Sorcery Illusions
Chapter 12: Strange Return
Disclaimer:
I do not own the game or the characters, they are not mine to do with as I wish.
Warning:
Not really that much to warn you about in this chapter.........
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Alexandra AKA Fantasy Dragon
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The day was starting to progress into a very warm one, and despite complaints from everyone, Squall insisted that the group must continue with practice and preparations.
"But we are all fuckin SeeDs. Don't you think that we are prepared enough?" Omri had complained at one point.
In reply to this, all that Squall had done was cast stop on the dark hared boy and walked inside.
"Do you have any idea why the rest of us were on Ayana's list?" Zell asked Quistis in a rare moment of them being alone together. He stood shadow boxing in the shade of a large tree in the yard while Quistis sat under it, watching him.
"I've thought up a million possibilities, Zell. And each one is more far fetched than the next. I hate to think about all the dangerous situations that could arise. I don't want to lose you." Quistis looked up from remoisturizing her coiled whip to her now very sweaty boyfriend.
"Angel. We were both trained and tried to handle any type of problem. We are SeeDs. You are a Guardian Mage. Whatever it is baby, you know we can handle it." Zell flopped down beside her, his famous grin plastered on his face.
Quistis sighed and looked over at him. "I just don't want to deal with the things that we went through with time compression again."
"I was there for you then, wasn't I?" To this, Quistis nodded. " And I am here for you now. Whatever happens, we'll make it through." Zell assured his girlfriend, then pulled her into a tight hug from which they were both reluctant to let go.
"Aww. How sweet." An unwelcome voice startled the two blondes.
"What do you want?" sneered Quistis, an upset glare plastered over her face as she pulled away from her boyfriend.
"Seifer sent me to fetch the chicken wuss, as he put it." Raven stood above the two, an evil smirk on her face. Raven had decided that if Quistis was going to be a bitch to her, she could be an even bigger one right back to her.
Quistis could sense Zell's blood boiling, so she grabbed the wrist of the martial artist just as he was about to jump up and punch Raven's lights out.
"She's not worth it." whispered Quistis as Zell's breaths were deep and furious.
"Seifer probably only wants to spar. If he doesn't, I do. And I am going to teach him a lesson." then, he jumped up without even saying good bye and ran over to where Seifer had been practicing all day.
"What are you gonna do now that your strong little boyfriend isn't here to protect you?" Raven grinned, leaning on the hilt of her longsword which was stuck into the ground.
"I beat you once before, and I don't plan on letting that record slip." glared the blonde as she stood up, accepting the unspoken challenge
"When you beat me last time, it was an unfair fight and you know it." snarled the brunette as she drew her longsword out in front of her and got into a fighting stance.
Quistis picked her whip up off the ground, her colbolt eyes never leaving her opponent, and with a simple flick of her wrist, her whip uncoiled it's self and made a loud crack, all in one motion.
"Yes. And if I remember correctly, the odds happened to be in your favor." Quistis said, despise staining her voice.
"But you won! You used that freak type magic on me! That was what made it unfair!" growled Raven.
"Yah. But I was unarmed, you had a magical barrier up and oh, yeah, I was hand cuffed most of the time! Really fair now, isn't it?" the blue mage asked, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I will win!" Raven exclaimed, as she ran towards Quistis with her sword ready to strike.
With magnificent ease, Quistis was able to evade every attack that her rival dealt towards her.
"Hold still for a fuckin second." Huffed Raven as she frantically swung her sword, determined to hit the swift blonde. Her dark eyes glowing with rage and revenge.
"Now where's the fun in that?" the blonde spoke in a very calm voice, which pissed Raven off even more and she more just swung the sword with no skill behind the blade. As if it was planned. Quistis flicked her wrist only once, sending her whip flying out.
"What in Hyne's name!?" The dark hared girl gasped at the realization of the whip that now held her longsword tightly. "Dammit." she cursed as she struggled to free the blade with no success.
"Oh, and I didn't even use any of my freak type magic as you called it." With another flick of her wrist, the sword fell to the ground with a clink. "I believe that makes it now two to nothing. With that, Quistis turned around and left the broken brunette standing there.
"You really are a cold heartless bitch, aren't you?" Glared Raven.
The blonde swiftly, glaring at the girl with the power of a thousand blizzaga spells.
"You know absolutely nothing about me. You have no right to be saying..." Quistis trailed off and her eyes began to franticly dart around. Was that feeling what she thought it was?
"The hell?" Raven asked no one in particular, looking at Quistis as if the blonde had two heads.
"It can't be." whispered the instructor as she could feel the intense presence coming closer with each passing moment. "I gotta go tell Squall." and without so much as a glare towards the dark hared girl, Quistis spun around and headed towards the house.
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"Do you have any other magic spells junctioned, Tasman?" Squall asked, as he Tasman and Pamora sat at the kitchen table in the small house. Squall had thought of a possible theory of why Ayana had the names of these people and needed to make sure that it wasn't the case..
"No. Not being on active duty, I didn't think that there was a need for me to hoard spells that others needed. Plus I have always been able to use curative magic, like I told you earlier. But I always kept a few in my dorm if I wanted to go to the training area or had to fight." Tasman explained, scared of why Squall wanted to know things like this about her.
