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Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

The finale was quiet the spectacle to observe, a widespread ice spell followed up by the rallied ending of some kind of lightning arc weapon. Jake was able to do nothing but watch over it as he recovered his breath from his close encounter with the enemy as he watched the mammoth of a man collapse to the floor. "You put up a good fight Major Wiggs. But your fate now lays in the hands of Balamb Garden" Jake whispered to himself as he recovered up to his feet catching the part of his jacket that had clung to his front after being cut into two. Sighing the SeeD walked over to recover the rest of his jacket from the ground. "Such a shame, waste of good jackey." Jake remarked as he walked over to the major kneeling down beside him. Just as Jake was about to speak Duncan gave his orders, Jake listened carefully a small smile on his face when he had been cleared for carrying out his secondary objective. "Well then Major Wiggs I'm sure we'll get to speak soon and then I can repay you for you've done, until then." Jake stood up resisting the urge to deliver a swift kick to the mans jaw, for now they still required him to be able to use it. "Consider it done Duncan." Jake spoke in a rather informal manner before stepping through into the Majors office.

The office was as could likely be expected for a person such as Wiggs. Someone who was heavily influenced by electronic implants clearly had no needs for personal effects. Every piece of furniture looked to fit the part to play, the all important desk, which was almost completely bare bar a few stationary items. "So... where is it?" Jake asked as he scanned the room over as he noticed the filling cabinet shoved as far into the corner as possible. "Ah, the obvious choice. Lets see if we can't find something a bit more personal first." Jake walked over to the majors desk placing the sliced remains of his jacket on top of it before jamming one of his daggers into the small opening between the desk and drawer. "Comeon.. give... way." Jake pried on the dagger until the lock snapped causing the drawer to swiftly slide open. Jake flicked through the items within, it seemed to mainly just be correspondence. "Something for them maybe." He muttered as he placed the items on the desk before walking to the filling cabinet. He pulled the top drawer completely out of the cabinet, carrying it over and placed it down on the desk as he began to flip through files and dividers each one proving of no interested being followed up by an obvious 'no'. "Balamb?" Jake lifted the file from the drawer as he flipped through a couple of pages "Bit of an overstretch for a team like this." Within the file was photo's and profiles of different people, although no one Jake recognised. Jake placed the file on the desk before returning to look for what he was after.

Jake looked up from his search to see how closely he was being observed. 'You know what to do Jake, support them, but protect our interests.' Jake's orders rung out in his head as he grabbed a second file 'Dollet City'. Jake didn't open the file and merely added it to the pile on top of the other items. "This Major's men appear to have been busy!" Jake calls out as he looks up toward Duncan, before quickly following up. "I should be done here soon, I'll bring what I find to you, no need to come me!" Finally, a file of actual importance 'The 7691 Reports' Jake was no idiot, this file was his SeeD ID number. "You sneaky bastards..." He muttered softly placing it down onto the pile. The last file to be picked out 'Galbadia Garden'. He had what he needed, there was no need to search for anything more. The SeeD picked up his jacket remains in one hand before picking up the files and correspondences with the same.

Jake walked toward Duncan switching hands of the files and sleight if handing the 'Galbadia Garden' & '7691' files backed to the original hand tucking them under the jacket. "These may prove of interest to you." Jake stated as he placed the files in Duncan's hands. "My understanding is the military forces in Timber were not to be dispatched to Dollet City. But I'm sure we both know that what happened in Dollet wasn't really what was planned." Jake cleared his throat before continuing "The small overwatch team we had in place wouldn't of placed a dent in the armies reinforcements. But that is a conversation for another time. Is there something else I can assist with, or should I withdraw now?"

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

The end of an era you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j5v8jlndM

Like bahamut shows up and kills everyone end? :P

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

I just wanted to get something up today. My stress preventing me from writing was starting to stress me out even more. So I engineered how wanted to start things from what I was originally going to post last week and threw something together. Should be active enough to post whenever next week as I'm starting to feel a bit better.

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

'That's enough observing, earn your keep.' A familiar voice echo'd through Jake's mind forcing him back to reality. A lot had happened and Jake had merely observed this opponent of theirs shared more in common with that of an enraged monster than that of a human. The attacks at first seemed skilled, but over time it became clear that it was just aimless stampeding. "So you want me to earn my keep eh?" Jake mumbled to himself as he felt the pain in his chest and arm subside. "Then lets show this major a thing or two." As Jake pushed himself off from the wall he'd been slumped against he took one last glance at the entrance to the Major's office, no time to think of that now. Just before he could go on the offensive however it seemed reinforcements had arrived in the form of the operations leader, and a few more of the Balamb SeeDs. One had a less then fortunate entrance to say the least and the others had drawn the Major's attention.

