Chapter 17 – The Resolution Part B
Rinoa started running to him, but Maeghan restrained her.
"Squall's dead, they're obviously fooling you Rinoa..."
"Maeghan?" Rinoa and Squall said at the same time.
"Well if you're Squall then you'll know something that will identify you..."
The figure stopped and Maeghan handed Irvine, Rinoa as she flicked her finger, revealing a minion of Ultimecia's.
"Whatever, like they'd fall for that..." Squall drawled from the corner.
"Be still child, do not reveal yourself."
"Look..." Squall came out into the light, "You wanna mess with me, that's one thing, but to mess with them is another."
"What do you mean."
"It isn't fair...dealing with them especially Rinoa."
"Why child?"
Squall shrugged and looked at Rinoa asking approval for something, when she curiously nodded, he replied.
"She's pregnant."
Maeghan tried the revealing trick, then scanned his mind and said, "It's him, it's really him! If it isn't it's the best fake I've ever seen."
Ultimecia's eyes widened, "She cannot be pregnant, if she is, and you indeed are the father, it means that she is not a virgin any more and she is not holy having sex out of wedlock...Child what have you done?"
"Ultimecia...it is time." Quistis appeared from the corner.
"No my children, I am your mother can you not see that?"
"You killed my mother...our mother."
"No children...she was not real."
Quistis had already begun a sealing spell.
"You do not know...The last child I had...he was sacrificed..." She started to weep, the skies weeping with her as rain poured down on them.
"Sacrificed?"
"The villagers said that they would not, he was not even three when they turned the stones on him."
Maeghan paled along with Quistis.
"What?" Irvine was confused.
"An ancient ritual for crops to grow...it was used by sacrificing people for the fertility of crops, women...and so on." Quistis recited.
"One person would be chosen, and then they'd be stoned...thrown stones at until the died." Maeghan barely whispered.
"My child...not three years old...his own father had a hand in his demise, I fled and I met an old crone who took me as a host, and the power was so over whelming I fell into a slumber for all these years to regain my energy."
"Ultimecia, your child...would be in the Netherworld, wouldn't would like to join him?"
She nodded, her eyes filling with happiness.
Quistis, give me the book...
"Wha...?" She handed the book to her, but she looked confused.
"Alright, I'm going to summon your son's spirit, but then you too will be sealed in another dimension like the flower fields."
Ultimecia nodded.
"Rinoa...I need you to help, though, give me your hand."
Maeghan chanted a rhyme to which Rinoa followed.
"Alright...I summon your spirit, child of the Ultimate. Come if you hear my voice." Maeghan chanted over and over again until...a little boy appeared.
With flaxen blonde hair and blue eyes he looked young and innocent.
Then Maeghan said the incantation for sealing them in, to which Rinoa lent her own power.
Suddenly they disappeared with a pop.
"So what's your explanation for this?" Rinoa asked to no one in particular
"Scientifically? Screw it there is none." Maeghan and Quistis said in sync.
Short chappie and I'm having an interlude as the next chappie...and an epilogue.
-Laters
-Calicat!
Rinoa started running to him, but Maeghan restrained her.
"Squall's dead, they're obviously fooling you Rinoa..."
"Maeghan?" Rinoa and Squall said at the same time.
"Well if you're Squall then you'll know something that will identify you..."
The figure stopped and Maeghan handed Irvine, Rinoa as she flicked her finger, revealing a minion of Ultimecia's.
"Whatever, like they'd fall for that..." Squall drawled from the corner.
"Be still child, do not reveal yourself."
"Look..." Squall came out into the light, "You wanna mess with me, that's one thing, but to mess with them is another."
"What do you mean."
"It isn't fair...dealing with them especially Rinoa."
"Why child?"
Squall shrugged and looked at Rinoa asking approval for something, when she curiously nodded, he replied.
"She's pregnant."
Maeghan tried the revealing trick, then scanned his mind and said, "It's him, it's really him! If it isn't it's the best fake I've ever seen."
Ultimecia's eyes widened, "She cannot be pregnant, if she is, and you indeed are the father, it means that she is not a virgin any more and she is not holy having sex out of wedlock...Child what have you done?"
"Ultimecia...it is time." Quistis appeared from the corner.
"No my children, I am your mother can you not see that?"
"You killed my mother...our mother."
"No children...she was not real."
Quistis had already begun a sealing spell.
"You do not know...The last child I had...he was sacrificed..." She started to weep, the skies weeping with her as rain poured down on them.
"Sacrificed?"
"The villagers said that they would not, he was not even three when they turned the stones on him."
Maeghan paled along with Quistis.
"What?" Irvine was confused.
"An ancient ritual for crops to grow...it was used by sacrificing people for the fertility of crops, women...and so on." Quistis recited.
"One person would be chosen, and then they'd be stoned...thrown stones at until the died." Maeghan barely whispered.
"My child...not three years old...his own father had a hand in his demise, I fled and I met an old crone who took me as a host, and the power was so over whelming I fell into a slumber for all these years to regain my energy."
"Ultimecia, your child...would be in the Netherworld, wouldn't would like to join him?"
She nodded, her eyes filling with happiness.
Quistis, give me the book...
"Wha...?" She handed the book to her, but she looked confused.
"Alright, I'm going to summon your son's spirit, but then you too will be sealed in another dimension like the flower fields."
Ultimecia nodded.
"Rinoa...I need you to help, though, give me your hand."
Maeghan chanted a rhyme to which Rinoa followed.
"Alright...I summon your spirit, child of the Ultimate. Come if you hear my voice." Maeghan chanted over and over again until...a little boy appeared.
With flaxen blonde hair and blue eyes he looked young and innocent.
Then Maeghan said the incantation for sealing them in, to which Rinoa lent her own power.
Suddenly they disappeared with a pop.
"So what's your explanation for this?" Rinoa asked to no one in particular
"Scientifically? Screw it there is none." Maeghan and Quistis said in sync.
Short chappie and I'm having an interlude as the next chappie...and an epilogue.
-Laters
-Calicat!
