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The disclaimer is at the end of this chapter.
Chapter Eight
Seifer opened his eyes slowly. He immediately shot straight up from hi lying position when he saw where he was. In another cell.
'Wonderful.' He thought as he stood up. He looked over and saw Quistis and Irvine lying on the floor, unconscious. He walked over to Irvine and kicked him in his side until a moan escaped his mouth.
"Stop it." Irvine mumbled.
"Wake up, hot shot." Seifer grabbed Irvine by his shirt collar and jerked him up to his feet.
"Where are we?" Quistis asked, standing up.
In Sorceress Ultimecia's castle, that's where." Seifer looked around the cell. No windows.
"So what are we gonna do?" Seifer heard Irvine ask.
"Stay here until I decide what to do with you." A woman's voice told them.
Everyone looked towards the door and found Sorceress Ultimecia standing in the doorway. She was staring at Seifer. It was like she didn't even know the other two were there.
"Seifer, Seifer, Seifer." The Sorceress continued to stare at him.
"Let Sophia go." Seifer told her harshly.
"Not until I get what I want, boy."
"Don't-call-me-boy." Seifer's voice remained cold and harsh.
Ultimecia knew that he did not like being called boy. Suddenly, light appeared around her, and when it disappeared, she looked exactly like Sophia.
"So you were the one who set me up." Seifer muttered.
"Yes. I did indeed set you up." Ultimecia quickly returned to her original form and turned to leave, with one last look at Seifer. "You baby sister will be safe as long as she tells me what I want to know." She left the room, shutting the door behind her and locking it.
"So Seifer was right after all." Squall said.
"What are we gonna do?" Rinoa asked.
"We could always just charge into the castle and kick some Sorceress ass!" Zell starting punching the air.
"Or we could figure out a plan so we don't risk anyone's life." Rinoa stared at Zell.
"Well, my idea was a plan." Zell stopped punching the air.
"A deadly plan." Selphie told him.
"Zell's right." Squall finally said.
"Alright! At least someone agree with me." Zell began punching the air. Again.
"Any plan we think of will risk four people's lives, not counting our own. Might as well do Zell's plan." Squall stood. Rinoa and Selphie stared at him. "Make sure you junction your GF's, make sure you have enough items, and we'll began the rescue mission." With that said, he walked off. "Meet at the North Gate when you're done!" He hollered back at them.
Sophia stared coldly at Ultimecia when she saw her walk into the room that Sophia was now being held in. Ultimecia had recently moved her to a bigger cell, probably to torture her.
"Don't worry, dead. I won't hurt you." Ultimecia walked up to her. "Not much anyway." She held Sophia's face in-between her index finger and thumb. "Such a pretty face. I wouldn't want to hurt it, so just tell me what I want to know."
"NEVER." Sophia spit in her face.
Ultimecia wiped the spit off her face and smacked Sophia right across the cheek. "TELL ME NOW!!!" She yelled.
Sophia smirked. "Or what? You gonna hurt me? You can't kill me because you need the information and I can take any pain you throw at me. I've went through a LOT worse things than a Sorceress' magic."
Ultimecia smiled that evil smile of hers. "I know. That training Hyne put you through was indeed worse than my magic, wasn't it? Well, what if I didn't hurt you, but someone else?"
Sophia's smirk quickly disappeared when she saw who she was talking about. A couple of guards dragged Seifer in and threw him onto the floor. He stood up.
"Sophia." That word barely escaped his mouth.
"No. You wouldn't." Sophia knew damn well that she would.
Ultimecia simply just threw a small dagger into Seifer's right shoulder.
Seifer tried his best to hold in his screams of pain.
"If your sister doesn't tell me where the powerful Guardian Force is hidden, I'll be forced to kill you." Ultimecia explained to him.
Sophia closed her eyes when Ultimecia threw a larger dagger into the same shoulder. Seifer fell to his knees, holding his shoulder with his left hand. This time, he let out a scream pf pain as yet another dagger shot into the same shoulder.
"ALRIGHT!!! I'LL TELL YOU!!! JUST STOP HURTING HIM!!!" Sophia's voice echoed through the room.
Ultimecia stopped throwing daggers in Seifer and turned to face Sophia.
"Alright then. Where is it?" Ultimecia's evil smile stayed glued on her face.
"IN HELL!!" Sophia yelled at her. "SPEED SLASH!!!!"
Lightning came from the sky and struck the ground. The two legged, feather winged cheetah appeared. His long claws lunged at the Sorceress. Her evil smile was quickly wiped off her face as the creature attacked her.
Seifer quickly stood up, ignoring the sharp pain in his shoulder, and quickly helped Sophia out of the chains. The two quickly ran out of the room, meeting up with Squall and company. They had already rescued Quistis and Irvine. Spikes started to come out of the walls and ceiling as the walls and ceiling began closing in on them.
"She must've set some sorta security thing on in this place since the last time we were here." Squall said.
"Let's just get the hell outta here before we become part of the wall decorations!" Zell shouted. Everyone agreed and they all ran out of the castle as fast as they could.
Sophia fell to her knees when they stepped outside.
"Velox is using up all of my energy." She muttered. A second later, she fell over on her side, unconscious.
Without hesitating, Seifer picked her up and swung her over his left shoulder.
'I need to get some Cure or Curaga when I get back to Balamb Garden.' He told himself as he just remembered the three stab wounds in his right shoulder.
The gang made it back to Garden safely. Seifer had gotten himself healed and Sophia regained her strength and her GF, Velox. They were now sitting in Cid's office.
"What was Ultimecia talking about, Sophia?" Seifer asked her.
"About the GF?" She looked at him. He nodded.
"GF?" Cid looked over at Sophia.
Sophia was sitting next to Seifer. Like usual. "Well, she obviously wants the power of the GF she was talking about. I don't know how she knows about it, but whomever told her, didn't tell her everything." Everyone stared at Sophia. "I have a LOT of explaining to do." She sighed, then took a deep breath. "I like to call them the 'Gruesome Foursome', but they're really called the 'Liberi de Praeses'."
"That means 'Children of Guardians.'" Matron, or Edea, stepped out from the shadows. "It's Latin, am I correct?"
"Uh, yeah. It is Latin." Sophia rubbed the back of her neck. "Anyway, these four are special. They are stronger then the GF's that you guys have. They are the children of the King and Queen Guardians. The GF's that you have were created to help Humans, except for four of them but I'll explain that later. The 'Gruesome Foursome' can only be summoned by the four of the eight chosen Humans." She continued. "The 'Liberi de Praeses' are only four of eight GF's that belong to a group named the 'Sacred Guardians'. we are to go to each sacred temple of the three remaining GF's in order to obtain them. When we go to the first one, I'll read the prophecy that is written on the walls. We're lucky Ultimecia only knows of one."
"Wait. You said that three remained, so what happened to the other five?" Quistis asked.
"We have them."
"WE DO???!!!" Zell spoke for everyone.
"Yes, we do. Now, we are to leave the first thing tomorrow morning. Do you understand?" Sophia looked at everyone. They all, not including Cid, nodded. "Good. I'll explain about the five that we have whenever I read that prophecy. See ya in the mornin'." Sophia walked to the elevator and hopped on.
'We got a LONG, LONG,LONG day tomorrow." Seifer sighed.
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy VIII, or any of its characters. I only own the characters that I created including the 'Liberi de Praeses' and the King and Queen GF's. I also own the prophecy, which will be explained in the next chapter, and the plot to this fanfic.
