A/N: This is the beginning of the Naperic Legacy REVISED! I started to think more about it recently, and I'm going to finish it. I wanted to get it over with so that i can start on the next project, which i had written bits and peices of it. As to why the original is still up, its due to the fact that im finding trouble trying to delete my old account. While you enjoy this version, which has a few small changes in the beginning and more changes towards the end, i'll get right to getting ride of the original.

Summary: When a hero's life changes during the aftermath of war, what must he do when a new threat challenges the world around him? Would his choices have to involve joining a resistance group in order to stand a chance against a new enemy? And would he break free of retrained emotions? Squalphie.

FINAL FANTASY VIII

The Naperic Legacy

Prologue

Four months, two weeks, and five days ago, a great war had come to a end. It was called upon as "The Second Sorceress War" and took lives, hurting many innocent people. Destruction was everywhere to be seen; for as far as the naked eye could see.

It all started with one woman Edea Kramer who originally was a gentle soul that took care of children that lost their families in the first war. Yet, all this was just the beginning for a prophecy that was to be declared. No, more of a mysterious time loop in the deep recesses of time itself.

She had soon inherited a great sorceress' powers and was possessed for many years. Over the passing 12 years that fallowed, she devised a plan to take power within the great nation of Galbadia, and soon the entire world as we knew it.

But, there were people who opposed her. These people, who had a rightful role in the prophecy, were a military unit by the name of SeeD. They were specifically created to defeat sorceress' if one where to show its presence. The SeeD were specialists in many different types of combat such as hand to hand combat, swords, guns and much other weaponry. Being trained in three different academy's called Gardens, the cadets learned various skills to survive and to prepare in case a war was to break out.

And it was irony that chose the six young youths; four of them were trained SeeD's, to go head first into a great battle with Edea. She had once taken care of five of those youths when they were just defenseless orphans.

Leading them was a tormented soul by the name of Squall Leonhart. He, who felt abandonment by his elder sister as well as his family at a young age, was now commanding the great military unit of SeeD. He and his companions had fought against her, and after and bloody battle, they had claimed to be victorious.

Yet, that wasn't the end to this traitorous journey for another casualty had surfaced. The only person in their party, whom did not have any ties with SeeD first hand, had inherited Edea's powers. Her name: Rinoa Heartilly, yet another major role in the prophecy. She was the key to all that happened in our future.

She would one day be the ultimate sorceress by the name of Ultimecia, the key to mankind's destruction in the centuries to come. The only way to destroy this sorceress was to travel to the far distant future and overpower her. So our heroes traveled centuries into the future to her castle of many tortured souls.

The epic battle was a difficult one, full of bloodshed and violence. And as the six of them struggled to claim their final victory, life was altered back to its normal state in the present time.

And that occurred four months, two weeks, and five days ago…

Yet, the six youths did not expect what would happen next, for times just got even worse from then on…