Chapter
2: Fateful Meeting
Cloud
and Red XIII sat just outside of the research observatory at the top of Cosmo
Canyon. They sat there enjoying the
breeze that is blowing, a cool and gentle breeze. Unknown to them, something is heading fast toward their way.
In the distance, Red can see
something approaching fast toward their way.
"Umm, Cloud, I think something is headed toward us and at a very high
rate of speed."
Cloud could now see a shape, "I
see it, and I hope it isn't what I think it is," commented Cloud. After a few more second of looking, the
shape looks vaguely like the Highwind.
"It's the Highwind. I wonder
what Cid is doing, he's not slowing down or anything."
"I think he's going to buzz the
observatory," said Red. "At that rate
of speed, it's probably going to cause a sonic boom."
Cloud just looked at Red
realizing what he just said. After a
second, both were scrambling toward the ladder.
Alas, they were to late,
because the Highwind II just passed over the observatory. Leaving in it's wake, a very high wind
following it. The wind was so strong it
forced Cloud and Red off their feet and hurtling them in the air toward one of
the walls. In the second and half that
the Highwind passed over them, they find themselves slamming very hard against
the wall.
Getting off the ground, Cloud
yelled, "What the hell is wrong with Cid?!!!!
That was totally uncalled for!"
In the distance they can see
the Highwind II landing. (Cid had some
nerve doing that. Only Cid would do
something that crazy.) Thought Cloud.
"Well, lets go down and see Cid and the others."
In the Northern Crater,
Sephiroth waits impatiently for some Diaz's warriors to show up. The waiting was getting boring, and one
thought was almost always in his head.
It was revenge against Cloud Strife, the failure. But first, he would be the general in
Marquis's army for the time being.
(Once I'm finished conquering that other world, I should kill Diaz, and
take his place as the supreme ruler of that world. With Ultimecia supporting me, that world will fall in no
time. I also hope he has some strong
warriors with him. Without somebody
strong, this will be harder than it should be.)
He looked over in Ultimecia's
direction to study her. (I wonder can
she be my equal in power. She's not bad
looking if I do say so myself.)
Returning his gaze to the direction it was before, he pondered some
more. (If I could, I would kill Strife
now. I should kill that Lockheart woman
to make him suffer before his end.)
Sephiroth also wondered why he
was following Diaz in the first place.
He didn't like the thought of being someone's servant. But he owed him for bringing him back to
life. Also, if Diaz had enough power to
restore life, the power to take it will be probably stronger. With the newly found power that Diaz
unlocked in Sephiroth, He should be somewhat of a match for him. But the battle would be lopsided and the
power advantage would be in Diaz's favor.
If it was one thing Sephiroth was not, he was not foolish and
suicidal.
It also bothered Sephiroth that
Diaz hid behind a cloak. He was
probably hiding his looks or he has a flare for the dramatic. (He'll probably unveil himself when we meet
the enemy.) Thought Sephiroth.
Suddenly a blue vortex appeared
out of nowhere, and Diaz came into view from another chamber to greet the
figures that stepped out of the vortex and then closed.
From what he could see from
where he was sitting, there were four men and two women. They all looked physically strong, but did
they have the strength and skills that he needed?
"I see that they took their
pretty time getting here!" Sephiroth curtly said.
"Yes, they did take longer than
expected, what took so long?" asked Diaz in the direction of the six
warriors.
"My lord, please forgive us, we
would have been here sooner, but the rebellion on Artuna caught on to us
leaving," said the one with red hair and blue uniform on.
"What is the situation right
now on Artuna?" Diaz questioned.
"The rebels launched a full
scale attack on us, but it wasn't enough to defeat us, and we wiped them out,"
said the muscular man.
"Excellent," said Diaz. "Sephiroth, Ultimecia, come over here and
meet the strongest warriors in your army."
Both got up and walked over to
the group by the vortex that was now closing.
The one with the red
hair, and blue eyes stepped out the line they were in. He bowed slightly to Sephiroth and
Ultemicia, and said, " I am Krelnar Lightmoon."
