White Light
Fly high
Chapter III
I can tell by all the pain that you bear
Well, maybe there's truly nothing' up
In the sky but air
And there's no mystical design
No cosmic lover pre-assigned
When you feel you've got no choice
You know you can follow my voice…
Run away into the night
Until the sun will realign
We'll look up to the sky
So maybe we will find…
What we will truly be by then
I know you'll always be my friend
Search within your heart and see
The future might always be bleak
"I can't believe you let them go without me!" Squall headed to the headmaster office like a wild lion. The headmaster and Xu pulled up to their feet from the unexpected outburst from the young commander. The lion locked his sight to his two prays.
"You must be insane. That mission is fucking suicidal!" Squall yelled at them like never in his life, his temper was lost. His friends were in grave danger. "I'm supposed to be with them commanding the mission!"
"Squall, calm down, this is a trivial mission, they will be fine son." Cid Kramer touched his temples and adjusted his glasses on the tip of his nose. "They're professional elite soldiers; they know what to do in this kind of situation." Cid took a deep breath trying to stay calm. "Lieutenant Trepe is in charge".
"How could you say that? They're only four SeeDs versus the half of Galbadia army!" Squall punched the headmaster's desk cracking part of it. The brigadier general lost her temper too.
"What are you trying to imply commander?" Xu roared at him." You're not the only one capable of kicking some asses in the field!" Xu was angry with the arrogant attitude of her commander. "I bet Quistis will bring Edea and that son of a bitch here without a problem!"
"Everybody knows that Quistis Trepe has a soft spot for Almasy, she'll probably let him go." Squall growled in a low voice.
"She only believes everyone deserves a second chance, you don't know anything about her." Xu snapped.
"Quiet!" The headmaster crossed his arms and frowned. "Both of you, there's nothing to do about it."
"Matron is in grave danger and my friends too, I can't do anything about it." Squall stood up straight and glared at them; he let out a heavy sigh and ran his right hand through his hair. "I'll not let you guys down."
"Don't worry, Squall. Everything is going to be alright." He offered him a weak smile.
Squall took a sharp breath and nodded silky, he saluted the headmaster and headed towards his dorm where Rinoa was waiting for him. He entered the dorm looking for his angel.
"Squall, what's going on?" Rinoa asked quietly from the bathroom. Squall stood at the doorway staring at her. She was in the bathtub taking a relaxing hot bath. He headed towards the bathtub and knelt by her, caressing her angel wet hair. She placed her smooth hands on his face with a soft concerned smile. "What's wrong, honey?" She asked.
He stared at her for a few minutes.
"A problem that could get us all in a disaster." He finally admitted. "I need to do something about it, but it's insane and it involves you and your powers." Rinoa looked at him for seconds touching his face. "I need your help".
"You're scaring me Squall."
"Do you remember your magic training with Edea?" He asked as he stood up. Rinoa slowly rose to her feet taking a towel and putting it around her body.
"Yes, I do." She said, looking down at her hands.
Squall seemed to pause "I need to be teletransported to Edea's house".
"What!" Rinoa's head lifted and chocolate eyes were wide with surprise.
"It's an emergency, Edea and our friends are in danger! I need to be with them, now!"
"Are you nuts?" Rinoa gasped. "I'd barely teletransport a fruit!" his hand extended and touched her shoulder. "You could get hurt!"
"That's the fastest way to be with them." he said. His voice was like silk around her body. She closed her eyes and ran a hand down her face.
"It's very dangerous magic, I could teletransport you to the wrong place, and maybe the wrong time". She said like a whisper but Squall heard her.
"I know you can do it, I trust you. C'mon Rin, I need you to do it now." Squall eyes were begging her. She took his head with both hands and fiercely kissed him. He placed his hands on her waist pulling her closer to him. He broke the kiss putting his forehead with hers.
"Rinoa please, or it'll be too late." He insisted staring at her chocolate eyes. She nodded and slowly walked away from him. She raised her hand and closed her eyes searching for the right words.
"Hippagogi –orum!" A white bright light surrounded Squall and his body felt numb.
"I love you." Squall said before he disappeared from Rinoa's sight in a split second. She fell on her knees and touched her temple. "Hyne, protect you." Rinoa said hardly and then fainted.
Edea's House.
Seifer Almasy approached the orphanage where Galbadian soldiers surrounded the ruined orphanage. Soldiers were in specific positions around it.
"Edea Kramer, you're under arrest! Put your hands on your head and walk out of the house!" A soldier yelled in front of the orphanage.
"You've no right!" Edea voiced could be heard barely. "I'll fight!"
"You have five minutes or we will kill you!" Another soldier said. Seifer walked slowly and quietly to a soldier, waiting for the right moment to kill him. "If you touch her I'll burn all of you alive!" Seifer thought before breaking the soldier's neck.
Edea secured all windows and doors with old furniture. She ran to her basement and grabbed an old steel box with a fire cross sketched in it. She opened it and slowly took an old gunblade and a violet black dress out. She caressed the silk dress for a moment and stood up.
"I can't let them hurt my child…" She said and began to undress. Edea felt a sharp pain in her stomach and head. Her nails grew larger and her eyes were pure bright green. An inhuman scream flowed out of her mouth making all the soldiers, inclusive Seifer, cover their ears for a couple of seconds. The sky became gray and rain began to fall. The soldiers kept their sight to the abandoned house waiting for Edea.
30,000 feet above the ground…
"I'm going to kill ya, Trepe! Damn it!" Zell screamed in the middle of the sky.
"This is awesome!" Irvine yelled with all his might. Their bodies felt like floating although, they were falling at 547 miles per hour.
