I decided to follow the advice of a reviewer, and make each chapter either a Squall one or a Cloud one. IN full. I'll try to make it longer.
In Dreams We Meet : Chapter 5
They gathered outside Ultimecia's castle, staring up at the enormous double doors. The rest stood behind Cloud, waiting for "Squall's" orders, whether or not to sneak in or to barge in. They did not know if Ultimecia was expecting them, but they were fully prepared for whatever it is the sorceress conjured up for them. Cloud, meanwhile, was wondering where on earth Squall kept his magic supply, and how to use that "Junction" system Squall was telling him about. Which he can't quite remember at this point. All he knew that the GFs were like summons ... and he currently had Shiva, Bahamut and some GF named Diablos 'junctioned' to him. Suddenly realizing the quietness that surrounded him, he turned around to find them all looking at him. He cleared his throat.
"Check your ... " said Cloud, pausing. Check your what? Junctions? Equipment? thought Cloud as he grappled for the correct word.
"Yeah yeah, check your GFs, junctions, equipment ... come on, let's go," said Zell impatiently, bouncing up and down, punching the air again.
"Whatever," said Cloud, rolling his eyes, hoping that at least he sounded like Squall this time. He pushed open the doors, and they walked inside, trailing along after him.
The place was huge, and lavishly decorated. A magnificent chandelier hung from the ceiling, the lights were dim and yellow. There was a stairs leading upwards, where Cloud could see it branched into two sections, left and right. And there seemed to be some sort of monster standing guard there, however it did not attack. He scanned the room, and spotted another door to his left, hidden by the walls near the stairs. Suddenly, a voice boomed out of nowhere, startling them.
"Your powers have been sealed by my servants. In order to gain them back, you must defeat them."
Cloud turned to look at his party. They seemed quite confused, as they pondered the message that was given to them. Cloud was confused too, but on an entirely different matter. He felt nervous, what was he going to do in a battle? I'd just make a complete fool out of myself...
"What did she mean, our powers?" asked Selphie.
"I don't know, but I guess we have to fight her servants before we can fight her."
"Why don't we start with that?" said Irvine, pointing in the direction of the stairs. It looked like a cross between a human and a lion; and it looked like it wasn't going anywhere without a fight.
"We'll divide into two groups," announced Cloud. "Rinoa and Irvine come with me, Selphie, Zell and Quistis as the other party. You guys take that way," said Cloud, pointing at the door on his left, and nodded at them. "I'll deal with the one on the stairs. If we're lucky, we'll arrive at the same place ... to defeat Ultimecia. Let's go."
Nodding at their leader, Selphie, Zell and Quistis trudged off. Cloud made sure the other two were behind him, and he walked up boldly towards the monster.
"Let us pass," he demanded. "And return our powers to us."
The monster snorted at his attitude, but remembered to be careful and not underestimate them, as its master had warned it about the SeeD's strength.
"Face my wrath for seeking thy sealed power ..." it growled back, and Cloud signaled the other two to jump back down on the ground. Battling on the stairs was dangerous, and there was not much space to move. The Sphinxaur jumped down and landed gracefully on its feet, facing them. Rinoa prepared to summon Alexander, her favourite GF who had the highest compatibility with her, but found that she could not.
"Squall! I can't summon Alexander!" cried Rinoa, shooting her blaster edge at the Sphinx. Cloud didn't know what the heck an Alexander was, but he concluded it was a GF, though he simply ignored her and tried to attack with Squall's gunblade. It was too light for him; he missed his Ultima Weapon and wondered how Squall would be able to handle the bulk. He dodged a swipe from the Sphinx and slashed downwards, trying to pull the trigger at the same time. It felt so weird, that he staggered back. Irvine noticed it, but concentrated on shooting the Sphinxaur, as that was all the could do : attack.
"That's probably what they mean by our powers have been sealed. I don't think we can use magic either," said Irvine, aiming a shot at the Sphinxaur's head.
"Try not to get hurt," yelled Cloud, "Since we can't use magic or anything."
