She was sitting on her bed, back resting against the wall behind her, legs stretched out in front. She had on her lap a beautiful long leather case. She opened it up slowly, inside was her fathers gun blade, the blade was so beautiful, she ran her fingers along the beautiful engravings along the side, she could feel the pattern glowing underneath her fingers, taking her hand away from the blade she moved her hand to the top of the case lid, pined up inside were photos, she picked up one particular. It was her and her farther. She was only 7 or so, he had picked her up in his arms, and she had a huge smile on her face. Her blond hair hung down over her shoulders, her dad was smiling, his black trousers and white shirt hung loose on his body. Several other people from their street were also in their, but they were in the middle. Putting that one down she picked another up, It was her and Sion. She closed her eyes, thinking back to when it was taken, when aloud knock on the door interrupted her thoughts, to a lot of annoyance. She quickly slammed the case shut, threw it under neither her bed and flung the door open only to find Gem standing their. She was grinning nervously scratching the back of her head once she saw sapphires displeased expression. Gems long black hair was let down lose and was tumbling over her shoulders and down her back. She wore black hot pants and royal blue shirt with several of the top buttons undone showing a rather fair amount of cleavage, which even sapphire couldn't stop staring at, while the back of the shirt was done up in corset like fashion with a ribbon Chris-crossing down her back, tied into a bow at the bottom, all topped off with a pair of flat heeled, knee high black leather boots. In her other hand she was holding onto a very beautiful weapon, it was a intricately carved metal pole, painted in the same match colour as her shirt, each end have long dagger connected to it, very much like a double ended pike, the pole was also covered with beads, ribbons and of delicate little trinkets and charms.
"um…hey…um…like, Vaughn and Nigh are waiting in the cafeteria and they like wanna know if you wanna come training with us to the training centre, it will be kinda cool ya know?"
Debating it for a short while sapphire agreed quietly.
"Yeah, why not, better than sitting in here alone". She invited Gem in momentarily while she took her Chakrams out of their case. Gems eyes grew wide.
"Those are like, so beautiful, ya know? I've never seen anything quite them before, totally different, ya know?" sapphire smiled to herself.
"Yeah, their something alright, but I guess you'll see that for yourself later, lets go".
As they entered the cafeteria Vaughn and nigh came over to meet them, Vaughn was wearing his red leather again, minus the trench coat and minus the guns. But the sword did look pretty menacing, it was strapped to his back, it was a beautiful ivory white handle and blade, a huge deep red jewel at the base of the handle. The whole thing measured easily a meter long and the blade was probably 4 or 5inchs wide. He smiled and nodded at sapphire and Gem. Nigh on the other hand seemed to dwarf everyone, he stood a good 6ft 5in and with very broad shoulders and amazingly well built arms. He wore unbelievably baggy black jeans that were pretty much shredded to pieces and white vest top with a black dragon pattern printed on the back. His weapons were already in his hands. Two black baton like devices but instead of having long metal pipes leading off from the handle it was two black blades. He spun one around in his hand, giving everyone the signal that he was also ready to move onto the training centre.
Arriving at their destination sapphire moved over to the screen to take a look who was inside, "it looks pretty busy, easily 20 or so student in their, even a couple of instructors".
Vaughn moved up beside her to take a look for himself "yeah you're right, Hyne it's annoying when it's busy and everyone acts like its some big competition". Sapphire raised her eyebrow at him.
"Well if it's a competition, don't you think we should go out their and show them what a winner looks like? She flashed them a smirk before turning around and strutting into the centre with everyone in tow.
The four of them stood back to back, Saph could feel herself tightening her grip around her Chakrams ready to make the first strike happen. The four gnats stood surrounding them. "On my count…" Saph ordered…."three….two…one, go!" Vaughn lunged forward plunging the sword straight through one of them, and just before he pulled the blade upwards, taking the giant insect in two, sapphire jumped on to the blade, balancing herself on the end she quickly back flipped off, vaulting over the top of the gnat and taking it from behind with surprise, she spun round, her blade taking out large chunks of the creatures body, leaving it withering on the floor. Taking the brut force approach Nigh rushed straight at his appointed, batting back all advances made by the creature, just as he reached the creature he spun the batons around and sent both blade down into the gnat head. It fell to the ground immediately stunned and dead. Finally gems far more graceful approach then her brother was proceeding well, she was spinning the pike around in her hands but each skilled twirl of the pike would use its blade to chop off more and more of the creatures arms until t was finally screeching in pain from its broken limbs, when she finally delivered the last few finished blows from her pike. Saph was about to turn around towards everyone when she caught sight of Vaughn's face, he held a look of pure contempt and was shooting it straight over the top of Saph, she took a side was glance over at Gem and Nigh who both looked the same, though Gem broke her stare quickly to gesture with her eyes for sapphire to turn around.
