A/N: Hey there! You know what? I'm typing up the same story that you are reading on your computer screen. Wow, what a mindfuck!
Chapter 4:
The… um-err-fourth chapter(Dum, dum, dum)
Rinoa was running so fast, she couldn't see where she was going. The tears welled up in her eyes made everything a blur. The tears in her throat made it hard to breath. She thought she saw a blue figure in front of her, but her eyes were drenched with tears, obscuring her vision. She lost Squall within seconds. Squall stopped to catch his breath. He could not see Rinoa. He couldn't think, couldn't move, or do anything. He just stood there, and slowly, the thought of him losing the one- the only one he loved started to whisper into his mind the possibility of it being true. Squall did not care about anything anymore. He whipped out his gunblade out of its sheath, and tried to impale himself upon its blade. But he only got so far before something blue grabbed the hilt of the sword, and pulled it away from Squall. Squall fell to his knees.
"Ow! Whoa-who… where's my gunblade?" Squall tried standing up, but failed, so he was satisfied with just sitting down holding the bleeding hole that went through thirty-percent of his body.
"Now, now, now. We wouldn't have wanted that to happen, would we? That would leave a very sad girl, wouldn't it? Yes, I do believe it would." Said an alien voice from which Squall could not find its origin.
"Hey, who are you? Do I know you?" Squall said, feeling rather stupid talking to someone that did not seem to be there.
"What? You humans have that short of a memory span? Maybe I should help you instead of asking you questions." The voice said.
Squall's eyes widened, as a white hole was ripped open in thin air. A blue figure carrying a strange blade stepped out. The sword had six sickle shaped objects sticking out of it, three on both sides. Its holder gave Squall a look of appraisal.
"Hey… you're that one guy from before. Gneo, right?" Squall asked.
"Hmmm… so you do have a memory span. Okay, maybe I will question you." Gneo offered a hand to help him up. Squall did not refuse the offer.
"But first, let's stop this bleeding, shall we?" Gneo grabbed the bottom of Squall's shirt, and pulled it up. This startled Squall, and he jumped back.
"Don't worry, human. I won't hurt you. And you don't have to worry about me making a move on you either. Now hold up your shirt for a second." Gneo said. Squall hesitated, but slowly did as he was told. The bleeding wasn't that bad, but it didn't tickle either. With a simple touch of his palm, Gneo froze the cut, and no more blood came out.
"There, that should do it. You can take the cold, right?" Gneo asked Squall.
"Sure." Squall said.
"Um… you can put you're shirt down now." Gneo said.
"Uh, right." Squall let go of his shirt. "Hey, how did you do that? The freezing, I mean."
"Sorry, but this is my turn to ask questions." Gneo said. He turned into his water form, becoming semi-transparent. He was still standing, and fully detailed. Except he was see-through. The ground around the two started to frost over, covering an area of about fifteen square feet. Squall did not seem to mind, until walls of jagged ice came up all around them, that is. They towered about ten feet above them. Gneo stood there, studying the expression of confusion on his face. Out of reflex, Squall lunged foreword and began punching Gneo in the face. Squall was able to penetrate Gneo's skull. But it just splashed back into place. Gneo lifted his arm, and opened a portal where Squall was punching. Squall fell all the way into the portal, so Gneo opened the exit portal four feet in front of him. So basically, it would have the same outcome if Squall just backed up four feet. He stumbled to the side, very confused, and slipped on some ice. He fell on his back, but was lucky enough to not hit his head. He could not move. Well, actually he could, but not without hurting himself. He lay motionless and numb, not knowing what was going on in the outside world. When he finally opened his eyes, Gneo's face was hovering above him. He was not in his water form anymore.
"Where am I?" Squall asked softly.
"The same place you were fifteen seconds ago." Gneo answered, backing up.
"S-s-so c-c-cold…" Squall mumbled. He looked around. He tried to move. He heard the sound of ice clacking against each other. He looked down. He saw that he was in shackles of ice. He was chained to the wall, bound by ice to his wrists and ankles. He tried to walk forward to Gneo, but the chains only extended a few feet.
"I thought you said you could take the cold." Gneo said.
"How the hell should I have known that I would be chained to a frigg'en wall?" Squall asked.
"My time for questions. When did you think suicide would answer your problems?" Gneo asked.
"Huh?" Squall was confused.
"Don't play dumb. If I had not confiscated your sword-gun thingy, you would not be chained to a wall right now." Gneo retorted.
