Chapter 25
Feels good being able to write again. And Wyatt if that part really bothers you just tell me and I will remove it. And Blah blah blah I do not claim any characters in this story.
"You mean I have cancer?" Squall asked as he sat up. Dr. Kadowaki nodded.
"Yes...and we are not very advanced in treating your type of leukemia." Explained the doctor. Rinoa ran up and grabbed Kadowaki's white coat.
"Please! There has to be something you can do to help him." Shrieked Rinoa as tears ran down her cheeks. Dr. Kadowki just shrugged, just then Zell stumbled through the door and Selphie behind him. They could tell by the sad look on Rinoa's face that something was wrong.
"Why are you crying, is he really sick or something?" Selphie asked. Rinoa released the doctor.
"Yeah, he has cancer..." Implied Rinoa. Selphie's eyes widened and Zell's mouth dropped open.
"Doctor, it is treatable right?" Zell asked. Kadowaki just shrugged.
"Can you guys all step out, I want to talk with Squall." Said Rinoa as she wiped her eyes. They nodded and left Rinoa and Squall to be alone.
"What is it Rinoa?" Asked Squall as he made a spot for Rinoa to sit by him. Rinoa took a seat and grabbed his hand.
"Squall you can't die on me, you understand?" Implied Rinoa as she squeezed his hand.
"Look Rinoa, I won't make promises I can't keep, but trust me I will do everything possible to recover." Replied Squall as he put his other hand on her cheek. Rinoa shook her head.
"No, you can't die...I've been wanting to tell you something for a few days now, and haven't been able too." Confessed Rinoa. Squall looked at her with a confused look. "I'm pregnant...I just found out three days ago." Squall's eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"Whoa...I mean you and me with a kid." Squall gasped. Rinoa nodded.
"You're not upset are you?" Rinoa asked. Squall was silent for a minute.
"No, I'm just shocked...I didn't want to be a father yet but. I guess it sounds like fun." Retorted Squall. Rinoa embraced him tightly.
"Which is why you have to promise you won't leave me with this kid by myself. I don't want to raise a child alone." Rinoa pleaded.
"Don't worry about it...I promise you that if there is a way for me to survive this, I will live through this." Said Squall as started to kiss her.
"Hey you guys done yet." Asked Zell as he peeped in through the door. "Ooh sorry guess not." Rinoa sighed and looked over at him.
"Well now we are." Complained Rinoa. Selphie and the doctor entered after Zell.
"Squall, we do have a possible cure...but we don't have any on hand and I doubt anybody could survive the side effects." Explained Kadowki as she flipped through a large encyclopedia based on herbs. Squall shot up off his bed.
"I don't care what the side effects are just find the stuff and let's use it." Demanded Squall.
"Well we need a chizio shrub root, and some lareniz leaves. The problem is they are only grown in two different dangerous spots." Retorted Kadowki while ripping the pages out that shown the pictures and locations. Zell snatched them out of her hand before Squall could even look at it.
"No, you mean the two forbidden islands? Says here the chi whatever grows on the Isle Closest to Heaven and the other on the Isle Closest to Hell. If they only grow on these two Islands how did you ever discover it in the first place?" Asked Zell. Kadowaki just shrugged again.
"That's not important Zell, c'mon, with your help I can go get them." Implied Squall as he picked up his gunblade. Rinoa grabbed the gunblade and pushed him back into his bed.
"No no no. What you can do is relax." Impaired Rinoa.
"But but..." Squall got cut off by Kadowaki.
"She's right, I can't believe you Squall...how can you be so stupid to go out there in you're condition?" Grumbled the old doctor.
"Yeah don't worry about it, I'll go get the stuff...maybe Sephiroth will come with me." Implied Zell but Selphie tapped him on the shoulder.
"Uh Zell, incase you forgot, his sword is broke. Why don't you take Auron with you?" She suggested. Zell just rolled his eyes.
"Alright, I'd much rather spend time with Sephiroth than that drunk." Retorted Zell. Zell started to walk out the door.
"Hey Zell..." Zell turned around. "Thanks man." Said Squall. Zell just grinned.
"Hey I owe you one, remember in that desert prison...I'd have a couple of gunshots in my skull if it wasn't for you." Responded Zell as he turned and rushed through the door. Zell wasn't about to waste any time, he darted off to Auron's dorm. Zell banged on the steel door so hard it put a few dents in it. Frustrated that Auron didn't answer he kicked it down and went inside to find Auron wasted and smoking cigars. "Yo Auron, Squall needs our help," explained Zell. Auron looked confused and he laid back on the couch.
