Ellone's eyes were filled with horror when she looked at Vincent's demon
form. He looked like he did not even know who she was.
"V-Vincent..." She whispered.
Before she could do anything, Vincent lunged at Ellone knocking her to the floor. She screamed in terror and struggled to keep Vincent from biting her head off. She took a quick glance behind her and saw the Ultima Weapon just standing there as if he were just going to let Vincent kill her. She took her eyes off Ultima Weapon and looked at Vincent's demon like face. She closed her eyes and felt Vincent's body go limp. She opened her eyes to see him unconscious.
Ellone pushed Vincent off her and stood up. She cried in pain when she felt Ultima Weapon use another spell on her. She looked at Ultima Weapon and quickly summoned Deathguise.
Deathguise appeared in the room. His robotic red eyes began glowing and he charged at Ultima Weapon. He slashed his claw like arms at Ultima Weapon. It did some damage, but not enough.
Ellone knew this would not be an easy battle at all. Deathguise did little damage, Vincent was unconscious, and she had to wait a few minutes before she could summon an Eidolon again.
~*~*~*
Selphie and Irvine entered their next room. In the middle of this room sat a creature. The creature was about Selphie's height. It looked like an over grown Imp.
"What is that?" Irvine asked.
The creature disappeared.
"Where did it go?" Selphie asked.
There was a clicking noise behind them. Selphie and Irvine twirled around to see the creature standing behind them and magically locking the door.
Irvine pulled out his gun and shot at the creature, but the creature disappeared again.
"It's some kind of teleporter." Selphie said.
There was an uncomfortable silence for a long time. Irvine held his gun in hand, Selphie had her nunchuks ready, and the creature was no where in sight.
Finally after several minutes the teleporter creature appeared in the room. Irvine shot at it, but it kept disappearing and reappearing here and there.
"This thing is really ticking me off!" Selphie said with annoyance.
The creature ran forward and threw a wall. Selphie and Irvine did not know whether or not it teleported behind the wall or if you could go right through it.
Irvine and Selphie thought it was worth a try and ran towards the wall.
The two stumbled when they went right through the wall. They quickly got to their feet and saw the creature sitting on a throne in the room. The creature smirked at them and appeared behind them.
"Look I am sick of chasing you down okay?" Irvine said annoyed, "Why not let us out of this room and we'll leave you alone."
The creature smiled and shook its head.
Selphie lunged at the creature and wrapped her arms around it. The creature squealed and disappeared...with Selphie.
"Selphie!" Irvine gasped.
Selphie found herself being teleported back outside in the hall. She looked at the creature and laughed. "Ha! Thanks for the ride!" The creature sneered at her and disappeared again.
Selphie wasted no more time and tried to open the door to let Irvine out. To her surprise, it could be easily opened from the outside. She knew it would be a bad idea to walk in the room, so she held the door open and called Irvine's name.
"Selphie? How did you get the door open?" Irvine asked when he walked back through the hollow wall.
"That thing teleported me back into the hall," she said. "Apparently the door can be opened from the outside and not the inside."
"Oh," he simply said.
"Come on, there's obviously nothing in this room." She said.
~*~*~*
"What happened?" Vincent repeated in his mind over and over again. "Where am I?"
"Take Ellone to Raine's house now!" A voice shouted.
"Rain? Who is Raine?" Vincent asked himself.
Vincent felt like he was in some sort of dream. He heard noises and voices, but could not see anything.
"Hurry! The Esthar soldiers are coming!"
"By order of Sorceress Adel, ruler of Esthar, we command you hand any daughter you have over to us!"
"We don't have a daughter!"
"How do we know you are not lying? Search the house!"
Finally the images became clearer. Vincent saw about five soldiers searching through a small house. He also saw a nervous looking man.
"Sir!" one of the soldiers reported. "We have found a room with children's toys. There is and was obviously a child living here."
The commander grabbed the man by his shirt. "Tell me where your child is!"
At that moment a woman walked through the door holding what looked like grocery bags. The woman looked a lot like Ellone.
"Where is your child?!" The commander demanded again.
