Secrets
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I Don't Need Luck
***Flashback***
"Just stay there! Don't move Squall." Ellone warned, shaking her hands at the crouched toddler.
"But Sis, it's just a fin." Squall pointed out, stepping toward the arachnid.
"Squall! Stay there! It's not only a fin. It's a fastitcalon! They're dangerous!" Ellone said, panic clear in her voice. She sprinted to the phone and dialled. She passed her brother a basket.
"Here Squallie, just trap the fin." Ellone ordered. Squall looked up at her triumphantly.
"I got rid of the fin for you." Ellone tilted her head, very much confused. The toddler pointed to a black figure on the floor. Her eyes widened in surprise, amazement and confusion. She dropped the phone.
"How?" She barely managed to get the words out. Squall's smile widened.
"It's my secret" Ellone hung up the phone and ruffled his dark brown hair.
"Squall you have to tell me." He shook his head and ran toward the stairs. He climbed the first stair then paused, looking at her.
"She made me promise me not to tell yoo" At that he climbed the stairs as fast as he could. Ellone ran after him.
"Who? Who promised you?" Ellone called. The door slammed with such speed and power which could not come from a three year-old. She knew that. She ran a hand through her brown hair and ran back down the stairs. She paced the kitchen frantically, deep in thought. She ran to large pad of paper and wrote: Operation:Secrets.
***
"Ellone will thank you if I tell her."
"NO! She won't. You must understand Squallie. I need you. Other people won't understand like you."
"Not even daddy?"
"No. Not even Laguna."
"What do I do then?"
"You must listen, and listen closely." Moments passed of soft whispering. Suddenly a blond boy appeared, roughly the same age and height. Squall and the other boy ran off.
"These boys are incredibly intelligent for their age. It'll work. It has to. Don't worry my love. I've found a way we can both live. Together. Forever.
***End Flashback***
"Here to give the instructions are Instructor Quistis Trepe." Squall turned to the front where Quistis stepped up in front of a middle aged man. He had brown hair that was thinning through the years. Squall could clearly see the white hairs that were soon to cover the brown.
"Hey Squall!" He spun to see the owner of the soft melodic voice.
"Aren't you gonna get closer? You can barely see Quisty up there. Hell, I can't even see her and I have 20/20 vision." Rinoa giggled and she grabbed his hand and pulled him along to the very front.
"You will be doing the SeeD Field Test in groups of three. We have been hired to clear out the town of Dollet of the G-army." Quistis said, speaking clearly and firmly. He heard Rinoa giggle. He looked at her questioningly.
"Don't you get it? Doesn't the G-army sound a little like G-string" At that she started to smile. Squall turned his attention back to Quistis.
"The details of your assignment will be told to you when your group has gathered together. Remember, this is a real mission. You may get killed if you don't keep your guard up. I you fail your objectives, the SeeD members accompanying you will. They always do. If the withdrawal order has been issued you must return back to the boats. We will leave without you. Xu will now call out the groups. Thank you." Squall felt someone's stare on him and looked around. To meet Rinoa's eyes.
"What?" He asked, slightly annoyed. Rinoa blushed and murmured an apology when Xu started to call out the Squads.
"Squad A- Selphie Tilmitt, Chloe Wilkins and Nida-" Someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder, taking his attention.
"What?" Squall asked again, a little more than agitated. He knew who he was going to see. "What do you want Seifer?" The blond smirked and pointed to the front.
"Listen!" Squall rolled his eyes and turned back.
"Squad B- Squall Leonhart, Zell Dincht and Seifer Almasy. The Squad Leader is Seifer Almasy." Rinoa glanced back at Squall and walked away, trying to find Selphie before they leave for Balamb. Before she could find her, she heard her name being called out. Great. Squad J. That is the most stupid name ever. She thought and left for the meeting place. Minutes later, the Submarine ride began.
***
"Did we have to be grouped up with Chicken-wuss?" Seifer grumbled, loud enough so that 'chicken-wuss' could hear. Seifer recognized him as the blond who was begging Irvine for a hot dog the other day. He just noticed that he had an intricate tattoo on the left side of his face.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" Zell asked, enraged. He started to clench his fists and hold them up threateningly.
"DON'T. It's not worth failing the exam over name calling." Squall warned, staring at the door. At that Zell seemed calm down.
"Considering our options, I'm commanding myself to be Squad Leader." Seifer said, smirking. Squall looked at him amazed.