"Braska... I don't feel like fighting fiends today, have Jecht help you." Mumbled Auron who dozed off. Zell scratched his head in confusion.
"I'm going to go now." Retorted Zell as he picked up the door and set it against the wall before he left. I guess Auron is useless, so I'm going to have to have Sephiroth or Tidus go with me. Pondered Zell. He didn't think twice on this one, he went straight to Sephiroth's dorm. The door was unlocked so he went in without knocking.
"Ohhhh yes!!!! Uhhhhh!" Some female moaned from the bedroom. Zell grinned and tiptoed to the bedroom door and peeked through the keyhole. Aeris was completely naked on top of Sephiroth. Zell was getting a huge erection which made a slight thump when it hit against the door. Before Zell could move Sephiroth moved Aeris to the side and knocked the door down on top of Zell who was now laying flat on his back.
"I guess no one's here." Said Sephiroth. Zell groaned and pushed the door off of him. Sephiroth then glared at the little pervert.
"So sorry, I didn't have any clue what was going on honest. You do have nice titties though." Compliment Zell. Aeris then covered herself after realizing what was going on. Sephiroth grabbed Zell by his collar and yanked him up looking at him face to face.
"What do you want?" Asked Sephiroth still glaring. Zell pushed Sephiroth off and brushed himself off.
"I'm here because Squall needs our help." Informed Zell who still couldn't keep his eyes off Aeris. Sephiroth then seemed confused.
"I don't understand. I thought he was just sick." Retorted Sephiroth. Zell's face got serious.
"He has cancer...and we are not sure how we can cure him." Explained Zell. Sephiroth gave him a dumb look.
"Why would he need my help, I'm not a doctor." Asked Sephiroth. Zell took out a map and showed him the plans. Sephiroth agreed to go, but then he remembered his weapon was broken.
"Bring me a sword and I'll go." Demanded Sephiroth. Zell thought to himself for a moment.
"Hey come with me to the doctor, I'm sure Squall will lend you his...I think you should put some clothes on first, I don't really like having to look at Masamune Junior." Zell laughed and walked out the door.
"I guess I should go, if Squall dies we will never have our rematch." Said Sephiroth to Aeris. She gave him a goodbye kiss just before he left. Within seconds he was barged in the doctors office and straight to Squall.
"Zell says you got a sword for me." Implied Sephiroth as he looked around the room. Squall reached over to the side of his bed and took his gunblade out of its case.
"That isn't a sword!" Exclaimed Sephiroth.
"It's all I got, you don't have to go if you don't want to." Said Squall. Sephiroth grabbed the gunblade from him.
"I don't want to. I'm doing this because you still owe me a rematch." Retorted Sephiroth who was examining his new weapon.
"Hey, I'm going to be most the work. Just watch and learn Sephy." Joked Zell as he came into the room. Sephiroth made a sour face.
"Oh I forgot he was coming. Let's just get this over with." Suggested Sephiroth as he put the gunblade under his trench coat and walked out. Zell followed and took Sephiroth to his Porsche.
"At least you got something to take pride in." Complimented Sephiroth as he climbed over the door into the passenger seat. Zell grinned and jumped in and started it up.
"Better put on your seatbelt." Warned Zell as he revved the engine. Sephiroth didn't take him seriously, but when Zell pulled out of the parking space Sephiroth flew forward and bumped his head on the dashboard. "You should have listened." Smarted Zell, Sephiroth grumbled to himself while he strapped his seatbelt. Zell squealed the tires and drove 120 miles per hour down the empty driveway of the garden, then went up to 160 when he got on the main road.
"If you get us killed, I will kill you again when we reach the Farplane." Implied Sephiroth who was holding his stomach. Zell laughed.
"Chill out dude, this baby can go up to 250 with the supercharge engine I put in it." Said Zell as he sped up over 200. Instead of taking the train Zell drove down the train tracks until he reached Esthar.
"Wait till you see the new model airships, they have the Ragnarok GT Supercharge, and it can run on pure nitrous." Bragged Zell. Sephiroth rolled his eyes.
"What a waste of gil, not to mention the billions you would need to spend on fuel." Grumbled Sephiroth who was still in a bad mood.
"Hey it don't cost us anything, since I was one of the few saviors of the world I get to ride in it for free." Explained Zell while he did a 90 degree turn into a parking lot. He jumped out of his car and over to the airship center. He talked to the lady at the desk.
