Author's Note: Oh MY GOD! WE HAVE A WINNER!! Beta Genius was the first reviewer to figure out Rikku from FFX is the blonde girl. On another note… GEEZ! NO ONE KNOWS WHERE 'Qwarktastic' IS FROM?!?! All right… fine. That contest is over, the answer is this fun 3rd person shooting/adventure game called RATCHET & CLANK!!!!!! HOW'S THAT FOR ORIGINALITY!? I HAVE NEEEEEVEEEEEEEER COME ACROSS A CROSSOVER W/ RATCHET & CLANK, SO I'M SPECIAL! And anyone who bashes that game for being childish, WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR? DUDE! It's supposed to be a 'funny' game (You get a gun that turns enemies into chickens!), though still, like, really hard. Remember, if anyone else does it, I THOUGHT OF IT FIRST! MY IDEA! MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE! Now, a word on Squall, err, Leon's abilities and weaponry: First of all, I've NEVER played FFVIII. I found descriptions of his limit breaks on the internet, so he has those, but I only know what his Revolver Gunblade looks like, so he's stuck with that until someone is kind enough to describe his stronger ones (coughLionheartcough) and I don't even know his magic abilities, or even any normal techniques he may have (Like, can he shoot things with that Gunblade of his?) Now, I have to address another reviewer (Flip ( ) ): First of all, I never said Tidus and Yuna knew each other before the Gundam universe. As explained by Heero, they met about a week before Kairi got there (If that whole section wasn't uploaded right and not in the story I'm gonna use Zanmoto on something with my homemade Masamune!). If any of you can't figure it out though, I would like to point out that Zanarkand is (was) part of the Destiny Island world here. Also, Tidus has started dressing like he does in FFX. Second of all, yeah, it was the same strategy as in 'Go forth Gundam Team', 'cause the heartless are stupid like that and swarm anything that enters their ranks, so if you shoot them before they get close, they won't even touch the assaulting Gundams. Besides, I added on to it a little bit! Lastly, Aina and Shiro never mentioned the Red Comet through the entire 08th MS team series (I know, I know, same timeline), so I can't really think of something for them to say. Besides, they don't know he's the same Red Comet from their world…yet. Now, a public service announcement: Please don't diss/threaten/intimidate the anonymous reviewer 'Papiya Man/ Derek Dye' in the review section (He's my cousin)! Okay, enough rants. On with the story!
Chapter 8: Hollow Bastion Attacked! AGAIN!
Aerith was walking through the library, just looking for something interesting. Suddenly…
"Hey, Aerith," said Cloud quietly. Aerith jumped a bit.
"Cloud! You scared me! I thought you were some Shadow heartless or something," scolded Aerith.
"Sorry," replied Cloud," But Aerith… I've been thinking about what you said on Gold Saucer… about meeting the real Cloud Strife. Well, I found out who I really am. I fell in the lifestream one day…"
"I know," said Aerith," I had fused with the lifestream, remember? But Cloud… There's something YOU need to know. When you found your past in the lifestream, the planet was already being destroyed by the heartless. Because of that, the lifestream was kinda… messed up. You saw the memories of another person as well as some of yours. So, when you found what you thought was your past, even that was wrong."
"…What? So, who am I? Did you find out, before it was…lost?" asked Cloud.
"Cloud, you are Cloud Strife, ex-SOLDIER first class, a member of an elite platoon, consisting of yourself, Sephiroth, and Zack," said Aerith," You three were fairly close friends. What happened at Nibelheim… Let's see. Basically, It goes the way it did during your flashback at Kalm, except Zack was with you everywhere. There were gaps in your memory of speaking with your mother because your memories had been fused with Zack's as the result of amnesia after going through that five-year torture. Zack tried to remind you of who you were, but it kind of backfired when you combined his stories with what was coming back to you."
"What about Sephiroth?" asked Cloud," What happened when he went insane?"
