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Chapter Twelve

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"Start explaining." Seifer said to Sophia.

They were all seated in Cid's office.

"Okay. When I was just a baby, the God Hyne found me and took care of me. He trained me to be his ultimate fighter. I learned magic that only Gods and Goddesses could learn. H-"

Zell interrupted her. "So does that make you a Goddess?"

"No. It just means that I went through several, several years of rough training to learn that kinda magic." Sophia cleared her throat. "Let me continue. He had trained me to protect this world. Now let me explain my magic to ya'll a bit better. The GF's Velox, Draconis, Hell Cat, and Eabewolon can heal, but when they are hit by my magic, they can't heal. Only my healing magic can heal them. I also can fall long distances and not get hurt or die."

"Cool," said Zell.

"So how long should we wait?" Irvine asked her.

"Until the four moons appear. The Sorceress shouldn't attack until then because she will be at her strongest when the moons are visible. And we can't go find her 'cause she's more than likely in the heavens with the God. So, until then, we can have some fun. So, if anyone needs me, I'll be in my room." Sophia stood up and left.

Squall also stood up and left.

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A secret hideout located in Centra Ruins:

A group of male demons were seated around a round table. There were six demons in total. Five of them had horns on their heads, but only a couple had wings sprouted out of their shoulder blades. They were all playing poker.

"So......when does the boss want us to attack that freaky human?" A red demon, known as Caesariatus because of his long white hair, asked his other companions.

"Who knows." A gray demon, Cal, shrugged his shoulders.

"Aren't you morons supposed to remember?" A red, tall, winged demon, Demetri, looked at Caesariatus and Cal.

"Do you remember, smart-ass?" Caesariatus glared at Demetri. Demetri was silent. "I didn't think so." Caesariatus looked at his cards. He made a very unhappy face. 'Man...I never get any good cards...' He silently complained.

"If I remember correctly, we were supposed to attack her whenever four moons appeared in the sky." A blue demon and the smartest out of every demon in this room, reminded them.

"Shut up, Sagax. No one asked you." Cal scratched his head and looked at his cards. 'Three Kings. I'll defiantly win this game.'

"Well, it's best to know what he told us to do rather than getting killed by him." Sagax explained.

"Sagax as a point." A younger, tan demon, Mizel, leaned back in his chair. A tan demon, known as Samuel, or Sam for short, sat beside Mizel. He was his older brother. And the last of the demons was leaning against the wall; he had already played his round of poker and lost all of his money, so he just stood back and watched. His name was Alatus, Al for short. His name meant winged, which he had large, white, bat-like wings spread out to the sides of him. He was also the only one with a white wolf's tail and white wolf ears. He was the silent one of the bunch. His wolf ears turned towards the door beside him. He turned his head to look at the door. He heard footsteps. He smirked. 'Bout time.' He quietly snuck out of the room through a secret passage in the wall that only he knew of.

Just as he left, a blast had hit the door and sent it flying. Dust went everywhere.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Caesariatus yelled.

The dust cleared, and before them stood a muscular young man, about eighteen years of age. He had spiky red hair and gray eyes. He wore baggy blue jeans, a white t-shirt, black gloves, black boots, and a black jacket.

"Well, well, well. Looks like I've found some rats." The young man took a step forward.

"Why you filthy human! How'd you find our hideout?!" Sagax stood up.

"Well, I guess you're gonna die anyway, so I might as well tell ya. You had a spy here." The human took another step forward.

"A spy?!" Cal had also stood up.

"Yes. A spy. How hard is that to understand?" The smart-aleck human crossed his arms across his chest. "So, who wants to die first?"

"No one's gonna die here except for you, human!" Caesariatus was the first to draw his sword and charge at the human.

The human simply sidestepped and the demon went face first into the wall. The young man then drew his gunblade. The gunblade was the size of Lionheart, Squall's gunblade, but other than that, it was completely different. The blade and handle were black, and inscribed near the handle in silver was a demon. Wings and horns included. It actually sorta looked like Diablos.

"So who's next?" The human smirked. Cal was the next to attack him. All the human had to do was dodge. Strangely, he was much faster than any of the demons in the room. He easily dodged all of their attacks, even if they attacked him together. "This is a waste of my time." He formed a fire ball in his hand and hurled it at Cal. It only took one hit to knock the demon unconscious. He hit every demon except for Sagax with a fire ball and knocked them unconscious. He formed a much weaker fire ball and threw it at Sagax. The demon's legs were quickly disabled and he fell onto his back. The human held the gunblade up to Sagax's neck. "Now, I'm gonna ask you a question or two and you will tell me an honest answer."

