A/N: Yes! Mission accomplished! I got an old reviewer back! Yea frost! LoL!
Silent Screams Chapter 36
Squall sat in the hallway, his hands covering his eyes. He didn't want to stare at anyone. He heard someone walk past him, but took no notice to it. The walker, on the other hand, looked down at Squall, shaking his head solemnly. He continued down to the rooms and walked into Quistis' room. He slowly removed his gloves, placing his warm hands on her ice cold ones. "Quis?" he called out. "Quistis...wake up, please?"
He sat down on the edge of the bed, turned and made sure the door was shut. His gray coat shifted underneath him. "Come on, Quistis." He let out a sigh, rubbing her hand softly.
He turned and looked at the loudspeaker as he heard a slight buzzing. "Uh...guys? If you could all come into the cockpit? Now?"
Seifer stood up, placing his gloves on. He hit a button to open the door and turned to look at Quistis as he walked out. He walked past Squall, who was in the same position, and knelt down next to him. "Get up," Seifer ordered.
Squall looked up at him, tears brimming in his eyes. "Don't..."
Seifer knelt down in front of him, one knee up and one knee down. "Squall, come on. We're all hurting because of this." He let out a sigh and brushed back his thick blonde hair. "Don't take it out on the team, ok? She'll pull through...she always does. She's got too much waiting for her down here." Seifer stood up and held out his hand, helping Squall off of his feet. They walked into the cockpit and looked out the giant window.
"We can't get past FH. We'll have to dock it there and walk down the train tracks," Irvine said oh so thought out style. "Only problem is, I believe we're being followed by something under water."
"That something being what? Demons?" Nero asked, sounding as if a demon was nothing to worry about.
Seifer sighed. "Ok, then here's the plan, Nero and I will stay back and kill the demons while Squall and Irvine go off to Odine."
Irvine agreed with that, as with Squall. Nero, on the other hand, shook his head. "Knowing Eleni, she wants Quistis dead so bad, she'll probably send demons off ahead of us. Squall and Seifer, you guys go take Quistis to Odine. Irvine and I will stay back and kill these guys."
Irvine scratched his head. "I can't kill a demon..."
Nero grinned. "No, but you can heal me."
ooooooooooo
Squall lifted Quistis onto his back, adjusting her so she wouldn't slide down. He held her hands to keep her from falling. Seifer pulled out Hyperion and swung it around a bit. "Ready?" Squall asked. Seifer nodded his head and the two bounded down the railways.
Irvine and Nero watched them leave just as two demons popped onto the tracks from the water. The demons looked over at Nero and chuckled. "Well, looks like its just the two of them," the one demon called out.
The second demon didn't even waste time and charged into battle, aiming right for Irvine. Nero jumped in front of him, taking the blow. "Don't worry! I got you covered!" Nero called out, holding onto the demons' horns, pushing him back to his battle position.
Irvine scanned through the two of them, noting that each of them had magic he never heard of. "Draw! Figoraga!" He drew out twelve of that spell. Nero pulled out his swallow and sliced it through the one demon that Irvine and drawn the first magic of the world. "Draw! Icegoraga!" Nero grinned wildly.
"You like magic?" he called out in battle, dodging an attack.
Irvine laughed. "I got nothing better to do!"
Nero grinned. "Watch this..." He concentrated, his forehead scrunched up. "Ultimanaga!" he called out. A small white ball formed in his hands. He bent down to the ground, and rolled it out of his hands and towards the two demons. Once it reached the demons, Irvine and Nero watched in awe as a white light shot up into the sky and reflected off of what appeared to be the moon. The two infracted rays pelt down back to the earth, hitting the two on the head. The demons lit up white as the triangle they formed filled white. No blasts or anything of that nature, the demons were gone.
Irvine looked at Nero and shock filled his face. "Can you give me some of those?"
Nero laughed, loudly for that matter. Two demons popped back up out of the water. "Come on now, there's much more magic than that you can see!"
Ooooooooooo
Squall and Seifer were just about to reach the brim of Esthar. They came in contact with few demons, but not as many as they had thought. Squall walked through the hologram, hearing a loud roar echo behind them. "Come on, its another demon, lets just go," he called out.
Seifer frowned. "I don't want the demons to know how to get to Esthar..."
Squall groaned loudly. "Let's just go, they'll never get past the defense system. Come on!"
Seifer sighed and followed Squall. The demon that followed them looked around, as if lost. "Hey...They were just here a minute ago!" he called out. He tried walked through the hologram, only to get shocked in the process. "Hey!"
Seifer spun around, seeing the demon try and get through. "Squall...they'll break it down."
Squall spun around, anger raging in his eyes. "I don't care about any demons! I want my wife to survive! The only way I see that happening right now is through Odine!"
