Chapter 6:Road to the Evil Sorceress II

[ST]

Quistis let out a frustrated growl and composed herself despite the muck that she had been covered with. "That monster we've just seen," she started. "It must've fed on the aura of this room based on its occupant's strong emotions. The sensation of being in Adel's demonic territory gave it its physical form and managed to mimic that SeeD....what was his name again?"

"Hyne Quistis, give me a break on that crap before I snap, this sh*t is unbearable," Seifer stormed out of the room, crossing across the erupted flesh wall.

Soon the whole group had stepped outside the gross room. The smell of the rotten smell on the hallway was truly nothing to the kind of stench that was inside Terry's room and the group was very glad to be out.

"Someone cast a water spell pronto," Seifer barked, his tone laid between a threat and an order.

[Hadrian D'arcell]

"Gladly sir," Hadrian spat, sharing the same vexation Seifer had.

/Hadrian acquired magic?/ CQ randomly asked. It was a dry joke. The dryest of the dry. He knew that was his GF's way to keep his head cool despite of her robotic-like attitude. It was because Hadrian relied on his gadgets too much to even think of casting a spell. CQ always criticized him for that and he found it more of an insult than a way to make him smile.

You're weird, he told his GF as he brought his hand forward. "Waterga!" he casted. In an instant, the area began to shake and a huge whirlpool of water swept all of them inside it.

Before everyone could react, the malevolent force inside the whirlpool kept their oxygen supply at zero, posing a danger of possible drowning while being spun around like filthy clothes in a washing machine. The whirlpool went for a several more seconds before reducing into a giant wave that swept everyone along the hallway just to be flushed out of the long winding Dormitory hall.

The group made it outside the dorm, soaking wet but free of the stench.

Hadrian laid on all fours once again, coughing some of the water that he had just drank.

I seem to be doing this a lot... he berated himself. "Well..." He coughed, addressing the others with a cover-up smirk. "That was fun." Maybe this was a good thing? Atleast they didn't have to find the exit.

[Diego Stanton]

So the monster was the seeD's aura huh?... We'd better not walk into anyone else's dorm then. Deo had a bad mental image of walking into Blaze or Stardust's dorms.

He followed Hadrian, wringing the water from his jacket.

"I TOLD you to back away," he said as he passed Jax. He shook himself like a dog, successfully spraying water all over Jax. He stopped short when he noticed that Quistis Trepe was drenched like the rest of them. She was wearing a white shirt too. Deo gaped for a second, then quickly averted his eyes. With his back turned he couldn't see her or Seifer but he could definently hear them.

"Geez Trepe you could have at least worn a bra.."

"I AM wearing a bra!!"

"You are?? I could have sworn--"

"DON'T LOOK!" Quistis came over to Deo and yanked back the collar of his jacket, choking him for a second. "Give me your jacket!" she said shrilly.

"Okay, okay!" Deo said, his eyes darting around everywhere except for at Quistis. He took off his jacket and held it out.

"Thank you," Quistis huffed and hurriedly put on Deo's jacket. She turned to Hadrian, "Next time Mr. Almasy gives you an order you make sure the order is alright with me, understand?"

[waterlily43]

Rayden tried to shake the water from his waterlogged ears, giving some kind of weird sigh when they finally cleared after some violent shaking of his heads. After that huge Wateraga spell it seemed like everyone was cleaned of the slime, but not all of it.

"Man why isn't there a spell for removing stinks." He grumbled, scrunching his nose at the thought of carrying this stink around the whole day, or perhaps even longer.

"That was fun." Hadrian commented, with a smirk that looked a little contrived.

"Fun? Oh yeah real fun. Maybe when we do catch the Dotna heads we can kill them with the smell alone!" Rayden ended with a snarl.

{Looks like someone's in a baaayad mood.}

[miyavi]

Aiyahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Sho wiped water from his eyes and sat up, pushing his sopping-wet hair out of his face. Well...at least we stink less, he thought to himself, wrinkling his nose slightly. It wasn't too bad...

"Owww..."

Sho blinked, and looked down, and saw Selphie Tilmitt splayed on his legs, looking thoroughly soaked. "Miss Tilmitt!" he yelped, grabbing her by the the arm and helping her to a sitting position. "Are you okay, ma'am?"

Selphie's hair was plastered to her face. "Fine," she mumbled behind the curtain of wet, brown tresses. "Just dandy. Can we move away from the freaky room of the stalker guy, please?" She sounded quite annoyed.

