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Final Fantasy Eds
Chapter 14
After the battle with the Thunder Kisses, the Eds, Amber, and the crew of the airship, the HighWind, were now all able to take a good breather. But because of the battle, the HighWind was submited to some damage that had to be taken care of right away. We join our team in the huge cock pit of the massvie flying ship, helping out on were to land in order to start repairs.
"What about right there?" Double-D said pointing out the large window. Outside, they looked down at miles and miles of green plains, fields, and blue rivers lining them. The young boy was pointing to a large strech of field that was right next to quite a large area of mountains and mountain forests. Amber looked out at it. She rubbed on her still bandaged arm, and said to Double-D, "That WOULD be a good spot, but it's a little too close to those mountains."
"What's so bad about that?" Eddy asked, he too looking out the glass.
"Normaly,large mountain areas have some very nasty monsters wandering around them. " Amber said. "But, we can land just alittle away from there. We should be okay that way." With that, she went over to the man piloting, and told him to land in the choosen area. The pilot obeyed with a salute and proceeded to do so. Amber walked back over to the boys and watched out the window as the HighWind begun to land. Just then, Eddy and Double-D noticed Amber rubbing on her arm again. The boy glaced at each other before Double-D asked saying, "Uh, Amber? Are you going to be okay?"
The young girl looked at the two. "What? Oh, my arm? Don't worry about it, I'll be fine."
"But, you got hurt pretty bad, didn't ya?" Eddy said.
"Trust me, I'll be fine." Amber said with a warm smile. But then, her face turned curious as she suddenly noticed something. "Hey, where did Ed run off to?"
The three turned from the window looked around the cock pit, but they didn't see the big Ed anywhere. "Where did he disapper to?" Double-D said.
"He was just right next to me a second ago." Eddy said. They all decided to quickly spit up to look for him. Knowing he wasn't in the cock pit, they all went out to were the other rooms were. Amber looked in the infermary, but he wasn't there. Eddy check out the meeting room, but with no luck. The two went up to each other, both shaking thier heads an "no" with thier search. But then, Double-D came up behind them.
"I found him!" He called out to them. Amber and Eddy turned to him, both asking , "Where?" Double-D pointed to the chocobo holding room. (Okay, now how many saw THAT coming? ^-^) The group all went into the chocobo room, to see, of course, Ed standing next to one of two chocobos that were in there, stroking it, and hugging it. It was a green chocobo. And the one next to it was black.
"Ed!" Eddy shouted to the dit witted boy. The green chocobo slightly jump at Eddy's voice. Ed came out of his own little world, and turned to Eddy. "Hey guys!" He said happyly.
"Ed, you shouldn't just run off like that." Double-D said, shaking his index finger at him like a scolding mother. Ed made a cute pout face.
"But the cho-cho Double-D!" Ed said pitafuly.
"It's alright Ed." Amber said. She went up to him and just lightly patted him on the head. That made him feel alittle better. "We should have figured that you would come in here sooner or later, right?" Ed responded with a dopy smile.
As Amber was comforting Ed, Eddy took a look at the black chocobo next to the green one. He remembers seeing yellow, green, gold, and even blue ones, but black was a new one! Double-D then started observing it as well.
"Oh, you didn't know that they came in black too, did ya?" Amber said to them. "His name is Midnight."
"What's with all the different colors anyway?" Eddy asked. Double-d nodded in question as he started to gently pet the big black bird.
"Some chocobo that are special colors have special traveling skills." Amber said. "Green chocobos have the ability to climb mountains with amazing speed, Blue chocobos can travel above water, but it can't be too deep, Black chocobos have the ability of both green and blue, but Gold chocobos, like my Goldy, Champ, and Baby, they can do all of that, plus run on deep ocean waters, as you already know. Gold ones also take the longest to breed."
"Wow, cool!" Ed said.
Just then, the gang could feel the airship tremble abit as it finaly landed. The chocobos let out a small scwak when it shook.
"We landed." Amber said, heading out the room. "Come on, lets go." With that, the Eds followed, with Ed waving a quick little goodbye wave to the chocobos.
The boys followed Amber up and to the door to the outside deck. With a good push, she opened it, and a rush of fresh air came blowing into the kids' faces. It felt great! They all walked out and took in the beautiful landscape. There was miles of mountains and green grass, and not too far away, was a crystal blue river. Another breeze blew thought them, making Amber's hair flow gently. Just then, one of the work men can though the door and called to Amber by her other name.
"Ms. Tifa. We have just started repairs, and we believe it will only take a short time before we can take off again."
"Great, that's good to hear." Amber said.
"Uh, Ms. Tifa? One other thing."
"What is it?" Amber asked with a cute little look. She then noticed that the worker was looking at her arm.
"Well, it's just that, we all understand why you just don't "heal" yourself when you get hurt, but just this once..."
'"Heal" herself?' Double-D thought to himself. The other two Eds also thought that.
"...would you please just do it on your injured arm? Myself and the other crew are very worried that it might get infected. That Thunder Kiss REALLY got you good."
Amber looked down at her arm and thought of a sec. With a slight sigh, she rose her head to the worker and said, "Thank you for you all worrying about me. Maybe I'm just alittle paranoid or something when it comes to that. Just go tell the others that I'll be okay."
The worker, understanding that what "Tifa" said sounded like a "yes", saluted to her and smiled. "Thank you, Ms, Tifa. I just want to said that I think we're all lucky to have a kind and understanding person like you abroad with us." The worker then went back into the ship.
The Eds walked up next to Amber, all with confused looks and the same question to ask.
"What the heck was that all about?" Eddy said. "What did he mean by "heal" yourself?"
"Amber?" Ed said.
Before any of them could get another word out, they all jumped back from a sudden flash of green light under her feet. They looked down at it, and then up at Amber, who was in what almost looked like a position for praying. She had her hands together, and her eyes closed. Also, her hair, like before with the wind, flowed ever so gracfuly from the effect of the magic light under her. The Eds all just stood thier ground and watched, waiting to see what kind of spell Amber was doing all of the sudden. She then opened her eyes, raised her hand up to the wound on her arm, and the word whispered out.
"Cure"
Although it was a whisper, the boys could hear it like a soft echo from Amber. As she said it, sprakling green light began to come out of the plam of her hand , and absorded into her wounded arm. Instantly, the blood that bleed thought her bandage abit, disappered completely! Then, slowly, the green light faded away from her.
The three Eds, still just staring on, watched as Amber then removed the bandage from her arm, revealing that the wound was now completely gone. Not even a scar was left.
Ed was the first to run up to her and look at her arm. He poked at it a few times. Double-D and Eddy then came up to see. A few moments of quiet amazment ticked by.
