disclaimer: I still don't own ff8
Be Careful for What you Wish for
Chapter 3
After finding Selphie in her dorm, Kelly and Selphie decided to walk around the Garden and check out the new school. As they wandered around near the entrance, they noticed as it began to get darker that clouds were gathering above in the sky.
"It looks like it's gonna rain," Selphie muttered to Kelly. "I hate the rain. It's so gloomy and it's depressing."
Hmm… hard to see Selphie being depressed. "Yeah, maybe we should head back to the dorms and change. It's getting kinda cold."
"'Kay!" Selphie said as we began heading back up to the dormitory. "I can't wait for tomorrow. It's gonna be so fun. I wonder what the SeeD test is going to be on. You know, maybe…"
Kelly began to zone out as Selphie went on and on about what the next day was going to bring. "Um…" she said when they arrived in front of their rooms, cutting off Selphie with whatever she was going on now. Selphie glanced up startled, as her surroundings came back to reality. "We're here so, do you wanna meet at the cafeteria in 5 minutes?"
"Oh, yeah. See you then!" Selphie stepped into her room, but not before flashing Kelly another one of her huge grins and waving.
Watching Selphie disappear into her room, Kelly quickly unlocked her own door and stepped inside. After glancing through her wardrobe, she was through the process of figuring whether to wear her raincoat or not when she looked at the clock. "Shit, I'm late. Why do I always lose track of time in this game?" Looking around the room, Kelly grabbed her coat and sprinted off to the cafeteria.
As Kelly arrived at the cafeteria, she paused for a moment trying to catch her breath as she looked around for Selphie.
"Kelly!"
Kelly turned to the sound and saw Selphie wildly waving at her from her spot in line almost hitting the blond guy behind her. Smiling and rolling her eyes, Kelly headed over to where Selphie was.
"Hey" she said upon arriving.
"Hey!" Selphie enthusiastically replied. "What are you getting? I heard the hotdogs are great."
"They are!" said a voice behind them. Kelly and Selphie quickly turned around for the source of the voice where Kelly gasped and started choking. The blond guy behind her was none other than Zell Dincht.
"Are you okay?" Selphie asked worridly.
"Yeah. Sorry." Kelly replied after glancing again at the startled Zell.
"Yeah, well the hotdogs are the best. They are like the stars in the sky, the crit in a fight, the sole reason to Garden's existence!" Zell stated getting more and more passionate as he went on about hotdogs.
"I see…" Kelly said as she rolled her eyes at Selphie.
Selphie started giggling, but was cut off by the cafeteria lady's stern voice.
"What can I get for you today?"
"The hotdogs?"
"Ok, here you go. Next!" Selphie moved on, waiting patiently for Kelly.
"Uh. I'll like the hotdogs too." Kelly said to the cafeteria lady.
"Let's see. Oh, you got the last one. Here you-" but the cafeteria lady was interrupted by a sudden moan.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" shouted Zell punching his fist into his hand and causing everyone in the cafeteria to stop their conversations and stare at him. It was complete silence. "Oh uhm…" Zell stuttered, nervously glancing around at all the attention he was getting.
An awkward silence stayed in the room until the cafeteria lady broke the silence. "Sorry?" she said slightly freaked out about Zell's sudden outburst. "Is there anything else I can get you?"
Zell sighed. "Whatever that is," he said glumly as he pointed at a dish.
Kelly felt bad for Zell. He never makes it to the hotdogs in time. As Zell slowly walked away from the counter of food, she spoke up.
"Hey, Zell. You can have mine if you want…"
"Really? All right!" Zell said jumping with his fist in the air.
After switching plates, Selphie, Kelly, and Zell headed to a table. When they finished eating, Selphie and Kelly decided to go since Zell had taken off to the training room. They decided to just take a walk around Garden before going to sleep. As they started off, Kelly once again noticed the pouring rain and dark skies above Garden. Both girls were in a conversation about the latest gossips when Selphie spotted a guy who looked similar in age with dark brown hair.
"Who's that? He's been just standing there and just staring off into space." Selphie said, interrupting their conversation and pointing out the guy.
"I dunno. Maybe he lost something or something."
"Hmm.. Let's go see if he needs help."
"oookay…." Said Kelly as she slowly followed Selphie.
At the sounds of their footsteps, the brown-haired guy turned around, fixing them with an icy blue glare. Kelly froze as she immediately recognized who it was.
