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Back to the more chaste elements of the story: I appologise for offending anyone, but I needed to have a scene like that to further the story, plus... c',mon, 'bout time ya know. ;D
Perfect Soldier 01- glad you liketh the fluffiness. Yes, I personally dance quite a bit [gets rid of tension quite thoroughly], so I just heated it up a notch and added a thorough sprinkling of passion.
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Morning came not as a flood, but a gentle whisper, tugging softly at Seifer and Fujin's eyes like a lover softly nipping her partner's ear. Fujin could hear Seifer moan, snuggling himself further into the comforter on the tousled bedsheets, his back to her body. She loved him so much it hurt, so much the numbness of her coping mechanism from her father's abuse faded into a red and festering pain. But that was okay. She leaned herself into him, placing her head in the crook of his neck, as she massaged her arm over his back and stomac. He would help her, he would heal her, he had to give her hope, otherwise, she should just die. She thought of her journal, still occupying its place on the floor... we must have barely missed stepping on it she thought, letting her hand graze Seifer's palm as it stroked up and down Seifer's body. Well muscled, his body carried the length and breadth of a soldier, of a warrior, complete with hacks and a few tiny scars from training or battle. She could see the muscles rippling under his skin as he turned, they seemed to groan pleasantly with stiffness from the night before. One thing Fujin knew was that when Seifer fought, he threw his whole self into it, batering his soul for a victory in action. It was the same with love-making, and he had poured his entirety into her, giving himself so completely she knew she would never have to worry about being alone again; for how can you hurt someone who is yourself? Seifer must have known that she too had given her entirety to him, last night was more sacred than 1000 vows of chastity or blood and they both understood. Had it been a dream, Fujin knew she would have woken on the floor of her room, unable to allow herself the pleasure of such a warm comfortable bed.
She never slept on a bed without someone, that much Rajin knew more than Seifer... she had too much memory of when... no. That part of her life was finished. She had a man now, she had someone who would protect her with his very soul, she didn't need to fear her father coming in the middle of the night, throttling her, drunk and breathing foul air into her nostrils as he held her against her will on her bed. She hated him. She hated what the alcohol and drugs did to her father. Jolting slightly, she noticed Seifer move, moaning softly as his body turned to lie on his back, it was then she realized her body had become hard, and her hand clenched as she thought about her torturer. Looking at Seifer's hazy, gentle sleep-filled face, Fujin noticed how unique Seifer was, how his own personal deamons constantly tried to coax him into some sort of derranged madness, and Fujin knew he needed her as much as she needed him. Easing herself further into the comforter, and Seifer's body, she laid her head on his chest smiling, but a bit soar while she replayed the night's events.
After Rajin left, all Fujin could do was feel the burning passion of desire, and she let it overwhelm her like a thunderstorm's sheets of rain. When their energy was utterly spent, their souls twined together, they had fallen into the bed, and Seifer yanked the comforter around them, as they kissed chastely on the lips and Seifer settled Fujin into the crux of his arm gently. Neither had let go. Fujin felt that if she let go she would fall, and keep falling into a bottomless pit she would never get out of, but there was no pit, and all Fujin discovered after a few hours of calm, placid wonderfully refreshing sleep was that her muscles were just a bit soar, and by the way Seifer moved, his were too. Fujin planted a kiss on Seifer's jawline, eliciting another gentle moan as he allowed his head to blindly sink into his lover's, to kiss her cheek, then lips before easing his other arm over to plant itself on her back, turning to face her on his side. Mumbling something unintelligible, Seifer fluttered his eyes before slowly lifting his eyelids until the young woman in his arms came into a sleepily hazy focus.
Sighing contentedly, Seifer smoothed his hands up and down her back, kissing the nape of her neck,
"G'mornin' beautiful" he whispered, his vocal chords not letting any stronger sort of sound project out of his moistened lips. Fujin smiled and nodded, kissing Seifer again on the lips, while her leg felt up Seifer's side lazily and ended up stretched out bent at the knee.
"Mmm. You prowler, you... maybe later" Seifer smiled, securing his hands on her back, as his words ran together barely intelligible. Fujin sighed pleasantly, stretched, and allowed her arms to flop on and above Seifer's shoulder and head.
