Chapter 16 – The Resolution Part A
"Alright...think, what does Ultimecia want?"
"Gold?"
"Then why wouldn't she of robbed other houses by now?"
"Because this is the most rich house?"
"Grammar Seifer."
"Whatever."
"Really, are you Squall or what?"
"Hey I gotta embrace my inner Squall..."
They stopped and realized that Squall was gone as an awkward silence filled the room.
"Pull up a map on the computer?"
"How?"
Quistis sighed and went to the intercom system on the wall.
"Selphie, we need you."
"What? why call her?"
Quistis smoothed her bun and gave him the look.
"Your sister is listed as one of the top technicians in the planet, why else?"
"Oh..."
"She'll be able to hack into the government program and get a map for us, then we'll read to find out possible locations."
"Alright...makes sense."
"You called?"
"Selphie pull up all the maps you can find...yes you can do it illegally." Quistis sighed.
Selphie grinned and madly typed on the lap top.
"Booyaka!" She cried pumping her fists in the air.
"That was fast..." Seifer noted.
"I know...which is why..." Quistis started.
"You're gonna say I told you so, save your breath."
"No...I was gonna say I already pulled out the book."
"Oh..." Seifer would have blushed...but it's Seifer we're talking about.
"Alright..."
"What the hell is that?"
"Ancient text."
"Really?" Seifer quirked an eyebrow.
"I'll translate...If it is the Ultimate you seek go to the highest peak."
Selphie typed something and then nodded to Quistis who continued.
"If this must be done fast and quick then it is violence that you pick, The gore and blood must not deceive for if can not completed, this task you should leave."
"Continue..." Seifer was getting impatient.
"The highest peak may be too high, the lowest point may be too low, if you see these clues this way, you are indeed wise and to the very west you must go."
"Is there anything else?" Selphie asked.
"But all might not be what you perceive, see with mind, element, body, accuracy and soul to believe."
"Wait a minute...this map must be wrong." Selphie looked at the screen blankly.
"Why?"
"Because the far west is a domestic area."
"Not thousands of years ago." Seifer pointed out.
"No...but the prophecy was written by someone who new that it's what would happen..." Quistis thought a minute.
"Wait...the prophecy said to believe in mind, element, body, accuracy and soul...right?"
Seifer and Selphie still looked blank.
"Mind-Maeghan, Element-Selphie and I, Body- Zell and you Seifer, Accuracy-Irvine which leaves Soul-..."
"Rinoa."
"Exactly...all of us we have to believe in ourselves!" Quistis pieced together.
"This is so cheesy." Seifer muttered, which received him two glares and a whack to the back of his head.
"Shut up..."
"Alright...Selphie sort out the neighbour hoods."
"Ok...wait a sec, there's one house that's claimed to be the oldest house in the area, on a cliff named to be the highest point, dropping off into the ocean deep."
"The highest high and lowest low, and on the west because there isn't anymore land..." Quistis said.
"Which house is it?" Seifer tried to look at the screen."
"The house belongs to Laguna Loire..." Selphie read.
"Rinoa...you need to focus."
"Why?"
"This is your power, you're a sorceress..."
"Alright?"
"Ok, I'm supposed to tell you about the history of sorceresses, but it's way to boring."
"What? Why are you doing this to me?" Rinoa was confused.
"I'm obligated as I'm your closest relative to teach you to train your powers."
"What powers?"
"Oh come on Rinoa, like you never wondered why you uhng out with us because you didn't have anything, no powers, no nothing?"
"Maybe..."
"Well you do, sorcery is built on a coming of age technique, you need a lot of control and will."
"What do you mean?"
"Usually you have to want to do something to do it."
"Alright."
"I want you to freeze that rock..."
"Alright..." Rinoa concentrated...then she felt something, she wanted the rock to freeze.
"Rinoa, say what you want to do."
"Freeze rock!" She put out her hand as the rock froze solid, turning into an ice crystal.
"Alright...now burn it."
"Burn rock!" Fire shot out and enveloped the rock, leaving it in ashes.
"Not bad for a beginner. Alright, sorcery depends on the element so you watch Selphie, right?"
