Chapter Two
"What the heck is
going on?!" Rain said quickly to Ureshii, as both girls jumped
up from leaning against the wall.
"I, I don't know!"
Ureshii said, while falling to the ground on her knees and starting
to sob.
"Ureshii! Are you okay?" Rain questioned her,
while kneeling on the ground next her and putting her hand on
Ureshii's back.
"Noooo!!" Screamed Ureshii, while she
leaned back into...a roaring pose.
"Noooo!!" She
screamed again. Rain just sat there frozen in fear at the Hulk-like
Ureshii, her eyes opened wide in what she was coming to realize.
"No,
no..." Rain whispered in terror. The nightmares...the
nightmares... And before she knew it, Ureshii was leaping up from her
knees and racing toward the smoldering building.
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"Jeez, that
was loud." Kat said in disgust. Then Kat noticed that Chelise
was then just racing towards the building.
"And she's late!
I can't believe her..." Kat said angrily. Then from the left
side of the building, she noticed...
What?
"What
is she doing?!" Kat yelled to herself, realizing the running
girl as one of the two that had been watching them earlier. Then she
looked at where the two girls had been leaning against the wall just
moments ago, and saw the other girl on her knees, terror on her face
as she whirled around and reached out to the back of the suicidal
girl, and was yelling something to her...Kat listened intently, and
moved closer to where the screaming girl was.
"No! The
fire...the fire...Nobody could have survived that! Come back, you'll
kill yourself!"
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Sasaria got out of the tent. She looked at Ariya. "Well, should we do a little exploring? It seems like a nice day out for hiking." she asked. Ariya grinned excitedly. "You bet! Where should go first?" she asked happily. Sasaria shrugged. "I don't know." she replied.
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Chelise noticed the
girl freaking out as she ran towards the inn.
"Get inside!!!"
she yelled to the girl
frantically.
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Fay heard
screams outside there were two girls rushing towards the inn like
there was no tomorrow.
"Shinra is attacking!" one of the
girls screamed as she rushed through the door.
"I told
you!!!!" yelled barret.
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The heat hurt Ureshii
skin as she dove through the fire. "Is anyone in here?!"
she yelled. There was a response, one of terror, "HELP!"
Ureshii listened closely as she ran towards the voice.
She entered
the burning room where a little girl was under a table, holding a
cat. "HELP!" she yelled. "Don't worry, I'm coming!"
Ureshii yelled in advance as she jumped over heaps of burning wood
and debris. She grabbed the little girl in a bridal like hold, the
girl grasping Ureshii and the small cat at the same time.
She took
the same route out as she did in except for a couple detours from
more fallen debris, it was amazingly easy for her but she wasn't
thinking about that, more about escaping in one piece. She heard a
crack and quickly looked up to see part of the ceiling falling
towards her. She froze but her instincts didn't, she dove out of the
way and then flipped over the debris she leapt towards.
The
building was completely engulfed by the time she jumped out a window,
the streets filled with Shinra. She was immediately grabbed and
thrown in the inn, along with the young girl and her cat. "What's
going on?" the girl asked. "I... don't know," Ureshii
responded grasping the girl's hand.
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Kakan noticed the girl diving into the burning building. "What does she think she's doing?! Everyone knows that buildings abandoned!" he yelled. He then noticed Kat racing after her. "No!" he yelled as he grabbed Kat's arm, "Nobody can survive that intense heat, we can't loose anymore lives," he said coldly as Kat gazed towards the burning building. Shinra troops rushed in forcing people into several different buildings, Rain was no exception. Rain was forced into the inn, along with a few others. "NO, URESHII!" she yelled as she was forced against her will into the inn.
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Chelise looked around.
Things were going according to plan. Perfect.
"Are we just
goanna sit here and do nothing or fight off the shinra?" asked a
girl aggregately.
"Come on Fay, I'm with you on that"
said a short black man.
"It's no use" said Chelise
sitting in front of the door, "there are three first class
soldiers out there"
"And how do you know
this?" asked the girl who was apparently named Fay.
"I'm
good at getting information out of people" replied Chelise.
"I
don't trust you" said the black man.
"Barret, calm down"
said a girl in a pink dress.
"How do we know she's not with
them?" asked barret.
