Your lucky my friend while on IM got shooken scared, other wise their would be no chapter right now. I want to know who's reading and what you like to see in here.

Disclaimer I do not own FF 8


Rin sat foot up a chair as he caste set. Yojin looked like partial mummy as she paced the room. As the unusual silence covers the room, Seifer for once looks increasingly worried. He hadn't thought of a full take over attempt of Timber. For the last year all it was, was pathetic gorilla pranks. Occasionally someone got hurt but there was a way around it. Now he had to defend his wife, his son can defend himself. Seifer pauses and looks outside.

It was a clear day. The birds song whispered carefully across the sky. He came here to restart, he came here to live his life alone. Such a beautiful place, surrounded by a forest of trees. It always provided him the private life he hoped for.

"Seth, you and I, and Yojin are going into Timber," Seifer looks at Rin. "Rin, you and my wife lock things down here. We'll come in strait from the front door."

Rin nods in agreement. Seth kisses Rin on the cheek and grabs his gunblade from the closet. His dad glares at him before they both leave. Seifer's wife clenches her hands to her chest and sighs heavily. She feared for her family just like any good woman should. Rin reaches over and paces a hand on her arm. She smiles sweetly and pulls herself out of her chair.

"One-second Rin. There's two boxes of knives in the basement and some heavy wood."

Rin raises her eye brow.

"Wedding presents... Don't ask."

Rin laughs to herself and knows exactly how to use those knifes. If gorilla's can use unfair tactics, so can she.

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Seifer walks into Timber confidently, Seth following him, almost at a jog to keep up. Timber didn't look like Timber anymore. Many of the building are now blown out, and no people walked the streets without weapons. A loud explosion rips through the air. Seifer instinctively grabs his son and pulls him closer. Seth doesn't mind. Yojin flinches and motions Seifer to fallow her.

Yojin leads them to an old abandoned building. She knocks on the door three times before entering. Derk looks up startled but quickly recognizes Yojin's style. Then flashes a grin as he sees Seth. He turns back to a map of the city and ponders over what to do.

"Everyone, where moving to my parents house. It's the safest place." Seth orders finding his voice. "We have to move in shifts not to give away a new location."

Derk looks up, "of course Seth.... Pack up!"

"Ya, I'm ah shocked displace still stands." Yojin mention taking a stack of papers.

"Your telling my you bitch." Ivi walks out of a back corner. "This piece of shit has been rocked by so many fucking explosions. It should go down in the records as the most shitty place, still fucking standing during a war... Yojin what happened to you?"

"In yer words, fucking gorilla's."

"Gee you don't have to word it so harshly, I just asked." Ivi said sounding hurt.

Everyone looks at each other, but then in a burst of energy they all go back to packing up. Sometimes you just didn't want to know what Ivi was thinking. Once everything is packed, and everyone is ready to go Seth puts them all into groups. Some to go alone.

"Remember, enter strait to the front door to dodge any traps." Seth reminds.

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Squall growls and paces in the temporary head quarters in Timber. Every thing was going wrong and they are looking seeD's by the dozen. The thing that pricked at the back of his mind most was that Rin was still unseen. Growling, Squall punches the wall. The flap covering the entrance of the temporary shelter opens. A young man no older then sixteen walks in.

"Commander Squall, we've lost four more seeD's what do we do now?"

Squall glares at him. Slowly he lowers his arm and lets the pain in his hand fill his mind. He seriously didn't know what to do anymore. How do you play a game of chess when you can't see the other players pieces? This was not like battle ship. More lives are at a steak. Most of them innocent people unfortunately caught in the middle of all this chaos.

"Pull back." Squall says in a low sigh.

"What sir?"

"I said pull back!" Squall snaps.

"Yes, sir."

As the kid runs out the door Quintis runs in. Squall raises an eye brow and look at her. He was not up to more bad news. Quintis keeps her cool and finds a chair. Eye Squall waiting for him to say something. When he didn't she adjusted her glasses.

"We found Rin." Quintis says bluntly. "She's with Seifer as you could suspect."

"And Seifer's probably behind all of this." Squall hisses.

Quintis puts a piece of paper on his desk. "Here's where she is. Use it at your own disclosure."

"I have to time to go chasing after her." Squall says regaining his calm. "If she wants to be part of this let her face the consequences on her own."

"But if they are on our side we've got allies, and if there not we'll be taking out the head." Quintis states.

Squall pauses. "Get a team together."

"Yes sir." Quintis gets up and walks out the door.

Squall stares after Quintis, he never thought that his daughter maybe behind this. Or one of the people who was fighting for what ever cause the gorilla's had in mind. He knew who to blame for it, that damn boy Seth. No son of Seifer will ever be good. It was to much to expect.

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Rin sat in the basement half asleep when Seth, Seifer and some other men storm into the basement scattering papers here and there. Rin takes some and shoves em to the end of the table. Seth walks over to her and hugs her. Then finds a chair next to her. Amused Rin watches as the basement is turned into a military center. More tables and chairs came out of no where and set up around the room.

