I have college later tonight so if this ends up short or the story goes in a poor direction then it's because I'm going off a whim right now to write with no pretense. Thanks for reviewing Kitten652~ I appreciate it ^^. Anyways if this ends up cut short then expect an update again tomorrow because I don't have schooling to worry about. Plus I need to write an opening statement for the mock jury trial I'm doing for my criminal justice class. Which btw if anyone wants legal advice be it for a story or life~ Let me know~ While the other chapters did not use explicit inappropriate language~ This chapter is going to start out with such. I placed the Mature warning there for a reason.
"Mother Fucking Son of a Bitch Ass Damned Shit-headed Cunt!" Zoey said throwing a book down on a nearby table. "What the Hell am I suppose to do now?! It took me forever just to learn bits of Spanish, and Japanese, there is no way I'll be able to fucking learn a whole made up fucking language before I'm found out!!" Zoey yelled at herself. Some part of her subconscious was laughing at her for not realizing it when she saw the poster before. Zoey put her hands on her head and dropped down into a sitting fetal position. "Stay calm…..let's think." Zoey took a deep breath in and closed her eyes.
"It's not a matter of dimensions." She thought to herself and shook her head. "Dimensions are merely 3-d and we are in the 4th where time exists. Since time exists here too then dimensions aren't at play." Zoey thought of the black cat. "This place…. is it real? ... … …" Zoey opened her eyes and looked to the side. Zoey thought of it on a conscious level. "Is it possible he merely made a game, and placed my consciousness in it? … … Fuck no." Zoey clenched her eyes and shook her head. "I need to distance myself from science fiction. As if there was a basis for science fiction in a fictional world. How in the hell did Chase even know that she would end up in Midgar for real…. If it was real…Might as well call herself Alice." Zoey could picture space in her mind's eye. Subatomic particles make up atoms, and so on and so forth. She thought of how so many protons shooting at an atom will make it split and make an atomic bomb. She thought of dark matter. It made up for the energy not shown in normal matter. Dark Matter was the other side of things. "Didn't they have material or Materia called dark matter here? … Shit." Zoey realized that things could get mixed up and confused, when things they call in their world is something totally different in this one.
Zoey gave another sigh before running both hands through her hair and standing up. She stood there for a good few minutes before opening her eyes. "This is Bullshit." Zoey stated before making her way back to the elevator. Maybe she could play it off that since she grew up in the slums she never learned to read or write. Zoey thought of Eclipse, and bit her thumb nail lightly. She stared at the closed silver doors of the elevator. There had to be some card she could play. She was training him after all. Zoey spun her wrist as if it would help the wheels of her mind to spin and find the answer quicker. She stopped and placed her hand on her forehead. Zoey freaked as numbers above the door lit up. It meant someone was making their way up to this floor, and she wasn't sure if she had to have permission to be up here or not.
Zoey stepped back and then to the side then back to her original position before running and ducking behind one of the bookshelves on the left side of the room. As soon as she slid into place, a slight ding came from the front of the room and a slight sliding sound emitted from the elevator doors opening. By the sound of the footsteps there was more than one person entering the room. Zoey lightened her breathing the best she could. The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe popped into her head.
"So why are we up here?" Angeal's voice asked. It seemed like he was at the back of the group. They had been making their way straight to the back.
"My father said he never received Xander's medical file. Lazard's office shows no prior record of him showing up for interviews or anything else. A fighter that good off hand, the files are not likely to be lost. If there are not here, then that means they never made the transition. Reno couldn't find anything when doing his background check. That means we may have a spy on our hands." Sephiroth's voice came.
"Why would a spy waste time with our rookies? Why not try and send one into the science department. Besides if he really was a spy, why wouldn't he have looked around your dad's lab at all?" Angeal stated. Zoey was slightly rocking back in forth. Her mind chanted shit over and over again. She knew that they'd be onto her but, she assumed that she'd have more time to make up a story. Maybe she could say her files were lost in a fire. Or that she is secretly a being from another world that accidentally left everything back home.
"I don't know." It sounded like they both stopped. It sounded like they both stopped on the other side of the bookcase Zoey was at. "I'm sure that in time he'll slip up, and when he does, everyone will know." The two moved on to the back of the room. Zoey's phone vibrated as soon as Angeal spoke up.
