The sorceress gave me the rank of Captain of a special group of her commandos, tasked with one main goal. To find a girl named Ellone, and bring her to Deling City. Raijin was made commander, and was placed under my command, as I took orders only from Seifer.
The sorceress first group had been defeated by Squall and his friends at my old home town, Fisherman's Horizon. She sent us to invade my adopted home town and find her. I had Raijin look around, ask questions, knowing he was to be back for a report in an hour.
Unfortunately, he missed his appointment with me, and each second that passed raised my blood pressure one thousand points. At four o'clock I heard the company dog rush past the hotel where we were staying and I knew he had fallen asleep again. Probably stuffed himself with that damn rotten fish that this town was known for.
Ten minutes later, he rushed forward, bursting through the doors. He didn't get a sentence in. With a spinning kick, I tossed him right back outside.
"Come on, Fujin, give me a chance to explain," he whined. He turned to the guards and asked for their help. Then I heard the sound of a very familiar voice. Dincht. Talking nonsense about liberating this disgusting little town. As if the sorceress had any intention to keep it under her rule. I had every intention of burning it to the ground.
There was commotion, and then Squall and Dincht rushed into the main lobby of the hotel, with the tiny little brunette right on their heels. White hot anger burned through my veins, and I felt my eyes nearly explode. "Rage," I snapped.
"Give it up, Fujin, you can't win," Squall told me. "Are you really going to fight us alone?"
"She's not exactly alone," Raijin chuckled, rushing to my side. He cracked his neck and folded his arms. "Nothing beats a little exercise to wake you up, ya know?"
The fight lasted over half an hour. At one point Squall was laying face first on the ground, victory was in our hands. How we lost, well I blame Raijin, but still we did lose. Worse, I lost my GF, Pandemona as the brunette stole her from my mind.
"So you no longer want anything to do with Garden?" Squall asked, as we talked after the fight. Both of us nodded with that statement. Although we admitted that we were a little worried about Seifer's new path. I knew he had a dream about serving a sorceress, to be her knight.
"Well then at least tell Seifer to knock this whole thing off," Squall said. "He'll listen to you two."
You would think so, wouldn't you? Unlike what Squall was thinking, there had been a change in Seifer's attitude that we couldn't understand.
The brunette tried to continue the conversation, but Raijin started to clam up. I kicked him in his ankle, and ordered him to run. After all, we were now technically Garden's enemy. And Galbadia and the SeeDs were in an unofficial war. It would have been nothing for Squall and his friends to capture us.
We rushed passed to the docks, along with what remained of our soldiers, and boarded our ships. A couple of my troops launched a few smoke missiles, to cover our tracks, and we were gone, heading for the safety of Deling City, and Galbadia's borders.
I tried to sleep many days after that, I even tried to talk to Seifer. However; the more I tried to get close to him, the farther Edea pushed him away from both Raijin and me. Leonheart's words began to burn further and further deeper in my soul.
"Hey Raijin," I began. I still have to laugh at his reaction as I tried to talk to him. It was rare back then when I spoke in such a thoughtful manner, without screaming at him, or talking in half sentences.
"Yeah?" He blinked and smiled at me. He knew where I was going, before I even let him know. Somehow even though he acted like a dork, he always seemed to know, perhaps even more than Seifer.
"What Leonhart said, about Seifer, you think he had a point?"
The big lug lowered his head. It was hurting both of us to even think about Seifer like this. "It's his dream, ya know? He so desperately wants to be the Sorceress' knight." He shuddered, and I caught a tears rolling down his cheeks. "But all the same, we're losing him, ya know? Yesterday I caught him ordering a man to be tied to a post outside the hotel in the city and scourged because he mumbled about the sorceress' new tax plan."
I had seen it too. The man was a foul mouthed ass, but Seifer had him nearly scourged to death. It took seven men with twenty large towels to clean up all the blood afterwards. He'd not only become distant, but a psychopath to boot. There were dreams I had sometimes when Seifer totally snapped, and following the orders of his sorceress, had Raijin and me killed.
"What are we going to do about this?" I asked.
"Like you say, we've got to bare it," he said, trying to put an arm around my shoulder. I glared at him, and his arm darted away. "We're a posse."
"We're a posse," I admitted with a nod of my gray hair flopping in my eye.
A week later, an alarm blared all around us as soldiers rushed passed in all directions. I clutched one's arm, and spun him around. "Explain," I snarled.
"We're attacking Balamb Garden, the Sorceress's orders."
"Why weren't we informed," Raijin growled. The soldier shrugged and rushed slipped passed my fingers. Raijin sadly watched him go and groaned. "Seifer wouldn't purposely leave us in the dark, would he?"
I growled under my breath, and kicked his ankle. Still in my heart, I was wondering the same thing.
We watched Squall and his group run passed us. Just a moment ago we were thought we were going to fight for a second time. But the heart ache and confusion in Raijin's and my chests were too much. We didn't have the heart for it anymore.
"Stop him," Raijin asked, his heart melting as we watched them walk away.
After Edea's defeat Seifer returned back to D.C. and told the Congress that a new, more powerful sorceress would now head the government, one named Ultimicia.
He apologized to Raijin and me. He appointed us higher ranking officials, and asked us to look for something called the Lunatic Pandora, some kind of floating skyscraper weapon the nation of Esthar had built and then buried under the sea. It wasn't long before we found it, and were driving it to Esthar. Once that was accomplished, we faced Dincht, the red haired cowboy who was with him and the former Sorceress Edea. With a quick switch of a button, we sent them flying out of the weapon, and accomplished our mission.
It wasn't long before we were fighting Leonheart again. Somehow he had gotten a space ship and crashed it into the Lunatic Pandora. What was more, they had brought Rinoa, the woman both Leonheart and Seifer had their eyes on, and the instrument in which Sorceress Ultimicia would use to implement her plans.
She was from the future, but had to get her hands on the body of a sorceress in our time. For a while she had controlled Edea, but now that Edea's powers were in Rinoa, and the former queen of Esthar, another sorceress named Adel was being awoken, there had to be a merge between the two women. Then Ultimicia could take possession of the ultra powerful Adel, and rule the world, or so she had lead Seifer to believe.
As we fought Squall, it was certain that we were going to lose again. As I dropped to my feet, I knew that the end had come. Despite his fevered delusions, I knew that Seifer would never win over Leonheart.
His group made its way to the control center, where Raijin, Seifer, and I were waiting. Leonheart looked up and demanded to know what was going on.
Seifer cackled, his eyes glowing with insanity and explained a little bit. Then he turned to us, and chuckled with a low voice. "Let's make our guests feel welcome."
Raijin looked at me and I nodded. We had, had enough. "No, Seifer. No more fighting," Raijin said sadly.
"Hey, people, I thought we were a posse," he said, for a second his eyes returning to his normal state. And in them I could see a tortured soul.
"We are," I said. "But what you're doing, Seifer it's wrong. You have your dream, and we want to do everything we can to make it become a reality. That's why we followed you when you left Garden. But you're not yourself. Seifer, you're doing nothing but eating out of someone else's hands." A tear rolled down my cheek. "We can't join you in this, anymore."
For a moment, looking at him, I thought he was going to attack us, that my horrid dream I had months ago was about to become a reality. Then he smiled at us and lifted his gun blade in a salute. "Raijin, Fujin, it's been fun."
Raijin and I sadly turned and rushed away. Before I left the room, I turned to Leonheart, and silently mouthed the words, "Please, save him."