Big Thanks To:

Mary Bachiu

Luna2

Terashi Goken

wasabii- No need to worry! I could never, ever forget this fic cuz it's my ultimate fave and I love writing this! I know how hard writing the love triangles could be but I love a good challenge!

Celes- you don't want to know. Hojo always gave me the creeps somehow. *shudders*

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Angel-Goddess

sapphireskies

dream wind- Tee hee! I could imagiine that too! It would be soo funny!

Momoko

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Jewel

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Mako-chan- Thanks! ^-^

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Disclaimer- Tsuki- Ohayo gonzaimasu minna-san! But I don't think it will be morning by the time this gets updated. Gomen for the long update too. I was busy doing some projects for school. Teachers are evil.

Usagi- -_-;; They toture us to no end. Like Haruna-sensei.

Haruna-sensei- *growls* Usagi.

Usagi- Erm, hi Haruna-sensei. *laughs nervously* ^-^;;

Haruna-sensei- DETENTION!!!

Usagi- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! *sulks down miserably then perks up* Oh yeah! Tsuki doesn't own me or Final Fantasy VII.

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Chapter - Save Him

Once the three were back in the inn they all went respected room to retire for the night. All the girls were in one room and the boys in another. Aeris and Tifa sat around a round table and Usagi went over to her bed, took out her pajamas and went into the bathroom the take a shower. After thirty minutes she came back and sat on her bed while drying her hair with a towel. One question was bothering her and it seems that the other two in the room would have the answer to it.

"Tifa, Aeris, who was that man?" Usagi asked the two older women

Aeris and Tifa looked at each other then looked at Usagi with serious faces.

"That man we saw at the beach today is Professor Hojo. He is a scientist working for the Shin-Ra. There are things about him that I would rather not talk about Usagi except that he is a cruel man and thinks of nothing but his...'experiments'." Aeris said with a bitter look on her face that did not look right on her at all.

Usagi decided not to press matters any further when she saw the look on the Cetra's face. Whoever he was, he certainly did seem cruel and slightly insane, (which is Usagi's first impression of the scientist when she saw a glimpse of him) and that he must've done something to Aeris. (Tsuki- *shakes head* That doesn't even come close to Hojo. Try raving lunatic of a madman and a mentally insane person who is bent on destroying the world cuz of his obsession with JENOVA and his disgusting and gruesome experiments.)

Tifa clasped her hands in front of her and propped them on the table and smiled at Usagi.

"So did you have fun today?" Tifa asked.

"Well, unless almost being harassed by some surfer guys to a point of almost being raped sound fun."

Tifa and Aeris gasped.

"Oh you poor thing! They didn't... did they?" Tifa said with worry as her maternal mode took over and went over to Usagi to comfort her.

Usagi shook her head no.

"Cloud came just in time and saved me from them before anything drastic could be done. But other then I did have fun for awhile."

Tifa smiled with relief.

"I'm glad that Cloud came. So many men these days just don't have manners or a sense of honor anymore." Tifa said.

Usagi nodded. Then the door to their room opened and was quickly slammed shut. All three occupants of the room looked up to see Yuffie grumbling with a angry look on her face and she made her way to her bed and lay down on it.

"Yuffie, what's wrong?" Aeris asked with concern on her face.

"That stupid guy I was working for today didn't pay me any Gil for my work today." she huffed indignantly and then broke into a wide smile. "So I just went ahead and took some materia."

"Yuffie! Shame on you, you know better than to steal!" Aeris scolded.

"Hey it's not my fault he didn't pay me for my services. Besides he's a cheap guy anyway cuz I have never seen such crappy materia in my whole entire life before and he has a whole lot of them!" Yuffie defended herself.

Tifa sighed and shook her head.

"Well anyway we better go to bed. It's almost 9 and we have to wake up early tomorrow so that we could search for Sephiroth." Tifa nearly spat out the Sephiroth but refrained herself from doing so. She and Aeris got up from their chairs and went over to their beds and changed into their nightgowns, as did Yuffie. Then they all pulled the covers over them as they lay down on their beds.

"Good night guys."

"G'night."

"Good night."

"Nighty- night."

"..........You know I wonder how Cloud and Red will do with Barret with them?" Aeris asked no one in particular and closed her eyes.

"They would probably be awake all night without a wink of sleep the next morning." Tifa said and giggled a little as did Aeris and went to sleep. Usagi and Yuffie looked at them in confusion. The two teens looked at each other and shrugged as they went to sleep right away like the two older women did. Well, Yuffie did. Usagi just closed her eyes and she listened to the soothing sounds of the waves the ocean made before falling into a deep slumber.