"WHOA!! It's not like you were assigned to be Squad Leader in the first place!" Squall snapped, sarcasm dripping off his words. Zell started to laugh when Quistis and Xu walked in. Seifer wasn't listening to Xu when she started to 'drone' on about their mission. Finally when she was finished, Xu left and made Quistis in charge. At this time Seifer decided to order people around to his liking.
"Squall, go and check if we've arrived." Squall shot him a menacing glare and walked out on to the surface. Seifer smirked.
"Chicken-wuss, go to the bathroom and lock yourself in." Zell gave him the 'up-yours' gesture and left to lock himself in the washroom. Quistis was then left alone in a room with Seifer.
She looked and felt very uncomfortable. Seifer got up and sat close to her. She threw him a disgusted look and slid to the very end of the couch. He pretended to be hurt and slid over to her again.
"I'm so sorry for what I said the other day and I think that you're the most beautiful creature on face of the Earth." Quistis tilted her head to the side and looked at him questioningly.
"Are you hitting on me?" Seifer looked down at the ground and looked up at her again.
"Of course not. I am complimenting you. Also would you like to go on a date with me?" Quistis looked at his eyes and felt slightly compelled to accept. She walked past him and sat on the other couch which was all the way on the other side of the room. Again he sat beside her and before he could even speak she stood up. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her back down. He stared into her light green eyes and kissed her. To their surprise, she kissed back.
***
His dark brown hair whipped around his face as he watched the boats approaching the coast of Dollet. The surroundings seemed to be obvious to him that warfare was commencing. A large cement block which protruded through the soft waves which could be seen in the ocean depths was quickly seen larger as each second passed. The boat seemed to be hurtling at it. What a crazy driver! Squall thought, concentrating on the sounds of gunfire which echoed out. Squall went back under to find Quistis and Seifer 'making out'. Squall smirked and made his way, quietly, to the bathroom and knocked softly. Zell swung open the door with a very angry expression. The position of the door gave the occupant a clear view of the action which was currently arising on the red couch.
"WHAT DO YOU- WAAAAAAAHHHH!!" Squall stopped his outburst by clamping his hand over Zell's mouth and smiled evilly. To their surprise, the couple ignored the loud noise. Squall winked and motioned for him to follow. Zell was crouched behind Seifer while Squall was behind Quistis. Squall smiled and nodded.
"BOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
"HYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIY!!!!" The two shouted loudly at the same time. Quistis and Seifer separated and looked around in surprise and embarrassment, and then the boat rumbled uncontrollably back and forth which launched the four of them in to the opposite wall.
"Dammit!" Seifer yelled, standing up from the scattered assortments of pictures.
"Looks like we're here." Squall announced, offering a hand to Quistis. Her face was flushed with a deep shade of red. She straightened her clothes and her hair and took the offered hand.
"Come on cadets." She said sharply, glaring daggers at Zell who was having a hard time standing up because of the framed portrait which ended up crashing into his head. An unfortunate ending for the portrait. They made their way to the hatch which was already open.
"Good luck everyone." Quistis said. A cool wave of sandy and fresh air swept over the three.
"I don't need luck. Safe that for the losers" Seifer answered over his shoulder.
"Well, then good luck Seifer." He stopped to glare at the smiling instructor and went off beside Squall and Zell.
"Don't you love the smell of napalm in the afternoon?" Seifer asked wryly, a large grin on his face. Squall walked ahead while Zell stayed behind with Seifer.
"So dude." Zell looked around. "How was she?" Zell asked in a low tone. Seifer smirked.
"Wouldn't you like to know?"
"Well you're lucky to have even gotten that close to her. Too many 'Trepies' tried that out; they got big ass whip marks." Seifer raised an eyebrow and was about to respond when Squall interrupted.
"Get over here! G-Soldiers!!" Squall called, far up ahead. He clenched his hands into fists and grabbed his gunblade out of the sheath and waited for the blonds to meet up with him. The Galbadian soldiers, like the unorganized idiots they are, didn't notice the three SeeD candidates until they either got their ass handed to them on a silver platter or tried, but evidently got slaughtered.
"Who remembers our orders?" Seifer demanded, wiping the blood off his gunblade, Hyperion, with a Galbadian soldier's shirt. Zell looked around at the blood splotched ground, not really paying any attention. Squall shook his head and stabbed his gunblade in the sand.
"Hey CHICKEN-WUSS, did you remember our orders," His head shot up angrily but then when the full realization hit him he shook his head.
"I thought you were listening"
"Well I wasn't." Seifer answered, slashing his weapon diagonally in front of him in frustration. "But you're the captain."
"I do remember Xu mentioning something about clearing out the town hall area." Squall interjected, scanning the area.
