Chapter 8
Ok, Seifer knows, Quistis knows, and Zell knows, too many
people, and I think Quistis is gonna tell. If she does I'll hate her
forever.....if she lives.
"Alex!" Oh, I snapped back to reality, Zell was with me looking for
the main power source.
"Sorry, uh deep in thought," he had stopped walking
"I can't do this, I can't help Galbadia attack Balamb, now if you
don't tell Cid what's going on, I will." Wow. I never knew Zell could
be so serious.
"But he'll kill you, all of you, I can't let that happen." I kept walking.
"Stop worrying about individual people so much, worry about the
garden as a whole, if we're prepared to fight, less people will die,
why can't you see that?" Ok, why had I not thought of it that way?
"I.....he.....uhhhh!" I headed toward the elevator.
"You won't regret this." You say that now but when you're slowly
being killed in front of me you'll take it all back.
"Ok, let me get this straight, in an hour or two Balamb garden
is going to be attacked by Galbadian soldiers. We can't fly away
cause you took the fly chip and gave it to them, you were going to
cut the power leaving the garden defenceless and unprepared until
it was too late and you decided to tell me now?" A vein in Cid's
forehead that I've never noticed was about to pop.
"Uhhh....." I said looking away, "that's pretty much it...." he was
about to start yelling but Zell interrupted him.
"Well....at least she told you, now you can prepare......." I am
sooooo gonna get expelled for this.
"When this is all over.........." Cid was having a hard time not
flipping on me.
"I'll just uh.......leave now." I basically ran outta his office leaving
poor Zell there.
"Hi Alex!" Selphie! Oh thank you! I have to tell her.
"Selphie, were going to be attacked by Galbadian soldiers, get as
many people ready as you can," she started at me blankly.
"Uh.....Wah?" Selphie you gotta believe me.....
"Attention, this is your headmaster, I just got news that Galbadia
has planned an attack on Balamb garden, gather your weapons
and be ready to fight. I want you all in your divisions in a half an
hour," Everything was silent for a second then
people all ran to there dorms.
"Squall! Get everybody and meet at my dorm!" Squall hesitated
and was about to ask why but I was already running to my dorm.
I can't be scared anymore, I will kill him and as many other soldiers
as I can.
I felt a fire ignite inside of me and with each passing minute the fire
got bigger and bigger.
Take no prisoners, kill all.
The anger was an adrenalin and the urge to kill was getting
stronger.
Knock!
"Alex, it's us," oh yeah, uh um
"Come in," they all came in and sat around.
"So.......when are they coming?" Rinoa asked. Oh yeah, I hated
her, but I don't care anymore.
"Soon," we all talked amongst ourselves when........
"Oh my god! They're hear!" Selphie looked out my window and
army of Galbadian soldiers charged at the garden.
"Lets go," I will kill him, he will never leave here alive.
We were some of the last people to await our company at the
gates, when we got there, Galbadia had already broken into the
garden.
The elevator door opened, a girl, small, brown hair ran in and fell
on Irvine, bullet holes in her chest. She stopped moving and Irvine
gently laied her down.
I stepped out of the elevator and almost instantly was attacked by
two soldiers. The first one came at me from the front with a sword,
easily blocked. I knocked his sword out of his hand and stabbed
him. I took all his magic and his bullet proof vest. Oh yeah, there
was another one. He had a machine gun and shot me in the chest.
The blow knocked me off my feet and I guess he thought he killed
me cause he walked over to me. I tripped him and stabbed him.
Wow, two dead in the first two minutes of battle.
The blood was everywhere, some people slipped on it, some
people were covered and some people ignored it. You know the
second guy I killed? Well I took his gun as well as his magic so I
used both my gunblade and the machine gun.
"Help......" a faded voice cried out. I turned to find it and saw Jake,
one of the guys that was with my dad. Oh and my dad saw him
too, but I was closer.
I walked over to him, he had a slash in his gut and was bleeding
uncontrollably.
Watch this dad.
I stood over Jake facing my dad who had a sword and was a few
yards away. Raising my gunblade over the fallen soldier's heart I
winked at my dad and plunged it deep into the body. Blood
splattered everywhere, it even hit my dad who stood there and
gaped in horror.
My dad was about to charge at me but was attacked by a few
SeeD's and I lost sight of him.
The battle raged on and the odds weren't on the garden's good
side, for every SeeD there were five Galbadian soldiers. The
bodies were everywhere and it was getting harder and harder to
fight without stepping on someone's face or something. And the
number of people fighting was dropping dramatically.
"Alex!" Rinoa came running over to me her blue outfit now a purply
brown from all the blood, she has been cut in the arm and stabbed
in the stomach but not deep enough to stop fighting.
"Squall's been knocked out and I can't carry him by myself, I need
help!" I couldn't stop fighting for something small like that.
