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Sorry for the long update, I had a major writers block. I'm so sorry. Writer's block is not the greatest thing, I was stuck and I had no clue what to write about. Also, I ahvm't received many reviews lately (Let me see . . . hmm . . one or two for the last chapter, oh, ain't that so great?) * Bangs her head against the wall * Is it because my story is becoming bad? Or is it because no one even reads my story?? Anyways, here's the chapter and hope you review.
Chapter 12- The Kiss
"We're here," Kelly said as she landed the cloud.
'Where the Hyne are we?' Seifer thought as his body stood up, by itself. Seifer looked around, it was totally dark except for a dark purple circle that surrounded the ground nearby, dark gloomy air surrounded it. He felt his body freeze as his eyes scanned the mysterious circle. He suddenly felt a feeling he had lost a long time ago, the feeling of fear. He was scared; Seifer Almasy was scared, not wanting to face the truth he tried to turn away, his body denied his request and he stood where he was.
"I can't answer that question" Kelly replied walking over to the mysterious purple circle, not noticing Seifer's resistance to the magic collar around his neck, "Come"
Seifer tried to resist his body from moving. He slowly brought his hand to the gun blade that hung over his left waist in its beautiful sheath, was he getting stronger? Or was the magic around him starting to wear off?
Kelly watched with amusement in her eyes, no one was able to resist her mom's magic until now. Kelly watched as Seifer slowly pulled out the gunblade, his hand was trembling but he slowly brought it up and pointed it at Kelly.
"Pretty impressive there Seifer boy" Kelly smirked, she could see his a tint of fear in his green emerald eyes, and his hands were trembling
Seifer glared at her, not wanting to take the risk of talking, he wasn't sure how long he could resist the magic that was placed on him. Seifer saw her flinch at his gaze and he smiled to himself, glad that he wasn't as effected by the mysterious air as he thought.
"Don't get too happy there Seifer boy, Ultimecia won't let you off the hook THAT easy" Seifer saw Kelly smile evilly and his body froze.
~'No! Shit! I won't let her take my body again!'~ Seifer thought as he felt himself losing control of his right leg. Seifer forced all his energy into moving the leg, but it wouldn't budge, not even an inch.
"Don't go wasting your energy Seifer boy, it's no use. Face the fact boy" Kelly said it as if she were talking to a dog. Seifer gritted his teeth, disliking the way she talked to him.
Kelly shrugged, "Face the fact Seifer, You're too weak"
Seifer ignored her comment and kept on resisting, he felt weak, his hands were going numb and he felt as if he were about to collapse. He heard the sounds of his gunblade clashing into the hard rock ground below. The last thing he knew everything turned dark and gloomy.
"Weakling" Kelly shook her head, as she slowly walked over to him and carried him off, onto the dark purple circle. There was a blinding purple flash of light and as the light cleared away, they were gone.
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"That'll be an unfair fight though," Rinoa protested as she looked back and forth between her boyfriend and the machine monster thing.
B-M 26 turned his head slowly towards Rinoa, you could hear the sounds of gears moving. Rinoa took a step back, this monster was different from the one before, this one seemed . . . evil
"Follow me" B-M 26 slowly walked away from the couple, the ground vibrated each step he took, it was like a mini earthquake. Rinoa looked over at Squall and he nodded indicating for them to follow him.
Soon they approached a large cave on the mountainside, which they had not seen before when they had arrived.
" Chose your weapon" B-M 26 said as he pointed his paw inside the dark cave. Squall looked at B-M 26 suspiciously but shrugged it off, even if he did kill them he would get nothing in return.
Rinoa looked inside the cave and gulped, it looked dark and freaky, like a witch had once lived there. Suddenly Rinoa saw something shimmering inside and she shrieked
Squall turned his attention to his scared girlfriend who was know clinging onto his black T-shirt. Squall sighed, sometimes he wondered how he had ever fallen in love with her, they were totally opposite people.
"What is it?"
"There's something in there Squall" Rinoa said slowly as she gulped again
Squall sighed, "Don't worry"
"Do you wish to battle or not?" B-M 26 asked impatiently as he flapped its mechanical wings making some flowers blow off into the beautiful sunrise
Squall glared at him, and slowly walked his girlfriend inside the cave. As they entered, they were surrounded in total darkness; the rays of the sun were slowly disappearing. Soon they reached a large wooden door and they pushed it open, the sounds of the door creaking were echoing inside their ears. The door opened fully and inside was a brightly lit room full of different types of weapons of shape and sizes.
