Final Fantasy 8's: Intertwined Destinies
Ch. 4: Trouble
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Selphie walked down the hall to the bedroom she shared with Riona to get her so they could get on the float. She hadn't seen Riona all day because Ellone was too busy fixing the dresses and makeup with her. Selphie's high heels clicked down the hall as she popped her gum. Her watch went off and she saw it was 7:30, 30 minutes before the parade. After looking at her watch she did a quick check over her outfit. A sly smile crossed the girl's face.
1 Poor Irvy isn't going to know what hit him. The poor bastard
She was wearing a beige outfit with matching boots. Her top tied around her neck and back, while her skirt was tight and form fitting with two slits on each side coming two inches from her area. Instead of having her hair flipped up, it was flipped down so that her hair framed her face. When reached the room she was surprised at what she saw. There was Seifer, clad in traditional knight armour with Hyperion at his side. The light gleamed on it and made its wearer look god like. All that was fine and good but she wanted to know whom he was shouting at in the bathroom. She hid behind the sofa so she could listen.
2 Probably yelling at Riona
Seifer didn't notice Selphie come in the room; he was too busy focusing on the female in the bathroom.
"What are YOU doing here? Haven't you messed up enough?"
Raven was fixing her hair in the mirror and didn't seem to notice Seifer remark. She looked over her shoulder at her date, who was slumped up in the far corner. He seemed ready to kill Seifer, but she lightly shook her head no. She had heard all that crap before.
"Oh for the love of Hyne Seifer, stop blaming ME for everything, I mean, Zell doesn't!"
Seifer narrowed his eyes. He could KILL that girl. He really wanted her to leave them alone. He clenched his fists and let one fly near her head so she was pressed against the mirror. Seifer let out a growl that would make an Iron Giant run away.
"I know what you're doing, and its NOT going to work. And believe me, whatever you're hiding, I'll find out. Be sure of it."
His eyes bore into hers as she stared back at him, her two dark brown eyes, locked with ice blue ones. Seifer's figure loomed over hers and she so badly wanted to flee, but she stood her ground and stared right back at Seifer Almasy, knight of the evil Sorceress, commander of great armies, and most important of all, protector (and perhaps lover) of her best friend Fujin.
Selphie was enjoying the scene before her. Even if it wasn't Riona and Squall fighting, this was good. She had never seen Raven before; she was gone when she had first arrived. Seeing that this wasn't going to get too interesting, she decided to intervene.
"That's not nice you know."
Seifer greeted the intruder with a snort of annoyance.
"Out brat! Riona's not in here."
Seifer shot her a death glare to scare her away.
"Oh stop that! You don't scare me. I'm not one of those scared little students at the Garden. I know you Seifer and you are a big baby!"
Selphie stuck her tongue out at Seifer and smiled. She moved towards him.
"So now, be a good boy for once and let her go."
Seifer's brow creased. She didn't know what was going on? That was a first. He inwardly was jumping for joy.
She doesn't know what's going on, no one does, good. I don't need another rumor going about.
He uncreased his eyebrows and put on a silly smile.
"Why of course m'lady. I certainly will leave her alone, for now."
Seifer looked down at a very livid Raven. The dark look she gave him was more evil than he was. He shot a penetrating glare at her and smiled wickedly.
"See you soon honey."
Seifer stepped to the side so she could pass. Raven gave Selphie a smile and left to the door, she didn't even look at her date. Seifer wasn't finished with her just yet however.
"I know what you are doing and its not working. You'll never be like Fujin, neither will you be able to take her place."
Seifer's tone was deathly cold. Raven's heart lurched at the statement and she shot back at him before she closed the door behind her.
"That I know, but ask yourself Seifer, who did something that made her leave for the cliff in the first place, eh?"
The door closed and Seifer's face went red.
That bitch..
Selphie had taken it all in and she pitied him. She moved over to talk but he side stepped her and walked out of the room. Selphie sighed and looked in the bathroom, she had forgotten that Raven's date was there. She went to the bathroom and gasped at what she saw, there was Zell, half- awake half-sleep. He hadn't been beaten up but he looked as if he had been through a combination of partying, booze and no sleep.
