A/N - I do not own Square-Enix and the rights to Final Fantasy. I will continue to write this story, but having people give this story the reviews. It has inspired me to start thinking of stories for Final Fantasy 9 and 10/X-2, but this is the only story I will write for know. Thank you all for your reviews.
Zell, Selphie and Quistis wondered why they had been called to the Headmasters room for.
As they were waiting outside, they saw Edea and Cid walk out of his office and went straight into the lift.
"The Commander will see you now." Xu said, seeing that all three of them had nodded and walked into the office.
"Squall, why were we asked to come here for?" Quistis asked him, noticing that Zell was just about to ask the exact same thing.
"Well Quistis, this is very important and we are the only people who can do this," Squall replied, noticing that Selphie was a little confused about it all.
"What Squall is trying to say is that all of us are going for a little trip to find a certain something." Irvine replied, seeing that they were more confused than before.
"Irvine, you've confused them even more." Rinoa commented "Let me tell explain it you. We are going to search for a certain being that plagued us two years."
"Ok we had a few beings plague us two years ago the only one that springs to mind is Ultimecia and she's dead." Zell replied, and then he noticed that Irvine's face went down in anguish. "She is DEAD, isn't she?"
Zell looked at them all and saw the uncertainty in their eyes. Then he knew that there was a possibility.
"Zell, the Ultimecia we beat is dead." Rinoa said, looking a bit nervous of what she was about to say. "This Ultimecia is a younger one and her goals are to acquire Griever and finish off SeeD."
Selphie, Quistis and Zell looked in a state of shock at the mention of that dangerous GF.
"So in an essence, you're telling me that we have to go look for the menace that almost finished us off?" Quistis said, still in shock about the announcement that it was all starting up again.
"That's what we are saying exactly, I know that it is a bit of a shock but you have work through that and accept that we have to look for Griever." Squall announced looking at his friends and he knew he was feeling the exact same feeling they did, anticipation.
Cid looked at Edea and he saw that she was worried about the task ahead for Squall and the others.
"Edea, why didn't you at least tell me about, what was going to happen in the future?" Cid asked seeing that she was becoming apprehensive about it all.
"My dear husband, I am sorry that I didn't tell you about this, but I could see no easy way of telling you about the events to come." Edea replied, seeing that had Cid started to accept the truth about it.
"Do you think that the children would have acted any different to how they acted just then? It was a calculated risk but one that would have destroyed Squall and Rinoa's future together." Edea carried on.
Cid thought about the last part of what Edea had said and he couldn't lie about it. It would have destroyed both Squall and Rinoa's trust of each other if they knew they had to go against each other.
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"Uncle Laguna, where do you think you are going?" Ellone said, seeing that Laguna was walking out of his room.
"I'm just going for a walk Elle, to just think a few things over that's all." Laguna replied, seeing that Ellone nodded her head.
She knew that the last two years had been difficult for him, finding out just after Ultimecia was defeated that Squall was in fact his son and then having to tell Squall this fact. It had proven to be one of the hardest things he had ever had to do.
"Hey Laguna, are you still sulking up there?" Kiros asked, he only said this due to the fact that they were almost beaten by a Marlboro, when they investigated a disturbance just outside of Esthar.
"No I am not still sulking up here. Kiros get the Ragnarok ready for launch because we are going to Balamb Garden." Laguna replied in a dead certain tone.
"Why are we going to go to Balamb Garden, Uncle Laguna?" Ellone asked, wondering if it he had to talk to Squall or not.
"To honest I've got a gut feeling that something bad is about to happen to all of us." Laguna replied, hoping that it was just nerves but somewhere deep inside he knew something very big was about to go down.
"Kiros tell Odine and Ward to keep working on that special project and tell Ward if Odine tries anything funny, he has my permission to throw that slime ball into jail." Laguna carried on.
"Commander Squall, you got President Laguna on the line for you." Xu announced over the Garden's speaker system.
"Great, what does he want now?" Squall said, looking at Rinoa and he knew that she wanted to start laughing.
"Maybe he wants you to go take over as the president." Rinoa replied, seeing that Squall was giving her a serious look on his face.
"Rin, what have I told you about joking about the situation between me and Laguna?" Squall said, seeing that Rinoa wasn't taking it that seriously.
"Squall, so what are you trying to say. That I can't have laugh and joke about the person who you actually called dopey two years ago?" Rinoa knew she caught Squall with that because at the time they only saw him like 18 years before they actually met him.
"No, it's just that I seen a totally different side to him when it concerned either Elle or me." Squall stated, seeing Rinoa start to understand.
"Well at least your father is willing to talk to you Squall. You know that I and my father have had our bad times since my mom died." Rinoa replied, remembering back to the first time that Squall had met her father.
It had almost turned into a full blown argument over the fact that SeeD would carry on taking orders after the attempted assassination of the sorceress.
"He won't even talk to me since his fount out that I am now a sorceress." Rinoa carried on, seeing that Squall was still trying to understand why General Caraway had severed all ties with his only daughter for.
"Rinoa I am so sorry I totally forgot about that and here I am going on about my problems with Laguna, when you've got much bigger problems than I do." Then Squall looked at Rinoa and saw that she actually blamed herself for how bad things had got with Caraway.
"Listen Rin when this is over and done with we're going to go to Deling City and see Caraway and try to sort this entire thing out." Squall carried on and saw that she was relieved by statement.
"Thanks Squall, you've always known how lift my feelings up. Well hadn't we better go see what the President of Esthar actually wants?" Rinoa gave out a small smile and saw that Squall had taken her by the hand and she knew that Laguna would owe them big time for this. With all that sorted they headed to Squall's office together.
A/N - Just saying Happy New Year to you all.