Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Propsal ❯ The Propsal 11 ( Chapter 11 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Chapter Eleven

Blood. Seifers wound bubbled as he stood straight. Thunder The skies
above raged with Gods anger. With each blow, with each slash, the
tunder cut through the sky, letting the blackness bleed rain, sharp
knives of hate.Fire Huge flames or strength and anger rose in each
others eyes, death lay around the corner IceColdness shone through
their souls, not one feeling of care lied between the two rival men.
Death was the only way out, but there had been enough death..just one
more...one more single death and then no more.

Squall flung his blade forward and Seifer caught Squalls blow,
throwing him off to his side, sending Squall skidding onto the ground,
he landed on his left hand, which twisted painfully under him. Squall
heard the crunch of breaking bones as his wrist joint buckled under
his weight, splintering and breaking. Squall let out a silent yell as
he gritted his teeth to bare the pain. If only he had some recovery
magic on him, but he didn't. Seifer waited for his enemy to rise
before he slashed his blade across Squalls back, sending the young
man, not even twenty, yet again, sprawling across the ground.

"Pitiful," Seifer muttered as Squall tried to stand up, but his broken
wrist couldn't hold any wait and Squall wobbled on his one handed
support. "Get up!" Seifer yelled the order, flashes of lightening
eliminated his face. "Get up I said!" he ordered, enjoying his sudden
power over Squall. Strength. He aimed a kick at Squall, sending the
young man fighting just to stand up, flying into a thick stonewall.
Squall used the buildings side as leverage to stand up. he held his
blade in his right hand, which was un-injured. The sword was heavy and
Squall would be clumsy with it just to use it in the one hand. Seifer
laughed at his weakened rival.

Squall stared at Seifer and refused to let the tears that threatened
to fall build up behind his eyes, burning them. Rinoa...I won't give
up! I love you!! I won't let this brute touch you! Never! Squall
ignored the pain in his wrist and the deep laceration across his
bleeding back. He gripped the hilt of his sword with both hands. It
was agony to lift it, but Squall did and stood up straight. he could
of cried out aloud, the pain almost brought tears to his eyes. His lip
trembled as he lifted the blade higher. All this is for you Rinoa!
This pain, it is all for you! All becuase I love you!

Squall ran at Seifer and brought his sword down, Seifer's sword hit it
aside, with the force Squalls sword reflected into Siefers hip. The
young blonde failed Seed screamed a out loud and fell over against the
wall as he looked at the deep hold in his side. "You bastard!" he
spat.

Squall pulled Seifer upright, the young blonde man groaned at the
pain. "Admit it Seifer, you've lost! You've lost everything. You can
either die here now, or go. Take your pick. If you want to stay and
fight, then die and die in honour, or be the coward you have always
been and run away. I'm giving you the choice. Just don't let your
death lay on my conscience," Squall said catching his breath and
feeling the agony build up to something much greater in his wrist and
back.

"I'll never back out Squall! You will die!" Seifer yelled and grinned,
"Squall, you think I would let you live? I may seem easy to kill
now...but you will never be able to kill me Squall! NEVER!" Seifer
roared and laughed.

The skys lit up again and screamed in its terrible anger.

Kill each other. Cut each other up! Do you not see the life, the love
you will be destroying? Are you blind? Are you stupid! Go ahead! Kill
all what you have left! Destroy each other, rip out your hears and
feed it to the dogs! You're worthless! You pigs! What do you care!
Look at what is around you! Death! Destruction! But what do you
care?!? You care of nothing! All you want to do is kill! And I tell
you! I'll tell you something! You will face the consequences! The
death of a loved one! You protect her? Do you protect her? Then you
are mad! Look at her.. do you see her...DO YOU SEE? She will die and
in your arms.. DIE! Both of you! IDIOTS! You will regret this! Your
anger will kill all those closest to you. Never again will either of
your lives be the same once this is over!

Seifer ignored the huge slash to his hip, splintered bits of bone
jutted out of the wound, but none of this mattered. Only the others
death. That was all that mattered. They ran at each other, swords
clashed and they stood there, eyes staring madly into each others.
Death to you. Squall threw Seifer aside, sending the blonde man
skidding into a deep murky puddle. Seifer screamed in agony as the
filthy rain water seeped into his wound. Squall pulled his opponent up
from the ground by his scruff.

"Still want to fight?" he asked with an evil sneer. Squall felt a
shiver jet down his spine, this wasn't him at all. I don't sneer. I am
not evil....but.. then what am I doing? Sneering, laughing like a
maniac. It is as if I enjoy doing this, but I've never.. Squall
blocked half a dozen blows from Seifer and spun round so he was on
Seifer's right side. His wrist was agony, he clamped his jaw down
tight to prevent any sign of pain. Seifer was slow to turn, Squalls
blow across Seifer's head was fatal.

The blonde man, rival of Squall, fell to the floor.