Zell stared at her disgusted. He hated his life here. He wanted to go back to her, his love, the one he had a strong friendship towards.
So beautiful, legs finely shaped, a figure anyone would die for and a smile that can turn any man on
He got up and spiked up his hair. Selphie looked at him weird. He didn't see anything weird, until he looked over his clothes. They were the ones from the party.
Shit, shit, shit, shit...
Selphie eyed him. His clothes were a little weird. She checked him out and saw nothing was wrong. She rolled her eyes and sighed, it didn't matter, he was back.
"Zell Dintch, where the fuck were you?"
He shrugged off the question and looked out the window.
"What the hell does it matter? I'm here right?"
Selphie was a little shocked at the answer. Zell wasn't this cold until he started seeing that girl Raven.
"No, you're right. As long as you are here. Where's Riona?"
"Down on the float. Look, I'm sorry about the comment, I'll be ready in 15."
Selphie watched Zell exit the bedroom. She blew back a strand of loose hair.
"Poor Zell, let us help."
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Everything went as it was supposed to. The parade went off without a hitch. Selphie had been dancing and waving, making sure that Irvine saw her. She was livid when he didn't notice. The parade had just ended and it was 10, meaning that it was time to party, again.
Squall was sitting in a corner surrounded by Nida, Xu, Zell and Quistis. Zell was standing against the wall, Squall and Quistis were giving each other 'glances' and Nida and Xu were taking swigs from the same bottle of champagne. Squall was watching Quistis blush at his glances and smiles. He had always respected her because she was hardworking and had as much stress as he did.
Quistis had been playing the 'eye game' with Squall for an hour and was greatly enjoying it. A smile graced her face as she turned away again. She couldn't have been happier. Quistis looked up ahead of her and her smile disintegrated. Riona was walking towards them. She had changed out of her white dress and into tight black hip-huggers and a blue and light blue colored v-neck shirt. She was wearing lip-gloss and a light robin's blue eye shadow.
Riona looked Quistis' and Squall's way.
hmm, she's jealous. Good. I'm so going to get that meanie
Squall followed Quistis' eye path to see what made her stop smiling. His jaw dropped at the sight of a scantily clad ex. He closed his mouth, he knew EXACTLY what she was doing and he knew it wouldn't work. First of all she was too flat chested for the shirt and too skinny for her pants.
"Whore at 10 o'clock."
Riona sneered. Her eyes narrowed.
3 That big, mean, jerk! Some gentlemen! I should cast a spell on him!
Riona's mind raced with obscenities she had learned from Selphie. Her eye twitched a little, but her face kept its composure.
"Funny one Squall. So Xu, want to dance with me? Come on, please?"
Xu brought his head down to hide the blush, when he did so, Riona glanced over at an emotionless Squall. Squall knew the game all to well. So, like a good little boy, he played along.
"Yes, go dance with her, you know you want to."
With his consent given, Squall got up, took Quistis by the hand and went out into the crowd. Riona's face fell. Her face displayed her rage and hurt. All she could do was gape. Xu took this time to raise his voice.
"So, you still want to dance?"
"Eww, no!"
Riona stormed off, leaving a laughing group behind her.
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Quistis gave out a wicked laugh when the pair had reached the terrace. The wind was blowing and the lights below set a calm romantic mood.
"Squall Lionheart, you are the Devil."
The knight smiled evilly.
"Why no my dear Quistis, that's our sweet innocent and perky Selphie."
The pair laughed. Quistis stared at the lights and people below, most were teens and young adults out for a chance to see the young war veterans. Squall watched the breeze play with Quistis' loose hair. He reached over and put a loose strand behind her ear.
Oh my, this is, is- going to be one hard explanation.
"Thanks. Look, Squall, about the Riona thing, I-"
A deep probing kiss cut off her sentence. She closed her eyes and let him take over. She felt her back against the cool wall, she put her arms around his neck and pulled him deeper into the kiss. After a time they parted lips and breathed for air. Their eyes locked for what seemed an eternity.
