Author's Note: Sorry it took long to get this chapter up!
Squall put his hands on Rinoa's shoulder and looked her square in the eyes.
"Rinoa, who is going to die?" He asked.
"I don't know," she replied, "All I saw was a body, a pool of blood, and..." She paused.
"And what?" He asked.
"A Gunblade," she answered.
"My Gunblade?" He asked.
"It could have been Seifer's," she suggested even though she knew it was most likely Squall's.
"Seifer doesn't have the cells of a monster running through him," he turned away from her and sighed.
At that moment Quistis walked into the hanger.
"I'm sorry to interrupt," she said, "but we are approaching Esthar now. I suggest we stop and refill the fuel tanks."
"That's a good idea," Squall said, "Contact Esthar and get the permission to land."
Quistis nodded and left the room.
Rinoa looked at Squall again and then left.
When Laguna Loire heard that the Ragnarok had landed in Esthar, he decided to go talk to Squall. He didn't want to admit it, but he wanted to talk to him just in case he didn't come back alive.
"Hey Squall!" Selphie called, "Laguna is approaching."
"Let him in," Squall said.
Selphie lowered the ramp and stood up from her chair. "I'm going to greet him!" She said excitingly.
After just a couple moments Squall heard Selphie and Laguna talking as they entered the cockpit.
"Hello, Laguna," Squall said. Even though he was his father, he continued to call him Laguna.
"Hello, Squall," Laguna greeted back, "Can I talk to you in private?"
"Okay," said Squall.
The two walked into the hanger (apparently that's where everyone goes when they want to be alone.)
"Squall, I want to wish you all the luck I have," said Laguna.
"It's going to take a lot of luck apparently." Squall replied.
"Is something else troubling you?" Laguna's fatherly instincts asked.
"No, nothing," Squall lied.
"Squall, we're ready to take off!" Selphie called.
"Well, I don't want to slow you down any further," Laguna said, "Please take care of yourself."
Laguna watched as the Ragnarok took off. He wanted to go with his son to find the Five Crystals, but he had to stay in Esthar. Being president had its ups and downs. This was a definite down.
Five hours later,
"We are approaching the island now," Selphie reported.
When everyone heard Selphie's report, they gathered their equipment.
"We're landing now," said Selphie. She slowly landed the Ragnarok on the small, green island. When she had landed, she lowered the ramp and everyone began pouring out.
The island was very small. It had no trees, no flowers, no nothing except green grass.
"Where's the temple?" Zell asked.
"Rinoa has to use her powers to make it appear," Edea answered.
"How?" Rinoa asked.
"You must concentrate," Edea explained, "You have to want the temple to appear to make it appear."
Rinoa nodded still feeling unsure what exactly she has to do.
"Step back, everyone," Edea instructed.
Rinoa closed her eyes and concentrated. In her mind she saw a huge temple. The outside was a light brown color. It had many windows and a huge door in the front. She could feel a gust of wind blow around her. The ground began trembling. She could here Irvine and Zell say "Whoa," in unison. Then she saw the image again. A body, pool of blood, and bloody Gunblade...she screamed "NO!" and fell to her knees.
"Rinoa! What's wrong?" Selphie said with concern.
Squall knelt down in front of her and wrapped his arms around her.
"You saw that vision again didn't you?" He asked.
She nodded with tears streaming down her cheeks. She looked in front of her and saw the temple. It was just like she saw in her visions. Squall helped her up.
"Are you ready?" He asked.
"Yes," she answered.
They all walked into the temple with their weapons in hand just in case.
The inside was very large. It had stairs leading down to a basement and it had stairs leading to an upper level.
The inside looked very ancient. It had old furniture, candles instead of light bulbs, and other old things. It looked like the last time someone lived there was over one hundred years ago.
"Odine said that there's a curse in this temple," said Squall, "Be careful because they may be monsters here."
"We should split up in teams," Rinoa suggested.
"Right," Squall agreed, "Everyone, pick your partner."
Selphie and Irvine decided to team together (of course.) Edea and Rinoa stayed with Squall just in case. Ellone and Zell teamed up. Quistis and Seifer teamed up (she didn't want to, but he insisted.) Cloud and Vincent teamed up.
