Chapter 1:Nightmares of the past.
It all starts in garden when the group of Galbadia Soldiers start attacking everyone, the SeeD´s stand up to fight this menace and try to stop it but then a group of soldiers killed the first 6 SeeD´s they saw.
In the second floor two students, one of them hurt in his chest, are running when a group of 4 soldiers saw them "Stop right there!" one of the soldier screamed.
Both of them think that they would die, but then they heard a voice behind:
-"I´ll take them out..." Both of them turn around and saw him: "Lionheart."
A man with black leather jacket and jeans, and a scar in his forehead cutt by the left side, sees both of them "Just get out of here right now."
Both of the students leave and enter one of the classrooms, the soldiers took there swords out and jump over Lionheart, he only pulls out his Gunblade and impales it inside the chest to the first one when the other one came he took the sword of the first one and cut the neck of the soldier, the third soldier came directly to cut his head but Lionheart pulled his Gunblade of the first soldier and did a spin attack, inmedietly fall to the floor cut by the back of the neck, he then saw the last soldier, when finally he saw the last one he took the sword of the first soldier and start fighting with him, finally he impaled his sword into the neck of the soldier, still standing the soldier start to give a little shake and inmedietly Lionheart pulled the sword out of the dead soldier and he fall in the floor still shaking, he through the sword and pulled out of his pocket a handkerchief he started to clean his Gunblade and behind him the dead body´s of his enemies spilling blood and rotting up.
When he finish clean it up he heard a voice: "You don´t loose the touch Squall..."
Squall Leonhart the best Gunblade specialist and his ability with the weapon was uncomparable he turn around to see Seifer, his worst enemy, with Raijin and Fujin besides him, it was incredible that he would appear after what he did to garden in that moment.
Squall looked at Seifer, he had a smile in his face, he had his eyes half close, the scar on his forehead to the right side, Raijin and Fujin watch from behind, Fujin getted close and pulled her pinwheel out:"I´ll cut his neck once and for all..."
Before she could give another step infront, Seifer stretch his arm and stop her:"Wait...let me have my fun with him first." He was still smiling with his eyes half close, he then pulled his Gunblade out and later open his eyes, he had a blood blue color in his eyes, he jump and attack Squall, inmediatly Squall through the handkerchief into the air and jump into the fight with Seifer, both of them pass the first strike and didn´t gave a scratch, Seifer turn around and saw Squall:
-"Let´s get serious Squall..." Seifer putted in a strange position, his right leg stretch all to the front, his left leg in the back, same as his left hand all to the back with the Gunblade in hand, he gave the strike, he start running where Squall was standing, Squall lift his Gunblade and attack Seifer, then...everything turn white...
Squall is sitting in the floor of his bedroom with his Gunblade standing next to his right arm, he had his head looking to the floor, he lifted it inmediatly:"Damn...that nightmare again."
Squall talk to himself and later looked out the window, a storm started and the wind was blowing really hard, the sound of the branches of the trees moving, the small leafs that hitted the window. Squall start to look the floor of his room again: "Why do I keep having this this be an omen?"
He kept thinking for a while, "Since the end of the 3rd. Sorceress War, 10 years ago, I have forgotten everything, and still I have this this be a bad omen." Finally the ray of the morning came.
Squall was walking the hallway of Garden, he had change long time ago but the nightmare change him again, it bother him that much, it was the third time he had that nightmare, he never knew that he would change him that much...but he was wrong.
All the sudden he heard a familiar voice: "Squall!!"
He turn around to see Rinoa: "Oh!...hi Rinoa."
She walked to where he was, she was wearing a pair of blue jeans, a black T-shirt and a pair of white tennis, as always she came smiling, when she getted close where Squall was, she felt something in the strange expression of Squall, she wanted to know what was going on, but she promised not to ask Squall´s past for sometime.
Squall just smile and continue walking the hallway. Rinoa reacted and run where Squall was walking:
-"Hey!...wait Squall."
Squall stop and turn around where Rinoa´s voice came, she came running and stop:
-"What´s wrong?" He ask.
-"Where going to get some lunch, Selphie, Angie, Irvine, Quistis and me...want to come?"
Squall stared at Rinoa and smile:"Sure...why not."
-"Great...let´s go."
Squall looked at Rinoa running to the front gate, he then ask:
-"Where you going?"
-"Where going to get lunch in Balamb...let´s go!"
Squall just walked where Rinoa was going, and started to feel much better.
In Balamb they enter a Chinness restaurant and asked for the special for all the group they where all sitted in a round table and in a somekind of wooden chairs, finally a big bowl of soup came and 6 soup plates with them, Quistis start serving the soup and gave it to everyone, Rinoa and the rest where happy eating, but all the sudden Rinoa looked at Squall plate and saw that he hadn´t touch it, he was looking at the table in a strange way, it looked like he was worried.
-"Are you okay, Squall?"