[ST]

"Your voice is grating," answered Seifer as he stood up gruffly, his face flushed with annoyance. "...this's...too damn much!" he barked as he pulled off his soaked trenchcoat and threw it on the ground like it was eating away, revealing the tight sleeveless shirt that he was wearing inside.

"Dear Hyne...it had spread," Quistis gawked at the whole place, seeing the tissue-like interior of Balamb Garden. The whole lobby was worse compare to the hallways inside the Dormitory. It was like they were inside a living breathing creature complete with its internal organs other than the heart.

Once everybody got to their feet, they made their way to the main elevator. Without any warning, a small explosion was heard from the main entrance followed by thundering footsteps of possibly dozen of soldiers.

"Move it! Secure the area!" commanded a loud voice. "Faulkin! You take your crew and look at the dorms!" The SeeDs ran to the entrance only to come face to face with Reaver and a bunch of armed DotNA. There was another young man standing beside him that seemed to be in a higher position than the soldiers behind them.

The DoTNAs quickly froze at the sight of Seifer, Quistis, Selphie and the SeeDs and aimed their guns at them.

"Whoa whoa whoa..." Reaver cut in, stopping dead in his tracks. He smirked, gesturing the DotNAs behind him to not fire. "Will you look at that, the residents of..." He looked around, amused by the repugnant sight of Garden. "Balamb Garden is here to welcome us....Like the new look? Mistress Adel really done it this time."

"Reaver," Hadrian spat, wiping his chin. "We're closed right now, why don't you asses come again next year!"

The young man beside Reaver cocked his gun and aimed it at Hadrian. "Faulkin.." Reaver looked at him for a second before turning to the SeeDs. "Sorry, but we can't do that. You see we're only here to...."

Reaver's smile turned malicious when another wave of thundering footsteps were heard behind the SeeDs. It was coming from the both sides of the circular walkway and the next thing they saw were a fresh new batch of DotNA soldiers emerging from the corners, cornering the small group before them.

Waverly's annoying chuckle ensued afterwards. "Caught you!" she said, bringing up her newly upgraded weapon and pointing it towards the main elevator. It was the size of a shotgun but was made of silver and could pack a current of photon on the tip of its barrel. She fired the first shot on the main elevator and a violent explosion occured causing the group to get down on their feet and cower at the impact.

"Ooops..." Waverly feigned innocence and laughed. "You're next."

"Listen twerps," Seifer muttered to the SeeDs around him, glaring at the menacing figures around them. "When I say disperse...disperse."

Selphie and Quistis looked at him uneasily. Quistis understood what he was saying and nodded resolutely. "And try to stay alive," she added, gripping her whip.

"Time to die, SeeDs." Reaver announced lightly, dropping his hand to signal all the DotNA soldiers to attack. That moment, bolts of lightning and showers of bullets zoomed towards the direction of their group once again and a great chaos started to ensue.

"Disperse!!" Seifer shouted as loud as he could, then dashed away from the group and held his Hyperion as tightly as he could, heading towards Waverly's troupes. Whatever happens, happens.





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I dunno why I put this, but just incase my description isn't helping you >.< here's what they look like right now XD Ohh yeah, my map ownz0rs hahaha Have fun fighting for your lives ^.^ lol


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(* E * )<------ Waverly's DotNA soldiers from Parking Lot
---- <---- SeeDs (corneredXD)

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***** <--- Reaver and his troupes


E- the elevator XD

[miyavi]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE your map is le awesome!! And can I control some fighting between the brothers and Sho? Pleeeeeease?

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Sho dropped to the floor, flat on his stomach as bullets and whatnot zoomed over his head. He winced silently and covered his head with hands, feigning cowardice until he felt footsteps moving away from him. His team was breaking up.

ZOMG! This is crazy, yo!

Sho uncovered his head just in time for someone to grab the back of his shirt and pull him to his feet. When he was turned around, Sho saw the barrel of a gun aimed in his face.

"Knew it was you," Reaver Sephirot sneered.

"Son of a----can't you do anything other than sneer and order people to attack?!" Sho shouted in the man's face, wrenching Reaver's hand from his shirt and throwing himself back just as Reaver fired, falling back down on the slimy, muck-covered floor. Sho immediately rolled to one side and turned around, running away from Reaver.

"What the hell?!" Sho heard the other man say, but he didn't care.

Stupid idiot, why can't he just leave me alone, I should ask Polaris to smack him in the face for causing so much trouble and where the heck am I supposed to go again??