"Amazing" Rinoa said silently as she let go of Squall's arm and entered the torch-lite room. Squall watched his girlfriend pick up a Pinwheel from a nearby shelf and examine it. Curiosity took over him, and he too went over to examine some weapons.
"Pick the weapon of your choice" B-M 26 said sternly as he stood outside the door, it's golden eyes looked at them as if they were thieves.
"Where'd you get all these? These are awesome!" Rinoa exclaimed as she held up a heavy looking sword. It had an eagle carved in it and a large dark purple handle.
B-M 26 looked at her with displeased eyes, making shivers go down Rinoa's spine.
"Chose a weapon and we shall battle" was all B-M 26 said, Rinoa shrugged and set down the sword to pick up a nearby pinwheel
"Is that the weapon you wish to choose? You will not get a second chance to choose a different one please make your decision wisely" B-M 26 asked sternly as Rinoa nodded her head. B-M26 turned his attention away from Rinoa to Squall
"What weapon will you choose?"
Squall looked around the room, finally spotting a gunblade sitting on the edge of the room.
"Follow me" B-M26 said as he slowly walked out of the cave.
Squall shook his head, each minute they wasted here, Selphie's life would be in danger, how many other places did they have to go before they finally battled?
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Zell closed his eyes tightly as he prepared for the fall, hoping it wouldn't hurt.
"Zell, you can open you're eyes again" Zell heard El's clam voice say, and he slowly opened his eyes to see that they had landed safely on the ground, "I casted float" El explained as she saw Zell's curious face.
"Enough of that chit chat over there, come over here and fight me" Haru said as a gunblade suddenly appeared in his hands.
"You know that if you fight against me, the only future you have is death" El stated as she slowly walked over to him, mumbling a quiet spell under her lips.
"Hey El! I'll fight him!" Zell offered as he tried to run over to El, but what flung back by an invisible barrier
"Zell, the person he wishes to fight is me, it doesn't concern you, I'm the one who brought you in to this, I'll bring you out" El said
Haru rushed forward, gripping onto his gunblade as he swung it at El with all his might, "You better enjoy your freedom, cuz it's not gonna last for very long!"
El quickly used an illusion skill and moved out of the way before the gunblade connected with her, "God of Thunder!" El cried out as she pointed her finger up at the sky, suddenly bolts of lighting started to strike down at Haru, but he was too quick and none of the bolts connected.
"Is that all you can do, now it's my turn" Haru smirked evilly as he started swinging his gunblade at El, but still, none of the hits connected.
"You think you can defeat me with such bad skill, you're wrong, you've underestimated me, Haru" El stated, but suddenly she felt herself freeze, she couldn't move.
Haru stopped swinging and cupped her chin with his hands, "You think all I was doing was swinging randomly? You've fallen into my trap you damn woman" Haru said as he slapped El hard across the face, causing a red handprint to appear.
"So, you're a puppeteer" El stated and Zell casted a questioning look 'Puppeteer? What was that?'
"You're a smart one you little witch" Haru stated as he looked into her sapphire blue eyes which were burning with hatred.
"You pretended to swing at me, but you were actually swinging at spots where you could connect strings onto me so I couldn't move" El stated as she glared into his dark purple orbs which revealed her reflection, she could see from the corner of her eye that Zell's confusion had disappeared, she had always knew Zell was a smart guy, loud but smart.
'So a puppeteer is a person who connects invisible strings onto you to control you' Zell thought, he had never heard of a puppeteer before, but he guessed that if a person like Ultimecia exist, anything could exist, 'So Haru was pretending to miss all the shots just so he could connect strings onto El to control her body' Zell tried to run over to El to help her, but the barrier she put up stopped him, 'Shoot! She needs help, but I can't do anything!'
"What are you going to do now? You've controlled my body, so you're going to bring me back to Ultimecia, am I correct?" El asked as she tried to move her hand to create the fire symbol to cast fire (A/N: Well no duh! Is she gonna cast ice writing the fire symbol? Uh, no)
"Oh, no, no, no! I'm going to make you're life miserable, completely miserable, and the first thing I'm going to do is make you kill that wretched friend of yours over there" Haru stated as he moved his fingers, watching as El slowly began to move towards Zell.
