This is hopefully my final rewrite of Two Lionesses and an Outcast Angel. And I am going to write this one a little different where we get to follow Luna trough her childhood pretty linear instead of flashbacks chapters. So it is going to be time skips to but only forward. And the day and date system I used in the original will come first when I reach the main story. This chapter will cover her first nine years major events. Also I am going to borrow summons from other games as I have a hard time to think there are just about 20ish guardian forces and so many more SeeD.
Two Lionesses and an Outcas Angel
Chapter 1: Birt of an Angel
It is sixth of June and inside the Garden, a hyperactive Selphie was running all over squeaking. "The baby is coming, the baby is coming. Where the hell is Squall? Rinoa needs him A.S.A.P."
Just a few minutes ago, the girls of the gang wish now included Amie Dincht even known as the library girl were sitting in the cafeteria and enjoyed a nice breakfast with their children when suddenly Rinoa went into labors. Quistis had escorted her to the infirmary as Selphie went to find Squall while Amie took care of the kids.
Squall walked around inside the training center was in deep thoughts as usual. ("Soon our third child will be born. I wonder how the twins will handle their roles as big sisters and more, how shall we rise them? So many questions and so few answers")
Suddenly Selphie stormed in yelling. "Squall, get to the infirmary. Rinoa is going to give birth any second. Quistis is with her right now while Amie is taking care of the kids."
("Oh Hyne, it is time. Calm down now, everything will be just fine.") He thought as he followed Selphie out into the main hall and set course towards the infirmary.
"Rinoa, I am here." He said as he practically barged into the delivery room and ran to grab his wife's hand.
"Squall, I don't know what is happening. The baby won't come out and they say something about blood." Rinoa said in a weak but panicked voice.
"We are loosing her." He heard Dr. Kadowaki say. "How is it with the baby?"
"Not to good." A nurse answered. "We must do a C-section if anyone shall survive."
"M-my baby, what is wrong with my baby?" Rinoa cried weakly as her strength started to wear out. "Hyne please don't take my baby."
"Get him out of here." Kadowaki screamed at the nurses as she nodded at Squall.
"RINOA." He screamed as four nurses struggled with getting him out into the waiting room.
The waiting seemed to last forever as he looked at how the minutes were ticking away.
Suddenly Dr. Kadowaki came. "You can see your wife now."
"And how is it with the baby?" Squall said with a trembling voice, fearing that bad news were on their way.
"The baby is fine. You are now a father of total three healthy girls." Kadowaki said "We nearly lost her but she fought well. And how she screamed when she finally came out. You have gotten a strong daughter with a pair of very strong lungs. But now at least she is sleeping."
He walked in to his wife and looked at the tiny figure sleeping in her mother's arms. He could see how much like his late mother she looked.
"Squall, it is so nice to see you. I have someone here who wants to meet you" Rinoa said weakly with a thin smile. Her skin was paler than usual, her raven hair was a mess.
"What name do you think we should give her?" Squall asked.
"Luna. After the moon we met under for the first time. Do you remember?"
"No GF in the world is going to make me forget that night." Squall said softly. "Raine and Julia will be thrilled to meet their baby sister so lets get them"
Soon the three year old twins entered and looked at the little one with big eyes.
"Ooh she is so tiny." Three year old Julia exclaimed happy.
"She looks like that picture grampa has." Raine said delighted.
"Can I hold her?" Julia asked
"Me too." Raine said jumping up en down of excitement.
"Yes but carefully. Sit here on the bed." Rinoa said calm as Squall helped their twin daughters up.
After her fifth birthday, Luna was on her way to her first day at the Garden's kindergarten program as her sisters Julia and Raine who were identical twins and spitting images of their mother followed her trough the entrance and showed their cadet id so they would be let in. She couldn't help to feel a bit nervous to meet the other kids even i her teacher and instructor was Selphie who was a friend to her parents and also mother of her big sisters friend Tessa. She knew though that she would meet at least one more familiar face as her best friend Kaylee, daughter of Quistis and Seifer would be in her class. She walked in trough the entrance to the Garden wish was still mobile, but usually stationed by the small town nation Balamb with her sisters where she had been a few times before as her father was still the Commander and leader of the Garden and her mother worked as an instructor in sorceress history.
"Do you think you will be okay?" Julia asked her little sister.