"We don't" replied the girl in
pink.
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Rain watched the
conversation between one of the girls Rain had seen earlier, a stout
black man, and pretty girl in a pink dress. Well, more like an
argument more than anything, but it wasn't too intensified...yet.
This is stupid...there is something fishy going on around
here... Rain thought, annoyed with a mix of fear for Ureshii.
Rain had managed to take her mind off Ureshii for the time being, but
now she was back in Rain's contemplating thoughts.
Oh gosh, she
better be okay...I mean, she could have completely annihilated
herself! The "argument" continued in the front of the
inn, where the black man, apparently named Barret, was talking to a
girl and he asked her whether they knew if the cold-staring girl
blocking the doorway was on the side of the shinra. They had been
arguing about going out there and fighting, but the "all-knowing"
girl said there were three first-class soldiers outside with the
infantry. Rain did a little snort.
"Bet you I could take them
on." Rain muttered to herself. A person standing next to her
apparently heard her, and looked at Rain with fear in their eyes.
Rain turned her head to look at the person, and the stranger quickly
turned their attention back to the front of the inn, where things
actually looked like there might be some progress...
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Kat gazed in horror
as she could but helplessly stand in Kakan's hold.
"Why,
why...?" Kat asked herself quietly, tears coming to her eyes.
"Why would someone do that?" Kat heard her voice becoming
louder, anger staring to spread through her body.
That's it.
I've had enough of this nonsense. She thought angrily, tearing
Kakan's rough hands off her arm. Kakan looked at her
incredulously.
"This is for her. Not me, not you, not anybody
else, but her. Just for her." Kat sad in a voice not familiar to
her, filling her ears with a volume of leadership and confidence.
Whatever happened next happened...Nothing could change that.
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The argument continued
at the front of the inn. Rain was annoyed and tense. She kept
fidgeting back and forth on her heels, stepping side to side. Rain
sighed harshly.
Okay, I've had enough of this. Rain shoved
the crowd in front of her to the side, as she walked up to the front
near where Barret, and the three girls were screaming at each
other-and getting nowhere.
"Stop." Rain demanded,
standing with her arms crossed and a bit behind where the augmenters
were. Two of the girls stopped, but Barret and the girl blocking the
doorway kept at it.
"Do you mind? I said stop." Rain
said with calm annoyance to Barret and the girl. The girl's eyes
flickered to her face in a flash, but obviously didn't notice
anything out of the ordinary, as they went back to looking at
Barret's now-turning-red face. The two other girls had stopped and
had been watching Rain quietly. One of the girls tapped Barret, who
whirled around in anger, and out of breath.
"What?! What do
you want?!" He asked the two girls furiously. The two girls
simply pointed at Rain, who still stood with her arms crossed and a
calm, confident look on her face.
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Kat ran faster than she
ever had before to the burning building. But before she dove in, she
saw the girl being pushed into the inn. What was strange to Kat was
the fact that the girl was holding a young girl and a small cat.
"Where..."
Where did that younger girl come
from? She couldn't have been in that building...That place was
abandoned... Thought Kat with a confused expression on her face.
Kat slowed to a walk and stopped. She then realized something. The
girls...both had smoke stains on them...They must both have at least
been near the fire.
Oh well, "at least they're
safe..." Kat finished out loud. As she was turning around to go
back to Kakan and Kayne, her eye caught something sticking out of the
top of the inn. She paused mid-step and turned half-way back around
to look at the top of the inn. There, she saw a decently young
looking girl, and an older boy sitting next to each other talking.
Kat stood looking at them with a very confused look on her face...
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"Rain? Rain?! Are you in here?" Ureshii asked at the back of the inn as she slowly made her way from room to room until she noticed two objects. They were two katanas, 'I wonder why these are here? They must have been the inn keeper's weapons, to defend himself. He must have been out and about when the raid happened and thrown into a different building,' she thought as she walked over to them. Ureshii grabbed them and continued walking through the large inn.
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Kakan stood still as he watched Kat run towards the building but stopped. He then noticed the girl jump out a window, she...survived?! But how? No normal human could survive that!' Kakan thought. He ordered some men to throw her into the inn.
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Barret's eyes flashed
to Rain's face, not hiding any anger. But then he straightened up,
and his face appeared to be turning back to his skin's natural
color.
