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And the truth comes out. Leon didn't ACTUALLY do anything against Maleficent. Quistis is a bit ticked (rather understandably), but Leon does his job. Well, sort of.
It's not really his fault that Edea aimed an icicle right at his chest (ala the end of FFVIII disk 1). (Excuse my snark, I was reading a snarky walkthrough to ensure that the battle I'm referring to really ended disk 1. You fight Edea at the end of disk 1 AND disk 2. Yay.)
But enough about FFVIII the game, back to the story...
I tried not to make the battle sequence too long, but rereading it, I'm wondering if I made it long enough. Oh well. There will be more battles. Trust me, there will be more battles. It also occurred to me that Leon didn't do much this battle. Of course, the original plan was to not physically attack her, so he was left with pretty much nothing because Leon actually doesn't know too much magic at this point. He'll get better.
Well, sort of. At some point, why do you need magic when Quistis and Rinoa know all the magic? I'm referring to story mechanics, actually... in-game mechanics, I gave Squall loads of spells. Because, he needs them!
Oh, for anyone new, I tend to use Leon/Squall interchangeably when I'm just talking. When I'm writing, I try to remain consistent. As in, everyone calls him Leon except for Rinoa.
Anyway, backtracking, to get back on track...
Leon's all like: "This is your Sorceress? I thought for a moment it might be Maleficent. Oh well, she needs to die anyway."
And then Quistis is like: "What do you mean you didn't properly deal with your last Sorceress? I thought you knew what you were doing?"
Quistis isn't happy with Leon.
Anyway, they battle Edea and after the whole icicle-through-the-chest thing, instead of being captured and
jailed like in the game, Rinoa basically has a Limit (though she uses Squall's gunblade for it) and nearly kills Edea. This causes the transfer of powers between the two, instead of the later fight like in the game. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure why I'm describing what I did versus what the game did. I know that what I'm doing is different (partially because FFVIII is long and partially because I haven't played it in years and when I wrote the timeline, I was basically going off on memory and wrote a condensed version. Yup.) Then there's the fact that I want to add the KH spin to it, hence the possessing and the plunging into darkness motifs.
Actually, I think originally, I wasn't going to use the icicle-in-the chest, so Leon would have been awake to make the executive decision to move everyone off the float, but then I used the icicle thing and Quistis decided that everyone should be awake before they moved.
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So, the two pass out because...well... transfer of powers. It'll happen every time. Quistis and Zell are surrounded by two passed-out women and a bleeding-to-death Leon. Yup. Quistis heals Rinoa because she knows Rinoa's not crazy (spoilers: at the moment). And then she still has to have Edea healed to answer questions. But Edea's fine now because Ultimecia's not possessing her! Woo!
It's about here that I decided that Ultimecia and Xehanort should form a fanclub for possessing and Genesis should join. What is it with KH and needed vessels? Well, it's mostly Xehanort, but still.
But anyway, Ultimecia's now back where she belongs at the end of time (for now) and she's stewing because her plan failed. But she's not even a main objective right now, they've got other things to figure out.
Hmm, I'm not sure if I have anything else to say...
Okay, well... video!
Currently, I'm of the opinion that the new FOB album is AkuRokuShi.
Like, seriously....
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