"Let me think… um… Okay! You and Zack came out of the inn to find the town on fire, and most people dying or dead. You both chased Sephiroth to the Mako reactor, where you found Tifa fatally wounded. Zack went ahead to try and stop Sephiroth, while you tended to Tifa's injuries. When it looked like she would make it, you went to help out Zack. Zack was wounded pretty badly, so you helped him out too. Then, he told you where Sephiroth had gone, so you went after him. Everything else, you already know," explained Aerith.
"I see…" said Cloud," Well, it's nice to know I'm not a failure."
"Cloud, even if you were a Shinra janitor instead of a soldier first class in Nibelheim, I'd still love you," said Aerith.
"I love you too…" said Cloud. They fell into one other's arms, and their faces moved closer…
Meanwhile…
Hades Cup Championship Match: No. 1 Contender The Titans VS Champion Sora
Rock Titan 2100 HP Sora 96 HP
Ice Titan 1500 HP Donald 74 HP
Flame Titan 1700 HP Goofy 103 HP
Wind Titan 1350 HP
"Uh… This can't be good," said Sora, looking at the four Titans looming above them.
"We should take them out on at a time," advised Donald.
"Good thinkin', ahyuck," said Goofy.
"You guys do that. Go after the Wind Titan first. I'll take care of the Ice Titan," said Sora, and he leapt up to the stands, with the Ultima Weapon Keyblade at the ready. Ice Titan fired icicles at the original Keyblade Master, only to have them deflected right back at him, causing large amounts of damage. The giant monstrosity countered by dropping huge balls of ice from the sky. Sora dodged away, then deflected the icicles back again. While Sora was dealing with the Ice Titan, Donald had his hands busy with the Wind Titan. They both had similar styles- Low HP and high magic power. The difference was that Donald could heal himself, so he continued blasting away at the titan. When he ran out of magic, Goofy gave him more with MP Gift. Goofy was also chipping away at the Rock Titan. However, Goofy lacked the technique and agility of Sora and the magic power of Donald, so he was just chiseling at it with his Save the King shield. In a short amount of time, the Ice Titan hunched over, then Sora took it out of the fight with Ragnarok. Next, Sora turned his attention to the Flame Titan, which was sniping everyone else as they attempted to fight the other Titans. The Blizzaga spell both stunned it and did MASSIVE amounts of damage to the overgrown bonfire, so Sora had little trouble with it. The gargantuan beast fell in less than two minutes. At the same time, Donald had finally finished off the Wind Titan. The Wind Titan had tried to hurl various rubble from the Rock Titan at the difficult duck, but Donald dodged it, then blasted it with Thundaga spells. The Titan then tried firing blasts of wind from its mouth, but even that proved no match for Donald. He took some damage, then healed himself and countered with more Thundaga spells, which eventually caused it to expire. Now, only the Rock Titan remained. Sora just went up, and hacked away at its legs with Goofy, while Donald attacked the head with more Thundaga spells. When the beast fell, Sora ran up to it's heads, and unleashed the power of Ars Arcanum on it, and the final titan's HP hit rock bottom.
Winner: Sora
"Yeah! We're STILL the champs!" cried Sora. He held up the Hades Cup trophy as the crowd went wild. Then, he, Donald and Goofy left through the main gates.
"Hah! We shtill got it," said Donald.
"Ahyuck! Got that one right!" agreed Goofy.
"Aright, guys. Here's the extra prize for defending the title," said Phil," 50000 Munny."
"Great! Now I can pay back the Tavern owner, and order good food for a while," said Sora.
"You know, Sora, half the Munny we picked up from the heartless, that you haven't blown on that gummi ship, is technically yours," said Goofy.
"REALLY!? CAN I HAVE IT NOW?!" asked a very excited Sora.
"There'sh an ATM machine wight near de Item shop in Twaverse Town," said Donald," I'll get it fwom dere."
"Cool! So, how about we eat a good meal at that tavern to celebrate our victory?" suggested Sora.