Seifer glared at Squall and followed him. They walked through the entrance of the city, guards saluting Squall as he walked by. Seifer just scornfully followed, his jacket trailing off into the wind. They entered the President's Palace and walked towards the chair that flew them up to the President's office and past Odine's room.
They got off of the chair and walked straight into the President's office. Kiros and Ward looked over at Squall, only to tap his father on the shoulder. Laguna quickly stood up, the piles of paper up to his neck, and smiled at Squall, only to frown once again when he saw Quistis. "What's wrong?" he asked, walking around the stacks of papers and to his son.
"I need Odine," he said. Laguna looked at Quistis, her entire face pale as ice. "I need Odine now."
"He's at his lab, we can take the presidents car."
ooooooooooo
They reached the lab on the outskirts of Esthar. Squall lifted Quistis into his arms and looked up into the sky. He saw something flying straight towards them. Seifer spun around and looked up at the sky as well. All of them heard the shout. "Yaaahoooooooo!" Seifer rolled his eyes and walked into the laboratory. Squall followed.
Irvine landed on the ground with a thud and Nero eased his landing. Nero walked in as well, waving hello to the shocked president. Irvine galloped past him, screaming about how cool that was.
Inside, Odine had already lay Quistis down on the examination table. He quickly pulled out a needle and rushed Irvine and Seifer out of the room. "I muzt have only two people in here at vone time! It iz too crowded in ziz room!"
Irvine nodded his head and walked out, only to confront a confused Laguna. Seifer stared down at Quistis. Nero looked at Seifer and grasped his arm. He knew...he knew all to well what it was like to lose a loved one. "I'm sorry, Squall. But if I stay in here, Seifer needs to stay in here."
Squall turned around, looking at Nero. "Why?"
Nero cracked a smile. "Well, simply because he is the same as me. If it concerns Quistis, we both need to be there."
Squall nodded his head and turned to Odine. Odine stuck the needle in her, extracted some blood, and waddled over to the microscope and did his thing. (A/N: If my boyfriend, who is a science freak, were here watching me type this part, he'd have a shit fit! I might change it and get him to tell me the more 'technical' terms later on when I do the revised edition. LoL)
"Intriguing...very intriguing...Zis zample of blood iz very vamiliar," Odine muttered out. He waddled over to the computer and typed in a few things. He clicked on the large monitor and in front of them was a picture of a blood sample. He waddled over to the other large monitor, showing Quistis' blood sample.
They were identical in every nature. Nero stood up from where he was seated and looked at the two. "What is that sample's name?"
"Lee, Calanthia," Odine said. "A very vine zpecimen." Nero stood there, his jaw opened. "She iz ztill vith me. Allow me to show you." He waddled across the room and pressed a button, opening the door. Nero rushed right behind him. "Zere she iz!"
The three of them stood there, their mouths opened wide. Inside a blue glass tube was a Quistis replica. She had flowing honey blonde hair, a Roman nose, soft full lips, long legs, pale skin, the works. "Oh my god, we found her," Nero mouthed out. "We found the missing blue mage! Odine, do you think you could get a blood sample of hers and place it into Quistis?"
Odine nodded his head slowly. "Yez, but...vhy?" Odine pulled out a long thin needle and walked over to a black patch in the tube. He stuck the needle in, letting it reach Calanthia's hip. He drew out the blood that filled the needle and then slowly pulled the needle out. He walked into the other room, only to have Nero stand right behind him.
"This will cure Quistis!" Nero said excitedly. Odine shrugged and placed the needle into her arm, ejecting the blood that once flowed through Calanthia's veins into her veins. Squall and Seifer looked over the shoulders of Nero and Odine.
ooooooooooo
Inside of Quistis' mind, she watched in horror as she saw herself battling against some strange woman. She had flowing brown hair that was longer than she was. She had dashing green eyes and wore a short black skirt and a black bra, if you could call it that. She held a two-handed sword with one hand, while her other hand helped her achieve balance. She pierced the air where Quistis was.
Suddenly, the Quistis that she saw spun in circles, her hair growing a few inches and turning a slightly darker blonde. She turned to face Quistis, her sparkling sapphire eyes blasting the strange woman away.
ooooooooooo
Quistis' eyes bolted open. She sat up, knocking Odine out of her way. Sweat dripped down her forehead and she slowly touched her face. "What...happened?" she asked out to no on in particular.
Squall walked to the end of the bed, grabbing her ankles. "Quistis?" he called out. Quistis turned and looked at him, confusion filling her face. "Sorceress Eleni had you under a...spell I guess you would call it."
Quistis looked around the room, her eyes locking with Seifer's. She quickly turned away from it, looking at Nero. "Nero...I..."