"Fine. Then it's agreed. We go to the town hall. Follow the captain, besides who wouldn't want to kill on a day like this?" Seifer rambled, strutting through the cramped streets with his gunblade over his shoulder.
"HEY! KIDS! STOP WHERE YOU ARE!" A deep and demanding voice said from behind. They all froze.
"Don't worry about them. They're only kids. Probably the Garden sent them." They heard, obviously from his companion.
"Yeah right!" Seifer yelled, charging at them. There were soldiers all standing in a line, horizontally. While he took the centre guy, Zell and Squall took the others.
Seifer attacked, moving his weapon with such ease it looked like he was wielding a wooden stick. He attacked vertically and the Lieutenant blocked it, pushing Seifer back. For a moment they stood, eyeing each other before, at the very same time, running forward. Their swords clashed which made a strident clang. The soldier fighting against Zell stood amazingly well but he was distracted and Zell got in a left slug in to his stomach and another to the face. The soldier staggered back, clutching both his cheek and stomach. From then on, that soldier didn't stand a chance against the martial artist. Zell turned around to face Squall and his combatant once his was down but was surprised. Squall was knocked down, his weapon two feet away from his hands and the man stood over him, triumphantly. He raised his sword to stab the lying figure but just before it hit Squall, the soldier's weapon stopped mid-air. He looked from his would-be victim down and saw, protruding from his stomach, a gunblade. Zell's mouth hung open. He was watching the whole fight and yet he didn't see Squall make a move to grab his gunblade. In fact he swore it was still lying in the same position it was when he blinked a moment earlier. This all happened in a matter of seconds and soon Squall walked up to his wide-eyed companion.
"So how do you think Seifer's doing?" Squall asked, squinting slightly in the bright Sun which hung overhead.
"How d-did y-you do that?" Zell exclaimed lightly. Squall shrugged.
"A trick I've learned from Galbadia Garden." Squall looked around. "Where's Seifer?" Zell snapped out of his daze and also looked around. They suddenly heard clanging and grunting from the street behind them. They ran down and saw Seifer still fighting the Lieutenant. They found a nice spot on top of a car where they watched them fight. About 15 minutes passed of boring fighting, routine stabbing and slashing techniques, until Squall finally walked behind the busy soldier and kicked him on the right shin. He fell to a crouch and the last thing he saw was a bright metal blade falling upon him.
"Dammit guys! Took ya long enough!" Seifer complained.
"Come on, we've got a job to do." And with that Squall stalked away.
***
"AWWWWWWWWW MAN!!" Zell yelled. So far they've taken out 8 soldiers each out and now, in the town hall, had nothing to do. Seifer cursed under his breath and started to pace around. A small dog followed him around. Seifer paused and looked back, looking back at the canine.
"Get away!" He hissed, kicking the dog away. Though his foot didn't connect with the dog's body, it yelped and ran off to the side. It came again, slowly, creeping along, wary of that foot. Again Seifer swung his foot. Zell started to laugh uncontrollably.
"Shut up chicken-wuss!" Zell stopped laughing and started to practice his fighting, punching the air.
"What are you doing? Swatting flies?" Seifer sneered, and then moved away when the dog started to 'do his business' on his shoes. It was too late and it all clumped on his shoe.
"Guys duck!" Squall whispered. Many soldiers passed by. Maybe 15-20. Too much for the three of them to take on.
"What do you think they're here for? There's nothing good in Dollet. It doesn't have very many valuable resources like Timber so why would they be here?" Zell asked, watching the train of soldiers pass by. Squall shrugged and listened closely.
"Ewwwwwwwwwwwww! Man what's that awful stink coming from?" Zell exclaimed, stepping back and holding his nose. Squall smiled and moved back with him.
"It's that damn dog. It shitted on my shoe." Seifer smirked and took off his shoe. He threw it at the two in the corner. Zell yelped and jumped out of the way, leaving a clear aim at Squall. He held out his hands and it stopped in the air.
"How'd you do that?" Zell asked incredulously. Squall glanced at Seifer and walked away from the shoe.
"Used stop." He nodded and started to pace again.
"Lucky! I don't have a GF so I can't draw magic!" Squall searched his pocket and tossed Zell a light green marble.
"WOW! You have one! What about you?" Squall shrugged.
"Already got one." Zell nodded and junctioned him on. It was Quezacotl Minutes of silence passed.
"That's it! I'm sick of this sitting around!" Zell said loudly. Squall pulled him down and pointed to behind the fountain. Two Galbadian soldiers who were on break, were talking about something while smoking.
