The Long Night

The room we sat in was quite spacious and just sat to the left of the double doors of the house. Irvine was behind a desk with his feet up on the table. Squall was just standing, thinking per usual. Selphie was staring out of the window. Zell was practicing his kicking and boxing. I was sitting on the couch thinking about how long this guy was going to make us wait. Rinoa was sitting on a chair near to me, when she got up and said she was going to go have a word with him.

After going out the door she came back in and told us not to worry and that it is her house.

I was shocked, I don't know about everyone else.

How can a resistance member be rebelling against military when there was someone in her family that was a General. I was guessing that General Caraway was her father.

After she had gone, General Caraway came in.

We asked what he had done with Rinoa, and Zell came out with the whole "so you're her father huh?". Actually Zell came out with everything that I was thinking of at the time. Zell is smarter than he looks.

General Caraway said that Rinoa wasn't involved with the mission.

He started briefing us on the mission and took us all out to the presidential palace and the gateway.

The team in the gateway would be responsible for catching the sorceress between both sets of bars and then Irvine would shoot from the presidential palace.

Somehow I got the feeling that I would be in the gateway team, and it was out of the question that Rinoa was going to join us. And its not the type of job you can give to Squall.

When we got back to the mansion, General Caraway wanted us to split into groups, and as I suspected me, Zell and Selphie were in the gateway team. Squall and Irvine where in the other team that would be stationed outside the presidential palace.

Squall, Irvine and General Caraway had started to leave, but we bumped into Rinoa on the way out who wanted to help. Thanks to Seifer and the whole resistant thing, Rinoa is getting it into her head that she maybe able to stop this Sorceress. I had an argument with her and said that I didn't have the time to talk through with her about it as we had a job to do.

So she sat in the room as we left.

General Caraway and the guys had been waiting outside for us.

I noticed as we walked that Squall and Irvine were lagging behind a bit, which is a bit unusual as Squall likes to keep up with everything. It seemed like they were talking. Irvine looked a little worried, which is unusual as he didn't seem nervous when we had met him a few hours earlier.

We stopped at the gateway and watched the guys walk off as we went into the gateway.

Then when General Caraway had passed us, I decided that I ought to apologise to her. I think was a bit to hard on her with the lecture.

When we got back to the house, it seems they were having a quarrel. We got locked in. I started to worry as I knew she was heading for the Sorceress and I voiced this to Selphie and Zell. So we started to try the doors. Zell kept watch out of the window.

Then I found a glass that was removable and decided to try it in the hands of the statue in the corner.

The statue turned. We ran into the tunnel and down some stairs and a ladder.

We started to get into the first of many sewage tunnels when we could hear music.

The parade was starting and we had less than five minutes to get through the sewers.

Eventually we managed to get to the gateway in time.

Zell kept an eye out and told me to flick the switch.

Then some more chaos broke out.

We headed down the ladder and opened the gateway door to peer out of it a bit. There was Rinoa, Squall and Irvine battling the sorceress. Then the door got pulled open by a weak Seifer. Zell punched him over and Seifer lay on the floor for a while. By this time I think Squall's group had won. But then the sorceress had threw some javelin like ice bolts. Irvine had disappeared by now and Rinoa was watching and screaming as Squall fell off the Sorceresses float.

Then out of nowhere, some Galbadian guards manage to grab us and arrest us. Then another one went up and lifted the bars.

The Sorceress ordered the guards to take us all to prison. But first she healed Squalls wound. Seifer was awake by now and started to leer over Squall. We were then knocked out. Luckily they never found anything but my whip on me, which is the weapon I carry.