"Kurse those SeeDs" echoed a voice through Rinoa's mind. "Kurse them all for what they have done." Rinoa recognised the face but she couldn't place a name to it.

The figure was standing in a dark room with bodies lying still on the floor; Rinoa recognised the bodies and what they signified.

Then the voice rung out loudly "KURSE THAT LEONHART MOST OF ALL FOR STARTING ALL THIS"

At that moment in time, Rinoa jolted up; aware she that was in her own bed and that it all had been a dream. "Crikey" she said, "That was the worst one by far."

"Squall!" called out Zell, trying to catch him up, "Squall, wait up I've got something to ask ya!" Squall eventually turned around "What is it Zell?" he asked impatiently.

"You know that Headmaster Cid and Matron have called a meeting later" he said with a worried look on his face, "I'm just wondering if it has anything to do with Rinoa or not?"

Zell looked worried as Squall gave a glare which Zell knew because Squall gave him the exact same glare two years earlier, when they fount out that they would be taking the SeeD test in the same squad.

"Zell, why would it be about Rinoa for? When they want here there to?" Squall asked anxiously, wanting to know where Zell was going with this line of enquires. "I know she's gonna be there but…" Zell started.

"What about it Zell, you think this is going to something about Rinoa being the sorceress don't you?" Squall asked Zell impatiently.

"To be honest Squall" Zell hadn't seen Squall this emotional since the time that Ultimecia took over Rinoa's body and used her to free Adel from space.

"Rinoa has been acting a bit strange over the past few weeks. So it might be something to do with that" Zell said, expecting Squall to explode but Zell saw a worried look in Squall's face.

"So you noticed that to, huh?" he asked worryingly. Zell was shocked by the abruptness of it all but he was glad to see him confiding in someone other than Rinoa.

"Yeah I have, but it's not just me who's noticed. All of the gang have, but they didn't know what to ask you about it" he said, seeing that he had Squall's full attention.

"I was thinking it had something to with Rinoa still getting used to her powers, right? He asked hoping that Squall knew the answer to the question.

"I hope so Zell, but whenever I ask her about it, she just clamps up until the subject has changed. I've tried everything I can think of." Squall said, wishing that he knew what was up with Rinoa. He thought back to the time when it was just him and Rinoa onboard the Ragnarok in space, when he fount out she was the sorceress and how mad he was at himself for letting her get caught up in the whole thing with Edea and Ultimecia.

"Squall, do you think Matron would be able to get it out of her?" Zell asked in the sincerest of ways. "I hope so Zell, I really do." he said thinking how he could her help through this if it didn't have anything to do with her powers.

"Hey Rinoa!" shouted a familiar voice. Rinoa turned around to see it was Selphie. "Hi Selphie" Rinoa said, wishing she could be left alone after the dream she just had. Thinking back on it, it was clearer this time and what did Squall have to do with it all.

"What you thinking about?" Selphie asked being her inquisitive self.

"Oh nothing much, just wondering why the Headmaster and Edea would call a meeting so abruptly." She said, knowing that she wasn't thinking of that at all, but what could she have said "oh I was wondering why that in my dream, someone is cursing SeeDs and why the bodies on the floor were SeeDs as well." She thought to herself trying to figure it out still.

"Yeah, I was wondering about that to" Selphie said, knowing something was wrong but not wanting to pry, just in case it was something personal about Squall.

"Hey Rin, Selphie what's up?" They both knew who it was, but they didn't want to acknowledge him. Selphie turned towards him and said "What do you want Kinneas?" Irvine looked in a state of shock at what Selphie had just said.

"All I wanted was to see if you two are going out with me and the rest of the gang later on tonight." He said, a bit worried that Selphie might bit his head of again.

"Oh sorry Irvine, I thought that you were going to apologise to me for all the lying you did, when we were dating" Selphie said, rubbing injury into the wound of Irvine's heart.

He knew what was doing at that time was wrong, lying to her, flirting with other woman and not telling her where he had been until the early hours of the morning.

In a way he knew that she had to find out the truth about what was going on at some point or the other, and he wished that he had just told her everything before she had to hear it from a complete stranger.

"You know I'm sorry about that Selph and I know that as long as I stay here you'll just keep rubbing it in. I can't say I blame you though because I do deserve it." Irvine said, he could feel his throat swelling up and his heart was telling him, just tell her how you really felt about her.

"Uh guys, I gonna go see Squall, so I'll see you two later on tonight, okay?" Rinoa said, wanting to get as far away from this situation as possible before she ended up telling them the whole thing about her dreams.

"Sure Rin" said Selphie looking worried "Is there anything up?"

"No, nothing's wrong" said Rinoa, she couldn't bear lying to her friends but she had no choice. "I just need to talk to Squall about the whole thing with the Headmaster and Edea."

Irvine and Selphie looked at each other puzzled, "Err okay? So we'll see you tonight then?" Irvine said not wanting to see that he was actually worried for her well being.

"You'll see me there with Squall, so until tonight. See ya" Rinoa said before dashing off.

"Do you wanna tell Squall about that or should I?" Selphie asked Irvine in a voice that was confused but worried at the same time.

"I'll tell him later tonight" Irvine said reassuringly, "So meet at the garage at 8?" he asked Selphie "Okay" she said before they parted there separate ways.

Quistis was in the classroom teaching a group of students when Squall walked in. "Commander Squall" said Quistis in a surprised voice, "I thought you were going to go the Training Facility and keep up your stamina?" she said.

She knew something was up because he never missed going to the Training Facility unless there was something on his mind.

"Class, I just need to talk to Instructor Trepe for a few minutes. Can you please wait in the corridor outside, thank you very much?" Squall said and soon they went out as fast as they could.

"Squall, what's the matter" Quistis asked seeing that Squall had a serious look on his face.

"I was on my way to the Training Facility, when Zell stopped me. I thought he was going to go on about how the students weren't taking him seriously enough, but he came out and wanted to know what is wrong with Rinoa." he said, thinking over what he and Zell said to each other.

"So he told you then, I thought I was going to be the one who eventually asked about it." He knew she was relieved that she didn't have to actually ask him.

"Quisty, just tell me what happened when she was acting weird" Squall asked in a concerned voice, he knew it would just keep eating at him until he couldn't take it anymore.

"Well, when in was with her a few days back. We started to talk about the meaning of SeeD and she just totally cut off, when I got to the part about the sorceress and how SeeDs were trained to fight her." Quistis said noticing that Squall had a worried look on his face.

"Squall, what is going on?" she asked wondering if had stepped over some kind of line. "Oh not much really" Squall replied, she had just confirmed that it was something to do about being the sorceress but not fully.

"Thanks Quisty. I'd better be going; I've got lots to do." "Squall, you coming out tonight right, we're meeting at the garage at 8, ok?" Quistis asked wondering if she had confirmed something or not.

"I'll see what Rinoa wants to go or not as well. See ya" Squall said before leaving.