Yuffie was so excited to see her father healthy again, she temporaily got over he motion sickness and stayed at the front of the Highwind. When they landed, Yuffie jumped over the side and ran straight for Godo's mansion. Cloud and the others, took their time getting to the mansion and walked through town. "Was that lady Kiseragi?" One villager asked. "She looked so excited about something." Replied a second villager. "They must not have told the village about Godo getting sick." Vincent whispered to Cloud. When they got to the mansion, Yuffie was already by her father at his bed. "How did you recove so fast?" Yuffie asked. "I don't really know. All I remember is drinking my morning water and I started felling better. I had the doctor look over the water and he said something was put into my glass the other night." Godo said. "Who could have snuck in here and put something into your water, then got out without anyone knowing?" Cid asked. "I have no idea, but it looked like Red is on to something." Godo said. Everyone turned to see Red sniffing near the window.

"What are you smelling?" Barret asked. "Someone was here. he came in through the window and left the same way." Red said. "Well now we know how he got in and out, but it doesn't help us figure out who it was." Cloud said. "Anything else" Vincent asked. "There's a slight smell of ash mixed in the air of a fire from a high place." Red said after another moment. "How can you tell?" Cid asked. "I've been around fire for along time. The flame at Cosmo canyon, my fire materia, then there's the obvious one, the fire on my tail. I've developed a kind of sixth sense about fire." Red explained. "The only place high up I can think of is the cave on the Da-Chao mountain." Godo said. "So then the guy must be up there." Barret said. "Or at least he went up there to get something. There may be some clues." Vincent said. "Alright then, I'll go check it out." Cloud said. "I'll go with you." Yuffie said and checked over he materia quickly to make sure she would have anything she needed. "I'll go to." Vincent said. "Alright then. The three of us will go. You guys stay here and see if Red can find anything else." Cloud said and they left out the door.

"They're leaving." A black ninja said to his boss. "His higness want's them obseved only. Do not fight them unless they attack you first." The boss said, 'Of course if they attack you, you'll be killed.' The ninja bowed to him and jumped onto the rooftop and followed them. "And what of Godo?" A second ninja asked. "His recovery was unexpected. That's why we're going to try again." The boss said holding up is claw weapon. The ninja smiled and lifted his own sword. The four others behind him lifted their weapons in the air in a silent war cry. "With Avelanche at Da-Chao and Godo not fullt recovered, we should be able to finish the job that the Professors poison couldn't." The boss said and headed for Godo's mansion.

Vincent woke up from his sleep and looked out the window. "What is it?" Tifa asked. "There's a small group heading this way." Vincent said and pointed them out. "They look like ninjas." Barret said. "What color are they?" Shake asked. "Black. They're almost too hard for me to see." Vincent said. "They're the Black Fang. A group who've always wanted rule over Wu-Tai. It might have been them who poisoned Lord Godo. We need to chase them away." Shake said. Shake got the other members of the Pagado and stood outside. When the ninjas came into view, all four of them changed into their other forms and got ready to fight. Gorki started by casting his Demi 2 spell at the ninjas, but they were equiped with demi draining equipment. Shake used his Rage Bomber on anyone the Chekhov paralyzed with his stare down. Staniv used War Cry to drop the ninjas into sadness and lower the damage they could do to them then swung his mace into them. "Looks like they have everything under control. Barret said and closed the window. "They can keep a whole army at bat, yet my little Yuffie beat them all and me. Traveling with you must have done some good for her after all." Godo said.

Cloud, Vincent and Yuffie were having a frusterating time trying to get to the fire cave. It seemed like they would be attacked every few seconds. "We're almost there." Yuffie called as she saw the cave. "Good, my MP is getting low." Cloud said. Vincent just shook his head and said, "That's because you've been summoning Knights of Round on every group of monsters we come across." "It works." Cloud said. "The fire is still burning in there." Yuffie said. "Then we'll put it out." Cloud said and used Aqualung. "Didn't work." Yuffie said. "Shut up. Maybe Laviathon will put it out." Cloud said and looked for the Laviathon materia. "Close, but not quite right." Yuffie said. "What do you mean?" Cloud asked. "She meant to use the Laviathon scales we got from the Junon port." Vincent said. Cloud pulled out the scales and the flames died down. "Well what do you know." Cloud said. They walked to the back of the cave where they found a cot lying on the ground, a bowl with some powdery substance on it, next to the bowl were a few Laviathon scales and a round rock. Cloud noticed a black ninja sword near the cot along with a few materia orbs. Vincent got down on his knees to inspect the powder in the bowl. "It's grounded up scales." Vincent informed them. "Who could live here without putting the flames out?" Yuffie asked. "If you have a Tetra Elemental, It's easy." A voice said from behind them.