Hello, it's Jizelle. Yesterday, me and Squall went shopping together, because I hoped it would help us become closer as friends. But since she finished the last case, she hadn't been telling me anything...
I don't know what to do. She has barely come out of her room since last night. The next morning, I woke up a little late, and was walking to the restroom.
As I was walking through the hallway, I ran into Squall who seemed to be distracted. She told me that she was going for a walk, and quickly left. I was confused as like usual, she didn't tell me much...
Outside, with Squall...
This morning, I had a bizarre dream that I couldn't make sense of... It was too abstract for me to comprehend any of what had happened in it... I made the decision to take a walk outside while I think about everything.
I just drifted in the east direction of the city while getting lost in my thoughts...
Squall thought, ''In...my dream, ...what did I see? Heavy winter, flat scenery, and what looked to be two figures resisting each other? Hmm....
What was that....being trying to tell me? Why did it come out as static? . . . .Why did one figure try to drown the other one? . . . .Um! . .I can't remember-the last part of it. Why can't I recall it?''
Some time later...
Squall quietly said in surprise, ''Mmm.... Hm? . .Ahh? . . . .It....seems that I must have gotten quite distracted....in my thinking...''
Squall thought, ''I ended up practically at the edge of the city. . .It seems like....no one is around here, even though....it is early morning yet... Hmm... Should I make my way back now?''
As I was thinking, I felt a sinister presence approaching...
Squall thought with a bad feeling, ''Ahh! What is this strange feeling? This....presence... It feels....almost familiar...''
Sinister familiar voice said, ''It's been quite a while, my dear Squall... Hello...'' Squall thought, ''That voice! . .It can't be...''
In that moment, I felt like I didn't and I did want to turn around. My body was trembling. I had such a strange feeling in my heart... I haven't heard that voice in what felt like ages.
As I turned around, I saw a familiar smirking face with Indigo hair that had grown longer to their hips since I last saw it. They were also wearing a red maiden headband on their hair like I recalled...
They were wearing a maiden outfit with white ruffles, and black straps to a red multilayered skirt, with black combat boots, different than I last remembered...
Squall turned around and asked, ''E-Emi....lia? Is...it?'' Sinister familiar girl said, ''You are indeed right, my old friend.''
I was in complete shock, when in my sight, I saw someone important that I thought I may never see again...
Sinister familiar girl said with a smirk, ''It's me, Emilia. I haven't seen you in years, though a lot of things are different now.''
Squall asked in shock, ''Ahh!! Emilia?! Is it really you?! Is this real?!?'' Emilia replied, ''You are right. This is real. I am really here.''
Squall urgently asked, ''You've been alive this whole time?! Then, where have you been?! Why have you not tried to contacted me at all?!''
Emilia replied with a smirk, ''I didn't let you know I was alive, because things are different now. I have been reborn. I am not the same weak girl I used to be anymore.''
Squall asked, ''What....does that mean?''
Emilia answered, ''Just take a look... Haaaah!'' Squall asked with shock, ''Ahhh!! . . . .You have...dark energy....rising from you? Ugh. What does this mean?! What happened to you?''
Emilia said with a smirk, ''I know what you've been doing since I disappeared... You've been fighting people influenced by dark spirits...
I am similar to those, ...but I am of a different breed than every one of those cases. Mm... After all, I am the one who has driven every single one of the humans to madness in the first place.''
Squall said with despair, ''YOU'RE! . . . .You're the one, ...who did that....to them? H-how? How....could you?!'' Emilia said, ''You want to know? Mm-mm! Then shoot me with your bullet of light and see my past.''
Squall said in shock, ''YOU-want me to....shoot you? I....can't...'' Emilia said putting out her arms, ''Don't worry, I know that your bullet can't purify me. Go on, if you want to know what happened, shoot me...''
Squall thought with hesitation, ''She....really wants me....to shoot her? Tch! . . . .Fine... I must know....how things....turned out....like this... . . . .'Bullet of Light.'
I forced myself to do want she wanted, as she convinced me enough... I used a Bullet of Light to see the past...
[Inside Emilia's memories]
Past Squall's father declared, ''My daughter, I found a baby girl outside our door. As of today, she will be living with us. I hope you become great friends.''