Taking his name in
note, Sephiroth saw that he had broadsword for his weapon strapped to his back
in a sheath. He had a military uniform
on, which consisted of blue pants, a blue jacket, a crescent moon, that was
red, on the left arm sleeve, and he wore knee high black boots. He wore his hairstyle in an army crew cut,
which is short on the sides and back, and the hair on the top of his head cut
into a box like shape.
The next to step
forward was the tall muscular man that spoke a few moments ago. His height is six foot two. He had black hair, black eyes, and a short
mustache on his face. He seemed to have
on a black Karate gi on, along with black boots. He seemed to have on a little armor on over the Karate gi. He didn't seem to have any weapons on
him. " I am Maximus."
The third one to
step forward was the oldest one of all of them. He looked like old wutainian samurai to Sephiroth. He was in red and black armor. He had a fine looking katana blade, but he
couldn't really tell because it was sheathed.
Grey hair in a high ponytail, long beard, and the clothing made him look
like a stereotypical old samurai. One
thing Sephiroth learned was not to underestimate enemies based on looks
alone. When the old samurai felt that
Sephiroth was through sizing him up, he spoke up, " My name is Kenoshi Miyamotori."
The last of the men
to step forward was more ruggish looking.
He had brown hair, brown eyes, an average muscular build, and various
pieces of armor on his body. He had
armor on his fore arms, chest, waist, and on his lower part of his legs. Under the armor, he had a brown shirt and
brown pants, and he wore a black cloak just around his shoulders. One thing for sure, he was real color
coordinated. The most distinguishing
feature about him was his scar that seemed to start on the right side of his
cheek, and goes down to his right side of his neck. "My name is Darius Wolfe," said the man. The weapon he carried was a nangenta, a
staff with a blade attached to the end of the staff. The blade part was big and was curved upward as to look like a
half moon.
One of the two women
stepped forward. She had shoulder
length blond hair, blue eyes, and hourglass figure; She was wearing a red body
suit that showed off the shapely curves of her body, and black knee high boots,
and some sort of fighting gloves on.
The weapons she had were two long looking sai in a sheath just strapped
around her lower back. She looked from
Sephiroth to Ultimecia and said, "My name is Naomi Kusanagi, I hope you're as
good of a general and leader as the master says, that idiot over there almost
got us killed with one of his stupid plans on Artuna," she said while pointing
a thumb in Krelnar's direction.
Glaring at Naomi,
Krelnar said, "Shut your mouth woman, or else I'll shove this sword down your
throat."
"Hah, I'd like to
see you try!" shouted Naomi.
"Enough of this
foolishness!" Diaz roared. "You are warriors of the highest caliber,
not little children! I do not want to
hear what happened on Artuna, as long as the resistance there has been
defeated, there should be nothing to worry about."
With that said and
done the other woman stepped forward.
"I am Oriana." Out of all of
them, she was the shortest of the group.
By Sephiroth's calculation he would say she was 5'4". She had black hair in a ponytail with two
bangs that start in the middle of her forehead, and stopped at the level where
her chin was. They were kind of similar
to his but they don't point out as much.
She had brown eyes that looked mysterious. She was also given curves in the right places. She wore a blue tank top that stopped above
her stomach. (Author's note: think of the kind of tank top Tifa wears.) On her
wrist and hands, red-fighting gloves, Black pants and black shoes completed her
outfit. To Sephiroth, she has that
innocent sweet look, one that fools opponents, and they probably underestimate
her up until it's too late. Her weapon
is a sheathed broadsword strapped to a belt around her waist.
All in all, things
didn't look too bad. Also, he couldn't
wait to try out his new power that Diaz has revealed to him.
Suddenly, he felt a
strange feeling. He knew this
feeling. The last time he felt this
feeling was when Cloud Strife was somewhere around. Things were starting to look up after all, and he might get his
revenge today.
At the top of the
northern crater, the Highwind II sure was as fast as Cid said it would be.
Cloud looked around
at all of the people in the brigde.
(Avalanche is once again whole.
I hope this is the last time we will have to meet like this.)
Suddenly, Cloud felt
a strange feeling. He knew what this
feeling was. He felt it when he was
somewhere close by Sephiroth. Ever
since Cloud was forcibly given Jenova cells by professor Hojo, Cloud could
sense an individual who has Jenova cells inside of their being.
