A Knight's Promise

Chapter 37: The heartless "Squall"

Author's Note: Hello everyone! Thanks for your patience and please forgive me for not updating this fic for 2 months. Kindly read the other A/N at the end of this fic for my …you know what. (Italics still means characters thoughts)

Scene from the last chapter

"Squall?" Laguna and Caraway said in unison. Their eyes widened in disbelief.

"Is that you…son?" Laguna can't help but stare at the figure in front of them. "After all these years of grieving…..of longing for my son, now…. here he is ….standing in front of me? This can't be true.

The lad just smiled at them and said "Merry Christmas everyone….and uh" He said while digging at his back pocket. "I have this gift for everyone…hope you'll all like it." Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

Continuation…. (After two months of waiting… he he he)

Winhill

"Anyone…please….help me. I….I can't ….breathe"

"Anyone?"

"I'm scared"

"Father?...Mr. Laguna?...Mr. Kiros? Where are you?"

These were her thoughts as she struggled to stay conscious. She laid there…with her right face touching the wet and cold ground. Her chest was stained with her own blood. Her eyes were dilated, an obvious sign that she was extremely shock of what had happened.

"Father…anyone…please..hu hu…"

She wanted to shout and call anyone for help, but her mouth was too numb to speak…not only her lips but her whole body as well. Terror creeps into her veins as she sensed her life was draining away every minute, every second that passed by. She's been like that for …GOD knows how long. And no matter how hard she tried to urge her body to respond ….numbness answered back her commands.

"Hu huhu, Squall? …why?"

Blood oozes out her cold lips, her vision started to blur; she started to panic when all of sudden, a mysterious figure came into her view. It ran towards her.

"Squall?"

"Squall….is that you?"

Deep Sea Research Centre

Cell #01245

"Son, what's wrong with you!" This forty-plus man questioned the young man in front of him. His blue-green eyes lost its previously jovial appearance as it looked through the young man's eyes. Both of his hands tightly grasped the cold bars of the cell. "Look what you've done! You killed your….." he said furiously at him.

"Not my fault.." he simply replied with a small smirk on his face. Obviously, upon hearing this, anyone can tell that he didn't care a thing about Rinoa's condition. "She's so stupid to blocked that shot that supposed to be for her father"

"You heartless …" Kiros exclaimed. "If I only knew that you're going to turn into a monster as you are now…I shouldn't have rescued you from that dragon!"

"What happened to you my son? I thought ….I thought you like her so much?" Laguna said changing his tone.

"Who told you that?" he simply replied.

"Son, you've changed" Laguna said while shaking his head.

"Changed? I'm like this….all my life" he said smirking "…just like my father"

"Huh?" the two older men said in unison.

"Ahhh!" he said yawning "…… our conversation is rather getting annoying…got to go" and with that he left the two man, leaving them enraged with his behavior.

Deep Sea Research Center

Cell #01246 (at the back of Laguna's cell)

"Are you ok there huh Fujin?" the green-eyed man worriedly asked the albino girl in front of him.

They are in the same cell but they were both tied up against the wall by huge steel chains.

"…….."

"Hey, answer me? Don't make me worry Fu, are you ok?" the man asked again.

Her eyes started to flood with tears and this of course, rattled the man in front of her.

"Hey, Fu…come on …you've got to pull yourself together. Hush now... I'll be able to think of a plan or two…. we're going to get out of here… so please Fu …don't cry." Seifer promised to her.

"…Sorry" Fu managed to say. "I'm….scared"

"Scared?" Seifer asked her. "Don't worry, as long as I'm here with ya, those goons won't lay even a single finger on you" he added. "They're going to taste my fury if they do that"

"Thank you" Fujin simply replied. "But it's not them that I'm worried about…"

"Then who?" he asked.

"Um…not who but…what"

"What?" Seifer asked with a curious look on his face "Uh..w-what do you mean by what?" he said nervously.

"The one who plucked my left eye"

Meanwhile,

"Why? Why …Why…Why………………WHY?" he looked at his dark-skinned friend. "…why?"

His friend just gave him a shrug, saying that he doesn't know either what's going on.

"What have I done? Why….w-why…did he betrayed us all?" Laguna said still insisting his friend to answer this.

Kiros just shook his head. "Laguna, if I only knew the answer…."

"………"

"Look here friend, let's just forget about that for a sec and try focusing on how can the three of us get the heck out of here" he calmly said. "…speaking of three.."

Kiros scanned the area to look for the other man who's with them at that cell. He spotted him at the very same place and at the very same position they last saw him.

Caraway was still sitting at the left hand corner of the cell; still grieving at what had happened to his precious daughter.

Flash back

"Merry Christmas everyone….and uh" the young man said while digging at his back pocket. "I have this gift for everyone…hope you'll all like it."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion and in their surprise the lad pulled a gun, pointed it on Caraway and…

BANG!

The smell of the gunpowder fills the air. There was a complete silence. The three men were completely shocked at what just happened.