"Ya..."
"Use the wind, water...everything."
"Alright."
"Most sorceresses have a particular element...give me your hand."
Rinoa gave her hand palm down and placed it in Maeghan's.
"Alright...I'm just going to check you for...here it is now!" Maeghan closed her eyes.
"That's weird Rin...you're a soul."
"What?"
"One of the rarest sorceresses ever."
"Types you mean?"
"Of course."
"So...?"
"Soul bases your powers on your emotions, your attacks are hard and powerful and don't drain your life force."
"Life force?"
"Life force is a fancy name for blood."
"Blood?"
"The genetics in your blood allow you to use these powers, if you use too much of the powers it drains it out of your blood thus making the possibility even greater that you get rid of your powers or even in some cases die."
"Oh..."
"Maeghan! We found it!" Quistis came running out, Seifer and Selphie following.
"Really?"
"It's at your father's house."
"Shit...we have to go..." She swore as she raced to the picture they came from.
"The tunnel?"
"Yes..." Maeghan used her mimicking powers to transport Irvine and Zell to the picture.
"Alright you know the drill, copy every movement I make, got it?" Maeghan asked.
There was a mutual nod.
She stepped into the tunnel as they got transported.
Suddenly they stopped Maeghan handed all of them jumpsuits and weapons.
They didn't make a sound as they slipped them on over their clothing.
Maeghan then stepped outside of the tunnel into the mansion.
"About time you showed up," Maria drawled, "I was beginning to think you were slow."
Maeghan leaned against a desk.
"Seifer and Quistis search the mansion for other people, Zell... go with them. Rinoa, Selphie and Irvine, stick with me."
"What? You don't trust me?"
"I trust you as much as I trust a rattlesnake which bit me not to inject me with poison."
Maria laughed, "Oh, but I've already bitten you Maeghan you'll just have to deal with the poison."
"But I won't give you any time to inject the poison, because I'll have already chopped off your head."
"Big words, little girl...or did you already forget what I did to your mother."
"Shut up..."
"Are you mad? I drained her force by draining the iron from her blood..."
Maeghan's dagger pierced her stomach.
"Whoops, it slipped, too bad though because now you're condemned. I heard a knife in the stomach is the most painful way to die...maybe if you live through it you can tell me."
"Bitch."
"Now, I can reverse the damage if you tell me what Ultimecia's doing."
"Fine..."
Maeghan smirked.
"She's read the prophecy and has been waiting for this moment, for a long time..." Maria started to cough, "Anyway...we didn't want you or your family."
"Then why are you bothering us?"
"Because...Ultimecia grows old, she needs a successor, I would do it but my body wouldn't be able to hold the aptitude of her powers."
"So you wanted to look for someone else."
"Exactly, Ultimecia knew that one of the chosen had powers level to her, but she didn't know whom, so she wanted to find someone else. She knew that you had a powerful family for generations so she targeted your family specifically."
"Ellone, she wanted Ellone."
"Yes, but just to find whoever was next."
"That's up to date...but did she find out who it was?"
Maria didn't answer, a black haze surrounded her as she died.
Maeghan pulled out the dagger.
"Pity, I was going to save you too." She said to the corpse.
She gestured for the others to follow.
"We're going to Ellone's room, Ultimecia's probably still there."
The room was clouded with a black smoke.
"Hello children, come play!" A woman was dressed in a long black dress, black tresses tied up in a tight bun, and white makeup covering her face.
The room was bright, happy full of flowers and a meadow.
"Do you not remember the flower fields?"
"I do..." The group said, generally.
"But business first...I need a host, I found the body and I have a way to get it."
"You're not going to be able to get into me!" Maeghan said firmly.
"You child?" Ultimecia's laugh turned from tinkling bells, to pounding organs.
"Not you child...the one behind you..."
Maeghan looked behind and saw Rinoa.
"Me?"
"Yes...you child."
"Why me?"
"You hold the power."
Rinoa looked startled, but still said, "No, I won't."
"I have something that may change your mind..."
A figure was shadowed on the field.
"Rin?" a familiar voice asked.
"Squall!"
It's ending in a few more chappied!
