Fan Fiction ❯ Final Fantasy VIII: Extended Quest ❯ Run In With the Boss ( Chapter 5 )

We see the gang in the vehicle headed to the vehicle entrance of the garden. Before they could return to the entrance however, they were attacked by something. It looked like a fire-type spell, but it was much stronger than firaga. Squall yells out. "Shit!" Zell joins in. "What was that" Squall replies. "Something that's not ours." Angelita growled and skid to a stop. She jumped out of the vehicle and ran towards the source of the attack. Irvine took point, and the rest moved forward, ready for anything. Angelita growled, her fears correct; her father did decide to attack them.

We see the Shrouded man in the foreground, but no longer shrouded. "Didn't expect you on the surface so soon, Angelita." Zell is confused. "Who the hell is that?" Squall answers for her. "I think that's her father." Zell looks back. "Oh shit." Quistis speaks up. "I'm thinking the same thing." Squall looks around. "Can't we go one day without getting ambushed by something. Everyone ready?" He raised an eyebrow. "You're going to rely on others? Now there's a switch."

Angelita growled. She wanted nothing more than to kill this freak, but she knew it wasn't that easy. Zell stresses a point. "Dude, have you even heard of Ultimecia, or the fact that we pounded her flatter than a pancake?" Squall defends her. "She offered hospitality, nothing more." He scoffed, he knew his daughter better than that. "I thought you never let anyone in on your battles. Remember last time we met?" "Shut up, Harley!" She was seriously getting pissed and it was pretty obvious. Irvine is really pissed now. "Screw this" He loads rifle with sniper rounds and fires a barrage of bullets. Harley smirked and the bullets stopped in mid air then dropped to the ground, clattering. "Pathetic." Irvine is even more pissed. "DAMNIT!" Zell too is getting pissed. "Get your ass down here, and meet the devastation of our fury." Harley laughs. "If that's all you can do, it would be a waste of my precious time." Zell yells, "Don't even think to start pushing my buttons."

Squall gives his remarks. "I still think that he doesn't know WHO Ultimecia was, much less the fact that she is dead at our hands." Angelita looks back at them. "Don't underestimate him. Trust me, he has enough to back up this shit." We hear form Selphie for the first time in a while. "I figured it out!" Quistis is still level headed. "Figured what out?" "How Haruto did that attack." Zell now looks back to her. "You can't be serious" "I am." "At least someone else figured it out..." Angelita thought as she watched her father's movements. She was the only one who knew what he could do. Squall stands, ready to reign forth devastation, but waits for the greatest opportunity to strike. Zell stands defiant to the last, ready and willing to unleash Doomtrain, and wipe this man from the face of the planet. Irvine loads his rifle with his most powerful rounds, ready to take the final shot, and end this conflict.

 

Harley shook his head. "Truly pathetic. Why do you surround yourself with such weaklings, Angelita?" Angelita sighed, "Not this shit again." Out of anger, Irvine shoots three more rounds, even though he knows they are useless. "Damnit Irvine, don't waste your ammo." Harley smirked as the rounds simply fell before they reached him. "Such hostility." "And you're just an insane asshole." She waved her hand and used a Thundara, getting past her father's barrier and did significant damage. Seeing this, Quistis unleashes three simultaneous firagas, hoping to see them penetrate.

 

He stumbled back, the firagas doing some damage, but not as much as the Thundara. He growled, Angelita told them how to get past his barrier. "Why the hell are we wasting our time?" Zell unleashes spell after spell, and even tries Doomtrain on this insane prick. Harley took on the onslaught of spells. He had to get out of there before they actually did some serious damage. He cast reflect and the last few spells reflected back at them and he ran, disappearing without a trace.

Angelita was breathing a bit heavily, but her breaths eventually evened out. She was kind of wounded from the spells that her father reflected back, but she was just tired from using up so much magic; it wasn't exactly her strong suit. Zell starts running towards where Harley left. "DAMNIT, GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!" Squall has a question. "Just for clarification Angelita, what the hell was blocking our physical attacks?" She answers simply. "A barrier spell. He can max out the potential of any spell." Zell returns. "Damn him"

Squall stoops down. "Okay, I'll give him kudos' for that. By the way, Selphie, how did you figure out that attack?" She replies. "Studying the kamikaze from Cactaur, you just have to mod it with a high hit level, and his card." "Ok, but where's his card?" "Her father had it." "And how do you know?" "Cause when I saw the spell's work, I decided to try a draw, and this is what I got." She holds up Haruto's card. Angelita nodded. "Haruto did that for the purpose of trying to please my father. I can tell you from first hand experience that it isn't easy." Squall stands back up. "So, do you think we can make a defense against this thing or what?" Angelita thought about it for a moment. "Thing I learned while fighting my father. Have a lot of Reflects and Potions. And I suggest you increase your tolerance to fire and earth. Those are his favorites to use. And have a lot of ice and thunder spells. He tends to be weakest to those."

 

Squall walks back towards the car. "Alright. And tell me he doesn't have that GF thing, like Haruto did." Angelita shakes her head. "No, he doesn't have that, but he does have a couple powerful GF's." The all start to follow him. "Sounds like the makings of a monumental battle here." Angelita puts it simply. "Let's put it this way. Whenever the two of us actually fight, it's like a small world war." Squall speaks up. "Well, we'll make this a full scale world war, and I guarantee Lionheart is going to show up." Squall strokes his gunblade. Angelita smiled slightly. "Thanks." Zell makes an attempt at a joke. "We should make our motto 'Slay the monstrously insane!'"

