Note: Hello everyone! I think this chapter will be the best one I've
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Disclaimer: I don't Final Fantasy 8. The only thing I do own is Angelina!
The headmaster's office was very spacious. There were three oak tables with five chairs at each table. A man in his early 50's was standing at the front of the room. Seifer was sitting at the middle table. He looked at her with an emotion she couldn't quite place. 'What's that murderer looking at?'
"Good afternoon Angelina; sit down please." He motioned to the table Seifer was sitting at. She gave Seifer a deadly glare as he lustily stared at her. 'I wish he would stop drooling over me; it's disgusting.' "I believe you both know why I called you here today." Both Seifer and Angelina nodded.
"Excuse me." Seifer began. "Am I working with this- he glanced at her. Woman?" Cid chuckled a bit. Angelina found nothing humorous about the conversation. 'If that bastard cracks one more joke about me I swear, I'll kill him.'
"Yes Seifer, you will be working with Angelina." Cid answered. Seifer's sharp, green eyes widened when he heard this. 'Angelina. I know this beautiful girl! I fought her two years ago in Galbadia.' Angelina however, wanted the conversation to go into detail about their mission.
"Excuse me headmaster, but don't you think you should explain the mission details? Some of us might not know how dangerous it truly is." Cid nodded and smiled.
"Why yes of course. You will be going to Timber right after this meeting." He announced. Angelina gasped. Today? He wanted them to go today? This was absurd. She glanced at Seifer and had a feeling he was thinking the same thing.
"Cid, don't you think we should have time to pack?" Seifer asked. Cid smiled and there was no humor when he did.
"You won't need to pack." He explained. "Where you're going, luggage would only hinder your progress." "I believe Angelina knows what we're talking about." He finished. She nodded gravely. Seifer couldn't help but think. 'What the hell are they talking about? Why am I even here?' He would rather be at a bar, getting drunk, and going home with the first girl who asked. Did everyone want him to be unhappy?
"I do unfortunately." She began. "The place we're going is known as the forbidden prison. I however, prefer to call it the prison from hell. People will go in, but won't get out." She finished.
"Okay. What the hell is the forbidden prison?" He boomed. "Why should we care?"
Angelina glared at him. "You might care if you had dreams about it every single night!" She spat.
"Okay, what's with this bitchy attitude? I barely know you!" He claimed.
"I know you do Seifer. You killed my friends. The only people I had close to me and you killed them! If I was you I'd watch my back." She warned. "You never know when someone might stab it." Seifer gulped. 'I'd better be careful around this girl. She sounds dangerous.'
"There will be no killing, both of you!" Cid bellowed. "I would focus my energy on the monsters inside the prison." He advised.
"Wait a minute. There are monsters inside this prison?" Seifer asked.
"Of course." She smugly began. "It's a prison. I'd be more worried about what's inside the darkness.
"Why? What's in there?" He choked.
"People who've been left inside there to die, rotting bodies, deranged prisoners, everything you are basically." She purred.
"Oh, you sure you're not talking about yourself?" He mocked. "Cause I see a resemblance."
Angelina stood up and got out her gun blade. "Would you like to say that again?" She dared. "Or has my gun blade destroyed your courage?"
"Both of you, enough!" "I want you both in the training room together, practicing! Dismissed."
* * *
"Angelina, you're the only girl I know who uses a gun blade." Seifer proclaimed. "Why do you use it?"
"My father suggested that I train with one since I was the only girl who could pick one up. Why are you bothering me with this?" She asked in an irritated tone. She didn't want to talk to him at all. Training with him will be a nightmare.
"Well excuse me for asking a damn question! If you ask me someone's PMSing." He murmured.
"Well no one was asking you." She hissed. "So shut up!" Seifer rolled his eyes. 'This girl is mental! First she tries to fight me, now she screamed at me. What's next?' Before he could finish his thoughts, a massive Tyrexaur jogged in front of them.
"Shit, a Tyrexaur!" He shouted. "Angelina, use your GFs!" Before she could summon them, The Tyrexaur swiped its huge tail and they both fell backwards. Seifer, with his low HP, was immediately knocked unconscious. Angelina cast cure on herself and him. She wanted him dead; but in a fair fight. He didn't stand a chance here. There was only one thing she could do. Use her secret weapon and get them the hell away from that Tyrexaur.