".......WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US YOU CAN HEAL YOURSELF WITH MAGIC?!?!" Eddy shouted loudly. "DID YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED WE WERE ABOUT YOU??!!"
"You were REALLY worried about me, Eddy?" Amber said to him with a cocky little smile. Eddy frozed for a second before responing.
"Well, you were....you were pretty messed up! So, ya know.....I'm not like THAT! Of course we'd be worried about you! Jezz!"
Amber and the other two Eds all began to laugh at Eddy's sudden trouble of not knowing what to say. Eddy just turned his back to them and scowled his usual scowl.
"Yeah, you can use Cure magic to heal wounds." Amber said after laughing. "I didn't just to it earlier cuz, well, I have this stupid thought that if I use it too much on myself, I might not be able to heal naturaly. It's a dumb thing to even think about, uh?"
"It's hasn't happened or anything, has it?" Double-D asked.
"No, it's never happened." Amber answered. "It's just a stupid phobia I got when I first got trapped in this place."
"Magic is a better friend then I thought!" Ed said sweetly.
"You thought that?" Eddy asked turning his head to them.
"Hey, I just had a great idea." Amber said clapping her hands together. "The smaller mountains next to the big ones with the monsters in them, they look great for chocobo climbing! How about while the men inside are working on the HighWind, we take the two chocobos and go for a ride! We won't have anything else to do untill the repairs are done anyway."
"I would enjoy that!" Double-D said.
"OH, THAT WOULD MAKE ED ALL TINGLY!!" Ed said excitely, wrapping his arms around himself.
"Awwww man, not the birds again!!!" Eddy groned.
~ About ten minutes later, the gang was on the ground, waiting for the worker men to bring down the chocobos from the airship. An hidden door underneth opened with a ramp, and out came a worker with the green and black chocobo on leashs. He walked up, and handed them to Amber.
"We should be back in about a hour or so." Amber said to the worker.
The worked nodded, saluted, and went back into the ship. Amber turned to the Eds and said, "Okay, this time, there's only two, so someone is going to have to bunk with the other."
"I want the pretty green one!" Ed said. "It's like the color of that moldy stuff that grows under my bed!"
The other's faces, including Amber's, turned green with Ed's little comment.
"YEAH, just like that!" Ed said pointing to thier faces.
"PLEASE ED! Thats QUITE enough!" Double-D said a little quisy.
"No kidding!" Eddy said in aggrement.
"Okay Ed, you get the green one." Amber said. "This one's name is Gem, she's a female."
"YAY! There goes the TINGLING!!!" Ed said as he ran up, and hopped onto Gem. She made a slight scwak noise from the sudden weight of Ed. "Oh, sorry." Ed said to her.
With Ed all set, Amber how thought of Midnight. "Ya know, I kind of feel like riding Midnight, so one of you are going to have to ride with Ed." She said looking at Eddy and Double-D.
"Shouldn't you go with him, I mean, you had to last time, right?" Double-D said.
"I think me can handled it himself now." Amber said. "Unlike SOME people I know." Her eyes going right to Eddy with a glare.
"Then I'll seat with Ed, and you can ride with Eddy." Double-D said, getting what Amber meant just then.
"I don't want or need ANY help!" The short boy shouted.
"YES YOU DO!" Both Double-D and Amber said to him close up in his face. (Don't forget what trouble Eddy had with chocobos in the past! ^-^)
~ And so, with that, the gang all began to go for a ride on the chocobos, with Ed and Double-D on Gem, and Amber and Eddy on Midnight, with AMBER controling Midnight (hint hint). They ripped across the grass heading towards the river, and beyond that, the mountains. The black and green birds practicly hopped on and over the river, making it splash in the gang's faces. Getting some water in his mouth, Ed spit it out over his head like a water fountain, getting some on an alreadly wet Double-D. Soon after that, the chocobos were jumping from rock to rock on the cliffs of the mounts. The Eds could hear the chocobos' shrap clawed talons as they dug into the hard rock, frimly securing their balance.
"Hey! Don't this all just make ya feel alive!?" Amber yelled out to Ed and Double-D. Eddy just stayed quiet, holding on to the Midnight's tail feathers so he wouldn't fall.
"CHOCOBOS RIDERS CLIFF HANGERS WE ARE!!!" Ed yelled back loudly. Double-D had a death grip on the back of Ed's sweater, shaking like a leaf.
"Double-D! You alright?!" Amber called out to the Ed.
"Just waiting for that good old adrenalin to kick in, thats all." Double-D said with a nervose laugh. He then speezed tighter to Ed's sweater.
"Gee Double-D, I did not know you cared!" Ed said, wipping one of his arms out, and wrapping around Double-D's neck, squeezing him in a super tight hug.
"Ed.....too.....tight!!" Double-D blured out, his face turning beet red.
"Wimp!" Eddy shouting to him, trying to hide that he was nervose too. Amber rolled her eyes at him. Just then, she noticed a large flat topped mountain dead ahead. A quick look over showed that it looked okay for climbing.
"Hey guys!" She shouted to Double-D and Ed. "Lets head for that mountain over there!"
"You bet cha, Amber!" Ed shouted, still hanging on to Double-D. He steered Gem to follow Amber and Eddy, who were almost already there. Midnight, getting there first, suddenly stopped at Amber's command, and Amber and Eddy looked downwards into the open top mouth of the mountain. Ed and Double-D then got up there, and Ed too made Gem stop, and he finaly let go of Double-D's neck. They looked down to see what Amber and Eddy were looking that. Inside the mountain, was a hidden lake and waterfall! Crystal clear water fell from the top of the mountain's edge, going into the clear crystal lake. It was like a hidden oasis.
"Woah! I had no idea there was a lake here!" Amber said in amazment. "Let's go get a closer look!" With that, she made Midnight start climbing down towards the inside of the mountain. Ed and Double-D soon followed after them on Gem.
When they finaly got down there, Amber jumped off Midnight, and ran to the edge of the lake. She kneeled down, dipped her hands in the water, and splashed some in her face.
"Woo! That feels great!" She said. She looked down at the reflection of herself in the water. She suddenly shruggs, and says, "Aw, what the heck!", takes a deep breath, and dunked her whole head right in the water. The Eds watched Amber and then looked at each other with a raised eyebrow. Ed then hopped off Midnight, walked over to Amber with her head still in the water, and he too dunked his head right next to her's. Under the water, Amber didn't even noticed Ed untill he started making bubblely sounds with his mouth and nose. She turned her head, and all she could see was his puffed out face, blowing bubbles. She rosed out of the water with a little scream, untill she noticed who it was. Ed took his head out of the water, and grined at Amber widenly.