"Shounds good to me!" said Donald, so they headed off for Traverse Town.
Now, back at the ranch, err, Hollow Bastion…
"Your turn, Yuffie," said Aerith.
"Yay! All right, come on!" said Yuffie. She rolled a 6. "One, two, three…" she counted," Aw, man! Arrested? Do not pass Go, do not collect $200, go straight to jail? CHEAP!" She handed the dice to Cloud.
"Not Boardwalk, not Boardwalk…" Cloud prayed. He rolled, and landed on… PARK PLACE! "Aww, man… I lost…" griped Cloud. Leon snickered and took Cloud's money and properties.
"Man, it's been ages since we've played this game," mused Leon, as he rolled.
"Didn't you win every time?" asked Yuffie.
"Yeah, don't blame me you all land on Boardwalk or Park Place when I've got Hotels on both of them," defended Leon.
"I'm going out to the main gates," said Cloud. He left the library and cut through the main hall to the massive Front Gates courtyard. He looked out across the horizon, water and clouds as far as the eye could see. It was so peaceful. He looked out to the Rising Falls… "Maybe I can take Aerith there for some peace later…huh? What the h**l?!" Appearing all the way across the horizon were portals of darkness, each producing a heartless, and soon, from the base of the castle to the edge of horizon, the tranquil waters became seas of darkness. And so the march of the heartless began, entering the castle waterway. Cloud turned around and dashed right back to the library. "THE HEARTLESS ARE COMING!" screamed Cloud.
"…That's not funny," said Leon.
"I'm not joking!" responded Cloud.
"Okay…what are we talking, one heartless, maybe?" asked Yuffie.
"From the Waterway to the horizon, heartless," said Cloud.
"…………………………………………We're screwed, aren't we?" said Yuffie.
"I'd say that's about right," said Cloud, gripping the Buster Sword with two gloved hands," Aerith, here." Cloud handed her the Princess Guard, a red jacket and Rune Armlet, "I think these were yours."
"You held on to my stuff?" said Aerith.
"Of course! All your Materia is still on it too," said Cloud," Why, did you think I sold it or something?"
"Yes, actually," replied Aerith. Cloud turned red slightly. Yuffie grabbed her Wind Slash, and Leon held his Gunblade at the ready.
"So, what's the plan?" asked Yuffie.
"I'll tell you as soon as I think of one," replied Cloud.
"What about your ship?" asked Leon.
"Oh, yeah! It's in… the… Waterway…" trailed Cloud.
"Yeah, I'd say we're screwed all right," said Aerith.
"Aww, come on! You guys are giving up too easily! So what if we're screwed! Let's see if we can get there anyways!" encouraged Yuffie.
"That won't work," said Leon.
"Well, I don't see you coming up with anything, Squall! Let's go already!" said Yuffie.
"That's Leon," said Leon in an annoyed tone of voice. So, they ran into the main hall…
"Oh, how lucky. They're already here…" said Aerith.
"What now, Ms. 'Let's try and get to Cloud's ship?" said Leon.
Yuffie glared at him and said,"……Shut up."
"Enough with the bickering! We fight our way through!" said Cloud. He cut an attacking shadow in two.
"You're not any better than her, are you?" asked Leon, slicing away at an advancing group, and charging forward.
"Nope," replied Aerith, taking out a group with the Trine enemy skill attack.
"That's the spirit!" said Yuffie, stabbing at a large body.
"This is getting annoying," said Cloud, parrying a bandit, then running through it, red cape flowing behind him.
" So take 'em all out!" said Leon, cutting through more with the revolver Gunblade.
"GOOD IDEA!" said Cloud excitedly, and he unleashed Finishing Touch on the heartless, sucking them all up into oblivion. "That was fun," said Cloud.
"Let's go before more show up," advised Leon.
"Yeah," agreed Cloud. They left through the main gates. Out on the courtyard…
"Great, more heartless," said Leon. Cloud, Aerith, Leon and Yuffie tried to muscle/magic their way through this squadron too, but they were starting to take a serious beating.
