Disclaimer: *sigh* No, I don't own Final Fantasy VIII or the characters.... if only I did...=.=

~*Chapter 1*~

His gunblade gently glided against the dirted ground making a small and slim trail along the way in the Trainer Center of Balamb Garden. The young student had defeated most of the monsters and creatures of all sizes through the rest of this evening. Obviously, this particular student would go hunting for a T-Rex but at this time of the hour he doubt he had the energy to battle such a beast.

He tiredly ran his leather material gloved fingers through his floppy brown hair with a tired sigh. Just as the young teenager was about to leave the training center and head to his dorm to get some much needed sleep, he heard the chuckles of his bothersome rival.

He casually stopped on his tracks and peered up to see his rival standing on a strong tree branch with his gunblade, known as Hyperion, resting against his broad shoulders. His intruder was grinning down at him.

This troublesome student has short and sleeked back blond hair and was wearing a long white drenched coat. He's wearing his usual blue and white shirt and was wearing a pair of black jeans. He was also wearing a pair of black gloves to protect his hands from his gunblade.

"Where do think your going Leonhart?" the rival known as Seifer Almasy shouted down at him. He sounded like he wanted to pick up a fight.

"Why the hell do you care?..." Squall Leonhart muttered as he began walking his way to the exit. It was loud enough for Seifer to hear at least.

Not wanting to let his pray get away Seifer casually jumped down from the tree and landed on his feet, blocking the exit to prevent from Squall leaving. Seifer was no taller than 6'2 so he was taller than Squall, who himself was only 5'8.

"Puberty-Boy really needs to start going to bed early. You get crankier almost each day I see you" Seifer teased expecting he had touched a nerve spot.

"...Whatever" was all Seifer got as his response which did not satisfied him one bit.

Squall was about to turn and walkaway from his enemy but he suddenly felt the tip of Seifer's gunblade being pressed against his back. Squall gave out a sigh and rotated his head to see Seifer at the corner of his eyes.

"What how?..." He was already getting pissed off by Seifer's actions. The eighteen year old gave Squall one of his childish smirks "You're not leaving until I settle a battle with you."

"I dont have time for this."

"C'mon Squall! Don't tell me you're becoming the second Chicken-wuss!"

"I'll show you chicken-wuss..." Squall pulled out his gunblade as he circulate around to face Seifer. "Fine, let's just get this done and over with"

"That's more like it." Seifer backed away slowly, getting into a battle position which was a sign for Squall that he was ready to begin. Squall done the same. After a short moment of silence, the two feuding teens charged at each other.

Seifer swan his gunblade in the air but Squall managed to block the blade from hitting him. Each and every time they perform a blow, their gunblades always collide into one another, making crashing metal noises.

The fight started to get incredibly intense. So intense, Seifer swan Hyperion to Squall's neck but thank hyne he'd duck on time.

Just as Squall was going to charge at the rival Seifer took another swing at him, this time at Squall's chest. Again, he dodged the blow by taking a leap backwards. He spun his weapon once as he ran forward to his opponent but he stopped quickly when Seifer unleashed his limit break, Fire Cross. Faster then anyone could imagion, Squall was forcefully thrown and his back took a rough landing.

"Come on! Is that all you got!?" Seifer proudly shouted. He was obiviously enjoying this.

He gridded his teeth as the burning pain swam through his body.

As he attempted to force his tired and weak body up Seifer raised Hyperion slowly in the air and just like a speeding bullet, he brought it down to meet Squall's face resulting him to fall back down and yell out in pain. It didn't took him long to realize that his own blood was splattered on the ground for the reason that he felt the warm liquid trickling down his face.

Feeling his anger meter accelerate to the roof, he charged up and sliced his gunblade at Seifer's face letting out an yell of frustration during his process. Seifer too, gave out an yell as he gripped his face, not falling back like Squall had. He slowly released his hands from his face and looked down to see his black gloves were coated with his own blood.

Without even just saying a word Seifer shot a deathly glare at Squall before running out of the training center, leaving the very injured teen alone.

Squall began to drift from side to side as he tried to focus on making his way to the exit, but his vision was preventing him from doing so. He blinked a few times expecting the blur to fade, but it only got worse.

Suddenly, he started to feel incredibly dizzy and his legs began to buckle down to the ground. He used his hands to support his weight as he attempt on getting back on. But it was no use.

His arms began to shake and they soon given out like a burt lightbulb. He collasped to the dirted ground and soon, darkness took over him.

A/N: Well, what do you think? I hope you liked it :) Sorry I wasn't able to upload a chapter or edit some mistakes and make changes sooner. I have been quite busy lately =_=. Anyways, please leave a review and you get a cookie ^_^. NO FLAMES, I'M STILL NEW AT THIS KIND OF STUFF!!!!!!!!! DX

A/N: OK so...before I move on with this, I have decided a long time ago to make some changes but I didn't had the time to do so DX. But now that I do, I am going to change the 'prologue' to 'chapter 1' along with huge changes to it, 'chapter 1' to 'chapter 2' so that would mean, 'chapter 3' will be coming soon....hopefully _'

I hope you like this one better =)