"If someone messes with you I will beat them up. So don't worry." Her other sister Raine leered.
"I think I will be okay." Luna said as she spotted her friend and hurried away. "Hi Kaylee!"
"Hi Luna! Today we get to try wish weapons we will use." A blonde girl yelled excited.
"I want to try the same weapon as my dad." Luna said enthusiastic.
"Me to. But I don't know if I want the Hyperion model." Kaylee said.
"Yeah the size of my dad's gunblade has is way to big for me." Luna answered.
"Like two puny girls like you could handle such a weapon." A boy a year older than them with a dirty blonde hair said to them as he walked by.
"Eat shit Reno." Kaylee yelled at her big brother.
"Well don't come crying to me if you hurt yourself." He laughed before walking away.
Well in class all the kids sat in a ring on the floor as their instructor walked in.
"Hi children! And welcome to Balamb Garden!" Selphie yelled excited .
"The first thing we are going to do is to get to know each other better. So I am going to pair you up in teams of three depending of what weapon you seem to have most talent for."
"Yay we weapons!" Kaylee yelled happily.
"Well not yet. First I want you to bond with your teammates because they are going to be your sparring partner later after lunch." Selphie smiled and then began to divide the children in teams.
"I will put you, Luna, Kaylee and May into a team as you show some interest in the different types of gunblades."
Luna and Kaylee looked at their new teammate, a girl with copper hair and freckles.
"Hi! I am Luna and live in Balamb with my parents and my sisters. Nice to meet you." Luna said politely.
"And I am Kaylee. Same as Luna but I live here at the Garden with my parents and my annoying brother" Kaylee introduced herself a bit more blunt.
"My name is May and I am from Dollet where my parents and younger siblings are living." The girl answered a bit shy.
When the break came the three newly found friends sat down by the fountain at the quad.
"My grandpa used a gunblade during the first sorceress war and I want to be like him when I grow up. Why do you want to fight with gunblades?"
"It is a really cool weapon. And my old man uses one." Kaylee said enthusiastic.
"My dad use one to and I have heard all the stories when I was little about how my parents and their friends defeated Ultimecia. Teacher was there to fighting"
"No way. Your dad is Squall?" May said as her eyes grew big.
"Yes he is." Luna said proudly.
After the break it was time to try out the training weapons. Luna chose a wooden gunblade of the revolver type wish had the weight comparable to the real one in comparison to her size. The rest of the day did go by with them getting to know each other, not only their teammates but also the rest of the class and getting their uniforms and cadet ID. And without her knowing it her sisters kept an eye on her. And even if their house was in Balamb they still had rooms in the dormitory as the Garden could move and change location depending on the scale of the mission. Julia and Raine already shared a dorm and Luna got to share with her new friend May.
When she had turned seven her father's friend Zell approached her after class.
"Luna, you seem be pretty good with technical stuff. So I am wondering if you would like to be a part of the Garden's maintenance program? We usually keep the vehicles running and the Garden will see to that you get the proper training for it."
"That sounds fun. My sisters are already in the scout and medical programs." Luna answered exited over that she was considered old enough to take part in the different specialization programs the Garden provided. And for her it was either that, library or some kind of wild life program she would have found interesting. She thought that later she maybe would participate in the festival committee as she also loved music and her mother often told her that she reminded of her grandmother Julia Heartilly Caraway. The biggest problem though was that she was kind of shy when it came to play and sing for an audience as she preferred to keep in the background, even if Selphie usually got her to sing at the Garden Festival each year. And during this year she even met a few new friends named Tiffany who could be kind of vane and usually used a melee weapon, then Amanda who was kind of a tomboy and used guns and was part of the sniper squad trained by Irvine. And last Kim who used daggers and was at times a bit dimwitted. And even if they weren't as close as Kaylee and May the six of them started a band.
When she had turned eight it was finally time for her to switch from the replica to the real deal. She picked up her new gunblade wish felt heavy in her hands and walked into her weapons class wish was held by Seifer and on occasions her father as they were the best gunbladers known.
"Okay kids. Remember not to hurt each other because we don't want more people looking like me and the commander." Seifer said pointing at his scar, mirroring her father's. Luna had heard the story behind the scars so many times before.
"And for the newbies, you will begin to practice against dummies. And your wooden swords might have hurt when you made a mistake. But these can kill you so be careful." She heard Seifer say.
