Wrong Intentions.
By Evelaunce.
Ch. 11, It starts here.
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"Soldiers! To the Airships!" I yelled. I had talked with the head councilor earlier about Megan's airships, and I could tell that he was surprised. I had asked him if we could use them to get to the Outpost faster, and he had accepted the idea immediately.
The airships could hold about fifty men each, so with ten of them packed out as much as they could hold, we could just barely fit all five hundred men in them.
"Why didn't you ever tell me about these Megan?" I heard Ariel's voice come through the speaker in my helmet, as the airship I was on, jolted from the ground, and slowly flew out of the hangar.
"I didn't tell ANYONE about these, until Cale told me that we were leaving." She had to yell over the noise to be heard.
"But everytime I came in...you were always doing something with one of those cars." Ariel said.
"Yeah, I had an alarm that told me when someone was coming." She said, and with the way she said it, I could tell that she was grinning.
"Why didn't you want anyone to know?" I asked.
"Because, if everyone knew, then I would have always had visitors, and couldn't have gotten these things done, and also I would have had to pay more money for the parts I needed." She answered.
"No wonder those parts didn't look like they were for those cars." I thought, then looked at all the scenery quickly rushing past me.
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I could feel the power coursing through my veins, as soon as the blue glow flared to life over the blade of my weapon. I ran towards Apock, with the blackness swiftly rushing past me. I thrust forward, but it was deflected, then I kept forcing blow after blow at him, until he couldn't move his gunblade fast enough to block or deflect my blows.
I had wasted ten slashes wearing him down, and now I was starting to get tired. I slashed him six times across his chest, then fell onto my knees from exhaustion.
"...Your getting better at it, but now you have to work on durability, after you have mastered that...I think you will be the first one to successfully pull off the Lionheart." Apock exclaimed, quickly healing the open wounds that were across his chest.
"I can't be that good...can I?" I asked, quickly returning my breathing to normal.
"Yes! You are the first person I have ever seen or heard of that could learn the Renzokuken, Rough Divide, Fatal Light, Crushing Circle, Crimson Darkness, AND the Lionheart, in less than a year!" Apock said, counting off the six linit breaks with his fingers.
"The first? Come on...I can't be the first." I said, not believing him.
"Well, you can believe what you want, but you are the first I've ever trained...or heard of for that matter." Apock said again, raising his hands up in defeat.
"Anyway, I'm done talking about this, so is the training session for today over?" I asked, wanting to drop the subject.
"No...I want you to do the Lionheart one more time, then we can take a break." Apock quickly objected.
"Ok, whatever." I said, then fell into my fighting stance.
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I found myself looking over the wall of the fort again, I couldn't help but worry about what was going to happen. It was about two hours away from nightfall, and the Galbadian army was getting closer and closer with each passing second.
We had sent out a messenger to the closest outpost asking for reinforcements, but we knew that they couldn't get here before the first wave of Galbadians attacked.
"Rinoa! Look what I just found in the weapon storage place!" Selphie yelled excitedly.
"Let me see it." I said, and she handed me a pair of Nunchuku's. "Wow Selphie! These things are really cool!" I said, handing the weapon back to her. "But...aren't those things really hard to use?" I asked, when I thought of what Squall had said when I was looking through his collection of weapons.
"Yeah, thats what Kevin was saying, but I tried them out, and they are easier to use than what I thought." She said, with a bright smile.
"Well, I'm glad that you found something." I said, then looked back out at the army slowly getting closer.
"...Do you think we'll make it out of here alive?" She asked, suddenly becoming quiet.
"...I...don't know...but we won't go down without a fight." I answered determinedly.
"Yeah...your right, we have come too far to die here." She said.
"Hey Rin! Selph! The doc needs you in here." Irvine yelled, sticking his head out of the door to the infirmary.
"Well, you heard him, come on let's go see what he wants." I said, motioning towards Selphie to follow me, then walked through the outpost until we arrived at the infirmary.
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"Fifty more pushups, and we're done." Apock said, then started on his fifty.
I had done sparring first, then we trained on the Limit Breaks, and now we were working out in the Gravity Room.
I had just gotten to ten on one hand, when I suddenly felt my body weight double, I tried to do one more pushup, but my arm gave out, and my face and body became one with the floor.
I could hear muffled fits of laughter, and knew immediately who it was.
