Putting myself in my reviewers shoes, I don't think I could wait any longer than a week for this really, REALLY exciting chapter!! Don't fall of your seat, because this is only the first when the nonstop thrill ride of a fic gets to be so intense. I haven't even started chapter 12 yet! I just finished this one! Enjoy.

The perfect song lyrics to match this chapter's intensity: "Price to Play" by Staind! Off the 14 Shades of Grey album again.

Chapter 11: Under Attack

We fail to see how destructive we can be

Taking without giving back 'til the damage can be seen

Can you see…? Can you see…?

Backing up, Marianne was deciding to let Squall and Seifer handle this battle. She knew she didn't have any magic spells or weapons. But Bahamut had an idea that she could be of some use. "Summon me," the Guardian called to her. …Huh?! Are you insane?! she privately shrieked to him. There was no reply, because something from NORG was distracting him. He sensed…something. And from looking within Marianne's mind, he discovered she knew about it. "You know that Leviathan's inside NORG," he added. Yeah? So? Marianne snapped at her GF, not really in the greatest mood.

The right orb of NORG's weaponry device turned from blue to yellow, warming up in using the magic power from it. The humming from the device was causing Squall to speak loudly so at least Seifer could hear him. "We can't let him use the magic on that…thing!" Marianne heard Leonhart say. Seifer did too. "So, we attack those orb things?!" Just then, the left orb turned yellow. "YES!!" Marianne shouted, which did not help her head pain at all. She placed a hand on where it hurt. The two turned to her, surprised. She then decided on Bahamut's offer. "You attack the orbs, I'll summon Bahamut!" "You can't be serious! You're not in good shape to fight! You don't have any weapons or magic spells!" Squall pointed out all at once. The right orb turned red, meaning of possible attack. "SQUALL! Just do as she says! Hurry!" Quezacotl called to him. "Bahamut knows what he's doing…I hope." YOU HOPE?! Squall replied, really mad as he leaped forward and attacked the right orb, causing it to change from red back to yellow.

As the left orb turned red, Squall rushed and lashed at it with his Revolver gunblade. "SQUALL, You're going along with this?!" Seifer shouted to Leonhart. He couldn't believe this. Almasy knew that Leonhart knew better than to allow Marianne to be at risk of making her head injury worse. She was better off getting out of the way, to be where Cid was standing. The robotic faculty had blocked off all means for anyone to escape. So it's definitely possible if Squall, Marianne, and Seifer die, Kramer would go down with them.

"I believe I can numb the pain…but only for a while," Bahamut said to Marianne, persuading her to summon him. Are you sure? Why haven't you told me this earlier?! Seifer turned to Marianne and said, "Let us handle this Marianne! Go over there with the Headmaster!" "Wait!" Marianne called, holding up a hand signal which meant "wait a minute" and continued to let Bahamut answer her question. Squall looked to Seifer. "My GF says Bahamut basically knows what he's doing! Are you just going to fuckin' stand there or help me?!" he scowled. He was only one person, and couldn't attack both orbs at once! Seifer quickly looked back to Marianne in worry as she listened to what Bahamut had to say, then had no choice but to help Squall in attacking the orbs. "I can only do such a thing in urgencies such as this. I apologize if I hid this from you, but you can say what you want later. I need you to summon me. I can cause massive damage with my flame," Bahamut advised.

Having no choice but to trust Bahamut, she asked him, Alright, how do I summon?! "Just concentrate. I want you to focus in seeing me, while I numb the pain. You can do it. I know you can." In observing how Marianne knew how to defeat NORG, ideas were forming inside the dragon king's head. Marianne did as she was told, as she began to slowly feel the pain fade away. She was grateful for this, otherwise she wouldn't be able to help Squall and Seifer at all.

Almasy and Leonhart together as a team of two, had managed to keep the orbs blue while Marianne was summoning her Guardian Force. One standing in front of the right orb, as the other stood in front of the left orb.

She remembered the last time in seeing Bahamut was seeing his face in the bathroom mirror. For a moment, she considered if Squall saw him. "Now is not the time to be thinking about that!!" Bahamut snapped, causing her to focus in seeing him in the mirror on that time in the ladies' room, in the lounge area of Deling City's hotel.

In time, Bahamut appeared, and he was standing on all fours behind her. "Move," he commanded as Marianne did so without any hesitation, knowing why the dragon spirit was there.

