Chapter 12 The Patients.....
Rufus slowly stood up and took a look around, at least what there was to look around at. Almost everything was dark.
All he could make out was a hard, tiled floor and an odd red light, emmitting from down the hall. He saw Jessica and Abby
lying unconscious next to him. He knelt down to Abby and rubbed his gloved-hand across her forehead. "mmm..." Abby slowly
came to and sat up. She yawned as she started to look over at Rufus. "Rufus? What happened? Where are we?" "I wish i
knew, Abby. As we started to fall, I lost consciousness and apparently you guys did too. Next thing I knew, I was laying
here next to you and Jessica."
They both began looking around them. "hmmm" said Rufus "It looks like we've lost Kaiti, Reno, and Rude." "I wonder
what happened to them" remarked Abby. "Reno and Rude know what to do in tight situations" said Rufus "They and Kaiti probably
woke up before we did and went scouting to see where we are. I might be able to get a hold of them with my radio."
Rufus then pulled a radio out of the pocket of his long trench-coat. A loud, high pitched screech of static
came through the speakers. "AAAHHHH!!!!" everybody covered their ears in response to the wave of static. Rufus looked at the radio in confusion. "idd. It doesn't even have batteries in it. It
shouldn't be-" He stopped in mid-sentence in reaction to a sound from behind him, within the darkness of the corridor.
It was a bit of a raspy type screaming sound. "W-what was that?" said Abby, staring into the darkness. Slow, dragging footsteps
are heard. They seemed to be coming in their their direction. Rufus reached down to his gun holster to find it empty. His
head jerked down to see that his gun was gone. "What? Where is my gun?" The others reached for their weapons and saw that they
all were gone. "well, this is rather unfortunate" muttered Rufus as the footsteps became louder. Rufus pulled out a flashlight,
turned it on and pointed it into the darkness. Then the source of the footsteps came into view. *GASP* It looked as if it had once been
human, but it had no nose or mouth on its head. All of it's hair was gone and it's arms seemed to be under a "straightjacket"contraption made
from the creature's actual skin. Right in the middle of it's stomach was an opening into it's insides, looked as if acide may have
been the reason for it being opened. On it's ankle it wore a tag, like a hospital tag, like it had been a sick patient in
a hospital somewhere. It stood at an angle in which it stuck the front of it where the hole was out in front of every other
part of it's body. It stopped moving and just stood there. "What IS it?" exclaimed Abby. *Grunt* It jerked it's head towards
Abby in response to her speaking. A look of terror ran across her face as the creature let out an inhumane scream. Out of nowhere
acid sprayed from it's hole in the stomach and flew right at Abby. Rufus tackled into Abby and jumped out of the way just as
the acid was about to reach her. They landed where Jessica, still asleep, lay. Rufus looked back and saw the acid breaking
through the tiles and burning away pieces of the floor. He dropped the flashlight and it turned off. The monster heard the
flashlight and began staggering right for them. Abby jumped up. "Oh no you don't....Shadow Flare!" Nothing happened. Rufus
looked up at her to see what had happened. She stood there for a second. "uhh.......Bad Breath!........Pumpkin Head?" She
then drooped her head down. "NO! WHY cant i use magic?" As she said this , the monster approached her yet again. Rufus dove
into her and pulled her away from yet another shot of the monster's acid spew. "He covered her mouth with his gloved hand.
"You have to be quiet, Abby" he whispered "they respond to sound." He looked over and saw Jessica slowly getting up. He tried to warn her about the monster but before he could, she saw it and let out an ear-piercing scream.
Rufus looked up as the monster backed , surprisingly, backed up from where they were instead of coming forward. He let out a sigh of relief and then heard more sounds. The same sound, but.....more of it. He picked the
flashlight up again and turned it on. A streak of terror ran through his veins as he saw them. There must have been at least
20 of them. They didnt notice him and Abby but they were blocking their only way out. Jessica tried to get up but fell over on top of Rufus. Immediately, all of the mosters looked over and headed their way.
"oh, shit" said Rufus
Chapter 13-The Attack On Balamb Garden
Quistis, Zell, and Kayla sat in the cafeteria
and ate their dinner. Zell put down his hotdog and rested
his chin on his gloved hand. Quistis looked over and seemed worried.
"Zell, what's wrong?" "Where's Brian? Why didn't we invite him to
dinner?" Quistis let out a long sigh. "Brian ran off into the
training facility right after Kayla got back. We asked him,
but he didn;t wish to come to dinner until he'd satisfied
himself with training out there. Don't worry. I'm sure he'll
be here soon." "Come on, cheer up dude" said Kayla. Zell
didn't say anything. He picked up the hotdog and began
eating once again, but didn't seem like he felt any better.
"So, Quistis" said Kayla "What will become of Brian and I?"
"Well....."said Quistis "Tomorrow I'm going to have Squall
Leonheart, captain of Balamb Garden, talk to you guys about
some peculiar things he's been noticing lately. You see,
we know you two are not from our world, and your arrival
must have some meaning that something's up." "Wormholes
don't just pop up in the garden every day, y'know"
called a masculine voice from behind. "You guys aren't exactly
the normal type of people,y'know." The three turned to see
Raijin, a muscular monk approaching them. "Yo, Quistis, why
not give me and Seifer some action, y'know? Let us train
with these newbies, y'know?" "Hello, Raijin" said Quistis
"Having them train with Seifer is not bad of an idea, but.....I'm not sure you'd be.....
touch enough for them." Raijin suddenly jumped back "WWWWHHHAAATTTT!!!
?
Not strong enough?