"Huh?" Angeal's voice was hard to make out now from the other part of the room. "Who would need a book on the mythological Esper's?" Angeal asked, as he apparently must of picked up the book she left on the desk. Zoey was shaking and rocking still. She knew Esper's existed in Final Fantasy Six but didn't think that it would leave traces in this world. Maybe all the Final Fantasy's are the same world but just morph with each generation. What a fanatical idea, she laughed on the inside at herself. Sephiroth was apparently not going to give Angeal a response to that one. Zoey wondered if she could move without them hearing her. She stopped kneeling and stood straight up. She knew the bookcase would block her good enough from that sort of distance. Using both hands she opened her pocket and then slid the phone out. Zoey saw the little envelope on the front and flipped her phone up quietly.
"It's mission time, me you and Boomer are requested to go to Lazard's office right now." The text said. Zoey hadn't a clue who's number this was or who Boomer even was. Zoey shook her head as she figured it was eclipse. Looking to either side Zoey wondered how she was going to get out of this one. She wasn't going to text him back in fear of being heard. This was the only floor in the entire building that had no stairs that attached to it. It was elevator or bust.
Zoey tip toed her way to the complete left side of the room. There were windows. She wasn't exactly sure if they were open-able though. Zoey could hear mumbles as Angeal and Sephiroth talked on the other side of the room. She pushed the window and it slid open. She looked down at the ground below. It may have been possible for people in their world to run up buildings or down buildings without getting hurt but…. There was no chance in hell that she could. Zoey grabbed her staff and stood there a moment. She clenched it with both hands while thinking of a plan. A minute passed by before Zoey made her decision.
The gem on her staff glowed as she used to it to shoot ice onto the side of the building. It was just like using a blizzard attack only more controlled. She would just have to wrap around the building to another floor, and prey the ice melted before anyone, especially Sephiroth noticed and was able to point the finger. After getting a decent amount accumulated on the side of the building Zoey fought with herself to test it out. She didn't want to fall and die. A pause came over her. Death truly is quite possible in this world… but their dead disappear into the lifestream, would she do the same? Zoey shook her head. No time to worry about that. Zoey managed to slide herself out the window onto the ice. As soon as she closed the window she stood up. Because the weight distribution was different and now greater on one area, the ice started to crack, and fall, Zoey with it. Zoey was freaking out by that point, as the ice slipped down she couldn't risk staying there because she had closed the window a little two loudly, much more it would be really bad if anyone saw her there in the first place. Zoey fell through and created more and more ice blocks, some directly below her and others off to another side of the building. Zoey had made it to the 17th floor before being secured and fully stopped.
Well almost. Zoey hand one of her hands partially frozen to the block she created on purpose while the rest of her was dangling below. Placing her free arm up, Zoey used her staff's end and placed it in the windowsill. Using force and momentum Zoey broke the ice around her hand and forced/jumped herself up. Zoey nearly ended up sliding off on the other side but had inside sad on the ice block itself before she managed to slip the rest of the way. Looking in the window, she saw that it was a bathroom, therefore must be one of the dorms. She prayed it wasn't Genesis's or something like that. Rather she prayed that someone wasn't inside or passing by. The ice was already dripping and beginning to crack. Zoey opened the window with her staff before throwing the staff in and literally rolling inside. Zoey stayed on the bathroom floor, where she stopped and held her heart taking in deep breathes. Some part of her wanted to do that again, and another part said never again. Zoey shivered badly as a part of her fright left up the floors above found here again. She put her forehead against the cold floor and clenched her eyes, both arms hugging herself. Zoey stopped herself when she felt tears coming on. There was no need for that plus she had to get down to Lazard's office right away.
Zoey grabbed her staff and pushed herself forward as she got up and ran out of the bathroom, through the dorm room, and down the hall. Zoey's body wouldn't stop shaking as she waited for the elevator to get down to her floor. Zoey had images of the ice hitting people below. "Stop. Shut up." She commanded to herself right before the elevator reached her floor. She quickly straightened up and went to attention as the elevator doors opened up. She sighed in relief as the doors opened up to show Eclipse. She could hug him.
"Geez man, your paler than normal, what happened?" Eclipse questioned as Zoey got into the elevator beside him. "If it's about our first mission then don't sweat it man. It'll be a piece of cake." The elevator doors closed and they started to rise up to Lazard's Office floor. Something in her either let go, or snapped. Zoey just laughed, she laughed long and hard.
I'm going to stop there for right now because I have to get to work on college crap. Plus I've had this next scene and the one afterwards go several different ways so I need to get a more focused way to handle the mission and the events that follow. Lol, I can picture the ice on the side of the building just sitting there melting and people looking up and wondering what the heck was going on. Anyways, defiantly expect an update Friday, if not Friday then for sure Monday early afternoon.