Written while listening to FF8 Soundtrack


"Princess Garnet?" Baku whispered, shocked. Zidane looked at everyone, "Guys! Just improvise!" he whispered back, everyone ignoring the confused looking Steiner.

Marcus approached Garnet, "Cornelia!" he said. Garnet looked confused, and Zidane whispered something to her. She seemed to understand, replying out loud, "Oh, Marcus!"

Zidane whispered something else to Garnet, and she whispered something else back. Then Baku gave in his two cents.

They all made the Tantalus 'hand shake' and I watched them in basic annoyance. Improvising does not include the entire cast making some understanding of each other whilst on stage. That's what you would call, "messing up and making it obvious".

Garnet embraced Marcus, "Oh, Marcus! I missed you so! I wish never to leave thy side. Prithee, lead me from this place!"

Zidane looked at Baku, "See, King Leo? Thou shouldst give them thy blessing!"

"Never! Never leave his side, thou sayest? Foolish banter! I'll not allow it! Cornelia shall marry none other than this man--Prince Schneider! If that not so, Prince Schneider?" Baku turned towards Steiner, who looked absolutely horrified. "Marry the princess? Me?"

And I was half expecting that Baku would have selected me as a joke to follow up what had been said earlier.

"Aye! And this treacherous crew, I should place to death!"

I tuned out everyone else as my mind began to wander. Eventually, things began to fall into place as the game had. Garnet was 'stabbed' by Marcus (why couldn't it have been real?), Marcus killed himself, and I just now finally convinced myself that this play was better then Romeo and Juliet. I was always a Shakespeare fan, but Shakespeare is getting demoted by its own knock-off.

Vivi ran up on stage, shouting at the two ditzy guards, "Don't come any closer!" and blasted Garnet with his fire. I couldn't help but start laughing, totally knowing that I was breaking up everything. Garnet jumped up, threw off her cape, and then began to swat herself to get the remaining feelings of fire off her. In some ways, I'm glad no one was paying attention, because looking like a lunatic wasn't a good thing for me at this point in my life.

"Zidane, it's time!" Baku said, and Zidane looked at Garnet, "Princess Garnet! Lets get you out of here!"

Steiner looked horrified at everything, "What--What is going on!"

"Steiner! Don't follow me anymore." Garnet said, placing her hands on her hips. I walked in front of Garnet, but my back was turned to her. "Listen, Stein. I know you're not gonna follow that order, so just hurry up and lose, ok?" I narrowed my eyes at him, but I had a smile on my face. Now I can't help but wonder what I look like...

Steiner growled and him and his two knights lunged for us. Vivi, Blank, Zidane, and I all got into our fighting stances and Garnet stood behind us. "Heal us when we need it, ok?" I instructed before I got ready to strike. However, Zidane quickly went first, and my eye's narrowed. "Zidane…" I whined. "That was my turn…"

"Then don't be so slow." he replied nonchalantly, and I let out a groan. A flicked my whip and it hit Steiner in the arm, and as it began coming back to me, I yelped and moved, avoiding what would have been another pain in my side.. He narrowed his eyes at me, but he attacked Blank. I think he knew not to mess with me now. (Insert stuck-up laugh here)

It took a couple of minutes, but we were able to defeat him, and his two lackeys. The ship lurched forward and I stumbled, but was able to grab onto Zidane before I feel completely, my throat letting out some strange whine noise as soon as I came into contact with his arm. The ship was heading up over the large population of Alexandria.

I watched in horror as the chains began to tug into our boat, making it lean up for some reason, and I sailed back in the glass to the room that was shaped like an observatory. The glass began to split apart, but didn't begin to shatter until I had fallen to the ground. I lay there for what seemed like an hour, but it was only a minute at most, just me trying to regain myself. I pray no glass as sticking out of me...