"Oh, how ever my I thank you?" Squall answered, sarcasm dripping from his lips.
"By listening to and answering my questions, and shutting the hell up whilst I do so." Gneo said. Squall did not say anything. Gneo nodded, and then began pacing back and forth.
"So. You are angry, no? What is this felling that makes you want to end your life?" Gneo asked.
"Rinoa hates me. Without her, I don't feel like living." Squall stared at the ground, remembering how she ran away from him.
"MY GOD! Just because you suck at kissing does not mean you just impale yourself with a sword, you pussy!" Gneo exclaimed.
"Wha-hey! How do you know?" Squall.
"Let's see… oh yeah, I met this cowboy-like dude, what's his name? I think it 'Pervine' or something like that." Gneo asked.
"Close enough." Squall laughed. "It's Irvine."
"Oh. Yes, that's it. Now, on to business. What is your guess on your girlfriend's thoughts?" Gneo asked.
"Thoughts? On what?" Squall asked. Gneo rolled his eyes.
"You, stupid." Gneo said curtly.
"She hates me." Squall said in dismal, sitting down and hanging his head low.
"Tch. Hardly. So you can't kiss. After a few tears, which, by the way, I'm surprised that that's why she was crying in the first place, she'll get over it. Oh, to answer any future questions about how I know she was crying, she almost plowed me over while she was running. Anyway, how do you think killing yourself would help it anyway? She would think it was her fault for you going all suicidal and crap, and it would make the rest of her life a miserable, living hell. If she even decided to live the rest of it, that is." Gneo said. Squall gave no reply. He knew Gneo was right. He simply tried to choose the easy way out of it.
"Can you release me now? This is uncomfortable." Squall said.
"I don't know…" Gneo said, turning his back.
"Alright, I promise to not put my own life in jeopardy… on purpose that is." Squall replied. Gneo nodded. He then snapped his fingers, and the ice shackles imprisoning Squall shattered, leaving the air sparkling with a shower of blue ice, each side of the ice shards showing reflections of the surrounding area from oblique angles. Gneo turned around, and beads holding the blue dreadlocks in placed clacked against each other, sending the noise to echo against the ice walls. Gneo stepped forward to Squall. He stared at Squall oddly for a while, and then finally offered his hand. Squall accepted.
"So-what about this…uh…ice…thing…?" Squall asked after Gneo helped Squall up. They were still trapped inside by the walls of ice.
"That's easy." Said Gneo. He clapped his hands, and the shimmering ice turned to glistening water, though still stayed erect. After a few seconds, the water splashed down to the ground, and instantly evaporated.
"TAKE THIS! THUNDAGA!" Selphie and everyone else were standing where the walls of ice used to be. Selphie's Nunchuckus were glowing vibrant yellow, and she looked pissed off.
"Wait, Selphie-no!" Squall started for Selphie, but he was too late. Strange markings appeared under Gneo.
"What is this sorcery! I can't move…" Gneo was still in his water form. A large jolt of electricity shot through Gneo, sending him flying upward super fast. But before Gneo's head could smash up against the ceiling, a white spot appeared above him, and another in front of Selphie.
"Whoa! What's tha-" before Selphie could finish, Gneo went through the white hole in the air, and came out through the hole right in front of her. He smashed down on the ground, barely inches away from her. He stood up, and then slowly converted back to his physical form, black scorch marks could be seen on him while he was changing from his feet, slowly up to his head. He glared angrily into Selphie's eyes.
"HUMAN! What the hell was that for!" Gneo screamed. Selphie just stared at Gneo. Her eyes were sparkly, and not from the small bit of makeup.
"Ohmigod! That was soooooooooo cool! Do it again! Do it again!" Selphie jumped up and down like a crazed bunny, madly clapping her hands.
"Huh? You mean-hey!" Gneo turned around to see Irvine standing there.
"Hey! I was just look'in at that gun o' yer's, there. Okay, so I was just gonna touch it…"
"What do you want with my rail-driver!" Gneo cut Irvine off. He reached over his sword sling and grabbed the rail driver off. He aimed it at Irvine, and pressed a button. A long metal prong slowly came out of the muzzle of the gun, and mini bolts of electricity came out. (A/N: for those of you who do not know what a rail-driver is, do not worry. It will be explained later. All you need to know right now is that it is a hell of a big gun. The "pronged end" basically looks like an oversized tuning fork, where the slugs come out of)
"Wow! A rail-driver! We have those on this planet… but they are on tanks… and you need to reload with each shot." Irvine did not notice that there was a one hundred and twenty-five pound gun being aimed at him. He was lost in the rail-driver.