Child of the Moon.

Usagi snapped open her eyes when she heard a voice all around her no... in her head. She looked all around her to see that she was being surrounded by swirling green glow.

Child of the Moon.

Who are you?

I have many names but I am who I am.

What do you mean? It still doesn't answer my question.

I am the Planet, otherwise known as Gaia, Child of the Moon.

What do you want from me Gaia?

Help him.

Help who Gaia?

He is lost, confused about his past for it was taken away from him.

I don't know what you mean? Who is this person?

Save his broken soul child. Now wake up.

But you still didn't answer my question!

Wake up!

Wait!

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Usagi wake up!!!!

"Wake up Usagi!!!" a familiar voice said with annoyance.

Usagi slowly opened her eyes to see Yuffie glaring at Usagi and her face inches away from Usagi's.

Usagi screamed and jumped up on her bed.

"'Bout time you woke up." Yuffie said.

"What was that for!?!?" Usagi yelled at the grinning shinobi.

"Nothing. Just that Cloud said that it was time to move out." Yuffie said and gave out a miniscule blush before it went away. Unfortunately Usagi caught it and she grinned widely.

"Ne Yuffie-chan, I bet that you like Cloud dontcha?" Usagi said slyly.

"WHAT!? I do not!!" Yuffie protested.

"I bet you do."

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do too times infinity!"

"Do not times infinity plus one!" Usagi stopped when she realized what she had just said and Yuffie giggled hysterically.

"Ah hah! See I don't like Cloud!!" Yuffie cried out and Usagi pouted.

"Not fair! You tricked me into saying it!"

"Hai, demo they always say that life's not fair."

Usagi blew a raspberry at Yuffie.

"Oh yeah well... well, you're a brat!"

Yuffie stopped smiling and glared at Usagi.

"Am not! Then you're an odango atama!" Yuffie blew a raspberry at Usagi whom in turn glared.

"Am not!" And Usagi blew a raspberry at Yuffie and the infamous tongue war, which Usagi knew all too well from having many fights with Rei, ensued. It went on for ten minutes only to be stopped when Tifa came to the room and cleared her throat to catch their attention.

"We'll be leaving soon. All the others are waiting downstairs." Tifa said.

"But what about breakfast!" Usagi exclaimed.

"We already ate ours. And not to mention that the food was really good! Especially the pancakes. They were sooo nice and warm and fluffy and buttery and..."

All the while Usagi was drooling as Yuffie ranted about the food she ate. Not to mention that her stomach rumbled a few times.

"Yuffie, that's enough. Usagi we all (Tifa glared at Yuffie, who pouted that she couldn't torture Usagi) didn't have any breakfast either. We need to hurry on but don't worry, we have food in our supplies and we'll eat it along the way. Better hurry and get dressed. I'll see you in a few." Tifa said and left.

"Yeah same here. But only if we didn't decide to leave you here and go by ourselves to North Corel... odango atama." Yuffie smiled at the mad look on Usagi's face and ran away before Usagi could retort.

Getting over her anger Usagi quickly took a shower and put on her clothes. She out on a pair of black shorts, and a sleeveless turtleneck shirt that Yuffie lent her since they wore the same sizes, except it was red. Usagi quickly dried her hair using the Ginzuishou and brushed it before she put it in her trademark hairstyle. Satisfied, Usagi ran out of her room but not before she put on an extra pair of fighting gloves that Tifa lent her. Thanks to Haruka and Makoto, she knew martial arts since they insisted that she learn it so that she could defend herself when they weren't there.

Usagi ran out of the inn and to the entrance of the city where all the others were waiting. She saw Barret polishing his gun-arm with a grim look on his face; Aeris had her eyes closed as she listened to the sounds of the ocean; Yuffie tapping her foot impatiently on the ground with a bored look on her face; Tifa was adjusting her figthing gloves; Red was lying down on the ground with his eyes closed; and Cloud had his hand under his chin with a tired yet thoughtful look on his face. he was obviously thinking about something.

Cloud looked up when he heard Usagi approach.

"Now that we're all here, Red, Aeris and Usagi, I want you to come with me. The rest of you, we'll meet later at North Corel. Oh and Usagi I have a PHS for since you don't have one." Cloud said and he handed Usagi a little black machine that looked like a cell phone. Usagi looked in its contents and saw that all of her new friends phone numbers were already stored in it. After that she put it in her sub-space pocket for later use.

"Let's move out." Cloud said and his group went their way while Barret's another.