"Wait, don't I know you?" Barret asked Rain
loudly. Rain raised one eyebrow.
"I don't know, do you?"
She challenged. Then Barret gasped, as Rain noticed he was realizing
where he had seen her.
"Heeeyyyy! You're the girl I fought
with at a stand yesterday!"
"Yeah, I think you're
right!" Rain started saying with sarcasm. "And if I'm
remembering correctly, I didn't lose to anybody yesterday..."
Rain said, pretending to be thinking.
"Hm? What did you say
girl?" Barret asked, obviously getting angry at her comment.
"I
think I beat everybody yesterday...not a single loss. Humph, would
you look at that...." Rain continued saying, looking right into
Barret's eyes, which were now angry once more,
"Are you
saying I lost to you?" He questioned Rain, quite
frustrated with her previous statements.
"Yes. Thanks for
simplifying it for everybody. Now move." Rain said quickly, as
she took a few steps forward and shoved Barret to the side. Rain now
stood looking at the grim-looking girl blocking the doorway.
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Eh, whatever. I
have other things to do than bother with people I don't know anything
about. Kat told herself confidently. But Kat was still angry with
the fact that the two girls had been forced into the inn, when they
had just survived a burning building coming down on them. Why would
they have been pushed into an inn, when they should have medical
attention? Kat kept walking towards where Kayne and Kakan were giving
out orders to the small infantry they had brought along.
"Which
one of you ordered two girls who just survived a burning building
engulfed in flames with poisonous smoke into an inn?" Kat asked
the two boys impatiently. Kayne just looked at Kakan like he'd said
he didn't want to bury survivors from a terrorist attack.
"Kakan..."
Kat said holding back from tackling him to the ground. "What did
you DO?!" She screamed at him, not able to hold it in any
longer. Kat stepped forward right in front of Kakan and grabbed his
shoulders.
"Do you know what you just DID?!" Kat
continued screaming at him.
"But, I-I, uh-"
"No
uhs!! I mean, are you kidding me?! You could've just pushed two girls
who were breathing poisonous smoke into a building with no medical
care! They could slowly be dying right now! Just because you couldn't
bother to have a couple of these fully capable men guide them to the
hospital! No, you just have them pushed into an inn, like they're
useless guinea pigs! Unacceptable..." Kat pushed Kakan away a
few feet and continued, "I'm going in there right now to take
care of them!"
"But, but, Kat! You might reveal
yourself! You might give us away!" Kayne begged, staring harshly
into Kat's eyes.
"No! I want no lives risked!" Kat
paused, "Even if it means giving us away..." She finished
quietly, while she turned and stomped towards the inn, clearly
knowing where she was going.
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"Are you o.k.?"
Ureshii asked remembering the young girl following her around.
"Huh?
Oh, yes I'm fine... I wasn't in their very long. Thank you..."
she replied hugging her cat.
"What were you doing in there?"
Ureshii continued.
"My cat ran away a couple days ago, but
today I noticed her running around behind that building... so I ran
to her but then when the explosion occurred she bolted into the
building... she was so scared when I found her but then I noticed
that I couldn't get out s I hid... but then you saved me! It was
getting so hot... I was so afraid..." she responded. Ureshii
noticed the little girls arm, it had a burn.
"Your arm!"
Ureshii said kneeling down.
"Huh? Oh... it isn't bad... it
doesn't even hurt... it feels more like a sun burn than anything!"
the girl giggled.
"If we can find some cold water you should
soak it," Ureshii said standing up and looking around. She
noticed a sink, Do we have running water? she thought as she
grabbed the girl's hand. They approached the sink to find relief of
cold running water. "Here rinse it off for a little, ok?"
Ureshii said stepping back so the girl could rinse off her burn. She
nodded and began rinsing off her small burn.
That's when Ureshii
heard something. A lot of yelling. 'Wait... I know one of
those voices,' Ureshii thought as she began walking towards the
voices. "Stay here and rinse your arm off for a little longer,
when you think you're done, come to the front of the inn,"
Ureshii said to the little girl as she began running towards the
front of the inn.
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Kakan stood
motionless after Kat's scolding. 'But... I'm just following orders,'
he thought as he remembered Rufus's talk.
