Barret: Yo! That Hika-brat tol' me to tell you that she don't own us! That done I'm gonna go to a fanfic I'm actually in.
Hika-chan: Ohh tou-chy
Barret: Lay off brat!
HC: *raspberry's in his general direction*
Barret: *pulls up his gun arm* What was that?
HC: eep.... you can go now if you want...
Barret: Thought so...
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Beautiful Nightmare
An FF7 Fanfic by Hika-chan
Chapter 10: A Little Payback
The ex-ShinRa workers and ninja arrived back at the house around mid afternoon, "Hmm I wonder where Vince and Ral are..." Reno muttered, noticing that only the one Chocobo was in the yard. "Ah well hey Ruf come outside with me?"
"What?" He asked having just put his bags in the room.
"I wanna talk to you about something." The two went out onto the back porch, leaning up against the railing Reno lit up a ciggarette. "Rufus, I wanna know... what happened to Eveie?" Rufus stared up at him, surprised at the serious question. "We found the crypt.. and well I found this on one of the skeletons," he pulled out the gold chain and charm, "So I know it was her."
Evelynne had been a friend of theirs growing up. Another poor orphan taken in by the ShinRa, she had never been as atheletically competent as the two boys, but she was very smart. Once when they were teens Reno had even asked her out, breifly causing an odd rift making Rufus often feel like a third wheel. Reno gave her the charm on her birthday that year, but later on the relationship had dissolved back into friendship. "Well as you know we were all trapped down there," Rufus began, "At first it was ok, we had power and food but as time passed some of the people inside kinda lost it, and well some got more violent than others." He paused turning to stare at the floor. "You know how she was though, always wanting to help no matter the situation. We were trying to stop this one guy and well... she got hurt. He hit her over the head with a metal pipe..."
Reno looked down as well then back at his blonde comrade then let out a short laugh, "'Always wanting to help'... damn was she ever working for the wrong company."
The two shared a bitter laugh and Rufus looked back up gazing out at the grassy wilderness behind the house. "When are you and Elena going back to Junon?"
Reno shrugged, "I dunno, Elle'll probably wanna go back soon. But well I like spending time around my sis and Seph. O course now that Huffy the Ninja's here I might have to plan my visits better. What about you? You wanna come back to Junon with us?"
"I honestly don't know, with ShinRa Inc. gone well.. my future's pretty uncertain. I mean I always knew I'd inherit the company but now.. well there is no company. I need time to think."
The two stood in silence for a few minutes before Reno spoke up again, "Hey how did you survive the Diamond WEAPON attack anyway? Weren't you in your office?"
"I was, but it was weird... This feeling just came over me, you know. Like it was dangerous and I had to get out. It seemed almost instinctual but it felt like it wasn't coming from me. So I started to leave. I barely made it out in time but the blast still knocked me out. Once I was found it turns out you, Reeve and the other Turks were already gone."
Reno grinned, "Suffice to say we thought teaming up with AVALANCHE and taking a more 'hands on' aproach to Sephiroth was a good idea at the time." He took in a slow draw of his ciggarette thinking of what Rufus described a moment ago, Hmmm.."This feeling... it felt like it wasn't coming from me".. could it have been Ral? We don't really know that much about her powers.... He looked up to the blonde. "Hey wanna go out tonight?" He grinned, "Two bachelors such as ourselves should not sit at home all night."
Rufus eyed his friend with a look of disbelief, "Reno..."
"Yeah?"
"I just got out of a year and a half in a hole and you want to go out?"
The Turk shook his head with a small laugh, "Yeah I figure you either need to get piss drunk... or laid... or both."
Rufus could not help but laugh at his friend, "Maybe tomorrow night."
"You pwomise?" The red head asked like a child.
"Don't make me smack you."
***
"Ralena..."
"Hmm?" The two were sitting out on the grass in the park. Ralena reclined back on her arms and Vincent sitting beside her.
"Yesterday in Midgar..." Vincent began slowly, "We were fighting this thing and I... I turned into Chaos."
"Oh really?" she said, not really seeing anything odd about it.