Child Squall asked, ''So you don't know what happened to your real parents? Why is that?''
Child Emilia replied, ''Nope... Father said, that I was left on the doorstep and he doesn't know why that was... It is my opinion that if they left me with your family, that I shouldn't think about who my real parents were...
It doesn't bother me, so I shouldn't bother wondering. (Giggles) Let's go explore Father's study again, alright!''
Another day in the past...
Child Squall asked with concern, ''Are you alright?! Your breathing sounds painful today...'' Child Emilia replied, ''I...will...be alright. Just don't think about it, okay.''
Child Squall said, ''Okay. If you say so...''
A few years later...
11 year old Squall shouted, ''Mom!! Mom!!! Look!! Emilia fainted and she's not waking up!!''
I was having a lot of painful breathing.
Misty said, ''Ahh! It looks....like her chest-area is experiencing sharp pain again!! Let's take her to your father, quickly!!''
Squall's Father said, ''We can't figure out what's wrong with her. She's obviously experiencing pains, but we can't pinpoint why she's suffering so much.
We're doing all we can. Currently, her condition is worsening.''
Squall's parents and her were convinced that I was going to die, and there was nothing doctors could do to help... One night, they all gathered to say their farewells to me in my hospital room...
12 year old Emilia said with tears, ''Squall... I can't....move-ugh! . .my body... Am I....going....to die? I don't want to die! Please, help me!''
Child Squall said, ''I can't! I don't know....how to... I wish I could...''
Emilia said with her painful breathing increasing, ''My body....is IN....so much pain... I don't....want to....leave you... Mother... Fat...her... Squall... Squa...''
In that moment, I flatlined... They all couldn't believe what just happened. They all broke down and started crying immensely.
Even her father, who prided himself on acting professional, was completely grief-stricken... Squall started crying on my lifeless body... She was seeing inside my consciousness after my death...
Emilia's consciousness cried out, ''I....died? Why?! Why?!? Why did I have to die?! I....left Squall....all alone... How could I... Why was I born if I was just going to suffer for most of my life?!?!
Someone, please tell me, why was I born?! What was the point if I just grew weaker and weaker till I died so young?!?! I want to go back to them!!!! I can't die!!!!''
Suddenly, I heard a strange ringing... I heard a bizarre sounding voice...
Distorted female voice asked, ''You want to live, once again? I can help you with that...'' Emilia's consciousness asked, ''Who....are you? Who is....speaking to me?''
Distorted female voice asked, ''I am a high being who wishes to grant your wish, in exchange for a favor... Do you wish to live once again?''
Emilia's consciousness said, ''High being? You can revive me in exchange for a favor? What do you mean?''
Dark high being replied, ''I can revive you in exchange for helping me with what I desire. You see, it is my opinion that people die unfairly everyday because of god's decisions.
Will you take vengeance on the god who has so unfairly cut so many others lives short? I can guide you on that path.''
Emilia's consciousness asked, ''Take vengeance....on god? You mean it?''
Dark high being replied, ''That is what I mean... Emilia Melony. Will you be revived and rid this world of it's unfair god?''
Emilia's consciousness said with all her heart, ''Fine... I accept your proposal. Grant my wish!! I wish to be alive once again. I wish to fix this unfair world!!''
Dark high being said, ''Your contract has been made. So you shall be reborn.''
Than that fateful moment, what couldn't have been more than three minutes after her flatline, her body began acting strangely...
Child Squall said, ''Huh? Emil....ia?''
My body had a burst of sudden energy which blew everyone back. I stood up with cold eyes and grew pure black wings. I wasn't in complete control of my own body.
Emilia's body said, ''Time for your payment.''
Squall's father asked, ''Ehh? (Sniff) . .What....the heck? Oww!!'' Squall's mother said, ''Ow! My daughter, are you alright?!''
They both started gazing upon my rebirth in terror. I raised both hands and begun forming dark spheres in the air around me.
Child Squall asked, ''Emilia?! What's happening?!? What's with your body?!?!'' Child Emilia said, 'Twilight Spheres.'
I released a whole burst of energy at all three of them, and in that moment, I slaughtered them, or so I thought. After I finished the attack, I regained my mind back, but was still transformed.
