"IF ONLY YOU SAW ME"

Chapter Nineteen: Apocalyspe Part Three

"...All ends won...the spirit strong... the soul weak... your love in my heart I shall keep..."


Rinoa's eyes shot opened as she lay on the floor. She looked around at the tomb (how did I...). She could hear the screams and gun fires coming from outside. She tried to stand and felt a stinging pain in her stomach. Laying back down, she coughed up blood. "Stay here...let him die." Her eyes filled with darkness.


Fujin turned around toward an extremly loud gunshot. She saw Dai's body fall to the floor. Pancing, she shot her gun at the mortal she was fighting and ran toward Dai's body. When she reached her, she saw Sephiroth laying next to her. Fujin fell to her knees, a tear falling from her eye. "This wouldnt have happened...if mortals werent alive..."

Angrily, she stood, grabbing an abondoned sword, slashing mortals in front of her. Anger was raging in her eyes. She stopped in fron tof Vincent, who was panting heavily. He looked at her, planting a kiss on her lips, "Dont stop now. We're almost won."

Fujin nodded, "Yes."

Vincent turned around to land a blade right in his heart. He had no time to yell when he fell to the ground. Fujin stared in shock as his body collapsed and Zell stood before her. "YOU!"

Giving on quick glance at Vincent;s darkening skin, she lashed out at Zell, who continued to back away from her. She slashed her blade across his shoulder, making the blood pour heavily. He yelled and grabbed her hair, slamming the sword in her neck. She gagged, dropping her sword. She didnt release her gaze from his eyes. He grinned at her, "You're all going to die... one by one... and its going to make me very happy."

Fujin smiled, blood dripping from her cracking lips, "Why fight still... Rinoa is no longer mortal..."

Hate filled Zell's eyes. Yelling, he took his sword, plowing it through her chest. Fujin's eyes went black, along with her greying skin. She fell on top of Vincent's body.

Zone ran, tripped and stumbled over Dai and Sephiroth's dead bodies. His eyes filled with shock. Without knowing, a blade went through his heart. HIs lost thought was of his friends.

Cloud and Wakka stood back to back to one another. Each one had stumbled over a dead companion. "Wakka?" Cloud said as he shot a mortal in the head.

"Ya?"

"We wont die."

"No."

A gang of mortals saw them standing next to each other and nodded. Then each grabbed a fallen gun and ran toward them , firing madly. One bullet his Wakka's shoulder, making him turn. Both he and Cloud tried their best dodging the bullet's., running toward the group of mortals. When Wakka fell blackened to the ground, Cloud felt a certain strength build within him. Wakka was dead. Everyone was dying. He didnt even know if Squall was alve. All he knew, was that if the war was left on his shoulders, he would finish it.

With a yell, he shot at three mortals, blowing half of their heads into bits. But when he raised to shoot again, a mortal grabbed the gun tip, plowing it in his heart. Cloud stared at the mortal as he grinned, "Shoot...you still wont win..."

And the mortal complied. He shot and let Cloud's body fall to the floor.

Squall stared around at the dead bodies at his feet. Blood pouring from his chest and his burnt eyes, he knew the war wasnt going toward his side. He sensed his friends spirits faded. They were dead. He knew it. All of them. One by one. Killed. His best friend, his first meal, his previous slave and so forth. All of them... gone.

Anger surged through his chest as he watched as the remaining vampires fought with all their strength, 5 against one.

He walked forward, his hand on his gunblade. "Zell!" He yelled. "Zell! DO NOT HIDE FROM ME!"

A hard hand fell on the back of his neck. He hissed, falling forward onto a mortal. the mortal looked at him and he clicked stabbed the mortal in the chest. He turned around to see Zell standing by him, hate in his eyes. "You've turned Rinoa..."

Squall grinned, "She belongs to me." He then remembered where she was...how she was...

Zell ran towards him, grabbing a lonely gunblade from the ground. He raised it as it clashed with Squall's. HAte met their eyes as they glared into one another. "You will die..."

Squall grinned at that remark, "Yes...long after you have.."

Zell quickly grabbed his gunblade, slashing through Squall's leg. He yelled, falling on to one knee. "DAMN YOU MORTAL!"

Squall stood, slashing his gunblade across Zell's chest. "ARGH!"

Zell fell backward, landing on a gun. Grabbing it in his hand, he raised the point toward Squall's chest, "I'll kill you!"

Squall moved the gun away from his chest, poiting it at his head.

"Shoot my head, I'll be brain dead. Shoot my limbs, I'll be useless."

he moved the gun back toward his chest, "You shoot my heart... I die... all you need to know for a fair fight."

Zell placed his finger on the trigger, ready to aim and fire. Squall grinned, "Yet.. I never said I was going to make it easy."

He threw the gun toward his side, placing his gunblade at Zell's neck, "I cut your head... you die... I cut your limbs..you bleed to death... I stab your heart... you die... Cant you see the advantage I have over you? Either way you're injured, you die. Either way I am injured, I have a very very very good change of living."

He hear Zell gulp as more anger raged in his eyes. Squall raised his gunblade, firing at a mortal trying to creep behind him. He quickly placed the gunblade back in its part, "Beg for mercy." he said as he softly squeezed the trigger.

Zell gulped once again, "Never."

Squall laughed, "Now now, boy. Beg for mercy."

Zell shook his head, causing the blade to leave a small gash in his skin. he hissed. "Now see what you;ve done. being stubborn will kill you faster than me doing it slowly."

Zell's bretahing increased as he stared away from Squall. Squall sighed, not realising this and brought Zell to a stand. "I'll give you my mercy." He said.

He took his gunblade, slicing Zell in half. Blood splashed and burned his eyes. Licking the ramainder from his lips, he tried to see through his blood vision. He turned in a full circle, blinking through the blood. He looked back and remembered when he had sliced Cid in half... his blood filling his vision. As of thinking it... he stopped turning. "No..." he whispered.

Wiping the blood from his eyes, he turned around, to see Rinoa walking through the crowd. "No..."

Rinoa was grinning at him. She grabbed at sword from the ground, slicing her leg to allow her blood to spill. Squall shook his head, "Joia...no..."

Rinoa nodded, "Joia...Yes..."

Squall moved forward, "Joia...leave Rinoa..."

Rinoa shook her head, "Cant you see, Squall? Cant you see how I am alive?"

Squall lowered his head and looked up at her, "You will die tonight."

Rinoa laughed, "How so tonight? The sun is rising."

Squall looked over his shoulder and saw the sun peeking over the hills. He looked at her, "You will die..."

Grabbing his gunblade, he pointed it at her. She laughed, "This isnt my body... you wont be killing me."

Squall nodded. "I know."

He turned the gunblade at himself, looking deeply in her eyes, "RInoa...I love you..."

With one quick blow, he plowed his gunblade threw his own heart, looking at Rinoa. She screamed as dark light and blood spewed from her mouth, flowing towards the sky. Everyone stopped and looked at her and Squall. The light continued to pour from her mouth, her screaming gorwing weak. With one quick yell, a ball of darkness emereged from her throat. Rinoa coughed and gagged, looking around. (Why am I outside...?) She looked down and saw Squall. Falling to her knees, she cupped his face. "Squall..."

Squall eyed her slowly, as his body was letting his life go. "I"ll always be with you..."

He fell forward, his blackened body on Rinoa's lap.