AN/ Hell yeah! I'm on a roll! FINALLY UPDATED! Ooo-rah!
WARNING: This story contains language that may not be suitable for small children. Wait-maybe I should not have waited until the seventh chapter to say this. Oh well. Why not change it to an "M" rating? Well duh, then it doesn't show up right away on the screen, you have to manually change the search to include stories with an "M" rating. So I am aiding you and I in becoming lazier. Besides, what teen doesn't know the basic four letter words? GODDAMNIT!)
Wait…did I change the rating? Hmmm…don't care enough to remember…or look…or change…
Chapter 7Lucky, lucky, lucky
"So, any questions, class?" Quistis asked her students.
"Yeah, who or what the hell is this?" Someone sitting in the row in front of Squall asked, pointing at Gneo, who was sitting in the back row next to him.
"Oh! Perfect timing, I almost forgot! Why don't you come to the front of the classroom, Gneo and introduce yourself to your classmates?" Quistis said.
"Why? Why don't I? Do I really have to answer that for you?" Gneo said in a smart-ass tone. Quistis glared at him. "What?"
"Come up here!"
"No! I'll come somewhere if you spell it differently!"
"What are you, three years old?"
"…"
"What now?"
"Alright, I'll go up there."
"I don't want to meet him anymore." Said the girl who asked who Gneo was in the first place. The class laughed.
"Well, too bad." Gneo opened up two portals, one beneath him, and one in front of the classroom. He fell through the one on his seat, and stepped out of the second portal in front of the class. There were plenty of "ooo's" and "ahhh's and that's gay's to be heard from the class.
"Hello. As you may know, my name is Gneo. You my have also found out by now, I am not from this planet."
"Thank Hyne!" said the girl who asked him who he was. The class laughed again.
"And who are you, little girl?" Gneo asked sarcastically.
"My name is Yoko."
"You-…are not a virgin, are you?" Gneo asked.
"What? How do you-"
"Your frigg'en name gave it away. Anyway, I am not human. Duh, as if you couldn't tell. My race is known as the Doku race. I can summon the powers of ice and water, and even turn into it myself, but that's it. Oddly enough, I am weak against water and ice, but I absorb electricity."
"But I thought you-" Gneo elbowed through the portal behind him and hit Squall in the side to make him stop talking. He then leaned backwards to stick his head in the portal to talk to Squall.
"Shhh, they don't know that." Gneo whispered.
"That's cold." Squall whispered back.
"You have no idea exactly how cold that is." Gneo gave him a sharp-toothed grin and pulled out of the portal. "Like I was saying, that's how my magic works. There, now you know what I'm weak against, so now you can challenge me, if you have the guts. Just remember that I live, breath, and dream fighting."
"Do you eat fighting as well?" Yoko asked. The class laughed a third time.
"No, I eat girls." Gneo answered. Quistis made an "A-hem!" noise to signify that that was inappropriate.
"Right, uh-huh, sure you do. Gay alien." Yoko snapped back. The class roared with laughter.
"I wonder how you taste, Yoko-ow! What the hell?" Squall had thrown a pencil down the portal Gneo had created next to him, to see what happens. It went through and hit Gneo in the back of the head.
"Heh-heh, that was cool." Squall said to himself.
"Stop messing with my magic, damnit!" Gneo yelled. Someone in the class started crying, claiming his spleen ripped open from laughter. Another classmate asked him if he even knew what his spleen was.
"Alright, class, settle down. Why don't you return to your seat, Gneo?" Quistis commanded. Gneo fell backwards into the portal, and landed in his seat. He then closed the portals with a clap of his hands.
"Sorry about that." Squall apologized.
"That's okay. This sort of shit happens to me wherever I go. Even in school at home…" Gneo stared downward. Yoko heard him say this, but she didn't say anything. She just ran her fingers through her curly brown shoulder length hair and pretended not to notice anything.
"Miss Quistis, where's Todd?" Yoko asked.