Sho skidded to a stop and swung a fist towards a DotNA soldier, catching the man off-guard and sending him flying. Someone noticed and Sho felt the pulpy ground beneath him explode in a spray of red----they were shooting at him.

"Gotta go, sorry, bye!" he shouted over his shoulder, jumping over fallen bodies and sidestepping others, and then he came face to face with another DotNA soldier.

This one was as tall as Reaver, probably taller, and younger-looking, with shaggy, auburn hair and intense, dark eyes. The young man's mouth was set in a grim line, and he was dressed simply----a uniform made with black slacks, black shoes, and a white polo shirt under a flowing white lab coat that ended at the knees. And he was wearing glasses. Black-framed ones that made him look nerdy.

"Eh?" Sho began, and the double barrels of a set of uzis were shoved in his face.

"Aa, are you Sho Miyavi?" the other man queried.

"Uhh...nnnnooooo..."

"Dammit, Miyavi, get out of the way!" Sho turned his head and ducked just as a body of a DotNA soldier flew over his head, punched in the face by none other than Seifer Almasy himself. Seifer darted past him, shouting. "Miyavi, MOVE YOUR ASS!"

Sho turned back to the man with the glasses. "Uh," he began, "must've been talking about someone else!"

The other man's dark eyes narrowed. And he fired both guns.

Sho wheeled around and ran like hell.

Aw man, what does THAT GUY want with ME?!

[Diego Stanton]

These guys again?? They just don't know when to quit do they?!

Deo skidded across Balamb's fleshy floor, heart pounding. A lightning bolt nicked the tip of his shoe and singed it black. He jumped back and collided heads with somebody, which violently knocked him to the floor. Deo struggled to keep focus but his head was throbbing something fierce. Through his blurry vision he could see pairs of legs rushing at him.

Still lying on the floor, Deo fumbled through his sack for a bomb. He lit one, and the familiar sound of the hissing wick woke him up. Just as the dotNA were about to reach him, he threw the bomb directly up into the ceiling and it exploded into a giant 'Exit' sign.

BOOOM!

Deo scrambled away as the exit sign came crashing down onto the unsuspecting dotNA. He finally got to his feet and looked back, only to see that he had taken down three dotNA. There were about a hundred more in front of him. His eyes widened, and he slowly reached into his sack for another bomb.

I need a pancake..

[Hadrian D'arcell]

PANCAKE XD Deo needs Bolpan!!! Hahahah
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Hadrian's heart stopped beating and started mad dashing everywhere, hands over his head as the bullets went their way. He took a dive just in time to dodge Waverly's crazy photon blast and continued scrambling to find a hiding place from the bullets.

Don't be hit. Don't be hit, he chanted in his head repeatedly, remembering how useful his GF in moments like this. And so he did that, sprinting as fast as he could, he brought hs hands forward to summon his GF when BANG! A bullet zinged past his palm, hitting the flesh between his thumb and his index finger. Though it was just like that, the blood that oozed out of his hand made everything look so serious.

"Oww....Motherfu---" he shouted and grit his teeth, pulling his hand close and cradling it. The pain seemed to scream inside his hand as loud as him. He saw soldier run up to him and lift the tip of his gun to hit him on the face and through reflex, he managed to catch his arm and twist him behind him, making him a helpless shield from all the bullets coming their way. The soldier got hit on the head and died on the spot as soon as the hacker found a shelter on the GF Quezacotl that Quistis just summoned. Dropping the dead soldier, he went for the big bird and hid under his wings, still cradling his injured hand.

Quistis shouted at everyone, "OVER HERE! Take cover!!"

[Rayden]

Rayden tried to dodge bullets, shielding himself with his giant knife. He winced everytime a sharp 'ting' sounded with each impact on his weapon. It would be hell to polish the blade after this but better it got hit than his precious flesh. At the same time, his left hand wasn't idle at all, spearing any Dotnas in the vicinity with his giant fork. The tips were soon stained reddish with enemy blood but he barely had time to glee before another wave of bullet fire surged towards him.

"OVER HERE! Take cover!!" Quistis Trepe yelled, summoning her GF. Rayden was only too glad to take her advice. But through his run towards shelter, a stray bullet grazed the side of his knee, and he almost stumbled. Clenching his teeth, it took all his will to limp his way to the great bird and seek its protection.

"Damn....how did these Dotna get in so easily?" He growled. "Did security just go kaput just because of Adel's spell? How dependable."

