Chapter 7 - Eht Iatuw Seripmav
The next day, Reno and Elena eventually managed to get their point across to Tseng. As soon as they finished, Tseng looked straight to Reno.
"You're not going to do anything stupid, are you Reno?"
"What? How can I do something stupid? We're gonna go get her, right?" he replied slightly ecstatically.
"Reno, Elena is right in what she says. We need to know what we're up against before we go. Remember last time, you nearly got yourself killed."
"But Yuffie can't wait! What if…?"
"Reno." Elena interrupted, "I don't think Valicia will do anything to Yuffie. She's only using her as bait, it's you she wants."
"What a vote of confidence…" Reno said sarcastically.
"Anyway," Tseng said, ignoring Reno, "We need to know more, about the vampire clan in Sector 5 slums."
"Surely they aren't necessarily a clan in themselves." Elena suggested, "The vampires could be from all across the planet."
"True. But we still need to know more about them. Reno, Elena… I'll leave it to you. And be quick about it."
"C'mon Reno." Elena grabbed his hand and dragged him out of the room.
"Where are we going?" Reno asked hurriedly. Elena was walking at an unusually fast pace and still hand let go of Reno's hand.
"You'll see." She said, panting slightly.
"Elena, stop!" Reno said desperately. When she ignored him, he picked up his pace so he was next to her, and put his foot in front of hers.
"Ahhh, Reno!" she screamed. She didn't quite fall over, but it was still enough to crack a laugh out of Reno.
"'Lena, where are we goin'? This is like, the ancient part of the Shinra building. What the hell we doin' down here?"
"Ok, Reno. For a start, if you're going to talk to me, use proper English. And secondly, follow me."
She started off walking again, this time a little slower, but still holding onto Reno, hand, quite tightly.
"'Lena, would you mind letting go of my hand, I'm not gonna run away." Reno said quickly.
"Sorry." She said letting go of his arm sharply.
As the two of them carried on walking, the seemed to get further and further away from civilization, the corridors were darker and there seemed to be no noise around them at all.
"'Lena, seriously, where the hell are we? I didn't even know the building went on as far as this."
"That's because you never bother to get off your ass and actually do something. I was sent down here by Hojo, and it's out of bounds."
"Out of bounds? Oooh 'Laney, you're getting to be a bit of a rebel aren't you?"
"Shut up Reno." Elena said, laughing slightly.
Eventually, they reached the end of the corridor. It was so dark they could hardly see the giant 10-foot high door in front of them. Elena put her hand on the door and pushed it open. It creaked slightly and lead them into a wide, spacious room, lined with hundreds of bookshelves.
"A library?!" Reno said, taken-aback. "You brought me to a library?"
"Oh get over it Reno. It will help us find some more information about the vampires."
"Great, so I get to spend my whole day reading non-fiction with you. What a joy!" Reno said, extremely sarcastically.
"You want to save Yuffie, no?"
"Yeah but…"
"Don't worry Reno, I understand how illiterate you are. Just do your best."
Reno pouted and walked off slowly in the opposite direction as Elena. He could hardly see, but that didn't seem important to him. He wasn't planning on reading anything anyway. But suddenly, one book caught his eye, it stood out from the rest of the dark books with its white cover. He pulled it out, and from the extremely dim light from the window somewhere behind him, he could just make out the title "Eht Iatuw Seripmav"
"What the...? I knew there was a reason I didn't like readin'" He tucked the book under his arm and went off to find Elena.
"'Lena?" he said loudly, trying to find the door they came in by.
"Here, Reno." He looked behind him to see Elena standing by a large table, several books in front of her. "I found a few. We'd better take them back; we're not gonna be able to read them here."
"Uh right…" Reno said. Reno pushed the door open for Elena and just before he followed her, he couldn't get rid of the feeling that someone was watching him.