Disc: Squaresoft owns the ff chars. I own Raven, Cruel Hero owns Genesis.

Attack

"Red Alert! Red Alert! All Seeds report to the front gate immediately. This is not a drill!"

Seifer and from his dorm room followed by Raven. Both had their coats over their arms and swords in hand. By the time they arrived at the front gate of the Garden, everything was in order.

Quistis walked down the steps from the elevator, whip in hand, followed by Rinoa who was fitting some kind of saw on her bracelet and Irvine with his shotgun. "Genesis is here." She looked at Raven and Seifer, "I know you haven't taken your test yet, but your on Gen duty. Do not kill her and do not kill Squall."

The rest of the assembled looked at each other and exited through the gate to fight the oncoming swarm of Galbadian soldiers.

*

The fighting was intense and many Galbadians along with a handful of Seeds were wounded. Genesis, along with Squall, stood on a floating platform high above the fight. Seifer and Raven were the ones dispatched to bring them down.

It was easy to get behind them. That is, until Squall turned around and saw them.

"Seifer." He said, smirking and drawing Leonheart.

'Squall." Seifer replied, nostrils flaring in hatred as he drew Hyperion.

Squall laughed and used Firaga toward Seifer who blocked it but was still thrown back by the blast. Then he heard Raven call Shiva and felt the cold blast of the Ice GF before Squall swung his gunblade diagonally, slashing open his scar.

Seifer dropped to all fours and watched the blood drip off the bridge of his nose in a steady stream. He slashed upward, enraged and in pain at the shadowy form of Squall. He felt his sword connect and everything went dark.

*

Meanwhile Genesis and Raven were battling it out, Raven using her fighting arts and extensive magic and GFs and Genesis using her Sorceress type magic. Raven glanced over at Seifer and seen Squall use Firaga and decided it was time to use the GFs.

"Diamond Dust!" She cried, holding the bright white ball over her head.

The Ice Witch exploded from the pillar of ice and threw a blast at Genesis, causing slight damage because her weakness was not Ice.

Then she used Siren, The Silent Voice GF. The GF played her harp and silenced Genesis, enabling her magic casting skills.

"Damn." Gen said, looking toward Squall who was holding his bleeding scar and looking around with startled, and surprised, eyes at the unconscious Seifer at his feet.

"What's going on here?" He looked around, "Gen? Raven?"

Then he slumped to the floor.

*

All in all the fight was over quickly. The remaining Galbadian soldiers who weren't dead or wounded carried away the dead or wounded. Genesis, Sorceress of Galbadia, was imprisoned in some Rehab place in the rings of Saturn because she knew exactly what was going to happen when she took over Galbadia. Her magic was given to Quistis who used her high level Curaga to Quistis who used it to help Seifer, Squall and anyone else who had been hurt that day.

Raven mostly stayed by the unconscious Seifer but took walks out to the fountain, remembering the memories that she would leave behind when she left the Garden for good, never to return.

*

Balamb Garden: Place of Mystery, Enchantment, Learning, Fighting, Excitement, Love, Pain and Loss. A place where a person who looked 17 and happened to be 213 could live in Happiness and Sorrow all squeezed together. A place to get away from the boring old ways of earth and live like there was no tomorrow, to be free.

And Raven had to leave.

After Seifer got out of the infirmary she did her best to avoid him. She saw the hurt in his eyes when she would brush past him, not speaking but looking. Seifer though, and it was obvious to everyone that he had hoped they would get married and maybe settle down and live their life together. But Raven knew that would never happen. She had left too much out of her life story, too much heartache and pain to be encompassed by words.