Chapter 10: Saving Home part 2

The 3 GFs surrounded the possessed Garden which was propelling itself though the water heading east towards Esther, it's projected path.

"Why would it be going to Esther?" Bahamut asked almost to himself, he barely understood anything that was happening and he didn't expect to understand that, at lest not until the Shadow made it to Esther, something he didn't intend to let happen.

A thin black spike shot out of the side of the Garden with an unexpected speed, it almost caught Bahamut off guard "!" but reflexes ensuing he shifted his head to the left just in time to avoid it by mere inches. "..."

The black coating on the Garden spasmed once, a single ripple traveling along the surface before it started moving around under the metal of the Garden, it was similar to watching oil through a window. Needless to say when seeing this no one knew what to expect next.

"How are we supposed to attack this thing?" Ifrit asked uneasily, watching what used to be many shadows, now merging into a single large one moving across the Garden's surface as if it was a coating as common as paint.

"Your worried to much about hitting Squall." Griever didn't hastate, rushing forward with outstretched wings from his point on the south side.

Another long spike shot out like bullet to intercept him that Griever easily avoided it, but he had a much harder time avoid a wall of them that rose. He was forced to stopped his advance hurriedly shift his course to the side, just barely making it out of the path of the attack. It had come much to fast for him to completely avoid, of the two spikes still managed to hit him in his side, the points were so precisely sharp that it went completely through that part of his body with no resistance at all.

Griever winced with a growl of pain. Something that thin shouldn't have hurt so much, when he paid attain to them he knew why it did hurt so much. He could feel the shadow's extension stirring, cutting him from the inside with the shape sifting ability put to full use with an array of pulsing needles rising from the original.

With a low roar Griever took hold of the two spike, breaking them off and forcibly pull them out, dropping them down in to the ocean below. It didn't need to be said that a direct attack would work, even if they could mange to get in close enough to actually touch it'd be curtain death. "Damnit..."

Ifrit clinched his fist and every muscle in his body tightened, inanely he began to grow hotter until his body burst into an aura of raging flames. That fire discharged from all sides, falling toward the shadows like a wave that washed over the Garden in it's entirety. The surface water sizzled under the heat as the flames hit the liquid, causing it evaporate in to a thick cloud of white steam on contact, adding another smaller level of damage to the attack.

It countered with it's usual speed, instead of a small spike a thick pillar of the same strange liquid like substance came flying upwards from behind the cover of quickly dissipating steam, notably having to pull some of the shadow's cover from other areas to do so. The even though it was a larger amount the speed was impossibly fast now, it struck and swallowed Ifrit in the sticky substance before he think of avoiding it. As soon as it had him it began to squeeze from all sides, inhibiting any movement and stopping any chance for breathing since it had his whole body. 'How...is damn this thing so fast! Urraaaaaaaaa!' Next he felt the spikes, thicker then before, protruding from substance and piercing his skin.

It was seconds from drawing blood when a rush of intense flames emitted from Ifrit and blasted through the black appendage holding on to him. Forcing that part of the merged shadows to pull back in to the Garden, with out wasting a second the same pillar shot up again on the opposite side of the structure, this time going for Bahamut.

It's attack rate was amazing, they could barely get one in otherwise.

"It's too fast." The dragon was ready with a Mega flare, firing the shining silver beam just as the shadow covered him. It burned right through the Shadow's attack, hollowing out the sticky substance of darkness that rose against him and striking the side of the Garden resulting in a powerful explosion. But it was quickly stifled by the merged shadow pulling what part of itself it had thrown out back and minimizing the damage. "It...didn't do anything."

"We don't have time to stop and worry about it! Just keep attacking." Griever, being the slowest of the three only had time to actually charge an attack while Bahamut had it distracted, he had to make it count, so he used Shockwave Pulsar. The posed Garden was surrounded in sphere of almost completely transparent white energy, instead of using a lot his energy to lift something as heavy as the Garden in to the air, he forced it in to the sub-dimension used when summoning.

The merged shadow was surrounded in two vortexes of the same white energy that coved it at the start, one under and one above rotating into two conflicting directions. A shockwave propagated outward right before the energy detonated and everything went completely white in a blinding flash.

The Garden came back into existence slightly different in appearance then before, the merged shadow was stirred erratically over the Garden's surface, disoriented because of Griever's attack which had struck a weak point. It wasn't exactly clear what that weak point was, it had been an non-elemental attack.

