Disclaimer: I don't own any FF VIII characters. It's Square Enix who owns them.
Italics are for the mental link conversations between/among Guardian Forces.
'' are thoughts of characters.
Long ago, monsters have already existed and prowled the lands of Gaea. These monsters lived freely but were found as a threat to humans. The monsters are born of different classes and are classified under the eight elements: Fire, Ice, Thunder, Water, Wind, Earth, Holy and Poison.
Monsters and humans were constantly in each others throats, fighting each other to survive. The monsters only wanted to live. The humans, originally created by Hyne to fight for the monsters, changed over time and also wanted to live freely. However, with the powers of the monsters, humans found it hard to keep fighting and they were in the brink of extinction.
To balance out the battle, Hyne created several monsters that surpassed the abilities of other monsters. Those creatures were created to protect humans and help them in keeping the race alive. These creatures are the Guardian Forces, masters of the elements.
In Trabia Continent, a small town by the forest rest quietly. Snow covered the roofs of houses and the roads. Even in the cold, the humans work and play around in peace until…
"EVERYONE RUN!!" a man cried.
"THE MESMERIZES ARE ATTACKING!!" a woman screamed, almost as loud as the man did.
As the people started to scramble out of the streets to hide, the Mesmerizes dashes through, hacking and slashing at everything they see. The guards of the town get into formation, wielding different weapons: swords, spears and such. The guards try their best to keep the blade-horned rams at bay but they were losing badly…
"ARGH!! Damn it! Why did this have to happen?!" one of the guards as he blocked a mesmerize's attack.
"Mesmerizes are normally quiet until some one enters their territory!" a guard said before he swung his sword and kills one. "Why did they attack when we didn't disturb them?"
"That's just a whole lot of crap!" another guard shouted. "These monsters will always attack for no reason… but… The strange thing is…" The guards finishes off the current mob they were fighting and saw that they were surrounded by another mob. "They came with more of them and they are more aggressive.
"What do we do now?!" a guard said fearfully.
"DIAMOND DUST!!" a loud female voice echoed through the streets.
Suddenly a strong and cold gust of wind rushed through, freezing some of the mesmerize and other materials on its path. The humans were unharmed though.
"Lady Shiva?" a guard asked to no in particular.
A woman then fell from the sky and landed on the ground unharmed. The woman had blue skin and had a long, yellow, hair-like appendage on her head. Ice was forming on where she stood…
"Is everyone alright?" Shiva asked without taking her eyes off the mesmerizes.
"So far, yes." The captain of the guards started. "There are some injured but most of us are fine, Lady Shiva.
"Good. Take care of the wounded." The ice queen steps forward, making the mesmerize to assume their fighting stance. "I'll wrap this up." The guards just nodded and left to the injured.
The mesmerizes eyed Shiva evilly and the said GF looked calmly at the rams. The monsters then charged and some of them flung the blades on their heads as boomerangs.
"None of you ever learn…" Shiva sighed. She raised her right arm into the air and then the snow around her converged above the Ice GF. The snow combined creating spears of ice. "Blizzard Javelins!!" Shiva swung her hand so it would point to the blade rams and the spears were launched immediately. The javelins struck the mesmerizes but only on the blades, shattering their weapons. The now-bladeless mesmerizes glared at Shiva…
"Be thankful that I only broke you horns. If I wanted to, I could have impaled you in an instant." The mesmerizes growled in reply, anger was evident in their voices. "Now, be gone!" Shiva shouted then the monsters hesitantly escape.
Shiva sighed then felt a sudden intrusion in her mind which signaled that someone was contacting her. "… Tiamat, what is it?"
Somewhere over the ocean, two dragons can be seen flying. A small dragon was flying in different direction while the larger dragon was hovering on one spot, observing the smaller one…
"I sensed your power." Tiamat stated. "Another monster attack?"
"As usual…" The Ice Queen sighed. "They've gotten more aggressive than normal. Could it be because of the energy distortions we've been experiencing?"
"We're still not sure. Let's just keep our senses up."
"As serious as ever, eh, Tiamat?" Shiva chuckled. "So how's little Bahamut? Improving?"