"We'll help you get him." She nodded. "We better get back to the garden." Squall wonders something. "Besides location, does your garden have any defenses?" Angelita looks towards him. "We don't have to worry about an attack if that's what you mean." Squall looks to her. "Alright, but tell me your students have their own weapons. Don't want people to go down without doing damage." She blinked. "The first years don't. But they're not fighting. None of the students are. They wouldn't hold up." Zell interrupts. "That sucks." "Anyways, lets get back, so we don't get a counterattack." Angelita nodded and drove everyone back to the garden.

 

As they re-entered the garden, Squall goes immediately to the armory, and grabs as much ammo and spells as possible. Angelita went to her room and stared at the box she dug up from the orphanage. A few thoughts were going through head. "I guess I should..." Everyone else goes to the room they had, and came up with a battle plan, and they brought all available aspects up to maximum. All spells were divided evenly, and everyone was brought to full hp. Angelita made her decision. Now all that was to do was get his attention. "I'll tell Squall later. Right now, I better rest up." Everyone gets a quick meal, and rests up, except Selphie.

 

As a last ditch resort, she learns the attack from Haruto, and learns it so she won't do damage to her fellows. Angelita didn't go down for food. She simply changed into her pjs and hopped into bed, but couldn't seem to sleep. As sleep grabbed him, Squall wonders, how such people can become so evil. He lies awake for hours, just concentrating on the subject. He goes to the kitchenette in their room and makes a home remedy of a sleeping aide. There he meets Selphie, of whom he is surprised to see up. "What are you doing up?" "Oh, me, uhh... nothing. Why? "You should be resting." "Right, uhh, well goodnight." Selphie goes to her bunk, and mulls over her decision. She is sure that this will help in the short term, but the longtime effects may be devastating. She thinks about this all night, getting absolutely no rest.

 

Morning came and sleep didn't come to Angelita. Not that she really needed sleep, but just lying there was boring so she meditated most of the time. That was all the rest she really needed. Tyler had tried to see her that morning, but she locked the door and stayed quiet, the illusion she left when she wanted to be alone and it made Tyler assume that she had left to go train. She looked at the contents of the box she had long buried on the orphanage grounds for quite some time, and then put it back in the box. She knew what she wanted to do with it. Now it was all a matter of timing.

 

Squall awakes, along with the others, and they all get ready. Selphie is moving sluggishly, you can tell she got no sleep. Angelita didn't bother going down to the cafeteria, she wasn't hungry. Instead, she simply went to her office to take care of some other matters. The rest do go down to the cafeteria, grab a quick meal, and regroup back at the room. Tyler went to the room, knocking on the door. Squall is first to answer. "It's open. Come on in." Tyler went in, but only a few feet. "Squall, you need to go see Angelita. She wants to talk to you." Squall heads for the door. "Alright. You guys, wait here."

He follows Tyler to their destination. Tyler led Squall to Angelita's office and let him in, then went back to his other duties. "Thank you." He turns to Angelita "You needed to see me?" Angelita looked up, blinking. She sighed slightly, silently cursing Tyler in her mind. He always did know her inside and out. She might as well do it now, since Tyler got him to come in. She stood up and held the box she dug up from the orphanage out to Squall. "Let me guess, this is what you went to the orphanage for." She nodded. "Yeah. Here, I want you to have it." He takes the box, unsure of its contents.

"What is it?" "It's a GF I found years ago, before I went to the orphanage. Its name is Galeon." Squall turns it over in his hands. "And why do you want me to have it?" Angelita smiled slightly. "You'll find out when you use it." Squall thinks to himself, why do I get the feeling that this here will be a fate decider? "Thank you, and tell me if this is one of those kamikaze things now, instead of when I use it, please." She chuckled. "No, it's not a kamikaze thing." "Alright. And on a side note, when do you think we should leave?" She looked off to the side. "I can't go after him for awhile." "Alright. If you need anything else, you know where I am." She nodded and dismissed Squall to do whatever he wanted.

 

Squall heads back to the room, grabs his blade, and goes to the training center, with Irvine in tow. They stay there until about lunch, when they head back for food. Angelita went to sleep after taking a couple of pills right after Squall left. Tyler was in line with his students for the day. He just got done giving a demo and now they were taking a lunch break. Squall meets with Tyler for lunch, and they talk over lunch. "So, what did Angie want?" "She told me about her father and some ways to defeat him if the need arised." He felt that it would be too sensitive a subject to bring up Galeon just now. "Heh, she never talks about her pops. I'm surprised she's even letting you help her fight him." Squall shrugs. "Who knows? This kind of hospitality has been unparalleled in our entire journey. Even my garden never had some of the stuff that you guys have here. So your guess is as good as mine." Tyler leaned back in his chair, a small smirk across his face. He knew why Angie was being nice and everything, but it wasn't like he was about to say anything. "Yeah, I guess." An interesting thought crossed Squall's mind, but he dismissed it, for now.

 

"So long as were here, I know I wouldn't want to be a bad houseguest. Do you have anything here that you need help with?" "You've done enough by helping with the demonstrations. If we need ya, we'll let ya know." "Alright. Unless you need anything, I'm going to our room. I'll see you later. He nods and waves Squall off, leaving to go somewhere himself. Squall and Irvine head back to the room and make sure everything they have is ready to leave with at a moments notice.