Author Note;
First fanfic attempt for FF7. Might completely stink, might not. Flames aren't wlecomed, but hey, I need a
good tan anyway. PLEASE I BEG OF YOU READ AND REVIEW!!... *ahem* And if you don't I will hunt you down and
beat you with a wet noodle! Mwahahahh!!!
And now, straight from Airship Highwind, it's time for the first-ever episode of...
HIGHWIND FROLLICS
Between The Lines
Note that nothing in this story belongs to me. Nor do I make any profit in doing it, or any cash. Besides, by
the time someone paid for a lawsuit they'd be out the cash, I'm plain broke.
The time? After the rocket incident and then after they found Vincent in a coffin (of all places) at the
creepy mansion in Nibelheim. This is the focus on how badly the team aggrivated each other while
over-seas, searching for their next big hint as of what to do next. And boy, what a weird and diverse team
was with them!
Cait Sith, the stuffed doll, was rather nosy, making him very pesky when trying to keep secrets. He was
also rather good at lying.
Yuffie, the materia-loving thief/ninja from Wutei, absolutely HATED the Airship. She had severe motion
sickness, you see. When she isn't sick, she's immature and ever-aggrivating, constantly trying to barter
with the others for Materia.
Tifa, the kick-butt fighting woman, is kinda the peace-keeper of the group. Whenever a fight breaks
out, she's there to stop it. She's rather secretive about some of her emotions, but mostly an open person.
Nanaki, or Red VIII, as the ShinRa had called him, was very intellegent. He was good for advice, as was
his grandfather, and was a great person to talk to when you needed to let off steam or whatever. Although
only 16 in his race's consideration of age, this lion is at the ripe, somehow young age of over 40.
Bugen-- I shall leave it to that, as I can't spell his name-- is Nanaki's grandfather, as you should know from
reading the above paragraph thing. He's the wisest of the group, and tended to stay outside, close to nature.
Barret was one of the toughest-looking ones there, but he was a good friend once you got to know'im.
He'd still make little jeers about you and curse you occasionally, but those things were easy to ignore or
get used to.
Vincent, the odd vampyrish teammate that was newly added to this troupe of bizzare fighters, tends to
keep to himself. He never speaks a word to anyone hardly, and his face is hidden by a mask of red cloth
most of the time. Somehow, everyone else seems to make fun of him easily..
Cloud, the leader of the group, had recently recovered from Mako Poisoning a few events back.
thanks to Tifa. He's bright and determined, but a bit boyish at times. ALthough he seems to have amnesia,
and hates talking about his past, he was still a good friend.
Cid-- Who can forget him?-- was the best pilot in the world. Although more foul-mouthed than the rest,
he's very humorous at times. He also has the bad habit of smoking, as it seems. But who would insult
him-- other than an idiot-- when he's got that huge lance-like thing as a weapon!?
And now, on to our story.
CHAPTER ONE
Why Ya Don't OverDose on Hypers
Cloud had just rested up, along with Tifa and Vincent, from some rough training. As they came out of
the meeting room, Tifa and Cloud continued on to the bridge, but Vincnet stopped when he noticed someone
heaving over in a corner. He stood behind the person, who, after a good five minutes, turned around, shivering.
She jumped, shocked, then settled back down, looking sickly again. "Vincent, you jerk! What did ya do a
thing like sneaking up on me like that for?" asked Yuffie. The usual cheery face she had was faded, as it
always was aboard the airship. Vincent stared at her with his red, emotionless eyes for a minute before
Yuffie spoke up again. "You probably think me being motion sick is FUNNY, don'tcha?!" she asked, before
turning around and vomiting again. Vincent, if you could see his face, might have winced at that time, but
he calmly walked back to the bridge and stood in the usual spot, head down.
Atleast everything at the bridge was normal. Let's cut to some of the scenes that would, sadly enough,
be 'Normal' on this airship.
Cait Sith, near the middle, was trying to tell Barret's future. "Hmm..." said the stuffed cat on the stuffed
doll, examaning the fortune. "Odd.."
"Don't jes' leave me in suspense, you stupid cat! What's it say?!" shouted Barret impatiently. The cat
quickened its pace a bit. "Uhm.. 'You will win big if you blow all your money on one bet at the Chocobo Races....?"
"That's gotta be fixed!!" Barret was fussing. "There's no WAY I could have gotten ten ads in a row by chance!!"
"Maybe you're DESTINED to buy useless crap!" said Cait, doing a pose.
While those two argued, Cid was training the beginner pilot, Vincent was being... wel, being Vincent...,
Cloud and Tifa were talking, Yuffie was puking, no one noticed that Red VIII had vanished somehow.
