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Suijin was wandering around the Garden when she heard the announcement come on. She ran to her dorm where she washed up quickly and changed into a new uniform, then grabbed her staff before making her way to the Headmistress' office.

As she walked in through the door, she looked around. There were a few familiar faces but none she knew too well. She also noticed that Shiro wasn't there yet, feeling a bit relieved she wasn't terribly late yet.

Not wanting to wander around the room, Suijin decided to just stand up against the wall near the door. As she waited in the somewhat quiet room, she started to realize that this was the real deal, and began to grow more and more nervous by the second.

After some time leaving the Training hall. Dalamar had dressed into the Balamb Garden uniform. It wasn't his choice of colors but it worked. Fixing the sleaves a bit before straping his weapons to the back of his waist. With a new sword made to with stand a larger ammount of force. He hoped it would be effective agenst armored enemys. Same could be said about his new guns. They were a larger cal but still revolvers. Thus they would be slower in chain hits but more effective. Walking into the meeting room saluting the head master out of habit before sitting down. "Sorry for the wait. I was still in the training hall when the announcement was aired."

As soon as Shiro enters, Aki stands. She looked extremely on edge and agitated, though it was unclear as to why.
"Everyone take a seat please," she says, turning the projector on.
The overhead screen showed a detailed picture of the island of Balamb with three circled areas, one on the south beach, one in the mountains north of Balamb, and one around the Fire Cavern.

"We have gained intellegance that an unknown person has ordered the assasination of the Headmistress of Balamb Garden; in other words... me. Three powerful assasains have been deployed with a small group of soldiers, coming from the South, East, and West. We figure three seperate groups were ordered in case any of them failed. Whomever ordered this attack knows I will not go down so easily.
Your objective is to seek out these groups and take them down before they reach the Garden. I can take care of myself, but I fear for the safety of the students if one of these groups should infiltrate the Garden. Instructor Frostberg, Instructor Ryong, myself, and a few other high ranked SeeDs will remain behind in case you fail, so you must rely solely on your team.
You will be broken into three groups; Squad A, Squad B, and Squad C. Each squad will have one of you as its leader, whom I will designate. Your mission: track down your assigned group and stop them by any means nescisary. Yes, this means you may need to kill a human, but these people will do way worse to you if you get cold feet. They are trained killers and won't hesitate to kill you first before they come for me. However, we are asking you try and bring back one captive so we can get some of our questions answered. The assasians themselves will unlikely be willing to cooperate however, so it is far more likely you will be able to capture an accompaning soldier. But it is vital that we discover who is behind this.
Are there any questions so far?" Aki says, crossing her arms anxiously.

Hunter looking at the Screen "Hmm... Seems like who ever order this is playing a Game of chess so this mean all of us are going to have to think three moves ahead of our enemies if we want to be sucessful" Hunter had his thoughts to himself

"Why would somebody want to kill you??" he asks, completely astounded.
He was worried for her, and it made him upset knowing that at this very moment the Headmistress's life was in danger.

Suijin was happy to see Shiro come into the room soon after her, the sight of him calming her down just a little. "Yeah, I am nervous..." though it seemed that that is starting to become an understatement.

However there wasn't time for small talk as Aki began talking about their mission. Suijin listened intently, and was shocked to find out that their headmistress is a target. When Caine asked his question, Suijin was curious as well. She would stay silent though.

"Honestly... I have no idea. That is why we want prisoners, so we can find out who is behind this and why. If they were serious enough about this to send three separate assassins, then they will definitely try again if they fail. We need to find out who is responsible and stop them," Aki replies.
The normally cheery and professional red-head seemed to be very crestfallen and stressed.
"It is somewhat like chess I suppose.. they are attacking from three different angles to confuse and separate us. We are just lucky we heard about the attack."

Caine listens to Aki attentively, a frown on his face. He didn't say anything else, but he was dead set on tracking down these assholes and stopping them. He was nervous though.. he had killed people before... he had been at Galbadia for years and had done work for the army from time to time, but that was partially the reason he left. He knew he could do it, but it made him uneasy anyway. Though in this instance, he figured he could live with it if it meant protecting Aki and the Garden.