With an ear splitting roar of a battle cry, Squall and Seifer decided to run out of the way too. The orbs on NORG's weapon remained blue. Marianne was standing to the side as the other two humans joined her. The pain was still gone, as Marianne realized that even if Bahamut was out of her mind, he was still in some sort of connection to her.

They watched as the gigantic Guardian begin to stand on his two hind legs. Bahamut opened his mouth wide, revealing his teeth for a second, and then light blue fire escaped from his breath, slightly scorching the metal surface of the machine in front of him. NORG let out an angry roar in response. He was still pretty furious to the group of three.

One by one, the orbs turned back to yellow. "Wow," Marianne mouthed to herself, blown away in seeing this. And she could even feel the heat from the attack. It was so intense! When Bahamut was done, Marianne felt him go back inside her. WOW! BAHAMUT…You were AWESOME!!! commented Marianne, feeling blown away by what she had witnessed.

"Good! Keep it up," Squall slightly praised her as Seifer followed him to keep the orbs at bay. "Again," the dragon king commanded. Marianne didn't question why, because she knew summoning him was the only thing she could do right now. And this strategy formed seemed to be working.

She concentrated again and out Bahamut came, causing the metal of NORG's weapon to melt and dissolve. After a few times of this attack, NORG was getting even more angry.

From inside the machine, the Shumi pressed some buttons rapidly on the computerized control panel to make the door slide open.

Once NORG was revealed, Bahamut knew it was time to save Leviathan. "Hold both palms out in front of you, and draw Leviathan out. Just concentrate…" Bahamut began, and then decided to help her see for a second on what Leviathan looked like. A long snake like dragon. Long purple wings spread out from the Guardian Force's mid section. Marianne had known from playing Final Fantasy 7, and beating it, that Leviathan's power were water based attacks.

NORG crossed his thick arms over his chest. "I ADMIT YOU HAVE SKILLS," the Shumi boomed, and began to fire a magic attack on a random opponent. He struck at the first person he looked at with both small eyes. His long, large bony fingers spread out and casted a Water spell on Squall. Seifer, for an instant, watched as the transparent water bubble began to materialize around Leonhart. Almasy didn't stall for long, because he knew how this spell worked. Marianne couldn't break out of her concentration as she was trying to draw Leviathan out. Perhaps this would prevent NORG from using anymore water based attacks.

Seifer decided to cast the heaviest Thunder spell known in Gala. Thundaga. True, he had no Guardian force, but had leftover magic that Sorceress Edea had given him while he was still under her control. Almasy decided to use it when he found it right to do so. The Shumi wailed out in pain as the massive lightning bolt had struck upon him.

Squall, meanwhile inside the bubble, was lifted in the air for a short period of time as the bubble turned in a summersault and popped. He coughed as he landed hard on the ground. Oh how his lungs burned for air.

The more you take, the more you blame

But everything still feels the same…

She felt a little bit of pain from all this concentration, but Bahamut was doing all he could in numbing Marianne's headaches. The first sign to let her know that Leviathan was coming was NORG being able to feel the tug at his mind. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" he shouted to Marianne, who kept focusing on drawing the Water Guardian out.

Squall was free to do attacks of his own by now. He powered himself to run up to the Shumi, the Revolver in both hands. One index finger rested on the trigger to the gun part of his weapon. With a leap, he slashed and shot one bullet into the enemy. Too fast for NORG to block too. "ARRRRGH!!" he bellowed and doubled over in pain for a moment. Then he quickly blasted Squall back with a Fire Spell. Leonhart went sliding backwards on the concrete floor.

The more you hurt, the more you strain,

The price you pay to play the game…

After a little more effort, a blue light appeared in front of NORG. "NO!!! LEVIATHAN!!!" NORG cried as the light faded in a heartbeat. Now it was time for that foolish human girl to feel his wrath. Fuming mad, he shouted, "PSYCHO BLAST!" He raised both of his long, thick as big tree branch arms and spread his fingers out. Before Marianne could even figure a way to avoid the attack, because she knew it would cause a lot of damage, she could feel her insides severely burning. A bright flash of electricity pulsed through NORG's fingers and he smiled as she fell backwards. "NO!!" Seifer and Squall shouted at the same time, but it was Seifer who rushed forward. NORG tried using a spell on Almasy, but the human was just too quick and cut-shot him deep in the arm. Now that hurt him very much.