The sphinxaur roared, and casted a Firaga at Rinoa. Cloud turned back in time to see the fire burst into flames at Rinoa, but she managed to dodge it in time, the fire only slightly damaging her. Suddenly this dog came out of nowhere and pounced at the monster. The impact was hard enough to cause some damage to it, and then the dog ran towards Rinoa. (A/N: It's Angelo Rush in case you don't know :) )
"Good boy Angelo," said Rinoa, and the dog ran off. Cloud didn't have time to wonder as Irvine shouted, "Squall, watch out for that Blizzaga coming your way!" and he dodged the spell that looked like Ice3. Again another question formed, what in Gaia's name is Blizzaga? He rolled over on the ground and jumped up, deciding to use his speed as an advantage. He ran towards the Sphinx, but discovered that he was slower than usual. Then he remembered he was in Squall's body, a body unexposed to Mako energy. Sensing his attack, the Sphinxaur turned around to face him and he slashed once, twice and then jumped back. He felt a bullet whiz past his right, and then a howl from the monster as he ran as fast as his body could to tha back. Rinoa's weapon, which looked like it had wings on it, hit the Sphinxaur by its neck, and flew back to its owner. After a few more shots from Irvine and Rinoa, and Cloud who was beginning to get used to the weapon, the Sphinxaur keeled over and sort of exploded into a million pieces, dissolving into the air with a final cry. Cloud sheathed his weapon, turning around to face the other two.
"Are you ok?" Cloud asked Rinoa, who was examining her hurt leg.
"I'll be fine with a Potion ... " replied Rinoa, taking one out of her pouch and drinking it. She stopped, after realizing that the potion wasn't stopping the bleeding like it used to.
"It's not working."
"We can't use items too? That's not exactly a 'power'," said Irvine, pulling out a bandage from the small kit he always carried around and wrapping it neatly around Rinoa's leg.
"So what are the powers we can use now?"
"We can attack ... after killing this guy we've probably unlocked another power. The question is, how do we know?"
"We find another monster to find out," said Cloud simply, walking up the stairs.
Meanwhile, the other party headed left through the door, and came to this long corridor with statues at either side of it. They walked on ahead, Zell and Selphie complaining about the lack of monsters. Only Quistis seemed to be thinking about Squall. Something feels wrong, she thought as she tried to picture all of his movements. Squall doesn't walk like that. He walks with style ... and he stands with the weight shifted on his right leg. However, now he has this weird posture ... am I the only one who has noticed? Soon they came to the end of the corridor, and there was another door on their right. They walked through it and came to what used to be hall, with two stairways leading up to the second floor. Both of them were unsafe to walk on, and the top part of the stairs had already collapsed.
"Hey, there's a hatch here," said Zell, bending down to examine it. The wooden flaps were moldy and damp, but he noticed that the lock on the hatch was already broken 1. Using his strength but careful not to break the doors, he pulled them open, and a stairs leading down came into view. They walked down the stairs into what looked like a wine cellar, but neither of them were interested in the alcohol (it probably contained poison, for all they knew).
Another one of Ultimecia's servants hovered at the ground level of the wine cellar. Zell, Selphie and Quistis stopped at the end of the stairs to look at it. It looked rather robotic, its face shaped to look something similar of a dragon, and it had three sharp blades positioned in a triangle, from the back and sides of the monster pointing menacingly towards Zell's party, and it sizzled and sparkled like it had some electric current going through it.
"Yo, let's get started!" said Zell, readying himself into a martial arts stance, as Quistis cracked her whip and Selphie wielded her nunchakus. The monster laughed hollowly in amusment, and its eyes flashed.
"FACE MY WRATH FOR SEEKING THY SEALED POWER..."
Zell prepared to unleash hell upon the arrogant monster, but found that he could not summon Ifrit. Either that or the Guardian Force refused to appear, which was absurd because there was no reason why they would not show up. Selphie had tried to summon Doomtrain to lower the monster's defense, but gasped when the attempted summoning had drained her energy, making her feel weaker than normal.
"Don't bother summoning," said Quistis, attacking the Tri-Point with her whip. "Our powers have been sealed, it's likely we can't use magic either."
"WHATEVER I DON'T USE, I DON'T LIKE," said the monster, and immediately regretted saying it, thus revealing his weakness. The humans blinked at it, then got back into their fighting positions. Selphie thwacked it as hard as she could, followed by a series of punches from Zell. The monster roared once and countered the attacks with his favourite Mega Spark. Unfortunately for them they did not have enough place to dodge the attack, as the wine cellar was too cramped. Zell's party suffered the Lightning elemental attack by the monster, but Quistis was the first to get up, ignoring the jolts in her system threatening to put her out. Her resistance to the element was higher than Zell and Selphie's, so she recovered rather quickly and took charge.
