Featured Author ocs:
Hikari-Angel143- Carmina Sanchez
Lucas Bane- Lucas Fedrick
Pikpixie03- Rally Nightshade
Roseria Slyvester- Rosetta "Rose" Sonoma
Zalger248- Chao Shuyan
TheUndyingCrystal- Cynthia Gordon
AWESOME AUSSIE GURL- Isabelle Smith
Chapter 21: The Spy Hunt
Opening Theme: "Please don't Judge Me" Chris Brown
(POV: Carmina)
Hoooboy, here I was thinking everything would go exactly like the Game! Kel would be the next Cloud, save Aerith and we all move to stop Sephiroth. But so much has changed I don't know what to think anymore! But maybe this is for the best, I've decided to follow my friends so what was supposed to happen in the game and what's happening now doesn't matter. The only thing that does matter is, that I have to protect my friends.
It's all I have in this world..
I refused to set foot in that old lech Don Corneo's place, I was sitting outside on an old generator with Rose and Izzy. Tifa, Kel and Barret were inside talking about God knows what with the Don. We all stayed outside along with the new revolutionary Army AVALANCHE. There were old drunks and bums gathering together military camo suits and weapons in the Wall Market. Even merchants began to stand up and take up arms.
I stood baffled by how many people stood up because of Kel's words. It reminded me of the fics he used to write and all the protagonists he'd come up with. He was just like them in that instant, his words had even me fired up. I was happy to have a friend like him watching my back, he made me feel so safe.
"Where's Rally?" Rose asked suddenly breaking my chain of thought. Now that I thought about it that fire cracker Rally, really wasn't here! And that was a cause for alarm.
"Ummm..I dunno." Izzy replied as she sat on the roof of an old truck, she had her silver rapier out on her lap and wiping the blade with one of her orange cloths.
I hopped on my feet and took a look around, inspecting the area in front of Don Corneo's fortress. There were a lot of heads but I couldn't spot Rally. She was very good at gathering people's attentions so it wouldn't be hard to spot her. "Uh-oh...she's not here." I gasped. Rose hopped on her feet as well and looked with me.
Rose, although I've only just met her back in Don Corneo's mansion. I feel like I've known her for years, shes the overly protective big sister and mothering type. She watches out for everyone both physically and emotionally, she's always willing to talk about stuff and sort things out. Like when Rally would say a word or two too far, Rose would immediately put her in check. It was kinda funny.
But right now Rose was in a panic, her eyes shifted around. "Oh no...who knows what kinda trouble she can get into by herself." Rose sighed and facepalmed. I felt her concern, Rally wasn't the type of girl you could let roam around unsupervised.
"Don't worry, let's find Biggs, Wedge and Jessie. Then we'll all search for the trouble maker together." I rubbed behind my head.
We all raced out of Don Corneo's domain and took the main road past the old body builder's gym to the Wall Market below. All while keeping an eye out for Rally, but there was a feeling I couldn't shake ever since we'd left the Don's. The moment we left the domain I had this feeling we were being watched. I couldn't shake it.
Without watching where I was walking I'd gotten a mouthful of Rose's hair. My face smacked the back of her head and I was left refreshed and disoriented at the same time. Her hair smelled great. "What is it?" I looked around Rose's head to see a man in a black suit with a skinny black tie. He had really curly blonde hair and held a video camera in his hands.
"Hmmm...underground resistance army huh? This'll get me a promotion in no time." He grinned.
My eyes suddenly widened a pothole opened in my gut and me and Rose said it at the same time. "TURK!" As if that was his que, he turned and bolted. Running at an abnormal speed. I'd forgotten about finding Rally in a second as I took off running after him hopping and moving through the crowds, Rose and Izzy were both with me as we exited the Wall Market and back into the playground Ai outside of the destroyed Sector 07.
He was cutting through Sector 06 most likely to get to the station in Sector 05. This turk was really fast, he took long strides and looked as though he was toying around with us. Rose and Izzy were both ahead of me, I'd left them but they we both ultimately faster and more in-shape. I was huffing and wheezing, lagging behind until we'd reached the destroyed highway where the old crane stood.
The Turk simply stood there looking around, it was obvious he'd never actually been to this sector before. He had no idea where the exit to the old highway was. The three of us landed down on the concrete hopping from the up-heaved upper level of the street.