He finally reacted and looked at Rinoa.
-"Why do you ask?"
-"You haven´t touch your food, are you sick or something?" She asked with curiosity.
Squall just smile and took the plate:
-"I´m fine..." He started to eat. "See..." He continue to eat, Rinoa only looked at Quistis, she knew something bad was going to happen.
Back in Balamb Garden, Zell was sitting in the stairs of Garden, he was with both of his hands holding his head.
-"I can´t believe it..." he hitted the stair with his right fist. "They went out and they didn´t even asked me to go with them....I hope there not eating in the chinness restaurant."
Zell still mad didn´t pay attetion to the man that came, he had a strange suitcase in his hand, he was wearing a cap, a gray shirt, a pair of blue jeans, and some steel-toe-boots, when he heard the voice of the man:
-"Good day sir,my name is Slash Anderson, sorry if I interrupted something but I´m a man that sales medicine and..."
He pulls a bottle out of his suitcase and show´s it to Zell:
-"...This medicine is the best of what I sell, it can heal wounds better than magic, and even repears broken bones."
Zell sitted strait, he was wearing a T-shirt, and shorts, and his favorite pair of tennis, he looked at the medicine and later looked at the man, he could see his eyes, he had them half close, but still he couldn´t see his eyelids, all the sudden he saw the back on the man.
-"You look familiar...you have ugly eyes, no offense..."
-"Huh?, since little I had my eyes like this...well I´ll come another time if your busy."
-"Do you really need a sword with you?"
Zell took the man´s hand and when he looked at him´s he saw wounds of cut´s on it.
-"So you finally noticed...Chicken-Wuss?"
Zell jump back before the man could cut him with his sword, it was a katana, Zell was a able to through his cap away and could see that he had black hair, and green eyes, Zell lifted his fist and prepare to fight, the man putted in a strange position, left leg front and right leg back, right arm infront and left arm with katana in hand.
-"Let´s see if you´re really that good with your punches as the people said..."
Zell ran and punched the man in the face, the man only smile and putted in his strange position again...Zell only jumped backed and finally...
He run where Zell was, Zell moved to the left side, but it was to late, he impale his katana in his right arm, the impact was so hard that it pushed him back and finally the katana broked, Zell fall into the floor. The man only looked at his broken katana.
-"Damn...I was right...a katana breaks more easy than a Gunblade...oh well."
He was about to leave when all the sudden he heard:
-"I´m...not...done...with you...yet Seifer..."
Zell stand up with the half of the katana impaled in his arm.
-"I will...not let you go...like this."
Seifer smiled in a diabolic way:
-"Incredible...your the first person that I know that has survived my 'Demon Strike' I´m surprised..."
-"SHUT UP!"
Zell jump to attack Seifer but he dodge all of his punches, even with his wounded arm he could still hit very hard, finally Zell punch him with his wounded right hand and Seifer stop it, he then open the palm of his right arm and hit him in the impaled katana, the blade impaled deaper and Seifer hold Zell´s head and crash it in the floor, the hard rock of the floor broked and Zell was left unconsince in the floor. Seifer just laugh "If only Squall was here...maybe next time I´ll get lucky." He took his cap and walk away living the suitcase and the katana in the floor.
Squall was walking back with everyone to Garden, he was to concentrated to talk with Rinoa, she was walking in front of Squall with Quistis. Rinoa turn around and looked at Squall, she turn around and kept talking to Quistis, who was besides her, talking about Squall´s problem.
-"Something is bothering him alot..."
Quistis looked at Rinoa.
-"Yes, I think your right, he barely eated..."
-"You think is something of Garden?"
-I don´t know..." Quistis looked at the floor "But whatever is bothering him it is really painful for him."
Rinoa felt a cold breeze, she thought as well that something bad was going to happen, but couldn´t tell what was it. She turn around and saw Squall really far looking at the sea, he looked really worried, she step some steps away and went where Squall was.
-"What´s wrong Squall?"
Squall was hearing the screams of all the people he killed, a memory of 10 years ago, in his head.
-"Have you ever remember what happen 10 years ago Rinoa?"
-"You mean the Sorceress War...yes...but I try not to think of it, it brings bad memories...is that what has been bothering you?"
Squall closed his eyes and nodded.
-"I been having nightmares of the war, I still listen the screams of the people I killed, the clash of swords, I try to forget it but...I just can´t forgive myself of what happen."
Rinoa looked at the sea.
-"Squall...what happen in the past, stay´s in the past...I know that whatever you did, try to change it will not help for anything...you´re not Lionheart anymore, he is only a memory of the past."
Squall looked at Rinoa and she turn around to see him.
-"Maybe you can´t change the past...but try to start again with the present...then you´ll see the changes." Rinoa gave a little giggle: "You don´t like to be asked about the past, but you keep talking of it..."
