A/N: Hey there readers. Thanks for the reviews again. I think I'm addicted to them. Anyways, final chap. for Quistis (and boy was it long). I like Quistis too. But I hope you like her ending. (You'll finally get to see why I called her the Maiden) But then after this is (sniff) the final part. But I'm sure you're all dying to see the end aren't you? And homecoming's coming up this week, I wonder what I'll do...hmmm...who knows. And if you life FF7 crazy fics...then check out Frost In My Eyes. Okay, I know I just advertised my own story, but someone's gotta do it. So enjoy reading the next part in Kill Squall.

Part Five: The Maiden

Fire and Ice

Quistis may have thought she was smart by trying to off Rinoa like that, but she didn't realize that Rinoa had escaped. She waltzed into the front gate of the presidential palace as many guards were already fleeing. Many were afraid of Edea, and they should be. So they ran as soon as they heard any commotion. Quistis began to whistle as she slowly walked up the stairs of the palace. She opened the door to the top level to feel an immense heat behind her. Obviously Seifer had done a little reckless magic. Quistis had no doubt that Rinoa had met Edea. Even though she wasn't a sorceress, she was still pretty powerful. She had sold her soul to the devil as most say. Now she was nothing but a monster. All for power, what a shame. Quistis walked down the marble hallway towards Edea's room. She figured Edea had just got done with her meal so it was safe to go in. She entered the room which smelled a foul stench. Quistis didn't think that would happen, but things were mysterious.

She entered the room, stepping on a piece of flesh. Edea must've torn her apart before devouring her. But she looked in disgust as she saw the room covered in blood. That was something she never thought Edea would do. Why would she blow her victim to pieces?

She walked forward to see someone was sitting in Edea's chair. But it wasn't Edea. Quistis almost screamed as she saw Rinoa sitting there with her legs crossed.

"Surprised?" Rinoa stood up, not turning around.

"H-h-how did you do this?" Quistis was frightened.

"I don't know, but you tricked me." Rinoa turned around, her new uniform and the her skin covered in blood.

"This is unbelievable!" Quistis looked around the room.

"Pretty smart to try and kill me with telling me a lie," Rinoa held her hand out at Quistis, "Now tell me where my powers are!"

Quistis began to laugh, "Oh you'll find them alright. But to get them, you'll have to go through me!"

Quistis began to glow with a strange energy. Rinoa was puzzle at first, but then realized that she was summoning. Quistis' body glowed with a blue light before unleashed her power. She spread her arms and pillar of ice erupted from the ground. Inside of it was a young maiden. The blue-bodied woman known as Shiva. Her body was only covered in the frost that she had acquired from sub-zero temperatures. Her hair was long and blond. Her eyes slowly opened to find her target. The ice shattered and the goddess was released from her prison. Rinoa's eyes widened as the maiden released an energy of sheer ice at her. She couldn't fight a GF by herself. She had to summon a GF to combat with it. The best one she could think of.

She swung her arms in front of her. A blazing flame absorbed the ice magic in its ferocity. From the flames emerge a horned beast. He looked like a bull with his snarling face. His body was engulfed in flames as he stand on his two legs and claws readying for attack.

"So it appears that you've been practicing with Ifrit." Quistis put in.

"It appears that you haven't given up on your favorite GF." Rinoa replied.

Shiva bent back, her hands together as they gathered a large ball of light. She then thrusted the energy she had collected at Ifrit. The energy traveled and froze everything in its path. She knew that Ifrit wouldn't survive this attack. Rinoa's body became shrouded in darkness. Her eyes were glowing red as she summoned another GF. Above her appeared a million bats. They all were absorbed into each other to form a mass of darkness. From the mass descended a winged demon called Diablos. He was dripping with the pure powers of darkness. He stuck his hands into the mass that he had descended and threw it at the oncoming attack. It exploded in a dark light that traveled to engulfed Shiva. When the darkness receded, Shiva had disappeared.

"How did you master summoning two GFs at once!?" Quistis backed up, scared for her life.

"Find out." Rinoa pointed her finger at Quistis, commanding Diablos to attack her next.

The demon turned himself into a long, ribbon of darkness. It flew its way over to Quistis, wrapping her body up in the darkness. It bound her limbs and covered her mouth to prevent her from screaming. Quistis' eyes widened in fear. Rinoa pointed her other finger for Ifrit to attack. She could slightly hear Quistis' muffled screams from underneath the darkness. But Ifrit's body had been turned into raging flames. It burned every last trace of Quistis Trepe to ashes.