Disclaimer- Do you guys really think I own Final Fantasy VIII? Didn't think so.
Element6- Lassie wannabes! lol That's great. Did you know the dog that played Lassie way back in the black and white episodes was in fact not Lassie. The real Lassie didn't like kids and wouldn't let Timmy near her. Lassie was played by a male dog...I forget his name but that's probably not really that important. Sorry to bore you with such useless info. lol
Aratcorien- Yes its Audley! The same one from Unsilenced, yes, he's back. You sound like you want someone to get their ass kicked. I can do that. :)
Sleepless Nights Part 2
Darkness was an effective veil for many evils in the world. He was trying to use the cover of darkness to get past her. It hadn't worked. While Zell lay asleep beside her, she attentively lay unmoving while keeping her breathing regulated.
She'd been watching him the entire time. She'd caught just a glimpse of his silhouette the first time he stepped into the doorway and she could see him now. Muscles tensed and ready like a cat ready to pounce she watched silently. She'd seen the light glimmer off of the blade he held in his hand in his reflection on the wall mirror. As soon as he started toward her baby she grabbed her own knife, the one Seifer had given her as a graduation gift, that lay tucked under her pillow. She wasn't afraid to kill him. In the doorway Angelo began growling and then barking. She watched as the intruder dropped his knife and then bent over for his gun.
Seizing the opportunity she quickly jumped up, pulling her knife from under her pillow, and dove towards him. Just as he'd lifted his firearm she forced her blade as deeply into his leg as she could. He cried out in pain and surprise as he stumbled backwards only a step.
"You bitch!" He yelled as he swung out his arm and hit her across the face. She hadn't seen it coming in the darkness and so she ended up laying on the floor in mild shock. With all the commotion in the room, not only did Canace wake but Zell did as well.
"What's going..." Zell stopped speaking whenever lightening flashed and he got a good look at the man standing at the foot of his bed. "What're you doing here?" Zell demanded as he found his feet and started towards the man.
"Zell, my son, didn't you miss me?" He asked sarcastically.
"Get out now man! I don't want anything to do with you," Zell started towards him.
Audley smirked as he quickly grabbed the wailing infant from her play pen. Zell froze in his steps. "Aha," Audley said knowingly. "So this is yours."
Zell stood paralyzed as he watched the man, now known as his biological father, hold his daughter by an arm. "Give her back," He said quietly. Audley sneered, focused only on the younger man before him. Slowly pushing herself up off of the ground Fujin dove for him and twisted her knife's handle. Completely off guard, Audley tumbled down to the floor, clutching that leg. Fujin rolled out of the way and looked up to see Zell holding Canace. Audley, realizing that he'd lost his advantage pulled the knife free and took off running out the door. Angelo too started running in pursuit. Zell put Canace on the bed and quickly pulled on his shoes and gloves.
"Don't worry Fuu he ain't gettin' away!"
Seifer stood watching both of the boys for a moment just to make sure they were asleep. Once he was sure, he turned off the light and trudged back to bed. He collapsed on it, exhausted, and just lay where he landed. A soft touch sent a jolt through his body causing him to jump.
"Oh!" Ellone cried out.
"Hey," He whispered. "Shhh. They're finally asleep."
"Oh, oops," She whispered.
"I just want to sleep," He mumbled as he found his pillow and rested his head on it. In the darkness he could hear her smile. "You think that's funny?" He joked.
"No, I think its quite noble and maybe just a bit of a turn on," She whispered as she scooted over next to him and draped her arm over his waist. "A big tough guy like yourself getting up in the middle of the night to keep two babies quiet as to not wake their mother."
"Just a bit of a turn on? That's it?" His voice sounded dejected. She laughed lightly.
"Go to sleep."
"Okay," No sooner did the answer get past his lips was the silence shattered by the sounds of a barking dog.
"Angelo?" Ellone asked as she sat up. Seifer did the same and already had on a pair of pants and his boots by the time she'd turned to him. "Seifer?"
"Stay here," He said as he pulled on an A-shirt and picked up Hyperion from its case.
"But what if something happens?"
He looked around unsurely. "Just bolt the door," He told her. "If someone tries to get in, there a gun in the top drawer of the dresser."
