Fo: Hi all, sorry it's been so long my bastard fiance left me for a 16 year old. I don't own 'Final Fantasy VIII'. Enjoy.

Washu: Poor Fo, she's heart broken.

Veemon: That Ty guy is such an asshole.

Washu: I hope she's going to be okay.

Veemon: Me too...

Taichi: I really feel sorry for her...

Ryuk: Don't worry karma will find him.

Fo: Stupid Jerk!

Lion And Raven

Chapter 2: Swing Life Away

Irvine was sitting in the library along with Squall, Zell, and Selphie. He had cut his hair to his shoulders and he had it in a low ponytail, he had his uniform unbuttoned a little showing off his Native American necklace. Irvine looked over at Zell, he had buzzed his hair, but even though he looks more mature, his goofy and immature nature still remains.

"So what she like?" Irvine asked with a huge smug smile on his face while looking at Squall.

Squall rolled his ice blue eyes, he knew Irvine was still on the rebound after Selphie dumped him.

After summer vacation, Rinoa and Selphie were out shopping in Dollet and Selphie saw Irvine with another girl. That ended their relationship right on the spot.

Soon after, Selphie and Irvine became friends again, but that's about it.

However, Squall doesn't see them ever getting back together again.

"She would kick your ass in a heart beat," Squall replied coldly, Irvine chuckled a bit.

"I heard that Matron hand picked her," Zell said, everyone looked at him with disbelief.

"Where the hell did you hear that from?" Irvine asked, Zell scratched the back of his head.

"I over heard Xu and Quistis talking about her to become a SeeD member." Zell said calmly, everyone was shocked.

They thought the Gardens were done looking for more SeeD candidates, why is Edea recruiting Siren Page all of a sudden?

"That doesn't make any sense," Selphie said as she cocked her head to the side.

"I guess Matron saw that she is SeeD material," Zell said as he shrugged his shoulders while taking a sip of his Orange Soda (Fo: I love Orange Soda ^^).

Squall leaned back in his swivel chair and started to rub his chin.

'Siren Page, must have some amazing skills, if Matron enrolled her as a SeeD,' Squall thought to himself.

There are still a few blanks in his theory though. He couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"Zell, maybe right," Squall said as he looked at Selphie with his arms crossed.

Then they all heard the sliding doors of the library open; the group looked over to see Siren and Seifer enter the room.

"Whoa, is that her?" Irvine said with a smirk as he watched Siren and Seifer walk into the library.

Seifer smirked and looked at the gang and then at Zell.

"What's up Chicken-Wuss?" Seifer taunted, Zell growled and shook his fist at him.

Seifer never got tired of calling Zell a chicken-wuss, it was too funny to watch the younger fighter's reaction.

"Calm down, I'm not here to bully you," Seifer smirked as he crossed his arms.

Seifer, Raijin, Fuujin had became SeeDs not to long ago, Edea saw great potential in all three of them and had Quistis, Xu, and Squall trained them.

All three passed with flying colors, Seifer redeemed himself from the previous SeeD test.

"Shut the hell up, you prick!" Zell shouted at Seifer.

Seifer ignored the young fighter and placed a hand on Siren's shoulder, Siren brushed his hand off making him chuckle a little.

"This is Siren Page, the newest student," Seifer said as he introduced Siren to the other SeeDs.

Selphie had a big smile on her face, she had got up off her chair and skipped her way to Siren.

"Hi, Siren!" Selphie chirped when she saw her.

Selphie already grew very fond of Siren, maybe it's because they both are into music.

Siren looked at the brunette and gave her a small smile.

"Hey," Siren greeted.

Irvine sat up from his seat and walked over to Siren.

Siren gave him a confused look when he stood in front of her.

"Well!" Irvine said as he stared at her from her legs up.

Siren rolled her red eyes, she knew what he was up to; she wasn't stupid.

"Well!" Siren said with a smirk, repeating him.

Irvine chuckled a little bit.

"Feisty," he said as he wrapped his arm around Siren's shoulder.

Siren glared and grabbed his wrist and elbow flipping him over her shoulder, landing him on his stomach and twisting his arm as she held his head down by his neck with her foot.

"AH! You are strong," Irvine said with a hint of pain in his tone, as he twisted his head up and while looking up her skirt.

Irvine's blue eyes widened when he saw huge scars on her inner thighs.

"What happened?" he asked, Siren immediately knew what he was asking about she gasped.

"None of your business," she said in a monotone and swiftly kicking him in the back of the neck rendering him unconscious.

Seifer started laughing and clapping his hands.

"I knew I liked something about her," Seifer said with a smug smile as a crossed his arms over his chest.

Siren released Irvine's arm and looked at everyone with a disgusted look.

"I'm outta here," Siren said as she turned around and started to leave the library.

