Chapter 8
"Will you three shut up, I mean damn. The other ones weren't this damned annoying!" Scolded Link, as he listened to constant complaining from Rinoa, Quistis, and mainly Selphie. "That's it, next time you pinch me Selphie, I'm getting the bags." He reached down, into a pocket of his tunic, and pulled out 1 large burlap bag.
"We ain't getting in that!" Yelled Selphie, standing her grounds. Link unsheathed his sword.
"If you say one more word, that's where you will be." Link threatened. Selphie knew she should shut up, didn't want to get Rinoa and Quistis in more trouble. Link put his weapon and the bag away. "I imagine you three are tired of walking." Link implied politely. He took out his ocarina, and played a certain song. Epona the horse came out of nowhere. "This is Epona, you can ride if you like," offered Link. The three women looked at each other.
"I guess we can," replied Rinoa. Link lifted her up, and placed her on the saddle. Then he helped Quistis up.
"Alright, let's go," Link said.
"Hey meanie, what about me!!!?" Yelled Selphie, throwing another one of her fits.
"Fine," Link boosted her up, and grabbed her butt. "Squishy." Link joked.
"You pervert!" Selphie kicked him in the chin. Link didn't say anything, but he laughed more than he had ever laughed before. As they walked, Link took them into the woods, then an orange portal opened.
"Let's go," Link ordered. They had lots of questions, but none of them wanted to ask Link, they knew they would find out when they get there.
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"Well what do we do?" Zell questioned, as he impatiently paced around.
"Well, we go to Cid and ask for an army." Squall said sarcastically. Sephiroth jumped up out of his chair.
"Did you say Cid. Sounds like a great idea. Take me to meet him." Sephiroth excitedly confirmed.
"I was joking." Squall gestured.
"Well I'm not, take me to him." Sephiroth demanded. Squall nodded, he and Zell left the dorm. Sephiroth followed them to the main building. Zell opened the elevator and set it for the third floor. The three men waited for it to reach the top. As the door opened, Squall ran over to the double doors and knocked.
"Who is it?" Cid asked.
"It's me, Squall, and a few friends. I have some problems to share with you."
"Come in." Cid requested. Squall opened the doors and walked in with Sephiroth behind him.
"YOU!" Cid yelled, hitting a red alert button. "Kill this man!!!"
"What's going on?" Squall asked.
"Yeah what the fuck?" Zell echoed.
"Didn't expect me to find you did you Cid." Sephiroth said, taking out his blade. Squall and Zell wondered what was going on. They would trust Cid over this man any day.
"Squall, Zell...stand back this bitch is mine." Sephiroth declared. Just then about 10 guards poured into the room. They surrounded Sephiroth. Luckily they didn't have guns, instead they all had shock sticks. "Haha. Cid, Cid, Cid...letting your guard down like that, you really should get weapons that can actually challenge me." Sephiroth gloated.
"Squall, Zell. Take him out." Cid ordered. Squall just stood there, Zell was willing to do whatever Squall did. Squall looked over at Cid, and over at Sephiroth.
"Cid or Sephiroth." Squall muttered to himself. Zell remembered something special about the Dragonwing.
"Squall, the Dragonwing flashes red when somebody tells a lie." Zell whispered quietly into Squall's ear. Squall took out his new gunblade. Having not examined it, he began to admire its unique looks. It looked much like the Punishment, only it had dragon carvings along the blade. It had yellowish orange fire on painted along the blade, the handle was curved and had a pointy bottom, much like a dragon wing. It even had six inches of serrated blade on the top side behind the point. He began to move it swiftly in the air.
"I like this. Sephiroth, what is going on here? Why are you killing Cid?" Squall asked, watching his gunblade in the corner of his eye.
"I have my reasons. Your reason should be, he has Rinoa." Sephiroth answered. Strange no flash, Squall began to disbelieve Zell, until...
"He's lying Squall. I nev..." Cid said, making the biggest mistake in his life. The gunblade flashed red.