"Why do ya think that dude made us capture this crap town and fix that satellite thing, whatever it's called?"
"I dunno. That dude is making a big mistake siding with the sorceress." Seifer started to walk stealthily behind one of the soldiers. Squall behind the other. In perfect timing, they both jumped the two and the soldiers lay dead.
"So do ya want to check out that satellite dish thing?" Zell asked, coming out from the corner. Squall chuckled.
"Spoken like a real SeeD eh?" Squall asked.
"What are you? Canadian?"
"What's a Canadian?"
"I don't know."
"Whatever." Squall turned to Seifer.
"You're the captain. Do you want us to go?" Seifer thought for a moment then a wide smile erupted on his face.
"Hell yeah!"
"Aren't you forgetting something?"
"What?"
"Your shoe." Seifer quickly grabbed his shoe from the air casted water on it. Then he put it back on again.
***
"I'm gonna go ahead." Seifer told them, 10 dead soldiers and one bridge later. They nodded and stopped a moment to heal. Actually it was to heal Zell's hands.
"Shit man! I've got to get new gloves!"
"Hey guys!" A bright, cheery and very feminine voice exclaimed. They turned around to see Selphie, bouncing around.
"I've got a message for your Squad Leader. Seifer right?" Squall nodded.
"He's up ahead."
"Oh darn! I can't tell you guys. I'm sorry. I'm only supposed to tell the leader." Zell ran ahead.
"Well come on then, let's go find Seifer."
"Y'know, it took me such a long time to find you guys. I thought you weren't supposed to leave your positions." Squall shrugged and paused to see a large tower. It stood almost 200 ft. in height. They went in cautiously to see bodies scattered everywhere.
"Looks like Seifer took care of all this. Let's go up the elevator." When it reached the top he saw Seifer fighting with another Lieutenant. This time Seifer actually beat him and his sidekick.
"Let's go back down." They were about to go back down when a gust of wind knocked them off their feet.
"Shit! An elvoret!" Seifer exclaimed, jumping back on his feet, followed by everyone else.
"Attack!" Seifer yelled. Squall drew Siren, the GF and unsheathed his gunblade. He slashed its wings but did no effect. Only Squall and Seifer were the only ones not knocked back when they hit the monster. It was enormous. It had large flapping wings and was slightly reddish in color. In one word-gnarly.
Squall concentrated then almost immediately everyone disappeared and a large lion appeared. It had shaggy white and brown fur with large expanding wings. It tossed it's head and roared. A large red ball appeared around the elvoret and when the lion disappeared, it exploded. It was indescribable. When everybody phased back in the elvoret was killed.
"WHOA!!!! WHAT WAS THAT HUGE LION THING??!!!" Selphie and Zell exclaimed at the same time. Squall walked back to the elevator and waited for everybody to get on.
"It's called Griever." Squall said and gave everyone a menacing glare. No one asked him any more questions.
"OH! By the way, I've got a withdrawal order. We must be at the boats at 16:00 hours."
"16:00 hours? That's in 30 minutes. Dammit guys. Let's get our ass in gear!" Zell said and ran out. Selphie went over to a cliff and jumped off. It wasn't that far. From above a shadow was cast over them. A large metal crab like machine landed in front of them.
"GO AHEAD SELPHIE! WE'LL HANDLE THIS!!" Zell yelled, punching the machine. Zell summoned Quezacotl and the crab was down for the count.
"Let's get out of here!" Zell yelled running up the path. Squall and Seifer followed. A loud cracking sound erupted from behind and a shadow passed over them again. The crab landed in front of Zell.
"SHIT!" He yelled in surprise. "I thought we trashed this thing!" Zell started to punch it when on of its arms grabbed him and tossed him up. Zell somehow casted Quezacotl which hurt the crab and caught him. He was slightly pale and ran along. It stepped on cars and demolished buildings. Soon the boats were in view and theirs were leaving. Squall jumped and crashed in to the sand. The crab stopped and searched the area for signs of him. Squall started to ran to the boats. It was getting closer to him and the boats. Machine gun fire burst through the air. On top of the boat was Quistis firing a large gun. The crab shook frantically at the piercing bullets and fell. Squall ran as hard as he could toward the leaving boat. He looked to Quistis's green eyes and jumped.
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Authors Note- I know this chapter was kinda long. Also I made up what Griever and what Shockwave Pulsar looked like because I was kind of lazy to play the game. It wasn't much of a cliff-hanger but I'm trying to put some on now. :) Please R&R. Thank you to:
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Disclaimer-I don't own Final Fantasy 8 or its characters. Got it? I own nothing. So even if you do sue you probably won't get anything. So DON'T SUE! Please!
