Oh man, what the heck am I doing, posting this here? This is just a silly little crossover thing I've been writing for a while now, after a funny meme presented me with the basic plot. Yes, it does have a plot, our heroes will not just be wandering around doing nothing, but mostly this was written to be ridiculous and giggly-worthy.
I never intended to post it on FF for several reasons: one, it references a story I haven't completely written yet, which would probably be immensely frustrating to most people. Two, it takes place in a timeline created by another author: in LuckyLadybug's Twilight and Dawn verse. Three... while the main characters are from the fandoms I have this tagged under, two settings are obviously taken from two other fandoms and a few minor characters are from a fifth. I think it's unlikely someone not a friend of mine on LJ would understand any of this...
If you are willing to put up with these things and try anyway, then you should know that the FFVII crew is on Earth, Sephiroth is sane, Denzel recently had a brush with death- which was how he met Ryan- and they're all in YGO's Domino City, which is why Mokuba is around. He, Denzel, Sun and Billy are classmates. As for where the last scene here takes place, try to guess before I reveal it. I've actually got everything up to chapter three written, so I just have to look through them before uploading. I think I'll do chapter two tomorrow...
Only Ryan is mine, and Sun and Billy are LuckyLadybug's. Try to enjoy!
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"Heeeeeeeey! Over here!"
"Who's that yelling?" Mokuba asked, frowning. "It's coming from across the street."
"Heeeey! You with the face!"
"Denzel," Billy pointed. "That's your friend Ryan, isn't it?"
The brunet frowned, then looked in the direction Billy was indicating. Sure enough, his blond partner was standing on the opposite street corner, waving his arms in the air.
"Denzel!"
"What's he doing here?" Sun raised an eyebrow. "Doesn't he have school?"
"He may have skipped today." Denzel sighed. "Wait here, I'll go see what he wants…"
Not wanting a repeat of the circumstances that lead to Denzel's meeting Ryan in the first place, the student poked a head around the front of the bus he'd stepped in front of. The very same white car that had caused his untimely death zoomed by at what must have been an illegal speed, and he sighed. Some people just wouldn't change.
Running out to the other side before he caused an accident, Denzel halted next to his newest friend. "What's up?"
"I faked a cold and got out of school to tell you," Ryan said breathlessly, causing Denzel's eyebrows to fly into his hair.
Ryan obtained the title of Delinquent! School? School isn't important!
"You what-"
"Denzel, look!"
An emerald cellphone was practically shoved into Denzel's face, actually forcing him to take a step backwards to avoid falling over. He took the phone and held away from him, so that he could see the contents of the screen more clearly.
Denzel's phone is always off, so do me a teensy favor and tell him I'll be borrowing one of his guardians at exactly three this Monday afternoon.
Don't worry, I specifically chose people who are unlikely to allow themselves to die very easily.
- Joshua
Denzel paled.
"What the heck is this?" he cried, turning the phone over as though expecting to see an 'April Fools!' note underneath it. "'Borrowing?'"
"School gets out at two forty, so I went home sick and booked it here as fast as possible!"
This didn't sound good at all! 'Borrowing?' Joshua was going to kidnap someone! And he would do it.
Denzel looked at the clock on Ryan's phone. 2:46.
"O-Oh my- You guys!" he called over his shoulder at his other friends. Sun saw, and made her way across the street, beckoning for Mokuba and Billy to follow.
"What's wrong?"
"I have to be home before three, so I'll see you later!"
Mokuba started, taken aback. "What happened?"
"This is a little sudden."
"I know!" Denzel closed Ryan's phone and handed it back to him, before it came up in the conversation and forced him to explain. "There's something I have to tell Cloud."
"Before three?"
"Yeah."
"You better run, then!" Billy exclaimed. "You've got less than fifteen minutes!"
"I know! I'm sorry!" Denzel started in the direction of his house at a full sprint, Ryan right on his heels. "Bye! I'll see you guys later!"
As the strange pair disappeared around a corner, Sun turned to her friends. "We should follow him and see what's going on."
Mokuba blinked. "It's not like you to get involved in other people's business, Sun."
"Yeah, stop dippin'!"
