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Chapter 5

Yes, I am typing my fan fictions a lot more now aren't I? XD I only wish my ideas would come together far more smoothly than they have done for this story :/ Ah well, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own FFVIII Blah blah blah

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SEIFER

Pain,

Torment,

Fire,

War!

I woke as Zell shook me and then yelled in my ear.

"Seifer!"

"What?!"

"They... the Garden! Missiles!" I got to my feet at his words and together we ran to the door. By the time we opened it the corridor was pretty much silent. Ever person inside the Garden had run for their lives, knowing that to stay was suicide.

We didn't stop to see if the student had heard the announcement. We knew that most would be in class and the rest would have been outside. The sun was high in the sky now and it was an exceptionally warm day. No one would have suspected an attack on such a day, but it had happened. We had been threatened by these people before and paid them no real attention, never thought it would affect us personally.

Zell and I turned into the main hallway and ran to the exit. We were almost there when the little idiot stopped.

"Do...do you think the others heard that?" He questioned me, his eyes filled with worry.

"Yes Chickie, now let's get outta here!"

He didn't seem sure so I grabbed his hand and pulled him to the door, "It's okay, they heard it." He nodded and we left the building.

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SQUALL

I stopped as I reached my office and opened the door. I walked straight over to the intercom and told the students and seeD's to evacuate the building. I then looked to my secretary's desk. I gasped.

There was a trail of crimson leading from the door to her desk and on the chair behind... I stepped closer, my eyes dry, but my heart aching as I saw her poor, poor form. She was barely recognisable now. Her face was...her body...the blood was everywhere.

I pulled a sheet from one of the drawers and draped it across her. I knew she was dead just by looking at her. The pools of blood on the floor and desk was a good indication too.

There was only one explanation that had entered my head. Assassins. That was what it had to be! I looked around, realising just how easy it would've been to kill me at that moment. I felt defenceless. I had forgotten my blade when I had ran here. Had they planned this?

I noticed something by the curtain and my entire form froze in surprise, shock and confusion. There was a man standing there. His face was hidden from my view and I could only tell he was male by his physic.

The Assassin stepped from the shadows and I felt anger boil within me. I wanted to run at him and to kill him in that moment, but common sense stopped me before I ran into my death. My eyes spun across his form, picking up the long curved knife held in his right hand, and the blood dripping onto the carpet leaving a deep dark stain.

I stepped back, away from him. His eyes, his hair. I could see them all now. I knew this man, I knew him and I hadn't stopped him. The green haired man from before...the one who had kissed me.

"Who are you?" I spat out the words, hating the fact I had to speak to him.

He smiled at me, the smiled that he had show me before.

"Tell me!" I was having trouble not yelling.

Once more, just a smile, this time showing his teeth, his eyes practically glowed against the dark curtain.

"I wont say it again, tell me who you are!"

Still smiling he lift his index finger and motioned for me to be quiet. I paused as he cupped a hand to his ear. I listened, a feeling of dread coming over me as I heard what he had. The sound of something coming, something flying fast towards me.

"N...no!" I looked at him, wanting to stay and to find out who he was. Should I stay? He held out a hand. A hand I could take. I could join with him and fight him or love him or I could flee.

I looked behind me at the desk where her body lay under the cover. I knew what I had to do.

"I'm sorry, but I will have to..." He seemed to understand and nodded to show this. "Why wont you talk to me?" He shook his head and smiled. I didn't understand, but I knew it didn't matter anymore.

I took up the pair of scissors on the desk and snapped them so they were separated into one blade per handle. It would act like a knife. I looked at him, my eyes filling with tears as I began to run, the sound of missiles flying towards me ringing in my ears.

He stepped to one side and caught my arm as I turned to attack once more and then he drew his knife back. I took a breath and ducked below the knife as if swung where my throat had been moments before.

I caught his foot with mine and pulled it out to the side making him loose his balance temporarily. With his side left open and my arm released I plunged the blade into his ribs, not high enough to hit his heart, but deep enough to cause blood to spurt out and splash across my face and body.

The assassin jumped back, a look of surprise on his face as he held the wound. He looked at me and then smiled once more, raising his hand to his mouth and licking the blood from his fingers. I was stunned at how he didn't fall, didn't collapse from the pain I had dealt him.

I paused, wary. He took this as a moment of weakness, giving him time to rush forwards and strike at me again. I coughed and looked down as I felt warmth on my stomach.

Blood soaked through my plain white top, like a wine stain on a marble surface. My heart missed a beat in shock. The assassin twisted the knife and then pulled it out. I coughed again, my mind frozen in a sudden realisation of what was happening. He had...blood...white...black...white.

I didn't feel my body fall. My eyes had already closed. I didn't even hear the explosion of a hundred missiles hitting the room I had been standing in moments before.

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ZELL

I knew someone was missing as we gathered our group together. The teachers counted their students and the seeD's joined into their friendship groups to make sure each of them was out of the building. Many of the student groups were crying and most of the seeD groups were looking sombrely at the Garden, their home.

Seifer was looking around for the rest of our friends and his. We had already found Selphie, Irvine and Quistis. The others soon joined with us and now the only one to come was Squall. I knew he would make sure everyone had made it out, but he was taking an awfully long time.

"Zell," Seifer's voice had no humour in it for once, "Please don't worry, I'm sure he's come out and is looking for us right now.

"Yeah," I nodded, reassuring myself that our commander was fine.

"Yeah! He's always trying to make us worry!" Selphie's usually fun filled voice came out empty and confused. She chuckled nervously.

Then there was silence. We turned to see what had happened and saw all the Garden's students and seeD's looking up at the sky, mouths open in shock.

Flying as fast as the eyes could follow were about one hundred missiles. Whoever had fired these certainly wanted us dead.

All the thousands of pairs of eyes followed them as they plunged down in slow motion to the Garden. We were close enough to feel the heat as explosions turned into fires and debris was thrown out. Luckily we were far enough from the Garden to be in any risk of being crush underneath rocks, so we stood stock still and watched.

It was like seeing your home being destroyed by a thousand GF's, but much more eye-catching. The explosions died out and the fire began to burn brightly as the sun began to set. My eyes were lost in it's destructive beauty, my mind was lost in worry and sadness.

"I...I don't see Squall." Rinoa's voice hit my ears and I jumped.

"Neither do I,"

"Me neither!"

Panic struck us all at once and we looked around desperately.

"No..." I couldn't bare the thought of what...what could've happened to him. "It...can't be true...not Squall!" I exploded into tears.

Arms came around me and I hugged that person back. It was Seifer, I could tell by his sweet smell. He hugged me tightly, my face buried in his coat.

"Don't worry Zell," His voice was chocked and pleading, "Please don't cry."

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