This is a main FF8 story, with slight crossover with other stuff.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to final fantasy 8, I do however own a copy of the game.
Let the story begin.
Story title: Powers found.
+Chapter 1: Taking fate by her ugly….+
Funny thing dreams. You can have anything happen in a dream. You can live like there is no tomorrow, or die in a tragic, pitiful death achieving nothing.
It's time to wake up, you never want to. Just get up and face the dawn like a man. There is nothing better to do.
Squall Leonheart got up out of his bed. He is six years old, and in an orphanage on some island.
The caretakers left almost a year ago, with fishermen occasionally coming every month to two months. They just came yesterday and left the same day, leaving a message that the caretakers were coming back. He hated them. And there was no reason to stay for them, and most definitely not one for him.
The brats were getting annoying. All sixty or so of them. He was tired of being nothing but some punk. It's time to mature.
He got up, and started to collect his stuff. Zell. The guy has the fireworks, and the matches.
'I need a way to make a fire out there.'
He found Zells room, and knew the matches were under his bunk.
He crawled under the bunk and then everything was shaking.
"AHHH!" Zell was yelling. He needed to calm down, dang it.
An earthquake. Great.
A whole wall fell down a moment later, on the bed Squall was under.
Zell ran out, and got the others to show them and see if they were ok, not knowing that the one that was most likely hurt was only a few feet away from him.
'Great. Trapped. Wait a moment, is that light?'
Squall looked around, and saw every now and then a shimmer of light. He saw the match box under his arm, and lit a match, and used his low level magic to make the fire stay there and not burn the wood out. He looked around and gasped.
A gold coin!
He looked, and saw a hole in the rubble. He felt a breeze, and knew that the wall that fell was sucking air from never being used for such a long time.
He kicked the rubble, and it tumbled more, and fell on his foot.
"ARRGGG…."
He pulled the rocks off of his leg, and he used a low level cure on his foot and leg.
He looked, and crawled into the opening. It would be a long time before the others found out he was under zells bed, so it was up to himself to save himself.
Gold coins were on the ground every now and then. He decided he would get them coming out, so he moved on. He found the other side of the crawl space, and was in a room. It was an armory, full of weapons. He saw a door way, and went to it, to see if he could find out where he is. The room was filled with gold riches, and a creature laying on them. It was a Griffin.
It opened its eyes, and glared at him.
"So you wish to be my summoner?"
"What?"
"I am a GF. If you defeat me, you can summon me."
"what do you mean? You mean Beat, like fight?"
"Yes….but since you are a child, I will only test you. Fail and you die."
"I can't fight you…."
"Well, you are going to anyway. You entered MY domain. I give you a moment to prepare. Go get a weapon. If you're not back in five minutes, I will tear though this building and kill everyone I find."
Squall ran to the armory, and he looked around.
He saw a pair of gunblades, both revolver type gunblades, but they were handguns with short blades. He remembered a film of this guy fighting a Ruby dragon with a gunblade…it's the only weapon he saw that he knew about besides daggers, which he remembered one of the caretakers, using it to fight off a minor monster.
He saw a dagger that looked ancient; it had a red sheen to it, and a ring next to it, it was a little worn and looked equally old.
'They must have seen battle, I might as well….'
He took both, and found a pair of fingerless gloves with a wired design on them.
He grabbed them, and looked around more. He checked a draw point, and found that it held nothing. He looked around it, and found small spheres in a bag, and glowing orbs in another, both had a parchment.
He read the parchment with the small glowing orbs first.
These are called materia, they hold spells. Connect them to the weapons of choice, or put them in your body by pressing them hard enough while willing them to become a part of you. You use them like normal magic, just command. Used them for whatever you want, all I care about is that my legacy, the materia is used, and is heard of forever. The master Spell, and master support materia are in the bag. The summon materia was damaged a long time ago releasing the summons. Re-collect them please. On the back of this list is the summons it contained.
He grabbed the two materia, and put them into the two hand-gunblades. He felt powerful now,
He looked at the second parchment, and a plastic card fell out. He picked it up, and read the parchment.
This is a new type of magic I made to combat the one my brother made, materia. Blah! The plastic card is called a sphere grid, tap it with magic to see the ability's and powers you can learn at the card. Ok, you see the different colored spaces? They represent how many 'spheres' you have. Spheres are the points that you need for the card to move your progress along. With this card, each time you kill a monster, the card will measure your progress and give you sphere points accordingly. There are different spheres for different things. They are color coded, and the back of the card shows what colored spheres mean what. You choose what you do with your spheres; it's all your choice. Not forced, no destiny, you get to control your own fate. The upgrades you get from this are permanent. DO NOT USE THIS BEFORE TEENAGE YEARS! It can kill you later if you do. If the finder of my legacy is a child, wait. Keep this card, but do not use it until your thirteenth birthday.
He taped the card with magic, and counted his spheres, he had fifteen of each ability sphere but luck, and thirty movement spheres.
He would use the sphere grid later about six and a half years later. The materia was increasing his power for now.
Squall grabbed some armor with a title on the side, a shield, a necklace, and a ribbon. He ran to the GF, and it gave a neat chuckle.
"Well young warrior, you seem much more powerful now…Ahhh. The materia's and the sphere grid. The brothers are forced to work together once more. Wonderful. A ribbon, the hero necklace, the duel gunblades….The dagger of time, the gloves that can bring up barriers temporarily...what else have you salvaged… You also have the ginji armor, a reflect shield…and the phoenix ring. Good picks, but I would have also gotten one or two other things."
"I am ready."
Squall moved first, using the spell ultima.
