Here it is, Chap 5! But it couldn't be here without the help of Sport/Paige (who also helped w/Chap 4) THANKS AGAIN!!!!!
Disclaimer- FF8 is Squaresoft's and Harry Potter is J.K. Rowling's now on 2 the important stuff!
~Chapter 5~
A Village in Peril
GINNY, BEFORE THE ATTACK…
Ginny and Voldemort watched as the door opened and five armed guards came out to "greet" them. Four of them ran off to watch the perimeter while one remained behind.
"Move your ass! Victoria wants you now!" the guard shouted impatiently. He probably expected them to run into the door afraid of the machine gun in his hands. Ginny was just about to do that when Voldemort laughed. It unnerved her.
"Guns! Have we evolved backwards? This place is pathetic!" Voldemort said and then laughed even louder. The guard cocked his gun in a vain attempt to show authority and it would be his last movement. Even without a wand, the killing spell was quick and lethal. "Ah, my spells are back! That other stupid body couldn't cast any of them." Voldemort said, almost rejoicing in the guard's death. He then gave an evil simile to Ginny. "I should at least test the others too, just to make sure they work."
Ginny began shaking, she was hoping he'd turn to one of the guards but they were out of sight. The two of them were alone again. Voldemort had her curling in pain before she could even think to dodge the spell. Drops of blood stained the snow and her mind faded into unconsciousness.
Ginny woke up on the floor of a small room. As her eyes adjusted to the light, she could vaguely make out the figure of Voldemort directly in front of her. Where's my damn wand when I need it? she thought. "Accio wand" she mouthed quickly realizing she was mute. Does magic even work when you can't talk? She 'said' another spell. No effect. Her only hope was the counter-curse, if she could remember it. She hit the floor in frustration and realized it hurt to move. She did catch Voldemort's attention though.
"Ah, the mute's awake, but do we really need her around? It would be so easy to end her fragile, mortal life."
"Don't try it Voldie. She may prove useful." said a female voice from somewhere behind Voldemort.
Voldemort raised a hand. "Call me that again and I'll kill you."
"And take over this future by yourself? Stop dreaming! Besides, you're just here to kill Harry and you can't do that without me either."
Voldemort cursed under his breath.
"Have you harmed her? Let me take a look."
Ginny's sight was getting better and she saw the woman come and stop two feet in front of her. This had to be Victoria and Ginny could easily guess her favorite color was red. She wore a red halter-top, red sandals (with three inch heels), red lipstick, and had red streaks in her hair. The white skirt she wore (obviously the only thing not red) fell barely above her knees. Not only was she a red fanatic, she was also very short (barely 4'8" with the sandals). Excluding the height difference, Rinoa and Victoria looked extremely similar. Before Ginny could think about this too much, they began talking again.
"You've made her nose bleed, but nothing more. Now Voldemort, what where you just talking about before?" Victoria said putting extra stress on Voldemort's name. He just ignored it.
"The tracing spell the boy put on her. You want me to take it off?"
"Tracing spell? Leave it so it will lead them right to us! But we'd better distract them too, so they'll be easier to catch. Any ideas?"
"Is there a town nearby?"
"There's a village directly below this mountain, Shumi Village."
"Why didn't you just say so damn it!"
Victoria giggled. "This will be so cool! We'll attack the shumis and get some Moombas. They're good at almost anything!"
Voldemort sighed. There was no way he could get through to this bimbo.
Ginny meanwhile couldn't help feeling shocked. Could they really attack an entire village? She wanted to taunt them but her voice was still gone. She did squeak a bit and caught their attention again.
"You're still here? I thought Jeffy threw you in a cell already. Oh Jeffy!" Victoria called and a guard came in through a side door. "Take her to the brig will you?"
"Yes madam." The guard said grabbing Ginny by the arm.
"It always so funny when you say that." Victoria said grinning at the guard.
Ginny hardly remembered the walk to her cell and was immediately thrown inside once they reached it. She still ached from whatever Voldemort had done to her before. They were inside a mountain? Who knew…
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SQUALL'S GROUP-RIGHT WHERE I LEFT OFF…
"What the hell?" Zell said leaning forward, as if it would give him a better look. "Who'd attack the shumis?"