"You bastard...why, I trusted you like a father." Squall yelled, almost in shock at what had happened. Cid, grunted. He brushed past everybody, including Sephiroth who was surrounded. Cid got in the elevator, and went down to the first floor, hoping to get into his car. He must have alerted more guards, because another 20 barged in.
"Squall, go get Cid. Zell and I will handle these weaklings." Sephiroth ordered. Before he finished, Squall ran, jumping off the desk over the guards and out the doorway. Sephiroth raised his blade, Zell tightened his gloves. The guards wildly swung at Sephiroth with the shock sticks. Sephiroth quickly ducked under the attacks. Zell tackled 2 guards, one shocked him. Instead of being stunned, it angered Zell. He was crazy now, a whole new side of him in battle. He grabbed the neck of his attacker, twisting it backwards. Sephiroth was easily dodging, but he didn't have much of a chance to attack. Zell grabbed a shock stick from the dead man, then ran over to help the old man. He ran it through one of the guards, ripping it back out. Intestines dangled from it. Sephiroth finally now had an opening, he ran out of the circle of sentry.
"Not bad kid," complimented Sephiroth. Zell grinned, knowing he had finally impressed him.
"Easy men, there are only two of them. Walters, Nelton come let's take em, the rest of you stand back." The commander said. These were the best three army units. The commander drew his sword, the other two seemed to be martial arts specialist.
"Tough guys mine," Sephiroth stated. Zell, centered in on the other two. Sephiroth and the commander met swords. Walters started to do his dumb attack sounds.
"HUUUUUYYYIIIIAAAAA!!!!" Walters yelled, raising a fist running towards Zell. Zell ducked, performing a back flip off Walters back who had ran past him. While Zell was in the air, Sephiroth was busy, well semi busy blocking all the commanders pathetic attacks. The commander was good compared to normal army, but Sephiroth was in a different league. Zell landed on top of Nelton. Nelton grabbed Zell's throat, choking, suffocating Zell. Walters turned around and grabbed Zell's hair. "HUUUUUUYYYYIIIIAAAA!!!" Walters yelled, pulling as hard as he could. Zell almost unconscious gave Nelton a double titty twister. Nelton released Zell's throat, screaming in pain. Zell took hold of Walters's arms, and bent them the wrong way. Walters let go, realizing they were broken. Zell got up doing a jump kick, knocking Walters across the side of the face, leaving him unconscious. As he landed, he stomped down on Nelton's chest. Seeing that Zell was done, Sephiroth quit playing. With the commander still attacking, Sephiroth grabbed the dull side of his blade, and ran him through with the Masamune. Most of the other guards quickly escaped, for they knew it was suicide to go against these two. Three guards still stayed, and started running at Sephiroth and Zell in a straight line. Zell grabbed the back end of Sephiroth's sword, and gave a mischievous wink. Sephiroth realized the plan, they both ran in a clothesline position, so fast the guards didn't realize they were severed in half. Sephiroth turned around to watch this victorious moment, Zell was a little edgy about killing his own allies, but he didn't let it show.
"Quick, let's go see if we can find Cid and Squall." Zell suggested. He and Sephiroth quickly ran through the door. Sephiroth cut a whole through the glass in the elevator and jumped through landing outside on his feet. Zell stopped and looked down. "That's quite a jump," complained Zell.
"Hurry up!" Sephiroth yelled back. Zell did a silent prayer, and jumped out with his eyes closed. He landed on something softer than pavement. He opened his eyes and saw Raijin.
"Thanks man." Zell said, running off after Sephiroth.
"I'll get you for that chicken wuss!!!" Raijin yelled. Fujin was behind, and she seemed to be humored.
Cid was just pulling out of the parking lot. Squall was dangling off the back of his Ferrari. Zell and Sephiroth got there just in time to see what was happening. Sephiroth ran off after them. Zell slowly walked over to his corvette. By the time Cid was out of the Garden, Sephiroth was quite a ways behind. Luckily Zell had a fast car too.
