One of you wanted 'MOAR' so, lo and behold, there is more.

Please tell me how I can improve this. I mean, I could use the help, and I'm only just learning how to write these kind... These are more like 'one-shots' of the same story, hence the shortness of the chapters.

Gomen.

Written from Squall/Leon's POV.

"Why did you invite him back to the Garden?" Selphie pouted, staring at Seifer behind me.

"Because I'm too damn good to keep away." Seifer smirked at the girl, twirling his gunblade in one hand. Cocky bastard.

"...I want to keep my eyes on him,Selph." I sighed, eyes rolling heavenward. Was this a mistake? It might be. After all, he was our enemy only a year ago...

"You don't know until you give him a shot."

"Yeah, a shot in the head from forty paces. Alright, he has one chance. He screws up, and I'm kicking him out of the Gardens forever." My face resolute.

Rinoa laughed at me, twirling in the sun. She had redyed the streaks in her hair, the brown contrasting with the dark locks around it.

"Rinoa... I'm only doing this because you like him." There must have been accusation in my voice, because when she looked at me next, her eyes were hurt.

"Squall, I don't like him like I like you..." She turned from me.

"I know. I was only teasing." I wrapped my arms around her waist, face in her hair.

She suddenly spun, grinning at me. "Hooray! The Ice Prince is dead! Long live Squall!" She mock saluted me.

I should of known better. I was about to reply but I was interrupted.

"Squall! Squall! SQUALLSQUALLSQUALLSQUALL!" Zell sprinted into the hallway at a hundred miles, hair flying everywhere. I swear that new haircut makes him look like a chocobo. "SQUALLSQUALLSQUALLSQU-"

"I'm right here, Zell." I rubbed at my ringing ears. "What is it? It better be more important than the hotdogs..."

"Gwah! Much more important! Squall, Esthar City is being attacked!"

Everyone spun to face him. Who was idiotic enough to attack Esthar City?

Hundreds of them. Thousands, even. They had spread from Esthar like a plague. Completely unlike any monster we had ever seen, or fought. We had no defense against them. For everyone we killed, three more would appear. Everywhere was overrun. The cities, towns, everywhere. Trabia, which Selphie had worked so hard to rebuild, been the first Garden to fall. Then the students of the Galbadia Garden, fighting to get the place running as it did before the Second Sorceress War, fell next.

We called them 'Heartless'. They attacked without mercy, and stole the fallens hearts. Our Garden, Balamb, was the last refuge of humanity standing. I had ordered to keep us moving, searching for survivors in the decimated towns. We stopped at night over the sea, to help keep them away, and to give us some rest.

Eventually, we fell too.

Irvine, Selphie and Quistis were the first to fall, protecting a classroom of underclassmen. The kids didn't make it either. Next was Zell, charging into a fight I knew he couldn't win. Maybe he did too. Maybe he just chose to go out the way he did, fighting for his friends, fighting for his ma in the upper floors.

We were the last. Me, Rinoa, Angelo and Seifer. We had no chance. Overwhelmed and exhausted, I watched Rinoa die. Sorceress Rinoa. The Sorceress with angel wings. The woman I loved. Angelo quickly followed his master, still trying to protect her. I...I had failed my duty. As her knight. As her friend. As her...

Now it was just me and Seifer, but not for long. Seifer turned kamikaze, swearing to take out as many as he could before they got him.

I was alone again.

I hadn't been alone for over a year now, and here I was. Fighting a one man war that couldn't be won, no matter how hard I tried. I had failed everyone. I had even failed myself.

Where did I go wrong?

I had no time to contemplate it, because I too, fell...

I wound up in Traverse Town, where I met Aerith and baby Yuffie... Somehow, we'd been turned into children. Hell, Aerith had been DEAD. I met Cid, their onetime friend, now adopted father.

Soon to become my own.

I had to start my life all over again, knowing what I had lost...

I couldn't accept it. I changed my name, hoping that it would change my future. Squall died when Rinoa fell. He's Leon now.

I'm Leon, and I won't fail again.