Final Fantasy 8 - Next Generation
By: "Rayn"
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy or any of its trademarks
WARNING: There are some disturbing parts.
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Chapter 4: The SeeD test.
Alexander could see Dollet, only two minutes until the drop ship left them at the shore. Bombs exploded with deafening blasts, the constant chattering of gunfire could be heard over the confused mass of shouts and orders. Soldiers could be seen running towards their next fight, some limping or holding wounds on their bodies. He found himself ready to get out there, desiring nothing more to get out there and finish his mission just to get away from the bloodshed. His team stood ready at the deployment cabin of the ship, Lucca in the lead and the two others on either side of him. A loud crushing sound and a fierce jolt signaled that they had landed on the beach and the mission was to begin. The hatch doors opened and the team hit the ground running, heading straight up the stairs and into the numerous streets and alleys of Dollet.
Lucca paused before heading into the town. "Our target is the main square. Once we get there, Alexander is to perform his duties at the clinic. The rest of us are to keep the main square secured after liberating it of all enemy forces. Let's go." She waved the group forward and the team began running to the center of the town. Carl took care of most approaching soldiers with his rifle, clearing the way into the square quickly.
Once in the square, Alexander and Lue ran towards the clinic. As they got to the front steps, a group of SeeDs from Galbadia stepped in the way. All of them were gunblade users, the leader with an especially intricate design on his blade. The leader made his way to Alexader slowly, waving his sword in front of him like a toy.
"So, you're the medic, eh?" He said. His voice was dark and full of scorn. Alexander instantly knew there was going to be a showdown. "You are pathetic. Trying to save lives, in the middle of a warzone no less. Fool." He spat on Alexanders face.
"Eight SeeDs versus only us four cadets. This'll be overkill." Lue chuckled, he thought that "War SeeDs" were inferior to the SeeDs from other Gardens. "Galbadia never did breed a soldier who was any good. Except maybe Irvine."
"Inferior fool. We are the infamous Gunblade Squad, the invincible knights of battle." The leader glared at Lue, daggars of hatred piercing into Lues confident eyes.
Alexander backed up slowly, he was next to useless in battle and had to get out of there. These guys semmed to be the type that went after medics, despite world wide laws.
"Stay where you are, worm." The leader pointed his blade towards Alexanders throat, only inches away from cutting into him.
Alexander looked to Lucca and Carl from the corner of his sight, able to tell they were in position for an attack. He sighed and slumped as if he were giving up, adding a false sense of security to the Gunblade Squad. In an instantaneous move, Alexander lept back and launched what had to be his favorite spell. Alexander whispered the word "Nocturne" and a thick black gas quickly concealed the entire scene, accompanied by a high pitched noise that was barely audiable. Six of the support members fell down immediatly, knocked into a deep sleep by the effects of the spell. The seventh was easily picked off by Carl and the leader had to get through Lue before he could get anywhere else.
Lue had surprisingly good control of his hammer, keping pace with the quicker swipes of the gunblade. He had to keep on the defensive to keep from being hacked to pieces by the sharp blade. Carl had no chance of a clear shot and Lucca didn't have any way to stop from being hacked up by the blade since she used her fists like her father. As for Alexander, he couldn't cast a spell without having the chance of hitting the wrong target, so it was up to Lue. He sidestepped an downward slash and parried a rising follow-up slash. A streak of blood ran from Lue's arm as he took a shot to the arm for the opportunity for a strike. He swung horizontally towards the body and caught the over-extended leader in the chest with the full force of one hudred and fifty pounds. The leader flew back wildly, going for at least fifteen feet until he hit a flipped-over car.
"Took you long enough." Carl elbowed his teammate in the side, laughing slightly.
"Crap! I got blood all over my sleeve. I don't suppose our medic can cast a laundry cleaning spell." Lue laughed along with his buddy.
Alexander instead cast a cure spell. "Sorry, never heard of that one."
"Hey, Alex. Get yourself into the clinic, there are some seriously injured people in there waiting for you." Lucca lightly pushed him in the right direction. As she did, a blast shell hit the clinic, blasting the entire building into nothing more than small fragments.
"My mission has been compromised. I'll search for survivors while you all do your mission." Alexander started climbing over debris while the others went about their part. He searched for the greater part of an hour, finding only the deceased bodies of those he was supposed to save. When it all seemed lost, he spotted someone pinned under a piece of lumber. In a mad rush, he arrived to see the trapped one was a young lady in a black dress, most likely a civilian left unevacuated. He lifted the log off of her, barely able to move the smouldered wood aside. He cast his most powerful curing spell, Cura, on her twice.
