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Hikari-Angel143- Carmina Sanchez
Lucas Bane- Lucas Fedrick
Pikpixie03- Rally Nightshade
Roseria Slyvester- Rosetta "Rose" Sonoma
Zalger248- Shuyan Chao
TheUndyingCrystal- Cynthia Gordon
AWESOME AUSSIE GURL- Isabelle Smith

Chapter 36: Shuyan Chao

"Birthday Song" 2 Chainz

I had all of my Clones memories which means his acquaintances are now mine as well. All I have to do is not make it weird and it'll be cool. If I play my cards right maybe they won't be able to tell I'm the real Kel and not the copy they've rolled around with this entire time.

Bahamut SIN let us off in the wasteland outside of Kalm. It'd use up enough of his summon time so he has to take a rest inside of his materia before I can summon him again. So Lucas and I had to huff it through the wastelands for about four or five miles.

"So, where'd you get the materia to summon Bahamut SIN?" He asked with his hands resting in a cross inside of his shikahakusho. "And the light saber too?"

The Beam Katana which he referred to as a light saber, I did too sometimes. Was hanging from one of my belt loops from the keychain at the end of the saber hilt. It hung from my belt loop near my lower right back so it was easy for me to grab.

"I found em." I shrugged. I had to keep it simple, if I came up with some long complex story on how I discovered em. He'd know I was lying.

Lucas let it go without prying he simply shrugged, content with his own weapons and materia I'll bet. As we traversed the wastelands we came across Custom Sweepers, Death Machines and many other ShinRa mechs that were forgotten in the wastelands. Putting them to rest was a pretty easy task.

The wastelands outside of Midgar, it was like the grand canyon if you'd ever seen it. A wide open plain of desert and nothingness for miles. Afew dead plants, tumble weeds here and there and tall rock formations. Anyone whose ever seen an old western movie has seen this place.

"So what are we gonna now? What's our next move?" He suddenly asked. I knew exactly what to do, combat the chaos and calamities that Lecter have already unleashed. Which means stomping Deepground, ShinRa and Sephiroth and eventually Lecter himself.

I shoved my hands into my pockets. "Well...truth be told the reason we're here in this world. Is to stop a certain man."

Lucas' eyes widen. He looked to me suddenly like a starving child. "What do you mean? You mean we were brought here for a reason?"

"Yeah, to stop a certain man. You know the guy in the red fedora?"

"The Hellsing guy?"

"Heh...yeah. Him, you see we were all brought here to this world to stop him. Representing the forces of Harmony and the Goddess who sides with it. And Lecter, the guy we're chasing. Is sided with the opposing forces of Chaos. He's been sent here to swallow the world in chaos and discord. We were sent here to prevent that in a war across the constellations. Orchestrated by the Gods." I explained and Lucas took it all in. It wasn't like he was in a place to tell me any different.

"So I take it you remember how you got here now?"

"Yeah I remembered in that battle. I'll never forget again though." I lied.

"Yeah well, if you don't mind I'd like to get a drink first and a woman or two before we discuss this any further. Because this sounds like it's going to be a hassle." He sighed.

"I think it's gonna be fun." I laughed.

"Fun? Yeah maybe. But you gotta remember Kel, we're traveling with a bunch of sensitive ladies. Well except Rally she ain't no girl." Lucas laughed and with that I laughed right along with him. Yeah, Rally is a shemale. We laughed our way all the way to Kalm.

The town came up on the edge of the Wasteland where it met with a grassy valley, on that very line sat Kalm. A medieval english looking town with several blue roves and buildings that mashed together. Untouched by the modern life of ShinRa. We approached it at sunrise.

Waiting by the town entrance where the big KALM sign stood was Tifa. I had to admit I was a little sad to see that she was wearing a black leather jacket over her white tank top. So her breasts weren't as visible. "GUYS!" She ran over to greet us.

"Yo." I raised two fingers with a grin.

Lucas gave him the ol' player's head nod. "Sup."

"You two are a sight for sore eyes. Everyone's been so worried. Come with me." She continued walking a little into town and turned left immediately into a two story Inn. I noticed in the center of town near the Kalm Chapel were lots of trucks and tankers from the AVALANCHE forces. There were lots of resistance fighters in the streets. Hard to believe these hardened soldiers used to be booze hounds, thieves and debt collectors in the Slums.

We entered the cozy old Inn, to see in the small wooden lobby near the fireplace lying sprawled out on the floor was Carmina, Rose and Izzy. All of them snoozing with their shoes off in personal sleeping bags. "Oooh they're still sleeping. If you guys are tired you can rest too."

Lucas yawned raising his fists. "I think I'll take you up on that. We've walked all night."

"The entire Inn is ours now, the people of Kalm are letting us use it for as long as we stay. They're nice people out here." Tifa said with a nod. "If you guys wanna take a bath, I'll take your close and see to it that they get properly, cleaned."

"That sounds awesome." I said rubbing my neck.

Lucas and I took Tifa up on her offers, we took a bath, got our cloths cleaned and even got a bite to eat. Afterwards we returned to the Inn in our cleaned cloths to see that the girls were still snoozing. Which was a good thing because if they were to wake up, they'd never let us get to sleep.

Upstairs in the Inn was Rally, she was sleeping in one of the beds covered in bandages. So she survived the battle against Sephiria huh?

Also in the attic like room with lots of shared beds was Aerith who watched over Rally. Barret was fast asleep on the corner bed, RedXIII was sleeping on the floor near the window but he raised his head as we made our way to the top room.

