Tear's Sacrifice
DarkAngelAssassin666 Hello readers/authors! Wasn't sure about this chapter but I'm feeling quite confident that I have a real plot for this. I would love to thank the ones who reviewed for the first chapter, by posting up another chapter. Here's chapter 2 for Tear's Sacrifice! Oh and please R&R!!
Disclaimer I do not own Final Fantasy VIII, or the characters, they belong to SquareEnix/Squaresoft, and the OC characters Ashiyame, Sparx, Joey and Chandler are copywrited OC's and the creators have given me the permission to use them. But no stealing them! But the characters Réyana, Eliza and the plot belong to me.
--- Time passing
---- Scene change
Chapter 2
"An assignment?"
Zell had just arrived in the Infirmary to give Réyana's assignment but upon seeing her current condition he was giving second thoughts about it.
"Yes, Headmaster Cid had told me to find you and give you the assignment to pick up two exchange students from Balamb Station. But I can see that your injured, I'll ask Headmaster Cid to give the assignment to someone else. You should be resting-"
"No it's alright. I'll do it." Réyana interrupted his offer, she wasn't going to let a few scratches stop her from doing an assignment, no matter how bad her condition.
"But your injured-" Zell started but was again interrupted by the female Gunblade Specialist.
"Instructor. I'll be fine, it's just a few scratches." leaving the conversation at that she left the Infirmary not letting Zell to give another protest.
"It's best not to argue with her Instructor Dincht. She's as stubborn as that Diablos of hers. Don't worry I'll go with her just in case." Chandler suggested, he started following his older sister out before Zell stopped him.
"Wait Cadet!" Zell called out.
Chandler stopped in his tracks and turned around to the Martial Arts Instructor, a manila folder was put into his hands.
"Those are the assignment papers that mentors are to be given to when they go pick up their transports. Make sure your sister gets it." he informed.
Chandler nodded as he left Zell standing in the Infirmary who shook his head in concern and exasperation. Dr. Kadowaki walked in seeing Zell just standing in the waiting room looking a little weary.
"Is everything alright Instructor Dincht?" she asked with concern.
The blonde martial artist scratched the back of his head shaking his head at the current situation, "I hope it is…"
---- Parking Lot
"Réyana!"
Chandler caught up to the older girl who stood next to the Garden car holding the driver's door open.
"I'm coming with you." he declared.
Réyana sighed shaking her head at him as she tried to reassure him of her health, "Chandler I'll be fine. I'm just picking up two exchange students from Balamb and taking them back here."
The younger sibling glared at her before shaking his head.
"I don't care. I'm going with you and that's that." he opened the passenger door and seated himself closing his side.
Réyana sighed in defeat as she too entered the car, they fastened their seatbelts Réyana inserted the key and turned on the ignition and they were driving out of the grounds of the Garden toward Balamb.
---- Commander's office
Behind the freshly polished mahogany desk sat Squall as he was working on a foot high of stacked reports. His face was in deep concentration and a little annoyance having to do all this work, he had intended on searching for Réyana Viril's background, but the reports had postponed him in doing so. He was only a quarter through them putting one to the side he just finished and moved to the next one. He was close to finishing, signing his signature for agreements with supply exchange when suddenly his door was swung open and ricocheted off the wall when it bounced back from the impact.
The whole thing completely surprised him making him knock over all the papers to the floor, the finished reports and uncompleted reports all mixed up. He sighed in frustration and rubbed his fingertips against his forehead in irritation, now he had to sort all the reports out and find the ones he had been working on. He looked up with a glare to see who had interrupted him and there standing in front of him was Selphie Tilmitt with her usual trademark hyper attitude. Squall groaned resting his face in his hands and took a deep breathe and letting it out slowly as he tried to calm himself down so as to not slice the cowboys head off his shoulders.
'Calm down. It isn't necessary to kill an Instructor that made you knock off all the papers.' It didn't seem to help any though as a headache started to form behind his forehead.
"Well you certainly are lively as ever Commander!" the hyper active girl reached over and gave Squall a friendly pat on the shoulder.
