A/N: Well after my long hiatus I've finally returned to write and sink my teeth into the real plot of my story. Oh and since I hate the flashback I'm not going to do it and create my own filler to fit in the gap.

Disclaimer: I do not own final fantasy or it's plot. I do however own Chris and due to my friends requests I'm allowed to use Emma and Ryan

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Chapter 10: Kalm Time! ...Or not

Cloud, Aerith and Red finally made it to the outskirts of Kalm and made their way to the inn guessing that Barret and Tifa would be there first.

Cloud told the two to go on ahead as he wanted to go buy weapons for everyone.

Cloud entered the store and was browsing at the fine wares the woman was selling.

"Aren't they little pricey?" Cloud said looking into his wallet seeing only a few notes left.

"Well of course they are sir! Mythril is very rare now since the mines were shut down!" The woman shouted back to Cloud in a rude way.

"I only have enough for all of them but the sword, can't I pay you some other way?"Cloud asked desperately.

"Well I'm more likely to give discounts when I get to have guests over for 'dinner' ," The woman said using sarcastic hand gestures when saying dinner.

Just then the man who owned the item store next door showed up giving a wave to the woman "Hi sugar kitten! I remembered it's our anniversary and booked us a night at the inn for later so we can have a night without the kids," The man said to his wife.

"That's nice dear. See you later!" She said with a wave as he left the building.

Cloud then looked at her with disgust "Ugh you are a filthy two timing whore who thought I was some Gigolo!!!" Cloud shouted at her with violence pointing his buster sword at her.

The woman was now afraid "Take the weapons!!! and this heal Materia! Just don't hurt me!!!" The woman screamed in fear throwing everything Cloud wanted on top of the counter.

"Thanks," Cloud said putting all the stuff into his inter-dimensional pockets (How else do they carry all the stuff in their inventory?) with some difficulty.

Cloud arrived in the inn and went upstairs into the lounge room that Barret managed to clear out for them.

"Hey guys! I got you all new weapons!!!" Cloud shouted throwing a claw at Tifa, a weapon attachment for Barret and a staff for Aerith.

"Thanks Cloud, but we wanna know what the hell is goin on and what's Sephiroth's got to do with this all?" Barret asked Cloud, speaking for the rest of them.

"Well it's a really long story and it begins six years ago...

On Chris' side of the story...

Chris was reading a book in his room when Emma opened his door.

"Chris we have a problem. Ryan escaped and is on his way up these stairs," Emma said not in the mood to torture Ryan again.

Chris sighed and put his book down and mumbled something like 'wait here a sec' as he headed to the stairs seeing Ryan with rope marks all over his person and the tape still stuck on his mouth.

"you're persistent but I'm stealing your money privileges. Which I'm glad to say Ryan," Chris said jumping on Ryan knocking him out... with ease.

Chris then found a large cardboard box near the trash bin and stuffed Ryan on and put it outside to be mailed.

The words on it said:

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Item to be delivered to Honey Bee HQ

No returns!!!

Warning!!! Item is to be delivered to storage section.

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And with that Chris left the box to be mailed and he went back to his room to read a decent book.

Back to Cloud's story...

Cloud was getting into the part of his story that got them all hooked. "So there was Sephiroth standing there topless thinking he's all that when the only person staring is some old lady!" Everyone got some chuckles out of that line but Red XIII had to make a point "But Cloud were does that lead to our story?" Red asked the spiked blonde.

"Well Red because he was showing off in front of the window I felt like going about town and ended up visiting my mum but that's all weird and blurry to me. So I decided to go visit Tifa's house and I went in to find no one home," Cloud said hooking everyone back in especially Tifa.

"So no one was home I went upstairs to see if you were in your room listening to music or something," Cloud stated as a somewhat excuse.

"I went inside and you weren't there but something caught my eye," Cloud said looking down on the floor in shame.

"Cloud was it my letter? Did you read it?" Tifa asked feeling sympathy for Cloud because she's understand why he'd read it and stuff like this always embarrassed him.

"Actually I noticed something hanging out of your drawers and picked it up and I was staring at an orthopaedic bra," Cloud muttered, his voice barely audible to them all.

However Red XIII heard due to his animal senses and Aerith and Tifa heard thanks to their gossip expert ears yet Barret couldn't hear a single thing.

"Cloud!!! How could you go picking up my bras!!!," Tifa said with anger on her face, yet inside she was flattered that Cloud looked at her bra and blushed about it.

"I thought it was a rag," Cloud muttered even more quietly but Tifa once again heard it and he then earned a red glove mark on the right side of his face.