Quistis dropped her head and stared at the ground.
Oh my gods, oh my gods, this cant be happening
Squall moved closer to the older young woman and placed his finger under her chin. He lifted her head and gazed into her never-ending blue eyes. They both closed their eyes and their lips lightly pressed about to kiss but were interrupted by a noise...
-WARNING, WARNING. THE PALACE IS UNDER ATTACK! I REPEAT, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!-
Their heads shot up as an explosion shook the palace. The Vid phone on the opposite wall rang. Quistis was crouched below Squall, dazed from the blast. Squall made sure she was okay and then proceeded to go over and pick up the phone. It was Seifer.
"Lionheart, get your sorry ass over here now bitch! And bring Quistis with ya!"
Seifer's eyes held some sort of anger/hurt in his eyes. Squall saw this but said nothing.
"What's going on? Where are you?"
A deafening blast momentarily distracted Seifer. He wasn't hurt, but he wasn't well either. Seifer looked at the screen, impatience playing on his features.
"What do you mean what's going on? Can't you see we're getting our asses kicked by grenades? We're at Tears Point, use the teleporter that Dr. Odine gave ya. Be well equipped, this isn't no ordinary fight. Seifer out."
Seifer momentarily dazed squall.
Seifer out, he had never said that after Fujin died, it REALLY must be some battle.
Squall whipped out his gunblade, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Quistis check her equipment. She looked up at him and nodded. This was it. They were ready, the only problem was, who or WHAT were they facing. No ordinary battle ran through Squall's head. He dismissed it. He was the strongest person here, WHATEVER it was, he'd be ready. They both nodded and teleported.
Poor Squall, he wasn't, and he didn't even know it.
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The sound of shouting and dying were all around Seifer. This was all TOO familiar to him. He trudged away from the phone and passed Selphie and Riona who were healing and protecting. Irvine was defending the South, Zell the East, and Laguna and his friends the West. It was Seifer's job to guard the North. He ran to the front lines were Galabadia, Dollet and Eshtar soldiers alike, were fighting.
A monster attacked Seifer head on and he dodged it, sending his mighty Hyperion into the beast's stomach. There had been monster attacks before, but not any such as this. Not even the Lunatic Pandora incident was this devastating. He fought his way forward so it seemed as if he alone was guarding the North entrance. It all didn't make sense, how could something like this happen without the Lunatic Pandora? And then he saw it, the reason for the sudden outburst of activity. In the center of the beasts was a lone figure, clad in nothing but black. His mouth was covered in a leather cover and his hands wore fighting gloves. His hair swirled rebelliously around him. This was the culprit.
Seifer ran to the center, killing and dismembering any monster foolish enough to cross his path.
4 Can't wait for Squall forever
He made his way to his new enemy. He had finally reached the center and locked eyes with him. Seifer's eyes narrowed and he let out a high battle wail. Seifer leapt into the air, concentrating his energy on his target. It was a sure hit but alas, it wasn't. With a flick of his hand, Seifer went flying down to the ground. He cut his head on a sharp rock and was bleeding. He could tell he was going to pass out.
So, this is how it's going to end. This sucks.
He couldn't move, he wouldn't move. Seifer was almost too weak to notice Squall run up and attack their enemy. Just like him, the shield threw Squall back. Seifer looked over to Squall to see that he was out, he looked back up at the mysterious adversary. He lifted his hand and a ball of energy formed in his hand.
5 This REALLY sucks!
"End of the line, knights. Good-bye. 'Swift Death!'"
Seifer closed his eyes and let the inevitable come.
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Hiya! Obviously my last chapter wasn't so hot, sorry, I'm trying to put EVERYONE in this. Thanks to all the reviewers, I have no complaints about you guys/gals! Thanks! I HAD to put some romance, so I'm sorry if I turned some stomachs. Riona lovers don't get mad! She just might get him, you never know, she has a chance. *Yeah, like a snowballs...* But, she still has one!
Please Review, till next update!
!!!Also! Some of their thoughts are not being italized, I don't know why, but please bear with me!!!!