[miyavi]

"OVER HERE! Take cover!!" Quistis Trepe's scream managed to reach Sho, even though there was a rather large mass of DotNA between them.

"Yes ma'am!" Sho shouted, just as a bullet exploded past his face, amazingly close enough so that he could feel the wind it made, a small gust. "Holy shit!" he muttered, chancing a glance behind him. The guy with the glasses had a grim expression, his double uzis aimed straight at Sho. And he started firing.

tatatatatatatatatatatatatt...

Sho ran faster. His lungs felt like they were burning, but he didn't want to think about what would happen if he slowed down.

Then suddenly a DotNA soldier stepped into his path, one as big as a football player and getting ready to look like he was about to tackle Sho. He was hunched over, his arms spread out to catch the martial artist, and there was an ugly sneer on his fat face.

...tatattatatatatattatatatatatattat...

Sho took a sharp breath, then jumped.

He sailed over the footballer, jumping over him neatly, and then the ground was sailing up to meet him, too fast, and Sho tried to turn to catch himself----

---WHUMP!

"AAAGH!" He landed wrong, odd, his shoulder smashing into the fleshy floor and he landed awkwardly on his right arm, but he rolled to his feet and kept running, he had to make it to Quezacotl----

----and he nearly smashed into a veritable WALL of DotNA soldiers, all who were starting to turn their guns to him----

CLICK.

Sho looked back. The nerd was reloading, and quickly, and he was firing again the second Sho blinked.

BLAM! BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM!!!!!!!!!

Sho's eyes widened. Explosive rounds?! he asked himself. Son of a----!

The Pulse Ammo caused the DotNA soldiers to scatter like birds, and Sho started running again, the crowd parting before him like a wave. In the middle of the sea of people Sho caught a glimpse of a familiar person. He was reaching into a sack.

Deo!

"Let's go, bomber!" Sho shouted, running up to him. The sounds of Pulse Ammo slamming causing arcs of light to brighten the room. "Quistis Trepe beckons!" And without waiting for Deo to answer, Sho grabbed the man's sleeve and pulled hard before letting go and sprinting towards the lightning bird.

He made it, just barely, and he felt fine, just fine...and Sho looked around to notice that Hadrian's hand was bleeding and Rayden was limping. Despite himself, he grinned.

Sho, 1. Random other guys...pwned.

[Diego Stanton]

Deo zeroed in on a group of dotNA. He was just about to launch a bomb when he felt his sleeve yanked back. Sho began to pull him towards Quezacotl.

"Hey!! Wha-!?" Deo rushed after Sho, tripping over fallen bodies and sliding in dotNA blood.

"Quistis Trepe beckons!" Sho cut him off. Deo looked up at the thunderbird GF and saw that bullets were being showered at it. It was going to go down in a matter of minutes, but Deo took cover behind it anyway.

He suddenly noticed that he was still holding onto that bomb he was about to throw. It was about 5 seconds away from exploding.

"Oh.. shit!!!" Deo yelled and chucked the bomb as fast as he could. It went off into some dotNA's face and blew his head clean off. Deo immediately took out another weapon from his sack- a grenade. He yanked the pin out with his teeth and rolled it across the floor. The grenade exploded with ferocity, taking down about 10 enemies.

"Are we the only people fighting this battle?? Where are the rest of your soldiers??" he asked Sho.

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Someone bring in the backup seeDs to come rescue them XD

[Myacu]

Note: I was almost done with my post....and my computer crashed. So I'm retyping this now!
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It seemed as if he were surrounded by hundreds of Dotna, all darkly shrouded and armed with the deadliest that could obliterate him within seconds. Before he could fully take in what was happening, a frenzy of shooting broke out, a million gunshots echoing off the walls, the fleshy ground turning crimson red, as blood spurted from the floor. Making every effort to evade the bullets, Jax ducked and leaped over exploding objects---the room in utter chaos.

Finally, he took cover behind a collapsed pillar whose broken parts now formed a U shape, providing just enough protection from possible snipers. Leaning against its stony expanse, Jax reloaded Ravaner with the last of his Pulse Ammo, hastily stuffing two magazines into his back pocket. As he began to open the gun barrel, Jax couldn't help but stare at his own weapon with dismay, envying the gorgeous silver-rimmed fire arms of mass destruction the Dotna had. Especially that Waverly's. Her shotgun was a thing of beauty, a product of the finest technology in weapon's history. And she wasn't too shabby herself.