"Well, I guess this
is probably going to be one of the toughest battles that we ever had," said
Cloud. Wishing he didn't have to say
speeches like this, he continued on.
"I'm hoping for a good outcome, but life is full of surprises and
uncertainties." Cloud paused for a
moment to look at everybody. "If this
is our last battle, I'd like to say, all of you are the best comrades and
friends any person can ask for. Hell,
I'd even go as far as saying you're like a second family to me."
"I can't believe
what I'm hearing," said Yuffie. "I'd
thought I would never see the day when you would start to doubt yourself. I hear this coming from the man who kicked
Sephiroth's ass in the lifestream all by himself." Yuffie said while having her
hands on her hips. "We're going to come
out of this, in one piece, but not before we kick Sephiroth's ass and whoever
brought him back!"
Upon saying that,
Yuffie got the reaction that she wanted to see, everybody smiled or cheered,
raising their confidence.
Walking over to
Cloud and putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder, Barret said, "For once, I
agree with the ninja, We're going to come out of this in one piece, but
everybody will have to fight with all their worth. Besides, just remember, there ain't no getting off the train were
on!"
With Cloud's
confidence restored, everybody went to the deck of the Highwind II and went
down the rope ladder. They went with
confidence and hope, without fully knowing the danger they was getting into.
"Now that all the
introductions are finished, we'll depart immediately into the portal that leads
to the world that Ultimecia comes from," announced Diaz.
Looking in
Sephiroth's direction, he noticed that he was staring off toward the entrance
of the underground chamber. "Is
something wrong?" Asked Diaz.
Focusing back to the
situation at hand the silver-haired general answered, "No, just this feeling
that I have."
"Well, if that is
all, Let us be on our way." Swiftly
turning toward the portal.
Knowing he would
have to put off his personal vendetta against Cloud Strife for now, He walked
into the portal wondering what this new world would look like.
Everyone walked into
the portal after Diaz and Sephiroth.
Unknown to everyone else who walked into the portal, the portal stayed open
even after they went through it.
In the middle of the
trek down to the place that Sephiroth would be, Cloud stopped and looked had a
confused look on his face. Now
something was seriously wrong right now.
Everyone seeing
Cloud stopped wondered what he stopped for.
Nanaki spoke up and said, "What wrong Cloud? Is there something that you sense that is a danger nearby."
Looking over to
Vincent, Cloud nodded and looked at everyone else. "It seems as if the presence of Sephiroth just disappeared off of
this planet. Vincent can sense it as
well."
"Whoa, wait a
second, you're saying Vincent and you can sense Sephiroth?" Asked Cid.
At this question he got nods from both men. "What do you mean he just disappeared?"
"We can't sense his
presence anymore," answered Vincent.
"We can't explain it either, but we can go to the last location we
sensed him before he disappeared."
"Well, I guess you
two are in the front of the group," added Tifa.
The group of
fighters walked on and was a little puzzled at why their trip was
uneventful. After about twenty minutes
of walking the group made it to the chamber that their enemy once
occupied. Everyone was shocked to find
it empty and a strange blue glowing portal there.
"What the heck is
that thing?" asked Yuffie.
Cloud looking over
at Yuffie, "I don't know this, maybe explains why there isn't anybody
here. What do you think Red?"
Looking thoughtfully
at the portal, the lion-like beast replied, "From the looks of it, it is
probably a gateway or a portal to another place or world. That's just my guess by looking at it."
"Well it looks like
our problem is solved and we don't have to fight," said the female ninja.
Knowing all to well
what Yuffie just insinuated about, Cloud wasn't going to have any of it. "Our problem, may be solved momentarily, but
there's nothing to stop Sephiroth from coming back. Also, I couldn't live with myself knowing that I left another
world to be destroyed by Sephiroth and two unknown evils."
"Cloud is right,"
added Nanaki. "My grandfather once told
me when I was just a cub about power.
Power is good and bad, good because with power, you can protect the
things that you love. Bad, as in it can
be a corrupting force, and it can be used for evil and be abused. He also told me, if you have the power to do
something, like save the world, or make a difference, you should."
"Well, I guess
anybody who wants to back out my do so now," said Cloud looking around. "Otherwise, Let's." He looked over to Cid
and got one of those looks that said 'you better not say that stupid
crap'. "Move out!" With that said and done, Avalanche walked
into the portal with unwavering confidence.
