Chapter One: Sherra
Okay, here is the all fixed up chapter... Hopefully it's all fixed up... Either way
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"Wah!"
Gasped Cid, "Are ya serious
boy! What do ya need from there!"
Cloud looked down and to his right, "I just want to know something... That is all."
"Geez, you made me fly all the way over to Midgar, just so you can tell me to take you tah Northern Crater?"
Cloud did not respond, but kept staring at the portion of the floor he was looking at, he did not know what to say. He did not want Cid to be angry with him, yet he wanted to find out for himself, he wanted to know for himself, was Sephiroth truly defeated? He watched right there as he transformed back into Kadaj, but him using someone else to rule over everyone, just made it seem as though Sephiroth still laid somewhere, waiting or gathering his power, he has done it before, could he really do it again?
"But fine, Ill take ya, just so I can figure out what the hell is going on in your head!" Cid answered causing Cloud to look over toward him with a sort of Thank you look. "Ill be going slow though... Youll find out why... Just walk around the ship and leave me be, Ill get ya there, don't worry yourself."
Cloud nodded his head and walked out of the room entering on to a balcony which was guarded by a three foot high railing. To his right, was a metal wall, which led down for about twenty-five feet, lined with doors, and with one more door at the very end of the balcony.
He walked to his left, placing his hands onto the railing, and looking over at the clouds as they slowly fly through them; they really were going slow... Out of nowhere, a piece of Materia hit him in the back of his head.
He turned around to find Yuffie whom slightly giggling at what she had just done.
"Hey...Yuffie" He said to her, a smile faintly on his face. He bent down and picked up the blue materia ball, bolts of thunder sparking inside the small ball.
"Hey Cloud!" She yelled with enthusiasm, running up and pocketing the Materia ball somewhere... Where does she put all those things? He asked himself, undoubtedly knowing she had more on her somewhere. She loved Materia, was infested with it, yes they sell it in their hometown, but she liked to smuggle a few away for herself. He hasn't seen her do this exactly, but he has heard most of the complaints. "So, I heard you wanted to go somewhere, where we going?"
"I am guessing that you want to come?" He asked, realizing that she was the reason why they had to fly slowly. The girl nodded in agreement at him, her new necklace bouncing around as she did so. The necklace was a Yin and Yang sign with a small dagger going through it.
"So where we goin?"
"Northern Crater... If you really want to come, I guess you can."
The girl went wide eyed, stopping her small dance of enthusiasm. "Thats the Sephiroth place... Right?"
"Yea."
She blinked hard for a moment, before shaking her head and going back to her little dance. "Okay, Ill go get my stuff ready, go talk to Vincent if you want, he is... somewhere around here, see ya then!" She turned around and went into the door closest to the Pilot's room, Cloud noticed the door was numbered '10' in black numbers. The automatic door opened for her instantly, and closed behind her, letting Cloud also notice there was a small window about four inches wide in a circle, on the upper part of the door.
Cloud shrugged his shoulders and walked down the hall of the balcony, looking in the windows to see if he could see Vincent or not, finally, at door number '4' he had found him.
He walked into the room; the room had a wooden floor and, next to the door, was a small wooden desk that came about three feet and three inches off the floor, it looked old and tattered. Papers were scattered all over the top of the desk and there was a gray metal chair pushed under-neath the desk.
The walls were a dull gray, as well as the ceiling. There was a small brown, polished ceiling fan hanging from the ceiling with a light coming out of it. The light was on, and it produced a massive amount of light around the room; the ceiling fan had two balled chains hanging down from it. The room itself seemed to be somewhere in between a rectangle and a square. It looked to be thirteen feet in length, twelve feet, five inches in width, and nine feet, three inches in height.
The door entered the room at about halfway through the width, and the room stretched ahead. To the right and about five feet down, was a bookshelf. It seemed to be at seven feet in height and was close to the ceiling. There were books covering the entire insides of the shelves. The bookshelf was a polished brown, and had black wheels at the bottom of it.
At the corner on the far right, was a full sized mattress, it was covered with blue sheets and had Vincent sitting on top of it with his legs in Indian-style, and his hands were on his knees and he was starring straight forward at a huge map hanging on the wall. It was a full map of the planet, with the names of all the places and everything.
"Cloud," Vincent said firmly, lowering his head and closing his eyes.
"Vincent," Cloud said back, noticing the silver crate in the far left corner in the room... It seemed to be the only thing in the room that wasnt brown or gray... Besides the map and the books... Plus Vincents bed and... well... Vincent himself.