"Wait a minute," said Vincent.
"What?" Cloud asked.
"Don't you know what happens if I get wounded too much?" Vincent asked.
"Oh," Cloud replied.
"What?" Squall asked.
"When I get wounded too much," Vincent began, "The demon inside me comes out."
"Did anyone bring any sleeping spells?" Quistis, the magic expert, asked.
Everyone shook their heads.
"C'mon! You came here knowing what could happen, yet you didn't bring a sleep spell?" Seifer asked Vincent.
"I came to Balamb in a hurry while chasing Hojo remember?" Vincent replied.
"Oh pu-lease! There's monsters in the training area that you can get sleep spells from!" Seifer replied.
"Seifer!" Ellone snapped, "He didn't know, okay? So why don't you back off!"
"Okay fine," Seifer said.
"Listen," she began, "I can knock people unconscious by sending their consciousness to the past remember? I'll go with Vincent and Cloud can go with Zell," she then looked at Vincent, "Did you have a painful past?"
"That doesn't matter," he said obviously avoiding her question, "You'll have to do what you have to do."
She nodded still feeling unsure about sending someone she knows nothing about to his past.
"Rinoa, Edea, and I will go down to the basement," Squall explained, "Ellone, Vincent, Quistis, and Seifer will be on the first floor. Zell, Cloud, Irvine, and Selphie will be on the second floor."
They all nodded and split up.
Quistis and Seifer walked down a hall and entered a room on the left. The room was dark. Seifer saw a torch on the wall and used his favorite spell, "Fire," to light the torch.
The room was empty except for a large trunk against a wall on the right.
Quistis bent down to open the trunk. When she did, a small, green, lizard- monkey lunged at her. She cried in surprise as the lizard-monkey began biting her arm.
Seifer quickly pulled out his Gunblade and sliced the lizard-monkey in two.
"Thanks, Seifer," she said.
"Anything for my dear instructor," he smirked.
"Ex-instructor," she mumbled.
Inside the trunk that the lizard-monkey lunged out of was a roll of parchment. She unrolled the parchment and saw that the paper was blank.
"Odd," she whispered.
"What is it?" Seifer asked.
"It's blank," she said, "It must not be ordinary. Why else would there be a creature guarding it."
"It's just a piece of rolled parchment," he said.
"I think maybe only a sorceress can read it," she said.
"Why would you think that?" He asked.
"Maybe because this is a sorceress temple?" She asked with annoyance. She rolled the parchment and tucked it in her belt. "I'll show it to Edea and Rinoa."
Quistis stood up and walked to a wall.
"What are you doing now?" He asked.
"Seifer, are you just going to stand there and ask questions all day?" She asked, "Help me find something in this room that could lead to something."
"Yes, maybe we will find a secret passage only a sorceress can see." He mumbled.
"What?" She asked.
"Nothing." He replied.
"I found something!" Quistis exclaimed.
Seifer looked at her as she pushed what looked like a button. A door slid open in the room.
"Lots of surprises huh?" He commented.
She ignored his comment and walked in the room that was revealed.
"There's nothing here," she informed.
Seifer walked in the room and the other door slid close.
"Crap!" Seifer exclaimed.
Selphie and Irvine walked up a flight of stairs that led to the upper level of the temple. They walked into the first room they saw.
"Wow," said Selphie when she saw the room. The room was filled with old, clay pots.
"I know! I know!" Selphie squealed running up to one of the pots. "We can pull every one and it will lead to a secret passage!"
"Selphie, that's only things you see in old movies," just as Irvine finished his sentence, Selphie pulled a pot and a door slide open. "Whoo- hoo!" She exclaimed punching the air with her fist.
"I forgot, we're dealing with an ancient sorceress' temple," he commented.
"C'mon, Irvy!" She squealed.
"Hey wait a sec," he said.
"What?" she asked.
"Now's my chance," he thought. "Why don't we take a break for a while, y'know?" He began, "Squall, Rinoa, Edea, Ellone, Zell, Quistis, Seifer and those Cloud and Vincent guys are all searching right now so what harm will it do for us to stop for a little while?"
