I've been WAY too serious with fanfiction lately... I've decided to add a little humor, just a dash, even though I may not be too good with it. Just trying to make it more FFVIII-ish.
Oh, um... I Don't Own Final Fantasy 8 Or Squaresoft Or Square Enix Or Any Of Its Trademarks, Dammit!
Chapter 2- The Disciplinary Comittee
"What is it???" asked Seifer, much like the common disciplinary-comittee Seifer of Balamb Garden. He was always nosy about anything that didn't appear to be his business.
"You see..." started the shady man, building the suspense, about to let out a ground-breaking secret, "I'm gonna have to... Close down the cafe! There! I said it!" the man exclaimed amidst sobs. A/N: This was for lack of anything better and for want of something INCREDIBLY STUPID.
"Heh," Seifer muttered, "it's just a store. It's not like it's something important."
"But it is!!! You don't understand! This store was my life, my dream!!!" the man said, sobbing heavily now. Seifer raised an arm up, beckoning Fujin and Raijin, and walked off.
"So much for that," Seifer said. Raijin looked toward Seifer. "You know, you were bein' pretty tough on him. Maybe ya oughta... Apologize, ya know, maybe offer him an encouragin' word or two. That'd help him out a lot, ya know."
Seifer just kept on walking as Fujin kicked Raijin in the shin, as usual. "RAGE," she said. "Ooooow, ya need a little somethin' for the temper, ya know?" Raijin said and was promptly kicked again. "Woah, Seifer, wait up! You're leavin' us behind, ya know?" Seifer simply ignored him and kept on walking. ("When Squall said Cid wanted to meet me at the orphanage... I wonder what it is? I mean, Cid's never wanted me for anything other than suspension that time when I casted a Meteor spell on Chicken-Wuss, and I beat Squall up in the Training Center...")
"Oh, by the way, add Chicken-Wuss and Leonhart to the list," Seifer said. "Seifer, Zell's been added 16 times and Squall's been added 7 times, ya know?"
"Add 'em again, then. It'll accumulate."
They kept on walking with no sense of where they were going. "...... I'm still hungry, ya know?" Raijin said. Silence followed. "Wherever we're goin', are we there yet?" This time Fujin kicked him yet again. "SILENCE. RAGE."
Seifer turned around. "Here we are," he said, "The Esthar National Airport." Raijin looked at Seifer as if he was crazy. " Why are we here, it can't be five o'clock, ya know?"
"Yes it can... See, it's sunset already. Hehe, we've been walking in circles for hours." Sure enough, bright red-orange beams of sunlight were streaking out toward Seifer, Fujin and Raijin. "Let's go!" The disciplinary comittee was back!
The odd trio marched into the airport, Raijin holding Fujin, who was feigning injury, and Seifer leading them. They ran on ahead, and Seifer yelled to the security guard, "My friend's injured! I think it was a Gayla outside of the city! Help!" The security guard rushed over, and as Raijin tripped him with his staff, he fell on top of Fujin. "RAGE," Fujin yelled. This was all going wrong. A mob of guards pounced on Seifer, Fujin, and Raijin as the man from the old cafe took advantage of the distraction and dashed toward an airplane, yelling, "Thanks, Seifer! I owe ya one! Hehehehehe!" That was the last thing Seifer heard before everything went black.
A black sandy floor of rusty steel plates, chains on steel walls, a thick steel door, no windows... Seifer's eyes widened as he jumped up with a shock. This was the D-District Prison! "Raijin! Fujin!" he yelled. Silence followed. He was alone in his cell. He just sat there, thinking... Suddenly, he heard some rummaging and a click, followed by a bored voice, "You're next..."
As he heard the door open and saw light filtering in, Seifer, even though he had a splitting headache and bruises on his back from being clubbed way too many times, dashed toward the door, tackling the man and getting out. Seifer saw two men dash away and pull the alarm. "Oh, shit. Hehe, I'll just have to break out, then!" Seifer reached for his gunblade. "Damn, its gone. And I ain't swattin' flies..." He spotted a cable attached to the railing at the edge of the circular passage, and jumped off, grabbing on to the cable. "Haha, so long!" he said as bullets flew left and right. ("This is what I went to Balamb Garden for... This is what I became the Sorceress's Knight for... Battle! Now if I recall correctly, the weapons cache is on the bottom, and there's some fine sand to land on... Here goes nothing!")
Seifer let go of the cable he was swinging on, and as he fell, formed his hand into a gun shape and started 'shooting' as he laughed hysterically. Finally he landed flat on his feet and ran to the weapons cache. He tried to open the door, whispering to himself, "Damn! It's locked."
"SEIFER. WE HELP," Fujin said as Seifer turned around. She, along with Raijin, had stolen the key to the weapons cache. "Heh, thanks, though I could've done it myself."
They went into the cache and searched around for their weapons. "Ha! Here's my Hyperion! Come on, you Galbadian cowards! Show me whatcha got!" Seifer said as he dashed off, swinging his sword while Fujin and Raijin continued to look for their things. Three soldiers that were patrolling the second floor ran into Seifer swinging his sword. They readied their guns as Seifer blew them away with a Fire spell and yelled, "No Mercy!" as he slaughtered them. One got back up and tried to guard, but Seifer knocked his sword back with a flick of his own and shot him. Suddenly, sparks danced around Seifer as he heard gunfire from above amidst the chaos of red flashing lights and loud, blaring alarms, and Seifer ran into a stairwell only to meet two soldiers in the cramped area. He slashed one, wounding him, as he dodged a stab from the other. The wounded one swung his blade and caught Seifer's left arm, and his eyes flared red for a moment as he went on a rampage, hacking and slashing his way through the pair. Fujin and Raijin caugt up with him as he kneeled down, checking the minor wound. "This ain't gonna stop me. I'm gonna get outta here and kill every damned Galbadian that gets in my way."
