Chapter 4: Squall leaves...A reality that became a nightmare.
Squall is in the training center, he is training with the little students who are training to use magic, Rinoa is looking him from the entrance of the training center...and start to look at her digital watch..."14 of may..." Rinoa spoked in low voice, she looked at Squall again with the little kids and all of them start to laugh, Rinoa who was in the corner of the entrance just looked at him...she was worried.
In one of the dorm´s a door open...it was Zell´s room, all of his clothes, magazine and equipment was in the floor. Zell was sleeping in his bed and covered his face with the blanket.
-"I´m tired...I fell to sleep late last night...I went to play some cards..."
Irvine came with his coat, a pair of jeans and his boots, of course always with his hat on..., Angie with her SeeD uniform, and her boots, Irvine pulled Zell´s blanket off:
-"You should be asheam of yourself."
Angie start hitting him with his pillow, who pulled of him and spoke:
-"How can you say that right now...don´t you know what day is it?...14 of may...Mr. Deiling is coming to get the answer from Squall remember...?"
Zell sitted up his bed:
-"Damn...I hate that guy!"
Squall and Selphie where walking together seeing around, near the road to Balamb and looking into the sea, Rinoa and Headmaster Cid are talking behind them:
-"...So that man want him to go to Winhill, huh?" Cid said.
-"Yes." Rinoa said in low voice and Cid asked her: "And what do Squall want...?"
She looked at him and gave a small smile:" He insist to go..." The smile dissapear and transform into worry...a small breeze came and the air maked Rinoa´s hair move...she was wearing her favorite dress, a light blue color and a pair of boots of black color.
Cid looked at her, he knew that inside does eyes she wasn´t going to permit Squall to leave.
-"Headmaster Cid...Remember the fireflies I told you!?" Selphie screamed, she was wearing a pair of jeans, some tennis and a yellow T-shirt, she looked at headmaster Cid calling him to hurry.
-"Yes...they only appeared in summer...I think it was a pretty hot spring..." Cid answer.
-"Fire...flies?" Squall said looking at the sea, his expression dissapeared, he was looking interest right now, Selphie nodded.
-"Have you ever see them Squall?" Selphie asked him back...he nodded.
-"Squall...he has been living in Garden seen´s he was little boy, and you have been living with him, Rinoa, you´re the one who gave him back the reason to live." Cid said to Rinoa, she thought to herself:"And he will be always a part of Garden." When she was getting close to Squall. Rinoa all the sudden had a sneaky idea:
-"Why don´t we go tonight to see the fireflies Squall, all together...please?"
Rinoa looked at Squall with her beautiful eyes, Squall couldn´t say no but at the same time he couldn´t say yes, he thought for a moment, and when he was about to say something, a tennis shoe came over his head following a leg with it.
-"Yes...why don´t we go and looked at the fireflies, eh Squall." Zell who was able to get near Squall spoke, following by Irvine, Angie, and Quistis...Irvine start to talk:
-"Squall is a good friend and he is not going to do something that the goverment wants."
-"He is to good to everybody..." Quistis follow.
-"I always follow the orders of the leader....he is good to all the students I know" say Angie with a small smile.
-"Besides...you shouldn´t follow the orders of that corrupted goverment who transformed in you into 'Lionheart'...you should think more of your friends Squall..." Zell said.
Squall lifted from the floor and smile at Zell, he then spoke with him:
-"You really hate the goverment don´t you Zell." Again Zell´s leg fall over Squall´s head. The sun was iluminating over there heads in that moment...Squall start to talk:
-"I shouldn´t say corrupted Zell...if Mr. Deiling was a corrupted man, Seifer would have killed him along time ago...Don´t you remember what he said?" Squall start remembering the words that Seifer said back in that night they fought: "this new era is an era of peace...but whe the slayers, that still live on won´t permit it and we will kill the people who betray the goverment or their people."
Squall start talking again:
-"Seifer still is like a wolf...always waiting for the prey to fall in his claws, but he is still follows what he likes the most...he is a man with a dark heart...but he would protect his honor with the death of other person that´s him in reality..."
Squall said seated in the floor speaking, the others only listen with anger.
Seifer is eating in the same chinnes restaurant from the other day, he is eating the same food from the same last time.
He start to sneeze and a noodle is hanging from his mouth, a waitress that is passing by see´s him and feels disgust and talks:
-"That´s disgusting...stop it!" She said with an angry tone.
Seifer looked at her: "Sorry..." The women dissapear, he pulls the noddle to his mouth, and Seifer starts talking to himself:
-"People looked at me with disgust...but I don´t care what they think of me...i´m still a member of the dark wolves and I still follow my orders..." He just took a seap from his drink and look at the calendar that is hanging from the wall. "I wonder if Squall decided what to do next...?"
Back with the others...Squall stands up from the floor:"Anyway...", Rinoa looked at him confused:"You´re leaving?" Squall looked at Rinoa and smile:
-"I´m just going to see Mr. Deiling...he is really a busy man and he will not come, till the right moment and besides...if I go it will be much better." He start walking away...Quistis stepped infront of him and told him:"Why do you want to go all by yourself if we can go with you perfectly...?"