Meanwhile, Marianne was still on the ground. Her vision blurred slowly and instantly felt her energy fading. The wind was knocked out of her. Her lungs! They burned!! Squall quickly reached into one of the inside pockets of his leather jacket. There were a stack of bright orange feathers, similar to those on Quezacotl's wings, but they weren't his Guardian's. He yanked the rubber band off and quickly dropped the Phoenix Down on top of her chest. He did this rather emotionlessly, because he's saved his comrades like this before and they never thanked him. Not that he wanted their gratitude.

Within a second or so, he had seen her gasp for a breath of air. The feather vanished. From observation, Marianne was too weak to fight as she closed her eyes and went unconscious. Leonhart acted quickly and threw down a small bottle. The glass easily broke as bright blue light went inside of the fallen girl.

Squall looked up and had seen Seifer blown away by another of NORG's Psycho Blasts. With that, Squall began to concentrate in summoning Quezacotl. "Cover me," he called to Seifer, who was getting up to stand. Almasy forced himself to fight down the pain as he saw Marianne, motionless with her eyes closed. "She'll live," Leonhart managed to say before totally focusing on Summoning.

And all you seek, and all you gain

And all you step on with no shame…

To summon a Guardian Force, it took massive amounts of concentration. The more concentration, the quicker the GF would attack. Seifer first managed to drag Marianne's body out of the line of battle and then gave her another potion just in case. "Shit girl, you must have known this was gonna happen!" he hissed and left her there. Squall was right. She was going to be okay…or so they hoped.

There are no rules, no one to blame

The price you pay to play the game…

Apathy…the chosen way to be…

Quezacotl had come and a shower of lightning had inflicted massive damage to NORG. The Shumi retaliated with another Psycho Blast, causing the two young men to cure themselves. Leonhart's Limit Break… The one that saved Marianne from sudden death…again… rushed forward and did multiple attacking moves, using both parts of his gunblade at the same time. He was doing this for the sake of Garden, and secretly for Marianne who had helped them so much in the beginning of the battle. No matter how much Leonhart denied it, he cared for others. He did anyway even if he didn't want to do so to begin with. When it comes to battle and other life threatening situations, he always puts others first before himself.

NORG, on the other hand could care less on what happens to Balamb Garden. If he won, which was less likely because of the damage Seifer caused to him, the only thing that would matter would mainly be about the money. If many of the junior classmen died in trying to make it to become a SeeD, he assumed there would at least be a few to share his riches with. But never again would he trust another human being while funding.

The Shumi raised an arm to attack, but it was too late. Squall had begun to perform Renzokuken, cutting and shooting one hit after another. With one final move, he sliced the blade through the former Gardenmaster. Yellow slimy blood oozed from NORG as he was now suddenly afraid. "NO MORE! NORG SCARED OF YOU SEEDS!" Leonhart flinched in response, because the rise of his voice was sure loud. Putting his Revolver gunblade down, he could see that NORG was finished. Not enjoying to see others die, he stepped down from NORG's device and walked back to the others. In walking, he examined the yellow ooze on the blade portion of his weapon. Nasty, he thought. I'll be sure to clean it as soon as we get Marianne back to the Infirmary.

Headmaster Cid, now Gardenmaster as well, crawled out from where he was hiding. He was under the long conference table in the basement. He seemed to think it was over, but it really wasn't.

Blindly look the other way while you waste away with me…

The faculty stood silently as NORG suffered for a minute and a half, then died of blood loss. The faculty had nothing to revive their master. Now they would eventually be forced to leave Balamb Garden. They would do it without force, but something had to be done first. On NORG's will, one of the machines were to grant vengeance for him. The one messenger bot, the same one who gave the message from Squall to the now Headmaster and Gardenmaster Cid Kramer, ran to the wall where the elevator was. There was a big and round red button. NORG's spirit was with this lone servant as it called to Squall and Seifer, "I hope you never make it out alive!" and pressed the button.