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I Don't Need Luck
***Flashback***
"Just stay there! Don't move Squall." Ellone warned, shaking her hands at the crouched toddler.
"But Sis, it's just a fin." Squall pointed out, stepping toward the arachnid.
"Squall! Stay there! It's not only a fin. It's a fastitcalon! They're dangerous!" Ellone said, panic clear in her voice. She sprinted to the phone and dialled. She passed her brother a basket.
"Here Squallie, just trap the fin." Ellone ordered. Squall looked up at her triumphantly.
"I got rid of the fin for you." Ellone tilted her head, very much confused. The toddler pointed to a black figure on the floor. Her eyes widened in surprise, amazement and confusion. She dropped the phone.
"How?" She barely managed to get the words out. Squall's smile widened.
"It's my secret" Ellone hung up the phone and ruffled his dark brown hair.
"Squall you have to tell me." He shook his head and ran toward the stairs. He climbed the first stair then paused, looking at her.
"She made me promise me not to tell yoo" At that he climbed the stairs as fast as he could. Ellone ran after him.
"Who? Who promised you?" Ellone called. The door slammed with such speed and power which could not come from a three year-old. She knew that. She ran a hand through her brown hair and ran back down the stairs. She paced the kitchen frantically, deep in thought. She ran to large pad of paper and wrote: Operation:Secrets.
***
"Ellone will thank you if I tell her."
"NO! She won't. You must understand Squallie. I need you. Other people won't understand like you."
"Not even daddy?"
"No. Not even Laguna."
"What do I do then?"
"You must listen, and listen closely." Moments passed of soft whispering. Suddenly a blond boy appeared, roughly the same age and height. Squall and the other boy ran off.
"These boys are incredibly intelligent for their age. It'll work. It has to. Don't worry my love. I've found a way we can both live. Together. Forever.
***End Flashback***
"Here to give the instructions are Instructor Quistis Trepe." Squall turned to the front where Quistis stepped up in front of a middle aged man. He had brown hair that was thinning through the years. Squall could clearly see the white hairs that were soon to cover the brown.
"Hey Squall!" He spun to see the owner of the soft melodic voice.
"Aren't you gonna get closer? You can barely see Quisty up there. Hell, I can't even see her and I have 20/20 vision." Rinoa giggled and she grabbed his hand and pulled him along to the very front.
"You will be doing the SeeD Field Test in groups of three. We have been hired to clear out the town of Dollet of the G-army." Quistis said, speaking clearly and firmly. He heard Rinoa giggle. He looked at her questioningly.
"Don't you get it? Doesn't the G-army sound a little like G-string" At that she started to smile. Squall turned his attention back to Quistis.
"The details of your assignment will be told to you when your group has gathered together. Remember, this is a real mission. You may get killed if you don't keep your guard up. I you fail your objectives, the SeeD members accompanying you will. They always do. If the withdrawal order has been issued you must return back to the boats. We will leave without you. Xu will now call out the groups. Thank you." Squall felt someone's stare on him and looked around. To meet Rinoa's eyes.
"What?" He asked, slightly annoyed. Rinoa blushed and murmured an apology when Xu started to call out the Squads.
"Squad A- Selphie Tilmitt, Chloe Wilkins and Nida-" Someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder, taking his attention.
"What?" Squall asked again, a little more than agitated. He knew who he was going to see. "What do you want Seifer?" The blond smirked and pointed to the front.
"Listen!" Squall rolled his eyes and turned back.
"Squad B- Squall Leonhart, Zell Dincht and Seifer Almasy. The Squad Leader is Seifer Almasy." Rinoa glanced back at Squall and walked away, trying to find Selphie before they leave for Balamb. Before she could find her, she heard her name being called out. Great. Squad J. That is the most stupid name ever. She thought and left for the meeting place. Minutes later, the Submarine ride began.
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"Did we have to be grouped up with Chicken-wuss?" Seifer grumbled, loud enough so that 'chicken-wuss' could hear. Seifer recognized him as the blond who was begging Irvine for a hot dog the other day. He just noticed that he had an intricate tattoo on the left side of his face.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" Zell asked, enraged. He started to clench his fists and hold them up threateningly.
"DON'T. It's not worth failing the exam over name calling." Squall warned, staring at the door. At that Zell seemed calm down.
"Considering our options, I'm commanding myself to be Squad Leader." Seifer said, smirking. Squall looked at him amazed.
