Chapter Two

Squall watched out the window of the bright red Ragnarok as his beloved wife and daughter ran towards the ship. He ran down to meet them and saw the expressions on their faces. Rinoa who was running somewhat slower then she could in her young teenage years had a very concerned and worried look on her face but Aurora had more of an angry expression as if she had just had and argument. Squall quickly realized that Rinoa and Aurora had another argument, probably about Aurora's attitude that he didn't find so bad.

Rinoa stopped in front of Squall and stared at him for a moment, Aurora came running up next after putting the luggage down. They both started into a mass of questions. Squall simply turned away and headed to the elevator to the Pilot Deck.

Just as the three of them arrived at the pilot deck the Ragnarok took off headed towards Balamb Garden where they'd be arriving soon. Squall glanced over at Aurora, who was still looking angry and seemed to be taken by surprise as she saw who was flying the Ragnarok.

Selpie Tilmitt sat in the pilot's seat, Squall went over a sat in the co-pilot seat and began saying something to her. Selphie stood up and walked over and shook Aurora's hand rather excitedly.
"Wow! You're really Aurora! Little baby Aurora!" Selphie said in a shocked kind of voice. "Its great to see you, Aurora."
Selphie looked at Aurora, who seemed to be confused.
"O…. h… umm… hello, Selphie. Nice to meet you…" Aurora said in a stuttering voice.
Selphie turned away and walked over to the pilot seat, her hair still bouncy and curled like when she was a teenager. She wore a banana yellow turtleneck with a long skirt that just touched the ground. She still looked fairly young for her 33 years, she looked to be maybe 24 years old.

Selphie, Squall and Rinoa talked for the rest of the ride. They talked mostly about Selphie's life and what she's been doing. Selphie who had retired from being a SeeD commander had moved to small town in Trabia called Bika with Irvine. They ran a gun shop that Irvine was mostly into. Selphie mainly organized town events, that people from all over Trabia came to. Selphie and Irvine had also agreed that if they were needed at the Garden for anything that they would come back right away and help out. Selphie told Squall and Rinoa how they received a call earlier that day to come so Selphie and Irvine came to the Garden right away using a ship that the Estharian President, Laguna, had given them after the defeat of Ultimecia 15 years earlier. When they arrived at the Garden Selphie saw Squall run in and they decided to come to Balamb together to pick up Rinoa and Aurora, Selphie seemed rather excited to fly since she hadn't piloted the Ragnarok since right after the defeat of Ultimecia.

Selphie noticed that Rinoa seemed worried but didn't say anything, she decided that it would be better for her to let Squall and Rinoa work it out.

Selphie began asking Squall and Rinoa about their life. She asked about their honeymoon 15 years earlier and they told her how it was great to visit places that they never had a chance to visit. They told about visiting Timber, and seeing Zone and Watts there, Deling City and how Squall talked Rinoa into seeing her father, General Caraway who was very happy to see her so happy, with a baby and a husband. They told her about Fisherman's Horizon and how they fished for an entire day and caught nothing and finally about Esthar where they visited Laguna Loire, Squall's father.

Selphie was very interested in Laguna and when they were tougther nearly even one asked if selphie was laguna's daugther. They told her about how they visit him almost once a month and how Squall finally, after nearly two years, began to like Laguna and his ways. They also visited Ellone in Esthar, she was always very glad to see them, and how Aurora was so much like her.

Just as they finished telling Selphie all about how they lived in Winhill for all those years. They lived in that abandoned house and how Rinoa taught Aurora herself with some help from Squall (he taught her battle skills using Rinoa's old Shooting Star) and how Rinoa started her own flower shop, they arrived at Balamb Garden.

Aurora looked out the window, and stared at the Garden, which was stopped in the snowfields of Trabia near Trabia Garden. She looked at how the rings around the Garden turned ever so slightly, and the lights bounced off of them.

The Ragnarok landed right outside the Garden and they walked inside. Aurora, who was trailing behind, looked around in awe. The only words that she could come up with were "what a beautiful place!". They small gardens with flower's, the high ceilings, the beautiful floor designs. It all seemed wonderful to Aurora who knew nothing more then her small town house, really. They headed from the front gate to the stairs headed to the elevator, Aurora looked at the students passing by and heard them saying something about a SeeD test in a few days.

Aurora heard her father and her mother talking with Selphie about how the Garden hasn't changed and how everything's the same. Just as they arrived at the elevator the door opened and a man with a long trench coat and another man with blond spiky hair stepped out. The man with the long trench coat, which was black, wore a cowboy hat over his short cut hair. The other man had short blond spiky hair and wore a vest with a black shirt underneath and had dark green pants on.

Aurora watched as Selphie ran over to the man in the trench coat and kissed him on the cheek then held his hand and walked over to her.
"Aurora! I want you to meet Irvine Kinneas! My husband of 13 years!" exclaimed Selphie. "Pleased to meet you, Aurora is it? said Irvine.
"Yes, nice to meet you too Irvine, I've heard about you from my parents, they say you're a sharpshooter!" Aurora said politely. "You should teach me one day!"
"I surely will, miss." Irvine said as if very excited someone was interested in learning.
Aurora looked over at her mother and father. Her mother had a scowl on and Aurora immediately knew why. Her father however seemed fairly happy that she was interested in learning something knew. After a short pause the man with the spiky hair came over and introduced himself to Aurora.

"Yo Lil'Aurora! its me uncel zell? remeber?''he said puncing into the air"and to side of him a muddy blond haired women look at her and said"Don't mind zell aurora he's always like that after he's eaten 40 hotdogs"
"Shall we go up?" said Zell looking hurt at carissa's comment,making his wayto the elevator.
Aurora trailed behind again as they all stepped into the elevator, she took one more look around and thought how beautiful it was and how she would love it to stay here.

Quistis stood on the top floor and awaited the arrival of her friends from years ago. She had seen the Ragnarok land some time ago and knew they'd be arriving at any minute.
Just as Quistis turned to walk out of the room the elevator doors opened and Quistis turned around. She saw Squall and Rinoa walk out followed by Selphie, Irvine and Zell. Then out of the back of the elevator she saw a young girl with long flowing blond hair and blue eyes walk out. She looked to be about 16, then Quisis realized who it was.

Quistis watched as Squall and Rinoa came straight over and gave her a hug.
"Quistis, its great to see you again!" said Rinoa excitedly.
"Yes, I'm so glad to see you too, Quistis!" Squall said quietly but happily.
"Quistis, this is our daughter, Aurora." Rinoa said even more excited.

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