Trapped in the world of Final Fantasy 8

Chapter 7 – Life at Balamb Garden pt2

Mark took a deep breath and stepped into his first class at Balamb garden; Basic magic with blond haired beauty Quistis Trepe.

The classrooms were much larger than the class rooms back on Earth. They were the kind you'd see in universities and really big colleges. There are at least 50 people in the room already. Most of the kid's appeared to about 15 or so years of age and like Mark, they were dressed in the SeeD cadet uniform.

Mark took a seat near the front and dumped his ruck sack on the floor beside him. Over the next 5 minutes the rest of the students arrived to Instructor Trepe's class. The teacher however didn't arrive for another 10 minutes.

'Sorry I'm late class!' apologized Quistis as she busted into her classroom, her face flushed and carrying a large pile of books. When the kids saw the books they all groaned

'Dumb ass' muttered the voice in Mark's head

'Don't worry kids, that's for the next class in here' laughed Quistis, seeing the look of relief cross her classes face.

'Today we've got a class outside to practice targeting our magic against some wild monsters.'

'Alright!' exclaimed a small girl with curly brown hair, jumping from her seat.

Some of the class however where worried about fighting monsters. Quistis noticed this and said

'Don't worry class, we'll be training in the forest near the fire cave, the worst we'll find there are bite bugs.'

The class followed her through the main gates and out into the forest and plain areas where the monsters in Balamb dwelt.

Quistis was dressed in her tight fitting imposing orange outfit. And her coiled whip hung from her thick brown belt; the whip being her weapon of choice.

'Alright class I want you to get into groups of three or four and fight against the lower level monsters using primarily magic; and don't forget to draw. I'll be watching class if you get into any difficulty give me a yell and I'll come running.' Quistis then seemed to vanish and her voice echoed above them.

'I'll be watching from the trees…Get cracking!'

The kids began to get into groups of 3 and 4 and went to find some monsters to fight against. Except for Mark who went by himself deep into Balamb woods where there are supposed to be whole swarms of bite bugs; nasty little flying blue beetles with sharp claws and needle like teeth.

Mark heard a brief rustle in the bushes to his right, he turned swiftly and drew his Katana; an oriental style sword that was slimly built and had a black wired bound hilt.

Mark got into his fighting stance, with his weapon held low.

Out of the bushes came the short curly haired girl from before and two of her friends; a boy about 15, who had a wiry build and pale blond hair and a slightly pale complexion. The other was another girl; slightly older than the first. She had dark green eyes and light brown hair that was tied in pig tails.

'What are you doing here?' asked Mark, re-sheathing the

Katana on the leather sheathe on his back.

'Instructor Trepe told us to go look for you' said the curly haired girl 'and by the way the names Mikito'

'Mines Jonathon' said wiry blond haired boy, holding out his hand, which Mark ignored.

'And I'm Holly Kramer' said the other girl with pig tails

'Marcus Greenwood' said Mark briefly, before walking away from the main path.

'Hey wait!' called Mikito, running after him and grabbing him by the arm. 'The teacher said we were supposed to stick with you!'

Mark began to swear violently, which shocked the three of them. Most of the people they knew didn't swear much and Mark was muttering numerous profanities; and occasionally slipping into Japanese and Spanish.

'Damn…just what I needed…more tag-a-longs' growled Mark 'Fine come along if you want, but don't get in my way.'

The trio gave him a dark look, but said nothing; they followed Mark through the undergrowth, until they heard

faint hissing and buzzing noises.

'Bite bugs…' muttered Jon, brushing back a bang of his blond hair.

The group walked on another hundred yards or so when a dozen Bite bugs appeared, their wings flapping a hundred beats a second and their fangs clicked together hungrily.

'Were screwed…' said Holly and Jon in unison. The four of them stood back to back and drew their weapons. Mikito used a gun blade, Holly used Diamond Knuckle dusters and Jon had a sun riser; a machine that shoots sharp cutting disks. And Mark drew his Katana and morphed the bronze prism into the shape of Vincent's claw and attached it over his hand and arm.

'Let's dance bug boys!' jeered Mark slashing down three Bite bugs with one scratch of his armored claw.

