"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Rinoa screamed as she struggled to push the baby out. The mid-wives were all huddled around her in a desperate attempt to get the baby out. If they didn't get it out soon, she, and the baby, would die. After a couple of minutes, the baby was finally pushed out, and Squall was aloud inside.

"Are you and the baby alright?" He said in a panicked tone.

"We're fine," she replied exhaustedly. "How have you been doing?"

"I couldn't get a wink of sleep; I was too worried about you." After about a couple minutes of Squall making sure Rinoa was okay, Squall settled down.

"So, what do we have?" He asked.

"A little girl! I wonder what we should name her." "I like Melissa. Besides, she does look like one."

"Melissa it is, then."
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"Melissa Leonhart, get your soon-to-be-sorry hide down from there!!!" Melissa was now five and she was giving her parents a particularly hard time today.

"Mommy, I want to go see Quisty today!"

"Well we can't leave until you clean your messy room." Melissa bolted from the kitchen, straight to her room, and began to clean. Pretty soon, she had everything in her closet or under her bed. Rinoa came in and looked around.

"Well, it's a little unorthodox, but it'll have to do. We'd better hurry or your father will start up the Ragnarok and leave without us." Rinoa, being a sorceress, quickly cleaned Melissa's room magically behind her back, then headed for the door behind the parading Melissa. Once they were all buckled in the seats on the lower deck, they blasted of and headed toward the Fisherman's Horizon, leaving Esther behind them. Later on, Melissa played hide and go seek with her pet chocobo named Chicky, while her mother was mending some clothes that had holes in them. Squall, after a little while, had come down to the lower deck, after setting the controls to auto-pilot of course. He was making his way to the deck that Rinoa was on when Melissa and Chicky ran right underneath him. He tripped, bringing his daughter with him. In the confusion, Chicky had run off and hid in the ship. Melissa picked herself up and ran after it. Squall picked himself up as well, and began to dust himself off. He then heard a slight cough that indicated that Rinoa had seen the whole thing.

"So, what was that all about?" She asked as Squall pretended to dust himself, but was really edging closer and closer to his wife.

"Oh, I don't know," he replied, still edging ever closer. "I don't know half of things our daughter does." He finally decided that he was close enough, and quickly stood up, grabbed his wife, and dipped her down, as if they were dancing.

"Oh I see you still have it in you," Rinoa said, recovering from the surprise attack. "I have always loved your smile."

"Well, you've given me reason to." All of a sudden, the Ragnarok gave a quick lurch and Squall and Rinoa fell hard to the floor.

"What was that?" Rinoa asked, but before she had finished, Squall had made it half way to the flight deck to investigate. Once up there, he quickly did a search of the vessel. To his horror, he saw there were intruders. The intruders' ship had latched on to the Ragnarok, which apparently had caused the sudden jolt. Squall instinctively grabbed his Gunblade, which he carried around with him since becoming a Seed. But before he could leave, a message came over the speakers:

"...Hello, Squall," a woman's voice began. "It seems that we meet again, although our last meeting wasn't as pleasant as this one."

"Who are you? And what are you doing here?" Squall said worriedly.

"Ah, so the big, tough Seed can't even remember ten years ago when he beat me, no, destroyed me. All for that stupid girl! Now I'm here to seek revenge by taking another little treasure of yours. Don't worry; I'll take good care of her. Ha, Ha, Ha!"

"You give her back right this instant! Or I'll tearyoursoul out through your sorry excuse for a hide!!!" Squall screamed.

"Ooh, temper, temper. Besides, you couldn't rip my soul out through my hide, because thanks to you, I don't have one. Don't worry, all I want from your daught is her body so I don't have to leach off others. You can have her soul, though." And with that, she left.