Chapter 8

A/N: Please keep R&R'ing people, I want to know what you think of the latest chapters.

"My parents… killed you?" Squall stuttered.

"How's that technically possible?" Rikku whispered to Yuna.

"When a spirit leaves its body it can stay on the planet by clinging on with a desire." Tidus whispered back. "As a kinda zombie."

"No…" Squall trembled. "No, my parents wouldn't."

"Accept it Squall. Your parents were murderers." Seymour said, enjoying the look of terror on Squall's face.

"SHUT UP!" Squall cried. He drew his gunblade and leapt at Seymour. Seymour coolly grabbed the blade, his hands sinking into the sword; no blood came from his hands. He tossed Squall over his shoulder. He laughed.

"Such a pity that now you're all going to die…" Seymour put forward his hands and muttered something. A huge ball of fire started forming in front of him. Ratchet and the others all leapt out of the doorway of the cave, except Squall who was sliding down the wall behind Seymour. Rinoa tripped as she was running and fell face first into the dirt. She got up and ran for the entrance but it was too late. She looked behind her and saw the huge ball of fire hurtling towards her. She screamed and kneeled down ready for the flames to engulf her.

"No More!" Squall cried. He jumped in front of Rinoa just in time and was hit by the blast of fire. He yelled out, fire surrounding him. After the flames died down he dropped to the ground writhing in agony. Rinoa gasped, she rushed over to Squall and looked at him. Squall was a mess; she could see the red burnt flesh and smell his burning clothes.

"Why are you doing this?" Rinoa shouted at Seymour, crying.

"Because Squall's parents made me suffer. Now I intend to do the same to him." Seymour answered. He pulled a long spear out from within his cloak. Rinoa ran at Seymour but he pushed her aside. He raised his spear over Squall and brought it down. Just before it hit Squall however it was parried aside by a long lance. Seymour looked up and found himself staring at Kimharri, and behind him was Auron, Lulu and Paine. Seymour stepped back against the wall, he was heavily out numbered. If he was hurt too much, even he could die.

"Yuna!" Tidus said. "Heal Squall. We'll hold Seymour off." Tidus, Rikku, Tifa and Ratchet moved forward and joined the others. Seymour panicked, he cursed and smashed threw the wall behind him.

"Well I wasn't expecting that." Ratchet said. Seymour ran through the rubble and behind the wall was a hot air balloon Seymour had ready for a quick escape. He jumped in and cut the rope holding the balloon down and started to float away. Squall opened his eyes. Yuna was standing over him, magically healing his burns. He stood up and ran after Seymour. The others called him to stop but it was too late. Squall grabbed the end of the rope that had held the balloon down. Ratchet watched as Squall started climbing the rope. By now the balloon was about 50 feet in the air. If Squall slipped the fall could break his neck.

"What are we gunna do?" Tifa said.

"I don't know. Wait…" He looked at Clank in the backpack round his shoulders.

Vincent slowly opened his eyes. He coughed and a small amount of blood trickled down from his cut lip. He felt someone dap at it with a cloth. He opened his eyes fully and saw that he was lying on a hospital bed in a white robe. He groaned, not just because of the pain but also the fact he had never worn white exept when he used to be in the Turks.

"You've finally woken up I see" Vincent looked over and saw Cloud slumped in a chair."

"Hey, Cloud." Vincent said, his voice raspy.

"You really buggered yourself up. I wish I could have helped you."

"What would you have done, distracted him by making him laugh at your arm?"

"Would you please shut up about that I believe I'm the one that kicked Sephiroth's ass."

"But as I remember I'm the one that shot him and gave you the chance, otherwise he'd have killed you."

"I very much doubt that. Any way you're the one that fell off a cliff."

Vincent coughed up blood again and a robot arm leant over and wiped his mouth.

"How are Squall and Ratchet?" Vincent asked.

Squall pulled himself slowly up the rope. He had nearly reached the top now. He kept telling himself not to look down at the now 200ft drop to the ground. He went to reach up when Seymour looked over the edge holding his spear.

"Nice try Squall" he said and in one swift slash he cut the rope. Squall let go and fell, plummeting down to the ground. Seymour leant back over the side. He had done it, he had killed Squall Leonheart .

Squall was scared. He had never been scared before but here he was. He watched as the balloon slowly faded even further out of sight. Suddenly he felt himself suddenly slow down and then stop. He looked over his shoulder and found Ratchet holding him with Clank on his back, his arms had turned into jet packs.

"Holy shit, how much do you weight Squall?" Squall drew out his gunblade.

"Let's go." He said.

Seymour chuckled, delighted he had ended the Leonheart family name. He walked over and looked over at the world beneath him. Suddenly he saw, in shock as Squall rose up, being held round the waist by Ratchet who had a jetpack on his back. Squall lifted up his gunblade and aimed at Seymour.

"We aren't done yet." He fired one, two, three shots. Seymour's eyes saw him pull the trigger and saw the three bullets fire out of the end of the gunblade. He was hit in the chest by all three. He fell back and gasped.

"You fool Squall you can't hurt m…" he felt something warm trickle down his chest. He looked down and saw blood dripping from his wound.