"Looks like you guys could use some help," said a familiar voice (well, to everyone but Squall, err, Leon.) Everyone looked up while trying to fend off the attacking air soldiers. They saw a man with shoulder-length black hair, a red cape similar to Cloud's, black clothing, a mechanical arm similar in appearance to the gauntlet Cloud wore in the Coliseum, and strange metal pointy boots.
"Vincent!" exclaimed Aerith.
"Good timing," acknowledged Cloud. Vincent pulled out a shotgun and fired away at the swarming air soldiers. 10 soldiers left, ten shots and there were none. Vincent jumped down from the roof and walked up to them.
"So, Vincent, where've you been all this time?" asked Yuffie.
"Under this castle, in a coffin," replied Vincent. Everyone stared at him, and then sighed.
"Whatever," said Leon.
"I don't think we've met before. Who are you?" asked Vincent.
"He's Squall Leonhart-" started Yuffie.
"That's Leon," interrupted Leon, getting more annoyed.
"Well, we should probably get going before more of those things get here," said Vincent.
"You mean the heartless?" said Aerith.
"If you're talking about those weird things attacking, yeah," said Vincent," The Highwind's in the waterway," said Vincent.
"I know, that's how I got here," said Cloud.
"You talked Gramps into lending you the Highwind?" said Yuffie.
"Yeah, now let's get going!" said Cloud. More heartless came swarming out of the castle.
"Too late to turn back now," said Leon.
"Here we go!" exclaimed Yuffie, and they leapt off the ledge leading to the waterway. More heartless awaited them at the bottom.
"I've got these," said Aerith. She spread her arms apart and stared at the ceiling, the air grew cold and large blue bird with a long tail and an icy presence appeared. Aerith stroked its head tenderly, then sent it to attack the air soldiers.
"Where'd you get that thing?" asked Cloud.
"It was a weird gem I found in Traverse Town one day. I took it to the Fairy Godmother a little later. She said it was a 'summon gem', the essence of a creature whose world was destroyed but their spirit was too strong to vanish with it, and wasn't lucky enough to warp through a portal of darkness. Its name is Articuno," explained Aerith. The winged ice creature batted at the soldiers with its icy wings. Then, the floor of the room turned dark, and shadows came crawling up." Now, attack with Ice Beam!" commanded Aerith
The large blue bird flapped its wings, then blasted the swarming shadows with a frigid beam of ice. The shadows were frozen solid, then shattered with the ice. Several darkballs appeared from the air, and attempted to destroy the icy bird, but failed. In fact, they did the worst thing they could have done.
"Articuno, attack with your overdrive! WHITEOUT BLIZZARD!" commanded Aerith. Articuno took flight, flapped its wings, then flew a couple feet over the ground, then, the whole room went white in a blast of a fierce blizzard. When the snow let up, all the darkballs were frozen solid. The legendary bird then took flight and dive-bombed the lot of them. The darkballs all shattered with the ice coating them on impact.