As the minutes passed by, Barret and Cait argued, and Vincent still stood there all solemnish, Cloud
looked around. "Has anyone seen Red Ei--"
Before he could finish, a lion walked into the room, bouncing up and down. "HiyaCloudWhereWeGoin
NextHuh?AreWeThereYetAreWeThereYet!?IWannaGetOuttaThisShip!HeyTifa'sLookinGood!AreWeThereYet
Cloud?I gottagopottyyyee!!" the lion said stupidily, all at once, before running back into the ship. Everyone
stared blankly at the doorway. Barret, who had been strangling Cait, dropped the poor stuffed animal thing,
and the rest just watched. Yuffie ran in, barf-bag in hand, shouting, "That stupid cat stole all the Hypers!" before
holding the bag to her mouth and running back in the ship. Everyone looked at each other blamingly, then
all eyes turned to Cloud. "What?" he asked. "I put'em back!"
"Obviously you didn't!" everyone shouted ((Vincent excluded)) as the group rushed to capture the super-hyper-
active beast.
And boy, what a task they had on their hands. Nanaki was bouncing off the walls-- No, literally, he
was REALLY bouncing off the walls! And then he decided to land on Cloud's head and bounce off, but yelped
in pain. "You got spikey hair, spikeyhairperson!" yelled the lion half-consciously as he held his paw up, sucking
on it. "Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid!!"
"Cloud," asked Tifa, "You've been using that old hair gel Cid lent you as a prank again, aren't you?" Cloud
poked one of the spikes in his hair and sighed, "Guess so. Cid, I'm going to kill you.." Fortunately for the pilot,
Cid was still helping the beginner on the bridge. As the group moved in to subdue the large cat ((All except
Vincent, who disappeared mysteriously again as he keeps mysteriously doing mysteriously.)), the cat looked
up. "I see london, I see france.." it sang, swaying back and forth before darting under Cloud and pulling his pants down.
"I see Cloud Strife's underpants!!" The lion laughed hysterically and dashed around as the rest held back
cackles ((Barret, on the other hand, was dying laughing.)). Cloud pulled up his pants and started chasing
the annoying lion again, passing a red caped man, and dashing up the stairs. As they entered the room,
Nanaki was doing a dance on the table. "I want more hyyypeeerrrrrss!" he pleaded, though still dancing.
"Hypers HYPERS HYPERSS!!!" He dashed at the group, blue energy around him as he careened back into the main
room, running into our favorite vampire-like man...
By the time the group got down there, a severely hyper, tied-up Red was wriggling around, singing stupid
songs and laughing hysterically all at once. "Thanks for helping!" said Tifa, winking at the vampire. He
looked at her with cold eyes as he does everyone and Yuffie, pale as usual, popped up from behind him.
"Help my foot, that stupid jerk rammed headon into Vincent and knocked him into me!" complained the thief.
Vincent sighed and walked into the meeting room without uttering a word, and was soon followed by the others,
who all chipped in to haul the every-struggling, every-loud-and-obnoxious Nanaki to the room. Yuffie watched
the door close, her face pale as snow, and turned around, snickering despite her illness. She held a green,
shiney object in her hands. "Heh heh heh, I got one! I finally got one!" she squealed. "Let's see, I think this
was the Restore one.." still smiling wide, she turned to go to the meeting room-- only to meet a pair of
crimson red eyes.
"Ah-- ehr-- V-Vincent! H-Hi.." said Yuffie, hiding the materia behind her back. The vampire coldly stared
at her, as he does everyone, making her extremely nervous. 'Does he know I stole that Materia from him..?'
Vincent leaned down and whispered, "I'd be careful who I stole from next time," then stood and walked
back to the meeting room. Yuffie stood there, shocked that he didn't take the materia away from her as
everyone else had in the past. She pocketed the orb and ran into her room in the ship.
The time now? After everyone found out about the WHite Materia and Holy, and after Weapon started his slow
deathmarch to Midgar. The Highwind took off as Cloud gave his usual prep speech again.
CHAPTER TWO
Why Everyone's Not The Leader
As the others looked
out over-seas, Cloud sighed and walked out. Yuffie ran up to him. "Hey Cloud, ya really think we have a chance
against Weapon? this time?" she asked, not as hyper as she often is. She did have a good rest from the ship,
however, when she was fighting against her father Godo at the tower in Wutai. Vincent had met and talked
with Lucrecia behind the Waterfall before the woman disappeared, and now the rag-tag group of adventurers
headed out to battle the world threat Weapon. Cloud looked at her oddly. "Do you THINK we have a chance
against him? Heck no, we're going to get our butts kicked!"
"Well why'd you lie to the others, ya jerk?" asked Yuffie.
"I'd say we stand a better chance of winning if the team's confident, if any."