Being aware of what
was going on, a lone figure looked on at the events that were unfolding before
her very eyes. She knew without her intervention, the group called Avalanche
would be slaughtered.
(I guess this is
probably the best time to end it all between Diaz and myself. Avalanche and the force called SeeD might be
the key to victory.)
While still thinking,
she unconsciously opened a portal to her destination hoping she wouldn't get
there too late. She really hoped time
was on her side this one time.
With those thoughts
done, she departed into the portal.
After a few moments,
Sephiroth took in his surrounding and came upon a most unusual sight. The others also noticed it. About a quarter of a mile, there was a
really strange looking building with mountains behind it and it didn't look
like anything he's ever seen in his life.
The most distinguishing feature of this building was the weird ring
shape at the top of it.
"Ultimecia, do you
know what that is?" Asked Diaz.
"Yes, I know very
well that is building that those kursed SeeDs call Balamb Garden," answered
Ultimecia.
Who would have known
that their luck would have turned out better than expected? The very thing that they were going to first
seek and destroy was right in front of them.
According to Ultimecia, Balamb Garden is the biggest threat to any plans
of taking over the world.
"So what now master
Diaz?" Asked Krelnar. "Do we go to your fortress on this world or
do we try to destroy Balamb Garden now?"
"Hmm? I haven't
thought about a situation like this happening," pondered Diaz. "What do you think Sephiroth?"
"Seeing there is
just seven of us a probably over a hundred SeeDs in the garden, we should
probably regroup at this fortress of yours, Marquis." Sephiroth said
thoughtfully.
"But before we do
that, I want to test out the skills of an average SeeD member. I want to first see how strong the average
ones are so I can try to gauge how powerful this SeeD force is and probably how
good the strongest of the SeeDs might be."
"Hmm… Not a bad plan
if I do say so myself," added Darius.
"I too would like to go. It's
been a while since anybody has really been a challenge to me."
"That sounds like an
interesting plan. We should do just
that. Is there any disagreements?" Asked Diaz looking around at all of those
that was under his command. Seeing as
nobody said anything, "then it is agreed, we shall go to Balamb Garden and see
if they are a real threat to my plans."
In saying that,
everyone else followed Diaz to the so-called famous Balamb Garden.
Today like most days
on the continent of Balamb was sunny to say the least. Lisa Hawkwind knew there was something very
wrong with this day. She had a funny
feeling this morning that she couldn't shake.
It was like something was going to happen today, and it would happen to
her. She was a medium sized blonde with
her hair cut short in her SeeD uniform.
Beside her was a
real good friend, Daniel Kunteias, or Dan for short. Dan was a six-foot brunette with an average muscle build that
most males had at garden, and he too was in his SeeD uniform. Both Dan and she were very skilled with
their weapon of choice, the katana blade.
Both of them were a
part of Balamb Garden's elite special force, SeeD. They have been for over three years.
Over the last six
months after the second sorceress war, Balamb Garden had been busy since it was
the only operational Garden around at the time. Since the Lunar Cry, Esthar was in need of outside assistance
with the monster problem. Balamb Garden
agreed upon a contract to aid Esthar in the elimination of monsters that was
still in the city after time compression was ended. It was five grueling months of fighting really high-leveled
monsters. One thing for sure, the life
of a SeeD was never dull.
Today, they were
going to the fire cavern to replenish the sorely diminished stock of fire
spells.
They were just
outside when Dan saw nine strange people walking toward the garden.
"It looks like
they're all armed and look real dangerous," said Dan pointing out the
obvious. "I think we should check our
GF junctions just in case they really want to cause trouble."
"I think you have
the right idea, because they're headed our way right now," added Lisa. Taking a few moments, they both equipped
their Guardian Forces, and made the necessary adjustments for maximum fighting
ability.
When they were about
thirty feet away both Dan and Lisa could get a good look at the nine strange
looking people. There were three women
and six men. One seemed to be wearing a
cloak around his body and it mostly hid his face. The one that seemed to stand out the most to her was the man with
silver hair, a black outfit that looked like it was a military uniform and a
wicked looking long blade by his side.
