Disclaimer: I do not own Final fantasy 8...If I did Seifer would be mine and Squall dead...But it's not... Sigh Anyway... I have many fanfics for FF8 I just never submitted, but I am now. Enjoy.

Rinoa sat on the beach on the shore of Balamb. Gazing out over the starlit sea a soft sigh escaped her. So many things were going on. She was going to have her field exam in a week, and Quistis had told her she would be a leader. "Won't it be great Rin?"

"Of course it will..." She replied to the waves sarcastically. 'Everyone looking to me for answers, for support...Can I do it without you?' She shook her head lightly, her bangs falling in her eyes. It had been a year since the fight with Ultimecia, and the disappearance of...Him. Her first love, the only one though he was gone now. Many had approached her with a supposed rumor of a proposal from Squall. "No! I refuse...Not while I have this feeling...He's still alive." Standing she brushed herself off. She wore new clothing, half to show grieving, half to mirror her inner feelings. Her new outfit consisted of a short black lace skirt, and a black tanktop. She wore black ribbons on her upper arms. Herhair was piled on top of her head, intertwined withdark purple ribbon.Walking back toward the Garden, she stumbled upon a fallen T-Rexaur. She fell back, gasping. "No normal weapon could have desecrated a monster such as this...How?"

"Surprised ma peche?" A slim figure appeared before her, silhouetted my the moonlight. She looked up into a pair of red eyes. Raising her arm, she prepared to launch her shooting star. The figure dropped down before her, and knocked her to the side.

"Now now, be nice ma peche. I'm not going to hurt you...I just want your power." Rinoa got up, and staggered back a step.

"M-my power? How did you know?"

"It's for me to know...And you not to find out." The figure drew a large blade with runes on it. "This is my rune blade, the runes of dragons. Meet my friend Kato." With that done the figure dispersed in a cloud of purple haze. Rinoa began to cough, the haze poisonous, and rapidly running through her blood stream. She dropped to the ground, her body paralyzed. Within the receding darkness before losing consciousness she glimpsed a slightly familiar form picking her up. Then darkness...

Please read and review...It would make me so happy...OOOH I wonder who the mysterious peoples are...Tune in to the next chappy...Which will come soon...To find out... Muahahahaha!