"I'm gonna enjoy waking up to you in the morning" Seifer said, fogginess starting to fade as the timeless moment stretched to a close. He noticed after he said that, Fujin twitched slightly, almost like when he first laid her on his bed a couple weeks ago. Puzzled, but too early in his day to get into a deep conversation, he kissed her on the cheek, and rose, stretching high before groaning shortly and massaging the back of his neck and giving it a stretch.
"SOAR?" Fujin asked, getting up and bringing the sheet with her as a sort of makeshift robe.
Seifer nodded, smirking, "You?" he asked, going into the only drawer on his bedside table for an extra pair of boxers, before fumbling them on and walking to the bathroom.
"AFFIRMATIVE" Fujin said with vigour, following Seifer, and grunting with a cringe as her feet were met with a thin film of water from the night before. His bathroom looked like a danger zone. There was water coating the floor, along with a towel flung on the side of the shower, the shower curtain ripped off all but one hinge that held it suspended from a total place the floor, soap residue making it slippery enough to skate on, and the few personal products like toothpaste and deodorant spun in different places along with every movable piece of anything. Seifer stood mopping up a bit of the water-soap film with the towel already on the floor with his foot, as Fujin looked to the corner and her soggy clothes. Creasing her face into a frown, she turned to Seifer, who was draining the towel into the sink.
"Something wrong, Fu?" Seifer asked, looking up from his partially dry towel's new place on the sinkboard.
"CLOTHING"
"I'd let you borrow mine, but I don't know how Edea would react to you in boxers and a t-shirt." Seifer joked, nearly slipping as they heard a knock and crash as the door flung open. Rajin entered, food tray in hand, and clothes under his arm,
"My eyes are closed, ya know... don't kill me, ya know! Nearly 11:30... Edea's gonna have your hide, ya know... if you miss the meeting at noon, ya know" he bumbled, blindly stepping into the room. Seifer closed his arms as Fujin struggled with the sheet, until Seifer tugged it around her, and stepped out of the bathroom.
"You can open your eyes, Rajin." he said, stepping into a crumpled pair of dark trousers as his friend put the food tray down, and held out the clothes.
"Hope ya don't mind, but I got Fujin some extra clothes, ya know thought ya might need 'em ya know" Rajin said, smirking like an idiot, holding out the bundle of dry, folded clothes as a peace offering to his female friend currently clothed in a loose sheet. If it had been any other male going into Fujin's private clothing, she would have flattened him... and Fujin assured herself that Seifer would pound the poor sod into a bloody, indistinguishable pulp as well.
"GRATITUDE" Fujin said, smiling slightly as she took the bundle and rushed backwards into the bathroom, blushing slightly as she noticed Rajin had taken her boxer-brief shorts and sports bra instead of her other undergarments. As Fujin was dressing and otherwise cleaning up, Rajin couldn't stop grinning at his friend, as Seifer shrugged his shirt over his shoulders with a grunt. Seifer caught Rajin's strange look,
"What?"
"Nothin', ya know... just glad"
"About what? That Edea didn't vapourize us?" Seifer said, allowing a slight smirk.
"Yes. That Edea didn't..." Rajin started, jostling himself with a shake, "No... can she do that?... nevermind... I'm glad 'cause it was her, ya know... that both your first times were together... ya couldn'ta picked a better one, ya know" Rajin bumbled, making Seifer slightly but happily uncomfortable, before Fujin slid open the bathroom door to reveal herself brushing her teeth with one hand as the other fluffed up her hair. She proceeded to bend down, grab her jacket off the pile that wasn't damp, and startled slightly as both guys looked at her partially sideways.
"Do you have an extra toothbrush?" Rajin asked,
"No, didn't you bring hers?" Seifer replied,
"Nope... heh!" Rajin laughed, shrugging his shoulders as he turned to fiddle with the breakfast ... okay brunch plates before missing Fujin pointing to the toothbrush hanging out of her mouth when Seifer asked if it was his. She nodded, walked back into the bathroom and proceeded to pull out Seifer's comb set before garggling water. Seifer turned back to Rajin, who looked from the bathroom to his friend,
"One thing, ya know." Seifer nodded, not entirely paying attention. Rajin grabbed Seifer's shoulder and forcibly faced it towards him,
"I'm bein' serious, ya know. You do anything at all to hurt Fujin, and so help me I'll give you a beating to the best of my ability and then some, ya know. She's practically my sister, get my drift, ya know?" Seifer sneered slightly before easing his face, and placing a hand on Rajin's shoulder,
"I promise you it will never come to that, and if it does, I won't put up a fight."