"Get in." Zell ordered. Sephiroth would have normally not listened to an order, but now was not the time to bicker. He got in, Zell drove off going 130 after them. Cid was now within eye site, he had another 5 miles before reaching the Town of Balamb. Cid going an easy 150 on his Ferrari, made it hard for Zell to keep up. Zell, shifted up, and was going 165. The disadvantage of having a two wheel car made traction a little problem also. Zell almost spun out but controlled it. He pulled up right behind Cid, Squall stepped off the hood of the corvette onto the Ferrari. Cid saw Squall on the back, and started to swerve. Squall fell back down, holding onto the spoiler on the Ferrari.
"I got an idea, drive up beside Cid." Sephiroth ordered Zell. Zell nodded, and slowly got up beside Cid's car, Sephiroth stuck his sword into Cid's back left tire. Sparks started shooting everywhere. Sephiroth reached out to Squall. As Cid fishtailed it bumped into Zell's corvette, close enough for Squall to grab Sephiroth's arm. Zell slowly came to a stop, as he saw the town gate up ahead. Cid's car was now completely out of control, and it bashed right into the gate.
"Well, Indiana Jones, you owe me one." Sephiroth stated.
"Yeah, I guess so." Squall muttered. Zell noticed Cid slowly staggering out of his burning car.
"He's getting away!" Yelled Zell, pointing over at Cid.
"I'll get him," Squall murmured. He ran over to the Ferrari, and he grabbed Cid by the collar. Zell started to run over to him, but Sephiroth stopped him.
"Let him handle it," Sephiroth retorted.
"Why did you have them kidnapped?" Squall yelled, face to face with Cid.
"Because, I am the God of this universe, and I do what I want." Cid replied, with blood dripping from his mouth.
"You aren't God, you are merely a man, and you're dying right now," Squall gestured.
"I am God, and this is merely a shell. I will have the one I want, and the others will be released." Cid scorned.
"Why did you take only these three girls for, I guess you just like to piss me off." Squall scorned back, raising his blade to Cid's neck.
"I take the girls I find that are worthy of giving birth to my son. Who will take my place as the supreme ruler? Go ahead, stab me with that thing, your only killing one of my many forms." Cid assured Squall.
"Why these three, if it wasn't for us you wouldn't have a world," Squall asked.
"I have made many dimensions, I could destroy, or save them at any time. But I made them, giving all people the chance of doing what they wish. I do not know the future. Sadly I take the best woman I find, and she dies after birth. But she will have been the mother of a God. And don't worry, those aren't the only three women I'm choosing from, there are 4 other dimensions as well."
"Your nuts," Squall snapped.
"Well, I am going to lose this body any second now. I guess it is only right that I tell you the portal to my realm. It is in the woods, if you have the balls come confront me..." Cid's eyes went lifeless, and he lay there motionless. Squall respectidly laid the limp body on the ground.
"Good bye old man," Squall sighed, still having some respect for the man that took him in. He strolled over back to Zell and Sephiroth. "He's gone, if you want to talk to him in his true form, his portal is in the woods over there." Squall said, looking at Zell, then back to Sephiroth.
"This car is a rental, I need to drive it back to the shop." Zell stated.
"Well, I don't think we will be coming back after this, so it doesn't matter," confirmed Sephiroth who was heading in the direction of the woods. Squall and Zell followed behind him. After thirty minutes of walking, they saw a cowboy in the distance.
"Howdy guys!" Yelled a familiar voice. Not long after, they realized it was Irvine.
"Damn, how did you find us?" Squall asked with a grim look.
"The Garden is on Red Alert, and I saw Zell and that one guy leave in a hurry. So I followed on foot." Irvine explained.
"Well, we are going to save the girls, I guess if you want to come you can." Zell suggested, disgusted that he was actually being nice to Irvine.
"Aight, let's go." Irvine replied. Sephiroth, Squall, and Zell remained quiet, listening to Irvine's dumb rescue plans. They finally came up on the orange portal.
"There is no turning back." Sephiroth stated, as he walked into the portal. Zell looked at Squall who just walked in afterwards. He followed too. Irvine stood there staring at the portal. He stuck his hand in, and screamed when it almost sucked him in. Then his hat got sucked in.
"Goddammit." Irvine complained, as he went in after his hat.