"Oh, right, before I forget, I'd like to say that classmates should please be careful when sparring with one another in the training area." Quistis announced. "And NOT injure one another." Yoko gasped. Gneo slammed his fist on the computer screen implanted in his desk.
"Wow, now he's acting like Seifer." Someone said.
"Hey, I wonder if he'll lead an attack against us now." Someone else said.
"But his scar isn't a straight slash in between his eyes. It's looks more like a bolt of lightning that starts above his right eye, and splits under it, and then travels down to the bottom of his cheek."
"What, this ol' thing?" said Gneo, rubbing his scar.
"Shut up people." Said Squall with an uneasy tone.
"Harry Potter!" Someone squealed.
"What's a Seifer?" Gneo asked.
"Stop it!" Squall yelled.
"And then he'll try to kill us all!" Yelled a classmate.
"What's a Seifer? Is it food? Does it taste good?" Gneo asked.
"Shut up! Shut up all of you!" Squall stood up and shouted.
"Why don't you ask that Rinoa chick? She should know how he tastes." Someone said.
"FUCK OFF!" Squall screamed.
"Class dismissed!" Quistis announced, with a scared tone in her voice.
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"This blows." Zell told Squall. They were sitting on the bench in front of the library.
"…" Squall said nothing.
"My girlfriend is kinda angry at me right now." Zell stared down the hallway leading to the library, hoping he could catch a glimpse of her.
"…"
"I don't know what I did, or didn't do, so I told her so. I think that's why she's angry at me."
"…"
"Man, it's tough being a boyfriend. Does this ever happen with you and Rinoa? She gets angry at you for no apparent reason?"
"…"
"And then she gets angry for you not knowing why she was angry at you in the first place? What, does she expect me to be some sort of psychic mind reader?" Zell stood up and asked.
"Whatever." Squall stood up and headed back to the dorms to retire for the day.
"Well," Zell said, sitting back down, "I'm glad every thing has returned back to normal. Sort of."
Squall was slowly walking towards the dorms, when he saw a boy wearing a bright blue shirt jogging around the garden.
"Hi there, commander Squall!" The little boy greeted. Squall played along.
"You got a name, soldier?" Squall asked.
"Yes sir, the name's Roger." Roger answered, jogging in place.
"Well then, Roger, how are we doing today?" Squall asked.
"Well, if you are as happy as a lamb too sir, then I would have to say that 'we' are doing good today." Roger remarked.
"You're a smart one," Squall replied, "Why are you always running around the garden, Roger?" Squall asked.
"I'm endurance training to become the strongest SeeD ever. I can't wait until I become a SeeD. Then I'll become your bestest lieutenant ever!" Roger exclaimed.
"And I'm sure you will. Uh-…here. Take this. Hopefully it'll help you in your training." Squall handed him an elixir.
"Gee-thanks sir! I'll train real hard to help everyone here at the garden!" Roger said with glee as he pocketed his gift.
"Good luck!" Squall waved to Roger as he ran off.
"Ow! Watch it there, you little brat!" Roger had run over Zell's foot near the entrance to the library.
"Ppppppppt!" Roger stuck out his tongue at Zell.
"What! Get back here, you little shrimp!" Zell chased after Roger.
Squall was just about to start walking back to the dorms when he heard a roar in the distance. He turned around to see people running away from the entrance to the training center.
"Damn." Squall muttered. "Everything does lead back to that place."
"Eeeeeeek! Two monsters escaped from the training center!" A girl screamed.
"Yeeeee-ha! Giddy up Hexadragon!" Gneo was on top of the monster, riding it like a bull. He smacked the dragon's rump with the flat of his sword. The Hexadragon reared up on its hind legs, and let out a deafening roar. It started to charge forward, but before it could go farther then ten feet from the entrance to the training center, Gneo created a portal in front of the beast and they both disappeared into thin air. An awkward silence filled the air where the dragon and the Doku had been. Everyone stared at each other.
"…"
"…"
"…" Nobody said anything.
