DIVINE CROSSING
Chapter 3: Missing Persons

Where are they?? Their gonna be late! Goten thought, tapping his foot on the ground. Goten was about to go ahead and walk into his mother's house without his brother, sister-in-law, and neice. I can't belive their late! And their the ones who planed this. A second later Gohan, Videl, and Pan slipped from the bush of the forest and joined Goten. "Where were you?!" Goten whispered. "Sorry, we had to take the long way, we couldn't just come driving up in the car you know." his brother apologized. Goten smirked, "Yeah, whatever. Lets go ahead and do this." he stated as he qiuetly walked up to the door of their mothers house. "Geez, he sounded so gung-ho about it on the phone," Videl critizied. "You think he'd be more excited about his mom's birthday..."
"Oh let him be. He's still dealing with dad's death. He and mom were the ones who took it hardest, after all." Gohan took up for his brother. Videl just shrugged. Goten waited for them at the door, and pulled out a key. as he went to unlock the door, he found that it was already open. "You don't think she knows we're coming do ya?" Pan asked as they slipped into the dark house. "No way, not even Vegeta and Bulma knows we're doing this.."Videl replied.
"Hey mom! We're here!! Happy Birthday!!!" Goten called out. No answer. "Hey Grandma! We've come to visit.." Pan yelled. Still no answer. "This is creepy, she's almost always home now-a-days." Videl said. Gohan, ever the voice of reason, replied, "I'm sure she's just gone to the store, you know grocieries.." But something was pulling a string somewhere, this was wrong.
Goten and Pan went into the living room, seeing if she left a note. Gohan went into the kitchen, and Videl headed up stairs. Gohan walked into the kitchen and discovered that the sink was full of dishwater and dishes. And the water is still warm.. Now his concern turned into fear. She NEVER left a sink full of dishes undone, never.
Videl quietly crept into the bedroom, and found the light on. Everything was as it usally was, bed made, floor mopped and waxed, furniture polished and dusted, like usual. She followed the wall to the back of the room, towards the window. **squelch** Videl stopped. The sound reminded her of wet shoe soles on tile floor. She looked down, and found her shoe in the middle of a pool of dark liquid. it was pooling from under the bathroom door. Slowly she opened the door, paused, and screamed.

~~~Gaia~~~
Cid slumped to the floor laughing, "Hahaha, that's a good one Cloud, Jenova back?! That's a hoot....." he continued laughing. Cloud, with the help of Tifa, stood up. "I'm serious Cid, Jenova's back. Somehow, she survived Holy and the Lifestream.....God, not again." he whispered. Shera stepped up, and poked Cid in the side. "Cloud, what makes up think she's back?"
Slowly, Cloud described every detail he could recall of his nightmare. "It was so real, the heat of the fire, the smell of blood and smoke. Even the groans of all those dying people. So vivid." he ended the last in a whisper. "Just like Nibelhiem..." Tifa breathed, finishing Cloud's statement, even if he wasn't gonna say it.
"hrmph," Barett cleared his throat. "So, if Jenova's back watta we gonna do? And whatta 'bout those other people in da dream? Does that mean she on another planet, if so how in the hell are we get their ta stop her?"
Cloud shrugged, "Maybe, Aeris could tell us something, if she was alive...."
Tifa mentally groaned, He's never going to forgive himself about that, he couldn't have done anything about it..she thought. In fact the subject of Aeris touched a sensitive spot in her too. Truth be told, she was jealous of the Cetra girl, even in death, she still had Cloud's heart. She had lost the love of her life to a dead flower girl......
"Yeah, well. There's something we can to. Somebody who can help us.." Yuffie spoke aloud. As if waiting for that cue, the ground below them shook violently, toppling everyone to the floor. "What the !@%#&* #%@!" Cid cried. Cloud shook out of his funk, "Everyone outside, battle ready NOW!!!" With barely a nod, the group split up, got their weapons, varous materia and went out. Five minutes later Cloud and Tifa jogged out of the house. "Cloud, Tifa, what kept you?" Red asked as they ran up. "Wonder boy here almost ran out in his boxers!" Tifa grinned. Everyone took the moment to laugh. Cloud would be in a hell of a lot of trouble if Tifa didn't keep him in line..Barett thought. Just then the quake kicked up again.
"Here we folks! Hold on!" Cloud called as a gyser of Lifestream exploded from the ground. Everybody scramed in odd directions to avoid the gushing mako energy. Then just as soon as it started, it stopped. everyone looked about, the only evidence of the explosion was a deep pool of Lifestream in the middle of the yard. "Oh great, another addition to the collection." Yuffie sighed. This new one was the most recent in the expanding number of pools made by the still unsteady Lifestream.
"Come on everyone. Breakfast is getting cold." Tifa sugested. The group started in but then a voice, familiar and sweet called out..."Hey you guys! Wait for me!!!" The group turned all at once, on heel to face the new danger, weapons up and ready. They quickly dropped them, shock and disbelief played on their faces. There was no way they were seeing what they were seeing. The first to react was Yuffie...."AERIS!!!!!!!"
The young girl was nearly bowled over as the ninja tackled her and pulled her into a big hug. Aeris struggled to stand up as the rest of the group quickly mimicked Yuffie and piled on top of her, yelling ,screaming and crying all at once. "G-guys, uh *cough* everyone? Please let me go....I can't breathe..." The estatic group pulled away enough to allow her to take a breath. A moment of silence passed, then the questions began.
"Where have you been?"
"Are you OK?"
"How did you get back here?"
"Do you have any materia?"
"YUFFIE!!" Red scolded her, "Thats hardly the question to be asking now!"
Aeris laughed, same old Yuffie. "Guys I want you to meet somebody..." she turned to the pool. or better yet the pile of rocks that was formed by the jutting Lifestream. "Come on out, it's okay.." she coaxed. A single figure stepped out from the rocks. Everyone got a glimpse of Aeris's companion. In one move, Cloud unsheathed his sword and dove for the man screaming, "YOU!! how dare you show up here. I'll kill you......AGAIN!!"
At the same time Cid, Barett, Tifa, and Aeris all piled up on him. Cid and Barett were considering to either hold him down or let him have at it. They were seriously considering the latter. Once the four of them wrestled Cloud to the ground, and pulled Ultima away from his hands, Tifa leveled him with a good, hard slap. "Cloud! Snap out of it!!"she cried to the writhering screaming blonde.
When he calmmed down he looked up at the man he nearly decapitated. "What are you doing here Sephiroth?...."


Hey cakes! I'm here again! Well thats chapter two...Surprized, Confused, Wanting to choke me for writing a cliffhanger? Well sorry, that how I wanted to do this. Sorry for the sucky chapter, I was typing this as I went. Oh, I forgot. I don't own any of the Final Fantasy of DBZ, Squaresoft and Akira Toyama own them respectively.
Thankz again to all the people who reveiwed. Your great comments have really helped to give me alot of inspiration for this story.

Next on Divine Crossing: Where is Chi-chi? Why are Aeris and Sephiroth back? And if Jenova's on Earth how will Cloud and Co. get there to stop her?? how will Tifa react to Aeris's return? All that and more in Chapter Four!!!