Disclaimer: *in monotone* I do not own Final Fantasy VIII…*normal voice* nor did I ever claim to!!! Sheesh…
Vince: You see? Since I took forever for chapter 2 this one came out a little sooner…
Vale: We kept reminding her to update this after she posted the 2nd chapter but nooo she put it off for like three months before she updated because of the fan mail (or lack thereof)…
Vince: lol ^^; hey! At least I got this one up fast
Thor: Shame, shame Vince…keeping the public waiting for that last chapter
Vince: Look who's talking!!
Fantasy Girl: Okay girls, calm down! Sh! Sh…
Vince: …FG…you be quiet, you haven't updated Final Dream
Fantasy Girl: …I'm workin' on it! ^^;
Vince: If it is a prank…then it'll be a joke Quistis and Headmaster Cid cooked up to make Seifer and Selphie to get along better. ^_^
HYPERION
CHAPTER THREE
BY:
Vince (Saturn Angels)
When Selphie awoke she noticed that it was still nighttime but her digital clock was on meaning that the electricity was back on. She gave a sigh of relief and looked over at Seifer, since her eyes were adjusted to the dark she could see him clearly, looking all innocent and kind… it could be worse living with someone else for a couple of weeks. I mean she could've been stuck with Zell. She didn't have any real big major issues with Zell, just too much time with him could drive one crazy.
She was hyper…but she was a dull little lamb in comparison to Zell's 'enthusiasm'.
She rolled over onto her side, her back facing the wall and was about to fall back asleep when she noticed something was missing. She searched the bed space around her putting her hand all over her bedspread. After she couldn't find the object she began searching frantically for her lost teddy bear on the floor. She crawled under the bed and finally found it. It was beat up very badly and was missing an eye, just like it always was. She cuddled it to her chest then crawled out from underneath the bed and climbed underneath the covers. With a sigh she closed her eyes but immediately she saw images of vampires, ghosts, ghouls, people screaming bloody murder, etc. She opened her eyes quickly and hugged her teddy bear closer as she scanned the room suspiciously, 'That stupid book!' Selphie thought as she spotted the vampire book which was tossed carelessly unto the floor.
She gulped as she stared at its cover then immediately threw her teddy bear over the book so it covered the image, it wasn't until that night that she had noticed that there was something disturbing about the cover… she had originally thought the girl on the cover was a vampire on account of her pale skin but was horrified to realize that the girl actually had two bite marks on her neck, her eyes looked ahead glazed over, and blood was dripping from the wound staining her once white shirt. Then there was a figure behind her…that radiated positively all things evil and psychotic. Now she had that image stuck in her head and was without her loyal teddy bear. She whimpered quietly…
Though not quietly enough to keep from awakening Seifer.
"What are you complaining about now, Messenger Girl?" his voice broke the silence and Selphie was relieved to have something to keep her mind on instead of scary images and vampires possibly being in the school.
"Nothing you'd care about! And my name's Selphie!"
"It's 3:00 AM, what the hell are you doing awake at this ungodly hour?" he asked clearly irritated at being woken.
"I couldn't sleep," Selphie said simply as she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Hn." Was his only reply and once again the room was enveloped in silence.
"Seifer?"
He growled slightly, "hm?"
"Are you awake?"
"No, I'm just sleep-talking." He said sarcastically.
"Wow. Cool…"
He stared at her then shook his head and tried sleeping again.
Again the room was wrapped in a thick blanket of silence and right when Seifer thought that Selphie had gone to sleep and the world was free to rest until dawn…when she would become her usually annoying self, she said,
"Nighty-night Seifer. Don't let the bedbugs bite. Sometimes those little buggers bite HARD! I mean I got a really bad bruise one tim-"
"Tilmitt, shut UP." he heard her mumble something then after a while he heard the change in her breathing pace signaling she had gone to sleep. How was he going to survive living with her for who-knows-how-long?
Then of course he vowed to himself that he would crush Headmaster Cid's computer.