"You looked funny!" Ed said as he started to laugh. Amber didn't get mad. Instand, she too started to laugh with Ed, and then she surprised him by pushing him in the lake. Behind them, Double-D and Eddy laughed at their antics. They then jumped down from the giant brids, and started to look around the area themselfs.
"I'm a battle boat!!" Ed said, swimming around in the water and making chain gun sounds with his mouth. Amber just watched and giggled at Ed as she squeezed out the wettness in her hair. Her looked around the lake, spotting Eddy sitting on the ground with his boots off, and his feet in the water. She went over to him, and asked, "Hey, where did Double-D go?"
Eddy looked up at her and answered, "I think sockhead said something about checking out the waterfall, or something like that." Suddenly, Ed popped up from under the water, and grabbed on to Eddy's feet.
"ED! WHERE DID YOU COME FROM!?" Eddy shouted.
"JAWS LIVES ON!!" Ed said as he pulled Eddy into the lake, and they started to wrestle around in the water. Amber once again busted out in laugher. Eddy emerged from under the water with a glare.
"Thats not funny!" He said to Amber. Ed then jumped out of the water from behind Eddy, and dive bombed on him, making a huge splash. Amber was now on the ground laughing herself to tears. She slowly stood up to catch her breath, and as she did, she saw something in the corner of her eye. She turned to see a few yards away, the waterfall, and standing next to it, Double-D.
"Hey Double-D! What do you think of that waterfall? Cool, uh?" Amber shouted out. But Double-D didn't seem to hear her. He just stood there, staring at the falling water.
"Double-D?" Amber started to make her way towards him. She stopped for a moment to called out to the other two. "Hey Ed! Eddy! Come here for a minute!" The two boys stopped thier rough housing in the water, and looked up at Amber.
"Ed! Quit gnawing on my head!" Eddy shouted at the still thinking he was a shark Ed.
"Guys! I said come here!" Amber called out again. The boys crawed out of the lake, ringing out the water out of thier clothes. After walking up to her, they too noticed Double-D standing next to the waterfall, not really moving or anything. He was looking at it like something was there, besides the water.
"I called to him, but he didn't answer me." Amber explained. She put her finger up to her chin in a thinking position. "Is he sometimes like that?"
"Yeah, sometimes." Eddy said. "Like when he's working on anything thats sciencey, ha, good luck trying to get his attention." He looked at Double-D and shouted out, "Hey sockhead! Amber wanted to know what you're staring that!" But Double-D didn't responed, just like before. "HELloooooo, earth to Double-D!" Eddy shouted again, but still, no good.
"Maybe Double-D's brain finaly got bored, and LEFT HIS HEAD!!!" Ed said in a slight sudden panic.
"Uh, I..don't think so Ed." Amber said with a werid look. She began to walked over to the quiet boy, with the Eddy and Ed soon following. As she got closer, she gently tapped Double-D on the shoulder, making such to the scare him or anything, but he didn't seem to be affected by it. She looked at Eddy and Ed, who just shrugged. "Double-D?" Amber said tapping again. "Is something wrong? Come on, say something."
Starting to get a little scared, Amber moved to the front of the Ed, and starting to shake him. Suddenly, she saw his face. His eyes were in a fixed position, and his face was as if it was frozen in one place. She waved her hand in front on his face, and then tried shapping her fingers.
"Amber, whats wrong with him?" Ed asked worriedly. Eddy too a bit scared.
"It looks like he's in some sort of a trance!" Amber said, still trying to snap him out of it. "And I don't know what could be making him do this."
Suddenly, Ed's eyes perked to a strange sound that sounded like it was coming from the waterfall itself. "Hey Amber, I hear someone!"
"Come on, Ed. Don't start going werid on us now!" Eddy said. "Besides, it too late for that anyway."
"No, wait! Ed's right. Listen." Amber said. It was very fate, but it sounded like the voice of a young woman.
~"Vincent......Vincent..."~
"Vincent?" The three said all at once. They all turned to Double-D. Suddenly, the waterfall begun to spit, revealing an hidden cave behind it! The voice was coming from inside it. Just as it opened, the tranced Double- D started to walk towards it.
"Double-D, where ya going?" Eddy asked. Still no answer from him. "Your REALLY starting to freak us out, Double-D!"
"We have to follow him! Come on! Amber said handing into the cave. Ed and Eddy quickly gave a look at each another before going in too. Just as they entered in, they all saw a bright flash of white light coming from ahead that seemed to surround them. When the light died down, they all found themself in a large room. The walls of the room was nothing like a cave. They looked more like glass. But the thing that really got all of thier attention was straight ahead. At the end of the room, there were a small thing of stairs at lead up to something that looked like a crytsal seashell. And kneeling apond it, dressed in glowing white, was a young woman with long hair tied in a pony tail, appeared that she was crying. Just then, the gang noticed Double-D standing right in front of the stairsway, still in a daze.
"Double-D! Snap out of it, will ya!" Eddy shouted out.
"Wow, this place is really shiny!" Ed said in a wonder.
"Shut up Ed, and help me bring Double-D back into the real world here!" Eddy said.
"No, don't do anything!" Amber suddenly said. "I think I know what's going on here. We must be in Lucrecia's Cave!"
"What? The the heck is that?" Eddy asked.
"It's a secret place in the game that's as something to do with Vincent's past." Amber said. "Double-D is being taking over by the game itself, because this is where the game would do it to Vincent."
"But what does this "Lucre-whatever" Cave have to do with it?" Eddy asked.
"Why don't we just seat back and watch." Amber said. "And don't worry, Double-D will be fine. Remember, the game is just "borrowing" him for a moment."
Knowing that Amber knew alot more about what was going on then they did, Ed and Eddy did as she said, and they watched on at what "Vincent" has to do with this.
The dazed Double-D walked closer to the glowing woman in tears. She suddenly raised her head and was some what surprise to see the young boy.
~"Vincent.....Vincent, is it really you?"~
"Lucrecia, your alive!" Double-D said. (Note: Remember, Double-D is in a trance, and the "Vincent" side of him is being used here. Just so you all don't get confused. ^-^) The young Ed tried to get closer to her, but a flash of the white light threw him back.
~"No, please! Stay back!"~ Lucrecia said in tears. Just as she said that, the room began to flash forth light again, hitting the eyes of Amber, Eddy and Ed. When they were finaly able to open them, they were shock to see that they were not in the cave anymore, but outside a small looking town. Suddenly, two people came walking out of the town, both wearing white scientist coats. One was a young lady that looked alot like Lucrecia, and the other..........
"What the?! Double-D?!" Eddy said in shock and confusion.
The other person did quite resemble their hat wearing friend, walking hand in hand with the young Lucrecia look-a-like.