Angelina took out her gun blade, and let the light reflect off of it. She closed her eyes and opened her mind. She felt her gun blade grow hot. She opened her eyes, raised up her gun blade, and slashed at the creature. After she was done, the Tyrexaur collapsed to the ground and vanished from sight.
Angelina kneeled by Seifer and roughly shook him. He slowly awoke. Unfortunately he had no broken bones. "What happened?" He murmered.
"You were knocked out by a Tyrexaur, you're lucky to be alive." She said gently as she helped him up. "I saved you." As much as she hated him, she couldn't kill him. 'There's something about him that prevents me from killing him. What is it?'
"You saved me?" He stuttered. He couldn't believe it! 'This girl tried to kill me!' Had she forgiven him or was she merely saving her revenge for later? 'Women are confusing, especially that Rinoa. I'm so glad that I got out when I had the chance. I feel bad for Squall.'
"I think it would be a good idea if we forget this ever happened." She suggested. She was beginning to think she had feelings for the asshole. 'That very thought makes me sick.' They then left the training center and made their way to the front gate.
"Angelina do you have enough Gil for a train ticket?" Seifer asked.
"I have more than enough, thank you." She replied. "I take it we're walking to Balamb Town?"
"Well duh! It'll only take 20 minutes." He laughed. "Why, do you have a problem with walking?" He joked. "Cause I could carry you. You know I'd love that."
"You're such a filthy pig!" She spat.
"Oh really." He mocked. "If I'm such a filthy pig, then why did you help me?" Angelina said nothing. "I see, you do have feelings for me." 'Hyne, what's his problem?'
"You wish." She shot back. "You really think that I'd have feelings for a bastard like you?"
"If you dropped that attitude yeah." He suggested.
* * *
Angelina and Seifer finally arrived at balamb town. It was dusk and the town people were returning to their homes for dinner. Angelina regretted her harsh words. Seifer had grown unusually quiet. 'Well he deserved it! The bastard, thinking I'm that kind of girl!'
Still, she felt she could have been a bit nicer about it. They finally got to the station after what seemed like an eternity of walking. They then paid for their tickets and boarded the train. In the SEED cabin, all Angelina could think about was sleep. She lay down on the sofa and entered the dream world.
* * *
Angelina found herself in a cell, tied up with enchanted rope. She could only barely see her surroundings. There were some magical orbs of light on walls, lighting them up.
"Hello Angelina." A woman's voice crooned. "So nice of you to join me. I've been expecting you."
"Who are you?" Angelina shouted. "What do you want with me?"
"All I want is your soul." The voice purred. "If you'll let me have it.
"Why the hell do you want my soul?" Angelina asked.
"I need it to be resurrected." She growled. "So long I've been cooped here like a chicken! But not anymore, you humans will pay for destroying me!"
"Who the hell are you?" Angelina yelled.
"Why Angelina, you don't remember me?" She purred. "I was known as the most powerful sorceress of all time."
"Oh hyne!" Angelina exclaimed. "You're Adel!"
"Yes Angelina." She said darkly. "Now give me your soul."
"You'll have to kill me if you want my soul." Angelina panted.
"That won't be necessary." Adel cackled. "You'll gladly give up your soul for your sister's safety."
"What the hell are you planning to do to my baby sister?" She growled.
"You'll soon see." She laughed madly.
"Noooo!" Angelina screamed. "Rinoa!"
* * *
She found herself on the floor with a nasty bruise on her head. Seifer was kneeling beside her with a worried look on his face.
"Angelina calm down. It was just a dream!" He soothed her.
"Seifer we have to go back to Balamb!" She panted. "Rinoa's in danger."
"Calm down. You hit your head when you fell off the sofa." He whispered. "It was all a dream. Nothing more." He wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"No it wasn't a dream. It felt too real to be a dream." She shivered. He stroked her cheek.
"Angelina, people have realistic dreams all the time. It doesn't mean anything." He preached.
"Not for me." She sobbed. "I've had dreams like this ever since I was a little girl. They always came true."
