Hey everyone again! I'm just going to say some thanks before I get started… so well.. thanks to all the readers out there and then especially to those who reviewed: Hibeki, tidusXyuna637, and animecrazy88. I really appreciate it. And on with chapter 5…
disclaimer: I don't own ff8. as you can probably tell by now….
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Be Careful for What you Wish for
Chapter 5
As Balamb Garden slowly fell out of view, Kelly glanced around her. Ever since she, Squall, and Quistis had left, she had been bored out of her mind. Quistis was going on explaining about junctioning and what was going to happen while Squall just stayed his usually silent self, walking without any expression and deep in thought.
Quistis's voice droned on and on and Kelly slowly started to drift out and start worrying about the upcoming fighting.
Maybe I should have paid a little more attention to that fighting lesson. Was the stance right foot first or left? On no… I'm going to make a complete idiot out of myself in front of Squall and Quistis. This is just great. Maybe I should have trained some at the training center instead of… wait… we stopped? Why is Quistis staring at me? Oh crap! She must be waiting for a response….
Kelly glanced at Squall who was staring into the distance with an impatient look on his face.
"Uhm… Yes…?" Kelly answered hesitantly to Quistis.
Quistis raised an eyebrow skeptically. She quickly turned to Squall who was still not paying attention.
"Are you two even paying attention?" she demanded indignantly. Seeing both Kelly and Squall's blank expressions her eyes narrowed as she sighed impatiently. "Whatever. Come on or we'll be late," she muttered angrily as she started walking again.
Squall quickly looked over in confusion to Kelly about Quistis's behavior. Kelly shrugged her shoulders as she began walking again following Quistis. The rest of the walk to the Fire Cavern was in silence as the three gradually made their way across from the garden.
Soon a cave came into sight with two authority faculty figures posted at both sides of the entrance.
As the three approached them the two faculties members walked out to in front of the cave.
"The objective: To obtain a low-level Guardian Force. A SeeD member must support," the one on the right said monotonously.
"I'm their support," Quistis said stepping out and saluting quickly to the two guards. "Instructor number 14, Quistis Trepe."
"Very well," the guard replied nodding at Quistis. Turning back to Squall and Kelly, he continued. "Please select a time limit…"
"20." Kelly immediately said knowing that was the time Squall was going to say, and in return, received a glare from Squall. Smirking back, she turned her attention back to the two authority guards.
"Ok. Please proceed." The guard said as both returned back to their original position beside the entrance.
Quistis nodded and took the lead to enter the cave. Immediately upon entering, the three were greeted with a wave of intense heat blasted upon them.
After entering, Quistis stopped and turned around to face the two students.
"Alright. I'm only here to assist you two until the final battle with Ifrit. Other than fighting him, you two are on your own."
Squall and Kelly nodded and Squall took the lead, heading down the path. As they continued on, they all noticed it was getting hotter and hotter.
Wow. It's getting really hot in here now…
"Of course it is silly! This is Ifrit's territory."
Oh hey Shiva! Forgot about you for a second.
Shiva sighed dramatically. "Well, so do you know what you're going to be doing?"
Fighting...
"I meant more specifically…"
Grab my weapons and slice at the target?
Shiva sighed again. Heh heh… just playing with ya
"That's good cause remember, I'm inside you…"
Is that a threat? Kelly thought back jokingly.
"Of course not, just a friendly suggestion," Shiva replied in Kelly's head jokingly as well. "Another suggestion. Summon me when fighting Ifrit. Ice is good against all types of fire."
Uh. Yeah… That would be common sense…
"Well, I don't know what you primitive humans know. Your race still thinks that… I think Squall's going to need your help…"
Kelly glanced up ahead of them where she saw two bats flying towards them. Before getting too panicked, she grabbed her two daggers and prepared herself for battle. Squall grabbed his gunblade as well as he waited for the bats to get nearer.
Before they got too near, Squall placed his hand and seemed to be focusing on one of the bats. A sparkly purple light flew out of the bat and flew towards Squall where it absorbed into his hand. Mimicking Squall, Kelly did the same to the other bat and received five fires according to Shiva.
The drawing from the two bats seemed to anger them more as they flew at a faster speed towards Squall and Kelly. The first one to reach them quickly swiped a claw at Squall who barely parried it with his gunblade. After parrying he quickly followed up with a slash of his gunblade knocking the bat back some.
The other bat went straight for Kelly and tried the same move. Quickly Kelly ducked and struck with her daggers at the bat's back. Suddenly, it seemed to get cloudy in the cave and lightning began flashing. A bird spiraled down from the newly formed sky and started forming a lightning bolt.
Quickly striking the bat again, Kelly watched as Squall commanded his GF, Quezacotl, to release the lightning bolt onto the two bats. A bright light flashed blinding Kelly as the bolt impacted with the bats and the ground. As it slowly faded away, the two bats laid on the ground finished.
"Nice." Kelly commented to Squall as he turned around doing his finishing victory stance. Kelly decided to do one too and spun her daggers around and flipping them back into her belt.
Squall and Kelly continued on through the cave with Quistis lagging behind them. In the next chamber they came across a couple more bats and then some bombs. After drawing some magic from them, Kelly decided to summon Shiva.
Um. Shiva.. Some help here please?
"Yeah sure. One second."
After a couple of seconds, Kelly immediately noticed a change in the environment. Squall did too cause he looked around for the source of the new coolness in the cavern. Kelly felt Shiva's spirit leave her body as an ice cube formed between Kelly and the bombs with Shiva in it. The ice containing Shiva cascaded into millions of shards of ice as Shiva began summoning her Diamond Dust attack. After summoning more and more ice into a ball, she released it onto the bombs, taking them out.
Satisfied with her work, Shiva dissolved into a glow of lights and went back into Kelly.
Haha! That was so cool Shiva!
"Yep! I told you ice is good against fire!"
…Yeah… anyways thanks.
"Uh huh! No problem."
After Squall and Kelly did their finishing pose, they continued on to the next chamber in the cavern.
So Shiva. I've always wondered. How ds GFs such as Ifrit join people to help them fight while also in here at the cavern at the same time? Like, other students must have defeated him already, so he probably joins them as well, yet he's still here.
"We GFs travel around to calls that people have. That's why it takes some time to summon cause we can't always just drop everything to help one person and leave the other person all alone."
Really? Hmm.. So… Who else do you support?
"Eh… I go around."
Psh.. that's reeeeeaaaal specific…
"Confidential reasons. The code for GFs calls for us to not say stuff since we are in people's heads and invade their privacy by reading their thoughts."
Ahh.. I see…
As Kelly and Shiva had been talking, Kelly noticed it was continuing to get more and more hot.
"Well…" Quistis started before Squall entered into another part of the cave. "This last area contains the GF Ifrit. Make sure you two are prepared and junctioned before going in."
"I'm ready…" Kelly said hiding what she was really thinking. Squall didn't say anything, but Kelly could tell he was somewhat worried.
They headed into the room where there were immediately introduced with fire shooting up around them. All of a sudden it began getting darker as the flames started gaining heat to such an intensity that they looked as if they had turned black. A deafening roar erupted throughout the room as the ground began to violently shake…
A/N: Sorry for the short chapter. And about the GFs with multiple charges.. I made that up. Ive always wondered though about ifrit and how he could be in Squall later on in the game yet still be part of the Fire Cavern so I made up that reason. If you have a different theory or answer please respond in a review hint hint. And yeah.. please r&r!