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The road long and harsh along with the few monsters that crossed their paths but they were easily defeated since they didn't put up much of a fight. But it did get annoying when the Grangalan kept popping out the mini versions of themselves like one of those Russian toys. Whatever they were called currently escaped Usagi's mind.

But right now she was thinking of the dream she just had. Well, more or less of a dream. The Planet, or Gaia as it preferred to be called, told her to help 'him'. Usagi would gladly do so. The only problem was just who exactly this guy was. I mean there are a lot of guys with painful pasts, and their souls were forever scarred with whatever treacherous things had happened to them.

As Usagi contemplated about the mystery guy, she didn't notice a Beech Plug place a sneak attack on her. Caught by surprise Usagi didn't even have time to block the monster attack as it came upon her and its sharp razor sharp teeth sunk deep into Usagi's left arm. Usagi cried out in pain.

"Usagi!" Cloud, Aeris, and Red yelled and they readied their weapons. Cloud tried to move onto it but in an instant the monster wrapped its slimy tentacles around Usagi and hid behind her for protection. Cloud stopped his attack. This monster was smart. Perhaps too smart and it was unlike all the others that they have encountered. Cloud and Red tried to get closer to it but every time they tried to move to a different spot so that they could attack, it would just place itself in a certain position so that neither Cloud nor Red could attack it without hurting Usagi.

Usagi screamed in pain as its tentacles wrapped more tightly around her giving her hard time to breathe and its teeth sunk even deeper into Usagi's skin, almost tearing off her arm.

Aeris looked closer at the monster that was currently holding Usagi as hostage. It eyes were glowing an eerie red color instead of yellow. Someone was controlling the Beech Plug! But who? The power that radiated from it didn't feel like the power of JENOVA.... Aeris brought her hands forth and put then together as if in a prayer and she closed her eyes and bowed her head down. Ribbons of energy gathered around Aeris hands and she snapped her head back up and her eyes snapped open showing a determined glow in them. Then put her hands apart and slowly brought her hands in the air, the tendrils of energy glowing around her hands.

"Seal Evil!" Aeris yelled and when she brought them back down the energy of her Limit Break flew from her hands and wrapped itself around the Beech Plug, thus freezing it in place. Quickly, Usagi got out of its hold and made her way to Aeris while Cloud and Red fought the still monster.

Once it was gone Cloud and Red made their way to Usagi and Aeris, who was trying to tend to the younger girls wounds.

"Are you all right Usagi? " Red asked.

"I think... it dislocated my arm." Usagi said when she looked at her oddly bent arm and she winced when she tried moving it.

"Here, I'll have to put it back into place before we can heal it properly." Cloud kneeled down in front of Usagi and looked at the large wound that was bleeding profusely and he looked up at Aeris. "Do you have a Restore materia?"

Aeris nodded.

"Good, this may hurt a lot so brace yourself okay?" Usagi nodded and Cloud gently put his hands around Usagi arm while avoiding her wound and carefully, but quickly, snapped it back into place. Usagi tried to bite down her scream but she was unable to hold it back at the tearing sensation of relocating her arm.

Aeris started to glow a bright yellow and green color as she concentrated on the power of the materia. "Cure 2" she whispered and gathered the energy into her hand and let the soft blue glow wrap itself around Usagi's wound. The wound closed partially but enough so that the blood wasn't flowing like a waterfall but more like a river.

"Now that that's done... I'm going to have to stop the bleeding." Cloud looked through his bag and pulled out one of his old shirts. Then with surprising strength he ripped the shirt into a long piece as if it were paper and wrapped it tightly around Usagi's arm and put it in a sling. Usagi bit her lower lip to keep herself from crying out in pain again.

"Thank you." Usagi breathe, still in a little pain from the wounds.

Red looked at the sun that was setting in the sky.

"I think that we should rest here for tonight. It will be best if we do." Red suggested.

Cloud and Aeris nodded and they all except Usagi began to put up two tents. It took a good forty minutes to put those dang things up and the sun was gone by the time they were up. Once they were finished the males went into one tent and the females in another.

Aeris went in the tent and sat down with her legs brought up to her chest and her arms wrapped around them as she stared out into space, listening to the cries the Planet gave off. It pained her every time the Planet's gave out its hurtful screams when the Mako reactors were draining the life from it. Now it doubled when the newly awakened JENOVA started to feed from it. Aeris hated being weak. She wished that she could just do something about it but there was nothing she could do... for now at least.

'Mother, what am I to do? It hurts so much to hear it in pain.' A sad look entered her eyes as she called out to her dead mother that was in the Lifestream for advice like she always did.