"Somewhat…" Tiamat replied. "He still has a long way to go but he's not giving up just yet."
"Must be your stubbornness rubbing off on him." Shiva chuckled. Tiamat could feel Shiva laughing on her side of the link. Contradictory to her form, Shiva's presence always did give a warm, comforting feeling.
"Don't talk about me like that…" Tiamat mumbled. His left eyebrow was twitching at Shiva's remark.
Another wave of hilarity was running through the link. Shiva was laughing again but it didn't take long for her to feel the slight agitation from Tiamat. "But seriously, Bahamut's just working hard to be just like you." The Ice GF stated. "It is a lot to live to when you are the brother of an Alpha GF."
While Tiamat and Shiva are talking through their link, a younger GF is trying his best to keep himself steady in the air. Bahamut eventually stabilizes after a few crashes on the water and flying in circles.
The younger dragon was about to see how fast he can fly when he saw his brother staring off into the distance…
'Must be talking to the others…' Bahamut thought. Just then, an idea came to the younger dragon and it made him smile devilishly. Bahamut flew to the spot behind Tiamat. He inhaled deeply and then let out a loud roar.
Tiamat jumped at the loud sound. The older dragon spun around and glared at his brother, who was laughing loud and hard.
"What was all that about?" Shiva asked
"Bahamut surprised me..." Tiamat grumbled. "What was that for?!"
"B-Because you were staring off and I thought it was f-funny!" Bahamut couldn't stay put or talk normally because of his laughter. His tail was swinging with amusement.
"I gotta admit that was funny." The ice queen laughed.
The Alpha dragon face-palmed. "Great… Now Shiva is laughing…"
"Big Sister Shiva is listening?!" Bahamut chirped. His tail was now swinging quickly at the knowledge of Shiva, one of his favorite caretakers, was listening in. At this point, Shiva opened the link to Bahamut as well.
"Hello Bahamut." Shiva greeted. "How have you been? That prank was nice."
"I'm fine and thanks!"
Tiamat cleared made a sound like clearing his throat through their link to stop any further embarrassment. "Now that we got that out of our systems, can we get back to more important business? Like training?"
"Aww… Can't I play for a bit?" Bahamut complained.
"Listen to your brother, Bahamut." Said a strange deep voice from the link.
"You too, Big Brother Griever?"
Over in the Fire Cavern of Balamb, two lion-like creatures, one with wings and one without wings, were going training. The wingless lion was meditating in the middle of the lava pool while the winged one was watching…
"Now, now, you do want to be like your brother don't you?" Griever asked to Bahamut.
"I do but…" Bahamut started. "It was hard enough learning how to fly, learning those magic and controlling my abilities. You guys want me to train more?"
"Yes." Griever and Tiamat said in unison.
"But why isn't Ifrit trained this hard?"
"For two reasons. One is he doesn't have any wings and two, he only focuses on one element." Griever explained
"Sometimes I just envy the other GFs simplicity." Bahamut sighed.
"Don't say things like that Bahamut." Griever said in a soft, comforting voice. "You should be proud that you received such powers." Bahamut stayed silent for a while. He was contemplating on what the Alpha lion GF said. I have faith in your powers. I'm sure you'll be a great GF someday."
"Right!" Bahamut smiled. I'll be greater than Big Brother and protect the humans with my power!"
"That's the spirit!" Griever laughed.
"Griever, have you sensed the energy disturbances?" Tiamat said, breaking the pep fest.
"Yes and it looks like it's getting worse everyday." Griever replied.
"What disturbances?" Bahamut asked, his head cocked to the side in sign of confusion from what the older GFs are talking about.
"It's still minor so you can't sense it yet." Shiva explained.
Tiamat and Griever was in a deep discussion about the energy fluctuations when a new voice came through the link…
"BIG PROBLEM!!" The voice said.
"Leviathan, what is it?" Tiamat asked worriedly.
"It's Diablos! He's wreaking havoc!" Leviathan said in a hurry.
Next chapter- Danger! Diablos attacks! Will the other GFs be able to stop Diablos on his rampage? Find out next time.
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