Squall glared at her under his bangs his rage just burning in his storm blue eyes, Selphie swore that the temperature in the room had decreased. But she paid no mind to it as she placed three manila folders down in front of him.
"These are new files on two transfer students that will be arriving here this afternoon. A female and a male, both from Trabia. And the female Gunblade Specialist cadet, Réyana Viril is the one with the assignment to transport them here."
The name caught Squall's attention and made his earlier rage disappear.
"You said Réyana Viril?" he asked.
Irvine smiled at the question then a full on perverted grin filled his face.
"Yesiree! The only female Gunblade Specialist in the Garden." she responded beaming.
Squall just shook his head as he took one of the folders and looked in it.
'I do not know what that cowboy sees in this nut.'
He read down the information about the female transfer with her picture paper clipped to the folder, showing the silver hair and gold eyes.
Name: Ashiyame Hasahiro, wields a chainwhip as her key weapon. Age seventeen, height five ten, weighing one hundred thirty-six pounds, and transferred from Trabia Garden. Studied Magic's and Junctioning for four years passing with an 98 to 100 grade average, started combats at age 11 gaining her combats license at age 14.
Squall put that one aside and grabbed the next one, this being the male's folder with his picture, showing with black hair and onyx eyes.
Name: Joey Fiamma, wields an M16 Assault Rifle, age seventeen, height five seven, weight one hundred forty pounds, also transferred from Trabia Garden. Studied Magic's and Junctioning for four years passing with an 86 to 92 grade average, started combats at age 10 gaining his combats license at age 12.
Squall acknowledged silently in approval as he piled the two neatly beside him and reached for the third folder. His eyes widened a fraction as he stared at the picture of the same girl he was with earlier, the long black hair and deep crimson eyes staring back at him, paper clipped on the corner of the manila folder. He looked at Selphie with a questioning look, Selphie saw the look but only blinked in return, Squall sighed as he voiced his question.
"What was this third folder for? She's already a student at this Academy, so why send it to me?" he asked.
Selphie tapped her lip before she sat herself down in front of the desk.
"Well she was the student that was assigned for this job, I heard her brother joined along with her for personal reasons. But did you forget that they are exchange students from Galbadia? And since they both are still kinda new here and there isn't much information about them, so we still have the duty to send in files of them to members of the staff and SeeD's."
Squall nodded his head understanding since she had just recently enlisted at the Garden. He looked at her stats and read about her record and background which he had skipped with the other two.
Réyana Viril, born in Deling city enrolled as a student of Galbadia Garden at age 5, her parents died at age 7 from an accident. Has a younger brother one year younger than her, also enrolled as a student of Galbadia Garden a year after herself. Studied subject of Magic's and Junctioning at age 9 for four years passing all four levels with a 96 to 99 grade average at age 13. She studied fighting and combats for a year, gaining her combats license at age 14, the Gunblade becoming her choice weapon.
'Huh, she's quite intelligent for passing the Junctions class at such a young age, and her combat skills are impressive getting her combats license a year after studying for it.' Squall read down more reading her stats.
Gender: Female
Age: 17
DOB: July 12
POB: Deling City, Galbadia
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 110lbs
Rank: 1st class Cadet
Class: Gunblade Specialist
Assigned GF's: Diablos, Alexander
Instructor: Luin Kyde
'He's the new Gunblade Instructor.' Squall remembered seeing him at a staff meeting regarding something about new subjects or classes.
Squall continued down the list and finding his answer of his previous questioning.
Réyana Viril and her brother both exchanged to Balamb Garden at age 16 after an agreement between the two founding Headmasters of Galbadia and Balamb Garden. Only being in the Garden for a year she has already prepared for the upcoming SeeD exam, after attending the Garden in two more years both her and her brother will return.
'So she's a exchange student, I wonder why I never saw her before.'Squall wondered.
His thoughts were interrupted as the phone on his desk started beeping, a red light flashed rhythmically with it. He reached over and held down the speaker button.
"Yes?" he spoke.
"Mr. Leonheart, we have a situation regarding with the new transfer students that are to arrive at the Garden from the town of Balamb sir."
Squall and Selphie's face both became grim as they looked at each other and returned to the female secretary.