"Uh, Seifer? The exit's at the top, ya know?" Raijin pointed out.
"Hehe, all the better for me," Seifer replied, with Death in his eyes, "Like I said, I'm gonna kill every Galbadian that gets in my way!"
Suddenly, a grating sound like sand against steel and the screeching of rusty plates came from behind them. The elevator was lowered, along with eleven Galbadian soldiers. Seifer heard ahead of him, what sounded like dozens of footsteps, and above him, there was gunfire. "Hey," Seifer said, his eyes meeting Fujin and Raijin's, "if we're goin' to hell here, I for one don't wanna go alone. But, I ain't plannin' on goin' to hell here! Let's give this everything we've got!"
Seifer dashed out to meet the Galbadians on the elevator while Fujin and Raijin stayed back to prevent the men coming down the stairs. Shooting upward at random, he felled a few soldiers above before the elevator doors opened. When they did, Seifer shot a quick Fire spell, knocking the men in front backwards into those behind them, and Seifer charged in. A man shouted into a radio, "Close the door and pull it back up," but it was too late. When the door closed, Seifer was already in there, slashing randomly, not caring what he hit. It was over too soon.
Seifer looked out the window. Not too far below him, Raijin was fighting soldiers away from an injured Fujin, while others were charging from behind. Seifer dove out of the elevator, and arrived just in time to intersept to soldiers bearing down on Fujin. He cut or shot down every one where they stood. Now that there were no more Galbadians around Seifer, the men above started firing again. Seifer yelled, "Fujin, Raijin, you hide in a stairwell. I'll deal with those bastards up there."
Seifer ran up frantically, when he spotted the cable he fell from. He jumped onto it and started swinging. He knew he was taking a risk in the open, yet he was not shot. He swung high enough to reach the floor below the gunmen and started running upward. When he reached the top of the stairs, he counted, "Six bullets left for seven guys, dammit. Here goes nothin'!"
He hid near the top of the stairs, peeking through a rail. He shot a bullet. One down. The men turned toward the source of the shot. BAM! Another down. They began to ran toward Seifer. He shot four more times hurriedly, and got two, wounding another. That left two fit to fight. He ran from his cover, shooting a couple of Fire spells to distract the men, and cut them down, along with the wounded one.
He glanced below and saw Fujin and Raijin looking upward. Seifer gave a thumbs-up and they ran from their cover. As they met, Raijin said, "Fujin's hurt. I think it was a gunshot to the shoulder, but she'll be fine after a little rest, ya know?" Seifer replied, "We don't have time to rest. Look below!" Galbadian soldiers were rushing out from barracks below and heading upward rapidly. "They'll catch up to us whether or not we run, but let's get closer to the top before the battle. Or, well... I'm gettin' a little bored with these pushovers... Come! Leviathan!"
A dull gray-green aura, like that of a stormy sea, surrounded Seifer. He shut his eyes, focusing, as he attempted a 'link' with the GF. When a GF is summoned, the user must link to it in order to summon it from the ancestral realm of Selvaka, home of the gods. Seifer did so quite quickly, and the scent of salt water soon filled the air as a massive sea snake appeared before the Galbadians. It was truly indomitable, a long coiling sea snake, turquoise scales glistening almost threateningly, a pair of scaled, jagged wings, and its sleek head and fanged mouth. Down to its fierce yellow eyes, it truly appeared to be the Lord of the Sea. Remaining stationary, it summoned a massive blue-green tidal wave from behind it, with water rushing through corridors and winding its way through stairwells. The Galbadian soldiers dropped their swords and ran, but were quickly overtaken. It was an overwhelming maelstrom of water, tearing at the soldiers like they were a rag doll in the mouth of a dog, that took their lives. Even after Leviathan vanished, the scent of sea bream lingered, a reminder to the guards above who commanded the soldiers to chase Seifer.
"Let's go," Seifer said spontaneously.
They continued upward slowly, as Raijin was supporting Fujin's hurt side. Soon enough they reached the top floor, but they were stopped short of the exit. The three fell down silently as three wardens stood behind them with crossed arms, smiling humorlessly.
The first thing that Seifer saw was an orange tiger-like face. "Meow!" it yelled. Seifer was convinced that he was dreaming. "What the hell..?" he muttered through clenched teeth and a splitting headache. The throbbing pain didn't cease. He slowly got up, stretching and pinching himself vainly in hopes of waking up. He realized that this wasn't a dream, and sleepily muttered, "Where am I? How'd I get here?"
A simple response came. "Laguna!"
The other Moombas around began to jump, huge blazing orange paws waving. "Laguna! Laguna!"
Seifer observed his surroundings. There was a grassy plain surrounding him. To the west he saw a city in the cool, dying twilight. It was brightly coloured with flashing neon signs and bustling with traffic flowing in and out smoothly. Suddenly, Seifer observed fireworks exploding in the cool winter breeze. He looked down, averting his eyes from the pink neon and flashing lights that strengthened the vicious headache when he saw a note on the ground. He snatched it and read, "Seifer, we left for Deling City to get things for our heads. We'll be back by 3 P.M.. Raijin"
As the last strands of twilight faded, Seifer knew that it was well past 3...
"Hey, Moombas, go back to where you came from. I'm goin' to the city. Fujin an' Raijin're probably just drunk... Heh."
Seifer, with one hand on his gunblade, set off for Deling City, knowing that something was wrong... Something had happened to Fujin and Raijin.
This chapter was somewhat... Sporadic; Spontaneous... All the same, thank you for reading this and please review. Chapter 3 will have a big battle in it, but that'll be the last one for a little while, I think...