DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN FINAL FANTASY OR ITS CHARACTERS!
Chapter 9: Don Corneo's Mansion and a new Reality
Cloud looked so cute… it was so wrong but still he was wearing a dress and wig all for Tifa. As we entered Don Corneo's Mansion the guy over at the counter told us not to wander off while he went to inform his master of our presences. It was then that we began plotting.
"So Miss Cloud, where could Tifa be?" I asked Cloud.
"Don't call me that!" Cloud whispered angrily at me.
"Miss Cloud, speak more nicely or our plan may be ruined." Aeris said in a really gentle voice, but she was really teasing him.
"That's enough! Let's find Tifa now!" and he took the stairs right next to us and went on ahead without us. I and Aeris were having a really good time together.
"Wait up Miss Cloud." I said following up to him along side Aeris.
We entered a dark room and right ahead was Tifa with a tight blue dress that shows her curves, very provoking for a man. She was really attractive. As soon as Cloud got near her he look at his violet kimono and back away hiding his face. Aeris and I caught up and I asked what was wrong and Aeris went ahead to talk to Tifa.
"Excuse me; are you Tifa from Seven Heaven?" Aeris asked.
"Yes, who are you… oh, wait… you're the girl that was with Cloud down over at the park in Sector 6."
"Yes, but don't worry, is nothing, we're just friends" she said in a very cheery mood.
"What do you mean don't worry? Oh, wait don't misunderstand, we're just childhood friends is nothing." Tifa said firmly.
"Oh poor Cloud, having to hear us calling him nothing!" Aeris giggled.
"Cloud?"Tifa shot a glance at Cloud with a confused face, she got near him to look at his face clearly and she jumped in disbelief "Cloud! Why are you dress like that? What are you doing here? What happened after you felt from the reactor tower? Are you hurt?" she lunged a wave of questions at Cloud and I couldn't help but to giggle as well.
"Tifa! Give me a break to answer your questions: I'm dress like this because there was no other way to get in here. Yes, I'm okay and I'm not hurt, but most importantly; what are you doing here in a place like this?" Cloud said keeping his cool.
"After you felt at Sector 5, there was this weird guy around, so Barret squeezed some information out of him and that's when the name Corneo popped. Still something kept bothering me…" Tifa explained.
"So you wanted to hear the story straight from Corneo's mouth."
"Exactly." Tifa confirmed "Everyday, Corneo pick three girls and he chooses… in this case… " she glance a look at me "four girls and out of them he chooses one to be his bride."
"Well, that's incredibly stupid! What kind of sick bastard is he?" I asked disgusted.
"Well, yes, but the point is, I must be that girl tonight."
"I don't think there is any need to ask, but… the fourth girl… is me, isn't it?" Cloud asked ashamed.
"… … Your right Cloud, there was no need… "
"… to ask." Aeris finished Tifa's sentence while I was giggling.
I heard steps getting closer and it was the guy at the counter "Don Corneo will see you now, follow me." He went on mumbling to himself "I tell you woman nowadays don't listen…"
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We were at front of the ugliest fat blonde old man in the universe, and he was looking at us with such an arrogant stupid smile while "analyzing" us. I couldn't be more disgusted then.
"Now then, I had made my choice." He began " And the winner is… … … … This little beauty!" he pointed at Tifa.
"Fu Fu Fu… Oh Don Corneo, I'm flattered." Tifa acted.
Yes, fu fu fu… in Spanish if you change the 'u' to a 'o' it says "fo" meaning in English "GROSS!"
"Boys you can have the rest." Perverted Rich Bastard said to his boys.
WHAT! He's kidding right… no he is not. *Gulp* His boys took Aeris, me and Cloud and we got separated. I wanted to cry, scream and run away from this creepy place, but instead I was taken inside a creepy room full of empty beer bottles, trash all over the place and a drunken guy inside the room. He was scary looking and had a perverted look on his face. "Hey, Don Corneo sent us a gift! You can have this one!" and I was pushed inside the room and the guy looked like he was high as he lunge a slow look at me.
"Don't worry honey, we'll have lots of fun." He had a stupid laugh too.
"Look, I have to be somewhere else." He was getting close to me "So, I'll leave you, and hope… " he was close "to never see you again" from under my dress I pulled my knife.
"Oh' armed aren't you?" another stupid laugh "This is going to be fun" he lunged at me and I ran sideways making him missed me. This guy was serious! He ordered me to stay still, yeah, as if. But this time he grabbed my ankle, I felt, I kicked him where it hurts, and I crawled away from him. I grab one of the bottles and bang! I hit him on his head breaking the bottle along the way.
Surprise, surprise this guy head was made of steel. "You're pay for that honey cup." He was angry now. I had no choice; he grabbed my waist with both of his hands and… I stabbed him on his right arm, he screamed. I step on his feet using my heel, and I pushed him… he felt and a bunch of boxes felt on him. I ran towards the door now and I got out and I almost bump into Cloud (He wasn't wearing no kimono, no wig).
"CLOUD! THERE'S A PERVETED GUY OVER THERE WHO WANTS TO HAVE SEX WITH ME!" meaning help.
I don't know how, but creepy guy number 68th was made of steel, he went out of the room to go after me, crazy idiot! "What! Who are you?" that's when Cloud went to beat him up. Creepy guy number 68th was down, finally.
"I'm going to look for Aeris, change to your clothes behind that statue." He gave me my stuff and a green ball; I followed his orders.