"What is it?"
----Balamb
Réyana parked in the pier of the town both her and Chandler stepped out. Chandler went to stand next to his older sister holding out the manila folder for her.
"These are assignment papers that Instructor Zell told me to give you." Chandler handed her the folder, she opened it examining the contents inside.
"We're here to pick up two transfer students from Trabia, one is a female, Ashiyame Hasahiro other is male, Joey Fiamma." Réyana noticed the pictures paper clipped on the corner of the folders, Ashiyame's showed with long silver hair and gold eyes, Joey's showed black hair and black eyes.
The horn of the train sounded and made a screeching stop at the station, they stood and watched as various passengers disembarked the train, many who were families and tourists but no sign of the two students shown in the pictures of the folders. Chandler started to get bored as he leaned against the wall and yawned, Réyana still stood observing the crowd trying to catch a glimpse of silver hair or a boy about her height. They waited for another twenty minutes as the station was starting to get crowded with boarding and disembarking people. Réyana sighed as she scratched the back of her head, she turned to Chandler and gave him a questioning look but he just shrugged, having not seen the two either. She sighed again in defeat as she started filing out with the rest of the residents of the station Chandler following right behind her.
"You think it was a mistake?" he inquired.
Réyana shook her head unsure as she considered the options, "Maybe, I didn't see either of them at the station. It was a false report, the schedule of their arrival was false or their arrival here was delayed."
"Maybe we're being scammed." Chandler assumed with a smirk.
Réyana just shook her head and looked at the papers again.
"I'll contact the Garden at the car and report this, for the mean time I guess we're free for the day."
'I wonder who the new transfer students are, if there are any.' she thought to herself.
Réyana wasn't able to react fast enough from being so absorbed into the report that she didn't seem to notice that someone was running at top speed towards her.
"Réyana watch out!" Chandler called out in warning.
She bumped into them crying out in surprise, the contents in the folder spilled everywhere; luckily she didn't fall on her back as Chandler caught her from behind. He helped her up asking of her condition with concern, she nodded announcing she had not been scathed. She turned to the person she had run into with embarrassment about to apologize, but she paused with surprise as she stared back at a male with black hair and black eyes, being helped up by a beautiful female with silver hair and gold eyes. She stared at them with astonishment and the only thing that came out of her gaping mouth was…
"Uh…"
---50 Minutes earlier
Ashiyame and Joey had just disembarked carrying their luggage, their weapons either on their shoulder or waist. They stood out of the way as other passengers were getting off, Ashiyame caught a little girl as she almost fell down the steps of the train going down them.
"Are you alright hun?" Ashiyame asked with concern.
The little girl just smiled as she nodded, "Yes, Molly is okay! Thank you for catching me lady!" the little tyke ran off as she waved to Ashiyame with a smile of gratitude and caught up with her family.
Joey just grinned as he watched the whole scenario play out, but his face became annoyed then after they stood around for ten minutes.
"Where are our rides? Shouldn't they have been here by now?" he sighed.
"I don't know, the scheduled time for them to arrive was 1700 hours, but it's already 1726 hours. So we've been standing here for almost half an hour." Ashiyame said as she checked the time.
Joey groaned and started walking away, Ashiyame started sputtering, but wasn't able to voice her thoughts as various people bumped into her. So instead she followed after him and out of the bustling station. She ran up to catch him as he was a good twenty feet away, she started scolding him as they walked further away from the station.
"What do you think you're doing?! We're supposed to be waiting for our transports!"
Joey ignored her as he stopped at an Item's Shop and looked at the various items that were on the shelves behind the clerk.
"It's already been thirty minutes past the said time our transports were supposed to arrive, and besides. Since we're new here we should look around to see the sights." he continued looking at the various items on shelves completely ignoring Ashiyame's noises of protests.
Finally he responded, "And which sounds more appealing to you, taking in the new sights and have something to do, or just stand here and be bored out of your mind?"
Ashiyame huffed as she crossed her arms and glared as he ordered a stock of Potions and Phoenix Downs.
"Fine, but only for ten minutes. After that we go back to the station and wait." she negotiated.