Aerith spotted us and she raised up covering her mouth, she dare speak to disturb the sleepers in the room so she simply walked over and hugged the both of us. "I'm glad you're safe." She whispered.

"Piece a cake." Lucas yawned again. "Now I'm gonna hit the sack."

He plopped down on an open white bed near the door of the shared room and fell fast asleep the moment his face hit the pillow. "So how have you been?" I whispered to Aerith. My clone had a real crush on her but he thought of himself as too insignificant to talk to her. NOT ME BITCH!

Aerith smiled at me. "I'm better now that I'm not trapped in a cage."

"Don't worry, you won't see a cage anymore as long as I'm around." I pointed at myself.

Aerith giggled. "Very reassuring."

I yawned then stretched. "Well I'm gonna get some sleep, you're welcome to join me...if you want."

"Not yet, Shuyan really wants to see you." Aerith reminded me of that guy.

I shook my head. "That douche's gonna have to wait man, I'm fucking tired." I whispered back. "Been fighting off all kinds of evil yesterday night." With that I plopped down on an empty bed next to Rally. Man, I see why Lucas fell asleep as soon as he hit the pillow. These Inn beds are really comfy.

My eyelids grew heavy and just as I was about to basically expire in bed, Aerith pulled the hair bow from her head letting her brunette curly hair drop to her back. She slid into my bed and arched her back into my stomach and chest. With that she grabbed my right arm and fixated it around her chest. "Good night...or rather...good morning hehe." She laughed.

I fell asleep to the sweet smell of lilies in Aerith's hair.

Later that day...

"Zzzzzzzz (snort)...huh?!" My head popped up in the dark shared Inn room. I woke up suddenly feeling the space in front of me. Aerith was gone, for that matter...everyone in the shared room was gone. I leaned up out of bed and looked down at myself. My black button up was unbutton showing my white tank top underneath and my shoes were off. I looked down at my white plain socks.

I yawned looking over at a small lamp table seeing my hat, tie and my two rubber wrists. I put on everything and buttoned up my shirt, fastening my tie up as I descended the steps into the lobby. In the Inn lobby near the stone fireplace was a table set up and everyone sat down for a plate of lunch which was just a few sandwiches.

Aerith, her mother Elmyra, Marlene, Tifa, Barret, Jessie, Biggs, Wedge, Carmina, Lucas, Rally and Izzy. All of them sat around the squared table talking and chattering, mostly Rally. "And that's basically how I ended up beating her." Rally explained crossing her arms triumphantly. Rally was also the only one covered in bandages from her battle, she was so covered she looked almost like a female mummy. Her usual cloths of a black t-shirt and jeans switched with a crimson red button up and black slacks with suspenders.

"Beating who? Sephiria?" I yawned and with that everyone greeted me with a wave or a thumbs up.

"KEL!" Carmina was the only one to actually jump out of her seat to come and hug me. She pulled me by hand over to the table to an empty chair. I grabbed it and sat against the chair in reverse leaning forward.

"What you guys got the for the big hero?" I asked playfully.

"Big hero, look whose suddenly full of himself!" Barret raised a fist.

"Oh shaddap ya big lummox, you're always full of yourself." Rally nudged Barret.

"So are you!" Barret roared and both he and Rally got face to face.

"Uh oh, battle of the cocky ones." Lucas said and with that everyone broke out into laughter. Marlene jumped up and hugged Barret from behind.

"Please don't fight Daddy!" She cried.

"You lucky, Marlene here or else I'd punch you three feet deep ya lil..." Barret wagged his metal arm.

Rally smirked. "You're nowhere near my level, old man."

The laughter cut short when the door to the Inn opened and in came a man in a first class SOLDIER uniform with shoulder length silver hair tied back into a single ponytail with a bushy silver goatee. He marked in with heavy foot steps to the wooden floor boards.

"Shuyan! Where ya been? Lunch started five minutes ago!" Rose pointed him out.

Shuyan shrugged. "Sorry about that. Got a little caught up in something."

So this is Shuyan Chao, the guy who wanted to talk to me so bad? He didn't look like anyone I knew from the game so he had to be a self insert or some random anomaly unforeseen from the game. "Something like what? A woman perhaps?" Rose cooed and with that the girls giggled.

"Heh, nah. Watch detail...seems like the war in Midgar has come to a halt. ShinRa is pulling back to the northeast. They're probably securing Junon Harbor." Shuyan explained.

"Is Deepground really that powerful to move ShinRa out of their own HQ?" Tifa asked.

"Nah, let's not forget it was us who softened ShinRa up before Deepground showed. So..." Rally started but she was cut off by Shuyan.

"Actually...ShinRa was holding back against you guys. They hadn't even brought out their main mech force against you guys. They were using mostly Infantry divisions against you. Right when they were getting ready to end the rebellion that's when Deepground showed up and took over." Shuyan said which was a slap to the face for all of us.

"Are we still safe here?" Elmyra asked.

"I don't think so...Deepground is an organization that has been hidden away in that underground for years. It'll come to no surprise that they'll spread their forces out not that they aren't busy fighting ShinRa. We may have to e-vac this entire town." Shuyan sat at the table and grabbed a cup of tea that Aerith poured him. "Which is what I wanted to talk to you about..."

Shuyan turned to look at me. "Oh wait...I'm still leader of AVALANCHE now?"

"What say you to the evacuation?" Shuyan asked raising an eyebrow.

"Hmmmmmm" I rubbed my chin.

This is pretty serious, but there is a way to get Deepground off of us without having to fight them.