Two Love And Dream

Rayne: Yes, I have finally updated -sees angry mob- IT WASN'T MY FAULT!! I SWEAR!!! My computer broke and then I had to move in with my dad so it's been hectic. And then his computer broke too. It sucked.

Vicky: That and she started writing again because she was bored

Rayne: -laughs nervously- heheheh. That too

Vicky: Well, if it sucks then blame her

Rayne: Right! Wait. Hey!

Disclaimer: No input whatsoever. Besides that we own all OC characters, including one special one that appears in our Final Fantasy 7 fics. For more info about her/ or him then go to Vic's- gets hit with tomato- VICKY'S story Are Fate And Destiny The Same Thing?. NOW CONTINUE!!!

Note: The good stuff starts to happen now. And my new (or old Oc since he/she was in other fics long before I wrote this one) won't play a big part. They'll be there mostly for information purposes. And we might be going back and forth between worlds so work with me.

Italics- thoughts

Bold italics- Chaos thoughts
Chapter 3: Return of Shadows and Mixed Homes

Yuffie felt her heart wrench at the sight of the broken castle. Her second home. Hallow Bastion rested before them, holes and large cracks marring the beautiful castle form. She looked at it with solemn eyes from the floating blocks in the Rising Falls. Leon, Cloud, Aerith, and Cid had gone ahead to check out the building. No one complained when she said she wasn't going inside. They could tell that she was having a difficult time.

There was the sound of a few small rocks dropping off a platform behind her. Her body stiffened and her hand drifted to the small pack of shurikens at her waist. Yuffie had left her Conformer in the Gummi Ship, thinking she didn't really need it. The heartless were gone. Right? Then what was behind her? She whipped one out quickly and was about to throw it when she stopped.

"Angel?"

-Wutai's Pagoda-

"What the fuck do you mean she's been knocked out for five hours?! Wake her the hell up, Vampire!" Barret Wallace said to the still form of Vincent. "Barret, I have told you before. I am not a vampire. And if Yuffie could be waken up then she would have been long ago," he said calmly to the dark skinned man. The founder of Avalanche glared at him then looked into the room where Tifa was sitting beside the ninja. "You know that Angel disappeared, doncha?"

Vincent looked at him then sighed, "No one told me." Angel Contiello was one of Avalanche's other members. She had been the second youngest, but she was a good fighter. Determined too. But she had a quick temper that usually got someone in trouble. Angel was smart enough to know when to be serious and when to joke around. Something that didn't rub off on Yuffie.

"When did she disappear?" Vincent asked. Barret shook his head, scratching it with his Gun-Arm. "Dunno. Her bro's called Tif and said that they couldn't find her after some storm. And some houses were gone too. Strange stuff happenin," he said with a worried look on his face.

Both times a storm came people disappeared.

Worried?

I don't need your commentary, Chaos.

Aw. I'm hurt.

Leave my thoughts.

Why? It's fun.

Grr....Chaos

Alright. Fine. But no that something is going to happen and it isn't going to be all good.

What is going to happen?

Chaos!

"Yo! Vamp, snap out of it!"

Vincent blinked up and noticed that Barret was snapping his fingers in front of his face and Tifa was now standing beside him. "I am sorry," he said, regaining his whits. "You alright, Vince," Tifa asked him. He simply nodded and exited the Pagoda. The sun was starting to head back down, the time around 6:30. It was strange that in the morning Yuffie was standing right there, in all her cheerful, innocent self.

Please wake up, Yuffie

-Hallow Bastion-

"Holy shit, Ang! You nearly gave me a damn heart attack!" Yuffie yelled while lowering her shuriken. "I thought you would be able to tell from the non-growling that I wasn't a monster. After all, you are a ninja," she said with a grin on her face. The Shinobi laughed nervously and put the small star away, "Yeah, that sort of would tip it off, wouldn't it?"

Yuffie looked Angel up and down, not able to keep a smile from forming. Angel hadn't changed much, besides her clothes. Her hair was still to the middle of her back, dark red highlights streaked through the black, slightly going with her violet eyes. She had ditched the black trench coat outfit that reminded her so much of Vincent, but just wore a white shirt and jeans. Her holster rest on her waist, Haven (her pair of guns, but not her ultimate ones) safely tucked inside the pockets. And her sword, a katana more than just a regular sword, was strapped onto her back. Good ol Angel.

After a while, the ninja ran up to her and gave her a hug. "Gawd, it's been so long!" she said. Angel's smile turned sad and she looked to the ground. "Actually, Yuf, it sort of hasn't. I haven't met you yet here," Ang said softly. What? "I don't get it. What does that mean? English, Ang, English," Yuffie said while trying to lighten up the mood.

She opened her mouth, but then closed it, trying to find the right words. "Okay, try to follow along. You probably don't remember, but when you were young, around the age of three or four, there was a big storm in Wutai. A lot of houses and buildings were slightly damaged but not much. You remember?"

"Yeah. That was when the Heartless came!"

"Well, not exactly. I can't explain it, but when that storm came, two different……dimensions were formed. Sort of. In one, the storm passed over like it was nothing. You grew up with Godo after your mother died, you started to steal Materia, and you later help us destroy Sephiroth. In the other dimension…the heartless came and destroyed Wutai. Your parents and you escaped to Hallow Bastion where they later died after the second attack."

"I don't understand. How can it split into two different dimensions? I mean, in both there's Cloud, Aerith, and Cid!"