"Good, ya know... Just wanted to clear that up, ya know" Rajin finished, released Seifer's shoulder, and passed Seifer his coffee before taking a bite out of an apple.
"Oh, and Rajin?" Seifer said, preparing to take a sip, then feeling better of it,
"It goes both ways... except for the sister thing" he finished gravely, as Fujin stepped out of the bathroom refreshed, walked up to Seifer and blew on his coffee for him. He kissed her cheek in thanks, and sat down with her on his lap, as Rajin handed her the cup of tea.
Brunch was uneventful, and after parting with a lingering see-you-later kiss, Fujin left with Rajin in tow, as Seifer finished cleaning up and looked in the bathroom mirror one last time before trotting off to the meeting with Edea just a bit irritated that the see-you-later kiss couldn't have been a Rajin goodbye, hello bed kiss.
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Seifer found his concentration lagged at the meeting, even talk of war plans and battle, which usually left him excited and powerful, bored him. What was going on? he thought, is this what happens when you love someone? he let his naivety linger, as he tapped his pen on the paper he was supposed to be intently thinking on. Just then, he heard the unmistakable clearing of Edea's throat, as she spoke with snark,
"Shall we continue this meeting after you feel up to it, or may we continue our earth shattering plans?"
Seifer bolted upright, scanning the page for the place he thought they have stopped,
"Yes... no! No, that is not necessary, Sorceress, Edea, ...ma'am" shoot! Seifer thought, reddening slightly before Edea clicked her tongue, and said,
"Well then, do you in all your worldy wisdom have any suggestions about the defeat of Garden?" Seifer thought for what felt like ages, but was only a second before putting his pen down in an official gesture and placing his hands flat on the page.
"Yes."
"And what are they?" Edea said, her silky voice slithering into his ears with a shudder of temper.
"Balamb Garden is now mobile, so we should present a surprise attack which would render her crippled. Then we take in our superior forces in three different waves leaving only the highest ranking officers inside this Garden to protect the Sorceress as a precautionary measure."
"And how do you think the waves should go?"
"First..." Seifer stumbled a bit, "launch motorcycle units onto Garden while they are still airborne, second, send in Personal Flying Squads to disable whatever systems they can and after Garden is crippled and open to the ground, send in a third and final wave of ground troops. That should be enough to take care of the higher ranking SeeDs, and any classmen who don't run."
"But we don't just want the SeeD's I want all of them! We must kill them all! Down to the last child!" At this outburst from Edea, the hairs on Seifer's neck stood on end... he had not signed up to kill five year olds. Edea breathed deeply, letting her clenched fist rest before continuing,
"We can expect with any plan that the whelp of a boy Squall Leonheart will launch a counter offensive, but what do you think we can do about it?"
"Squall will get the upperclassmen to take care of the younger students, and probably leave Xu and Quistis to leading the SeeD troops. Other than that, I guarantee that unless he's killed in the initial onslaught, his friends and he will launch a guerilla attack here in this Garden, and attempt a further attack on the Sorceress. The friends he does not take with him directly, will probably help the other SeeD's and classmen in a defensive strategy."
"What do you suppose we do to stop him?" Edea droned, moving her arms to signal the other chiefs of war.
Seifer remembered something Fujin said about the Cerberus GF taking residence in Galbadia Garden's Training Center and silently blessed her,
"I suggest letting the Training Center monsters loose and locking down the Garden. I also suggest leaving minimal troops and the zombie hockey team interspersed throughout, and that we summon Cerberus to guard the center of the main lobby. If by chance they get a way to bypass the lockdown and are not defeated by monsters or Cerberus, which is likely, I suggest we place Fujin and Rajin at the entrance to the stairs, and as a final resort, myself protecting the Sorceress in her throne room." he heard Edea chuckle slightly,
"And if you fail?" she asked, letting her eyes seep into his brain. She made him uncomfortable.
"If I fail, then nothing can stop them. I'm the best you've got." every word Seifer spoke exuded cocky confidence, and the back off attitude all were accustomed to, so Edea leaned back in her ornate chair, sighed, and closed the meeting.