Squall just stared at her, he was so impressed with her speed.

'Irvine must have struck a cord,' Squall said to himself as he looked down at Irvine.

He never seen so much disgust in one look.

Squall knew that there are reasons why who we are, but there is something dark about Siren.

He looked over at the laughing Seifer.

Seifer noticed that Squall was looking at him from the corner of his eye.

"Got a problem?" Seifer asked, Squall glared at him and walked away to the exit.

Siren pressed a button on the elevator, her lip was trembling.

"Please, hurry up!" Siren mumbled to herself.

As the elevator doors opened she hurried inside and started pressing the 2nd floor button frantically as if her life depended on it.

Siren can feel her heart breaking.

As soon as the doors closed she leaned against the wall and slumped to the floor and covered her face with her hands and started crying.

She sat there crying remembering her tragic past.

Then out of no where she slammed her fist against the carpeted elevator floor causing her knuckles to bleed a little.

Edea was sitting in her chair reading through Siren's file.

She had cut her hair very, very short, almost like a pixie cut; she was wearing a black tux that framed her body perfectly.

As she flipped a page over, she saw Siren's picture that was taken for her school ID.

She stared at Siren's picture with a sad smile and picked it up and ran the tip of her slender fingers across the photo and then sat it back into the file.

"I can't believe how much she's grown," she said out loud.

A small tear streamed down her check and quickly caught it with the palm of her hand.

She pulled out a news paper article of a train crash about an only survivor.

The survivor was a 4 year old girl; the survivor was Siren, both of her parents were killed in the accident.

She sat the article to the side and pulled out a police report along with some pictures.

She didn't get a chance to read the report or see the pictures, because she was interrupted with Xu and Quistis coming through the door.

She looked at them and sat up straight in her big black chair.

"Yes?" Edea spoke as she closed the file.

Quistis walked up to the desk and saluted her. Edea nodded her head with a small smile and pushed Siren's file to the side.

"Headmistress, are you certain that you want Squall to train Siren Page as a SeeD?" Quistis asked, Edea sighed and stood up.

"Quistis, please... It's either Matron or Edea when we are in private," Edea said, Quistis nodded her head.

"Matron, do you think it's wise to have Squall train her?" Quistis asked again.

Edea walked over to her large office window and stared out towards the sea.

She was silent for awhile, Quistis was worried that she may have upset the woman that took her in as a child.

"You know that Squall is still suffering from Rinoa's death. Do you think he's ready?" Quistis asked with questions in her tone, she was concerned for her friend's well being.

Edea turned around and walked back to her desk.

She closed her yellow eyes and remembers the bomb that killed Rinoa very well; Squall, Selphie, Quistis, Zel, Irvine, Xu, Seifer, Fuujin, Raijin, Cid, herself, and a handful of other people that were there were injured.

Her husband, Cid was badly injured, however he survived, sadly Rinoa didn't make it; her body was never found. It was the day that Balamb Garden was getting more buildings attached to it, it was half way done. It was an attack from a group of followers of the new sorceress; Lady Scarlet. A lot of people lost their lives that day, including Rinoa; Squall was devastated, he looked everywhere for her body.

Seifer convinced him that she had died and the weird thing was Seifer became his support for awhile.

Then they got into an argument and became rivals again. Edea knew she is playing with fire, she is hoping that Siren can help Squall let Rinoa go and have Squall help Siren let go of her tragic past.

"I'm certain Quistis," Edea said with confidence as she picked up Siren's file and placing it in her desk and locking it in her bottom desk drawer.

"If you're sure," Quistis sighed and saluted her as well as Xu.

"Quistis, bring Squall and Siren to my office," she said as she sat down back in her chair.

"Yes ma'am." she said as she walked out of Edea's office with Xu behind her.

Siren found her way to the balcony that was facing the sea, she was sitting on the railing lost in her thoughts.

She didn't even notice Squall leaning over the railing on the opposite side of her at first.

"It's nice," Siren spoke, Squall looked at her.

"What is?" he asked her, Siren looked at him. Siren tilted her head back closing her eyes, letting the cool gentle sea breeze blow threw her violet hair.

"The wind," she said as she looked at him.

Squall walked closer to Siren; he felt his heart breaking, he use to take Rinoa up here all the time.

Siren slid off of the railing and stared into Squall's ice blue eyes.

"Where did you learn to fight like that?" he asked her, Siren stared at him with no emotions.

"None of your business." she answered and walked away back into the building.

"Siren!" he called out, Siren turns around and looks at him.

"It doesn't matter," she said calmly and walks away, not looking back.

Squall watched her walk away and he turns back to the ocean and looks up at the sky.

'Rinoa... I need you,' he said to himself; Squall misses Rinoa so much.

Then he hears foot steps coming up behind him, he turns to see that it's Quistis.