"Oh my god! It's Squall!"
"What?" Selphie asked turning around seeing Kelly had stopped a couple of steps behind her.
"Uhh… nothing.. let's go." Kelly said, trying to cover up her shock.
As they made their way to where Squall was standing, his glare turned to one of annoyance as he saw two people trying to come over to talk to him.
"Hey!" Selphie said cheerfully.
"…" was the response.
She tried again. "I'm Selphie and this is Kelly. Did you lose something? Or need help?"
Squall continued glaring until he saw it was getting him nowhere. Then he decided to just ignore them and focused his eyes on something else.
Selphie started to wave her arms, trying to get back his attention so she can yell at him for being such an ass, but Kelly beat her to it.
"Hello! You can at least acknowledge us!" she said trying to not get pissed off. I knew Squall didn't talk but this is getting ridiculous.
Squall's eyes focused upon the two girls in front of him again and sighed. "What do you want?" he asked in an annoyed tone.
"Your name?" Selphie inquired.
"…Squall."
"Oh hi Squall. I'm Selphie and this is Kelly."
"…Yeah, I heard you the first time."
Selphie didn't seem to care about his attitude, and continued on as if nothing had just happened. "So, what are you up to?"
"…"
"Do you always not talk?"
"…"
Before Selphie can ask Squall anything else, Kelly quickly said "Selphie…. Whatever, let's go. Obviously Squall enjoys being rude to others." Selphie sent Squall one more glance and then she and Kelly turned away and started walking.
Surprisingly, Squall responded. "I didn't ask you to bother me."
This last comment pushed Kelly to her limit as she spun around and provided Squall with a death glare of her own, almost as intense as Squall's. She was about to shout at him when she saw him terse up and noticed the sound of about three pairs of feet arriving.
She saw a group of three people round the corner and head straight for Squall. As her gaze fell on all three of them, she recognized them immediately. In the lead was Seifer Almasy followed by his two posses, Raijin and Fujin. Seifer walked with his usual swagger as he approached Squall.
"Leonhart. Training Center in one hour." With that, Seifer turned around and left from where he came with Raijin and Fujin on his trail.
Squall stood there for a while and abruptly left heading to most likely his dorm.
Kelly and Selphie stared after him in silence. Selphie was just thinking how weird that encounter was, but Kelly was still thinking about Seifer's challenge. Oh my… This is where they fight!
"Selphie. Something's bad about to happen." Selphie opened her mouth, but Kelly quickly continued. "I'll explain in details later, but quick notes, we need to follow Squall."
"What? Do you like him? Cause if you do, stalking is kinda freaky."
Kelly rolled her eyes at that comment. "No… I'm not stalking him. It's just… well… trust me."
"Uh, okay, sure."
"Okay, let's head back to the dorms really fast and grab your weapon. I already have mine with me."
"Okay." Selphie said as both girls began to start walking at a fast pace to the dorm. Selphie was full of excitement at the idea of following around like spies, but Kelly was full of dread. She wasn't sure if her bringing into this reality may have changed the plotline. What if Squall isn't just injured, but actually dies. We gotta go help him and bring him to the hospital as quick as possible after the attack.
After arriving at the dormitories, Selphie grabbed her weapon and left her room. Kelly quickly glanced at Squall's door, then thinking really fast, pulled Selphie to the corner so they would not be seen when Squall leaves.
After about fifteen minutes, Squall exited the room with his gunblade in his hands. He walked at a quick speed to the training area, unaware of Kelly and Selphie's following and watching of his every move.
As Selphie and Kelly went into the training center, they noticed the backgrounds were changing to better suit the fighting environment. Amazed at this, they lost sight of Squall as he continued on to meet Seifer.
"Shit." Kelly muttered under her breath.
Selphie, still unaware to what was going on, glanced at Kelly. "So… where do we go now?"
Kelly stood still for a moment, thinking back to what had happened in the beginning scene between Squall and Seifer. Let's see… there were on some sort of cliff like thing with rocks surrounding them and it was pouring. Pouring… It must be outside somewhere.
"Well, I don't really know where, but I'm gonna guess outside somewhere. Let's go."
Kelly and Selphie quickly ran to the top of the center where there was a gate leading to the outside. When they got outside, both felt a sudden coldness wash over them. Kelly looked up as well as Selphie as they both noticed the pouring rain. After glancing back down, they already knew it before seeing it: they were drenched.
