Final Fantasy 8: Evil Altar chapter 3
On their way to the altar, Rinoa and Edea both cast Vanish on themselves and move on.
"Is it just me or did the altar suddenly start glowing brighter?" asked Rinoa
"No it's definitely not just you. It seemed as if it flashed for a moment." Responded Edea
Just as they were nearing the Altar began to move and obviously did not notice Rinoa and Edea.
Rinoa, realizing her chance was moving away, grabbed Edea and jumped on the altar. An alarm goes off once both of the sorceresses are touching and the altar and dispel is cast automatically. Rinoa and Edea stand completely visible. A door opens and Squall and the other missing party members come out
"Squall, you're ok." Says Rinoa "Let's get out of here."
Rinoa hugs Squall but he does not budge. When he does he slashes Rinoa slicing her shoulder open. Deling's cackling voice is heard by Rinoa and Edea and Edea instantly recognizes his face on the floating screen.
"As you can see your friends are very loyal to me" said Deling "I'm sure they didn't want to be but when you have modified Ultimecia's mind control on sorceresses to control other humans I'm pretty sure they had no choice. They are all my loyal knights now."
Edea realizes that neither she nor Rinoa would want to fight their friends; she begins casting a teleportation spell. When she finally gets it done she grabs Rinoa and teleports to Balamb Garden.
"What do we do now?!" cried Rinoa
"First lets get that wound treated," Responded Edea "then I have an idea."
Edea bandaged Rinoa up and then used several curagas after which she told Rinoa her master plan.
"Cid had a device for such purposes." Said Edea "He was about to use it on you and me when we were possessed but it was untested and may have had bad side effects. It seems like our only shot to free our friends."
"Ok, it seems like we have no choice." Rinoa said as she armed herself with the strange beam device.
Rinoa and Edea sat into one of the Balamb vehicles and after arriving at the altar's current location got out of the vehicle. Rinoa hid the device and jumped onto the platform to make the alarms go off.
"Come to join us?" Deling's voice was heard over the speakers
"I just want to talk to Squall" wailed Rinoa
"Sure, you can talk to him but Squall hasn't been very conversational lately. He might not be in the mood to listen" laughed Deling.
Deling opens the door and Squall along with the others exited the altar and Rinoa began her random screaming. After she realized that it was doing no good she drew the device, aimed and …
BOOM. Irvine had shot the device before Rinoa can fire it.
"Come on, you don't think I wasn't expecting something like that did you?" said Deling "And now I will make you an offer. You join us and you can be with Squall forever. Plus I wont make you suffer."
"F you!" yelled Rinoa.
"sigh I thought you would say that." Said Deling at which point two black spheres flew out and infested Rinoa and Edea. "You see I couldn't get you right away because you came too quickly. I had a system that could not knock sorceresses unconscious because it would do the same to Ultimecia. After I removed that system after your second arrival you can be infested just like the others. I control your fate now don't try to resist it. Until this control is destroyed you aren't anything but slaves. You shall not know anything but to serve me and view Ultimecia's rebirth."
Deling holds up the control that controls the spheres and Rinoa gets up. She grabs her pinwheel and is about to shoot but stops and calmly walks to over to join Squall. Edea does the same.
Deling laughs but the control is suddenly shot out of his hands by a ring like object. Deling looks up to see three masked people looking down at him from the top of the altar.