Gonna try and get all of this uploaded ASAP so be prepared for alerts out the ass if I start uploading multiple chapters at a time. It's completed, just has to be converted to chapters in different documents and then uploaded and all that fun nonsense. :) Enjoy!

"I'm not doing shit." Sapphire blue eyes flashed dangerously as the girl crossed her arms and fumed, her long silvery blue hair with its sapphire streaks swirling about her shoulders as she turned.

"You'll do as your told unless you want me to come out there and get you myself." The voice from the cell phone replied.

"Just try it Tseung and see what happens. I'm not going back and that's the end of it." That said she snapped the blue phone shut and pocketed it. "Damn Shinra." She growled. "I left for a reason."

You left because you saw they are the real monsters. Murmured a voice in the back of her mind.

"Shut up." She growled, then returned to her own pondering. "I guess I could go back to Edge and see that annoying brother of mine." She bit her lower lip and thought for a moment. "But how in the hell am I going to get there? I suppose I could call Cid. He's always been up for giving me a ride."

"Isn't he the one who wants to marry you?"

"Do you know how to keep quiet?" The girl growled. "I'll just call Cid and have him come pick me up. It's not like cleaning that damn machine of his 20 times a day is necessary."

She was Kaia. An ex SOLDIER with a 1st class background and unheard of mako levels in her system, as proved by her eyes that, though they were still sapphire blue, had the bright glow behind them. She was deadly, and fiercely protective of everything. Especially her home. Or rather her current home. She moved over to lean against the window and look out at the little town down the hill.

Banora. The home of her two best friends, and the resting place of their souls. Or at least one of them. She shook it off and turned back around, brushing out of the study. She moved quietly up the stairs to one of the wings of the house and slipped in the door that sealed it off from everywhere else.

She loved it here. In the old mayor's estate house that had been gifted to her by the late mayor's son, her closest friend, and the large expanse of land that surrounded the house. She lived here alone, allowing those that had moved back into the town to visit whenever they liked. Though since the monsters had stopped appearing every week she didn't get visitors as much anymore.

Sapphire eyes moving to the book on the bedside table, Kaia blew a stray piece of hair out of her face. So much for lying out under a Banora white and reading the book aloud while sitting next to the two memorials. With a sigh, slightly tinged with annoyance, she pulled a black box out from under the king size bed and opened it slowly, smiling slightly.

"Guess it's time to brush off the dust." She said softly, trailing her hand over the black fabric inside. She grudgingly shrugged off the silky robe and sweats she had been wearing before slipping into the uniform in front of her. Finishing with the last clasp on her shoulder guards she walked over to the mirror and blinked a few times.

She didn't recognize herself like this. She hadn't worn this uniform in almost five years. Maybe even six. She'd removed it after settling down in Banora and had never pulled it out since. It still fit though, the black mini dress, held to her frame by the form fitting chest plate and the silver weapons belt around her waist still hugged her figure. The black cargo pants were lose enough to allow for movement but were tight enough to still be feminine, and tucked into a pair of black combat boots, while thick metal armor hugged her legs from the bottoms of the boots and reached up past her knees. The blue sleeves she used to tied at her upper arm had had been singed and ripped sometime in the past, instead now she wore black ones, with green dyed into the folds of the one on her right arm, and red on the other. She picked up her sword, and looped the leather strap around her belt so it hung on her left side.

She moved throughout the house, retrieving weapons from miscellaneous places. Two pistols from behind a painting in the downstairs hall, a few daggers mixed in with the cutting knives in the kitchen, and a small box of materia from under the kitchen sink. She moved to the living room next, kneeling down in front of the fire place and reaching in and up into it. Kaia felt around for a little while before grinning and pulling out an assault rifle. It shimmered slightly in her hand and turned into a different gun entirely. A bolt action this time. This was her Black Mirage. A gun that transformed into whatever firearm the owner needed at any time.

"It's been a while since we went out hasn't it." She murmured to it, and it seemed to hum in response almost. "The best thing to come out of my SOLDIER days." She grinned before standing up and walking outside.

She sighed and looked up at the sky, the few rays that escaped the clouds making her hair shimmer as it blew back. The last thing she wanted to do was go to Edge. Or anywhere near Midgar for that matter. Back where it had all started. Where she had met her best friends. And him. Where they had gotten so wrapped up in all the chaos she had ended up losing all of them. And then there was the problem of her brother. He would kill her if he ever found out.

She shook her head and pulled out her cell phone dialing in Cid's number.

"Yo, the fuck is this and whad'ya want?"

Kaia laughed slightly. "It's me Cid."

"Oh! Hey, Kaia. What's going on?"

"Was wondering if you could give me a lift to Edge." She said casually.

"Um… sure thing. When?"

"Tomorrow. I'm planning to go to the forgotten city tonight and I'll crash there and if you could pick me up in the morning it would be a lot of help."

"Yeah I think I can-,"

"Hi Kaia!" Yuffie yelled in the background.

"Shut up! Yeah I'll come get ya Why are you going to the forgotten city?" Cid inquired.

"You'll find out later." Kaia replied.

"Whatever, we'll see you tomorrow."

"Thank you." Kaia said and hung up. She pulled a pair of sunglasses out of her pocket and walked over to the motorcycle parked in front of the house. It was a sleek, flame red and she couldn't help the smile that spread across her face as she threw her leg over it and started it up, the bike growling to life underneath her with a snarl. She did have a single wing, that she could dissolve and send away at any time she wished, and though she could fly perfectly well with it. The only issue was that it was painful to see. She had gotten it, her own gift from the lifestream, the same day one of her closest friends had died. She shook it off and gunned the engine and took off, lazily waving to a few of the town's residents as she zoomed off.

"I'm going to go to the ruins. I'll be back later. In the meantime keep Vincent here." Cloud said as he mounted his motorcycle.

"You want me to keep Vincent here? Why?" Asked Tifa. "And why are you going to the ruins?"

"Because I want to try and convince him to get a cell phone when I get back. And I'm going to the ruins to make sure there's nothing of Sephiroth's left." Cloud replied

"You're obsessed." Tifa muttered. "But I'll try and keep Vincent here. If he does leave don't blame me."

A shadow of a smile graced Cloud's face. "Don't worry he'll stay."

"Just be careful. Okay?"

"Always am." Cloud started up the bike and zoomed off.

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