"... I'm gonna tell the others!" said Yuffie, running towards the bridge. Cloud grabbed her by the back of her
collar.
"NO, you're NOT!!" shouted Cloud.
"I will if ya don't gimme some Materia!" said the girl, turning around and smiling innocently. Cloud copied
the smile and then pulled his sword out.
"How about I sever you're head off if you tell them?" said Cloud simply. Yuffie pouted and walked past
Cloud, breaking into a run to the bathroom. ".. Atleast she's motion sick." Cloud said, sighing with relief as
he walked up to his room in the ship. A still slightly hyper Nanaki waltzed past him, carrying something in his
mouth. There was a slurping sound before Cid ran out of the break room. He nearly fell over the balcony as
he came to a stop. "CLOUD!! WHERE"S THAT #%^$& LION!?" he shouted. Behind Cloud, there was a wide-
eyed lion staring around at Cid before dashing down the stairs. "You %$^#& moron!! He drank all the
cofee!!" The pilot ran down the stairs in pursuit of the hyper-active lion, followed by Cloud. He stopped as
Vincent ran in front of him, Yuffie chasing him, weapon drawn. As the two ran up the stairs, Nanaki dashed
out of the bridge, chased by a stuffed doll, a large gun-armed man, a woman, a pilot, and the rest of the team.
After the hyper lion was finally tied up again, Cloud walked up the stairs leading to his room, pretty tired.
As he got to the top, he saw Vincent skidding to a stop in front of him, pulling out his gun, and Yuffie down
the hall, taking out her over-sized Shuriken. "You jerk!! What were you doing in there anyway!?" Yuffie said,
taking fighting stance.
"If I am not mistaken, you annoying little girl, I was in the bathroom first, before you came in there--"
"So?! You still acted like a jerk--"
"SHUT UP!!" Cloud shouted, pulling out his sword. "Now then, what exactly happened?! Vincent first!"
"Well, I went into the bathroom because I bit my toungue earlier and was making sure not to get any
blood on my cape, when Yuffie ran in on me. She ran in and then looked upset, so I walked up to her and--"
"And that jerk touched me!!" screamed Yuffie, glaring at Vincent.
"I touched your shoulder and asked what was wrong." said Vincent.
"Exactly!! That creep touched me!!"
Cloud sighed. "Just don't kill eachother." He walked away as the two continued arguing. He changed his
mind abotu heading to his room and groggily went to the bridge, only to find Barret and Cait Sith arguing. Sighing,
he walked over to the two.
((-Switch to Script Mode-))
Barret : Shut the heck up Cait!! How could I have gotten twenty adds for Golden Saucer one after the other!?
It just ain't possible!
Cait Sith : I don't know, I ain't that good at Fortunes as I used to be! That or maybe your destiny is to buy
something from there!
Cloud : Stop arguing! You're acting like bratty four-year-olds!
Barret : Tell this stuffed bafoon to learn how to tell fortunes!
Cait Sith : I ain't a baboon!
Barret : I said BAFOON you imbocile!! BAFOON!!!
((Switch to Normal Mode))
Cloud sighed, giving up on the matter, and walked up to his room. He passed a wriggling cacoon of rope,
also known as Nanaki, on the way to the stairs. Although most of it was muffled, he could make out something
like, "HeyCloudOldBuddyOldPalHowAboutUntyingMeHereICANTSTANDITANYLONGER!!!", which was usually
followed by hysterical laughter. He shook his head and walked up the stairs, this time passing by a passed-
out thief girl and a vampire staring down at her. "Tell me you didn't kill her, Vincent.." Cloud said. Vincent glared
at him.
"Do you think I want to have another sin to haunt me in my dreams?!" he said, before looking down at Yuffie
again. "I just knocked her out."
"That's a relief." Cloud sighed, climbing a ladder up to his room. He walked through the door and immediantly
plopped down on the bed. "Jeeze.. I'm getting too old for this 'Leader' business." he complained, falling asleep.
Updates;
*Yuffie beat the 5-story Pagoda tower
*Vincent met Lucrecia inside the waterfall cave thing
*Weapon was killed, along with ShinRa, and the Barrier up North
CHAPTER THREE
Why You Shouldn't Play Pranks
Everyone was sitting in the coffee room, the ship landed. They weren't fighting Sephiroth yet, especially
after Cloud bought the FF7 guide and showed them how tough he was to meak lil' Lv. 50 adventurers. They
trashed the guide after that, though, because they weren't supposed to know what was coming, or about the
other numerous secrets to the game.
All of a sudden, Nanaki yawned deeply and fell asleep on the table. "What's with him?" Tifa asked, nudging
the lion in a failed attempt to wake it up. Cloud walked up to him and checked his pulse. "Well, he ain't dead.."