"We do not have a child!" The woman said.
"Liars!" the commander spat. "There are children's toys in one of the room."
The man and woman said nothing and just looked at the commander.
"Kill them both for resisting an order from Sorceress Adel!" The commander ordered.
"No!" Vincent shouted though there was nothing he could do.
Vincent then saw another image. This time the soldiers were searching a pub. The pub was small and had an upstairs room. They saw that there was nothing there and left.
There was a woman sitting at a table as the soldiers left. She acted completely casual. Little did the soldiers know, the woman was hiding a baby girl in a secret room...
~*~*~*
Ellone was already exhausted from dodging the Ultima Weapon's constant attacks. She had already gained enough energy to summon another Eidolon. This time she summoned Pyra.
Pyra appeared in the room, but she did not send a blanket of fire on Ultima Weapon, instead she looked gravely at Ellone.
"Ellone, we cannot defeat him," she said. "Only one Eidolon can."
"Who?" Ellone asked.
"Knight." Pyra answered.
"What am I to do?!" Ellone asked with fear, "I can't escape this room. Vincent and I will be killed!"
"Two of your friends has just now entered the room with Knight," Pyra explained. "If they can defeated him, then you must quickly summon him and defeat the Ultima Weapon."
"Is this a Guardian?" Ellone asked.
"No," Pyra answered. "You coming into this room was terribly unfortunate."
~*~*~*
The two friends Pyra mentioned were Quistis and Seifer. The two had walked into the room that apparently contained Knight. But to Quistis and Seifer, the room was merely an armory room.
Quistis walked past the rows of armor as she searched the room. The room had a bunch of shields, swords, mallets, helmets, chain mail, and suits of armor.
"Interesting room," Seifer commented as he looked behind every shield.
"I'll check the suits of armor," Quistis said. She looked inside every suit until she noticed something odd about one particular suit. All the suits had no helmets except for one. All the helmets were piled in a corner except this one. She slowly walked up to the suit. She cautiously lifted the visor on the helmet, but when she did, the suit jerked alive and pushed her down.
The suit of armor stretched out his hand to the rack that held the swords and made a sword come to him. He did the same with the shields.
"I am Knight," it said. "One of the Five Guardians. I have defeated many dragons and have defeated any human who dare get in my way."
"Dragons, eh?" Said Seifer.
"Seifer, do you have Bahamut?" Quistis asked.
"Yeah, but I don't wanna beat it that fast." He replied.
"Seifer!" She replied sternly.
"Alright, alright!" He said and summoned Bahamut.
Bahamut entered the room and looked at Knight.
"Bahamut!" Knight spat.
Bahamut was the only dragon that Knight could never defeat so he held an incredible grudge against him. He decided to ignore Quistis and Seifer and go after Bahamut instead.
Bahamut let a breath of fire out of Knight, but he held his shield in front of him and blocked Bahamut's attack. Knight countered the attack and slashed Bahamut's wing. The damage was not severe enough to bring Bahamut down.
Bahamut grew angry and flapped his wings as hard as he possibly could. Knight found himself getting pushed backwards by the gust of wind the dragon's wings were producing.
Knight charged energy into his sword. The sword began glowing bright. When it was fully charged, he threw his sword at Bahamut on it struck his left wing. Bahamut screeched in pain and fell to the floor.
Seifer reappeared in the room only to see an injured Bahamut and the Knight undefeated.
Knight summoned his sword back to him and decided to go after Seifer.
"Quistis, use your magic to heal Bahamut." Seifer suggested.
Quistis ran beside Bahamut while Seifer and Knight got into a sword fight.
Quistis put her hand on Bahamut's injured wing and whispered, "White Wind." The spelled instantly healed Bahamut's wing.
"Seifer will distract him," she said. "Try to get him from behind."
Seifer and Knight continued crossing blades. Seifer managed to hit Knight a couple times for Seifer's blade was a Gunblade.
Little did Knight know that as he fought Seifer, Bahamut sneaked up from behind and gave him a full blast of fiery breath.
Knight screamed out in pain and anger. Both Bahamut and a human had defeated him.