"We found the missing Blue Mage...your...mother," Nero whispered out.
Silent Screams Chapter 36
Squall sat in the hallway, his hands covering his eyes. He didn't want to stare at anyone. He heard someone walk past him, but took no notice to it. The walker, on the other hand, looked down at Squall, shaking his head solemnly. He continued down to the rooms and walked into Quistis' room. He slowly removed his gloves, placing his warm hands on her ice cold ones. "Quis?" he called out. "Quistis...wake up, please?"
He sat down on the edge of the bed, turned and made sure the door was shut. His gray coat shifted underneath him. "Come on, Quistis." He let out a sigh, rubbing her hand softly.
He turned and looked at the loudspeaker as he heard a slight buzzing. "Uh...guys? If you could all come into the cockpit? Now?"
Seifer stood up, placing his gloves on. He hit a button to open the door and turned to look at Quistis as he walked out. He walked past Squall, who was in the same position, and knelt down next to him. "Get up," Seifer ordered.
Squall looked up at him, tears brimming in his eyes. "Don't..."
Seifer knelt down in front of him, one knee up and one knee down. "Squall, come on. We're all hurting because of this." He let out a sigh and brushed back his thick blonde hair. "Don't take it out on the team, ok? She'll pull through...she always does. She's got too much waiting for her down here." Seifer stood up and held out his hand, helping Squall off of his feet. They walked into the cockpit and looked out the giant window.
"We can't get past FH. We'll have to dock it there and walk down the train tracks," Irvine said oh so thought out style. "Only problem is, I believe we're being followed by something under water."
"That something being what? Demons?" Nero asked, sounding as if a demon was nothing to worry about.
Seifer sighed. "Ok, then here's the plan, Nero and I will stay back and kill the demons while Squall and Irvine go off to Odine."
Irvine agreed with that, as with Squall. Nero, on the other hand, shook his head. "Knowing Eleni, she wants Quistis dead so bad, she'll probably send demons off ahead of us. Squall and Seifer, you guys go take Quistis to Odine. Irvine and I will stay back and kill these guys."
Irvine scratched his head. "I can't kill a demon..."
Nero grinned. "No, but you can heal me."
ooooooooooo
Squall lifted Quistis onto his back, adjusting her so she wouldn't slide down. He held her hands to keep her from falling. Seifer pulled out Hyperion and swung it around a bit. "Ready?" Squall asked. Seifer nodded his head and the two bounded down the railways.
Irvine and Nero watched them leave just as two demons popped onto the tracks from the water. The demons looked over at Nero and chuckled. "Well, looks like its just the two of them," the one demon called out.
The second demon didn't even waste time and charged into battle, aiming right for Irvine. Nero jumped in front of him, taking the blow. "Don't worry! I got you covered!" Nero called out, holding onto the demons' horns, pushing him back to his battle position.
Irvine scanned through the two of them, noting that each of them had magic he never heard of. "Draw! Figoraga!" He drew out twelve of that spell. Nero pulled out his swallow and sliced it through the one demon that Irvine and drawn the first magic of the world. "Draw! Icegoraga!" Nero grinned wildly.
"You like magic?" he called out in battle, dodging an attack.
Irvine laughed. "I got nothing better to do!"
Nero grinned. "Watch this..." He concentrated, his forehead scrunched up. "Ultimanaga!" he called out. A small white ball formed in his hands. He bent down to the ground, and rolled it out of his hands and towards the two demons. Once it reached the demons, Irvine and Nero watched in awe as a white light shot up into the sky and reflected off of what appeared to be the moon. The two infracted rays pelt down back to the earth, hitting the two on the head. The demons lit up white as the triangle they formed filled white. No blasts or anything of that nature, the demons were gone.
Irvine looked at Nero and shock filled his face. "Can you give me some of those?"
Nero laughed, loudly for that matter. Two demons popped back up out of the water. "Come on now, there's much more magic than that you can see!"
Ooooooooooo
Squall and Seifer were just about to reach the brim of Esthar. They came in contact with few demons, but not as many as they had thought. Squall walked through the hologram, hearing a loud roar echo behind them. "Come on, its another demon, lets just go," he called out.
Seifer frowned. "I don't want the demons to know how to get to Esthar..."
Squall groaned loudly. "Let's just go, they'll never get past the defense system. Come on!"
Seifer sighed and followed Squall. The demon that followed them looked around, as if lost. "Hey...They were just here a minute ago!" he called out. He tried walked through the hologram, only to get shocked in the process. "Hey!"
Seifer spun around, seeing the demon try and get through. "Squall...they'll break it down."
Squall spun around, anger raging in his eyes. "I don't care about any demons! I want my wife to survive! The only way I see that happening right now is through Odine!"
