OOOHHHH- now it gets all song-ficcy. I was listening to this and I couldn't resist. However…this is important, it comes up later.
Squall was dreaming again. The same dream he had been haunting him lately. Some where in the background, a piano tinkled sweetly, and a voice began singing.
There's a song that's inside of my
soul.
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold.
But you sing to me over and
over and over again.
He was walking through clouds and blue mist that stretched into infinity. His fear throbbed in the back of his head, and as the headache built, a form appeared in the clouds. Feline, certainly, but its shape was impossible to tell. Whenever he focused and recognised the form, it changed, into another. Lion, cheetah, lion, tiger, lion, griffon, lion, cat, winged lion, puma, then fish-lion hybrid and back to the lion again, sliding fluidly from form to another.
So, I lay my head back down.
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours, I pray, to be
only yours
I know now you're my only hope.
The shape-shifter bows and prances off into the mist, still sliding between forms.
Sing to me the song of the stars.
Squall watched as the fog cleared away and found himself surrounded by glowing orbs, suspended by an unseen force. Squall suddenly felt…happy…peaceful, just staring up at the myriad of gleaming points of light. To his right he sees the constellation Leo. He reaches out and touches it. The zodiac suddenly starts spinning in a circler orbit, opening a portal. He stepped through.
Of your galaxy dancing and
laughing and laughing again.
When it feels like my dreams are so
far
Sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again.
Squall finds himself on a mountainous outcrop of rocks; to his right a waterfall is throwing itself over the sides of the mountain. To his left, a stream bubbles over its pebbly bed. Glancing at his surroundings he finds that this place is filled with crystal-clear rivers and lakes, some deep and others shallow. In the places that aren't covered by water, lush vegetation grows-grasses, ferns, small periwinkle-like flowers, and in the centre a huge oak tree, almost as big as Ballamb garden, grows.
Squall peered downwards, and sees great dusty plains stretching out into the distance, a savannah, split by a giant river and its many tributaries.
So I lay
my head back down.
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only
yours, I pray, to be only yours
I know now, you're my only hope.
The shape shifter appears beside him, and Squall looks at it. It meets his stare, and looks out again at the plains. The commander flicks his head back to the beautiful view, and sees…Darkness.
I give you my destiny.
I'm
giving you all of me.
I want your symphony, singing in all that I
am
At the top of my lungs, I'm giving it back.
Squall feels himself falling, and images flick before his eyes. The oak, burning. The water polluted and brackish, dark, shadowy creatures, swarming over the golden savannah, the shifter running, blood pouring down his face, to the lands boundaries, moving to cross it…then stopping, and turning round to face the enemy, vowing to fight-
So I lay my head
back down.
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours, I
pray, to be only yours
I pray, to be only yours
I know now
you're my only hope.
-Back to the wall, fighting against immeasurable odds, he roars a name, out of desperation.
"SQUAAAALLLLLLLLL!"
And then the commander has a body, a lion's body, with wings no less, trapped in a prison of crystal. He raises himself up on his hind legs, and with a snarl, brings his two front paws down on the bluish, icy-cold wall.
Then darkness again.
Hmmmmm, hmmmmm, oooooh.
Yes, I love this song. Well cut long story short I was writing this chapter and found that this song fits just right-it wasn't originally a song-fic-chapter. Mandy Moore, please don't sue, your song is NOT mine. (Called only hope-go download it, its beautiful) The idea is that this song is playing in the background while this dream sequence is carrying out. Anyway very important to the plot. VERY. (Both song and my original stuff)
Next update: more plot twists and another dream sequence (with a lot more action. A HELL of a lot more action)