"Cool, where's the popcorn!?" Ed said with a grin, thinking this was some movie or something. Eddy suddenly rushed over to Amber and asked with a snarl, "WHAT is going ON, AMBER!!?"
Amber, staying calm, explained. "We're seeing just what happened in Vincent's past. That girl that Double-D, or "Vincent", is with, is the lady Lucrecia, only younger."
"No fooling?" Eddy said a little calmer this time. "So what your saying is we're going to see first hand why Vincent is so creepy, or something like that?"
"Just watch." Amber said.
Just then, the whole area lite up again, and a new image formed. The three saw Lucrecia hugging someone tightly, and lovingly, but it wasn't Vincent. Suddenly, "Vincent" came running up, and saw the two. It looked like he was going to go into tears.
"Do you understand what's going on?" Amber said to the two Eds. They both shook a "no". "In the past, Vincent was a scientist, and so was Lucrecia, in which he fell in love with her."
"FELL IN LOVE?!" The two boys said with wide eyes.
"Yes, but then another man came and took Lucrecia heart from Vincent." Amber continued. "If I remember right, the man's name was Hojo, also a man of the sciences. Soon afterward, Hojo and Lucrecia were married, and even had a child."
With Amber's words, the area went white again, and a image of a pregnant Lucrecia was showed to them. A few short moments after that, another image came forth. They saw Lucrecia again, just walking, still pregnant. Suddenly, she collapsed to the floor. The room turned white once more.
"What just happened there?" Eddy asked Amber. Amber answered saying, "While Lucrecia carried her child, unknowned to Vincent, she was forced into going through experiments by Hojo himself! Hojo wanted to see if a child could be born with unhuman like powers."
"On his own wife?! That's just sick!" Eddy said. Ed understood everything so far, but just was at a lost of words to the story. Eddy suddenly then thought of something. "Did...."Vincent" ever found out about it?"
Just as Eddy asked that question, the white lighted room faded into a new image. This time, it looked like a some kind of a underground lab or something with rows and rows of books on the walls of it. Standing next to a table, was the scientist, Hojo. Suddenly, someone came brusting through the doors of the room. It was "Vincent" aka, Double-D.
"Whoa, Double-D looks REALLY mad." Ed said as they all watched.
"Well, that answers my question." Eddy said.
Although the image was silent, the two people began to argue and fight, no doubt over Lucrecia, and what Hojo had done to her. It was a werid sight for the two Eds to watch an image of thier best friend like that, with that much rage inside of him. But they had to remember that it was JUST a image, not real. They had to really think of that for what happened next. Hojo suddenly pulled out a gun at "Vincent", and the trigger was pulled. The sound of the gun was suddenly the only thing that was heard as the area turned white again.
"DOUBLE-D!!!" The two boys screamed out. They suddenly felt a hand on each others shoulders. They turned to see Amber, with the words, "It's not real...remember that." They could tell she was trying to make what they just saw not so horrable. "I'm sorry, I should have warned you guys." Amber said sincerely with her head hung low.
Suddenly, the room slowing faded back into what it was before. The gang saw thier hat wearing bubby still standing in the same spot as before, still looking up at the glowing angelic looking Lucrecia. Double-D was still in the "Vincent" trance.
"Lucrecia...I can't believe it, It's REALLY you!" "Vincent" said with a sound of great joy in his voice. "They all told me you were dead."
Lucrecia cluched her hands together in a pray like manner, and begun to cry again. ~"I...I wanted to die...long ago...but the Jenova inside me just would not let me die!"~
"Jenova??" Eddy said. Amber leaned over to him and whipsered in his ear, "A creature that was used in the experiments on her. They injected cells of it into her body when she was still carriering her baby." Ed also over heard this.
The tranced Double-D tryed to get closer to Lucrecia like eariler.
~"Please, stay back!"~ She said again. ~"I too have always thought you were gone too, Vincent. They told me to forget you, but I just couldn't! And not only you, lately, I dream a lot of Sephiroth...my dear, dear child. They took him away from me as soon as he was born. I never got to hold him once!"~
At hearing this, the two Eds felt tolaly blown away that this suddenly revelation! "She's the MOTHER of the guy we gotta beat!!??" Eddy asked in sheer shock. Amber made a "shhhh" sound to him. Double-D and Lucrecia continued talking.
"Lucrecia....I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I wasn't there to stop Hojo. That was my sin. I too sometimes wish that I would just fade away. But instand, Hojo increase my saddness and pain by experimenting on me as well." "Vincent" said.
~"I believe...it was my sin...by trusing Hojo in the first place."~ Lucrecia said sadly. ~"My punisment.....that I may never really fade away from this world, forever to reflect back on that sin."~
"Lucrecia...."
~"Vincent....."~
The two both reached out for each other, a said in a whisper, "........I'm sorry."
The tips of thier fingers touched. The moment they did, the room flashed in bright white, making Amber, Ed, Eddy, and "Vincent" shield thier eyes. When they opened them again, they were outside, near the waterfall.
"Whoa, that was werid!" Ed said.
Eddy rubbed on his eyes, still a little tender from all that light. When he was finaly able to open them, he saw Amber, kneeling down next to a trembling Double-D.
"Double-D?" Amber said to him in a gentle tone. Ed and Eddy both made thier way towards thier friend, and they both kneeled down next to him. The shaking young boy slowing lifted his head to look at his friends. He then lifted his trembling arms, and wrapped then around his chest.
"...Double-D?" Eddy said in a slight worried tone. Double-D then started to speak.
"......I.....I felt it.....I felt it all...." He said. "His feelings....his pains...his regrets." Suddenly, a singel tear began to roll down his face. The other three saw it.
"Double-D." Amber said, almost feeling like she was going to cry now. Without any hesitation, Amber wrapped her arms around Double-D. Ed and Eddy first just watched, but then, Ed too did the same. Suddenly, Eddy felt like a heel, for all the things he's ever said and did to Double-D, I mean, after what Double-D just went through. He rubbed behind his neck, and then he too joined in the group hug. It lasted for a good five minutes.
Then, Amber, with a sigh, said, "We....better get back to the HighWind. Their going to be wondering where we are."
TO BE CONTINUED.....................
RogueStar: Well, are any of you readers crying yet? Believe me, I didn't really mean for this chapter to have a lot of sad stuff in it, but it just kind of ended up that way. Please tell me what you all think of this one. Also, for those who are all still waiting for Eddy to do magic, and Double- D and/or Ed to do a limit break, don't worry about it, it WILL get to that VERY soon. Once again, I would like to thank everybody who are still reading this, and I still hope you all will be reading it in the future! Later! ^-~
Final Fantasy Eds
Chapter 14
After the battle with the Thunder Kisses, the Eds, Amber, and the crew of the airship, the HighWind, were now all able to take a good breather. But because of the battle, the HighWind was submited to some damage that had to be taken care of right away. We join our team in the huge cock pit of the massvie flying ship, helping out on were to land in order to start repairs.