She moaned quietly and got up. She had a thin and flat figure, barely shorter than Aleander. Her long, raven-black hair was singed and messy but she managed to still look fairly attractive. Her eyes scared Alexander out of his wits though, blood red orbs set in such an innocent and cute face. It just didn't seem right. She grinned, grabbing Alexander by the collar and raising her right palm to his face.
"There you are, Beta Five Zero Six. I'll be happy to eliminate you." She cast firaga directly in his face, making him fly out of her grip and into a demolished wall. Alexander could only look on as she slowly walked towards his position. "An ingsignifacnt piece of data."
He started having flashbacks, quick still-frame pictures of the nightmares that kept him awake. Between this, blacking out for a second, and seeing the girl walk towards him, he knew he didn't stand a chance. He notices flames had surrounded him and the girl, other fires rising up fiercely and spreading quickly.
"A mistake. It is suprising how much trouble a mistake so small can cause." She laughed smugly and looked down at him with pure evil seeming to flow throughout her body.
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Lucca saw Alexander on the ground, helpless to gaurd against the girls attacks. She yelled out in desperation. "Alex!" Flames had risen to the point where she couldn't get to him, only able to watch while he suffered. The girl immediatly spotted Lucca, grinning wildly.
"You," She picked him up and began to cradle Alexander in her thin arms. "You want this monstrocity? You care about this worthless thing's life." She laughed crazily and threw him to the ground.
"You little bitch! Get your ass over here so I can kill you!" Lucca yelled.
Instead, the girl held her palm over Alexander and used her power to lift him into the air. He began to shake slightly, resisting what seemed to be a telekinetic skill. His arm gave in, the elbow joint snapping and going the reverse direction, his shoulder twisted around, inverting the whole joint and dislocating several bones. The other arm got the same treatment, plus a twisted finger. His legs went next, fracturing and inverting joints with loud and painful snaps. To finish it all off, his neck was twisted around backwards and his twisted and mauled body thrown down lifelessly onto a metal rod, impaling him through his stomach.
Lucca fell to her knees in pain and sadness. "You sadistic bitch." She said over sobs, punching the ground once.
The flames got bigger still, obscuring all view of the body and its tormentor.
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Squall oversaw the Dollet fight, checking over stats and files. On the monitor, he saw a small flash near the town square. In the blink of an eye, a nova ripped through the town, wrecking anything still standing.
"What the hell?" Zell stood behind Squall, staring wide-eyed at the blast.
Squall instantly checked the casualy count. Next to Balamb Garden, a large zero appeared as the flash dissapeared. Their allies casualties had stayed the same and the opposing forces list had gone up by at least five to ten times what was seen earlier.
"I thought we had lost fifteen cadets and SeeDs already." Zell couldn't figure it out.
"... Whatever..." Squall tried to shake off any concern. "This is a good thing anyway."
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The flames had died down to nothing and the town had become quieter. Lucca picked herself off the ground and saw no sign of the girl from earlier. She rushed down to Alexander, suprised to see him without a pole sticking through his chest.
"Alex! Are you okay?" She shook him wildly, hoping he hadn't dided. She noticed somehing different about him, no twisted body parts, no really serious looking injuries. He had to be alive, she could even feel a pulse. "Wake up Alex, wake up!"
Alexander groaned slighly, barely able to open his eyes. Lucca immediatly lifted his body up and hugged the life out of him.
"S-stop, p-please." Alexander managed to say between choked gasps.
"Sorry." She immediatly lightened her death-grip and laid him down. He began to get up, holding his side with one hand, propping himself up with the other. Lucca helped him up and supported him as they began to walk back to the main square.
"Lucca!" Carl yelled. "Withdraw orders have been sent. We have twenty minutes."
"Help me out with Alex!" She yelled back.
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Alex rested in the infirmary. Nursing a broken set of ribs and a well-healed ankle. Lucca sat by his side when he woke up.
"The results are in. We're to report to the second floor hall. You up to it?" She smiled brightly at him, prodding his good side so he would get up.
"Let's go."
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Please Read and Review. If you like it, I'll post some more, if not, well, sucks to be me. Sorry for the delay, I was vacationing in a place with no computer access. I'll try to keep writing.
I added some quick Squall just 'cause you guys wanted to see him.
Thanks.
