I'm trying to write the story I had originally intended.
I don't own any of the Final Fantasy 8 characters, but the newbies are mine.
I have a feeling that more questions will be answered in these fast forward chapters... Of course they'll raise a few of their own, I hope.
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Chapter 10
"Honestly, Aura," one of the human instructors scolded, "If I didn't know better, I'd think you were actually trying to beat Seifer Almasy's record of attempts at becoming a SeeD."
The tall woman spoken of gritted her teeth. She knew all of her siblings and cousins had been able to graduate at the first or second attempts. She currently had made six attempts, and had failed all of them. She figured that the first had been understandable, as she'd been the reason for the mission failure. The second failure was explainable as a simple act of rebellion. The youth who had been her squad captain had been a first class jerk. She'd refused to follow his orders. In the third, she'd followed orders, but the captain had been a lazy fool. But she couldn't fathom the last three failures.
Fighting back tears, as the next test would be her last, Aura left the instructor to her self-righteous blathering. She would turn nineteen three days after the test, and would be therefore ineligible to ever retry afterward.
Blindly heading to her dorm room, Aura was surprised to run into another person, literally.
"Aura," the soft voice of her oldest friend opened the floodgates, and she sobbed brokenly on Max's shoulder.
"Why?" her voice wobbled around the word through her tears.
"I don't know," he wrapped his arms gently around her," I'm not on the committee. They make the decisions, not I, or you'd have passed on the fourth try."
"Then it wasn't something I did wrong?" she peered up at the kind-hearted redhead, hoping for confirmation.
"Not as far as I can tell," he patted her back once more, then released her to stand on her own, "But I'd have a little trouble finding out."
"I haven't the slightest clue what you're talking about," Aura grinned, cheering a little, and recovering enough to feign ignorance of his intent to find out why she had failed with little visible reason.
"Exactly as it should be," he grinned back, "But I think you need to rest. You're too stressed out."
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The Max of this time is both the same and not the same as the Max of the other...
And how cryptic can I get? I've just about confused myself here!
~Though that's not terribly difficult.~
I don't own any of the Final Fantasy 8 characters, but the newbies are mine.
I have a feeling that more questions will be answered in these fast forward chapters... Of course they'll raise a few of their own, I hope.
~
Chapter 10
"Honestly, Aura," one of the human instructors scolded, "If I didn't know better, I'd think you were actually trying to beat Seifer Almasy's record of attempts at becoming a SeeD."
The tall woman spoken of gritted her teeth. She knew all of her siblings and cousins had been able to graduate at the first or second attempts. She currently had made six attempts, and had failed all of them. She figured that the first had been understandable, as she'd been the reason for the mission failure. The second failure was explainable as a simple act of rebellion. The youth who had been her squad captain had been a first class jerk. She'd refused to follow his orders. In the third, she'd followed orders, but the captain had been a lazy fool. But she couldn't fathom the last three failures.
Fighting back tears, as the next test would be her last, Aura left the instructor to her self-righteous blathering. She would turn nineteen three days after the test, and would be therefore ineligible to ever retry afterward.
Blindly heading to her dorm room, Aura was surprised to run into another person, literally.
"Aura," the soft voice of her oldest friend opened the floodgates, and she sobbed brokenly on Max's shoulder.
"Why?" her voice wobbled around the word through her tears.
"I don't know," he wrapped his arms gently around her," I'm not on the committee. They make the decisions, not I, or you'd have passed on the fourth try."
"Then it wasn't something I did wrong?" she peered up at the kind-hearted redhead, hoping for confirmation.
"Not as far as I can tell," he patted her back once more, then released her to stand on her own, "But I'd have a little trouble finding out."
"I haven't the slightest clue what you're talking about," Aura grinned, cheering a little, and recovering enough to feign ignorance of his intent to find out why she had failed with little visible reason.
"Exactly as it should be," he grinned back, "But I think you need to rest. You're too stressed out."
~
The Max of this time is both the same and not the same as the Max of the other...
And how cryptic can I get? I've just about confused myself here!
~Though that's not terribly difficult.~