Final Fantasy VIII Walkthrough – Fire Cavern
The cavern isn't far from the garden and is a noticeable, protruding cave on the world map. When you enter there will be yet another tutorial about junctioning your magic to improve your stats and your Gun blade, which is useful if a little long. You see some guy's dressed strangely at the cave mouth, talk to them when you're ready and they'll tell you that you need to set yourself a time limit according to your capabilities, you'll get a choice from 10, 20, 30 and 40 minuets and I warn you not to be overly daring, there is practically no chance of you getting through this mission in 10 minuets, and 20 minuets will be stretching it greatly. In fact I recommend you choose 40 minuets to ensure you complete it and stock some useful spells along the way.
The path through the cavern in pretty linear, so just follow it until the point where it appears to veer off west and east, here you'll find a draw point up one of the east "turnings" (they aren't really turnings, just very short dead ends), stock some fire spells and proceed into the cave where you'll meet Ifrit.
Boss: Ifrit
As you'd expect for your first boss he's fairly easy to beat. Use those drawn Blizzards and physical attacks. For a big finishing blow hit him with Shiva, once you've used her he'll exclaim, "They've got Shiva" and unleash a would-be powerful physical attack. After this simply cure and continue using blizzard. He'll go down easily and you'll receive some G-Returners and the Ifrit card for winning.
When this battle has finished the timer stops counting down and Quistis will give you yet another tutorial, this time about junctioning elementals.
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