"Irvy!" She said bouncing up and down, "We can't do that!"
He grinned as she jumped up and down like a kid. Even though she was nineteen years old, she still acted like a kid. He found this very, very cute.
"Okay, okay," he finally said.
They walked into the secret room. It was no wonder it was secret considering the room was filled with weapons. To their surprise, it was not old weapons, they were newer weapons.
"Whoa!" Irvine exclaimed running towards a wall of guns.
"Irvine, I don't think..." She was too late, Irvine grabbed one of the guns. The floor beneath them vanished and they fell.
Cloud and Zell walked into a room on the upper floor. The room was empty but they walked in just in case there was a secret wall or something like that.
The moment they entered the room, the door was magically closed and looked.
"What the h.." Zell began but was interrupted when several monsters appeared in the room.
"Cockatrices!" Zell exclaimed, "Kill them quickly or they'll turn you into stone."
Cloud had already pulled out his huge sword and began killing the creatures.
The Cockatrice was a bird like creature that could turn you into stone. People could be revived from it with a simple spell, but it was still best to avoid them.
Zell, using his fists, punched one of the creatures to death (literally) but Cloud was much quicker with his sword.
One of the creatures came close to petrifying Cloud, but Zell came to his rescue before it could.
One of them used its strong leg and knocked Cloud against the wall.
The room began to shake. The cockatrices let out a screech and disappeared.
Just like was happened to Irvine and Selphie, the floor disappeared leaving Cloud and Zell to fall below.
"This is so lame!" Seifer said with annoyance.
"What is?" She asked.
"Where are all the enemies?" He asked, "I was expecting getting locked in a room would mean lots of battles!"
"Oh so nothing is fun unless there's fighting huh?" She asked with annoyance.
"You know, you like sexy when you're annoyed," he commented with a sly grin.
"What?!" She exclaimed.
"And when you're mad," he added.
"Seifer Almasy, you are the most arrogant, self-centered, ego-----" she was interrupted when Seifer put his hands on her hips and pressed his lips against hers.
Squall, Edea, and Rinoa walked down a long flight of stairs into the basement. The basement was very dark and dirty. It looked like a perfect place to hold prisoners.
Edea was able to conjure a spell to brighten the room. The room was indeed very dark, damp, and quite creepy.
"Look! There's writing on the wall!" Rinoa said pointing to a very dusty wall.
Squall walked up to it and brushed the dust away with his gloved hand.
"What does it say?" He asked, "I can't read it."
"I can," said Edea.
"M-me too," Rinoa replied.
Ellone and Vincent approached a door and stopped.
"Remember what I taught you about your gun?" He asked.
She nodded and swallowed a dry lump in her throat.
"Okay," he said and opened the door.
The room was empty except for a pedestal on the other end other the room with an orange crystal on top.
"Vincent! It's here!" Ellone exclaimed.
Vincent walked up to the crystal and put his hand on it. It began glowing brightly and disappeared.
"W-where did it go?!" Ellone gasped.
"Did you think it would be THAT simple?" A female's voice asked from behind.
Ellone and Vincent turned around and saw a woman. The woman had orange colored skin and eyes. Instead of hair, she had a long stream of fire. She was wearing a flaming bikini looking outfit.
"Who are you?" Ellone asked.
"I am Pyra, Queen of Fire!" she said.
(A/N: I'm about to do a back and forth thing. Dialogue that looks like this; ("blah...blah..blah") That's Edea repeating what's written on the wall. If it looks like this; "blah...blah..blah" that Pyra talking.)
("In order to obtain the Five Crystals..")
"...you must defeat the Five Guardians of the Five Crystals."
("These guardians are opposite to what you are used to...")
"...so do not underestimate us."
"Opposite to what we are used to?" Ellone asked.
"Defeat me to get the crystal!" Pyra said.
Ellone nervously pulled out her gun and aimed it at Pyra.
"Wait, I know what she means." Vincent said.
Pyra threw a fireball at Ellone, but she quickly ducked.