Squall closed his eyes and smile..."I will not leave until I deside if it is right thing to do..."He start walking away passing Quistis by and continue his way to Balamb, Rinoa gave some steps infront and stopped. She felt a bad omen...
In the highway of Balamb near the bridge construccted to cross from Timber to Balamb a car passed fast in the way, near the bridge there was a big tree, a boy with a gray shirt and green jeans waited with both arms crossed, in that moment, inside the car a man started to think to himself:"I´m not going to be able to see Leonhart till night...it´s been 10 years for the restoration and we haven´t done anything to try to make it better..." The car passed the near by tree, and the boy dissapear from the branch, Mr. Deiling start talking to himself again: "The future of the world now lies in the hand of the slayers...and they are the only ones who can work out this..." In that moment the doors car open, still the car was moving and the boy from the branch appeared, and start to talk:"You shouldn´t worry to much about the life of others...if you can´t even worry yourselve." The boy smile and covered the mouth of Mr. Deiling and start talking again: "The message of Mr. Blackhart is this: bringing Lionheart is a good idea..." he pulled a small dagger from his belt and impaled inside his head:"...Even if it will end up dead." In that moment the driver stopped the car and looked at Mr. Deiling body, the door closed besides the dead body.
Many people where reunited near the accident, the dead body was pulled out of the car, Squall came walking by, he passed the people by and saw the movement and the police man in there, he looked at the dead body and recognice it:"Mr. Deiling!?" He thought to himself, he just saw Mr. Deiling´s hair and start to think how could have died, all the sudden he felt a strange presence near him, he only lifted his head and listen, the boy who killed him talked with him:
-"If you don´t want to suffer the same accident...don´t even try to fight Mr. Blackhart..." The boy start walking away from him, he just turn around and saw the boy getting away, Squall pissed and thought to himself:
-"Blackhart...you´ll pay for your crimes..."
In that moment all over balamb they through newspapers, the paper boy screamed:" EXTRA! EXTRA!, minister of the goverment assasinated." The news reached Balamb and Garden...Zell looked at Quistis with shock:"Assasinated!?" Quistis spoke:"They killed him this morning." and gave the paper to Rinoa, Irvine getted close as well as Selphie, Rinoa start to read:"Today the goverment of the world lost there most precious man of all..." She stopped reading. Everyone was in shock.
In the police station, Seifer and Squall looked at Barry pissed, he hitted the table of the study hall, Seifer was standing in one corner of the room looking at Barry, Squall looked at him almost infront of the door, Barry was almost crying: "I can´t believe this happen!!!, this is horrible, this cannot be happening!" Barry still cry in the middle of the room, infront of the table, the window glowed inside the room and iluminated the place, all the sudden the study hall´s door open and a man came in, Squall turn around to see him, a man about 50 years old stand there, he was wearing a gray suit, he had brown short hair and a mustashe: "Excuse me...but I came as soon as possible after what I heard." Squall turn around and looked at Barry, he was still crying looking at the table and finally he spoke:"This is Mr. Albert Anderson, he was the last person Mr. Deiling spoke with." Squall looked at him, the he started to talk: "Yes...this afternoon when I saw Mr. Deiling he was telling me about what where his plans for this new goverment." Everything went back till the moment when Mr. Anderson was talking with Mr. Deiling, both of them where drinking tea, Mr. Deiling start to talk:
-"This goverment is doing all in the wrong way than the last goverment when the Sorceress War was...whe most give the demands of the people, they want this goverment of peace, they don´t want the people to repeat history just like 10 years ago we did...we must start the real stuff."
Back in the study hall of the police station, Seifer spoke:"Finally, the old guy say something interesting before he died, huh?" Mr. Anderson spoke again: "The strangest thing he said was this..." Back in the house of Mr. Anderson, Deiling started stand up and went to the window that was behind him, he started to talk: "We must give the people the reality of the world right now..." Mr. Anderson asked him: "Reality?", Mr. Deiling nodded: "The people is the future of this nation and they don´t desire more wars they only want a goverment that can give them peace once and for all." Again back in the study hall, Squall spoke:"Show the people what they want..." Barry was still crying, but finally he said something that Squall would have in mind forever: "Beliving is possible...if Mr. Deiling was still here, he would say and do that..." Seifer still looked at Barry and later looked at Squall, he knew something different was going to happen.
Walking the hallway of the police station, Squall and Seifer where still talking, Squall asked him:
-"I never saw someone being soo depressed in all my life..."
-"This is the reality of the world...some times people have to die soo they can leave something important for the world..."
Squall thought for a moment and later asked Seifer:
-"What will you do now?"
Seifer stopped for a moment and responded him:
-"The answer to all of our questions lies in Winhill...so...you know what my answer will be." Seifer continue walking, before he left he told him:
-"You should think of this, if you don´t finally deside what you will do, then don´t even boder to come." Seifer walked away and Squall looked at him with doubt in his words.
In the streets the news started to flow, the wind was a cold and unpleasent, the people start talking about what was happening: "Those this meen the war will repeat itself again?"