"You have defeated me, human and dragon." Knight sighed. "I shall give the lady the crystal and join my new master." He then stretched out his hand and made the blue crystal appear around Quistis' neck. "Farewell," and with that, he disappeared.
~*~*~*
Ellone suddenly felt a new power within her. She knew instantly that Knight had been defeated and was now her Eidolon. She began to summon him until Ultima Weapon blasted her again. She fell to the floor and gasped for breath. She slowly got up again and this time was able to summon Knight.
When Knight appeared in the room, he used his energy sword and slashed the Ultima Weapon several times causing extreme damage with each blow. The Ultima Weapon was defeated.
Ellone fell to her knees, panting for breath after that long, tiring battle. She looked over at Vincent. He was still in his demon form and unconscious. She crawled over to him. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a few High Potions. She used them on him. She figured it would help him go back to his normal form. When she saw that the medicine was working and that he returned to his original self, she pulled him out of the Dream World. When she was finished, she fell unconscious.
~*~*~*
Cloud and Zell found themselves walking into a bathroom (not bathroom as in where people go do their business, but bathroom as in a room that has a bathtub.)
"Hey cool!" Zell exclaimed.
The tub in the room looked like it belonged to a person of some importance. There were some shelves that had several different soaps and bath oils.
"The girls would get a kick outta this!" Zell said. "Especially Selphie!"
"Zell, I think we should keep looking." Cloud said seriously.
"Geez, c'mon, man!" Zell replied. "No harm in admiring this old fancy stuff!"
"Kill the sorceresses..." A voice inside Cloud's mind said.
"What?" Cloud asked.
"Kill the sorceresses..."
"What's wrong, Cloud?" Zell asked.
Cloud closed his eyes and shook his head.
"Kill them! They stand in my way!"
Cloud suddenly lost control of himself. He ignored Zell's question and began to walk out of the room.
"Hey, man, where are you going?!" Zell asked.
~*~*~*
Vincent opened his eyes and was horrified to see Ellone lying on the floor looking battered and unconscious.
"Oh no what have I done?!" He asked himself. He cradled Ellone in his arms. He used a few Cure spells and tried to wake her.
"Ellone, please wake up." He begged.
Ellone's eyes slowly opened. She looked up at Vincent and smiled. "You're alright," she whispered.
"Ellone, what happened?" He asked.
She slowly sat up and sighed.
"We were attacked," she began. "You were hit very hard by that monster and it injured you enough to go into your demon form. You..." She stopped not knowing if the truth would hurt him.
"I what?" He asked.
"You...attacked me," she whispered. "But I'm okay because I used my powers to protect me."
"Is that why you're battered and bruised?" He asked with guilt in his voice.
"No!" She answered quickly. "That monster did all the damage to me. I fought it though....but it took two of my friends to defeat a Guardian and me summoning it. We have four crystals now, Vincent!"
"You could have been killed because of me," he said trying not to look at her.
"Vincent, don't blame yourself!" She said.
"Ellone, I was attacked and put into my demon form which it meant had to fight that thing by yourself! You almost died Ellone. I had to use several Cures to keep you from dying." He said.
"What are you trying to say?" She asked a bit nervous of his answer.
"It's dangerous to be with me," he whispered.
"No, Vincent!" She replied.
"Ellone, I love you and I don't want to hurt you!" He replied.
"You love me?" She asked.
"Yes, Ellone," he answered. "That is why I have to let you go."
"No!" She argued, "I love you too, Vincent, and THAT is why I can't let you let me go!"
"It was a mistake for letting myself fall in love with you," he said slowly. "I have to go back to my world."
"I'll go with you!" She replied desperately trying to get through to him.
"You don't want to do that," he replied. "Where I come from is dangerous. If you come with me, you could get hurt by the monsters there and by me."
"I'm not afraid!" She said.
"I am," he said.
"Vincent, please listen to me," she said holding back her tears. "I can't let you leave my life! I have never been in love until you showed up!"
"I would net be able to live my life if I were to hurt you," he argued. "Besides, what about Squall?"
"What about him?" She asked confused.
