A/N: Yay! I got 7 reviews, so thank you! I need to start writing more, but i really hope you enjoy this chapter! Please review! Thanks! oh yeah, this chapter...is very dramatic. o.o;;
Also, its going to take me a few days to update this week, Im REALLY need to start writing and i've been seriously busy with school. So maybe this saturday expect another chapter. sorry...
Amaya leaned against the door of the gateway, looking at the floats that hung in the air. "I should go apologize" Quistis said to no one. "We dont have time for that" Amaya said. "I must!" she said, running towards the mansion. "we should follow her, you know" Selphie said, before running after her with Zell. Amaya caught up as they entered the mansion, going into the study and finding that Rinoa wasnt there. "Where could she be?" Quistis said. Amaya heard a click and the door slammed closed.
"Hey..." Zell said, pounding against the door. "We're locked in!" he exclaimed. "We must find a way out!" Quistis said. Amaya raised her eyebrow and said, "Just break open a window or something! Break down that damn door! We dont have time for this!" But they didnt seem to even care about her words. "Dammit," She said, seeing the sorceress take the stage at the podium at the presidental residence. She seen Rinoa behind her.
She ran over to the desk and picked up the heavy chair, smashing it through the window. "What are you doing? Are you crazy or something?" Zell said."We're seeDs! This mission is very important and we cant be messing around because of some stupid girl!" She said. "We have to kill the sorceress or there will never be peace among the nations!" Quistis looked away and nodded. "Shes right. Lets go!"
They all jumped into the bushes below, and they ran towards the gateway, just as the gates to the presidental residence opened. Dancers wearing clothing of elaborate red leather and headresses with many feathers danced gracefully around the float, the coldly beautiful sorceress sat at on a royal chair with many torches lit at her feet. Seifer was kneeling at her side. Seifer...Was it just moments ago that we danced? Amaya thought. She shook her head. The clock was about to strike 20:00. Amaya held her breath as the rusty gates fell to the ground, trapping the sorceress and seifer. The sorceress got up, outraged and counfused and bam! The bullet shot foreword in the air and the sorceress raised her hand, the bullet flew away from her. Head on attack... Amaya thought.
A speeding car came flying towards the gates, smashing against it and in a black flash, Squall appeared on the float, his gunblade rasied. "He cant take her down!" Amaya said, reaching for her staff. "Wait" Quistis said. Seifer stepped foreword, his gunblade raised as well. "I never thought it'd turn out this way," Seifer said, dreamily placing his eyes on his gunblade. "So, you've become the sorecress's lap dog?" Squall said. "I'd rather be called her Knight." Seifer said, smirking. Seifer charged him, their gunblades met in a sparking clang. Seifer pushed him back, but Squall spun around and sliced open his arm. "Heh, your better than you were before. I'll always be superior!" Seifer said, lunging at Squall.
Irvine, Rinoa and Marriku appeared on the stage. "I need to redeem myself" Irvine said, raising his rifle and shooting Seifer, grazing his shoulder. "I can fight if im with you, so thats why im here!" Rinoa said, shooting her pinwheel at Seifer. "Should we go down?" Amaya said. "When the sorceress makes her debut" Quistis said. Shes right, 4 on one, thats hardly fair!
Marriku lunged at Seifer, and they locked blades. Marriku pushed him back onto the ground, and he slashed at her legs. "you've got to do better than that!" She said, as Irvine shot and Rinoa attacked with her pinwheel. Seifer used a Fira attack which almost took Rinoa down, but Marriku, suprisingly, used a potion on her.Squall ran up and slashed Seifer one more time, before he fell to his knees. "I lost...I wont lose next time!" He cried. the Sorceress stood up, not suprised that her 'Knight' had lost. Amaya, Quistis, Selphie and Zell jumped down the ladder, out the metal gateway door and jumped on the float. "Just in time," Marriku said, both katanas raised. "a seeD, planted in a run-down garden," She said mysticly.