He nodded, "But it was nothing like the times before. I completely lost all control of it, I almost attacked the others it wasn't until Yuffie mentioned you and the baby that I was able to regain control." He turned his red eyes on her, "I realized that when I caught you on the tower I was in complete control thanks to you, and while in other battles I had lost it, I had enough control not to attack our comrades. But Chaos completely had me then, and I think it's because you weren't there Ralena." He smiled and took her hand, "It is like you are my anchor," his smile faded somewhat, "But I fear that one day, even with you around I'll lose total control and hurt you... or worse."
She gently reached up a hand to his face and smiled. "That will never happen. Because you will always have me here," she said moving her hand to his heart. "And you will always have our child there as well." She took his hand and moved it to her stomach, "What more could you ask for?" She leaned in and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.
***
Oh god she was about to gag. If these two didn't stop this nonsese she would probably just give up and kill them outright. But then where would the tortourous fun come in? No she would have to bide her time... When were they going to go home!? Finally a few minutes later the couple got up and left the park and headed off towards home. "About damn time," she muttered, getting up and following them discretely. When they reached the house she lightly jumped up into a nearby tree, oh this was just too perfect! All five of the people who had fought the reaper were here, though it did take her a while to identify the one, he had already changed so much. "Alright then, now that that's done it's time to go pay mother a visit..."
***
Yuffie awoke in the middle of the night from some odd dream she could barely remember. It was good and fun, then bad, then kinda on the rebound towards good when she woke. But even so it was enough to keep her awake staring into the shadows of her room. Maybe if she got up and got herself a drink of water... She stopped the second she opened the door, hearing a noise from downstairs, 'A burglar?' She blindly reached over and grabbed the nearest thing she could use for a weapon. Now armed she slowly crept down the stairs, and into the kitchen from where the noise orginated, seeing the dark figure shifting through a drawer. She slowly reached over and turned on the light, readying her weapon.
When the lights turned on Rufus spun, pointing the utensil in his hand like a weapon almost on instinct. He blinked seeing the young ninja before him. They both stared a moment, eyes adjusting to the light. Then Yuffie raised a brow at his would be weapon, "A plastic knife?"
He looked down at the object in his hand then up at Yuffie, "A foam bat?"
"Eh?" She looked at the bat, When the hell did that get in my room? She looked back up at him then began laughing, "Yeah I guess you got a point there. What are you doing in here?"
"Sandwich. You?"
"Drink," she answered deciding against mentioning her dream. "Why didn't you turn the light on?"
Rufus shrugged, "Didn't need it. Used to the dark remember?"
"Yeah I guess you would be," She said opening the fridge, then suddenly she hoped that didn't sound too casual considering the circumstances. She put the orange juice on the table then went to a cabinet to get a drink, bringing her somewhat close to the blonde houseguest, though neither seemed to notice. Catching a glance at the plates as she opened the cabinet, he caught it before it closed. They were in silence for sometime, Yuffie thinking intently on something as she drank her juice and Rufus constucting his midnight snack. "Man I gotta think of something..." Yuffie muttered to herself.
"Pardon?"
"Eh? oh sorry... I was just trying to think of something to do..."
"About?"
She grinned and leaned back, "To get Reno back of course. But I don't want to do anything that will involve me having to clean up."
Rufus moved to the table, thoughts turning in his mind, "Hey Yuffie... Just how stealthy are you?"
"Eh?"
***
The alarm in his room went off surprisingly early to him, as he rolled over and smacked the snooze button. Wait a minute... since when did he set the alarm? After a few futile smacks of the table top the redhead opened on emerald eye. The alarm clock wasn't there but the distinct irritating buzzing sound was. Squeezing his eyes shut he rolled over to grab another pillow to put over his head only to find none. What the hell? He sat up and looked around the room, nothing seemed overly out of place that he could notice in his half awake state. He looked around seeing one thing out of place though, the alarm clock was buzzing annoyingly on the ground. fucking piece of.. He picked it up and turned off the alarm. Wait a second... where's my suitcase?
He stood up finally noticing that he had not kicked off his comforter, the thick blanket was gone. He opened his closet finding nothing inside, and noticed his nightstick was missing as well. "Oh shit..." he muttered then noticed the open window. "You have got to be shitting me!"
"I've been robbed!?" Vincent looked up from the coffee he was making at the disbelief in the Turk's voice. The red head entered the kitchen in his boxers, "Vince I think we've been robbed."
Vincent just looked at him and looked around, "Everything out here is normal."