The large air vents of the basement area began to slowly open. And these were large metal doors for an air ventilation system. Mainly because Balamb Garden was so big. Only the now dead Shumi and his once owned faculty crew knew what lurked from the darkness. "Squall," Seifer called to Leonhart as his comrade nodded and knew what to do. As he was running, he saw two monsters come out. He then stopped for a second as the robot was getting in the elevator. Can Seifer handle them? "I can handle them man! Just stop that robot!!" Seifer yelled to him as he caught up to him. Leonhart nodded and ran as fast as he could, passed the metal humanoid figures just standing around, into the elevator before the doors closed.

It turned and decided to kill Squall off, so it tried to punch him right in the jaw, but he dodged. It was too much of a tight fit in the interior of the elevator to get out his gunblade. So it was fist on fist. The former servant of NORG, A.K.A. "Metal Trash," managed to grab both of Leonhart's arms and slam him into one of the glass walls. Lucky him that they were bulletproof and could not be broken easily. However, the robot successfully hurt him though.

Now on his back, Squall kicked the sinister one away and quickly got to his feet. A rush of pain spread out across his back. He hissed in pain, seeing now that the contraption had slammed him pretty hard. It was too late to try and get his gunblade out as the elevator stopped in the lobby. The rest of the group that came with him, Seifer, and Marianne were standing in front of the elevator as the glass door swung open. Metal Trash pushed past them and ran off to the right. Its intention was to head for the training center. Placing itself in the master's shoes, Metal Trash knew NORG would be pleased of this. But the robot never felt pleasure, or any kind of emotion. It was just doing what it was ordered to do by NORG's wishes.

Leonhart yelled, "C'mon! We have to stop him!" and ran in the direction the robot went. The others, following him anyway because he would never steer them wrong, were not sure as to what was going on. But it seemed like the forces of evil were lurking around the bend…

In the basement, indeed there was evil lurking. Seifer wanted to go to radio the Infirmary really quick to try and get the medics down here, but the robots shoved him back, wanting him to fight the creatures ahead of him. Oilboyles were what these strange creatures were called. Fortunately, Marianne was out cold to see them. If she were awake, she would let out a scream. That same kind of scream from first seeing the Iguions from last night. It would send a chill up Almasy's spine.

The Oilboyles were considered as pets among NORG, and kept them in the air vents. He fed them everyday, and would feed it just about any creature the Shumi could find. The creatures once fed together on an abandoned little five year old human boy the Shumi found while traveling to stretch his legs, and got away with it, dragging him in with a gag in his mouth in the middle of the night while everyone else slept. No one within the walls of Balamb Garden knew of this. No one heard the child's screams, for the vents' noise was loud over the boy's cries for help.

In an odd mix of crab, octopus, and squid, the fearsome Oilboyles were ready for attack. And lucky for them that the lights were dim, for their little beady black eyes are used to the dark. Bright light would just irritate and blind them.

Their skin was pale white as a ghost, with black bumps all over. Six tentacles in all, three on each side of their bodies. At the end of their octopus like tentacles were crab-like pincers, designed to hold the prey as the bottom part of the tentacles injected acidic venom to eat through skin and bone to turn into mush. The prey would suffer and wail for a little bit, then die as the venom reaches the brain, killing it instantly. Once the prey stops struggling and making noise, their small round mouths were there to suck up the mush and continue to use their venom to dissolve the rest of its flesh and bone. And last but not least, their three feet long tails to whack the prey down, or use it like an extra tentacle for grabbing. For the human child, it wasn't a fun experience.

From the tops of their heads, were the same kind of material a squid on Earth would shoot to blind its enemy to escape. Unlike a normal squid, the Oilboyles used the oil like material to blind its prey. The new prey that the Oilboyles first saw was Seifer. One of them shot a stream of the sticky black liquid for Almasy's eyes, but the prey ducked and attacked one of them with a long, sharp object. His Hyperion gunblade. It cut through its skin as something else hit a vein and caused the hostile beast to scream and use one tentacle to toss Seifer to the side.

As for the other Oilboyle, it quickly got bored of watching the action and saw rather fair easy prey. There were two, and it had to pick one. The one lying on the ground before it. Kramer, standing nearby had to hold it back. Hopefully it wouldn't try to blind him, and the monster didn't as he rushed forward and grabbed the top of the two of its tentacles, being very careful as to not touch the bottoms or the monster would win over him in one moment and hold him to feast on instead. Unfortunately, the Oilboyle was not interested in Kramer. And used its other tentacles and tail to knock him out of the way.

