ZODIAC SWORD

Chapter 1

Seifer was now officially out of Balamb Garden. He passed the SeeD test and he was given the option to refuse and leave the garden since he was now 21. He sat in Edea's house. Edea and Cid let Seifer live with them until he felt like taking off. He was sitting on the beach outside of her house.

"Seifer?" Cid asked walking up behind him.

"Yeah Cid?" Seifer replied getting up from sitting on a rock.

"Squall is on the phone, he says he needs to talk to you," Cid informed the young adult.

Seifer ran up the wooden stairs and through the back door of the house to pick up the phone.

As he ran up the stairs, his gray cloak flew out from behind him. His blonde hair was slicked back, no gel or anything, just all natural.

Cid smiled and did his best to try to keep up with him. For a man of about 45, he lost him very early.

Seifer picked up the phone. "Hello?" he answered.

"Good afternoon Seifer," Squall spoke through the phone very formally.

"Dude, don't do that, you sound like Cid now," Seifer said glancing over his shoulder to make sure Cid hadn't been standing there.

"Okay, I will try not to, but it has become a habit after all this headmaster stuff," Squall replied.

"What is it? You disturbed my boredom," Seifer said with a smirk on his face.

Seifer and Squall had been enemies all of their life, up until Seifer passed the SeeD test. When he did, Squall bought him a new Gunblade, on that was very, very, very, unbelievably, expensive. But Squall had the money for killing Ultemecia. It was a swirl of colors, and it had a large few streaks down the middle of it, which always reminded Seifer of Zell's tattoo on the side of his face.

"I was wondering if you would like to come teach here," Squall said seriously. "One of the teacher just quit, and Quistis' class is too full to fill it up with, and the class is too advanced for any other teacher.

"How many people in the class?" Seifer asked, wanting to find out more information before he accepted the offer.

"It is a very small class, but an elite team. There are about five or six people in the whole class. And you will not have to be with them constantly, you and Zell will be the two teachers of the class."

"Zell?" Seifer said surprised. "He is good enough to teach the whole class himself."

"Yeah, but we figured it would be a good combination to have a Gunblade wielder and a master of the karate arts."

Seifer had always been enemies with Zell too, but that all changed when Zell was on the SeeD decision committee. He would decide who made SeeD. Seifer had actually not made the SeeD team, but Zell snuck in a few points so he would help Seifer out.

"Well, I'll go back to Balamb just for a while. It would be kinda neat to have my own elite team," Seifer said happily.

"Oh, and Seifer," Squall said. "Don't forget to bring the Gunblade that I gave you, you are gonna go on some missions with your cadets."

"I wouldn't forget it anyway," Seifer replied. "Seeya soon."

Seifer hung up and ran to tell Edea and Cid the news. He then grabbed his Gunblade and took his boat out to Balamb Garden.

Zell instantly welcomed Seifer. Zell had been waiting outside for him.

"Seifer!" Zell shouted. "Long time no see!"

Zell's hair was blonde and it was gelled up about five inches in the front, the rest of his hair was pulled back like Seifer's. He had a tattoo on the side of his face that looked like a large black vine. It went on the side of his forehead, all the way down his cheek and it ended at his chin. It was a pretty cool looking tattoo. His shorts were somewhat baggy, and his jacket was zipped up and left a little bit of collar at the top.

Seifer and Zell walked into Balamb Garden.

Seifer felt right at home there. (He had spent almost his entire life there though). He and Zell took the elevator up to the third floor, where Squall's office was.

"Seifer!" Squall greeted.

He and Seifer exchanged handshakes.

"Where is my squad?" Seifer said anxiously.

"Right on the balcony outside," Squall said with a smile.

Squall left to go get the students and returned in a few minutes. In that time, Seifer and Zell caught up on old times.

Squall returned with six students behind him.

"Seifer, these are your students," Squall introduced.

Seifer looked the team over. Not bad he thought.

"This is Will," Squall said pointing to the first student.

Seifer looked at the student. Brown hair, brown eyes, extremely strong, good posture. He noticed the combat gloves and Seifer knew he used combat skills like Zell. Seifer was impressed with Will.

"This is Adam," Squall said pointing to the next student.

Adam towered over Seifer. Adam was about six foot five, massively strong, and Seifer could automatically tell Adam's weapon of choice was an axe. Seifer nodded in approval.

"Next, is Julie," Squall said showing Seifer an impressively pretty girl.

Julie had a belt with all these ninja stars on them. Seifer figured she wasn't much of fighter seeing how he weapon were Ninja Stars, but he was still impressed to find such a rare weapon user.

"This here is Tom," Squall said.

Seifer stood there looking at an impressively handsome man. He had short blue hair that fell a little bit on his forehead, and a cowboy hat and shotgun just like Irvine. Seifer felt like he would enjoy this cadet the best.

"Here is John," Squall said.

John was not too much taller than Squall of Seifer, but he had a sword tied to his back the size of Seifer. Seifer's eyes widened when he saw such a long sword.