As soon as Cloud said dead, Cait Sith rushed into the room-- who had mysteriously not been there-- and
yelled, "I DIDN'T MEAN TO KILL ANYONE THERE WASN'T ANYTHING FATAL IN THAT COFFEEEE!!!"
Everyone stared at the embarrassed stuffed toy, before Cid jumped up and started running circles around
the room, yelling, "BVRRRROOOOOOOOMM!!! I'M AN AIRPLAAANE!!! YIPEEE!!", his arms stuck out like wings.
Everyone looked at Cait blamingly-- everyone currently well, anyway-- as Nanaki started loudly snoring. Cait
looked at everyone. "Wh.. What? Yy... You think I did that?" "YES!!" blurted everyone except Nanaki at once. At
that time, several Prank Poisoning packages fell out the back of Cait's back zipper. Before he could turn around,
VIncent was behind him, looking through the numerous gag-toxins. "Hyper... Sleep.. Sadness.. Fury... Truthful...
Illness... What the heck are these, Cait!?" he yelled, throwing them to the ground. He took out his gun and aimed it at
the cat. "ANSWER ME!!"
"Well..." said the cat, "I put some in each of your coffee... and mixed some of'em up in others..." he admitted,
obviously not wanting to get shot. He ran out of the room as Vincent shot the floor, and the bullet bounced
off the floor and darted around the room, finally leaving the room and hitting Sith in the butt. Everyone else
stopped ducking and stood up-- except Yuffie, who busted out crying. "Th.. That was mean, Vincent, you jerk!!
You almost shot me!! ANd I almost liked you, too!!" She was obviously suffering from double-poisoning.
Cloud walked over to Yuffie, trying to calm her, as the rest of the team worried about what kinda poisoning would
show up next. Nanaki stopped snoring, thank goodness, and Cid dashed out of the room, bussing like an
airplane past Cait, who was jumping up and down in pain. Back in the meeting room, Vincent was trying to calm
down, and Tifa was trying to wake Nanaki up. All of a sudden, Barret ran out of the room, pale in the face, and
straight into the bathroom to vomit. Everyone who was in the room and awake stared at him as he left, before
Nanaki started snoring again, Yuffie continued crying her heart out, and Vincent continued recovering from his
poisoning. Suddenly, Tifa busted out crying. When Cloud tried to help her, she started attacking him! Cloud then
fell asleep, muttering something truthful as Tifa punched him one more time and continued crying.
Later.....
"Sorry for punching you, Cloud." Tifa said, choking back giggles. Cloud looked at her and smiled, his one
black-eye easy to spot. Yuffie was faking sleep, hiding her face. She was rather embarassed for what she'd
said while she was ill. Vincent was over in a corner. Although he had apologized about ten times, he still seemed
to be beating himself for that fury attack when he shot the floor and could easily have shot anyone. Cait was
getting the bullet surgecally removed from his butt. Ow. Nanaki was sitting in agony, taking some medication.
He had a bad headache from falling asleep wrong. Cloud was slightly bruised form Tifa's attack, but not too
badly. Barret was still a bit ill from the poison. And Cid was just then calming down. Suddenly, Cait came
bursting into the room. "Hi-ya, folks! How ya doin'?" he said cheerfully, although secretly he was in severe pain
from Vincent's gunshot. Everyone glared at him. Barret held his right arm up, Yuffie pulled her shuriken out,
Cloud unsheathed his sword, Tifa held her fists up, Cid took out his spear, Nanaki stood in stance to strike,
and Vincent whipped out his gun. The stuffed cat doll looked nervouly at the group.. "Righty-o... I'll be leaving.."
He ran out of the room, closely followed by a large angry mob of powerful fighters.
~Fin
Thanks for reading the FIRST episode of SKYSHIP HIGHWIND; Between The Lines. I hope this is the first
fic of its kind, as I've seen none like it. Please, if you have a heart, I beg of you to review!! Even if you are rushed
for time, just say it wuz good or bad and call me a jerk for makin' yah!!... *Ahenm* Of coarse I don't own any
of you, thus I can't make you do it.... But soon, I will own you ALL when I dominate the world by stealing all the
mosquitoes and using them as a weapon of mass irritation! Bwahahahahh!!!
But since that's another oddbeat story in my twisted mind I won't go into any more detail.
*~*~* CONTEST *~*~*
Although ya won't make any cash, if you have the time to review, tell me what each character was suffering
from in Chapter Three. Some of them have double-poisons, three to be exact, and here's the list;
Sadness
Fury
Illness (illness, sickness)
Truthfulness
Sleep
Hyper
Alright, and anyone that gets it right will be posted in the next fic's "Hall Of Fame" list, which will be right below
the "Thanks" list of who posted reviews.