"Hey El, release me from this barrier, I'll go defeat him" Zell ordered as he watched El slowly walk over to him
"Barrier release" El said and the barrier around Zell slowly began to disappear (A/N: For simple magic like just plain normal fire, blizzard, lighting or any 1st class magic or simple magic as you can call it, El only needs to say the word and the magic will work, but for higher grades of magic El needs to make the correct symbol for it to form, she dosen't want to cast the simple spells cuz that'll waste her strength and won't do much damage to Haru, explain more in detail at end of this chapter)
"You think that if you release that stupid idiot from that barrier he can defeat me? You're underestimating me El, or should I say 13" Haru said as he moved his fingers, causing El to strike at Zell, but Zell was quick and he moved out of the way.
"Zell, if I accidentally hit you, I'm sorry" El apologized as she once again swung at Zell, but he moved away once again
"These slow attacks won't connect" Zell stated as he started running at Haru casting Firage.
"Reflect"
The firage reflected off of Haru and headed straight for Zell, Zell took the damage head on, he knew he couldn't get out of the way in time, and it didn't hurt that much since he had a gem that protects him against fire (I'm thinking FF7 . . . ^-^)
"Zell, behind!" El called out as she swung at Zell, under Haru's command. Zell quickly turned around and blocked the attack, but what came next Zell didn't expect, Haru had made El kick him hard in the chin, sending him flying back a couple feet.
"And you said you could block her attacks Zell? I think you're wrong" Haru stated as he started to laugh evilly, El glared at him, she hated this type of guy. The guys who torture you, by making you hurt your friends, family, relatives, she just despised them.
"Zell! You alright?" El asked concerned as she gritted her teeth, she just wish she could go over to Haru and beat the crap out of him, that would make her feel so much better.
"Ya, I'm . . ." Zell started to say but paused, he couldn't move his body, "What the Hyne did you do to me Haru?!"
Haru looked at him uninterested, "While you were busy fighting, or shall I say blocking El's moves, I had attached some strings onto you, if you were smart enough, you wouldn't have fallen into my trap"
Zell clenched his teeth, now that they were both unable to move, there was no way to defeat Haru, well, not that he knew of anyways, he had never heard of puppeteers or had he have any experience with them. Zell looked over at El and was surprised to see that she was smirking; there wasn't even a tint of fear in on her face.
(Zell) Zell heard someone call his name . . . no, he didn't hear it he was thinking it!
(Zell, can you hear me? It's El) Zell looked over at El surprised, what in the Hyne was going on?
(What's going on El? How come I can hear you?) Zell asked as he felt himself slowly stand up.
"Now the real fun begins!" Haru said gleefully not noticing the silence between his two captives
(This is called mind-transfer, I can only use this up to 5 minutes, and I didn't want to use it before since I hadn't thought of a way to get out of these strings) El explained as she moved towards Zell slowly, like a doll.
(How can we defeat him? We're both captured in his strings)
"Oh, this will be the fun part of this mission" Haru said gleefully as he made his two captives run towards each other, getting into their battle position as they neared one another.
(I have a plan, have you noticed that we can move some parts of our bodies but not others? I'm guessing that Haru has a limited amount of string he can use on one person, and I'm guessing it's not much since we can still move parts of our body) El stated as she sent a kick at Zell's face, but Haru made him block it just for the fun of it.
(So that means he doesn't have complete control over us) Zell thought as he slowly thought, it was true, he was able to move his neck and his toes (But that still doesn't mean we can defeat him, but what I still don't get that if he is a puppeteer can't he use his strings freely?)
Zell cried out in pain as he felt El knee him in the stomach, hard. He could see that Haru was smiling nearby; he loved to see them in pain didn't he? Well once he got out of these stupid strings, he'll be the one beaten up and they'll be the ones having the last laugh.
(He's not fully a puppeteer; I'm guessing that he's probably an in training) El explained as she sent a few hits at Zell, it connected and Zell winced in pain, boy did El have a lot of strength in her.
(I have a spell that'll break off the strings on me since he's just an in training, but afterwards, I won't be able to fight) El explained as she looked at Zell who nodded his head, (The only way for you to break out is if you have enough power, and the only way you'll get that power is if you let me into you)
Zell didn't reply, what did she mean 'into you'? And how was she going to do it?
"Argh, this is getting boring" Haru stated as he stopped controlling his two captives, making both of them stand as still as stone, "You guys are so boring, I'll finish this nice and quick and deliver you to Ultimecia before she figures out I'm fooling around"
El looked over at Haru and smirked, "So even Ultimecia's knight gets scolded"
Haru glared at her and sighed, tossing his gunblade over to her.
Zell watched as the two glared at each other, before Haru made a move with his fingers, making El pick up the gunblade lying on the floor beside her feet.