"Rayn"
By: "Rayn"
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy or any of its trademarks
WARNING: There are some disturbing parts.
-------------------X------------------------------------------------X-------------------------
Chapter 4: The SeeD test.
Alexander could see Dollet, only two minutes until the drop ship left them at the shore. Bombs exploded with deafening blasts, the constant chattering of gunfire could be heard over the confused mass of shouts and orders. Soldiers could be seen running towards their next fight, some limping or holding wounds on their bodies. He found himself ready to get out there, desiring nothing more to get out there and finish his mission just to get away from the bloodshed. His team stood ready at the deployment cabin of the ship, Lucca in the lead and the two others on either side of him. A loud crushing sound and a fierce jolt signaled that they had landed on the beach and the mission was to begin. The hatch doors opened and the team hit the ground running, heading straight up the stairs and into the numerous streets and alleys of Dollet.
Lucca paused before heading into the town. "Our target is the main square. Once we get there, Alexander is to perform his duties at the clinic. The rest of us are to keep the main square secured after liberating it of all enemy forces. Let's go." She waved the group forward and the team began running to the center of the town. Carl took care of most approaching soldiers with his rifle, clearing the way into the square quickly.
Once in the square, Alexander and Lue ran towards the clinic. As they got to the front steps, a group of SeeDs from Galbadia stepped in the way. All of them were gunblade users, the leader with an especially intricate design on his blade. The leader made his way to Alexader slowly, waving his sword in front of him like a toy.
"So, you're the medic, eh?" He said. His voice was dark and full of scorn. Alexander instantly knew there was going to be a showdown. "You are pathetic. Trying to save lives, in the middle of a warzone no less. Fool." He spat on Alexanders face.
"Eight SeeDs versus only us four cadets. This'll be overkill." Lue chuckled, he thought that "War SeeDs" were inferior to the SeeDs from other Gardens. "Galbadia never did breed a soldier who was any good. Except maybe Irvine."
"Inferior fool. We are the infamous Gunblade Squad, the invincible knights of battle." The leader glared at Lue, daggars of hatred piercing into Lues confident eyes.
Alexander backed up slowly, he was next to useless in battle and had to get out of there. These guys semmed to be the type that went after medics, despite world wide laws.
"Stay where you are, worm." The leader pointed his blade towards Alexanders throat, only inches away from cutting into him.
Alexander looked to Lucca and Carl from the corner of his sight, able to tell they were in position for an attack. He sighed and slumped as if he were giving up, adding a false sense of security to the Gunblade Squad. In an instantaneous move, Alexander lept back and launched what had to be his favorite spell. Alexander whispered the word "Nocturne" and a thick black gas quickly concealed the entire scene, accompanied by a high pitched noise that was barely audiable. Six of the support members fell down immediatly, knocked into a deep sleep by the effects of the spell. The seventh was easily picked off by Carl and the leader had to get through Lue before he could get anywhere else.
Lue had surprisingly good control of his hammer, keping pace with the quicker swipes of the gunblade. He had to keep on the defensive to keep from being hacked to pieces by the sharp blade. Carl had no chance of a clear shot and Lucca didn't have any way to stop from being hacked up by the blade since she used her fists like her father. As for Alexander, he couldn't cast a spell without having the chance of hitting the wrong target, so it was up to Lue. He sidestepped an downward slash and parried a rising follow-up slash. A streak of blood ran from Lue's arm as he took a shot to the arm for the opportunity for a strike. He swung horizontally towards the body and caught the over-extended leader in the chest with the full force of one hudred and fifty pounds. The leader flew back wildly, going for at least fifteen feet until he hit a flipped-over car.
"Took you long enough." Carl elbowed his teammate in the side, laughing slightly.
"Crap! I got blood all over my sleeve. I don't suppose our medic can cast a laundry cleaning spell." Lue laughed along with his buddy.
Alexander instead cast a cure spell. "Sorry, never heard of that one."
"Hey, Alex. Get yourself into the clinic, there are some seriously injured people in there waiting for you." Lucca lightly pushed him in the right direction. As she did, a blast shell hit the clinic, blasting the entire building into nothing more than small fragments.
"My mission has been compromised. I'll search for survivors while you all do your mission." Alexander started climbing over debris while the others went about their part. He searched for the greater part of an hour, finding only the deceased bodies of those he was supposed to save. When it all seemed lost, he spotted someone pinned under a piece of lumber. In a mad rush, he arrived to see the trapped one was a young lady in a black dress, most likely a civilian left unevacuated. He lifted the log off of her, barely able to move the smouldered wood aside. He cast his most powerful curing spell, Cura, on her twice.
