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Chapter Seven
Squall, Quistis, Rinoa, Selphie, Zell, and Irvine all sat in Cid's office.
"So how long is he gonna stay in there?" Rinoa asked Cid.
"Well, considering he murdered someone, I'd say a pretty long time." Cid answered, straightening a stack of papers on his desk.
"Why would he though? What'd she do to him?" Zell asked, looking down at the floor.
"I don't know. He's been put in the most well guarded cell at D-District Prison so we don't have to worry about him getting out and hurting anyone." Cid watched the huge stack of papers blow off his desk and land on the floor. He sighed, stood up, and began stacking them back on the desk.
"Maybe he just finally lost it." Zell suggested. Everyone stared at him. "Come on. With everything that's been happening, maybe he just finally lost it. Stress isn't really good with his temper problem, ya know."
"Zell may be right. With his sister showing up after several years, Sorceress Ulti-" Zell interrupted Cid.
"Wait. Back up a minute. What do you mean, 'with his 'sister' showing up after several years'?" Zell asked.
"Sophia is his sister." Cid explained.
Irvine seemed to glare at Zell. "Sister, eh?"
Zell shrugged his shoulders. "How was I supposed ta know?"
"Seifer's being watched well, right?" Quistis finally spoke up.
"Yes." Cid reassured her.
"Better watch him even more than. If I know Seifer, he'll escape." Quistis stood up and left the room. Shortly after, everyone else followed.
After the group left, the stack of papers neatly stacked on Cid's desk, blew off the desk once more and fell to the floor. Cid just stared at the papers scattered around the room. He laid his head on the desk. "Damn papers…"
Seifer paced back and forth in the cell that he had been put in a few hours ago.
'I didn't do anything wrong!' He screamed in his mind. 'I don't understand. She should be dead. She fell several thousand feet! So how was she walkin' around Garden? Wait. Sorceress Ultimecia. THAT WITCH SET ME UP!!' He walked over to the bars that separated him from everything else. He had to find a way out of here. He started banging on the bars. A guard walked over to him.
"STOP THAT!" The guard yelled at him. He continued banging on the bars. The guard came closer to hit him, and that's when Seifer attacked. He grabbed the guard's head, then started banging the head up against the bars. He heard the other prisoners start cheering. Seifer grabbed the keys around the man's belt, and freed himself. Through the cheering of the prisoners, he could hear more guards coming his way.
"Great. Looks like I'm gonna fight my way through." He threw the lifeless body of the guard inside the cell he just broke out of. "I'm gonna have one hell of a time here." He smirked. The guards were now visible.
"Squall, Quistis, Rinoa, Selphie, Zell, and Irvine, please report to my office." Cid said into the speaker. He looked down at the papers on the floor once more, than his head hit the desk. 'I need to get some help around here.' He sighed but looked up as the group walked through the elevator.
"Whatcha want now?" Zell asked impatiently.
"Seifer's broken out. I mapped out where he was seen and which direction he was headed." Cid stared at everyone.
"I told you." Quistis muttered.
Squall took the map that Cid had given him. "I know where he's going." He quickly ran towards the elevator. Everyone followed.
Seifer looked up at the castle that was once Ultimecia's.
'I know that witch has Sophia locked up in there.' He walked towards the castle.
The God Hyne stared out at nothing. He was chained up by a special magic only Gods and Goddess' could use. His eyes were full of sadness. He had been watching over Sophia ever since she was just a baby. Now she was in trouble and he couldn't do anything to help her.
"Don't worry. I won't hurt her." Came a male's voice. A tall, black haired man appeared before Hyne. Hyne stared at him and now his eyes were full of hatred. "Don't look at me that way, Hyne. You knew this would happen someday."
"I never knew a God would turn against his own kind and threaten the world. Why are you doing this?" White hair fell loose from the low pony-tail that Hyne had his long hair put in.
The God dressed in black walked up to Hyne. "I'm doing this because you did a poor job at making that pitiful world below us." His gray eyes stared into Hyne's green eyes. "And plus, I needed something to rule over."
Hyne lowered his head.
"Don't look so happy for me, Hyne. I'll save at least one small island for you to rule over." The evil God threw his head back in laughter.
"I should have thrown you in the pits of hell when I had the chance to!" Hyne yelled at the other God.
The evil God smacked him. "ENOUGH!! YOU NEVER HAD A CHANCE!!" The God quickly calmed down. "My puppet, Sorceress Ultimecia, should help me kill off anyone who tries to stop me. And that girl and her friends are the next on the list." The evil Gods laughter echoed throughout the Heavens.
Sophia opened her eyes only to find out that she was chained up.
'Where am I? The last thing I remember is falling.' She looked around but it was dark, so she could quite see anything.
"It's a good thing you're awake." Came a woman's voice from the other side of a steel door.
"Huh?" Sophia was confused. 'What happened?'
"You flew out of the window and before you hit the ground, I rescued you. Only to use you as a hostage." The woman laughed.
"Where's Seifer?"
"Oh. He's in jail. I made it look like he murdered his own little sister. So he shouldn't get in the way of my master's plans." Right when the woman said this, Sophia knew who she was.
"Sorceress Ultimecia." Those words flew out of Sophia's mouth.
"Very good, child." The Sorceress disappeared.
Sophia closed her eyes. 'Why is this happening?'
Seifer now stood in front of the castle. He was about to walk towards the entrance, when a sound behind him distracted him.
"Stop right there, Seifer." Came Squall's cold voice.
"Listen, puberty boy, let me explain. Sorceress Ultimecia is in THAT castle," Seifer pointed up at the castle. "and she's got Sophia in there too."
"He's lost it." Zell said.
"SHUT UP, CHICKEN WUSS!!" Seifer shouted at Zell.
"But that makes NO sense." Quistis said.
"Well of course it doesn't, teacher. Ultimecia doesn't want you to find out her plan, so she made it confusing to you." Seifer tapped his foot in impatience and looked back up at the castle. "She set me up." He tried to say as calmly as he could. He wasn't going to lose his temper this time.
"But the blood…your gunblade…your gloves. I've analyzed the DNA in the blood and it belongs to Sophia." Quistis explained.
"SHE SET ME UP AND I KNOW IT!!" Seifer yelled at everyone. He turned around and ran up to the entrance and quickly ran inside. The others followed. Seifer continued to run. If they didn't believe him, then he'd have to show them. He immediately froze. He felt dizzy.
"What the-" He fell to the ground, unconscious, before he could finish his sentence. As the others ran inside, they saw the motionless body of Seifer and immediately knew that Seifer HAD to be telling the truth. The only thing that could put Seifer into a deep sleep, was a Sorceress. Before the group could do anything, they flew out of the entrance and landed hard on their backs. At least some of them that is.
Zell rubbed his sore butt. "Now my butt hurts." He said as he stood up. "Uh…we're not in front of that freaky castle anymore, guys."
They were in Cid's office.
"Um…nice of you guys to just drop by." Cid said, a bit confused.
"She transported us to Balamb Garden." Squall muttered.
"Not all of us." Rinoa said.
She was indeed right. Irvine and Quistis were missing.
A/N: Sorry if the last chapter was confusing. I do hope this answered some of your questions.