"They took all my fucking clothes!"
"..."
They heard a yawn and Ralena entered the kitchen, "Look what I found in the stable, I wonder if Haretia stole it off a clothes line or something."
Reno ran over and grabbed the object in question, "That's my shirt!" He declared taking it from his sister's grasp. He sniffed it then realized it reaked of chocobo. "Oh shit... don't tell me that." He ran out on the back porch. The blue chocobo had several pieces of clothing in her mouth and she dropped them on a small pile in the yard. Then she turned around and scratched the ground at her feet, spraying dirt all over the small pile.
Reno was so shocked he hadn't even noticed Yuffie sitting on the railing watching the chocobo and Rufus leaning on it beside her, both holding a cup of some kind of Wutaian tea or another. She grinned in Reno's direction then turned back to her blonde accomplice. "Now wasn't that a lovely sunrise Mr. President?"
"Indeed, and don't you think the chocobo show was quite entertaining Lady Ninja?"
"Oh yes quite interesting behavior..."
The turk immediately turned on the two, "You did this didn't you!?" he glared, pointing at the ninja.
"Oh please Reno," she said reverting back to normal speach, "How could I have possibly gotten all that stuff without waking you?"
"And you! You helped her didn't you!? How could you help the enemy like that?"
Rufus blinked, "I have no idea what you are talking about Reno." He took a sip from his cup, "And what's all this talk about the enemy? Is there some gender war I wasn't informed of?"
"Why you-" He stopped as he noticed the mound of earth growing over his belongings, "Dammit bird will you stop that!?" Haretia looked up at him and gave him the chocobo equvalent of what he was sure was a raspberry then walked off back into the stable. Reno jumped the fence and went to get his clothes mumbling various obscenities as he headed to the laundry room.
Yuffie and Rufus shared a sly grin. "Payback's a bitch ain't it?" she said before exchanging a hi-five.
***
After the morning's events, which Elena was quite upset that she missed, the day was far more subdued than the previous day. The blonde Turk was pounding away on her laptop, decrypting and sorting through all the information on JENOVA trying to find that which was most relevant. Ralena was going to have a few people over for piano lessons. Reno did his laundry grumbling and cursing incessantly, he also spent sometime in the stable looking for his weapon. (fortunately they only hid the pillow and blankets which he found under his bed). His rival (Yuffie) was in the process of turning the basement into a gym of some sort and setting up her weapons in a lockable case similar to the one that Vincent kept his guns (and Rufus') in except that her's was a glass case as opposed to a safe. Sephiroth was spending most of his time with Ralena and Reno, between lessons and loads of laundry. As it turned out Vincent and Rufus found something in common as far as their interest in firearms and examined his collection.
Sometime that afternoon Rufus approached Ralena, "Ralena, could I take one of the chocobo's out for a ride?"
"I don't see why not, you know how to ride?"
He smiled confidently, "It's been awhile but I'm sure I can handle it."
She led him out back, "You can take Haretia, she knows the area better than Thunder and she'll know the way back if you get lost." The ex-president nodded, slightly put off at the idea that he might do something so stupid as get lost. The empath led him outside and prepared the chocobo. "Now don't go throwing him off you here me girl?" The chocobo cooed back at her and nuzzled into her shoulder. "Oh come on don't give me that, I'm sure he'll bring you back." She turned back to Rufus, "You wanna grab some water and maybe a weapon?"
Oh yeah.. he had almost forgotten about that he must be loosing his touch. "I'll be right back." A few minutes inside and Rufus returned, shotgun strapped to his back and a bottle of water in hand. "I'll try not to be too long."
"Take your time, as long as you bring my girl back." She said opening the gate.
"Trust me." He grinned evilly as though trying to get a rise out of her but the empath knew better.
Back inside Elena felt that her eyes would explode, "Reno what do we do with all this stuff once we get the information we need?"
The turk sat down beside her in a pair of borrowed slacks, "Well since no one in the Turks or AVALANCHE is a doctor, we find the cure or whatever, give it to someone who will know what the hell they're doing better than us..."
"We give them the information on JENOVA?"
"No, only the bare essentials then we destroy everything we don't want to risk another Seph-" he cut himself off, "Another incident like before..."
"Are you sure we should destroy it?"