"What are you going to do?" El asked as she felt herself slowly bend down to pick up the gunblade.
"Kill him"
El stood there shocked, as her body slowly moved back to it's original position, gunblade pointing towards Zell.
(Zell! It's the only way! Let me into you or it's going to be too late!) El cried out as she looked at Zell straight in the eye, tears forming, she didn't want to kill him, she really didn't. She had watched him through Ultimica's stone when they had battled against each other, she had watched him give it his best, try to defeat Ultimecia with all his power, he knew he wasn't as strong as Squall or any of the other guy members in his team, but he tried his best, that's what counted, and in the end, they won the battle.
"Zell!!" El called out as she felt herself slowly walk over to him, a tear ran down her cheek, the only way for her to go into him was if he let her, it was no use if Zell didn't let her, their plan would be for nothing.
Zell stood there, silence overwhelming the two captives, he stood there, not saying a word as he thought. There was too much information in his mind, Ultimecia coming back, Selphie being her new body, fairies, stones, puppeteers, he didn't know what was going on anymore, there was too much information to take in, he was confused, very confused.
"Zell!!!" El cried out again, hoping to snap him out of his trance, if he say anything soon, both of them would be in great danger, and who's knows would happen once Ultimecia got her hands on them, "ZELL!!!!!!"
"I allow!" Zell cried out as he closed his eyes tightly, he didn't know what to do, he was confused, and all he knew was that El wanted him to defeat Haru, and that was the only way he could clear things up, at least for now.
El smiled and she quickly mumbled a spell under her breath just as Haru moved his pointer finger down, commanding El slice Zell on the shoulder.
Just as the blade was about to hit Zell, a bright white light flashed around El and when Zell slowly opened his eyes, adjusting to the light, he could see that El was slowly floating up into the sky, a large circle like thing surrounding her. Her long blonde hair was flying everywhere, and before he knew it another great white flash appeared and El disappeared.
After the bright flash disappeared, snowflakes slowly began to fall in the summer sky and the area around Zell slowly disappeared and turned to white. Zell looked around, suddenly noticing he had control of his body back, what had happened? And what happened to El?
Zell looked at his surroundings, he was no longer in the plains by Deling City, he was surrounded in white. He could feel snowflakes slowly fall down onto his bare skin, yet he didn't feel cold, it was like he was dreaming, dreaming of a place far far away where he'd always be at peace, where'd there was no war, no fighting, no killing.
Zell slowly brought his hand up and watched as a small beautiful snowflake float down onto his palm, placing itself neatly in the center. Suddenly, Zell felt as if a presence was watching him and he quickly looked up to see El standing in front of him, or should I say floating in front of him.
"El! What happened? Where am I?" Zell asked quickly and saw El slowly place her pointer finger against her lips, telling him to stay quiet
"You're in another dimension (A/N: I'm trying to say another place, but I'm not sure if that's the correct word), you'll gain back reality soon, I just wanted to give you my powers before I left" El explained as she placed her hand on his cheek, "Don't forget me"
Before Zell could ask her what she meant, El had bent over and kissed him gently on the lips, giving him the last of her powers. When Zell recovered from the shock, he felt El slowly pulling away from him, and he instantly felt his lips, the place El had just kissed him with her soft light pink lips.
"Use my powers to defeat Haru and Ultimecia, save your friends, and bring this world to peace" El said softly as she felt Zell's soft cheek one last time, "Turn this world back to what it used to be, a world with no war, no fighting, no killing . . ."
Before Zell could ask El anything more, El slowly disappeared, leaving Zell all alone; to think back about what just happened a few moments ago.
Okay, how'd you like this chapter? I tried my best to write it, so I hope you like it. I'm sorry for not updating for so long, I had a major writers block and it was bad. Anyways, PLEASE review! I would really like to hear from all of you! I really would! Let's just all hope someone's actually reading this . . . (*crosses her fingers *) Anyways, if you are reading this, I said I would explain about the magic thing.
Well, you see simple magic (I like to call 1st class magic) El only needs to call out there name for it to form, but more higher stage magic El has to do a symbol with her hands for it to form. I'm actually calling class 1,2 and 3 are simple magic and the one's El use (Ex: God of Thunder) is a really high stage magic, so that's why she has to do hand symbols. In the story, the reason El doesn't just call out 'fire' or something is because she knows that a simple magic like that can only hurt Haru a little bit, it won't cause much damage, and even if she did do it, she would only be wasting her own energy. Okay, if you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
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Sorry for the long update, I had a major writers block. I'm so sorry. Writer's block is not the greatest thing, I was stuck and I had no clue what to write about. Also, I ahvm't received many reviews lately (Let me see . . . hmm . . one or two for the last chapter, oh, ain't that so great?) * Bangs her head against the wall * Is it because my story is becoming bad? Or is it because no one even reads my story?? Anyways, here's the chapter and hope you review.