"That's what I'm getting to. There are two different dimensions so that means there are two of each person. In one you might meet someone early and know them for a long time, and the other you might not see them until your thirty or so and you only know them for a little while. Eventually you'll know the same people in both dimensions. Like me. You only met me over there on your way to destroy Sephiroth, while over here, you haven't met me yet. Sometime in the future, if nothing happens to this dimension, then you'll meet Barret, Vincent, Tifa, Cait Sith, and Nanaki."

"If that's so, then why do I remember you and all of them if I haven't met you yet?"

"It's complicated, Yuffie. Something is going on and it's making the dimensions freak out. They are, well, starting to combine. Both your lives are combining and making one. You've been having dreams, right?"

"Yeah! How'd you know?"

"That's not important. Those dreams mean that your lives are starting to become one. All the people from both dimensions will go into one combined dimension. That means the places too. New worlds will form, or they will become part of another. That's why things are disappearing. But not all of this is good, Yuffie. Bad things can still happen."

"Yeah, I sort of figured that. Whatever about Squall and all of those people that I haven't met in the other dimension? Will they know about their other life too?

"Yep, but only when both dimensions are fully merged. You're just getting the heads up. You are……special."

"Aw! Thanks, Angie!"

"Yeah, sure. Come on, if I'm gonna be stuck in this place for a while then I at least want to get something to eat."

"Angel?"

"Yeah?"

"How do you know all this stuff?"

"I found out some stuff from my other life here and learned that I was an assistant to some girl. She studied stuff like this and finally found out about both dimensions. But then the world was taken and she gave me the information before I escaped. She died by the Heartless."

"What world was it?"

"……Hallona."

-Wutai-

Vincent was resting on the roof of Yuffie's "Cat House" as she liked to put it. Cloud. Cid. Angel. They were missing. Too many things were disappearing. And Yuffie was still asleep. He didn't have a good feeling at the moment and watching a day waste away wasn't helping. They were no closer to finding out what was happening and the group wasn't even fully assembled.

"Valentine! Something's going on with the brat!" Barret yelled from the ground. Vincent hadn't even noticed the man running towards the house. Wordlessly, he jumped down easily and ran towards Godo's House where Yuffie was housed.

-Hallow Bastion-

Yuffie led Angel inside the castle, silence filling the air. No one had said anything since the new girl had mentioned her fallen home. Everyone in Avalanche knew that she was very dedicated to Hallona, no matter how much bad shit happened there. Truly, that town was aiming for disaster. But she still protected it with her life. That was something that she admired.

Both of them walked through the doors to the library, hearing voices in the back near the stairs. Yuffie glanced at Angel and smiled. "You remember Cloud, Cid, and Aerith, right?" she asked. Angel seemed to cheer up and nodded, "How can I forget Spike and Smokey Bear? Plus, Aerith…" Making their way through the book maze, they finally made it to a clearing where the group sat around the small table.

"Hey guys, found company," the young girl said while signaling to Ang. All heads turned, some eyes widened, and one sentence could be heard in the library. "Holy fucking hell!"

"Well, at least that's the same."

Aerith rushed forward and hugged her in a tight hug, only letting her go when she started turning blue. "Nice to see you're…alive," the girl managed to get out nervously. Aerith couldn't stop smiling. Cid stared at her with his mouth open, cigarette threatening to fall out of his mouth. Cloud stood still beside Aerith. The thought that their comrade was actually right there was still trying to get through his head.

(An hour later)

The group was talking about recent events, Angel never mentioning the two dimensions talk. Leon was just sitting there. He didn't know the girl, but apparently everyone else did. But suddenly his thoughts weren't on the newcomer. His eyes darted to Yuffie who was slightly swaying in chair by the staircase. Her eyes blinked dazedly and glazed over. Then they shut fully and she tipped out of her chair.

Leon jumped out of his chair and caught her as she went unconscious. His arms around her tiny waist, he sat on the floor with her light body in his lap. The others looked alarmed at the ninja's fall. Except for one. Angel stared at Yuffie with a blank look that made him want to scream at her. Did she just not care? He looked down at the ninja and shook her gently. "Yuf, wake up!" he said. He continued to do this, growing more urgent and louder the more he did.

"Leave her be."

He stared at Angel then glared. "Why the hell should I?! She unconscious!" he yelled at her angrily. The girl just stared at him with her blank look. He was growing to hate it. After a while, she smiled sadly and shook her head. "She has things she must take care of on her own. Waking her up now is not going to help our situation."

Situation? What situation?

-Wutai-

Vincent rushed through the rooms and halls of Godo's house and went to the small room that they put Yuffie in. Tifa was looking down worriedly at the ninja, who was shaking and moving around. He sat down beside the small mat she was on. "Yuffie? Can you hear me?" he said emotionlessly. The reply was Yuffie jolting awake and shooting up in bed. She looked around then suddenly yelled, "What the hell?!"

None of them had a chance to talk more as a rumbling shook the place. All of them ran outside, including the now awake and confused Yuffie, only to see the sky had darkened incredibly. Hanging in the air was a dark ball that the ninja recognized all too well. But they were not looking at that. They were staring at the small black creatures, silently rising out of the ground. Ominous yellow eyes. Sharp claws. And the fear that the Shadow Heartless always brought.

(End Chapter)

Rayne: HA HA!! I LEFT YOU AT A CLIFFY!!! And for those of you who haven't played FF7, Angel was not part of the game. She was my character.

Vicky: I think they can tell.

Rayne: yeah, yeah. Whatever. Anyways, REVIEW!!! PLEASE!! If you do then you'll make me really happy and I'll update faster. I promise!

Next Chapter: A World's Destruction