When the nine people
were about twenty feet away they stopped in front of the two SeeDs. "Are you SeeDs?" Asked the silver-haired
man.
"Yes we are, why do
you ask?" replied Lisa.
"Arm yourselves, I
want to test your strength for myself," the silver-haired man said in a
commanding tone.
Lisa and Dan
exchanged glances "What?" Added Dan. "I
guess you don't understand who your challenging here! We're SeeDs, part of the most elite military force on this
planet!"
"Am I supposed to be
impressed?" Sephiroth stated. "I heard from my comrade over that you're
not as strong as you seem to be." His
said this while gesturing a look over to the woman in the scantily clad red
dress. "So Ultimecia, how strong do you
think these to SeeDs look to you."
"Judging from their
appearances, they don't look as strong as the ones that defeated me. They look weaker." Said Ultimecia.
(What the hell are
they talking about) wondered Lisa.
(That name Ultimecia, it sounds familiar. I also wonder what she talking about the ones who defeated
her.) She thought for one short moment
before coming to a conclusion. (The
only person that has that name was defeated over six months ago.)
"Are you saying
you're thee sorceress Ultimecia?" Asked Lisa.
Her answer from the
woman was a very arrogant smirk. Lisa
eyes narrowed, " how do we know that you're not lying?"
"So you need proof,
do you?" Said Ultimecia. She gestured a hand toward the mountain and
a ball of red light shot out and blew a big chunk out of it.
Dan and Lisa's eyes
widened at the power they just saw.
Only a sorceress could do something like that.
"Shit! We've got to get back to garden and tell the
commander and everybody else about this!" Stated Dan.
With surprising
agility and unnatural reflexes, the one with the scar over his neck ran a
jumped clean over the two SeeDs and landed in between they're escape route to
the Garden that was about a 220-yard dash.
"I'm sorry, but you
won't ruin the fun by getting your reinforcements," said Darius.
Lisa knew she should
have listened to that small nagging voice inside of her that said she should
have stayed in bed. This was one heck
of a predicament they were in. Getting
out of it alive didn't seem very likely, but hey, miracles do sometime happen.
During
the conversation between Ultimecia and the SeeDs, Sephiroth felt a familiar
feeling again. (I guess I'll be able to
get my revenge today after all.)
After
exiting out of the portal, Cloud and the others looked around at the strange
new world they were in. It was
beautiful to say the least. (It won't
be beautiful for long if we don't find Sephiroth and the other evils that
accompanied him.)
Everybody
also noticed the portal closed after a few moments. Trying to get back home was something that would have to be put
on hold for a while.
Suddenly,
a familiar feeling snapped to life inside of Cloud and Vincent.
They looked in the
direction that it came from looked in awe of the building they were looking
at. It had an impressive design.
Suddenly, an
explosion about 75 feet to the right of the building occurred. (Who the hell has that kind of power?) Well, the answer to Cloud's question was
partly answered when he saw a group of people in the distance. He could vaguely make out some of the
figures, but not details.
Also everyone saw
two people that were back to back unsheathe some kind of weapons. He saw another figure unsheathe a long
object. Cloud didn't have to see
details to know that was Sephiroth.
"Now I know when I
see trouble, and I see trouble with a capital T," said Barret.
"Come on, let's go!"
Cloud said while taking off in a mad dash.
The rest of
Avalanche followed him and some were stunned at the speed he was running. But they knew in situations like this speed
was of the utmost importance.
Having unsheathed
their katana blades, Dan and Lisa looked like they were ready for
anything. They stepped a few feet away
from one and other to face their opponents and not to get in the way of the
each other.
Lisa tried to size
up her opponent based on appearance.
The silver-haired man was and intimidating figure and looked real
strong, but she knew from experience that it all came down to how much
strength, stamina, heart, and skill when fighting.
She charged at the
Sephiroth with her sword held low and to the right. When the two were in striking distance, Lisa brought her sword upward
slashing motion while Sephiroth in an overhead swinging motion. The swords clashed with sparks flying. Their swords were locked in a power
struggle. It seemed that Sephiroth was
pushing Lisa down to her knees.