First fanfic attempt for FF7. Might completely stink, might not. Flames aren't wlecomed, but hey, I need a
good tan anyway. PLEASE I BEG OF YOU READ AND REVIEW!!... *ahem* And if you don't I will hunt you down and
beat you with a wet noodle! Mwahahahh!!!
And now, straight from Airship Highwind, it's time for the first-ever episode of...
HIGHWIND FROLLICS
Between The Lines
Note that nothing in this story belongs to me. Nor do I make any profit in doing it, or any cash. Besides, by
the time someone paid for a lawsuit they'd be out the cash, I'm plain broke.
The time? After the rocket incident and then after they found Vincent in a coffin (of all places) at the
creepy mansion in Nibelheim. This is the focus on how badly the team aggrivated each other while
over-seas, searching for their next big hint as of what to do next. And boy, what a weird and diverse team
was with them!
Cait Sith, the stuffed doll, was rather nosy, making him very pesky when trying to keep secrets. He was
also rather good at lying.
Yuffie, the materia-loving thief/ninja from Wutei, absolutely HATED the Airship. She had severe motion
sickness, you see. When she isn't sick, she's immature and ever-aggrivating, constantly trying to barter
with the others for Materia.
Tifa, the kick-butt fighting woman, is kinda the peace-keeper of the group. Whenever a fight breaks
out, she's there to stop it. She's rather secretive about some of her emotions, but mostly an open person.
Nanaki, or Red VIII, as the ShinRa had called him, was very intellegent. He was good for advice, as was
his grandfather, and was a great person to talk to when you needed to let off steam or whatever. Although
only 16 in his race's consideration of age, this lion is at the ripe, somehow young age of over 40.
Bugen-- I shall leave it to that, as I can't spell his name-- is Nanaki's grandfather, as you should know from
reading the above paragraph thing. He's the wisest of the group, and tended to stay outside, close to nature.
Barret was one of the toughest-looking ones there, but he was a good friend once you got to know'im.
He'd still make little jeers about you and curse you occasionally, but those things were easy to ignore or
get used to.
Vincent, the odd vampyrish teammate that was newly added to this troupe of bizzare fighters, tends to
keep to himself. He never speaks a word to anyone hardly, and his face is hidden by a mask of red cloth
most of the time. Somehow, everyone else seems to make fun of him easily..
Cloud, the leader of the group, had recently recovered from Mako Poisoning a few events back.
thanks to Tifa. He's bright and determined, but a bit boyish at times. ALthough he seems to have amnesia,
and hates talking about his past, he was still a good friend.
Cid-- Who can forget him?-- was the best pilot in the world. Although more foul-mouthed than the rest,
he's very humorous at times. He also has the bad habit of smoking, as it seems. But who would insult
him-- other than an idiot-- when he's got that huge lance-like thing as a weapon!?
And now, on to our story.
CHAPTER ONE
Why Ya Don't OverDose on Hypers
Cloud had just rested up, along with Tifa and Vincent, from some rough training. As they came out of
the meeting room, Tifa and Cloud continued on to the bridge, but Vincnet stopped when he noticed someone
heaving over in a corner. He stood behind the person, who, after a good five minutes, turned around, shivering.
She jumped, shocked, then settled back down, looking sickly again. "Vincent, you jerk! What did ya do a
thing like sneaking up on me like that for?" asked Yuffie. The usual cheery face she had was faded, as it
always was aboard the airship. Vincent stared at her with his red, emotionless eyes for a minute before
Yuffie spoke up again. "You probably think me being motion sick is FUNNY, don'tcha?!" she asked, before
turning around and vomiting again. Vincent, if you could see his face, might have winced at that time, but
he calmly walked back to the bridge and stood in the usual spot, head down.
Atleast everything at the bridge was normal. Let's cut to some of the scenes that would, sadly enough,
be 'Normal' on this airship.
Cait Sith, near the middle, was trying to tell Barret's future. "Hmm..." said the stuffed cat on the stuffed
doll, examaning the fortune. "Odd.."
"Don't jes' leave me in suspense, you stupid cat! What's it say?!" shouted Barret impatiently. The cat
quickened its pace a bit. "Uhm.. 'You will win big if you blow all your money on one bet at the Chocobo Races....?"
"That's gotta be fixed!!" Barret was fussing. "There's no WAY I could have gotten ten ads in a row by chance!!"
"Maybe you're DESTINED to buy useless crap!" said Cait, doing a pose.
While those two argued, Cid was training the beginner pilot, Vincent was being... wel, being Vincent...,
Cloud and Tifa were talking, Yuffie was puking, no one noticed that Red VIII had vanished somehow.
