Hello there! Well I am actually pretty pleased with this chapter, it was a lot of fun to write. But only you dear readers can let me know if I should really be pleased or not. So please leave me some feedback and let me know! Also my apologies for a higher amount of swear words but Cid and Barret are involved in this chapter so that should explain everything. :) I truly hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it.
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Tifa almost dropped the champagne glass she was given by a server. The ceremony had gone off without a hitch which was the epitome of being great and horrible at the same time. Yuffie was now in power and that was going to do wonders for Wutai. Yuffie was finally going to bring Wutai back to honor and glory.
But it appears that all this as bait did not work. And it was taking all of Tifa's strength to not panic.
Reeve came over, saving her from her thoughts. "That was such a gorgeous ceremony, I've never seen anything like it...and Yuffie..."
"Was so beautiful that she looked more like a goddess than a princess! Right?" Yuffie had come from behind them, startling both of them. Reeve choked on his drink.
"Aww Reevey don't get all choked up on my account, I promise I'll visit the WRO often. Hell I may summon you to my palace for help on different projects," she teased.
"Did you leave all your grace and elegance up there on the platform..princess? Reeve choked out as he tried to recover from the mishap with his drink.
"Hey Reeve how do you diplomatically say bite me when your royalty?"
Tifa smiled at her friends, she wished she could enjoy them...but she was honestly sick inside.
Yuffie put her hand on Tifa's shoulder. "It's not your fault they didn't show Teef, it was a good plan."
"That may be so, but I don't think there is anything you could say that could make me feel like it was going to be okay. By Jenova's Hope not coming I have sent Tseng, Elena, Re...Reno possibly to their deaths."
Tifa could barely get out his name. He had shown such faith in her, in her plan...was she really going to loose him after just finding him? The tears began to surface now, she couldn't bare the thought of all that could be going wrong for Reno and his friends.
Reeve took Tifa's hand. "Look even if they don't show we are about to arrest Godo. Jenova's Hope will have lost two of their biggest assets within less than a week."
Before Tifa could respond, Nanaki was nudging her hand with force.
"Nanaki what's wrong?"
"Movement has been detected in different parts of the surrounding forest and I do not mean regular animal movement."
Reeve immediately pulls out his phone and sends a text. Tifa's heart is pounding, did her plan work after all? Within a minute of Nanaki telling them grey hooded figures are emerging out of the forest making a perimeter around the garden. Tifa and everyone else have no way of escaping.
"Aww man I was just getting to like this dress and now I have to ruin it?" Yuffie whined.
Reeve just looked over at Yuffie with an incredulous look on his face and Tifa was sure she caught Vincent rolling his eyes. Rufus and other WRO members maneuvered and tossed Tifa and her friends their weapons. Barret, Cid, and Vincent rushed to their friends sides. They all moved into fighting positions.
"It's about damn time those assholes showed their faces...well sort of anyway." Barret said gruffly.
Some members try to do fire and quake spells but it dissolves before hitting the garden. Tifa looked over at Reeve who was smiling smugly. He and the whole WRO have come prepared and have a magic barrier around the whole area. Shocked but undeterred the members then try to charge into the garden. But it's too late they are in for another surprise; the WRO soldiers who had been doing some hiding of their own have surrounded them.
Yuffie stomped her foot and began to pout "Aww wait now you're telling me we aren't fighting, my adrenaline was just kicking in!"
Vincent spoke stoically. "Yuffie, stop talking."
As the members were rounded up it appeared they had captured almost all the remaining members of group. Tifa was relieved, that meant Reno, Tseng, and Elena shouldn't have many to contend with at Jenova's Hope Headquarters. Tifa then saw Reeve and Yuffie calmly walked up to Yuffie's father Godo.
"Well sir you get to be witness to Yuffie's first order of business and Princess of Wutai."
"Yeah, as a former and now honorary member of the WRO and as my first act as Princess of Wutai... I order you to be taken into custody by the WRO to face the charges of harboring a terrorist organization and extreme negligence toward the people of Wutai by putting your people in eminent danger by your choice to harbor said terrorists."
Reeve and Tifa looked at each other, both of them sporting dropped mouths at the sight of Yuffie acting so...professional. The ceremony was one thing, but she was all business here, not even showing the slightest hint of emotion.
"Yuffie please I did that to protect Wutai...they promised to leave Wutai be if I agreed!" Godo said desperately.
"Did you even look into what they were trying to do? Keeping Wutai safe? NO ONE WOULD BE SAFE IF THEY MET THEIR GOALS!"
"Yuffie..."
"Get him out of my sight."
As Godo began to be taken away Tifa heard a few of the members of Jenova's Hope start saying in a sing song voice "Calamity of the skies...or maybe just calamities in the sky." Tifa wrinkled her nose. What were they babbling about? And that's when she heard the multiple roars.
"You have got to be kidding me...it can't be, they are not even from this part of the world?!" Yuffie was turning white as a ghost.
"What the hell are you trying to say Yuffie?" Barret asked.
But they all got the answer when the sunlight was suddenly blocked. Everyone looked up to see many large dragons flying above them. What happens next is pretty much all hell breaking loose.
"Oh you gotta be fucking kidding me." Barret said warily.
Godo made a few moves and broke from the soldiers holding him, Reeve and Yuffie immediately took off after him. Rufus orders the soldiers to get the prisoners to the detainment carriers.
Without hesitation Tifa starting shouting orders. "We can't let those dragons get to the village! Cid take Nanaki and Vincent and lure some of them toward the beach to the west."
Cid exclaimed..."Lure them to the beach, what do I look like some god damn dragon whisperer?!"
"JUST DO IT!" Tifa screamed and pointed to Cid's Venus Gospel weapon.
"Oh right, that should get a few of them's attention. HEY RED GIVE ME A BOOST!"
Nanaki then hurled Cid in the air and Cid was able to scrape one of them as it flew by. It made a terrible noise and started to dive down towards them.
"IT WORKED...OH SHIT IT WORKED...RUN!" Cid screamed.
Tifa pulled out some of her materia and cast flare on the dragon closest to her while Barret blasts another with his gun.
"Barret let's make them chase us up the mountain!" Tifa ordered.
Barret just shook his head. "Ya know Tifa sometimes I really hate you."
"Please you love me, now move your ass!"