"Apock, quit messing around." I moaned, slowly picking myself up from the floor. "We're leaving in four days, and I want to start training twice as hard until we leave." I said.
"Hahaha...I wasn't messing around, it's just...you looked so funny when you fell flat on the floor." He laughed. "But I feel the same way you do about training twice as hard, so that is why I turned up the gravity from one hundred, to two hundred." He explained.
"Well...could you please tell me when you are going to turn up the gravity?" I asked, rubbing my face.
"Heheh, the power...of being in control of the buttons!" He said, with a mischievous laugh.
"Haw haw, just tell me next time." I said, then started to do my fifty.
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"Slow down!" I yelled at the pilot, as soon Balamb City came into view.
"Sir! I can't slow down, I either stop...or keep going." He yelled back.
"Then stop! I need to talk with the General!" I yelled, then felt the airship slowly curve downwards, then with a somewhat rough landing the airship stopped.
"Sir, the other pilots are asking why we stopped, what do you want me to say?" The pilot asked.
"Tell them to land, I need Ariel and Megan to come with me." I answered, then jumped out of the airship.
"Why did you stop? I thought we were going strait to the outpost." Ariel asked, when she and Megan got close enough for me to hear.
"I need to talk with the General, you'll find out the other details soon, now follow me!" I explained, and started to walk towards the town, but I was stopped by the pilot.
"Sir! do you want the soldiers to stay in the airships? or...what?" He asked.
"Let them get out and stretch their legs, but don't let them move toward the town, the soldiers there have most likely seen us, so they are in full alert." I answered, then led the way towards the town.
"What do you want here?" A voice called out, as the three of us came in front of the gate.
I am Cale Leonhart, and I am here with Ariel Johnson, and Megan Merrick. They are representing a resistance faction that is set against Galbadia." I answered.
"What is the purpose for military soldiers on the outskirts of town?" The soldier asked.
"I have given strict orders for them to stay where they are, I am here to speak with the General." I answered, then watched the gates slowly slide open.
"Cale...is it...really you?" My friend, Tony Bishop asked, as I walked in.
"Yeah it's me, I'm so glad to see that you are still here...after the attack, I heard that a lot of the soldiers stationed at the Garden had been killed." I said, shaking his hand.
"Yeah...my brother...wasn't as lucky as me." He said sadly, and looked down at the ground.
"Hey man...I'm sorry..." was all that I could think to say, when he told me that.
"Y-yeah...thanks..." He replied shakily.
"Hey uh...do you know where I can find the General?" I asked.
"Yeah...he's at headquarters...come on, I'll take you guys there." He said, and started walking towards one of the larger buildings. "Ok...this is it...so I'll see you later man." He said, then walked away.
I had been directed to the fourth floor, where I could hear General Kramer, and a few other men that I didn't know talking.
"No! We can't send troops out of this town! Are you crazy!? If Galbadia attacks again...we're done for." One of the men yelled.
"The Galbadians are no where near this town, so I think we should help the remaining forts that are in Balamb." General Kramer said calmly.
"Sir, here is the room that the General is." The soldier said, standing at attention, and saluting.
"Thank you, we won't be very long." I said, then with Ariel and Megan, I walked into the room.
It felt like everybody was focusing on me.
"Cale!? I haven't heard from you in so long...are you and the others ok?" The General asked, standing up from his seat.
"For right now they are, but I don't know how long that will last." I answered.
"Do you have information that we do not know about?" He asked curiously.
"Yes, there are thirty-five hundred soldiers heading for the Ice Cavern Outpost," I stopped long enough to hear low gasps from the officers. "I know that the garrison at the fort is not very large at all, but they have not abandoned the fort, so I'm thinking that they're going to stay." I said, listening to my voice echo through the big room.
"Why that's...That's...That's suicide! If they don't get reinforcements...then they will be fighting a losing battle!" One of the officers yelled.
"Not quite, the fort in the past has served to be in a good position for defense, so they could hold the fort for a long time," I said, calming everyone else down a little. "Reinforcements are not needed for the fort, I already have a force of about five hundred men just on the outskirts of town." I said.
"How did you manage to do this?" the General asked, somewhat shocked.
