Final Fantasy 8-2

Chapter 3: Train Incident

We all walked together to the front gate and waited for Cid to arrive to see what he has to say. After waiting for about five minutes Headmaster Cid finally arrived.

"Good morning everyone. Before I tell you about the mission, Amara, are you up to the mission," Cid asked.

"I am always up for a mission," I replied.

"Alright. The mission is to go to Galbidia and go undercover. In the casino at the newfound Inn, there will be three people waiting for you. Two of them are guards. The other one is a female. She will be the dealer at Blackjack. She already has pictures of you three so she will know when you all will arrive. You are to listen to her, but I don't want you to become robots so before you go to the Blackjack table I want you all to explore the city and have fun," Cid stated.

We all nodded and stood in our SeeD stance.

"Amara, I want you to be the leader for this mission," Cid said.

"Right," I said as I wondered why I'm the leader and not Zell. Zell has more experience than me.

"Your starting pay will be $5,000 a day. The SeeD rank is 7. Dismissed," Cid stated.

We all went to Balamb City and then got on the train to Galbidia.

"Hey, Amara. Why don't you open this door so we can go and use the SeeD rooms," Zell stated.

I moved to the door and accessed the SeeD rooms.

"You do know that this is about a two day trip?" Zell asked.

"No, I didn't," I said as I entered one of the rooms.

"I can tell you all about Galbidia if you want me to," Zell said.

"That is alright, you don't need to," I told him.

"Come on, I know a lot," Zell begged.

"No, really, it's okay," I said.

"Please," he said back.

"Fine! Tell me what you know," I said angrily.

"I knew you wanted to know. Galbidia is a wonderful place to visit. The president is Mr. Titan. Galbidia is a place were everybody likes to come and gamble and have fun," Zell stated.

"And." I said.

"And that's it. That's all I know," Zell said smiling.

"Thank you Mr. Know-it-all-Zell," I said sarcastically.'

"No problem. Well since we have a long day ahead of us, I'm going to bed," Zell said as he went to sleep.

I got up to go look for Heero, but as I got up I passed out and went to the GF's world again.

"Sorry about this, Amara, but I, no the GF's world needs you," Shiva said to me.

"What is it, Shiva?" I asked.

"I'm not sure who is doing this, but someone is destroying the GF's world. If they destroy this world then there will be nothing left for us GF's and we'll disappear," Shiva yelled.

"What am I suppose to do!" I yelled back.

"Amara, my daughter, I am begging you to come back as a GF and help us defeat what is trying to defeat us. You are the only one who can help us. You can handle the light and dark elements. You are our only hope," Shiva said as she started to cry.

"Mother," I whispered. "I can't do anything. It's not my problem. I don't want to become a GF again. I love the world I live in too much. But believe me though; I don't want anything to happen to the GF's. On the outside world I will try and see the problem here. But that is all I can do."

"Oh, Amara. I understand," Ifrit said to me. "It's nice to see you again, my daughter. Shiva, why don't we let Amara wake up now?

"But Ifrit," Shiva said looking at Ifrit. "Alright. Take care, Amara."

I woke up without saying good-bye to Shiva and Ifrit. I then noticed that I wasn't on the floor, but on a bed. "Oh man, I must really tell Shiva not to make me come to her world when I'm not sleeping," I said aloud to myself.

"Oh, Amara! You're up. How are you feeling?" Heero asked.

"I'm fine. I was in the GF's dream world again. This time." I stopped.

"This times what?" Zell asked.

"It's nothing," I said. "I'm hungry. Why don't we go and get something for lunch?"

"Alright," Zell and Heero said at the same time.

We walked into the next train car where the kitchen and dinning room table was. Then we sat down and waited for the waiter to come and take our orders.

"So what was your dream about this time?" Heero asked.

"It's not really important at all. Shiva and I just talked," I stated.

"You sure that is all that happened in your dream?" asked Heero.

"I'm sure," I said as I looked at the menu.

"Hello, are you all ready to order?" the waiter asked.

"Yes, we are," I said.

"Irvine?" Zell asked.

"Oh, hey Zell. Long time no see. So how is our old gang doing?" Irvine asked.

"Everyone is doing fine, but I can't say for Squall. See, when we all got back to Balamb Garden Squall went and did a disappearance act and we still haven't found him. And to tell you the truth we are all very worried sick about him but we can't do anything. We all feel pretty useless," Zell stated.

"Well that isn't good. But to tell you something I thought I just saw Squall back when I was in Timber. It was about three maybe four months ago. I tried to talk to him but he seemed like he was a zombie or something. He didn't say anything to me. I wonder what he is doing," Irvine said.

"Well, if we are all done talking here, can you take our order now?" I asked.

"Oh, so sorry. Sure what will it be?" Irvine said.

"I'll take a salad with some pop corn chicken and a glass of water," I stated.

"I'll have the grilled hamburger with fries and a coke," Heero said.

"I'll have three hot dogs with a coke," Zell stated.

"Will that be all?" Irvine asked.

"Yes," I said as he left. "So what was that all about?"

"Irvine and I we used to travel with Squall and the others, but after the war with Ultmicia, Irvine and Selphie left. The rest of us went back to the garden. We all haven't seen each other in about two years," Zell stated.

