A/N: Not much on fanfic.net lately that interests me so I decided to make a feeble attempt at my first fanfic. Please let me know how my writing is or of any errors. Starts off after the defeat of Ultimecia. Thanks and enjoy! (hopefully) Also, can anyone help me figure out how to get this friggin' formatting corrected? My quotation marks are showing up as squares( " see?) and it's frustrating me. I followed what fanfic says, saving my word doc as a web document but it still doesn't work. My thanks ahead of time for this annoying problem.

Disclaimers: I don't own any of these characters in the story. They are all Squaresoft's property.

"Even if you end up as the world's enemy,"

"I'll….."

"I'll be your knight."

It was over. It was finally over. The battle against Ultimecia was an endless and tiring ordeal, but everyone stuck together and relied upon one another until the last blow was made. The SeeDs and the sorceress had prevailed.

Quistis Trepe and Selphie Tilmitt had escaped time compression and were now standing outside the gates of Balamb Garden, where everyone had decided to meet if they were victorious. Suddenly, Selphie jumped a mile up in the air as two figures approached.

"Yeah, you guys made it!" shouted the girl in the yellow dress as she ran up to Zell Dincht and Irvine Kinneas, startled a bit by the ball of energy headed their way. Quistis, nodding her head ever so slightly, slowly followed behind Selphie to greet the pair as well.

"Of course, you'd expect anything less?" exclaimed the cowboy as he gave Selphie a hug and small peck on the cheek.

"Did you see the butt-kicking I gave to that sorceress, Quistis?" quipped Zell, hopping up and down, replaying the moves that he had used on Ultimecia.

Rolling her eyes and smiling, Quistis simply nodded her head. Then she heard a thunderous growl from Zell's direction, as did Irvine and Selphie whose heads suddenly turned towards the martial artist.

Embarrassingly, Zell held his hands over his stomach and said, "Wow, all this fighting musta given me an appetite. I could eat a million hot dogs right now."

Everyone except Zell, who looked dumbfounded, started bursting out in laughter at the spiky-haired blonde's last statement. But then the gang quieted down when Zell spoke again.

"Where's Squall and Rinoa?"

The SeeDs shook there heads and said nothing, for they were as clueless as Zell. Everyone instead sat down and scanned the horizon, searching and hoping for signs of the SeeD Commander, Squall Leonhart, and the sorceress, Rinoa Heartilly. Finally after a half hour, Irvine broke the uneasy silence that had fallen upon his comrades.

"They'll be here soon." I pray to Hyne… "Let's wait inside of Garden, it's getting late and cold out here," the sharpshooter said as everyone nodded in agreement and slowly headed inside Balamb.