"That...that worked?" Ifrit looked at the monster, then at Griever. It just worked? How? "Griever, I think--!"

A shockwave like ring proliferated outward from the top of the Garden, it came like a flash, striking all three of them hard enough to knock them out of the air. Bahamut and Griever landed with little problem, taking no more damage from the fall then the burning sting of saltwater flooding the large gash caused by the attack. Ifrit on the other hand was taking heavy damage, he could handle small amounts of water such as rain or even from a shower, but this was an ocean and in retrospect a bad place for Ifrit to join in a fight.

"Ifrit!" With a flash of worry shooting through his mind Griever dived beneath the surface and swam furiously to the sinking Ifrit. He could see the golden eyes winching in growing pain, the idle body struggling slightly since Ifrit obviously didn't know how to swim, the mouth falling open as if he wanted to say something but couldn't... And Griever was sure that Ifrit couldn't hold his breath. With haste Griever wrapped his arms around the fire GF and dragging him out of the water.

Ifrit coughed violently as soon as his lungs felt air, gasping with a series of deep breaths. Seeing that Ifrit was alright, Griever let him go. "Thanks." It seemed just as quickly as Ifrit spoke his expression shifted from a gracious one to a fierce one, he pushed Griever backwards just before a line of spikes shot outward coming just in-between them. Neither of them were fast enough to avoid the next ones.

"!"

"!" They both were struck in the same place before they had a chance to see it coming, the thin spikes thrusting into Griever and Ifrit's left sides just above the waist. With the blade on his tail Griever severed the spike before it could go force it's way any farther in to him, Ifrit did the same with his claws just as quickly and the both of them pulled out the intruding spear. Which turned out to be an extremely painful, this small spike was doing more internal damage then they realized. It was also slowing their reaction times by weakening muscles in the area where it struck.

"Do any one of you know what the hell these things are?" Ifrit snarled angrily, watching the spot where he'd been stuck slowly turn black. "And how are they doing this? Is this poison?"

"It's not poison." Bahamut dived head first in to the water in an attempt to use it as cover, another Mega flare charging in his mouth. But even there the shadow could attack. A wave of the dark substance came rushing towards him only slowed barely by the water, spitting open like mouth that came to fast to evade, surrounding him from above and below, closing on him like a snapping jaw.

Almost in a flinching motion Bahamut fired the Mega Flare, sending the shining blast in to the source of the darkness. The water around him bubbled and sizzled profusely as the ray burned through the merged shadow's appendage, just barely passing through the large ring under the Garden and striking the hull above it. Another powerful explosion erupted though the flames were subcommand by the water large waves were created on the surface from the force.

'This is my only chance...' Ifrit thought to himself as he attacked with Hell Fire from above at the same time as Bahamut. A large burning meteor came into existence, raising from just above the ocean's surface. Ifrit cuffed his hands together, curling his body back and then following through, hammering his fist into the burning rock and knocking into a rapid free fall into the Garden. Everything above water was covered in rage flames and pounded into the front side of the structure with a strong impact.

Though it had been hit by two fierce attacks at once, the monster show little sign of damage.

The Shadow countered more intensely then before as if it was agitated for some reason, the top layer of the substance expanded off the Garden like an explosion, sending a wall in all directions in a growing sphere. It was unavoidable, it's speed and range were tremendous, Griever, Ifrit and Bahamut were surrounded by the Shadow's shockwave in a only a few seconds.

! - ! - !

"Seifer, a little higher." Cho called down with a small bit of aggravation tenting his voice.

Seifer was lifting, or attempting to at lest, Cho up towards the lift's opening that led to the cockpit, the only route to the cockpit. Challenging wasn't a good enough word for this, since the ship was on it's side there was no even ground. What had used to be the floor was now the wall, meaning what used to be the ceiling was now also a wall. It only left a narrow opening to stand in.

They had partially found their way around this problem, Seifer planted his gunblade into the wall, and by wall a mean the actual ceiling, then climbed on to it and attempted to lift Cho into the hole the lift used as an entrance. Cho was amazed at how strongly made Seifer's weapon was.

"I can't go any higher." Seifer refrained from shouting, already lifting the boy up as far as he could reach while maintaining his balance. "Your a heavy little brat."