"You mean this isn't the first time this has happened." He asked. She nodded sadly.
"It all started when I was four." She explained. "I had gotten separated from my mom. Adel appeared out of nowhere and attacked some old woman. I remember the pain I had felt as I watched the woman die a slow, agonizing death. Ever since then, I would have dreams about what any evil sorceress would do next. It's a curse."
"Okay. Tell me what happened." He advised.
"It was horrible." She began. "I was in a cell, tied up with enchanted rope. Some woman who was in fact, Adel asked me for my soul. I told her "Hell no" and she threatened Rinoa's life for my soul."
"Look Angelina." He assured her as he helped her up onto the sofa. "I'm sure Rinoa's fine. Besides, I like you too much to let someone take your soul." He moved towards her. She felt his lips touch hers. 'Hyne his lips taste good.' He withdrew his lips and said. "You know, you're beautiful when you're not trying to kill me." He joked.
Angelina lightly smiled, then darkened into a frown. He looked at her with questioning eyes. "Don't you ever touch me like that again. She hissed. "Or I'll kill you!"
When their stop came, all he could think about was why she was so angry all the time.
* * *
"Hey, this is a nice room!" He chatted.
"I prefer the bathroom." She replied. They had gotten a room at Timber Hotel.
"Well yeah you're a girl!" He laughed. She glared at him.
"I'm entitled to my feminine side you know." She said irritably.
"Oh really." He challenged. "This is a new flash!" She turned and abruptly left. She wanted to get as far away from him as possible.
'What's wrong with me? Why do I always push the people who love me away?' He'd kissed her and god, did it feel good. She wanted him to do more than kiss her, but she was afraid. 'Why am I so scared? He murdered my closest friends under Ultmecia's spell but that's not it.' It was something deeper and more personal.
'No I can't think about that. That memory has been carefully hidden in my mind.' She knew she would have to encounter it later, if she wanted to love Seifer.
Note: That ends chapter 2. I know you guys wanna see some romance, or what's bothering Angelina. Wait until chapter 3! The last thing I'm going to say is REVIEW!
Disclaimer: I don't Final Fantasy 8. The only thing I do own is Angelina!
The headmaster's office was very spacious. There were three oak tables with five chairs at each table. A man in his early 50's was standing at the front of the room. Seifer was sitting at the middle table. He looked at her with an emotion she couldn't quite place. 'What's that murderer looking at?'
"Good afternoon Angelina; sit down please." He motioned to the table Seifer was sitting at. She gave Seifer a deadly glare as he lustily stared at her. 'I wish he would stop drooling over me; it's disgusting.' "I believe you both know why I called you here today." Both Seifer and Angelina nodded.
"Excuse me." Seifer began. "Am I working with this- he glanced at her. Woman?" Cid chuckled a bit. Angelina found nothing humorous about the conversation. 'If that bastard cracks one more joke about me I swear, I'll kill him.'
"Yes Seifer, you will be working with Angelina." Cid answered. Seifer's sharp, green eyes widened when he heard this. 'Angelina. I know this beautiful girl! I fought her two years ago in Galbadia.' Angelina however, wanted the conversation to go into detail about their mission.
"Excuse me headmaster, but don't you think you should explain the mission details? Some of us might not know how dangerous it truly is." Cid nodded and smiled.
"Why yes of course. You will be going to Timber right after this meeting." He announced. Angelina gasped. Today? He wanted them to go today? This was absurd. She glanced at Seifer and had a feeling he was thinking the same thing.
"Cid, don't you think we should have time to pack?" Seifer asked. Cid smiled and there was no humor when he did.
"You won't need to pack." He explained. "Where you're going, luggage would only hinder your progress." "I believe Angelina knows what we're talking about." He finished. She nodded gravely. Seifer couldn't help but think. 'What the hell are they talking about? Why am I even here?' He would rather be at a bar, getting drunk, and going home with the first girl who asked. Did everyone want him to be unhappy?
"I do unfortunately." She began. "The place we're going is known as the forbidden prison. I however, prefer to call it the prison from hell. People will go in, but won't get out." She finished.