"Seifer," She stopped him.
"What?" He asked in the darkness.
"Be careful."
"I will," He assured her as he cautiously stepped outside the door. He waited until he'd heard her lock and bolt it before he started stealthily down the hallway.
Laguna had heard the barking and shouts from his room and was dressed and ready to investigate it when Kiros barged in.
"Whoa where are you going?" Kiros asked.
"Where do you think?" Laguna asked as he readied his machine gun.
"No way its too dangerous."
"I'm not asking," Laguna told him.
"I don't care you're not going," Kiros argued. "You're too important for me to just let you run off to battle. Besides you're in no physical condition."
"I don't care I'm going."
"No you are not going!" Kiro argued with Laguna. "Whoever's here is after you!"
"And whoever's here is going to go through anyone they have to get to me!" Laguna argued. "That's my family Kiros!"
"I know I know," Kiros' voice sounded uncharacteristically tense. "Look, remember the passage I told you about?" Laguna nodded in the dim light. "I'm going to go for the kids and bring them here. I want you to take them out through that passage when I get them all here."
"But what about Elle and Squall?" Laguna's voice came off weak and worried.
"Elle will come with me for sure, Squall, Squall can take care of himself. He's more than likely ontop of the situation as we speak."
Squall stepped slowly out into the hallway and looked around. He couldn't see too much in the darkness but he could still hear Angelo's barks. As quietly and carefully as he could he took another step. His foot slide a few inches under his weight causing him to stumble.
'Squall?' Rinoa asked telepathically. He pulled a small flashlight from his utility belt and wrapped his hand around the light. With just a small amount of light shining through he scanned the stone flooring and stopped. 'What is it?'
'Blood,' He answered. 'Get inside.'
"Is there a lot?" She asked in a hushed tone.
"There's a trail of it," He answered.
"Want Lionheart?"
"Yeah," He answered as she placed it in his hands. "I want you to do me a favor and..."
"Lock the doors and have a spell ready just in case," She finished for him.
"Yeah."
"Be careful and don't worry, no one is going to get in this room if I don't want them to." Squall looked as if there was something he wanted to say but then quietly stepped out into the hallway and began following Angelo's barks.
His footsteps echoed down the empty hallways. He didn't care anymore. He was lost. Lost in an ancient mansion with trap doors and hidden passages. Zell was anything but relieved at his situation. He had been following what he thought was the way to the main hall but now he wasn't so sure. He stopped at an intersection where two hallways met and tried the light switch. Still no power.
'Go figure. They probably cut off the power,' He thought bitterly. Deciding to turn right he kept searching in the darkness. 'If this is what its like to be blind...' His thoughts on an old injury Squall had suffered from were interrupted by the barking now coming from the other direction. Turning on his heel he bolted down the other hallway and ran right into a small table. He let the piece of furniture fall, hopped over it and kept running.
Keeping low and against the walls, Seifer navigated the halls of his manor with little trouble. The house was eerily quiet, save for the obvious barking of Angelo. He'd been half tempted to go hunt down whatever or whomever was causing the dog to go off but there was someone in the room with him. He'd heard the slight squeak of a new boot, the kind that haven't been broken in yet. Outside thunder rumbled continuously. Despite the full length windows he knew was covering the wall opposite him, he could see nothing. No moonlight, nothing. Until the lightening flashed. It was unexpected and really bright but once his eyes had quickly adjusted he saw all he needed to on the other side of the room. The other blonde, apparently a younger one, stared at him in fear. Their eyes locked for just an instant but in that instant they conveyed everything to one another that they needed to know. Lucas didn't want a fight with Seifer whereas Seifer was out for blood. As the light began quickly dimming, Seifer sent the younger blonde a smirk. Immediately he heard him bolt for the nearest doorway. Jumping to his feet, Seifer followed him.
The kitchen he ended up in was dead silent despite the two men who stood silently looking for the other while waiting for something to happen. A gunshot echoed down the halls followed by a shrill yelp. Seifer jumped at the sound, as did Lucas, standing not four feet in front of him. Realizing his mistake, Seifer brought Hyperion up and swung it in Lucas' general direction while at the same time Lucas dropped to the ground and kicked one of Seifer's knees out from under him. He fell hard, barely managing not to land on his gunblade. What he did land on though was a lot softer. Lucas panicked as he pushed Seifer off of him and scrambled to get away.
