"What the hell are you guys doing here? I thought you were living in Timber?" Silvur called out to them as she walked over.
Raijin started talking very fast. "Yeah, we were, ya know. But yesterday the Galbadian Army started taking over the town again, ya know. So we packed up our stuff and caught the first train out of there, ya know."
Silvur laughed. "I seriously think you need to switch to decaf, ya know." She smirked at her imitation of Raijin, causing Fujin to grin, and Seifer to start laughing again. "Anyways, what are you gonna do here? Find an apartment and a job or something?"
Seifer nodded. "Yeah, but we need a place to stay until we can find an apartment, think you could help us out?" He smirked and Silvur knew exactly what he was hinting at.
"No way! I can't believe you actually thought I could hide you at Garden, now I know you've lost your damn mind."
Seifer just laughed. "C'mon Silvur, it'll only be for a week, maybe two at the most...", he paused, "you did make SeeD right?"
She nodded. "Of course." Looking from one to the other she sighed and finally gave in. "Alright dammit, but if you're not out of there in two weeks, I'm gonna kick all of your asses, your's the most Seifer. I can sneak you in around eight o'clock tonight, since everyone will be at the SeeD ball. I'll explain the rules when we get there." She paused, then looked at Seifer. "Just remember your gonna owe me big time for doing this."
He smirked. "Of course. I promise we won't cause you any trouble..well...maybe a little."
She glared at Seifer and raised an eyebrow, crossing her arms. "Just whatever you do, don't let Squall or any of the others catch you there. Not only will they try and kill you, but I'll get kicked out of Garden." She smirked and pinched his cheek. "But it would be worth it, cuz I couldn't have my favorite cousin getting killed, now could I?"
He grabbed his cheek as Fujin and Raijin chuckled behind his back. "Ow, I wish you wouldn't do that, you have any idea how much that hurts?"
She nodded. "Yeah, that's why I did it. Man, you can be such a dumbass at times, you know that?" She glanced at Raijin and Fujin and they nodded slightly. "C'mon, let's go get something to eat, then I'll sneak you guys in."
After getting something to eat it was almost eight o'clock, so they left Balamb in Silvur's jeep. After a few minutes they reached Garden and she pulled the jeep into the parking lot, making sure the coast was clear, they exited the vehicle and started for the main hall. Silvur stoppped them at the exit. "Let me make sure everything's kosher. I'll be back in a sec." She casually walked out into the main hall and looked in the direction of the dorms and saw everything was clear. She turned back to the others and motioned for them to hurry. "C'mon slowpokes, I swear your slower than Tonberry's."
Seifer hadn't been to Garden in over 6 months, and he saw that everything was just as he remembered. And he actually kinda missed it, even picking on Squall and Zell. He smirked at the thought of "puberty-boy" and "chicken-wuss". He wanted to let them know he was here so bad, just so he could see the look on their faces, and even more he wanted to give them hell. But he didn't want to ruin things for Silvur either. He decided he would have other chances to pick on them, since they were gonna be living in Balamb and all.
He followed Silvur to her dorm, glancing back every few seconds to make sure no one was coming. He could hear the music coming from the ballroom, as well as all the people laughing and enjoying themselves, which got him to thinking about what it might have been like if he wouldn't have sided with Ultamecia. Maybe he would have been a SeeD by now, then he thought. No, I never could follow orders, I always had to be the boss of everything, and do everything on my own. But that's the way to do things, so you don't have to rely on anyone. Hell, Silvur's the same way, and she made it..but she can take orders...maybe, if I actually tried..I could do the same. He sighed, What are you talking about Almasy, they'll never let you back in. Not after what you did, DAMMIT. I need to stop thinking.
Silvur unlocked the door to her dorm and let them in, waiting until she shut the door to switch on the light. Her room was more like a small apartment, like all the other SeeD's dorms. They stood in the small living room, where a couch was placed against the wall, and a small table, then the TV. The kitchen was to the right when you first walked in, and to the left was her bedroom.
"Welcome to your new home for the next two weeks. One of you can sleep on the sofa, and for the other two, it's sleeping bags on the floor."
All of a sudden Fujin said. "COUCH" And she walked over, setting her bags down next to the couch and smirked at the two guys.
Silvur laughed and went into her room, returning with two big sleeping bags. "Here you go. They're not that bad, pretty comfortable actually." She handed them to Seifer and Raijin. "Well, I think it's ok for you guys to walk around at night. I usually don't see anyone around when I go train at night."
"What about the usual Garden Faculty members that block the entrances to the library and stuff?" Seifer asked.