"You sent me to your past," he began. "I saw a lot of your memories. I even saw how hurt Squall was when you left."
"Squall has Rinoa," she argued. "He does not need me anymore."
"Ellone," he said putting his hands on her shoulders. "You can do better. You deserve someone pure in heart and soul. Let's face it, I'm a demon inside."
"But you don't want to be," she replied not giving up. "You are a good, descent man, Vincent! I don't care about the risks. I want to be with YOU."
"I'm sorry, but I can't take that risk." He said.
She could not figure out what else to say. She was still exhausted from the battle with the Ultima Weapon and did not have the strength to argue any further. "I love you, Vincent. I will not let you go." She thought. She finally found love and refused to let go of it.
~*~*~*
"Geez, Cloud, what're doin'?!" Zell asked as Cloud walked down a hall. It was as if a mental map was put into Cloud's brain because for some reason, he knew exactly where Rinoa and Edea were.
~*~*~*
Squall stood in the middle of a large room alone. He had managed to get away from Edea and Rinoa before they could do anything. He was going to kill them himself, but he did not have time. He used Cloud and controlled him just like Sephiroth did to kill the two sorceresses.
~*~*~*
"Squall! Where are you?!" Rinoa called as she walked back downstairs.
"Rinoa! Edea!" Zell yelled back running to them.
"Zell, what's wrong?" Edea asked.
"Cloud's coming!" Zell answered. "I can't stop him! He's being controlled by something!"
"Squall," Rinoa murmured.
"Zell, look out!" Edea called.
Zell turned around to see Cloud holding his sword high.
"Sorry, man," Zell said and punched him in the gut.
Cloud coughed, but quickly recovered. He raised his sword again and got ready to strike Edea.
Rinoa ran behind Cloud and used her powers to knock him unconscious.
"Things are worse," Edea said. "Squall is missing and he is using Cloud to do things. We have to find Squall now."
"What about Cloud?" Zell asked.
"Rinoa, I think you need to face Squall." Edea said. "I will watch Cloud."
Fear came across Rinoa's face and she simply nodded. She knew she had to face Squall...alone.
"V-Vincent..." She whispered.
Before she could do anything, Vincent lunged at Ellone knocking her to the floor. She screamed in terror and struggled to keep Vincent from biting her head off. She took a quick glance behind her and saw the Ultima Weapon just standing there as if he were just going to let Vincent kill her. She took her eyes off Ultima Weapon and looked at Vincent's demon like face. She closed her eyes and felt Vincent's body go limp. She opened her eyes to see him unconscious.
Ellone pushed Vincent off her and stood up. She cried in pain when she felt Ultima Weapon use another spell on her. She looked at Ultima Weapon and quickly summoned Deathguise.
Deathguise appeared in the room. His robotic red eyes began glowing and he charged at Ultima Weapon. He slashed his claw like arms at Ultima Weapon. It did some damage, but not enough.
Ellone knew this would not be an easy battle at all. Deathguise did little damage, Vincent was unconscious, and she had to wait a few minutes before she could summon an Eidolon again.
~*~*~*
Selphie and Irvine entered their next room. In the middle of this room sat a creature. The creature was about Selphie's height. It looked like an over grown Imp.
"What is that?" Irvine asked.
The creature disappeared.
"Where did it go?" Selphie asked.
There was a clicking noise behind them. Selphie and Irvine twirled around to see the creature standing behind them and magically locking the door.
Irvine pulled out his gun and shot at the creature, but the creature disappeared again.
"It's some kind of teleporter." Selphie said.
There was an uncomfortable silence for a long time. Irvine held his gun in hand, Selphie had her nunchuks ready, and the creature was no where in sight.
Finally after several minutes the teleporter creature appeared in the room. Irvine shot at it, but it kept disappearing and reappearing here and there.
"This thing is really ticking me off!" Selphie said with annoyance.
The creature ran forward and threw a wall. Selphie and Irvine did not know whether or not it teleported behind the wall or if you could go right through it.
Irvine and Selphie thought it was worth a try and ran towards the wall.
