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Chapter Thirteen
Quistis knocked on Sophia's door. When no answer came, she opened the door slowly and peeked in, just to be on the safe side. She found Sophia curled up on her bed; she was facing the wall.
"Are you okay, Sophia?" She walked inside. Rinoa slowly came in after her. No answer. Quistis walked over to the bed and gently touched Sophia's shoulder.
This startled the maze haired teenager and made her twist around and back up to the wall quickly. She looked like she had been crying. A necklace was lying beside her on the bed. Rinoa and Quistis looked down at the necklace, but Rinoa was the one to say something about it.
"That's a pretty necklace. Where'd you get it?" Rinoa asked.
Sophia snatched it up, put it on, and hid it beneath her shirt. "That's none of your business. Now, tell me why you're in here."
Quistis was going to ask why she was crying, but decided against it. "We thought we'd go shopping and that you could come with us. Would you like to come?"
Sophia thought for a bit. Rinoa interrupted her train of thought. "We'd have a lot of fun, and we'd even pay for anything that you want."
"Fine." Sophia stood, and was reaching for her gunblade, when Quistis stopped her.
"We shouldn't need our weapons. We're just going shopping."
Sophia just stood there, staring at her gunblade. She always carried it around with her everywhere. 'It just wouldn't feel right without it...'
"It's okay, Sophia. You'll still have your magic." Rinoa did her best to try and persuade her. Weapons weren't really allowed in the shops, and that gunblade really stuck out in the crowd.
"Y-yeah..." Sophia finally decided to leave it here. 'Well, I guess I still do have my magic...' "Let me get ready. I'll meet you in five minutes."
Quistis and Rinoa nodded and silently left the room. Sophia glanced at her gunblade.
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Quistis waited patiently for Sophia.
"Here she comes." Rinoa hopped up from her sitting position. They had both been waiting for her in front of the dormitory entrance. Sophia came walking out.
"I'm glad you decided to leave your gunblade." Quistis said when Sophia joined them.
"Yeah, well, I guess I do need a break from it." Sophia rubbed her neck. "So, let's go."
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Squall was sleeping in his room, trying to get as much sleep as possible, when someone knocked on his door.
'Now what?' He looked at the door, but then turned on his side so he faced the wall. He was hoping that if he was quiet, they'd leave him alone, but they continued to knock on the door.
"Yo, Squall. You in there?" Came the voice of......Zell.
Squall moaned, stood up, and opened the door. "What?" He asked in the coldest voice ever.
"I was wonderin' if you wanted to go to the movies with me. I thought you needed to get out and have some fun, since we've got a while before we have to go fight Ultimecia." Zell explained. Squall just stared at him. "Ah, c'mon, buddy."
Ten minutes later......
Squall, Seifer, and Zell were flying Ragnarok towards Deling City.
"Now why did you drag me into this?" Seifer asked, obviously very irritated.
"I don't know. Cid's the one who ordered for you to come with us..." Zell was the one driving. Squall just sat there, staring out of the window.
The small group finally arrived at Deling City a minute or two later. Zell landed Ragnarok right outside of the city and everyone got off. They walked inside and made their way towards the theater.
"So which movie do you want to see?" Zell asked them. Squall and Seifer were quiet. "Okay......" Zell began whistling. Seifer and Squall froze.
"Does anyone else here have a bad feeling?" Seifer looked around.
"I know I do." Squall agreed, and them two don't agree on much.
"Wha?" Zell walked backwards to re-join the two. "What's wrong?"
"I don't really know. I just have a bad feeling..." Seifer and Squall began looking around for in danger. Both drew their gunblades.
"Move!!" Seifer hollered as he jumped out of the way. Zell and Squall also moved as fireballs shot down at them.
"Human alert! Human alert!" Came the voice of Caesariatus, the winged demon. Two other demons, Cal and Mizel, jumped down from buildings and surround the three. Caesariatus circled them from the air and whistled. "Looks like we're gonna have some fun tonight!" He immediately began firing fireballs at them. The other humans had been scared off, so now it was only the three demons and the three humans.