"Do what you must,
avoid killing, but don't show sympathy for anyone, we don't want
anyone thinking Shinra is going soft," Rufus repeated in Kakan's
head. I would have done something to help but... he continued
in his thoughts.
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"What do you
want?" The girl sitting asked Rain snobbishly.
"I want
an explanation." Rain retorted simply.
"I'm about to
give you an explanation!!" Barrett suddenly yelled at
Rain.
"Back off beetle-brain. Go do something besides yell at
people and stuff yourself silly with food." Rain said, turning
to look at him then turning back to look at the girl sitting in front
of the door. The girl still had the same expressionless look on her
face, but Rain detected a hint of surprise coming from her.
"Look,
first off, what's your name?" Rain asked the girl a bit more
politely.
"What's it to you? Are you a secret agent or
something?" The girl replied rudely to Rain. Rain was really fed
up with this girl. Then, something came to her mind...well, at least
she could say it. But she doubted that "big-man" over there
wouldn't hesitate to do what she was setting him up to do.
"Hey
Barrett," Rain called to "big-man."
"What do
you ya want punk?! Cause it sounds like to Barrett you wants a good
beat'n!" He replied.
"You're angry..." Rain started
off edging him on.
"Yeah, I am!" Rain laughed silently
in her head. This was coming along too easily already...
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Kat marched into
the back of the inn. She continued walking through the hallways to
the front of the inn, until she saw something that caught her eye.
She took a few steps back and looked down the hallway she had just
passed. By a water fountain, there was a young girl and a cat with
smoke stains all over them.
"Hey." Kat called to the
girl from the start of the hallway. The girl immediately withdrew
into herself and stopped doing whatever she was doing with the water
fountain. She started taking a few steps backwards with her cat in
her arms.
"No need to worry, I'm here to-" That was as
far Kat got before the girl turned tail and ran. Kat sighed in
annoyance. Who knows where she could've run to? The inn was pretty
big, and Kat didn't really have time to go find the scared girl and
her tabby kitty. But that was certainly the girl I saw earlier get
pushed in with the older girl. Now that I mention it, where could the
older girl be? It seems weird that the girl was left alone in the
hallway... Kat thought, trying to figure out the puzzle.
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Ureshii continued
walking until she heard footsteps from behind. "Huh?"
Ureshii said aloud to see the girl running towards her.
"One
of those people from outside came in the back and... and she tried to
grab me!" she said as she hugged Ureshii around the waste.
"Oh
no... Are you o.k.?" Ureshii responded quickly as she glanced
behind the door to see if she was being followed by "that
person."
"I'm o.k." the girl panted. As she stepped
back from Ureshii a little. Ureshii wiped the tears from the girl's
face. She could tell the girl was terrified. "C'mon let's get to
the front of the inn, more people should be up their. We'll be safer
with numbers," Ureshii said as she grabbed the girl's hand and
walked through the door to see several people arguing. One of them
caught her eye. "Rain!?" Ureshii said a little astonished.
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Kakan stood still,
he had realized his mistake but wasn't sure what to do about it.
That's it I have to correct what I've done wrong, he finally
thought to himself as he began to follow after Kat.
He was grabbed
by someone, "Kakan what are you doing?" Kayne said, "One
person is enough to deal with this." he continued.
"Right,"
Kakan replied as he shook off Kayne's grasp and turned around to head
in the other direction to see how the raid was working at the other
side of the small town.
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"I AM NOT
MOVING!!!" screamed Chelise still up against the door. Fay was
trying to get outside but Chelise wasn't about to let that happen.
"MOVE!!" yelled Fay launching herself at
Chelise.
Chelise sidestepped and Fay hit the door with a loud
thud. The door flew open and Fay tumbled out. Chelise grabbed Fay by
her ankles, threw her back inside and resumed her place in front of
the door.
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"Are you sure
they're okay in there?" asked one of the infantrymen walking up
to Kayne "There's a lot of screaming coming from the inn and I
could have sworn I saw someone just get flung out and dragged back in
again"
"They should be fine" said Kayne leaning up
against a tree, not exactly reassured himself though.
Don't
do anything you'll regret, Chels he begged internally I can't
stand to lose you too.