The two stumbled when they went right through the wall. They quickly got to their feet and saw the creature sitting on a throne in the room. The creature smirked at them and appeared behind them.
"Look I am sick of chasing you down okay?" Irvine said annoyed, "Why not let us out of this room and we'll leave you alone."
The creature smiled and shook its head.
Selphie lunged at the creature and wrapped her arms around it. The creature squealed and disappeared...with Selphie.
"Selphie!" Irvine gasped.
Selphie found herself being teleported back outside in the hall. She looked at the creature and laughed. "Ha! Thanks for the ride!" The creature sneered at her and disappeared again.
Selphie wasted no more time and tried to open the door to let Irvine out. To her surprise, it could be easily opened from the outside. She knew it would be a bad idea to walk in the room, so she held the door open and called Irvine's name.
"Selphie? How did you get the door open?" Irvine asked when he walked back through the hollow wall.
"That thing teleported me back into the hall," she said. "Apparently the door can be opened from the outside and not the inside."
"Oh," he simply said.
"Come on, there's obviously nothing in this room." She said.
~*~*~*
"What happened?" Vincent repeated in his mind over and over again. "Where am I?"
"Take Ellone to Raine's house now!" A voice shouted.
"Rain? Who is Raine?" Vincent asked himself.
Vincent felt like he was in some sort of dream. He heard noises and voices, but could not see anything.
"Hurry! The Esthar soldiers are coming!"
"By order of Sorceress Adel, ruler of Esthar, we command you hand any daughter you have over to us!"
"We don't have a daughter!"
"How do we know you are not lying? Search the house!"
Finally the images became clearer. Vincent saw about five soldiers searching through a small house. He also saw a nervous looking man.
"Sir!" one of the soldiers reported. "We have found a room with children's toys. There is and was obviously a child living here."
The commander grabbed the man by his shirt. "Tell me where your child is!"
At that moment a woman walked through the door holding what looked like grocery bags. The woman looked a lot like Ellone.
"Where is your child?!" The commander demanded again.
"We do not have a child!" The woman said.
"Liars!" the commander spat. "There are children's toys in one of the room."
The man and woman said nothing and just looked at the commander.
"Kill them both for resisting an order from Sorceress Adel!" The commander ordered.
"No!" Vincent shouted though there was nothing he could do.
Vincent then saw another image. This time the soldiers were searching a pub. The pub was small and had an upstairs room. They saw that there was nothing there and left.
There was a woman sitting at a table as the soldiers left. She acted completely casual. Little did the soldiers know, the woman was hiding a baby girl in a secret room...
~*~*~*
Ellone was already exhausted from dodging the Ultima Weapon's constant attacks. She had already gained enough energy to summon another Eidolon. This time she summoned Pyra.
Pyra appeared in the room, but she did not send a blanket of fire on Ultima Weapon, instead she looked gravely at Ellone.
"Ellone, we cannot defeat him," she said. "Only one Eidolon can."
"Who?" Ellone asked.
"Knight." Pyra answered.
"What am I to do?!" Ellone asked with fear, "I can't escape this room. Vincent and I will be killed!"
"Two of your friends has just now entered the room with Knight," Pyra explained. "If they can defeated him, then you must quickly summon him and defeat the Ultima Weapon."
"Is this a Guardian?" Ellone asked.
"No," Pyra answered. "You coming into this room was terribly unfortunate."
~*~*~*
The two friends Pyra mentioned were Quistis and Seifer. The two had walked into the room that apparently contained Knight. But to Quistis and Seifer, the room was merely an armory room.
Quistis walked past the rows of armor as she searched the room. The room had a bunch of shields, swords, mallets, helmets, chain mail, and suits of armor.
"Interesting room," Seifer commented as he looked behind every shield.
"I'll check the suits of armor," Quistis said. She looked inside every suit until she noticed something odd about one particular suit. All the suits had no helmets except for one. All the helmets were piled in a corner except this one. She slowly walked up to the suit. She cautiously lifted the visor on the helmet, but when she did, the suit jerked alive and pushed her down.
The suit of armor stretched out his hand to the rack that held the swords and made a sword come to him. He did the same with the shields.
