Calikitten: I recapped already, but I decided to start a new thing in which I put an excerpt from the last chapter. *Look at the Disclaimer that they already make for us...SWEET!* RECAP:
"Ya...what the?" Suddenly Maeghan directed her attention to the TV set in the corner of the room.
Rinoa gasped when she saw the top story. ***
Selphie Tilmitt was a happy girl. She never admitted that truly she wasn't that happy. After her parents died that fatal day, she had thought she'd never smile again. That was when she realized that was WAY too cliché and she decided to just be sunny from that point on.
That was the year when her guardians sent her to the All girls academy and she met Rinoa, Quistis and Maeghan. OF course, they talked and got to know each other, but they never exchanged their histories, and they barely saw each other after that. Until Maeghan called them and told them there was a formal meeting and she wanted them to come.
Selphie smiled, as much as that school was a pain it was where she found out her family had a fortune and she had a brother.
She remembered clearly. ***
Flashback
The four girls all gathered in the Library.
"Shh!" Rinoa hushed as Selphie started to giggle.
Quistis was impatient as usual, anxious to get to her studies, "Why are we here anyway?"
"I wanted to look up our family trees in the archives. I just hacked in through the fire wall and crap. I just used my laptop...I thought it'd be interesting. All right, who wants to go first?"
Selphie cautiously stepped up to the computer and typed in her name
Selphie Tilmitt
Age: 14 currently
Description: Brown hair, Green Eyes, Medium Height Parents: Alexandra and Alexander Tilmitt (Billionaires through real estate) Foster Parents: Katie Beckam and Bernard Grillinton Description of Parenting: Selphie was raised by her parents until they recently dies. She was given to new guardians Katie Beckam and Bernard Grillinton.
Siblings: Seifer Almasy
"Why is his last name Almasy?" Selphie asked to the group.
"Look him up." Rinoa suggested.
Seifer Almasy
Age: 16 currently
Description: Blonde hair, Green eyes, Tall
Parents: Alexandra and Alexander Tilmitt
Foster Parents: Jenna and Michael Almasy
Description of Parenting:
Seifer was originally given up for adoption, as his parents were afraid they could not raise him. He was given to Jenna and Michael Almasy who have raised him.
"Woah..."Maeghan looked at Selphie.
"My god..." she grinned, "I HAVE A BROTHER!" She giggled happily.
Maeghan shut off the computer and handed everyone a book as they heard footsteps approaching.
End Flashback ***
"Selphie?" Seifer looked at his little sister, "Kid, I know you're a druggie from how unnecessarily happy you are, but you don't have to prove it now."
"Only a druggie!" Squall feigned surprise, "Even a druggie isn't that happy, I think she was genetically altered, which would also explain why you're so weird Seifer."
"That was a good one!" Irvine smirked.
Seifer pouted looking at everyone for support or a comeback.
"You had that coming Seifer, but Squall I really thought that you were above dissing people who weren't smart enough to make comebacks!" Quistis smirked as she talked.
Selphie grinned, "Not only that, I mean Seifer you don't have this much trouble making comebacks unless you have a crush...I mean Squall, I never knew you as...well homogenized!" Selphie blushed slightly as her brother started to growl
"Homogenized?" Zell asked innocently.
"A Homo...sexual!" Selphie concluded.
"That's it, you're getting it!" Seifer lunged at his sister.
Irvine sensing trouble ducked in the way and had it so he landed in Seifer's arms (they collided, but Irvine ended up running so that he ended up on his side, looking up into Seifer's eyes from Seifer's arms)
"I'm sorry Seifer, I'm not like that...I'm not a gay. You're commendable for showing your sister though!" Irvine mouthed off.
Seifer smirked as he said, "I don't even need a good comeback for this!" He smile evilly.
"What the!" Irvine looked around as he felt himself being lifted to a high height, and then dropped.
"Ouch!" He looked to see Seifer (if his mutated ability to stretch and re-mold his body parts).
"I'm really not liking this!" Irvine rubbed his back.
"Oh! Irvy!" Selphie ran to Irvine and started to coo over him, rubbing his shoulders.
"Kinneas!" Seifer got more angry than before.
"Seifer, don't even think about it!" Maeghan warned as she and Rinoa entered the room.
Rinoa grabbed the channel changer to show them the top story of the news (I know you've been waiting for this)
"Oh my God!" Quistis screeched, "Mod man killed brutally."
"You know who that is though?" Maeghan looked around.
Selphie's voice dropped a few decibels and said, "That's the guys yesterday who was hitting on you!" ***
Quistis Trepe had been on her own ever since she left the orphanage. She learned to be cold and unfeeling, and slowly this helped in her making a fortune.
Of course that was when she found out she had relatives who quickly intervened in her plans and sent her to a military school.
It was all fine, especially since her relatives included her cousin Remus, the boy who was like the brother she never had.
Quistis had never known how to feel anything, until she met her friends.
Selphie brought unknown happiness, Rinoa gave her all of the aristocracy she needed, by sharing all of her belonging, and Maeghan brough inner strength and someone who she could really talk to (who used to be as cold and harsh as she was). They all balanced her, bringing her ego up or down, comforted her and each other for that matter, pulling pranks together...it was all good until school ended and they seperated.
Quistis moved on to making her own fortune and now she was successful. She actually didn't need Maeghan's invitation to come to the ball, but now she wished she'd never gone.
"Look at this next thing!" Maeghan pointed out.
There was a wall, draped in black velvet with words scrawled on it...in the man's blood.
"That's some ancient runes!" Quistis noticed.
"I know, we've got them translated already." Rinoa noted
"What do they mean then?" The rest of them asked.
"Look at all these symbols, It says something about Have caution, the courageous lion who is afraid. The bendable man who is not flexible. The sorceress who will not do magic, the instructor who is forbidden from teaching, the happy girl who is inwardly sad, the cowboy who is not from the west, the man of strength who is weak, the stranger that is known and the girl who binds them. Long live Ultimate..." Rinoa read.
"It wasn't the murder that worried me, the blood was a ploy to get them noticed. The real thing that worried me is the message." "Wait..." Quistis already thought about it.
"Squall, you still wear that lion right?" Maeghan looked for confirmation.
"Ya...?" Squall looked confused.
"Think about it, you're scared to get closed to anyone...so you're the lion who's afraid. What's the next one?"
"The bendable man who is not flexible." Rinoa read.
"Me..." Seifer looked around.
"Then the sorceress who will not do magic is me!" Rinoa continued.
"The instructor who is forbidden from teaching," Quistis read over Rinoa's shoulder, "that's me, I just got my probation letter from teaching college..."
"The happy girl who's inwardly sad..." Quistis read.
"Is me." Selphie said quietly.
"The Cowboy who is not from the west."
Irvine replied with a tip of his cowboy hat.
"The man of strength who is weak."
"I'm the only one left." Zell thought, "Wait, I am...I just got announced mentally unstable."

"Great..." Maeghan muttered.
"The stranger who is known."
That was when Remus chose to enter.
"Hey guys, sorry I got your message so late Quistis...this feels so weird, I feel like a stranger." Remus talked as he sat on the couch.
"A stranger who is known." Maeghan realized.
"Wait then whose the girl that binds us all together...?" Squall asked slowly.
"Me, I've known all of you at a separate point in time..."
"So wait, how did that message start again?" Seifer asked again.
"Beware..."
"It's talking about us!" Rinoa finished for everyone in the room. *** REVIEW!