Laguna returned to the deck where the battle had already ceased.

"Laguna!" Squall shouted. "She had a speedboat inside the ship. She's getting away!"

"Everyone, get back to Ragnarok! We'll chase her down."

Juliette had known that she'd have no way to escape when she had taken the boat. However, it was her lucky day; when she was approaching the coast, she saw that Traveller X, the airship, was there.

She left the speedboat at the beach and started running towards the airship. Ragnarok seemed to be moving towards her but she knew she'd make it there. She would have to make it.

A few soldiers that were guarding the airship faced a horrible death when Juliette casted a devastating ice-elemental spell. There were no guards inside the ship so she was able to start the engine.

"Look!" Laguna said and pointed at Traveller X through Ragnarok's window. "It's moving."

"She's from Esthar... no wonder that she can use it," Squall said thoughtfully and made a decision: "Let's stop her!"

There were no big differences between the airships, except that Ragnarok was a lot faster. Still, Juliette wasn't afraid to crash into Ragnarok. That didn't make much damage but it made it shake so much that it was impossible for the people inside to stay in balance.

"She's nuts!" Zell yelled.

Ragnarok retaliated. Kiros, who was piloting it, had more experience of flying and he managed to hit Traveller X in a better angle, making more damage. It took a second for Juliette to recover from that crash but she was able to hit Ragnarok in one of its most vulnerable places: a wing near the back.

"Shit!" Kiros cursed. "That wing was damaged. The ship's getting quite hard to control!"

"Try to hit her in the same spot!" Laguna suggested.

This time the damage that was caused to Traveller X was quite big. The whole rear of the ship caught fire after Kiros had hit it, but Juliette wasn't ready to give up yet. She slammed the airship against Ragnarok's side in very high speed, hoping to get rid of it for good. However, she didn't think that Traveller X's engines might be destroyed.

The burning ship was now completely out of control. During the battle they had moved quite far to the wilderness and Juliette's hopes of escaping were crushed when the ship hit the rocky ground, becoming a piece of flaming junk that was beyond repair. Everyone was sure that its pilot couldn't survived that crash.

"It's over," Squall said.


Ragnarok landed, not because they were afraid that Juliette might still be alive but because they wanted to check out the damage of the airship. They were all astonished when an explosion caused by a spell ripped a hole to Traveller X's side and Juliette jumped outside. Her hair was messy and her clothes looked horrible but she seemed to be in good health.

"Did you fools think that I was dead!" she shouted, casting Tornado. She targeted Squall and Laguna with that but they were able to evade. Laguna tried shooting at her with his machine gun but the bullets were blocked by some kind of protective spell.

It was important to get near her as fast as possible because of her long-distance attacks and therefore Seifer, Raijin and Fujin rushed towards her from the other side and Quistis, Rinoa and Zell from the other. They had hard time avoiding her powerful spells like Ultima and Firaga and Seifer's trio fell to the ground when she casted Quake. Quistis tried to strike her with her whip but she was hit by Thundaga, just like Zell and Rinoa.

"Fujin!" Quistis shouted, lying on the ground. "Use Gigantico!"

"Right," Fujin replied. "Everyone, watch out!"

In a matter of seconds Fujin transformed into the enormous monster. It rose up to the air, carried by its strong wings, and hit Juliette with its gigantic robot fist. The monster used its devastating attack more than a few times, raising a huge cloud of dust so it was impossible to see what was happening. Finally Gigantico disappeared and Fujin reappeared.

Quistis was astonished, despite that she had seen it before. "Unbelievable."

When the dust disappeared, Juliette was still there, lying on the ground. But she was moving.

"No way...!" You could see the surprisement on Zell's face. "No one can survive that."

Squall moved next to her, aiming his gunblade at her head.

"No..." she muttered with her last remaining strenght. "I hated my mother. That's why I joined the Galbadian army... I hated her. Really much... I started the war because I wanted Galbadia to become powerful enough to take over Esthar. But they became allies of Dollet... I never expected that... I just wanted to revenge to Esthar... revenge how my mother treated me. I just wanted to be normal... but it's not easy... to be the Sorceress's daughter..."

"If those were your last words..."

Laguna interrupted Squall: "No. I want to do it."

He aimed his machine gun at her and didn't feel any kind of pity when he pulled the trigger, killing the one who had caused so much suffering to everybody.

"Come on. They launched missiles towards Esthar. We have to be there before the missiles reach the city."