"Do something, I'm almost there." Cho was only about 6 inches from it, that's all he needed and he could do the rest. He was trying his best not to look down, and to ignore the fact that he only had to waver an inch in any direction and he'd take a very painful fall since standing on Seifer's shoulders wasn't the most secure way.

Seifer thought about it for a moment, there was no way either of them could jump, there wasn't enough support or space to make a decent one…But soon after he dismissed that thought an idea made itself present, one that could work.

"Float." Seifer cast the simple spell on Cho, causing wings of light to appear on the boy's back and allowing his hands to act as a ground for the spell to repel him from.

The boy was lifted upward, easily clearing the few inches and climbing through the oddly positioned hole.

"Your smarter then you look." Cho slid down the slanted floor and landed on the glass of the one cockpit's windshields. '...' He was uneasy about being on glass, he wasn't sure the darkness he was seeing was one of those shadows or just a lack of light.

"The only thing smart about you is your mouth." Seifer shot back, finding it much easier to climb up now that he didn't have to help Cho. He'd have to leave his gunblade behind for now.

"Yeah right." Cho made his way cautiously along the windshield until he reached the dashboard at the head of the room, he needed to use the float spell for help climbing up to the pilot seat centered between three others.

"What the hell are you doing?" Seifer tilted his head to the side questingly, watching Cho squirm and move around seemingly erratically around the seat.

"What dose it look like!" Cho shouted back with frustration.

"Like your loosening your damn mind."

"Shut up." Cho seemed to finally make his way into the desired position, sitting the right way in a seat mounted in the wall which was not easy, he had to buckle himself in to keep from falling. Though in a strange position, Cho still managed to work the controls he knew mostly how to work. 'I should know this...yeah, I remember this...I can do this...' He thought to himself, leaning forward to flip 3 switches that triggered three lights meaning different things, finally pressing a button labeled ignition.

A soft clicking sound came before the engine tried to start, and after a few seconds it completely stalled. "Come on! Don't do this to me now!" Cho didn't know to much about this ship yet except basic flying skills, so he had no idea what the problem could be. But after watching Nida so many times he could take a few guesses if he had too.

"Do you know what your doing?" Seifer asked, he didn't feel safe with Cho doing things up there.

Cho's response was distracted:"A little bit." he was still to busy trying to get the Ragnaork to start. 'Come on...what is it?' After a few seconds of thought he checked the fuel gauge, '33', which should be more then enough to start the engine.

Seifer sighed. "Hyne I hope so."

Cho held the adjusting draw switch to the ships thrusts, revving them all the way up an a attempt to get some gas to the engine.

It worked, the ship started on the next try. 'Yes!'

Now came the hard part.

Seeing that it would be stupid to stand their if Cho was about to attempt to move the ship, Seifer made his way into a seat and buckled up in preparation. "Man I hope you don't get me killed."

Cho laughed lightly, "It's nice to know you have so much confidence in me." Despite his laughter, Cho was nervous, even more so when he pushed forward on the throttle with a little force and the side of the ship nearly instantaneously began grinding against the rock surround it.

"Come on Cho, this damn thing is in a hole it can barely fit into, how do you think your gonna move it?"

Seifer was right, that approach wasn't going to work. "Ok, plan B." Cho smirked sheepishly, he was a little too excited...

"Ok, what are you thinking?" Seifer rubbed his head and sighed, he didn't like that look 'Damnit he's gonna get me killed.'

Cho pushed up a red cover on the side of the throttle, taking the safety off the guns. "Nothing." He gave no warning before he opening fire on the rock blocking their way.

"!" Seifer flinched, grabbing on to his seat uneasily "You think you could have given me some kinda warning before you just started shooting things.

"Yeah, I could have." The ground at Tear's point wasn't completely solid, those strange pillars ran deep under the surface and from what he'd witnessed before they were combustible. Of course he didn't have that in mind when he started this, he'd take any chance he could get to use the ships weapons since Nida refused to let him use them.

So barrage of bullets drilled into the wall, managing to eat away enough of it to reach two of the strange pillars rooted in front of the ship, the first shot caused a loud explosion from the detention, throwing a rain of small rocks and smoke onto the windshield. It managed to open the ground and extended the hole surrounding them.

After a few more extremely close blasts, the hole became wide enough for the ship to fall into a remotely level position. From there Cho was easily able to lift the Ragnaork into the air. "Still think I'm stupid now?" Cho looked over to him with a confident smirk on his face.