"What about right there?" Double-D said pointing out the large window. Outside, they looked down at miles and miles of green plains, fields, and blue rivers lining them. The young boy was pointing to a large strech of field that was right next to quite a large area of mountains and mountain forests. Amber looked out at it. She rubbed on her still bandaged arm, and said to Double-D, "That WOULD be a good spot, but it's a little too close to those mountains."
"What's so bad about that?" Eddy asked, he too looking out the glass.
"Normaly,large mountain areas have some very nasty monsters wandering around them. " Amber said. "But, we can land just alittle away from there. We should be okay that way." With that, she went over to the man piloting, and told him to land in the choosen area. The pilot obeyed with a salute and proceeded to do so. Amber walked back over to the boys and watched out the window as the HighWind begun to land. Just then, Eddy and Double-D noticed Amber rubbing on her arm again. The boy glaced at each other before Double-D asked saying, "Uh, Amber? Are you going to be okay?"
The young girl looked at the two. "What? Oh, my arm? Don't worry about it, I'll be fine."
"But, you got hurt pretty bad, didn't ya?" Eddy said.
"Trust me, I'll be fine." Amber said with a warm smile. But then, her face turned curious as she suddenly noticed something. "Hey, where did Ed run off to?"
The three turned from the window looked around the cock pit, but they didn't see the big Ed anywhere. "Where did he disapper to?" Double-D said.
"He was just right next to me a second ago." Eddy said. They all decided to quickly spit up to look for him. Knowing he wasn't in the cock pit, they all went out to were the other rooms were. Amber looked in the infermary, but he wasn't there. Eddy check out the meeting room, but with no luck. The two went up to each other, both shaking thier heads an "no" with thier search. But then, Double-D came up behind them.
"I found him!" He called out to them. Amber and Eddy turned to him, both asking , "Where?" Double-D pointed to the chocobo holding room. (Okay, now how many saw THAT coming? ^-^) The group all went into the chocobo room, to see, of course, Ed standing next to one of two chocobos that were in there, stroking it, and hugging it. It was a green chocobo. And the one next to it was black.
"Ed!" Eddy shouted to the dit witted boy. The green chocobo slightly jump at Eddy's voice. Ed came out of his own little world, and turned to Eddy. "Hey guys!" He said happyly.
"Ed, you shouldn't just run off like that." Double-D said, shaking his index finger at him like a scolding mother. Ed made a cute pout face.
"But the cho-cho Double-D!" Ed said pitafuly.
"It's alright Ed." Amber said. She went up to him and just lightly patted him on the head. That made him feel alittle better. "We should have figured that you would come in here sooner or later, right?" Ed responded with a dopy smile.
As Amber was comforting Ed, Eddy took a look at the black chocobo next to the green one. He remembers seeing yellow, green, gold, and even blue ones, but black was a new one! Double-D then started observing it as well.
"Oh, you didn't know that they came in black too, did ya?" Amber said to them. "His name is Midnight."
"What's with all the different colors anyway?" Eddy asked. Double-d nodded in question as he started to gently pet the big black bird.
"Some chocobo that are special colors have special traveling skills." Amber said. "Green chocobos have the ability to climb mountains with amazing speed, Blue chocobos can travel above water, but it can't be too deep, Black chocobos have the ability of both green and blue, but Gold chocobos, like my Goldy, Champ, and Baby, they can do all of that, plus run on deep ocean waters, as you already know. Gold ones also take the longest to breed."
"Wow, cool!" Ed said.
Just then, the gang could feel the airship tremble abit as it finaly landed. The chocobos let out a small scwak when it shook.
"We landed." Amber said, heading out the room. "Come on, lets go." With that, the Eds followed, with Ed waving a quick little goodbye wave to the chocobos.
The boys followed Amber up and to the door to the outside deck. With a good push, she opened it, and a rush of fresh air came blowing into the kids' faces. It felt great! They all walked out and took in the beautiful landscape. There was miles of mountains and green grass, and not too far away, was a crystal blue river. Another breeze blew thought them, making Amber's hair flow gently. Just then, one of the work men can though the door and called to Amber by her other name.
"Ms. Tifa. We have just started repairs, and we believe it will only take a short time before we can take off again."
"Great, that's good to hear." Amber said.
"Uh, Ms. Tifa? One other thing."
"What is it?" Amber asked with a cute little look. She then noticed that the worker was looking at her arm.
"Well, it's just that, we all understand why you just don't "heal" yourself when you get hurt, but just this once..."
'"Heal" herself?' Double-D thought to himself. The other two Eds also thought that.
"...would you please just do it on your injured arm? Myself and the other crew are very worried that it might get infected. That Thunder Kiss REALLY got you good."
Amber looked down at her arm and thought of a sec. With a slight sigh, she rose her head to the worker and said, "Thank you for you all worrying about me. Maybe I'm just alittle paranoid or something when it comes to that. Just go tell the others that I'll be okay."
The worker, understanding that what "Tifa" said sounded like a "yes", saluted to her and smiled. "Thank you, Ms, Tifa. I just want to said that I think we're all lucky to have a kind and understanding person like you abroad with us." The worker then went back into the ship.
The Eds walked up next to Amber, all with confused looks and the same question to ask.
"What the heck was that all about?" Eddy said. "What did he mean by "heal" yourself?"
"Amber?" Ed said.
Before any of them could get another word out, they all jumped back from a sudden flash of green light under her feet. They looked down at it, and then up at Amber, who was in what almost looked like a position for praying. She had her hands together, and her eyes closed. Also, her hair, like before with the wind, flowed ever so gracfuly from the effect of the magic light under her. The Eds all just stood thier ground and watched, waiting to see what kind of spell Amber was doing all of the sudden. She then opened her eyes, raised her hand up to the wound on her arm, and the word whispered out.
"Cure"
Although it was a whisper, the boys could hear it like a soft echo from Amber. As she said it, sprakling green light began to come out of the plam of her hand , and absorded into her wounded arm. Instantly, the blood that bleed thought her bandage abit, disappered completely! Then, slowly, the green light faded away from her.
The three Eds, still just staring on, watched as Amber then removed the bandage from her arm, revealing that the wound was now completely gone. Not even a scar was left.
Ed was the first to run up to her and look at her arm. He poked at it a few times. Double-D and Eddy then came up to see. A few moments of quiet amazment ticked by.
