"Morning
Cloud. Have a nice sleep?" Cait Sith asked Cloud that just woke up.
Cloud
didn't reply. He overslept and felt awful. He massaged his neck with his hands
and went to the bathroom.
Cloud
was looking into the mirror while he was brushing his teeth. Sephiroth look in
the mirror annoyed him a lot. He felt smashing his fist right into the mirror.
After
washing up, Cloud walked into the dining room. Everybody was there except Aeris
and Tifa.
"Where
is Aeris and Tifa?" Cloud asked.
"They
caught a cold and were resting upstairs. We found they hugging each other in
front of the doorstep early in the morning today." Yuffie answered.
Cloud
shook his head and went to see whether the two girls were all right. He entered
Aeris's room and saw Tifa wrapping herself up with a blanket.
"How
are you?" Cloud asked.
"I'm
fine, thank you." Tifa answered and sneezed.
Cloud
tried to avoid looking straight into Tifa's eyes. For a reason he just can't.
"Go
and see if Aeris is alright. She went downstairs before you woke up. Don't
worry about me, I will be fine." Tifa said and sneezed again.
Cloud
walked out of the room and went downstairs. He put on his windbreaker and
walked toward the entrance.
"Where
are you going, Cloud?"
Cloud
turned his head and saw Aeris wrapping herself too with a blanket. She too was
as sick as Tifa.
"I
just wanted to go checkout the terrain in this area." Cloud replied.
"That's
an excuse right?" Aeris asked.
Cloud
looked at her for a while and spoke.
"okay,
I just want to be alone for a while. I will be back in an hour. Say, how's your
cold?" Cloud asked.
"I
am okay. Why don't you go see if Tifa's alright? She's upstairs in my room."
Aeris answered.
"I
just meet her just now. She was just as sick as you. What happened to you two
last night?" Cloud asked again.
Aeris
didn't reply. She looked at Cloud.
"Be
back in an hour, okay?" Aeris said.
Cloud
nodded and walked out of the house.
"Man,
I wondered what happened to the two of them?" Cloud said to himself.
After
Cloud left the house, he went to a get a chocobo at a stable. The chocobo was a
fine one and could climb steep mountains. He hopped onto the chocobo and rode
off into the horizon.
"Ah.
Peace at last."
Cloud
said to himself while he was looking into the vast snowfields. The chocobo
walked slowly and Cloud took his time to enjoy the view. He just needed to be
alone for a while.
He
was riding peacefully and suddenly his chocobo fell down. The chocobo brought
him down and soon Cloud was buried in the snow. Cloud got up and looked around.
The
terrain was very strange. There were holes everywhere. No wonder the choco
fell. It trip in one of the holes. Cloud looked further. The whole area was like
this.
Cloud
bented down and examine the hole. Mother Nature didn't make these holes. These
holes were man-made. Cloud examined a few more holes. Then he realized what
these holes were. These holes were footprints. Cloud looked around again. There
were footprints everywhere. It looked like an entire parade walked past here.
Cloud
got onto the chocobo and followed the tracks. The track leads south and it
certainly leads to the new dock. He followed the track to take a look where it
came from.
The
tracks came from the east. Cloud rode on until he saw a cavern. This cavern
leads to the forgotten city.
"Three
cups of coffee please."
The
waitress nodded and walked away from the table.
There
were three people in black suit sitting in front of a table in a café high on
top of Junon. They looked down at the dock.
"Strange."
Reno said.
"What?"
Elena asked.
"Look
at those ships. This the ninth ship that carries passengers today." Reno
answered.
"So?"
Elena asked curiously.
"All
of them come from the new dock at the south of Icicle Inn. That area had a
small population and I have no idea where these people come from." Reno said.
Rude
and Elena kept quiet. Reno got a point there. Where these people come from?
Tourists? No, Icicle Inn is very cold now. There is no reason why everyone went
there for holidays.
"I
tell you, Jack. These people are freaks!"
A
loud voice came from the table behind them.
"Why?
They don't like you?" another man asked.
"No.
Ever since I was a sailor, I haven't seen such a bunch of morons together. All
these people wore their robe all day long. Even worse, they stay in their
cabins for the whole journey and didn't even care to come out and eat or take a
drink!" the man said with a loud voice.
The
three ex-turks just listened. These people are really weird. They probably are
members of a huge cult or something.
Reno
looked out of the window again. Two more ships arrived. Each ship can carry
about 800 passengers. Whatever cult it is, it is gonna be a real famous one.
Reno just continued staring at those ships. He had a feeling that something big
is about to happen.