"Wonderful!" The griffin spoke. Squall stared at the bird. and it was unscratched. Frack.
"A griffin's feathers are invincible. You have to target my eye, mouth, and armpits."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"So you can have a fair fight."
The griffin shot its claw at squall, and squall jumped over it. He look amazed at himself.
"The materia gives you more power temporarily; this is why you can dodge like this."
Squall dropped, got grazed by a claw, and jumped back.
"What now young one?"
Squall healed himself with a potion, and charged, pulling out the gunblades, he jumped up, like he was about to hit the griffins head with a slam.
The griffin stood still, and thinking that that was a useless attack.
Sqaull instead kicked the griffin's nose, making it sniff, he used the kick as a way to jump back, Squall with the gunblades took aim as the griffin was sniffing, trying to get the smell of a child's foot, and shot at the griffin's eyes, hitting true after the third shot.
"Swahha!" The griffin yelled in pain. Squall ran to the griffin, and blasted a flare spell in its jaws, and jumped back. The Giffin spoke.
"Good tactics, but I could have lashed out and killed you in a heartbeat. You could never beat me. But I am tired of staying in this chamber. I will join you."
"Good, I am out of magic. It hurts having two types of magic to use."
The griffin turned into a jewel with a loop ring on it.
Squall added it to the hero necklace, and he asked the GF a question.
"What is the hero necklace?"
"It makes you immortal for one minute, and it takes ten minutes for it to reload."
"That is very good. Thanks."
The GF dims, and Squall grabs a bunch of coins, and items.
He walks out, and go's for the crawl place. He was ready for the world.
Squall was sneaking out, and had to bypass every one. Right as he was about to leave, Quistis Trepe. The rule book.
"Q."
"Leon."
"That quake, it broke down part of the wall in Zells room. It leads to an armory, and stuff is clearly missing from it."
"So?"
"Look at yourself. I think I know who took the stuff."
"I am leaving, and I am not going to be defenseless."
"I will go with you. So will the rest of us."
"No."
"Squall, we will start to run out of food in a week. We all need to leave. How are you leaving?"
"I will fly with the GF I just retrieved,"
She shook her head. "Powerful as usual."
"Look Q, I need to leave."
"And leave us to die? There are no animals to kill here for us to eat, and the garden has a month before the plants grow right."
"Fine. Get the brats…" He did not want their deaths on his mind…He did not think he could.
She left, and he walked out the door. Squall summoned his griffin.
"Grif, I got a problem."
"I cannot help you on every little thing."
"I know, but this is bigger. I want to leave, but everyone here has too, otherwise they will die from starvation."
"Ok, so you want me to do something about that?"
"If you can."
"I can call my allies to fly them."
Squall nodded, and thanked the big bird.
"Alright. What should we do?"
"Prepare I guess? Do you know anywhere we can go to drop the kids off?"
"Yes. I can have them dropped off at the gardens. There are four of them, each is movable, and we can drop them off at different gardens."
"Alright. Sounds like a plan."
"Call me when you get them."
"Wait, I have another question."
He rested on the steps, took out the support materia, and felt weaker.
"The materia is not permanent. If I lose it, I get weaker. Is there a way for me to become stronger through you?
"Yes. Now that you have me, you can use an ability called 'draw' Use it on me, and on the materia you have. I warn you, you must pay the materia to take magic from it. You don't have to pay from me."
"Ok…" Squall meditated, and Griffin went back into the jewel to help Squall.
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In squalls mind.
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Griffin looked around the mind of Squall, and found it overly young.
With excessive sarcasm. "Wonderful."
He found Squall, and talked to him.
"In order to do anything with GF at first you need to think. Concentrate for a moment. With enough GF's, and experience equipping them and reequipping them, you will not even have to think hard about it later. Even with totally new GF's."
"Ok, what now?"
"I will give you a booklet, it can hold info on one hundred GF's…The first page is mine. When the GF is claimed, or upgrades, the booklet is updated. You can choose what our AP points do by selecting the ability's that we can learn. Stuff already learned will have a star next to it."
"Thanks." He grabbed the booklet, and found the abilities the griffin knew, and what it could learn.
He chose a random one, and they left the mindscape.
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Squall had a physical booklet in his hands, and looked at it.
"If you lose it, it will not matter. As long as you have a soul, you will not lose the info. You will just get a new book. This also happens if you give a booklet to someone else. The max is fifteen books, then one of them gets returned to you automatically if you lose the one you have."
"I have to call my minions."
Griffin called his minions by screeching into the air and they flew to him.
The bowed and the griffin told Squall that he was going to talk to the others, and explain things.
The griffins just went in, and grabbed a random child, and dropped them outside. More and more griffins came, when the last child (Not squall.) was taken out, they grabbed a child, and flew. Not giving the children a word in their fates. Sixty three children, three gardens that were guaranteed of their location. They would bring 21 of them to the each of the gardens. The forth garden was a boat, so they were not going to look for it.
Squall got on griffin, and looked at the orphanage. Well, not going to miss this place.
They start to fly, and squall looks down on the orphanage.
"Where are we heading?"
"Is there anywhere you know of that I can go to, to stay while I plan? If not, the Balamb, Deling city, or Esthar."
"There is a deep sea research center nearby, we can fly there. It is high tech, and abandoned the last I saw. It also hold two powerful GF's and two powerful monsters. Both monsters can destroy a large city if they want. They are Omega, and Ultima Weapons. They are not the real Weapons of legend, just extremely powerful. DO NOT ATTACK THESE GUYS. They are far too powerful."
Squall nodded, and agreed.
They flew over the ocean, and Squall fell asleep.
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