"Hell yes!"
"But what if there's something else out there?" She gestured to the computer screen, "I mean Hojo made so many monsters how do we know if their all dead? Shouldn't we keep the information safe incase something else happens?"
Reno sighed, "It may already be too late for that." Elena looked at him confused. "Ral's blood sample mysteriously went missing from the hospital Elle. What do you think that means? Any scientist working with Hojo could be more than qualified to do blood work. I'm betting that it wasn't misplaced, and that someone is missing from their job."
"You want me to check it out online."
"No, I don't want to risk that information getting out in the slightest, besides I already called Rude in on it."
"What about the bar?"
Reno shrugged, "He said that Terri could handle it for a few days."
***
About four hours after Rufus left, there was still no luck on the files. "God how much crap is there!?" Elena cursed rubbing her eyes. She had only been through four CDs and there were at least thirty left on JENOVA alone, not counting the ones on Ralena. She looked up hearing the phone ring, which was doing no good for the headache she was developing trying to sort through all this scientific mumbo jumbo. "Could someone get that before my brain explodes?"
Vincent picked up the phone, "Hello?"
Ralena walked over to the Turk, handing her some asprin and water, "I really wanna thank you for helping me out Elena."
She smiled, "Hey no problem."
They heard Vincent in the kitchen. "See you soo-" He was cut off by the sound of an aircraft over head. Vincent sighed, "See you now then." He hung up and walked to the dining room where the two girls were. "Cloud's here with the files from Nibelhiem."
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Hika-chan: I'm sure you've probably noticed but the Storyline is straying a bit from Ral and Vince huh? Well I always like writing the pairing up of people better than all the stuff afterwards, it just seems more interesting to me. But it'll swing back around some I'm sure... once I actually get the damn villian in action!
Ferra: When do I get to do stuff?
HC: Well I need to wait for-
Ferra: Don't give me that bullshit just stop making evey chapter one day! Summerize and get it over with ok?
HC: but.. but...
Ferra: I don't want to hear it, if I don't do something evil next chapter I'm leaving.
HC: *sighs* I'll see what I can do....
Ferra: *turns to the readers* Oh yeah when are you gonna R&R huh? HC: Hey don't be so rude! Ferra: Quiet you! HC: -eep!-
Hika-chan: Ohh tou-chy
Barret: Lay off brat!
HC: *raspberry's in his general direction*
Barret: *pulls up his gun arm* What was that?
HC: eep.... you can go now if you want...
Barret: Thought so...
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An FF7 Fanfic by Hika-chan
Chapter 10: A Little Payback
The ex-ShinRa workers and ninja arrived back at the house around mid afternoon, "Hmm I wonder where Vince and Ral are..." Reno muttered, noticing that only the one Chocobo was in the yard. "Ah well hey Ruf come outside with me?"
"What?" He asked having just put his bags in the room.
"I wanna talk to you about something." The two went out onto the back porch, leaning up against the railing Reno lit up a ciggarette. "Rufus, I wanna know... what happened to Eveie?" Rufus stared up at him, surprised at the serious question. "We found the crypt.. and well I found this on one of the skeletons," he pulled out the gold chain and charm, "So I know it was her."
Evelynne had been a friend of theirs growing up. Another poor orphan taken in by the ShinRa, she had never been as atheletically competent as the two boys, but she was very smart. Once when they were teens Reno had even asked her out, breifly causing an odd rift making Rufus often feel like a third wheel. Reno gave her the charm on her birthday that year, but later on the relationship had dissolved back into friendship. "Well as you know we were all trapped down there," Rufus began, "At first it was ok, we had power and food but as time passed some of the people inside kinda lost it, and well some got more violent than others." He paused turning to stare at the floor. "You know how she was though, always wanting to help no matter the situation. We were trying to stop this one guy and well... she got hurt. He hit her over the head with a metal pipe..."
Reno looked down as well then back at his blonde comrade then let out a short laugh, "'Always wanting to help'... damn was she ever working for the wrong company."
The two shared a bitter laugh and Rufus looked back up gazing out at the grassy wilderness behind the house. "When are you and Elena going back to Junon?"
Reno shrugged, "I dunno, Elle'll probably wanna go back soon. But well I like spending time around my sis and Seph. O course now that Huffy the Ninja's here I might have to plan my visits better. What about you? You wanna come back to Junon with us?"
