeated it to him, this time that whole story. He was more intoned with himself, but his looks, big buff and dark, and his personality, liking himself more than anything else, reminded her of Raijin and Seifer put together, and she was homesick, so she heard him out.
She was on her way to a gas station in the middle of Ore desert, because that was where dark information circulated. The owner there was Anastasia Borrin, a great grandmother in her fifties that took care of her runaway young daughter, the whore's five children, and oldest and only female girl's son as well. It was said only Hega and Anna were the good one's out of the whole bunch, so this wasn't the first time Salix had heard of Hega Borrin. But, it was the first time she had met him. Hega was known for great skill with machinery, ability to pilot anything, and passion for baseball.
"... What's the latest news at the gas station, Hega?" Salix butted into a story about a baseball game "anything about mysterious people?"
"Actually, yeah, there is somethin' weird going on. They're sayin' that the President of Spiral, that Perry fool, he's got a cute girl locked up in a water filled tank. It's popular cause' she's naked. Isn't that a little kinky?"
"Naked? In a water tank? You mean, like a science experiment?"
"I guess... But, they say that the Quagmire dude jest sits there and watches her at night... As though, waiting for her to do something..."
Salix frowned. Rinoa Heartilly... She had gone missing around a few weeks ago. This girl, this cute girl, it couldn't be Rinoa could it? Rinoa was Zell's, Quistis', Irvine's, and Selphie's friend. No, best friend. This would be something to investigate.
The old truck rumbled up in front of the as usual crowded bar in the middle of nowhere, next to the only road that passed through Ore desert. Salix climbed out of the truck, followed by Hega, who began unloading pop cases immediately as a young woman came out of the bar. The woman was weird looking for a desert setting. Hega, with his covered in dust black skin and hair, overalls, bandanna around the neck, filthy white shirt, cap and goggles looked perfect for the crude desert folk, but this girl was different. She was paler than the moon, except for the fact the freckles sat everywhere on her nose and winging out under her eyes, had shimmering purple eyes, light blue hair that crowned her face, and wore a flowing blue dress, she looked more like somebody you'd see up in Nai mountains.
"Hega, please hurry. Mrs. Borrin will not wait much longer, and neither shall her customers, for their alcohol..." the woman's voice was straight and even, and mature, showing that she was small for her size but in the late teens.
"Okay then, Kega!" Hega said enthusiastic, as though her appearance brightened his day by a little. He was always cheerful anyways. The young woman nodded, turning and walking in.
"Who was that?" Salix asked, watching the young woman.
"Kega. She's sweet when she wants to be... but, she never wants to be. She's purdy, though, and I guess that's why she thinks she can be mean. She's sixteen... She's one of my friends."
"Oh..." 'Hega and Kega? Like... Fuijin and Raijin... Oh, please don't tell me there's gonna be some cocky blonde headed handsome boy with dreams!' Salix frowned, her memory suddenly being jogged from her strange dreams.
"Whose this OG?" came a smooth, yet hateful voice from the porch just as Salix turned her back. 'Oh, no...' Salix sighed, looking at Hega, who was about to laugh "let me guess, you and Kega are like little cronies, and your leader and a idiot who treats you like nothing but you all are still a posse?"
"Uh, yep. Salix Almasy, meet Livid Locksmith, he's also sixteen."
Salix turned around, to face a brown eyed, pale young boy with unkempt spiky brown hair and wearing none other than a... SeeD uniform!
"Excuse me, but where were you authorized to wear that uniform!? For one, my name is Salix, not OG. Do I look like a gangster to you!?" Salix snapped, not noticing the unmistakable resemblance of her father and that boy in the picture with Rinoa Heartilly on his lap.
"Look, you give me respect, for one, and I won't have to cut your damn head off!" the boy leapt off of the porch of the Gas Station "I'm a graduate SeeD of Balamb Garden, thank you very much!"
"... A Garden on a different planet... yea, I guess I see. I'm Salix Almasy..."
"I know, the infamous Seifer Almasy's daughter. He never became a SeeD, and neither will you!"
"He didn't have to be a SeeD, he's now the leader of his own Garden..."
"Yeah, a failure in Squall Leonhart's eyes..."
"Oh yeah, well Leonhart's dead!" Salix refused to believe this was true herself, but she did need a comeback.
"If he was, I wouldn't be following in his foot steps."
"But, you've done so well as Seifer... Wait, hold it, you don't think he's dead either!?"
"Nope, neither Hega nor I think so. Nor Kega, for that matter."
"... Really? You all used weapons, right?"
"Yeah. Kega uses a Pinwheel, go figure, Hega uses his knuckles, and I use none other than the Gunblade."
"... I don't think Squall's dead either... Nor, Saranie... I think all of us might find use in each other..." she smiled evily.
CONTINUED
Notes: Tee hee... Sorry I'm late. School's been a drag. Anyways, I'm gonna try to shorten the stories, so I may post them faster... Well, Bon buh bye!
Kiros: ... Huh?
Red VIII: You mean Bon Voyage?
Me: ... AHH SHAD UP!!!