Life after Death
Chapter 5: Ambush
LLL
A/N: Thank you to all of my reviewers! I love you! No, not like that…but anyway, you made me happy, so here's chapter five! Or four…I just don't know anymore really…it's very depressing. To all who lived in New Orleans, I wish to give you a hug. /Hug/ I know what it's like to deal with hurricanes, even if the four I got last year weren't that bad…
Loki: Malevalla would like to thank Neo and Beastie for being such kind reviewers. You two get hugs also. But not from me.
Lilly: You get them from ME/Hug/
Disclaimer: I no own FFIX or any sort of spelling skills.
LLL
Damn Lilly.
After Eiko ran off, she ripped me a new one for 'being rude to an adorable little girl.' She said something along the lines of 'it is impossible to save the world like this,' and began dragging me and Vivi to the station. She probably wanted me to apologize to the little freak.
Damn her.
We boarded the Air Cab, all of us silent. Strangely enough, Vivi was the first one to break the silence.
"I-I've been thinking," he started, starring down at the ground. "Won't it get confusing once dad comes back, since we have the same name?" He looked up at me, probably hoping I'd confirm this.
I sat in silence, contemplating this. Well, yeah it would get really confusing. Had to find a way to fix that I guess…
"We'll just give you a nickname, then," Lilly quipped up logically. She was in what I liked to call a 'mood less mood'. That was when she began to slightly slip back into the emotionless style the other genomes had. She could actually be quite smart in one of these moods, but most of the time, she was just annoying as hell.
"Okay…but what?" he asked, titling his head to one side.
"We'll just call you Vee," I decided, pushing the subject out of my mind, and focusing on how much I hated Lilly.
"We're here," Lilly stated as the cab came to a stop. She stood up and walked out of the door, tail swinging lazily behind her.
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious," I sighed, following her from the machine, Vee at my heels.
Lindblum castle was huge; there was no doubt about that. But being up close, it was even more awe inspiring. Somewhere off in the distance, a bell rang through out the city. I counted the rings, trying to orientate myself with the time. Twelve rings. It was midnight, obviously. It explained why the guards were so tired.
It had only been eight when we had left the pub though, hadn't it? The ride from there to here only took a few minutes. I could feel sleep, heavy on my eyes, and worked viciously to keep it away. Vee had slumped against my leg, and I could here his breathing. Had he fallen asleep? I looked at the guards, who were slinking off into sleep at their posts.
"Something's wrong," Lilly pointed out, looking at the sky for something. "There's magic here, or I'm a fool!" I didn't doubt there was magic, but I was pretty sure Lilly was a fool, right or wrong.
Anger, frustration, sorrow, homesickness, feelings like these flooded my body, but they weren't mine. "What's going on?" I asked Lilly, scanning the skies in an attempt to find the culprit for these unexplained happenings.
"Watch out!" Lilly shouted, jumping at me, and pushing all three of us to the ground. I could here Vee gasp, probably from the shock of being so forcefully woken up. The place where I had just been standing blew into a ball of energy, glowing a deadly white. I gasped, unable to help myself. Lilly had just saved me from what would have been very painful.
"Amazing you three are awake!" an all too familiar voice said, a black figure floating down from somewhere above. Black wings were spread out behind it, and yellow eyes glared at us with an unmatched hatred.
"T-Tam?" Vee whimpered, clinging onto my leg. The look in his eyes was indescribable, except that it was filled with pain. I had never seen anything like it before.
"I am SO not in the mood for this!" I growled at the waltz. I couldn't believe myself. I would never have been so rude to one of Vivi's children. This was a special case though. If I forced myself to be just as kind and gentle to this waltz as I used to be, I'd only end up driving myself insane with misery. I had no choice but to accept Tam as an enemy.
"That was the point, or dear Loki!" Tam retorted mockingly. He held a hand out, his palm facing upwards towards the sky, fingers pressed against each other, the hand perfectly horizontal. "I have been instructed to destroy you," Tam added, pure energy forming in his hand. "So that is exactly what I will do!" He floated up into the air, aiming his spell at us. "Good bye, you miserable little," He was cut off, a wave of surging water crashing down against him into the docking bay for the air cab.
I cussed in my mind, and grabbed hold of Vee as the wave rushed towards us. I saw Lilly bracing herself against the impact, and I felt Vee's body go tense against my own. My muscles tightened, as I awaited the force of the water, taking a deep breath in.
Even that couldn't help.
The wave crashed into me, knocking the air out of my lungs. I had to concentrate to hold onto Vee. I opened my eyes, watching the water rush over my head. I couldn't breath, and I couldn't move. The force of it all had bruised my body. I couldn't hold my breath much longer. I couldn't stop it. It opened my mouth to breath, and ended up with a chest full of raging water.
I blacked out, cursing Eiko for her irrational attack against Tam before all went blank.
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A/N: I'm going to work on fan art today, if I can. I'm going to hang it up on my website eventually. Hopefully the first drawing shall be up by tomorrow. Wish me luck on that.