"Not with this baby…" Gneo patted the gun.
"How does it work?" Quistis asked. Gneo grinned.
"Glad you asked, miss." Gneo turned around, and aimed at a group of small trees about twenty yards away. He tilted his head to peer through the scope.
"You see, it works like magic…" he pulled in and held the trigger for a few seconds. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzn! The end of the huge gun charged up with electricity.
"Now you see it…" Gneo released the trigger, sending a large sparking metal slug flying through the air. It hit the base of the trees, and blew up on contact. The trees flew ten feet through the air before landing in a burning heap on the ground.
"Now you don't."
"Yes I do." Selphie said. "It's over there in flames…" she pointed at the wreckage.
"No you don't!" Gneo pointed the gun at Selphie and held the trigger in, charging it up.
"Wow! Where can I get one of those?" Irvine asked Gneo excitedly.
"…Depends on how far you are willing to travel." Gneo replied.
"Huh? Oh, I get it." Irvine replied.
'There it is! There's the monster! Let's get'em!" A random student yelled. A group of three guys and two girls started for Gneo.
"Get away!" Gneo yelled. "Oh, Pervine, here." Gneo said.
"Irvine" Irvine replied.
"Same thing." Selphie said as she walked over to a pile of rocks and sat down.
"Yeah, gotcha, here, catch." Gneo tossed the rail-driver to Irvine, who fell backwards on his butt. He stood up slowly, and then dragged the gun back towards a few rocks where Selphie, Quistis, and Zell were sitting. Zell was eating popcorn. Irvine sat down, and began studying the massive rail-driver.
"Hey have you guys seen Mr. Whatever?" Quistis asked.
"No. Probably looking for Miss Dance With Me Right Now." Zell said through a mouthful of popcorn.
"Oh. Okay."
"Zell, pass the pop-… hey! Where did you even get that popcorn?" Selphie asked.
"I dunno. I just sort of found it here." Zell said, chomping loudly on a handful of popcorn.
"Eeeeeew! That's gross!" Selphie stuck out her tongue.
The mob of people approached Gneo. Out of the three guys, two had brown hair and were rather short compared to Gneo. One of them had a fifty caliber pistol, the other a S.A.A. (For those of you who are not weaponry geeks, a fifty cal. pistol is the biggest pistol out there. And a S.A.A. is basically a revolver. You may now shoot me for distracting you from the story with my author's notes) One of the two girls was the same busty blonde that Squall ran into that morning. She had a chain whip with a sickle at the end. The other girl had long blackish hair, a white shirt and a black skirt that had single leather strap that went over the left shoulder, like a suspender. She had metal studded gloves, which most likely meant she used her fists. The guy with long blonde hair seemed to be the ringleader as he stepped foreword and drew his Flamberge off of the sheath on his back.
"C'mon! Knock'em dead!" Selphie cupped her hands around her mouth and yelled.
"What, have you brainwashed those people to be your cheerleaders?" The blonde guy asked.
"Cheerleaders? Yes!" Quistis jumped up, and zipped up her shirt almost all the way up, bearing a large amount of cleavage.
"Go Gneo, go Gneo, go, go, go!" Quistis yelled as she hopped up and down. Gneo tried not to stare as Quistis's chest went bouncy-bounce.
"Gasp! You brainwashed Miss Treppie into being your sex slave? Die, you sick freak!" the girl with blackish hair lunged foreword with a straight punch. Gneo opened two portals, one in front of the girl's face, and one in front of his. The girl's hand went through the portal that, if it were not there, would have connected with Gneo's face. Instead, it connected with her nose. There was a loud crack-pop sound, and the girl grabbed onto and held her nose, as if it was going to fix it.
"My nobe! It's boken! Yoo boke my nobe!" tears welled up in the girls eyes. She turned around and ran away screaming.
"Gneo, don't hurt these people too much, they are students here after all." Quistis said.
"Gotcha." Gneo replied.
"So, you have a name? Gneo is it? How about Gay-know? The now-it-all of gayness!" The blonde guy said.
"Oh my gosh… you hurt Tifa! Take this!" The busty blonde cracked her whip at Gneo. It struck him in the forehead, causing a gash that stared bleeding green blood down his shirt.