Chapter 12- The Kiss
"We're here," Kelly said as she landed the cloud.
'Where the Hyne are we?' Seifer thought as his body stood up, by itself. Seifer looked around, it was totally dark except for a dark purple circle that surrounded the ground nearby, dark gloomy air surrounded it. He felt his body freeze as his eyes scanned the mysterious circle. He suddenly felt a feeling he had lost a long time ago, the feeling of fear. He was scared; Seifer Almasy was scared, not wanting to face the truth he tried to turn away, his body denied his request and he stood where he was.
"I can't answer that question" Kelly replied walking over to the mysterious purple circle, not noticing Seifer's resistance to the magic collar around his neck, "Come"
Seifer tried to resist his body from moving. He slowly brought his hand to the gun blade that hung over his left waist in its beautiful sheath, was he getting stronger? Or was the magic around him starting to wear off?
Kelly watched with amusement in her eyes, no one was able to resist her mom's magic until now. Kelly watched as Seifer slowly pulled out the gunblade, his hand was trembling but he slowly brought it up and pointed it at Kelly.
"Pretty impressive there Seifer boy" Kelly smirked, she could see his a tint of fear in his green emerald eyes, and his hands were trembling
Seifer glared at her, not wanting to take the risk of talking, he wasn't sure how long he could resist the magic that was placed on him. Seifer saw her flinch at his gaze and he smiled to himself, glad that he wasn't as effected by the mysterious air as he thought.
"Don't get too happy there Seifer boy, Ultimecia won't let you off the hook THAT easy" Seifer saw Kelly smile evilly and his body froze.
~'No! Shit! I won't let her take my body again!'~ Seifer thought as he felt himself losing control of his right leg. Seifer forced all his energy into moving the leg, but it wouldn't budge, not even an inch.
"Don't go wasting your energy Seifer boy, it's no use. Face the fact boy" Kelly said it as if she were talking to a dog. Seifer gritted his teeth, disliking the way she talked to him.
Kelly shrugged, "Face the fact Seifer, You're too weak"
Seifer ignored her comment and kept on resisting, he felt weak, his hands were going numb and he felt as if he were about to collapse. He heard the sounds of his gunblade clashing into the hard rock ground below. The last thing he knew everything turned dark and gloomy.
"Weakling" Kelly shook her head, as she slowly walked over to him and carried him off, onto the dark purple circle. There was a blinding purple flash of light and as the light cleared away, they were gone.
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"That'll be an unfair fight though," Rinoa protested as she looked back and forth between her boyfriend and the machine monster thing.
B-M 26 turned his head slowly towards Rinoa, you could hear the sounds of gears moving. Rinoa took a step back, this monster was different from the one before, this one seemed . . . evil
"Follow me" B-M 26 slowly walked away from the couple, the ground vibrated each step he took, it was like a mini earthquake. Rinoa looked over at Squall and he nodded indicating for them to follow him.
Soon they approached a large cave on the mountainside, which they had not seen before when they had arrived.
" Chose your weapon" B-M 26 said as he pointed his paw inside the dark cave. Squall looked at B-M 26 suspiciously but shrugged it off, even if he did kill them he would get nothing in return.
Rinoa looked inside the cave and gulped, it looked dark and freaky, like a witch had once lived there. Suddenly Rinoa saw something shimmering inside and she shrieked
Squall turned his attention to his scared girlfriend who was know clinging onto his black T-shirt. Squall sighed, sometimes he wondered how he had ever fallen in love with her, they were totally opposite people.
"What is it?"
"There's something in there Squall" Rinoa said slowly as she gulped again
Squall sighed, "Don't worry"
"Do you wish to battle or not?" B-M 26 asked impatiently as he flapped its mechanical wings making some flowers blow off into the beautiful sunrise
Squall glared at him, and slowly walked his girlfriend inside the cave. As they entered, they were surrounded in total darkness; the rays of the sun were slowly disappearing. Soon they reached a large wooden door and they pushed it open, the sounds of the door creaking were echoing inside their ears. The door opened fully and inside was a brightly lit room full of different types of weapons of shape and sizes.