"Fine by me." Joey agreed as they started walking.
---10 Minutes later
Just as they planned they were heading back on their way to the station after looking around for seven minutes.
Joey was walking with a rather triumphant look on his face knowing that Ashiyame did indeed enjoy looking around; Ashiyame was already getting annoyed with his smug attitude. Joey walked ahead a few feet then turned around facing his female companion whilst still walking to their destination.
"See? Wasn't that better than just standing around at the station completely bored?" he questioned smugly.
Ashiyame rolled her eyes but nodded none the less.
"You're such an ass, you know that Joey?" Ashiyame said a little miffed.
"Oh I know I am!" the boy exclaimed with a grin.
Ashiyame glared at him and finally snapped, she gave a mighty cry and ran at him. Joey squeaked in fright and started sprinting back to the station with Ashiyame not that far behind. It was at first that Ashiyame really intended on clobbering the male but all the laughing while chasing him erased it from her mind and they began a game of chase. Ashiyame suddenly stopped and stared in horror as Joey was unexpectedly hurtling towards a walking pair, she cried out to him in warning but it had been too late.
"Joey stop!! Oh shit!"
Joey came barreling into the girl of the pair and she fell backwards the folder she had been holding flew in the air all the contents in it falling around her, luckily though the tall male that she was with caught her before she hit the ground. Joey on the other hand had landed on his back his belongings laying a few feet away from him. Ashiyame sighed and shook her head in exasperation; she walked over to Joey grasping his arm helping him up to his feet.
"You alright Joe?" she asked.
"…" Joey stayed silent just staring ahead of him blinking.
"… Joey?" Ashiyame called to him.
"That really hurt." Joey winced with a twisted grin on his face.
Ashiyame shook her head as she hoisted him up to his feet, "I'll take that as a yes."
She turned to the two about to apologize, but only saw the sight of the pushed down female, now on her feet looking at them with complete astonishment. The only words that seemed to come out of her gaping mouth were…
"Uh…"
--
The two transfers got a little uncomfortable by her continuous gaze, but it was easily broken as the male that stood next to her called out to her.
"Réyana." he addressed to her.
She seemed to shake out of her stupor as she started picking up the scattered papers, Ashiyame joined in and started collecting the papers putting them in a neat stack. She halted in her assistance as she picked up a photo of herself paper clipped to one of the papers. She read the contents reading it to be the information of her, and her news of coming to Balamb Garden. She looked up to the female in front of her who had just finished collecting her stack.
"Are you the pick ups for two transfer students?" she questioned.
Réyana smiled at her and nodded and revealed that she obviously already knew her, she introduced both her and Chandler before she explained the current situation.
"My name is Réyana Viril, and the one behind me is my younger brother Chandler Viril. And you two were the ones that we've been waiting for at the station. Ummm, Ashiyame Hasahiro and Joey Fiamma correct?" she confessed.
Ashiyame blushed as she realized what she just heard.
"Y-You were waiting for us at the station?"
Réyana nodded as she looked through the papers that held the scheduled times of her assignment.
"It said here that you would arrive at 1700 hours at Balamb Station and that we were to be here 5 minutes before you, preferably at 1655 hours and meet you once you arrived. But we had got here at least ten minutes early and had been waiting at the station for at least twenty minutes." she explained.
Réyana gave a smile to them but it turned to one of concern when she saw that Ashiyame had turned ghost white in the face.
"Are you alright?" she asked with concern.
"She's just a bit shocked don't worry."
She turned to Chandler who just shrugged when a change of expression appeared on his face, it was calm and bored as usual but quickly changed to intrigued and amused when his eyes shifted in the other two's direction.
"And, she seems to be taking all of her anger out on her friend." Chandler chuckled.
Réyana turned around to find a scene where Ashiyame was chasing Joey around in circles in attempts to clobber him.
"Joey! Get back here so I can kick your ass!" she boomed with anger.
"I'm not stupid enough to do that!"
Réyana blanched at the sight, but became quickly amused as the shorter of the two let out a girlish scream.
