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A/N: um, this chapter isn't that good, but I hope ya like it. Once again, I would like to thank chichiri's girl for her reviews. Plus thanks to all other reviews, even if they did diss my story!

A CHILD HERO
CHAPTER 4 - MEET YOUR DEATH

A/N: I have changed my routine, I am not going to say, "last time I wrote." etc, etc. I'm doing something different. Well see ya! R&R, thanx!

At the end of my last chapter.

"Guys!" Squall said, cutting in. "stop fighting, we're almost there!" Squall told them. "get ready. You got your weapons?" Squall asked.

"Yeah!" Shayne and Zell said in unison.

"Good, cuz we're almost there!" Squall told them getting ready to get the control so they can easily get down to timber. "Zell, get the rope!" Squall ordered.

This time.

"Hurry up and get it!" Squall yelled the order at Zell. Zell nodded.

"Why do we need a rope, dad?" Shayne asked Squall.

"We're gonna slide down!" Squall answered.

"Slide? Why?" Shayne asked.

"We get there quicker, and its stealthy!" Squall told him.

"Oh!" said Shayne.

"And it will look cool!" Zell butted in.

"Oh." Shayne said uninterestingly. "But whose gonna control the Ragnarok?"

Squall held up the control he was holding in his left hand. "Remote control!" Squall exclaimed.

"Remote control? What have youse done, upgraded Ragnarok?" Shayne asked.

"Pretty much, yeah! We're just about there, get ready to slide!" Squall informed them, tying the rope to a pipe on the roof.

"Right!" Shayne and Zell said together.

"Ready!...SET!.GO!!!" Squall screamed. Squall first slid down the rope, then Zell, then Shayne went down. They all landed in a fight stance. They were standing just at the entrance to timber. "Zell, Shayne, stay close and watch each others back!" Squall told them.

"Right!" Shayne replied.

"Yeah, ok!" Zell also replied.

"Lets go!" Squall screamed. They started off along the road, watching their backs, making sure no one was gonna make a sneak attack. A few minutes later they ran into 2 guys on the bridge. The first was blonde short hair, 5'8", blue eyes; he was wearing black long pants, a blue shirt with a weird symbol on it, and a black jacket. The other was shorter than the first guy, he was about 5'4", short dark black hair, he was wearing dark red pants with a belt on, white shirt, and a black button up shirt, not buttoned up.

"Who are you!?" Squall demanded, moving into a fighting stance, as did Shayne and Zell. They just stood there with their arms folded, not speaking. "I will ask you one more time! Who are YOU!" Squall demanded again.

"Why do you wish to know?" the tall one asked in a deep voice. Squall was kind of surprised that he replied.

"Just tell us would ya!" Zell demanded.

"Hmm. You will know soon." The tall one replied.

"Buh-bye!" the short one said in a medium-high-pitched voice, and he laughed an evil, high-pitched laugh. Then they just disappeared into thin air.

"Huh! Uh, what just happened here?" Zell asked.

"I don't know. Lets just continue on" Squall told them. They nodded and continued on. Just across the bridge at the train station that led to Galbadia, they ran into a familiar person. "Who's that!" Squall demanded.

"Hello sir, calm down please, sir. Its me sir." The man took of the mask he was wearing and revealed it was watts.

"Watts!" Squall said with surprise.

"Watts what are you doing here?" Zell asked.

"I'm here to protect Timber, sir. Hey, where's Rinoa?" watts asked.

"She isn't here" Zell told him.

"Why?" watts asked. Well, Squall explained that she wasn't because Squall didn't want her to come so she wouldn't get hurt and everything. "Oh, so she can't die. But isn't she a sorceress, sir?" watts asked.

"Yeah, I know. That makes it even more dangerous. They might be after her, and think she has returned to timber! So, she has to stay at garden where it's safe" Squall told him.

"Um, dad.!" Shayne said worriedly.

"Not now, Shayne!" Squall scolded.

"But dad.!" Shayne started more worriedly and louder.

"Uh, Squall I think you should listen to him" Zell advised him, looking at what Shayne was looking at.

"Huh?" Squall asked. He turned around to where Shayne was looking and coming right towards them were 20 men all dressed in army uniforms. "Shayne, why didn't you say something!" Squall screamed.

