Summary:

Squall has become all but a living legend for defeating the Sorceress Ultimecia. There are few who know the TRUE story of what happened. They know it was not Squall alone who defeated the Sorceress, they also know there was another Sorceress with them when the battle was won.

Squall is surprised to say he has friends, true friends that would stand by his side until the world ended. He never imagined he would fall in love, or have a daughter, but it has all happened. Friends, love, and family.

He loves his daughter, she is his jewel, the only thing that can outshine her mother's brightness. He never wanted her to become involved in fighting, but the question is asked, just how much is she like her mother really?

A:N/ Remember I DON'T OWN FINAL FANTASY, and don't steal Bara! If you steal her I will... I'll throw this Keyblade at you:holds up a plastic home-made keyblade:. Also I'm sorry that it's been so long since I posted, forgive me! Enjoy the chapter

THE DAUGHTER OF A LEGEND

CHAPTER ONE:

NIGHTMARES AND COMFORTS

Squall had left for Garden soon as he put Bara to bed again. Rinoa was left alone, until Bara wok up from her nap. Rinoa took into recount, no she wasn't alone, Angelo was around.The old dog that she had for most of her life, the poor thing was growing old. The family life made it so there were no more 'adventures' to take with Angelo, if he could even handle it. Rinoa had something more important than that now, she had a child.

Squall. Just the thought of him made her feel like she was seventeen again.

As she thought on it; Squall was almost two sided. When he was home, Squall was as open as any man, he played with his daughter, laughed, smiled, joked. At home Squall was like any regular person. But any where else, he was that cold solider on the battle field, that person who once told her he was afraid to let anyone get close to him. Times like those Squall the Lion was also Squall the Hurtful.

She preferred him at home. He was sweeter then. Times like those he would come home with a solitary rose, bright and bold as red can be, and the sweetest scent man could find.

Rinoa sighed, it would be some time before Bara woke up. So she went into the small personal library, oh just one of the befits of having Squall has the main support; a personal library. Rinoa took down a new book and sat down in her reading chair. This was a good way to pass the time. Bara took power naps, she would sleep for and hour, two are most, and be up all day long.

Bara woke up and found herself surrounded by a landscape she'd never seen before. A penisula, tall white walls to her thirty-seven inches in height. There was a lighthouse glowing in the background, its light ever circling, it fascinated her. The ground was hard, sharp stones that stung the undersides of her feet.

She was cold in her night clothes, and frightened. How did she end up here? "Papa?" Papa will rescue me, Papa always saves me.

Frantically she began running around, bare footed, rocks cutting and slicing their way into the soft undersides of her feet. She was crying in a loud and echoing voice, screaming for her father. Small streams of tears falling out of her eyes, "PAPA! Where are you! I'm calling you where are you, Papa!" she covered her face with her hands and fell to her knees.

Lighting sounded and Bara jumped. Cold rain began to fall down suddenly and appearing seemingly out of no where there was a boy, barley older then herself. He was staring away from the pretty lighthouse and out to where she was.

He was wearing an orange shirt that had a black stripe across his center and black pants. his hair was a dark brown or black hair , Bara couldn't tell because or the rain, and fair skin. She couldn't see his face from the distance, but something about the air around him seem all too familiar.

"Sis, did you leave me too?" the boy wiped his eyes on his arm, though due to the rain, it did no good. He looked from the sky down to his feet and mumbled something.

The little boy was about to go inside when he noticed Bara huddling in her wet nightgown out in that rain.

"What are you doing out there?" he called to her.

"I'm looking for my Papa!" Bara was still crying, but her tears were lessening.

The little boy started walking out to her, "You came to an orphanage. We don't have patents here, only Matron," by now the boy was right in front of her and Bara saw him out stretch his hand, "Come inside with me."

Bara looked at him and for a mere second she felt safe. Then she didn't, "No. If I call loud enough my Papa will come running!" fresh tears fell to mingle with the rain water.

"There aren't any parents here. We're all alone," the boy said again.

Bara began to scream, she had to wake from this nightmare. She had too!

"Bara, wake up."

Bara rolled her head then opened her eyes. Rinoa was standing over her, soft, comforting, her beloved mother.

"Mummy!" Bara sat up and hug her mother around the neck.

Rinoa took her daughter in her arms, glad that there was nothing wrong with her. She had rushed out of her book when she heard her only daughter cry out in her sleep.

All this worry related back to what she had been thinking before, there were down-sides too. Squall was looked up to by many but for every person who saw him as a mentor or a leader, there were other who believed him to be a threat.

Squall Leonhart, the leader and commander of SeeD, with the new Sorceress of the Age. Both Squall and Rinoa sometimes feared for their daughter's life. Any one who wanted Squall to listen to them would need only to take his daughter, the most valuable thing money could not buy. That was only one reason why they were not married, it could bring attention to Bara.

When Rinoa heard the scream, first instinct said the child was endanger.

"Mummy, there was... it was cold, and raining, and the stones hurt my feet," Bara began was once she was sure she wasn't still dreaming, "I called for Papa, but he didn't come, I felt so only, and there was a boy there who felt the same way."

"Shh, it was only a dream, a bad dream baby," Rinoa knew Bara would be to frightened to go back to sleep so she carried the small girl out of her room.

Bara's hand balled into the fabric of her mother's shirt and she laid her wide-eyed head down on Rinoa's shoulder. She tried to keep her eyes from closing, even blinking. I'm not an orphan. Mama loves me, and Papa loves me. They wouldn't let me be alone.