"Okay, I want you to cast a simple Cura spell on Pamora. I want to see how powerful it is." Squall instructed. The theory was too far fetched, wasn't it? That kind of myth couldn't actually be real. But if it was, how come he hadn't noticed it before?
With no problem at all, Tasman called the cura spell and cast it on Pamora. The spell had to be one of the most powerful mid level cure spells that Pamora had ever felt.
"That was strong." whispered Pamora as she looked down at her arm. A scar that had been on her wrist since she was a teenager was now completely gone.
"Dammit. Why didn't I sense this before?" cursed Squall as he stood up and walked out of the room, leaving the two girls sitting there very confused.
"Is there something wrong?" Tasman asked very timidly? "I did exactly what I was told to do."
Pamora could sense the tears arriving to the younger girls eyes, and she wrapped her arms around the small framed girl. Although they had only really met in the past couple days, there was somewhat of a connection between the two, and Pamora couldn't put her finger on exactly what that connection was.
"I don't know what goes on in Commander Leonheart's head. And frankly, I don't think we would want to." Pamora sighed, hoping to calm Tasman down a little.
Just as Pamora had finished saying this, the door to the small kitchen burst opened, revealing Quistis, looking a little out of breath.
"Where's Squall gone to?" She huffed, taking deep breaths.
"He just left. I'd watch out if you are going to look for him. He was a little PMS-ish when he left." explained Pamora as Tasman excused her self while wiping her eyes and walking in the direction of the bathroom.
"What's wrong with Tasman?" Quistis asked, taking a seat, figuring that Squall couldn't go far without her knowing.
"She's still a little stressed out by the whole GF thing. And Squall asked her to do some magic. And when she could do them without junctioning, he said dammit then left. Who knows what is going on in his head." Pamora explained.
"I don't think that was because of Tasman's power to tell you the truth.. And I hate to cut this short, but I have an idea how to straighten him out." Quistis said, then got up out of her chair and followed her sixth sense into the direction Squall had most recently gone.
She hurried up the creaky stairs and turned left into the master bedroom. Upon opening the door, all she found staring back at her were the empty cream walls and the emerald bedspread.
"Squall. It's no use trying to hide from me. You know that I can feel your presence." Quistis told the sorcerer before sticking her head out the open window and looking upwards. There sitting on the roof was a pissed off looking Squall. He was not at all impressed with Quistis' decision to join him in his solitude.
"What do you want?" He asked, wanting her to just go away. But that wasn't about to happen as she cast float on herself and floated up beside the sorcerer.
"Tasman said you freaked out pretty bad at her." Quistis said, as they looked down to the backyard to see Raven and Omri sparring, while Seifer and Zell watched.
"I was not expecting to find a person who is a holy elementalist with her own GF. Let alone them having no idea that they are the carrier of a Guardian. But then an idea hit me. But the calculations don't work out." The sorcerer was not finishing any one thought as his voice got quieter and quieter with every word. The blonde blue mage had to strain to hear him more that usual.
"Oh. So you didn't come up here for the reasons that I thought that you did." Quistis said, pulling her knees up to her chest, a slight grin pulling at the corners of her mouth.
"What do you mean?" Squall was generally confused by the instructors cryptic words.
"Are you implying that you never felt the forces coming from the Northeast or the south?" Quistis asked, surprised at the sorcerers reaction.
Then with the agility of a thousand assassins, Squall jumped over the peak of the roof and looked into the northeast.
"It can't be!" he whispered, and before you could say marshmallow malboros, Squall's silver wings were extended and he jumped off the roof. He was now safely on the ground and just like that, his wings were gone again. Quistis once again cast float on herself and was soon beside her sorcerer.
"Evan?" Squall whispered as he could see the tiny figure of Evan running towards them, waving like a mad man.
"Wait til you find out who is coming from the south." grinned Quistis.
Squall turned around to decipher what the blue mage had meant, but as soon as he turned and faced the right direction, the aura of the last person he wanted came flooding over the brunet lion.
"You gotta be kidding me." groaned Squall as he ran a finger over his now famous facial flaw.
"I'm going to get Seifer." Quistis smiled, then turned and ran. As she made her way through the house, she now noticed that Pamora and Tasman were now gone from the kitchen. Making her way into the back yard, she only needed to pause for a moment before making another sprint back to the tree she had been under earlier. She now stood in front of Zell and Seifer.
"Where's the fire, Angel? I know I'm hot, but I have yet to produce flames." Zell grinned, having a good chuckle over his own corny joke.
"Ha, ha. Very funny, Zell." Quistis laughed a little. "Seifer. It's Evan." She was still trying to catch her breathe from her spontaneous sprint, so she wasn't sure if it had sounded how she had hoped.
"What? What happened to him? Is he alright?" the blond knight panicked, knowing all to well about the connection the two blue mages shared.
"He's here!" She smiled, then pulled the large blond off the ground, and not letting go of his arm, pulled him through the backyard, then through the house and finally to the front of the house. There Seifer could see for himself, his red-headed boyfriend running through the empty fields towards them.
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I know, there really is no excuse. I've been plagued by writers block and laziness. So I am very sorry to all you readers out there. I've also been moving so I just got my computer back. I hope this chapter was worth the wait for you, and I am sorry if it's not. Well, I've already started on the next one, so please read and reveiw! Love and cookies!
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