WHO: Al-Cid, Mjrn, Nanaki, Queza WHAT: Training for the SeeD Exam WHERE: Training Center WHEN: February 23
For an escort mission, the preparations were painstakingly thorough. So thorough that they specially requested the custodian, Gunnar Song, for some assistance in rearranging the Training Center and transferring some monsters. Nanaki only caught whiff of this information because he sniffed off foreign scents. "Smells like...a cesspool." He belched as he replaced his bangle. The candidates for SeeD graduation would later find that there were more than just imported monsters, there was a maze constructed in the jungle with actual ladders like one of those indoor adventure spectacles with obstacle courses and spinning bridges except with no harness, helmets and safety mats. Up ahead there were red bats flying, giant mantis skittering. Fighting their way to the finish line would prove to be challenging given space limitations, but having someone under their protection was increasing their mode of difficulty substantially.
On that exercise, t was none other than their SeeD supervisor.
Nanaki couldn't say he knew Al-Cid Margrace very well but he was aware of some animosity between the SeeD and Queza which was another wrench in the activity, especially the fact that they must behave accordingly towards their assigned VIP. Anything otherwise would earn them a deduction.
That was a risk he couldn't afford, if he was finally (FINALLY) taking the big exam he needed to avoid penalties. Comfortable as he was with his second skin, he still did not put so much stock on his human capabilities or trust himself to be like a certain sword-wielding SeeD who was ready to save the planet anytime anywhere with the whipping of his blade. He readily acknowledged the shortcoming and the fact that he was no one-man army. That was why they were grouped together right?
"How are we arranging ourselves?" He asked his party mates, "Al-Cid has to be in the middle. I can lead the party and call out danger. Who's going to be in front and right behind him?"