"Very well, Lieutenant, you will lead the Ground Troops, Colonel you will command the PFS, and Corporal, you will join the Motorcycle Berserkers. I suggest you all go prepare. Seifer will stay behind, we have much to discuss."
As the others left, Seifer swore he could see a sneer plastered on the Lieutenant's face, as if to say, "you'd better not lose or she's mine". Seifer squirmed threateningly in his chair, his eyes shooting daggers at the Lieutenant cruely hoping that the Lieutenant died in battle, telling the Lieutenant that he had better watch his back or else. Alone with Edea, Seifer let out the breath he was holding, and waited for Edea to speak her piece. He didn't wait long.
"I see all. Including the little midnight rendezvous with the little minnow. Couldn't wait could you? You had to have her now." Edea said, making Seifer cringe and pull himself further into the building darkness before he burst.
"Not that I mind you pounding the minnow into submission, but let me make one thing perfectly clear. I will not tollerate you making love to that whisp of a girl in my halls, in my ballroom, and anywhere but the room I have provided for you. In there you can do what you wish, throttle her, burn her, cut her, I don't care, but you have been warned. The next time you shirk your duties for that.. thing... I will be forced to get the Lieutenant to rid you of her forever."
Seifer could hardly contain his anger at her belittling of Fujin, but clenched his teeth and kept his mouth shut, boring holes in the wall behind Edea's head, secretly wishing Squall would win.
"I do not like your plan of having your posse so close, but I will allow it, because if they fail, she will die, and if for some miracle they don't fail, they will have redeemed themselves as useful in my eyes. Whatever the outcome, pray you don't see Squall, and if you do, pray Fujin and Rajinfought their hardest and maybe I will be merciful, I doubt it, but having that brat Squall out of the way would certainly better my mood. Plus, Fujin is the only one other than myself who knew of Cerberus' presence here. She obviously gave you the idea of using him, and she can be the one to ask of his help. Now get out of my sight" she sneered, completely cold. Seifer stood, saluted and stepped towards the door before being stopped again.
"Oh, and Seifer, if by some chance you happen to get that thing pregnant? I might just change her role, I would have use for the child in her womb, and she would be safe, but know this: the child will be mine."
Back to the more chaste elements of the story: I appologise for offending anyone, but I needed to have a scene like that to further the story, plus... c',mon, 'bout time ya know. ;D
Perfect Soldier 01- glad you liketh the fluffiness. Yes, I personally dance quite a bit [gets rid of tension quite thoroughly], so I just heated it up a notch and added a thorough sprinkling of passion.
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Morning came not as a flood, but a gentle whisper, tugging softly at Seifer and Fujin's eyes like a lover softly nipping her partner's ear. Fujin could hear Seifer moan, snuggling himself further into the comforter on the tousled bedsheets, his back to her body. She loved him so much it hurt, so much the numbness of her coping mechanism from her father's abuse faded into a red and festering pain. But that was okay. She leaned herself into him, placing her head in the crook of his neck, as she massaged her arm over his back and stomac. He would help her, he would heal her, he had to give her hope, otherwise, she should just die. She thought of her journal, still occupying its place on the floor... we must have barely missed stepping on it she thought, letting her hand graze Seifer's palm as it stroked up and down Seifer's body. Well muscled, his body carried the length and breadth of a soldier, of a warrior, complete with hacks and a few tiny scars from training or battle. She could see the muscles rippling under his skin as he turned, they seemed to groan pleasantly with stiffness from the night before. One thing Fujin knew was that when Seifer fought, he threw his whole self into it, batering his soul for a victory in action. It was the same with love-making, and he had poured his entirety into her, giving himself so completely she knew she would never have to worry about being alone again; for how can you hurt someone who is yourself? Seifer must have known that she too had given her entirety to him, last night was more sacred than 1000 vows of chastity or blood and they both understood. Had it been a dream, Fujin knew she would have woken on the floor of her room, unable to allow herself the pleasure of such a warm comfortable bed.
