Author's Note: Greetings, everyone! I just wanted to leave everyone with a note that this chapter is going to break away from Zidane and return to Garnet. And from what I can tell, this chapter will be the shortest that I have written so far. As always, please continue to read and give critical reviews!

I'm just passing time before the ball.
Playing my guitar.
I don't have to be where I don't want to be at all.
Maybe I'll go far.
Going nowhere, sitting in a dream, in a dream

"Sitting in a Dream"—Roger Glover and Guests (Ronnie James Dio on vocals)

Mother Terra

Chapter XI

"Holpel," a young-dark haired and eyed woman—with a summoner horn—said.

"Hol-pel?" replied a young girl, with similar features to the young woman.

"Sarah! I didn't know you were here!" But then the young woman smiled. "I see that you caught me chanting a spell."

"A spell?"

"Yes, a spell. It's something that you'll learn one day too." The young woman placed Sarah on her lap. "We're summoners, Sarah. Of the people who live on this world, we've been here the longest."

"Really?"

The woman smiled. "Yes, really! We're the people who named this world 'Gaia.'"

"Mommy?"

"Yes, Sarah?"

"Where do the other people come from?"

"…I don't know." She began to chuckle. "I don't know if I'm right or wrong about us being the first people on Gaia. You're very smart for a four-year-old girl, Sarah. I hope you know that."

Sarah smiled. "What's the spell about, Mommy?"

"Oh, yes, the spell! Well, Sarah, this spell was taught to me by your grandmother. It combines two spells—holy and repel. Both stop evil, but the two together can remove almost any evil…You're pretty good with magic already, Sarah, but I hope that you'll never have to use this spell. But if you do, I'm sure that you'll use it at the right time."


"Mother!" gasped Garnet. She woke up with a jerk, and that jerk woke up her son—who was asleep on her chest.

Hunter whined, and Garnet pacified him. "I'm sorry, baby."

Garnet carried Hunter over to a chair. She stroked his hair, and placed her cheek into it. "That was my mother…my real mother. It's weird. I have no memories of that day, and yet I believe them to be true. Holpel…a spell that can remove any evil in my life? The only evil I have in my life right now is Nuri."

Garnet returned Hunter to the bed, and sat beside him. "I wonder if this collar." She placed her hand on it. "Nuri told me that this collar prevented me from summoning eidolons, but…" Garnet held out, and it emitted a glow. "…it doesn't prevent me from using magic. So, I wonder?"

Garnet moved to a corner of her cell that was away from her son. "Holpel!"

Once the spell was said, the collar fell. Garnet was free from the collar, but she was not free from her cell.

"Now I can summon eidolons again. But I'm not sure how to leave. I know it's the best time to leave with everyone asleep, but Hunter'll just wake them up."

"It's about time!" a voice said. "I was so sick of that collar repelling me."

Garnet gasped. Before her stood an old man in white robes and a long white beard. "Ramuh!"

The god of thunder smiled. "Yes, I've come back to you—just as I did on that day four-years-ago. I can sense your dilemma, and I have a way to help."

Ramuh pointed to Hunter. "Go. Pick up your child."

Garnet did as Ramuh requested. Amazingly, with his head on Garnet's shoulder, Hunter did not wake up.

"Now, knock on the door."

Again, Garnet did as Ramuh requested.

A genome was posted outside to guard. And when he heard Garnet knock he responded, "Yes? What is it?"

"Invite him in," whispered Ramuh.

"I need to see you about something."

The genome opened the door, but he quickly turned pale at the sight of Ramuh. The genome's lips quivered, and his body shook. He fell to his knees and fainted.

"Now go! I will help guide you, although I think that you know the way back to Gaia."

Garnet nodded. "Thank you."

"There's no reason to thank me. I'm just serving my master."