Because it was of course, Cid's computer, that paired the two up as roommates. Damn technology!
After a while of pointless thoughts like those above he finally drifted into a dreamless slumber.
Around eleven o'clock in the afternoon Selphie was awakened by something extremely annoying. Something, or someone was flicking her head!! How dare they!?
She grumbled something and tried to slap the person's hand away.
She heard giggling and instantly knew it had to be a girl, unless Seifer had a really…really high-pitched laugh. She opened one eye and saw Janet's smiling face looking down at her.
"Janet...?" Selphie asked after filling her lungs with air, also known as taking a deep breath, to suppress her yawn.
"Yup! Gee, sleepy head! It's already going to be noon! You missed this really cool surprise concert that Headmaster Cid, of all people, planned! You would've loved it! The rock stars were so cute!" she said as she hugged herself in excitement.
Selphie sat up, "I thought you were dead!!"
"No way! Nothing could kill me! Where'd you get that idea??" Janet asked staring at Selphie, "Jeez, dreamin' of my death now are you?" Janet wondered skeptically.
Selphie shook her head, "No…it's just Quistis said you and Maria were killed by vampires…?"
"Vampires?" Janet asked as she stared at Selphie, "Quistis gave me a three week leave from Garden. Me and Maria, I just came back because I forgot my Iron Maiden CD…"
Selphie looked taken aback, "A three week leave?"
"Yup! So, what is it about these vampires?"
"I'm not quite sure anymore! Do you by any chance know if Squall has a roommate?"
"Well, I wish I could be his roommate…" Janet said with a dreamy sigh, "But the only one I really see there at all besides Squall himself is that girlfriend of his, Rinoa."
"What about Irvine? Does he have a roommate?"
"Oh no, you're not going to start getting all like the jealous girlfriend?"
"No way! I just need to figure something out."
"Ah, well Irvine has a bunch of girls over all the time but other then that, I don't think he has a roommate."
"Well…am I the only one with a roommate?"
"You have a roommate?" Janet asked as she rose an eyebrow, "And you sleep in the same BED?"
It was then that Selphie noticed that the bed was back in the wall, "No, the bed is mechanical or something. My roommate is Seifer."
"Ooh. I feel bad for you. Yet, sort of envious" Janet acknowledged with a curt nod, "I mean Seifer is enough to compete with Irvine, even SQUALL with looks but his attitude is so…bullyish!" Janet said while she began nodding again.
"Well…does that mean that there aren't vampires in the school?" Selphie wondered as she tapped her finger on her chin thoughtfully, "Why would Quisty make Seifer become my roommate then…?"
"Beats me." Janet said shrugging, "Quisty's in the quad right now, maybe you should go ask her?"
"Okay. You coming?"
"Nah, I have to get back to my mom's house in Balamb before she starts freaking out and thinking I burned down Garden or something." Janet said with a grin as she rushed out of the room.
Selphie got up and in less then thirty minutes she was dressed, her hair was flipped, and she was her normal hyper self. She rushed to the quad knowing each turn by heart, as she would often go there to plan Garden Festival Committees.
"Quisttyyy!" She called as she came within hearing range of anyone who was in the quad.
Quistis turned to Selphie and smiled, "Selphie! How are you? I'm glad to see you survive a night with Seifer."
"Quisty!" Selphie said with a pout as she pointed an accusing finger towards her, "I saw Janet Malifeciente this morning!"
Quistis suddenly looked uncomfortable, "D-Did you now?" 'I thought I told her to have a three week vacation!' she thought to herself.
"Yes." Selphie replied look not too pleased with her superior, "Tell me honestly Quisty…what is going on here?"
Quistis cleared her throat, "All right Selphie, the truth is Headmaster Cid and I noticed that you and Seifer weren't getting along very well- you two were even getting along worse then he and Squall were."
Selphie blinked, "I don't think it's that bad between us.."
Quistis shrugged, "So we planned this whole set-up in hopes that you two would at least learn to live with each other. No pun intended."
