Written by General Celes
Part One: The World Has Fallen
Celes could feel terrible pain spreading through out her body, Celes tried to move her head, but only succeeded in awakening a sharp pain in her skull. She could remember the statues moving, the earth shaking, the cries of the planet, and everything went black………… All she could remember was that the world has fallen
Part Two: The Awakening
Celes found herself in pitch black darkness. Nothing to see. Nothing to touch. Nothing…. "where am I??" she silently said, almost in a whisper. "Is anyone here??" she yelled. The echoing of the words hurt her ears for a few moments until it sound finally stopped. "Anyone?? Someone please! Is anyone here!?!?" she shouted as tears flowed down her face, "Where are you all?". A vision of the earth being torn apart filled her mind, and pain filled her heart. "This can’t be happening..." she thought to herself, "Locke can’t be gone.. ". "Where is everyone!?!" she yelled. "Answer me!" she screamed. Celes took a moment to think about her life. The destruction. The hate. The pain. The death. Everything. She looked up and sighed. "Oh Locke, you cant be really gone. There is some much I wanted to tell you. You cant be dead, I haven’t told you that .. i.. that, I love you yet. I will find you, I swear it. I must tell you how I feel.." Celes looked down as she thought of the man who had taken everything from her in a flash. Her face was silent as more tears rolled down her face. Just then she heard a familiar laughter, someone she knew, someone she hated. Celes looked up only to see that man. The man that had taken everything, Kefka, Walking out of the shadows, laughing. "What are you doing here!?!?" she yelled at him, grasping on to her sword, "I’m warning you…..". Kefka continued to laugh as he approached Celes, also drawing a sword. Nearer, and nearer he came to her, as Celes kept yelling for him to stay back. Finally he reached her and clenched his hands around her neck, choking her, and pulled her body up as if he were hanging her . Celes dropped her sword and tried pulling Kefka’s hands off her, only making her breath shorter. Struggling for air, her life being taken from her. Celes screamed as her body was dropped to the cold floor. Her limp, lifeless body laid there, Celes became paralyzed as soon as her body hit the floor. She couldn’t move, all she could do was see, and hear. All that Celes saw and heard was the taunting laughter and the evil grin of Kefka looking down at her. A single tear rolled down her face and Celes woke up…………
Part Three: The Solitary Island
"At last…….Celes!"
"huh??….."
"At last Celes!"
Celes opened her eyes and looked up a the familiar voice calling her
name, it was Cid.
"Where am I??…. I feel like I’ve been ……..sleeping forever…." Celes
said quietly to Cid.
"One year to be exact." He replied. " I thought that you were gone for
good a while there" .
"A whole year….. you’ve watched over me the
whole time?" She asked him.
"Yes, and I am about out of energy. When the world crumbled, I awoke
to find us here with a few strangers. I cant believe that this isn’t
just some strange drea-.."
"The World! It wasn’t just some wongo
dream!?! HE actually destroyed the world!? No way!" she interrupted
him, " … MY FRIENDS! Where are my friends?? Where’s Locke!?"
"I don't
know. I only know we're here... Maybe we're the only people left
alive... Since that day, the world's continued to slide into ruin.
Animals and plants are dying... The few others who washed up here
with us passed away of boredom and despair." Cid explained to her.
"My
friends...they're probably all gone..." Celes said in a voice filled
with sorrow.
She looked up at Cid, the tears were building in her
eyes.
"Celes...you're the closest thing to family I have... we could
just live out our lives here peacefully..." Cid told her.
"I suppose
so, Cid... Or should I say, Granddad?! May I call you that?" her
voice sounded like she was a bit cheered up.
"Gramps, eh? I'm
overwhelmed! All of a sudden I have a granddaughter! *Cough*... *Wheeze*..."
"My long-lost Granddad..." she said to herself, just loud enough for
Cid to hear.
"Ha, ha...*hack*...*cough*!" Cid said warily.
"Hey, are
you hungry?" Celes said looking at Cid.
"I...haven't eaten in three or
so days, ever since I became ill." He replied.
"What would you like?"
" Well, unless I ask for fish, I won't get anything! That's all there is here!"
"I'll go catch some."
Celes walked out of the small cabin that had been her home for the
past year, and headed towards a deserted beach.
"I cant believe an
entire year has gone by since… that day.." she thought walking toward
the edge of the shore. "I cant believe that my friends are all gone…
they just cant be.."
Celes started to look at the fish, there was one
fast moving fish, one slow one, and the other seemed to be swimming at
a rate somewhere in between.
"What Cid said… could we really be the
only ones left? Will humanity really end like this?… there just has to
be more people somewhere out in the world.." Celes picked up the
regular fish.
" But.. what about Kefka? Could he have possibly survive
the destruction of the world? But… I did, so there is a possibility.."
having thought about that Celes accidentally caught the rotten fish
not noticing.
" I think it best I just don’t think about that for
awhile.."
she picked up the fast fish and headed back to the cabin.