"Amazing" Rinoa said silently as she let go of Squall's arm and entered the torch-lite room. Squall watched his girlfriend pick up a Pinwheel from a nearby shelf and examine it. Curiosity took over him, and he too went over to examine some weapons.
"Pick the weapon of your choice" B-M 26 said sternly as he stood outside the door, it's golden eyes looked at them as if they were thieves.
"Where'd you get all these? These are awesome!" Rinoa exclaimed as she held up a heavy looking sword. It had an eagle carved in it and a large dark purple handle.
B-M 26 looked at her with displeased eyes, making shivers go down Rinoa's spine.
"Chose a weapon and we shall battle" was all B-M 26 said, Rinoa shrugged and set down the sword to pick up a nearby pinwheel
"Is that the weapon you wish to choose? You will not get a second chance to choose a different one please make your decision wisely" B-M 26 asked sternly as Rinoa nodded her head. B-M26 turned his attention away from Rinoa to Squall
"What weapon will you choose?"
Squall looked around the room, finally spotting a gunblade sitting on the edge of the room.
"Follow me" B-M26 said as he slowly walked out of the cave.
Squall shook his head, each minute they wasted here, Selphie's life would be in danger, how many other places did they have to go before they finally battled?
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Zell closed his eyes tightly as he prepared for the fall, hoping it wouldn't hurt.
"Zell, you can open you're eyes again" Zell heard El's clam voice say, and he slowly opened his eyes to see that they had landed safely on the ground, "I casted float" El explained as she saw Zell's curious face.
"Enough of that chit chat over there, come over here and fight me" Haru said as a gunblade suddenly appeared in his hands.
"You know that if you fight against me, the only future you have is death" El stated as she slowly walked over to him, mumbling a quiet spell under her lips.
"Hey El! I'll fight him!" Zell offered as he tried to run over to El, but what flung back by an invisible barrier
"Zell, the person he wishes to fight is me, it doesn't concern you, I'm the one who brought you in to this, I'll bring you out" El said
Haru rushed forward, gripping onto his gunblade as he swung it at El with all his might, "You better enjoy your freedom, cuz it's not gonna last for very long!"
El quickly used an illusion skill and moved out of the way before the gunblade connected with her, "God of Thunder!" El cried out as she pointed her finger up at the sky, suddenly bolts of lighting started to strike down at Haru, but he was too quick and none of the bolts connected.
"Is that all you can do, now it's my turn" Haru smirked evilly as he started swinging his gunblade at El, but still, none of the hits connected.
"You think you can defeat me with such bad skill, you're wrong, you've underestimated me, Haru" El stated, but suddenly she felt herself freeze, she couldn't move.
Haru stopped swinging and cupped her chin with his hands, "You think all I was doing was swinging randomly? You've fallen into my trap you damn woman" Haru said as he slapped El hard across the face, causing a red handprint to appear.
"So, you're a puppeteer" El stated and Zell casted a questioning look 'Puppeteer? What was that?'
"You're a smart one you little witch" Haru stated as he looked into her sapphire blue eyes which were burning with hatred.
"You pretended to swing at me, but you were actually swinging at spots where you could connect strings onto me so I couldn't move" El stated as she glared into his dark purple orbs which revealed her reflection, she could see from the corner of her eye that Zell's confusion had disappeared, she had always knew Zell was a smart guy, loud but smart.
'So a puppeteer is a person who connects invisible strings onto you to control you' Zell thought, he had never heard of a puppeteer before, but he guessed that if a person like Ultimecia exist, anything could exist, 'So Haru was pretending to miss all the shots just so he could connect strings onto El to control her body' Zell tried to run over to El to help her, but the barrier she put up stopped him, 'Shoot! She needs help, but I can't do anything!'
"What are you going to do now? You've controlled my body, so you're going to bring me back to Ultimecia, am I correct?" El asked as she tried to move her hand to create the fire symbol to cast fire (A/N: Well no duh! Is she gonna cast ice writing the fire symbol? Uh, no)
"Oh, no, no, no! I'm going to make you're life miserable, completely miserable, and the first thing I'm going to do is make you kill that wretched friend of yours over there" Haru stated as he moved his fingers, watching as El slowly began to move towards Zell.
