[-- Chapter 3 --]
Silvur waited patiently in the hangar, unlike most of the cadets around her, she wasn't the least bit nervous. Watching the people around her tell their friends how nervous they were amused her, God help, I'm surrounded by idiots! Sighing, she took out her gunblade and checked the magazine, again, trying to kill the time until the squads and their leaders wre annouced. After a few minutes, Instructor Trepe and the other SeeDs entered the hangar, and of course, everyone gathered around them. Now that is pathetic, rolling her eyes she left the corner she was in to hear her squad assignment.
Instructor Trepe cleared her throat, "Gather around, when you hear your named called, join your squad leader. The squads are Squads A, B, C, and D. The squad leaders are: Squad A, Brandon Crain; Squad B, Silvur Almasy; Squad C, McKenzie Wolf; Sqaud D, Alan Payton. Now, here is a list of your members, call out the names, assemble, and board the Ragnarok immediately.", she handed them a list with the members names.
She read from the list, "Autumn Sky, Quin McKay, and Alex Storm.", she looked and saw them making their way to her, and noticed they were a little anxious looking. Great, I get stuck with the ones that are gonna need me to hold their hands. Silvur sighed and waited for her team. Once they made their way over she lead them onto the Ragnarok.
Once aboard, Quistis started giving details on the mission and what they were up against. "We were called in to help exterminate the monsters that have been invading the city, these are some of the monsters you will be up against: Marlboro's, Ruby Dragons, Behemoths, Imps, Toramas, Iron Giants, T-Rexaurs, and Hexadragons. Also, make sure you have a Battle Meter equipped, because the number of monsters you kill will determine whether you pass or not. There will also be other SeeDs around to observe your actions in battle.", she nodded, "That is all, dismissed."
Silvur checked her Battle Meter, then since they were going to be facing Marlboro's she junctioned Pain, Sleep, Confuse, and Berserk to her Stat-Defx4, and junctioned Death to her Stat-Atk-J ability. After taking care of what needed to be checked, she turned to her team, "You guys ready?"
Autumn answered, "Yes, but to tell you the truth, I'm really nervous. I've never faced big monsters like that before. Aren't you nervous?"
She smiled and shook her head, "Nope, why should I be? There only monsters."
"But, they could take us all out in one hit, did you know that a Ruby Dragon's Breath attack can take away all of your HP in one hit. Doesn't that scare you?"
She shook her head again, "No, it doesn't. I don't have to worry about being taken out in one hit. Now I suggest you guys prepare.", with that she turned away from her team, and checked her command abilities, replacing Draw with Darkside, and leaving Magic, GF, and Item. An annoucement came on over the intercom, "We will be landing in 5 minutes, everyone please assemble at the cargo bay doors. Be sure to check out with Xu before leaving the Esthar Air Station."
"Come on. Let's go.", her team gathered with the others, awaiting their arrival. After a few moments the doors opened, and immediately everyone headed for the exit to the airstation, checking out with Xu, and to Silvur's surprise, they assigned two SeeD member's to every squad. "The SeeDs accompanying you will be..Squall Leonhart and Instructor Trepe."
Great, just my luck he'll try and stab me in the back while fighting, she rolled her eyes, then nodded to Xu, and lead her team over to where Instructor Trepe and Squall were standing, after saluting them, she said, "Squad B, reporting."
Quistis nodded, "Lead the way Captain."
She nodded, lead her team out into battle.
It didn't take long for the monster's to attack, Silvur never took 3 steps out the door and a Ruby Dragon had already initiated an attack. She casted Meltdown on the dragon, then casted an Aura spell on herself, allowing Silvur to use her limit break, Dragonsoul, in which she pouched on the Ruby Dragon, delivering several devastating blows, thus, finishing off the enemy quickly.
With that fight over, she looked to see how everyone else was doing, and saw her teamates being harassed by a Marlboro. Everyone had numerous status effects casted on them due to the Marlboro's deadly Bad Breath attack. Instead of facing the monster head on, she snuck behind it and slashed it, the Death she had junctioned killing it instantly. Walking over to her team, she used a mega-elixir that took away all the status effects and brought them back to full health. I can't be saving your asses every five minutes, she thought. "Look, I can't be here to help you all the time, I can take care of myself, so you need to stick together, and just run if you see a Marlboro, got it?"
