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Chapter Six

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Author's Note:

Wow! Six Chapters already! *dances around* Sorry for taking too long to write this next chapter, and sorry if my chapters are too short. Anyways, hope you like this one chapter.

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Red XIII, Vincent, Cid, and Cait Sith sat in the living room of Cloud's small house. They were thinking of what happened recently.

"Cloud and Tifa disappeared." Red XIII said.

"And then Barret and Yuffie disappeared…" Cid continued. "Those #@$^#! What was going in there #$^# mind when they thought of disappearin' on us like that!?"

Vincent stayed quiet as usual, lost in his own ocean of thoughts. Finally, he spoke. "There might be another way to escape this building, other than the door and windows. But I just can't seem to put my hand on it…"

"Damn right ya can't!" Cid interrupted, Vincent glared at him. Cait Sith spoke now.

"I think Vincent's right guys, and I also think that the other way to escape this building is in this room."

Red XIII's eyes glowed. "And there's something about this television…" He said. Cid got up and kicked once; nothing happened. "It's just a damn T.V.! Nothing's @&%$ with it!" He said.

Vincent's eyes focused on a black dot in the T.V., and he got up to rub it. After rubbing it, the black dot grew bigger. "What the-!" They all said before getting sucked into it."


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Steiner and Beatrix didn't know what hit them when the mirror became black and four bodies were thrown out of it; they stood up in alarm and drew their weapons.

"Halt!" Said Steiner. "In the name of the past Queen, who are you?" Beatrix said studying every one of them.

The first was a lion of some sort, with red fiery fur, and fire coming out of the end of his tail.

The second one was a cat on top of a large moogle, who looked odd enough to know it was nothing but a machine.

The third was a tall man; he looked like the decent one of the group, but with a clawed left hand. He looked frightening.

And the fourth was an old man who had a cigarette in his mouth, and it seemed that the cigarette was there for a long time.

Finally, the lion stood up to introduce himself. "We come in peace, so you can lower your weapons. My friends and I found our selves here when we discovered a black dot on the screen of my friend's T.V., his name is Cloud Strife, have you seen him?"

Both Steiner and Beatrix lowered their weapons after hearing Cloud's name. "Yes, we have heard of Master Cloud." Said Steiner, "He went with Zidane to help him rescue a one called Tifa Lockhart." Continued Beatrix. All four were alarmed.

"Tifa!" They all said at once. The tall man with the clawed hand came closer to them. "Could you tell us where they went?" He asked. Beatrix nodded. "They went to the Iifa Tree, there they will fight Kuja one last time."

Cid raised his eyebrow. "Kuja? Iifa Tree? Holy mother of Bahumut! What the $@&% are those?"

"Kuja is an evil man, and Iifa Tree is a beautiful place ruined by mist." Beatrix explained.
Cait Sith finally spoke, "Guys…I think we're in a different world…"

And all were confused.


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Vivi and Eiko sat cuddling together at the far corner of the cell. It was so quiet and very cold. Eiko looked at Vivi's emotionless yet interesting face and saw that his eyes were closed. He's asleep… Eiko said. If only I can summon, it would get us out of here, but Kuja's far smarter than that, he put an anti-magic field on us. She let out a long sigh. Vivi stirred in sleep and griped his hands harder, Eiko, sensing that Vivi was having a nightmare, decided to wake him up.

"Vivi…" Eiko whispered while gently shaking the young mage. Vivi slowly opened his glowing yellow eyes and looked innocently at Eiko. "You had a dream, I thought I might wake you." She explained.
Vivi sat up and hugged his legs, "Thanks Eiko, you really are helpful." He said. Eiko blushed and said her thanks as she also hugged her legs closer to her hoping to decrease the coldness.

"THAT STUPID RAT!" They both cuddled closer as they heard Kuja's voice. Vivi whispered something to Eiko, but she didn't hear it. She hugged the other mage tighter so not to lose him.

"SHE'LL PAY! AS WELL AS THAT OTHER BITCH!"

The door to the dungeon flung open, and a tall man with two other dragons on his side came to view. Kuja's mad…She heard Vivi whisper to her; she only bit her lip.

Kuja came to her and took her by the wrist; Vivi quickly got up and held Kuja's hand. "No! Let her go you murderer! Let her go!" He said as he hit Kuja's hand. Kuja shook his hand violently sending the young mage to the wall.

"Don't play games on me kid!" He yelled as he took Eiko with him. Eiko tried desperately to release herself or at least bite Kuja's hand, but that lead to nothing. He casted sleep and silence on her, put her on the back on one of the dragons, and flew away. Leaving an unconscious Vivi in a dungeon with an open door. He won't last a minute here, and even if that Zidane and Cloud come to the rescue, they'd be too late to save their beloved.

