Lost Within Blood and Tears

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Chapter 9- Friend and Foe



"Regardless of warnings
The future doesn't scare me at all.
Nothing's like before."


-Utada Hikaru



     The tension between the two girls grew to be so thick that a carving knife would be needed 
to slice through it.

     The women stared each other down, neither willing to show any sign of weakness to the 
other. TRhey even condemed the act of blinking not willing to take their eyes of their opponent 
for even that amount of time. 

     The tension got to be too much for Seifer as the women stood locked in silent battle. 
Seifer walked up to Kayonna and sliping his arm over her shoulder he pulled her back, almost 
restraining her, away from the other girl and slid the daggers out of Kayonna's palms. 

     Zell took a few protective steps back towards Chani. She put the arrow she had drawn back 
into the sheathe on her back as she swung her beautifully carved bow back onto her shoulder once 
again. 

     "Just listen to her okay?" Zell said to them all, paying special attenytion to Kayonna who 
was still struggling to free herself from Seifer's restraining arm. He turned around and faced 
Chani. "Just tell them what you told me okay? You'll be fine I won't let anything happen to 
you." Zell said placing his hands reassuringly on her shoulders and looking into the panicking 
girl's eyes. 


     "First of all who is he, how did she get here, and how did she end up with a chickenwuss 
like you?" Seifer interrogated almost irritated with Zell already.  

     "She was a prisoner here." Zell answered for her.

     "We had a prisoner?" Both Seifer and Kayonna asked simultaneously and looked at each other.

     "Yeah she was locked up in a cell when I found her. A guard killed her father. He also 
metioned something about me and her being executed. We did some number on his head to escape." 
Zell answered puzzeled by their innocent bewilderment.

     "What was she doing in there and why didn't we know about it?" Kayonna asked Seifer 
perplexed. He in turn demanded the same of Zell.

     "That's what she's going to tell you if you will only listen to her." Zell shot back 
protectively. He looked into the girl's eyes again comfortingly. "Go ahead. You can do it." 
He mouthed to her.

     She closed her eyes, a million things running through her head at once. Pain kept trying 
to shroud her in its bleakness as she tried to push everything away and concentrate on the task 
at hand. 

     A deep shaky breath was heard as she began the tramatic saga that was her life.

     "I was born and raised in the Kamla tribe on this Monerabi Basin. I was born into the lower 
end of the heirachery of the tribe, a commoner if you will. Being born into the lower end I went
 unnoticed. My father called it a gift, I called it a curse. I would have these visions I guess 
in which I go into a trance and see things. I mainly see snatches of things like pieces of a 
puzzle but sometimes there are things that are more clear. My mother was murdered when I was a 
baby, a tragedy of war; just another victim.  I was given her necklace, this one, and from then 
on the visions came to me. My father said that the visions ran in the family but they were only 
really brought about with the necklace, the amathist crystal, and only occured in girls. Because 
of this he wanted to keep me protected at all costs and being unnoticed was my best protection.
 Anyway one day I was chased down like a doe within my own village. A dog went rabid and chased 
me, a small girl of eight. I ran and ran until the end. I survived. The prince i guess you wuold 
call him, of the tribe spotted me and saw the chase. He was deeply impressed that I had indeed 
survive and decided to make me a warrior because of my natural speed and knack for survival.  
What the Prince commands no one could go against so my father couldn't go against the decision 
for me to be a warrior. He had no choice, he had to let me go. I was trained how to use a bow 
and arrow. I found out I was naturally gifted in combat and so attention began turning towards 
me. My father worried that my visions couldn't go unnoticed for much longer so he brought me 
into a room one day and showed me my mother's greatest secret.  The true reason she was killed. 
She had chronicaled the past what had really happened. Kalla, the leader of the village had won 
leadership long ago by using the evil powers of darkness and trickery. After he gained power he 
purged the village of everyone over the age of seven killing them all. With this he brainwashed 
the remaining children and created a society loyal only to him. Any opposition was removed and
 he stayed in power. 

     "My mother and father were babies at the time so they didn't remember the truth. My mother 
had come across it in a letter written to her by her mother before she had been killed. She 
tried to oppose the rule of Kalla and bring peace once again to the basin. She was killed. My 
father hid my mother's secret and so he told me about it. He also told my brother. He was 
killed. 

     "Kalla is planning and plotting more evil plans again. He grows thin with hunger for power.
 He allied himself with evil accomplices which he plans to use to achieve his goals. He wants 
to conquer all of Monerabi, thus the war, then his posion will spread, diffusing out until he 
has the entire world in his grasp. 

     "Kalla has powers to find things out. I didn't find out right away about the fact that I 
knew these tihngs but that was the last straw. Kalla had actually became quite captivated by me 
and I refused to give him any sort of satisfaction. I was to be banished but he thought of 
better things. He then found out about the fact that I was the only one who could hurt him, 
I was the only one who knew the truth. He couldn't just kill me straight out, I was too well 
known and respected within the tribe for murder. Instead he set up this attack to say I had 
died in battle. Meanwhile he had made a deal with this member of your tribe about a week ago 
and kept me in the cell. He was suposed to kill me after the attack. 

     "I was there until Zell came. The guy murdered my father in cold blood when he came to 
save me." This last part of her narrative was said with much passion in her voice.  

     All were amazed to see the young girl standing difiant in front of them. Her eyes glowed 
with a fire and fury all their own giving her a luster that shrouded her. "I will do anything 
to free myself and my people. Peace is long overdue." 

     At this Kayonna stood up and walked proudly over to the woman. She placed her hand over 
the girl's plam and understanding passed between the two.

     An allience was formed between the women as they each hugged the other in the firendship 
they had found and the bond they had formed. They understood each other and vowed to help. 

     "Ummm hate to interupt but what exactly are we going to do about it." Irvine interjected.

     Seifer shot him a look of death. 

     "Stop him and end this war." both Kayonna and Chani said simply.

     "Oh that should be easy." Irvine said sarcastically.

     "How are we planning on doing this?" Squall asked specifically. 

     "Same way you fight any war... cut off the supplies." Rinoa explained, her eyes widening 
not in excitement but in revealation. "He has outside sources helping him right? Well we hit 
and knock off his accomplices swiftly, silently and one by one." Rinoa finished decidedly.

     "Then it's decided." Kayonna said. "Where's our first target?"