"Use either Fire or Ice magic!" yelled Quistis. Then she blinked. "Wait, we can't use magic, don't bother! Zell, you take that side, Selphie you take the other, slip through it as fast as you can!"
"Roger!"
"Right on!"
Selphie skittered underneath the monster as it was hovering and appeared at its back. The monster swirled around to face her but Quistis cracked her whip at it, forcing it to turn around again. Automatically, his counter-attack Mega Spark was unleashed again, but this time with enough room, Quistis was ready for it and dodged the attack with ease. Zell had taken the advantage of slipping through and ending up on the opposite side of Selphie. The monster was trapped, and each time he showed signs of attacking, the three humans diverted it with their own attacks. It swivelled about, turning to face each of the humans in turn, but a hit by any one of them standing behind it made it distracted, and so he swivelled about to face that culprit, only to be hit in the back again.
Suddenly Zell felt a weird, tingling sensation, and he realized that Squall had probably managed to defeat the monster, and therefore one of their powers must have been unlocked. He tried summoning Ifrit again, but the Gf still did not show up. Zell dodged an attack coming his way in time, and threw a Blizzaga spell at the monster. To Selphie and Quistis's surpise, the Blizzaga spell took form, freezing Tri-Point in a cage of ice, before bursting into a million pieces, the shards cutting it everywhere. It roared in frustration, and attacked furiously, rushing headlong into Zell. Zell ducked, and it pinned the wall above him, hairs away from his head, but Zell punched it from below, causing it to fall back.
"Zell, Firaga incoming! Get out of there!" called Selphie, and Zell rolled underneath the monster and away, jumping up into position. The Firaga spell hit its target, the ball of fire growing bigger from the monster's middle, and burst into an inferno, eliciting a roar from the monster. Selphie tossed a Flare at it, the non-elemental spell doing more damage as it started thrashing wildly, the three points of its blade sparkling furiously, until it burst into pieces and dissolved into the air.
"Man, why can't they die like other monsters? Just roll over and die..." said Zell, brushing his sleeves and checking his physical health.
"Squall must have unlocked the Magic spell," said Selphie, putting away her weapon.
"Then what spell did we unlock?"
"I don't know. Let's just get out of here," said Quistis, walking up the stairs with Zell and Selphie trailing along behind. Suddenly they heard a loud sound outside and the clashing of metal against wood. Quickly they rushed out, opening the wooden flaps and climbing out of the hatch. Squall was standing and looking around, Rinoa was slowly getting up from the floor, whereas Irvine was busy adjusting his hat.
"What happened, guys?" asked Selphie.
"Squall had a bright idea to walk on the chandelier, and it fell down," said Irvine, shaking his head.
"What kind of person would walk on a chandelier? Squall, what were you thinking?" said Quistis.
"I wasn't thinking," said Cloud simply. He rolled his eyes at them. "Didn't you see across the chandelier there was a room?" Irvine and Rinoa shook their heads. Cloud sighed.
"Heeey, what's this?" said Selphie, who had wandered over to the right of the stairs. It looked like a lever, and before Cloud could shout she pressed it down. A click sounded somewhere, and they turned to where the noise had come from.
"Sounds like it came from the ceiling," said Zell. Another 'click' sounded, and they all turned to look at Selphie who had stepped away.
"Someone has to hold it down, it won't stay that way," said Selphie, walking over to it again. Pressing it down, they heard the sound again.
"Maybe that prevents the chandelier from falling down," said Cloud to himself. He looked over at Rinoa and Irvine.
"Let's go. Zell, Quistis, you stay here with Selphie until we're done. Hopefully we won't take too long."
(1) In the game, only if you fall down from the chandelier the lock on the hatch will break. But they had to go somewhere if they were gonna divide into two parties, so I decided to make them fight the Tri-Point, and when they come back up Cloud and his party would fall from the chandelier. Meaning to say that the Tri Point and the Sphinxaur were defeated at about the same time, only Sphinxaur slightly earlier, which enabled Zell's party to use magic at the end of the battle.
Do you think I should include the WEAPONS in this story? For Squall in the FF7 world, there's only five days left to defeat Sephiroth, do you think they should take down the remaining three WEAPONS or just one of them? For Cloud, there's only OMEGA weapon, that shouldn't be a problem because there's no time limit ... Also, is Selphie's weapon "nunchakus" or "nunchucks"? Please tell me if you review, thanks alot!