"It's the implants! Hit him with Thunder, now!" So that was this enemies weakness was it? Jakes grip on his daggers adjusted as he coursed the energy of thunder from his spells into their tips. The blades let off a small spark as if to indicate that they were full of the magics potency, and on its signal Jake charged forward once more. The advantage was his as he used the Balamb SeeD being fired upon as an appropriate distraction as he delivers the first blow the Majors slightly less armoured back. The electricity sprung from the blades tip writhing through the Majors body and drawing his attention. As the Major turned to strike out in retaliation another slash was delivered across the chest plate of the armour the magics allowing the dagger to have more power as it bludgeoned cracked into this bulls steel shell. Jake managed to weave out of the way from the initial blow. "You've become... very predictable." This only enraged the Major more as Jake parried away and dodged further blows, each one parried send jolts of electricity through the Majors body.

However it wouldn't last long as the Major grasped hold of Jakes shirt lifting the SeeD easily from the ground like it was a mere paperweight. The Major bared a smile for the brief moment he thought he had the upper hand until... "Thundaga!" Jake grabbed the arm that had him held in the air as a strong surge of electricity passes through the pair of them, enabling Jake to break free from the Major's grip as he staggers about in a foreseeable manner considering his immediately ended predicament. The spell had bought him enough time to get about a foot between them before he was snapped right back gasping for air. "Ack!" Jake chocked on his words as he was dragged by the Jacket that had, until recently, been acting as a sling for his injured arm. The SeeD flailed as he struggled to find his footing to ease the pain as he was pulled back his own dagger swings preventing anyone from getting close enough to separate the two. Unable to get himself out of his own predicament a flash of light rips the jacket between Jake and Wiggs, allowing Jake to scamper back to the safety of the other SeeDs. A series of obvious coughing followed and Jake quickly wiped away the small specs of blood that coated his lips following. 'Tha-thank you Kensei.' remembering not to voice it Jake silently thanked his watchful guardian, as he tried to recuperate and be prepared for when he'd next be expected to act.

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

I've had a very stressful 7 days with work. As a result I've slowly gone from having some idea of what I want to do to having no idea on where to even begin. I'm going to try and get something up either tomorrow or Friday, provided I've managed to unwind enough to think straight by then.

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

I am also waiting :P

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

Not sure how I feel about my post, if necessary I'll redo it.

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

"No one huh?" Jake sighed, slightly disappointed though he could understand why they'd choose to look out for themselves. "Alright then guess I'll go then." As Jake was about to step forward he heard the crackle of the radio about to receive comms from someone else outside the compound.
"Sitrep guys, how are we doing? I've got thermals on one figure in the office, it's gotta be the M-"
The message was cut short at the same time the door to the major's room was all but completely destroyed from a single kick. Jake had quickly raised his wounded arm in an attempt to shield his eyes and face from the wood shrapnel launched in their direction. In the confusion and chaos in the few moments that followed one of the support members lives had been brutally cut short.

"Well this isn't going to be easy..." Jake mumbled to himself as he looked on at the Major, there wasn't really much time to contemplate tactics as he quickly pulls his wounded arm free of the makeshift sling and un-comfortably un-sheathed his second dagger. He moved his arms so that they crossed in front of his chest, blades pointing outward towards his target. 'Alright Kensei, if it becomes us or him you make damn sure that its him.' The discomfort quickly transcended into pain as the SeeD rushed the target. The power of darkness behind him Jake struck out with his daggers in swift succession, the blades and strike types smoothly flowed, but each swing was easily dodged by the target. That was until there was a soft resistance against the blade of one dagger as blood dripped down onto its blade. Jake smiled, only to be greeted by one in return from the Major. "oh sh-" Jake was cut short as the gauntlet made impact with his chest like a sledgehammer, his padded leather clothing barely softening the blow as he was thrown back against the wall. The mercenary had only a brief moment to shake off the daze, just narrowly getting a protect shield in front of him deflecting the shot rounds that followed.

Still under the spells protection he throws an eager glance to the other SeeD's. It would appear much to his dissatisfaction that team work would be required here after all. But as it stood Jake was isolated, if he tried something as foolish as that a second time he wouldn't get off so lightly, but he had at least drawn attention to himself. "ah.. so Major Wiggs... that's quiet some strength you have there. I can tell your men weren't exaggerating." Jake beckoned at their target, although he couldn't really be classed as a threat, he still currently needed the wall behind him to stay on his own two feet. The Major did not look to impressed about the wound he had sustained, if anything it had only pissed him off more. Jake quickly did a mental count on his stocked spells there wasn't anything particularly impressive, only spells that might buy him more time if necessary.

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

I just personally don't want to go in first :P But if there's nothing new up tomorrow I'll try and scrape something together.

Final Fantasy VIII: Tempus Veneficarum [7/10 Slots]

Decided to rendezvous with everyone in that post makes it a bit easier for progressing to the Majors room, especially if we're going to have some sort of showdown.