Rest in peace, Evil Sorceress!

[ST]

A gigantic griffin stood between Van, Jaime and the explosion, the griffin's wings reaching Blaze and Gemma, shielding them from the impact as well.

"Deo makes crazy bombs as always..." Van said with a relief. She suddenly sat up when she realized something.

Stella and Sho!

[ST]

Thrown by the force of griffin's wing. Gemma grunted as her body slammed against the hard floor. Blinded, poisoned, and confused, she staggered through darkness, trying to feel her way towards a wall,

Then, she was struck by a tingling sensation. A warm light filtered through her body.

Remedy...?

Whipping around, she smirked at Adel who had just casted the Restore on her. Gemma turns towards Blaze, who was now lying on the floor after the shock of the explosion. She could hear a lady's voice hissing in her head.

Exterminate her.

Nodding, Gemma swiftly drew and cast Reflect on her mistress.

Then watched with satisfaction as Blaze burned in her own Firaga spell.

That's what you deserve...bitch.

Gemma glanced at her brother who was still displaying severe symptoms of a confusion spell. Sighing, she tossed him her own Remedy+.

Although Jax was now fully cured, the scarlet light had once again returned as he exchange a look with Gemma.

"Would you mind killing her?" Gemma giggled, "I'm too tired."

Without saying a word, Jax pulled out Ravaner....and fired.

Blaze's body convulsed as hundreds of rounds of Pulse Ammo ripped gaping holes through her flesh.

It wasn't until her body laid there motionless that Jax stopped to reload.


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Can someone please kill Adel so that Gemma and Jax can stop being pyscho???

[ST]

"Dude! The fuck are you doing! I told you to take her axe not chuck a bomb at the rest! Did you inhale too much of Adel's body odour and get confused too?" Rayden stared disbelievingly at Deo, although a flicker of conscience told him he shouldn't yell at the injured bombmaker. But no time for lecturing, it looksed like Stella and Sho were both standing by defenselessly, within seconds of being hit full force by the bomb's explosion. "Take cover, what are you friggin' stand around for? Wanna be paper targets or something?" He yelled, launching himself towards them so that he could pull them to safety behind a pile of rubble." He pulled Stella behind him to shield most of the impact from her, feeling the air being pummelled out of his lungs as the expulsion force made contact with his front.

He tried breathing in deeply to calm his heartbeats which seemed determined to jump out of his chest, but it only caused a deeper throbbing pain in the vicinity of his stomach. He glanced down at it, wincing at the jagged gash on his abdomen, blood oozing out of it. Some of the debris had apparently hit him while he was careless about taking cover.

"Stella babe, you okay?" He ignored it, looking at Stella, then Sho for signs of serious injury.

[ST]

Ultimate ST POST


Witnessing the mayhem the Ridean siblings have done to Blaze, Vanesse quickly attends to her just in time to save her from being KO'd by the two.

"Curaga!" She casts, shielding Blaze from more harm, while Jaime sets off to restrain Gemma. Jun and Hadrian push Jax to the ground to stop him from firing. The situation right now is not looking good. The Trinity sword is still embedded at the base of Adel's foot. Adel's laughter fills the air as she looks down at the SeeDs.

"SeeDs, you humor me. Writhe in pain and more pain!" Once again, Adel spreads out her arms and begins casting a new spell. The space around the SeeDs becomes distorted and a bright light devours them eating almost all of their energy. Everyone--confused or not--is left half-dead.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it..." Stardust winces in frustration, stifling a cough mixed with blood as she struggles to get on her feet. The girl looks like she's on the verge of going kamikaze. The same can be said for the rest of the group. They refuse to be killed this easily. Adel's laughter continues, savoring the painful expressions of the SeeDs before her.

All of a sudden, the head of an armored Galbadian airship crashes into the tower, destroying the thick bricks and ramming straight into Adel's head. The unearthly impact sends Adel onto the ground and dazes her. Her hold towards the confused SeeDs gets cut off.

The SeeDs gape at the Galbadian airship in confusion, not sure if they are seeing things or not. A short silence took over the place and nothing but falling debris can be heard.

What...the hell? Hadrian thinks to himself. A galbadian airship has just knocked down the great Adel. The next thing everyone hears is a loud banging sound from the inside. It seems like someone is trapped and could not get out. More banging sound ensues and the cockpit falls down hard on the ground.

