Author's note: Slight Rinoa-bashing here.... That's right, our favorite bitch returns.... :)
to shadow-seraph: Yay :) Thankies. But I don't wanna end this fic..... I've been thinking about a sequel (yes,I have a serious addiction to sequels)...
to Iskander: Thanks :)
to Omega Weapon: Hehee, yup. Thanks :)
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-Seifer's POV-
"Quite a mess we've made here," I note amusedly.
"So where do we start looking?" Irvine asks, looking around in the mess we've made. "Don't really feel like mindlessly wandering around."
"Yeah, it's three miles high!" Selphie says.
"Maybe we should divide into teams," Quistis says. "Squall, maybe you can...?"
"No," Squall says. "Just like you said onboard the Ragnarok, you're the leader. You make the teams. That's what leaders do. They lead."
Quistis hangs her head low, then looks up at us and clears her throat. "Alright then. Squall, you will go with Selphie and Zell. Seifer and Irvine will come with me."
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"Man, there are a lot of monsters here," Irvine says after yet another battle.
"And a lot of tubes," I mumble. "Where the hell are we supposed to go?"
After the current tube and thru a doorway, we find ourselves in a huge hall with three elevators. And some monsters, of course...
"I know her tactics," Irvine pants after the monsters have been taken care of. "She's trying to exhaust us with all these extra monsters, so we wouldn't have the energy to go up against her anymore."
Quistis glances at him. "Nice theory, Irvine, but I beg to differ."
Trying to ignore, I have moved to the top of the stairs that begin from the middle of the room. They seem to go down and down to---
"What's there, Seifer?"
I turn to face Quistis, who has come next to me. "Nothing. They seem to end at the wall."
"Hm. That's weird."
"Ugh, guys, you think we oughta try the elevators?" Irvine asks.
So we take elevator number two, because three is how we got there. Two leads to the same tube as three. So we return to the hall, and try out number one.
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-Squall's POV-
"You again!" Zell shouts.
The Sorceress's Knight laughs at us. "Ah, the SeeDs have returned...."
"We thought you died," Selphie says.
"Well, I'm just not that easy to kill."
"Are you still trying to keep up with that Sorceress's Knight -thing?" I ask him.
He jumps down from whatever platform he's been standing on. "The Knight has retired."
"But you're still on Ultimecia's side?"
He laughs again. I take that as a yes.
Zell raises his fists and takes a battle stance. "Does this mean we have to kill you /again/?"
Halfway thru the battle, the rest of the gang rushes in.
"So you found the traitor," Seifer says as he joins us.
"I have brought a surprise for you pitiful SeeDs!" he says. "Soldier, will you..."
A soldier in a Galbadian uniform walks to us from behind the platform, holding a struggling... girl?
"Seifer! Save me!" she shouts.
Oh Hyne, she's the girl from the balcony at the ball....
"May I introduce you to the next Sorceress?" Roos says.
"Seifeeerrr!!" she keeps screaming.
"Shut up!" is his reply.
Roos grabs the girl's arm and starts walking past us. "I'll be taking her to Adel now. You guys can do whatever you want, you won't be able to stop me anyway."
And he walks away. We all look at each other.
"What was Rinoa doing here?" Selphie asks.
Zell shrugs. "Roos kidnapped her."
"We have to go save her! She's such a nice girl," Selphie says.
"I had no idea you were familiar with her, Seifer," Zell says glancing at him.
Seifer looks back at him with a scolding look. "Alright people, let's go save the bitch or whatever."
We return to the hall outside the room and look around. Our journey seems to continue upwards....
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-Seifer's POV-
After a couple of catwalks, we find ourselves in another hall, with Adel at the far wall and Roos walking towards her, holding the still struggling Rinoa.
"Roos, please... Please don't do this..."
Adel seems to be moving closer.... I had no idea she was that huge. Hyne, she's like ten feet tall! Maybe even taller... Gee, and it came as a surprise she was evil? Tch.
Well, guess we have to rescue the little whiny princess now, so I raise Hyperion. "Alright Roos, let her go."
"Seifer! I knew you'd come!" she shrieks.
"Oh shut up already," I reply. "You wanna be saved or not?"
Roos glances at us and laughs. "Too late, SeeDs," he says and throws Rinoa in front of Adel. Her seal starts breaking and she reaches for Rinoa, still sitting helpless on the floor. Hynedammit, get up and run! Nooo, I have to be saved...
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