"WHOA!! It's not like you were assigned to be Squad Leader in the first place!" Squall snapped, sarcasm dripping off his words. Zell started to laugh when Quistis and Xu walked in. Seifer wasn't listening to Xu when she started to 'drone' on about their mission. Finally when she was finished, Xu left and made Quistis in charge. At this time Seifer decided to order people around to his liking.
"Squall, go and check if we've arrived." Squall shot him a menacing glare and walked out on to the surface. Seifer smirked.
"Chicken-wuss, go to the bathroom and lock yourself in." Zell gave him the 'up-yours' gesture and left to lock himself in the washroom. Quistis was then left alone in a room with Seifer.
She looked and felt very uncomfortable. Seifer got up and sat close to her. She threw him a disgusted look and slid to the very end of the couch. He pretended to be hurt and slid over to her again.
"I'm so sorry for what I said the other day and I think that you're the most beautiful creature on face of the Earth." Quistis tilted her head to the side and looked at him questioningly.
"Are you hitting on me?" Seifer looked down at the ground and looked up at her again.
"Of course not. I am complimenting you. Also would you like to go on a date with me?" Quistis looked at his eyes and felt slightly compelled to accept. She walked past him and sat on the other couch which was all the way on the other side of the room. Again he sat beside her and before he could even speak she stood up. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her back down. He stared into her light green eyes and kissed her. To their surprise, she kissed back.
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His dark brown hair whipped around his face as he watched the boats approaching the coast of Dollet. The surroundings seemed to be obvious to him that warfare was commencing. A large cement block which protruded through the soft waves which could be seen in the ocean depths was quickly seen larger as each second passed. The boat seemed to be hurtling at it. What a crazy driver! Squall thought, concentrating on the sounds of gunfire which echoed out. Squall went back under to find Quistis and Seifer 'making out'. Squall smirked and made his way, quietly, to the bathroom and knocked softly. Zell swung open the door with a very angry expression. The position of the door gave the occupant a clear view of the action which was currently arising on the red couch.
"WHAT DO YOU- WAAAAAAAHHHH!!" Squall stopped his outburst by clamping his hand over Zell's mouth and smiled evilly. To their surprise, the couple ignored the loud noise. Squall winked and motioned for him to follow. Zell was crouched behind Seifer while Squall was behind Quistis. Squall smiled and nodded.
"BOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
"HYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIY!!!!" The two shouted loudly at the same time. Quistis and Seifer separated and looked around in surprise and embarrassment, and then the boat rumbled uncontrollably back and forth which launched the four of them in to the opposite wall.
"Dammit!" Seifer yelled, standing up from the scattered assortments of pictures.
"Looks like we're here." Squall announced, offering a hand to Quistis. Her face was flushed with a deep shade of red. She straightened her clothes and her hair and took the offered hand.
"Come on cadets." She said sharply, glaring daggers at Zell who was having a hard time standing up because of the framed portrait which ended up crashing into his head. An unfortunate ending for the portrait. They made their way to the hatch which was already open.
"Good luck everyone." Quistis said. A cool wave of sandy and fresh air swept over the three.
"I don't need luck. Safe that for the losers" Seifer answered over his shoulder.
"Well, then good luck Seifer." He stopped to glare at the smiling instructor and went off beside Squall and Zell.
"Don't you love the smell of napalm in the afternoon?" Seifer asked wryly, a large grin on his face. Squall walked ahead while Zell stayed behind with Seifer.
"So dude." Zell looked around. "How was she?" Zell asked in a low tone. Seifer smirked.
"Wouldn't you like to know?"
"Well you're lucky to have even gotten that close to her. Too many 'Trepies' tried that out; they got big ass whip marks." Seifer raised an eyebrow and was about to respond when Squall interrupted.
"Get over here! G-Soldiers!!" Squall called, far up ahead. He clenched his hands into fists and grabbed his gunblade out of the sheath and waited for the blonds to meet up with him. The Galbadian soldiers, like the unorganized idiots they are, didn't notice the three SeeD candidates until they either got their ass handed to them on a silver platter or tried, but evidently got slaughtered.
"Who remembers our orders?" Seifer demanded, wiping the blood off his gunblade, Hyperion, with a Galbadian soldier's shirt. Zell looked around at the blood splotched ground, not really paying any attention. Squall shook his head and stabbed his gunblade in the sand.
"Hey CHICKEN-WUSS, did you remember our orders," His head shot up angrily but then when the full realization hit him he shook his head.
"I thought you were listening"
"Well I wasn't." Seifer answered, slashing his weapon diagonally in front of him in frustration. "But you're the captain."