"Nope, just crazy." Now that he wasn't worried about Cho blowing them apart Seifer place his feet up on the dashboard and lifted his hands behind his head. Watching the landscape roll past them with increasing speed. Cho seemed to know what he was doing, it wasn't like Seifer could do any better.

"Ok, where's the Garden?" Cho asked.

"I was wrong, dumber then I thought."

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

Seifer sighed, his eyes drifting over some of the controls on the dashboard in front of them. "How much gas do you have in this thing?" He asked.

Cho looked over at the gauge, he didn't think of that. " …Not a lot I guess."

"Uh-huh. And how many weapons do you have?"

"Well…20 bullets…..and that's it." Cho realized what Seifer was talking about, a lot of things he should have taken in a count in the first place. "So what am I suppose to do about it?"

"What do you think you should do idiot." Seifer snorted sarcastically.

"I could go to Esther..."Cho's eyes downcast when he realized what was wrong with that thought. "But they wouldn't give me anything, I couldn't even get a car."

That raised a few questions Seifer decided to wait until later to ask about. 'Great, this kid's a pro thief.' Seifer pulled his feet of the dashboard and let his hands drop lazily to his sides. "Since I'm along for this too I might as well help you out, again." Seifer unbuckled himself and stood with a stretch. "Go back to the Lunatic Pandora."

"That big black thing, Why?" Cho looked back at him, reluctantly turning the ship around since he'd been heading away from it from the moment he ascended. He wasn't too experienced with the controls yet so that turn much like every turn he'd made was much wider then it should have been. He wasn't fluent in the full maneuvering capabilities.

"If Esther hasn't cleaned the place out yet then you can still get a few supplies from it." Seifer knew the condition of the machine, but he also knew where everything had been stocked inside, a lot of useable things could have missed damage because everything was always stored inside of the outer wall. That wall was usually protected by shields but since it was no longer active they wouldn't have to worry about that.

"Hn..." Cho did as Seifer told him and he headed back in the opposite direction toward the Lunatic Pandora. He told himself it was a good opportunity to break in the engines again before going in to battle, after being out of service for 17 years nothing was running smoothly, and he could take the chance to look over the manual. Which he so desperately needed to do, if their was one...there had to be some type of instructions right?

"Ok I'm here, where am I going?" Cho asked, coming up on the towering Pandora with enough room so that even he could make a turn when needed.

Seifer leaned over the dashboard, pointing something out. "Down near the bottom, you see where it's gold instead of black--" The bottom of the Lunatic Pandora had a stair like formation, those stairs were colored gold and were smaller then the rest of the structure. "-- Go down to the second one from the top." What he was leading Cho to was a relatively small gate could be seen, it was just a little bigger then the Ragnaork itself.

The ship's nose titled downward and they started a steady decent.

"You do know how to do this right?" Seifer asked.

"Not really."

"Damnit, why the hell are you flying this thing!"

They wouldn't have a problem getting in to it because the shields were down, but crashing while doing so would be another thing. But Cho as usual was cocky and knew he could do it.

"Slow down." Seifer said nervously, seeing that they were completely out of any safe position for entry. "I got it." Cho waved him off confidently.

At this angle they would run it to the wall or break of both wings, and that wouldn't be good for the cockpit.

"Slow down Damnit!" Seifer yelled, nearing the hatch with out any drop in speed. If Seifer didn't know any better he'd say they were actually going faster.

"I Got it! Calm down!" Cho shouted back. They were so close now that slowing wouldn't do any good, and to Seifer's relief the ship came into nearly perfect alignment just before entering the dark and narrowly passage.

The sides of the Ragnaork scraped against the tight wall, creating a loud screeching sound and a storm sparks before Cho could get everything strait. "See, I'm getting better."

"If you get me hurt doing stuff like this, It's gonna be your ass."

Cho could feel the Shadow junction to him stir a bit when Seifer said that but he managed to repress any of the wolf's libido among other things seeping into him this time. A junction truly went both ways.

The path lead in to a larger room, the charged walls were lined with large tanks and tubes that most likely held fuel and weapons. While the center of the room was completely hollow up to the hole in the roof down to one in the floor, the cords and wires that managed to survive the fire where dangling loosely around with mangled pieces of metal that protruded and hung from everything.

"Whoa!" Cho looked around an amazement, he wasn't sure what this place looked like before since the last time he was here he was in the fire that caused all of this damage, but he was sure it wasn't supposed to be this. "What did this?"