Seifer...no..... Squall fell to his knees beside Seifer, who had
fallen to the floor, his brains spilling out of his head, leaking all
over Squalls legs. SEIFER!!!!!! "What have I done.. I've killed
him..."he whispered as he knelt by the side of the dead body, formally
known as Seifer, the once loud and arrogant Seifer. But this is what I
wanted wasn't it?I wanted to kill him...I wanted him dead...this is
how I wanted it.. Squall felt tears come inot his eyes and the pain in
his wrist exploded. If I wanted him dead, if this is really what I
wanted...then why am I crying..?? Squall held his wrist close to his
body, all his wounds bled with more blood, making his pain even
greater. "Seifer...I...I'm sorry," Squall whispered, only hoping that
his former rival but true friend could hear him, wherever his soul was
now.

Squall stood up, still looking down upon Seifer who lay there, dead.
"I hope you will forgive me one day," Squall muttered, all the guilt
exploded in his heart that Squall actually cried, tears streaked his
cheeks as he looked down upon the sight he would never ever forget.
Seifer, now that you're dead, maybe now you can actually be happy for
once and contented. Maybe now you will calm down completly. I wish
though...that you had found real love. Squall thought to himself
silently before he departed from the scene, limping slightly and
holding his fractured wrist.

The clouds above began to tremble, Squall ignored them. Flashes of
lighting exploded with in it, until a huge bolt pure blue electricity
struck the earth with such a force it made the whole place tremble.
Squall didn't look back, he didn't want to. Instead, he just kept
walking and walking. His whole body was filled with pain. Hurt from
his wounds but mostly in his heart. Seifer was dead and he had killed
him.

But what else could I of done? He wanted to be killed, I don't think
he wanted a another defeat to feel in his heart. At least now that he
is gone. .he won't have to feel the defeat anymore. In a way, he has
won. I am alive and I feel dead inside. I am alive and suffering.
Seifer has no more sufferings. Maybe this is for the best...

Squall turned to look back to where Siefers body lie. At first he
thought his eyes were playing games with him, for Seifer's body, was
no longer there. Squall stared and then ran back, to where Seifers
body had once been. He wasn't there, not one trace. No blood, no
nothing, it was as if they hadn't been there, as if Squall hadn't
fought with him. Gone. All gone. As if they been fighting.. that
nothing at all had happened between them.

But...my wrist is still broken and my back still hurts.. Squall
reasoned, the thought that none of it actually did happen quickly left
his head. Squall looked around, there was nothing and no one. Dawn was
upon him already as the sun poked its nose out, but still, Squall
couldn't see anything.

"Seifer...where are you?!?" Squall yelled out, but there was no
awnser, nothing. Squall stood there, feeling utterly alone. Where
Seifer's body had once been, was nothing, not even one hint. Squall
stood, barley breathing and in shock. "Seifer, if you can here
me...I'm sorry," Squall mumbled.

Slowly he began to walk away yet again, it was too painful to stay
there where Seifer's body had once lain. Lifting his head high he
walked onwards and away, he had to get out of here. He had to go home
and back to Rinoa and plead her forgiveness, all he wanted now was for
his love to be there beside him, even though she didn't want to marry
him.

I'm alone.. all alone. Where are my friends.. my friends! Quistis,
Zell.. Irvine? Where are all of you? Selphie.. Ellone, all of you
where are you! Squall suddenly began to worry. Where were his friends,
all he wanted now were his friends. Mischa...Reene and Javri.. of
course.. Squalls heart suddenly jumped into reality. Reene, Mischa's
one love. Squall had set out to help her, but only managed and so
foolishly to get captured himself. How blind he had been. Hardly what
you would call a good SeeD. And people call me a hero!

Squall walked through the almost deserted streets of Dollet in a blind
daze. Nothing distracted him from his deep thoughts, not one sound,
not one flash of colour. All he could see was Rinoa, all his friends,
his father Laguna, Seifer and all the images of his past. All the
painful images, along with the happy. He remembered that time when he
and Rinoa had danced together, to when they had argued and he had
fallen in love. His life, so full of self-brought-on misery and so
much happiness, all of which he had forgotten. The only things he had
remembered was the misery of it all.

Just keep on walking. Walk to the ends of the earth, the world, the
universe. Just keep on walking, on and on and on. never stop, walk out
your feelings, walk through your heart. Just keep on going, keep on
walking and never ever think of stopping. Not until you reach the
present, not untill you realise what you have so close.

Mischa, I'll find Reene for you and I'll make sure she is safe. I'll
find Javri too and then I'll go back to my friends and then to my love
Rinoa. I promise I won't fail anyone ever again. I promise I'll be
better.

Squall walked off, the sun rose slowly in the east, an orange haze
filled the sky above. Not a single cloud was there anymore. All was
quiet, all was peaceful. Not a sound, nothing, it was as if someone
had blown out all signs of life. Not a single sound, not a single
anything. The figure of Squall disappeared into the shadows not yet
lit with the suns touching rays. Into the shadows of thoughts and the
darkness of sorrows. Away to think alone to find out something he
already knew.