"Will you three shut up, I mean damn. The other ones weren't this damned annoying!" Scolded Link, as he listened to constant complaining from Rinoa, Quistis, and mainly Selphie. "That's it, next time you pinch me Selphie, I'm getting the bags." He reached down, into a pocket of his tunic, and pulled out 1 large burlap bag.
"We ain't getting in that!" Yelled Selphie, standing her grounds. Link unsheathed his sword.
"If you say one more word, that's where you will be." Link threatened. Selphie knew she should shut up, didn't want to get Rinoa and Quistis in more trouble. Link put his weapon and the bag away. "I imagine you three are tired of walking." Link implied politely. He took out his ocarina, and played a certain song. Epona the horse came out of nowhere. "This is Epona, you can ride if you like," offered Link. The three women looked at each other.
"I guess we can," replied Rinoa. Link lifted her up, and placed her on the saddle. Then he helped Quistis up.
"Alright, let's go," Link said.
"Hey meanie, what about me!!!?" Yelled Selphie, throwing another one of her fits.
"Fine," Link boosted her up, and grabbed her butt. "Squishy." Link joked.
"You pervert!" Selphie kicked him in the chin. Link didn't say anything, but he laughed more than he had ever laughed before. As they walked, Link took them into the woods, then an orange portal opened.
"Let's go," Link ordered. They had lots of questions, but none of them wanted to ask Link, they knew they would find out when they get there.
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"Well what do we do?" Zell questioned, as he impatiently paced around.
"Well, we go to Cid and ask for an army." Squall said sarcastically. Sephiroth jumped up out of his chair.
"Did you say Cid. Sounds like a great idea. Take me to meet him." Sephiroth excitedly confirmed.
"I was joking." Squall gestured.
"Well I'm not, take me to him." Sephiroth demanded. Squall nodded, he and Zell left the dorm. Sephiroth followed them to the main building. Zell opened the elevator and set it for the third floor. The three men waited for it to reach the top. As the door opened, Squall ran over to the double doors and knocked.
"Who is it?" Cid asked.
"It's me, Squall, and a few friends. I have some problems to share with you."
"Come in." Cid requested. Squall opened the doors and walked in with Sephiroth behind him.
"YOU!" Cid yelled, hitting a red alert button. "Kill this man!!!"
"What's going on?" Squall asked.
"Yeah what the fuck?" Zell echoed.
"Didn't expect me to find you did you Cid." Sephiroth said, taking out his blade. Squall and Zell wondered what was going on. They would trust Cid over this man any day.
"Squall, Zell...stand back this bitch is mine." Sephiroth declared. Just then about 10 guards poured into the room. They surrounded Sephiroth. Luckily they didn't have guns, instead they all had shock sticks. "Haha. Cid, Cid, Cid...letting your guard down like that, you really should get weapons that can actually challenge me." Sephiroth gloated.
"Squall, Zell. Take him out." Cid ordered. Squall just stood there, Zell was willing to do whatever Squall did. Squall looked over at Cid, and over at Sephiroth.
"Cid or Sephiroth." Squall muttered to himself. Zell remembered something special about the Dragonwing.
"Squall, the Dragonwing flashes red when somebody tells a lie." Zell whispered quietly into Squall's ear. Squall took out his new gunblade. Having not examined it, he began to admire its unique looks. It looked much like the Punishment, only it had dragon carvings along the blade. It had yellowish orange fire on painted along the blade, the handle was curved and had a pointy bottom, much like a dragon wing. It even had six inches of serrated blade on the top side behind the point. He began to move it swiftly in the air.
"I like this. Sephiroth, what is going on here? Why are you killing Cid?" Squall asked, watching his gunblade in the corner of his eye.
"I have my reasons. Your reason should be, he has Rinoa." Sephiroth answered. Strange no flash, Squall began to disbelieve Zell, until...
"He's lying Squall. I nev..." Cid said, making the biggest mistake in his life. The gunblade flashed red.