She stepped away from her throne and Marriku and Squall lunged at her. Amaya was suprised she didnt go down by how many wounds Squall and Marriku were inflicting on her. She raised her hand in the air and then at Squall and Marriku, they flew back into some column designs on the float. The designs collasped and in a cloud of dust, Marriku pulled herself up. Amaya raised her staff and said, "Blizzara" just as the Sorcress raised her hands. She was using Fira. The ice and flame attack met in mid-air, as if fighting, but the blizzard attack came through and shot at her, bringing her to her knees. "Get her while shes down!" Selphie said, hitting her numerous times with her nunchaku. Just as Zell was about to kick her, she lifted her hands and he rose into the air by his heel. With a wave of her hand, Zell shot into the gates, crashing to the cement ground. Amaya clearly seen him cough up a bit of blood.
Irvine shot with his rifle and Rinoa shot with her pinwheel, Selphie using her limit break to heal the party. Quistis went down next with a few Fira spells, Then Selphie. "C'mon guys! we can do it!" Marriku said, attacking her with the katanas. Amaya used a few Blizzara spells before the Sorceress froze. She rose her hands and 2 long spears of ice appeared. 'Oh no! I forgot this was going to happen!' Amaya said, her eyes frozen on Squall as she waved her hand foreword. The ice spears shot foreword, right at Squall's heart. Amaya lunged foreword and pushed Squall to the ground, they both slammed down into the metal flooring of the float. the ice spears shooted into the crowds. In a maniac craze, the crowd burst into screams and people were running each which way.
"Useless girl!" the Sorceress shrieked, Amaya rose into the air and with a scream and a terrified look on her face, disapeared.
"Bring her back, you bitch!" Marriku screamed, lunging at the sorecress and stabbed her right through the shoulder. The sorecress's made-up face was close to Marriku's, "You too shall perish like your pitiful friend" she whispered coldly. "I will not!" Marriku said, she made sure to spit in her face. With her left katana, she stabbed her in the other shoulder. The sorceress screamed in pain as the blade went through her shoulder. Galbadian Soliders lifted the gates and swarmed in. "Bring her back!" Marriku screamed. The sorceress giggled and lifted her hands, throwing Marriku against the wall of the gateway.
She slashed at the Soliders that came foreword. "We cant let it end like this!" She screamed, ignoring the flaming internal pains that raged through her chest and rib cage, getting up and still attacking, seeing Selphie already being dragged off with the soliders. "We have to get Amaya!" she screamed as the solider grabbed her. She tripped him and punched the solider who had Quistis in the face. The sorceress was gone, Marriku shrieked her agony.
A solider came up and, his fist like a knive, chopped Marriku in the neck. She dropped to the cement ground, paralyzed. 'Amaya...no...ill save you...dont worry..' she thought as hot tears fell down her cheeks. This was her best friend in the whole world, no evil witch was just going to kill her! The soliders picked her up and carried her off into a van, she finally blacked out.
Amaya opened her eyes, gingerly. She was seated in a chair, in a black metal room. She stood up and almost fell back down. "You must still be tired after the journey" A voice rang out of the room. She cocked her head to the side and seen Seifer. "Where...am I?" She said, rubbing her head. "The desert Prison" He said. "I'm being arrested..." She whispered.
"How do you figure?" Seifer asked. "Hello, i attacked the sorceress. Wait-where are the others?" She said. "down below. They are arrested. You are not." "Why?" Seifer smiled and said, "Become one of Lady Edea's followers. Join me and we can fight the seeDs together!" he cried. "No chance" Amaya said, glaring at him. 'Wait...if i decide to join him...maybe I can get the guys and we can escape!' she thought. "wait...you are right, Seifer" She said, placing her hands behind her back. "I do hate them. Always trying to be the hero, So useless. I want to join you. And Edea."