She laughed. "I think the headmaster got rid of those jokers after that whole mess awhile back. Especially since they were loyal to what's-his-name? NORG? Am I right?"
Raijin and Fujin nodded. "Yeah, that's the guy, ya know."
"Okay, now here's the rules for when I'm not here. One, don't ever answer the door, and if I'm here, please run in my room and shut the door behind you, and the only other is, please keep my place clean. That's all I ask. You're more than welcome to use the phone to call and try and find an apartment. Now that I've explained everything, I'm gonna go to the training center. I'll be back in a couple of hours."
Seifer grabbed his gunblade as well. "I think I'll join ya. It's been awhile since I've kicked your butt." He smirked.
She just rolled her eyes. "Yeah..yeah..whatever. Let's go." They both left the rooma and walked to the training center. Even though everyone was at the ball, they walked at a fast pace and glanced around and over their shoulder's.
Seifer and Silvur entered the training center, stopping to check their junctions. Seifer sighed and said. "I hate doing this crap. Why can't people just fight each other face to face and not use all this magic crap. It always makes me feel like I'm cheating or something. Know what I mean?
Silvur nodded. "Yeah, I sure do. Hey, wanna unjunction everything and just fight each other." She held up her sword. "Sword to sword, or something like that." She grinned.
"Hah, you read my mind." They both unjunctioned the magic from their stats and their GF's, and took their fighting stances. Which were similar to one another. "Ready?"
She nodded. "Always." He was surprised to see Silvur make the first move and was barely able to dodge it. Even without anything junctioned to her Spd-J ability, she was still rather tough to keep up with. But he managed to keep up with her attacks, gunblade meeting gunblade making sparks fly everywhere. Both concentrating on their opponent, slashing and defending, but smiling the whole time they were fighting, and enjoying every minute of it.
Silvur was having the time of her life, simply because it wasn't everyday that she could train with her cousin. She charged forward once again and slashed at Seifer, then ducked as he swung his gunblade around and leg sweeped him, causing him to land flat on his back. She jumped back quickly as he got up, and smirked. "Gotcha." He grinned and charged after her, she rolled to the side and apparently he had anticipated that, because when she looked up he slashes her, cutting her right cheek accidently. She placed a gloved hand to her cheek, and winced as she pulled it back quickly, looking down at the blood on the glove. "Damn. I'm gonna kick your ass for that." She swung her gunblade up, the tip barely missing Seifer's face. She stood, a small amount of blood running down her cheek from the cut.
Seifer just smirked. "Sorry about that. Atleast I didn't do you like I did puberty-boy."
She grinned. "Oh, I forgot to tell you. I got in a fight with him my first day here....and I totally kicked his ass."
Seifer grinned and pretended to wipe a tear from his eye. "Oh, I'm so proud of my little cousin. It just brings tears to my eyes."
"Whatever you say dude." She took her fighting stance once again. "Now, where were we?"
Quistis Trepe walked down the main hall, her Save the Queen hanging at her side. She had just left the ball and was in the mood to fight something, that and she was really depressed from seeing Squall and Rinoa together. Even if it had been awhile that they were together, she still couldn't get over him. She had said it was more of a sisterly love to everyone, but she knew it wasn't, she hated having to lie to her friends, but it seemed like the right thing to do. She was jealous of Rinoa, how she had broken down the walls around Squall's heart in just that short time, when Quistis had been trying to do that same thing ever since she first met Squall. She sighed as she turned down the hallway that lead to the training center entrance.
After over half an hour of fighting, Silvur and Seifer were trying to keep their balance on the narrow bridge over the pond in the T-Rexaur part of the training center. She kept pushing Seifer closer to the end of the bridge, where they were now fighting on solid ground again. She charged forward and jumped in the air, spinning around and bringing her gunblade around, only for it to be met by Seifer's. The cut on her cheek had finally stopped bleeding, but it still stung from the sweat that ran down her face.
She was about to charge forward again when, from out of he bushes, a T-Rexaur charged after them. It stopped infront of Seifer and Silvur and roared, when it was done, it's roar was followed by another, and after that one another. They stood surrounded by three T-Rexaurs, the monster's circling around them, almost as if something was controlling them, telling them to circle and toy with their prey. Silvur and Seifer quickly set up their junctions, and immediately one of the T-Rexaurs lowered it's powerful jaws and roared, and charged towards Silvur and Seifer.
Quistis was standing at the entrance when she heard the roars. She quickly fixed her junction and ran into the training center. When she crossed the bridge she saw three T-Rexaurs surrounding something. She couldn't quite tell what it was because one of the monsters was blocking her view. Once it moved she saw that the thing they were surrounding was Silvur, and something else, but she couldn't tell what it was.