"Hey! This is my favorite shirt, you bitch!" Gneo yelled as he jumped backward.
"I am not a bitch!" The busty blonde chased after Gneo, cracking his whip frantically. Gneo dodged left and right, not wanting to get hit again. Then, as Gneo saw the whip pass over his right shoulder, he reached up and grabbed the section where the chain connected to the spike. He started to work his water magic, sending water slowly trickling down the whip. The girl tugged at her whip.
"Hey! Let go! Give it back! Ewww! Why is this all wet?" The blonde yelled.
"Want it back? Fine." Gneo froze the whip, causing the blonde's hands to slip off of the handle. She fell backwards onto her butt.
"Tell me, Miss balloon boobs, are you in that position a lot? Because if you are, you and I have to party some time." Gneo tossed the whip aside, which was now frozen into a pole. It broke in half upon impact with the ground.
"What? Never! That's gross!" the girl stood up, and dusted off her pants by smacking them with her hands. "Wait for me Tifa!" she turned around and ran.
"Awwww… she was kinda cute, too…" Gneo said.
"FREEZE!" Gneo felt the cold steel of a pistol on his back. "Didn't your mother tell you who to treat women?" he dug the pistol into Gneo's back. Gneo memorized where exactly the pistol was on his back, closed his eyes, and slowly raised his hands.
"That's right, keep going…" the guy twisted the pistol on his back.
Gneo quickly turned around and hit the gun with the back of his right arm. The guy's arm swung to the side for a second, then came back with a pistol whip. Gneo ducked under the mêlée attack, and used his current crouching stance to spring forward and elbow him in the side of the ribs.
"Ah! You little…" he stumbled back, and with his empty hand he held his ribs where Gneo's elbow had grazed him, and with his other hand, he tried to come back with aiming his pistol at Gneo. Gneo lurched forward and grabbed the hammer of the pistol with his right hand, and the butt of the gun with his left. He then pulled the side of the pistol into his chest, parallel with his solar plexus. A shot was fired, but it was parallel with Gneo, so it just hit and ricocheted off the ground. Gneo then turned the pistol inward toward his opponent as hard as he could, and it slipped out of his grasp. Gneo then waved his enemy's own weapon manically at him. Gneo then grabbed and squeezed the top of the slide of the pistol as hard as he could, waited to here a click, then pulled the entire slide shaft completely off.
"Waaaaaaaahahahaha! What now? What now, beeeee-och?" Gneo said crazily.
"Ahhh!" the guy who once had a pistol ran away.
"Wow, what a piece of crap." Gneo threw the disassembled pistol down.
"Alright. That settles it. Remind me to ask Gneo what kind of martial arts he's in." Zell said, taking a break from his popcorn.
"Alright Gneo! Whoo! Booyaka!" Selphie exclaimed.
"Three down, one to go!" Quistis yelled. Gneo did not look at her, because he knew she was probably bouncing up and down.
"You mean two, right Miss blonde? Wow you are desperate. You should be on that one show, "Desperate Housewives." Selphie said.
"So, Squall wouldn't show me more affection then Zell would." Quistis said.
"What! I wouldn't show you any in the first place!" Zell yelled.
"Bingo." Replied Quistis. It took Zell a while to figure it out.
"Alright, smart ass, no more playing around." The guy with the revolver said. He put a bullet into one of the six chambers. He then gave the chamber a spin, aimed at Gneo, waited a few seconds, and then pulled the trigger. Click. Nothing.
"What? That shouldn't have happened…" he said.
"Why did you try that stupid trick? That's a S.A.A. you got there, isn't it? A Single Action Army, nice gun, yes very good. For looks, that is. When you manually fed a bullet into the chamber, what were the chances of getting it? One in six chances are not usually in your favor. You were just asking to get your gun locked up." Gneo said.
"Ahhhh! Shut your blue mouth up!" The blonde guy ran forward, his Flamberge shining with the fake light from the ceiling lights. He swung his sword upward, missed, he went for a stab, and succeeded in impaling Gneo through his stomach. His stomach wasn't solid, of coarse. The rest of him was, though.
"Oh, no, you beat me…" Gneo bluffed, falling over. The sword was still in his stomach. The blonde guy thought he won, so he let go of the sword.
