Chapter 14

Jay stepped out of the hospital. She intook a large lungfull of air. She still had a few scabs from her fight with Genises, but that put aside, she was fine. Everyone else was waiting. Sare turned as she walked out. "Ah. your finally up!" Sare walked forwards.

"Yes i am." Jay said with a grin.

"Good to see you up, Jay." Emria said. Jay nodded.

"I hear we're stranded here. whats the plan?" Jay asked. Zax walked by, deep in thought. "well......" Zax suddenly snaped his fingers.

"Why not do jobs for whoever pays the most!"

"You mean like mercenarys?" Sare asked. Zax nodded.

"Yeah, but we broaden those mercenary hoizons a bit to do more work. maybe the less dangerous sort. Best place to find jobs these days, is the weekly newspaper." Zax said. There was a general nodding of heads. Suddenly, from behind a building, there was a noise that sounded like an electric explosion. "What the!?" Sephiroth yelped. People began running and screaming from... something.

Zax signaled for the others to wait, and ran around the corner. He was only back there for ten seconds, before he came rushing back. "Ive never seen a monster like that!" He gasped.

"What was it?" Lia asked.

"It was floating, it had one eye, and a bunch of apendages with eyes on the ends!

Sure enough, The creature Zax described came around the corner, sending a green beam from one of its eyes, and into a running civillian, desintergrating him! Zax turned, and one of its eyes saw him! Jay immediatly reached for her side, and grasped the hilt of the masamune. Sare pulled out his mythril saber. The creature roared, and sent a purple beam of energy into Zax. Zax yelled, and suddenly turned to stone!

"ZAX!" Jay screamed. The creature flew forwards! Jay quickly swung at the oncoming creature. It swerved up into the air, and simply smacked her aside with one of its eyes! another one sending a stream of electricity into Sare! Jay picked herself up, charged, and thrust the masamune thru its back! It roared, and flew high into the air. As it approached heights, it spun wildly!

the masamune slipped out of the creatures skin, and Jay began falling! Jay screamed as she fell, when suddenly, Sephiorth began guiding her actions! she turned so whe was straight as a pencil towards the ground, and angled the masmaune to stab into it before she hit. It stabbed into the ground, and she flipped up. She saw Sare was under the creature, and stabbing up into it over and over!

Jay ran up, jumped up and over the creature, landing on its head! She raised the masamune, and stabbed it down through the top of the creatures head! It roared and fell down, almost hitting Sare, who managed to roll out form under it! Jay jumped off of it, and sephiroth let her move on her own again. She dropped the masamune, and rushed up to Zax, who was encased in stone. "no..." She whispered.

Sare walked up. "We might still have a chance to save him. How much GiL does everyone have?" He asked. Emria handed him fifty, Lia handed him 25, Jay handed him 5. "thanks. ill be back with a soft!" He rushed off. Jay clung onto Zax's petrified body, crying. After a few minutes, Sare came rushing back. In his hand, was what looked like a medical needle. "Ok, Stand back!" He said. He lifted the needle, and gently punctured Zax's neck with it.

Jay watched Zax, and just when she lost hope that it worked, A chip of the stone came off, the reveal skin under it! She rushed up and watched as bit by bit, more cips of stone came off, til it all suddenlt just fell off of Zax, who fell butt first on a rather pointed piece of stone. "OW!" he yelped, quickly jumping off the stone. Jay rushed forwards and gave him her traditional hug. "I thought you were dead! Its my fault..." She said. Zax looked confused.

"How's it your fault?" He asked.

"I got you mixed up in my problems." Jay said. Sare placed a hand on her shoulder.

"It wasnt your fault. None of us could've been any more prepared for that then we were. We're lucky to be alive." Emria nodded to That. Lia was still trying to capture the breath that had escaped her when the thing popped out. "Come on," emria said. "We need a place to stay while we're stranded. ive got enough GiL to keep us going at a mid class hotel for a few weeks. Everyone nodded, and they walked away from the scene of the battle.