"Help!!" Cid called to Seifer, who was rather busy with the first Oilboyle. His shirt and arms were covered in the monster's black projectile substance that it tried to blind him with. Almasy cried out while holding up the bottom parts of a few tentacles away from his face. The palms of his hands severely burned. The acid was just starting to chew through his hands now as Seifer had it all worked out. Reaching for the gunblade on the ground, he grabbed it with his one free right hand. It also stung in pain from the venom, but not as much as his left hand. The weapon was knocked out of Seifer's hand by his enemy's thick tail and used the opportunity to lunge on top of him.

Quickly, he shoved the blade up the Oilboyle's small and round mouth and pulled the trigger. It wailed and pulled away hurt, tentacles flailing, and just out of control. Almasy took this to advantage and finished it off by slicing off the top of its head, causing the oil substance to spill out all over the floor. The brain was fully exposed as Seifer cut-shot into it. The beast died instantly.

What you pay to play the game…

What you pay to play the game…

On the other side of the basement area, the one Oilboyle left alive was having a pleasant feast on one of Marianne's legs. The acidic venom was eating through her jeans as two pincers held a good grip on the helpless and unaware prey's leg. Cid tried multiple times to shoo the monster off. He even tried harming it with one of the wooden chairs at the conference table, but the Oilboyle used its thick membrane, blubbery tail to break it.

Seifer attacked from behind, casting Fira on the beast. It wailed and screamed as the flames were burning into it's once white skin, turning into a slight shade of grey. The Oilboyle turned angrily and decided to strike at Almasy with its two front tentacles, the ones to hold Marianne's leg to as its meal. Seifer saw the tentacles and sliced them clean off like he did to the first Oilboyle's head. Like a knife slicing through butter. The monster screamed again furiously and blinded Seifer in the eyes. "AHH!" he cried out as the oil substance touched his face, feeling a burning sensation. Really mad, the Oilboyle had decided to make a meal of Seifer Almasy, but its red blood was flowing out of its body faster than it intended to attack. It was a good thing too, because Almasy had been blinded by the monster's natural projectile. Weak and unhappily helpless, the Oilboyle slumped to the floor, wailing in pain of the loss of the non moving and separated two tentacles on the ground in front of it.

"Get out of my way!" growled the one in charge of Balamb Garden as he pushed past the robots that were watching it all. He went to a device next to the red round button on the wall near the elevator and pressed a few numbered buttons. "Kramer to Infirmary! Dr. Kowadaki, do you read me?!" he yelled into the speaker. "I know you're in there! Send some of the medical students with two first aid kits and a stretcher! …And send a clean up crew! Hurry!" At last, the good doctor replied, "Yes sir!"

With that, he ran to Seifer, asking, "Are you alright?" "Ahhh!" There was an unpleasant response from the hero of Kramer and Marianne. He cursed under his breath, then he managed to say, "Yeah, I'm okay…" Cid nodded and looked at Marianne lying on the ground nearby. She was going to be okay.

The only human in good condition turned furiously to NORG's former servants. "Get. Out," Cid directed to them, very angrily…

Within the Garden's training center, Metal Trash was stirring up a problem for the group of young humans that followed it. "Wha… Where's Marianne and Seifer?!" Zell realized as they were standing in the entrance for a moment. "They're downstairs," Squall said. "They're fine." He was mainly using his eyes to try and figure out which direction the robot went off to.

Feet away from the teenagers, a gigantic dinosaur like creature had roared in upon seeing this new…thing that moved. Perhaps it would make a nice meal? The creature looked to be of one of the extinct dinosaurs on Earth. A T-Rex. But in Gala, it was known as a T-Rexaur. It looked very much like the old and long gone Tyrant King on Marianne's home world, only on the small, skinny, and short arms, there were three fingers on each of them.

The former servant of NORG broke into a run, using itself as bait to lure the T-Rexaur to its master's assassins. Easily convinced, the dinosaur followed, roaring and stomping the ground with its really big bird like feet. Like dinosaurs on Earth, the T-Rexaurs also had pea sized brains. And usually this beast would feast on Bite Bugs or whatever other little creatures lurked around besides Grats, which were part plant. The T-Rexaur was a carnivore.