"Yes, captain.", they saluted, then went back to fighting.
Shaking her head at the pitiful sight, she turned back to the fighting and started slashing her way through the crowd of monsters, the Death magic doing it's job very well. While fighting, she couldn't help but wonder how the monster's got into the city, or if, maybe, just maybe, WHO let them in? Her thinking was interrupted when she heard screaming, and saw what looking like President Laguna Loire and a young lady being harassed by a T-Rexaur. She left her team behind and, just before the T-Rexaur charged, jumped in front of Laguna and the girl and used the Darkside command, causing the monster to be knocked over the side. It could be heard roaring as it fell to the bottom, which was 100's of feet below them. She turned to them, "You ok?"
Laguna stared at the young woman who had just saved them from certain death, then nodded, "Yes, thank you."
"What were you doing out here anyway? Don't you know it's dangerous?"
"Yes, we were going to evacuate, but then the monster attacked us. You're a SeeD, right?", he figured she had to be because of how she handled the T-Rexaur.
She shook her head, "No, sir. I am a only SeeD cadet on my field exam", she looked over at the airstation, "now come on, I'll take you to the Ragnarok, you'll be safe there."
Laguna nodded, and him and Ellone followed the young lady to the Ragnarok, watching her slash a path through the monsters, looking as if it was the easiest thing in the world.
They reached the Ragnarok safely, and when he turned to thank her, she had already headed back into the fighting, leaving them to wonder who she was.
Silvur headed in the direction she thought her team went, which was toward the shopping mall. Slicing her way through the monsters, she found Autumn and Alex fighting alongside Squall, and Quin fighting a T-Rexaur with Instructor Trepe. Just before she reached them, the T-Rexaur swung it's tail, knocking Instructor Trepe down, but it caught Quin, thus causing him to go over the side. Without thinking, she busted one of the shop windows and grabbed a T-board, checked the batter and saw it was at full power, then ran and did a free fall over the side. Straightening out her body and spreading her arms, she spun around, causing her to fall quickly, once she was past Quin, she switched on the T-board and placed it under her feet. She started upward again, and caught Quin, placing his feet on the T-board with her's, and headed back to up to the area they were fighting. She heard him say, "Thanks, Captain."
"Just trying to keep my team alive.", she smiled and made the T-board
ascend faster.
Quistis couldn't believe what she just saw, Silvur had actually jumped over the side trying to save Quin. She stood up and ran over to the side, and was surprised when she saw them both heading back up. Holy shit, she actually did it, she watched them approach and when they arrived she stood back so they could land the T-board. She walked up to Quin, "You okay?"
He nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine thanks to Silvur."
She turned to Silvur, but saw she had already went back to fighting.
Right after she had set the T-board down she went back to fighting, slashing her way through the monsters, having the time of her life. She was no where close to being tired, Hell, I could fight for days at a time. She smiled at the thought, just as someone strange caught her eye. He was just standing there in the middle of all the fighting, and smiling at that. I think I've found our culprit, but, why would he let monster's into the city? A distraction for something bigger, maybe? Oh, well, might as well go find out. She started walking to the odd man, but stopped when she sensed something really, really, bad was about to occur.
James Durigon wanted to destroy the great city of Esthar, the city he helped build, hell, the city he helped create. He should've been president, not that fool Laguna Loire, he had been wanting to take out him and his city for more than 18 years now. And just found the perfect way to do it a few weeks ago, starting when he found an old book on summoning and controlling the weapons. Not just Omega and Ultima, but the Ruby, Diamond, Saphire, and Emerald weapons as well, that was the book he held now and was reading from.
"I call upon the great weapons: Omega, Ultima, Ruby, Diamond, Saphire, and Emerald, to serve me.", he then dropped the book and held up his hands as clouds filled the sky, and the earth shook. Just then the weapons burst from the sky, dropping in front of Durigon, and just stayed there, as if awating orders.
"Destroy this...city..then..", he paused and grinned, "..once you're done with all that, bring me Laguna Loire, alive. I want to kill him myself."
The weapons nodded and went to work on the city, the great Omega weapon heading in Silvur's direction.