"I can't, I'm fighting." Tears started welling up in her eyes
"But he'll die! Squall will die if we don't get him outta here!" but it's
just another SeeD.....wait, Squall?
"I'm coming." I can't forget who I'm trying to protect.
When I found Squall his head was bleeding, he had been stabbed
and shot in the stomach and his leg was twisted under him.
"Oh Squall......." anger raged inside me and clouded my judgment.
"Help me get him to the elevator and I'll be fine from there but
hurry!" I lifted his upper body and Rinoa took his legs.
"Rinoa....." she looked over at me with a tear streaked, blood
stained face, "Don't let him die...." the elevator doors closed and I
was back in the battle.
"Ahhhh!" Selphie screamed when a soldier slashed at her arm.
Bamb, bamb, bambbambbamb!
I fired repeatedly at the soldier. I must of hit him ten times before
he hit the ground.
"Alex, thank you. Have you seen Irvine? I lost sight of him ten
minutes ago?"
"No," I said coldly and left.
Where is he? Where is my dad!
I killed a couple more soldiers not really noticing the large gash in
my leg. I noticed nothing, not the pain from my many cuts and
bruises, not the sounds of screams and guns firing, not even the
sound of my friends calling out to me, telling me to take five and
bandage up. No, all I noticed was the tall figure that stood in front
of me.
"Do you have a death wish Alzera?" he took out his gun and fired
round after round at me. I kept backing up from the force but also
kept trying to walk into the force. It took him till he was outta bullets
to realize that if had a bullet proof vest on.
"Well that was smart." I got in a ready stance.
"Goodbye honey." He charged at me, swinging at my face and
hitting the bridge of my nose, where I already had a scar. I dodged
the next attack at my chest and stabbed his arm.
"Ahhhh!" Haha, what a loser, I think it's time to finish this.
He was off guard when I slashed at his stomach. A direct hit. He
fell to the ground and I stood over him, gunblade directly above his
heart. This is for you Nanny.
Just as I struck down a sword plunged through me from the back. I
stopped in mid attack, stunned from the pain. The guy had pushed
the sword as far into me as it would go then kicked me over. I
landed face first and the sword went back through me.
"AHHHHHHH!" but I couldn't even feel the pain anymore. There
was just too much of it.
"Thanks Keegan," but didn't I stab him? Eh.
"John, cure yourself and lets get going, Cid called help from Trabia
garden and there isn't enough of us to fight." Really? Then I guess
that means we won.
"Alright, Cure. Just hold on a sec, there's just one more thing I
have to do before we go." I was still face down with a sword
sticking out of my back. My dad walked up to me, grabbed a hold
of the sword and twisted it in my back and left. I screeched at the
pain, then my body went completely numb.
"They're retreating!" someone yelled. "We won! We won! There
retreating!" a cheer rose up from the remaining SeeDs. We beat
them, we beat them even though we were out numbered!
Ooooooo, I feel so dizzy. I must be dying of blood loss. Oh well, at
least I went out in battle, like a warrior. And I'll be remembered
maybe as a hero. Maybe. Goodbye Zoro, don't take any shit from
anyone. Oh jeez, I died a virgin, that wasn't in the original plan but
ah well. Fading, the voices are getting farther and farther away.
"We need to check all the bodies, there's gonna be a lot of
injured,"
Voices, far away voices, too far away, can't yell, can't move.
"Oh my god!" Did they find me? "Zell!" Oh Zell, don't let Zell die,
please. "Is he still breathing?!" I think that's Selphie. Hi Selphie.
"Yes, but he doesn't look to good," Quistis? Hi Quisty.
"I found Squall and Rinoa, there up in Squall's dorm, did you find
Seifer or Zell?" was that Irvine? Yeah, but why bother saying hi if
your gonna say bye soon anyway.
"We found Zell but no Seifer," Seifer? You didn't find Seifer? What
if he's dead? Seifer! Please find Seifer, even if you don't find me.
"Uuh guys?.......what happened?" Who was that?
"Seifer! Where were you!" Thank you so much! Seifer, there all
alive, now to.....rest.......
"I musta gotten knocked out outside cause that's where I woke up,"
so tired.....so sleepy........
"I'm going to see if Squall's ok, Trabia should be here with a bunch
of medics," Selphie was leaving, so was everybody else.
"I'll carry Zell up." Goodbye now. I closed my eyes and all the
noise stopped.
"She's lost a lot of blood, does anyone know her type?" my eyes
fluttered open and closed.
"How's she doing?" Oohhhhh, my head.
"She's doing fine, but she hasn't woken up yet," huhhhhh? "Will
you be staying hear a while as usual?" A doctor? Possible. Wait,
staying a while?
"Yeah, yeah I am," Until I wake up? Aren't I awake?
"Who.....who's there?" oh and opening my eyes might help for the
awakness part.
"Alex? Are you ok?" who is that? I can't hear all that well.
"It's Squall. Doctor? She's awake." Nawwwww really? Oh I can't
focus on anything.
