Disclaim: I don't own any Characters from Final Fantasy 8, expect for my characters.
Spirit Realm. (The GF world)
The area was bright coloured, with glowing blue fairies flying about happily. There was a center platform made of a white glowing martial, hovering in an endless space, with a water fountain in the center. The platform had connecting bridges extending to small platforms where a mirror framed in stone stood.
The reflection in each mirror was different. One had a reflection of world covered in flames, lava and fire blowing high and the temperature high enough to melt and cook metal. Others had reflections of a world covered in ice, another world with a lot of forest, another world in darkness almost pitch black, and a world with lot of clouds. In each world a GF could be found according to its element.
A blue Fairy flew down on the platform and a sudden ray of light surround the fairy. The light covered the fairy until it vanished, revealing a human sized fairy female with wings. The Fairy had long blonde hair and blue eyes, leather boots that reached just below her knee and a yellow short dress, finishing about halfway down her upper leg. The fairy bushed her hair back and sat down, lending against the fountain with her knees lock up to her chest.
"Hello Jade" a harsh voice said. The Fairy smiled and turned to her left.
"Hello Cerberus, how are you feeling today?" The three-headed dog moved closer and sat on its hind legs.
"I'm Fine!" the top head replied, nicely
"I'm Furious!" the head on the right replied, harshly.
"I'm ok" the head on the left replied with sorrow. The fairy giggled and winked.
"Oh you guys!" Jade said and blew each head a kiss. The top head smiled and left head tried to smile but the right head turned away, ignoring the gesture. Cerberus rose from its hind legs and slowly turned around. Jade also rose and flew next to the GF.
"Cerberus?" Jade asked. The three heads all looked at her staring down at them from above. "What is it like to have three heads? How can you all move together?"
"With great difficulty!" all three heads responded. Again the fairy giggled lightly.
"Hello Cerberus! Hello Jade!" a cool and polite voice shouted. The three headed dog and Jade stopped and turned around. Walking towards them was a woman; whose skin was blue and cold, hair was blonde with a hint of blue among the blonde and symbols or lines on her body in a darker blue.
"Shiva! What brings you here?" Cerberus (all three heads) asked. The GF stopped in front of the two and crossed her arms while lending forwards.
"I'm meeting with some other GF's, and I was wounding if you'll like to join us?" Shiva answered. The head on the right had already made up its mind, but was overruled by the other two.
"We'll gladly come with you!" the top and right head shouted.
"Jade come with?" the head on the left asked. Jade smiled and nodded her head. Shiva smiled and turned about, with Cerberus and Jade trailing behind.
They reached a mirror with a world that was a mixture of the other worlds put together. Shiva outstretched her arm and touched the mirror, vanishing inside the world as she did. Cerberus reached out with its paw and vanished. Jade also outstretched her arm to touch the mirror surface.
The three stood upon the cliff where the mirror stood and gazed upon the mixed up world. The landscape was divided into may sections, made up of fire, ice, water, forest, darkness and so on.
"Finally made it! About time!" a harsh and deep voice shouted. The three turned to a group of GF's, gathered around the mirror. Ifrit, the fire demon stepped forward with his arms crossed and stared at the others in front of him. "What took you so long?!"
"Next time don't get here so early!" the right head snapped in defense. Ifrit crouched down and patted the right head hard, almost bashing the brains out of it. The right head quickly moved and bite down into Ifrit's hand. Ifrit roared and threw Cerberus to the ground.
"There is no point to this Auguring!"
The two battling GF's paused and peered in the sky above. Slowly descending from the clouds came three other GFs. Ifrit snarled and turned his back. Bahamut, landed between the two with its wings outstretched; Diablos and Quezacotl surrounded the fire demon, which growled at their present. Bahamut turned and looked at the back of Ifrit. "Your temper is just…"
"Is just FINE! Now leave me alone!!" the fire demon growled, breaking the barrier Diablos and Quezacolt made.
"Watch it Ifrit! Or I'll have to join in this fight!" Diablos shouted, not looking at the GF. Ifrit laughed heavily, daring Diablos to intervene. Bahamut shook his head and slowly walked up to Shiva, bowing his head slightly.