He smiled and said, "you made the right choice." She smiled at him too, not out of happiness. But out of joy, the sucker! She wanted to laugh, but she wanted to keep her serious face. "You should get rid of that uniform, Edea might not like them," he said, handing her a dress. It was almost like her dress from the ball. "Thank you." She said, bowing to him. he left the room and gratefully changed her clothes. She would just pretend to be on the sorceresses side for a little bit and then as soon as they think she was under their control, she would get everyone out! She seen two black rubber bands lying on the cot that was in the room and she tied her hair into baos. She looked at herself in the cracked mirror and smiled. Hey, at least she looked good.
But she couldnt be thinking about that in a time like these. Marriku and the others needed her! She seen her staff in the corner and picked it up and exited the room. The rooms looked like they were made of black metal material, Galbadian Soliders dressed in blue guarded a room. She looked around, not sure where to go. "Amaya, come," Seifer said. She followed him into a room into the corner. There was a large platform screwed to the wall and a few chairs in the room, a large control panel in the corner.
A large sound came vibrating through the whole building, the sound of gears grinding against gears. the sounds of metal mechanics in work. A cell appeare through the glass of a window. "Its time to interogate the seeD leader." Seifer said, joy apparent in his voice. Amaya clearly remembered this scene. This is where she would turn on them, if possible. Seifer kicked open the cell door and she heard voices from within.
"Heh, Squall you're pitiful" He laughed. She heard a crash and then, "Take him away!" Two flame red moombas appeared, dragging Squall out of the room. His crystal blue eyes scanning Amaya before glaring. She somehow tried to tell Squall, with body and eye movements that she would rescue him in no time. But he didnt seem to listen, she was an enemy to him now. She knew she was doing the right thing, if she would have objected to Seifer, she would be thrown into the jail as well and that would get them no where.
Seifer smirked at Squall before turning serious. "I'm sure you can imagine what happens now." He said. "What do you want?" Squall said. "Tell me what seeD is. Edea demands to know. "Dont you already know?" Squall questioned. "obviously not. Im not a seeD. So tell me." "Theres nothing, even if there were, you think I'd tell you?" "Heh, Didnt think you would talk that easily."
Seifer snapped his fingers, the warden nodded and pulled the switch on the control panal and a ear splitting ringing sound filled the room. Squall clenched hie eyes and was trying not to shout out in agony. Seifer snapped his fingers again and the warden lifted up the switch, the sound disapearing. "Even if YOU dont talk the others will" Seifer said, his blue eyes narrowed.
"They...They're all here?" Squall said, his voice cracking. "Oh, you bet. But since I like you this much, I thought you should go first. I was hoping you'd be there, Squall. So, how did i look in my moment of triumph?" Seifer said, mocking him. Squall's eyes looked distant and his head drooped. "He must have passed out..." You thought out loud. "Damn..." Seifer said. He turned to her and said, "Dont worry, the fun has just started." Seifer signalled the warden to press down the switch, the ringing sound came back. Amaya looked on in horror. "Stop! You'll kill him, dammit!" She screamed.
Seifer turned to her and said, "What are you in love with him or something?" He laughed and she want to kill him. She would have to wait for Squall to wake up to take him down. Squall's blue eyes fluttered open and Seifer turned to him. "So, your awake. Now, what is seeD?" Before Squall could awnser, another guard dressed like the warden came in. "The missles are targeted for the garden are ready to launch at your command, Sir," He informed. "Excellent. Now, Balamb is going to be destroyed on charges of training seeDs to oppose the sorceress." "You cant do that!" Amaya called out. Seifer shot her a nasty look.
"As I was saying..." He trie to continue. "You sick...Freak!" Amaya spat. "What did you say?" he said, grabbing her by the throat. She laughed as she was being forced into the air, her throat closing. She kicked him straight in the face and twisted to the ground. She grabbed her staff, noticing Squall's look of shock, and whispered, "Blizzaga" The spell took out the warden and guard. She was lucky, she remembered there was a anti-magic barrier cast on the building, but this room wasnt affected.