"No you don't!" Seifer growled as he tackled Lucas and brought him to the ground. They struggled with one another on the kitchen floor for a few moments, neither giving in. Pinned on the floor Lucas was able to make out Seifer's face every time the lightening illuminated the room. He pushed and fought desperately to get Seifer's larger body off of his own to no avail, until he realized how Seifer had his weight shifted. He was favoring a knee. It was Lucas' turn to smirk, as he wrapped his left leg back behind Seifer's sore knee and then rolled his weight over on it with as much force as he could muster. Seifer immediately let up on him in an attempt to move off of the knee. A mistake Seifer didn't realize he made until after Lucas had kicked him square in the chest and knocked him into the refrigerator. As Seifer fell back, his knee, still being held into place by Lucas' leg popped loudly. He cried out as he felt the entire joint come apart. Lucas jumped to his feet at the cry and ran out the back door and onto the patio. He stopped abruptly whenever he realized the patio was more like a balcony with a drop off that went well beyond what he could see in the dark.
In the kitchen, Seifer firmly took hold of his leg and knee and popped his leg back in place. With his leg still throbbing he limped to the back door. "Where you running to?" Seifer said from behind him. "Not too far obviously." Seifer taunted him as he pulled the edge of Hyperion's blade up and readied for an attack.
An attack he received but not from where he was expecting. A blunt blow came down on his right shoulder, knocking Hyperion from his grasp and him to his knees. Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion as he felt the blunt force snap his clavicle and tear away at the muscle and tendons under the skin. Then, as quickly and unexpectedly as the blow came, it was gone. No more pressure, just a piercing pain. He collapsed, falling foreword in the water built up on the patio below his body.
"Lucas," A gruff voice said from beside him. "Kill him."
He tried to push himself up on his left hand but was too dazed to do anything of the sort. The scenery began spinning around him as he tried to make sense of his surroundings to no avail. The only sense that he was picking up on was the cold, chilling sensation ripping through the torn tissues of his shoulder with every rain drop that fell on it.
Element6- Lassie wannabes! lol That's great. Did you know the dog that played Lassie way back in the black and white episodes was in fact not Lassie. The real Lassie didn't like kids and wouldn't let Timmy near her. Lassie was played by a male dog...I forget his name but that's probably not really that important. Sorry to bore you with such useless info. lol
Aratcorien- Yes its Audley! The same one from Unsilenced, yes, he's back. You sound like you want someone to get their ass kicked. I can do that. :)
Sleepless Nights Part 2
Darkness was an effective veil for many evils in the world. He was trying to use the cover of darkness to get past her. It hadn't worked. While Zell lay asleep beside her, she attentively lay unmoving while keeping her breathing regulated.
She'd been watching him the entire time. She'd caught just a glimpse of his silhouette the first time he stepped into the doorway and she could see him now. Muscles tensed and ready like a cat ready to pounce she watched silently. She'd seen the light glimmer off of the blade he held in his hand in his reflection on the wall mirror. As soon as he started toward her baby she grabbed her own knife, the one Seifer had given her as a graduation gift, that lay tucked under her pillow. She wasn't afraid to kill him. In the doorway Angelo began growling and then barking. She watched as the intruder dropped his knife and then bent over for his gun.
Seizing the opportunity she quickly jumped up, pulling her knife from under her pillow, and dove towards him. Just as he'd lifted his firearm she forced her blade as deeply into his leg as she could. He cried out in pain and surprise as he stumbled backwards only a step.
"You bitch!" He yelled as he swung out his arm and hit her across the face. She hadn't seen it coming in the darkness and so she ended up laying on the floor in mild shock. With all the commotion in the room, not only did Canace wake but Zell did as well.
"What's going..." Zell stopped speaking whenever lightening flashed and he got a good look at the man standing at the foot of his bed. "What're you doing here?" Zell demanded as he found his feet and started towards the man.
"Zell, my son, didn't you miss me?" He asked sarcastically.
"Get out now man! I don't want anything to do with you," Zell started towards him.