"well that was fantastic, I expected no less". Said a dry and sarcastic male voice. Sapphire spun around, Amanz was standing their, huge grin on his face, his blonde hair styled the same as always, but today is was sporting a thin chain going from one of his ear piercing to his lip piercing, oh how sapphire wanted to do little more than rip that right out of his face right now. He was wearing knee length black baggy jeans and black trainers that came up to mid calf. He wore a long sleeve tight black zip up hoody which clung very close to his body, almost like a new layer of skin. He wore a multitude of black studded belts around his waist that moved up and down as he did. He worse black martial arts gloves, much similar to his dads but his were plated with metal all the way up to his fore arm. He cracked his knuckles loudly. Amanz was quickly joined by 6 or 7 others, which sapphire and the others quickly disregarded, accept for Karma. She stood wearing midnight blue leather cowboy style chaps with a small matching skirt over the top, her top was long sleeved but was cut off just below her bust, her wavy hair was pulled up into a tight plate making her face cat like, she was obviously putting herself up their with the big girls by wearing a very high pair of heeled boots. A matching midnight blue pair of numb chucks were slung over her shoulder, decorated with golden stars and moons. She walked up to join Amanz and stood next to but slightly behind him.
"now im sure you already know Karma" Amanz gestured towards sapphire, who shot back dryly, "charmed, I'm sure".
Karma scowled at her, well I let me introduce one more person, she dragged out from the back a tall guy, easily 6ft 1" or 2". He had short messy platinum white hair. A stylish pair of glasses sat on his face, they were rectangular in shape but were thick framed and a deep black colour. He wore long black trousers the hung loosely on him, the tips of black leather boots were visible and on top he wore what a appeared to be a tight black sleeveless shirt, but the back was cut away and leather straps replaced it, holding the shirt together. He nodded towards them, holding an air of dignity. Amanz cut back in "this is Sky kramer, the last orphan our parent's matron ever took in and actually adopted."
Saphire was getting pissed off, she hadn't come here for this, "well this was all rather lovely but we have better things to do than stand here and humour you". She went to walk through the crowd of people, pushing Amanz out her way with her shoulder, only to feel him place a gloved hand on her shoulder to pull her back.
"Fucking touch me again and I promise I will make you hurt." She felt his grip tighten, Vaughn, gem and nigh picked up on it quickly and got their weapons drawn and combat stance ready. Sapphire pulled on amazes hand, she lifted her knee up and tried pulling him in towards it, he blocked quickly but his grip was lost. Jumping back to join Vaughn and the others, she drew her Chakrams from her side. Sapphire heard the wind rushing towards her and caught sight of Karmas numb chucks coming at her, before she even had a chance to think, Gm and thrown herself in front of sapphire and beat the shot back with her staff. She twirled it round at her side, "I have always wanted to take you down a peg or two bitch, ya know?" Gem jumped straight for Karma and all hell broke loose.
Nigh ran straight at the large group of hangers on, ho would prove very little match for him, he was a great fighter and they only advantage the others had against him were sheer numbers. Vaughn on the other hand stood still next to sapphire, which are both starting at Amanz and sky that was stood next to him, she felt of muscles in Vaughn's body tensed then, like a spring, released, and he shoot straight at sky. Not to be left out, sapphire followed suit and went for Amanz.
Gem was doing well, she was defiantly dominating the fight, she was very light on her feet and as long as she was able to stop karma from drawing back her numb chucks to strike she could do little to stop her. Karma lunged one of her numb chucks at gem who dunked down sweeping her staff round karmas legs and taking her down to the floor, Gem ready her self to pounce on her, but karma quickly called for the thundara to shoot down at gem, she screamed and was thrown back across the floor, she got to her knees using her staff for support and hissed "cure" under her breath before throwing herself at karma again.