"Uh-oh, where's the exit again?" The Turk asked rubbing behind his head.
"STOP!" Rose ordered as the three of us slid to a stop behind him.
He turned around raising his camera. "Howdy, it's been like what? Acouple of seconds ago...how have you guys been?"
Rose wasn't in the mood for his sarcasm, though that was alittle funny. "The camera, give us that tape now!"
"Whaaaaat? Noway...I was sent down here by HQ to case Sector 07 for any survivors. Imagine my surprise when everyone survives and even build an army. Man the President is gonna be pissed, we crushed an entire sector for nothing. millions of gil gone down the drain." He cackled like a moron. Though he was right, I could picture the President of ShinRa ripping what little hair he had left out after seeing the huge bill for nothing. "But with this footage, we can call in an airstrike on your cowboy asses and sweep all of this under the rug."
The 'quiet til now' Izzy stood forward drawing her rapier and pointing it at the TURK. "Yeah too bad the footage won't get to your HQ. We'll be taking that back by force."
"You do realize I am a member of the TURKS right? Which means basically you can't win." He said reaching into his back suit coat and drawing out a pair of Nunchaku or rather Nunchucks. I knew this guy was gonna be trouble and I'd rather Kel here but we can't afford to run and get help now.
And if he gets away everything Kel worked to carry out will be ruined. I don't want that on my conscience! I'll fight until I die to get that freakin' tape!
With that I was with Izzy, I drew from my back my twin iron fans which looked like daggers when they were folded. I unfolded them and they spread like peacock feathers in my hands. With that Rose bent her knees, and pulled from the bottom of her plaid schoolgirl like skirt a pair of twin curving blades.
She rammed them together creating a huge ring, like a hula-hoop. It was definitely an odd weapon but I couldn't point and stare now. "Before we start...who are you?" Rose asked.
The Turk smirked. "Wanna know my name? You're so old fashion...Heh...It's Tsurubami, but you women can just call me Bami."
"Fighting for any reason is a stupid idea, but if we must fight. I'd like to know the name of the person I'm fighting... whether it be good or bad. From this experience...we form a bond." Rose said and after thinking about it for a second, she was right. How deep can this girl be?
"You're right. But bonds forged through combat are easily broken." He threw up the camera and abnormally it soared high. With that Izzy forgot about the TURK and launched straight up towards the camera. Bami grinned and I screamed to Izzy. "IZZY LOOK OUT!" He leaped into the air while Izzy's eyes were on the camera he slapped one end of his nunchucks against her face. POW!
The sound of one of the clubs smacking her face sent a chill down my spine, I saw a trail of blood splatter from her face as she fell back. "Forget the camera, we're fighting the TURK." Rose ordered like a general, suddenly I felt like I was fighting beside a war goddess as she leaped off flying towards Bami.
Rose spun like a bullet in the air gracefully while Bami spun his nunchucks in mid air like Bruce Lee. Their weapons clashed creating an explosion of air that swept across the entire highway in a shock wave. My hair fluttered behind me like a flag and I was suddenly thrown off as I realized I was on the wrong battle field.
Rose and Bami looked like two anime characters, flying around and jumping through the air like the Earth under them was nothing. Like they were gods.
Rose's aura came in the form of pink flower peddles which danced through the air while Bami's aura appeared as a violent green flame. The two of them landed down across from each other, Bami held out his foot and caught the camera on the side of it in a Bruce Lee like kicking pose. "Oi Oi Oi, you're pretty good."
"HIYAAAAAAAAAH!" Izzy came from behind attempting to impale Bami but he quickly spun around and round house kicked her sending Izzy spinning to the ground. With that he tossed the Camera up again and caught it in his right hand while spinning and juggling the nunchucks in his left hand.
"Ergghhh...eee..." Izzy struggled to get back up.
I was completely frozen, again frozen just like how I was in Don Corneo's mansion when Kel fought Chao. These fights are frightening, yet Izzy...Izzy stood up. Despite being weaker, despite losing and despite the opponent threatening to kill her. Izzy would always stand up, time after time. She was amazing.
