foreword:.
This is worded exactly as written for my 12 grade honors' english class ^_^ Perhaps use this example to see if your teacher is tolerant enough to allow works like this to be turned in for assignments. This one was merely assigned as "write a poem about half a page in length about ANYTHING." -- well, you can see how much I ran with it...It's a total of three WHOLE (back and front) pages written on notebook paper, and took about two days to write. I even received an extension from my teacher who was pleased when I told him my poem was bordering Epic-length. My bud, Candyce (linked to in fave authors on my profile), had read my first few pages, and told him it was really good, plus I showed him the current length, so he trusted me on this one and granted a whole weekend for me to work on it :D Also, he said that this was kind of confusing to him, so I advise all readers to have at least SOME knowledge about the game's storyline before reading. I tried to leave out the more confusing details and rearranged some parts to have it make more sense to the lay-person reader (like combining all of Laguna's more important scenarios and not have them hopping around here and there). Please, PLEASE comment on this if you read it :D :D :D PLEASE? ^_~ Oh, and there's three parts to this. I divided it into the respective discs, but combined Three and Four since Four IS rather short ¬_¬()

=PART ONE=

The eighth of the series tells of a day
When a sorceress wants to take all time away
A girl in a field, a fight far beyond
Evil in the air, innocent blood is drawn

An opponent awakes, a scar marks his face
He hears a small voice and sees a familliar place
His teacher walks in and frowns in disgust
Telling him of how he betrayed her trust
By fighting again with his fellow classmate
And once again tempted his mortal fate
They return to their classroom where he trains to achieve
The honorable rank of being a SeeD
Squall, our male lead, went to the Fire Cave next
To capture a "Guardian Force" as a test
He went forth and conquered with incredible speed
And became a prime candidate as a future SeeD
A mission in Dollet proved he had the stuff
To overcome danger, to be wise and tough
He passed the test and soon joined the ranks
Of SeeD, and to his friends he gave thanks:
Quistis, the teacher who helped reach his goal
Zell the kickboxer, his stomach never full
And Selphie from Trabia, a messenger girl
Who fell down a hill and into their world
Next was a party, complete with a dance
Squall danced with some girl -- could it lead to romance?
(Of course, this is Squaresoft that we're speaking of
So if she doesn't die, this WILL lead to love...)
The next day, our cast was sent to a town
Called "Timber" to fight until their opponents went down
Behold! Who is this that they now must fight for?
The girl that Squall danced with the evening before!
Her name is Rinoa, she's clad all in blue
(With a demeanor so bubbly it gives one the flu...)
Their base is a train, their quest on the tracks
(And now we sit for hours to hear all the facts...)
Vinzer Deling is evil, Timber he oppresses
He's on a train right now, to the best of their guesses
Quite some time later, we take over his train
But inside is not him, our quest was in vain
Surprise, surprise! the president's NOT in town!
It's really a fake (killed by one "Phoenix Down"!
Because he was replaced with an already-dead being
A life-giving item led to its undoing!)
"Oh well, what a loss, I guess that you're screwed
So give us our cash and we're out of here, dude,"
Is the first thing that you're quick to reply
But the contract says "You fight 'till THEY or YOU die."
Later you end up at another SeeD school
And execute a mission to kill who controls Deling (the fool)
A lon-haired cowboy thus joins your team
A sniper who wishes to be every girl's dream
You set off for Deling, a city of lights
To kill Sorceress Edea and end Timber's fight
The sniper got jumpy for death made him sad
Still he fired -- a miss -- making things very bad
You take on the witch, good old one-on-one
But first face her lapdog who adds to the fun
He's really just Seifer, your old punching bag
(Whom gave you the scar, then ran off like a fag)
A couple of GFs quickly do the trick
And defeat ol' Seifer (heh...take THAT, you prick!)
Alas, now you meet your original foe
For this your friends join you to help kill that ho!
You think she would die from such wacks in the head
But, nope! she's but weakened - even Seifer's not dead!
The battle has angered our dear sorceress
She flings an ice crystal at you -- it doesn't miss

disclaimer:.
characters not by me, but by squaresoft. squaresoft and final fantasy viii (c) square et al.