"Hi, I'm the famous Zell, and this is my companion Sephy. Can we would like to use an airship." Asked Zell. The lady quickly stood up.
"Well, our new airship is scheduled to be used by someone else today. But I imagine we can move them aside a day for your convenience." Explained the woman.
"Yeah, Squall's life depends on it." Said Zell.
"Say no more, the ship is right this way. I hope you and..."
"Sephiroth" The silver haired man cut in.
"Yes I hope you and Sephiroth enjoy our airship." Said the lady as she sat down in her seat again. Zell and Sephiroth darted off and climbed up into the airship. Once at the pilot seat they both looked at each other.
"Well, let's go. I've been wanting to fly in this thing, and I give you the honor of flying it!" Exclaimed Zell as he excitedly sat in the seat in the co-pilot seat. Sephiroth stood there and looked around. He can't be expecting me to fly such a complicated contraption the silver haired man contemplated.
"Quit messing around and get in the pilot seat. I couldn't fly this thing if I had the manual sitting right next to me." Said Sephiroth. Zell got a pale look on his face.
"Uh, I don't know how to fly it either. I thought for sure you could fly this thing. All that training and you don't know how fly anything?" Asked Zell.
"Well, I guess we will have to find another way." Suggested Sephiroth as he turned to leave. Zell slid over to the pilot seat.
"Hey, I think I can fly this thing. I doubt it is more complicated than my car. I watched Selphie fly an airship similar to this too." Implied Zell. Sephiroth turned around and leaned against the wall. Zell started up the ship, he turned on all 26 engines and pulled the lever all the way back. The ship soared out into the air so fast it through Sephiroth into the back wall. "Sorry about that." Uttered Zell who quickly slowed it down which flung Sephiroth up into the windshield. "Well we are almost there already, damn dude this thing is fast!" Yelled Zell. Sephiroth took out his gunblade.
"I'm going to kill you now." Said Sephiroth. Zell didn't take him serious till he saw Sephiroth raise the blade in the air. Zell quickly got out of his seat and Sephiroth missed, slicing the control panel into.
"Chill out, now look what you've done did, dumbass. Now stop trying to kill me already!" Zell demanded. Sephiroth didn't listen, he slowly moved towards Zell. The blonde haired kid got scared and got a parachute and jumped out before Sephiroth had a chance to hit him. Luckily Zell landed on the beach of the Island Closest to Heaven. Sephiroth remained in the ship which was about to crash into the mountains.
"Ah fuck." Grumbled Sephiroth as the ship exploded against the mountain side. Zell watched, thinking Sephiroth was dead.
"Wonder what I'm going to tell Aeris." He mumbled to himself. But out of the flames a black cloaked figure appeared. It was Sephiroth, he ran across the top of the water and stopped two feet in front of Zell.
"Look I'm sorry, don't kill me. Let's call truce" Said Zell as he stuck his hand out. Sephiroth stared at him for a second, then grabbed his hand and squeezed so hard even Zell's knuckles popped. He released him, and they both looked around for a shrub like in the picture.
"I guess that's it." Said Zell as he walked over to it and pulled a big shrub out of the ground.
"It has to be, that's the only plant on this island." Replied Sephiroth. Zell looked down and saw a few giant eggs sitting next to the shrub. Just then a giant three headed beast came rampaging at them.
"It's a Chimera!" Exclaimed Zell as he dropped the shrub and readied himself for a fight. Sephiroth took out his gunblade.
"Watch out for the tail, it can paralyze you." Informed Sephiroth. Zell wondered how Sephiroth would know this.
"I'll hold it down, just decapitate all the heads." Zell jumped on top of it not thinking about how long the tail was. The snake head on the tail got him right in the..."Ouch! My ass!" Yelled Zell as he held the beast down. Sephiroth quickly cut off the three heads and the tail. Zell rolled off the animal's back and onto the ground.
"You need to suck the poison out." Implied Sephiroth.
"I know, but I can't reach it, right on my ass cheek. Your going to have to suck it for me." Said Zell as he pulled down his pants. Sephiroth's eyes widened.
"Suck your own ass, I'm going to go look for something I can make into a straw like thing." Grumbled Sephiroth. Zell's legs went numb.
"We don't have time. I'll be completely paralyzed if you don't hurry up." Complained Zell. Sephiroth broke a branch off the shrub and hollowed it out.