"Victoria" Squall said grimly, "I tracked the pull to that mountain right above the village."
"That, umm… oh what the hell, bitch!" said Quistis. Everyone was surprised to hear her swear, it was unlike her professional nature. Squall knew she was probably blowing off steam. "Let's kick her ass!"
"Sure, I'm up for that," said Irvine, "but where do we go? The city or the mountain?"
"The Shumis are in trouble, we have to help them first!" said PTG (pig-tailed girl, for anyone who forgot).
"Okay," said Squall after thinking it over a bit, "I bet she's with the group attacking them anyway! Let's go!" He sat in the pilot seat again and put the ship into overdrive, which got them in landing distance in about five seconds. He landed the ship about ten yards from the entrance to the village and pushed the button to let down the stairs. "Come on, we've got to move, everyone out!"
The group was out of the ship in about two minutes and began sprinting to the entrance, which opened easily to their touch. Once inside the large entrance room, they found a strange sight; there must have been all the shumis in the entire village lying on the floor. They were motionless, but there were clear signs of breathing and even snoring. They're all asleep, but why? Squall thought.
There was suddenly a humming sound as the elevator at the back of the entrance opened and in came a red, spiky haired cat that walked on two feet, a moomba. It was only about three feet tall but it had huge white paws. The poor thing was obviously scared to death because it was shaking all over and the group ran to its aide. As they approached, the creature, looked at Squall with bright eyes. "Laguna!" it said in a squeaky-cute voice and jumped happily.
"That's adorable!" PTG said and the moomba jumped backwards a little at her voice.
"It's okay little guy," Squall said. He knew he had the best disposition with the moomba since he (BIG spoiler for those who haven't finished ff8! read what comes next at your own risk) thought Squall was his father. "She's a friend, the rest are too."
The moomba calmed down and walked towards Squall. It stopped about four feet from him and squeaked "Laguna!" again, hopping in the air as it said the word. Hopefully he knows more than just that word Squall thought. He also began to regret giving Selphie to the other group; she was always good at handling these sorts of things.
"How exactly do you talk to a moomba?" Squall said to no one in particular.
"Talking to them is easy, it's getting an answer that's hard." Quistis responded. "Just ask him what happened here."
The moomba, who was listening intently to their conversation, gave a quick squeak. When the group looked at him as it pointed to the elevator door and then itself.
"Guess we should follow him then." Squall said.
"Well no kidding, but should we all go with 'um?" Zell asked. "Me and my girl could go if you don't mind."
"Oh, Zell you don't have to call me your girl all the time, it's not like you don't know my name." the PTG said blushing.
"Yeah… but isn't it better to acknowledge our relationship to the world?"
"Oh, you're right Zell, I was just being a little vain."
"You've been going out for weeks now and you still don't know her name?" Squall whispered to Zell. Zell paused a moment before he nodded and turned away with embarrassment.
"Laguna!" the moomba squeaked once again and everyone remembered Oh right that thing's still here.
"So who's going?" Irvine said impatiently.
"Everyone is! It's not like 20 people with machine guns will gun us down the moment we step out of the elevator!" Quistis said and then stood a moment thinking about her statement. "Umm, on second thought, maybe we should cast Protect or Shell before we go down there."
"I think having Zell and his girlfriend down there first isn't such a bad idea." said Squall turning to them. "Do you have a cell phone?" They nodded in agreement. "Good, turn it on and call us if you see anything. We'll all be right down after you."
"Okay, but before we go, let's cast Protect and Shell in case we're ambushed." said Zell. "I really don't wanna die on this mission and Quistis got me all worked up."
"Guess I should summon Carbuncle then," sighed Quistis. She did a little summoning dance (you know the one) and a small mound popped out of the floor. A little green, fox-like creature jumped out of it and cast "ruby light" on them all from the crystal on its head. After the spell was cast, it disappeared along with the mound and everyone could feel the protection effects of the spell. "There, that's much better. Now get along you two before the spell wears off!"