Child Emilia fell to her knees and cried out, ''Uh? What....did I just do? Mother? Father? Squall? . . . .(Screaming) WHY DID I MURDER THEM?!?! WHY?!?! WHY?!?! WHY?!?!?! Ahh...
Voice in her mind said, ''That was your exchange for being revived. You have now been reborn.''
Child Emilia cried out, ''Exchange?!?! Exchange?!?! . .SQUALL!!!! SQUALL!!!!!! (Intense screaming)''
I then freaked out believing I killed all of them and jumped out the window both floating and kicking my legs all over the place. I didn't realize that Squall was still alive...
I retreated into the city cursing myself for what I did. But then, my mindset slowly changed. The high being made me believe that soon this world would be reborn, and I just ended their suffering early...
Every once in a while, this being tells me what to do next in my new mission of bringing the world into a new era, where man would be eradicated...
Later, I learned how to use a bit of my mana to feed of the negativity of mankind, and collect all the energy I need for our goals. Eventually, I learned that Squall was still alive...
[End of Emilia's Memories]
Emilia asked, ''Was that sufficient enough? Hmm?'' Squall said while over exhausted, ''Ughh... You... So that is why...you killed....them?''
From the burden of taking in all of those memories and past trauma, I fell to my knees on the street...
Emilia replied, ''You should have died that night. Your suffering wouldn't have continued than... Now that I have showed you the truth... I'm sorry for this...''
Squall said with tears, ''Sorry...for what? What....are you....going to do?'' Emilia said with a sorrowful smile, ''Now, ...I can finally finish....what I should...have done... Farewell, my dear old friend...
I will....put you out of....your misery...''
I was in shock seeing what had become of my childhood friend... I couldn't help but have tears... Suddenly, Emilia grew dark wings and flew up. She raised her right hand up into the sky.
Just like 4 years ago, she started creating dark spheres around her. This time though, they had much more energy then before... While I didn't want to fight her, I had to quickly dodge her attempt to hurt me...
Emilia said, ''Geez... Why do you refuse to let me help you, by ending your misery?'' Squall said with tears, ''I...am sorry... But, I can't die yet...''
I gathered my courage and my strength convinced I might be able to still help her. I slowly grabbed my dual guns and pointed them at Emilia, not knowing what to do...
Emilia said with a sigh, ''Your....making this more difficult....then I wanted this to be... Die...'' I reflexively kept dodging with all my heart.
Emilia asked, ''Your still going to fight back? I thought I would have convinced you by now... Oh well... . . . .'Dark Blast'
Squall shouted with tears, ''I want to-help you! Please stop fighting!'' Emilia replied with a smirk, ''Nope. I have our goals and I won't halt them for anything.''
Squall said in a chain, 'Mana Bullet!' . .'Mana Bullet!' . .'Charged Bullet!' . .'Light Aura!' . .'Knife Strike.' . .'Knife Channel.' . . . .''Charged Bullet!'
Emilia said, ''Look at you... You finally seem to be almost burnt out. Now... 'Dark Meteor...'
I was too exhausted to dodge anymore. She summoned a massive meteor of dark energy, and I was hit. I cried out in pain. I was wounded and laying on the ground with my face towards the sky.
I felt like there was no hope left... My body was trembling, and I was in absolute despair... Just then, I saw Emilia walk up to me and look down at my face.
Emilia asked, ''Your still alive? Do you want to be miserable that much? Hmm? . . . .Um? Ohh, darn! I don't have enough mana left to summon my weapon...
While I was losing consciousness, I saw that Emilia looked worried about something. She stared at her hands.
Emilia said, ''How dreadful... I used up all that energy I collected already... I don't have enough mana to finish you off, without possibly vanishing myself...
I wanted to finish you off with my sword summon, but it seems that I still need more mana. Yours isn't enough sadly, so another time... I will be back. Goodbye....Squall...''
Squall said struggling, ''W-wait... (Faints)''
With that, Emilia left me as I fainted from over exhaustion and wounds. I felt like I had given up any hope in that moment. I couldn't believe that my childhood friend wanted me dead...
Jizelle shouted, ''Squall! Squall!! (Gasps)''
Until next time...
[No Time with Jizelle today...]