----At Balamb
Squall and Selphie both had reported to Headmaster Cid's office replaying the incoming transmission from Réyana herself telling the status they received on her assignment.
"This is R--ana Viril! Request b--up! We are in Section-- near Fire --avern! We are being atta-- by a R--by Dra--n, I r--eat re--st backup!!" the transmission went dead there.
The Headmaster sighed and went into deep thought, he didn't expect something like this to happen, and on such a simple assignment, she was informing that they had been attacked by a Ruby Dragon, a monster that only resided in the northern regions of the Galbadia continent. He turned to the two in front of his desk who were still at attention.
"At ease."
The two folded their hands behind them and relaxed.
"Squall…" Cid called to him, "I need you to arrange a support team and depart to Section 5 of Fire Cavern where Réyana's current location is and support her. Selphie I need you to stay here and help me find out how or why those monsters are here in this area."
Both saluted to him and shouted their response before going on to their assigned tasks.
"Sir!"
----On the road
The four students were now on their way back to Balamb Garden after both Réyana and Chandler calmed Ashiyame down, both Réyana and Chandler agreed on separating the two while in the car. Both girls sat in the front while the guys occupied the back. It had been a little shaky at first with Ashiyame still yelling at Joey but she quickly quieted from a very threatening and horrifying glare from Chandler, now after a few minutes in the drive back to Balamb Garden no one had exchanged words. Réyana sighed to herself as she drove back to the Garden, she looked in the rear view mirror to see that Joey was looking a little uncomfortable sitting next to Chandler who had a pissed look. After a while she started to get pissed by all the quiet and finally spoke up.
"So why did you two have a transfer from Trabia to Balamb?" she started turning her attention to the taller girl next to her.
Ashiyame didn't respond at first but Chandler rudely kicked her seat to get her attention causing her to curse at him.
"…"
He didn't say anything as he shifted his eyes toward his sister knowingly, Ashiyame followed where his eyes moved and saw that Réyana was looking at her a little peeved.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that! I wasn't paying attention, what did you say?" she flushed.
Réyana seemed to forget her irritation as she just laughed and shook her head, she happily repeated what she said.
"Oh, we got information about how the learning is here would be good for us. Me and Joey were the best in our Garden and the Headmaster had suggested that we get a better diploma at either Balamb or Galbadia since they have much more advanced classes." Ashiyame explained.
Réyana became curious of this, "Really? If you two had a choice why did you choose Balamb? Galbadia is the best Garden there is."
"Yeah, Galbadia may be the best around, but the fund was a little too much and that place is full of a bunch of stuck up assholes. So we chose Balamb." Joey answered as he joined in the conversation.
Ashiyame nodded with an approving look on her face with Joey's choice of words, seeming to have forgotten their earlier little 'fight'. Chandler smirked while Réyana just gave a look of surprise, she didn't like Galbadia either, she too thought it was filled with a bunch of obscene people, heck both her and Chandler. Just that now that Galbadia was recognized as the best Garden around more people came to respect it and trying to enter, with many failing from the extreme difficulty to just pass the entrance exam. Though some still had a little abhorrence towards it, like the four in the car.
"Both of you, me and Chandler seem to really hate the place. I say that Balamb is the best Garden, the people there are courteous and it provides the best for the students and you get a great diploma after you graduate."
"That's exactly why we chose Balamb. I know I would have got kicked out of the place on my first day there." Joey laughed.
All of them laughed at his enthusiasm of it even Chandler let out a light chuckle, he never really socialized with anyone except with Réyana, and Eliza. The laughter was soon ceased when the car suddenly jerked to the right violently steering the vehicle off course making Réyana lose control of the car. Ashiyame screamed, Joey looked about to piss his pants and Chandler only had a frown on his face. Réyana steered the wheel to get it back in control, once she did she hit the breaks making it skid to a stop near the Fire Cavern forest. All were in a sweat looking completely traumatized and confused, Réyana looked to Ashiyame, she seemed fine but shaken. She looked into the back seat to find Joey toppled on top of Chandler across his back, in a fit of anger Chandler shoved Joey off of him and looked around then to Réyana.
"You alright?" he asked.
Boom!