It wasn't to long until the two caught up to the SeeDs. "Uh oh! It looks like the robot's brought along a friend!" Selphie observed and got her Morning Star, two specifically designed metal spears with a chain between them. Zell was already prepared, for his own body was his own deadly weapon. Squall whipped out his Revolver gunblade. Quistis unwrapped the chain whip that was worn around one of her arms. Irvine held up his rifle towards the T-Rexaur.

"Selphie!" Leonhart called from behind him. "You have Ifrit junctioned, right?!" "Yeah!" Selphie replied automatically. "Then summon him to attack," Squall advised, glaring at the beast who now quickly lost interest in the robot. It saw the new things move. And this meant a bigger meal. Out of the corner of Squall's right eye, he saw Metal Trash making the getaway. Go ahead and run, coward, he scowled silently and decided to make the first attack upon the T-Rexaur. Jaws open, the dinosaur chomped at the squad leader, not knowing the thing was a squad leader. It just saw the little puny looking creature as fresh meat.

Quistis covered him and smacked the T-Rexaur's snout hard with her whip. Squall casted Thundara, and the dinosaur coiled its head back, a bit dazed, but furious. Timlitt began to concentrate, calling for Ifrit to burn this monster. Burn him good Ifrit! she mentally cheered as she felt the Guardian of Fire make his appearance. Ifrit roared and the T-Rexaur roared back. Rising up slowly into the air, the Guardian began to turn the earthly ground he stood into a big boulder of hot molt. Embers fell loose onto the ground around the T-Rexaur's feet as Ifrit stopped, satisfied on how high above the monster's head he was. With both fists, he let out a another roar in battle cry, and slammed his fists down on the big red, and hot, boulder. The dirt brown and thick scaly skin was set on fire, causing the monster to cry out in pain.

The SeeDs got out of the way as the rock speedily crashed downward on the T-Rexaur's head. One attack from Ifrit would not be enough, but several. This was Squall's main strategy. Of course Selphie would be exhausted by the time the dinosaur dies, but it was the group's best chance in winning. Usually in encountering a T-Rexaur, it was best to run, because they were amazingly healthy beasts! But at this time, running was no option. And this one was trying to make meals of the SeeDs right in the middle of the training center's entrance!

Selphie kept on summoning Ifrit as the others worked together to attack the very dangerous monster in combinations of magic spells and weapon based attacks. Irvine would shoot a bullet or two from his rifle every now and then. Squall made the giant bastard bleed by slicing into the less armored belly of the T-Rexaur. Zell couldn't do much of with his punches, but knew a Blind would lessen the probability of them being eaten alive and just randomly tossed spells along the way. And Quistis tossed spells at some times, and other times with her chain whip.

The dinosaur was stubborn to quit. After a long hour of hunting, it FINALLY found something to be worth of a meal. And if the set of prey wanted to put up a fight before eventually defeating them, it was just fine with the T-Rexaur. It was too stubborn to realize that in reality, the beast would lose.

Quistis decided to help out a bit and summoned Diablos. And Trepe has done this enough times already to know what Diablos looked like and a clear image of the Guardian of Gravity appeared in her mind's eye. A group of little black bats appeared out of thin air and circled around the blonde girl's slender, tall, and petite figure one time. Out of the small creatures formed a large ball of a thick and slimy black substance that was different from oil. The same type of substance used in any gravity magic spell. Diablos himself, the awesome Guardian Force of Gravity, emerged from the bottom of the Gravity ball he was inside of.

Hovering and flapping his dark violet bat wings to keep him in midair, Diablos twitched to get the rest of his source of energy off of him so he wouldn't be distracted in using his Dark Messenger attack. With a disturbing grin in the pleasure of battle, he used one hand to thrash the black liquidated ball down towards the T-Rexaur below him. If only Marianne were here to witness Diablos' attack in person, because this mighty GF was her first most favorite! Bahamut, in getting just getting to know him, became her second most favorite.

Well, the gravity ball did a decent amount of damage on the dinosaur, but not as much as Ifrit's Hellfire attacks. But still, a decent amount. Now the battle was growing extremely and dangerously serious. Out of line, the T-Rexaur had enough of playing fair in the fight and decided to lunge at one of its chosen group of prey closest to its jaws. Too quick in to cover her back, Selphie was chosen. She let out a shrill cry, followed by a terrified scream. "SELPHIE!!!" the rest of the group shouted in unison. "NO! SHIT!!" Zell cursed and knew better to summon Shiva at a time like this, but he so BADLY wanted to.

