Chapter 7:

Rinoa struggled to free herself but the mysterious hand refused to budge and instead dragged her back in the room where she had been a while ago.

"Rinoa, calm down, it's me," the man whispered to her ear as he was able to bring the girl inside the room.

"Seifer?" Rinoa was surprised and happy at the same time the she quickly put her hands around his neck. "Oh, you scared me to death!"

"I'm sorry if I have to do that," Seifer excused. "Hey, are you alright?"

"I guess I'm okay now." Was her answer.

"Here, I got your weapon," Seifer gave her the pinwheel.

"Wow, thanks," Rinoa hastily fastened the weapon to her right arm.

"Listen Rinoa, right now we are on the second floor and as you had observed, there were three soldiers patrolling the whole area."

"Uh, yeah," Rinoa nodded her head.

"Actually, there were 3 soldiers in every floor level." Seifer stated.

"So what do we do?"

"We have to get out of here without being caught."

"How?"

"You still have your 'Sleep' spells right?"

"Yup. I think I drew a couple of that from each grats that we've faced." Rinoa informed him.

"We won't attack those goons as it could arose suspicions, instead, we'll just use your sleep spells and head for the lift. We'll also do the same in the ground floor." Seifer instructed her clearly. "if everything turns out the way we want it, then we'll be able to sneak out of here safely."

"Sounds effective! Let's do it!" Rinoa agreed eagerly.

Seifer and Rinoa had managed to carry out their plan and stole their way down to the ground level and outside the building only to be greeted by a familiar voice.

"Where do you think you're going, pesky twerps?" taunted Gen. Scott. Rinoa could see a sardonic smile creeping in his face which was illuminated by the pale moonlight.

"Damn it!" she heard Seifer cursed from under his breath.

"I hope you're not expecting me to let you out of here breathing after what you did to me," he sneered. With a wave of his hand he shouted: "Get them, guys!"

All of a sudden, Seifer and Rinoa were heavily surrounded by Winhill squad batallion.

"Big shoot!" Seifer cursed angrily. "We've got no choice left but to defeat all of them!"

Rinoa's heart was beating like drumrolls. "We're out numbered!!!" she thought horribly.

There were like at least 70 armed men who went about them. Rinoa first casted protect spells to Seifer and herself. She then summoned GF Siren as her next move. Seifer, on the other hand, casted double shell spells for him and for Rinoa. He sliced his hyperion mightily on every soldier charging in their way. In turn, their opponents casted 'Meltdown' on both of them.

"They're throwing high range magic spells, Seifer!" Rinoa exclaimed. Thanks to their barriers, the damage they are getting are slightly diminished. But both of them knew that it will not last for too long. Seifer quickly summoned the Brothers. Their strategy of GF-Magic combination halted their enemies' attacks but there were still so many of them. Rinoa threw in 3 'Thunduga' spells to some soldiers but it just reflected back to her.

"Rinoa!!!" Seifer called. "I'm still okay.Seifer," Rinoa responded weakly. "My protect and shell just wore off," She used her 'Angelo Rush and Angelo Cannon' limit breaks. She had prevented a soldier or two from attacking Seifer by carefully shooting her pinwheel.

Seifer too, was already enervated by all the fighting. An opponent had already made a cut in his left arm which only indicated that his own 'Protect' wore off.

"My 'Shell' will break down in a matter of minutes," Seifer hopelessly said to himself. Out in the corner of his eyes he saw how Rinoa had been struggling to maintain her composure. That's when he noticed that Gen. Scott was behind her.

"Look out!!!" but Seifer's words came out way too late. She was blinded, and a soldier had casted triple 'Blizzaga' spells to her, knocking her down.

"Nooo!!!" Seifer screamed on top of his lungs. "Damn you, ALL!" his temper was skyrocketing giving him enough vigor to fight the General. Scott countered his attacks with another set of magic spells but Seifer was invincible. "You, you son of a bitch! You'll be sorry you did that to Rin!" Seifer had managed to give him a blow, taking his foe down. Five more soldiers were left after the General had flinched. He looked at them and with his last ounce of strength, he summoned Diablos, hoping that the GF would end the fight. He finally rejoiced after seeing his opponents lying flat on their backs, completely defeated.

[to be continued.please make a review. ^-^]