"Welcome back Alzera, how are you feeling?" Some woman in
white came in with a clip board. Not the same one that I usually
see when I go to the infirmary.
"Uh.......fine," still really dizzy but fine. "Squall? Didn't you break
your leg?"
"Yeah.....cast," Did you ever realize that Squall has a sexy smile?
He never smiles but when he does it's like, wow.
"Oh, that's gonna be ever so helpful in the training center,"
Sarcasm is my life, if I'm not sarcastic, I'm not me.
"Yeah," his brightened face turned to sadness when he looked
over to the right of me.
"Squall? What is it?" I looked over and saw Zell, in a bed, with tube
thingy's coming outta his nose and wrists. "Is.......he gonna be ok?"
he was pretty beat up looking.
"They don't know, the first forty-eight hours are critical, it's been
thirty six." Thirty six hours?!
"Uh....is anyone else hurt.....like outta....."
"No, just me, you, and Zell. Selphie, Rinoa, Irvine and Quistis just
got a bit cut up and Seifer got knocked out," why was Squall
scared? His voice was all......ya know, scared.
"Doctor? Can I leave?" I had to get up, I felt paralyzed just laying
there.
"Are you kidding? You've been deeply cut in the calf, damaged ribs
from too many shots to around the same spot and you had a sword through you. I really don't think so." Wrong answer.
"You can't make me stay here, what if I refuse?" I sat up, pain,
pain, pain, pain, pain. Lip biting time.
"I'm going to leave, ok? And even if it's not I'm gonna do it anyway.
Were are my clothes?"
I very slowly (15 minutes) got dressed and with a crutch walked
around Trabia garden. When Cid called for help he also called for
medical help, Trabia garden is now a hospital for SeeDs. But I
don't like it here in Trabia Garden, so I'm gonna leave.
"Alex, wait up," Squall hobbled over from the infirmary.
"Yeah?" how pathetic but......meh
"Uh......Rinoa told me what you did yesterday, I uh wanted to thank
you," was he blushing?
"Oh.....uh.....no prob, we're even now, you saved me, I saved you.
Where are the others?"
"Well, Quistis is gone to...identify bodies, and uh Selphie's with
Irvine probably at her dorm and Rinoa is in the Balamb cafeteria I
think,"
"Oh, so uh..........did a lot of SeeD's uh.....die?" Probably like one
fourth or somethin like that.
"So far..............about half, maybe more, but we got half or more of
the Galbadian soldiers." Wow, that's good
"Yes, Balamb so kicks ass," we both laughed at that.
"Are.....are all battles like that? Do that many people die every
time?"
"Pretty much, that's why Balamb doesn't fight many large, whole
garden battles like that," Why not? I never knew I could feel like
that, I wanted to kill everything I saw but reverted it to the soldiers.
It was fun. To kill was fun.
"Hmm.......well, I'm going over to Balamb, check on Zoro, come
with?"
"Naw, I think I'll stay hear and wait for Zell to wake up." Meh
whatever
"Ok, um call me, if he wakes up or something?"
"Kay, later," he hobbled back over to the infirmary.
Man Trabia garden is big, jeez this place makes Balamb look like a
closet, a very small closet. Walking through the halls was like
walking through a grave yard, all quiet and, dark so to speak.
Everyone was so sad........but I wasn't, I wanted to battle again.
The feel of invincibility was like a drug and I wanted more. Training
center.
I found my way out of Trabia garden, it was hard but I eventually
asked for directions. Outside was worse then inside, stretchers
were everywhere with SeeD's hooked up to life support, bodies
covered the land around the two parked gardens, sheets over
them. Poor Quistis, having to go and identify bodies.
"Hey Alex, on your feet already?" Who?
"Oh, hi Irvine, yeah, can't hold me down when I'm conscious." After
an experience like that you can't hate anybody that fought on your side.
"How's Selphie doing? Her arm got slashed up pretty bad," We
started walking toward Balamb garden.
"She's outta fighting and the training center, really ,mad about that
too, but she's fine,"
"That's uhhhh, good," man I am so not good at socializing
"Hehe, yeah, so um, how's Zell? Any changes?"
"Not yet, he's been hit pretty bad, um, I'm going to the garden, you
can....come if you want......." Last time.....I'll talk to Zoro, he
probably won't want to come any....
"Sure, why not," we walked back into Balamb and ended up going
to the cafeteria, talking with Selphie and having the rest of the so
called gang join us, except Squall and Zell obviously.
"I'll go get some more hotdogs and another salad," Rinoa got up
for like the tenth thousand time.
Can't say no to more food.
"Oh, hi Squall," You guessed it! Squall limped over to out table.
"...uh, hi..." Oh, very talkative.
"Come, join our grope of outcasts?" I invited very dramatically.
That brought a smile to his sad face.
"Has Zell's condition improved?" Quistis asked
"Only time will tell."
