Thread: FFVIII; Intro
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Old Sep 11th, 2002, 05:31 PM   #1
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FFVIII; Intro

Heartbeat. Snap.
This is really happening. Don't blink. Sweat keeps fringe in eyes. Heartbeat, dull thud. Continue. Don't blink. Keep eye contact. Must win this through.

They stand apart. Seifer, all good looks and faux popularity. Eye contact, Squall, all good looks and pouting angst. Worlds apart yet remaining the same. Here they stand on the barren greyness of being, locking intellects and gender, the bizarre clash of adolesence played out one hundred times across the world, yet here it matters not. This is practise, but this is personal.
They stand and stare, a statement of being of intent. This is growing up. The gunblades are raised, silver on grey skied pregnant clouds threating treachery.

Blink, you bastard, blink !

No movement yet from the one of the image, fashion accessory coat and friends. If this is training then let the enemies of these two fear.

The clouds break, disappointment rains down. It is now.
Fleeting feet charge Squall.

Reactions, parry. Electric shock of blades meeting. Harder than I expected, but what was that exactly ?

Another voice within, you think too much.

Parry, Block, no room for an offensive, what if he beats me? Have to prove self, no more failure

Its all one way, he has the moves, he has the edge, confidence and within lies the flaw.

Within the beating of a butterflies wings he slips

GO ! Now ! Take the advantage !

The cold crafted blade takes its chances, Seifer barely blocks it. This is personal. Squall rains down the blade, cold ringing meeting the deafening silence of a thousand raindrops. In the failing light it looks like a thousand feathers falling.

He wondered what you felt when death was calling. Would the feathers still be there then ?
Still, he had an advantage.
Press it.

He did. The rain was the adversary, Seifer was on the backfoot now.

One more go and he'd yield. Respect.

Almost too easy.

The glow suddenly surrounded Seifer

Heartbeat, world of pain, lying on back. He got me, bastard. Electrical nerve shock. Get on your feet ! Now ! Do it !

Squall raised his eyes to the light and gazed into destruction again . Seifer brought the blade across Squalls face, gashing.

Burning, white light. Feathers falling

Shaken.

Must ... fight ... back

Squall brought his blade up in a blaze of vengance, catching Seifer in an almost identical cut across the pale skin.

blink. white light. feathers, the feathers fall, no pain, feel no pain no pain no pain ...... white light

They collapsed along side each other. The rain fell around them and they were found surrounded by a strangely placed amount of feathers.
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