Ch. 4: Trouble
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Selphie walked down the hall to the bedroom she shared with Riona to get her so they could get on the float. She hadn't seen Riona all day because Ellone was too busy fixing the dresses and makeup with her. Selphie's high heels clicked down the hall as she popped her gum. Her watch went off and she saw it was 7:30, 30 minutes before the parade. After looking at her watch she did a quick check over her outfit. A sly smile crossed the girl's face.
1 Poor Irvy isn't going to know what hit him. The poor bastard
She was wearing a beige outfit with matching boots. Her top tied around her neck and back, while her skirt was tight and form fitting with two slits on each side coming two inches from her area. Instead of having her hair flipped up, it was flipped down so that her hair framed her face. When reached the room she was surprised at what she saw. There was Seifer, clad in traditional knight armour with Hyperion at his side. The light gleamed on it and made its wearer look god like. All that was fine and good but she wanted to know whom he was shouting at in the bathroom. She hid behind the sofa so she could listen.
2 Probably yelling at Riona
Seifer didn't notice Selphie come in the room; he was too busy focusing on the female in the bathroom.
"What are YOU doing here? Haven't you messed up enough?"
Raven was fixing her hair in the mirror and didn't seem to notice Seifer remark. She looked over her shoulder at her date, who was slumped up in the far corner. He seemed ready to kill Seifer, but she lightly shook her head no. She had heard all that crap before.
"Oh for the love of Hyne Seifer, stop blaming ME for everything, I mean, Zell doesn't!"
Seifer narrowed his eyes. He could KILL that girl. He really wanted her to leave them alone. He clenched his fists and let one fly near her head so she was pressed against the mirror. Seifer let out a growl that would make an Iron Giant run away.
"I know what you're doing, and its NOT going to work. And believe me, whatever you're hiding, I'll find out. Be sure of it."
His eyes bore into hers as she stared back at him, her two dark brown eyes, locked with ice blue ones. Seifer's figure loomed over hers and she so badly wanted to flee, but she stood her ground and stared right back at Seifer Almasy, knight of the evil Sorceress, commander of great armies, and most important of all, protector (and perhaps lover) of her best friend Fujin.
Selphie was enjoying the scene before her. Even if it wasn't Riona and Squall fighting, this was good. She had never seen Raven before; she was gone when she had first arrived. Seeing that this wasn't going to get too interesting, she decided to intervene.
"That's not nice you know."
Seifer greeted the intruder with a snort of annoyance.
"Out brat! Riona's not in here."
Seifer shot her a death glare to scare her away.
"Oh stop that! You don't scare me. I'm not one of those scared little students at the Garden. I know you Seifer and you are a big baby!"
Selphie stuck her tongue out at Seifer and smiled. She moved towards him.
"So now, be a good boy for once and let her go."
Seifer's brow creased. She didn't know what was going on? That was a first. He inwardly was jumping for joy.
She doesn't know what's going on, no one does, good. I don't need another rumor going about.
He uncreased his eyebrows and put on a silly smile.
"Why of course m'lady. I certainly will leave her alone, for now."
Seifer looked down at a very livid Raven. The dark look she gave him was more evil than he was. He shot a penetrating glare at her and smiled wickedly.
"See you soon honey."
Seifer stepped to the side so she could pass. Raven gave Selphie a smile and left to the door, she didn't even look at her date. Seifer wasn't finished with her just yet however.
"I know what you are doing and its not working. You'll never be like Fujin, neither will you be able to take her place."
Seifer's tone was deathly cold. Raven's heart lurched at the statement and she shot back at him before she closed the door behind her.
"That I know, but ask yourself Seifer, who did something that made her leave for the cliff in the first place, eh?"
The door closed and Seifer's face went red.
That bitch..
Selphie had taken it all in and she pitied him. She moved over to talk but he side stepped her and walked out of the room. Selphie sighed and looked in the bathroom, she had forgotten that Raven's date was there. She went to the bathroom and gasped at what she saw, there was Zell, half- awake half-sleep. He hadn't been beaten up but he looked as if he had been through a combination of partying, booze and no sleep.