"I am Knight," it said. "One of the Five Guardians. I have defeated many dragons and have defeated any human who dare get in my way."
"Dragons, eh?" Said Seifer.
"Seifer, do you have Bahamut?" Quistis asked.
"Yeah, but I don't wanna beat it that fast." He replied.
"Seifer!" She replied sternly.
"Alright, alright!" He said and summoned Bahamut.
Bahamut entered the room and looked at Knight.
"Bahamut!" Knight spat.
Bahamut was the only dragon that Knight could never defeat so he held an incredible grudge against him. He decided to ignore Quistis and Seifer and go after Bahamut instead.
Bahamut let a breath of fire out of Knight, but he held his shield in front of him and blocked Bahamut's attack. Knight countered the attack and slashed Bahamut's wing. The damage was not severe enough to bring Bahamut down.
Bahamut grew angry and flapped his wings as hard as he possibly could. Knight found himself getting pushed backwards by the gust of wind the dragon's wings were producing.
Knight charged energy into his sword. The sword began glowing bright. When it was fully charged, he threw his sword at Bahamut on it struck his left wing. Bahamut screeched in pain and fell to the floor.
Seifer reappeared in the room only to see an injured Bahamut and the Knight undefeated.
Knight summoned his sword back to him and decided to go after Seifer.
"Quistis, use your magic to heal Bahamut." Seifer suggested.
Quistis ran beside Bahamut while Seifer and Knight got into a sword fight.
Quistis put her hand on Bahamut's injured wing and whispered, "White Wind." The spelled instantly healed Bahamut's wing.
"Seifer will distract him," she said. "Try to get him from behind."
Seifer and Knight continued crossing blades. Seifer managed to hit Knight a couple times for Seifer's blade was a Gunblade.
Little did Knight know that as he fought Seifer, Bahamut sneaked up from behind and gave him a full blast of fiery breath.
Knight screamed out in pain and anger. Both Bahamut and a human had defeated him.
"You have defeated me, human and dragon." Knight sighed. "I shall give the lady the crystal and join my new master." He then stretched out his hand and made the blue crystal appear around Quistis' neck. "Farewell," and with that, he disappeared.
~*~*~*
Ellone suddenly felt a new power within her. She knew instantly that Knight had been defeated and was now her Eidolon. She began to summon him until Ultima Weapon blasted her again. She fell to the floor and gasped for breath. She slowly got up again and this time was able to summon Knight.
When Knight appeared in the room, he used his energy sword and slashed the Ultima Weapon several times causing extreme damage with each blow. The Ultima Weapon was defeated.
Ellone fell to her knees, panting for breath after that long, tiring battle. She looked over at Vincent. He was still in his demon form and unconscious. She crawled over to him. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a few High Potions. She used them on him. She figured it would help him go back to his normal form. When she saw that the medicine was working and that he returned to his original self, she pulled him out of the Dream World. When she was finished, she fell unconscious.
~*~*~*
Cloud and Zell found themselves walking into a bathroom (not bathroom as in where people go do their business, but bathroom as in a room that has a bathtub.)
"Hey cool!" Zell exclaimed.
The tub in the room looked like it belonged to a person of some importance. There were some shelves that had several different soaps and bath oils.
"The girls would get a kick outta this!" Zell said. "Especially Selphie!"
"Zell, I think we should keep looking." Cloud said seriously.
"Geez, c'mon, man!" Zell replied. "No harm in admiring this old fancy stuff!"
"Kill the sorceresses..." A voice inside Cloud's mind said.
"What?" Cloud asked.
"Kill the sorceresses..."
"What's wrong, Cloud?" Zell asked.
Cloud closed his eyes and shook his head.
"Kill them! They stand in my way!"
Cloud suddenly lost control of himself. He ignored Zell's question and began to walk out of the room.
"Hey, man, where are you going?!" Zell asked.
~*~*~*
Vincent opened his eyes and was horrified to see Ellone lying on the floor looking battered and unconscious.
"Oh no what have I done?!" He asked himself. He cradled Ellone in his arms. He used a few Cure spells and tried to wake her.