"I tried to, but you ignored me!!" Shayne yelled back.

"Guys, concentrate would ya!!" Zell yelled at them.

"Right!" Squall answered.

"So, what do we do?" Shayne asked. Squall smiled a smile that meant 'we take them out'. "Right!" Shayne said. They grabbed their weapons getting ready to attack.

"Um, should I just get out of the way?" Watts asked.

"Yeah, go far away! This is gonna be hard, but we will do it, go!" Squall ordered. Watts ran away. Squall, Shayne and Zell got ready to attack and defend. Shayne got ready to cast firaga. Zell got ready to use his limit break. And Squall got ready to summon Quezacotl.

"FIRAGA!!!" Shayne screamed then through a huge fireball toward a line of soldiers. "YES!" Shayne screamed with joy! It killed 4 people.

"PUNCH RUSH!" Zell screamed. He ran up to one soldier and killed him at once, he started using the 'dolphin blow' on another, it killed him, he then used 'my final heaven' on another, and it also killed him. 3 more down. 7 all up.

"I SUMMON THEE, QUEZACOTL!!!" Squall screamed and down from a thundery sky appeared quezacotl, the lightning GF. He started to perform 'thunder storm'. "Good he's doing 'Thunder Storm'" Squall thought to himself. The 'Thunder Storm' killed 10 people, that meant there were only 3 people left. Zell looked at Squall, so did Shayne.

"Yo, Squall. You thinking what I'm thinking?" Zell asked.

"Well, that depends. Are you thinking of Rinoa naked?" Squall asked.

"How did he know?" Zell thought. "No! Why don't we take one each?" Zell asked.

"Yeah, why not?" Squall asked. By the time they finished their discussion, the soldiers had finished talking about the sorceress war and had finished two cups of coffee each.

"There drinking coffee at a time like this! What kind of soldiers are they!?" Shayne whined.

"What the.? Man, lets just get this over with, ok?" Squall suggested. They nodded, the soldiers tried to defend. Squall, Shayne and Zell ran up with their weapons. Shayne ran up with his gunblade and cut the first guy in half, Zell ran up to the second one and hit him in the head killing him instantly, and Squall ran up to the final one and cut his head off! They all stood there, huffing and puffing, tired. "Good... now, lets continue on, shall we?" Squall suggested. They nodded and they all started walking over the dead bodies of 20 people, toward where Watts had run off to.

(Meanwhile)

"I have to go!! Let me go!! Stop it!!" Rinoa screamed.

"I...cant...let you...GO!" Quistis was holding Rinoa back. Rinoa was trying to go to timber. They were still inside her dorm though.

"Uh, eh. Fine" Rinoa gave up trying to struggle.

"Few! {Sigh}" Quistis sighed with relief. "So you finally give up!" Quistis assumed.

"But why can't I go?" Rinoa asked.

"Cuz Squall said so!" Quistis informed.

"Fine..." Rinoa said. [Ring, ring] the phone rang. "Who could be ringing here?" Rinoa asked. Rinoa walked over to the phone and picked it up. "Hello?" she answered the phone. "...No not right now...oh, ok ill tell him you called" she then hang up the phone.

"Who was that?" Quistis asked. Rinoa walked slowly towards Quistis.

"Um, it was just Shayne's friend, Nick" Rinoa answered. Quistis's eyes widened.

"Nick, you mean Nick Almasy?!" Quistis asked, worried. Rinoa nodded. "We have to go to his 'lair' immediately!" Quistis told Rinoa.

"Why!?" Rinoa asked. Quistis grabbed Rinoa by the arm and started for the door.

"'Cause, I have a bad feeling. I think that he is somehow involve in the timber incident!" Quistis told her.

(Meanwhile)

"Ahhh!!" Zell screamed being knocked back to the ground.

"ZELL!" Squall screamed. They were fighting a man, wearing a full black body suit. "WHO ARE YOU!?" Squall asked loudly.

"I am your worst nightmare, I am death, I am, the one, and only, Exedous!" Exedous told.

End of chapter 4! Hope ya like the chapter! I know I did! ^_^!!!! C ya then! R&R!

SHAYNE/SQUALL