"I honestly don't know, with ShinRa Inc. gone well.. my future's pretty uncertain. I mean I always knew I'd inherit the company but now.. well there is no company. I need time to think."
The two stood in silence for a few minutes before Reno spoke up again, "Hey how did you survive the Diamond WEAPON attack anyway? Weren't you in your office?"
"I was, but it was weird... This feeling just came over me, you know. Like it was dangerous and I had to get out. It seemed almost instinctual but it felt like it wasn't coming from me. So I started to leave. I barely made it out in time but the blast still knocked me out. Once I was found it turns out you, Reeve and the other Turks were already gone."
Reno grinned, "Suffice to say we thought teaming up with AVALANCHE and taking a more 'hands on' aproach to Sephiroth was a good idea at the time." He took in a slow draw of his ciggarette thinking of what Rufus described a moment ago, Hmmm.."This feeling... it felt like it wasn't coming from me".. could it have been Ral? We don't really know that much about her powers.... He looked up to the blonde. "Hey wanna go out tonight?" He grinned, "Two bachelors such as ourselves should not sit at home all night."
Rufus eyed his friend with a look of disbelief, "Reno..."
"Yeah?"
"I just got out of a year and a half in a hole and you want to go out?"
The Turk shook his head with a small laugh, "Yeah I figure you either need to get piss drunk... or laid... or both."
Rufus could not help but laugh at his friend, "Maybe tomorrow night."
"You pwomise?" The red head asked like a child.
"Don't make me smack you."
"Ralena..."
"Hmm?" The two were sitting out on the grass in the park. Ralena reclined back on her arms and Vincent sitting beside her.
"Yesterday in Midgar..." Vincent began slowly, "We were fighting this thing and I... I turned into Chaos."
"Oh really?" she said, not really seeing anything odd about it.
He nodded, "But it was nothing like the times before. I completely lost all control of it, I almost attacked the others it wasn't until Yuffie mentioned you and the baby that I was able to regain control." He turned his red eyes on her, "I realized that when I caught you on the tower I was in complete control thanks to you, and while in other battles I had lost it, I had enough control not to attack our comrades. But Chaos completely had me then, and I think it's because you weren't there Ralena." He smiled and took her hand, "It is like you are my anchor," his smile faded somewhat, "But I fear that one day, even with you around I'll lose total control and hurt you... or worse."
She gently reached up a hand to his face and smiled. "That will never happen. Because you will always have me here," she said moving her hand to his heart. "And you will always have our child there as well." She took his hand and moved it to her stomach, "What more could you ask for?" She leaned in and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.
Oh god she was about to gag. If these two didn't stop this nonsese she would probably just give up and kill them outright. But then where would the tortourous fun come in? No she would have to bide her time... When were they going to go home!? Finally a few minutes later the couple got up and left the park and headed off towards home. "About damn time," she muttered, getting up and following them discretely. When they reached the house she lightly jumped up into a nearby tree, oh this was just too perfect! All five of the people who had fought the reaper were here, though it did take her a while to identify the one, he had already changed so much. "Alright then, now that that's done it's time to go pay mother a visit..."
Yuffie awoke in the middle of the night from some odd dream she could barely remember. It was good and fun, then bad, then kinda on the rebound towards good when she woke. But even so it was enough to keep her awake staring into the shadows of her room. Maybe if she got up and got herself a drink of water... She stopped the second she opened the door, hearing a noise from downstairs, 'A burglar?' She blindly reached over and grabbed the nearest thing she could use for a weapon. Now armed she slowly crept down the stairs, and into the kitchen from where the noise orginated, seeing the dark figure shifting through a drawer. She slowly reached over and turned on the light, readying her weapon.
When the lights turned on Rufus spun, pointing the utensil in his hand like a weapon almost on instinct. He blinked seeing the young ninja before him. They both stared a moment, eyes adjusting to the light. Then Yuffie raised a brow at his would be weapon, "A plastic knife?"
He looked down at the object in his hand then up at Yuffie, "A foam bat?"
"Eh?" She looked at the bat, When the hell did that get in my room? She looked back up at him then began laughing, "Yeah I guess you got a point there. What are you doing in here?"
"Sandwich. You?"