She moaned quietly and got up. She had a thin and flat figure, barely shorter than Aleander. Her long, raven-black hair was singed and messy but she managed to still look fairly attractive. Her eyes scared Alexander out of his wits though, blood red orbs set in such an innocent and cute face. It just didn't seem right. She grinned, grabbing Alexander by the collar and raising her right palm to his face.
"There you are, Beta Five Zero Six. I'll be happy to eliminate you." She cast firaga directly in his face, making him fly out of her grip and into a demolished wall. Alexander could only look on as she slowly walked towards his position. "An ingsignifacnt piece of data."
He started having flashbacks, quick still-frame pictures of the nightmares that kept him awake. Between this, blacking out for a second, and seeing the girl walk towards him, he knew he didn't stand a chance. He notices flames had surrounded him and the girl, other fires rising up fiercely and spreading quickly.
"A mistake. It is suprising how much trouble a mistake so small can cause." She laughed smugly and looked down at him with pure evil seeming to flow throughout her body.
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Lucca saw Alexander on the ground, helpless to gaurd against the girls attacks. She yelled out in desperation. "Alex!" Flames had risen to the point where she couldn't get to him, only able to watch while he suffered. The girl immediatly spotted Lucca, grinning wildly.
"You," She picked him up and began to cradle Alexander in her thin arms. "You want this monstrocity? You care about this worthless thing's life." She laughed crazily and threw him to the ground.
"You little bitch! Get your ass over here so I can kill you!" Lucca yelled.
Instead, the girl held her palm over Alexander and used her power to lift him into the air. He began to shake slightly, resisting what seemed to be a telekinetic skill. His arm gave in, the elbow joint snapping and going the reverse direction, his shoulder twisted around, inverting the whole joint and dislocating several bones. The other arm got the same treatment, plus a twisted finger. His legs went next, fracturing and inverting joints with loud and painful snaps. To finish it all off, his neck was twisted around backwards and his twisted and mauled body thrown down lifelessly onto a metal rod, impaling him through his stomach.
Lucca fell to her knees in pain and sadness. "You sadistic bitch." She said over sobs, punching the ground once.
The flames got bigger still, obscuring all view of the body and its tormentor.
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Squall oversaw the Dollet fight, checking over stats and files. On the monitor, he saw a small flash near the town square. In the blink of an eye, a nova ripped through the town, wrecking anything still standing.
"What the hell?" Zell stood behind Squall, staring wide-eyed at the blast.
Squall instantly checked the casualy count. Next to Balamb Garden, a large zero appeared as the flash dissapeared. Their allies casualties had stayed the same and the opposing forces list had gone up by at least five to ten times what was seen earlier.
"I thought we had lost fifteen cadets and SeeDs already." Zell couldn't figure it out.
"... Whatever..." Squall tried to shake off any concern. "This is a good thing anyway."
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The flames had died down to nothing and the town had become quieter. Lucca picked herself off the ground and saw no sign of the girl from earlier. She rushed down to Alexander, suprised to see him without a pole sticking through his chest.
"Alex! Are you okay?" She shook him wildly, hoping he hadn't dided. She noticed somehing different about him, no twisted body parts, no really serious looking injuries. He had to be alive, she could even feel a pulse. "Wake up Alex, wake up!"
Alexander groaned slighly, barely able to open his eyes. Lucca immediatly lifted his body up and hugged the life out of him.
"S-stop, p-please." Alexander managed to say between choked gasps.
"Sorry." She immediatly lightened her death-grip and laid him down. He began to get up, holding his side with one hand, propping himself up with the other. Lucca helped him up and supported him as they began to walk back to the main square.
"Lucca!" Carl yelled. "Withdraw orders have been sent. We have twenty minutes."
"Help me out with Alex!" She yelled back.
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Alex rested in the infirmary. Nursing a broken set of ribs and a well-healed ankle. Lucca sat by his side when he woke up.
"The results are in. We're to report to the second floor hall. You up to it?" She smiled brightly at him, prodding his good side so he would get up.
"Let's go."
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Please Read and Review. If you like it, I'll post some more, if not, well, sucks to be me. Sorry for the delay, I was vacationing in a place with no computer access. I'll try to keep writing.
I added some quick Squall just 'cause you guys wanted to see him.
Thanks.
"Rayn"