Zell stared at her disgusted. He hated his life here. He wanted to go back to her, his love, the one he had a strong friendship towards.
So beautiful, legs finely shaped, a figure anyone would die for and a smile that can turn any man on
He got up and spiked up his hair. Selphie looked at him weird. He didn't see anything weird, until he looked over his clothes. They were the ones from the party.
Shit, shit, shit, shit...
Selphie eyed him. His clothes were a little weird. She checked him out and saw nothing was wrong. She rolled her eyes and sighed, it didn't matter, he was back.
"Zell Dintch, where the fuck were you?"
He shrugged off the question and looked out the window.
"What the hell does it matter? I'm here right?"
Selphie was a little shocked at the answer. Zell wasn't this cold until he started seeing that girl Raven.
"No, you're right. As long as you are here. Where's Riona?"
"Down on the float. Look, I'm sorry about the comment, I'll be ready in 15."
Selphie watched Zell exit the bedroom. She blew back a strand of loose hair.
"Poor Zell, let us help."
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Everything went as it was supposed to. The parade went off without a hitch. Selphie had been dancing and waving, making sure that Irvine saw her. She was livid when he didn't notice. The parade had just ended and it was 10, meaning that it was time to party, again.
Squall was sitting in a corner surrounded by Nida, Xu, Zell and Quistis. Zell was standing against the wall, Squall and Quistis were giving each other 'glances' and Nida and Xu were taking swigs from the same bottle of champagne. Squall was watching Quistis blush at his glances and smiles. He had always respected her because she was hardworking and had as much stress as he did.
Quistis had been playing the 'eye game' with Squall for an hour and was greatly enjoying it. A smile graced her face as she turned away again. She couldn't have been happier. Quistis looked up ahead of her and her smile disintegrated. Riona was walking towards them. She had changed out of her white dress and into tight black hip-huggers and a blue and light blue colored v-neck shirt. She was wearing lip-gloss and a light robin's blue eye shadow.
Riona looked Quistis' and Squall's way.
hmm, she's jealous. Good. I'm so going to get that meanie
Squall followed Quistis' eye path to see what made her stop smiling. His jaw dropped at the sight of a scantily clad ex. He closed his mouth, he knew EXACTLY what she was doing and he knew it wouldn't work. First of all she was too flat chested for the shirt and too skinny for her pants.
"Whore at 10 o'clock."
Riona sneered. Her eyes narrowed.
3 That big, mean, jerk! Some gentlemen! I should cast a spell on him!
Riona's mind raced with obscenities she had learned from Selphie. Her eye twitched a little, but her face kept its composure.
"Funny one Squall. So Xu, want to dance with me? Come on, please?"
Xu brought his head down to hide the blush, when he did so, Riona glanced over at an emotionless Squall. Squall knew the game all to well. So, like a good little boy, he played along.
"Yes, go dance with her, you know you want to."
With his consent given, Squall got up, took Quistis by the hand and went out into the crowd. Riona's face fell. Her face displayed her rage and hurt. All she could do was gape. Xu took this time to raise his voice.
"So, you still want to dance?"
"Eww, no!"
Riona stormed off, leaving a laughing group behind her.
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Quistis gave out a wicked laugh when the pair had reached the terrace. The wind was blowing and the lights below set a calm romantic mood.
"Squall Lionheart, you are the Devil."
The knight smiled evilly.
"Why no my dear Quistis, that's our sweet innocent and perky Selphie."
The pair laughed. Quistis stared at the lights and people below, most were teens and young adults out for a chance to see the young war veterans. Squall watched the breeze play with Quistis' loose hair. He reached over and put a loose strand behind her ear.
Oh my, this is, is- going to be one hard explanation.
"Thanks. Look, Squall, about the Riona thing, I-"
A deep probing kiss cut off her sentence. She closed her eyes and let him take over. She felt her back against the cool wall, she put her arms around his neck and pulled him deeper into the kiss. After a time they parted lips and breathed for air. Their eyes locked for what seemed an eternity.