Seifer got up and she pushed him into Squall's cell, slamming the door shut and using the dead-bolt to lock it. "Amaya..." Squall said. "Dont talk, your pretty weak. I just got to get you down from there and we can get the rest of the guys out of here," She said, smiling at him. She ran to the control panel and pressed a button and Squall fell to the ground. She scanned the room and said, "I guess the weapons arent here..." She walked over to him and said, "Did ya think I turned on you guys?" "Yeah" "No way, that is not me!" She said. "Can you walk?" She asked, squatting down next to him. He nodded and got up. "we just have to get our weapnos and save the others and we can go."
They headed out of the room and Amaya seen some guards. "Stay here...I'll ask them where everyone else is." She walked over to them, putting a serious look on her face and said, "Which room are the prisoners located at?" "We arent supposed to tell you" One guard spat at her. "Oh yeah? Dont you know I'm with Edea now?" She crooned. "Oh, sorry. Just dont tell her...They are on floor 8" He informed, "Take our private elevator, we insist!" She smiled at them and then walked back to where she was before. "okay, lets just run...I dont want to look suspecious and just take 'em out, so...run!" They sprinted towards the elevator, "Hey! Stop right there!" the guards screamed as they began to run after them.
"Go! Go! Go!" Squall said, Amaya ran into the elevator and numerously pressed the little '8' button. The guards were close to grasping reach, when the heavy metal doors snapped shut. Amaya sighed heavily and said, "that was close..." He nodded. A little melodic ding was heard and the metal doors slid open. There weren't any guards on this floor, so it was possible that no one knew that she was helping everyone escape. She did see two soliders. They had Marriku's katanas, Squall's gunblade and everyone elses weapons besides Rinoa's and Irvine's. "Hey! You two there!" Amaya said. The soliders turned around in freight. "W-what? Did we do something wrong, miss?" "Uh...Edea wants the weapons back now, so give them to me." She said, walking over and snatching them, "Now, get moving!" They scaredly saluted her and ran off.
"C'mon, they could be in this one..." Amaya said, handing Squall his gunblade and then walking over to one door and opening it. Sure enough, Quistis, Zell,Marriku, and Selphie were on the floor. "Amaya...!" Marriku said, running up and hugging her. "Your alive! We thought you were dead! You too, Squall!" Selphie said, hugging Squall. Amaya pushed Marriku back and smiled, giving her the katanas. She gave everyone else their weapons and said, "we should be getting out of here...," Amaya said, knowing that they would just run into more problems. "I think I can find the way out, I had a dream where I was ward...and well, he works in this place!" Zell said.
"Wait, where is Rinoa and Irvine?" Squall asked. "We dont know about Irvine, but some guards took Rinoa somewhere..." Quistis explained. Squall nodded and turned to Zell. "So, you know this place?" "Yeah, I think we should head to the very bottom!" Zell said. "Theres some private elevator thing we could take to the bottom..." Amaya said. "Okay! lets go!" Selphie said, jumping up and down. The party headed outside and seen a troupe of guards. "Your not escaping! Attack them!" He shouted. As the guards advanced on them with swords, Marriku asked, "Are we fighting these guys or what?" "Lets run for it!" Amaya shouted, pointing towards the elevator. Everyone made a run for it, the elevator was a bit small, but they didnt have time to think about it. The party of 6 pushed themselves into the elevator, a guard snatched his hand inside of the elevator, and in an instant, the elevator doors slammed shut. The guard screamed, painfully pulling his arm out as the elevator smoothly rode to the bottom.
When they reached the bottom, They looked around the room. "Lets try this door..." Zell said, going up to a large, metal red one. He pulled on it and he flew back as mountains of sand flew at him. "What...We're buried underground?" Squall said, his eyes shined in disbelief. "Damn...what do we do now?" Zell said, sounding distant. Amaya shook her head, she should have warned them. But they heard a loud clatter of gunfire.