"Quistis?" Squall spoke.

"Squall, Matron needs to see you," Quistis says, Squall sighs and follows Quistis into the building.

Later, down in the training center, Siren found her way in the middle of the training center. It didn't take her long to start battling a Grat. There she was attacking it with two hatchets.

Siren did a spiral back flip landing behind the beast, she took the hatchet in her right hand slamming it onto the Grat's head.

The Grat collapsed to the ground, Siren then heard someone clapping behind her.

She turns to see that it's Irvine; he had a huge smirk on his face.

She rolls her red eyes as she placed her hatchets in their holsters and begins to walk towards him.

"What do you want?" Siren hissed, Irvine didn't reply.

Irvine noticed that the Grat was still moving as one of it's arms started to reach for Siren. Irvine pulled out his shotgun and aimed it towards her, Siren believing that she killed the Grat, Siren thought that Irvine was attacking her, she pulled out her hatchets into fighting stance.

She heard the Grat breathing behind her, Siren panicked and fell to the ground covering her face with her arm.

She gasped as the Grat's mouth was above her head and then she heard a loud bang.

Then the monster dropped dead on top of her. Irvine rested his weapon on his shoulder and walked over to Siren; he knelt in front of her as she tried to get free from the Grat's dead weight. Irvine could hear her grunting and he couldn't help but snicker as she struggle with all of her hair in her face.

"Get me out of here!" Siren demanded, Irvine brushed her hair out of her face; she gave him a glare.

"You, my dear owe me a date," he said, Siren gave him a double take.

"And I refuse?" she said as she glared at him, Irvine sighed and stood up.

And started to walk away causing Siren to panic a little.

"Guess you'll be stuck there," he said, Siren whimpered a little bit and pouted her lip, making Irvine smirk.

"Alright! I'll go on a date with you! So get this thing off of me?" she said, Irvine smirked and walked to the Grat and started to lift the Grat up a little bit, just enough room for Siren to get free.

Siren crawled out and stood up brushing the dirt off her butt and knees.

"I'll pick you up tonight at 8," he said with a smirk, Siren rolled her red eyes and nodded her head.

Siren began to leave the training center, when all of a sudden she heard the announcement bell.

"Siren Page, please report to the Headmistress Kramer's office. Siren Page, please report to the Headmistress Kramer's office," Siren sighed and looked back at Irvine and smirked at him.

"8 o'clock," she spoke in a sexy way, winking at him and walked away leaving Irvine behind.

Siren walked into Edea's office and saw Squall in the room with Edea at her desk, Siren was confused and wasn't sure what's going on.

"Siren, please come in," Edea greeted with a smile.

Siren looked around the room and then at her.

"Now, I've already told Squall why I've brought the two of you here," she said as she smiled.

"And that is?" she asked; she was worried, she didn't know why she asked her to her office.

"I'm going to have Squall train you to become a SeeD," Edea said, Siren's eyes widened and looked at Squall and then back at Edea with confusion.

"I don't understand," Siren mumbled out loud, Edea sighed loudly and frowned.

"Squall is the only one with enough field experience to train you," she said to Siren, Siren stared at her.

Siren doesn't like working with others, she's a loner.

Siren took a deep inhale through her nose and exhaled as she looked at Edea.

"Fine," she spoke as she crossed her arms.

Edea smiled and looked at Squall and then at Siren.

"You are dismissed," she said sweetly as she sat in her chair.

Squall saluted her and left the room with Siren behind him.

They didn't say a word to each other after they left Edea's office. When they reached the elevator, Squall pushed a button and he turned around and pulled out a pair of keys from his pocket and handed them to Siren.

Siren took them into her hand and looked at them and then she looked at Squall.

"What are these?" Siren asked him.

"There keys to your house, all of us Balamb SeeDs live under one roof." Squall answered as he looked at her.

As the elevator doors open, Squall and Siren both walked in. They were silent for a little bit.

Siren pressed the 1st floor button as the doors closed and lets out a small sigh.

"Where did you get those scars?" Squall asked with his arms crossed, he saw her scars in her inner thighs when the wind blew her skirt up when they were on the balcony.

Siren's hair stood up on the back of her neck as she turned to him with shock all over her face, she flipped a red switch causing the elevator to stop.

Siren glared daggers at him and Squall gave her the same stare, she walked up to him, she came up to his chin just staring at him.

"Let's get one thing straight, Squall, you are my teacher and I am your student. Nothing more, don't ask about my life and I'll do the same, understood?" she hissed at him, Squall smirked at her and nodded his head.

"Understood," Squall said, Siren smirked and took a few steps back.

"Good," she said with a smile and flipped the red button again and the elevator started moving again.

End of Chapter

Fo: End! I hope you liked it.

Ryuk: This chapter was named after the song by 'Rise Againest'.