And his laughter echoed…

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"We're almost there." Zidane told Cloud as they neared Madain Sari, "The others will go to Burmecia to catch up with Freya and Tifa. I think they'll be all right. Let's save Eiko and Vivi, they we'll hitch a ride on one of her summons." Cloud nodded and looked up at the huge tree.

"Are we going to climb that thing?" Asked Cloud. Zidane shook his head. "Not exactly." He replied.

They both entered and climbed the tree, as easy as the first time Zidane and the others came, it was filled with monsters and zombies. After many hours (Yes, hours) of climbing, they finally reached a long set of dungeons.

"Which one?" Asked Cloud. Zidane shook his head. "I don't know! Look for something that has a young black mage and a young a white mage with a horn. I don't think you have one of those in world, but I do know that you know how they look like."

Cloud nodded and walked over to a door that had a small window; he peered in and saw a dark figure in the end groaning in pain. He recognized the figure as a black mage. He motioned for Zidane to come, which came running to where Cloud was. "There's a black mage in there, he's groaning in pain. But no girl with horn." He said.

Zidane peered in. "Zidane?" Came a squeaky voice from inside, Zidane's widened and he quickly opened the door, which opened quite easily since it was left unlocked, and ran over to the mage.

"Vivi! Are you all right?" He asked. The mage nodded as Cloud came in to view. "Who's he?" Asked Vivi referring to Cloud.

"I'm Cloud Strife, I'm Tifa's fiancée. I suppose you know Tifa, she was imprisoned here with you." Vivi nodded.

"Where's Eiko?" Asked Zidane looked around. Vivi's eyes looked sad. "Kuja…took her. I tried to help her but he…" Zidane stopped looking around and patted Vivi on his shoulder.

"Don't worry buddy, we'll help her. You did what was best." Vivi nodded and got to his feet. "Can you walk?" Vivi nodded again.

Zidane got to his feet and glared at the wall, "We're going to get Kuja no matter what!" He yelled at no one in particular. Cloud gripped his sword and Vivi his staff and all three left.

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The rain hadn't stopped in Burmecia; it never did and never will. The young martial artist and the dragon knight sat under a statue talking. Mostly, the martial artist would explain some things about the way she got to the other world while Freya, the dragon knight would listen.

"You were captured by Kuja then?" Freya said, the other woman nodded.

"There were two other children in the cell with me, a girl named Eiko and a young black mage named Vivi, do you know them?" Tifa asked. The dragon knight nodded her head letting drops of water fly away. Tifa looked back at the entrance of the city.

"Are you sure they'll come?" Asked Tifa. The dragon knight smiled and nodded her head as four figures came into view. Tifa quickly got to her feet and got in a fighting stance, Freya did the same but quickly sheathed her weapon as she saw the two figures of Garnet and Mikoto.

"Tifa!!!" Came a high pitched voice as another young woman, about the same age of Garnet came running to Tifa. Tifa relaxed a little and opened her arms as Yuffie quickly hugged her. After hugging for some time, Yuffie let go. "Don't EVER scare us like that again, ok?" Tifa nodded as a smile crept on her lips.

"Damn it Tifa! Don't go on disappearin' on us again! You know that if anythin' happens ta ya I'll never forgive myself!" Barret said as he also came into view.

Two other girls, one that resembled Tifa in many ways and another that had a tail forming in the back of her also came into view.

"Hello, I suppose you are Tifa." Said Mikoto as she bowed; Tifa did the same. "I am Mikoto, you can say that I am Zidane's sister."

"And I am Garnet." Said the other, she also bowed while Tifa did the same. "But my friends call me Dagger."

"Pleased to meet you two." Tifa said.

Yuffie and Barret introduced themselves to Freya, and after that, Freya did the same.

Yuffie looked up at the sky, "Does it always rain in here?" She asked Freya; Freya nodded. "Well, I have NO idea how you manage to live in here, but I won't ask." She said as she held her Conformer for shelter.

"I say we leave to help Cloud and Zidane or at least get out of this continent. I've been under the rain for way to long." Said Tifa. They all nodded and turned to leave. But a flying dragon that came flying above them caused them all to turn around to see who had come. Another dragon flew by.

It was Kuja…along with Eiko.

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Author's Note:

Sorry for not updating in a long time, I had writer's block. Oh well, at least I wrote something. Next chapter will have action!!! Whee^_~ Sorry for the short chapter. You'll see how Kuja gets what is beloved to both Cloud and Zidane.


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