"Stand back," Vincent instructed. He put his hands together and disappeared.
Ellone gasped when she saw him disappear. She hoped and prayed whatever he had in mind would work.
Suddenly a woman appeared. She looked a lot like Pyra, but an icy version.
"Shiva?!" Pyra gasped.
"Diamond Dust!" Shiva exclaimed stretching her hand forward.
Pyra let out a scream and was enclosed in a block of ice.
Shiva disappeared and Vincent reappeared.
Pyra busted out of the ice and sat down in exhaustion.
"I have been defeated," she sighed, "I did not know you knew Shiva."
"So, you also use Guardian Forces?" Ellone asked Vincent.
"Guardian Forces?" Vincent asked, "We call them Summon Materia."
"Have you lost any of your memory?" She asked.
"No, why would we?" He asked.
"Hmmm." Ellone thought a moment, "Guardian Forces, GF for short, gives us power, but they make a home in our brain. That part of the brain is where are memory is stored."
"Sounds awful if you want to keep your memory," Vincent commented.
"There are different summons," Pyra added, "Guardian Forces are best for those who fight in battle and don't care for memories. Summon Materia is good for those who wish to fight and keep their memory."
"I see," Vincent said.
"Now," Pyra said standing up, "You have earned the crystal." She pointed her finger at Ellone.
Ellone was startled and first, but calmed down. Then a chain appeared around her neck with the orange crystal attached.
"I sense you have no magic with you," Pyra said to Ellone.
"No, I don't know how to use it," Ellone said.
"Let me be you Eidolon." Pyra said.
"What?" Ellone asked, "I don't want to lose my memory."
"You won't," Pyra answered, "Eidolons do not make a home in people's brains. Don't worry. Just call upon me, and I will surely come, but beware, there are guardians that I cannot defeat. That is why I will inform the guardians that when they are defeated that they must join you."
"Thank you, Pyra," Ellone said.
Pyra nodded and disappeared.
A/N: I hope you all liked this chapter. Seifer did the famous "shut up and kiss me" guy thing. Will Quistis slap him and tell him to go to hell or kiss him back?
Squall put his hands on Rinoa's shoulder and looked her square in the eyes.
"Rinoa, who is going to die?" He asked.
"I don't know," she replied, "All I saw was a body, a pool of blood, and..." She paused.
"And what?" He asked.
"A Gunblade," she answered.
"My Gunblade?" He asked.
"It could have been Seifer's," she suggested even though she knew it was most likely Squall's.
"Seifer doesn't have the cells of a monster running through him," he turned away from her and sighed.
At that moment Quistis walked into the hanger.
"I'm sorry to interrupt," she said, "but we are approaching Esthar now. I suggest we stop and refill the fuel tanks."
"That's a good idea," Squall said, "Contact Esthar and get the permission to land."
Quistis nodded and left the room.
Rinoa looked at Squall again and then left.
When Laguna Loire heard that the Ragnarok had landed in Esthar, he decided to go talk to Squall. He didn't want to admit it, but he wanted to talk to him just in case he didn't come back alive.
"Hey Squall!" Selphie called, "Laguna is approaching."
"Let him in," Squall said.
Selphie lowered the ramp and stood up from her chair. "I'm going to greet him!" She said excitingly.
After just a couple moments Squall heard Selphie and Laguna talking as they entered the cockpit.
"Hello, Laguna," Squall said. Even though he was his father, he continued to call him Laguna.
"Hello, Squall," Laguna greeted back, "Can I talk to you in private?"
"Okay," said Squall.
The two walked into the hanger (apparently that's where everyone goes when they want to be alone.)
"Squall, I want to wish you all the luck I have," said Laguna.
"It's going to take a lot of luck apparently." Squall replied.
"Is something else troubling you?" Laguna's fatherly instincts asked.
"No, nothing," Squall lied.
"Squall, we're ready to take off!" Selphie called.
"Well, I don't want to slow you down any further," Laguna said, "Please take care of yourself."
Laguna watched as the Ragnarok took off. He wanted to go with his son to find the Five Crystals, but he had to stay in Esthar. Being president had its ups and downs. This was a definite down.