"It's called a Masamune," John said smirking.

"Lastly, there is Tina," Squall said showing Seifer a younger girl.

Seifer didn't think the girl was much older than 15. She wasn't as good looking as Julie, but she was cute. Tina had a bow in her hands and an arrow slung over her shoulder.

"Adam, Julie, and Tina are brother and sisters," Squall said.

"Impressive team," Seifer nodded.

Will smirked and looked at Zell. Zell nodded and smirked back.

Zell led the team down the elevator so Seifer could talk to Squall.

"Seifer, we have a mission for ya," Squall said.

"Great, I can finally use the Gunblade you bought me," Seifer blurted.

"It will not be an easy one though. Have you ever heard of the Centra Ruins?" Squall asked.

"Yeah, its off one of the islands near Edea's house," Seifer replied, knowing what Squall was talking about.

"Well, there is a new creature up there where Odin should be. The creature has defeated squads that Esthar has sent over, and we decided to take a chance and fight it. The creature is called Ruby WEAPON. It is extremely hard, and we figured that if anybody, we could take it on."

Seifer nodded and accepted the mission.

"There is a car waiting for you. The car will take you to Balamb port to take a ship to the ruins," Squall said. "Your team should be waiting at the car so you might want to hurry and not keep them waiting."

Seifer smiled and turned and left Squall to get back to his business.

He got off the elevator and ran down the stairs, he knocked a blonde down the stairs though.

"Sorry about that," he said stopping abruptly. "Quistis?"

"Seifer? What are you doing here?" Quistis replied.

"I command a new elite force with Zell, and we are going to eliminate that Ruby WEAPON at the Centra Ruins," Seifer said.

"Oh, then good luck Seifer," Quistis said.

"Instructor, please," Seifer said slowly. "Save that for a bad student that needs it."

Quistis didn't reply this time. (If you played FF8 and you remember the beginning of the Dollet mission, you will probably know what im talking about.)

Seifer ran out into the garage and he got into the truck with his team. This was a good time to get to know them.

Seifer sat next to Julie on his right, Tom on his left, and Tina across from him. John sat a next to Tom, and Will sat in front with Zell, who was busy driving the car.

"So how old are you all?" Seifer asked.

"20," Tom said.

"14," Tina replied.

"18," Will said turning his head to see Seifer.

"20," John answered.

"25," Adam replied.

"19," Julie said lastly.

"Cool, cool. An older squad," Seifer blurted.

Seifer got to know the squad pretty well. Tina was quiet, and Seifer didn't think she would do as well as the others in the mission because of her age. John was a little bit like Seifer. Tom was an extremely cool young adult. He knew just what to say, and he was perfect around people. Julie was amazing, she knew just what to say and do. Will and Zell had a sense of humor to them and mainly conversed between themselves. Adam was very obedient and not the most fun person to hang out with.

They soon got to Balamb and got onboard the boat and headed toward the Centra Ruins.

As the boat was moving, Seifer cleaned off his Gunblade.

"So we have to fight the monster too or just the squad?" Seifer asked Zell.

Zell was driving the boat. "We can if we want, but if our squad is in trouble, we must help."

"Okay, cool, cool," Seifer replied.

Tom sat on the roof of the boat, the ladder leading down right behind him. He had heard tales about the Ruby WEAPON. It was something to be feared ad he did not want to take on such a dangerous creature. He sighed and went down the ladder behind him.

The boat zoomed through the water. It wouldn't be for another good few hours until they landed along the coast of the Centra Ruins. Julie and Tom sat in the lounge of the boat.

It was a fairly small boat, made up of three floors. The first floor was the lounge, the second room the armory and briefing room, and on the third floor, the steering room. Even though it was a small boat with three floors, it was not as big as a cruise ship. It was about 25 feet long, like one of those Grady White motorboats.

Seifer, Zell, and Will were in the steering room, and Adam and John and Tina were in the armory.

"So Julie, after this mission I was wondering if you would like to go out with me to Balamb for dinner one night," Tom said confidently.

Julie smiled and said yes.

Tom was so happy that she said yes, and he flipped on the T.V. in there and put his arm around her.

Will was enjoying Seifer's company. He was telling all these jokes that he knew. Will really liked Zell too. Zell had been the one that taught Will all his moves. Will was in the middle of a joke when there was a hard thud in the side of the boat.

Will stopped talking and looked out of the window. It was a large green creature. But it was enormous. Will's jaw dropped. The monster slammed the boat again.

The T.V. fell off its stand. Julie and Tom stood up abruptly. They were confused as to what was going on.

Tom ran outside, and saw the creature up close. He knew exactly what it was. It was Emerald WEAPON, one of the brothers to Ruby WEAPON. The squad was going to have a tough time defeating this creature….

Seifer looked down at his Gunblade. Now I can finally get some action, he thought.



There is not too much action yet. But it will be packed with it in the next few chapters. This is just the intro. I hope you like it so far!