Laters,
Calicat
"Alright...think, what does Ultimecia want?"
"Gold?"
"Then why wouldn't she of robbed other houses by now?"
"Because this is the most rich house?"
"Grammar Seifer."
"Whatever."
"Really, are you Squall or what?"
"Hey I gotta embrace my inner Squall..."
They stopped and realized that Squall was gone as an awkward silence filled the room.
"Pull up a map on the computer?"
"How?"
Quistis sighed and went to the intercom system on the wall.
"Selphie, we need you."
"What? why call her?"
Quistis smoothed her bun and gave him the look.
"Your sister is listed as one of the top technicians in the planet, why else?"
"Oh..."
"She'll be able to hack into the government program and get a map for us, then we'll read to find out possible locations."
"Alright...makes sense."
"You called?"
"Selphie pull up all the maps you can find...yes you can do it illegally." Quistis sighed.
Selphie grinned and madly typed on the lap top.
"Booyaka!" She cried pumping her fists in the air.
"That was fast..." Seifer noted.
"I know...which is why..." Quistis started.
"You're gonna say I told you so, save your breath."
"No...I was gonna say I already pulled out the book."
"Oh..." Seifer would have blushed...but it's Seifer we're talking about.
"Alright..."
"What the hell is that?"
"Ancient text."
"Really?" Seifer quirked an eyebrow.
"I'll translate...If it is the Ultimate you seek go to the highest peak."
Selphie typed something and then nodded to Quistis who continued.
"If this must be done fast and quick then it is violence that you pick, The gore and blood must not deceive for if can not completed, this task you should leave."
"Continue..." Seifer was getting impatient.
"The highest peak may be too high, the lowest point may be too low, if you see these clues this way, you are indeed wise and to the very west you must go."
"Is there anything else?" Selphie asked.
"But all might not be what you perceive, see with mind, element, body, accuracy and soul to believe."
"Wait a minute...this map must be wrong." Selphie looked at the screen blankly.
"Why?"
"Because the far west is a domestic area."
"Not thousands of years ago." Seifer pointed out.
"No...but the prophecy was written by someone who new that it's what would happen..." Quistis thought a minute.
"Wait...the prophecy said to believe in mind, element, body, accuracy and soul...right?"
Seifer and Selphie still looked blank.
"Mind-Maeghan, Element-Selphie and I, Body- Zell and you Seifer, Accuracy-Irvine which leaves Soul-..."
"Rinoa."
"Exactly...all of us we have to believe in ourselves!" Quistis pieced together.
"This is so cheesy." Seifer muttered, which received him two glares and a whack to the back of his head.
"Shut up..."
"Alright...Selphie sort out the neighbour hoods."
"Ok...wait a sec, there's one house that's claimed to be the oldest house in the area, on a cliff named to be the highest point, dropping off into the ocean deep."
"The highest high and lowest low, and on the west because there isn't anymore land..." Quistis said.
"Which house is it?" Seifer tried to look at the screen."
"The house belongs to Laguna Loire..." Selphie read.
"Rinoa...you need to focus."
"Why?"
"This is your power, you're a sorceress..."
"Alright?"
"Ok, I'm supposed to tell you about the history of sorceresses, but it's way to boring."
"What? Why are you doing this to me?" Rinoa was confused.
"I'm obligated as I'm your closest relative to teach you to train your powers."
"What powers?"
"Oh come on Rinoa, like you never wondered why you uhng out with us because you didn't have anything, no powers, no nothing?"
"Maybe..."
"Well you do, sorcery is built on a coming of age technique, you need a lot of control and will."
"What do you mean?"
"Usually you have to want to do something to do it."
"Alright."
"I want you to freeze that rock..."
"Alright..." Rinoa concentrated...then she felt something, she wanted the rock to freeze.
"Rinoa, say what you want to do."
"Freeze rock!" She put out her hand as the rock froze solid, turning into an ice crystal.
"Alright...now burn it."
"Burn rock!" Fire shot out and enveloped the rock, leaving it in ashes.
"Not bad for a beginner. Alright, sorcery depends on the element so you watch Selphie, right?"
"Ya..."
