It was a dark time, for the sorceress had been awakened by the very people who were supposed to be guarding against her. Their minds were so easily corrupted, much like their arrogant blond-haired ancestor before them, weak blooded, weak minded fools, believing that they could stand before one such as she…the very one who had taken their forefather as a puppet knight for herself giving him his 'Romantic dream' pitiful, such weak beasts. No longer will these pests stand before her and keep her trapped here in space awaiting time…her time had come.
The battle was going badly, no, badly would be too kind of a work, they were dying, being eradicated by the sorceress and no one could top them. Timus dropped down next to another fallen seed and turned him over onto his back, dead, a large cut through his abdomen; he sighed and ran a hand through his blonde hair, getting it bloody. He brushed off his knees and stood up, slicing into another Galbadian soldier with his gunblade. The air behind him stirred and he swung his blade around behind him and he almost fell over himself. He had almost hit Kita, who blocked his blow with her staff.
"Come on Timus, gather who you can, the sorceress is too strong, we need to pull back." She tried pulling him back away from the battle, but he shrugged her off.
"No Ki, not this time, I won't go down in history as a coward. This is our dream, MY dream, I won't let my families honor fall any further."
"Timus, we're going to die if we stay here, not even the guardians are around to help us any longer."
"NOT SO CHILD…" The two of them looked around in confusion as the area around them became dark, and no fighting could be heard. 'Ki, where are you' Timus searched around with his arms trying to find her, and brushed the fabric of her sleeve and grabbed her hand, pulling her to her feet and kept a hold of her hand.
"WE ARE NOT DEAD YET MY CHILD, BUT HAVE HOPE…"
"What do you mean?"
"WE ARE FADING…THE POWER THAT BINDS US TO THIS PLANE IS WEAKENING…THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO PREVENT THIS CHAOS…"
"What is it guardian, we will do anything to stop this madness." Said Kita. Timus pulled her arm around to where she was facing him and he grabbed both her shoulders.
"No, Kita, what are you saying."
"Timus…" she looked up at him, almost seeing his dark blue eyes. "…This world, our world, is being destroyed, we have to do whatever we can to protect it, we ARE SeeDs after all." She said with a nervous laugh.
"Alright, how can we help." He turned to the area where the voices were coming from, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
"…TO END THE CHAOS, ONE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO BEFORE THE COMPRESSMENT…"
"Compressment…you mean…" The train of thought that Kita was on made Timus gasp, the time compression, back to the beginning where his ancestor had, he had…almost brought on the destruction of the world. He closed his eyes still ashamed, she saw this and grabbed his free hand and gently squeezed it.
"YES CHILD, ONE NEEDS TO RETURN THIS TIME TO WHAT IT WAS MEANT TO BE…TO GO BACK TO WHEN WE GUARDIANS WERE NOT GUARDIANS…YOU WILL BE GUIDED BY ONE ALMOST OLDER THAN I…BUT ONLY ONE MAY GO…CHOOSE QUICKLY BEFORE WE LOOSE WHAT POWER WE HAVE LEFT ON THIS PLANE."
"Choose," he said, "You mean between the two of us?"
"YES…CHOOSE QUICKLEY, THE TRINE DRAWS NEAR." He felt Kita tense up under his arm.
"Timus…"
"No Ki, I wont let you."
"Timus, I must."
"No, Kita, I wont let you go; otherwise you will be lost to me forever." She pulled away from him and turned to face him.
"Timus," She raised his chin so that he would look into her gray blue eyes instead of at the ground. "Timmie, if I don't go, you and I both will not survive, the people here won't survive,"
"Ki," He protested. She quickly put a finger to his lips.
"Shh, Timus, you were my first love," she gently kisses him on his cheek. "If I can protect you, then my life will not be in vain."
"But, you can't go."
"Timus, listen to me. Your place is here, we've always known that crazy things tend to happen in my family, think of the Commander, how crazy is that, and they have always worked out in the end. Trust me, let me go." He slowly nodded; no words could escape from his throat as he fought back tears.
"I don't know why it has to be like this, but goodbye Timus, remember me." She looked up at the blackness. "I'm ready."
"QUICKLY, INTO THE PORTAL…" She pulled her shoulders back and walked through the gate as confidently as she could so that he couldn't see the tears going down her cheeks. After she went into the portal, he tried running after her, but it fell apart, disrupted by another blast of magic that penetrate the area by the sorceress.
"no….Ki…please, be safe."
"THIS IS NOT THE END YOUNG ONE, ONLY THE BEGINNING."
I don't own any part of FF8 or FF7 but the other characters are mine. If you don't like it, deal with it, if you do, please review, I'm just trying to get this idea out of my head so I dont know how it will turn out but I'm already working on the next chapter...chocobos beware.
