Final Fantasy VIII

The Time Paradox

By: Ryu Saiashi

prologue

Five years ago, several heroes stood up against a powerful time sorceress, Ultimecia. These heroes were Squall Leonhart- an introverted man who later warmed to his friends, and leader of his SeeD squadron; Rinoa Heartily, leader of a Timber Resistance Faction who grew to love Squall; Laguna Loire, an Ex-Galbadian Soldier, President of Esthar, leader of his squadron; Quistis Trepe, Ex-instructor demoted to SeeD, Selphie Tilmitt, A spunky nunchaku-bearer who was teamed with Squall and Zell after the Dollet SeeD Exam; Irvine Kinneas, SeeD Member and trained assassin of Galbadia Garden who attempted to assassinate the sorceress Edea; Kiros Seagill and Ward Zabac, partners to Laguna; and Edea Kramer, Wife of Headmaster Cid Kramer, a sorceress whose powers passed down to Rinoa. Together, these ten heroes stood against the force of Time Compression, which killed all other beings in existence beside Ultimecia, her minions, and other monsters which roamed the world, and annihilated the evil sorceress Ultimecia, which destroyed Time Compression and threw the heroes all across the timeline. Squall, thrown back to the time where Ultimecia passed her powers down to Edea, told her about SeeD and Garden, thus creating a world without Ultimecia . . .

. . . Or so they thought . . .