Chapter 14: Hide and Seek

Chapter 14: The Princess Guard and The Kiss

Gemma groaned when she saw Trent, Raven and Ice hurrying towards her and Lillith. "It's an OFF day Trent!" she said before he opened his mouth. His Mako blue eyes flashed angrily and she shut up.

"It's not an OFF day until I SAY it is. Now come on, I need you to Teleport us to North Corel." Trent snapped.

Gemma sighed. "You know, I DO get a little worn out from Teleporting you guys everywhere."

Trent's eyes flashed again and she sighed. "Fine. But after this don't bother me anymore." then they were gone.

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Cloud and the others straggled out of the Ropeway in silence. "What the HELL happened up in the Gold Saucer!??? Where they having some kinda huge light show? Kinda looked like the whole place blew up. I bet my Wife enjoyed that." a man asked them.

Tifa almost cried, she felt so bad for the man.

"That wasn't a light show sir. The Gold Saucer has blown up. Everyone that is not on this Ropeway car is dead." Vincent said solemnly. The man's eyes bugged out as she searched the small crowd of people for his wife. "Mei! Mei!" he yelled, hurrying away from them. "That poor man." Yuffie muttered.

The group walked into North Corel. The depressing sight of the town made them even more sad. Out of the corner of her eyes, Tifa saw five people appear by the weapons man. Even with their backs turned she saw who they were.

"Turks." she hissed.

"Hello newcomers! Would you like to buy some weapons? Please?" the weapons man begged The Turks. Lillith saw his poor selection and snorted. "And you call yourself a Weapon seller." she muttered, moving on to the items shop.

"What a depressing town. Maybe we should have blown this one up as well as the Gold Saucer." Trent said. Ice chuckled and nodded in agreement. Gemma was still looking at the Weapons when something caught her eye. "What's that?" she pointed to a long powerful looking staff. "It's called a Princess Guard. I found it in Bone Village. They said it was owned by a very powerful Ancient." the weapon man exclaimed.

"Really? An Ancient…" Gemma picked it up and examined it. It looked to be in perfectly good shape, almost new.

"I'll take It." she told him.

"Thank you! Thank you! Only 90,000 gil!" the man smiled.

"90,000?? Are you insane! I may be a Turk but I don't get all THAT much." Gemma raised an eyebrow. Then she smiled, and leaned all the way over to the man until her cleavage was directly in his face. "I'll tell you what handsome. I'll give you 2,000 gil-and my phone number." she whispered sexily.

"S-sold!" the man's eyes were about to pop out. Gemma grabbed the staff, scribbled random numbers on his hand and walked away.

Lillith felt someone staring at her. She whirled around and immediately saw the face of Tifa Lockheart. Her blood boiled. "That disgrace to Zangan." she muttered.

"So, you WERE right. Your girlfriend-and her friends survived." Lillith said to Trent. He saw Avalanche and nodded, ignoring the girlfriend remark.

"You wanna kill them right now?" Ice asked his leader.

"Not yet-let's have some fun for today." Trent motioned for the others to follow him as they walked towards Avalanche.

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"Uh-oh. Looks like we have trouble." Yuffie got out her Conformer.

"I want them to suffer." Elena glared.

"Avalanche. How nice to see you survived our little blast." Trent said, smiling.

"And in such…good condition." he murmured, his gaze wandering to Tifa. She blushed, and looked away.

"Cut the crap Trent. You murdered hundreds of innocent people and now you're gonna pay!" Reno whipped out his nightstick.

"Hmm…very interesting coming from someone who killed hundreds of innocent people when he dropped the Sector 7 plate." Trent replied. Reno glared.

"That's none of your fucking business you asshole!" he yelled.

"What's wrong dear brother. Don't want me to bring up past events? Too ashamed in front of your Avalanche members? How about that time you beat up and electrocuted that homeless guy to death just because you felt like it? Huh?" Trent asked icily. Reno narrowed his eyes, wondering how Trent knew of such events.