".......WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US YOU CAN HEAL YOURSELF WITH MAGIC?!?!" Eddy shouted loudly. "DID YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED WE WERE ABOUT YOU??!!"
"You were REALLY worried about me, Eddy?" Amber said to him with a cocky little smile. Eddy frozed for a second before responing.
"Well, you were....you were pretty messed up! So, ya know.....I'm not like THAT! Of course we'd be worried about you! Jezz!"
Amber and the other two Eds all began to laugh at Eddy's sudden trouble of not knowing what to say. Eddy just turned his back to them and scowled his usual scowl.
"Yeah, you can use Cure magic to heal wounds." Amber said after laughing. "I didn't just to it earlier cuz, well, I have this stupid thought that if I use it too much on myself, I might not be able to heal naturaly. It's a dumb thing to even think about, uh?"
"It's hasn't happened or anything, has it?" Double-D asked.
"No, it's never happened." Amber answered. "It's just a stupid phobia I got when I first got trapped in this place."
"Magic is a better friend then I thought!" Ed said sweetly.
"You thought that?" Eddy asked turning his head to them.
"Hey, I just had a great idea." Amber said clapping her hands together. "The smaller mountains next to the big ones with the monsters in them, they look great for chocobo climbing! How about while the men inside are working on the HighWind, we take the two chocobos and go for a ride! We won't have anything else to do untill the repairs are done anyway."
"I would enjoy that!" Double-D said.
"OH, THAT WOULD MAKE ED ALL TINGLY!!" Ed said excitely, wrapping his arms around himself.
"Awwww man, not the birds again!!!" Eddy groned.
~ About ten minutes later, the gang was on the ground, waiting for the worker men to bring down the chocobos from the airship. An hidden door underneth opened with a ramp, and out came a worker with the green and black chocobo on leashs. He walked up, and handed them to Amber.
"We should be back in about a hour or so." Amber said to the worker.
The worked nodded, saluted, and went back into the ship. Amber turned to the Eds and said, "Okay, this time, there's only two, so someone is going to have to bunk with the other."
"I want the pretty green one!" Ed said. "It's like the color of that moldy stuff that grows under my bed!"
The other's faces, including Amber's, turned green with Ed's little comment.
"YEAH, just like that!" Ed said pointing to thier faces.
"PLEASE ED! Thats QUITE enough!" Double-D said a little quisy.
"No kidding!" Eddy said in aggrement.
"Okay Ed, you get the green one." Amber said. "This one's name is Gem, she's a female."
"YAY! There goes the TINGLING!!!" Ed said as he ran up, and hopped onto Gem. She made a slight scwak noise from the sudden weight of Ed. "Oh, sorry." Ed said to her.
With Ed all set, Amber how thought of Midnight. "Ya know, I kind of feel like riding Midnight, so one of you are going to have to ride with Ed." She said looking at Eddy and Double-D.
"Shouldn't you go with him, I mean, you had to last time, right?" Double-D said.
"I think me can handled it himself now." Amber said. "Unlike SOME people I know." Her eyes going right to Eddy with a glare.
"Then I'll seat with Ed, and you can ride with Eddy." Double-D said, getting what Amber meant just then.
"I don't want or need ANY help!" The short boy shouted.
"YES YOU DO!" Both Double-D and Amber said to him close up in his face. (Don't forget what trouble Eddy had with chocobos in the past! ^-^)
~ And so, with that, the gang all began to go for a ride on the chocobos, with Ed and Double-D on Gem, and Amber and Eddy on Midnight, with AMBER controling Midnight (hint hint). They ripped across the grass heading towards the river, and beyond that, the mountains. The black and green birds practicly hopped on and over the river, making it splash in the gang's faces. Getting some water in his mouth, Ed spit it out over his head like a water fountain, getting some on an alreadly wet Double-D. Soon after that, the chocobos were jumping from rock to rock on the cliffs of the mounts. The Eds could hear the chocobos' shrap clawed talons as they dug into the hard rock, frimly securing their balance.
"Hey! Don't this all just make ya feel alive!?" Amber yelled out to Ed and Double-D. Eddy just stayed quiet, holding on to the Midnight's tail feathers so he wouldn't fall.
"CHOCOBOS RIDERS CLIFF HANGERS WE ARE!!!" Ed yelled back loudly. Double-D had a death grip on the back of Ed's sweater, shaking like a leaf.
"Double-D! You alright?!" Amber called out to the Ed.
"Just waiting for that good old adrenalin to kick in, thats all." Double-D said with a nervose laugh. He then speezed tighter to Ed's sweater.
"Gee Double-D, I did not know you cared!" Ed said, wipping one of his arms out, and wrapping around Double-D's neck, squeezing him in a super tight hug.
"Ed.....too.....tight!!" Double-D blured out, his face turning beet red.
"Wimp!" Eddy shouting to him, trying to hide that he was nervose too. Amber rolled her eyes at him. Just then, she noticed a large flat topped mountain dead ahead. A quick look over showed that it looked okay for climbing.
"Hey guys!" She shouted to Double-D and Ed. "Lets head for that mountain over there!"
"You bet cha, Amber!" Ed shouted, still hanging on to Double-D. He steered Gem to follow Amber and Eddy, who were almost already there. Midnight, getting there first, suddenly stopped at Amber's command, and Amber and Eddy looked downwards into the open top mouth of the mountain. Ed and Double-D then got up there, and Ed too made Gem stop, and he finaly let go of Double-D's neck. They looked down to see what Amber and Eddy were looking that. Inside the mountain, was a hidden lake and waterfall! Crystal clear water fell from the top of the mountain's edge, going into the clear crystal lake. It was like a hidden oasis.
"Woah! I had no idea there was a lake here!" Amber said in amazment. "Let's go get a closer look!" With that, she made Midnight start climbing down towards the inside of the mountain. Ed and Double-D soon followed after them on Gem.
When they finaly got down there, Amber jumped off Midnight, and ran to the edge of the lake. She kneeled down, dipped her hands in the water, and splashed some in her face.
"Woo! That feels great!" She said. She looked down at the reflection of herself in the water. She suddenly shruggs, and says, "Aw, what the heck!", takes a deep breath, and dunked her whole head right in the water. The Eds watched Amber and then looked at each other with a raised eyebrow. Ed then hopped off Midnight, walked over to Amber with her head still in the water, and he too dunked his head right next to her's. Under the water, Amber didn't even noticed Ed untill he started making bubblely sounds with his mouth and nose. She turned her head, and all she could see was his puffed out face, blowing bubbles. She rosed out of the water with a little scream, untill she noticed who it was. Ed took his head out of the water, and grined at Amber widenly.