"Okay. What the hell is the forbidden prison?" He boomed. "Why should we care?"
Angelina glared at him. "You might care if you had dreams about it every single night!" She spat.
"Okay, what's with this bitchy attitude? I barely know you!" He claimed.
"I know you do Seifer. You killed my friends. The only people I had close to me and you killed them! If I was you I'd watch my back." She warned. "You never know when someone might stab it." Seifer gulped. 'I'd better be careful around this girl. She sounds dangerous.'
"There will be no killing, both of you!" Cid bellowed. "I would focus my energy on the monsters inside the prison." He advised.
"Wait a minute. There are monsters inside this prison?" Seifer asked.
"Of course." She smugly began. "It's a prison. I'd be more worried about what's inside the darkness.
"Why? What's in there?" He choked.
"People who've been left inside there to die, rotting bodies, deranged prisoners, everything you are basically." She purred.
"Oh, you sure you're not talking about yourself?" He mocked. "Cause I see a resemblance."
Angelina stood up and got out her gun blade. "Would you like to say that again?" She dared. "Or has my gun blade destroyed your courage?"
"Both of you, enough!" "I want you both in the training room together, practicing! Dismissed."
* * *
"Angelina, you're the only girl I know who uses a gun blade." Seifer proclaimed. "Why do you use it?"
"My father suggested that I train with one since I was the only girl who could pick one up. Why are you bothering me with this?" She asked in an irritated tone. She didn't want to talk to him at all. Training with him will be a nightmare.
"Well excuse me for asking a damn question! If you ask me someone's PMSing." He murmured.
"Well no one was asking you." She hissed. "So shut up!" Seifer rolled his eyes. 'This girl is mental! First she tries to fight me, now she screamed at me. What's next?' Before he could finish his thoughts, a massive Tyrexaur jogged in front of them.
"Shit, a Tyrexaur!" He shouted. "Angelina, use your GFs!" Before she could summon them, The Tyrexaur swiped its huge tail and they both fell backwards. Seifer, with his low HP, was immediately knocked unconscious. Angelina cast cure on herself and him. She wanted him dead; but in a fair fight. He didn't stand a chance here. There was only one thing she could do. Use her secret weapon and get them the hell away from that Tyrexaur.
Angelina took out her gun blade, and let the light reflect off of it. She closed her eyes and opened her mind. She felt her gun blade grow hot. She opened her eyes, raised up her gun blade, and slashed at the creature. After she was done, the Tyrexaur collapsed to the ground and vanished from sight.
Angelina kneeled by Seifer and roughly shook him. He slowly awoke. Unfortunately he had no broken bones. "What happened?" He murmered.
"You were knocked out by a Tyrexaur, you're lucky to be alive." She said gently as she helped him up. "I saved you." As much as she hated him, she couldn't kill him. 'There's something about him that prevents me from killing him. What is it?'
"You saved me?" He stuttered. He couldn't believe it! 'This girl tried to kill me!' Had she forgiven him or was she merely saving her revenge for later? 'Women are confusing, especially that Rinoa. I'm so glad that I got out when I had the chance. I feel bad for Squall.'
"I think it would be a good idea if we forget this ever happened." She suggested. She was beginning to think she had feelings for the asshole. 'That very thought makes me sick.' They then left the training center and made their way to the front gate.
"Angelina do you have enough Gil for a train ticket?" Seifer asked.
"I have more than enough, thank you." She replied. "I take it we're walking to Balamb Town?"
"Well duh! It'll only take 20 minutes." He laughed. "Why, do you have a problem with walking?" He joked. "Cause I could carry you. You know I'd love that."
"You're such a filthy pig!" She spat.
"Oh really." He mocked. "If I'm such a filthy pig, then why did you help me?" Angelina said nothing. "I see, you do have feelings for me." 'Hyne, what's his problem?'
"You wish." She shot back. "You really think that I'd have feelings for a bastard like you?"
"If you dropped that attitude yeah." He suggested.
* * *
Angelina and Seifer finally arrived at balamb town. It was dusk and the town people were returning to their homes for dinner. Angelina regretted her harsh words. Seifer had grown unusually quiet. 'Well he deserved it! The bastard, thinking I'm that kind of girl!'