She never slept on a bed without someone, that much Rajin knew more than Seifer... she had too much memory of when... no. That part of her life was finished. She had a man now, she had someone who would protect her with his very soul, she didn't need to fear her father coming in the middle of the night, throttling her, drunk and breathing foul air into her nostrils as he held her against her will on her bed. She hated him. She hated what the alcohol and drugs did to her father. Jolting slightly, she noticed Seifer move, moaning softly as his body turned to lie on his back, it was then she realized her body had become hard, and her hand clenched as she thought about her torturer. Looking at Seifer's hazy, gentle sleep-filled face, Fujin noticed how unique Seifer was, how his own personal deamons constantly tried to coax him into some sort of derranged madness, and Fujin knew he needed her as much as she needed him. Easing herself further into the comforter, and Seifer's body, she laid her head on his chest smiling, but a bit soar while she replayed the night's events.
After Rajin left, all Fujin could do was feel the burning passion of desire, and she let it overwhelm her like a thunderstorm's sheets of rain. When their energy was utterly spent, their souls twined together, they had fallen into the bed, and Seifer yanked the comforter around them, as they kissed chastely on the lips and Seifer settled Fujin into the crux of his arm gently. Neither had let go. Fujin felt that if she let go she would fall, and keep falling into a bottomless pit she would never get out of, but there was no pit, and all Fujin discovered after a few hours of calm, placid wonderfully refreshing sleep was that her muscles were just a bit soar, and by the way Seifer moved, his were too. Fujin planted a kiss on Seifer's jawline, eliciting another gentle moan as he allowed his head to blindly sink into his lover's, to kiss her cheek, then lips before easing his other arm over to plant itself on her back, turning to face her on his side. Mumbling something unintelligible, Seifer fluttered his eyes before slowly lifting his eyelids until the young woman in his arms came into a sleepily hazy focus.
Sighing contentedly, Seifer smoothed his hands up and down her back, kissing the nape of her neck,
"G'mornin' beautiful" he whispered, his vocal chords not letting any stronger sort of sound project out of his moistened lips. Fujin smiled and nodded, kissing Seifer again on the lips, while her leg felt up Seifer's side lazily and ended up stretched out bent at the knee.
"Mmm. You prowler, you... maybe later" Seifer smiled, securing his hands on her back, as his words ran together barely intelligible. Fujin sighed pleasantly, stretched, and allowed her arms to flop on and above Seifer's shoulder and head.
"I'm gonna enjoy waking up to you in the morning" Seifer said, fogginess starting to fade as the timeless moment stretched to a close. He noticed after he said that, Fujin twitched slightly, almost like when he first laid her on his bed a couple weeks ago. Puzzled, but too early in his day to get into a deep conversation, he kissed her on the cheek, and rose, stretching high before groaning shortly and massaging the back of his neck and giving it a stretch.
"SOAR?" Fujin asked, getting up and bringing the sheet with her as a sort of makeshift robe.
Seifer nodded, smirking, "You?" he asked, going into the only drawer on his bedside table for an extra pair of boxers, before fumbling them on and walking to the bathroom.
"AFFIRMATIVE" Fujin said with vigour, following Seifer, and grunting with a cringe as her feet were met with a thin film of water from the night before. His bathroom looked like a danger zone. There was water coating the floor, along with a towel flung on the side of the shower, the shower curtain ripped off all but one hinge that held it suspended from a total place the floor, soap residue making it slippery enough to skate on, and the few personal products like toothpaste and deodorant spun in different places along with every movable piece of anything. Seifer stood mopping up a bit of the water-soap film with the towel already on the floor with his foot, as Fujin looked to the corner and her soggy clothes. Creasing her face into a frown, she turned to Seifer, who was draining the towel into the sink.
"Something wrong, Fu?" Seifer asked, looking up from his partially dry towel's new place on the sinkboard.
"CLOTHING"
"I'd let you borrow mine, but I don't know how Edea would react to you in boxers and a t-shirt." Seifer joked, nearly slipping as they heard a knock and crash as the door flung open. Rajin entered, food tray in hand, and clothes under his arm,
"My eyes are closed, ya know... don't kill me, ya know! Nearly 11:30... Edea's gonna have your hide, ya know... if you miss the meeting at noon, ya know" he bumbled, blindly stepping into the room. Seifer closed his arms as Fujin struggled with the sheet, until Seifer tugged it around her, and stepped out of the bathroom.
"You can open your eyes, Rajin." he said, stepping into a crumpled pair of dark trousers as his friend put the food tray down, and held out the clothes.