"That was easy," said Aerith, dismissing Articuno. (LONG A/N Concerning Author's views on Pokemon: For those who don't know, Articuno is/was a Pokemon. I thought it appropriate that some of the Pokemon become Aeons, summon gems, summon Materia, whatever you want to call them, as the franchise has been killed off, CoughstoopidTVshowcoughstoopidWizardscoughcoughstoopidlittlekidfanscoughcoughcough yet some of them are still usable in this story, they just get no respect at all because they were part of the franchise that was stupefied by over commercialization and stupid little bandwagon fan-kid preschoolers, when the games, like, weren't intended for people of that intellect anyway.. So, my old favorites (I WAS a Pokemon fan from day 1, and I jumped ship when all the good cards were banned from the card game 'cause the little brats whined about how "WAAH, we can't win! Those big kids are MEAN, with their STRATEGY!") shall live on as summons, except Mewtwo, who'll actually, like, join the party later. For reasons, play Super Smash Bros. Melee. Well, that's my view on Pokemon, (IT'S DEAD!) guess I'll shut up and write more now, and Pokemon haters that never played the Game Boy Games (Or played them but hate it 'cause o' the annoying little snot-nosed brats and the spooty TV show), I can see where you're coming from, so feel free to diss it to your heart's content (Just don't target me! That's like, not cool! Like the state of Pokemon today!), if that's what you want. Whatever. I hope y'all are as open minded as I think you are, and won't stop reading 'cause there's Pokemon (Then again, y'all played through Kingdom Hearts even though it had Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan) even though they don't have a big role in the plot anyway. Oh, and if you want me to include them specifically for the purpose of bashing that piece of crap TV show, say something, I'll happily do that Grins evilly)
"All right, let's get going before we get ambushed again," said Cloud. They entered the bubble teleport and entered the maze… Or what should have been the maze.
"What happened to the walls?" asked Yuffie.
"Something must've attacked through here. Let's be careful," suggested Leon. They headed down the waterway, and entered the docking bay through a huge hole at the end. Waiting for them was…
"A Behemoth!?" cried Cloud.
"That's no ordinary Behemoth. That's a Behemoth King!" said Vincent.
Boss Fight: Behemoth King 2250 HP
With a mighty roar, the Behemoth King charged forward and attempted to gore Cloud with its gigantic horn. Cloud leapt over its charge, and countered with a Braver. The Behemoth King roared in agony. Cloud landed on the beast's neck and slashed at the horn with Cross Slash, paralyzing the beast. Aerith quickly cast protect on everyone in their party. Leon ran up and slashed it with the Rough Divide attack. The King attempted to get back on its feet, but Vincent attacked him with Quake2, knocking him back down. Cloud then attacked the King with Climhazzard, and Vincent transformed into the Death Gigas and blasted the creature with Livewire. Yuffie followed them up with Doom of the Living, cutting at the King's horn multiple times, causing massive damage. Then, darkballs and two Stealth Sneaks came into the hangar.
End Boss Fight; the FF crew has to run away now. (Behemoth King 1000 HP remaining)
"I've got an idea!" said Aerith, and she ran past the Behemoth King into the Highwind. "Umm, how do you shoot missiles with this thing?" she asked.
"Uhh, try the big red button," said Yuffie.
"NO! That's the self-destruct button!" screamed Cloud," You shoot with…uh… I can't tell you! If I was in there I'd know!"
"Well, get in here already, then!" said Aerith.
"Why didn't we just do this in the first place?" asked Leon.
"Because we're too macho-headed and wanted to kill the Behemoth King ourselves? Is that a good answer?" said Yuffie.
"Whatever," said Leon. Everyone else dashed into the Highwind. Cloud took the pilot's seat.
"All right people, this button," said Cloud, pushing a button," shoots the missiles." A huge barrage of missiles volleyed out of the Highwind and blasted the Behemoth and the surrounding heartless to dust.
"All right! Let's get out of here!" said Yuffie. Then she looked at Leon and said," So, 'we can't get to the hangar', huh?"
"…So I was wrong," said Leon.
"HAHA, I'm right and you're not!" laughed Yuffie.
"You really like annoying me, don't you?" asked Leon.
"Yep! 'Cause it's easy!" replied Yuffie. There was, of course, another reason, but she would never say it. Not now, anyway. The Highwind pulled out of the atmosphere of Hollow Bastion.
"Oh, great, heartless ships," said Cloud.
"Looks like we'll have to blast our way through," said Vincent.
"That's just fine," said Cloud. The Highwind accelerated to full speed, and fired away at the opposing fleet. It couldn't destroy every last ship, but enough to clear a path. The Highwind boosted right through the enemy fleet. The heartless weren't about to let them get away, though.
"There's about 50 of them on our tail!" said Aerith.
"SHOOT 'EM!" screamed Yuffie.
