In the Memory

By Soulbade Dark Knight

Disclaimer: well you know the drill, I do not own final Fantasy 8 or their characters or Elune (they are rights to Blizzard Entertainment) I just got bored and wrote….. Lots. Any characters that are added I do own and I wish to keep that way unless you ask me really nicely.

Summary: What happens when Squall loses the ability to think in his own head? (Thanks to Rinoa.) The secrets of the 'Commander' are coming out, but are some too late to tell now. A new power is rising as 'the Leonhart's' they want their revenge for a forgotten promise.

Chapter 5: A hold up

Rinoa's head was spinning when awoke, looking up she could see the familiar form of the inside of the Ragnarok. She rubbed her head and could feel a bump; she must have hit the ground and passed out. That explained the weird dream she had, but it seemed so real. It was as though she was inside Squall's head. As soon as she thought of Squall she began looking around for him, yet Squall was also passed out. Rinoa gently poked him in the side and Squall stirred from his sleep, his took five seconds to open. He jumped up and began looking around for the others.

"Are you Okay?" Squall asked. He knew that some part of Rinoa would be angry at him, for ignoring him.

"I'm fine" She replied, standing up. "I don't know about the others though"

Squall nodded "we should go find them, I hope every one is alright"

Rinoa and Squall continued through the Ragnarok, they were passing through the cargo area. When they met Zell, he looked like he was pissing his pants. Squall sighed, yet not like his depressed sigh more like a sigh yet laughter. Squall knew that Zell had this fear of flying objects crazing when he was on them, he was afraid of just being on one on the ground. Back during the Lunar Cry it had taken them for ever to get Zell on the Ragnarok, yet they assured him that nothing bad would happen. Now that they had crashed and Zell's worst fear had come true, he was pretty much acting like the world just ended.

"Zell!" Rinoa asked him, yet got no reply.

"He's been like that for the last few hours" Seifer's voice came from behind them. Seifer had been in the dark corner that neither Squall nor Rinoa could have seen him from.

"Seifer, do you know where the others are?" Squall asked seeming deeply concerned. Seifer shook his head, and Squall looked depressed.

"No I only basically woke up and tried to knock some sense into that chicken wuss. But he's not responding, and I mean to nothing. I told him that if he said 'yes' I'd give him 100 hot dogs, yet nothing. Do you think he could be possibly dead?" Seifer asked Rinoa and Squall.

"I'm gonna go and try and find the others" Rinoa cried as she ran out. Squall stared after her as she disappeared.

"Squall…. Did you see Quistis on the way here? She was here with us when we crashed that's why I wanted to know?" Seifer asked Seifer asked sort of rushed and blushing furiously.

"Are…. Are you blushing Seifer" Squall asked surprised.

"NO!" Seifer cried "I was only asking because I wanted to know if she was alright"

"Yeah right" Squall mocked Seifer elbowing him in the ribs "You got the hots for Quistis, don't you?"

"NO I DO NOT" Seifer cried angrily getting into Squall's face. Seifer was fuming since when could Squall get to him this much, it was unnatural.

"Woo hoo! I'm right! Seifer's in love!" Squall yelled smiling, only making Seifer angrier.

"You sound like Selphie" Seifer muttered to him. Squall and Seifer turned to the door as it slid open to reveal, Quistis, Irvine and Rinoa.

"Where's Selphie?" Squall asked Irvine.

"She says that we're just outside the forest but she had to go check the damages that the storm caused" Irvine said. "It was strange the storm like came out of no where, there was no warning nothing"

"I…… hate….. flying….." Zell muttered in a small shaky voice. They all stared at Zell, who was now talking and shaking. Squall looked at the once crazed hyperactive teen, who was now mush. Squall walked over to Zell who was about to faint, last time he'd done this Squall had yelled at him to get a life. Squall kneeled down so that Zell had no other choice but to look at him.

"Did the Ragnarok crash?" Squall asked Zell who was shaking. Zell gave him a look that clearly said 'really? I didn't notice' "Are you hurt?" Zell shook his head. "Is the Ragnarok flying?" Squall asked again standing up. Zell shook his head again, now he was feeling really stupid. "Then get up" Squall held out a hand to Zell, Zell was shocked out of the kindness that Squall was giving to him. He took Squall's hand and Squall helped him up, before anyone could speak a word Selphie came jumping in.

"Okay everyone, the Ragnarok should be fine to fly later. Just not now, the controls are all jammed and over heated so we're walking to this thing" Selphie cried happily.

"Bring everything we can, we start moving as soon as we can" Squall commandeered. "Let's get this over with as soon as we can"

The forest was darker than usual, the forest was murky and damp from the rains that happened the other night. The forest was silent, except for what sounded like a waterfall in the distance. The trees canopy was covering the sky allowing no light and very little air in.

"This place is soo… creepy" Selphie whispered to them without making too much noise.

"Tell me about it, Squall where are we meant to met this guy" Zell turned to ask him.

Suddenly out of no where a voice called out to the SeeD's, from behind them. They all turned around to see the owner of the voice.

"What are so many SeeD's doing lost in this side of the forest" They called jumping down from the canopy of the trees. They now had a good look at the person, which almost made them become startled her appearance.

Her voice was calm, soothing and yet had strength and power behind it. Her skin was that as pale as the moon its self, she wore black pants, and a black jacket that was zipped up with a silver zip. The had a pair of huge black army boots and wore a cocky smile on her face. Although she looked quite normal there was one thing that made her stand out, she had short bright blue that was spiked out everywhere. Her eyes were also a deep silver blue, those eyes, Rinoa knew she had seen them once before.

"I think you're the SeeD's I sent for. So are you gonna help us, or are we gonna sit here all day" She said

"'Us'?" Zell asked. She clicked her fingers and about 15 men, all dressed in black jumped out of the forest with guns all pointed at them. Squall looked around at the men that were surrounding them, they were not like the armies they had fought. These were warrior's and would be hard enough to take them out individually, let alone together. The guns they carried were large and were very different to the others that were known and made Irvine look like an amateur.

Squall turned the woman, but all she did was just smiled…..

Author Notes: Hehe Damn holidays make me so lazy, oh well i'll try and update soon thanks to all those that actually chose to read this!