"Haven't you two noticed?" The blond girl crossed her arms, ignoring Billy. "Ever since that near-miss with that stupid white car a month or two ago, Denzel's been acting weird. He suddenly has a Duel Monsters deck full of cards that Mokuba has never heard of before, he's somehow met some kid on the street even though he spends his whole day at school, and every time the two of them get together they talk in low whispers."
Mokuba frowned. He'd noticed, too. Denzel's deck had a running theme- animals with tattoos for limbs, named after genres and concepts in music, or other puns- the crab monster Carcinopunk came to mind- and besides that, Ryan had the same cards. He didn't seem to remember the week after the near-accident very well, and sometimes had to ask what had happened. And that horrible nightmare, about what might have happened if Denzel hadn't managed to get out of the way in time… When Mokuba told Denzel about it, he seemed only mildly surprised. He'd even heard Denzel asking Ryan if he'd had a similar experience, which the blond had answered in the affirmative. That was certainly cause for concern, especially for Mokuba, who knew better than most people that things weren't always as mundane or coincidental as they seemed. Mokuba had begun to wonder if Denzel didn't have his own secrets…
But he did seem happier. Denzel was already the slowest fuse in the group, but now he humored Sun and Billy and seemed just a bit more talkative than he had been before the accident. Mokuba had seen him doodle in his notebook when he was supposed to be taking notes, and the quick drawings were startlingly good. He smiled more, and pointed out small things with no real significance and the small contributions they made to the world they belonged to.
Maybe the accident had given him a renewed interest in life...?
"That is weird." Billy agreed, looking at the spot where Denzel had disappeared. "You think that kid Ryan has something to do with it?"
"You guys..." Mokuba rubbed the back of his head. "Maybe we should stay out of it..."
"Not this time." Sun said adamantly. "Did you see the look on his face? Whatever he's run off for this time, it's bad. I think we at least deserve an explanation if he won't let us help out."
"What if he can't tell us anyway?"
"We're free for the afternoon. We may as well investigate."
"Maybe it's none of our business."
The lone girl rolled her eyes. "Why am I the one that has to convince you guys to get involved in other people's business this time?"
Silence.
"Yeah, that is kinda weird." Billy yielded with a grin.
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Drip.
Crash!
Emerald eyes flew open.
Sephiroth should not be blinking rain out of his eyes, or lying on a hard stone floor, or staring up at a sky painted with tall, ominous thunderclouds- never a good sign. What in the world was he doing here and not at the office in the Jenova Corps. building? Cloud had only left to get a drink of water, and...
The silver-haired man sat upright and pushed himself to his feet. He was standing in a plain and gloomy courtyard, on the single cobblestone path surrounded by plots of shrubbery and trees. It was surrounded by a ten-foot wall broken by a heavy gate- a raised drawbridge. The towers on each of the corners were equally grand and three times as tall. He would not be getting out that way.
That left the other side of the courtyard.
A massive, sinister castle towered into the dark sky before him, its surface shining with the quickly thickening rain. It was nearly as black as the sky it was set against, and only when the lightning flashed could Sephiroth see its outline- tall, menacing and foreboding. It had to be at least half the height of the Empire State Building. His eyes narrowed as they fell upon- or rose to meet, as it were- the castle keep, suspended seemingly in mid air by an unseen force. As if there were any doubt before, now he was certain. This was not your average fortress, and whoever brought him here had not done so with friendly intentions. He could feel the evil seeping out, and with the Jenova cells dormant that was worrying indeed.
As if to add insult to injury, his captor had decided, for whatever reason, to strip Sephiroth of the entire upper half of his outfit: he was completely topless, armed only with the pants he'd been wearing and, thankfully, his usual thigh-length boots. However, with the downpour getting increasingly more violent by the second, Sephiroth would likely be forced to take shelter inside.
He'd not been here two minutes and already things were getting worse.
How in the world did he get here? He did not remember being attacked, or falling asleep, or even pausing in his work. And whoever abducted him would have to have made it into and out of the building completely unnoticed. Cloud would not have had to go more than five feet from the door. The whole thing was impossible.
...Unless Cloud had been attacked as well.
Sephiroth glowered up at the castle. If he had, and he was here, he must be inside. That settled it.
He marched forward, pushing open the double doors and ducking inside.