Something landed with a tremor then a roar sounded in front of them making the occupants in the car cover their ears in pain. The roar continued for a few moments but they were the worst few moments for their ears to handle, through the whole commotion in the back of her mind Réyana seemed to recognize the sound. The sound faded suddenly making everything seem mute and her world became black.
She suddenly had flashes, she saw red, a set of yellow eyes and fire, anticipation filled her when she felt the heat from the flames licking her skin. She could briefly see people standing above her in a window all wearing white coats. Her head spun and the image changed, this time she could see looking through glass in what looked like a pod, the smell of antibiotics and blood filled her senses and through the glass she saw the same white clad people examining her. Her head throbbed and the booming roar was heard again, but stopped in seconds. She looked outside the window to see what had caused it and she froze in fear as she stared back into a pair of gleaming yellow eyes. Everyone was recuperating from the commotion all moaning in pain, when they too seemed to notice the glaring yellow eyes in front of them.
Standing there in front of the small car was a Ruby Dragon, its narrow yellow eyes leering at them, its rumbling growl rattled their bones, its rows of teeth gleamed in the sun, the smoke filtered out from its nose and mouth. And its muscled body flexed with its every movement. Chandler couldn't believe it, there standing in front of them was a Ruby Dragon. It was only supposed to be living on the deserted, Island Closest to Hell, what was it doing way out here in Balamb?
"Uhh- guys! I think we better get out of this car before we're blown to smithereens!" Joey called out when he noticed that the dragon seemed to have drawn in a breathe.
"Ooooh yeah…" Ashiyame agreed and made no argument as she quickly unfastened her belt and opened her door the other three following suit.
Réyana jumped from her seat just as the Ruby Dragon let out it's flaming breathe, burning the Balamb car before it exploded. She quickly checked the others, Ashiyame unfastened her whip from her belt and Joey already had his rifle aimed at the ready, Chandler unsheathed his Gunblade and Réyana soon did the same. She poised herself at her enemy but despite the seeming number advantage they had against the thing they were no match and she knew that. Réyana stood ready but her whole body shook with fear, she didn't know why, she usually faced anything with no trouble, was it the fact that they were up against a monster that they were no match against?
"Réyana! Get out of the way!"
Said girl snapped out of her reverie to see the Ruby Dragon charging at her at full speed, it had already gotten too close and she knew that she would not be able to dodge or counterattack it, she seemed completely frozen in place. She shut her eyes waiting for the expected blow to come.
----At Balamb
"Zell do you have full report on the situation regarding with Réyana Viril's temporary team?"
Zell handed over a manila folder to Squall as they waited for the rest of the formed rescue team, he determined in leading one of the squads while SeeDs followed SeeD Captains, he prepared at least two other teams who had already set off. Squall opened the folder just as the other two on his squad entered the Parking Lot, Seifer and Irvine saluted to Squall who nodded in response.
"Alright, our mission is to find the four students current location and once we get there we eliminate the target. Are we clear?" Squall looked at the other three.
"We're ready Squall!"
"Just tell us what to do Mr. Leader."
"Yeah, yeah. Let's get this over with puberty boy."
----With Réyana
The Ruby Dragon swiped at her, its razor claws inches from her body, Réyana shut her eyes awaiting the pain, but all she felt was being forced backward. She fell to the ground with a grunt and looked up to find Chandler standing above her who had caste a protect spell against the lizard, he struggled to keep the shield up as the dragon pushed against him.
"Chandler!" Réyana cried out.
She could see the blue field cracking under the pressure of the Dragon's powerful claws, she feared that he would get skewered by it, she screamed as to her horror the shield finally shattered. Chandler though used his Gunblade as a makeshift safeguard, and as the Ruby Dragon's claws hit the weapon he was only thrown backwards. He tumbled a little and flipped back to his feet, he dodged as the dragon swiped at him jumping on its claw and on its back. He took his chance and pierced it in the back with his Venom Fang, it screeched in pain and fury as it started thrashing trying to shake him off. Réyana gasped as it started to rampage and called to Chandler.
"Chandler! Get off of it!"
She charged at the beast to aid her younger brother but Joey had jumped in her way.