"Hope ya don't mind, but I got Fujin some extra clothes, ya know thought ya might need 'em ya know" Rajin said, smirking like an idiot, holding out the bundle of dry, folded clothes as a peace offering to his female friend currently clothed in a loose sheet. If it had been any other male going into Fujin's private clothing, she would have flattened him... and Fujin assured herself that Seifer would pound the poor sod into a bloody, indistinguishable pulp as well.
"GRATITUDE" Fujin said, smiling slightly as she took the bundle and rushed backwards into the bathroom, blushing slightly as she noticed Rajin had taken her boxer-brief shorts and sports bra instead of her other undergarments. As Fujin was dressing and otherwise cleaning up, Rajin couldn't stop grinning at his friend, as Seifer shrugged his shirt over his shoulders with a grunt. Seifer caught Rajin's strange look,
"What?"
"Nothin', ya know... just glad"
"About what? That Edea didn't vapourize us?" Seifer said, allowing a slight smirk.
"Yes. That Edea didn't..." Rajin started, jostling himself with a shake, "No... can she do that?... nevermind... I'm glad 'cause it was her, ya know... that both your first times were together... ya couldn'ta picked a better one, ya know" Rajin bumbled, making Seifer slightly but happily uncomfortable, before Fujin slid open the bathroom door to reveal herself brushing her teeth with one hand as the other fluffed up her hair. She proceeded to bend down, grab her jacket off the pile that wasn't damp, and startled slightly as both guys looked at her partially sideways.
"Do you have an extra toothbrush?" Rajin asked,
"No, didn't you bring hers?" Seifer replied,
"Nope... heh!" Rajin laughed, shrugging his shoulders as he turned to fiddle with the breakfast ... okay brunch plates before missing Fujin pointing to the toothbrush hanging out of her mouth when Seifer asked if it was his. She nodded, walked back into the bathroom and proceeded to pull out Seifer's comb set before garggling water. Seifer turned back to Rajin, who looked from the bathroom to his friend,
"One thing, ya know." Seifer nodded, not entirely paying attention. Rajin grabbed Seifer's shoulder and forcibly faced it towards him,
"I'm bein' serious, ya know. You do anything at all to hurt Fujin, and so help me I'll give you a beating to the best of my ability and then some, ya know. She's practically my sister, get my drift, ya know?" Seifer sneered slightly before easing his face, and placing a hand on Rajin's shoulder,
"I promise you it will never come to that, and if it does, I won't put up a fight."
"Good, ya know... Just wanted to clear that up, ya know" Rajin finished, released Seifer's shoulder, and passed Seifer his coffee before taking a bite out of an apple.
"Oh, and Rajin?" Seifer said, preparing to take a sip, then feeling better of it,
"It goes both ways... except for the sister thing" he finished gravely, as Fujin stepped out of the bathroom refreshed, walked up to Seifer and blew on his coffee for him. He kissed her cheek in thanks, and sat down with her on his lap, as Rajin handed her the cup of tea.
Brunch was uneventful, and after parting with a lingering see-you-later kiss, Fujin left with Rajin in tow, as Seifer finished cleaning up and looked in the bathroom mirror one last time before trotting off to the meeting with Edea just a bit irritated that the see-you-later kiss couldn't have been a Rajin goodbye, hello bed kiss.
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Seifer found his concentration lagged at the meeting, even talk of war plans and battle, which usually left him excited and powerful, bored him. What was going on? he thought, is this what happens when you love someone? he let his naivety linger, as he tapped his pen on the paper he was supposed to be intently thinking on. Just then, he heard the unmistakable clearing of Edea's throat, as she spoke with snark,
"Shall we continue this meeting after you feel up to it, or may we continue our earth shattering plans?"
Seifer bolted upright, scanning the page for the place he thought they have stopped,
"Yes... no! No, that is not necessary, Sorceress, Edea, ...ma'am" shoot! Seifer thought, reddening slightly before Edea clicked her tongue, and said,
"Well then, do you in all your worldy wisdom have any suggestions about the defeat of Garden?" Seifer thought for what felt like ages, but was only a second before putting his pen down in an official gesture and placing his hands flat on the page.
"Yes."
"And what are they?" Edea said, her silky voice slithering into his ears with a shudder of temper.
"Balamb Garden is now mobile, so we should present a surprise attack which would render her crippled. Then we take in our superior forces in three different waves leaving only the highest ranking officers inside this Garden to protect the Sorceress as a precautionary measure."
