It was going to be perfect, its would be totally romantic and would help prove to her just what he really felt. It was a perfect place that nobody but him knew about. He managed to find it by pure chance.

When he was still a member of the D.C he had come into the training centre to try and catch all those stupid kids who hung out in the 'secret place' after hours. After find 4 or 5 and giving them detention he made sure they were back in the dormitories before returning their himself, he took his coat off, since it was a warm summer night with just enough breeze to keep him cool, and placed his coat over the railing, but suddenly a huge gust of wind took the coat and swept it up and onto the roof of the secret place, he cursed loudly he could just see the edge of his favourite coat hanging over the edge but couldn't reach it, he had no choice but to clime onto the roof. He climbed on the to railing the surrounded the secret place and from their he was able to pull himself up and on to the roof, only to find that the little bit of roof directly above the secret place was flat, like a small alcove in the huge rounded roof of the Balamb Garden. From then on this is where he came to hid, think and just spend time alone, even Fujin and Rajin didn't know about this place, he didn't want t o tell them. This was his place, he loved the fact he could come here night or day and be totally alone without anyone ever bothering him, the secret place was good but after all everyone did know about it and during the day it did nothing more the provide a rest stop for those who were training.

Well this is where his surprise for ray would be, he had lit candles every where put flowers everywhere (god he really wasn't much of a romantic) he must have been back and forth to see matron and ask her advice about 7 or 8 times today! Well he put blankets and stuff down, and he would take her their tonight, just before Sundown at 9:00, the view from their while the sun went day over the ocean was spectacular and would be perfect, just like every else had to be. Perfect. After all ray was exactly that to him.

It was now almost time and sef had gone to collect ray from he dorm room but was he walked round the corner to where her room was located he was a little blur of yellow jumping up ad down and waving frantically...it was Selphie, form what he could see she was dragging ray out of her dorm room and pulling her down the corridor towards and then straight past him, but Ray managed to stop long enough to tell Seifer exactly what was going on. "Selphie go on ahead I'll meet you their, I've got to talk to sef really urgently"

Selphie nodded and bounced off down the corridor in a bright yellow blur.

"Ray what's going on, you promised me that you'd spend tonight with me, ive got something planned..." ray cut him off before he could finish.

"sef im sorry I know, but Dante heres!!!! Dante has come all the way from musuda garden to see me! God ive missed him so much sef, I cant wait to see him, Selphie's said he's waiting in the training centre, im going to meet him now, come with me sef. He's so great! Im so sorry to blow you off like this but I haven't seen him In so long and ive really been missing home and well...you understand don't you?"

sef just smiled at her "yeah of course I understand, in fact ill come with you, and your right tonight wasn't important anyway...maybe some other time then"

ray grabbed Seifer by the arm and ran off down the corridor, after all what could Seifer say? Dante was her best friend, he could tell by that smile on her face just how excited she was to see him. He couldn't protest.

They burst in the training centre and ran over the little bridge the greenery whizzing past them, ray still hadn't let go of sef and she was pulling him at such a rate that he had almost fallen over 6 or 7 times. She sped round the corner and stopped dead in her tracks, she went pale. Absolutely pale, she squeezed seifers hand so hard and only for a brief second, but it only took him seconds to take in the reason for her horrifying reaction....

When she turned the corner she was great by Dante, and small 11year old female cadet and a enormous T-rexaur. The next few moments, in reality took only seconds to pass, but to everyone preset it was slow motion.

The young cadet was training when she was ambushed by the T-rexaur, it came out of now where, trampling trees and gnats in its path, heading straight from the girl. She let out a shrill cry and threw her self out of the way, but the monster was to quick he span round ready to take her down, he went in for the kill. When Dante jumped in....

He jumped in and grabbed the girl shoving her out of the way, while he managed, barley, to dodge the attack. He jumped round and got his sword out ready to attack the best. The girl let out another scream, in the chaos a gnat had tried to attack her, in the few Mila seconds between her screaming and him regeresting why she screamed the T-rexaur had swung its tail and round and thrown Dante to the floor, before going in for the kill.

Next thing they new Dante's distorted, mangled and bloody corpse was lying on the training centre floor.

Instantly Seifer when in and delivered a limit break upon the monster and ray was violently sick, Selphie was screaming, just screaming as loud as possible alerting much attention. Seifer ran back to ray and grabbed her just before she passed out as he took one last look at what had happened to Ray's best friend, before he to had to turn away. He just pulled her to him as close as he could and just rocked her back and forth in his arms until help arrived.

Everyone who witnessed that event was taken to the infirmary, just to make sure they were in a satisfactory. After all what they had seen was traumatising, Selphie took it very hard but refused to spend the night in the infirmary, instead she had Quistis and Rinoa stay with her. While Seifer refused any help what so ever and spent the next two days sitting next the body of the comatose ray.