"A dieing sorceress, couple hundred solders and a few bombs." Seifer spoke of it plainly with his attention more focused on other things, like spotting a place to land nearby. He pointed out a suitable one to Cho, it was right in front of them, a long protruding terrace that used to be a floor. "Right there." It was a preferable location because there was enough of it left to hold the ship's full length and support it's weight.

Cho nodded obediently and reduced the ships speed, stopping and settling easily over the spot just short of a wall he nearly ran into. "Got it." All he had to do now was let the automatic landing program take over.

"What now?"

Seifer peered out of the windshield, surveying his surroundings as if he was looking for something in particular. 'Hmm...' "I'm gonna go check something out..." He lifted himself off of the dashboard and heading over to the lift, leaving Cho by himself while he heading for the side door.

Cho didn't think much of it, Seifer probably knew what he was doing. 'Now where is it...' Cho unbuckled himself and looked around the whole control panel for some type of manual or pilot instructions, something of that nature. 'Maybe...' Cho dropped down on to his knees in front of a small compartment in front of the left co-pilot seat 'Here it is.' He found what he was looking for inside, and it ended up being much thicker then he expected. It was a binder filled with what looked like hundreds of papers in total about 4 inches thick labeled with the name of the ship.

Placing the heavy manual awkwardly under his arm, followed where Seifer had gone finding no reason to stay inside.

! - ! - !

'Man this thing is heavy...' Cho let himself fall to the ground with his back against one the ship's wheel, dropping the binder in to his lap. Not intending to read most of it, he scanned to the contents for the information he was looking for and then grazing through the manual until he reached the texts on combat controls and maneuvers. 'Heh heh.' He couldn't help but smirk at the thought that he'd actually get to use the ships weapons in an actual fight, even though he could barely fly.

Seifer gave him a sideways glance when he saw the look on his face, he was learning not to like it. "He's gonna do something stupid, I know it..." He mumbled to himself, walking over to a large tank positioned in front of the ship, it was about as large as the Ragnaork and almost as thick. It had been hidden by the interior walls, but now that they had been burned away it was completely visible and luckily escaped serious damage. Wrapped up and mounted on the wall the side, a white hose was attached used for siphoning fuel in and out of the container.

"What's that?" Cho didn't bother to look up, he just caught a glimpse of it from the corner of his eye while reading the pages in front of him.

Seifer pulled the hose toward the center of the ship, feeling around the steel underside around the area where the wheels had lowered for landing. "It's a Fuel tank, there are hundreds of these things around here." His hand brushed over a small grove just behind the third wheel, he immediately slipped his fingers into it and pulled it down. He opened up the small compartment revealing three oddly shaped wholes around a larger one, "Here it is."

Seifer lifted and hose up and attached it to the oddly shaped whole, soon after he heard the familiar sound of the fuel draining to the line. 'At lest that's still working.'

"Hey, how'd you know it was here?"

"Are you serious?"

Cho looked up at him, "Oh...oh yeah, I forgot about that."

Seifer rubbed his head, this kid didn't know something like that? Seifer had to admit, Cho was first person to forget what he did. "Yeah. Yeah."

Cho just shrugged and went back to reading.

Like it was nothing.

'What's with this kid?' Seifer locked in the hose to the fuel line so that it wouldn't fall off, take note of how heavy it was when something was actually being pumped through it. Normally Seifer would have complained about doing all of the work, but he didn't mind, he'd been bored enough actually want to do some work.

Besides Cho needed every second he could get to look over that manual if there was the remote chance it would help him be a better pilot. Plus, Seifer didn't want him to be involved in what he was going to do next, he wanted to be as far away as possible.

"Hey, where's the artillery storage?"

"Bottom of the ship around the middle." Cho lifted his arm and pointed out it's general direction, still keeping his eyes cast at the book. "It should pretty easy since it automatically unlocks when the ships parked."

"Hn..." Seifer stepped over the large hose and headed away from the ship. Just ahead was a small ramp connecting to one of many outlying ledges that had once been an entire floor, it all seemed stable enough so he really didn't have to worry about it falling threw under his weight. 'It should be...somewhere around here...' Seifer slid down the ramp easily enough, making his way to the outlaying ledge only about a few feet wide.

To his right was a wall completely burned through like most others, the space between the interior and exterior wall was lined with hatches where missiles resided and larger holes where he could see Glatting guns had once been mounted. 'Here it is.'