Silvur looked to her left and saw Instructor Trepe coming across the bridge and she turned to Seifer and said, "You've got to get out of here, if she sees you, we're both out of here."
"You can't handle these things on your own."
"Don't worry, I'll have help shortly. Now I'm gonna distract one so you can run past and duck in the bushes over there. Ready...GO!" She dashed at one of the T-Rexaurs and rolled under it's massive jaws just as it brought them down to scoop her up. When she looked up again she saw Seifer dive into the bushes and disappear, and she brought her gunblade up and forced it into the soft underbelly of the T-Rexaur, making it roar in pain, and making it aggrivated enough to try and flatten her like a pancake. She rolled out from under the monster's huge foot, into the middle of the small circle again, and was taken by surprise when one of the T-Rexaur's was sucked into a black-hole of some sort. What the hell was that?, she thought. And realized what had caused it when she saw Instructor Trepe appear next to her. She didn't have time to thank her before one of the T-Rexaurs brought it's tail around, and she pulled them to the ground before it was able to literally take their heads off.
"I hate these assholes." She mumbled as she got up and casted a Blizzaga on the nearest T-Rexaur, and followed up by casting an Aura on herself and charged herself up to use her limit break. After powering up, she charged at the nearest T-Rexaur and jumped onto its' back, constantly hitting it with one slash after another, and finishing it with a powerful slash running right through the monster. She watched it disappear, then turned her attention to Instructor Trepe and the last T-Rexaur, and saw that she was using the same trick she used on the other T-Rexaur. The same black-hole thing appeared and the T-Rexaur was sucked into it, it's roar slowly fading as it vanished, along with the black-hole.
Quistis watched the monster disappear, then walked over to Silvur, who looked like she had already been training for quite sometime. "You okay?" Apparently Silvur wasn't listening so she tapped her on the shoulder and asked, "Are you alright?"
Silvur turned to face her. "Yeah, I'm fine."
She thought she saw blood on Silvur's face and looked over to see a cut running across Silvur's right cheek. She reached a hand up and touched it, causing Silvur to wince and say, "Dammit, what the hell are you doing?"
"Sorry, you really should have someone take a look at that."
"It's nothing a potion and a couple of band-aids couldn't fix."
She shook her head. "I don't know. You certainly did make a big deal of it when I touched it."
"It wasn't hurting until you decided to mess with it."
She sighed and started laughing. "You know, it's really obvious at times that your Seifer's cousin."
Silvur looked at her, puzzled. "And how's that?"
"You act just like him at times, but sometimes, you act totally different, almost as if you just use that kind of attitude to keep people away from you."
Silvur was totally surprised, but didn't let it show. Instructor Trepe had just read her like a damn book, and she didn't like it one bit. "Oh, and when have I acted totally different?"
"Ok, if you really want to know. It was yesterday, during the field exam, when Quin was knocked over the edge by that T-Rexaur and you had risked your life to save his. Seifer wouldn't have done that for a teammate, it was almost as if you cared for them. Seifer didn't care about anyone except for himself."
"Ok, so I saved one of my squad members. That doesn't make me any different. Can you think of anything else to back up your little 'theory'?"
"Yes I can, Rinoa told me about when you and Squall fought in here. You had the perfect chance to kill Squall, but you didn't. I know for sure that Seifer would have finished him off, then laughed about it. Is that more
of what you were looking for?"
She couldn't think of an answer so she decided to change the subject. "I didn't know I was the topic of you and your friend's conversations. I must say that I'm flattered."
Quistis sighed because Silvur wouldn't admit that she was right, so she just went along. "Actually, ever since the field exam, you've been the topic of everyone's conversation."
"Yeah..yeah..whatever." She looked at her watch. "I gotta go. See ya." She started to walk away, then turned back and smirked. "How in the hell do you read people like that? Dammit it's aggrivating." She turned away and headed across the bridge for the exit. She just shrugged off the encounter she just had with the instructor when she saw Seifer waiting at the entrance, leaning against the wall, drawing little monsters in the ground with the tip of his gunblade. "Sorry to keep ya waiting, but Instructor Trepe decided I needed a shrink and analyzed my personality."
Seifer laughed. "Aggrivating, isn't she?"
She nodded. "Hell yes! C'mon, we need to get out of here before someone see's you."
"Alright." They both headed out the training center, not knowing that they had been spotted, for Quistis was hiding in the bushes near the entrance.