As time goes on
A Final Fantasy 8 Story
The sunlight glimmed brightly off the expertly polished outer perimeter of the Balamb Garden Military Academy structure, streaming a wide beam of light straight into the Commander's Room. Squall Leonhart, age 21, opened his eyes slowly then winced as the sunlight shone right into his eyes and with a slight growl he pulled a pillow over his head to block out the sun. His moment of darkness didn't last long as the PA system blared across the entire Garden.
"Squall Leonhart! Report to the Bridge immediately! I repeat! Squall Leonhart, report to the Bridge immediately!"
Squall jerked himself up and flung the pillow across the room, knocking over a glass vase in the process. He glared at the vase teeter tottering on the edge of his coffee table, as if glaring would cause it to stop. No such luck. It teeter tootered for a few seconds, then stop and as if in slow motion, began it's descent. "Oh for the love of..." Squall sighed and waited for the sound of breaking glass...but it never came. Somehow the glass vase landed on the awkwardly place rug runner that covered only about an inch of the hardwood floor, underneath the coffee table. Somehow the vase had fallen and landed underneath the table. Squall breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank Hyne.." He muttered to himself as he grabbed his leather pants and jacket off the back of the living room chair and slipped said items on, then his boots which were underneath his bed.
He began making his way over to the fallen vase when a more urgent, panicked voice came over the intercom "Squall! Where the hell are you! We need you here now, damnit! Don't bother using the elevator! Just get your ass up here now!"
Squall smacked his head with his hand and growled then took off in a sprint towards the staircase. "Thank Hyne it looks automatically." he thought to his head. He skidded to a halt and ran back to his room "Shit!" He keyed in his passcode within a second and dashed into his room, grabbed Lionheart and dashed out the room again, straight to the staircase.
He took 3 steps at a time to get to the bridge and skidded to a halt as he reached the lift to get to the bridge. As it reached the 3rd floor of the structure he drew his gunblade with the quickness and quickly scanned the small space for enemies.
After a few short seconds he lowered his gunblade by a centimeter and thought for a second. "The bridge is completely empty...what the hell is going on?" He took a few steps towards the control panel to check on the controls. Everything seemed to be in order...so what the hell was going on?
He heard a few steps behind him and he jerked around to face his attacker...only to find out that there was no attacker..."Am I going crazy? No..I'm stronger than this..." He thought to himself. He shook his head for a moment to clear his head.."Quistis! Now!" He heard a voice but it was too late. His blade was knocked from his hands before he had time to react and he was quickly put under a sleep spell.
Hw woke up in a hotel room in the town of Balamb. Shaking his head he woke up and shook the cobwebs from his head. Sitting up he glanced to his left side and saw a note on the nightstand:
"Hi Commander, we knew you wouldn't take vacation willingly so we took the action we needed to to make sure you did. You've done so much for Garden and you deserve it. You are hereby banished from Balamb Garden for the following two weeks. Enjoy yourself. You can thank us later. We left you your gunblade and 100,000 gil."
Signed HeadMaster Cid and the rest of Balamb Garden.
Squall sighed heavily and pushed himself up off the bed and swung his legs down to the floor. "This can't be happening..." He stretched and stood up, yawning slightly then walked out the room and down the stairs.
End Chapter 1
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