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"How 'bout this?" Rinoa held up a pink shirt with flowers on it. Sophia made a face that said 'NO WAY'. Rinoa sighed, but put it back up. Quistis walked around the store and looked at clothes.
"How about a skirt?" Quistis asked Sophia. She honestly didn't know how Sophia got out of wearing the uniform that she had to wear during class at Balamb Garden.
"Nope. I don't wear skirts or dresses." Sophia leaned against the wall and sighed out of boredom. 'Ah come on. Gimme some action...' As if on cue, screams came from outside. 'Ah......' Sophia actually smiled. 'Action.' She quickly made her way outside. Rinoa and Quistis followed.
The other two demons, Demetri and Samuel, were chasing the humans. Demetri froze when he saw Sophia.
"Hey! There she is!! After her now, Sam!!" Demetri ordered Sam. Both demons charged at Sophia.
Sophia's right hand lit up and her gunblade formed in her hand. 'Magic always works.' She was glad that she had found a way to take her gunblade without the other two knowing. She slashed at Demetri as he tried to grab her. Sam came at her on the left side, and she slashed at him too.
"Get away from me, demons!!" She chose Sam as her main target and just started slashing.
As Demetri ran towards Sophia, a whip hit him along side his face. A pinwheel nearly cut off his arm seconds later. Demetri turned and Quistis and Rinoa were standing there.
'It looks like I'll have to go through them two humans before I get to kidnap the other human.' Demetri took one glance towards Sophia and Sam, then prepared himself for the fight between the two humans.
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Seifer had decided to take on Cal, while Zell took on Mizel. Squall, knowing that he couldn't hit Caesariatus, had insisted on fighting him.
"Diamond Storm!!" Squall summoned the ice guardian, Shiva. In one ice attack from Shiva, Caesariatus' wings were actually disabled.
Caesariatus landed with a 'thud', but quickly got back up to his feet. "You will pay for that, human." He lunged at Squall with his claws and tried to rip his head off. Squall easily dodged and managed to stab his gunblade into the demon's rib cage. A scream of pain escaped Caesariatus' mouth as Squall pulled the trigger. The sound of a gun going off echoed throughout the city. The other two demons were distracted by the sound of the gun. Seifer and Zell took advantage of this. Or so they thought. Just as they were about to make their deadly attack, Sagax came in and managed to drag Cal and Mizel away.
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Sophia had quickly snapped Sam's neck, and now she wanted to snap Demetri's neck. The sound of a gun going off could now be heard.
'Looks like there's some more action goin' on elsewhere in the city.' She kicked the lifeless body of Samuel. A demon jumped out of the bushes and grabbed Demetri by his wrist.
"Sagax!" Demetri was literally dragged away by Sagax.
"Shut up, fool! We must get out of here now!" Sagax ran off with Demetri.
Sophia was going to stomp after them, but she decided against it. 'They'll be back, anyway.' She tapped her gunblade against her shoulder. 'And I only got to kill one of 'em.' She looked down at the lifeless body of Sam. Quistis and Rinoa ran up to her.
"How'd you get your gunblade??" Quistis was surprised to see the gunblade with her.
"I can summon my gunblade to me." She tossed it up into the air and caught it. "Let's go see wh-"
"Hey, sis!" Came Seifer's voice.
Sophia spun around. "Hey, Seif!" The three guys ran up to them. "What happened?"
"Well, we were attacked by these demons and-" Seifer looked down at Sam. "And it looks like you were too..."
"Yeah, but the other one got away when this one demon dragged him off." Quistis explained.
"That must be the same one who saved the other two demons that we fought. We managed to kill one, but only one, unfortunately." Seifer crossed his arms. "Well, now what?"
"Let's go back to Balamb Garden." Squall suggested. "Those demons won't attack us again. They're too hurt."
Everyone nodded their head in agreement and left Deling City.