Zell and the PTG ran up to the moomba, which gave a confused look to Squall. When the PTG and Zell tried to get it go further it'd jump back and look at Squall again. "Don't tell me, I've gotta go too." Squall said semi-enraged. "Fine then, but don't either of you follow us until we call you," he said looking at Irvine and Quistis.
"Alrighty, but don't leave us standin' here for too long." Irvine said equipping his shotgun. "I wanna kick some ass while we're here."
Quistis was readying her whip while Zell, the PTG, and Squall approached the moomba, which weaved its way around the sleeping Shumis until it reached the elevator. They followed it inside and equipped their weapons while the moomba pressed the down button. A hologram appeared as they descended and at first they thought it would be the normal introduction to Shumi village but they were terribly mistaken.
"You've come to help our village!" the hologram began. "It is in a terrible peril no doubt as the moomba had to come get you. Every Shumi should be up in the entrance and asleep by now. Don't worry, we'll be safe because the entrance will lock up as soon as the elevator opens up at the bottom. Once the danger is gone we'll wake up and start up the elevator again so you can leave, good luck!"
"Oh shit! Quistis and Irvine are still up there, they'll be locked in," said Squall, who like everyone else in the elevator was panicked at the news. He turned to the moomba and asked, "Can you get us back up there again?"
The moomba just squeaked "Laguna!" and hopped up and down.
"Forget him Squall," said Zell searching the elevator for something, "Everyone search for buttons and start pressing! One of them's got to make this thing go up again!"
The search was on but they could only find three buttons; the one that made them go down, another one that didn't do anything, and one they hadn't tried yet.
"Go on, press it! What's the worst that could happen?" said Zell to Squall who was closest to it and he paused a little before pressing it. At first nothing happened but then the lights began blinking and the elevator suddenly stopped. "Aw shit…" said Zell before the whole room turned dark. "Quick, press it again!"
Squall searched in the darkness and eventually found the button again, immediately pressing it on contact. The lights went on again but they were much dimmer than before and a lighted emergency sign appeared above the elevator door. The hologram appeared once more, "Please remain clam, the elevator is out of order right now but a helpful shumi engineer is on the way to get it running again or if you're to busy to wait, there's an emergency escape to the bottom and top of this elevator. Please remain calm, the elevator should be ready to run any minute now."
Finally some good news Squall thought. "Someone call Quistis and Irvine and tell them to open the elevator doors up there and climb down here and meet us."
"No problem" said the PTG opening her cell phone.
It took some fire spells and prying with whatever they could find, but the two finally opened the doors. Irvine and Quistis then began climbing down the ladder in what would later be called 'an endless descent to hell'. There was finally a knock on the top of the elevator and the group was back together again. They then began another descent (it would later be called 'a slightly shorter descent to hell') and reached the bottom of the elevator shaft. The whole trip-from Quistis's and Irvine's descent to them all reaching the bottom of the elevator-took over an hour (mostly all of it climbing).
They collapsed when they reached the bottom, well all of them except the moomba.
"Little guy's still active, that's amazing! We should do some curing before continuing before-Hey! What's it doing?" said the PTG sitting up in the dim light that came through the creases in the elevator doors. The moomba obviously had other plans because before anyone could stop him, he'd walked up to a small consul.
"Wait, stop! We have to cure! CURE!" Squall shouted.
The moomba looked back at the group, which slowly began to stand up again. "Laguna!" it squeaked again and began pressing the buttons on the consul. The door began to open slowly and the moomba ran up the ladder again in a tense panic. "LAGUNA!" it cried as it climbed as fast as it could. . This can't be good… and Oh SHIT! were the only thoughts on everyone's mind as light flooded the room but there was nothing to be seen except an enormous smoke cloud in the distance.
Then they heard it, the sound of something coming but not just any something, something huge! In five more seconds they actually could see one of its eight robotic legs and it turned to face them once its heat sensor had a lock on them (which was 1/8 of a second!). A giant robotic spider armed with two rotating machine guns now stood between them and the way out but Squall, Zell, Irvine, Quistis, and the PTG weren't going down without a fight, no matter how tired they were…
And that's the end! Be prepared for Chap 6 (it should be done pretty fast) and most importantly remember 2 review plu-ese!!!!