As the minutes passed by, Barret and Cait argued, and Vincent still stood there all solemnish, Cloud
looked around. "Has anyone seen Red Ei--"
Before he could finish, a lion walked into the room, bouncing up and down. "HiyaCloudWhereWeGoin
NextHuh?AreWeThereYetAreWeThereYet!?IWannaGetOuttaThisShip!HeyTifa'sLookinGood!AreWeThereYet
Cloud?I gottagopottyyyee!!" the lion said stupidily, all at once, before running back into the ship. Everyone
stared blankly at the doorway. Barret, who had been strangling Cait, dropped the poor stuffed animal thing,
and the rest just watched. Yuffie ran in, barf-bag in hand, shouting, "That stupid cat stole all the Hypers!" before
holding the bag to her mouth and running back in the ship. Everyone looked at each other blamingly, then
all eyes turned to Cloud. "What?" he asked. "I put'em back!"
"Obviously you didn't!" everyone shouted ((Vincent excluded)) as the group rushed to capture the super-hyper-
active beast.
And boy, what a task they had on their hands. Nanaki was bouncing off the walls-- No, literally, he
was REALLY bouncing off the walls! And then he decided to land on Cloud's head and bounce off, but yelped
in pain. "You got spikey hair, spikeyhairperson!" yelled the lion half-consciously as he held his paw up, sucking
on it. "Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid!!"
"Cloud," asked Tifa, "You've been using that old hair gel Cid lent you as a prank again, aren't you?" Cloud
poked one of the spikes in his hair and sighed, "Guess so. Cid, I'm going to kill you.." Fortunately for the pilot,
Cid was still helping the beginner on the bridge. As the group moved in to subdue the large cat ((All except
Vincent, who disappeared mysteriously again as he keeps mysteriously doing mysteriously.)), the cat looked
up. "I see london, I see france.." it sang, swaying back and forth before darting under Cloud and pulling his pants down.
"I see Cloud Strife's underpants!!" The lion laughed hysterically and dashed around as the rest held back
cackles ((Barret, on the other hand, was dying laughing.)). Cloud pulled up his pants and started chasing
the annoying lion again, passing a red caped man, and dashing up the stairs. As they entered the room,
Nanaki was doing a dance on the table. "I want more hyyypeeerrrrrss!" he pleaded, though still dancing.
"Hypers HYPERS HYPERSS!!!" He dashed at the group, blue energy around him as he careened back into the main
room, running into our favorite vampire-like man...
By the time the group got down there, a severely hyper, tied-up Red was wriggling around, singing stupid
songs and laughing hysterically all at once. "Thanks for helping!" said Tifa, winking at the vampire. He
looked at her with cold eyes as he does everyone and Yuffie, pale as usual, popped up from behind him.
"Help my foot, that stupid jerk rammed headon into Vincent and knocked him into me!" complained the thief.
Vincent sighed and walked into the meeting room without uttering a word, and was soon followed by the others,
who all chipped in to haul the every-struggling, every-loud-and-obnoxious Nanaki to the room. Yuffie watched
the door close, her face pale as snow, and turned around, snickering despite her illness. She held a green,
shiney object in her hands. "Heh heh heh, I got one! I finally got one!" she squealed. "Let's see, I think this
was the Restore one.." still smiling wide, she turned to go to the meeting room-- only to meet a pair of
crimson red eyes.
"Ah-- ehr-- V-Vincent! H-Hi.." said Yuffie, hiding the materia behind her back. The vampire coldly stared
at her, as he does everyone, making her extremely nervous. 'Does he know I stole that Materia from him..?'
Vincent leaned down and whispered, "I'd be careful who I stole from next time," then stood and walked
back to the meeting room. Yuffie stood there, shocked that he didn't take the materia away from her as
everyone else had in the past. She pocketed the orb and ran into her room in the ship.
The time now? After everyone found out about the WHite Materia and Holy, and after Weapon started his slow
deathmarch to Midgar. The Highwind took off as Cloud gave his usual prep speech again.
CHAPTER TWO
Why Everyone's Not The Leader
As the others looked
out over-seas, Cloud sighed and walked out. Yuffie ran up to him. "Hey Cloud, ya really think we have a chance
against Weapon? this time?" she asked, not as hyper as she often is. She did have a good rest from the ship,
however, when she was fighting against her father Godo at the tower in Wutai. Vincent had met and talked
with Lucrecia behind the Waterfall before the woman disappeared, and now the rag-tag group of adventurers
headed out to battle the world threat Weapon. Cloud looked at her oddly. "Do you THINK we have a chance
against him? Heck no, we're going to get our butts kicked!"
"Well why'd you lie to the others, ya jerk?" asked Yuffie.
"I'd say we stand a better chance of winning if the team's confident, if any."