Audley smirked as he quickly grabbed the wailing infant from her play pen. Zell froze in his steps. "Aha," Audley said knowingly. "So this is yours."
Zell stood paralyzed as he watched the man, now known as his biological father, hold his daughter by an arm. "Give her back," He said quietly. Audley sneered, focused only on the younger man before him. Slowly pushing herself up off of the ground Fujin dove for him and twisted her knife's handle. Completely off guard, Audley tumbled down to the floor, clutching that leg. Fujin rolled out of the way and looked up to see Zell holding Canace. Audley, realizing that he'd lost his advantage pulled the knife free and took off running out the door. Angelo too started running in pursuit. Zell put Canace on the bed and quickly pulled on his shoes and gloves.
"Don't worry Fuu he ain't gettin' away!"
Seifer stood watching both of the boys for a moment just to make sure they were asleep. Once he was sure, he turned off the light and trudged back to bed. He collapsed on it, exhausted, and just lay where he landed. A soft touch sent a jolt through his body causing him to jump.
"Oh!" Ellone cried out.
"Hey," He whispered. "Shhh. They're finally asleep."
"Oh, oops," She whispered.
"I just want to sleep," He mumbled as he found his pillow and rested his head on it. In the darkness he could hear her smile. "You think that's funny?" He joked.
"No, I think its quite noble and maybe just a bit of a turn on," She whispered as she scooted over next to him and draped her arm over his waist. "A big tough guy like yourself getting up in the middle of the night to keep two babies quiet as to not wake their mother."
"Just a bit of a turn on? That's it?" His voice sounded dejected. She laughed lightly.
"Go to sleep."
"Okay," No sooner did the answer get past his lips was the silence shattered by the sounds of a barking dog.
"Angelo?" Ellone asked as she sat up. Seifer did the same and already had on a pair of pants and his boots by the time she'd turned to him. "Seifer?"
"Stay here," He said as he pulled on an A-shirt and picked up Hyperion from its case.
"But what if something happens?"
He looked around unsurely. "Just bolt the door," He told her. "If someone tries to get in, there a gun in the top drawer of the dresser."
"Seifer," She stopped him.
"What?" He asked in the darkness.
"Be careful."
"I will," He assured her as he cautiously stepped outside the door. He waited until he'd heard her lock and bolt it before he started stealthily down the hallway.
Laguna had heard the barking and shouts from his room and was dressed and ready to investigate it when Kiros barged in.
"Whoa where are you going?" Kiros asked.
"Where do you think?" Laguna asked as he readied his machine gun.
"No way its too dangerous."
"I'm not asking," Laguna told him.
"I don't care you're not going," Kiros argued. "You're too important for me to just let you run off to battle. Besides you're in no physical condition."
"I don't care I'm going."
"No you are not going!" Kiro argued with Laguna. "Whoever's here is after you!"
"And whoever's here is going to go through anyone they have to get to me!" Laguna argued. "That's my family Kiros!"
"I know I know," Kiros' voice sounded uncharacteristically tense. "Look, remember the passage I told you about?" Laguna nodded in the dim light. "I'm going to go for the kids and bring them here. I want you to take them out through that passage when I get them all here."
"But what about Elle and Squall?" Laguna's voice came off weak and worried.
"Elle will come with me for sure, Squall, Squall can take care of himself. He's more than likely ontop of the situation as we speak."
Squall stepped slowly out into the hallway and looked around. He couldn't see too much in the darkness but he could still hear Angelo's barks. As quietly and carefully as he could he took another step. His foot slide a few inches under his weight causing him to stumble.
'Squall?' Rinoa asked telepathically. He pulled a small flashlight from his utility belt and wrapped his hand around the light. With just a small amount of light shining through he scanned the stone flooring and stopped. 'What is it?'
'Blood,' He answered. 'Get inside.'
"Is there a lot?" She asked in a hushed tone.
"There's a trail of it," He answered.
"Want Lionheart?"
"Yeah," He answered as she placed it in his hands. "I want you to do me a favor and..."
"Lock the doors and have a spell ready just in case," She finished for him.
"Yeah."
"Be careful and don't worry, no one is going to get in this room if I don't want them to." Squall looked as if there was something he wanted to say but then quietly stepped out into the hallway and began following Angelo's barks.
