"WAKE UP LAZY ASS!"

Oh what a hangover. She's screaming again.
"What did I do this time Rinoa?"

"You still got beer on your shirt jackass. You are completely despicable. You invite Zell and Irvine over and then you thugs drink the night away."

Groaning, I got up from bed and started changing into a non-beer stained shirt, my lucky jacket and a decent pair of pants. I looked at my wedding ring. There he was staring at me. After all we had been through together, Rinoa used the Griever rings as our wedding rings. Since time compression ceased, it has been two years and Rinoa and I have been married for a year.

I heard knocking and Rinoa answering the door. A high perky voice piped up. It had to be Selphie.

"Hi Rinoa. Where's Squall?"

"Who cares?"

"Well although this may seem unusual I didn't come here to chat. We got trouble."

At this I perked up.

"For the first time in a year we are being mobilized. Something horrible must be happening 'cause Headmaster Cid seemed quite upset."

Holy shit. SeeD elite, which included Rinoa, Irvine, Quistis, Zell, Fujin, Rajin, Seifer, Selphie and Xu, was finally going on a mission.

"Edea and Cid told us to be there at 1000 hours."

Rinoa walked into the room.

"I hope you heard what she just said."

"Yea. Hmmmmm, you don't seem to excited huh? That makes one of us. I am like Seifer when he killed his first rabbit."

Rinoa flinched; obviously not too funny.

"Well anyway we have only half an hour. Get changed, we are meeting in the cafeteria."

I relaxed in my bed for a couple of minutes then made it up and went down to the cafeteria with Rinoa. Quistis, Xu, Edea, and Seifer were there waiting. I looked out the window and I could've sworn I saw a red flash in the sky. Just my imagination.

"Watsup everyone?" exclaimed Rinoa.

"Nothing" came the unison.

We waited and little by little everyone started to show up. At ten the only one missing was Zell, which wasn't at all a surprise since he wasn't known for his punctuality. At 10:07 he too showed up. After the usual greetings the Headmaster spoke.

"Trouble everyone. We have found out about a new sorceress." At this everyone looked at Rinoa. She seemed disgruntled by the fact that everyone thought sorceresses were evil. This time however they looked for fear of her being possessed.

"This however is not what troubles us. She seems to be following in Ultimecia's footsteps in the sense that she is trying to pull of a political overthrow at Galbadia. Many there are skeptic so this isn't the problem. We have recently found out that there is high level kidnapping. You all know her very well. Ellone has been taken from the white SeeDs.

I felt a stab of pain. I could see that most of the others felt the same way. Selphie was nearly crying. None of us could hold back these emotions for Ellone was the closest thing any of us had to a big sister.