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" Selphie screamed. No one paid any attention to her.
"Aw, c'mon people! Doesn't anyone here think that was cool?" Selphie yelled.
"No." Someone answered.
"Who knows what kind of trouble that freak could be causing right now!" Yoko exclaimed, daring to crawl out from under a bench she was hiding under.
"You know Yoko, if you were not as much as a bitch as you are, I would agree with Gneo that you are actually pretty cute." Selphie smirked.
"WHAT!" Yoko and Zell both freaked out. Zell ran over to Selphie.
"Gneo has the hots' for Yoko?" Zell whispered to Selphie.
"No, but I just thought it would be fun to see-"
"You are evil." Zell said flatly. Selphie giggled.
Before anything else could distract him, Squall hurried off to his dorm. As soon as he got there, he flopped onto his bed and immediately indulged himself in his own mind.
"What a crazy day." He thought. "Why does everything keep ending up in mentioning Seifer? Seifer. Great, just thinking about that creep makes my head hurt. Is he dead? He has to be. Well, its not as if I actually saw him kick the bucket. I hope he did, though. In fact, I hope he's fishing in hell…fishing for a second chance at a life he could have led in a different way…the right way. No sorceress. No Rinoa. No scar." Squall rolled around on his futon, felling sleepy. Suddenly, the door burst open.
"I'll grab his legs, you get the arms!" Zell yelled as he ran into Squall's room. He ran up and tore the covers off of Squall's bed.
"Hey! What's going on-" Before Squall could finish, Zell grabbed Squall's legs, and pulled him out of bed. Squall yelled in pain as his head met the cold hard floor.
"OW!" Squall tried to grab the back of his head, when he felt the slam of nunchaku smash him on the side of his face.
"Let's bring him out." He heard Selphie say in an evil tone. He could feel his body being lifted up, and carried out of the room. After a short while, he could hear the sound of rushing water and screaming.
"Hey! Get me down from here!" Rinoa screamed.
"Yeah. After we went though all that hard work? Shut up." Irvine smacked Rinoa across the face. Zell and Selphie dropped Squall on the ground.
"Trust me, 'commander'. This is going to hurt me a lot more than it's gonna hurt you." Zell picked up Squall by the brim of his shirt and started head-butting Squall repeatedly in the face until he heard the loud crunch of his nose breaking. Blood gushed out of the injury.
"Hold him Selphie." Zell said. Squall quickly leapt to his feet and slid the gunblade out of its sheath.
"Not so fast." Selphie's nunchaku came down hard on Squall's wrists. His gunblade chimed as it struck the ground.
"You're a quick one." Zell chuckled.
"Hey! Stop it you monsters!" Rinoa yelled.
"I thought Irvine told you to shut up, bitch." Gneo unsheathed his sword. "Now I have to cut your pretty little face." Gneo brought the tip of a sickle edge on his sword to Rinoa's cheek. He pressed in and dragged it downward, cutting a deep gash. Rinoa winced and tried not to scream, but failed. Gneo laughed at the sound of her agony. Selphie wrapped her arms around Squall from behind so that they went under his armpits and up behind his neck.. Zell drove his fist straight into Squall's solar plexus, making him cough up blood on Zell.
"Thanks a lot, asshole." Zell said in a nasty tone. "This was a new shirt. Alright. Let him see her." Zell commanded. Selphie grabbed Squall's hair, kneed him in the spine, and then pulled his hair downward, forcing him to look up and stare in horror at what they had done to his beloved Rinoa. They were outside of the dorms , right in front of the pool of water that surrounds the center elevator. The water was churning rapidly. Coming out of the water, were two large pillars of ice. Hanging from those pillars at the base was Rinoa, who was being held by two shackles made of ice that were firmly gripping her wrists. They were the same shackles that had held Squall while Gneo was trying to stop him from killing himself. She was crying.
"Hey! Let her go!" Squall yelled.