"Get out of the way I have to help Chandler!" she yelled.
Joey shook his head, "We'll handle this. Call the Garden and request for backup, we can't beat this thing on our own. And with the car gone we can't exactly outrun it either."
She growled in frustration and took hold to the front of his shirt ready to give him a piece of her mind.
"Réyana! You have to call support!"
Réyana looked to Ashiyame as she kissed her middle and index finger and blew between them casing an Aero spell. The dragon brushed it off as it continued thrashing around.
"Just do it! Chandler won't be able to keep that up very long and neither can we! We need backup!!" Joey reasoned, he took a hold of the assaulting hand and gently pried it off his shirt.
Réyana looked crestfallen but she knew that she had to send in a message, she ran off to where the burning pile of the car was to find the radio. Joey returned to aid the other two as he let loose a series of bullet rounds.
Réyana looked around where the Balamb car had been and tried to find the radio, 'Please be here, please be here, please be here, please be here!' she beamed with relief when she found the radio to be sitting a few feet away unscathed. She reached for it and started punching in keys for Balamb base, she cursed as the first few attempts failed with no sign of frequencies. Finally losing it she rapped it and got back a frequency, she grabbed the receiver and started shouting details of the current situation.
"This is Réyana Viril! Request backup, we are in section 5 near Fire Cavern! We're being attacked by a Ruby Dragon, request backup!!" she wasn't able to finish her message as she noticed a fireball coming her way.
She flipped back from her previous spot just in time to avoid full impact of the blow and faced her current position. Her breathe hitched as she noticed Chandler still atop the monsters back holding on with all his might. She felt she had already dallied for too long and decided to take some action. Réyana crossed her right hand over her left shoulder then brought it down to her side and snapped. A stalagmite of ice appeared under the beasts belly and thrust upward, the Blizzaga pierced its belly but didn't seem to cause any damage as it just made the monster angrier.
It started thrashing harder shaking the life out of Chandler as he held on for dear life. Soon Chandler lost his grip and started slipping, he planted both feet against the dragon and withdrew his blade, it cried in fury and shook. Chandler jumped off and stood next to Réyana as she reached into her small hackie sack on her belt pulling out three small stones. Joey stood on the dragons left and shot a round at it's wing, it only gained the monsters attention as it growled at him and breathed in, it didn't get to let loose its fire when a whip slapped it on the face making it look toward Ashiyame.
Réyana tossed the stones an illuminating light bursting from them and exploding when the Flare Stones hit. Both Chandler and Réyana took its temporary blindness as a chance and charged at it. Réyana swiped at the chest while Chandler aimed for the eyes but missed and hit it on the snout. Bullets flew, whips cracked and blades continued slicing for what seemed like forever as the attack seemed to repeat over and over as they fought the winged beast. Joey and Ashiyame would get its attention shooting and whipping when it wasn't paying attention to them, and give time for Réyana and Chandler to attack while its guard was down.
---45 Minutes into the battle
The fatigue was getting to them, they were hitting it with everything they had but nothing seemed to slow it down, none the less hurt it, and it was getting smarter not paying attention to Joey and Ashiyame when they attacked it from different directions. Réyana was squatting on the ground weakened, scratched and bruised she used her Gunblade that was drilled in the ground for support. Chandler stood a few feet away his left arm received a large gash that was bleeding profusely, Joey and Ashiyame stood together having Joey hold on to Ashiyame for support.
'When the hell is this going to end?!' Chandler thought in frustration.
He dodged just in time as the dragons massive tail hurtled towards him. He charged and sliced downward on one of its hind legs, but he was blown backwards as it cast an Aero spell, the blades sliced his arms he used for protection and landed on his back.
"Damn it!!" he cried in pain.
Réyana ran to his side and helped him to his feet slinging one of his arms over her shoulder.
"We're not getting anywhere with this, where's our backup?" he growled.
Réyana shook her head, "I don't know but they better get here soon we can't keep this up forever."
She held Chandler with the one arm around his waist while she used her free hand to cast her gesture. She crossed her right arm over her left shoulder, bringing it down back to her side snapping her fingers.