"We can't. It's outta missiles," said Cloud.
"Well, isn't that convenient!" groaned Yuffie.
"What's that?" asked Vincent, pointing at a swirling black portal.
"That would be… a warphole?" said Cloud in disbelief.
"I thought they were all sealed off when Ansem was defeated," said Leon.
"We thought the heartless were gone, too, remember?" said Aerith.
"It should lead to Traverse Town," said Yuffie.
"We don't know if it'll lead to Traverse Town still. It could lead to End of the World for all we know," pointed out Leon.
"Who cares? Take a chance!" said Yuffie.
"It has to be better than being shot by heartless ships here," advised Vincent.
"…All right! Let's go for it!" said Cloud, and they flew full speed ahead into the warphole.
Now, back in Sora's gummi ship…
"Man, I can't wait to eat some food!" said Sora. Suddenly, a large, silver ship came blitzing right in front of them.
"HEY! WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING, YA CRAZY SUNDAY DRIVER!" yelled Sora through the comlink.
"WHO YOU CALLING A SUNDAY DRIVER!?" screamed Cloud back.
"Huh?" they both said simultaneously.
"Cloud?" said Goofy.
"Sora?" said Aerith.
"HEY, WASSUP!" said Sora energetically.
"Oh, you know, being chased by heartless, almost blown to smithereens, the usual," said Yuffie.
"HEARTLESS?!" exclaimed Sora, Donald and Goofy.
"How… what da heck'sh goin' on hewe?" exclaimed Donald.
"Ask them," said Vincent, gesturing at four heartless ships flying from the warphole, with more obviously on the way. Just then, the warphole closed, and there was the sound of a distant explosion.
"Ooh, that's gonna leave a mark," said Sora.
"We're out of missiles," said Leon.
"All right, we'll take care of them," said Sora. He turned the Gummi Ship (A/N: Which is unnamed for the moment. Beta Genius gets to name a different ship. If ya wanna name this ship, name the strongest weapon in Ratchet and Clank. NO CHEATING AND LOOKING IT UP FIRST!!!!!) around and flew at the four ships. Sora took aim, and blasted the four heartless with his two Ultima-G lasers. "Piece of cake!" said Sora.
"So, uh, where're you guys headed?" asked Goofy.
"Where's the closest hospitable world?" asked Aerith.
"Traverse Town, where're we're headed right now," answered Sora.
"HA! I told you," laughed Yuffie.
"…Whatever," said Leon, trying not to appear annoyed, and failing.
Our heroes soon arrived at Traverse Town. Sora got his Munny from the ATM machine, but when they went to the Tavern…
"Sorry guys, but I sold the Tavern this afternoon," said the ex-owner of the Tavern, after Sora gave him the 1000 Munny he owed him. (A/N: From now on known as Bob.)
"Whad'dya mean?" demanded Donald.
"I sold it to this brunette girl and a black guy with a gun arm and a little girl," said Bob.
"So, is it opened?" asked Sora.
"They're in there, setting up right now," replied Bob. Just then, the Tavern started opening up again. "Well, see ya!" The Tavern opened up, and there was a woman wearing a white tank top and a short black miniskirt standing behind the bar.
"Tifa?" said Cloud.
"Cloud! Aerith! Yuffie! Vincent! Man, it's good to see you guys again!" exclaimed Tifa, running over to them from the bar.
"How you been?" asked Aerith.
"Oh, I've been fine. I'm alive aren't I? Speaking of which, how are you standing here anyway?" asked Tifa.
"It's a looooooooong story," replied Aerith.
"Hey, Tifa, do we have any customers yet?" bellowed a loud voice.
"Yeah! Come down and introduce yourself," Tifa yelled back up. A muscular black man came lumbering down the stairs, mumbling under his breath, holding a little girl.
"Barret?!" exclaimed Cloud and Yuffie.
"Well, Cloud! Yuffie! It's been a while. Huh…Aerith? Vincent?! What the h**l… How y'all been?" said Barret.