"Hey El, release me from this barrier, I'll go defeat him" Zell ordered as he watched El slowly walk over to him
"Barrier release" El said and the barrier around Zell slowly began to disappear (A/N: For simple magic like just plain normal fire, blizzard, lighting or any 1st class magic or simple magic as you can call it, El only needs to say the word and the magic will work, but for higher grades of magic El needs to make the correct symbol for it to form, she dosen't want to cast the simple spells cuz that'll waste her strength and won't do much damage to Haru, explain more in detail at end of this chapter)
"You think that if you release that stupid idiot from that barrier he can defeat me? You're underestimating me El, or should I say 13" Haru said as he moved his fingers, causing El to strike at Zell, but Zell was quick and he moved out of the way.
"Zell, if I accidentally hit you, I'm sorry" El apologized as she once again swung at Zell, but he moved away once again
"These slow attacks won't connect" Zell stated as he started running at Haru casting Firage.
"Reflect"
The firage reflected off of Haru and headed straight for Zell, Zell took the damage head on, he knew he couldn't get out of the way in time, and it didn't hurt that much since he had a gem that protects him against fire (I'm thinking FF7 . . . ^-^)
"Zell, behind!" El called out as she swung at Zell, under Haru's command. Zell quickly turned around and blocked the attack, but what came next Zell didn't expect, Haru had made El kick him hard in the chin, sending him flying back a couple feet.
"And you said you could block her attacks Zell? I think you're wrong" Haru stated as he started to laugh evilly, El glared at him, she hated this type of guy. The guys who torture you, by making you hurt your friends, family, relatives, she just despised them.
"Zell! You alright?" El asked concerned as she gritted her teeth, she just wish she could go over to Haru and beat the crap out of him, that would make her feel so much better.
"Ya, I'm . . ." Zell started to say but paused, he couldn't move his body, "What the Hyne did you do to me Haru?!"
Haru looked at him uninterested, "While you were busy fighting, or shall I say blocking El's moves, I had attached some strings onto you, if you were smart enough, you wouldn't have fallen into my trap"
Zell clenched his teeth, now that they were both unable to move, there was no way to defeat Haru, well, not that he knew of anyways, he had never heard of puppeteers or had he have any experience with them. Zell looked over at El and was surprised to see that she was smirking; there wasn't even a tint of fear in on her face.
(Zell) Zell heard someone call his name . . . no, he didn't hear it he was thinking it!
(Zell, can you hear me? It's El) Zell looked over at El surprised, what in the Hyne was going on?
(What's going on El? How come I can hear you?) Zell asked as he felt himself slowly stand up.
"Now the real fun begins!" Haru said gleefully not noticing the silence between his two captives
(This is called mind-transfer, I can only use this up to 5 minutes, and I didn't want to use it before since I hadn't thought of a way to get out of these strings) El explained as she moved towards Zell slowly, like a doll.
(How can we defeat him? We're both captured in his strings)
"Oh, this will be the fun part of this mission" Haru said gleefully as he made his two captives run towards each other, getting into their battle position as they neared one another.
(I have a plan, have you noticed that we can move some parts of our bodies but not others? I'm guessing that Haru has a limited amount of string he can use on one person, and I'm guessing it's not much since we can still move parts of our body) El stated as she sent a kick at Zell's face, but Haru made him block it just for the fun of it.
(So that means he doesn't have complete control over us) Zell thought as he slowly thought, it was true, he was able to move his neck and his toes (But that still doesn't mean we can defeat him, but what I still don't get that if he is a puppeteer can't he use his strings freely?)
Zell cried out in pain as he felt El knee him in the stomach, hard. He could see that Haru was smiling nearby; he loved to see them in pain didn't he? Well once he got out of these stupid strings, he'll be the one beaten up and they'll be the ones having the last laugh.
(He's not fully a puppeteer; I'm guessing that he's probably an in training) El explained as she sent a few hits at Zell, it connected and Zell winced in pain, boy did El have a lot of strength in her.
(I have a spell that'll break off the strings on me since he's just an in training, but afterwards, I won't be able to fight) El explained as she looked at Zell who nodded his head, (The only way for you to break out is if you have enough power, and the only way you'll get that power is if you let me into you)
Zell didn't reply, what did she mean 'into you'? And how was she going to do it?
"Argh, this is getting boring" Haru stated as he stopped controlling his two captives, making both of them stand as still as stone, "You guys are so boring, I'll finish this nice and quick and deliver you to Ultimecia before she figures out I'm fooling around"
El looked over at Haru and smirked, "So even Ultimecia's knight gets scolded"
Haru glared at her and sighed, tossing his gunblade over to her.
Zell watched as the two glared at each other, before Haru made a move with his fingers, making El pick up the gunblade lying on the floor beside her feet.