"You looked funny!" Ed said as he started to laugh. Amber didn't get mad. Instand, she too started to laugh with Ed, and then she surprised him by pushing him in the lake. Behind them, Double-D and Eddy laughed at their antics. They then jumped down from the giant brids, and started to look around the area themselfs.
"I'm a battle boat!!" Ed said, swimming around in the water and making chain gun sounds with his mouth. Amber just watched and giggled at Ed as she squeezed out the wettness in her hair. Her looked around the lake, spotting Eddy sitting on the ground with his boots off, and his feet in the water. She went over to him, and asked, "Hey, where did Double-D go?"
Eddy looked up at her and answered, "I think sockhead said something about checking out the waterfall, or something like that." Suddenly, Ed popped up from under the water, and grabbed on to Eddy's feet.
"ED! WHERE DID YOU COME FROM!?" Eddy shouted.
"JAWS LIVES ON!!" Ed said as he pulled Eddy into the lake, and they started to wrestle around in the water. Amber once again busted out in laugher. Eddy emerged from under the water with a glare.
"Thats not funny!" He said to Amber. Ed then jumped out of the water from behind Eddy, and dive bombed on him, making a huge splash. Amber was now on the ground laughing herself to tears. She slowly stood up to catch her breath, and as she did, she saw something in the corner of her eye. She turned to see a few yards away, the waterfall, and standing next to it, Double-D.
"Hey Double-D! What do you think of that waterfall? Cool, uh?" Amber shouted out. But Double-D didn't seem to hear her. He just stood there, staring at the falling water.
"Double-D?" Amber started to make her way towards him. She stopped for a moment to called out to the other two. "Hey Ed! Eddy! Come here for a minute!" The two boys stopped thier rough housing in the water, and looked up at Amber.
"Ed! Quit gnawing on my head!" Eddy shouted at the still thinking he was a shark Ed.
"Guys! I said come here!" Amber called out again. The boys crawed out of the lake, ringing out the water out of thier clothes. After walking up to her, they too noticed Double-D standing next to the waterfall, not really moving or anything. He was looking at it like something was there, besides the water.
"I called to him, but he didn't answer me." Amber explained. She put her finger up to her chin in a thinking position. "Is he sometimes like that?"
"Yeah, sometimes." Eddy said. "Like when he's working on anything thats sciencey, ha, good luck trying to get his attention." He looked at Double-D and shouted out, "Hey sockhead! Amber wanted to know what you're staring that!" But Double-D didn't responed, just like before. "HELloooooo, earth to Double-D!" Eddy shouted again, but still, no good.
"Maybe Double-D's brain finaly got bored, and LEFT HIS HEAD!!!" Ed said in a slight sudden panic.
"Uh, I..don't think so Ed." Amber said with a werid look. She began to walked over to the quiet boy, with the Eddy and Ed soon following. As she got closer, she gently tapped Double-D on the shoulder, making such to the scare him or anything, but he didn't seem to be affected by it. She looked at Eddy and Ed, who just shrugged. "Double-D?" Amber said tapping again. "Is something wrong? Come on, say something."
Starting to get a little scared, Amber moved to the front of the Ed, and starting to shake him. Suddenly, she saw his face. His eyes were in a fixed position, and his face was as if it was frozen in one place. She waved her hand in front on his face, and then tried shapping her fingers.
"Amber, whats wrong with him?" Ed asked worriedly. Eddy too a bit scared.
"It looks like he's in some sort of a trance!" Amber said, still trying to snap him out of it. "And I don't know what could be making him do this."
Suddenly, Ed's eyes perked to a strange sound that sounded like it was coming from the waterfall itself. "Hey Amber, I hear someone!"
"Come on, Ed. Don't start going werid on us now!" Eddy said. "Besides, it too late for that anyway."
"No, wait! Ed's right. Listen." Amber said. It was very fate, but it sounded like the voice of a young woman.
~"Vincent......Vincent..."~
"Vincent?" The three said all at once. They all turned to Double-D. Suddenly, the waterfall begun to spit, revealing an hidden cave behind it! The voice was coming from inside it. Just as it opened, the tranced Double- D started to walk towards it.
"Double-D, where ya going?" Eddy asked. Still no answer from him. "Your REALLY starting to freak us out, Double-D!"
"We have to follow him! Come on! Amber said handing into the cave. Ed and Eddy quickly gave a look at each another before going in too. Just as they entered in, they all saw a bright flash of white light coming from ahead that seemed to surround them. When the light died down, they all found themself in a large room. The walls of the room was nothing like a cave. They looked more like glass. But the thing that really got all of thier attention was straight ahead. At the end of the room, there were a small thing of stairs at lead up to something that looked like a crytsal seashell. And kneeling apond it, dressed in glowing white, was a young woman with long hair tied in a pony tail, appeared that she was crying. Just then, the gang noticed Double-D standing right in front of the stairsway, still in a daze.
"Double-D! Snap out of it, will ya!" Eddy shouted out.
"Wow, this place is really shiny!" Ed said in a wonder.
"Shut up Ed, and help me bring Double-D back into the real world here!" Eddy said.
"No, don't do anything!" Amber suddenly said. "I think I know what's going on here. We must be in Lucrecia's Cave!"
"What? The the heck is that?" Eddy asked.
"It's a secret place in the game that's as something to do with Vincent's past." Amber said. "Double-D is being taking over by the game itself, because this is where the game would do it to Vincent."
"But what does this "Lucre-whatever" Cave have to do with it?" Eddy asked.
"Why don't we just seat back and watch." Amber said. "And don't worry, Double-D will be fine. Remember, the game is just "borrowing" him for a moment."
Knowing that Amber knew alot more about what was going on then they did, Ed and Eddy did as she said, and they watched on at what "Vincent" has to do with this.
The dazed Double-D walked closer to the glowing woman in tears. She suddenly raised her head and was some what surprise to see the young boy.
~"Vincent.....Vincent, is it really you?"~
"Lucrecia, your alive!" Double-D said. (Note: Remember, Double-D is in a trance, and the "Vincent" side of him is being used here. Just so you all don't get confused. ^-^) The young Ed tried to get closer to her, but a flash of the white light threw him back.
~"No, please! Stay back!"~ Lucrecia said in tears. Just as she said that, the room began to flash forth light again, hitting the eyes of Amber, Eddy and Ed. When they were finaly able to open them, they were shock to see that they were not in the cave anymore, but outside a small looking town. Suddenly, two people came walking out of the town, both wearing white scientist coats. One was a young lady that looked alot like Lucrecia, and the other..........
"What the?! Double-D?!" Eddy said in shock and confusion.
The other person did quite resemble their hat wearing friend, walking hand in hand with the young Lucrecia look-a-like.