Five hours later,
"We are approaching the island now," Selphie reported.
When everyone heard Selphie's report, they gathered their equipment.
"We're landing now," said Selphie. She slowly landed the Ragnarok on the small, green island. When she had landed, she lowered the ramp and everyone began pouring out.
The island was very small. It had no trees, no flowers, no nothing except green grass.
"Where's the temple?" Zell asked.
"Rinoa has to use her powers to make it appear," Edea answered.
"How?" Rinoa asked.
"You must concentrate," Edea explained, "You have to want the temple to appear to make it appear."
Rinoa nodded still feeling unsure what exactly she has to do.
"Step back, everyone," Edea instructed.
Rinoa closed her eyes and concentrated. In her mind she saw a huge temple. The outside was a light brown color. It had many windows and a huge door in the front. She could feel a gust of wind blow around her. The ground began trembling. She could here Irvine and Zell say "Whoa," in unison. Then she saw the image again. A body, pool of blood, and bloody Gunblade...she screamed "NO!" and fell to her knees.
"Rinoa! What's wrong?" Selphie said with concern.
Squall knelt down in front of her and wrapped his arms around her.
"You saw that vision again didn't you?" He asked.
She nodded with tears streaming down her cheeks. She looked in front of her and saw the temple. It was just like she saw in her visions. Squall helped her up.
"Are you ready?" He asked.
"Yes," she answered.
They all walked into the temple with their weapons in hand just in case.
The inside was very large. It had stairs leading down to a basement and it had stairs leading to an upper level.
The inside looked very ancient. It had old furniture, candles instead of light bulbs, and other old things. It looked like the last time someone lived there was over one hundred years ago.
"Odine said that there's a curse in this temple," said Squall, "Be careful because they may be monsters here."
"We should split up in teams," Rinoa suggested.
"Right," Squall agreed, "Everyone, pick your partner."
Selphie and Irvine decided to team together (of course.) Edea and Rinoa stayed with Squall just in case. Ellone and Zell teamed up. Quistis and Seifer teamed up (she didn't want to, but he insisted.) Cloud and Vincent teamed up.
"Wait a minute," said Vincent.
"What?" Cloud asked.
"Don't you know what happens if I get wounded too much?" Vincent asked.
"Oh," Cloud replied.
"What?" Squall asked.
"When I get wounded too much," Vincent began, "The demon inside me comes out."
"Did anyone bring any sleeping spells?" Quistis, the magic expert, asked.
Everyone shook their heads.
"C'mon! You came here knowing what could happen, yet you didn't bring a sleep spell?" Seifer asked Vincent.
"I came to Balamb in a hurry while chasing Hojo remember?" Vincent replied.
"Oh pu-lease! There's monsters in the training area that you can get sleep spells from!" Seifer replied.
"Seifer!" Ellone snapped, "He didn't know, okay? So why don't you back off!"
"Okay fine," Seifer said.
"Listen," she began, "I can knock people unconscious by sending their consciousness to the past remember? I'll go with Vincent and Cloud can go with Zell," she then looked at Vincent, "Did you have a painful past?"
"That doesn't matter," he said obviously avoiding her question, "You'll have to do what you have to do."
She nodded still feeling unsure about sending someone she knows nothing about to his past.
"Rinoa, Edea, and I will go down to the basement," Squall explained, "Ellone, Vincent, Quistis, and Seifer will be on the first floor. Zell, Cloud, Irvine, and Selphie will be on the second floor."
They all nodded and split up.
Quistis and Seifer walked down a hall and entered a room on the left. The room was dark. Seifer saw a torch on the wall and used his favorite spell, "Fire," to light the torch.
The room was empty except for a large trunk against a wall on the right.
Quistis bent down to open the trunk. When she did, a small, green, lizard- monkey lunged at her. She cried in surprise as the lizard-monkey began biting her arm.
Seifer quickly pulled out his Gunblade and sliced the lizard-monkey in two.
"Thanks, Seifer," she said.
"Anything for my dear instructor," he smirked.
"Ex-instructor," she mumbled.
