Cid looked at all of them beginning to pace the floor, "Listen to me. Our Garden is once again in danger of being destroyed! This power outage is not a at all the storms fault."

"What do you mean?" Zell asked while he for once stood still.

Cid stopped pacing the room and stood in front of them all rotating in circles now, "I mean that we are soon to be attacked. The enemy is already inside Garden. They have merely used the storm as an excuse to take the power out."

"But why would they want to turn Garden's power off?" Rinoa questioned moving her hands as she spoke.

".Our Garden has a great secret hidden in the basement. That only I, until now, have known of. It holds the key to getting to Devoleb Garden, other wise known as the Lost Garden," Cid began his explanation, "It is protected by an ancient beast known as Peritazit, but the only way to keep control of this beast is by using Balamb's power supply to generate an electric prison around the beast."

"Didn't you ever have a back-up plan incase the power went out!?!" Quistis asked raising her voice slightly, yet not enough for it to be noticed.

"Yes, we installed a collar around the beast's neck, but the enemy has already hacked their way into it. This isn't an ordinary hacker either, only a sorceress or sorcerer could have such power." Cid stopped his rotating and stood still, looking out at the teenagers.

"So what do you want us to do about it?" Squall said putting one hand on his hip and the other by his side.

"I want all of you to help defend Garden along with the other SeeDs, but first I want you to go to the basement and defeat Peritazit." Cid sighed.

"But what about the secret of Devoleb Garden!?!" Selphie pointed out.

"I want three of you to get it for me, after you defeat Peritazit. I would do it myself but I must inform the Garden about the attack so they can take shelter." With that said Cid gave them all a smile.

"I nominate Squall, Irvine, and Rinoa to go get the secret!" Selphie shouted jumping up and down.

"Yes, I agree." Quistis said nodding in agreement to the hyper Selphie.

Rinoa and the other people nominated looked around then nodded to each other stepping over to Cid.

"What does this secret look like?" Irvine asked tipping his hat up a little.

"You will find the secret at the end of a long hallway called 081. You won't be able to miss it." Cid explained this to them as he stepped over to an area full with buttons, he pressed one then began talking, "Everyone, Please listen.Garden is not stable at the moment. Instructors please escort all students to their dorms then please see me, I would also like ALL SeeD members to join the instructors in their task as well as coming to see me."

By the time the announcement was over the group of teenagers were already in the elevator going down into the basement.

"How is the elevator and Loud Speaker working if the power is out?" Zell asked bouncing from foot to foot taking swings at the air until he hit Irvine in the back of the head.

"Garden has an extra power supply in the basement which cannot be cut off. It's powered by magic, but only last for about twenty-four hours before it runs out. Cid wished to only use it for the elevator and loud speaker because those are the most important things in Balamb." Quistis told Zell, while the others listened in as well.

Soon the elevator had stopped and they all filed out once more their weapons drawn and ready.

"Let's split into groups of three," Squall let out a deep sigh shaking his head, "Rinoa, Irvine, you're with me. Selphie, Quistis, Zell, you three are together."

Everyone nodded in agreement with Squall and they all walked together, for now, searching for the beast.

Rinoa took a small step forward and a fire exploded from something nearby. After the fire had died out a bit a shadowy looking beast stood there in front of the six. It let out a horrible roar, which shook the ground.

The beast had long horns from which fireballs began to form from. It had about three hundred yellow pointed teeth and from the look of them you could tell they were old and worn. It had navy blue dense fur and a black nose, which looked dryer than anything Rinoa had ever seen before. It stood on all fours with sharp pointed claws, almost like a cat, only sharper. It's eyes were now a dark shade of red as it roared again.

Quistis, Selphie and Zell all ran up to the beast now in a fighting stance as the other three stood behind ready to attack if another failed.

The beast again roared and took a swift swipe at Selphie causing severe damage.

"Look's like we should use our GFs!" Zell shouted looking over at Selphie using a high potion.

Selphie now fully recovered now nodded and summoned Shiva while Quistis prepared herself to summon Eden.

The beautiful GF Shiva appeared casting Diamond Dust doing 5,000 points of damage.

