Disclaimer: Don't own FF8, blah-dee-dah.
Mrr, finally updating the fic again. *Squee!* n.n
Ooh yeah, and sorry 'bout the whole
tense-changey-thing, I just can't get the hang of that --;
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The doors to the infirmary slid open as a young blond
woman stepped in regally. As she approached the doctor, slender fingers slid
back to smooth back the side of the silken honey hair. Her blue eyes peered
over the rim of the slim-framed glasses as the instructor cleared her throat.
"Doctor Kadowaki? How's the patient doing?"
The doctor wrinkled her nose as she turned her gaze
up to Quistis. She drew in a deep
breath before speaking. "Well…"
"Doctor? How is he?" Worry creased the delicate
features of Quistis; face as she heard hesitation in the older woman
"I don't know, Quistis, I don't know." The doctor
finally spoke up. These words just caused the young instructor confusion.
"Excuse me? Please explain."
Kadowaki crossed her arms over her chest. She rocked
back and forth slightly in her chair, thinking about how to word her
explanation. She took another deep breath. "He left, Quistis, I don't know
where to. When I came to check on him this morning, he wasn't there. Seifer's
gone." She looked up to face a closing door and an empty room.
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"YO! SQUALL!!" The floppy-haired man turned around
to face a puffing…blob.
"Zell?" A gloved hand reached forward to steady the
still puffing blond.
"You….seen Quistis…around?" He managed to breathe
out before gasping for air once again.
"She's usually in the cafeteria by now…" Squall
offered the suggestion with a wave of a hand towards the Garden dining area.
"Nah…just been…there.." Zell planted his hands on
his hips and shook his head slightly. "The Hell could she be?!"
"What do you want her for anyway?"
The blonde man flicked his bare hands at Squall. "She took my gloves for some lesson, that's all." He shrugged and ran off again. Squall made a mental note to put together another DC. It seemed like the Garden needed one. The commander carried on down the hall, he was going to do some last minute preparations with some of the SeeD candidates that were going to take their field exam the next day. Oh what a life it is in Balamb Garden. He carried on, past the parking lot and into the training center where a few pupils were waiting for him. Squall pulled out Lionheart and herded the group in through the right gate for a warm up session with a T-Rexaur or two. Too bad Rinoa wasn't there with him….
Squall's angel had already gone outside of garden to
train. In fact, Garden had managed to get them over to Trabia, just for them to
train in a cold climate. She was in a small fight with a lively young Mesmerize
who's horn :just would not: break off. Damn it. Rinoa called Angelo forward and
directed him to approach the beast carefully. As soon as it had completely
turned it's attention to Angelo, Rinoa leapt forward and took aim.
Fwhizm! Crack!
Rinoa jumped back and threw her arms into the air. "HAH! In your face, Mesmerize dude! Your horn isn't unbreakable!" She gracefully sidestepped to her right, dodging a headbutt. ~Damn, I'm starting to sound like Selphie..woah!~ Rinoa moved further to her right, narrowly missing another headbutt and slashed down with her wrist, the projectile fastened to her arm ripped through the beast's shoulder. The raven-haired girl danced backwards and took aim again. She let Shooting Star pull away from it's place and spin towards the creature. It cut cleanly through it's throat and pulled back around in a circle, where Rinoa caught it perfectly once it had gone round.
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Quistis just ran. The clouds had gathered and
raindrops tumbled to the ground, creating puddles all over the path that
Quistis took. She shielded her eyes from the onslaught of rain with an arm and
fended off any stray monsters that came near the path with a crack of her whip.
Her foot faltered as she slammed it onto a small rock. She fell. Hard. The
young instructor pulled herself up into a sitting position, her leg had been
twisted at an odd angle underneath her. She gently gripped her right leg. ~Shit!
What have you done to yourself now? Damnit Quistis, you can't just sit
here in the rain…But it hurts so much…Get up! …I can't…Come on!
…Seifer, where are you?~
The instructor sat there, wrinkling her nose into a
snarl everytime a strong breeze picked up. She couldn't walk, couldn't crawl,
just sit there, in the rain. Left with the monsters, alone.
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Eee…sorry I haven't uploaded for so long, had an
awful lot of work to do. Anyhoo, I /should/ be updating a little more now,
because of exams. [Weird, eh? People usually have less time during exams. I don't
revise 'til the day n.~] R/R please! Ari-ga-TOU! n_n