All nine members of the gang were in Bugenhagen's lab, Red had returned, and Barret, Cloud, Aeris, Tifa, Vincent, Cid, Reeve, a

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All nine members of the gang were in Bugenhagen's lab, Red had returned, and Barret, Cloud, Aeris, Tifa, Vincent, Cid, Reeve, and Yuffie were all there.

Mulder dropped a sanwhich wrapper. "Mulder! No littering." Scully teased. The wind blew the wrapper to the edge of the Cilff Dwelling and left it there. Mulder strode out to pick it up. Just then a huge wind picked up, the wind was so strong that the trotting Mulder was brushed right off the cliff's edge! "Mulder!" Scully ran to the edge in hopes that her partner had caught the ledge. Unfortuneatly she was swept up in a secondary wind and also tossed off the the edge. However . . . They fell . . . two feet . . . and landed . . . on a couch. . . Mulder fell first . . . flat on his back . . . Scully came next . . . and fell on top . . . stomach first . . . in a . . . bedroom?

"Oh, my God . . ." Scully whispered.

Just South of Cosmo Canyon on a narow peninsula of grassy plains was a Chocobo farm. This chocobo farm was run by two friends. One was a petite, thin, twenty three year old with bright green eyes and short light brown hair. Her name was Crystal, and she always wore her favorite combo of turquoise bandanna and top, with jean shorts. The second was tall, thin, also twenty three with long dark brown hair and strange crimson eyes. Kashash liked to whear black shrts and tank top with a wide red belt that hung a black cape with a red inside. She also had many rings.

"Crystal, we have a customer." Called Kashash.

"Huh?" Crystal said startled, "Oh, okay," she set the silver chocobo's greens down. Crystal walked up to Kashash, "Well . . . where is the person?"

"THEY are outside; eight adults and one child." she explained. Kashash walked out so that Crystal could follow. She was stunned by who she saw outside.

Kashash walked up to the head of the group, Cloud she guessed from the talking she heard when they thought that she was out of ear shot, "Your seller." she said directly, and walked away.

"Hello," Crystal said.

The group turned to face her as she spoke, the man stepped forward, "We would like to buy a chocobo for Marlene here, to use for breeding." he said calmly.

She couldn't help but notice that one of his male companions was staring at her. "Of course, have you looked around at our chocobos?" she asked, walking over to a fence. They were watching her as they thought of an answer. She climbed over the fence carefully. Reaching down, she picked up a chocobo egg, and climbed out. "I'll be right back," Crystal said ash she walked back to the barn, "Kashash, we have another egg!"

Aeris was curious, so, to satisfy her curiosity, she followed Crystal into the barn. Unfortunately, since no one else wanted to stay in place they followed her in. She saw Crystal put the egg in a pen, but to her surprise, the pen next to it was occupied by a . . . silver chocobo.

"What kind of chocobo is that?" Cloud asked getting closer for a better look.

"Oh," Crystal was startled a little, "Her . . . she's a chocobo color that kinda happened by accident. She's very strong and fast."

Kashash walked in, "Our best chocobo. Was born two years ago from our first pairing of Gold and Dark Purple parents." she said while helping Crystal make the new egg warm and cozy.

All of them watched the two girls quietly. Crystal noticed a man staring at Kashash, the funny part was, was that he reminded her or her friend when they first met. He looked her way and held her gaze, crimson eyes just like her's.

"We'll take er. Ah, does she have a name?" a man said from behind Crystal. His deep, slightly accented voice sounded warm to her ears.

Kashash walked up to the two of them, "You want Twilight? She's eminently expensive," Kashash said skeptically.

Tifa walked up to them and said confidently, "We've bought some for 200,000 Gil before, how much?"

Stepping close to Kashash, Crystal said, "400,000 Gil." and Kashash winked her agreement.

Tifa growled and lunged for the two of them. Crystal bumped Kashash to the side and pushed Tifa down to the ground, restraining her. Kashash was laying down, stunned. Tifa kicked Crystal off and tried to lunge for her again. Kashash and Cloud grabbed Crystal's arms to hold her back while Barret and Vincent held back Tifa. She brushed them off her, "400,000 Gil is too much for just one chocobo, whether it's silver or not!"

"This chocobo is extremely rare, we got this chocobo by trying a mix breed, unfortunately, the two parental chocobos broke into the stash of nuts and ate TWO nuts; and they both could have been different. In any case, twilight was . . . a freak of nature, you could say." Kashash informed Tifa, a little disturbed by her intensity. She had never been this intense over anything before, but she didn't let the change disturb her train of thought, "There may never be another one EVER. That is the reason behind the high price." Kashash noticed that one of the people in the group was staring at her while she spoke. He was wearing a red cloak, but what was odd was that he was still staring at her. He seemed very familiar to her. After a moment it hit her; his eyes were red, he was another, like herself. Coooooool.

"350,000," Cloud said when the group broke up.

Kashash and Crystal consulted with each other, "Agreed," Crystal said, "Under one condition."

"What?" one asked. He was wearing a scarf with goggles on his head. It seemed obvious that he must be a pilot. Crystal noticed he was the one that asked for twilight's name.

"That when the chocobo is ill, you bring it here, to me, for examination." Kashash said, then admitted, "I care deeply for that one . . . I don't know why. I would appreciate it if I could keep in touch with her."

"Besides," Crystal added, "you get a customer discount in health care if the chocobo comes from our farm."

"Alright." the pilot said.

"Come, this way, the register is in another building," Kashash said, "Oh, wait, Crystal, can you ring them up? I need to go practice for getting more breeding nuts."

"Sure!" Crystal chimed, "Go ahead."

With that, Kashash took off for the Cosmo desert.

The forest that they were entering looked deep, "Come on, this forest looks endless and I don't think we should stick around after dark." Brock commented to the others.

"Piiiika," Pikachu quietly agreed.

Entering the woods felt very odd, like walking through jelly, "Weird," Ash commented. Then, just as fast as lightning, the strange sensation stopped. Ash and Brock turned around simultaneously, "What the ...? Where did the desert go?" Everyone turned to see thick, dense forest going on far behind them.

"This is strange," Misty said, hugging herself in a shiver.

"Tu--ki--tu--ki." Togepi said, wandering a little. Togepi spotted a strange flower with an odd pink thing hanging from it. "Togeprriii!" it shouted and pulled on the pink part. All of a sudden Togepi flew up into the trees, hollering "Tu--kiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" enthusiastically, finally landing on a tree branch.

"Togepi! Get back down here!" Misty shouted, as Togepi started tottering on a vine. Then, Togepi fell and everyone shouted their alarm. To their comfort, and Togepi's, Togepi landed on Brock's head, his hair making an excellent cushion.

""Huh, here Misty." Brock said and handed an excited Togepi over. She sighed as she hugged the small Poke'mon.

Ash shook his head, "Hey," he noticed, "we've come to the edge of the forest. He was right, but as they stepped out, a . . . thing attacked.