"Granddad, here’s a fish." She gave Cid a small plate of fish and
watched him eat it.
When he was almost done he paused for a moment and looked up at Celes.
"Celes… *cough*… I know that I’m not long for this cruel newworld….*wheeze*"
"Granddad.. please.. don’t talk like that. Know that your going to
live a very long full life-.." she was interrupted once again by Cid.
"Celes, I cant stand the thought of you alone one this wretched
island….*hack*…. If something should happen to me, there is a project
that I am working on in the basement. It just might save you when I’m
gone…. *cough*…*wheeze*…"
"I understand but Granddad… please… don’t
speak like that.." Celes looked down at Cid, who suddenly started
coughing furiously, then stopped.
"Granddad.. you have to eat, or
else.." Celes said in a very concerned tone. She looked at Cid once
more, his eyes were rolled into the back of his skull, his face was
pale, and he wasn’t breathing.
"Cid…. CID! Oh Cid, tell me this is
just a joke! You can’t leave me, we are a supposed to live here
together peacefully.. forever, you can’t leave me alone here! Oh Cid,
please wake up! " Celes shouted in a panic. Waiting for a response,
she finally knew that this wasn’t a joke.
Cid was really gone…..
Devastated, Celes ran out of the cabin with tears streaming down her
face. She ran, and ran until she couldn’t run anymore, and she found
herself standing by an injured dove at the top of the cliff on the
hill she was at. She looked up at this beautiful, brilliantly colored,
sunset and thought about Cid. Some where in the back of her mind, she
could hear the voice of Cid telling her; "Those others that were here,
when ever they were feeling blue, they’d take a leap-of-faith off
these cliffs. Perked ‘em up right!".
"There all gone……even Locke who
promised he’d watch over me…."
She looked down at the earth below her,
the jagged rocks along the water of the ocean, the waves drifting
towards the beach. "The world is slowly ebbing away….everything’s
gone…"
Celes looked up, then took one last look down at what her fate
could be.
She closed her crying eyes, and felt the wind blow across
her tear stricken face, and took the leap of faith.
Part Four: The Day After
Celes awoke on a small beach, her body being burned by the heat of the
sun. She pushed herself up, and cringed a little at a small pain in
her side. By her, she saw the injured dove by her now restored to full
health.
"Hey! Why’d you do that! Why did you nurse me back to health!?
I’ve never done anything for you!" she shouted at the bird, "Had it
ever occurred to you that maybe I WANT to die? I don’t want to live
alone in the-" She stopped yelling for a minute and notice that the
bird had a blue bandanna tied around it’s wing.
"Hey! Where’d you get
that!" She asked, then realized that she was talking to a bird.
Feeling a bit stupid, she untied the bandanna off the bird’s wing and
examined it.
"This bandanna… its familiar…." The Celes remembered that
it was Locke’s bandanna…
"He’s alive… He’s still alive!" She
exclaimed. "If Locke’s still alive…. Maybe, just maybe the others are
too. Either way, I have to find out…" Celes said to herself,
remembering about the project Cid had told her about yesterday.
Celes
ran back to the cabin and noticed a letter left on the floor where
Cid’s dead body lay…. Celes picked up the letter, it read;
"Celes, I know your going to live, but in order to do that you must leave this horrible island. There is a surprise in the basement. It is what’s been keeping me going this past year. Now, hurry up! The others are surely waiting for you! Love, Granddad."
"Cid….." Celes whispered to herself. She shut her eyes and then
proceeded to the basement. There, she found a small wooden raft.
"Thank you granddad….".
Then Celes pulled the raft out of the
basement, and dragged it to the sore of the beach.
Once Celes got there, She closed her eyes and said a small prayer forCid,
"Cid, you lived a long life, you were like a father to me. It is with
great sorrow the I must bid a farewell to you today. There was still
so much I wanted to tell, that I wanted to tell everyone. Cid, no
matter where you are now, you will be in my heart always. And no
matter what the past was, and what ever the future holds, I’ll still
make you proud of me, Granddad….now, good bye and good luck, I promise
we will meet again- some day"
Celes stood there for a few more brief moments, then got on the raft and headed out on her search for friends…………………………
Hey. I just hope you people enjoyed reading this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it. I just wrote this because I got bored one night and had nothing to do. That’s how most of my fics get started anyhow. The day I finished it a brought it to school and showed it to some of my friends and they all started crying when they finished reading it!! Anyway. My TRUE identities are Lori Chere (the same one who gave Mr. Matt Keolek his FF character stuff for everyone even Kefka.) I’m GENERAL_CELES of Yahoo!Chat. I am also General Celes of the Manga Knights (my,.. I mean, me, Kreafc &Dax’s site). That is who I am. If you want to put this fic anywhere, like maybe your own web site,^_^ please mail me before doing so. Oh yeah! And mail if you have any comments or if you just wanna tell me if you like, ^_~. My personal address general_celes@yahoo.com, (oh! You have personal address! Dont you feel special?) . anyways, um….. uh……… that’s all, c-ya! ^_~