"And how do you think the waves should go?"
"First..." Seifer stumbled a bit, "launch motorcycle units onto Garden while they are still airborne, second, send in Personal Flying Squads to disable whatever systems they can and after Garden is crippled and open to the ground, send in a third and final wave of ground troops. That should be enough to take care of the higher ranking SeeDs, and any classmen who don't run."
"But we don't just want the SeeD's I want all of them! We must kill them all! Down to the last child!" At this outburst from Edea, the hairs on Seifer's neck stood on end... he had not signed up to kill five year olds. Edea breathed deeply, letting her clenched fist rest before continuing,
"We can expect with any plan that the whelp of a boy Squall Leonheart will launch a counter offensive, but what do you think we can do about it?"
"Squall will get the upperclassmen to take care of the younger students, and probably leave Xu and Quistis to leading the SeeD troops. Other than that, I guarantee that unless he's killed in the initial onslaught, his friends and he will launch a guerilla attack here in this Garden, and attempt a further attack on the Sorceress. The friends he does not take with him directly, will probably help the other SeeD's and classmen in a defensive strategy."
"What do you suppose we do to stop him?" Edea droned, moving her arms to signal the other chiefs of war.
Seifer remembered something Fujin said about the Cerberus GF taking residence in Galbadia Garden's Training Center and silently blessed her,
"I suggest letting the Training Center monsters loose and locking down the Garden. I also suggest leaving minimal troops and the zombie hockey team interspersed throughout, and that we summon Cerberus to guard the center of the main lobby. If by chance they get a way to bypass the lockdown and are not defeated by monsters or Cerberus, which is likely, I suggest we place Fujin and Rajin at the entrance to the stairs, and as a final resort, myself protecting the Sorceress in her throne room." he heard Edea chuckle slightly,
"And if you fail?" she asked, letting her eyes seep into his brain. She made him uncomfortable.
"If I fail, then nothing can stop them. I'm the best you've got." every word Seifer spoke exuded cocky confidence, and the back off attitude all were accustomed to, so Edea leaned back in her ornate chair, sighed, and closed the meeting.
"Very well, Lieutenant, you will lead the Ground Troops, Colonel you will command the PFS, and Corporal, you will join the Motorcycle Berserkers. I suggest you all go prepare. Seifer will stay behind, we have much to discuss."
As the others left, Seifer swore he could see a sneer plastered on the Lieutenant's face, as if to say, "you'd better not lose or she's mine". Seifer squirmed threateningly in his chair, his eyes shooting daggers at the Lieutenant cruely hoping that the Lieutenant died in battle, telling the Lieutenant that he had better watch his back or else. Alone with Edea, Seifer let out the breath he was holding, and waited for Edea to speak her piece. He didn't wait long.
"I see all. Including the little midnight rendezvous with the little minnow. Couldn't wait could you? You had to have her now." Edea said, making Seifer cringe and pull himself further into the building darkness before he burst.
"Not that I mind you pounding the minnow into submission, but let me make one thing perfectly clear. I will not tollerate you making love to that whisp of a girl in my halls, in my ballroom, and anywhere but the room I have provided for you. In there you can do what you wish, throttle her, burn her, cut her, I don't care, but you have been warned. The next time you shirk your duties for that.. thing... I will be forced to get the Lieutenant to rid you of her forever."
Seifer could hardly contain his anger at her belittling of Fujin, but clenched his teeth and kept his mouth shut, boring holes in the wall behind Edea's head, secretly wishing Squall would win.
"I do not like your plan of having your posse so close, but I will allow it, because if they fail, she will die, and if for some miracle they don't fail, they will have redeemed themselves as useful in my eyes. Whatever the outcome, pray you don't see Squall, and if you do, pray Fujin and Rajinfought their hardest and maybe I will be merciful, I doubt it, but having that brat Squall out of the way would certainly better my mood. Plus, Fujin is the only one other than myself who knew of Cerberus' presence here. She obviously gave you the idea of using him, and she can be the one to ask of his help. Now get out of my sight" she sneered, completely cold. Seifer stood, saluted and stepped towards the door before being stopped again.
"Oh, and Seifer, if by some chance you happen to get that thing pregnant? I might just change her role, I would have use for the child in her womb, and she would be safe, but know this: the child will be mine."