" He then clenched his fists and strated jumping back and forth,
as if preparing to fight. "Freeze!" A glowing white light surrounded Raijin and he
froze in place. "Dammit" muttered Raijin "I hate it when he does that, y'know?"
"There's no need for a conflict with the professor and the new students, my friend" said
a voice from around the corner. A blonde man in a long white jacket walked around the corner
into the cafeteria. "I'm sorry if my friend has caused you any trouble. He can get kind of....
anxious at times to fight." The man walked up to Kayla and reached out to shake her hand.
She shook his hand and he put it back to his side. He had a diagonal scar across his face.
"The name's Seifer. It's a pleasure to meet you" "kayla" replied Kayla. "Kayla, ok." replied
Seifer. He then turned to Quistis. "Professor, may I take her to train?" Quistis stood and
looked him in the eye. "You may once the other gets here. The boy, Brian." Seifer nodded "yes,
I saw him head towards the training facility this afternoon. When do we expect him back?"
"Anytime" replied Quistis. "Well, Kayla" said Seifer "LEt's go out to the fountain right by
the training facility and wait for this Brian kid" "Alright" replied Kayla. "Be sure to take good care
of them, Seifer" said Quistis "But of course, Professor" replied Seifer as he and Kayla began walking
out of the room. "Hey what about Raijin?" asked Kayla "Just leave him. He's no chickenwuss. He'll thaw
eventually" They continued walking and approached the doorway into the fountain hall. *BBBBOOOOOMMMMM*
Something fell through the roof of the cafeteria. Plaster fell right onto Quistis and Zell, knocking them out.
Seifer quickly spun around and pulled a gunblade out from the holster at his side and pointed it at the object
that had fallen. As the smoke hat filled the room cleared, Seifer came close and lowered his weapon. An injured Brian
stood up and limped towards them. He was bleeding all over and was holding one arm...broken arm. "w-w-we've got a problem"
Then he fell to the ground, dead. Kayla ran to him and felt his pulse, which was not there. A tear filtered from her eyes as
she began to cry. Seifer ran up and pulled her out of the way as more roof fell down into the cafeteria. "You've got to stay
back, Kayla" He looked up into the hole in the roof and saw that it only led outside. He grabbed Kayla and the two ran down past
the fountain and thru the entranceway to the courtyard that was outside. They got out and Seifer looked to the skies. "WHAT
THE HEL IS THAT!!!!
?" screamed Seifer as he and Kayla both saw it. An enormous, dark ship hovered above the garden.
Hundreds of thousands of blackened soldiers stood aboard it and right by it were a gigantic Wolf and a Gigantic Serpent.
The soldiers then began to leap off of the ship and land in the garden just in front of them.
"This is bad. This is really really bad....Kayla. You have to warn everyone about this before. I'll hold them off." "But...." muttered Kayla.
"JUST GO!!!!" yelled Seifer as he brought out his gunblade and charged at the swarm of soldiers. Kayla turned and headed inside the garden, but was forced
back by a magical barrier. "What is this?
" She'd fallen on her back. As she got up, the Wolf jumped down right in front of the doorway. It was
huge. It must have been 100 ft tall. As it landed a group of Balamb's soldier who'd been resting outside joined her fot the fight. Kayla pulled out the Masamune 100,
but before they had the chance to even move, the beast let out a howl of flames that consumed her. Her charcoaled
body fell to the ground and the Wolf jumped back over to the ship. "Wonderful, Fenris. Absolutely wonderful" laughed Loki.
Seifer fought off the soldiers one at a time and eventually he found himself surrounded. "Shit...." "Lionheart!!!" called a voice from above.
Then from the sky came a mand with brown hair, who also wielded a gunblade."Squall!" called out Seifer. "That'd be me" replied Squall.
He came down and with one swipe of the gunblade, 1/2 the soldiers flew back into the ship. Soldiers came back out and
surrounded them. Both of their gunblades began to glow as the soldiers approached. "Think you can handle this many" asked Squall
"Well...If one more shows up, it might be hard" replied Seifer. "then that's the one I'll take out" said Squall. They both screamed out as they jumped into
the mob of soldiers and began tearing them apart. They flew past each other as they slashed at the soldiers. The soldiers were forced back for a moment and the two of them
landed. "Ok, let's try this your way, Squall" said Seifer "Right" replied Squall. They both stood back to back and began to glow as the soldiers approached, now in the thousands.
"LIONHEART! DOUBLE FOLD!!!!" They began twisting around like a tornado, making a huge funnel of magical energy that all of the soldiers were sucked into.
They both landed as the the last of soldiers began flying around in the funnel. They both jumped in at opposite ends and began
putting a melee of hits into all of them. They both met in the air and put their gunblades side by side and it became one gigantic flaming gunblade. They both grasped
it and leaped into the air. THey brought it back and down into the funnel. A gigantic explosion of flamesshot into the air as they struck down. They both landed and nothing
was left when the smoke cleared. Even the ship had left the area. A small orb was left where the wormhole the ship had used had been.
Squall and Seifer looked over at the graveyard that Fenris had created. They slowly walked over and lowered their heads. Squall
then looked over at Seifer "So....both of them....the newbies from another world....they're dead...." "Yes, it appears to be so" replied Seifer.
"What a tragedy....." said Squall "But i have a feeling that ship....was here looking for them...." Seifer looked over at
him "Why?" Squall looked at Kayla "That wolf. It's what sent Brian flying through the roof. And as soon as it had flamed Kayla, it retreated back to that ship,
rather than come and easily wipe out the two of us. They had a mission to eliminate them, for some reason. And the only evidence we have is that wormhole up there."
Seifer looked up at the wormhole "I have a really bad feeling about this................." Suddenly the wormhole grew and sucked in Seifer and Squall"