As the sun started to set, three figures sitting on the pier were illuminated. The sun glowed briefly, looking one last time on the world, and then sinking slowly past the horizon. The warmth of the sun still lingered, but the harsh glow had disappeared. The stars started to twinkle in the sky, and the full moon was seen, like a ghost hovering in the sky, before it was hidden from view by smoky clouds.
One of the figures slowly got to their feet, and stretched. He was seventeen years old, and was a large, burly man, dark-skinned, and well-built. He then pulled up one of his companions, a small, tough-looking woman, seventeen, well-built, and she was an albino.
"Yo, Fujin, when are we gonna get somethin' to eat? I'm starving, ya know?" The dark man said to the albino woman.
"WAIT," said Fujin impatiently.
"Why?"
"SEIFER."
"No, I'm OK for the moment. You and Raijin can go and get something. I'll meet you back at the cabin, OK?" The third person slowly got to his feet. He was six foot two, with short, blonde hair. He was now eighteen years old. He was well-built, with a gunblade, Hyperion, at his side. The most interesting feature about him was his scar; it went from right to left, diagonally between his eyes.
"SURE?" Fujin looked at him.
"Sure. Meet you back at the cabin. In an hour?" Seifer replied.
"AFFIRMATIVE," Fujin said.
Seifer sat back down on the edge of the pier, watching at the point where the sun had marked the end of the day. He heard his two companions walk away. As he absent-mindedly watched the horizon, he heard footsteps behind him.
"I told you, I don't want..." Seifer turned around, but stopped mid-sentence.
It was the landlady who had rented them the cabin in FH. "Seifer! Come quickly! I don't know who done it, but please! Come!" The landlady, Mrs. Rosbet screamed hysterically. Seifer leapt to his feet and tried to calm the woman down, but she refused to be calmed down. She just kept repeating that Seifer had to go with her.
"OK, Mrs. Rosbet. Show me what happened!" Seifer said, as he realized that it would be the only way to calm the hysterical woman down.
She led him from the pier, and to the outskirts of FH. He followed after her, and he realized that she was leading him to the cabin they had rented. 'Damn! I wonder what happened,' Seifer thought, as the cabin came into view. When he got a bit nearer, he stopped dead in his tracks, and looked at the cabin.
The front door had been wrenched off of its hinges, and lay shattered on the floor a few metres away from the cabin. Personal belongings lay strewn across the floor, and water was leaking from the wooden building. Seifer walked up to the scene of destruction, taking in the sight. He walked inside, and saw the source of the water. Someone had been in the cabin, and burst the water pipes. Pieces of the walls were laying strewn about, floating on the water. Someone know what they were doing.
He stepped over a ripped bedspread, and looked slowly around at the remains. The water was at least two inches deep, and at the back of the cabin a car-sized hole had been created.
He walked into the bathroom, and saw that some of the tiles had been wrenched from the wall, and thrown at the shower, where the shower doors had been smashed. He waslked back into the main room, and saw a photo frame lying face-down on one of the ruined beds. He waded over to it, and picked it up. The frame was ruined, and the glass was missing, but the photo itself was fine. It was the day that Seifer first went to the orphanage. There was younged versions of Selphie, Quistis, himself, Squall, Zell, Irvine, Matron and Cid. He gazed at it, thinking of the happier times, but was soon brought back to reality.
"Yo! Seif! What happened here?" Raijin asked, as he stepped over the wreckage.
"I don't know. Someone trashed the place, and trashed it good. Where's Fujin?" Seifer replied, his gaze still lingering on the faded picture.
"She's outside. Doesn't want to see it, ya know?"
"OK, but she's gonna have to come in to salvage what she can of her things. I'll go outside and get her." With that, Seifer strode over to the doorway and went outside. He saw Fujin, talking to Mrs. Rosbet. She had calmed down now, but was still shaking.
"Fuj, you're going to have to come in to grab your stuff, OK?"
"AFFIRMATIVE." And with that, Fujin strode into the wreckage of the cabin. Seifer heard a thud and then Raijin howling in pain. By the sound of it, Fujin had kicked Raijin in the shin. Hard.
Seifer walked over the Mrs. Rosbet.
"I'll pay for the damage..." he started, but Mrs. Rosbet interruped.
"No, there's really no need. It's not as if you done it yourselves. The cabin was going to be knocked down anyway, so I suppose it will have to be, now. Don't worry yourself over it." Mrs. Rosbet then turned away, and started back to her own house, which was opposite the cabin.
He watched her leave, and then walked back inside the cabin. Fujin and Raijin had piled most of their things into three rather wet travelling bags. Seifer helped them finish, and then they all walked out of the front door. They walked towards the pier, and then looked back at the cabin. The cabin still had water trickling out of the door, but it was hard to make out in the gloom. Then, they walked onto the pier.
They sat on the pier, with their legs dangling over the edge. Here they sat, for over an hour, until it got chilly.
"What are we going to do? We haven't got anywhere to stay..." Seifer trailed off. He looked over the ocean, towards the blurred outline that was Balamb. He had tried to keep his mind off of the place he had once called home, but that got more and more difficult as the days went by.
"Maybe if we got SeeD involved..." Seifer thought out loud.
"No way! Not after ... ya know ..." Raijin looked towards Seifer, feeling uncomfortable.
"NOT WELCOME," Fujin added.
"We're going to have to accept that what happened has happened, instead of running away from the truth. Every time something like this happens, it needs to be sorted out, instead of us running somewhere else and the same happening there." Seifer looked at his companions. "We need to get this sorted out, even if it does mean getting SeeD involved. We'll have to face this someday, might as well get it over with. Let's go and see Mayor Dobe. He might be able to call SeeD for us." With that, Seifer turned around, grabbed their bags, and looked once more at the hazy outline of Balamb. They walked in silence, heading towards the centre of the city, the Mayor's home.
When they finally reached their destination, Seifer had barely knocked when the door was flung open. The person at the door was someone who he didn't expect ...
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