A blonde young man peers outside of the cockpit. He is nursing his head and is holding a broken steering wheel. From the way he looks, it is obvious he did not have a smooth flight. Throwing the steering wheel away, he jumps down and lands on Adel's back. A bit weirded out at his landing site, he runs towards the group, catching his breath.

Once he gets settled down, he looks at the group--still alive--and smiles.

[Lex]

Zacke gripped the handles of the pilot control loosely, keeping an eye on the speed and altitude meters. The ship had been pre-programmed to land on Balamb Garden and he was merely overseeing autopilot. Not that I would know if anything went wrong... he thought, suddenly regretting the fact that he hadn't even taken Flight Control 101.

He peered out the large window in front of him, watching Balamb grow closer and closer. He recognized the large dark structure on the surface of the outer shell as the structure his Headmaster had briefly described to him. The one that was apparently constructed by Adel.

He could feel the adrenaline coursing through his blood increase just at the mere sight. Everyone was there. Trinity was there. Everything he had devoted his life to for the past few months came down to these coming few hours. His mind was racing with the possibilities of what could be going on inside that building. Was everyone okay? Was anyone dead? He didn't even want to think about it, he just wanted to be there. He needed to be there -- right now -- with them.

A tremor in the otherwise smooth sailing flight broke his train of thought and his eyes immediately snapped down to the control panel. 'VELOCITY: MAXIMUM' it flashed. What?! He sat up quickly and checked the meters. His speed was rising at an alarming rate. What's going on?! He gripped the pilot control harder, his heartbeat rising in panic. The airship just kept accelerating, and going at this rate, he wasn't going to be able to slow it down enough to make a safe landing on Garden. Did it have something to do with Adel's power? Or was his autopilot mechanism faulty? These thoughts flashed through his mind only briefly, his panic level rising with each half of a second.

"Holy shit!" he said to himself, wide-eyed with terror as he realized that he was definitely going to crash, and he was headed straight for that building. He pushed his back into the pilot seat and gripped the pilot control so hard his knuckles turned white. His jaw clenched and eyes shut tight just a moment before impact.

His whole body thrust forward hard as the airship broke through the wall, the sound around him magnifying to a level that almost could have busted his ear-drums. The entire craft shook with tremors so violent his grip on the wheel busted it from the consol and he flew from his seat, taking it with him. He rolled and slid backwards down the center aisle of the small ship until his head and shoulders cracked hard against the steel back wall. He coughed and choked, the air leaving his lungs immediately.

Finally, everything as still. He opened his eyes and sucked in air. The entire inside of the ship was so wrecked, he couldn't even imagine what the outside looked like at this point. A split second later he realized where he must have landed and scrambled to his feet as quickly as he could, running for the hatch door.

"GREAT." he said furiously upon discovering the handle and half of the door completely crunched and mauled beyond recognition. He rammed his shoulder into the door, his heart pumping fast. Please, Hyne, don't let me discover I've landed on someone. he thought, frantically ramming his shoulder into it again. Finally he took a step back and slammed his foot into the center of it as hard as he could. The hinges busted and the door fell.

He tossed the pilot control aside absently and quickly made for the exit, but stopped at the sight of what lay directly in his path. No way... he thought disbelievingly, recognizing Adel immediately. Did they already kill her, or did he just crash into her?

He jumped down onto her back and then quickly jumped away. He caught sight of a number of people through the smoke and immediately made for them. "Hey!!" he shouted. Despite the situation, he couldn't keep his face from lighting up with relief as he recognized some of the faces around him.

[ST]

Jun looked up weakly at the man that had just stepped out of the airship. She couldn't believe her eyes.

"Zacke!" SHe exclaimed as loudly as her strength permitted, a smile blossoming over her face. It was a relief to receive help at this time, none of them were in any state to fight Adel if she had wanted to finish them off.

Her attention immediately turned to Adel, who laid unconscious on the ground. If they wanted to finish her, now was the time.

"The sword..." She quickly dragged her leaden body over to Adel, trying to find the Trinity sword. Upon spotting it embedded in Adel's foot, she grasped its hilt, pulling it out of the gigantic foot with much difficulty.

"Say your goodbyes, evil hag." She muttered, lifting the sword with all her strength, and plunged it into the position where Adel's heart should've been embedded.

SHe waited and waited, expecting Adel to give some roar of great pain, for her body to shrivel up and die...