Vaughn brought his sword up to protect himself from sky, who was wielding a stunning black samurai sword, even the blade was a deep onyx colour. He was quick with it, Vaughn's heavier sword was more difficult to block with but he was keeping on top for now. They came close and delivered a few more blows before Vaughn jumped back to catch his breath, both stood back watching, breathing heavily. Suddenly sky could feel the wind around him pick up, it grew stronger and stronger until his whole body was blown high into the air, "windage" Vaughn cried, but sky came back down to earth just as he had looked before, Vaughn seem surprised. "They don't call me sky for nothing" he taunted "I share the same element as you, so not only do I take no damage but it heals me too, rookie mistake".
Vaughn felt himself getting angry "RAGE!" he shouted as he grabbed as stunning aqua blue pinwheel (that was his mothers) off his belt, drew it across his chest the launched it at sky, who dodged it easily as it spun passed him, only to forget about the pinwheels return which took his leg out from behind. "Rookie mistake!" Vaughn shouted as he grabbed the pinwheel and clipped it back on, both stood facing each other, nursing wounds and panting heavily.
While the rest fought, sapphire took her chance to finally engaged Amanz In combat, she knew he was meant to be a prodigy, even if he was a totally asshole, she knew not under estimated him. Fighting in an environment like this was no holds barred. He kicked high to her face, but she bent down backwards and flipped back up kicking her own leg up into the air hoping to catch him of guard, but no such luck, he came at her with several paunches but she easily knocked them down, she side stepped him and swung her Chakrams up hoping to get him in the back of the head, but he threw his fist up and used the metal plates on his arm guards to knock the blades back, she quickly round house kicked her and knocked her Chakrams across the floor, "you bastard!" she shouted. She grabbed one of his legs that were in the air and forced it back towards him, throwing him to the ground; she then kicked the back of his leg, he screamed and was temporarily disabled as sapphire ran over to pick up her Chakrams. She was about to run back over when she heard someone shout.
"Stop it! Stop it all of you right now!" instructor Trepe and commander Leonhart were both stood their.
"Shit" sapphire whispered under her breath as she fell back to join Vaughn, Gem and Nigh.
"All of you are to report to the head masters office now for punishment!"
Sapphire and Vaughn led the way and as the entered the headmaster's office they walked to one side of the room, while Amanz, Karma and sky walked to the other.
Instructor Trepe and Commander Leonhert stood either side of the headmaster, "I have no interest in who started this! Only that nobody bothered to walk away! All of you involved will be punished, and that's no exceptions! Report to my office tomorrow and everyday for the next week after classes! Your all dismissed!" Headmaster Cid pointed towards the door and everyone filed out, once out of the room and ear shot Karma looked at sapphire " trust me, everyone here will make you pay for ever trying to drag your sorry ass into this place, your no better than your farther. And we'll make sure everyone including Sion sees that!' Amanz started laughing. Walking straight passed both Amanz and Karma, sapphire headed towards the lift, only to stop just before the doors closed "she the fuck up chicken wuss". She, Vaughn, Gem and Nigh all started laughing as the doors closed and the elevator descended.
They walked towards the dorms where sapphire was great by Sion; he was leaning against the wall, arms folded. He looked up at her "can I talk to you?" Sapphire raised her eyebrows and nodded for Sion to follow.
"Ill speak to you later". Vaughn said as he, Gem and Nigh walked towards their rooms.
"What the hell are you playing at starting fights?!" Sion's spat out once they were in sapphires room.
"Excuse me? Who the hell said I started the fight! It was that little blonde twat and his friends. They have been after me since I got here; they just had what was coming".
"Well theirs no need to make yourself more unpopular!". With that sapphire could feel her blood boiling.
"sorry, Sion but this isn't some popularity competition to me, if you feel the need to have people like you, then you might be better off staying the fuck away from me then hadn't you?!"
Sion sighed loudly, "look, Saph, I didn't mean it like that, I just mean that, well your not winning any brownie points by fighting with the garden heroes, are you?"
"Sion, do you honestly think they'd like me even if I left them alone? There are a lot of people here that will never accept me, and you know what that's fine by me, they will not stop me from becoming SeeD and making my dad proud, I'm not here for anyone but myself Sion".
"Tell you what, me and you tomorrow, after class and your punishment, we should go into Balamb, it's been ages since we spent time together".
Sapphire nodded, she did miss seeing him. They set a time and a place and Sion began to leave. "I'm sorry I gotta go now, but I'm meeting Karma."
Sapphire frowned when she heard that name, "well just make sure you don't catch anything". And with that sapphire stormed passed Sion and off towards Vaughn's room.