[Prologue]
I have waited for this day to come. And also feared this day would come. Is today a joyous day? Or an odious day? Will the chains that bind be shattered finally? Or will the cycle continue for the rest of eternity? I can only put faith in my power to defy fate itself...
Silence, and white. The faint sound of buzzing ringing in the ears of those involved. Scorched Earth surrounding the area where four girls ranging in the ages from fifteen to seventeen lay, unconscious. Their weapons next to them. The most discernible trait of these four being the distinct difference in their coloured clothing. Red, Black, Brown, and White. They were easy to tell apart, if not because of the colour of their clothes, then due to their hair styles. One somewhat short length that was black, another white as ice and held in a bun that lengthened out to more, Another black but longer-length, complete with a bow, and another with full golden locks that seemed to reach to the middle of her back.
The four seemed unharmed, unlike their surroundings. It did beckon why they were not responsive... it did not matter much longer however.
A group of four humans, dressed in an elaborate fashion showed up soon. Dressed uniformly with an insignia near their breast pocket that read.
SeeD
Dropped in from seemingly nowhere. One of them reaches to a wire near their shoulder, clicking a button, pointing their head to what seemed to be a small microphone.
"Not what we're expecting, no sign of the witch. We have four girls though, status unconfirmed..." The SeeD takes a moment to motion towards the female in the group, making signs to go check on their vitals. She does so cautiously, unsure if this could be an elaborate ploy by a Sorceress to trap them. Fortunately, it goes off without a hitch.
"Their vitals are good, they're out like a light..." She says as she surveys the damage caused.
"We have some evidence of fire magic being used, there's a few downed T-Rexaur... these girls must have done a team-based Limit Break and knocked themselves out. We need to get them back to Garden. Requesting med-bay pick up, Alcauld Plains, sending Hyper Data signal..." The SeeD speaking said as he brought out a device that looked similar to a scroll out, putting it on the ground before tapping it a few times. A hologram image of wires showing, turning green slowly. As it finishes filling entirely it flashes white three times before disappearing. Picking it up, on the back of it reading.
Omni-Meter
Soon, a large osprey arrives, landing roughly thirty meters away.
"Load them up on there, I got their weapons." The woman says as she begins grabbing the weapons one by one, loading them up after the crew gets the girls on there. Some emergency crew on-board immediately get to work, applying gas masks and hooking them up to a monitor to keep track of their condition to see if it gets any worse. Taking some blood samples and running it through a filter to see if there was any ill-status inflicted upon them.
=Meanwhile, In Balamb Garden=
Sitting on a chair overlooking the surrounding area, including where the mysterious boom had went off not too long ago. Looking through a one-way glass panel atop the Garden, which stands tall enough to half-mast the nearby mountains, and overall large enough to crush a city if dropped on it. Looking like a giant blue crystal, it was a state of the art academy built to train kids and teenagers to become powerful mercenaries to fend off threats to the world, be it through countries with a manifest destiny or witches with the power to enthrall cities with a raise of their arm. Balamb Garden, founded twelve years ago to this day by Headmaster Cid... who nods his head as he stands up, seeing the osprey returning to the Garden.
He was a husky man, and if no one knew any better, looked like Robin Williams. He wore a pair of glasses that contrasted to his somewhat dark complexion despite being what we would call Caucasian. He wears a white long-sleeve, with a red vest above it. Black pants and black boots. He looks to his assistant, Commander Xu of SeeD proper.
"I'll be heading to Dr. Kadowaki's, re-schedule our meeting with Master NORG to tomorrow. Those girls likely know more about what happened than we do and I want to make sure we welcome them with open arms." He says as the wall in front of him revolves to become an open hallway, leading directly to an elevator, which comes up to him immediately upon request.
Stepping in, he sighs, somewhat apprehensive about something...
Four girls taking down four T-Rexaurs while everyone is currently in attendance... something doesn't feel right about this. Even our best students currently have trouble dealing with one without the help of status junctions... no one else aside from Balamb Garden allows junctions... it's not adding up...
As the elevator door closes and the headmaster makes his way to the med-bay, Xu turns around and presses a button disguised as a barely visible bump on the wall. The hallway turns back to its wall form and the voice com to Master NORG's at the bottom of the Garden goes on.
"NORG, Headmaster Cid has rescheduled our appointment with you for tomorrow precisely at this time. Thank you."