But nothing happened. The only sound was Rinoa's painful whimpering, after being crushed by Adel's great fall. And even worse, the penetration of the sword seemed to have roused Adel, her entire body creaking as she got up on her feet.

"Wrong move, foolish SeeDs. Now you die!' She cackled, relishing the dismay in Jun's face. Harnessing her energy for one last, devastating attack, she raised her arms, a crackling spell readied for release.

[Lex]

Jun is kneeling at this point, right? I'm just guessing because she's so weak and because she had to stab Trinity into Adel, who was one the ground. >_<; if she's not just let me know and I'll edit this!

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Zacke flashed an amiable grin Jun's way at the sound of her voice. Jun! The grin faded slightly, however, when he really noticed her weary disposition.

The haze stirred up by the crash landing was starting to settle. He slipped the bladed nunchucks from around his shoulders and gripped both sides in his hands, stepping backward away from the Sorceress and closer toward the group. He gave a brief glance around, trying to acqaint himself with the status of his comrades and what condition the team was in as a whole. There were a few faces he didn't recognize. Most everyone appeared somehow injured, exhausted, or both. A pang of guilt shot through him.

I should have come back to them sooner.

His gaze shifted to Jun, who now knelt close to Adel. He watched with anticipation as she pulled Trinity from the Adel's foot and thrust it into her chest. She moved with great effort, as if she could collapse any second. Despite the strength he knew Jun possessed, she seemed so vulnerable next to the hulking fiery-haired madwoman.

He watched in horror as the Sorceress began to rise to her feet. Jun had pushed Trinity in, right to the hilt, and still the Sorceress seemed completely unaffected. Why isn't anyting happening?!

Jun was making no effort to back away. Zacke dropped his weapon and rushed forward to close the distance between he and Jun as Adel began to cackle madly. "Wrong move, foolish SeeDs. Now you die!" she cried. Zacke looped one arm underneath Jun's arms and around her chest, lifting and helping her backward quickly to give them both some distance. He turned them both sideways as he did so, hoping his body could partially shield hers from whatever hell Adel was about to unleash on them all.

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So who's already getting sick of Mr. "Save The Day!" ? ~_~

[stardust]

NEVARRR!

Jun has been getting shielded by boys nowadays XD lol I think we need a 'Most messed up character' award for Wake *stalls*
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Stardust shook her head and squinted twice. The pain, doubled by the sudden tremor of the foreign airship, seemed to have been playing tricks on her eyes. Zacke Mercutio had just arrived in an extremely unexpected way. The timing was unexpected as well--the sort of thing that only happens in bad movies. It was just a few days, but it felt like she hadn't seen his annoying face forever. She clenched her fist, pulling herself up with all the strength she got.

He's late. She thought to herself, leaning her hands on her knees to steady her breathing. Her eyes widened when she saw Jun beat her from taking advantage of this chance against Adel. Watching Jun plunge the Trinity sword deep in Adel's chest cleared all the thoughts in Stardust's head.

She had been working non-stop all these years in order to see such a scene, and now that she was seeing it, she didn't know how to react. All the people she loved, this was the moment they'd been waiting for.

But wait. Something's wrong. Her heart skipped a beat. Sorceress Adel had gained her footing--unharmed. The Trinity sword was deep in her chest, yet nothing was happening. Nothing at all! The sword was the only card they had against Adel. Without it, they got nothing.

"Wrong move, foolish SeeDs. Now you die!' Adel cackled, raising her arms to cast another deadly spell.

"W-what's going on...?" Stardust mumbled, rather weakly. The Trinity sword was a fraud? Did she just devote the rest of her life into completing such a trash? Stardust was rooted on her spot as she watched Zacke and Jun brace themselves for the attack.

Do we go out like this? Stardust thought. The result of my resolve. This is it.

"Haha..." Stardust smiled. "Hahaha!" She laughed and clutched her head. "The Trinity sword..." She didn't know whether it was from her emotion or her health, but she could feel her limit break. "So that's how it is....haha...can't even kill a transsexual." Her laughter got louder. She killed so many for this sword? "This is awesome!"

Ciceronian materialized in sheer force. The bow glowed a deep red this time. "B!tch....did you think you were safe now?! Try and kill us if you can!" Aiming towards Adel's hands, the insane pinkhead fired a couple of arrows causing a consecutive explosions once they hit her.