Irvine then came back with our orders and he too, decided to eat with us.

"So who's this pretty young gal?" Irvine asked.

While Zell told him I made a face at him.

"So Amara, do you have a boyfriend?" Irvine asked me.

"No, and to be honest with you, I'm really not looking all that hard," I snickered.

"Would you like to go out with me sometime?" Irvine asked.

I looked at Heero as he looked jealous. Then I said, "Irvine, you are a pervert! And to tell you the truth, aren't you going out with Selphie?" I barked.

"Wow! You're pretty smart. Yes, Selphie and I are going out," Irvine stated.

"I'm going back to the SeeD rooms. You two boys can pay for the meal," I said as I left.

"Amara, wait!" Heero yelled.

"Heero, just stay and eat your lunch," I yelled at him.

Heero stopped and said," If that's what you want me to do."

Heero did just that. Oh Heero, I thought, you are such a nice person, but you can do much better than me. Why must you like me, Heero?

I finally reached the SeeD rooms and when I opened the door, the whole room was a wreck. "Who the hell did this?" I asked myself.

I went over to a pile of ripped magazines and picked up a piece of paper. I looked at the paper and realized that whoever was here left the piece of paper here. The piece of paper had some writing on it but it was smeared a lot; I tried to make out the writing but I couldn't. I must have spent over an hour trying to figure out the paper.

Heero, Zell, and Irvine came in and Zell asked, " What the hell happened here?"

"If I knew I would tell you, but I don't. When I came into our room it was like this. Whoever was in here though left this piece of paper. I have been trying to figure out what the paper says, but no luck so far," I said as I handed him the paper.

Zell started to laugh. "Hey Irvine, isn't this paper from The Girl Next Door? Here is a line from the book, she was beautiful, I wanted to hold her and never let her go."

"Yes, it is, but I don't see what is so funny," Irvine stated.

"It's ironic; you like the book and right here in this room we find a page of the book," Zell stated.

"You don't think I did this, do you?" Irvine asked. "You do don't you!"

"It couldn't have been you, Irvine. There wasn't enough time to get here and back to the kitchen. But one things for sure, the person is still here on this train," I stated. "And plus, Irvine, you shouldn't read such dirty magazines. Lets not worry about this for now. I'm sure there still are a few people who don't like SeeD's."

"Amara is probably right," Heero said.

"We might as well start cleaning this place," I said.

"Alright," Zell said.

It took us the rest of the day to clean up the mess. Afterwards everyone fell asleep. I decided to go on top of the train to think.

This is all so weird. First the SeeD test, we weren't in the right place. Then Shiva contacts me and says I'm a GF. Then Shiva tells me that the GF world is in danger. And now this, the mess in the SeeD room. Also I see me as a GF. I have wings and half of my left side is light and the right is dark. Am I really a GF?

"What the hell is going on?" I yelled out loud. I looked up from were I was lying down and saw someone staring at me. "Who are you?"

"I'm the person who trashed your room. My name is Biggs and my partner's name is Wedge," Biggs said.

"So together you two make a name called Big Wedge-y," I snickered.

"How dare you insult us like that! You are going to die!" Biggs yelled as he darted at me.

I moved to the side and eh missed me. "What kind of a move was that?" I asked.

"You are really starting to piss me off!" Biggs yelled as he charged at me again.

I moved to the other side this time, but this time he caste Blizzard on me. "Ugh! Damn that's cold!" I shouted. "Lets see how well you like to play with fire." I caste fire on them and they started to hop around like a rabbit being chased by a lion.

They jumped off the train yelling, "I'll get you next time!"

"Yeah right," I said as I went back to my SeeD room. I then went to bed.

I slept in late the next morning. I woke up to the announcer saying, "We will be in Galbidia in a few minutes. Please get all your gear and have a nice time at Galbidia."

"What time is it?" I asked myself. I looked at my watch and it said 10:17. Oh man I slept in a little bit to late. I wonder what time I went to sleep.

"Hey Amara, are you up?" Irvine asked.

"Yeah, I'm up," I relied.

"Okay, just checking," Irvine, said.

Yeah right. You probably wanted me to be asleep so you could come in here and stare at me. I changed into my clothes and got my belongings together. Then I met up with the rest of the guys.

"Good morning, Amara," Heero said.

"Morning," I replied.

"Hey, Amara, did you hear any banging or anything like that on top of the train last night?" Zell asked.

"That was me. I found out who trashed our room. It was Biggs and Wedge. I chased them off," I said.

"Not Biggs and Wedge. I thought we took care of those morons a long time ago," Zell complained.

"So you guys fought those two guys?" Heero asked.

"Yes, many times. And you think by now they would give up on fighting. They never won a battle in their life," Irvine said.

"We are at Galbidia. Please take your luggage and leave the train in a safe way," the announcer said.

We all got our luggage and got off the train.

"So Irvine, are you going to come with us?" Zell asked.

"If you don't mind me tagging along, then I will," Irvine said.

"I'm the leader here and I guess you could come along, Irvine, but do not get in our way of the mission," I stated.

"Alright, thank you," Irvine said.