Kelly took a quick look at Selphie, seeing her soaking wet. Luckily for her, she had decided to wear her raincoat so she wasn't as wet, although she was still freezing and somewhat soaked.
In the distance Kelly heard the sounds of swords and their metals scraping against each other.
Well, there they go. Kelly thought as she quickly pulled a grumpy Selphie to the top of the cliff. Please don't let me be too late, please don't…
The girls just arrived as they saw the fire leave Seifer's hand and throw Squall across the area.
Selphie started screaming in shock, and Kelly quickly covered her mouth. Both of the gunblade fighters did not hear them over the pouring rain as Kelly and Selphie watched Seifer arrogantly walk towards Squall, raising his gunblade and slashing it across Squall's face.
Selphie had already turned away after seeing the fire hit its mark, but Kelly saw the whole thing. She watched in shock as the blood oozed down Squall's face. As she watched him look like he was about to lose consciousness she prepared to jump out to try to stop Seifer. Right before she acted though, Squall's eyes opened with hatred visible to everyone, including the shocked Seifer. In a quick movement, Squall brought his sword down upon Seifer's face as well, mirroring the scar, before falling back into unconsciousness. Seifer himself stumbled backwards and he too, fell to the ground.
"Oh my gosh.." Kelly whispered to herself.
Selphie slowly glanced around and as she saw both on the floor bleeding, her eyes widened.
Selphie and Kelly turned to each other, both wearing the same expression of shock and horror on their faces as the sight before them. Slowly, they walked over to where the fight had taken place and kneeled by Squall.
"Selphie… get help!" Kelly said quietly. She knew Squall and Seifer would be bleeding, but not this much.
Selphie continued to stare until she felt Kelly's glare at her.
"Oh.. right… I'll be right back." She said as she slowly got up and started running back out.
"Squall…" Kelly said. She got up and headed over to Seifer. Even though she knew his future, she never had hated him. She actually had felt sorry for him throughout the game as she knew he didn't really fit in with the others. Trying to tend to both, she applied pressure to their wounds on their heads and tried to wrap it up with the cloth she had ripped off from hers and theirs clothing.
As she watched both lie still on the ground, she looked back to where Selphie had exit. Hurry Selphie…
Just then, she saw Selphie running back with two other students enrolled in the Garden and Dr. Kadowaki. They hurried over to where Kelly was. Dr. Kadowaki gasped at the sight, but quickly took control. With the help of the two students, she brought both back to the infirmary where she wrapped up and cleaned their wounds.
This whole time, Selphie and Kelly watched from the entrance, afraid for both Squall and Seifer's survival.
After the doctor was sure both would be okay, she returned to the two girls. After they gave her a recount on what happened, she groaned.
"I knew they were rivals and threatened by each other, but I never knew they would go this far. Anyways, I really appreciate your guys' help. If you were not where you were, who knows what would have happened when they were finally found."
Selphie and Kelly silently stared at the doctor.
Finally, Selphie said in the quietest voice Kelly or anybody have ever heard her use before. "Are they going to make it?"
"Well," started Dr. Kadowaki, "I can't say for sure, only time will tell. However, most likely they will be ok and fighting again by tomorrow. Now… It's late and you two are both soaked. I assure you that you two cannot help them anymore than you already have and I suggest you head back to your dorms and try to get some rest."
"Okay Dr. Kadowaki," Kelly said as Selphie stifled a yawn.
They began going towards the exit when Dr. Kadowaki quickly said to them, "Don't forget, classes begin at 7 tomorrow."
"Oh great…" muttered Kelly under her breath. Both girls then quietly walked out the infirmary and went to their dorms.
Outside their own dorms' doors, Selphie asked sleepily, "Kelly… how did you know that was going to happen?"
"Uhm.." Oh crap, I can't tell her the truth so uhh… "Uhhh…. Just a hunch. I'm good at reading some people."
Selphie raised her eyebrows skeptically but was too tired to inquire any further. "Oh, well, good thing you are cause if not…" her voice trailed off.
"Yeah…"
"Well, let's get some sleep, tomorrow's our first day of class." Selphie said.
"Yeah, see you."
"G'night," Selphie said.
And with that, both girls went into their rooms to get some sleep.
A/N: well, that took a long time to get to this point, but yeah. I hope you all like this story so far. Thanks FallingxRaine for the review :) . And for everyone else, please review so I know what I can do better or continue to do.
