Author's Notes: Yes, it is finally here isn't it? Aren't you in love with me now? It's not much because the next chapter is coming up soon which will be short because I have to deal with setting up the biggest thing yet in this story... Bigger than Rinoa being Ultimecia. Bigger still than Drew and Reyn being brothers. Bigger than anything to date! You'll see. I'm gonna have so much fun!

Silver-nex: If you need help please e-mail me. That I can answer instantly. Thanks for liking Drew... E-mail me please if you want to know how I created him, it's actually kinda a romantic story from other people's point of view though it royally sucks in mine. I'm surprised that more people aren't after Reyn... hugs the sad Reyn That is okay, he's not meant for people anyway.

Firefly-Dreams: I always come back hun. In fact, at this moment I am working on the prequel of Curse of the Mercale. Yay, story about Mercale that involves ANOTHER totally hot Drew, but that one is ONLY mine. The Angelfire site is up and running, check my bio for the link as well as the live journal... Gonna do a section in that soon about me and quizzes... You can get to know the wonderful authoress more!

Yeah, well, Rinoa is evil, we all know that. Glad you're not confused, and I loved the shape change thing. Okay, they are really alive but they are still GF. You'll understand during the next full chapter. Hop Hop Hop!

Aquarius: Thanks. The other wasn't a prequel, but this is the sequel.

Alicia: Thanks for saying I'm your favorite. Got you. .

Chapter 6: Admissions and Surprises Part II

Suijin

"Contacts? What do you get from them?" Corin spoke up at last.

"That you're in love with my younger son, but he's in love with Rhiale..." Seifer said with a seriously disapproving frown.

Almost everyone's mouths fell open. The Ball had only been two nights ago, and word had not been allowed to spread about what happened. Corin looked fearfully on at the Leonheart men, not sure how they'd react to his love of their son. At her son's defense, Quistus stepped forward and gave Squall a sharp look. While acting as if he could do nothing to control Seifer, Squall smacked his husband upside his head. The blonde backed down with a pout. Seifer adopted a kinder smile as Quistus laughed.

"I can't believe it! Squall, you always show up when you are most needed," my mother said.

"Hey!" Seifer protested at being left out.

"You too Seifer... You're like a good, reliable Guardian Force!"

Both Squall and Seifer shared a secretive smile as I spoke up, "Hyne people! We still have two sorceresses on the loose and Drew as their knight."

"Reyn too," Seifer cut in, "He is a knight too..."

"What!?" Rhiale demanded, voice urgent, "You have to be lying!"

"They aren't," I said with a frown as I looked hard at the two.

Rhiale threw herself into her brother Jason's arms, nearly in tears. Carefully my love's twin led his sister out of the room. Behind the desk Corin was glaring hard at the map we'd been using to plan our attack. Finally the teen had slipped into a true fighter's mindset, something he avoided unlike me and the Almasy/Leonheart men. The elders among us looked at Squall and Seifer, half fearful and half wondering how the two knew so much.

"Come on, we've got an attack to plan," Squall suddenly announced.

Rhiale

It is a lot like out last attack upon this outpost even though we are aware of the fact that Drew and Reyn aren't here. This time our sneak in isn't 'bloody' because the initial attack captured a good deal of Rinoa's forces. Slipping in is easy, pathetically so. It's almost as if they want us to enter their domain. Yet that is behind us now, and our goal before us. Though Squall and Seifer had told us that the ones we're after aren't here there is something more important that is. It turns out that a few years ago Rinoa's thugs stole Doctor Odine's machine that imitated Ellone's power because she felt that she needed the power. Rather logically Nida had pointed out that doing anything against it would ruin the past, but Squall had insisted. Sometimes the way he and Seifer acted was suspicious, as if they knew far more than they said. Oddest of odd was the fact that a scan spell could tell us nothing about them...

"Come on," Seifer hissed, "We've got to hurry up."

Suijin carefully followed Seifer and the others, always keeping on eye on me. Somehow I had to sabotage the machine, Squall explaining that otherwise it's power could send Rinoa far enough back to accomplish time compression, a bad thing at this point...