CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 22

"Talk you ^%(*%%#%*&(&(*^&^^%!!!!!"

There was immediately a moment of silence.

"I am not going to tell you anything." A voice broke the silent atmosphere.

"Why you…" Barret murmured and point his gun-arm at a Shinra soldier's forehead.

"You won't kill me. If you do you won't get anything." The soldiers said.

"Argggg!!!!!! I am gonna wack yer &%^(% you $%**^&*%^!!!!!" Barret shouted uncontrollably. He had been interrogating the Shinra soldier that lead them into the trap back in Midgar for two hours and he can't get anything out of him.

"No use doing that. He not talking. No matter what." Reno said from behind Barret. Reno walked slowly towards the soldier.

"We could try using a fryer." Reno pulled out his nightstick from his coat and turned it on.

"No point doing that. I am blessed with a spell that gives me no pain. You are not getting anything out of me still." The soldier said.

"We haven't tried yet, had we?" Reno smirked and attempted to thrust the nightstick into the soldier's chest.

"Wait! Let me try!" Cait Sith suddenly came hopping in.

"I don't think you can handle the fryer." Reno replied.

"No. I mean I can get information out of him without frying him." Cait Sith said.

"How?" Barret asked.

"All of you, go out." Cait Sith said out loud.

"Why?" Barret and Reno asked.

"Just go out for a cup of tea, will ya?" Cait Sith continued.

Barret and Reno looked at each other. They wondered what Cait Sith would do. Cait Sith was once a spy, he could probably be a spy again.

"Why should we trust you?" Reno asked.

"Because you just have to. Well?" Cait Sith asked back.

"Let's go. But no tricks."

Reno said and walked out with Barret. Cait Sith watched at them as they left Cait Sith and the soldier.

"What can you do? Hit me? Stomp me? Tickle me? None of that will work!" the soldier said.

"I just wanted to play some cards with you. Blackjack?" Cait Sith took out a deck of cards.

The soldier looked at him curiously. He didn't understand a thing.

"Not interested? What about poker?" Cait Sith asked. The soldier just kept quiet.

"Rummy gin? Solitaire?" Cait Sith asked some more.

"I am not interested in cards, okay?" the soldier answered.

"Then you should be interested in your fortune, right? Let's see…the day you will die is…" Cait Sith doing his familiar fortune telling move again. The soldier just looked at him. He still hadn't understand anything yet.

"That's funny. I heard something said…tomorrow." Cait Sith said.

"That's crap, right?" the soldier asked.

"How can you say that? I know palmistry too. Let me take a look at your palm." Cait Sith took a look at the soldier's tied hands.

"I don't believe in crap like this okay?!" the soldier started getting annoyed.

"I once knew a friend that don't believe in thing like these and the second day…" Cait Sith continued.

"Will you just shut up and leave me alone?!!" the soldier shouted.

"Bored eh? Hey! I acted in the gold saucer's stage show once, let me show you my acting!" Cait Sith said and started dancing and singing around the soldier. He then took out megaphone and sing like hyena with a really bad sore throat.

The soldier finally understood. He wasn't being tortured physically. He was being tortured mentally! He kept on seeing Cait Sith circling round and round him singing the most unbelievable pathetic music again and again. It sounded like those ultrasonic waves that enter the ear and keep on circulating your brain. Circulating again and again and....

"Roses are red, violets are blues…wooo…wooo…yea…yea…"

The soldier started sweating so much and it soaked the back of his uniform. He can't stand a sicko kept on annoying him.

"I won't spill the beans…won't spill the beans…" the soldier mumbled again and again.

"Hmmm….hmmm…. baked beans are good to eat…but you can slip if it's under your feet…"

The soldier looked as he just walked right into hell. He was so sick of Cait Sith's dancing and singing and he looked like he could throw up anytime.

"Arggg!!!!!!!! I will talk!!! I will talk!!! Someone come in and bring this sicko outta here!!!!" The soldier shouted uncontrollably.

Two men rushed into the room immediately. It was Reno and Barret. They didn't left. All the time they were eavesdropping.

"You serious?" Reno asked.

"Only if you promise me you will never let me listen to that sicko singing again!" The soldier begged to Reno.

"Wow. You should join the turks, you know?" Reno told Cait Sith. Cait Sith just sat down on the floor and started keeping his cards.

"Who is the leader?" Reno interrogated the soldier that almost went crazy.

"I don't know." The soldier replied.

"Are you playing tricks here?" Reno said and cracked his knuckles.

"No. I hadn't seen the leader before. The leader isn't with the army. He is controlling the army from far." The soldier answered.

"Then where is he?" Reno asked.

"I don't know! I really don't! Hey, I am just a soldier who lost my job after the fall of Shinra and I became a mercenary who take any job that pay good money, I won't care who and where the leader is, all I know is they are a bunch of freaks." The soldier defended himself calmly.

"Freaks?" Cait Sith asked curiously.

"Yea, freaks! All of them looked like they have no feelings or emotions. They looked like walking corpses all day long and they won't eat, sleep, have fun or anything we people do. All they do is practice their magic spells and trust me, they are the perfect fighting force." The soldier replied.

"What are their weak points?" Reno continued asking.

"As far as I know, they are weak against melee attack." The soldier answered firmly.

"We know that already. What else?" Barret asked.

"Listen kid, if you don't tell us their weaknesses I will let Cait Sith haunt you for the rest of your life, is that clear?" Reno threatened.

"No! Don't! I told you two everything I knew! I swear!" the soldier shouted and struggled.

"Nothing else useful left in this guy. Let him rot here." Reno said and walked towards the door with Barret.

"Wait! I have one question. How come they always get to kill our leader?" Cait Sith asked and made Reno and Barret stopped.

"Well, as far as I know, they have some sort of telepathic communication skills. When one of them spotted the leader, he will contact the others and give them the location of the leader. After that, the others will immediately seek and kill the leader." The soldier answered.

"I see…That's how Michael and Joseph got killed so early!" Cait Sith shouted out. Reno and Barret slowly walked out of the room.

"Anything else? I wanted to be alone for a while." The soldier pleaded.

"You want to be alone? Sure! Why not? But you looked so bored, maybe I should cheer you up a little. Here, pick a card. It will tell you whether or not you will be killed by the ancient soldiers." Cait Sith said and pulled out a deck of cards.

"No…not again…" the soldier looked at Cait Sith will a shocked expression.

"Not interested? Do you wanted to listen to my theme song? I wrote it myself you know!" Cait Sith pulled out his megaphone and started singing.

A loud cry was heard from inside. Reno and Barret covered their ears and ran off into the hallway.

"I never thought that Cait Sith can torture others with his singing?!" Reno shouted at Barret that is covering his ears.

"Me neither! Do me a favor! Never, ever let that cat sing in public!" Barret shouted and ran off like the wind with Reno.