"I got one Trent. How about when you came in and shot Dad and Kayla to death? What about that one?" Reno yelled. Trent went silent, if looks could kill, Reno would've dropped dead.

"That was uncalled for Romasova, and for that, you will die." Trent said softly.

"Yeah, let's stall em so Lady Angel can put the Angel Ray on top of Midgar without interruptions!" Gemma exclaimed, waving her staff in joy. Lillith gave her twin a death stare while Ice sighed loudly. "Well, thanks a LOT for letting them know." he muttered sarcastically, motioning to Avalanche.

"Thanks for lettin' us know so we can stop Lady Angel…" Cloud didn't finished for he recognized the staff in Gemma's hand.

"Where'd you get that?" he asked the green haired woman

"The Weapons man, Duh. And you can't have it, it's one of a kind." Gemma stuck out her tongue. Lillith groaned at her twins immaturity.

"That's-that's Aeris' staff!" Tifa cried in surprise.

"You're not worthy of owning that." Cloud said through gritted teeth.

"Who says! Just because it was owned by some girl doesn't mean I can't use it." Gemma crossed her arms. Cloud's blood boiled. The Turks had done enough evil, and now Gemma of all people was using Aeris' Princess Guard.

"Don't worry Cloud, we can get it back. Right now we need to focus on trying to stop Lady Angel from moving that Mako Cannon." Tifa patted the blonde leader's arm. He sighed. "Yeah, I guess so…" he trailed off, glaring at Gemma. She crossed her arms and looked away. Then she saw Reno, smiled and waved. Reno raised an eyebrow, unable to speak.

"I know YOU remember me handsome. I healed you-twice." Gemma giggled. Trent whirled around and stared at her. "You did WHAT?" he yelled.

Gemma paled, realizing she let out too much information. "Let it go Trent. It's just a petty crush. Anyway, you can't say anything about getting close to an enemy." Lillith muttered, glaring at Tifa.

"Lillith's got you there." Ice said to his Leader.

"Shut the hell up Ice." Trent glared and the silver haired man went silent.

Meanwhile Cid was smoking and muttering, "Dammit, we got another one. First it was Trent and Tifa, now the green haired chick and Reno. Do any of you know the meaning of ENEMY?"

For awhile, the Turks nor Avalanche spoke. They just stared at each other until Lillith broke the silence.

"I hate to break up this staring match but we have a job to do." she cracked her knuckles and looked at Tifa.

"And I think I'll start with you." she smiled.

"Right with you are Lillith. Let's hurry up and get this job done." Trent took out his switchblade. He didn't face Cloud this time though, he faced Reno.

"How about we settle this little brother?" he asked, smiling evilly.

"Asshole!" Reno swung his nightstick and smashed it across Trent's flawless face. The older red head didn't even budge, Instead, he grabbed Reno's wrist and twisted. Reno howled in pain. He knew if Trent twisted anymore it would break. Suddenly Trent went flying into a wall.

"I can fight dirty too!" a triumphant Yuffie yelled. Then she howled in pain when someone cast Ice 3 four times on her. Ice snickered at how the young girl fell so easy. Meanwhile, Tifa and Lillith were locked in lightning fast hand to hand combat. At first, it seemed like Tifa had the upper hand. The punched Lillith in the face, sending her head snapping back, then kicked her in the gut and did her Limit Break.

"FINAL HEAVEN!!!!" Tifa screamed, bringing her fist smashing down. But then she felt something grab onto her arm. Lillith snickered as she held Tifa's fist in her iron grip. "So weak…" she purred, kicking Tifa in the chest and sending her flying back into the Weapon sellers table.

Raven, Vincent and Barret were trying to dodge each others shower of bullets. "Damn it Vince, I'm running low!" Barret yelled as he started to unleash his last round of ammo on Raven. Vincent didn't have time to answer for Raven had sent a bullet whizzing past his head. It barely missed him.

