Sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation.
No boats to the island until the morning. Scared of the monsters there. How fucking pathetic. Fujin thought bitterly, as she downed her 3rd vodka of the evening. She rarely drank, but when she did, despite her small frame, she could hold her liquor with the best of them. So, now I get to spend my night with these assholes. Fucking wonderful. The evening passed fairly uneventfully, save for a few random drunken guys making asses out of themselves. As Fujin downed her 6th shot of vodka and her vision began to blur slightly, her evening took a turn for the worse. A huge man, who was bigger and taller than Raijin, approached Fujin.
"Wanna dance, beautiful?" the drunken man's surly voice slurred.
"Burn in hell, fucker," Fujin curtly replied.
"Feisty. I like you. Come on, baby, let's go somewhere," the man mumbled, grabbing onto Fujin's wrist with a vice-like grip.
Fujin growled and tried to jerk her wrist away, but the alcohol was slowly, but surely, affecting her. "Let go, asshole!"
"You know you want me. I can see it in your eyes… oh, wait… hahahahaha…" the man doubled over in laughter, but still kept his death grip on Fujin's wrist.
Under any other circumstances, Fujin would've already knocked the guy unconscious, but her motor skills and vision were failing her fast.
"So… let's go…" the man attempted to whisper, his face right up against Fujin's. The heavy smell of alcohol, despite how she herself had been drinking, was making her feel sick.
"Let… me… go…" Fujin said, as sternly as possible, but slowly becoming scared. The alcohol was without mercy in her system, all the patrons in the bar were as drunk themselves and the bartender couldn't have cared less. Was there a way out of this? Just as Fujin was about to give up and give in completely to the alcohol, so she wouldn't have to deal with this, the large man let go of her wrist, as he flew across the bar. As a result, she fell to the floor, but, that didn't matter. The drunken man was gone. Fujin unsteadily climbed to her feet, and looked up at whoever it was that saved her. But before she could get a good look at him, the vodka finally overwhelmed her system and she fall into the stranger's arms. Her last thought was how comforting those arms felt.
~
"Ow, my fucking head…" Fujin muttered, sitting up from the bed, "No more vodka… wait, where the fuck am I?" Fujin glanced around the room, fearing the worse, but, her clothing were still fine and there was no one else in the room. However, there were 2 aspirin and a note on the night stand. Fujin picked up the aspirin and swallowed them, as she glanced over the note. "Watch yourself." Hrm…
~
"Hello, welcome to the Deling Hotel. How may I help you?" the overly friendly receptionist greeted, as Fujin approached the counter.
"Last night. I was checked in by someone. Who?"
"Oh, goodness, I remember that. My, you must have had quite a bit to drink. He had to carry you in."
Fujin gritted her teeth. Her hangover was still there, and the incompetence of this receptionist was driving her insane. "Who?"
"Well, I think he was a SeeD, since he was wearing a SeeD uniform."
"SeeD? Here? Defense Force?"
"No, there's a GARDEN convention here this week. I would assume it was one of them. I'd recognize Deling's Defense Force."
"Convention, where?"
"Second floor."
Fujin nodded and started walking towards the elevator.
"Wait! But you have to be a SeeD to attend!"
"I am," Fujin muttered, as the elevator door closed.
~
"Seifer, duck!" Fujin yelled, trying to get the attention of their squad leader, as a barrage of bullets started raining down on him.
Seifer ducked in time, turned to her and growled. "Watch yourself, Fujin!" Seifer yelled back, throwing a Fira at the monster about to leap onto Fujin's back.
"Where are those fucking reinforcements?" Raijin shouted, bashing any advancing monsters, while Fujin and Seifer were preventing any advancing of the soldiers.
"Obviously, lost somewhere, the incompetent idiots!" Seifer muttered, abruptly pulling Fujin back a step, as he lunged forward with his Hyperion.
"There's no way we can keep this up…" Fujin mumbled, chanting a Tornado spell and blowing several monsters and soldiers away.
The trio had been fighting valiantly, trying to make it up the mountain and to the top, where they were suppose to rendezvous with another group. Along the way, reinforcements were suppose to show up, helping them. But, as the number of enemies increased, reinforcements were nowhere in sight.
"Shut up, Fujin! We'll get up there!" Seifer reprimanded, "You just don't want to give me my victory kiss at the inauguration!"
Fujin laughed, while hurling her Shuriken at a monster Raijin missed.
"We'll get up there. We just have to get more aggressive. Keep the same formation, but, we'll go offensive on the soldiers."
~
The elevator dinged as it reached the second floor. Its doors slowly opened and the sight of many SeeDs in uniform greeted Fujin.
"Hi, Fujin!" a cheerful brunette yelled, running over to Fujin.
Selphie Tilmitt. Well, this ought to make my hangover even better.
"We thought you guys weren't coming when you didn't arrive last night!"
"Coming?"
"Yeah! This is a GARDEN convention open to all SeeDs. You must've gotten the invitation in the mail!"
"No."
"Oh! Well, just plain luck then! Where's Seifer and Raijin?"
"Not here."
"No? Aww, that's a shame. It would've been nice to see them again! Well, enjoy yourself!" Selphie said, running off to talk to Quistis.
Hm…
~
"Congratulations on passing, Seifer! Guess the third time's the charm, huh?" Quistis smirked at him.
"Spare me, instructor, though why you got your job back is beyond me. You were in charge of sending those reinforcements. Where the hell were they?" Seifer yelled, tempted to fling his champagne at Quistis.
"Seifer, forget about it. We completed the mission successfully, with the highest grade ever given," Fujin reasoned.
"Passing aside, our lives were in danger. There were no SeeD forces within 50 miles of there! What kind of responsible behaviour was that, instructor? Do you always send one group to their death or something? An added extra little treat for your special students?"
Quistis stared at him in shock, "Seifer… that's not what…"
"I sure hope your future students are as skilled as we are, instructor, or else you're gonna have hell of a lot of blood on your hands."
Quistis was speechless as Fujin pulled Seifer away from her. "Seifer…"
"Don't give me any of that, Fujin. She deserved it."
"I know. I agree with you. But, we're SeeDs now, Seifer. We have to behave responsibly."
Seifer smirked and leaned down to kiss Fujin on the cheek, "Okay, okay, I'll behave now. Now, where's my victory kiss I was promised?"
~
Tilmitt asked where Seifer was. Meaning, he's not here. Then who the hell checked me in?
Fujin pondered to herself, as she idly wondered through the groups of people, randomly seeing faces she knew, though most of them she knew because the Disciplinary Committee had to deal with them.
"Fujin."
Fujin looked up and faced familiar blue eyes. "Squall."
"How are you? You drank a damn lot last night."
Fujin blinked in confusion. "You… checked me in last night?"
"Yeah. I was out getting a drink and saw you."
"Oh. Thank you," Fujin muttered, turning around and heading towards the elevator.
"You're not staying for the convention?"
"No… I was just wondering something…" Fujin answered, walking into the elevator and closing her eyes as the doors slid shut.
~
"Thank you, Squall."
"Why not just…"
"I said thank you. That's all I needed."
"Fine…"
* Author's Notes: This chapter was really iffy... a lot of it I didn't like, but, it had necessary portions for stuff I planned for later. Oh well.