"You bastard...why, I trusted you like a father." Squall yelled, almost in shock at what had happened. Cid, grunted. He brushed past everybody, including Sephiroth who was surrounded. Cid got in the elevator, and went down to the first floor, hoping to get into his car. He must have alerted more guards, because another 20 barged in.
"Squall, go get Cid. Zell and I will handle these weaklings." Sephiroth ordered. Before he finished, Squall ran, jumping off the desk over the guards and out the doorway. Sephiroth raised his blade, Zell tightened his gloves. The guards wildly swung at Sephiroth with the shock sticks. Sephiroth quickly ducked under the attacks. Zell tackled 2 guards, one shocked him. Instead of being stunned, it angered Zell. He was crazy now, a whole new side of him in battle. He grabbed the neck of his attacker, twisting it backwards. Sephiroth was easily dodging, but he didn't have much of a chance to attack. Zell grabbed a shock stick from the dead man, then ran over to help the old man. He ran it through one of the guards, ripping it back out. Intestines dangled from it. Sephiroth finally now had an opening, he ran out of the circle of sentry.
"Not bad kid," complimented Sephiroth. Zell grinned, knowing he had finally impressed him.
"Easy men, there are only two of them. Walters, Nelton come let's take em, the rest of you stand back." The commander said. These were the best three army units. The commander drew his sword, the other two seemed to be martial arts specialist.
"Tough guys mine," Sephiroth stated. Zell, centered in on the other two. Sephiroth and the commander met swords. Walters started to do his dumb attack sounds.
"HUUUUUYYYIIIIAAAAA!!!!" Walters yelled, raising a fist running towards Zell. Zell ducked, performing a back flip off Walters back who had ran past him. While Zell was in the air, Sephiroth was busy, well semi busy blocking all the commanders pathetic attacks. The commander was good compared to normal army, but Sephiroth was in a different league. Zell landed on top of Nelton. Nelton grabbed Zell's throat, choking, suffocating Zell. Walters turned around and grabbed Zell's hair. "HUUUUUUYYYYIIIIAAAA!!!" Walters yelled, pulling as hard as he could. Zell almost unconscious gave Nelton a double titty twister. Nelton released Zell's throat, screaming in pain. Zell took hold of Walters's arms, and bent them the wrong way. Walters let go, realizing they were broken. Zell got up doing a jump kick, knocking Walters across the side of the face, leaving him unconscious. As he landed, he stomped down on Nelton's chest. Seeing that Zell was done, Sephiroth quit playing. With the commander still attacking, Sephiroth grabbed the dull side of his blade, and ran him through with the Masamune. Most of the other guards quickly escaped, for they knew it was suicide to go against these two. Three guards still stayed, and started running at Sephiroth and Zell in a straight line. Zell grabbed the back end of Sephiroth's sword, and gave a mischievous wink. Sephiroth realized the plan, they both ran in a clothesline position, so fast the guards didn't realize they were severed in half. Sephiroth turned around to watch this victorious moment, Zell was a little edgy about killing his own allies, but he didn't let it show.
"Quick, let's go see if we can find Cid and Squall." Zell suggested. He and Sephiroth quickly ran through the door. Sephiroth cut a whole through the glass in the elevator and jumped through landing outside on his feet. Zell stopped and looked down. "That's quite a jump," complained Zell.
"Hurry up!" Sephiroth yelled back. Zell did a silent prayer, and jumped out with his eyes closed. He landed on something softer than pavement. He opened his eyes and saw Raijin.
"Thanks man." Zell said, running off after Sephiroth.
"I'll get you for that chicken wuss!!!" Raijin yelled. Fujin was behind, and she seemed to be humored.
Cid was just pulling out of the parking lot. Squall was dangling off the back of his Ferrari. Zell and Sephiroth got there just in time to see what was happening. Sephiroth ran off after them. Zell slowly walked over to his corvette. By the time Cid was out of the Garden, Sephiroth was quite a ways behind. Luckily Zell had a fast car too.