"Been thinking a lot lately, have you not?" Vincent asked Cloud, looking over at him with his red eyes.
"Yea," Said Cloud, rubbing the top of his head.
"Dont let your thoughts stray you too far from yourself," he said, still looking straight at him. "You stray too far from yourself; something mis-fortunate is liable to happen."
Cloud looked down, thoughts pouring into his mind. Was this really the old him thinking? Is he really straying himself too far from everyone else again? Was this all just so he can lose another piece of his broken soul of memories and feelings? Is something bad actually going to come out of this?
"Thanks," he said looking up at Vincent and nodding his head, which Vincent returned.
He wasnt going to let himself break apart, he was not going to let him lose his own soul again. He could not let it happen... He wouldnt... He needed to fight his feelings and control them, making sure all the future acts of his foolishness be dimmed and die along with the rest of his bad memories. He did not want anyone to be mad at him anymore, he did not want them to be feared for his condition.
He knew what he must do. He was going to go into Northern Crater, have Yuffie come with him, find nothing, leave, never worry about anything along the lines of Sephiroth or anyone of them ever again. But only after he does this, will the clinging memory, clinging and wandering for life, go away. He just needed to hope that nothing actually happened.
"Cloud!" Yuffie screamed as she rushed in, "We are here, come on," She said motioning to the door behind her.
Cloud nodded her head, the frosty cold wind blowing in from the outside. Cloud turned around to Vincent, they nodded to each other, and Cloud walked out the door. He took a right and followed the hall of the balcony, walking the rest of the way down with Yuffie following a few inches behind.
He walked through the door which led to the main entryway. It was a huge room, the ceiling was about twenty-one feet up, and the room stretched to his right too far to describe.
There was a huge panel in the middle, it stretched a good ten feet down, and six feet in width, along with being raised four feet up. In the center was a screen signifying their current location on a map, and there were also a bunch of security camera screens that showed all around the entire air ship...
"Too many screens," Cloud thought out loud, Yuffie getting the point as she walked in.
There was a small area that had about four steps leading up. It stretched about eight feet to the right, and each step was split apart by at least six inches in height, making the thing come to about two feet in height. Each side had a small metal railing coming up about four feet, six feet at full height as it continued to the wall.
The thing was located in the back of the room, about six feet towards the right once you come in, it connected to the wall, and the stairs led to a big square which was about seven four feet by four feet. The thing had no visibal purpose of what Cloud could see... But you never really know... Unless it was just there to sit down on and relax... But that made no sense either.
He walked up to the thing in the middle which he was now calling the control panel, and looked at where they were. They were right above Northern Crater, which meant that they should be leaving and get this over with now before Yuffie became too overwhelmed... Why he let her come with him, he will have to try and figure out later... Maybe she was just too cheerful?
"Ready?" Cloud asked the girl, looking at her as she walked beside him.
She nodded her head, "Yes."
"Good."
"Follow me," She said, running over to a door across the room.
She ran through the automatic door, motioning her hand for him to follow as she ran out of view. Cloud walked up to the door and exited the room, to now be on another balcony-like thing. He heard something clank below him. He looked down to notice he was standing on a metal railing.
The wind blew his hair around fiercely as he walked the seven feet or so to the left before a small turn was made. The entire right side had a safety railing, along the left side too after you turned.
He walked the two feet forward onto a square panel which was about five feet by five feet. Yuffie stood next to what seemed like a button mechanism. Only two buttons appeared on the thing. A down button, and an up button.
She pushed the down button and the elevator like thing slowly made its way down, a gate lifting up and closing them in after they left the ships railings.
"You guys couldnt lower this thing down for me!" Cloud yelled to her over the wind, their hair flying around fiercely.
"Of course not!" She yelled back at him, tucking her hands under her arms, with her right hand still holding onto the switch, which connected to the elevator through a cord that came out of the back of it.
"How much weight can this thing hold!" he yelled at her in question.
"About ten-thousand!"
"Ten-Thousand! How can that even be managed on an elevator as small as this one!"
"Cid found a way... I guess!"
Cloud shrugged before tucking his hands under his arms as well. He looked at Yuffie whom shivered in the cold... Not surprising considering what she is wearing.
The elevator lowered the two down slowly, taking what seemed to be an hour, slowly lowering them into the pitch black Crater, lowering them further... and further... into the darkness.
The chapters will most likely get longer after this, this just seemed like a good stopping point for now. So... What do you think of it so far? I really want to know your opinions on it, so Review! Please... I see you few people reading it... Review!...Please If there were any missing quotation marks... Blame Open Office... I had to download it last night just to get my chapter!
