Be My Guiding Light
Well well well, what do we have here? If it isn't… ME^_^
Ahem…
Guess who's back? Back again?
Lily's back… tell a friend.
All the reviews that say I should continue… hmm…
Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me. Coz we need a little extra Ruffie, coz it feels so empty without me.
I said this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me. Coz we need a little extra Ruffie, coz it feels so empty without me.
True is it not? Do you agree? Yes??
*Sings happily* I've seen Harry Potter… I've seen Harry Potter… SEE IT!!!!!
7 DAYS TILL MY B-DAY!!!!!
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Chapter 6
They walked in the sleepy, hollow, ghost town. Meteor hanging in the atmosphere just added to the image of the town, the idea that whenever you were in this town, anything bad could happen to you. The rustic well in the centre, still the attraction of the town. A couple of rundown shops were still trying to keep business, as well as the Inn. Far back was the large ghostly Shinra Mansion, giving off its eerie aura to anyone who walks past. Inhabited by monsters and previous resting place for former Turk, Vincent Valentine, another example of Shinra's warped experimentations.
"This is one hell of a fucked up town." Said Reno, gazing up at the ghastly Mansion.
"How could anyone have ever lived in that place?"
She head Reno snigger as she looked at him, shrugging her shoulders and asking with her eyes.
"You only have to look at the former residents that lived there for some point. Hojo, Sephiroth and Valentine… the word freaky come to mind?"
"We should get goin', we have a job to do." The bald Turk said, walking towards the Mansion.
"He needs to lighten up a bit, don't you agree with me?"
"Elena," Reno began to walk away. "You talk to much."
She put her hands on her hips, watching sternly as the redhead walked off, leaving her.
"Gee thanks Reno, that must have been the nicest thing you said to me all day." She muttered to herself, trying to catch up with the two others.
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Rufus stood inside the light-filled, rustic style meeting room. Waiting for everyone, he gazed around the room, crimson carpets covered the ground. Reeve stood at the furthest end, arms crossed looking at the President, and Palmer and Heidegger sat at the large wooden table.
When he thought reasonable, he began.
"Now then… we are faced with two issues.
1) Destroy Meteor
2) Remove barrier around North Cave and defeat Sephiroth.
Any ideas?" He spoke in a rational manner as he crossed his arms, looking at all the people present.
Heidegger leaned forward at the table and rested his arms flat.
"Gya haah hah hah! We already solved the first problem! Meteor will soon be smashed to bits!" He restrained himself from doing arm actions as his voice hollered throughout the room. "The plan has already been put into motion. Namely, to collect Huge Materia from each region."
"Well…" Rufus raised an eyebrow.
"Huge Materia is a high density special type of materia made through a special compression in Mako reactors." Said Scarlet as she walked in and stood a distance away from Rufus. "The energy extracted from it is 330 times the strength of normal materia." She crossed her arms and looked at the other execs in the room. "Ha, ha, ha! How about that!?" She crossed her arms and looked back at Rufus. "We will gather all Huge Materia together and ram it into Meteor. That will cause a huge explosion!! Reducing Meteor literally to bits." She explained her idea proudly to the President, nodding her head in agreement.
"You're going to ram Meteor?" He said mockingly. "Do you think we have the technology to do it?"
"Don't worry about that! More importantly, we've got to collect Huge Materia from each area." She looked over at Heidegger.
"We've already collected Materia from Nibelheim. All that's left is "Corel" and "Fort Condor". I've already dispatched troops to Corel.
Ghaa haah hah hah!"
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The three Turks sat inside the Inn in the rundown town of Nibelheim after they managed to acquire the Huge Materia from the Mako reactor in Mt. Nibel. The sat around the small oak table as Reno placed the materia onto it and glared. Elena sighed, looking around at the room, she stood up and walked to the window, staring at the Shinra Mansion, at Mt. Nibel.
"That reactor is creepy, full of all those monsters or SOLDIERS or whatever they are! Man, that Hojo is deranged!"
"Yeah, tell me about it Elle. Him and his bizarre experiments. Why is he still in Shinra? I would have fired him ages ago." He said lighting up a cigarette. "Gives me creeps lookin' at him."
"He's a great scientist though, isn't he? Great accomplish for Shinra to have him in their grasp." Rude said quietly.
"S'pose, he's still a raisin or two short of a fruit loaf."
"Um, Reno?" Elena said cautioning, as Reno looked up. "You're not supposed to smoke in here, the sign says so."
"No… smoking… please," he read. "Eh."
She sighed, not getting anywhere. She looked at her watch, at the clock hanging from the wall. Reno took another drag.
"Hey, Elle. You were hired by the ex-President, weren't you? Ya know, the dead one."
"I know which one you were talking about! I'm not stupid; I do know the difference between a living President and a dead one. Why'd you ask anyway? Weren't you?"
"Nah, but I always thought Rufus hired the Turks, since they are his division." He grinned toothily. "Wonder why he hired you then? Aye?"
Blood rushed to her check, not just out of embarrassment, but frustration and anger. She clenched her fists, eyes shooting flaming daggers at the other Turk. How could he say such a thing?
"I was hired because of my skill, not my looks!"
"I never said you were, did I?" he smiled. "What's it mater? You're a Turk now."