"Come out! Alexander!!" she boomed, her voice echoing through the field.
A booming tremor traveled through the ground as behind her and Chandler a blinding white light appeared. The tremor grew stronger as a giant mechanical machine walked through the light; the missile launchers on its back opened and were aimed towards the heavens. Light burst from them upwards and second's later spears of light fell from the clouds on the Ruby Dragon, it screamed in pain this time, and after a series of the light hit a burst of light exploded temporarily blinding the four students. After a few moments Réyana opened her eyes to inspect the damage but what she was met with was a tail hurtling towards her and Chandler, it hit both of them full force. They both cried out in surprise and pain, they got separated being thrown in opposite directions.
---With Squall
Squall's team was blinded temporarily as a searing white light burst in the distance. As it receded Squall was able to make out the sight of a giant machine in the distance as it disappeared. It was Alexander, he would remember that kind of GF anywhere, and he knew the one person that had been assigned with that. He stomped on the gas as they went off course onto the grass towards the Fire Cavern. The other two Balamb cars following right behind him.
They finally reached their destination, jumping out the sight of the Ruby Dragon described in the transmission was apparent in their view the four students fighting the beast. Squall paled as he saw Réyana getting thrown back by the dragon's tail, his heart skipped a beat when she landed and her form was motionless on the ground. His eyes turned angrily to the Ruby Dragons direction, the other SeeDs along with Seifer, Irvine, and Zell ran to the four fallen students aid.
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Réyana groaned in pain opening her eyes her vision blurry. She attempted to rise from her position but her head started to spin. She held her head between her hands in pain, groaning pitifully as the throbbing increased. After it settled a little she looked up and found the sight of a fallen Ruby Dragon in front of her, several SeeDs tending to Ashiyame and Joey. She sighed in relief finding her two new found friends to be safe, she watched for a few moments until Zell walked up to her holding out his hand to her.
"Come on we have to tend to your injuries." he said with a comforting smile.
Réyana only nodded as she accepted his outstretched hand and was helped up on her feet. She stumbled a little as pain shot up her right leg, she winced in pain holding on to Zell for support. She gasped in realization as she looked around the area for Chandler, she knew that Ashiyame and Joey were alright but she had found no trace of her younger brother anywhere.
"He's with the Commander telling the details of what happened don't worry, he's safe." Zell assured as he turned towards one of Balamb cars where Squall and Chandler were conversing.
Réyana sighed in relief, she had thought that he had been eaten by the dragon. Thank Hyne that he wasn't. She let go of Zell trying to walk to them but her leg wouldn't allow that as she fell to the ground clutching her leg in pain and cried out. Zell instantly ran to her side, Chandler hearing the commotion turned finding his sister on the ground left Squall to his sister.
"Réyana! Don't overexert yourself, come on we gotta take you back to the Garden and fix you up."
"What about the other two?" she asked.
Chandler rolled his eyes as he nodded for them.
"Them too."
He wrapped his right arm around her waist and slung her left arm over his shoulder leading her towards one of the Balamb cars. Squall watched the two as they climbed into the car before turning towards the Ruby Dragon that lay dead. He had no trouble at all finishing the beast off after using his finishing move Lion Heart. The beast fell the moment it hit back to earth after launching it in the air releasing devastating blows on it. He stared at the creature in deep thought, he was baffled of the sight. The only place he had seen them were in the northern region islands of the Galbadia continent and at the Deep Sea Research Center. What would it be doing here?
Seifer walked up to the Commander the same puzzled look on his face, and that was saying something since this was Seifer.
"You have any idea why it's here?" he asked.
Squall gave a sideways glance before turning back to the dragon in thought.
"I don't…"
Seifer sighed in annoyance as he saw Irvine flirting with the new female transfer who was hiding behind Joey. He walked over coming to her rescue, Squall only shook his head rubbing his fingertips against his forehead. He was going to make sure what was going on once they returned to the Garden, this event was too unusual to pass by.
DarkAngelAssassin666 Well that's it for chapter two, and I know this took a long time to post up and I apologize for that. Please remember to review, that would make me and the characters very happy. :)