"Shut up!" Irvine exclaimed. He cocked his gun, then shot Rinoa in the leg. She screamed out loud and more tears came rolling down. Some tears rolled over the cut, the salt stinging the wound. Tears mixed with blood, causing red streaks to run down her face.
"Well, isn't that a pretty sight?" Gneo asked.
"No, this is." Irving said as he shot her straight through the chest. Rinoa wailed with pain and anger.
"Oops, your heart must be on the other side. My sincerest apologies." Irvine said as he aimed a bit more to the left, and pierced her heart with his last bullet. Her crying stopped, as well as her shaking and breathing. Her lifeless body hung there dully, her spirit sagging in its cold prison.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Squall screamed.
"Oh. I think this is." Gneo swung his sword foreword and severed the shackles that bound Rinoa's body, as well as her head from her neck. Gneo caught the head, but let the body fall into the water.
"Why Squall, why couldn't you help me?" Gneo made Rinoa's mouth move, mocking her voice. "Why didn't you save me?" Gneo dangled the head in front of Squall's face.
"I FUCKING HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" Squall screamed in rage. Gneo cackled as he flipped the head sideways and wiped the severed neck all over Squall's face, smearing blood on him.
"Now didn't that fell weird?" Irvine asked.
"DIE! I WANT YOU TO FUCKING DIE AND GO TO HELL! GET OUT OF MY FACE! GET OUT OF MY LIFE!" Squall sat up in bed and collided with Rinoa's forehead, who was standing over him. Squall looked around he saw that Rinoa's head was intact. A huge wave of relief swept over him like a cool evening breeze. Squall leapt out of bed, and hugged Rinoa.
"Oh Rinoa, I'm so glad you're okay I just had the most insane drea—hey, -what's with the fancy dress?"
"What?" Rinoa pushed him off. She was wearing her off-white formal dress and high heels.
"What's the matter?" Squall asked.
"That's what I'd like to ask you. First you ask what's wrong with me, then you tell me that you hate me-"
"What? But I was just-"
"Then you want me to die and go to hell, get out of your face-"
"Rinoa, I was just dreamin-"
"Don't 'Rinoa' me!" She yelled. "Then-…you…you…said you wanted me to get out of your life."
"No, that wasn't it-"
"Then what was it? I thought what we had was real, Squall. I want what you want, so if you want me out of your life, then…then…" Rinoa started to cry.
"That's not what I want." Squall cooed.
"Yes it is! You even yelled it at me! If you want it, fine, we're through!"
"Rinoa!"
"It's over! It's what you want." Rinoa started out the door.
"Wait!" Squall could hear the clicking and clacking of her high heels pick up speed.
Squall swore he saw one of her tears on the floor turn red.
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REALLY BIG A/N: So, how was it? Did you cry as much as I did? Wait, I didn't cry. I'm tough. Sort of. Anyway, if your tears didn't ruin your keyboard, then please tell me how you thought this went. If you don't hate me too much for being a jerk and not updating for so long, that is. Also, let me know if you want the "Yoko" character that I made up to die. Huh? That's not a spoiler…oh, and don't even ask me, "What the fuck were you thinking when you wrote the end of this chapter?" A simple, "You know what? I fuck'n hate you for the way you wrote the end of this chapter," or the even more simple, "You know what? I fuck'n hate you." will suffice. All is accepted here in a little place I like to call my brain. Flame me if you fell like it. (and yes, I meant "feel") No, I don't usually flame people, unless that other person's story is REALLY bad, but hey, we all have our own flaws. (psst, mine is updating at the same speed as California is separating from the U.S.-in other words, really really slow-what the hell? Why is the second 'really' underlined with a squiggly red line? And why is the 'a' in that last sentence underlined with a green squiggly line? That's not incorrect grammar. It's 'a' if the next word starts with a consonant, and 'an' if the next word starts with a vowel. Last time I checked, 's' is still a consonant. Stupid Microsoft Word)
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pp.ss. Holy crap! As I look back now at the ending bit of this chapter, (the dream) … … … what the hell was going through my mind at that point?