Rinoa start to walk again back to Garden, Squall eyes where wide open, he looked at the sea again and thought to himself:
"Maybe she is right...I got to start over."
Then he start walking to Garden.
Irvine arrived to the entrance and waited for Selphie to come, Angie came talking with Quistis and Selphie, Rinoa came with Squall, both holding by the hands, when they where infront of the entrance Squall stopped and Rinoa continue walking when she felt the pull that Squall made. She looked at him.
-"What´s wrong?"
-"...!!........Something is wrong...I smell blood."
Squall walked inside the entrance of Garden and saw blood all over the floor, and started to follow the path of blood, Irvine came behind.
-"What the hell!?"
Selphie came inside and saw the blood in the floor, same as Quistis and Angie, Rinoa came in shock, then Angie and Rinoa start to follow Squall, when all the sudden both of them saw Squall still following the path of blood and Angie start to walk where the blood could be seen, then they only heard a scream:
-"ZELL!!!"
Squall turn his head fast and went where he heard the scream, when he arrived he saw Zell in the floor with the broken sword impaled in his arm, Irvine came running and saw him:
-"ZELL!!...oh shit, hang on man..."
Irvine lift Zell of the floor and looked at Quistis:
-"QUISTIS!!"
-"Take him to the infermary...NOW!!"
Quistis said with shocked, Irvine start running Angie holding Zell´s head, she was crying in pain:
-"Please Zell...don´t die...oh God..."
Selphie came infront of them, moving the students out of the way...all the students looked in shock at Zell covered in blood, Quistis inmediatly came inside the infermary:
-"Dr. Kadowaki!!"
Later Irvine came with Zell in his arms, and Angie besides him, Dr. Kadowaki looked in shock:
-"Good Lord!!...put him on the table."
Irvine putted Zell in the table, Angie hold Zell´s hand and kept crying, Quistis took some stitches and a knife, she preaper everything and finally pulled the piece of katana out, when she saw the size she was in shock, she asked Angie to get out of the operation room and everyone else, Selphie hughed Angie and try to make her more tranquil, Irvine jacket was covered in blood and he took his hat off , he couldn´t believe what happen, he was in shock...
Squall was hughing Rinoa making her to make her less worried, when all the sudden his eyes saw the sharp blade of the broken katana.
In Balamb city, Seifer is in a restaurant he is with another man, both of them are talking:
-"Would you like to drink some Whisky?"
-"No thank you..."
The man looked at him strangely:
-"But I heard that you liked drinking..."
-"No...I do like drinking...the problem is after I drink I desire more to kill."
A drop of sweat came down his face, he just gave a small giggle and kept talking:
-"You´re really good with the sword I was told..."
-"If that´s what they told you...than that is true."
-"Whe should celebrate your victory..."
The man clapped three times and spoke:
-"Bring this man more food..."
Seifer getted up of the floor and took a jacket, and a cap.
-"I´m sorry but I have stuff to do..."
-"Duty first, huh?"
he putted the jacket on and the cap.
-"In a way of talking yes...if someone see´s me with you they will tell the captain, I don´t desire that...besides today is my turn to go around and check the street´s."
He then left, the man looked at Seifer and smile, he start to look outside where he saw him walking in that moment:
-"Seifer Almasy...member of the faction the dark wolf´s, known as the black demon of the group and the best master that can use the sword very well."
Back in Balambs infermary, Quistis and Dr. Kadowaki where attending Zell...finally they stop and called everyone...Rinoa, Angie, Selphie and Irvine came inside the room...
-"How is he?" Angie said.
-"He will be fine...right now his sleeping." Dr. Kadowaki said with a sighed of relief.
-"That´s a relief..." Selphie said.
-"I´ll go tell Squall..." Irvine said.
-"Wait...don´t?" Rinoa said with her eyes wide open.
-"Why not Rinoa?" Quistis said.
-"Well...when I went a moment ago he was in deep thought...he looked like something was bothering him alot."
Back in the entrance of Garden, Squall looked the broken piece of the katana that he took from the infermary...he checked it up and looked at the suitcase.
-"I can´t believe it´s...a dark wolf...after 10 years he was able to come around unnoticed...back in the third Sorceress war...the dark wolf´s disguised like medics or medicine salers...I can´t believe they still did that."
Squall stand up and went where one pillar was standing...he start to walk a little faster he pulled his Gunblade out of his belt and finally cut the pilar, only a small cut he make.
-"Will this Gunblade be enough for facing him?" The light of the pillar iluminated his eyes, a strange color appeard on them.
The wind was blowing really hard and the leaves of the tree´s start falling in that beautiful night, a man with a long jacket was walking in the darkness and he looked at the floor.
-"It´s been 10 years after the 3rd. Sorceress War and finally we the slayers will strike again with great power, isn´t that true Lionheart...we will rise again..."
He kept walking and a big Demon wolf appeard behind him, his shadow still follow him till the end of the path.