"Ellone, please wake up." He begged.
Ellone's eyes slowly opened. She looked up at Vincent and smiled. "You're alright," she whispered.
"Ellone, what happened?" He asked.
She slowly sat up and sighed.
"We were attacked," she began. "You were hit very hard by that monster and it injured you enough to go into your demon form. You..." She stopped not knowing if the truth would hurt him.
"I what?" He asked.
"You...attacked me," she whispered. "But I'm okay because I used my powers to protect me."
"Is that why you're battered and bruised?" He asked with guilt in his voice.
"No!" She answered quickly. "That monster did all the damage to me. I fought it though....but it took two of my friends to defeat a Guardian and me summoning it. We have four crystals now, Vincent!"
"You could have been killed because of me," he said trying not to look at her.
"Vincent, don't blame yourself!" She said.
"Ellone, I was attacked and put into my demon form which it meant had to fight that thing by yourself! You almost died Ellone. I had to use several Cures to keep you from dying." He said.
"What are you trying to say?" She asked a bit nervous of his answer.
"It's dangerous to be with me," he whispered.
"No, Vincent!" She replied.
"Ellone, I love you and I don't want to hurt you!" He replied.
"You love me?" She asked.
"Yes, Ellone," he answered. "That is why I have to let you go."
"No!" She argued, "I love you too, Vincent, and THAT is why I can't let you let me go!"
"It was a mistake for letting myself fall in love with you," he said slowly. "I have to go back to my world."
"I'll go with you!" She replied desperately trying to get through to him.
"You don't want to do that," he replied. "Where I come from is dangerous. If you come with me, you could get hurt by the monsters there and by me."
"I'm not afraid!" She said.
"I am," he said.
"Vincent, please listen to me," she said holding back her tears. "I can't let you leave my life! I have never been in love until you showed up!"
"I would net be able to live my life if I were to hurt you," he argued. "Besides, what about Squall?"
"What about him?" She asked confused.
"You sent me to your past," he began. "I saw a lot of your memories. I even saw how hurt Squall was when you left."
"Squall has Rinoa," she argued. "He does not need me anymore."
"Ellone," he said putting his hands on her shoulders. "You can do better. You deserve someone pure in heart and soul. Let's face it, I'm a demon inside."
"But you don't want to be," she replied not giving up. "You are a good, descent man, Vincent! I don't care about the risks. I want to be with YOU."
"I'm sorry, but I can't take that risk." He said.
She could not figure out what else to say. She was still exhausted from the battle with the Ultima Weapon and did not have the strength to argue any further. "I love you, Vincent. I will not let you go." She thought. She finally found love and refused to let go of it.
~*~*~*
"Geez, Cloud, what're doin'?!" Zell asked as Cloud walked down a hall. It was as if a mental map was put into Cloud's brain because for some reason, he knew exactly where Rinoa and Edea were.
~*~*~*
Squall stood in the middle of a large room alone. He had managed to get away from Edea and Rinoa before they could do anything. He was going to kill them himself, but he did not have time. He used Cloud and controlled him just like Sephiroth did to kill the two sorceresses.
~*~*~*
"Squall! Where are you?!" Rinoa called as she walked back downstairs.
"Rinoa! Edea!" Zell yelled back running to them.
"Zell, what's wrong?" Edea asked.
"Cloud's coming!" Zell answered. "I can't stop him! He's being controlled by something!"
"Squall," Rinoa murmured.
"Zell, look out!" Edea called.
Zell turned around to see Cloud holding his sword high.
"Sorry, man," Zell said and punched him in the gut.
Cloud coughed, but quickly recovered. He raised his sword again and got ready to strike Edea.
Rinoa ran behind Cloud and used her powers to knock him unconscious.
"Things are worse," Edea said. "Squall is missing and he is using Cloud to do things. We have to find Squall now."
"What about Cloud?" Zell asked.
"Rinoa, I think you need to face Squall." Edea said. "I will watch Cloud."
Fear came across Rinoa's face and she simply nodded. She knew she had to face Squall...alone.