"Use the wind, water...everything."
"Alright."
"Most sorceresses have a particular element...give me your hand."
Rinoa gave her hand palm down and placed it in Maeghan's.
"Alright...I'm just going to check you for...here it is now!" Maeghan closed her eyes.
"That's weird Rin...you're a soul."
"What?"
"One of the rarest sorceresses ever."
"Types you mean?"
"Of course."
"So...?"
"Soul bases your powers on your emotions, your attacks are hard and powerful and don't drain your life force."
"Life force?"
"Life force is a fancy name for blood."
"Blood?"
"The genetics in your blood allow you to use these powers, if you use too much of the powers it drains it out of your blood thus making the possibility even greater that you get rid of your powers or even in some cases die."
"Oh..."
"Maeghan! We found it!" Quistis came running out, Seifer and Selphie following.
"Really?"
"It's at your father's house."
"Shit...we have to go..." She swore as she raced to the picture they came from.
"The tunnel?"
"Yes..." Maeghan used her mimicking powers to transport Irvine and Zell to the picture.
"Alright you know the drill, copy every movement I make, got it?" Maeghan asked.
There was a mutual nod.
She stepped into the tunnel as they got transported.
Suddenly they stopped Maeghan handed all of them jumpsuits and weapons.
They didn't make a sound as they slipped them on over their clothing.
Maeghan then stepped outside of the tunnel into the mansion.
"About time you showed up," Maria drawled, "I was beginning to think you were slow."
Maeghan leaned against a desk.
"Seifer and Quistis search the mansion for other people, Zell... go with them. Rinoa, Selphie and Irvine, stick with me."
"What? You don't trust me?"
"I trust you as much as I trust a rattlesnake which bit me not to inject me with poison."
Maria laughed, "Oh, but I've already bitten you Maeghan you'll just have to deal with the poison."
"But I won't give you any time to inject the poison, because I'll have already chopped off your head."
"Big words, little girl...or did you already forget what I did to your mother."
"Shut up..."
"Are you mad? I drained her force by draining the iron from her blood..."
Maeghan's dagger pierced her stomach.
"Whoops, it slipped, too bad though because now you're condemned. I heard a knife in the stomach is the most painful way to die...maybe if you live through it you can tell me."
"Bitch."
"Now, I can reverse the damage if you tell me what Ultimecia's doing."
"Fine..."
Maeghan smirked.
"She's read the prophecy and has been waiting for this moment, for a long time..." Maria started to cough, "Anyway...we didn't want you or your family."
"Then why are you bothering us?"
"Because...Ultimecia grows old, she needs a successor, I would do it but my body wouldn't be able to hold the aptitude of her powers."
"So you wanted to look for someone else."
"Exactly, Ultimecia knew that one of the chosen had powers level to her, but she didn't know whom, so she wanted to find someone else. She knew that you had a powerful family for generations so she targeted your family specifically."
"Ellone, she wanted Ellone."
"Yes, but just to find whoever was next."
"That's up to date...but did she find out who it was?"
Maria didn't answer, a black haze surrounded her as she died.
Maeghan pulled out the dagger.
"Pity, I was going to save you too." She said to the corpse.
She gestured for the others to follow.
"We're going to Ellone's room, Ultimecia's probably still there."
The room was clouded with a black smoke.
"Hello children, come play!" A woman was dressed in a long black dress, black tresses tied up in a tight bun, and white makeup covering her face.
The room was bright, happy full of flowers and a meadow.
"Do you not remember the flower fields?"
"I do..." The group said, generally.
"But business first...I need a host, I found the body and I have a way to get it."
"You're not going to be able to get into me!" Maeghan said firmly.
"You child?" Ultimecia's laugh turned from tinkling bells, to pounding organs.
"Not you child...the one behind you..."
Maeghan looked behind and saw Rinoa.
"Me?"
"Yes...you child."
"Why me?"
"You hold the power."
Rinoa looked startled, but still said, "No, I won't."
"I have something that may change your mind..."
A figure was shadowed on the field.
"Rin?" a familiar voice asked.
"Squall!"
It's ending in a few more chappied!
Laters,
Calicat
