A/N: 10th chapter, yay! Now that it is getting somewhere I will ask for reviews. Got an opinion? Just go ahead and tell me in any way you like! Since the two of us writing this would very much like to know what you think of this story :)

Something was coming, and by the sound of it, something larger than the thin monster they met first.

Heavy footsteps scratching the tiled floor with claws they could only imagine and the dark growling sound echoed down the hall. They all thought it sounded a bit like a behemoth, yet not at all.

Genesis was the only one with a weapon, and if this thing was indeed something alike a behemoth, then they wouldn't be able to fight it off. They could most likely run away from it, but Cloud didn't have the mako boost they had, he would fall behind, they couldn't risk the life of a friend, especially not the youngest one.

Hide. That was their best option.

Even if the previous occupants of the room had failed to use the office as a hiding place, they could always pray for the being to pass them by.

Sephiroth was the first to think off this and silently told everyone to hide. All of them found their own hiding spots. Sephiroth hid beneath the desk, Genesis behind a bookshelf moved away from the wall barely enough to fit a person, Angeal behind a torn couch probably used for guests to the office, Zack behind a large pile of debris and Cloud hid inside a large cardboard box.

Then they were silent.

The thing came closer and when they could tell it was just outside their room, the worst thing that could happen, occurred. The debris still blocking the door slightly was forcefully smashed away, the door went with it too, and the growling echoed in the room.

A repeating sniffing made it clear that the thing had a good sense of smell obviously. Claws scratched on the floor as it took another few steps into the room, everyone holding their breaths by now.

From behind the couch Angeal dared to take a peak, and then wished he hadn't. It was dangerous. What was he thinking?

He could only see half the being, not the front of it though. In the dark he could tell the being was walking on four legs, a long tail swayed lightly and reached all the way out the door, the body was thinner than expected but obviously very muscular, like the whole thing was made out of only muscle and the claws on its hind legs was bent and larger than his own head. He retreated behind the couch and shivered at the thought of those claws attacking a human being.

The whispers for help that Sephiroth heard wasn't echoes anymore; right now they were screams, like there were people in the same room screaming for help. Cold sweat was running down his forehead and he tried concentrating on the claws of the being that was getting closer to the desk.

Zack too took a peak from behind the debris and made absolutely sure not to look straight at the being, only observe it through the corner of his eye. What he could see was that the being had something alike a mane on its back, like a behemoth, he could also see the thing closing up to what he knew was Sephiroth's hiding place. The evil laughs he heard turned dark and excited, like they were eager to know what the being would do to his friend. He almost buried himself in the debris and wished as much as he could that his friend would not be discovered.

Cloud was fighting against crying with the other voices, never had he been this frightened before. He closed his eyes shut with silent tears of fear for what could happen, both for himself and his friends, trickling down his cheeks and biting his lip till it started bleeding to keep from making any sound.

Genesis' whispering voices were challenging him, criticizing his ability as a SOLDIER, that he was a coward that can't even fight off one single monster to save his friends. It was driving him mad. He shouted back at the voices in his mind and tried to hide behind a shield of toughness, but it did not work.

Frustration overtook and he held up his materia and leaned out from his hiding place just as the monster jumped up with its front legs onto the desk with claws easily the same size as his own head. He drew in a breath to gain confidence, which now lead to him revealing his presence as the monster turned its three heads towards him.

The whispers suddenly changed to call him stupid and a fool who easily could be tricked into reckless decisions. His mind was getting numb by then. The being he stared straight at didn't help his state of mental health either as it placed down one of its fleshy paws on the floor again, staring intently at the potential prey.

The head to its right had a behemoth like mouth and thin long horns pointing straight up, the head to its left was the only with a nose, its bottom jaw seemed to be ripped off, or maybe it was meant to look like that, with the tongue hanging down and it had horns that twisted around like a goats, the head in the middle seemed to have a mouth that had melted together, then ripped open with still some pieces of flesh holding onto the upper and lower jaw, it had large horns just like a behemoth and its whole head looked a tiny bit like bone, and the eyes of the being was nonexistent. Still Genesis felt the being staring straight into the very core of his soul.

His conscious was slipping away and his ability to think fading, as was everything in front of his eyes and he dropped his materia to the floor and it rolled away. The light sound of the stone hitting the floor alerted everyone in the room.

Negative thoughts, confusion and just the feeling of wanting everything to disappear resulted with everything in front of Genesis eyes faded to dark and he fell towards the floor behind the bookshelf with a thud, alerting everyone in the room with worry once again.