"... I'm gonna tell the others!" said Yuffie, running towards the bridge. Cloud grabbed her by the back of her
collar.
"NO, you're NOT!!" shouted Cloud.
"I will if ya don't gimme some Materia!" said the girl, turning around and smiling innocently. Cloud copied
the smile and then pulled his sword out.
"How about I sever you're head off if you tell them?" said Cloud simply. Yuffie pouted and walked past
Cloud, breaking into a run to the bathroom. ".. Atleast she's motion sick." Cloud said, sighing with relief as
he walked up to his room in the ship. A still slightly hyper Nanaki waltzed past him, carrying something in his
mouth. There was a slurping sound before Cid ran out of the break room. He nearly fell over the balcony as
he came to a stop. "CLOUD!! WHERE"S THAT #%^$& LION!?" he shouted. Behind Cloud, there was a wide-
eyed lion staring around at Cid before dashing down the stairs. "You %$^#& moron!! He drank all the
cofee!!" The pilot ran down the stairs in pursuit of the hyper-active lion, followed by Cloud. He stopped as
Vincent ran in front of him, Yuffie chasing him, weapon drawn. As the two ran up the stairs, Nanaki dashed
out of the bridge, chased by a stuffed doll, a large gun-armed man, a woman, a pilot, and the rest of the team.
After the hyper lion was finally tied up again, Cloud walked up the stairs leading to his room, pretty tired.
As he got to the top, he saw Vincent skidding to a stop in front of him, pulling out his gun, and Yuffie down
the hall, taking out her over-sized Shuriken. "You jerk!! What were you doing in there anyway!?" Yuffie said,
taking fighting stance.
"If I am not mistaken, you annoying little girl, I was in the bathroom first, before you came in there--"
"So?! You still acted like a jerk--"
"SHUT UP!!" Cloud shouted, pulling out his sword. "Now then, what exactly happened?! Vincent first!"
"Well, I went into the bathroom because I bit my toungue earlier and was making sure not to get any
blood on my cape, when Yuffie ran in on me. She ran in and then looked upset, so I walked up to her and--"
"And that jerk touched me!!" screamed Yuffie, glaring at Vincent.
"I touched your shoulder and asked what was wrong." said Vincent.
"Exactly!! That creep touched me!!"
Cloud sighed. "Just don't kill eachother." He walked away as the two continued arguing. He changed his
mind abotu heading to his room and groggily went to the bridge, only to find Barret and Cait Sith arguing. Sighing,
he walked over to the two.
((-Switch to Script Mode-))
Barret : Shut the heck up Cait!! How could I have gotten twenty adds for Golden Saucer one after the other!?
It just ain't possible!
Cait Sith : I don't know, I ain't that good at Fortunes as I used to be! That or maybe your destiny is to buy
something from there!
Cloud : Stop arguing! You're acting like bratty four-year-olds!
Barret : Tell this stuffed bafoon to learn how to tell fortunes!
Cait Sith : I ain't a baboon!
Barret : I said BAFOON you imbocile!! BAFOON!!!
((Switch to Normal Mode))
Cloud sighed, giving up on the matter, and walked up to his room. He passed a wriggling cacoon of rope,
also known as Nanaki, on the way to the stairs. Although most of it was muffled, he could make out something
like, "HeyCloudOldBuddyOldPalHowAboutUntyingMeHereICANTSTANDITANYLONGER!!!", which was usually
followed by hysterical laughter. He shook his head and walked up the stairs, this time passing by a passed-
out thief girl and a vampire staring down at her. "Tell me you didn't kill her, Vincent.." Cloud said. Vincent glared
at him.
"Do you think I want to have another sin to haunt me in my dreams?!" he said, before looking down at Yuffie
again. "I just knocked her out."
"That's a relief." Cloud sighed, climbing a ladder up to his room. He walked through the door and immediantly
plopped down on the bed. "Jeeze.. I'm getting too old for this 'Leader' business." he complained, falling asleep.
Updates;
*Yuffie beat the 5-story Pagoda tower
*Vincent met Lucrecia inside the waterfall cave thing
*Weapon was killed, along with ShinRa, and the Barrier up North
CHAPTER THREE
Why You Shouldn't Play Pranks
Everyone was sitting in the coffee room, the ship landed. They weren't fighting Sephiroth yet, especially
after Cloud bought the FF7 guide and showed them how tough he was to meak lil' Lv. 50 adventurers. They
trashed the guide after that, though, because they weren't supposed to know what was coming, or about the
other numerous secrets to the game.
All of a sudden, Nanaki yawned deeply and fell asleep on the table. "What's with him?" Tifa asked, nudging
the lion in a failed attempt to wake it up. Cloud walked up to him and checked his pulse. "Well, he ain't dead.."