Inside the trunk that the lizard-monkey lunged out of was a roll of parchment. She unrolled the parchment and saw that the paper was blank.
"Odd," she whispered.
"What is it?" Seifer asked.
"It's blank," she said, "It must not be ordinary. Why else would there be a creature guarding it."
"It's just a piece of rolled parchment," he said.
"I think maybe only a sorceress can read it," she said.
"Why would you think that?" He asked.
"Maybe because this is a sorceress temple?" She asked with annoyance. She rolled the parchment and tucked it in her belt. "I'll show it to Edea and Rinoa."
Quistis stood up and walked to a wall.
"What are you doing now?" He asked.
"Seifer, are you just going to stand there and ask questions all day?" She asked, "Help me find something in this room that could lead to something."
"Yes, maybe we will find a secret passage only a sorceress can see." He mumbled.
"What?" She asked.
"Nothing." He replied.
"I found something!" Quistis exclaimed.
Seifer looked at her as she pushed what looked like a button. A door slid open in the room.
"Lots of surprises huh?" He commented.
She ignored his comment and walked in the room that was revealed.
"There's nothing here," she informed.
Seifer walked in the room and the other door slid close.
"Crap!" Seifer exclaimed.
Selphie and Irvine walked up a flight of stairs that led to the upper level of the temple. They walked into the first room they saw.
"Wow," said Selphie when she saw the room. The room was filled with old, clay pots.
"I know! I know!" Selphie squealed running up to one of the pots. "We can pull every one and it will lead to a secret passage!"
"Selphie, that's only things you see in old movies," just as Irvine finished his sentence, Selphie pulled a pot and a door slide open. "Whoo- hoo!" She exclaimed punching the air with her fist.
"I forgot, we're dealing with an ancient sorceress' temple," he commented.
"C'mon, Irvy!" She squealed.
"Hey wait a sec," he said.
"What?" she asked.
"Now's my chance," he thought. "Why don't we take a break for a while, y'know?" He began, "Squall, Rinoa, Edea, Ellone, Zell, Quistis, Seifer and those Cloud and Vincent guys are all searching right now so what harm will it do for us to stop for a little while?"
"Irvy!" She said bouncing up and down, "We can't do that!"
He grinned as she jumped up and down like a kid. Even though she was nineteen years old, she still acted like a kid. He found this very, very cute.
"Okay, okay," he finally said.
They walked into the secret room. It was no wonder it was secret considering the room was filled with weapons. To their surprise, it was not old weapons, they were newer weapons.
"Whoa!" Irvine exclaimed running towards a wall of guns.
"Irvine, I don't think..." She was too late, Irvine grabbed one of the guns. The floor beneath them vanished and they fell.
Cloud and Zell walked into a room on the upper floor. The room was empty but they walked in just in case there was a secret wall or something like that.
The moment they entered the room, the door was magically closed and looked.
"What the h.." Zell began but was interrupted when several monsters appeared in the room.
"Cockatrices!" Zell exclaimed, "Kill them quickly or they'll turn you into stone."
Cloud had already pulled out his huge sword and began killing the creatures.
The Cockatrice was a bird like creature that could turn you into stone. People could be revived from it with a simple spell, but it was still best to avoid them.
Zell, using his fists, punched one of the creatures to death (literally) but Cloud was much quicker with his sword.
One of the creatures came close to petrifying Cloud, but Zell came to his rescue before it could.
One of them used its strong leg and knocked Cloud against the wall.
The room began to shake. The cockatrices let out a screech and disappeared.
Just like was happened to Irvine and Selphie, the floor disappeared leaving Cloud and Zell to fall below.
"This is so lame!" Seifer said with annoyance.
"What is?" She asked.
"Where are all the enemies?" He asked, "I was expecting getting locked in a room would mean lots of battles!"
"Oh so nothing is fun unless there's fighting huh?" She asked with annoyance.
"You know, you like sexy when you're annoyed," he commented with a sly grin.
"What?!" She exclaimed.
"And when you're mad," he added.
"Seifer Almasy, you are the most arrogant, self-centered, ego-----" she was interrupted when Seifer put his hands on her hips and pressed his lips against hers.