"Dear Shiva. It's been a while, since the humans have summoned us!" Bahamut said. Shiva nodded. "I have word that Alexander is waiting for us"
"That hunk of metal?!" the right head of Cerberus shouted. "How is it, that thing always gets here before anyone else?!" Quezacotl flew over the group of GF's and turned back, casting his shadow over them.
"You think Alexander would get here just by crawling on the ground as he does? He gets here by his own magic of teleport! He'll be too slow if he didn't use it" Quezacotl explained, diving off the cliff and flying in and out of the divide worlds. Diablos spread out his wings, cracking his head side to side before jumping into the air.
"Are you guys coming or do we have to carry you?" Diablos flapped his wings and sped off, disappearing into the divide part of the nearly complete darkness. Ifrit smashed his hands together and growled causing the place to shake. He took a step forwards and suddenly fell to the ground, suddenly feeling weak and a cold shiver down his body. Shiva walked in front of the fallen GF and knelled down.
"Don't get angry or else I'll have to put you on ice!" Shiva whispered in Ifrit's ear, sending another cold chill down his body. The fire demon's oranges eyes widen and then harden. Ifrit jump to his feet and walked to the edge.
"Never touch me again!!" he growled, causing the place to shake again. "But it won't come to that!" suddenly flying in the air with the edge of the cliff engulfed in flames. Shiva smiled which then weaken into something else.
"Shiva!" Cerberus shouted. The Ice Spirit turned to Cerberus, would had Jade on its back. Shiva smiled and jumped on. Cerberus recoiled at the sudden change of temperature. It shook off the cold sweat and leaped down the cliff, soon running through the forest.
The three pass through the forest, as fast as Cerberus could go. Having two others on his back caused him to slow down a bit, but it was Shiva who made it hard, with her cold body and her freezing cold arms around the top head's neck. Jade grabbed what she could of Cerberus without trying to touch Shiva. She stared around the passing forest that seem like a blur to her. She turned her head forward and peered up as a giant shadow cast over them.
"What is that?!" Jade almost shrieked. Shiva and Cerberus looked up too, seeing a huge metallic object.
"That hunk of metal?! That nothing!" The right head explained. Shiva turned her head to Jade.
"That Hunk of Metal!" Shiva shouted, raising her voice so the right head could hear her. "That Alexander! He doesn't talk much! And don't be worry he doesn't attack anyone until he his summoned!" Jade felt calmer and smiled. Cerberus took a deep breath and increased his speed.
The GFs waited for the others to arrive. Each sat in their part of the divided world. Diablos was almost completely gone, expect for his glowing eyes. Quezacotl and Bahamut mainly flew around in the clouds and would stay on the ground for a few minutes. Minotaur and Scared, who just arrived by means or Minotaur 's air service, remained in the forest. Siren and Leviathan swam in the water, playfully and Pandemona just sat against Alexander.
"We're here!" Cerberus shouted, appearing from the bushes, with Shiva and Jade on its back. The group of GFs stared and watched as the two dismounted from Cerberus's back. Cerberus shook off Shiva's cold feeling and slowly walked into the divide between the desert and the darkness. Shiva sat down on her Ice throne crossing her legs together and her arms across her chest whilst she stared at Ifrit on his fiery throne. Together they made a circle where everyone could be seen and heard.
"Alright Shiva!" Ifrit growled, his eyes closed and his arms crossed. "What is it that you wanted, for all of us to be here?!" Shiva coughed loudly, getting Ifrit's attention and giving him a demonstration of her powers. Ifrit growled and remained silent.
"But what is it that you wanted?" Leviathan roared, from the water. Shiva grabbed her shoulder crossing her arms cross her cold body.
"It's about Ultimicia…"
"Don't bring that up!" Diablos shouted, his eyes flaring. "She's gone and died, the battle is over and lets leave it at that!"
"But she made me feel… so cold!" she explained.
"Shiva you are always cold!" Siren stated.