Selphie's brow furrowed, "So there AREN'T vampires in Garden?"
Quistis shook her head, "Of course not, Selphie. Don't be so childish to be fooled by such a silly story. Obviously if there were, Headmaster Cid wouldn't fail to evacuate the entire school. Obviously, having vampires here would be a safety hazard."
"Obviously." Selphie said repeating Quistis' redundant word.
Quistis laughed slightly, "Well, you did miss the band's performance."
Selphie pouted once more, "So I've heard! Janet said all the boys were really cute…which band was it? It was Moonlit Night in Sparta, wasn't it?"
Quistis shook her head, "Actually it's a new band, calling themselves Red Rum the Innocents. They've actually just transferred here from some other Garden."
"They go to the school now!? Booyaka!" Selphie asked excitedly jumping from one foot to the next, "I'm going to go meet them! But first I gotta tell Janet about it!"
Quistis smiled, "You do that-" she stopped suddenly, "Oh Selphie! Do me a favor! Tell Janet that she doesn't get three weeks of school off," innocent smile, "and uh…don't tell Seifer that this was all a prank. He needs to get along better with you."
"Then- he doesn't move out!?" Selphie cried extremely peeved by this new information.
Quistis shook her head, "We'll see how you two get along in a week. If you two aren't trying to kill each other each chance you get, then he can move out. If not, then the sentence becomes gradually longer until you learn to cope."
"Ahhh, Quisty. You know my will always crumbles when it comes to this sort of thing- but then can I show the new students around Garden?" she asked excitedly.
Quistis shrugged, "If someone else hasn't already beaten you to it."
"Woo-hoo!"
~*End Chapter Three*~
Vince: *gets an idea* …Yes… I see it clearly now the rain is gone!! ^____^ Since I had it as a prank, I'll have it so vampires REALLY ARE at the Garden, just no one knows it yet! Yes…my master plan… mwahahahhahahahaha! BWAHAHAHA! HAHAHA! *cough cough* bwah. *clears throat* *thunder booms, lightning fills tiny room* BMWAHAHAHA!
Vince: You see? Since I took forever for chapter 2 this one came out a little sooner…
Vale: We kept reminding her to update this after she posted the 2nd chapter but nooo she put it off for like three months before she updated because of the fan mail (or lack thereof)…
Vince: lol ^^; hey! At least I got this one up fast
Thor: Shame, shame Vince…keeping the public waiting for that last chapter
Vince: Look who's talking!!
Fantasy Girl: Okay girls, calm down! Sh! Sh…
Vince: …FG…you be quiet, you haven't updated Final Dream
Fantasy Girl: …I'm workin' on it! ^^;
Vince: If it is a prank…then it'll be a joke Quistis and Headmaster Cid cooked up to make Seifer and Selphie to get along better. ^_^
HYPERION
CHAPTER THREE
BY:
Vince (Saturn Angels)
When Selphie awoke she noticed that it was still nighttime but her digital clock was on meaning that the electricity was back on. She gave a sigh of relief and looked over at Seifer, since her eyes were adjusted to the dark she could see him clearly, looking all innocent and kind… it could be worse living with someone else for a couple of weeks. I mean she could've been stuck with Zell. She didn't have any real big major issues with Zell, just too much time with him could drive one crazy.
She was hyper…but she was a dull little lamb in comparison to Zell's 'enthusiasm'.
She rolled over onto her side, her back facing the wall and was about to fall back asleep when she noticed something was missing. She searched the bed space around her putting her hand all over her bedspread. After she couldn't find the object she began searching frantically for her lost teddy bear on the floor. She crawled under the bed and finally found it. It was beat up very badly and was missing an eye, just like it always was. She cuddled it to her chest then crawled out from underneath the bed and climbed underneath the covers. With a sigh she closed her eyes but immediately she saw images of vampires, ghosts, ghouls, people screaming bloody murder, etc. She opened her eyes quickly and hugged her teddy bear closer as she scanned the room suspiciously, 'That stupid book!' Selphie thought as she spotted the vampire book which was tossed carelessly unto the floor.