A few carts were still around, each built with large racks and groves built in carrying long black missiles, 10 in all. Others had machine gun rounds that where large enough only to be used for airships, some held energy packs for a rail guns and batteries.

Seifer took hold of the railing on the cart in front of him holding missiles, starting the task of pushing the cart back up the ramp. It wasn't easy at all, the cart alone was heavy enough with out it being fully loaded since it was created to be used with transport machinery, it was really hard but he preferred to do this alone. The thought of Cho and live ammunition together didn't go over well in his mind and he wanted to minimize the boy's contact with it, at lest while he was in the line of fire.

He had to shift his position around a few times on the way up, he finally made it back with his shoulder and half of his face pressed against it. He refrained from shouting out how heavy it was as he rolled the cart under the uplifted hose and under the Ragnaork, he quickly found the artillery storage Cho had directed him to.

Seifer pulled opened the large hatch and found a few gears and machine parts inside, a small lift lowered from it automatically, on which Seifer knowingly rolled the cart. From that point the whole process was automatic.

Seifer wordlessly headed back down the ramp again, returning momentarily pushing another chart full with 10 more missiles up the ramp with only a few strained grunts to announcing his presence.

Cho wasn't sure when he stopped paying attention to his reading and started watching Seifer, but he was amazed at how strong he was. He knew those missiles were far from light and the fact that he was pushing them uphill added to the difficulty. Seifer made it look plausible, as soon as he was on level ground he didn't look as if he was having any problem with it. Just as he did with the last Seifer rolled it underneath the hose and then under the ship.

'Why is it so hot in here.' He'd only been working for a few moments and sweat was already starting to form. With a small exhale he took off his jacket and tossed it aside somewhere near Cho while he waited for the lift to come back down again. As soon as it reached ground level he pushed the empty cart away and rolling the new one on to the lift. "How many of these can this thing hold?"

Cho wasn't really sure about it, he asked Nida once...he said...what did he say...How could he forget something like that?...Wait, he did remember. "I think about 19 or 20."

"That should be good then." Seifer walked back down to the ramp, unwilling to push a third chart up. He settled on a different type of cargo, a different cart loaded with at lest 300 hundred bullets. Unfortunately it was useless, when he started pushing it he found it just as heavy as the missiles, maybe more. 'Damnit, is someone just trying to spite me?' Seifer pressed his shoulder against the side and forced it up the incline, this time he was getting tired and having a little trouble, '...' Seifer started to slow down, almost slipping back once.

"?"

The chart became a little lighter when Cho, who'd completely snuck up on him, aliened himself next to the older boy and began to push. "This thing...is heavier then it looks."

"You thought it was light?" Seifer didn't ask why he was helping, he just continued to do his part.

"Not...really."

Upon making it back on to the higher level, Seifer noticing that hose that had been connected to the fuel line was gone. "The ship was full so I put the hose back." Cho explained before he could ask. Seifer gave an acknowledging sound as pulled the empty cart out of the way, loading the one with bullets on to the lift. It wasn't all of the rounds the ship could hold but that should be enough. Neither of them knew what was really happening with the Garden, maybe they didn't even need all of this?...right.

"So what do we put in next?" Cho asked, removing the quickly emptied cart from the descended lift and closing the loading hanger.

"Cho, go back to the ship. Now." Seifer's voice was harshly commanding, leaving no room for misinterpretation. It came on so suddenly, Cho wasn't expecting it.

Cho looked up at him questioningly, about to ask about it when the sight of something red in the corner of his eye made him freeze. 'No way...don't tell that's what I thought it was...' Hoping that he wasn't Cho slowly turned his head towards the sight and saw exactly what he'd hoped it wouldn't be, a shadow stood by the side door of the Ragnaork, just watching them, completely unmoving.

"When you said go back to the ship...what thing did you want me to get away from?"

Seifer pointed to a shadow on the ledge about one story above them, apparently he didn't see what Cho was talking about.

"Oh man, we have a serous problem then…" Cho elbowed Seifer in the side and pointed out one near the ships side door.

And that's when he unfortunately realized what was happening "Damnit, we're surrounded." He was thankful that his sword was nearby.

On closer inspection Cho could see at lest 0 more scattered about in different locations coming out of whatever place they'd been and onto the open. Some were across the gap, others were on the level above, more were spread about the ones below. It was obvious that there was more of them in this place then they could see.