Author's note: So sorry for not updating.....

to Omega Weapon: No, she won't die, at least not yet :) And thanks for visiting my website, but why not sign the guestbook?

to Hikari Heijin: Thanks and yups :)

to Shadow-Seraph: Ah, we think so alike, the Seifer&Rinoa-thing is soo..... disgusting. Unnatural. So unlike Seify. Well, I never want this story to end, that's why I gotta think of a sequel....

to Iskander: Hehee, thanks :)

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-Squall's POV-

While beating Adel, we realize that we have to keep Rinoa alive too, by curing her every now and then. Like we have time for that right now. Like she hasn't caused us enough trouble already. Well, at least she stopped screaming Seifer's name. Hyne, that can really make a guy paranoid...

Well, after all, Adel was defeated and Rinoa saved. Then when Adel collapsed, and Rinoa had been dragged out of there, Selphie ran to Quistis and they spoke for a while, but I couldn't hear what they said. Then, Quistis nodded and walked up to Adel. Then Laguna rushed in with Sis...

"Alright Ellone, go!" Laguna shouts.

A pilar of light appears around Ellone, then around Quistis. Then Quistis collapses.

"Good, good, now bring Quistis back."

She slowly stands up. "I was... inside Adel. The young Adel."

Laguna nodds. "Ultimecia's inside Adel. Exactly as she wanted." He turns to look at all of us. "Alright kids, are you ready? The time compression is about to begin. Do you remember everything I told you? Love, friendship, courage. Stay strong!"

Suddenly the wall where Adel came from, starts flickering.

"Is this is?" Selphie asks quietly, hiding behind my back. "Is this the time compression?"

Then the wall somehow sucks itself in and us with it. We're floating... in the sky. We're falling.... Thru bubbles. The bubbles, they show flashes of our lives. Hyne, wonder if there's anything with me and Seifer in it?

Before I know it, we've fallen thru the bubbles and we hit water.

"What's happening..?" Selphie asks in a whiny voice.

We can talk? In the water?

"It's the time compression," Quistis replies, as the bottom of the water disappears and we're in the sky again.

Birds.. lots of birds. A big flock. They scream...

"Where are they taking us?" Selphie shrieks.

I look around, to notice that the birds have formed a tunnel. We're moving fast, thru the tunnel. Then the tunnel ends and we're in...

"Deling City?" Zell asks.

I look around in a room I've never seen before. "What is this place?"

"This is Deling City's Presidential Residence," Zell explains. "This is where Edea was."

"Right in that chair!" Selphie shrieks again and points at the far wall.

There's a chair on the other side of the room. It's empty... Then not. Edea's sitting in it. She stands up.. And there's two Edeas. Three Edeas.... countless Edeas. Slowly, she turns to us and.. she's not Edea.

"Who is that?" Zell asks.

"I don't know, but she doesn't seem all that friendly," Seifer says, drawing Hyperion.

She, whoever she is, has come closer, and like Seify said, isn't looking all that friendly towards visitors.

"Is she a Sorceress?" Irvine asks. "Quistis, can you tell?"

"I ugh... I think she is," Quis says.

"To hell with her then," Seifer mumbles and attacks her.

"Seifer no!" Quistis shouts. "She might be Matron..."

After receiving a hit, the Sorceress lets out the creepiest laughter ever, starts spinning around, fades and disappears.

"Timber?!" Zell shouts.

The Sorceress is before us again.

"Hynedamn her," Seifer says and attacks again. The same pattern repeats: laughter, spin, fade, disappear. And she's taking us with her again. We seem to be at.. Balamb beach.

"How long's she gonna keep this going?" Seifer growls.

"Maybe if we don't hit her, she'll---" Quistis says.

"Like hell she will stop," Zell says suddenly and rushes forward to punch her.

And again, she does likes before and we find ourselves on a walkway in Esthar.

"Whatta hell is she doing?" Irvine asks. "Why is she taking us to all these places?"

"These are the places that we've been to lately," Quistis says. "She's making us relive our journey---"

"I haven't been to Balamb beach in years!" Zell says.

"I have," I say.

"Yeah, me too," Seifer says and everybody looks at us.

"What?" I ask. "It's a nice, calm place. I like to go there to---."

I'm interrupted by a gunshot, then a laughter.

The next place she takes us to, is the Training Center of our very own Balamb Garden.

"Well, at least we've all been here," Seifer notes before slashing the Sorceress again.

The surroundings change again.

"I don't recognize this place...." Zell says, looking around in the snowy forest-

"I do," Irvine says. "I've been training here a couple of times."

"How long will she keep doing this?" I ask Seifer.

"Well she can't go on forever, can she?"

"How do we know?" Quistis asks. "Maybe fighting her isn't the answer-- Selphie!"

"Sorry," she manages to reply before we find ourselves right outside B-Garden.

"What-- What's this for?" Seifer asks.

"Let's just get this over with," I say and go hit her.

The next place I don't recognize.

"Is this the Pandora?" Selphie asks.

"It sure looks like it," Quistis replies and apparently decides fighting the traveling Sorceress is the best option.

"What the fuck?" Seifer asks, looking around. "What's this place?"

"I don't know...." I say.

"Doesn't look familiar..." Selphie says.

"I know!" Zell says. "I've seen pictures of this place, it's---"

"Look at the Sorceress!" Selphie suddenly screams.

The Sorceress before us has... changed. She's not the tall, thin figure anymore, she's more like... a worm. She's squirming on the ground, ready to attack.

But Seifer's quicker, and the next thing we know is.... Really weird.

"Well this I sure as hell don't recognize," Irvine says.

"Now! This is our chance, let's kill her now!" Quistis says, waving the whip.

We all deliver a series of different hits at the wormy creature. Finally, she seems dead. Or it.

"What is-- The orphanage!" Selphie says and breaks into a smile. "We're home! We're back home, guys!"

Quistis shakes her head slowly. "I'm afraid this won't be the end of it, Selphie."

"What's that?!" Zell shouts.

We all look at the direction he's pointing at.

"That must be where Ultimecia's at," I note to Seifer, who nodds.

We all look at each other.

"Shall we.....?" Quistis asks with a repressed voice. I guess she's afraid too...

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