"Boom!" Stardust shouted, sounding totally out of it. The impact cancelled the bolts of energy Adel was gathering. She loaded more arrows and continued to fire without an end. It was like firing a rocket launcher. Some arrows hit the walls and exploded, some went towards Adel, some even hit Rinoa greatly damaging the sorceress.

"DIE ADEL! Why don't you just die?!"

[waterlily43]

"C..calm down Stardust!" Jun shook her head at her teammate, giving no notice to the involuntary tears running down her face. She was beyond shocked at Stardust's reaction to the failure of Trinity Sword. Truly, the first time she had seen her so out of control. But who could blame her? The Trinity Sword was their only hope, the only thing that had sustained them this far. To see that crumble into nothingness right before their eyes? Only someone who hadn't put in their whole heart and soul into the mission, those who wished for it to fail, would feel nothing. Jun could taste her own despair, even through the bitter saltiness of her tears. What now? Could they fight now? Nothing was making a difference, most of Stardust arrows veered off course. All they did was hurt Rinoa more, and place themselves in danger of being hit as well. And Adel didn't even look like she was in pain, only taunting them with bouts of laughter that only provoked them even further.

That did it. She would not lie there letting Adel mock them to oblivion. Even if Trinity sword failed they shouldn't fall with it. And looking at Stardust's valiant attempt to do the Sorceress in, Jun could not just stand by and do nothing. Casting a look at Stardust's astray arrows gave her an idea.

"I've never tried this before...." She mumbled, wishing more desperately than ever that she could have Sapphy's advice, but he was still unconscious from shielding her earlier. But still, there was no mistaking the limit break energy that was starting to surge through her body.

'Zacke..." She shifted herself away from his protective arm-hold. "Wish me luck."

Giving herself a boost from a piece of debris, Jun leaped into the air, swinging Tien Nu in the air in speedy strokes almost too quick for the naked eye to discern, creating a vaccum that sucked the straying arrows in the vicinity into the middle of the whorly space she had created. "HAH!!!!!!!" She shouted, pushing a ball of chi towards the middle of the spiralling space, churning with the energy of Stardust's arrows. The Entire mass of arrows and sword chi hurtled towards Adel.

"HAVE A TASTE OF WHAT 'DIE BITCH' REALLY MEANS YOU EFFING TRANSSEXUAL!"

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heh if you charries have limit breaks now might be a good time to use them

[Lex]

omg -_- I just realized that Adel disable all their GF's and magic, and earlier I made Iris say some things to Zacke. I'll edit them out right now, I just wanted to say I'm sorry! >_<; *pulls hair*

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Stardust's desperate torrent of exploding arrows filled the room with banging and cracking and smoke and heat. For Zacke, time slowed down as his eyes moved from Stardust and followed the path of her fire back to Adel. He could hear her screaming at the Sorceress behind the sound of the explosives. It wasn't her usual psychotic scream... for once, she sounded as if she were truly losing herself.

"Zacke... " Jun's voice snapped his attention away. "Wish me luck." He looked down at the slender woman he had come to care for almost as he would an older sister, noticing tear-streaked face. "No,' he wanted to say. "Don't..."

But his voice was dead in his throat, and she slipped away from him. He watched her move away and accelerate her steps, either shedding or hiding very well the fatigue she exhibited just moments ago. His eyes looked onward to Adel as Jun launched herself upward into the maelstrom of arrows and fire, bringing Tien Nu in a wide arc with her. There was no way she would come out of that unscathed.

Adel still stood amidst the chaos, surrounded by so many weary and dismal faces... just laughing. Laughing at his comrades, who were throwing so much of themselves into this battle that this may very well be the last he ever saw of them. Trinity wasn't doing a single thing to her... it seemed as if their fates were decided. He thought he was prepared for this. All along, during the mission, the SeeD in him told him that all of them were prepared for whatever the outcome would be, as long as the mission was a success. That was all that mattered.

And maybe the rest of them really were prepared... but he wasn't. Maybe it made him a bad SeeD, but to him, Adel's death really wasn't all that mattered.

He sprang into action, pushing himself to a dead sprint back to the airship he had crash landed in. Another melee attack would only interfere with Jun's. He would help in the way he thought would be best right now. He bounded up into the empty cockpit and stumbled his way around the pilot seat, jerking open a supply cabinet that was mounted against the wall nearby. Hi-Potions and Remedies tumbled out. He caught most of it in his arms and gathered even more with a free hand.