"What are you going to do?" El asked as she felt herself slowly bend down to pick up the gunblade.
"Kill him"
El stood there shocked, as her body slowly moved back to it's original position, gunblade pointing towards Zell.
(Zell! It's the only way! Let me into you or it's going to be too late!) El cried out as she looked at Zell straight in the eye, tears forming, she didn't want to kill him, she really didn't. She had watched him through Ultimica's stone when they had battled against each other, she had watched him give it his best, try to defeat Ultimecia with all his power, he knew he wasn't as strong as Squall or any of the other guy members in his team, but he tried his best, that's what counted, and in the end, they won the battle.
"Zell!!" El called out as she felt herself slowly walk over to him, a tear ran down her cheek, the only way for her to go into him was if he let her, it was no use if Zell didn't let her, their plan would be for nothing.
Zell stood there, silence overwhelming the two captives, he stood there, not saying a word as he thought. There was too much information in his mind, Ultimecia coming back, Selphie being her new body, fairies, stones, puppeteers, he didn't know what was going on anymore, there was too much information to take in, he was confused, very confused.
"Zell!!!" El cried out again, hoping to snap him out of his trance, if he say anything soon, both of them would be in great danger, and who's knows would happen once Ultimecia got her hands on them, "ZELL!!!!!!"
"I allow!" Zell cried out as he closed his eyes tightly, he didn't know what to do, he was confused, and all he knew was that El wanted him to defeat Haru, and that was the only way he could clear things up, at least for now.
El smiled and she quickly mumbled a spell under her breath just as Haru moved his pointer finger down, commanding El slice Zell on the shoulder.
Just as the blade was about to hit Zell, a bright white light flashed around El and when Zell slowly opened his eyes, adjusting to the light, he could see that El was slowly floating up into the sky, a large circle like thing surrounding her. Her long blonde hair was flying everywhere, and before he knew it another great white flash appeared and El disappeared.
After the bright flash disappeared, snowflakes slowly began to fall in the summer sky and the area around Zell slowly disappeared and turned to white. Zell looked around, suddenly noticing he had control of his body back, what had happened? And what happened to El?
Zell looked at his surroundings, he was no longer in the plains by Deling City, he was surrounded in white. He could feel snowflakes slowly fall down onto his bare skin, yet he didn't feel cold, it was like he was dreaming, dreaming of a place far far away where he'd always be at peace, where'd there was no war, no fighting, no killing.
Zell slowly brought his hand up and watched as a small beautiful snowflake float down onto his palm, placing itself neatly in the center. Suddenly, Zell felt as if a presence was watching him and he quickly looked up to see El standing in front of him, or should I say floating in front of him.
"El! What happened? Where am I?" Zell asked quickly and saw El slowly place her pointer finger against her lips, telling him to stay quiet
"You're in another dimension (A/N: I'm trying to say another place, but I'm not sure if that's the correct word), you'll gain back reality soon, I just wanted to give you my powers before I left" El explained as she placed her hand on his cheek, "Don't forget me"
Before Zell could ask her what she meant, El had bent over and kissed him gently on the lips, giving him the last of her powers. When Zell recovered from the shock, he felt El slowly pulling away from him, and he instantly felt his lips, the place El had just kissed him with her soft light pink lips.
"Use my powers to defeat Haru and Ultimecia, save your friends, and bring this world to peace" El said softly as she felt Zell's soft cheek one last time, "Turn this world back to what it used to be, a world with no war, no fighting, no killing . . ."
Before Zell could ask El anything more, El slowly disappeared, leaving Zell all alone; to think back about what just happened a few moments ago.
Okay, how'd you like this chapter? I tried my best to write it, so I hope you like it. I'm sorry for not updating for so long, I had a major writers block and it was bad. Anyways, PLEASE review! I would really like to hear from all of you! I really would! Let's just all hope someone's actually reading this . . . (*crosses her fingers *) Anyways, if you are reading this, I said I would explain about the magic thing.
Well, you see simple magic (I like to call 1st class magic) El only needs to call out there name for it to form, but more higher stage magic El has to do a symbol with her hands for it to form. I'm actually calling class 1,2 and 3 are simple magic and the one's El use (Ex: God of Thunder) is a really high stage magic, so that's why she has to do hand symbols. In the story, the reason El doesn't just call out 'fire' or something is because she knows that a simple magic like that can only hurt Haru a little bit, it won't cause much damage, and even if she did do it, she would only be wasting her own energy. Okay, if you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
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