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Fay stared at the
girl in front of the door. Who was she? Definitely a good fighter,
she'll give her that. We could use her in the upcoming conflict
she thought.
"Where'd Cloud go?" she asked Aerith.
"I
think he's sleeping" said Aerith.
"That's new" Fay
remarked running to Cloud's bedroom.
"Oh, so you're just
goanna run off on me?!" yelled Chelise angrily.
"Don't
worry, I'll be back, and then I'll be expecting a real fight!"
yelled Fay.
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Ureshii stayed back
while the commotion occurred in front of her until she noticed one of
them bolt upstairs for this 'Cloud' person. Might as well go now
while things seem to have calmed down a little. "Umm...
what's going on?" Ureshii said with the little girl following
close behind.
"Ureshii!? You're not dead?!" A familiar
voice yelled from behind a rather buff man.
"Rain is that
you?" Ureshii responded. The large man turned side ways
revealing Rain's astonished face. "It is you Rain!" Ureshii
said happily smiling.
"How did you survive through that
inferno?!" Rain said running over to Ureshii, "And who's
the kid? Last time I checked you weren't a mom," she said a
little sarcastically.
"I found the girl in the house,"
Ureshii responded, "Me surviving, I'd guess on luck."
"But
the house was abandoned, why was she in there?" Rain asked.
"I
was after my cat!" the girl said proudly.
"What she
said," Ureshii said smiling.
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Kakan walked back
over to Kayne when he returned from the other side of the small town.
"What I miss?" Kakan asked
"Nothing much, commotion
at the inn, Kat hasn't come back yet though," he responded.
"I
hope Kat hasn't done anything she'll regret," Kakan said
starring at the inn.
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Chelise noticed
Ureshii.
"Oi!" she yelled at her "aren't you from
solider?!"
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Fay found cloud asleep on one of the beds. How strange she thought. She shook him lightly.
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Rain saw Ureshii's eyes
divert away from her face. Ureshii was now looking at the girl on the
door, with a younger girl and her cat clutching Ureshii's right leg.
That must be the girl she rescued. Gosh, she's so young...
Rain thought.
"..." Ureshii looked at the girl;
Ureshii's face all of a sudden looking depressed. Rain stepped a few
steps ahead, crossing in front of Barrett to reach Rain. Rain swiftly
and quickly waved to the girl leeched on to Ureshii, and the girl
just looked at her with fear in her eyes. Then Rain looked at
Ureshii's face, as her eyes started to fill with tears. Rain stepped
to the other side of Ureshii, making sure to avoid touching the young
girl, and put her arm around Ureshii's shoulders.
"I don't
know if it's any of your business-" Rain got cut short by
Ureshii, talking with a slight stutter in her voice.
"No,
it's okay. It's just...." Ureshii paused, looking back up at the
girl leaning on the door. "Even I don't know that information."
Ureshii finished, looking back down to her right side, and stroking
the young girl's smudged gray hair.
"What do you mean you
don't know? Jeez, are you people more idiotic than I estimated?!"
The girl said to the crowd ridiculously. Rain was growing insanely
impatient with this woman.
"No, asshat, she lost her memory a
short time ago and only remembers her name, okay?" Rain said
roughly, looking into the girl's eyes.
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Kat continued down
the hallways until she reached the back of a crowd at the front of
the inn. She made her way slowly through the crowd, asking what was
going on. What she heard made her body boil with anger. Of course
Chelise would be the culprit of this! She is such a- Her thoughts
would be cut-off by the gasp of one of the people she was moving by.
She turned to them and the man looking at her, the one who had
gasped, looked her up and down. It was then, that Kat realized that
she did not look like a normal civilian...But she continued her way
through the crowd. She could now make out what was going on at the
front, and hear the conversation. Well, here goes nothing...
Kat finally made her way to the very front of the crowd, and stood
with her arms crossed, staring at Chelise. Chelise noticed her
standing there, and looked at Kat with anger clearly showing on her
face.
"Chelise, are you giving our guests here a hard time?"
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"Chelise, are you
giving our guests here a hard time?" the girl from Soldier asked
the girl questioning Ureshii.
"Wait, you know this girl?!"
the rather large man asked astonished.
"Yes... until she
joined Soldier, then we were in a way enemies. Never talked, wrote,
nothing," Chelise said angered.