"Open your parachutes, we only have two minutes left!" Quistis screamed by the radio. Zell quickly pulled off the cord of his parachute and a powerful force slows his fall. Irvine enjoyed some more seconds of the fall and hastily opened his parachute too.
Zell was calm looking at the panoramic view.
"This is beautiful." Zell said with a smile. He looked down to his feet and saw Irvine meters beneath him. His calm broke when he heard a scream and saw a shadow pass by his side like lightning.
"What the fuck was that!" Zell said freaked out. He saw it was a person falling without a parachute. "Irvine! Irvine! Someone is falling without a parachute! I think it's Selphie! She jumped!" Zell yelled by the radio. Irvine had no time to answer when he saw the person pass by his side very closely at an incredible speed.
"Fuck!" Irvine lost his parachute control for a moment. Quistis heard the commotion in the radio, when she was going to ask, the parachute fell over her, making her lose control of the parachute. Someone was hanging from her parachute. She felt how the pressure and wind toyed with her body making it twirl and twist without control.
"The thing fell on Quistis' parachute!" Irvine said desperately. Both men watched in horror.
The guy let go of the parachute and luckily grabbed Quistis' left leg. The parachute did not function when he let it go. Quistis felt the heaviness in her left leg but she was concentrated in opening her emergency parachute. She quickly drew a dagger from her belt and cut the cord off the old parachute that was tangle around her arms. She quickly pulled off the string of the other parachute making it open. She felt the new force soften her fall but it was very unstable and way too fast.
"Get the hell off me; you'll kill both of us!" Quistis said desperately when she saw the ground so close to them.
"Look out for the woods!" The guy yelled. She tried to avoid the woods but it was too late. The parachute tangled with some trees making them twirl around hitting branches, hard trunks all the way down to the ground. Quistis hit a trunk with her head losing consciousness. She was left hanging in a tree by the cords of the parachutes. The guy let go of her and finally fell on the hard ground alive but unconscious too.
"Trepe, do you copy?" Irvine landed on the ground with a lot of effort; as he almost fell off a cliff. He quickly unfastened his parachute and ran to Zell, who was fighting with his parachutes all over him. Irvine lifted the parachute a little letting Zell saw an exit.
"This shit is like a mousetrap!" Zell said taking off his parachute.
"We must find Quistis, she's in the woods. I saw her parachute tangle in some trees, we must be hurry!" Zell nodded and quickly followed Irvine to the woods.
Squall Leonhart opened his eyes slowly feeling like his head was about to explode. He touched his bloody head cursing. He tried to get up, but he felt a sharp pain in his ribs and right leg. He looked at his leg and it was broken, he imagined that he had a couple of broken ribs too.
"Fuck!" He slowly sat up looking around. "I'm in the woods." He tried to remember what really happened before, and then he remembered he was hanging by someone's parachutes.
"Who the hell was that?" He searched for the right spell in his mind to cure his temporary wounds.
"Curaga…" He felt the magic running into his veins and body repairing all mayor damage. After a while of resting he stood up. He remembered the masked person and slowly looked above him. It was hanging by some strings of the parachutes a few meters above.
"Hey you! Can you hear me?" Squall said aloud, but the person did not stir. "Shit." Squall took a rock in his hand and threw it to the person, hitting it in the stomach. However, it didn't move.
"Don't move asshole!" Squall heard someone yelling behind him. Squall raised his hands and slowly turned around. He saw the other two masked people.
"Squall? What the hell are you doing here!" Irvine took his mask off surprising Squall.
"Irvine?" Squall looked at the other one. "Zell?" Zell took his mask off surprised.
"You were the crazy asshole who jumped off!" Zell asked still in shock "How could that be possible? You weren't on the Ragnarok!"
"Rinoa teletransported me, but in the wrong place." Squall rubbed his head for a while.
"Where's Quistis?" Irvine asked a little more calmly. Squall leisurely lifted his head looking at the hanging person in a tree. The guys followed his sight and gasped for breath.
"Holy shit!" Zell exclaimed running to the tree were Quistis was hanging by the strings of the parachutes. She awakened from her unconsciousness state, and looked around her.
"Hey Barbie, down here!" She heard a familiar voice calling her. She looked down and saw Irvine, Zell and Squall.
"Squall!" Quistis snapped furiously "It was you! You were the crazy moron!" She looked at the strings above her. "Don't call me that, you idiots!"
"You need to get down, Quistis!" Irvine said.
"Tell me something that I don't already know." She looked down again at the guys. "I'll kill you, Squall!"
"Whatever, but first get down. We don't have all day" Squall said in a bored tone. "Cut the strings, we'll catch you".
"Yeah right!" Quistis tried to balance herself with a nearby branch but it was hopeless.
"Cut the damn cords!" Zell said.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Quistis roared. The branches were the parachute was tangle broke letting Quistis fall. The guys ran looking for cover while the branches and Quistis hit the ground. Dust, leaves, broken branches and one furious woman laid on her back was the funny scenario for the SeeDs. She looked scared and embarrassed. The mighty Ice Queen fell on the floor making a fool of herself. They were holding their laughter hard enough to make their eyes fill with tears; it was a very dangerous moment, if they laughed; a golden whip would cut their flesh effortlessly. The woman stood slowly cutting the string around her arms and quickly gathering her things from the ground.
Irvine cleared his throat with a tough sound; his eyes were not looking at hers. . "Are you alright, honey?" Irvine twisted his mouth in a tiny smile. Zell put his hand on his mouth, his body was trembling uncontrollably. Irvine and Zell face were bright red while Quistis' had a deep serious expression.
"I don't find this humorous, guy. I could get myself killed." Quistis said frowning. The female SeeD walked slowly away from them, with her right hand rubbing her low back and butt.
However, something unpredictable happened: Squall Leonhart started to laugh his ass off.