On one knee, she
pushed off Sephiroth's masamune throwing him off balance a few feet. She saw this as a chance to strike, and
slashed in a horizontal motion.
Sephiroth jumped back a second before the sword would have connected
with his stomach.
"So you're better
than you look, but you haven't seen anything yet," said Sephiroth.
Smirking, Sephiroth
charged at Lisa real fast and unleashed a flurry of fast controlled
slashes. Lisa was able block most of
the slashes, but two barely got in, but they weren't too bad. They were just scratches. At the end the flurry, Sephiroth tried to go
for a finishing move, swinging the blade at her neck. Lisa saw this and ducked just in time, and retaliated a strong
side kick to Sephiroth's gut and sent him sliding backward a few feet.
The blonde SeeD
brought her right hand to her chest and concentrated. The green flair of magic surrounded her body, and she pointed her
hand forward and unleashed a firaga spell at Sephiroth.
Sephiroth saw that
he couldn't avoid that at close range so he brought up the masamune blade to
absorb some of the impact. It hit him
in the chest and he was thrown back another few feet.
(This young woman is
very impressive, but that won't be enough to defeat me.) Sephiroth got up from the ground to see Lisa
charging once more at him. They battled very intensely with slashes, dodges and
parries. It looked even until Sephiroth
concentrated his power into his right hand and waited for her to get
closer. When Lisa swung for Sephiroth's
neck, he blocked the sword and brought his right hand forward and fired a blast
of yellow energy at point blank range.
The blast engulfed
her and knocked her back about 10 feet.
Now things were really looking bad.
She was hurt real bad, and she had trouble breathing. (I must have a couple of broken ribs. Who is this man and how the hell did he do
that?) She rolled over and looked up in
the opposite direction where Dan was fighting.
She was shocked to
see him sprawled on the ground going into unconsciousness. The other thing she noticed was he had a
very wicked looking cut on his right side.
This was a really desperate situation they were both in. They're at the mercy of nine unknown
individuals that wanted to test out their skill.
When she finally
turned back to look at the silver-haired man, he was casually strolling in her
direction with arrongant smirk.
She tried to
concentrate but the pain of her broken ribs made her lightheaded. She closed her eyes and concentrated on a
curaga spell, as she felt the magic flaring up, she felt the tip of the
masamune blade at her neck. Lisa opened
her eyes and stopped casting her magic at once. (Well it looks like I wasn't good enough to beat him; I guess
this is the end.)
"If this is what an
average SeeD can offer me, your strongest shouldn't be that much harder to
defeat," commented Sephiroth.
Just then he heard
felt a presence closing in on him. He
looked in the direction and saw Cloud Strife with the Ultima Weapon unsheathed
and charging fast. He pulled the blade
back jumped high and backwards to avoid the powerful slash aimed for his
midsection.
"It took you long
enough to get here Strife," remarked Sephiroth. He looked behind Cloud to see his comrades weren't to far behind
him. "So you brought your friends along
too, the more the merrier."
Keeping his eyes
toward Sephiroth, Cloud kneeled down beside the young woman, "how bad are you
wounds?"
"Real bad, I… Have a
couple of broken… Ribs, and it's hard… To breath," Said Lisa.
"Relax, this should
heal them mostly if not completely," said Cloud while casting a cure3
spell.
When Lisa felt the
magic working on her, she was able to sit up, and took a good look at her
savior. He was a blonde haired man with
a spiked hairdo, a piece of armor on his left shoulder, with dark blue shirt
and pants, and he carried a really huge looking sword. Another thing that stood out on him was the
way his eyes glowed. His eyes were
glowing like her silver-haired opponent.
His had a real intense look of concentration toward the silver haired
man. She also noticed the people
standing a few feet away from him.
"Thanks for saving
me," Lisa said with a smile toward Cloud.
"Don't mention it,"
added Cloud. "Tifa, go and check on the
young man over there, I've got a score to settle."
Tifa went over to
Dan and checked his wound, "This could be fatal if it isn't healed soon." She immediately cast full cure on him and
the magic healed the cut like it wasn't there.
Once Dan was healed,
he awoke instantly to see a very beautiful woman with wine colored eyes and
long dark hair looking over him. "Am I
dead? Are you an angel?"