"Sure yeah what ever,"
The girl said turning around. "I'm here for those two," she
said pointing at Ureshii and the girl leeched onto Ureshii's
leg.
"Huh? Why me?" Ureshii asked panicking a
little.
"We saw you jump out of that burning building, we
just want to make sure you two are okay," she explained.
"I
don't trust you," Ureshii said taking a step back and wrapping
one of her hands around the little girl.
"No, I'm telling the
truth," The girl pleaded.
"I'm not going with you!"
Ureshii yelled back.
"Then I'll take you by force," the
girl said reaching for her sword.
"Hey! Whoa!" said Rain
stepping in front of Ureshii, "is that really necessary?"
she questioned.
"Rain, it's okay," Ureshii whispered.
She then unshaved the katanas she had found.
"Where did you
find those?" Rain asked jumping to the side a little.
"I'll
tell you later," Ureshii stated boldly.
"You're
actually going to fight a first class SOLDIER?!" the girl stated
astonished.
"If it means protecting this little girl then
yes," Ureshii said back a little bolder.
"Fine then,
this will be over sooner than you think," the girl said back.
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"Should we
check on her?" Kakan asked Kayne.
"How should I know?"
he said back.
"Well she's been in there a long ti-" he
was cut off by a loud bang. It came from the inn. "What did she
do?!" Kakan said turning around towards the inn. The door had
been blown off and someone was lying on the ground. Kat then came
running out of the inn towards her, with her sword out. The girl
popped back up kicking Kat in the stomach on her way up.
"What
happened?" Kayne said now noticing the fight.
"How
should I know?!" Kakan responded.
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Rain didn't want to
attack the girl, apparently a SOLDIER girl. And something didn't make
sense to Rain...Why would the SOLDIER girl attack Ureshii, if she
just came in to check on her and the young girl? Rain held the small
girl, clutching her cat, on her left side, while on the right side,
she held her katana.
"Honey, go stay with Aerith, okay? She's
really nice. Don't worry." Rain said to the girl holding on to
her, while pointing in Aerith's direction.
"Can I keep Mr.
Meow Meow?" The girl innocently asked Rain.
"Of course
you can. Now hurry over." Rain assured her. The girl let go of
Rain's leg and ran over to Aerith's open arms. Rain mouthed 'Thanks'
to Aerith. Aerith just nodded her welcome. As the girl got kicked
back into the inn from Ureshii, Rain kept the girl's momentum going
and grabbed her shirt from behind and threw her back at the foot of
the stairs. Ureshii ran in and stood next to Rain, breathing a little
heavily. The girl started to get up from landing hard on her back on
the stairs jutting out.
"SOLDIER girl, why do you attack us
when you said you simply wanted to check on them?" Rain asked
her matter-of-factly.
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Kat started to go
after the smokened girl that had been pushed out of the door, but got
surprised by getting kicked in the stomach. As Kat stumbled backwards
into the inn again, she got propelled backwards and jammed her back
into the edgy staircase. Kat tried to get up boldly, but had trouble
because her back felt bent in what felt like all points on the
broadness of her skin.
"SOLDIER girl, why do you attack us
when you said you simply wanted to check on them?" The girl with
only one katana asked her. And honestly, Kat wasn't so sure she had
an answer...
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Chelise threw a kunai,
barely missing Kat's head.
"Stop" she said angrily
pulling out her phone "one more move and I'll have Rufus on
the line, and he won't be very happy with you Kat" she smiled
slightly.
"Rufus?! as in Rufus Shinra?!" screamed
Barrett.
"Yes," replied Chelise never taking her eyes
off of Kat.
"You're going to-" Kat began. Chelise
pushed call, smiling like someone gone insane.
"you're with
shinra!" Barrett yelled angrily.
"No, actually I'm
not" Chelise said "not anymore at least"
Rufus
picked up. Chelise put him on speaker "hello?" he
asked.
"This is Chelise," she said "send Reno with
the chopper to pick up Kat, Kayne and Kakan, and by the way, I quit"
"you can't just quit the Turks!" yelled Rufus,
outraged.
"Oh really?" asked Chelise "then how come
i just did?" she hung up. "That'll tick him off"
"I
can't believe you!" yelled Kat.