Without warning Rose and Bami went at each other again, he seemed to only be serious when fighting Rose but brushed me and Izzy off like we were nothing. Rose wielded her hula-hoop blade like a feather swinging it left and right while Bami countered with fast juggling of his nunchucks swinging it across his shoulders and in between his thighs all while clashing with Rose's ring blade. With every clash of their weapons, sparks would shoot off and dance like flaming beads.
Izzy stood up and I jogged over to her not for a second taking my eyes off the battle between Rose and Bami which seemed to be equal at this point.
"Izzy...stay down, this guy is too much for us." I cowered.
Izzy stood up and despite my words, her face covered in blood and bruised. Her right cheek was even swollen alittle. "No...Carmina...I'm not gonna stop."
"Why? He's beating the crap out of you!" I got angry and grabbed her arm.
She yanked her arm away from me. "Don't you see that?" She pointed at the battle between the two super powers that were Bami and Rose. "How many battles did Rose have to fight...how many times did she get smacked around...to fight like that? Did you see how high she jumped in the air? Did you see how when they tried to hit each other the air just exploded like in an anime?! How many times...How many battles did Rose fight!? I wanna be that strong! Only the strong have the luxury of going on adventures...and and I wanna go on an adventure!"
With that Izzy ran towards Bami from behind. "I want to be strong! I want to go on adventures too!"
Bami and Rose broke apart and he spun around just in time to jab her, Izzy in the chest. She went back flying towards me while throwing up blood, we both went flying back til we hit a steel beam which was sticking out of the concrete. I coughed a little too and held Izzy. "You're a psycho." I whispered.
"I don't want to be protected by him." Izzy rolled off of me. "I want to fight beside him, not from behind him...Kel is talking about fighting the company this jerk comes from! There will be stronger dudes than this...much much stronger. I have to hurry up and learn how to..." With that Izzy dropped down passing out.
I leaned over to her and felt her neck, still breathing. "Izzy..."
BOOM!
I turned towards the highway where Rose and Bami were fighting. A massive magical fire explosion was filtering into the sky, I looked into the air to see Bami and Rose flying around like Goku and Frieza. Bami was firing from his palm, fire spells while Rose countered with wind based spells. Jets of wind and balls of fire crossed and even collided in mid air.
As I continued to watch Rose in her glory, I thought about what Izzy was saying. I stroked her hair the entire time while watching them. "How many battles did Rose fight? To fight like that? She's even stronger than Rally..."
BOOM!
My gaze blurred a bit as I saw one of Bami's fire spells strike Rose, he followed up with three more blasts which landed as the black smoke cleared Rose was falling like a shot duck out of the air. She wasn't moving and if she lands on her head from that height. I rested Rose' head and ran off towards Rose.
I hopped over old drums, pipes and underneath destroyed overpasses. Without knowing I'd already broken human speed with running, I held my hands out and grabbed Rose out of the air and both of us went sliding through the concrete. I right arm skinned and scraped along the concrete stinging as the air and dust pressed in. But I was more worried about Rose.
She was resting against my bosom. "Rose!"
She struggled to open her eyes, she was covered in bruises and black burn marks. "Carmina." She looked up at me and I felt my eyes water. "Is Izzy alright?" She asked. Silly, even when she's this hurt she's worried about others. When she asked the question however I burst into tears.
"Wh-What am I gonna do?! He's gonna get away...he's gonna get away and they'll kill everyone." I cried.
Rose groaned in agony. "Err...Carmina...nobody's asking the world of you."
"Huh?"
She smiled up at me. "Everyone will understand, all you have to do is try...You don't have to beat him. All you have to do is try your best..."
"Guh..." I held her and hugged her. When I pulled back from my hug, she was unconscious.
"Ok...I'll...I'll try. For you Rose." I mopped my cheeks of the tears and laid her down beside me. I stood up slowly feeling a fire in my chest, suddenly my fear of dying and losing everything, turned into my motivation. I looked up at the overturned yellow crane seeing Bami standing there watching the video on the camcorder he had.
"Such a scoop." He nodded with a smile.
"You're gonna give me that camcorder you fucking asshole!" I cursed.
He looked away from the camcorder and stared at me. "Oh...so the crybaby wants to finally fight huh? Okay...this should be quick."
I reached to my back drawing my metal fans again as I felt and noticed my body covered by a bright yellow aura.
Ok I'm gonna give it my best shot! Here goes!