"Now carry on with the story at the next day please!" Tifa said trying to get her underwear out of the story.

"Fine Tifa, so the next day we were waiting outside for our guide to show up and boy was I surprised who it was," Cloud said and at that second gave a quick shocked gasp that was inaudible to everyone else...

The Shinra Executives (minus Chris) ...

Te helicopter landed softly in Junon base and Rufus was in a bossy mood already "Heideggar whip all these soldiers into performers now!!! Scarlet you examine and upgrade the sister ray and Reeve get all the spare cash we have. Rufus wants an office party," Rufus said in the 3rd person at the end of the sentence with a look of lust on his lips.

"Very well Rufus and should I hire BikiniBabestm or HoneyBeeinc?" reeve asked knowing those two were the presidents favourite 'party guests' .

"Surprise me Reeve!" Rufus said harshly as he headed for the lift to his main office.

Reeve walked down another alleyway to the business and travel offices sighing "I hate him already the over compensator," Reeve said rudely about his new boss.

"Don't forget he cut loose the little tec wiz," Hojo said to Reeve as he was standing outside the door to travel and business.

"What are you doing in travel Hojo?" Reeve asked shocked by seeing the scientist outside a lab or meeting.

"I'm getting myself a vacation somewhere tropical Reeve," Hojo stated flatly "You'll have to wait in line some rude woman called 'Tank' barged in."

"Really then I hope she won't be too long," Reeve said in partial fear of what Rufus would do to him if he didn't get women dancers for him in 10 minutes.

Back to Clouds Story...

"So there I was facing Sephiroth ready to fight him and..." Cloud informed the others seeming like he stopped mid sentence.

"Well, what happened next?!" Barret asked in his usual violent way.

"I...don't know." Cloud said slowly as if he was trying to remember what had really happened.

Tifa was holding her breath and seemed really out of it during the whole story but then asked a question "Cloud. How badly was I hurt?"

"It looked really bad. I was worried about you Tifa," Cloud said solemnly.

Tifa then kept quiet after that response and begun looking to the floor.

Aerith then looked at Cloud in a sympathetic look "So Sephiroth tried to kill you? Cloud that's awful we have to stop him somehow. I know you can do it though," Aerith said giving him a kind hug after she finished talking.

Cloud was shocked by the hug and got a light blush on his cheeks "Thanks Aerith," Cloud said kindly.

"Ahem!!!" Tifa said giving the two a glare "We're leaving and hunting for that silver-haired, emo-freak now!!!" and with that Tifa barged out of the room heading downstairs.

Barret followed suit obviously wanting to go take action.

Aerith released Cloud from her kind hug and gave him a wave as she headed downstairs.

Cloud then headed down and Red XIII was still there in thought "so Sephiroth thinks he is a Cetra hmmm interesting," Red said to himself as he then left the room to join the others...

At Kalm Plaza...

Emma was having a fruit smoothie while reading a shojo manga in the Kalm Plaza whle waiting for Chris to leave the Kalm Clinic.

Chris appeared in front of her suddenly giving her quite the shock.

"Hey Emma! The flower girl really busted up my right wrist I can't even feel it," He said showing her his bandaged wrist.

"Well tough. Use your good hand for your dangerous weapons instead," Emma said making her point as she put her manga volume in her bag.

"Are we still waiting for this Turk that's meant to show up or what?" Chris asked her.

"Well they know Ryan is gone so they are sending some Elena girl to pick up only me so I'm sorry but you'll have to get to Junon another way." Emma stated while sipping the rest of her smoothie.

"How peachy! Well I'll get there one way or another I guess..." Chris said with depression in his voice.

Emma gave him a shrug and they begun to head back to the Inn and pack up.

Outside the Inn...

"So Cloud, that's the plan we'll meet outside the other side of the Mythril caves and me and Red will be waiting for you slow bastards!!!" Barret said as he and Red ran off from the gates of Kalm in a hurry.

"Well he loves running so lets hope a snake eats him," Cloud said in a terrible attempt of a joke.

"That's terrible Cloud!" Aerith laughed finding his bad humour funny.

Tifa rolled her eyes while thanking the gods she got to travel with Cloud this time.

They were about to set off when they locked eyes with two familiar people.

"Y-You two!?" Tifa stammered at the two in fear...

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A/N:Yes I wanted to be the bitch and leave you hanging again for more plot reasons. I'm releasing this with one of my other series so I hope you all enjoy this one and be ready for the next which will be in a fortnights time maximum.