"Here now you can reach it." Sephiroth said as he handed it to Zell. Zell took it and put it on his wound. Sephiroth wondered why he hadn't started sucking out the poison.
"Uh...Can you turn around, I'd like some privacy dude." Said Zell, as he started to pull down his pants. Sephiroth quickly turned around and waited. Minutes later Zell decided that he had the poison out. "Alright dude, I think it's out cause I feel great. I'll even race ya to the other island. Sephiroth just stands there. "Well, if you don't go I'm gonna get a head start!" Explained Zell as he shot off. Within minutes he arrived at the Island Closest to Hell only to find the silver hairs man waiting for him.
"About time you got here, I think that is the plant over there, just take the whole plant so we know we got everything." Sephiroth implied. Zell caught his breath and ran over to the plant and yanked it out of the ground.
"I got it!!!" Zell yelled, Sephiroth's eyes widened. Zell turned around to see a ruby dragon charging in his direction. The blonde man jumped over the top of the monster and grabbed its tail. Sephiroth quickly took the gunblade and slashed the face of the ruby dragon. The left eye of the monster was blinded now, Zell climbed up on top of it and attempted to strangle it. The neck of the dragon was so strong it flung Zell off to the ground. Sephiroth thrust the gunblade, but the monster caught it between its jaws. Sephiroth fired a round into the monster. The beast quickly released the gunblade, and in anger it charged its breath. Before it could blast Sephiroth, the silver haired man slashed an opening its throat. The monster seemed to be petrified, then it gasped and slowly suffocate. Zell quickly ran over to Sephiroth.
"Dude!!! You rock! Can you teach me to fight like you?!" Pleaded Zell. Sephiroth seemed to ignore him, and walked over to the shoreline.
"We got the supplies, let's..." Sephiroth paused. Zell looked confused, but a few seconds later he heard the sound of a stampede of huge fiends moving there way.
"Oh shit!!! We gotta get the hell out of here!" Zell yelled, as he ran over to Sephiroth. Sephiroth just grinned as he made a bunch of green glowing energy around him, Zell stared at him in awe.
"ULTIMA!!!" Yelled Sephiroth as he pushed an amazing amount of green and black energy at the beasts. Body parts flew everywhere and Sephiroth fell to one knee and breathing deeply.
"Holy shit, why don't you just do that every time?" Asked Zell. Sephiroth quickly arose.
"It drains my life to do that, but I do not have all day to fool around with such inferior enemies. Squall needs this to get better, so we can have our rematch." Explained Sephiroth. Sephiroth grabbed Zell's arm and cast a teleportation spell and they were back at the entrance of the garden.
"Look man, with all the power you got, fighting Squall would be pointless. He can't stand up to you're attacks." Said Zell. Sephiroth started walking to the infirmary.
"I won't know till we fight." Implied Sephiroth as Zell followed him. Dr. Kadowaki was waiting for them at the door with a grim look on her face.
"We got the stuff!" Exclaimed Zell excitedly. The doctor just stared at them with a sad look.
"I don't think it will help, we had a world check for blood that would match Squall, everybody donated but we don't have a single match. Not even a similar one." Explained the doctor. Sephiroth rolled up the sleeve on his trench coat.
"You haven't checked mine or Zell's." Said Sephiroth. The doctor's face seemed to light up a little.
"Hey might as well, even though the chance is one out of 10 million of you being a match." Said Kadowaki as she took some needles out of her pocket and prepared to take blood from the two men. The doctor noticed a slight green tint to Sephiroth's blood. "Never seen anything like this before, already I doubt you are not a match." Sephiroth and Zell went inside the infirmary and sat in the waiting room watching Rinoa and Squall talking on the other side of the glass. Hours passed and the doctor came back to the room where Sephiroth and Zell waited.
"I got the results, Sephiroth you are not a match...but you're blood is different. It seems to be uncoded so I don't think there is anybody that it wouldn't match. I don't know what that green stuff will do to Squall, but we got no choice but to use your. I actually see it as a possible age slower, I was wondering if you would donate more for me to study it." Said Dr. Kadowaki. Sephiroth shook his head no.
"You do not understand what this blood can do, I am willing to give it to Squall, but not willing to let you study it." Sephiroth implied. The doctor sighed and immediately began using the plants to make a chemo to kill off Squall's cancer.
Wonder what could happen after Squall gets Sephiroth blood...will Squall live to be a father, that will be revealed in the next chapter.