He raced back out and began frantically tossing the items to the first people he saw. "There are more supplies aboard the ship!!" he shouted. It was hard to see through the smoke and commotion. "Who needs restoratives?!"

"Blaze?!" he shouted uncertainly, pausing to glance around. "Reese?!"

[ST]

You're perfectly fine, Lex! The group isn't under any anti-GF/magic spell. Their GFs were KO'd by Adel a while back (well, some of them), but they all can use magics!

And while your AIM keeps shutting down, my browser's the one who kept shutting down -_- I swear I had a better looking post prepared but I lost it sklhdf'aha
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Storyteller

Hadrian catches the bunch of items that were thrown to his directions and is grateful for them--somehow. "What do you know?" He looks at them.

He gives one to Rayden, Stella, Jax and the others while Stardust and Jun pour their hearts out towards Adel. Every now and then, Vanesse would cast Curaga over Rinoa to maintain her health.

Sorceress Adel stays rooted on her spot, watching Stardust and Jun's combined arrows do damage on everything but her. She moves her hand forward and a magical barrier forms around her, barricading their attack. The sorceress closes her eyes and out came Rinoa's cry of agony. She is sucking her spirit once again!

[Blaze Sanaku]

"Blaze?!"

Blaze sat up quickly, her head swimmingly unpleasantly as a result. Even though Vanesse had cured her from Jax's merciless attack, Blaze hadn't felt well enough to get up until now. Who called her name? She looked towards the source and was completely bewildered by who she saw.

"Reese?!" Zacke yelled uncertainly. He looked confused.

Zacke yelling Reese's name was definitely not was Blaze had been expecting.

"Z-Zacke?!" Blaze replied in the same tone of confusion. She saw a mess of an airship behind him and her mind almost exploded in rage.

"DON'T TELL ME YOU CAME TO SAVE THE DAY IN THAT STUPID AIRSHIP!!" She sprang to her feet. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH SHIT WE HAD TO GO THROUGH TO GET TO ADEL?!?! AND YET YOU GET TO WALTZ IN HERE ON A STUPID AIRSHIP!! WHY DIDN'T WE DO THAT, MR. PILOT???"

Blaze turned to address Jax and then it dawned upon her that Jax was the one who had shot about 10 rounds of bullets at her. Steam was practially pouring out of her ears.

I'm gonna mess up Jax and his sister sooo badly they won't even----

Blaze then seemed to just notice that she was in an epic duel with Sorceress Adel. She also just seemed to notice that the trinity sword was sticking into her chest and wasn't doing shit. Blaze's eyes bulged to a dangerous, almost ping-pong sized level.

"THE TRINITY SWORD ISN'T WORKING!!!" She screeched, completely forgetting about Zacke and Jax. "WE SPENT ALL THAT TIME GETTING THOSE FUCKING JEWELS.. AND... AND THE SWORD DOESN'T WORK!!"

Blaze's face was red from the lack of oxygen she had used up on screaming and her hair was plastered to her face. She had no idea who to direct her anger towards there were so many people she wanted to pummel at the moment.

[Hadrian D'arcell]

Hadrian had to cover his ears to shut off Blaze's screech. "I know, we know! We can see that, Ms. obvious!" He clenched his jaw. He knew the frustration he was feeling right now wasn't really as deep as the others' since he barely did all the work, but this was way ridiculous.

Whatever happened to those three ancient chicks who were babbling in King James' language underneath Shumi Village? Ah hell...if this keeps up, Rinoa will-- He scratched his head impatiently.

"Tell you what? I have a better idea. Why don't y'all just spare yourselves the restoratives and give your limit breaks a shot?!" he suggested, attempting to sound level-headed. Offensive wasn't his specialty--he was just a hacker--so his limit break was nonexistent. "Just like Stardust and Jun did!" He pointed at the girls. Stardust could be seen struggling to catch her breath.

"Trinity sword does no sh!t, so might as well go out with a bang! Give her you best shot!" he encouraged.


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Mr. encourager criticizes the Trinity Sword when it's so much like him XD LOL

[Lex]

"DON'T TELL ME YOU CAME TO SAVE THE DAY IN THAT STUPID AIRSHIP!!"