Chelise threw another Kunai,
this time grazing the side of Kat's head, coming very close to
slicing her ear off.
"Reno should be here soon, I would
suggest you leave the building and join your little solider friends,
tell Kayne I said goodbye" Chelise pushed Kat out of the in and
slammed the door.
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Kayne saw Chelise push Kat out of the inn and heard more yelling. I think she finally lost it he thought starting to run up to the inn.
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Sasaria and Ariya looked at a map. "There's an inn west of here." Sasaria said. Ariya looked at the camp and then back at the map. "You know, we are running out of supplies Sassi, why don't we go to the inn and get some." Ariya suggested. Sasaria looked at the camp and back at the map. We are running low she thought. Sasaria sighed. "Okay, but let's take our weapons with us in case we get ourselves caught in a bad situation." Sasaria said. Ariya nodded. They grabbed their weapons and left.
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Ureshii walked back
into the inn, "Ow..." is all she said.
"Ureshii,
you okay?" Rain said walking up to her.
"No I'm fine, I
was just blasted through an inn door that's all," Ureshii said
sarcastically.
"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON IN HERE?!"
yelled another SOLDIER guy entering the inn followed by another. The
SOLDIER behind the SOLDIER who yelled quickly walked up and grabbed
the SOLDIER girl by the wrist and pulled her outside.
"SHE'S
the one you should be yelling at! She attacked us!" the
rather large black man yelled back.
"Don't raise your voice
up to me, or so help me I will dispose of you myself!" he
replied sharply and angrily. The man looked aggravated but did
nothing. The roar of a chopper was coming in the background. "Looks
like our ride came early," the man said under his breath.
"Get
in the chopper, all three of you! Direct orders from Rufus himself!"
a fiery red head yelled from inside the chopper. All three SOLDIERs
turned around and jumped into the chopper.
"Well that
was sudden," Ureshii said sitting down on the ground.
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Kakan boarded
chopper silently, he was so confused. The raid was a complete
success and a failure, he thought to himself.
"Kat, what
were you thinking when you caused that fight?" Kayne
asked.
"I thought... she would back down, and then I don't
know what happened... I just... attacked," she replied quietly.
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"I'm glad that's
over" sighed Chelise "she was getting on my nerves"
"so you were one of them, the Turks" said Tifa in
amazement.
"Yes, and I was sent to exploit your little group,
but don't worry, that's not what I am going to do rest assured"
"how
can we trust her?!" yelled Barrett.
"it's that or die"
said Chelise calmly "Rufus will without a doubt send people
after me, and you will be overpowered"
"what makes you
so sure?" asked Barrett.
"I put a mic on Kat when I
pushed her out, I can hear Reno talking about it" she said
pointing to a small black device in her ear.
"How am I
supposed to know it's not double sided and they're listening to us
now?" asked Barrett.
"Do you want me to kill you?!"
yelled Chelise in frustration.
Barrett went completely
silent.
"thank you" Chelise said "now to address
the matter at hand"
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Kayne stared out of
the chopper, thinking about Chelise.
"What's going to
happen to her after Rufus catches her?" he asked nobody in
particular.
"Most likely she will be severely punished"
said Reno.
"It's not too late" said Kayne opening the
chopper door and jumping out.
"What is he doing?!"
screamed Kakan leaping towards the door.
"Let him go"
said Kat grabbing Kakan's arm.
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Fay shook Cloud
violently this time. He popped up, surprised and his lips touched
Fay's. Her eyes widened in surprise and so did his.
"What the
heck is going on here!" she heard Aerith yell. Fay quickly
pulled away from cloud.
"I-it's not what it looks like!"
she yelled waving her arms and accidentally smacking Vincent who was
now staring at Cloud and Fay in surprise. Apparently he had seen it
too.
"Then what is it?" asked Aerith.
"I came up
here to wake him up and he popped up really fast and.... it was a
complete accident I assure you!" yelled Fay.
"Humph"
said Aerith crossing her arms.
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Ureshii heard footsteps
coming from the stairs. She peered behind her to see the girl in pink
come down, a guy with rather spiky hair, another girl come down, and
a guy in a red cape come down. 'Oddly bunch,' she thought.
"Cloud!