'Whoa!' exclaimed Mikito and the others

'Childs play' laughed Mark bounding forward into the Bite bugs his sword flashing and his left fist glowing as he unleashed a basic Fire spell.

The other three fought the best they could, but they struggled quite a bit against the annoying little creatures that kept seemed to keep coming from the surrounding trees and bushes.

Mark was having little difficulty; to him those creatures were nothing.

'Hyper Draw!' exclaimed Mark, using his draw to drain every ounce of magic and HP from the monsters. They thrashed weakly on the floor and then dissipated into nothingness; as monsters do when defeated.

'Whoa! That was awesome!' Exclaimed Holly in awe as she watched the 40 odd monsters that had appeared through the battle is drained into nothingness by a super powerful draw.

'Childs play' said Mark again, re-sheathing his katana into the sheath on his back.

'Let's go!' said Mark walking on

'Wait! But Mikito's sprained her ankle' called Jon, angry at Mark's indifference. Mark sighed then walked back and lifted up Mikito in his arms.

'Just my damn luck' thought Mark

'Oh well you may as well, they'll be suspicious if we abandon them' chuckled the voice, at that point Mark began to swear violently in the confines of his mind.

'Come on let's go before I change my mind and leave you here…' said Mark, and they could tell by his tone that he was completely serious.

The two kids followed Mark through the under growth while he carried Mikito.

'So Mark when did you join Balamb Garden?' Asked Holly as they walked 'I don't remember seeing you around here before'

'This is my first day here.' Replied Mark with a shrug.

'Dude for someone who's a newbie you sure fight awesome!' said Jon

'Newbie? What makes you think I'm new at this? I have my own style that's all.' Replied Mark indifferently.

'So where were you before this?' asked Mikito, wincing slightly at the pain in her ankle.

'Esther…But let's wrap your ankle up, if it keeps swinging it'll further the injury' said Mark crouching down and laying Mikito down and pulling off the Vincent claw and transforming it into a first aid box, he opened it and pulled out a long roll of thick material bandaging.

'Whoa how the hell did you do that?' asked Mikito, shocked.

'This is the bronze prism…I can turn it into anything I want' replied Mark, he took her angle and carefully wrapped her twisted ankle.

'That should do till we get you back to school' said Mark lifting her up again in his arms and motioning for Holly and Jon to follow.

'It shouldn't take us long to get out of here…' said Mark to himself.

30 odd minutes later at Squall's office the dark loner looked at the video tape, that Selphie had given him earlier.

Flash back

'Hey Squall!' exclaimed Selphie running forward, holding a small package in her hand.

'Hi Selphie' replied Squall, balancing several large boxes in his arms.

'Hey Squall, I was told to give this to you, but with the new students we've been having I completely forgot' said Selphie, giving Squall the package that contained an unlabeled video tape.

'Well see ya I've got a class to teach in 5 minutes!' exclaimed Selphie rushing off.

'I wonder what this is.' Wondered Squall, walking back to his office.

End flash back

Squall popped the video into his television. The television flickered briefly and the outline of a person appeared. Unfortunately he couldn't see the person's face.

'Greetings Squall the murderous bastard' said the voice, which was unmistakably female.

'You will pay for what you did to our mother, me and three my brothers will see to that.' Said the woman

'What the?' said Squall

'I imagine you're confused, let me enlighten you. You killed our mother…Ultimecia!' said the woman

'Ultimecia…?' gasped Squall, feeling a chill down his spine.

'That's correct soon mortal, you and your friends will suffer for you're crimes. Our two youngest brothers are already in your school and they'll destroy your life then I'll destroy you…' said another voice and Squall saw another siluette, a tall bulky figure with glowing eyes and a deep intimidating voice.

'Soon we will come for you' they both intoned and the video went blank.

'I hope this is a prank…' said Squall with a shaky voice; at that point the VHS and the television exploded throwing Squall into the wall and covering him in glass and metal.

'What the fuck!' he groaned, wincing as his hand grazed his chest which was bleeding heavily.

'Revenge…' whispered a voice in the air.

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