Squall, Edea, and Rinoa walked down a long flight of stairs into the basement. The basement was very dark and dirty. It looked like a perfect place to hold prisoners.
Edea was able to conjure a spell to brighten the room. The room was indeed very dark, damp, and quite creepy.
"Look! There's writing on the wall!" Rinoa said pointing to a very dusty wall.
Squall walked up to it and brushed the dust away with his gloved hand.
"What does it say?" He asked, "I can't read it."
"I can," said Edea.
"M-me too," Rinoa replied.
Ellone and Vincent approached a door and stopped.
"Remember what I taught you about your gun?" He asked.
She nodded and swallowed a dry lump in her throat.
"Okay," he said and opened the door.
The room was empty except for a pedestal on the other end other the room with an orange crystal on top.
"Vincent! It's here!" Ellone exclaimed.
Vincent walked up to the crystal and put his hand on it. It began glowing brightly and disappeared.
"W-where did it go?!" Ellone gasped.
"Did you think it would be THAT simple?" A female's voice asked from behind.
Ellone and Vincent turned around and saw a woman. The woman had orange colored skin and eyes. Instead of hair, she had a long stream of fire. She was wearing a flaming bikini looking outfit.
"Who are you?" Ellone asked.
"I am Pyra, Queen of Fire!" she said.
(A/N: I'm about to do a back and forth thing. Dialogue that looks like this; ("blah...blah..blah") That's Edea repeating what's written on the wall. If it looks like this; "blah...blah..blah" that Pyra talking.)
("In order to obtain the Five Crystals..")
"...you must defeat the Five Guardians of the Five Crystals."
("These guardians are opposite to what you are used to...")
"...so do not underestimate us."
"Opposite to what we are used to?" Ellone asked.
"Defeat me to get the crystal!" Pyra said.
Ellone nervously pulled out her gun and aimed it at Pyra.
"Wait, I know what she means." Vincent said.
Pyra threw a fireball at Ellone, but she quickly ducked.
"Stand back," Vincent instructed. He put his hands together and disappeared.
Ellone gasped when she saw him disappear. She hoped and prayed whatever he had in mind would work.
Suddenly a woman appeared. She looked a lot like Pyra, but an icy version.
"Shiva?!" Pyra gasped.
"Diamond Dust!" Shiva exclaimed stretching her hand forward.
Pyra let out a scream and was enclosed in a block of ice.
Shiva disappeared and Vincent reappeared.
Pyra busted out of the ice and sat down in exhaustion.
"I have been defeated," she sighed, "I did not know you knew Shiva."
"So, you also use Guardian Forces?" Ellone asked Vincent.
"Guardian Forces?" Vincent asked, "We call them Summon Materia."
"Have you lost any of your memory?" She asked.
"No, why would we?" He asked.
"Hmmm." Ellone thought a moment, "Guardian Forces, GF for short, gives us power, but they make a home in our brain. That part of the brain is where are memory is stored."
"Sounds awful if you want to keep your memory," Vincent commented.
"There are different summons," Pyra added, "Guardian Forces are best for those who fight in battle and don't care for memories. Summon Materia is good for those who wish to fight and keep their memory."
"I see," Vincent said.
"Now," Pyra said standing up, "You have earned the crystal." She pointed her finger at Ellone.
Ellone was startled and first, but calmed down. Then a chain appeared around her neck with the orange crystal attached.
"I sense you have no magic with you," Pyra said to Ellone.
"No, I don't know how to use it," Ellone said.
"Let me be you Eidolon." Pyra said.
"What?" Ellone asked, "I don't want to lose my memory."
"You won't," Pyra answered, "Eidolons do not make a home in people's brains. Don't worry. Just call upon me, and I will surely come, but beware, there are guardians that I cannot defeat. That is why I will inform the guardians that when they are defeated that they must join you."
"Thank you, Pyra," Ellone said.
Pyra nodded and disappeared.
A/N: I hope you all liked this chapter. Seifer did the famous "shut up and kiss me" guy thing. Will Quistis slap him and tell him to go to hell or kiss him back?