I changed to, now, my cream cargo pants, I unzipped the dressed, I took it off and I put on my black shirt as fast as possible, I threw the dress and the high heels behind me, not planning on taking them with me at all, I put on my belt, cleaned the blood on my knife using the dress, and finally I put on my green T-shirt and my brown boots. I went out of hiding and I Aeris called out to me. I went towards her.
"Let's hurry, Cloud went ahead."
"Right… "
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Don Corneo was being threat by Aeris, Cloud and Tifa. I was just watching and backing them up.
"Answer us or… I'll cut them off." Cloud threaten him.
"Ooh! That must be painful for you!" I said.
"Oh no! Not that! …" he spilled the first beans.
Another question…
"Answer us or …I'll rip them off." Aeris threaten.
"Wow, that sounds like a lot of pain." I said.
"Oh no! Not that! …" he spilled the second beans.
Last Question…
"Tell us or… I'll SMASH them. "Tifa threaten.
"Oh my goodness, no more sex for you." I said hoping it happens. Yes, I hated the guy, but it was only fair.
"Oh, you guys are serious, aren't you? Ok, I'll talk: Shinra is planning to take out the AVALANCHE by breaking the pillars in Sector 7… everyone will die with a big BANG! I'm just glad is not here in Sector 6… "Don Corneo said.
"What?" Tifa was shocked "Oh no, Barret and everyone else, we have to warn everyone at Sector 7!"
"Let's go!" Cloud and everyone began to move out, but Don Corneo stopped us.
"Why do you think I released all that information…? " Don Corneo gave three options and Cloud chose number two.
"Because you're sure to win." And he was right… unfortunately, he pushed a bottom, and we all felt through a trap door.
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We landed on water, I got up and the water reached half my legs. It stunk here like shit. I was wet with these waters as well. "Where are we?"
"Oh no! We have to get to Barret and the others!" Tifa began saying.
"What's that sound?" I asked noticing some kind of growl… and it happen. Something inside the waters uncovered itself. "Aaaahhh! …. What the hell is that?" I screamed echoing the place with my scream and the fight began. It was the most hideous thing I have ever seen and we have to fight it in order to survive.
Cloud lunged at it with his sword, slashing it with his special techniques, Tifa was backing him up with her Martial Art combos attacks, kicks, punches, sidekicks, upper kicks, somersault … I stabbed the monster numerous times winning a vicious growl from it, and the last time I stabbed it, he use the waters to knocked me out and it cause me to hit myself with the place's walls. I was completely socked now and I couldn't hate the beast more. Cloud hit the finishing blow, he slashed the beast several times, hit him with lighting and stabbed him with his sword cutting half of its body… the monster disappeared into black smock.
"It's too late to warn the others now… "Tifa said in a depress tone.
"…" Cloud said nothing.
"Don't lose hope yet! Never lose hope! We still have time!" Aeris said denying it was the end "Is not easy to break the pillars, right?"
"… Right!" Tifa said, regaining hope almost instantly.
"Then, we hurry." Cloud said. And we did.
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I figured that we were in the sewers, this place was disgusting and it smelled horrible. I was also completely socked with its waters. As I was complaining the whole way, I was getting Cloud irritated. I didn't notice this until he had it with me. We were at the end of the tunnel and my last complain was about this place being covered with shit.
"It's a sewer! What did you expect!" Cloud turned to me so fast that he scared me, but his tone… he was really mad. "Look! You shouldn't be here to start with! Your job was supposed to be you babysitting Marlene, and yet here you are! You ditched your work, you somehow made out of Sector 7, you transported yourself to Sector 5, and you came to us as prisoner, not dead, with Shinra soldiers. How? I don't really care. Why? I could care less. But right now more important things are happening and your stupid complains are holding us back. Cynthia, I don't know where you from and why you ran away, and frankly I don't care, but I don't need to care to know that you were treated like a princess in your house, and you're reasons to run away must've been stupid ones, I just hope they weren't dumb." The only one that have ever talked this way to me… was my brother. "So, Cynthia… if you can't take the heat, get out of the oven. Not everything is like you want it to be, nothing is incline to happen the way you plan it, people with worst fate than yours exist and I could bet they're happier than you, grow up Cynthia." He turned and climbed the stairs to exit this place.
Tifa turned as well supporting Clouds points. I was… speechless. There was a nude in my throat, I wanted to cry, I wanted to scream, and I wanted to drown myself with the waters that surrounded me. No tears came out, I was trembling. My heart was pounding so hard it hurt my chest. I saw Aeris hand reaching my shoulders, but I escape them "I'm alright, I'm fine, just go with Cloud!" I said so fast I wondered if she understood me, but she did. I was using my wet hair to cover my miserable face. I looked up, and I was alone in this sewer.
I was so mad, not because of Cloud's words, but because he was right. A game was telling me the truth clearer than water… clean water. No, not a game, a character from this game… he saw the selfishness I could never see with my own eyes. It was then that I realized… this place was also real. I noticed for the first time, that Cloud wasn't animated… he was a real person. His skin was real, his hair was real, his clothes were real, his feelings were real, and he was as real as me. He wasn't a bunch of numbers… Tifa, Aeris, Jessie, Biggs, Wedge, Barret, Marlene, the dangers, the streets, the heat, the cold, these waters, these clothes, the pain… were all real. I lifted my head…
She has two minutes or we'll leave her. I heard Cloud said.
… I pulled my wet hair away from my face, and I only let one and only one tear out… and it was the last I would allowed out. Cloud was right, and I wasn't going to allowed myself to be a huge bump in their way. The material that Aeris gave me back at Corneo's place was shinning on my left hand and I felt for the first time strong and I was grateful for Cloud's harsh words.
I climb from that place, and we moved towards Sector 7.
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