"Drink," she answered deciding against mentioning her dream. "Why didn't you turn the light on?"
Rufus shrugged, "Didn't need it. Used to the dark remember?"
"Yeah I guess you would be," She said opening the fridge, then suddenly she hoped that didn't sound too casual considering the circumstances. She put the orange juice on the table then went to a cabinet to get a drink, bringing her somewhat close to the blonde houseguest, though neither seemed to notice. Catching a glance at the plates as she opened the cabinet, he caught it before it closed. They were in silence for sometime, Yuffie thinking intently on something as she drank her juice and Rufus constucting his midnight snack. "Man I gotta think of something..." Yuffie muttered to herself.
"Pardon?"
"Eh? oh sorry... I was just trying to think of something to do..."
"About?"
She grinned and leaned back, "To get Reno back of course. But I don't want to do anything that will involve me having to clean up."
Rufus moved to the table, thoughts turning in his mind, "Hey Yuffie... Just how stealthy are you?"
"Eh?"
The alarm in his room went off surprisingly early to him, as he rolled over and smacked the snooze button. Wait a minute... since when did he set the alarm? After a few futile smacks of the table top the redhead opened on emerald eye. The alarm clock wasn't there but the distinct irritating buzzing sound was. Squeezing his eyes shut he rolled over to grab another pillow to put over his head only to find none. What the hell? He sat up and looked around the room, nothing seemed overly out of place that he could notice in his half awake state. He looked around seeing one thing out of place though, the alarm clock was buzzing annoyingly on the ground. fucking piece of.. He picked it up and turned off the alarm. Wait a second... where's my suitcase?
He stood up finally noticing that he had not kicked off his comforter, the thick blanket was gone. He opened his closet finding nothing inside, and noticed his nightstick was missing as well. "Oh shit..." he muttered then noticed the open window. "You have got to be shitting me!"
"I've been robbed!?" Vincent looked up from the coffee he was making at the disbelief in the Turk's voice. The red head entered the kitchen in his boxers, "Vince I think we've been robbed."
Vincent just looked at him and looked around, "Everything out here is normal."
"They took all my fucking clothes!"
"..."
They heard a yawn and Ralena entered the kitchen, "Look what I found in the stable, I wonder if Haretia stole it off a clothes line or something."
Reno ran over and grabbed the object in question, "That's my shirt!" He declared taking it from his sister's grasp. He sniffed it then realized it reaked of chocobo. "Oh shit... don't tell me that." He ran out on the back porch. The blue chocobo had several pieces of clothing in her mouth and she dropped them on a small pile in the yard. Then she turned around and scratched the ground at her feet, spraying dirt all over the small pile.
Reno was so shocked he hadn't even noticed Yuffie sitting on the railing watching the chocobo and Rufus leaning on it beside her, both holding a cup of some kind of Wutaian tea or another. She grinned in Reno's direction then turned back to her blonde accomplice. "Now wasn't that a lovely sunrise Mr. President?"
"Indeed, and don't you think the chocobo show was quite entertaining Lady Ninja?"
"Oh yes quite interesting behavior..."
The turk immediately turned on the two, "You did this didn't you!?" he glared, pointing at the ninja.
"Oh please Reno," she said reverting back to normal speach, "How could I have possibly gotten all that stuff without waking you?"
"And you! You helped her didn't you!? How could you help the enemy like that?"
Rufus blinked, "I have no idea what you are talking about Reno." He took a sip from his cup, "And what's all this talk about the enemy? Is there some gender war I wasn't informed of?"
"Why you-" He stopped as he noticed the mound of earth growing over his belongings, "Dammit bird will you stop that!?" Haretia looked up at him and gave him the chocobo equvalent of what he was sure was a raspberry then walked off back into the stable. Reno jumped the fence and went to get his clothes mumbling various obscenities as he headed to the laundry room.
Yuffie and Rufus shared a sly grin. "Payback's a bitch ain't it?" she said before exchanging a hi-five.