Quistis dropped her head and stared at the ground.
Oh my gods, oh my gods, this cant be happening
Squall moved closer to the older young woman and placed his finger under her chin. He lifted her head and gazed into her never-ending blue eyes. They both closed their eyes and their lips lightly pressed about to kiss but were interrupted by a noise...
-WARNING, WARNING. THE PALACE IS UNDER ATTACK! I REPEAT, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!-
Their heads shot up as an explosion shook the palace. The Vid phone on the opposite wall rang. Quistis was crouched below Squall, dazed from the blast. Squall made sure she was okay and then proceeded to go over and pick up the phone. It was Seifer.
"Lionheart, get your sorry ass over here now bitch! And bring Quistis with ya!"
Seifer's eyes held some sort of anger/hurt in his eyes. Squall saw this but said nothing.
"What's going on? Where are you?"
A deafening blast momentarily distracted Seifer. He wasn't hurt, but he wasn't well either. Seifer looked at the screen, impatience playing on his features.
"What do you mean what's going on? Can't you see we're getting our asses kicked by grenades? We're at Tears Point, use the teleporter that Dr. Odine gave ya. Be well equipped, this isn't no ordinary fight. Seifer out."
Seifer momentarily dazed squall.
Seifer out, he had never said that after Fujin died, it REALLY must be some battle.
Squall whipped out his gunblade, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Quistis check her equipment. She looked up at him and nodded. This was it. They were ready, the only problem was, who or WHAT were they facing. No ordinary battle ran through Squall's head. He dismissed it. He was the strongest person here, WHATEVER it was, he'd be ready. They both nodded and teleported.
Poor Squall, he wasn't, and he didn't even know it.
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The sound of shouting and dying were all around Seifer. This was all TOO familiar to him. He trudged away from the phone and passed Selphie and Riona who were healing and protecting. Irvine was defending the South, Zell the East, and Laguna and his friends the West. It was Seifer's job to guard the North. He ran to the front lines were Galabadia, Dollet and Eshtar soldiers alike, were fighting.
A monster attacked Seifer head on and he dodged it, sending his mighty Hyperion into the beast's stomach. There had been monster attacks before, but not any such as this. Not even the Lunatic Pandora incident was this devastating. He fought his way forward so it seemed as if he alone was guarding the North entrance. It all didn't make sense, how could something like this happen without the Lunatic Pandora? And then he saw it, the reason for the sudden outburst of activity. In the center of the beasts was a lone figure, clad in nothing but black. His mouth was covered in a leather cover and his hands wore fighting gloves. His hair swirled rebelliously around him. This was the culprit.
Seifer ran to the center, killing and dismembering any monster foolish enough to cross his path.
4 Can't wait for Squall forever
He made his way to his new enemy. He had finally reached the center and locked eyes with him. Seifer's eyes narrowed and he let out a high battle wail. Seifer leapt into the air, concentrating his energy on his target. It was a sure hit but alas, it wasn't. With a flick of his hand, Seifer went flying down to the ground. He cut his head on a sharp rock and was bleeding. He could tell he was going to pass out.
So, this is how it's going to end. This sucks.
He couldn't move, he wouldn't move. Seifer was almost too weak to notice Squall run up and attack their enemy. Just like him, the shield threw Squall back. Seifer looked over to Squall to see that he was out, he looked back up at the mysterious adversary. He lifted his hand and a ball of energy formed in his hand.
5 This REALLY sucks!
"End of the line, knights. Good-bye. 'Swift Death!'"
Seifer closed his eyes and let the inevitable come.
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Hiya! Obviously my last chapter wasn't so hot, sorry, I'm trying to put EVERYONE in this. Thanks to all the reviewers, I have no complaints about you guys/gals! Thanks! I HAD to put some romance, so I'm sorry if I turned some stomachs. Riona lovers don't get mad! She just might get him, you never know, she has a chance. *Yeah, like a snowballs...* But, she still has one!
Please Review, till next update!
!!!Also! Some of their thoughts are not being italized, I don't know why, but please bear with me!!!!