As soon as Cloud said dead, Cait Sith rushed into the room-- who had mysteriously not been there-- and
yelled, "I DIDN'T MEAN TO KILL ANYONE THERE WASN'T ANYTHING FATAL IN THAT COFFEEEE!!!"
Everyone stared at the embarrassed stuffed toy, before Cid jumped up and started running circles around
the room, yelling, "BVRRRROOOOOOOOMM!!! I'M AN AIRPLAAANE!!! YIPEEE!!", his arms stuck out like wings.
Everyone looked at Cait blamingly-- everyone currently well, anyway-- as Nanaki started loudly snoring. Cait
looked at everyone. "Wh.. What? Yy... You think I did that?" "YES!!" blurted everyone except Nanaki at once. At
that time, several Prank Poisoning packages fell out the back of Cait's back zipper. Before he could turn around,
VIncent was behind him, looking through the numerous gag-toxins. "Hyper... Sleep.. Sadness.. Fury... Truthful...
Illness... What the heck are these, Cait!?" he yelled, throwing them to the ground. He took out his gun and aimed it at
the cat. "ANSWER ME!!"
"Well..." said the cat, "I put some in each of your coffee... and mixed some of'em up in others..." he admitted,
obviously not wanting to get shot. He ran out of the room as Vincent shot the floor, and the bullet bounced
off the floor and darted around the room, finally leaving the room and hitting Sith in the butt. Everyone else
stopped ducking and stood up-- except Yuffie, who busted out crying. "Th.. That was mean, Vincent, you jerk!!
You almost shot me!! ANd I almost liked you, too!!" She was obviously suffering from double-poisoning.
Cloud walked over to Yuffie, trying to calm her, as the rest of the team worried about what kinda poisoning would
show up next. Nanaki stopped snoring, thank goodness, and Cid dashed out of the room, bussing like an
airplane past Cait, who was jumping up and down in pain. Back in the meeting room, Vincent was trying to calm
down, and Tifa was trying to wake Nanaki up. All of a sudden, Barret ran out of the room, pale in the face, and
straight into the bathroom to vomit. Everyone who was in the room and awake stared at him as he left, before
Nanaki started snoring again, Yuffie continued crying her heart out, and Vincent continued recovering from his
poisoning. Suddenly, Tifa busted out crying. When Cloud tried to help her, she started attacking him! Cloud then
fell asleep, muttering something truthful as Tifa punched him one more time and continued crying.
Later.....
"Sorry for punching you, Cloud." Tifa said, choking back giggles. Cloud looked at her and smiled, his one
black-eye easy to spot. Yuffie was faking sleep, hiding her face. She was rather embarassed for what she'd
said while she was ill. Vincent was over in a corner. Although he had apologized about ten times, he still seemed
to be beating himself for that fury attack when he shot the floor and could easily have shot anyone. Cait was
getting the bullet surgecally removed from his butt. Ow. Nanaki was sitting in agony, taking some medication.
He had a bad headache from falling asleep wrong. Cloud was slightly bruised form Tifa's attack, but not too
badly. Barret was still a bit ill from the poison. And Cid was just then calming down. Suddenly, Cait came
bursting into the room. "Hi-ya, folks! How ya doin'?" he said cheerfully, although secretly he was in severe pain
from Vincent's gunshot. Everyone glared at him. Barret held his right arm up, Yuffie pulled her shuriken out,
Cloud unsheathed his sword, Tifa held her fists up, Cid took out his spear, Nanaki stood in stance to strike,
and Vincent whipped out his gun. The stuffed cat doll looked nervouly at the group.. "Righty-o... I'll be leaving.."
He ran out of the room, closely followed by a large angry mob of powerful fighters.
~Fin
Thanks for reading the FIRST episode of SKYSHIP HIGHWIND; Between The Lines. I hope this is the first
fic of its kind, as I've seen none like it. Please, if you have a heart, I beg of you to review!! Even if you are rushed
for time, just say it wuz good or bad and call me a jerk for makin' yah!!... *Ahenm* Of coarse I don't own any
of you, thus I can't make you do it.... But soon, I will own you ALL when I dominate the world by stealing all the
mosquitoes and using them as a weapon of mass irritation! Bwahahahahh!!!
But since that's another oddbeat story in my twisted mind I won't go into any more detail.
*~*~* CONTEST *~*~*
Although ya won't make any cash, if you have the time to review, tell me what each character was suffering
from in Chapter Three. Some of them have double-poisons, three to be exact, and here's the list;
Sadness
Fury
Illness (illness, sickness)
Truthfulness
Sleep
Hyper
Alright, and anyone that gets it right will be posted in the next fic's "Hall Of Fame" list, which will be right below
the "Thanks" list of who posted reviews.