A/N: I am DREADFULLY sorry about being gone so long. My comp crashed a WHILE back and I finaly had to buy a completely new one. So yeah. Sorry guys! Now I'm here to stay ,

Chapter XIV: Hangover Always Suck

Salem yawned loudly, lifted his arms and stretched as he walked down the hall. He rubbed his head roughly in hopes to rid the pain in his head. Footsteps began to make their way from the corner before Salem quickly slipped into the JOHN. What in the hell happened last night? He thought closing his eyes and rubbing his temples. Salem stepped forward to the mirror that hung above the sink and fell deep into thought, trying to remember the last thing from the night before. "Dancing..." He whispered to himself. The red eyed man shook his head for a moment scratching his bare, scared chest. Then, his eyes shot open to their most in remembering whos bed he had woken up in a few minutes before before. "Oooooooh shit..."

Salem jumped with nervesness at the sound of Yuffie pounding on the door behind him. "Salem Gemini Valentine! Out here RIGHT now!" Oh no... She found out... Salem scrammbled to the shower snatching off clothing. "Taking a shower! Be out in a jiff!" It was true that Salem a Yuffie had a love/hate relationship But it was mostly hate. He knew her wrath and didn't want to be part of it. Not with this headache.

Yuffie forced open the door with a foot and walked in quickly with a stomp strait to the shower and pulled back the shower curtain and stood staring at the dark haired mans back. He threw his head back in annoyance, there was now use in running from her, she'd only follow. "What, Yuffie?"

"What in the hell where you thinking?" Yuffie blurted crossing her arms and began to make a beat with her left foot.

Salem turned, pulling his hair back and whiping the water from his eyes. "What do you mean?" He said playing confused.

And with that 'Wrath of Yuffie' glare, she leaned in closer, speaking with a growl that could have come from the pits of hell itself, "I KNOW what you did last night."

Salem stood perfectly still, wide eyed, not intending to fight her anylonger. "I'm sorry..."

"YOU BETTER BE!" She screamed making him flinch. "And it BETTER-NOT-HAPPEN-AGAIN!"

Salem continued to stand perfectly still. "Yes, ma'am."

Yuffie turned and stomped off out of the JOHN after slamming the door hard behind her. Salem relaxed his body, pulled the curtain to and continued to wash himself off but continued to think about what had happend the night before. It must have been bad from what Yuffies attitude was tward the subject... Pretty damn bad.

BOOM

The force of the impact threw him against the shower wall.

CRASH

Salem stood to his feet quickly and tripped out of the shower, grabbing his cloths and shoved them on as fast as possible. Running out of the JOHN and into the hall he tried yelling for an explanation... While putting on his pants. "What the living fu-" Another crash to the side of the ship had thrown him down. "WHATS GOING ON!?!"

"Pirates babe!" Stella smiled at him as she jumped over him.

Salem scrambled to his feet and buckled his belt following her, then Shelke. "Pirates?" He asked unconvinced.

"Well I think they are." Stella returned before turning around to find one of the three missing. "Where's ninja girl?"

"Vomiting..." Shelke returned with a slight expression of strain as she tried to brace herself for the blows on the ship.

"Dont you have any weapons on this heap?!" Salem asked franticly.

Stella took a look into a few hologram windows before answering. "They took em' out, hun."

"Tell me..." Shelke spoke with a now question expression. She lifted a hand slowly to the windshield ahead of them. "What is that?"

The other two looked ahead to find someone on the glass staring in. Completely covered in animal hide with their eyes covered with dark goggles. Salem thought for a moment. He had seen one of these before, but where? The crashing had stopped and in replacement, clicks and clacks were heard from the roof of the ship.

"I'll get em'" Salem said running to get his brothers gun.

Stella's voice buzzed from a over head entercom. "Go to the cargo hold and there will be a hatch that leads to the top of the ship."

"Got it! Now slow this thing down!" Salem laid the gun its holster before running through the ship taking quick lefts and rights. Finaly he reached the hatch ladder and began to climb.

"Now opening hatch." Stella spoke again through the com. The metal screached for a few moments before opening, pulling Salem out, trying to equalize the pressure. His arms struggled to hold on the the last bar before the hatch began to close again. He searched quickly with his red eyes to find something else to grip. Ha! He let go, letting himself fly through the air before kicking one of the mysterious beings off the ship, sending them to a long fall to death, then grabbing hold of a loose piece of sheet metal. He maintained himself and began to stand. There were three others. Two infront of him and one behind him, and they didn't look to happy. Salem went for his gun before being kicked from behind, nearly lossing the Cerberus. He couldn't risk it, he had to fight these guys by hand. He quickly stood to his feet before being kicked again, making him slide backwards. He struggled to grip something before being caught by his foot. A rope tightened around his ankle with two of the men holding it at the other end. He quickly loosend the rope from his ankle and held onto it with his hands until he could stand and then pulled it as hard as he could makinf the men slide downtward him only for Salem to give a casual jump over them. It was just him and the other. The wind blew his hair rapidly as Salem glared with a evil looking smile. The hidden man stood for only a moment before lowering to his knees and bowing to Salem only once and rolled himself off of the ship. Salem looked beweirded but hurried and got back into the ship before HE fell off.

"What the hell happened out there?!" Yuffie said waiting for him. "Are you okay?"

Salem looked at his hands. Blood poured from the sliced fingers. "I need a few bandaids..."

"You think?!" She screamed.

"What happened out there, hun?" Stella asked through the entercom.

"I have not a clue..." Salem returned.

"Well get pached up and head back up here. There's something we need to talk about." She said in her teezing tone.

Yuffie gave Salem the glare that had reminded him of what she had told him NOT to do, before stomping off to her cabin.

"I swear..." Salem murmured. "Hangovers always suck..."