--Premonition--
Quistis, currently the Ragnarok's pilot, looked at a radar that showed two missiles bearing down upon the ship.
Squall yelled, "Go as fast as you can! Try to outrun the missiles!"
"We're already going at full speed," Quistis said, glancing over her shoulder at Squall.
Uexpectedly, at that time, one missile hit, completely destroying an engine.
Selphie moaned, "Oh no... Are we gonna crash?"
Squall demanded, "Where's the nearest land?"
"Trabia," Quistis replied. She understood what Squall meant. If they crashed, it would be safeast to crash on land. She turned the ship hard to the right. The ship was losing altitude fast. What if they didn't make it?
The second missile hit, destroying the landing equipment.
"Get ready for a rough landing," Zell yelled.
The ship just barely made it to a Trabia beach, but the Ragnarok would be rendered scrap.
The group crawled out of the wreckage, Selphie carrying Laguna and Squall carrying Rinoa.
A fire was made on the beach, and everyone crowded around it on a freezing March night.
Squall asked Quistis, "How's Rinoa?"
"She's getting worse," Quistis replied. "Her pulse is slowing, and she's slipping in out out of consciousness."
Just then, Laguna's eyes gradually opened.
"Get off me, lousy Galbadi- Woah!" he said as he sprung up and looked at his surroundings. "Where am I?"
"We rescued you from those 'lousy Galbadians'," Squall said, "and I think you owe us some thanks."
"Yeah, thanks and all, but... Where are we?"
"Trabia. The Ragnarok was hit by Galbadian missiles," Quistis said.
"Hmm..." He looked around some more. "Rinoa! What happened to her?"
Squall's eyes narrowed a bit as he said, "While we were attempting to rescue you, Rinoa was shot."
"I'm sorry to hear that..."
"Sorry? Is that all you can say? Sorry? It's because of you that Rinoa was shot! And all you can say is sorry?"
Laguna looked around nervously. "Well... I can't help her. What more do you expect me to do?"
Suddenly, Irvine, who had gone off to find some sort of food, came running into the camp, closely pursued by a blue dragon!
It was an intimidating creature, with a blue-scaled reptilian head that had fierce red eyes gleaming, a tough skin that would repel almost any weapon, and a long, spiked tail lashing every which way.
Squall yelled, "Get back! I'll take care of this!"
"I won't let you fight this alone," Laguna said, standing by Squall's side, machine gun at the ready. "I've got a debt to repay."
Laguna distracted it with harmless fire, the bullets bouncing off of its tough skin. It lashed at Laguna with it's powerful razor - sharp claws, but he dodged them.
Squall grabbed his Lionheart sword, ran up to the unsuspecting dragon, and dealt it a powerful blow, almost severing a leg.
Selphie, from a few meters away, yelled, "Good going, Squall!"
The blue dragon was hurt, and lost most of its mobility. Squall ran around it, avoiding its venomous claws, and thrust his blade through its heart. The dragon let out a piteous roar and fell to the ground.
"Phew... glad that's over," Laguna said. "At least I got to stretch my limbs."
Meanwhile, at Balamb Garden, Seifer, along with his 'posse' made up of Fujin and Raijin, did their best to spread distrust toward Cid.
"Cid can't be trusted, he's married to a sorceress, after all. He said that SeeD's true mission is to figt the sorceress, but now that Ultimecia's gone, why does he keep training SeeDs? He's hiding something!"
This convinced some students to start being a bit skeptical about Cid. Why did he keep training SeeDs after Ultimecia was defeated?
In Cid's office, the headmaster was struggling to remember how to control Balamb Garden. Quistis had called him and told him that they were in Trabia, but Cid couldn't move the Garden. Finally, he slammed his fist down on the control panel. The Garden strangely started moving! He piloted it, all of the controls slowly coming back to him, until he found the scarlet wreckage of the Ragnarok. He cursed inwardly, because he knew that every student could see it.
By now, it was the next morning, and Squall awakened to see Balamb Garden. He woke everyone up to get onto the flying Garden.
Some of Balamb's medics had already picked up Rinoa and Laguna, just in case the sleeping drugs might've had some other effect.
That night, the first night in two days that he slept in a normal bed, Squall had a cryptic dream about Rinoa and the battle between Esthar and Galbadia. He saw Rinoa in the same place in Deling city that Edea had been when she became the ambassador of Galbadia, then it faded, revealing a city in ruins, then once again faded into Ultimecia reborn, with time compression reborn and Rinoa dead...
The next morning would scar Squall forever...
This is gonna get pretty suspenseful...