"Fishing all day. Aren't you bored doing this?" A young man tries to pull his pole, when a fish bite the bait.

"I thought you already know about my junk shop years ago." The older man with a dull-shape green cap catching another fish. This one is red catfish, one of his favorite. "Bull's eye! Have some delicious dinner tonight for sure. Red catfish bite my bait whenever you're around, son. You're my lucky charm."

"Thanks dad." The son, too old as teen, too young as an adult, share most of his physical genetic from his father. Tall and jock, blonde hair, green eyes, and strong built. "It will be great if we can eat it with mom."

"Aw shit! %^^#$%^$% & !" Seifer's shout heard with sounds of falling scraps of irons. Mountain of iron junk collapse to the ground, along with the man's grunt. Biting his cigarette, Seifer pick his irons one by one and returns it to the former place.

The son looked back and see the junks in his father's workshop falling down all over the place. "What happen?"

"Nevermind, son. This crappy old shits with rusts getting in my way." Seifer put down his bucket full of fishes on a table.

"So, ... uhh ... dad." The son is battling with a fish now. "... mom ..."

"Okay, Bran, listen." Seifer cut his son's talk. "What happen with me and your mom is a fucking accident. We never expected you for fuck's sake. I don't even remember how it happens, suddenly you just there in your momma's belly."

"What?" the nylon break and the fish got away. The son don't know what he upset to; the fish or the fact. "Then how you be so sure I'm your son?"

"Cuz you damn looked like how I was when I was at your damn age. And she claimed that she ain't slept with anyone else. But I never love your mom, and vice versa. So, no dinner with your mama. She never be my wife, and we will never marry. She's not even my girlfriend. You understand now?"

The son still don't know what made him upset; maybe the fact. "But you never marry another woman."

"Because I'm an ugly poor fart who live as a weapon maker from the junks in Fisherman's Horizon and go diving in my spare time with the orphan twerps I found 12 years ago, digging on FH's junkyard for some cookies. No woman would want to share this stinky life with me. And I will not marry any random bitches I found walking on street."

"Dad." The Son collect his fishing pole and put it in a cabined beside his father's red pole. "Mom is engaging."

Again, the Son heard the iron junks collapse. Now they burry the Father.

"Dad!" The Son rush to his father who is cursing on the junks now.

"Hhhrrhhh ... I'm alright, sonny. Think I'll go diving tonight to cooldown my head. Now help me out."

For couple minutes, there's only sounds of iron clanking to others.

"So, your mum is marrying someone?"

Now the Son thinks that maybe it's the fish that made him upset. "Yeah ..."

"Who?"

Yeah, must be the fish. The Son thought. "James Ingram."

"Who the fuck is he?"

"As far as I know, he already had crush on mom since she was an instructor."

"James Ingram ..." then the father notice something. "J.I."

"You know him?"

Seifer still remember in garden forum, there's a treepie fan number 1 under the initial of J.I. always whining about Quistis Treepe.

"Seriously, Son. Your mom want to marry that lame creep?"

Just after the Father asks, the Son's phone rings. The Son walks away from his dad for better signal. "Brandish Treepe here." How he wish he has his father's surname on him. Sounds more manly.

"How's holiday?"

"It's good, sir. We catch a red catfish."

"Nice. How's your dad?"

"Shocked."

"Why?"

"Well ... things happen."

"Whatever. Brandish, return to garden A.S.A.P. This is emergency situation."

"Yes, sir, right away, sir!" The Son return to his father and apologize for not gonna be there for dinner. The Son don't need to pack his belongings because it's already in his ragnarok. He knews that Squall Leonheart can call him on duty anytime so it will be faster this way. After promise to return to FH soon, The Son drive his ragnarok back to the sky.

His partner just got killed several days ago after fighting Red Dragon in Trabia, so he's all alone in this ship now. After locating Ballamb Garden's location on map, he leave everyting to auto-pilot and rest his back on the comfortable seat. Wondering what's going on, he check websites on current events and looking for the most popular news in the world.

FH such a small ignorant community. It's a town of slum of scraps with rusty smell all over the rail roads. Not much people there care about what happen in the other side of the world. Internet is rare, and only have local server so they almost blind of international situation.

It surprise Brandish when he learned about the incident of Winhill. All of a sudden a 20 feet monster with fin on his back appears from the ocean and assault Winhill. Some people injured, and only 1 people died in the incident.

"I guess this is it."