"Get in." Zell ordered. Sephiroth would have normally not listened to an order, but now was not the time to bicker. He got in, Zell drove off going 130 after them. Cid was now within eye site, he had another 5 miles before reaching the Town of Balamb. Cid going an easy 150 on his Ferrari, made it hard for Zell to keep up. Zell, shifted up, and was going 165. The disadvantage of having a two wheel car made traction a little problem also. Zell almost spun out but controlled it. He pulled up right behind Cid, Squall stepped off the hood of the corvette onto the Ferrari. Cid saw Squall on the back, and started to swerve. Squall fell back down, holding onto the spoiler on the Ferrari.
"I got an idea, drive up beside Cid." Sephiroth ordered Zell. Zell nodded, and slowly got up beside Cid's car, Sephiroth stuck his sword into Cid's back left tire. Sparks started shooting everywhere. Sephiroth reached out to Squall. As Cid fishtailed it bumped into Zell's corvette, close enough for Squall to grab Sephiroth's arm. Zell slowly came to a stop, as he saw the town gate up ahead. Cid's car was now completely out of control, and it bashed right into the gate.
"Well, Indiana Jones, you owe me one." Sephiroth stated.
"Yeah, I guess so." Squall muttered. Zell noticed Cid slowly staggering out of his burning car.
"He's getting away!" Yelled Zell, pointing over at Cid.
"I'll get him," Squall murmured. He ran over to the Ferrari, and he grabbed Cid by the collar. Zell started to run over to him, but Sephiroth stopped him.
"Let him handle it," Sephiroth retorted.
"Why did you have them kidnapped?" Squall yelled, face to face with Cid.
"Because, I am the God of this universe, and I do what I want." Cid replied, with blood dripping from his mouth.
"You aren't God, you are merely a man, and you're dying right now," Squall gestured.
"I am God, and this is merely a shell. I will have the one I want, and the others will be released." Cid scorned.
"Why did you take only these three girls for, I guess you just like to piss me off." Squall scorned back, raising his blade to Cid's neck.
"I take the girls I find that are worthy of giving birth to my son. Who will take my place as the supreme ruler? Go ahead, stab me with that thing, your only killing one of my many forms." Cid assured Squall.
"Why these three, if it wasn't for us you wouldn't have a world," Squall asked.
"I have made many dimensions, I could destroy, or save them at any time. But I made them, giving all people the chance of doing what they wish. I do not know the future. Sadly I take the best woman I find, and she dies after birth. But she will have been the mother of a God. And don't worry, those aren't the only three women I'm choosing from, there are 4 other dimensions as well."
"Your nuts," Squall snapped.
"Well, I am going to lose this body any second now. I guess it is only right that I tell you the portal to my realm. It is in the woods, if you have the balls come confront me..." Cid's eyes went lifeless, and he lay there motionless. Squall respectidly laid the limp body on the ground.
"Good bye old man," Squall sighed, still having some respect for the man that took him in. He strolled over back to Zell and Sephiroth. "He's gone, if you want to talk to him in his true form, his portal is in the woods over there." Squall said, looking at Zell, then back to Sephiroth.
"This car is a rental, I need to drive it back to the shop." Zell stated.
"Well, I don't think we will be coming back after this, so it doesn't matter," confirmed Sephiroth who was heading in the direction of the woods. Squall and Zell followed behind him. After thirty minutes of walking, they saw a cowboy in the distance.
"Howdy guys!" Yelled a familiar voice. Not long after, they realized it was Irvine.
"Damn, how did you find us?" Squall asked with a grim look.
"The Garden is on Red Alert, and I saw Zell and that one guy leave in a hurry. So I followed on foot." Irvine explained.
"Well, we are going to save the girls, I guess if you want to come you can." Zell suggested, disgusted that he was actually being nice to Irvine.
"Aight, let's go." Irvine replied. Sephiroth, Squall, and Zell remained quiet, listening to Irvine's dumb rescue plans. They finally came up on the orange portal.
"There is no turning back." Sephiroth stated, as he walked into the portal. Zell looked at Squall who just walked in afterwards. He followed too. Irvine stood there staring at the portal. He stuck his hand in, and screamed when it almost sucked him in. Then his hat got sucked in.
"Goddammit." Irvine complained, as he went in after his hat.