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Arrival

Genesis arrived at Balamb City near midnight and having to use a lot of confusion and sleep spells had managed to find herself at the gates of Balamb Garden unscathed.

Now she would wait for her adversaries to come out. Then all hell would break loose.

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Her chance came a few days later. Seifer, Raven, Squall and Zell left the garden to practice their growing fighting strength with each other. Tomorrow Seifer and Raven would go off and take the SeeD field exam. Once again it was at Dollot, everything being staged, of course. The real SeeDs, Squall, Zell, Selphie and Irvine, would go along and make sure everything went according to plan. Rinoa would stay behind at the garden with Headmaster Trepe.

Seifer and Raven and Squall and Zell went some ways off from each other and starting fighting. Each had a lot of upper level magic and two or three GFs apiece. And each had learned a lot from the others around them in fighting styles. When they became fully immersed in the other's moves, Genesis struck.

What the others didn't know was she had GFs of her own, namely Siren and when she used it, no one really noticed. Then she stepped out into the opening.

Zell was the first one to see her; "Oh fuck!" He said loudly and stumbled.

Genesis laughed as eh got back to his feet. "Hello all."

Squall looked at her with undying hatred. Seifer and Raven ran over at Zell's exclamation and when they saw Genesis their faces became hard with hatred.

Genesis laughed, "Oh, I can see that you all missed me." She flicked her wrist toward them, "Firaga."

All were thrown back by the blast and when they tried to use Curaga, they realized that they were silenced. They all got up, cursing.

"Son of a bitch!" Seifer said, wiping blood from his eyes, "How did she get a GF?"

"I don't know," Squall replied, searching his potions and finding an Echo Screen and using it, the others following suit with either and echo Screen or an Esuna. "But I'm scared to think of how powerful she's become."

Zell, who had Carbuncle quickly summoned it to use Ruby Light, the reflect magic, then they all used Curaga and waited for Genesis's next move.

All she did, though, was laugh. It was startling to see a sorceress laugh over nothing, but she was. Then she used almost lightening quick physical attacks to break down the reflect and use Firaga again before they could do anything, knocking them all out but Zell. He got up and with a futile glance, ran toward the Garden with Blizzara snapping at his heels.