If he had met her on the street, they might be enjoying small-talk over a cup of coffee at the Balamb cafe. It's too bad--

<She's trying to kill you?>

Shaking off the thought, Jax returned his attention to the battle. He could hear shouts coming from the SeeDs and it looked like they needed backup. Crouching onto the floor, Jax found the perfect position---where the two broken slabs awkwardly met to allow for just the smallest gap.

He saw what looked like Rayden---getting pushed back and using the flat edge of his sword in a last-ditch effort as a shield. Perhaps he didn't see them, but three Dotna were about to surround him.

Shutting one eye, Jax quickly took careful aim, then---

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Three down.

Another Dotna was climbing over the rail--

BANG!

That's four now.

Deciding to save his Pulse Ammo, Jax quickly jammed in another magazine of regular Ammo and begin firing several rounds.

More bodies were beginnning to hit the floor and golden bullet shells were littered all around him.

Stopping for a second, Jax's dark eyes quickly scanned the room. There was Hadrian being pursued by a whole team of men.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Seven.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Eleven.

BANG---

Shit!

In his firing frenzy, one of his bullets had accidentally hit Hadrian---right through his hand.

Oh..not good, not good. Hadrian was going to be pissed--really pissed. But it was a accident! It's not like I did it on purpose..hell, I practically saved his life.

<And shot off his hand.>

Shut up!


"Having fun?"


Jax slowly looked up and found that he was looking into the face of none-other than Waverly, who's shotgun was aimed directly at him.

Wow, she's even more beautiful up close.

Smiling lazily, Jax slowly stood up. "Why yes! It's been great fun! You know, getting shot at, laying on bloody floors of flesh...no thanks to you, but I guess that's how it is in war..ho ho.." He was doing anything he could to stall for time, as his mind raced to come up with a plan. He was at her mercy, and all she had to do was pull the trigger.

Tossing back her hair, Waverly smirked, "I'm getting bored with you."

And she pulled the trigger.

BOOM!

Only someone had thrown a grenade, and the explosion collapsed the entire ceiling as rubble and cement crashed onto her.

Jax couldn't believe his luck. Prying Ravaner from under the wreckage, Jax sprinted towards Sho and Deo who were on the brink of retreat.

Suddenly, an electric blue beam shot past his head, demolishing the far wall upon contact. Wildly turning around, Jax was bewildered to see a the chalky figure of Waverly---now firing relentless at him.

How the hell is she still alive?!


Dodging more of the blue beams, Jax ducked behind another wall, right across from Sho and Deo.

"Shit guys, I need some help!"

[miyavi]

"Are we the only people fighting this battle?? Where are the rest of your soldiers??" Deo was shouting at Sho, and sounding pissed, and Sho was getting cranky. He hadn't gotten sleep, and his supposed guest was in serious rant mode on him.

"Do I look like the Commander of Balamb Garden?!" he shouted back in Deo's face. "Noooooooo! So stop telling me what the hell I should do!! I never should've----"

"Shit guys, I need some help!" And Sho looked up to see Jax miraculously dodge a blast from Waverly's gun-cannon-whatever-it-was.

Sho frowned. "What I wouldn't give for an army..." he muttered----

----and then there was the shrieking of a Phoenix, and a fierce fire swept throughout the DotNA ranks like a wave. It obliterated about a quarter of the still-living soldiers, and scared the shit out of the rest.

Sho looked around, his heart leaping when he saw the familiar gold-trimmed uniforms of SeeD mixing in with the uniforms of the DotNA soldiers. Well, whaddaya know! Wishes DO come true!! Now, to wish for Bomberman here to get some class...

"Idiots." The voice was loud, clear, and unmistakable. Reaver Sephirot stood a ways from the group, his revolver trained...up?

BLAM!

Quezacotl vanished suddenly, so suddenly that Quistis was stunned. "Wha----?" she began.

And then a blast from Pulse Ammo made the ground before them explode, sending them flying in all directions.

Dimly, Sho heard Waverly laughing.

[Myacu]

It felt like his lungs had been filled with sawdust and then beaten with a bat. The explosion had thrown him through the collapsed wall, as he felt bits of rock and gravel slam into his back. He had hit the floor hard. Wedged between two broken boulders of cement.


The debry from the explosion had entered him through every entry possible --- mouth, nose, ears. Jax began to cough viciously---each time so painful that he feared that he would eventually begin to cough up blood.


By the time he had finished, he was wheezing, exhausted and fatigued, barely holding on to consciousness.

He didn't care about Adel.


He didn't care about where the others were.


All he wanted to do was to lay down and close his eyes.