Chapter 2

Squall looked at the peaceful landscape ahead of him. The lights of Deling could be seen brighten the dark night. The moon lazily looked over the place. Squall always came here after a party or an award ceremony, it was a secret place that Rinoa and him had found and eventually shared their first kiss. The peace and quiet was always welcomed too. Since the group had saved the world, parties were the norm. The gunblade specialist hated the events and just wanted to go back to being a SeeD but since the battle of Ultimecia the world had become a peaceful place. The missions had dried up.

"Not that I mind that there is peace but..." his thoughts were interrupted

"Hey Squallie" his icy-blue eyes turned to notice the most beautiful women to him. Rinoa Heartilly still wearing the white dress she wore for the ceremony stood happily in front of him. He merely nodded at the girl and went back to the peaceful view.

"I knew you would be here" she happily observed.

"...Whatever" was Squall's robotic reply. Although he had openly admitted his feelings to Rinoa he still was anti-social and had that catch-phrase

"He probably wants to be alone" Rinoa thought to herself. Not wanting to bother him she turned to leave but was stopped by Squall voice.

"Come over here" he proclaimed. Rinoa walked towards her knight. He embraced her with a hug and they both looked over the view happy in each others arms.

oOOo

Zell was in the library. The library was one of the smallest area's in the garden. It consisted of a few shelves with books. A receptionist area with one computer. The walls were the same light blue colour around the whole garden. Behind the shelves was a reading area. It simply consisted of a big table and a couple of chairs. Zell was talking to the receptionist. Her name was Maria. She a lovely black hair with pigtails. She was cute looking and had lovely blue eyes. Her skin was pale and smooth. She was about 5"7.

"What ya think?" Zell questioned while showing her his new gloves.

"There lovely Zell. Are they real?" she asked noticing the ruby's on the gloves.

"Rare of the rare I was told." he let her feel the ruby's smiling proudly.

"They are beautiful." Maria observed.

"Oh ya while I'm here I going to need to ask you to delay my books. You see with all the parties and ceremony's I haven't had time to bring them back and..." he quickly explained. The librarian struggled to take in all the information.

"It doesn't matter Zell. You can be as late as you want. I'm so in love with him. I should ask him now" she thought to herself

"It that all right Maria?" Zell asked noticing she had gone off to a trance of thought.

"hmmm... Oh my yeah sure it's okay Zell anything for you." she replied embarrassed.

"Oh my god I didn't just say that did I. Anything for you? Now he may think I'm a slut" she un logically observed.

"Thank you Maria. I got to go now show off my gloves to more people. I'll bring those books back whenever I can. Thanks again" He lent his hand on her shoulder in a thankful fashion and then sped out the door. Maria noticed him leave and sighed.

"Just ask him all ready!" the librarian turned to notice a cadet had seen the whole thing. The blonde female cadet walked over to Maria.

"He would never go with me. I am librarian and he is one of the saviours of the world. He could get any women." she sheepishly replied.

"You never know hon unless you ask."

"I suppose" she then smiled at the cadet and then turned back to her computer thinking to herself.

oOOo

The training area was a massive artificial jungle. It was habituated by real monsters and was not to be taking lightly. The biggest monster of the lot was the the T-Rexaur. Only about 8 inhabited the center as if there was more they could have killed the rest of the species that also lived there. The T-Rexaur was about 30 feet tall had orange scaly skin with purple marks that scarred it's body. It's teeth could bite through anything and it also could use the magic Quake. If you defeated a T-Rexaur on your own you were known throughout Balamb Garden as a great warrior. Irvine Kinneas was now looking for the giant dinosaur. The center had a Jurassic Park feel to it as Irvine looked at the high voltage powered security fences. This meant the the monster could not escape unless those gates crashed. Irivine went through the steel gates and gripped his new weapon tightly. He stepped inside the jungle and straight away the ground rumbled as a defeaning roar could be heard throughout.

"A Rexaur I bet. Lets go cowboy, time for some fun"

A grat walked past ingnoring Irvine. A grat was a plant like creature that had four or five long tentacles. The grat was fairly weak monster and could be easily killed. Irvine decided to test his weapon. He picked up a nearby rock and threw it at the plant monster. The grat immediately registered the attack and began for battle.

"Come on what you going to do?" Irvine encouraging the Grat to fight. The grat swung his long tentacles at the cowboy which were easily envaded. Irvine smiled as he loaded his new gun with some Shotgun ammo. Meanwhile, the Grat prepared to conjure up a Sleep spell. A Sleep spell as the name suggests caused the victim to fall asleep. With the gun loaded Irvine looked through the aimer and let fire the bullets at the helpless creature. Every bullet reached it's mark. The grat lets a gurgle before evaporating into the ground.

"Now on to bigger and better things" Irvine cockily stated to nobody but himself. At the same time the footsteps of a T-Rexaur got closer. The far away tree's were rustling and in a couple of minutes Irvine would most likely be standing toe to toe with the dinosaur.

"Come on baby nothing to be scared off expect a cowboy looking some Rex skin boots" he stated to his future foe. The sound of footsteps now was very close and Irvine nearly fell off balance due to the vibrations of the ground beneath him. The cowboy rubbed his gun and awaited his foe. A roar both screeching and loud nearly blew Irvine away. The tree's shook from the force as Irvine fell on his backside. He got up only to see a giant shadow covering his view. A T-Rexaur stood in front of him his mouth and giant razor sharp teeth drooling in anticipation of his meal.