"The two girls with me, Ariel Johnson, and Megan Merrick, are representing a resistance faction, their headquarters is located on the border of Timber, closest to Balamb. The leaders there have entrusted five hundred men to us, and their main force of sixty-five hundred men, are making their way to Dollet where they will be defending the town from ten thousand ground troops, and there will be Paratroopers arriving tomorrow morning to start off the attack, but I don't know how many there will be.
"Paratroopers!? That alone will destroy a large part of the force!" The General said.
"Yes sir, but I overheard the yelling coming from this room while I was following the guard, and I don't think the soldiers here will have to stay and protect the town. As far as I know...all of seifer's force is heading for the Ice Cavern Outpost, so a surprise attack would be almost impossible, plus there have not been any transport planes coming with reinforcements for him." I explained.
"How...how do you know all of this Cale?" the General asked.
"The resistance faction that my friends here are representing, have scouts all over Balamb...Timber...Trabia...you name it they're there, so they have all the information that they need." I explained.
"How long has your faction been active?" the General asked, looking at the two girls behind me.
"Almost twenty years...sir, I have lived there my whole life." Megan answered.
"twenty years? No wonder it has so much reach, so...you are sure that there won't be an attack on the city?" the General asked.
"Yes sir, seifer has no more men to send anywhere." I answered.
"Have you found his location?" the General asked hopefully, directing his words at one of the girls behind me.
"Yeah, we found a hidden base in the mountains surrounding the south border of Balamb." Ariel answered quickly.
"That close!? Why haven't we found that out yet!" the General yelled, turning towards the officers sitting around the table.
"Sir! You don't have to yell at them! We almost passed it by ourselves, it was only by sheer luck that we found the base." Ariel said, trying to defend the officers.
"...How did you find it exactly?" the General asked.
"Our scouts had heard noises coming from somewhere, so they followed them, and found a door disguised as the wall of the mountain just closing, so they waited for it to open again, once it did they got in undetected, and found that it was the Galbadian's headquarters." Ariel answered.
"Now that I know the details...what do you propose we do Cale?" He asked, looking at me.
"I would say...head for Timber with most of the men, and leave some here for if there is a surprise attack. Timber needs help, the Galbadians have been invading it for years, and although there are many resistance factions...they do not have a full fledged army, so if we could beat back the Galbadians in Timber we could gain a major standing ground against them. Timber does have a large population, and most of the people have trained themselves in the use of weapons, so if we win their trust, then we could have a large and effective army to invade Galbadia with." I answered.
"I like the way you think Cale," He said with a big smile. "Officers! You have heard Mr. Leonhart! Prepare for war!" he ordered, then all of the officers quickly filed out of the room.
"So...have you heard about your father yet?" he asked.
"Yes...when was the funeral?" I asked sadly.
"Yesterday...I'm sorry Cale...I wish it would have been me...he was the best friend I have ever had...sometimes...I can't believe that he is gone..." he said, and I could see tears starting to form in his eyes.
"Yeah...same here..." I said, remembering some of the happiest times I had with him.
"Um...Cale...I really hate to bring this up...but...look outside." Ariel said, almost whispering.
I looked out the window and seen nothing but black. "What's so special about that...?" I asked, then the reason why I had set out in the first place went through my mind. "Oh no! General...we have to go!" I said, and ran out the door, with Ariel and Megan quickly following.
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I heard the locks of the door slowly click, and I knew that I was a free man again, I slowly looked back at Apock, then I quickly opened the door.
I smelled fresh air for what seemed like the first time, and I seen real sunlight shining through one of the windows. "It feels so good to be free." I said, walking towards the window and looking at the beauty of freedom.
"Master Leonhart...we have problems." the guardian said, then I turned to look at him.
"What happened?" worry quickly ran through stomach, as soon as I heard what he said.
"The Ice Cavern Outpost is under attack right now." He said, with a hint of urgency in his voice.
"Rinoa!" her name, her voice, her face, raced through my head and I looked at Apock. "Apock! I need to go back right NOW!" I yelled. He nodded slowly, then put his hand on my forehead.
I opened my eyes, and found myself on a mountain range, in the middle of a snowstorm.
"We must go faster! Or we will never get there!" I heard a voice pierce through the darkness, and I quickly walked in the direction of the voice.
I looked over the hill, and seen about one hundred men slowly treading through the snow. I seen the Balamb crest labeled on the back of every uniform, and knew immediately that they were from the outpost located at the mountain pass.