Zell used Scan while Quistis waited for her GF to appear.

"It still has 300,000 HP left!" Zell exclaimed a little overwhelmed.

Quistis disappeared, Eden now taking her place. It glanced at the monster sending it's best attack at it causing 100,000 points of damage.

It was now Selphie's turn, she was about to summon Siren, when out of the sky Odin appeared coming down at the beast. It slashed at it defeating it easily then he disappeared out of sight.

"Woah! Did you see that!?!" Selphie said bouncing around.

The others nodded all with happy expressions, well except Squall, his expression was rather blank as usual.

"You three watch around here while Rinoa, Irvine, and I go to get the 'secret'." Squall said shaking his head then beginning to walk as if he knew where he was going.

Soon they were out of sight from the others and at the entrance of a Hall labeled 081. Squall and Irvine looked at it while Rinoa had already began walking down the hall.

"Such a lovely young lady, isn't she Squall." Irvine chuckled.

".." Squall said nothing in return; instead he started to follow Rinoa.

"Hmm.Wonder if." Irvine stopped mid sentence to run to catch up with Rinoa.

"Hey Rinoa, I was wondering." Irvine began only to be interrupted by her.

"No." She said not even bothering to listen to the rest of his sentence; she just kept walking.

Irvine stopped walking for a second then shook his head then he also continued walking, Squall following close behind.

Up ahead they could hear people shouting and gunshots going off, which aroused their senses.

"I ain't letting you past here!" A gunshot went off and Rinoa took off at a full sprint recognizing the voice as Seifers.

"Rinoa wait!" The two guys ran after her.

"Seifer!" Rinoa shouted in reaching the middle of the dim lit and gloomy hallway. He was standing there pointing his gunblade at about ten people dressed as soldiers of some sort. They wore Black outfits trimmed in a gold color.

Seifer looked over at the young and beautiful Rinoa taking his eyes off the men, and just as he did they ganged up on him taking him down. (Note that it was not easy due to Seifer's fight)

A man stepped out of the shadows and looked at Seifer, who was now being held back his gunblade being examined by a few soldiers, apparently they were impressed.

"Ahh, Seifer Almasy. I've heard of you. Not all good I might add, but things." The man had an evil grin etched across his face, "Take him back to the ship!"

"NO!" Rinoa cried out.

"Hmm, Such a lovely thing. What are you doing down here?" His grin widened.

"Oh.Umm.I was just taking a walk, and heard voices so I ran, and now you have Seifer!" She said quickly.

"Interesting story. But not believable considering all students and visitors of Balamb have to have special permission to be down here." He laughed grabbing her by the wrist and throwing her towards a group of guys, "Put her in the guest room, don't harm her."

The group of guys nodded then seemed to just vanish within thin air! Meanwhile Squall and Irvine jumped out of the shadows from where they had been watching the whole incident and pulled out their weapons.

"Where is this ship you took Rinoa and Seifer to!?!" Squall demanded.

"Oh, no where you need to know of." The man chuckled.

"Tell us now! Or else!" Irvine shouted at the guy pointing his rifle at him.

"Or else what?" The man laughed again then drew out his weapon, "Cid put you down here to fetch the secret of Devoleb, didn't he!?!"

The smirked then attacked Squall injuring him slightly. Squall then had a surge of power inside him, and with that power he cast Renozueken hitting the man for 10,000 HP.

"Ugh." The man gasped, "You may have defeated me this time.But next time you won't be so lucky, we will be back for the secret!"

This man, just as his gang of boys had, vanished, and Squall hurried down the hallway searching for this secret.

"What about Rinoa Squall!?!" Irvine yelled to him.

"What about her?" He asked.

"We have to save her!"

"Right now we have a more important job." Squall said stopping at the end of the hallway looking around.

"Squall!" Irvine protested.

Squall ignored him setting his eyes on a small glowing orb. It was a sky blue and it seemed so.beautiful. He picked up the stone to realize it was warm and made your insides feel at ease.

Squall put it in his pocket and began his walk back down the hall Irvine still protesting about Rinoa, and Squall still ignoring him.