Caraway's eyes widened, his heart beats faster at the sight of the gun in front of him. But what shocked him the most was that someone …yes someone stood in front of him to block that dreadful attack. He carefully looked down and was even shocked to see that …that "someone" was his one and only child. The world seemed to stop as he felt Rinoa's body started to get cold. Warm tears flowed from his cold cheeks as his daughter's body slowly falls down to the ground. All seems to be in slow-mo.

He shouted her name with all his might

"RINOA!"

His eyes flared with hatred and angst. He was about to strangle the person responsible for it when he felt someone gave him a hard blow on his nape.

End of flashback

Guilty for that incident, Laguna approached him.

"Uh…in behalf of my son….I'm sorry"

"Sorry?" Caraway murmured.

"I..I know how it is like to …lose a child. For I too…" Laguna said sympathetically to his old friend.

Caraway stood and pointed his forefinger at Laguna, 'YOU KNOW NOTHING LAGUNA! NOTHING!" he shouted back. "YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO MY FAMILY AFTER THE INCIDENT, ABOUT THE VILE SCHEME BEHIND THE FLIGHT 143, ABOUT THE TRUE VICTIMS OF THAT ….." Caraway shed tears but he immediately rubbed it all away with his right arm. "YOU SHOULD FEEL SORRY FOR YOURSELF FOR BEING SO DUMB ABOUT EVERYTHING! WHY…. I BET YOU EVEN DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK IS THIS PLACE THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW! "

Laguna just stared at him, unable to utter even a single word. "Yes….he is right, I knew nothing. All these years I cared less of everything around me, all I know is to mourn over the death of my son, but now that he is here…."

"ENOUGH FURY! PLEASE CALM DOWN" Kiros exclaimed. "If you knew what's going on please do tell us. We can't solve any problem if you're going to shout us like that" he said changing his tone. "Now, tell us everything"

Meanwhile…..

"Am I dead? I can't see a thing…"

"Hang on…. Don't die on me ….." the voice sounded so caring and at the same time worried. "Wake up my angel"

"Squall, Squall…is that you? Can you here me? I can't see you. Where are you?"

She heard him sighed many times, his warm hands holding her cold hands; his face close to hers. This person really cared for her. He was with her all the time. Before she lost her consciousness a while ago, he's the last person that she remembered that she's with. But she also remembered that this same person did try to kill his father.

"Squall….why? Why did you plan to ….kill my father?"

"I…I don't know …I don't know what am I going to do without you" he said whispering to her ears.

"Please answer me…Squall. Why do you want to do that?"

"Rinoa …please…..wake up. Open your eyes….." he whispered, sounding even more worried. "Talk to me….I wanna hear your voice …… I wanna see your smile…I missed them…………………………..…I miss you" he added.

"Huh? How can you say that…huh Squall? How can you say you missed me when … ohh you didn't mean to shoot me, did you? But why …why Squall? We missed you and look at what you've done!"

"I………..I love you Rinoa"

She heard him sobbed bitterly over her. She felt his warm tears dropped on her forehead. His tears reached her eyes. They felt so warm, she can feel the extreme sorrow of this fellow that it reached every veins of her body. This made her shed tears too.

"I……… love you too, Squall but…"

TOOOTTT. That dreadful sound came from the machine that tells the status of Rinoa's heartbeat.

"RINOA! MY RINOA! …..NOOOO! DOCTOR! DR. KADOWAKI!

Author's Note: OH NO! Rinoa's in BIG trouble now. What will happen to her next chapter? Are we going to see her name again here? What is going to be the fate of these 3 men inside the Cell #01245 ? What's this 'vile scheme' Caraway was babbling about? What is that 'thing' Fujin was scared of? Why did 'Squall' tried to kill General Fury Caraway? All these plus the killer question, when am I going to update again and more will be revealed next chapter.

Author's note (again)

I would like to thank the following author/reviewers, without their kind words and support this chapter wouldn't be posted: xxxBeastxxx Thank you for the reviews and for urging me to update this fic, didn't noticed that I haven't updated for quite a longggggggggg time. PasifiKStaRI guess I watched too much Chinese movies too. Sorry for not updating this fic and of course I would like to apologize again for not reading/reviewing your fic for quite some time. I'll make it up to you as soon as I possible. And oh I got another message for you at the (Angel in Disguise chp. 6) please do read that one; Rinoa LeonhartillyThank you for reviewing my fics Rinoa Leonhartilly. Uh…Sorry for leaving you hanging for 2 months. (geez that's quite long) I've been busy with a lot of things. Sorry again.; Squal-l-l Thank you for reviewing my fic. Ohh folks, yeah I would like to apologize for not updating for 2 months now. Sorry for keeping you hanging but I guess that's our tradition here at am I right? Hope you like this chapter.; Ai have a Boring Life Thank you for reviewing my fic. Oh by the way, how are you? And uh I got another message for you at the chapter 6 of Angel in Disguise hope you read that one. I hope everything's ok now. How's your computer? And of course how's your fics? Sorry for not reading and reviewing your fics for quite some time now. I'll make it up to you as soon as I can. Sorry for not updating this fic huh.