I brushed off what I could of the glass, taking note that I had now very small, painful cuts on me that wouldn't go away for awhile. Then again, this is FF9, and a potion is usually always on hand. However, right now, everything was acting like a bitch…

It appeared that Garnet and Zidane were also staring at the mess that was going on, and I rushed to stand. I got light headed for a moment, to where my vision began to spot and yet I didn't care, rushing for the pair. It was like standing up too fast after being down for awhile.I narrowly avoided the large plot where wood was beginning to rip itself from where the chained anchor was starting to pull as the ship kept onward.

I stumbled over myself, falling to the side of Garnet, and she gasped, obviously not expecting me. I blinked rapidly, clearing my vision, holding a hand to my head as I sat up once more.

We all watched in horror (well...I was kinda looking down, blinking and trying to get some vision back) as the big cannon was brought out and the thing shot at us. Steiner had been out of it in front of us, and had strategically planned that exact moment to come back 'into it'. He stood up, readying his sword, and the fire bomb crept up behind him, patiently waiting to gain enough energy to blow up.

I didn't waste any time and took out just one of my whips. Even though they were far ranged, I wouldn't be able to hit the bomb, for some reason. It had some sort of barrier that could only be broken from the inside… So I took my weapon and aimed for Steiner, hitting him on the side of his armored face. "You're an idiot!" I shouted at him. "Look behind you!"

He didn't heed my enraged demand, and then Zidane took his turn to attack, shouting out words that were along my lines. Copy-Cat.

We all took turns, back and forth, Garnet healing and Vivi with his magic, me attacking far-ranged as Zidane attacked close-ranged. Steiner came at us every time he could find an opening, and he mostly came to attack Zidane and me, not much worried about my bashing I gave him the last time he had attacked me.

The fire bomb grew bigger and bigger, and suddenly (and finally) Steiner finally turned around, gasping at what he saw.

We all gasped involuntarily, too, even though we had already seen it like this.

Without warning, the bomb blew up. We all gasped once more before being thrown in various directions. I flew back, once more hitting something hard. It was difficult to know what I had hit. My eyes were shut tightly as I felt a nagging cut all the way up my left arm, and it hadn't been caused by Steiner, either. On my way to hitting this hard object, I must have scratched it on something. All I know is that it hurt like hell…like a snowball would be hurting in hell

I felt the ship tug somewhat and I opened my eyes. I saw I had crashed into Zidane, and was now leaning into his stomach as I cradled my injured arm, my body hanging off of his lap. He looked like he had the wind knocked out of him. If he says one word about this event...

I quickly stood up, getting dizzy but blinking it away. I always had a problem with headaches and blurry visions when getting up quickly, and yet now was not the time to do anything about it other then try and see through it.

I mumbled something--it's all something of a blur now, even though I had just said--and then both of our eyes widened as we felt the ship being tugged again.

I tried to regain my balance, but only seemed to stumbled, and Zidane stumbled over to me, holding me upright. He stared straight into my eyes, trying to read them to make sure I was alright. He saw the princess, then, too, and didn't even take a second glance at me before rushing off to her. Guess he felt like I was fine, despite the fact I was INJURED and the princess was NOT INJURED!

Oh yeah. Jealous streak is coming in fast.

The ship continued and continued to jerk itself around, and I felt it suddenly begin to go crazy. The steam from the roaring fires made it hard to see much, but as I began to fall and slide off the ship, I saw Zidane sliding in my direction as well, holding his hand out to Garnet, who was reaching for him.

I felt my vision waver. I had never blacked out before, except for when I had actually came in this place, so it seemed strange for all these overwhelming desires to hit me.

I felt the tears leave my eyes--had I been crying?--and watch them float above me like some dramatic Gundam Seed thing. It's all…so hard…to breath…

Zidane…can you…save me?


DXP: Yeah…that was kinda corny…but I needed to leave everyone off on a cliffhanger. Why? Because I felt like it. And it's…revenge for all those who leave people on cliffhangers for their sick enjoyment! …Like me, lol. I know it seemed like she's turning into a Mary-Sue now, but believe me, she isn't. Anyone would want to be saved from the main character, so it's seems like basic concept for Gene to be asking him.

Amazing she still has her humor as she seems to fall to her death.