"Cool, where's the popcorn!?" Ed said with a grin, thinking this was some movie or something. Eddy suddenly rushed over to Amber and asked with a snarl, "WHAT is going ON, AMBER!!?"
Amber, staying calm, explained. "We're seeing just what happened in Vincent's past. That girl that Double-D, or "Vincent", is with, is the lady Lucrecia, only younger."
"No fooling?" Eddy said a little calmer this time. "So what your saying is we're going to see first hand why Vincent is so creepy, or something like that?"
"Just watch." Amber said.
Just then, the whole area lite up again, and a new image formed. The three saw Lucrecia hugging someone tightly, and lovingly, but it wasn't Vincent. Suddenly, "Vincent" came running up, and saw the two. It looked like he was going to go into tears.
"Do you understand what's going on?" Amber said to the two Eds. They both shook a "no". "In the past, Vincent was a scientist, and so was Lucrecia, in which he fell in love with her."
"FELL IN LOVE?!" The two boys said with wide eyes.
"Yes, but then another man came and took Lucrecia heart from Vincent." Amber continued. "If I remember right, the man's name was Hojo, also a man of the sciences. Soon afterward, Hojo and Lucrecia were married, and even had a child."
With Amber's words, the area went white again, and a image of a pregnant Lucrecia was showed to them. A few short moments after that, another image came forth. They saw Lucrecia again, just walking, still pregnant. Suddenly, she collapsed to the floor. The room turned white once more.
"What just happened there?" Eddy asked Amber. Amber answered saying, "While Lucrecia carried her child, unknowned to Vincent, she was forced into going through experiments by Hojo himself! Hojo wanted to see if a child could be born with unhuman like powers."
"On his own wife?! That's just sick!" Eddy said. Ed understood everything so far, but just was at a lost of words to the story. Eddy suddenly then thought of something. "Did...."Vincent" ever found out about it?"
Just as Eddy asked that question, the white lighted room faded into a new image. This time, it looked like a some kind of a underground lab or something with rows and rows of books on the walls of it. Standing next to a table, was the scientist, Hojo. Suddenly, someone came brusting through the doors of the room. It was "Vincent" aka, Double-D.
"Whoa, Double-D looks REALLY mad." Ed said as they all watched.
"Well, that answers my question." Eddy said.
Although the image was silent, the two people began to argue and fight, no doubt over Lucrecia, and what Hojo had done to her. It was a werid sight for the two Eds to watch an image of thier best friend like that, with that much rage inside of him. But they had to remember that it was JUST a image, not real. They had to really think of that for what happened next. Hojo suddenly pulled out a gun at "Vincent", and the trigger was pulled. The sound of the gun was suddenly the only thing that was heard as the area turned white again.
"DOUBLE-D!!!" The two boys screamed out. They suddenly felt a hand on each others shoulders. They turned to see Amber, with the words, "It's not real...remember that." They could tell she was trying to make what they just saw not so horrable. "I'm sorry, I should have warned you guys." Amber said sincerely with her head hung low.
Suddenly, the room slowing faded back into what it was before. The gang saw thier hat wearing bubby still standing in the same spot as before, still looking up at the glowing angelic looking Lucrecia. Double-D was still in the "Vincent" trance.
"Lucrecia...I can't believe it, It's REALLY you!" "Vincent" said with a sound of great joy in his voice. "They all told me you were dead."
Lucrecia cluched her hands together in a pray like manner, and begun to cry again. ~"I...I wanted to die...long ago...but the Jenova inside me just would not let me die!"~
"Jenova??" Eddy said. Amber leaned over to him and whipsered in his ear, "A creature that was used in the experiments on her. They injected cells of it into her body when she was still carriering her baby." Ed also over heard this.
The tranced Double-D tryed to get closer to Lucrecia like eariler.
~"Please, stay back!"~ She said again. ~"I too have always thought you were gone too, Vincent. They told me to forget you, but I just couldn't! And not only you, lately, I dream a lot of Sephiroth...my dear, dear child. They took him away from me as soon as he was born. I never got to hold him once!"~
At hearing this, the two Eds felt tolaly blown away that this suddenly revelation! "She's the MOTHER of the guy we gotta beat!!??" Eddy asked in sheer shock. Amber made a "shhhh" sound to him. Double-D and Lucrecia continued talking.
"Lucrecia....I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I wasn't there to stop Hojo. That was my sin. I too sometimes wish that I would just fade away. But instand, Hojo increase my saddness and pain by experimenting on me as well." "Vincent" said.
~"I believe...it was my sin...by trusing Hojo in the first place."~ Lucrecia said sadly. ~"My punisment.....that I may never really fade away from this world, forever to reflect back on that sin."~
"Lucrecia...."
~"Vincent....."~
The two both reached out for each other, a said in a whisper, "........I'm sorry."
The tips of thier fingers touched. The moment they did, the room flashed in bright white, making Amber, Ed, Eddy, and "Vincent" shield thier eyes. When they opened them again, they were outside, near the waterfall.
"Whoa, that was werid!" Ed said.
Eddy rubbed on his eyes, still a little tender from all that light. When he was finaly able to open them, he saw Amber, kneeling down next to a trembling Double-D.
"Double-D?" Amber said to him in a gentle tone. Ed and Eddy both made thier way towards thier friend, and they both kneeled down next to him. The shaking young boy slowing lifted his head to look at his friends. He then lifted his trembling arms, and wrapped then around his chest.
"...Double-D?" Eddy said in a slight worried tone. Double-D then started to speak.
"......I.....I felt it.....I felt it all...." He said. "His feelings....his pains...his regrets." Suddenly, a singel tear began to roll down his face. The other three saw it.
"Double-D." Amber said, almost feeling like she was going to cry now. Without any hesitation, Amber wrapped her arms around Double-D. Ed and Eddy first just watched, but then, Ed too did the same. Suddenly, Eddy felt like a heel, for all the things he's ever said and did to Double-D, I mean, after what Double-D just went through. He rubbed behind his neck, and then he too joined in the group hug. It lasted for a good five minutes.
Then, Amber, with a sigh, said, "We....better get back to the HighWind. Their going to be wondering where we are."
TO BE CONTINUED.....................
RogueStar: Well, are any of you readers crying yet? Believe me, I didn't really mean for this chapter to have a lot of sad stuff in it, but it just kind of ended up that way. Please tell me what you all think of this one. Also, for those who are all still waiting for Eddy to do magic, and Double- D and/or Ed to do a limit break, don't worry about it, it WILL get to that VERY soon. Once again, I would like to thank everybody who are still reading this, and I still hope you all will be reading it in the future! Later! ^-~