Red XIII used his Cosmo Memory Limit break on Ice, causing major damage to the Ice elemental. "You'll pay fur ball!" Ice yelled in rage and cast Freeze on the red beast. Then he yelled "Ice Wind!" cast his powerful Limit Break on Cait Sith, Rude, Cid, Cloud and Red XIII

Meanwhile, Elena was facing Gemma. The two magic users sized each other up. Then Gemma teleported herself right in front of Elena's face.

"I really don't want to fight you. You're not much of a challenge." Gemma said, laughing. Elena's face turned red with fury.

"Why you bitch! Ultima!" she cast. It hit Gemma but didn't cause much damage.

"Well, now I'm forced to fight you. Better say your last good-byes." Gemma cast Bolt 3 8 times in a row until Elena fell to her knees.

"It's not over yet Blondie! Eternal Damnation!" Gemma cast a Limit Break. Elena was wrapped in a swirling black cloud. When it stopped, she was out cold and barely breathing.

"Geez, these Avalanche guys are a real pushover." Gemma tossed a stray lock of green hair over her shoulder and went to aid Ice.

"You (pant) will never (pant) win!" Reno tried unsuccessfully to block his brothers attacks. Trent hadn't even broken a sweat as he batted away Reno's punches and jabs with his nightstick.

"Come on Reno! These are love taps! Gimme all you got!" Trent yelled, kicking Reno into a crumbling wall.

While all this was going on, the people of North Corel had fled into their homes, not wanting to get caught in the crossfire.

Reno groaned as he tried to get up. A searing pain went through his shoulder as he reached for his Nightstick.

"Shit!" he saw his shoulder was dislocated.

"Full Cure." he muttered. Nothing happened.

"What the hell?…" he muttered, looking at his Wizard Bracelet. All the Materia was gone!

In a flash, Trent stood over him with a mocking grin.

"I forgot to tell you. Besides becoming the Planet's strongest fighter, I became the worlds best thief too."

"You're NOT the Planet's Strongest Fighter!" Reno snarled, wincing at the pain in his shoulder.

"Oh please dear brother. I wish Sephiroth himself were here. I'd kick his ass worse than yours." Trent laughed.

"Go to hell!" Reno spat.

"Oh, I'll go. It's just not my time right now!" and with that, Trent took his switchblade and drove it through Reno's chest. But it wasn't through his heart, no, Trent didn't want to kill him just then. "Take these. I don't need them." Trent dropped Reno's materia on the ground and walked away, putting on his sunglasses.

"Turks! I think we've done enough damage--oof!" Trent was knocked down by Tifa who had been kicked into him by Lillith. His sunglasses flew off his face and a couple feet away. Tifa groaned, and opened her eyes. She gasped when she saw the smiling face of Trent.

"Well hello…" he smiled at her. She blushed, unable to speak.

"Better watch it next time." he took her hand and helped her up. He stared into her eyes, not letting her hand go.

"You look a little beat up. Here, this'll help." Trent cast Full Cure on her. Tifa sighed, feeling her lost energy from the battle with Lillith come back to her.

"Thanks, I guess." she muttered. She still felt very nervous around the Turk. And for some reason, deep down she wished Cloud hadn't rescued her from the cell in Shinra HQ.

"You're welcome beautiful. And I think you'll like this present too." Trent leaned down as kissed her, softly at first, then more passionate. Tifa didn't care that he was trying to kill her friends, she just cared about this moment, right now.

Meanwhile, Lillith gasped, then clenched her fist in rage. "That womanizing jerk!!!! Some Leader he turns out to be!" she muttered, watching Trent and Tifa kiss.

"I'd better get going. I'll be seeing you real soon." Trent broke the kiss, winked and walked away, picking up his sunglasses on the way. All Tifa could do was stare after him.

"Turks! We've done enough damage for today. Let's go." Trent yelled. Ice cast a Stop spell on who he was fighting as did Raven. Gemma hurried over and Lillith trudged over with a scowl on her face. "Soon Avalanche. We'll stop being so nice." Trent called to the conscious members. He turned, faced Tifa and smiled, then Gemma teleported them away.