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The Speeding Rose I:
The SOLDIER and the Huntress
"You were a soldier, huh?" Ruby asked.
"Not just a soldier," Cloud replied. "SOLDIER, all caps."
"Cool, what does it stand for?"
"Uhhh." Cloud scratched his chin. "I actually have no idea…Shinra Operations: Law Department In Everyone's…Race? I don't know…"
Cloud and Ruby were walking along the world that housed all of the battlegrounds the Dissidia sub-verse. [Think of the world map in Duodeciem] They came across a very strange figure.
"Get down and be quiet!" Cloud whispered to Ruby, pulling her aside.
"What is it?" Ruby asked.
"A manikin."
"Mannequin?"
The figure looked like Cloud but was crystalline and blue with a cold gaze and yellow eyes. It scans the area before it, as if searching for something.
"M-A-N-I-K-I-N," Cloud spells. "Chaos uses slightly weakened versions of us to slow us down. This one's called 'Imaginary Soldier'."
"It's based off of you?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, show him what you're made of."
Ruby put on a determined face and unfolds her scythe. She sneaks up on the Imaginary Soldier before using Crescent Rose to propel herself at it.
As she comes in contact with the manikin she is instantly transported to Order's Sanctuary, though only the manikin and herself are there.
"What's going-AHH!" Ruby jumps out of the way in time to dodge an attack by the Imaginary Soldier's Buster Sword. "No time to think, just fight!" Ruby launches herself at the manikin and slashes it several times. "Ah-hah! Huh?" The manikin was still standing. "This guy's tough."
"You're gone!" the manikin says in a gravely and robotic version of Cloud's voice before launching a beam at Ruby.
"Woah!" Ruby fires a shot at the ground, propelling her upwards "How do you like this?!" She fires several fire dust-bullets at the manikin. The manikin tries to block the attack but several of the dust-bullets make their mark. The soldier staggers and looks up…
…just in time to see Ruby cut right through it.
The manikin shatters as Ruby is teleported back to Cloud.
"What…just happened?" Ruby asks.
"You fought a manikin and won."
"I know I did! But what was with the teleporting?!"
Cloud shrugs.
"Anyway, good job integrating your magic with your bullets."
"Wha-?"
"It must've taken a while to get that right."
"That wasn't magic." Ruby explains.
"Of course it was."
"It was dust."
Cloud looked confused.
"They don't have magic where you're from? Or do you not call it that? Like, in my world, we have Materia that allows us to harness the power of the Cetra and use magic. Watch." Cloud snaps his left fingers at a rock. "Burn." Three fireballs come out of his hand and hit the rock. "Like that."
"Hmm…" Ruby mulled over the facts. "Dust is sort of like that, but it's not magic, it's more like…Ooh! I don't know! Ask Weiss about it, I don't really know about the technical side of dust. All confusing magic, dust, Materia, whatever, aside, let's get to know each other!"
"Eh, why not, it'll pass the time."
"Good! Why'd you become a soldier?"
"Oh, starting with that are we? Well, and this is gonna sound stupid, but I wanted to be like my hero, Sephiroth."
"Sephiroth? Isn't that your main villain?"
"Yeah, but he wasn't then, he was once a glorious war hero, along with his friends, Angeal and Genesis. Genesis was like Sephiroth but more laid-back, and Angeal was the mentor of my friend, Zack."
"Zack?"
"Yeah…he was the one who really gave me the motivation to go all the way to First Class."
"Wow! Is that the uniform that you're wearing?"
"Yes…but I didn't make it to First Class. This is a uniform I took. Zack was…gunned down…"
"Oh…"
"And what about you, why'd you want to be a Huntress?"
"Oh! Well…I wanted to make the world a better place!"
"Heh, ha! An optimistic soul, huh?" Cloud laughed.
"Eh, I guess." Ruby said sheepishly. "Wait, what's that?" She stopped and pointed to a broken archway with a red aura in it.
"Oh, that? It's…well…a gateway to an area where many manikins and maybe even warriors of Chaos rest." Cloud explain. "Let's mosey on over there."
"Wait what?" Ruby asked. "Why? Shouldn't we steer clear from it?"
"No, actually, this is, in a sense, our job. It's what we do."
"Oh, alright then." Ruby walked over to the gateway and touched it. She and Cloud were transported to an area with lots of large stepping stones and lots of helmets.
"Okay, those helmets represent manikins, the ones with swords are more powerful, and the messed up gold ones die in one hit, but can kill you in one hit as well. They also dodge a lot, so the strategy is to just keep trying to attack to kill." Cloud explain.
"Alright! Let's go!" Ruby exclaimed. "Banzai!" She fought her way through many manikins, using chains and racking up combos. "I feel unstoppable!"
"Don't get cocky, see that statue?" Cloud pointed to a black and red statue with Chaos' face on it. "That'll transport you to an area where you'll probably fight one of Chaos' warriors. Maybe we'll find out who your main villain is."
"You'll help right?"
"As much as I can."
"Here we go." Ruby jumped at the statue and she and Cloud were teleported to the Lunar Subterrane. Instantly they heard a voice.
"Ohhh!" the comical voice spoke. "Well of it isn't the chocobo and the gem! How nice!"
"Kefka! Show yourself!" Cloud demanded. The clown with the god-complex appeared before them, tailed by a ginger with a white suit and a cane.
"Roman!" Ruby said.
"Hey there Rubes." Roman said with a sneer.
"Don't call me Rubes."
"Hey, I thought we were friends."
"I know, so rude," Kefka said, shaking her head.
"Shut up." Cloud said.
"Oh, well, should we fight?" Kefka said. "That's what we do, right?"
"You seem very relaxed about this." Ruby puzzled.
"Well, this is the third time we've done this, and frankly dear, I don't give a damn." And Kefka promptly vanished.
"Well, see you round, Rubes." Roman said before disappearing.
Cloud and Ruby stood there for a second.
"WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!" Ruby yelled.
-DDW:FF—
HOLY SHIT THIS CHAPTER TOOK WAY TOO LONG.
Next up is the beginning of Weiss and Frederyk's story.