"Stop! Where are you going in weather like this?" I yelled, then threw myself over the hill, and landed right in front of the leader.
"Wh-who are you?" He shrieked, and took a couple steps back.
"I am Sergeant Leonhart, of the Balamb army." I answered.
"S-Sergeant...Leonhart? SIR! The Ice Cavern Outpost is under attack!" He yelled.
"Yes I know, how far are we away from the Outpost?" I asked.
"Three miles." He answered simply.
"Good, I'll take it from here." I said, then started to lead the small force towards the outpost.
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Ok! on to the thnx and stuffs, lol I had to write it all down cause I couldn't remember all the stuffs...lol
BerlinBrownEyes: ok well in this story your older than what ya are in real life...I was thinkin...bowt...16...17...bowt same age as Cale ^_^ anyway i'm glad that you could finally read it, cause after awhile there, I thought I was going to update without being able to say thnx to ya, butcha did so...yeah thnx, anyway too bad that none of your friends that you hang with dontread your stuffs, but hey look at it this way...I'm one of your friends that will read anything you write...unless its yaoi or yuri, but i dun think your one of the wierdos that write that crap, so n worries here ^_^ anyway I'll send ya an E-mail tamorrow or something so C YA
AloneAndNotAfraid: Geez you dont have to bow down and worship me...just reviewing is sufficient ;) anyway yep Cale is on his way with you and megan, and 500 army dudes...but your all gonna die (laughs evilly) nope just kidding, anyway your older in the story prolly bowt megans age...if thats ok...if its not just tell me, oh yeah and your last name in this story, I'm pretty sure its not rainy...correct me if im wrong, so I put Johnson as your last name, Ithink it goes together better...dontcha think? Anyway my sis is puttin up her own websight soon, and its gonna be all pictures of stuffs, so I can prollytawkher intoputting my artwork on it, anyway I'm prolly gonna draw Apock next...either that or Squall and Cale standing beside eachother with their weapons drawn and ready for a fight ^_^ anyway thnx for reviewing, and hope you liked this chap so C YA
Selphie Kinneas: you actually think squall is dumb o_0??? k whatever but I think he's awwsum lol I want his gunblade then I'll KILL :) everything and everyone---oh uh...nevermind, I'll prolly just use it to scare my litto bros into listening to me...yep me an evil guy, anyway thx for reviewing, and hope you liked this chap, anyway C YA
Sefie Lynn Tilmitt: lol thats funny bowt you blowing your dads comp up, but my dad dont need anyone else to do it to his...he can do it just fine on his own...lolap anyway (gets down on hands and knees) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (...gasp) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (...gasp...gasp...) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (...gasps once more, then falls on the floor) dont stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your story is AWWSUM and if you cant think of anything to write, just send me an E-mail...I gots lotsa stuffs floating around in mah head ;) and if i dont...well I go to work a lot so I'll think about it there...while im standing at the machine for who knows how long, so I can come up with something, anyway thx for liking my writing so much, and thx for reviewing, and hope you like this chap...so C YA
Kain: Yo justin! Sup man, anyway...oh great powerful ruler of...what was that place again? I am your humble servant...PAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAH!!!!!!....not, anyway if ya have any trouble with your stories just gimme a call, me can help...or at least try...anyway C YA
Clyde: lol know what...I know someone whoes real name is clyde, and guess what...hes left-handed too! LOL I know...uh...six people including you and myself who are left-handed (go lefties!!) lol anyway if your bro starts buggin you for the comp...raise your pinky finger up in front of him...lol if you wanna know the meaning than E-mail me, its something that Nate and me made up...lol anyway C YA
OK!!! well, lesee here...ok whoever hasn't seen School of Rock yet...well YOU BETTER!!! cause I know where you ALL live (grins evilly, and pulls out one of the huge guns from the terminator movies) actually...I only know where kain lives...so uh...I was sorta bluffin (puts big honkin gun away) anyway everyone HAS to see that movie!!! its SOO funny, and very inspiring for anyone who plays some sort of guitar...bass...stuffs like that, lol every time I watch it I come up and start playing mah bass, and I always find a cool new tune...so its a MUST SEE for everyone ^_^
alright, well the next chap will have lotsa action in it...heheh the start of the battle...but thats all I'm gonna say...oh and I gotta do a cliffy sometime...spice things up a bit, anyway C YA later.