Disclaimer:You know the drill. I don't want to waste time pointing out the obvious. Although I do have to point out credit to the film Event Horizon. Everything else that's non-Squaresoft is mine.

Notes:This is my first fanfic, so please review and make sure to tell me what I'm doing wrong. Especially OOCs. I'm trying to avoid those. I'll try to update every few days, two weeks at the most. But these are just hopes, I'm still adapting to Junior year, so you might have to wait longer. One last thing is that, this might seem a little slow at first, but I'm trying to break into the main plot around chap3/4. NO, DON'T RUN AWAY YET! Give it time. I'm trying to make it worth your while to read this. See ya.

-silversquall

Final Fantasy 7/8: Weapons of Legend

Chap 1:Report

"Ok, this better be real or you'll be looking for a new job."

"Don't worry, it is," replied the employee.

Gavin walked toward the main display at the back of the lab. He was the scientist in charge of LITS: Life in the Stars, a branch of the Esthar government devoted to anything that involved intelligent life that existed outside Gaia. Currently, Gavin was called into the cramped room of Lab15 that was used specifically to reconnoiter the area of space between the orbits of Gaia and Dite. Due to the fact that there were never any alien life forms entering the star system, the employees that worked in the Incoming Lifeforms Division spent most of their time playing online games using the Esthar Network, only checking the monitors at the beginning and end of their work shift. In the past three years that LITS was active, there had been 150 false reports, for laughs. There had also been 150 employee discharges. If they actually spent some time thinking about it, they would realize that ILD was only used for last-second observations, since it only covered a small area. Any ship entering the star system would be found by the Esthar space center (with the Long-Distance Life Forms Division even prior to that) on the surface, and then ILD would be used for verification.

"Well, where is the...Hyne Almighty." said Gavin.

Right before his eyes was unmistakably a large ship moving away from Dite's orbit toward Zeu's orbit. That was the only planet between Dite and Gaia.

"Did you check the speed, answer me? How long before it enters the atmosphere?" Gavin yelled as he lifted the young man up by his collar.

"Ten hours, I think," he said as he was being choked. "It's slowing drastically so that's only an estimation based on the ship's current rate of deceleration.

"Okay," Gavin mumbled as he dropped the employee, "That should be enough time for me to alert the world leaders. "But how could the ship pass through both LDLFD and Esthar detection? Of course they'll blame me somehow since my long distance group should have traced the ship first, but then Esthar missed it too. Odd."

"Sir, what do we do now?" the employee said loosening his collar.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK? Keep tabs on the ship and relay the information to the Gaia Communication Room so that they can relay it over to Balamb, Galbadia, Trabia, and Esthar to update them every minute, and I mean EVERY minute. I'm going now to address to them about the situation at hand personally at communications. I expect new info every time."

Gavin hurriedly turned around and walked out of the lab leaving the stunned worker.

In Esthar

Laguna stared at his cup to find answers in the tealeaves. Of course, he knew two things. One, the liquid has to be gone. Two, it never works anyways. He leaned back on his chair and sighed. The sorceress debate was still active, even though it had been four years since the battle against Ultimecia. Every few months, it died down a bit but eventually came back up. There was still a large amount of the population that believed in the threat of Rinoa, the sorceress, also girlfriend of his son. His position on the debate was obvious. The debate did aid in bonding the two together; they nearly broke up forever, shortly after defeating Ultimecia.

As Laguna gazed at the ceiling design, Kiros walked in the office.

"I assume this is important since you interrupted my teatime, Kiros," Laguna said lazily.

"Since when do you follow Galbadian traditions? Anyways, there is an urgent feed from LITS...from Gavin himself," Kiros said.

"Then it's safe to assume that it's not a false alarm, unless Gavin finally cracked."

Laguna turned on the private monitor on his desk and clicked on the satllite icon. Kiros walked over as the President of Esthar fruitlessly tried to find the transmission. Kiros eventually found it for him and clicked "play". Laguna had picked up his teacup and was preparing to finish it when the satellite feed appeared, causing him to drop it on his lap.

1 hour later

Headmaster Cid sat nervously in his office in Balamb Garden. He was planning to promote Squall to Commander again for this situation, but after some strict glances from Edea, he decided against it. Even so, Squall would be at the arrival. He was a high-ranking SeeD after all.

We will now be approaching Fisherman's Horizon. All SeeDs that are part of Operation Welcome Wagon, please come to the Bridge. I repeat, all SeeDs that are part of Operation Welcome Wagon, please come to the Bridge. saidXu over the intercom.

Cid stood up from his chair and walked toward the bridge. He would have to regain his confidence soon if he were to be able to give a convincing speech to the SeeDs. "They may be high-ranking SeeDs, but this time, they're dealing with beings from outer space," Cid said under his breath.

A couple of minutes later, the chosen 15 stood before Cid. All of them were shaking uncontrollably, except for Squall and Seifer of course. For the next 7 minutes, the Headmaster gave a very inspiring speech to the SeeDs. Unfortunately, his closing note was,"Even if you're still scared, you have 3 hours on board of the Ragnarok to toughen up until the you reach the Esthar landing point, only 3 hours though, not 9 since you'll be crossing the time zones, so have fun." Then he added, "Oh yeah, great, I have to be there too." Cid then asked for questions. One SeeD raised his hand and asked if multiple GFs could be used for this mission. Of course, Cid said no. The Balamb Garden policy concerning multiple GFs was created less than four years before, shortly after the battle with Ultimecia. Memory loss due to multiple GF junctioning was proven, limiting junctioning to one GF per person.