"I mean a much deeper cold, something I've never felt before" Ifrit rolled his eyes. "But at the same time, I feel she isn't gone, not completely"
"Is that all?!" Ifrit roared, standing from his throne. "Ultimicia is gone for! She died and we survive end of story!"
"SHUT UP IFRIT!!" Minotaur shouted, holding his mace in the one hand. "I agree with Shiva! Just looking at her made me feel the same way. Sacred also felt this!"
"I felt it" Bahamut growled.
"Same" Pandemona spoke up. Leviathan and Siren agree, as they too felt the same.
"You must have felt it too Ifrit" Quezacotl said. Everyone stared at Ifrit, who started to peer at everyone's expression. Finally getting sick of their faces he turned his back.
"Yeah! I felt it! But what does it matter now?" he asked. "She's no longer alive!"
"Then why do we feel different?!" Shiva cried. "Why do we feel that she's still alive?!" Ifrit uncrossed his arms and slowly sat down in his chair. The thought was new and he had hardly taken any notice of the feeling he and the others felt.
"We can't understand something we've never experience" Bahamut explained, wrapping himself in his wings. The group lowed their heads and fall into deep thought.
Jade peered at everyone in silence, seeing everyone in deep thought and concentration. She then turned her glare to Cerberus, which two of its head were in deep thought while the right head was staring at everyone. Jade tapped the head and lend into its open ear.
"Who 's Ultimicia?" Jade asked. The right head looked around one more time and pulled itself closer to the human sized fairy.
"Ultimicia was a powerful sorceress, who lived in the future. She wanted to compress time, which in the end is did" The right head explained in whispers as not to disturb anyone else.
"Time compression? Sorceresses of the future? I don't get it"
"It's hard to explain, but she came from the future! Squall Leonhart and a few other mortals went to the future and destroyed the sorceresses!"
"So what are you guys talking about?"
"We feel that she wasn't fully destroyed; we can't explain it but we can feel it" The right head finished. Jade sat back and pounded on her own then moved back to the right head.
"Who's Squall?" Jade asked.
"I'll tell you later"
"What do we do now?" Siren asked, breaking the silence. The group then started to stir. Ifrit turned to Pandemona, on his right and began to chat. Minotaur turned to his big, yet smaller brother and started to talk. Quezacotl and Bahamut stayed on the ground and talk. Cerberus and Jade began to talk, Jade mostly asking questions. Leviathan and Siren began to talk, even though the sea serpent was still under water.
Shiva, Diablos and Alexander remained quite under the heavy chattering. They didn't have anything to add or say and remain that way.
After hours of talking the group began to disembark. The main subject of Ultimicia was finished but not understood and after that was mainly small talk that didn't last every long and lost interest every soon. The group moved together as they reached the mirror to enter the main area and from there they separated to their own worlds.
Shiva stood by her palace's window over looking the planet's frozen wasteland and the creatures that inhabit the ice world. She saw a pack of Snowlions moving across the frozen water, each one protecting the other. She placed her hand on the sidewall of the open window and slowly turned away.
"I know we talked about her, but why do we feel this way?" she asked herself. She stood in the middle of her great hall, staring at her ice throne. "We GFs are not meant to feel these kinds of emotion! Then why is this happening?" she moved towards her throne and stopped at the stairs. She examined the chair and crossed her arms. "Is it because of the humans? We live in their minds and therefore we learn from them? Become a part of them?" she walked up to her throne and sat down. The cold not affecting her. "Are these emotion from the humans? Did we take a part of them into ourselves?"
Shiva swept her head after a few droplets of sweat formed. She looked at the sweat and frowned.
"I'm thinking too much! It's causing me to heat up!" she thought. She lend forward and rested her elbows on her legs and hided her face in her hands. "What am I meant to do?" she dropped her left arm from her face and rested it on her knees.
A few more droplets of sweat form and Shiva kept cleaning them away, still believing that all this over thinking was making her brain fry.
She cleaned her forehead once again and placed her hand to the side, shaking her hand up and down trying to clean the sweat from her fingers, But to feel a sharp fiery pain on her hand as she brought it down in front of her.
Shiva quickly raised her head and found a glowing red rock in front of her, heat emitting from the small object.