Still, she felt she could have been a bit nicer about it. They finally got to the station after what seemed like an eternity of walking. They then paid for their tickets and boarded the train. In the SEED cabin, all Angelina could think about was sleep. She lay down on the sofa and entered the dream world.
* * *
Angelina found herself in a cell, tied up with enchanted rope. She could only barely see her surroundings. There were some magical orbs of light on walls, lighting them up.
"Hello Angelina." A woman's voice crooned. "So nice of you to join me. I've been expecting you."
"Who are you?" Angelina shouted. "What do you want with me?"
"All I want is your soul." The voice purred. "If you'll let me have it.
"Why the hell do you want my soul?" Angelina asked.
"I need it to be resurrected." She growled. "So long I've been cooped here like a chicken! But not anymore, you humans will pay for destroying me!"
"Who the hell are you?" Angelina yelled.
"Why Angelina, you don't remember me?" She purred. "I was known as the most powerful sorceress of all time."
"Oh hyne!" Angelina exclaimed. "You're Adel!"
"Yes Angelina." She said darkly. "Now give me your soul."
"You'll have to kill me if you want my soul." Angelina panted.
"That won't be necessary." Adel cackled. "You'll gladly give up your soul for your sister's safety."
"What the hell are you planning to do to my baby sister?" She growled.
"You'll soon see." She laughed madly.
"Noooo!" Angelina screamed. "Rinoa!"
* * *
She found herself on the floor with a nasty bruise on her head. Seifer was kneeling beside her with a worried look on his face.
"Angelina calm down. It was just a dream!" He soothed her.
"Seifer we have to go back to Balamb!" She panted. "Rinoa's in danger."
"Calm down. You hit your head when you fell off the sofa." He whispered. "It was all a dream. Nothing more." He wiped the sweat from her forehead.
"No it wasn't a dream. It felt too real to be a dream." She shivered. He stroked her cheek.
"Angelina, people have realistic dreams all the time. It doesn't mean anything." He preached.
"Not for me." She sobbed. "I've had dreams like this ever since I was a little girl. They always came true."
"You mean this isn't the first time this has happened." He asked. She nodded sadly.
"It all started when I was four." She explained. "I had gotten separated from my mom. Adel appeared out of nowhere and attacked some old woman. I remember the pain I had felt as I watched the woman die a slow, agonizing death. Ever since then, I would have dreams about what any evil sorceress would do next. It's a curse."
"Okay. Tell me what happened." He advised.
"It was horrible." She began. "I was in a cell, tied up with enchanted rope. Some woman who was in fact, Adel asked me for my soul. I told her "Hell no" and she threatened Rinoa's life for my soul."
"Look Angelina." He assured her as he helped her up onto the sofa. "I'm sure Rinoa's fine. Besides, I like you too much to let someone take your soul." He moved towards her. She felt his lips touch hers. 'Hyne his lips taste good.' He withdrew his lips and said. "You know, you're beautiful when you're not trying to kill me." He joked.
Angelina lightly smiled, then darkened into a frown. He looked at her with questioning eyes. "Don't you ever touch me like that again. She hissed. "Or I'll kill you!"
When their stop came, all he could think about was why she was so angry all the time.
* * *
"Hey, this is a nice room!" He chatted.
"I prefer the bathroom." She replied. They had gotten a room at Timber Hotel.
"Well yeah you're a girl!" He laughed. She glared at him.
"I'm entitled to my feminine side you know." She said irritably.
"Oh really." He challenged. "This is a new flash!" She turned and abruptly left. She wanted to get as far away from him as possible.
'What's wrong with me? Why do I always push the people who love me away?' He'd kissed her and god, did it feel good. She wanted him to do more than kiss her, but she was afraid. 'Why am I so scared? He murdered my closest friends under Ultmecia's spell but that's not it.' It was something deeper and more personal.
'No I can't think about that. That memory has been carefully hidden in my mind.' She knew she would have to encounter it later, if she wanted to love Seifer.
Note: That ends chapter 2. I know you guys wanna see some romance, or what's bothering Angelina. Wait until chapter 3! The last thing I'm going to say is REVIEW!