His footsteps echoed down the empty hallways. He didn't care anymore. He was lost. Lost in an ancient mansion with trap doors and hidden passages. Zell was anything but relieved at his situation. He had been following what he thought was the way to the main hall but now he wasn't so sure. He stopped at an intersection where two hallways met and tried the light switch. Still no power.
'Go figure. They probably cut off the power,' He thought bitterly. Deciding to turn right he kept searching in the darkness. 'If this is what its like to be blind...' His thoughts on an old injury Squall had suffered from were interrupted by the barking now coming from the other direction. Turning on his heel he bolted down the other hallway and ran right into a small table. He let the piece of furniture fall, hopped over it and kept running.
Keeping low and against the walls, Seifer navigated the halls of his manor with little trouble. The house was eerily quiet, save for the obvious barking of Angelo. He'd been half tempted to go hunt down whatever or whomever was causing the dog to go off but there was someone in the room with him. He'd heard the slight squeak of a new boot, the kind that haven't been broken in yet. Outside thunder rumbled continuously. Despite the full length windows he knew was covering the wall opposite him, he could see nothing. No moonlight, nothing. Until the lightening flashed. It was unexpected and really bright but once his eyes had quickly adjusted he saw all he needed to on the other side of the room. The other blonde, apparently a younger one, stared at him in fear. Their eyes locked for just an instant but in that instant they conveyed everything to one another that they needed to know. Lucas didn't want a fight with Seifer whereas Seifer was out for blood. As the light began quickly dimming, Seifer sent the younger blonde a smirk. Immediately he heard him bolt for the nearest doorway. Jumping to his feet, Seifer followed him.
The kitchen he ended up in was dead silent despite the two men who stood silently looking for the other while waiting for something to happen. A gunshot echoed down the halls followed by a shrill yelp. Seifer jumped at the sound, as did Lucas, standing not four feet in front of him. Realizing his mistake, Seifer brought Hyperion up and swung it in Lucas' general direction while at the same time Lucas dropped to the ground and kicked one of Seifer's knees out from under him. He fell hard, barely managing not to land on his gunblade. What he did land on though was a lot softer. Lucas panicked as he pushed Seifer off of him and scrambled to get away.
"No you don't!" Seifer growled as he tackled Lucas and brought him to the ground. They struggled with one another on the kitchen floor for a few moments, neither giving in. Pinned on the floor Lucas was able to make out Seifer's face every time the lightening illuminated the room. He pushed and fought desperately to get Seifer's larger body off of his own to no avail, until he realized how Seifer had his weight shifted. He was favoring a knee. It was Lucas' turn to smirk, as he wrapped his left leg back behind Seifer's sore knee and then rolled his weight over on it with as much force as he could muster. Seifer immediately let up on him in an attempt to move off of the knee. A mistake Seifer didn't realize he made until after Lucas had kicked him square in the chest and knocked him into the refrigerator. As Seifer fell back, his knee, still being held into place by Lucas' leg popped loudly. He cried out as he felt the entire joint come apart. Lucas jumped to his feet at the cry and ran out the back door and onto the patio. He stopped abruptly whenever he realized the patio was more like a balcony with a drop off that went well beyond what he could see in the dark.
In the kitchen, Seifer firmly took hold of his leg and knee and popped his leg back in place. With his leg still throbbing he limped to the back door. "Where you running to?" Seifer said from behind him. "Not too far obviously." Seifer taunted him as he pulled the edge of Hyperion's blade up and readied for an attack.
An attack he received but not from where he was expecting. A blunt blow came down on his right shoulder, knocking Hyperion from his grasp and him to his knees. Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion as he felt the blunt force snap his clavicle and tear away at the muscle and tendons under the skin. Then, as quickly and unexpectedly as the blow came, it was gone. No more pressure, just a piercing pain. He collapsed, falling foreword in the water built up on the patio below his body.
"Lucas," A gruff voice said from beside him. "Kill him."
He tried to push himself up on his left hand but was too dazed to do anything of the sort. The scenery began spinning around him as he tried to make sense of his surroundings to no avail. The only sense that he was picking up on was the cold, chilling sensation ripping through the torn tissues of his shoulder with every rain drop that fell on it.