Around the corner an old red and brown collie laid on his pillow, not sleeping, just resting his old tiered form.

"Anglio!" Bara squirmed down to the floor and all but threw herself onto on the old dog. Anglio lifted his head and licked Bara's face in affection the laid back down.

Rinoa watched the girl grab fist-fulls of fur, pull on the hairs slightly, then let go and watch the hair fall back into place. Rinoa squatted next to her daughter and put a hand on her back.

"Do you want to tell me about your dream? It had to have been scary, you were screaming," Rinoa rubbed Bara's back as she spoke to her, "I could always take you to the Garden myself and you can talk to Papa there."

Bara stopped playing with Anglio's hair and turned her blue spheres to her mother's brown ones. Bara only nodded. She had never been to her father's work place. Bara often wondered why her father worked in a garden. Why would he need to plant flowers?

"Well, come then, you can't go in your night clothes," Rinoa stood up and Bara followed suit.

Bara was dressed in simple pants and a shirt with angel wings on the chest, and her travels coat. She was scratching the space between Angelio's ears when her mother came out dressed in her blue duster, black tank top and shorts.

Well the Garden is stationed at Fishermen's Horizon for the day so it would not take that long to take a train, trains are always easier then driving.

Rinoa bent down and gave Angelio a pat goodbye, and headed out the door with Bara's hand in hers.

Rinoa walked with Bara to the station in Timber and paid for her ticket, Bara was still a free ride. Once Rinoa had chosen her compartment Bara started to run around. shaking her head Rinoa just sat down and watched her daughter play.

Aloud Rinoa said, "With that much energy, she reminds me of Zell." I wonder what happened to him. Zell Dincht had disappeared while on a SeeD mission. Several teams had been sent on searches for the lost SeeD, but there was no word of him.

"Zell never wanted to go on that mission," Rinoa mumbled, "he was frightened."

"Mommy! How much longer?" Bara whinnied

"It'll be at least another hour or two," Bara's shoulders drooped and her she hung her head. I get a ticket to the fastest train and still it's not enough. Rinoa brought the heal of her hand to her forehead, a sign of frustration.

"Come here Bara and I'll tell you a story," Bara ran over. The little girl never missed a story, "Have I ever told the story of the Sorceress and the SeeD?" Bara shook her head, "Well it starts with a young man, who had just become a SeeD, your father is a SeeD just like our hero. Every year there is a celebration for the cadets who passed the SeeD exam, our new SeeD was there, along with a Sorceress..." Rinoa began to tell the story, the lost story of the Hero who defeated the sorceress of the future.

"And after the battle with the evil sorceress, our good sorceress inherited her powers, but she fell into a deep sleep and the hero was deeply saddened-"

"Fisherman's Horizon Station" the woman on the intercom system cut off, "Fisherman's Horizon Station"

"Well we're here," Rinoa said with a smile.

"No mommy! You have to finish the story!"

"You can ask your father too, he knows the other half of the story best, come on we have to go," defeated Bara took her mother's hand and got off the train. Before they got off the train Rinoa casted a spell on Bara, to hide her from unfriendly eyes. Her safety is first.

Some town's men where whispering, others pointing. Rinoa looked at them, nodded and waved to some. It was something Rinoa had grown used to. There were people who excepted the sorceresses and others who did not. They're whispers meant nothing, and no one could touch her so long as her knight was alive.

Rinoa led Bara to the lift and the two woman got on with no more interactions. As they walked Bara could only wonder when she would get to know more of the story.

Momma called it the Sorceress and the seed. Papa is a seed, does that mean he will grow into a tree? Bara watched her feet as her thoughts wondered... I want to know more.

"Bara, look at the Garden."

About the seeds and sorceresses, Bara turned her head upwards at her mother's words. It was a sight she never knew could exist. Smooth rounded surfaces, colored green, blue, and gold. There were disks turning underneath it as if generating the power to lift the large facility. And it was glowing!

"We can find Papa in here?"

There were several cadets on the second floor corridor and they all parted the way for the two who entered. Rinoa's spell hand worn off and some female students smiled and waved to the little girl.

"She's so cute!"

"I wounder if she's the Sorceress daughter or and orphan."

"She's Rinoa's, you can see it in her face."

Squall stood by the full length window that covered the back wall of his office, arms crossed and folded across his chest. In a few minutes he would be needed down stairs in the training center. He still wore the hat Bara had put on his head that morning and the braids were just barley visible. He hated days when they left port. The months he would have to leave his family behind.

He reached into the pocket on the front of his jacket and with drew a picture of Rinoa, Bara, Ellone, and the man he hardly knew, Leguna. His little girl. Squall ran his thumb over the image of his daughter. It hasn't been a day and I already miss you my dear one, my little rose.

A knock at his door had him shoving the picture back in its place, "Its open."

Little Bara pushed open the door, and ran inside, "Papa! We found you!"

Squall barely had time to register before Bara wrapped her arms around his legs. Holding him tightly, "Bara!"

Squall looked around and found Rinoa walking in as well, "Here's a surprise," he couldn't be the him that he could be with Bara so close. The best surprise in the world...

For those who don't remember I'll list any old characters, i.e. the one from the game down at the bottom of the chapter.

FH: just the abbreviation for Fisherman's Horizon