"But dad! The weapons are unloaded." Kaylee complained.
"You didn't think we were going to hand out loaded weapons on your first time did you kiddo? And it is instructor when you are in class." Seifer said.
"Okay... instructor." Kaylee answered as her eyes almost rolled back to her head.
They began the lesson and Luna succeeded with some good strikes but with a weapon so heavy for her size it was hard and she did miss a few times.
During the small break she and her two best friends sat down talking.
"What a cool gunblade you have." Kaylee exclaimed as she saw May's gunblade.
"It is called The Silverwing and was my grandpa's." May told them proudly. "The handle is made of real horn from a behemoth."
While they sat there talking, Luna didn't notice how Reno and some of his friends tampered with her revolver gunblade and when they were about to start again and Luna by mistake pressed the trigger a little to early she noticed that someone had loaded a round into the barrel and the recoil sent her flying backwards. She landed with a thud against the floor while Reno and his friends almost died of laughter.
"See. I told you gublades aren't for girls." Reno said between laughter.
"Boy. Come here!" Seifer yelled angrily. "Do you even understand how dangerous that prank was? Luna could have been seriously injured. What the hell were you thinking?"
"How are you feeling?" Kaylee asked worried as she and May helped her up. "My jackass brother deserves a real ass whooping"
"I am okay." Luna answered a little embarrassed over all the commotion. And even if she was glad she wasn't in trouble Luna couldn't help though to feel a bit bad for Reno.
During the year Luna picked up violin playing and started to feel a bit more comfortable to play for an audience. Her sisters usually came to watch her band practice and looked forward for the coming Garden Festival.
The spring break was about to begin and the Garden was at the moment placed on the Galbadian continent for a conference in Dollet Luna entered her father's and mother's room.
"Mom, dad. May asked if I and Kaylee could have a sleepover at her place."
"Have you asked her parents?" Rinoa asked.
"Yeah, it was her mom who invited us." Luna answered with excitement.
"Then there shouldn't be any problems. Or what do you say honey?" Rinoa said, looking at her husband.
"It would be a good opportunity to build your bonds with your team." Squall said with a smile.
"Yay." Luna squealed in delight.
At her dorm she packed her backpack for the sleepover when Kaylee went by.
"Were you allowed?" She asked.
"No problem. Dad even thought it was a good way for me to come out of my shell." Luna answered in delight. "How about you?"
"What do you think? I guess Ma and pa are just happy that I am out of the way for them and their work." Kaylee scowled.
They took of and May showed them the way to her house. During the weekend the conference was taking place, the kids met May's parents and her younger siblings. The older of May's sisters called Meyrin was a bit extra curious about the friends.
The next year Luna was about to celebrate her ninth birthday. During the day they had had a party for her and her friends along with her family.
"Time for the birthday girl to open her presents." Rinoa announced and they gathered around the table with the presents.. A beautiful music box from her aunt with a ballerina that twirled around. She got some tools, a new violin and a lot of books. Then she reached a present without a sender on. "That one came with a delivery from Galbadia. I thought it was something you sent her." Rinoa said to her father.
"No I haven't sent anything. That wouldn't make sense as I am here." He answered.
Luna began examine the gift as a bad feeling rose in her. She heard a ticking noice inside it and ripped the paper and what she saw made her heart stop.
"It's a bomb!" She yelled and took the gift and hurried with it towards the backdoor out. She saw her mother summon Shiva to make an ice barrier to protect the others. Her father hammered on the ise and her sisterw was screaming on the onter side of the ice wall.
"LUNA!" She heard as her mother flew towards her and she had just thrown the gift out and closed the door and started running back when a loud loud explosion was heard and everything went dark.
She woke up lying on the floor as she heard Raine calling to her to wake her up. All she could see was some blurry contours and she could smell the smoke.. Her vision became gradually better and she saw some small fires and heard screams from the other guests. Her musicbox lay on the floor with the ballerina twirling around She tried to rise up but felt an excruciating pain in her legs and she felt she was stuck under the debris. Then everything came back."Mom!" She thought as she struggled to move and groggily looked around. There she saw her other big sister Julia desperately trying to wake their mother up. She felt her own consciousness slipping before everything went black as she lost consciousness of the blood loss and she knew that life would never be the same again.