"I do remember Xu mentioning something about clearing out the town hall area." Squall interjected, scanning the area.
"Fine. Then it's agreed. We go to the town hall. Follow the captain, besides who wouldn't want to kill on a day like this?" Seifer rambled, strutting through the cramped streets with his gunblade over his shoulder.
"HEY! KIDS! STOP WHERE YOU ARE!" A deep and demanding voice said from behind. They all froze.
"Don't worry about them. They're only kids. Probably the Garden sent them." They heard, obviously from his companion.
"Yeah right!" Seifer yelled, charging at them. There were soldiers all standing in a line, horizontally. While he took the centre guy, Zell and Squall took the others.
Seifer attacked, moving his weapon with such ease it looked like he was wielding a wooden stick. He attacked vertically and the Lieutenant blocked it, pushing Seifer back. For a moment they stood, eyeing each other before, at the very same time, running forward. Their swords clashed which made a strident clang. The soldier fighting against Zell stood amazingly well but he was distracted and Zell got in a left slug in to his stomach and another to the face. The soldier staggered back, clutching both his cheek and stomach. From then on, that soldier didn't stand a chance against the martial artist. Zell turned around to face Squall and his combatant once his was down but was surprised. Squall was knocked down, his weapon two feet away from his hands and the man stood over him, triumphantly. He raised his sword to stab the lying figure but just before it hit Squall, the soldier's weapon stopped mid-air. He looked from his would-be victim down and saw, protruding from his stomach, a gunblade. Zell's mouth hung open. He was watching the whole fight and yet he didn't see Squall make a move to grab his gunblade. In fact he swore it was still lying in the same position it was when he blinked a moment earlier. This all happened in a matter of seconds and soon Squall walked up to his wide-eyed companion.
"So how do you think Seifer's doing?" Squall asked, squinting slightly in the bright Sun which hung overhead.
"How d-did y-you do that?" Zell exclaimed lightly. Squall shrugged.
"A trick I've learned from Galbadia Garden." Squall looked around. "Where's Seifer?" Zell snapped out of his daze and also looked around. They suddenly heard clanging and grunting from the street behind them. They ran down and saw Seifer still fighting the Lieutenant. They found a nice spot on top of a car where they watched them fight. About 15 minutes passed of boring fighting, routine stabbing and slashing techniques, until Squall finally walked behind the busy soldier and kicked him on the right shin. He fell to a crouch and the last thing he saw was a bright metal blade falling upon him.
"Dammit guys! Took ya long enough!" Seifer complained.
"Come on, we've got a job to do." And with that Squall stalked away.
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"AWWWWWWWWW MAN!!" Zell yelled. So far they've taken out 8 soldiers each out and now, in the town hall, had nothing to do. Seifer cursed under his breath and started to pace around. A small dog followed him around. Seifer paused and looked back, looking back at the canine.
"Get away!" He hissed, kicking the dog away. Though his foot didn't connect with the dog's body, it yelped and ran off to the side. It came again, slowly, creeping along, wary of that foot. Again Seifer swung his foot. Zell started to laugh uncontrollably.
"Shut up chicken-wuss!" Zell stopped laughing and started to practice his fighting, punching the air.
"What are you doing? Swatting flies?" Seifer sneered, and then moved away when the dog started to 'do his business' on his shoes. It was too late and it all clumped on his shoe.
"Guys duck!" Squall whispered. Many soldiers passed by. Maybe 15-20. Too much for the three of them to take on.
"What do you think they're here for? There's nothing good in Dollet. It doesn't have very many valuable resources like Timber so why would they be here?" Zell asked, watching the train of soldiers pass by. Squall shrugged and listened closely.
"Ewwwwwwwwwwwww! Man what's that awful stink coming from?" Zell exclaimed, stepping back and holding his nose. Squall smiled and moved back with him.
"It's that damn dog. It shitted on my shoe." Seifer smirked and took off his shoe. He threw it at the two in the corner. Zell yelped and jumped out of the way, leaving a clear aim at Squall. He held out his hands and it stopped in the air.
"How'd you do that?" Zell asked incredulously. Squall glanced at Seifer and walked away from the shoe.
"Used stop." He nodded and started to pace again.
"Lucky! I don't have a GF so I can't draw magic!" Squall searched his pocket and tossed Zell a light green marble.
"WOW! You have one! What about you?" Squall shrugged.
"Already got one." Zell nodded and junctioned him on. It was Quezacotl Minutes of silence passed.
"That's it! I'm sick of this sitting around!" Zell said loudly. Squall pulled him down and pointed to behind the fountain. Two Galbadian soldiers who were on break, were talking about something while smoking.