She gulped as she stared at its cover then immediately threw her teddy bear over the book so it covered the image, it wasn't until that night that she had noticed that there was something disturbing about the cover… she had originally thought the girl on the cover was a vampire on account of her pale skin but was horrified to realize that the girl actually had two bite marks on her neck, her eyes looked ahead glazed over, and blood was dripping from the wound staining her once white shirt. Then there was a figure behind her…that radiated positively all things evil and psychotic. Now she had that image stuck in her head and was without her loyal teddy bear. She whimpered quietly…
Though not quietly enough to keep from awakening Seifer.
"What are you complaining about now, Messenger Girl?" his voice broke the silence and Selphie was relieved to have something to keep her mind on instead of scary images and vampires possibly being in the school.
"Nothing you'd care about! And my name's Selphie!"
"It's 3:00 AM, what the hell are you doing awake at this ungodly hour?" he asked clearly irritated at being woken.
"I couldn't sleep," Selphie said simply as she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Hn." Was his only reply and once again the room was enveloped in silence.
"Seifer?"
He growled slightly, "hm?"
"Are you awake?"
"No, I'm just sleep-talking." He said sarcastically.
"Wow. Cool…"
He stared at her then shook his head and tried sleeping again.
Again the room was wrapped in a thick blanket of silence and right when Seifer thought that Selphie had gone to sleep and the world was free to rest until dawn…when she would become her usually annoying self, she said,
"Nighty-night Seifer. Don't let the bedbugs bite. Sometimes those little buggers bite HARD! I mean I got a really bad bruise one tim-"
"Tilmitt, shut UP." he heard her mumble something then after a while he heard the change in her breathing pace signaling she had gone to sleep. How was he going to survive living with her for who-knows-how-long?
Then of course he vowed to himself that he would crush Headmaster Cid's computer.
Because it was of course, Cid's computer, that paired the two up as roommates. Damn technology!
After a while of pointless thoughts like those above he finally drifted into a dreamless slumber.
Around eleven o'clock in the afternoon Selphie was awakened by something extremely annoying. Something, or someone was flicking her head!! How dare they!?
She grumbled something and tried to slap the person's hand away.
She heard giggling and instantly knew it had to be a girl, unless Seifer had a really…really high-pitched laugh. She opened one eye and saw Janet's smiling face looking down at her.
"Janet...?" Selphie asked after filling her lungs with air, also known as taking a deep breath, to suppress her yawn.
"Yup! Gee, sleepy head! It's already going to be noon! You missed this really cool surprise concert that Headmaster Cid, of all people, planned! You would've loved it! The rock stars were so cute!" she said as she hugged herself in excitement.
Selphie sat up, "I thought you were dead!!"
"No way! Nothing could kill me! Where'd you get that idea??" Janet asked staring at Selphie, "Jeez, dreamin' of my death now are you?" Janet wondered skeptically.
Selphie shook her head, "No…it's just Quistis said you and Maria were killed by vampires…?"
"Vampires?" Janet asked as she stared at Selphie, "Quistis gave me a three week leave from Garden. Me and Maria, I just came back because I forgot my Iron Maiden CD…"
Selphie looked taken aback, "A three week leave?"
"Yup! So, what is it about these vampires?"
"I'm not quite sure anymore! Do you by any chance know if Squall has a roommate?"
"Well, I wish I could be his roommate…" Janet said with a dreamy sigh, "But the only one I really see there at all besides Squall himself is that girlfriend of his, Rinoa."
"What about Irvine? Does he have a roommate?"
"Oh no, you're not going to start getting all like the jealous girlfriend?"
"No way! I just need to figure something out."
"Ah, well Irvine has a bunch of girls over all the time but other then that, I don't think he has a roommate."
"Well…am I the only one with a roommate?"
"You have a roommate?" Janet asked as she rose an eyebrow, "And you sleep in the same BED?"