Afterwards, the 15 SeeDs exited the garden and began to walk the long path in Fisherman's Horizon toward the Ragnarok. The perpetually energetic Seifer slowed down halfway to catch "down" with Squall, Rinoa, Quistis, and Zell.

"So, any of you scared? How 'bout you Rinoa, you were only registered as a SeeD two months ago," Seifer asserted into the silence between the four.

"Yeah, but she's hell of a lot stronger than you!" Zell said in between fits of laughter.

Seifer was about to pull up his gunblade when Xu came up from behind, causally pushing the blade down.

"Now, now, we don't want to injure anybody, do we Seifer? We need all we can get if we're fighting an army."

"Do you think we'll be fighting an army, Xu?" asked Rinoa.

"Don't know what to expect."

"Whatever the size," Squall added, "as SeeDs, it's our job to be fight no matter what the situation."

"But if it's too much, you'll protect me right, Squall." Rinoa said.

"Stop that, you're a SeeD now."

"Fine," said Rinoa as she hurried along pass the group, looking hurt.

"Sorry, Rinoa," Squall apologized as he caught up with her, "I just have a lot in my mind."

"Those dreams again?"

"Yeah."

Zell watched as the couple sped up and got out of sight.

"Ya know, I wonder if Rinoa's pregnant. I heard a rumor in the library about that."

"It's probably just those same girls that hate Rinoa. They were attracted to Squall due to Ultimecia, but were crushed when they found out he was with Rinoa. Plus, being a Sorceress doesn't help either," Xu said in an annoyed tone.

"Ya know, I never thought I would get use to this," Zell remarked, staring at Quistis and Seifer.

The two were walking side-by-side, arms around each other's shoulder. Both were talking and laughing. Seifer and Quistis. Talking. And laughing. Zell nearly fainted less than two years before, when they got together. Seifer had assisted a group of SeeDs(that contained Quistis) out of his own boredom, and for some reason, he and Quistis fell in love on that mission. Shortly afterwards, Seifer had returned to Garden to become a SeeD. That time, he actually passed the exam.

"So, how do you feel, Zell? About this mission I mean." Xu asked.

"Alright I guess. I just hope my fists will work against them. Do you think 15 SeeDs will be enough? We should have just brought the whole SeeD force along."

"Don't worry, we also have several Galbadian and Esthar regiments in addition to the Galbadian SeeDs to back us up."

"I hope so," Zell said.

3 hours later (8 in regards to the time zones)

"Hey you guys we're here, "Selphie shouted over the intercom.

"There it is, the landing strip," said Irvine, observing the horizon over her shoulder. "You ready for this, Sefie?"

"Woo hoo! I was born ready. Can't wait to smash some Alien butt!"

A few minutes earlier

The other thirteen SeeDs had been spending their time in various areas all over the ship. Headmaster Cid was still nowhere to be found. As the destination grew closer, all of them were in a perpetual state of unease. Two of them, however, were on edge for different reasons. Squall and Seifer were both uneasy as a result of playing Triple Triad with some rather high stakes.

"Squall, you've been thinking for eight minutes. AND YOU'RE STARTING THE GAME!"

"Be quiet, Zell. Seifer and I are using very difficult rules. Random, Same, Plus, Elemental, and the win rule is All."

"Well obviously, you got pretty rare card. Otherwise, you wouldn't be stalling for this long," Seifer said with a furtive grin.

"Okay, I place, wait, no. I place, no, not that either."

As the game was still in the midst of starting, Rinoa walked in the room.

"Oh my gosh, Squall? I've been gone for nearly half an hour, and you still haven't started the game."

"Actually I finished that game a couple of minutes ago. Now please, just let me think." Squall continued to concentrate on his first move. It wasn't like he was obsessed with the game. True, he was cautious; but also true was the already uneasy state of his mind. The dreams were getting clearer and far scarier. He already told a couple of people, but mostly, he confided in Rinoa. Still, he had not given her the complete details of what he saw, nor did he say that the dreams were increasingly more detailed. She simply believed that a mysterious swordsman had been haunting him in his dreams. In reality, Squall could now actually see the face of the warrior. A cold, unnerving stare made more frightening by a bloodthirsty smile. In his latest dream, Squall had seen that the nameless swordsman had finished using some sort of fire spell to burn a small village, turned around, and walked back through the flames he had created. Squall had never seen this man and this town in his life. And somehow, he knew that it was linked to the alien ship that was going to land in Gaia in only an hour.

"Okay, I place..."

"Hey you guys we're here!"

"See what you did! I had the perfect hand and now we have to stop!" yelled Seifer as he threw his cards down on the floor. He had been holding a Zell, a Squall, a Seifer, a Quistis, and an Irvine.

"Calm down. Let's just get going," Rinoa said.

The four SeeDs began walking toward the bridge, meeting up with the rest of the force. They still had an hour to kill, but their nerves were already beginning to burn out.