"I will never tell you anything." Sagax stared at the human coldly.

The human glared right back at him. "Listen, demon, I'm honestly not in a good mood right now, so if you would be so kind as to tell me where I can find a young woman that goes by the name of Sophia. And if you don't tell me, I'll just cut your head off."

Sagax gulped. "Fine. My friends and I have been keepin' a eye on that girl. She has been staying at Balamb Garden with some other humans. She seems to be hangin' around this one human man more than the others. We think that that man is her older brother, but we can't be certain."

"Now do you know if she has a necklace with a silver demon's head pendant?"

"Why would I-" Sagax quickly decided to tell the truth when he felt the blade cut into his skin. "Yes, yes! She has one! She mainly keeps in hidden beneath her shirt or locked up in her dresser!"

The man stepped back. "You seem to know a lot about her. How long have you been spying on her?"

"Well...actually for several years now. My boss ordered us to keep an eye on her ever since he found out that Hyne was training her."

"That'll be all...for now." The man turned to leave. "Tell your boss 'hi' for me." He smirked, then left.

"That human is strange... He was able to use the magic that only-" Sagax's eyes widened. "Oh my Hyne......"

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That red-haired young man walked out of the demons' hideout.

"That was easier than expected." He twirled his gunblade around.

"Why didn't you kill them? They are useless to us now." The wolf-demon that had escaped earlier was standing behind the man.

"Calm down, Al. We don't need 'em dead, much less alive, so I think I'll just let 'em stay around a bit longer."

"Validus, did you at least get the information that we needed?" Alatus asked him.

"Yep. She's at Balamb Garden. Did you know that she still has that necklace?" Validus said in a surprised tone of voice.

"Really? How surprising...but do you really think that this is a good idea? I mean, you and her have some history together. She may not like the idea of you coming back."

"Aw shut up. I didn't ask you for your opinion. Now, let's head towards Balamb Garden!" Validus turned and started walking away.

Alatus sighed but followed. 'He's so hardheaded.' He shook his head. 'I do hope this goes as well as he thinks it's going to go.'

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Sophia was lying on her bed, staring at......the ceiling. She slowly moved off the bed, stood up straight, and walked over to her dresser. She pulled the top drawer open and moved around some books until she found an old, wore out, brown book. She pulled that book out, and looked at the lock that kept anyone from opening it.

She muttered a few words and the lock unlocked. She then opened it up and the book turned out to be a box. Inside was a necklace with a silver demon's head pendant. She put the box down and held the necklace up. It shimmered in the sunlight. She fell to her knees and began crying.

"Why? Why?" She continued crying. She felt like throwing the necklace away, but a part of her just wouldn't let her...

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Irvine paced back and forth in front of Selphie's door. She would be back in a few minutes.

'Please hurry, Selphie.' He continued to pace, until he heard footsteps.

"Irvy!" Selphie ran up to him and hugged him. "Whatcha doin' in front of my room?"

"I was wonderin' if you would like to go for...um...a...uh...walk...maybe...um..." Irvine was incredibly nervous, and Selphie could tell.

"What's wrong?" She stared up at him.

"Nothing! Nothing!" He took a deep breath. "So, how 'bout it?"

"I'd like that. Come on!" She ran up ahead of him.

He smiled as he took a small, black, ring-sized box out of his pocket. 'I do hope this goes well...' He followed Selphie as he put the box back in his pocket.

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Quistis was sitting at her desk reading over her notes when she heard a knock on her door. "Come in." She spun around in her chair to face to the door. Rinoa walked in.

"Hi." She walked over and sat on the bed.

"Hello. What do you what?" Quistis turned to face her.

"Well...I was thinkin' that maybe we could take Sophia shopping. I mean, she has been training us and I thought that we could do somethin' in return."

Quistis stood. "Okay. Well, let's go get Sophia."

A/N: If you think you know what's gonna happen in the next chapter, be warned. I can twist the plot to this story easily. I've been told that I'm really good at doing that. I decided to add in the new characters to make everything more interestin'. So, I'll start workin' on the next chapter.