It was then that Selphie noticed that the bed was back in the wall, "No, the bed is mechanical or something. My roommate is Seifer."
"Ooh. I feel bad for you. Yet, sort of envious" Janet acknowledged with a curt nod, "I mean Seifer is enough to compete with Irvine, even SQUALL with looks but his attitude is so…bullyish!" Janet said while she began nodding again.
"Well…does that mean that there aren't vampires in the school?" Selphie wondered as she tapped her finger on her chin thoughtfully, "Why would Quisty make Seifer become my roommate then…?"
"Beats me." Janet said shrugging, "Quisty's in the quad right now, maybe you should go ask her?"
"Okay. You coming?"
"Nah, I have to get back to my mom's house in Balamb before she starts freaking out and thinking I burned down Garden or something." Janet said with a grin as she rushed out of the room.
Selphie got up and in less then thirty minutes she was dressed, her hair was flipped, and she was her normal hyper self. She rushed to the quad knowing each turn by heart, as she would often go there to plan Garden Festival Committees.
"Quisttyyy!" She called as she came within hearing range of anyone who was in the quad.
Quistis turned to Selphie and smiled, "Selphie! How are you? I'm glad to see you survive a night with Seifer."
"Quisty!" Selphie said with a pout as she pointed an accusing finger towards her, "I saw Janet Malifeciente this morning!"
Quistis suddenly looked uncomfortable, "D-Did you now?" 'I thought I told her to have a three week vacation!' she thought to herself.
"Yes." Selphie replied look not too pleased with her superior, "Tell me honestly Quisty…what is going on here?"
Quistis cleared her throat, "All right Selphie, the truth is Headmaster Cid and I noticed that you and Seifer weren't getting along very well- you two were even getting along worse then he and Squall were."
Selphie blinked, "I don't think it's that bad between us.."
Quistis shrugged, "So we planned this whole set-up in hopes that you two would at least learn to live with each other. No pun intended."
Selphie's brow furrowed, "So there AREN'T vampires in Garden?"
Quistis shook her head, "Of course not, Selphie. Don't be so childish to be fooled by such a silly story. Obviously if there were, Headmaster Cid wouldn't fail to evacuate the entire school. Obviously, having vampires here would be a safety hazard."
"Obviously." Selphie said repeating Quistis' redundant word.
Quistis laughed slightly, "Well, you did miss the band's performance."
Selphie pouted once more, "So I've heard! Janet said all the boys were really cute…which band was it? It was Moonlit Night in Sparta, wasn't it?"
Quistis shook her head, "Actually it's a new band, calling themselves Red Rum the Innocents. They've actually just transferred here from some other Garden."
"They go to the school now!? Booyaka!" Selphie asked excitedly jumping from one foot to the next, "I'm going to go meet them! But first I gotta tell Janet about it!"
Quistis smiled, "You do that-" she stopped suddenly, "Oh Selphie! Do me a favor! Tell Janet that she doesn't get three weeks of school off," innocent smile, "and uh…don't tell Seifer that this was all a prank. He needs to get along better with you."
"Then- he doesn't move out!?" Selphie cried extremely peeved by this new information.
Quistis shook her head, "We'll see how you two get along in a week. If you two aren't trying to kill each other each chance you get, then he can move out. If not, then the sentence becomes gradually longer until you learn to cope."
"Ahhh, Quisty. You know my will always crumbles when it comes to this sort of thing- but then can I show the new students around Garden?" she asked excitedly.
Quistis shrugged, "If someone else hasn't already beaten you to it."
"Woo-hoo!"
~*End Chapter Three*~
Vince: *gets an idea* …Yes… I see it clearly now the rain is gone!! ^____^ Since I had it as a prank, I'll have it so vampires REALLY ARE at the Garden, just no one knows it yet! Yes…my master plan… mwahahahhahahahaha! BWAHAHAHA! HAHAHA! *cough cough* bwah. *clears throat* *thunder booms, lightning fills tiny room* BMWAHAHAHA!