He saw her calm down a little, taking deep breaths just to stop herself from lunging at Reno, and beating him to a pulp.
"Bet ya glad he's dead anyway?"
"Probably no difference between Rufus and his father anyway!" she spat, crossing her arms and looking away from Reno.
He tilted his head and looked at her curiously, stubbing out his cigarette. He wondered what got her so worked up over nothing.
"Someone's in a cynical mood today. Rufus isn't that bad… if you look at him as a friend."
Elena raised an eyebrow as she turned to look at Reno, she had her arms still crossed, but her face was filled with curiosity.
"How would you know?!" she pouted.
"Elena, being a Turk isn't just scouting for suitable SOLDIER candidates, we also work in body guarding and other things of high importance." Rude took off his glasses and placed them on the table.
"Why, were you Rufus' bodyguard or somethin'?" She asked doubtfully.
"Actually for about three weeks, yes."
Elena nearly fell off her seat in Shock, could she be hearing straight? Reno? Was Rufus' bodyguard? No, it had to be a mistake, but still.
"You're kidding me?"
"No, it's true, isn't it Rude?" He asked Rude, who nodded in certainty.
"He was Tseng's replacement after a slight… accident." He sniggered slightly, but stopped and remained silent.
"What, accident?"
"Nothing Elle, just that… well Tseng get bit, that's all."
"Bit? What by… Rufus?" She hardly knew what to make of it all, except, well.
"No, by the cat." Reno laughed.
"So, let me get this straight. Tseng had to have three weeks leave because he got bit by a cat?" Her voice was filled will sarcasm; she could hardly believe that he would have three weeks off because he was bitten by a small feline.
"Did you ever see Rufus pet? It was a massive black panther!" He held his arms up, trying to show how big the cat really was.
"Oh."
"Ah hmm," he nodded, muttering to Rude. "But, he's not that bad, really. Tseng just pissed him off."
"So he set the cat on him!?" She placed her hands in her pockets and glanced back at the table.
Reno looked at a picture on the wall, a beautiful, serene waterfall landscape with a large violet beast in the background. Large wings sprouted from its back and its red eyes shone right through.
"It is me, or does the monster in that picture look like that fuck off WEAPON flying around tearing shit apart?" He shuddered and picked up the light coloured materia. "I can't believe we came all this way, just for this materia."
"It wasn't that bad a trip Reno, call it a new experience."
"New experience alright, I nearly got my eyebrows singed because of your… new experience."
"That was your own fault for provoking that dragon." She said tightly. "You should have been more careful."
"Yeah well, thanks for helping me… oh I forgot, you didn't!" He lifted the materia and looked at it from all angles. "What could be so great of a large piece of materia? Wonder if it's more valuable that normal materia… think we could flog it? We could get 1 million gil if we tried, I'm sure of it." He said, turning to see his two partners looking at him. "We could find some way of getting it back to it's natural state, then mix it with water… after we give the fake materia back to the Prez and none's the wiser."
"Not until they use it. It won't work Reno, and you're not even going to try it." Rude stood up and took the materia off Reno. "We need to take this back to the President anyway."
"Reno, you weren't serious about that were you?"
"Why, you want in on it Elle? Go 50/50… well 80 for me… maybe 95, or-"
ring ring
He looked around and noticed that his PHS ring. He took it out of his pocket and placed it to his ear as the others watch.
"Reno here.
-Yes
-Maybe
-No!
-Right, sure I will-- I was!"
He held the PHS away from his ear and looked around, nodding occasionally, and saying 'yep, got ya.'
"Right then, bye."
He hung up the PHS and put it back in his pocket.
"Wrong number. Let's go."
Elena looked at Reno, and then at Rude, who shrugged his shoulders as he walked off. She shook her head and a hand through her short blonde locks.
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Hey, is this a treat for what? Two chaps in less than a week… do I spoil ya or what?
Well, yet again, more Shinra… I like Shinra and Turks; they're the best part of FF7 (In my opinion.)
Thanks to my wonderful regular readers… this chap is for all of you guys:
Lady Leizel: Soz to hear that you were grounded, I hate when I get grounded, I wanna move out soon… If I had money to get a place of my own. Happy Birthday to you! You can have… a purple stapler, top range.
Lord Cirenmas: Cheers, even if you aren't a person of many words.
Drakonlily: I'm glad you liked the telling off, that my fave part too… fat butt, heh he he. We all have our nick names for Heidegger:
-Fat Butt
-Porky
-Fat Bastard
-Fat Man
-Fatty
-Hairy beach ball (I intend to use that later.)
Any more I can add, leave them in your reviews… lets have a huge list of Heidegger nicknames, just for fun.
Rufus' Babe: Cheers mate, I love all the complements that you give
Kay Shinra: Thanks for puttin' me on your faves list, write a fic and I'll review it for ya
Sasammi: 0.0! Erm… thanks, I get that you don't want Rufus to die, am I right? I make a deal with ya… I'll E-mail it
Bexi: Thank, if it weren't for you I wouldn't of written this fic. If any of you guys like Tenchi Muyo or Yu-Gi-Oh fics… read hers, they're great. I also suggest a straitjacket for Sasammi… she may need it if I…
Heh heh heh.
Bye bye
xxTigerLilyxx