Tifa smiled at him,
glad to see that he was all right. "No
you're not dead, and whether I'm an angel is up to you to decide."
Another set of
footsteps running was heard. Both
groups of people looked in the direction of the building to see a group of
seven people running toward them.
Squall Leonhart was
in the process of waiting for Zell and the others by the directory when a big
explosion occurred. (It wasn't that far
from the Garden and it could be trouble.)
Just then Rinoa,
Quistis, Selphie, and Zell came sprinting out of the cafeteria and toward the
directory. A few seconds later, he saw
the elevator descend to the first floor and out came Xu and Irvine.
"What the hell was
that?!!?!" Asked Selphie.
"I don't know but we
have to check it out and quick," said Squall in a serious tone. "It could be the Galbaldian army attacking
or something else."
Seeing a few SeeDs
and students running in their direction.
After they saw Squall they stopped and saluted. "I want one of you to go up to the bridge
and tell Nida that I said to announce that all SeeDs and students are to be on
standby because we may be under attack."
After saying that one of the students saluted and dashed to the
Elevator.
"Rinoa, Zell,
Selphie, Irvine, Quistis, and Xu will come with me, the rest of you wait here
and wait for an announcement from Nida on the situation," Squall said in a
commanding tone.
Xu was impressed to
see how he was handling the situation.
(Cid must have known that Squall could think on his feet and that's why
he probably chose him to be the commander.)
With that said,
Squall and others dashed out of the front gate to see fighting. As they got closer, they could see there was
two SeeDs fighting two people and the seven other people not to far, being
spectators. Not to far from them there
was a group of seven running toward the fight.
One of the SeeDs
just went down by getting slashed in the side.
The man fighting him walked over to the group of spectators. They knew if they weren't fast enough, the
two SeeDs would be goners.
The other one
fighting just went down after getting blasted by a beam of yellow energy. Her opponent went over her a put his sword
to her neck.
Suddenly the one in
front of the group of seven dashing toward the fight unsheathed a huge looking
sword and nearly slashed the silver-haired man. Now things were really getting confusing. The spiked-haired blonde knelt down and
cured the injured SeeD. (The group of
seven must not be threatening, but I'll stay on my guard just in case.)
Also Squall and his
group saw a woman in a white tank top and short skirt with long hair walk over
to the other injured SeeD. She knelt by
him and healed him with some spell that Squall never saw.
When everybody got
close enough, they came to a stop about fifteen feet from the group of seven
and the two SeeD members.
(Despite Avalanche
being here, that should not hinder my plans of taking over this world.) Diaz pondered.
The tension was so
heavy between the three groups; you could cut it like butter.
Stepping forward,
Diaz had all eyes on him. Just the way
he liked it.
Grabbing the cloak
around him, he threw it off to reveal what he looked like.
Diaz was a middle-aged
man with a huge build, one that could rival Arnold Scwarzenagger. His face was weathered and scarred like he
seen a lot of battles, and his hair was a dirty blonde color. He wore a silver breastplate that had an
insignia of some kind of dragon, and had forearm armor. The breastplate armor was very intricate and
had lots of jewels in it. He had armor
that covered his waist and on his shins and feet. He had a broadsword that was sheathed at the time and strapped to
his side. The handle was very flashy
and had lots of jewels in it. All in
all, you could say Diaz was a flashy knight or king that you would see in
fictional books or in movies.
"So it seems that
all of the players are here!" shouted Diaz.
"My name is Diaz Marquis, I just thought you should know the name of
your executioner. Now let the show
begin!"
Author Notes: Well it seems that everybody that Diaz was
planning to get rid of is there. Well,
I know all of you are wondering, who the hell is Diaz Marquis and those people
with him? Who was that mysterious
woman? Also, What kind of power do all of these new people possess? Well, I you'll have to find out in the next
chapter. There will be a big fight
scene and questions will be answered and new questions will arise? Look out for chapter 3. Please review. Any comments, constructive
criticism, and positive reviews would be nice to get, but people sending flames
will only be wasting they're time.
Well, I just noticed what kind of situation I put myself in. Chapter 3 will be a very hard chapter to
write, and it may take some time, please be patient. Oh yeah, I hope you don't get too annoyed by these notes being
real long.
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