"What the?! What is this?!" she slowly reached out for it and touched it, feeling a sharp and fiery pain on her fingers. Shiva stood up and moved past the object, staring at it as she spilt pass.
She frowned in confusion and turned around to the great hall's door, only to find more small red rocks. There was about thirteen or more flying around the place. She step a bit closer and paused as one of the rock landed on her ice floor, causing steam to appear as the rock burned into the ice.
She started become worry, even afraid as more and more red rocks appeared and started to melt away her ice. She split pass the rocks with great care, closing the doors of the hall, as she exist. She moved away from the door and frowned, with narrow eyes.
"IFRIT!!!" she screamed, throwing her hands to her sides, trying to overcome the pain of the heated floor in front of the fire palace. Her skin started to heat up rather quickly and she felt as if she was melting right there and then. She always knew and understood why she hated to go into Ifrit fiery world, she knew if she stayed too long she could become nothing less then a puddle of water.
"IFRIT!! GET DOWN HERE!!!" She screamed again, feeling the fire within her grow as well as around her.
Suddenly, a circle of fire appeared from the red dust covered ground, the flames growing five feet taller than Shiva. The flames died down to reveal the giant red Demon. Ifrit roared and then peered at Shiva with a shocked expression.
"Shiva?! What are you doing here?! You know that you can't stay in here for too long!" Ifrit reminded. Shiva narrowed her eyes and threw her left arm to the side.
"Don't worry!" She shouted. "This won't take long!" Ifrit became a bit confused, never seeing this side to the ice spirit. "Ifrit! Get you dam fire rocks out of my kingdom!" Ifrit went blank, while scratching his blown back, fire like hair.
"Fire rocks?! What rocks?!" he asked.
"Don't play dumb with me!"
"Honestly Shiva! I don't know what you are talking about! I didn't send any rock to you kingdom!"
"Don't you lied to me Ifrit!!" she screamed, curling her hand into a fist in front of his face. "Now get these things out of my ICE KINGDOM!!!" she screamed, pointing to one of the rock that just blew in between the two GFs. Ifrit stare at the rock and grabbed it, only to recoil after feeling a cold sharp pain.
"What the hell!" Ifrit roared. "That things cold as!" Shiva now became confused. She went to grabbed it and recoil back after feeling a sharp hot pain.
"B-but… that burns… me?" she said slowly, staring at Ifrit. Ifrit rubbed his head and titled his head back, suddenly dropping open his mouth.
"What the hell is this?!" he roared. Shiva quickly turned her head up to the red looking sky and saw tens of thousands of red rocks falling onto the hot floor, turning a small potion of the ground to ice. Steam started to raise and everything was staring to freezes, slowly but surely.
"What do we do?! What do we do Ifrit?!" Shiva cried backing into the demon's chest and then bouncing back because of his heat. Suddenly, the rocks started to land between them. Both Ifrit and Shiva quickly jumped out the way before getting hit.
Ifrit jumped to his feet and ran towards Shiva, who had a hard time trying to stand.
She slowly got onto her hands and looked down at her long blue legs. They started to smoke and sweat, slowly turning into water. Her vision then became blurry and she felt weak all over. She had stay too long in the fire realm and now she was slowly starting to die. She raised her hand with all her strength left inside and waved it about.
"I-IF-IFRIT!!!" she cried slowly. She peered around, seeing everything in a blur and not seeing a single figure that was Ifrit's. Her strength was leaving her quickly and her arm was too heavy to stay up. Slowly she watched her arm fall, tears forming in her eyes as the heavy limb started to fall.
Suddenly she felt a hot pain grabbed her arm and whisked her off the ground onto another hot object. She opened her eyes, which were starting to grow heavy as well, seeing a blackish red shadow in front of her.
She felt her arms around a hot rough shape object that seemed to be alive. She also felt something warm and furry in her face that felt comfortable enough to sleep on. All her body was burning against this new object and she felt herself ready for a long sleep. She lost all memory of what had just happen and rested her face in this new furry, snuggling her face in the fur and falling to sleep as soon as her face finally got comfortable.