Outside, Usagi was also doing the same thing, only she was looking at the full moon as she hoped for her mother's guidance.

'Okaa-san, I really I knew what to do. I feel some kind of strange power here and I don' t know what it is. But I also have to help some strange guy that I don't even know! I wish I knew what was happening...'

Usagi heard the sound of the tent's flap opening and she turned around to see Aeris poking her head through the small opening.

"Are you going to come inside soon? It'll be dangerous to sleep out here when there are monsters roaming about." Aeris said.

"Yeah, I just wanted to see the stars." Usagi said and she got up from her sitting position and went inside the tent. Usagi got into her sleeping bag and put her right arm under her head and the left across her chest.

"Ne, Aeris, I noticed that the others are a little wary of me sometimes. Do you know why?"

Aeris stayed silent for a long time as if contemplating her answer before she finally spoke up.

"When we first met you, you came out from some kind of portal, unconscious. Cloud caught you and the others thought it strange that someone came out of that thing. But as I was sensing you, I felt that you had the familiar powers that Cetras have of the Planet. Of course that's what I thought you were at first until the Planet spoke to me about you being Cosmos. But the deeper I looked I saw that you had the power of many other planets. I told them this because I wasn't so sure at first and the others decided to guard you for a time being since they weren't really sure if you were an enemy or not. If you were then we would've had to kill you. So to get them out of their suspicions I told them that you were a Cetra when we were at Junon, which is partly true since you can talk to the planet as well, am I right?"

Usagi nodded, a bit speechless after what Aeris had done.

"Yeah but just a little bit since I haven't fully emerged as Cosmos.... Thanks, I really don't think that they would've hesitated to kill me either." Usagi said gratefully.

"No problem, I would be glad to help you anytime because you're my friend and a little sister to me. Well, good night Usagi and sweet dreams." Aeris said smiling and tucked under her blankets.

"Good night." Usagi said and closed her eyes.

~*~*~

Usagi 'woke up' once again.

"No! Not another dream!" She whined.

"I'm afraid so my child." A familiar voice said.

Usagi turned around to be greeted by the site of her mother and the White Moon palace shining behind her in its majestic glow.

"Okaa- san!" Usagi cried out happily and ran forward, while turning to her princess self, to hug her mother who also enveloped her in one as well.

"Oh my dear sweet Serenity. How I wish that you did not have to go through this pain." the long dead Queen of the Moon said with tears flowing down her porcelain face.

"Mother..." Usagi whispered when pulled away from the hug with a sad look on her face.

"I will gladly take the pain away from you but it seems that Destiny and Fate has others plans." Queen Serenity said with an extreme amount of sadness and grief.

Usagi looked at her mother with a confused look on her face. The queen looked down with shame.

"What do you mean mother?"

"You were brought here to fight an ancient evil that will soon take over the world then the whole universe if not stopped. That is the reason why you are with this group that you are traveling with."

Usagi looked at her mother with an incredulous look on her face.

'Again? I was brought here to fight evil from taking over the world and the universe again? But... if I must......'

"I will do it." Usagi said with a determined voice.

The queen looked at her daughter with an astonished look.

"I don't want the innocent lives to suffer anymore than they already have so I will fight the evil mother."

Queen Serenity stopped her tears and looked at her daughter with a proud and sad look on her face.

"You have grown so much Serenity and I wasn't there to see it." she said.

Usagi hugged her mother again.

"But you have mother. You have always protected and watched over me whenever I look at the moon. I have always felt safe in its presence, your presence."

"Thank you my dear Serenity." the queen said and rubbed her daughter's head like a mother would when comforting a child. "But I must also give you this task."

Usagi looked up at her mother.

"What is it mother?"

"Help him." Was all that the queen said.

"Gaia has asked me that also." Usagi said.

"Yes I know that. Please my daughter save him. Save his world, his soul."

"But who is he! I do not know who he is?"

"You will know when the time comes my daughter." Them with that the queen started to vanish from Usagi's sight.

"Wait! Mother! Please tell me who he is!" Usagi cried out before she too started to disappear from the dream world and back to reality.

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Tsuki- Mwahahaha! I bet that you are wondering who the guy is, ne? But the time for that is not now.

Fun fact of the day:

Ever wonder why Cloud's hair looks like the back of a chocobo or reminds you of the super saiyans type of hairstyle? Well that's because the creator of DBZ sort of helped out with the character designing of Cloud. That's why his spiky hair reminds you of Gohan or Goku or whoever.

That's all I have for today. Well ja ne and review!!!!