Chapter 3


The shuttle glided through the air on it's way to Junon harbor. Cloud Strife looked out

the window, and down at the ground below him. It was a blur, all a blur. Junon was a hub in the

Shuttle system, so it was a direct flight from Midgar to Junon. Cloud smiled and sat back in his

seat. First class. Reeve and Cait Sith were sitting across from him, sleeping. (or whatever

passes for sleep for Cait) Cloud thought.


A voice came on the intercom. "Next stop, Junon Harbor. We should be arriving at Skylark

Overland Shuttleport in... 10 minutes. On behalf of Midgar Shuttle, we thank you for traveling

with us, and hope you do so again. Have a nice day!"


(Yeah right) Cloud thought to himself. (2 hours of delay, and they think I'm ever going

to use them again. Next time I'm using Junon Air.)


Cloud leaned over to shake Reeve awake. "Reeve...Reeve....REEVE! Wake up. We'll be there

in a moment!"

Reeve nodded in an almost drunken way and got up. "Yawn! What a rest! Nice flight don't

you think?"

"Oh yeah," Cloud said, the lie effortless, "maginifacent."

"Good. I worked hard on this."

Moments later the shuttle touched down. As Reeve and Cloud disembarked, their eyes were

caught by a familar face, waving.

"Tifa!!!" Cloud said, running towards her and envoloping her in a huge hug. "How'd you

get here before us?"

Tifa shrugged, "Earlier flight. It was right at sunrise."

"Hello Tifa."

"Reeve! So nice of you to show up! I loved the shuttle, it was a great way to get around.

Beats walking, right Cloud?"

Cloud laughed as the memories of all the walking he did across the surface of this world.

"Come on, we got to hurry!" Tifa said while running off, "You're the last to arrive."

"I wonder why that is." Cloud grumbled, but ran with her into a building overlooking Junon's

stunning harbor view. Cloud, Reeve, Cait Sith [who had now joined them], and Tifa all took the

elevator up to the top floor. Cloud stepped out and was amazed at the sight. "Wow!" was all he

could say. The room, in addition to being enormous, was stunningly decorated, with beautiful and

intricitally carved chairs and tables, and shining marble pillars holding up the room in the center.

There were no walls, just a huge glass window that looked over the shimmering water of Junon Harbor.

A opening in the glass led out to a huge balcony, and it was clear that was where the actual

ceremony would take place.

"Tifa, this is amazing! Who designed this place?"

"That would be me."

Cloud turned around to see the smiling face of Lord Godo, leader of Wutai. Cloud nodded

in understanding. The pagoda's of Wutai were widedly regarded as archutectual masterpieces, so

it really didn't surprise him that Lord Godo's family designed them, though he didn't know it

before.

"The ceremony won't be for another four hours, so I'll show you to your apartment and you

can get ready."

Cloud nodded and was allowed to be lead off, though unable to tear his eyes away from the

beauty of the room until the elevator doors closed in front of him.