After the morning's events, which Elena was quite upset that she missed, the day was far more subdued than the previous day. The blonde Turk was pounding away on her laptop, decrypting and sorting through all the information on JENOVA trying to find that which was most relevant. Ralena was going to have a few people over for piano lessons. Reno did his laundry grumbling and cursing incessantly, he also spent sometime in the stable looking for his weapon. (fortunately they only hid the pillow and blankets which he found under his bed). His rival (Yuffie) was in the process of turning the basement into a gym of some sort and setting up her weapons in a lockable case similar to the one that Vincent kept his guns (and Rufus') in except that her's was a glass case as opposed to a safe. Sephiroth was spending most of his time with Ralena and Reno, between lessons and loads of laundry. As it turned out Vincent and Rufus found something in common as far as their interest in firearms and examined his collection.
Sometime that afternoon Rufus approached Ralena, "Ralena, could I take one of the chocobo's out for a ride?"
"I don't see why not, you know how to ride?"
He smiled confidently, "It's been awhile but I'm sure I can handle it."
She led him out back, "You can take Haretia, she knows the area better than Thunder and she'll know the way back if you get lost." The ex-president nodded, slightly put off at the idea that he might do something so stupid as get lost. The empath led him outside and prepared the chocobo. "Now don't go throwing him off you here me girl?" The chocobo cooed back at her and nuzzled into her shoulder. "Oh come on don't give me that, I'm sure he'll bring you back." She turned back to Rufus, "You wanna grab some water and maybe a weapon?"
Oh yeah.. he had almost forgotten about that he must be loosing his touch. "I'll be right back." A few minutes inside and Rufus returned, shotgun strapped to his back and a bottle of water in hand. "I'll try not to be too long."
"Take your time, as long as you bring my girl back." She said opening the gate.
"Trust me." He grinned evilly as though trying to get a rise out of her but the empath knew better.
Back inside Elena felt that her eyes would explode, "Reno what do we do with all this stuff once we get the information we need?"
The turk sat down beside her in a pair of borrowed slacks, "Well since no one in the Turks or AVALANCHE is a doctor, we find the cure or whatever, give it to someone who will know what the hell they're doing better than us..."
"We give them the information on JENOVA?"
"No, only the bare essentials then we destroy everything we don't want to risk another Seph-" he cut himself off, "Another incident like before..."
"Are you sure we should destroy it?"
"Hell yes!"
"But what if there's something else out there?" She gestured to the computer screen, "I mean Hojo made so many monsters how do we know if their all dead? Shouldn't we keep the information safe incase something else happens?"
Reno sighed, "It may already be too late for that." Elena looked at him confused. "Ral's blood sample mysteriously went missing from the hospital Elle. What do you think that means? Any scientist working with Hojo could be more than qualified to do blood work. I'm betting that it wasn't misplaced, and that someone is missing from their job."
"You want me to check it out online."
"No, I don't want to risk that information getting out in the slightest, besides I already called Rude in on it."
"What about the bar?"
Reno shrugged, "He said that Terri could handle it for a few days."
About four hours after Rufus left, there was still no luck on the files. "God how much crap is there!?" Elena cursed rubbing her eyes. She had only been through four CDs and there were at least thirty left on JENOVA alone, not counting the ones on Ralena. She looked up hearing the phone ring, which was doing no good for the headache she was developing trying to sort through all this scientific mumbo jumbo. "Could someone get that before my brain explodes?"
Vincent picked up the phone, "Hello?"
Ralena walked over to the Turk, handing her some asprin and water, "I really wanna thank you for helping me out Elena."
She smiled, "Hey no problem."
They heard Vincent in the kitchen. "See you soo-" He was cut off by the sound of an aircraft over head. Vincent sighed, "See you now then." He hung up and walked to the dining room where the two girls were. "Cloud's here with the files from Nibelhiem."
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Hika-chan: I'm sure you've probably noticed but the Storyline is straying a bit from Ral and Vince huh? Well I always like writing the pairing up of people better than all the stuff afterwards, it just seems more interesting to me. But it'll swing back around some I'm sure... once I actually get the damn villian in action!
Ferra: When do I get to do stuff?
HC: Well I need to wait for-
Ferra: Don't give me that bullshit just stop making evey chapter one day! Summerize and get it over with ok?
HC: but.. but...
Ferra: I don't want to hear it, if I don't do something evil next chapter I'm leaving.
HC: *sighs* I'll see what I can do....
Ferra: *turns to the readers* Oh yeah when are you gonna R&R huh? HC: Hey don't be so rude! Ferra: Quiet you! HC: -eep!-