Sorry it took me so long. We've been trying to calm down Yazoo. /sweatdrop/ It's not working to well.
Kadaj/wacks Yazoo repeatedly over head with Mallet/ What does it take to knock you out!
Sephiroth: I don't think that's going to work. He always had a thick skull.
Audra/rolls eyes/ Will someone do the disclaimer.
Sephiroth: Will you go get me a book to read?
Audra: Just do the disclaimer. /walks out of room to find book on death and distruction for Sephiroth/
Sephiroth/smirks/ Audra Kaiba does not own Final Fantasy VII. Thank God.
Ara got up at 3:30, only to find the house still and silent. After taking a shower, she pulled on the outfit Kadai had given it to her to find that, besides the fact that she could hardly breathe, it fit.
As she came out of her room, she met Kadai coming out of the bathroom, and ended up getting dragged into the silver haired girl's room. Kadai's walls were painted a dark gray and had a black border at the top. Her furniture was stainless steel and black, and her window was hidden behind black curtains.
She was pulled into a sitting position on the floor and Kadai went after her eyes with her black makeup. She first applied black eyeliner to the bottom of her eyes and then brought it out to a point a few centimeters away from her eye, then connected it on the top and brushed over it with a light coating of black eye shadow.
"Done." Kadai said, looking over her handiwork and smiled. "You're good to go. And so am I." Having had her makeup already Kadai, was ready to go as well. "Come on, the boys are going to start yelling if we don't hurry up."
"Alright." Ara followed her downstairs to meet up with the three boys who were all dressed the same way they had been when Ara had first met them. Kadai on the other hand was wearing the same black tube top from the last time along with the jacket, except she had on a black leather miniskirt that, as she had told Ara defensively, had shorts underneath it.
"Are you two ready now?" Loz asked as the two girls walked past him on either side, both smacking him in the back of the head.
Loz stared at Ara who was smirking. "She hit me."
"It's about time." Kadaj muttered. "Come on. He paused as they all filed out the door. "Sephiroth! We're leaving!" No reply, but he new that he had been heard.
"So who's riding with who?" Yazoo asked.
"Ara and I are both riding one of the shadow demons." Kadai told him. Two of the creatures rose from the rocky ground and shook themselves free of dirt before lying down. "Ara, you ride horses, you should be able to ride these. They're the same almost. Except for the fact that they're much faster." Kadai informed her, strapping a belt around her that had a sword on it.
"Yazoo, did you give her a gun?" Loz asked.
"Yeah it's right here." Yazoo pulled out a gun identical to his and handed it to her. Ara began her usual check over to make sure it was in working order, only to be interrupted as Kadaj slid a belt around her waist and tightened it so it was loose on her waist but didn't fall past her hips.
Sliding the gun into the holster on the left side of the belt Ara swung her leg over the left side of the shadow demon and it stood up, not even fazing her. She rearranged herself on it's back until she was seated behind it's shoulder blades and lay down, gripping the twin spikes that stuck out of it's neck.
Kadai watched her slide into place as she mounted her own demon assuming the same position. "We ready boys?" She asked.
"Far as I know." Yazoo said pulling on his gloves then looking up at Ara. "You want a pair of gloves?" She pulled a pair out of her back pocket and slid them on, tightening the strap on the back, before lying flat again.
"Let's go them." Kadaj said getting on his bike and starting it up, the other two following suit. The tree drove forwards and Ara and Kadai's mounts bounded off after them, quickly gaining on them and running alongside each other at the front by Kadaj.
"You know, I think my brother likes you." Kadai told Ara over the sound of the demons pounding feet and the roar of the motorcycles.
"Why do you say that?" Ara asked, turning her head to look at Kadai.
"He put the belt on for you didn't he?" Kadai said, grinning at her.
"Ever heard of just helping someone?" Ara replied.
"I still think he does. Besides, he offered to take you by you're old town without you saying anything." Kadai added.
"So what?" Ara asked.
"Do you like him?" Kadai inquired slyly.
"I won't deny or admit it." Ara said smugly.
"Well I have an idea." Kadai said evilly. "How about you and Kadaj go to your home town by yourselves. That way, you get to spend some time with him alone."
"You're just trying to hook me and him up so you and Yazoo aren't the only couple in the house." Ara threw back jokingly. Kadai sulked for the rest of the trip.
When they reached a hill that overlooked a small village nestled in the valley they stopped. The shadow demons were nervous and fidgety, constantly moving as their riders stood on the ground next to them.
"This is our target." Kadaj told them. "Remember, don't kill anyone unless they attack you. We're only here to keep up Sephiroth's name, not to kill. Ara, I want you and Yazoo on both the west and east side, keep them in. If they do attempt to leave, give off a few warning shots near their feet and then hit them in the foot if need be."
"What side do I take?" Ara asked.
"The west side. You can get there quicker on one of those." Kadaj indicated the shadow demon that was pawing at the ground with its clawed feet. "Yazoo, take the east side, the one closer to the cover of the rocks. Ara, you should be perfectly safe if you stay against the demon. Their hide is impenetrable. When you see the red flare shoot up, get back here. Kadai, Loz, you two know what to do. Now then, lets go."
Without waiting for it to kneel down, Ara grabbed the spike on the demon's neck and swung up onto it's back, perfectly balanced. "Alright, Ara. Head around the outskirts, try and stick to the cover of the rocks until you reach the other side."
She nudged her mount with both heels and it leapt forwards off the cliff, landing perfectly before she directed it through the rocks and around to the far side of the village. A part of her knew that this was a terrible thing to do, but the geostigma was for once not doing anything harmful. If anything, a warm tingling sensation was spreading from her shoulder through her whole body.
She brought the creature out of the rocks and they stole forwards, stopping a few hundred yards from the village entrance. She watched the edges, her eyes sharp and picking up any movement that was there. There was silence for a while until a woman's scream broke the quiet.
Ara felt her muscles tense and her hand flew to her waist. Closing around the gun, and pulling it out, making sure it was loaded and looking back to the village to see three people running out towards them. Ara raised the gun and took careful aim at the ground about 2 feet from them and fired. The first one reeled back in terror as the second and third continued forwards. Ara was slightly confused. What was wrong with these people? If someone had fired a gun at her feet she would have turned tail and run.
But they were still coming. She aimed at the ground again and fired twice. The people went around it. Ara bit her lower lip. She didn't want to shoot anyone in the foot but she had no choice. Bringing the gun up she pointed it at the foot of the tallest figure and fired.
He went down. But the other one, a young girl about 12, stopped and helped him up. Ara suddenly didn't know what she was doing. She was on autopilot. She edged her demon towards them and shot the girl in the foot, but she kept going. Well Kadaj had left out what to do now.
Her demon bounded in front of the two cutting them off, as Ara held the gun pointed at them.
"Go back into you're village. Now." Was that her voice? It sounded so different. So foreign.
"Sephiroth will never over run our village. We will fight." The man told her.
"You will go back to your village unless you want me to kill you." She pointed the gun at his head.
In reply the man pulled out a gun and aimed it at her. Ara didn't even flinch, though on the inside she was shaking. She thought back to what Kadaj had said and without even thinking about it, she raised her gun and shot the man in the forehead.
Hahahaha! I attempted a cliffhanger and I think I suceeded. /Looks at Kadaj and Loz who are both hitting Yazoo with Malets. Yazoo continues rambling on about random stuff/ Anyways, reveiw if you please. No flames, or I'll take Sephiroth's book away and blame it on you.
Sephiroth: Why do you make such rediclous threats?
Audra/Shrugs/ They seem to be working I havn't gotten any flames yet.
Sephiroth/goes back to book/