Leonhart thought quick and glared over in Kinneas' direction. "Irvine! Shoot it!!" Squall yelled to him. "I'm on it!" the cowboy responded and quickly aimed for one of the monster's eyes. Selphie was practically helpless in the T-Rexaur's jaws as it swung its head furiously from side to side in a savage way. Its teeth had sunken into Timlitt's sides. With a simple pull of the trigger, the bullet rushed out of Irvine's gun and directly hit the beast in the eyeball when it was exposed for only a second. And a second was all that he needed to kill the dinosaur off.

The little bullet was something the T-Rexaur didn't notice, for it was too mad and busy trying to eat Selphie. Before it could realize what it was going on, there was intense pain in its right eye. The pain spread quickly throughout the inside of its head as it opened it's mouth to scream, dropping Selphie onto the grass in the process. The beast died in mid scream, as it fell over backwards onto its side. Usually Irvine didn't have to do this kind of thing, because he was a little nervous and edgy in making accurate shots. But when it came to life and death of someone he cared about, he would pull it off without a problem.

Leonhart rushed to Selphie and picked her up in his arms. Together, they ran out of the training center to the Infirmary, after a phoenix down and two Hi-Potions. Timlitt was unconscious, but barely alive.

On the way to the medical center, classes have been over in the level above the lobby area. Meaning that the cadets and junior classmen were talking amongst themselves and doing the usual in their free time before dinner was ready. They noticed most of the familiar group but Irvine as they talked in alarm and suspicion.

One of the girls that Squall had recognized as a classmate had caught up to him in pace, and was sort of in the way in getting to the urgent destination. Chestnut brown hair, tied back in a bun. Her eyes were grayish green. "Hey Squall! Oh my….SELPHIE!" "MOVE!!" Squall momentarily snapped, causing the clueless one to run off in temporary fright and stood behind to watch them run towards the Infirmary. Surely Leonhart didn't mean to approach so rudely to that nice, innocent young woman, but his comrade's life was at stake here! He didn't have time for ANY chit chat.

When they had arrived, the SeeDs noticed two familiar people occupying two beds. Seifer and Marianne. The Earth girl was still unconscious. A blanket covered her from her feet up to her waist. Good, thought Leonhart. She doesn't need to see this. Seifer was awake, holding a damp and wet cloth to one of his eyes. His hands were bandaged up. "What in the hell happened to you?!" Zell shrilled, gazing at Almasy. "Monster attack," he simply said, calm and cool about it. Thanks for your concern, Chicken Wuss, Seifer sarcastically thought to himself. He got up as he noticed that Selphie was in Squall's arms. She was placed in that bed.

"What happened?" he asked, tone of his voice now serious. "T-Rexaur attack," Irvine stated. "It was going to eat Selphie." "Yeah, until you shot it with your gun! Good goin' man!" Zell praised and slapped him hard on the back. "But Seifer, what happened to your hands? What attacked you?" Quistis quipped in concern. "Oilboyles," Seifer said, without any dry humor. This wasn't a time to be joking around. "Two of them." "Yeah," Squall agreed. "I saw them but I…" he began and realized what he did was foolish. His head shifted to look at the ground at his feet. He shouldn't have let Almasy deal with them alone, but if he hadn't gone after that robot, the T-Rexaur could have caused havoc and injure many of the others within Garden.

Quistis didn't look pleased. Her arms rested on her hips. "Quistis, don't blame him," Irvine said. "If he hadn't chased that damn robot up to the training center, and stopped the T-Rexaur, other people would have been hurt." That didn't help much, but she sighed, aggravated with a headache in the middle of all this tension. "Still, we could have handled it," Trepe said. "Seifer shouldn't have been left alone."

"Hey, I'm not hurt that badly! Just a few burns," Almasy assured everyone. Quistis looked to him, and then backed to Squall, who shrugged innocently. From the back of the room, Dr. Kowadaki stepped in. This was not going to be a friendly conversation.

Finishing Statement from the Author: Another cliffhanger, but not as bad. Besides, this chapter is long enough as it is, and I put so much brain power into it! Hopefully by next week, chapter 12 will be up. Keep the reviews coming, for this is just going to get better and better…