"That was easy enough." He said. Gneo then jumped up, turned his stomach to ice, while the sword was still frozen in place, he punched the sword downward making it break in half, turned his stomach back to normal, pulled the other half out of him, then turned his stomach back to normal.
"Surprise!" Gneo exclaimed. He then threw the broken end of the sword at the blonde's shoulder. It severed the flesh, and dark red stated to stain his white shirt.
"Ahhh! Damn! My favorite shirt!" he yelled, holding his bleeding appendage.
"Now you know how I feel!" Gneo replied.
"It's up to you now, Jack!" said the blonde, and ran away pretty fast for a guy who was losing a pint of blood or two.
"Jack, huh? Well, pleasure to beat you today, Jack." Gneo rushed forward at Jack. As Gneo drew nearer, Jack braced for impact. Just as Gneo came within inches, he threw a punch, and Jack put his arms up in an 'X' shape for defense. Just an inch away from Jack, Gneo opened up a portal in front of, and right behind Jack. Gneo went through the one in front of him, and ended up behind him. After a few seconds of standing there, Gneo crossed his arms in boredom. Gneo's back was to Jack's. After a few more seconds, Jack summoned up the courage to take a peek behind his defenses.
"Huh? Where-"
"I'm over here, shit-for-brains. I mean Jack." Gneo muttered. Jack turned around, held the end of the barrel of his S.A.A. with his right hand, and tried to smash Gneo on the back of the head with the butt of the gun. Gneo looked up just in time to jump backwards into Jack. It knocked the revolver out of his hands, and it fell with a clunk to the ground. Gneo jumped and spun around, and landed on his left leg. He sunk downward upon landing, and turned his right leg into water, then froze it into ice. He used the momentum from landing on his left leg to spring upward, and sent his frozen leg into Jack's stomach. Jack fell limp over Gneo's body, one arm folded over Gneo's shoulder. Jack gasped for breath, as he could not stand up. Gneo grabbed the arm hanging on him, and pulled Jack upward, flipping him over his shoulder. Jack landed on his back with a thud and a gasp for breath.
"Have fun trying to breathe!" Gneo replied. He walked over to where Zell, Irvine, Quistis, and Selphie were sitting. He sat down with them.
"That was cool! I would've joined, but it wasn't my fight." Selphie said.
"I think it was a brilliant display of skill at close range fighting and magic talent." Quistis said, scooting over to Gneo and leaning on his shoulder.
"Um, I don't know how to say this, but I just can't. Sorry." Gneo said. He grabbed the zipper of Quistis's shirt and zipped it down to cover up her chest. She stopped leaning on him, and scooted away from him.
"Will I ever find a special guy?" Quistis thought aloud.
"Wouldn't it be cooler to find that special girl?" Gneo suggested.
"Hey! That's not funny!" Quistis stood up and yelled.
"Heh, heh, I thought it was. What about you, Irvine?" Zell asked.
"Huh? What-oh the fight's over?" Irvine looked up from the rail-driver.
"You didn't even watch it? You totally missed it!" Selphie exclaimed.
"I guess. You guys wanna look for Squall and Rinoa?" Zell asked.
"I'm hungry. Can we eat something?" Gneo asked.
"Wait. Tell me how this gun o' yer's works. Where does the energy come from?" Irvine asked. Gneo got up, and sat down next to Irvine. He pushed a button near the butt of the gun, and a glowing green cylinder popped out. Gneo held the glowing object in front of Irvine.
"Now… this baby right here… holds an immense amount of energy. It's got a mixture of compressed liquid iron, and popalala." Gneo said.
"What the hell is popalala?" Irvine asked.
"Only on my planet. It's basically the battery used to power up the magnets used inside to fire huge metal slugs at extremely high velocities." Gneo said.
"Wow." Irvine replied.
"And make big boom." Gneo stood up, and cracked his back. He then relieved Irvine of the weight of the rail-driver on his lap. He swung the leather strap over his shoulder, and let the gun rest over his sword sheath on his back.
"C'mon let's go. The faster we find them, the faster I can eat." Gneo said.
"Alrighty!" Selphie yelled. They all stood up and began to start the search.
XxX
Boy, did that take a while! Sorry about that, it's hard to get at a computer at school when you have been wrongfully accused for looking up pornography twice. Trust me, it sucks. Not cool. I have a computer at home, but no Internet. So please tell me what you think of this chapter, I am open to anything. Except meaningless criticism. I get that enough from my school's authoritative figures, thank you very much.
O/J. did it