-"I don´t want a war to start."
-"Will the goverment is going to do something about this."
-"This is all the senators fault."
In the bridge near Balamb, Squall could hear the words of the people near by, he was standing looking at the sea, he start to remember some words he heard before in his mind:"If you don´t try yourselve you´ll never be able to control your power; we where born only to kill, Squall; Beliving is possible, if Mr. Deiling was alive he would see and do it; Heh heh he...I told you Lionheart, once you start killing you cannot take your hands of a blade, remember this you are a slayer till you die, remember my words Lionheart." Squall remembered the words of the assasin Shadow...
Finally after remembering all that Squall went to the conclusion, he spoke to himself:
-"Lionheart and Leonhart have to become the same person, they have to be one..It´s time for me to start to fight again; If I stay here everybody will be in danger because of me; I cannot stay any longer, I most go to Winhill inmediatly...that will it be." As the sun came down, he walked away from the bridge and started a old path...once again.
Finally night came, Quistis came out running and Selphie infront saying to her:
-"Come on...Dr. Kadowaki needs you..." Quistis came running, outside Zell and Angie waited:
-"What a waste and I wanted to see Squall before I left." Quistis said coming out of the gate, Zell only looked at her and said:
-"I can´t believe this is happening...I´ll go with you Quistis." Zell start walking besides Angie and Selphie besides Quistis, Zell turn his head for a moment and looked at Rinoa and Irvine standing infront of the gate:
-"Tell Squall I won´t be late, I´ll just acompany Quistis alright?" Zell said before he continue walking.
-"Don´t worry..." Rinoa responded, all the sudden Zell vanished into the darkness, Rinoa just looked where they where in the afternoon, she just spoked:
-"I wonder where´s Squall?" She asked.
Irvine just looked at her and respond:-"Don´t worry, even if it sounds bad, Squall will not leave because Mr. Deiling died." Irvine looked at Rinoa´s face, she was smiling:
-"I´ll go look for him, ok?" She run where they went in the afternoon. Irvine shouted:
-"Rinoa!...I´ll go to sleep earlier than you." He standed alone infront of the gate.
Rinoa start running near the sea, when she was infront of the place she just looked at the distance and didn´t saw anything, her smile dissapear and she turn around to see alot of fireflies, they iluminated the sea with great beauty, one of the fireflies passed under her fit and went where the darkness was, it started to move in circles, all the sudden a voice was heard from the darkness: "Those fireflies are very beautifull..."
-"Squall!!!" Rinoa shouted and turned around to see Squall, he walked out of the darkness, he had a small smile over his face...he just looked at Rinoa.
-Squ-all..." She said.
-"Mr. Deiling was assasinated this morning." He said.
-"Yes...I already know."
-"Blackhart killed him, I will get my revenge on Blackhart and his clan...but for the moment I must go to Winhill." Rinoa stared at him, afraid, she only turn around again to the sea, and spoked:
-"To Winhill........will you become the same Squall from 10 years ago."
-"I don´t know..." Squall looked at the sky and start to see the stars: "Since the end of the Sorceress War I have denied to become Lionheart again but after the fight with Seifer I could see that the slayer inside me is still alive and I still don´t know what to do, I don´t know what to do Rinoa."
-"But it wasn´t long that you became yourself again; you will always be Squall a pacific adventurer..."
Squall looked at the sea, and start to talk again: "If I stay here longer you and all will be in danger because the Slayer inside me is still awake...when we first meet..." Squall turn around to face Rinoa, and spoke to her:"Rinoa...you told me that you didn´t wanted to know about my past...and that make me really happy Rinoa, I live in peace for along time...and I thought I could be a normal person Rinoa, that was the only reason..."
Rinoa start to remember the good moments she spend with Squall and the others, she wanted to cry in that moment, her low lift moved, like trembeling, she start to remember those moment´s, the time that Zell and Irvine start fighting each other because Zell eat Irvines´s food; When they all start to eat the bad food that Rinoa prepeared; When Squall start to show Rinoa how to use the Gunblade; When they, both, sleeped out in the orphanage sea port once...all of it. Finally the fireflies iluminated and Squall hughed Rinoa for the last time, Rinoa´s eyes open widely and couldn´t even say a word:
-"...Thank you for everything Rinoa......I´m a Lion...I will wander the world again........Farewell." Rinoa´s eyes started to get full of tears, and when she closed them the tears started to flow down her cheeks, Squall just turn around and walked away from Rinoa without looking back. His foot´s steps could be heard getting away from her, Rinoa couldn´t say anything, finally in low voice she was able to say something:"Squall..." He didn´t respond or even turn around to see her, he continue walking away from her. She fell in her knees and started to cry, she putted her hands over her face and try to stop the tears, he didn´t turn around in any moment, and the firefly follow him till the end, later he dissapeared into the darkness of the night, and the proud Lionheart dissapear.
"As the lion who walks in the night to hunt...is the heart of Lionheart who continues his journey to end this nightmare once and for all...he will finish his battle and will end this
once and for all."