"Try to figure out where the gorilla's have been hitting the most." Seth says shouting above the noise. "And quiet down."

The room nods. Someone puts a map across the wall and someone tosses darts at it to empathize the worst damage. A mighty good shot if Rin could say so herself. A knock fills the basement and the room hushes. Cept for a few people quietly looking over paper work.

"Where is Seifer?" A voice booms through the floor boards, Squall.

"Busy."

Rin rolls her eyes and grabs some papers to look at.

Upstairs Mrs. Almsy faces a group of seeD's and their leader Squall. She was downright peevish from the days startings, and is tired and wanting to go to bed. Granted it was still early. Knowing what was down she herds everyone inside and glares at Squall.

"Are you trying you send those hooligans here?!" Mrs. Almsy scolds.

"No, where just looking for Seifer."

Mrs. Almsy rolls her eyes and walks to the hidden basement door and opens it for Squall. Squall and his team file into the basement quickly. She closes the door and covers it up again.

Squall looks at the closing door, and walks down stairs. People crowded everywhere quietly marking spots on the map. Exact locations of the explosions, and some other green markings. Looking to his right Squall notices his daughter looking at a piece of paper with a scowl on her face. Then Rin's face softens as she looks up. Squall and Rinoa lock eyes.

'Dad.' Rin signs.

The whole room drops what there doing and all eyes fall on Squall and his team. Anger building up inside Squall storms across the room and grabs Rin's arm. Carelessly Squall pulls his daughter to her feet. Rin cringes and tries to move off her bad ankle. Squall refused to let go, squeezing harder and harder.

"Rin why did you disobey me?" Squall asks.

Rin cringes and tries to pry her dads hand off her arm. Unconsciously he twists Rin's arm and waits for an answer. Seifer storms from the back and grabs Squall. Balling his fist up he decks Squall sending him sprawling on the floor. Rin falls back wards into Seth. Fuming she rubs her arm, feeling more scared then anything else. What did she do that set off her father like this?

"Squall I never thought this from you!" Seifer yells. "You never do that to you kid no matter what, especially when there already hurt. I thought you were a better father then that."

Squall rubs his face and stands up. For once he notices Rin's ankle. In his mind it gave Seifer no right to hit him. In a balled up fury Squall swings at Seifer. Seifer staggers back wards and holds his face. In a flash Seifer's gunblade was out. Squall pulls his and both are ready to fight.

"I'm taking my daughter back." Squall says.

"I'm not going to stop you, but I'm not going to let you take her in this mood." Seifer declares, glancing at his pleading son.

Seifer and Squall stare at each other. A thing warriors do before an fight. Time seemed to stop before they hear a pan falling. Seifer curses and keeps his gaurd. A falling pan, gorilla's are in the territory. They probably fallowed Squall, his group was big, and they probably didn't keep quiet. They were as good as found out.

Rin stands up and points at the four weakest looking people in the group. They could all mimic moving a injured person and hopefully draw them away. Seth seems to understand her plan and urges them to hurry. Rin hobbles behind her father.

"Where are you going Rin?" Squall asks glancing at her.

'To clean up your sloppyness dad.' Rin signs.

The four people gather upstairs with Rin. The make a litter for Rin, and hope and prey they fall for it. They carry Rin outside and head away from Timber/ away from the Almsy house, just like mother bird acting wounded just to get the preditor away from her nest.

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Rin rolls unto her stomach. All around her was scorched. One second she was getting naushious the next she found her self on the ground. I guess the planned worked. Rin pulls her self over to one of the four people, a young girl about a year younger then Rin. Weakly she opens her eyes.

"Play dead." Rin whispers. "Tell them w-"

A crashing sound draws Rin's attention. She snaps up her attention and faces a group of gorella's. Instinctivly she tries to pull away. Her body screamed in new found pain so she couldn't move as fast as desired. A big guy grabs Rin by the shirt and picks her up. Rin's eyes open wide as she leaves the ground.

"What do we do with her, she won't make a good laborer, her ankles hurt." His voice says loudly.

"Yes, but she is from the Leonhart family." A snakey voice comes behind Rin. "She wears the Leonhart symbol on her jacket."

Rin curses, she never figured to take off her jacket. What a stupid move and now she had to pay for it. The man picks up Rin higher so she was face to face with him. Rin can smell his ranched breathe. FOr a second he looks away and the snakey man.

"Any other survivors?"

"Nope, the only other survivor besides her is loosing a large amout of blood really fast."

"Leave them then." The man orders.

Rin looks at the girl she just talked to. Blood was pooling around her body. She didn't look that hurt, but some injuries take time to show.

"You the Leonhart kid?" He asks interupting her thoughts.

Before Rin realizes what she was doing, she spit in the mans face. The man turns ugly and slams Rin into a tree. She can feel every bone in her body shudder with the impact. The world spins violently, and so fast she couldn't grasp reality. Vagely she can hear the other gorilla's try to pull him back. The last thing Rin remebers before the world goes black.

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Hate to end like this AGAIN but I do have a secdule on the computer. ::growls:: so forgive my choppy chapters.