Seifer glared at Squall and followed him. They walked through the entrance of the city, guards saluting Squall as he walked by. Seifer just scornfully followed, his jacket trailing off into the wind. They entered the President's Palace and walked towards the chair that flew them up to the President's office and past Odine's room.
They got off of the chair and walked straight into the President's office. Kiros and Ward looked over at Squall, only to tap his father on the shoulder. Laguna quickly stood up, the piles of paper up to his neck, and smiled at Squall, only to frown once again when he saw Quistis. "What's wrong?" he asked, walking around the stacks of papers and to his son.
"I need Odine," he said. Laguna looked at Quistis, her entire face pale as ice. "I need Odine now."
"He's at his lab, we can take the presidents car."
ooooooooooo
They reached the lab on the outskirts of Esthar. Squall lifted Quistis into his arms and looked up into the sky. He saw something flying straight towards them. Seifer spun around and looked up at the sky as well. All of them heard the shout. "Yaaahoooooooo!" Seifer rolled his eyes and walked into the laboratory. Squall followed.
Irvine landed on the ground with a thud and Nero eased his landing. Nero walked in as well, waving hello to the shocked president. Irvine galloped past him, screaming about how cool that was.
Inside, Odine had already lay Quistis down on the examination table. He quickly pulled out a needle and rushed Irvine and Seifer out of the room. "I muzt have only two people in here at vone time! It iz too crowded in ziz room!"
Irvine nodded his head and walked out, only to confront a confused Laguna. Seifer stared down at Quistis. Nero looked at Seifer and grasped his arm. He knew...he knew all to well what it was like to lose a loved one. "I'm sorry, Squall. But if I stay in here, Seifer needs to stay in here."
Squall turned around, looking at Nero. "Why?"
Nero cracked a smile. "Well, simply because he is the same as me. If it concerns Quistis, we both need to be there."
Squall nodded his head and turned to Odine. Odine stuck the needle in her, extracted some blood, and waddled over to the microscope and did his thing. (A/N: If my boyfriend, who is a science freak, were here watching me type this part, he'd have a shit fit! I might change it and get him to tell me the more 'technical' terms later on when I do the revised edition. LoL)
"Intriguing...very intriguing...Zis zample of blood iz very vamiliar," Odine muttered out. He waddled over to the computer and typed in a few things. He clicked on the large monitor and in front of them was a picture of a blood sample. He waddled over to the other large monitor, showing Quistis' blood sample.
They were identical in every nature. Nero stood up from where he was seated and looked at the two. "What is that sample's name?"
"Lee, Calanthia," Odine said. "A very vine zpecimen." Nero stood there, his jaw opened. "She iz ztill vith me. Allow me to show you." He waddled across the room and pressed a button, opening the door. Nero rushed right behind him. "Zere she iz!"
The three of them stood there, their mouths opened wide. Inside a blue glass tube was a Quistis replica. She had flowing honey blonde hair, a Roman nose, soft full lips, long legs, pale skin, the works. "Oh my god, we found her," Nero mouthed out. "We found the missing blue mage! Odine, do you think you could get a blood sample of hers and place it into Quistis?"
Odine nodded his head slowly. "Yez, but...vhy?" Odine pulled out a long thin needle and walked over to a black patch in the tube. He stuck the needle in, letting it reach Calanthia's hip. He drew out the blood that filled the needle and then slowly pulled the needle out. He walked into the other room, only to have Nero stand right behind him.
"This will cure Quistis!" Nero said excitedly. Odine shrugged and placed the needle into her arm, ejecting the blood that once flowed through Calanthia's veins into her veins. Squall and Seifer looked over the shoulders of Nero and Odine.
ooooooooooo
Inside of Quistis' mind, she watched in horror as she saw herself battling against some strange woman. She had flowing brown hair that was longer than she was. She had dashing green eyes and wore a short black skirt and a black bra, if you could call it that. She held a two-handed sword with one hand, while her other hand helped her achieve balance. She pierced the air where Quistis was.
Suddenly, the Quistis that she saw spun in circles, her hair growing a few inches and turning a slightly darker blonde. She turned to face Quistis, her sparkling sapphire eyes blasting the strange woman away.
ooooooooooo
Quistis' eyes bolted open. She sat up, knocking Odine out of her way. Sweat dripped down her forehead and she slowly touched her face. "What...happened?" she asked out to no on in particular.
Squall walked to the end of the bed, grabbing her ankles. "Quistis?" he called out. Quistis turned and looked at him, confusion filling her face. "Sorceress Eleni had you under a...spell I guess you would call it."
Quistis looked around the room, her eyes locking with Seifer's. She quickly turned away from it, looking at Nero. "Nero...I..."
"We found the missing Blue Mage...your...mother," Nero whispered out.