"Why do ya think that dude made us capture this crap town and fix that satellite thing, whatever it's called?"
"I dunno. That dude is making a big mistake siding with the sorceress." Seifer started to walk stealthily behind one of the soldiers. Squall behind the other. In perfect timing, they both jumped the two and the soldiers lay dead.
"So do ya want to check out that satellite dish thing?" Zell asked, coming out from the corner. Squall chuckled.
"Spoken like a real SeeD eh?" Squall asked.
"What are you? Canadian?"
"What's a Canadian?"
"I don't know."
"Whatever." Squall turned to Seifer.
"You're the captain. Do you want us to go?" Seifer thought for a moment then a wide smile erupted on his face.
"Hell yeah!"
"Aren't you forgetting something?"
"What?"
"Your shoe." Seifer quickly grabbed his shoe from the air casted water on it. Then he put it back on again.
***
"I'm gonna go ahead." Seifer told them, 10 dead soldiers and one bridge later. They nodded and stopped a moment to heal. Actually it was to heal Zell's hands.
"Shit man! I've got to get new gloves!"
"Hey guys!" A bright, cheery and very feminine voice exclaimed. They turned around to see Selphie, bouncing around.
"I've got a message for your Squad Leader. Seifer right?" Squall nodded.
"He's up ahead."
"Oh darn! I can't tell you guys. I'm sorry. I'm only supposed to tell the leader." Zell ran ahead.
"Well come on then, let's go find Seifer."
"Y'know, it took me such a long time to find you guys. I thought you weren't supposed to leave your positions." Squall shrugged and paused to see a large tower. It stood almost 200 ft. in height. They went in cautiously to see bodies scattered everywhere.
"Looks like Seifer took care of all this. Let's go up the elevator." When it reached the top he saw Seifer fighting with another Lieutenant. This time Seifer actually beat him and his sidekick.
"Let's go back down." They were about to go back down when a gust of wind knocked them off their feet.
"Shit! An elvoret!" Seifer exclaimed, jumping back on his feet, followed by everyone else.
"Attack!" Seifer yelled. Squall drew Siren, the GF and unsheathed his gunblade. He slashed its wings but did no effect. Only Squall and Seifer were the only ones not knocked back when they hit the monster. It was enormous. It had large flapping wings and was slightly reddish in color. In one word-gnarly.
Squall concentrated then almost immediately everyone disappeared and a large lion appeared. It had shaggy white and brown fur with large expanding wings. It tossed it's head and roared. A large red ball appeared around the elvoret and when the lion disappeared, it exploded. It was indescribable. When everybody phased back in the elvoret was killed.
"WHOA!!!! WHAT WAS THAT HUGE LION THING??!!!" Selphie and Zell exclaimed at the same time. Squall walked back to the elevator and waited for everybody to get on.
"It's called Griever." Squall said and gave everyone a menacing glare. No one asked him any more questions.
"OH! By the way, I've got a withdrawal order. We must be at the boats at 16:00 hours."
"16:00 hours? That's in 30 minutes. Dammit guys. Let's get our ass in gear!" Zell said and ran out. Selphie went over to a cliff and jumped off. It wasn't that far. From above a shadow was cast over them. A large metal crab like machine landed in front of them.
"GO AHEAD SELPHIE! WE'LL HANDLE THIS!!" Zell yelled, punching the machine. Zell summoned Quezacotl and the crab was down for the count.
"Let's get out of here!" Zell yelled running up the path. Squall and Seifer followed. A loud cracking sound erupted from behind and a shadow passed over them again. The crab landed in front of Zell.
"SHIT!" He yelled in surprise. "I thought we trashed this thing!" Zell started to punch it when on of its arms grabbed him and tossed him up. Zell somehow casted Quezacotl which hurt the crab and caught him. He was slightly pale and ran along. It stepped on cars and demolished buildings. Soon the boats were in view and theirs were leaving. Squall jumped and crashed in to the sand. The crab stopped and searched the area for signs of him. Squall started to ran to the boats. It was getting closer to him and the boats. Machine gun fire burst through the air. On top of the boat was Quistis firing a large gun. The crab shook frantically at the piercing bullets and fell. Squall ran as hard as he could toward the leaving boat. He looked to Quistis's green eyes and jumped.
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Authors Note- I know this chapter was kinda long. Also I made up what Griever and what Shockwave Pulsar looked like because I was kind of lazy to play the game. It wasn't much of a cliff-hanger but I'm trying to put some on now. :) Please R&R. Thank you to:
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