Zacke knew who it was, even before he looked to see. That screeching madwoman-voice could only belong to one person. He changed his direction and made toward her as she sprang to her feet. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH SHIT WE HAD TO GO THROUGH TO GET TO ADEL?!?! AND YET YOU GET TO WALTZ IN HERE ON A STUPID AIRSHIP!! WHY DIDN'T WE DO THAT, MR. PILOT???"

He winced at the capabilities of her vocal cords. "AWW, I MISSED YOU TOO BLAZE!!" he yelled right back at her obnoxiously, already annoyed with her after only being reunited for about two seconds. His sarcastic retort hadn't even fazed her, she was already throwing another tantrum about Trinity not working.

"Tell you what? I have a better idea. Why don't y'all just spare yourselves the restoratives and give your limit breaks a shot?!"

Zacke looked over at the unfamiliar speaker. A guy with red hair and... eyeliner? Reese's little bro, or what?

"Just like Stardust and Jun did!" the guy continued, pointing in their direction. "Trinity sword does no sh!t, so might as well go out with a bang! Give her you best shot!" he encouraged.

"'Go out with a bang?'" Zacke said incredulously. The guy seemed cool enough, until he said that. "No one's 'going out,' period." he said firmly. He turned to Blaze and thrust a Hi-Potion at her. "You keep screaming like that and you're going to pass out before you even have a chance to scratch Adel."

He turned to the crimson-haired guy. "Look, Jun and Stardust are merely distracting her -- stalling her. She's deflecting their blows with little effort. Melee Limit Breaks aren't going to cut it, we need something more... " he glanced around. His eyes settled briefly on the crashed airship. It hadn't exploded. The fuel tank must still be intact...

"We need to get her inside that airship." he said suddenly, his eyes glancing around and mind working frantically. "Blaze, you're pretty good at setting fire to things. Maybe we can barbeque the bitch."

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Deo would probably be better at making something go ka-boom than Blaze XD but Zackie doesn't know him yet.

If you ebil STs really want us to kill Adel with limit breaks just let me know and I'll make Zacke stop being a potion-tard and fight. I was just trying to figure a way around the limit breaks because they don't seem to be damaging her >_<;

[ST]

Sorry... Monster post o.o
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Storyteller


Adel's mouth curls with a permanent smirk, not even breaking into a sweat as the powerful shield she had set around her rebounds any attacks targeted at her, some ricocheting against the walls and hitting SeeDs or Opps unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity.

Soon, the supply of hi-potions and remedies Zacke had gathered from the airship run low, eventually dwindling to nothing as the time drags on. Everyone is barely sustaining their exhausted bodies, hurling every single offensive attack, magic, status magic and even Guardian Forces at Adel, to no avail.

The battlefield is blanketed with the smell of blood, explosions and hits against the walls and the shield drowning out the weak cries of pain Rinoa gives out as Adel sucks at her spirit continually. The towering Sorceress starts giving off a reddish glow that appeared simultaneously with the draining of colour from Rinoa's face.

"This shouldn't be happening!" Jaime cried out, sinking to the floor on her knees when she realised that her last Curaga was spent. Her voice rose shakily. "What happened to those wishes we were promised? Was that just some kind of play? Do you wish to hear our story? We heard your fucking story we solved your riddles where are you now? Suthieal! Ediendelle! Rhirawen! Come out come out wherever you are!" She gestured madly in the air.

Rayden stared at her wearily. Someone finally snapped. He couldn't blame her.

Adel's smirk drained from her mouth. Her head suddenly snapped down to peer at her chest, disbelief painting her face when the rays of blue, green and red shone through her chest.

"WHAT?" Adel staggered a few steps backward. She finally stopped siphoning at Rinoa's spirit, trying to pull out Trinity Sword from behind, but was repelled by an invisible force around it.

Three ladies, bathed in etheral glows of the three different hues materialised in the middle of the room. The sad, eerie melody of a harp, familiar to some, strange to a few, fills the entire room. Upon closer look, the faces of the three beautiful women was familiar too, impassive though they may be. They were no longer carrying their signs of wealth, fertility and harmony, but their features were unmistakable.

Behind them, Adel's face twisted with rage, but she could not seem to do anything to them, immobilsed by an invisible spell.

The Sapphire one spoke first, her silvery voice a soothing balm in your ears after all the disturbance of battle.

"Speak of thy wish, seekers of Sapphire's power. But reminded, as you are, of the terrible consequences released upon the awakening of the sister gems.

So, what is thy will? Will you awaken Suthieal's Sapphire?"