-Chapter 2 Encounters of the 8th Kind

"Yes, who is it?" Aeris questioned while slowly cracking the door open.

She was confronted by a brown hair, brown eyed babe!

"Ummmm Hello...What is it you need?" Aeris finally spit out. He was a total BABE!!

"Well, you see," started the brown eyed babe, "My car stopped," he said pointing, "and my friends and I were wondering if I could use the phone?"

"Um-sure..." Aeris answered back timidly, "It's over there."

"Thank you, miss." He said as he walked pass her to the phone.

Aeris melted into a puddle 3 but happily skipped back into the kitchen.

"Shhh...Aeris," Tifa mumbled, "who was it?"

"A brown hair, brown eyed babe! Come on, he's using the phone!" Aeris whispered back.

"All right, I'm coming..." Tifa answered back as they slowly sneaked into the next room.

"But, you can't be closed!? It's Saturday!! Yes, I know...but...Same to YOU!!" the brown eyed babe shouted as he slammed the phone back into it's cradle.

Tifa and Aeris just stared big eyed and mouths open.

"I'm sorry..." Brown eyed babe mumbled, "can we stay here till my car gets fixed?"

"SURE!!" Aeris shouted.

Tifa glared at Aeris as she shouted this. Was she CRAZY?!

"What did you mean by 'we', here's only one of you?"

"Oh ya!" he said slapping his forehead, "I better go get everybody from the car, be right back!" he shouted over his shoulder as he went through the front door.

"Come on, Aeris," Tifa mumbled, "we have better tell everybody we have unexpected company..."

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"Come on, you guy's, we have lodging till my car gets fixed." The brown hair boy told his friends.

"Let's go!" shouted a girl with black hair as she was getting out of the car.

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"WHAT?!" shouted the whole FF7 group after hearing the news.

"Aeris has the biggest mouth..." Cid mumbled underneath his breath.

"This way you guys, they should be in here!" The brown-eyed babe called to his friends.

"He's coming, everyone quiet down." barked Barret.

Slowly, one by one each one of the FF8 characters walked into the room, forming a line.

First, was the brown hair, browned-eyed babe. He was wearing a black shirt with black kakin pants, two belts, and a necklace with a lion on it and a giant sword that he didn't have before.

Next, was a girl with black hair (a little brown in the front). She had brown eyes also, she was wearing a spaghetti-strap shirt with the word 'Angel' on the front and short brown pants.

After her was a boy with yellow hair and blue eyes. He had a tattoo on his face, his hair was pointing up in the front (almost like Cloud's, but not that spiky), and he wore a body shirt with a jacket over it. He had long pant's on (he was obviously low riding) and gloves on his hands.

Then after him came a girl with brown hair (that flipped up) and green eyes. She wore short overalls with a yellow tube top, she also wore long boots.

To her left was a boy with long brown hair and blue eyes. He wore a black cowboy hat, a white T-shirt with 'Space Cowboy's' on the front of it and long black pants and he also had gloves on.

Last, but not least was a girl with yellow hair and blue eyes. She wore a very short shirt (her belly was showing) and a mid-length skirt with a slit up the sides.

"Uhem, these are my friend's. I hope it isn't a problem to give us all lodging." questioned the brown haired boy.

"Of course not!" Aeris quickly respond.

"You could tell us your names." snapped Barret.

"Oh, my name is Squall Leonheart." said the brown haired babe.

"My name's Rinoa, glad to make your aquatint." said the girl with black hair.

"Yo, my name is Zell, don't forget it." said the boy with yellow hair.

"Hi, my name's Sephie, hehe." said the girl with flipped hair a little too cheerfully.

"Howdy, I'm Irvine." said the boy in the cowboy hat.

"And I am Quistis." said the girl with the yellow hair.

"I'm Aeris. I'm so glad you'll be able to stay with us." said Aeris as she smiled.

"The name's Tifa." she mumbled. It was almost a growl.

"Ya, punks and I'm Barret. Don't push me, got it?" snarled Barret. He was very hungry and they were cutting into his dinnertime.

"Ya, spoony, the name's Cid." mumbled Cid.

"Yo, everybody, my name's Yuffie! I'm so pleased to meet you!" said Yuffie happily.

"How do you do? My name's RedXIII." said RedXIII kindly.

"Yes, and I will be called Caith Smith." he practical shouted his name.

"Ya, I'm, like.........dah, Cloudy?" stuttered Cloud, rather retartedly.

"Um, you'll have to excuse him," said Aeris as she walked over to him, "He's not right in the head." she mumbled as she patted him on the head.

"Oh, one of those........." said Zell.

"Well, um, why don't you join us for dinner?" RedXIII questioned politely.

"We would love to, thank you ever so much." said Quistis.

"I'll go order some take out, cause we're not going to have enough to feed all of us." said Yuffie as she walked towards the phone in the next room.

"Can I go with you, nm?" wondered Sephie.

"Sure, love the company and besides, you could tell me how much and what you guys eat!" laughed Yuffie.

Sephie and Yuffie was a bundle of giggles as they left the room.

"Um, we could go watch TV in the living room till its time to eat." suggested Caith Smith.

As they were walking into the living room, Irvine noticed, out of the corner of his eyes, a Playstation and a ton of games. 'This should be fun' Irvine thought.

"Hey, you guys," Irvine started to suggest, "instead of watching TV, could we play Playstation?"

"Yes!" Shouted Cid, "I've been looking for a worthy opponent. Let's get started on 'virus eve'. I'm stuck on this 'spoony' part and I'm about to burn the game with my cigarette lighter!"

"Love to help you, Ciddy my man." said Irvine as he sat down and Cid started the Playstation.

Aeris, Barret, Caith Smith, and RedXIII all stared with wide mouths and eye the size of saucers. Irvine had called him 'Ciddy' and he wasn't starting a cussing storm. This was weird!

Cloud just laughed and sat down next to Irvine and started to hum the opening tune.

"Men..." mumbled Rinoa under her breath.

"Agreed." Aeris whispered back, "Hey, would you like some tea while we wait for dinner?"

"I would love to join you." Rinoa answered with a small smile.

Tifa watched as they left the room chatting happily. "Oh, fine," she thought bitterly, "just leave my here with the retards."

Tifa looked around the room at everyone: Cid, Irvine and Cloud were all in front of the television. Cid was glancing back and forth at Irvine's fingers on the controller and the screen. Irvine hadn't blinked for the last two minutes as he attentively played the game and Cloud was simply staring off into space, humming the tune coming from the TV. Barret was on the couch grumbling about how hungry he was. Zell was asking Caith Smith and RedXIII a billion and one questions about, "How can you talk if you're a animal?" and "Caith Smith, what are you?" Ah, yes. Such an intelligent conversation. Squall was in the recliner, just soaking in the whole room's atmosphere like she was. He had a far away look to his eyes, almost cold.

Final, her eyes rested a upon the only other girl in the room. What was her name again? Questes? No, ummm...Quistis? Yes, that was it, Quistis.

'Well,' thought Tifa, 'might as well try to strike up a conversation with her.'

Slowly, almost timidly, she walked up to Quistis. She was sitting on the floor next to the couch looking extremely bored. 'Maybe I can cheer her up.' Tifa thought happily.