Where have you been?!" the large man yelled.
"Sleeping,"
the guy apparently named 'Cloud' responded.
"I can't believe
you slept through all of that!" the large man yelled back.
"What
do you expect, Barret! You always keep me up with your snoring!"
Cloud yelled back.
The man apparently named Barret scowled at
Cloud.
"Do you two ever stop arguing?!" a girl with long
black hair yelled at the both of them.
I'm just happy
everyone's safe, Ureshii thought as she let out a sigh.
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When Sasaria and Ariya came to the inn, they saw a huge commotion going on. Whoa, what is this? A party? Sasaria thought. Ariya looked at Sasaria. "What do you thinks' goin' on Sassi?" She asked. Sasaria looked at Ariya.
"I don't know." She replied.
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Rain noticed a few
people coming down the stairs. The one who caught her eye was a blond
boy with rather spiky hair.
"I was sleeping." He said to
Barrett.
"What do you mean you were sleeping?! How could you
sleep through all that?!" He screamed at him, who in turn yelled
at Barrett,
"How I am supposed to sleep at night when you
keep me up with all your train-like snoring noises?" His face
softened a bit as he turned and saw all the people watching the seen.
"Hmmm," He sighed.
"Barrett, just leave him
alone." Aerith commented, while still holding onto the girl
protectively. But Rain couldn't help let out a little giggle. Ureshii
heard Rain and turned to her with a confused look on her face. Rain
just waved her off with her hand in a dismissive manner. The boy saw
the gesture and turned to Rain and Ureshii.
"Is there
something you would like to share?" He asked.
"I don't
know, is there?" Rain retorted.
"Rain!" Muttered
Ureshii, while throwing her a 'you better stop now or else' look. The
boy just squinted at Rain. He then turned his attention back to
continuing down the stairs. Oh, he's quite cutie...and his
demeanor...I like it... Rain thought while smiling in the
slightest manner. But then Rain just sighed and leaned on her left
leg, pretending like she didn't care for anything that had just
happened.
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Kat couldn't just
watch Kayne jump out the copter. Reno hadn't noticed he'd done
anything but say, "It's not too late." Kat looked at Kakan
pleadingly, but he just stared ahead, obviously wanting to jump out
after Kayne also.
"Ok. We're going after him. Sorry."
Kat whispered to Kakan. He looked shocked, but nodded and grabbed two
parachutes, handing one to Kat.
"Thanks." She said so
quietly, she wasn't sure Kakan had even heard her. They both stepped
near the edge of the helicopter entrance, and looked at each other.
Kat nodded, and they both jumped out of Reno's clutches. As Kat fell,
with Kakan near her, she listened for Reno's voice. But she heard
nothing, and just waited for the time she would have to use her
parachute...
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Ureshii stood up; all this commotion was hurting her head along with the pain from flying through a door did not help. She rubbed her head a little, she wasn't quite thinking strait. She then remembered that Chelise wanted to say something about them getting attacked again. "Excuse me, but you were going to say something about us getting attacked again?" Ureshii said to Chelise.
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Kakan and Kat landed safely outside of Kalm. 'Were in so much trouble with Rufus, but really I don't care,' he thought to himself. He took off his parachute and nodded to Kat as if saying 'Let's go.'
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"You might need me
to fight them off, I know them" Chelise said. She looked up to
the group descending the stairs "Vincent? is that you?" she
asked, astonished.
"Chelise?" he asked.
"Wait,
you know each other?" asked Barrett confused.
"Vincent!
It's been forever!" Chelise yelled running up to Vincent and
hugged him.
"I see you finally got away from Hojo" said
Vincent.
"yea, Rufus accepted me into the Turks, and let's
just say that didn't turn out very well, I'm basically being hunted
by shinra now" she said.
"What the hell are they talking
about?" asked Cid.
"No idea" replied Tifa.
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Kayne made his way back toward Kalm. he was going to get Chelise, and it didn't matter if she refused to join Shinra again, if she refused, he would refuse with her.
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'Aww, finally something good happened for a change,' Ureshii thought happily as she smiled a little. She then lost her balance and stumbled backwards a little. Gosh I'm really out of it, she thought.
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Kakan began running towards Kalm, not knowing what would happen when they showed up.