Brandish try to search on the web about further information. Hoping he can find the picture of the monster. And he got the picture. A centaurus-like creature with full body armor in color of black and blue with fish fin on it's back. His eyes are green, shape like lizzard and he wielding a giant great sword as tall as his body.

"Surely I need crews for this." Brandish wishpered to himself.


The blue ragnarok arrived at south region of Galbadia Continent. Small Village that grow significantly in last 3 years is not as beautiful as it was right now. Some building destroyed and burned. The brick road was ripped in some location and the statue of Laguna Loire destroyed. Beheaded. West from the village, Brandish can see a blue-cone shape with tails and some gray-ish dome floating above a silver-gold anti-gravitation disc.

"Hello, Ballamb fish." he whispered to himself, "long time no see."

After park his Ragnarok not far from the vacant flat area not far from Winhill beach, Brandish took his time examining the footprint of the monster left on the shore. He can imagine the thing appears all of a sudden from the ocean, walk it's way to the village as what he do now.

"Hey Brandish. Just arrived?" a SeeD greets him, he's busy supporting a wounded villager. He just reply with a short hello and quickly walk to the north side of the village.

As he enter the village, he witness destruction he already saw about 3 minutes ago. Wooden fence crushed, probably because it's on his way. But down here, not much house destroyed, in fact, they were left unharmed. The villagers who live down here still decide to leaving the village, though.

Continue his way into the corn field, he still haven't find any destruction until he reach the town square. There's a house split in two, sliced with something sharp. Just like a cake cut by knife. The brick ground disarray, Laguna Loire's statue beheaded, and some houses got burned down.

Bellow the beheaded statue, stand a man with black clothing and black cape. A black cap with SeeD crest on his head, covering his sharp brown eyes with shadow. That man's face covered with beard and mustace. If his friend from 25 years ago got separate and just meet him now, the only mark that identify this man as the living legend who kill Ultimecia is the scar between his eyebrows. Kindda same scar on Brandish's father's, just in opposite direction.

Three people stand in front of him. Two guys are SeeD, judging from the uniforms they wear and the other one is a young teenage boy. The boy looks terrified, unable to look at the general's face. After notice Brandish's arriving, General Leonheart insert the small gadget in his hand into his pocket. The village boy react as if he's about to go to jail.

"I'll keep my eye on you, boy." Said the general, as if he ready to butcher the boy.

"I-I just befriend with your daughter. How do I know if she's your daughter? I'm not trying to do anything funny or bad! Please! I'll stop messaging her if you let me go!"

"Get him out of my sight. I'm busy." The General wave his hand away and two SeeD push the boy to the north.

Brandish salute that man. "Sir!"

That man reply his salute. "You came from south direction, what you think?"

"I foresee no destruction in random location, so I think either this thing is inteligent or just being organized. I don't see this assault as total annihilation, it's more to uhh ..." Brandish can't stop staring at beheaded Laguna Loire's statue. "... focus attack."

SeeD General Leonheart make it short, "yes. It has target."

As they talk, a SeeD approaching with a blue map pinched between his armpit. After give the General a salute, he give the blue map to general.

"Well, the report is out." After fast reading the report, the general give Brandish the blue map. The SeeD officer open the map and study the contents. Basically it's a report about the monster. Looks like someone scan the monster before it disappear. It has great endurance, element unknown, materials unknown, and contain no blood.

"No blood?" Brandish give a quick assumption, "a weapon?"

General Leonheart know this boy never disappointed him. He's smart as his mother and strong as his father. "We battle the thing right after my daughter's report to Ballamb Garden recieved. Ragnarok teams attack it from the air. It recieved some wounds, in fact, some parts of his armor was severed-now in our inteligent division for further study."

General lower his volume and glaring into the SeeD's eyes, "My guts believe that this is no ordinary creature, and first SeeD came into my mind was you."

"What you want me to do, Sir?"

"I want you to investigate. What is this creature, what it's purpose, why it attacking Winhill, and where is it come from."

Brandish salute the General. "Sir! I will not disappointed you, Sir!"

"Now go, don't waste time." General Leonheart about to walk away, return to Ballamb Garden.

"Sir." The young man called.

"Hmm?" The General stop walking and look backward.

"I believe I need crews, Sir. I mean, ... crewS."

"I know. Just give me some time." as he leave, Brandish can hear his mumble, "anyone to go with you should have great survival skills... can't let anymore SeeD K.I.A."

to be continued ...