"Oh, just escaping a powerful army with our lives somewhat intact," said Yuffie.
"Just like old times, huh?" said Barret," Well, let's get something to eat, Marlene here's getting' hungry." The little girl nodded.
The group sat down at the bar and ate some food. Tifa, Barret, Leon and Vincent were all formally introduced, and they caught up on what had happened since the destruction of the planet.
"So, you guys ended up on the same world, and made your way here?" asked Aerith.
"Yeah, that's about right," said Tifa.
"We pooled our money to buy this here restaurant, and we're basically trying to establish ourselves again," said Barret," and for me to meet some cute chicks!"
"Oh boy…" groaned Yuffie.
"Oh, by the way, here's some free credits for the game room upstairs," said Tifa, handing them credit card-like devices.
"You trade the tickets in for prizes," explained Barret.
After many games, Sora went back home, Donald and Goofy headed back to the castle, Leon, and Yuffie decided to stay in the Small House in 3rd District, and Vincent managed to room at Cid's Gummi shop (But he was still mad at Cloud for using all his missiles) and Cloud and Aerith looked for a place to stay, since they turned the hotel into a movie theater.
"Hey, Cloud, why don't we see if the guy at the accessory shop can help us out?" asked Aerith.
"Good idea," said Cloud. They walked into the Accessory Shop. Instead of being greeted by the same brown haired man, they were greeted by a blonde haired man with goggles on his head.
"Good evening. Welcome to Rin's Travel Agency, Traverse Town Branch," said the man," I am Rin. May I help you?"
"Umm, what happened to the old owner?" asked Cloud.
"I bought the building from him," explained Rin," My world was destroyed, and I am restarting my business here. So, you want to buy items?"
"Actually, we're looking for a place to stay," replied Aerith.
"Oh. I see. Well, you can room here for ten Munny a night," said Rin.
"We'll take it," said Cloud.
"Thank you. Your patronage is very much appreciated," said Rin," Follow me." The blonde man led them into a basement (guess the guy did some expansion) and down a hall. "Here we are. A two bed, one bathroom room. It's the only one open right now," said Rin.
"That's fine," said Cloud.
"Well then, thank you and kuut hekrd," said Rin.
"Uh, what?" asked Cloud.
"Kuut hekrd. It means 'good night' in my native language, Al Bhed," explained Rin.
"Uh… well, cut heckred or however you say it to you too," said Cloud. They entered their room and Rin headed back to his front desk. They both crawled into bed (A/N: SEPARATE ONES! You SSSSICK FREAKS!) and turned off the lamp
"Cloud?"
"Yeah?"
"What could be going on? I mean, the heartless are supposed to be dead and gone. Do you think Ansem is still alive, controlling them somewhere out there?"
"…I don't know."
"And another thing: If defeating the heartless and Ansem was supposed to restore the worlds to the way they were, why didn't Articuno go back to wherever it came from?"
"You're right. Something isn't adding up here…"
"Forget it. Let's not worry about it right now. I've got a feeling that whatever's going on will become apparent sometime soon."
"Alright then. Good night."
Progress Report:
Sora Lv.81 99HP
Donald Lv.79 78HP
Goofy Lv.84
Cloud Lv.86 900 HP 20 MP ;Buster Sword *Braver *Cross Slash *Blade Beam *Climhazzard *Finishing Touch *Meteorain *Omnislash *Bolt3-All *Ice2 *Cure3
Aerith Lv.75 700 HP 30MP ;Princess Guard *Seal Evil *Great Gospel *Cure3-All *Regen *Life2-All *Enemy Skill (Trine, Flamethrower, Frog Song, Big Guard, Deathblow) *Esuna +Articuno
Squall/Leon Lv.86 925 HP 21 MP ;Revolver *Rough Divide *Fated Circle *Cura *Demi2 *Firaga
Yuffie Lv.78 690 HP 25 MP ;Wind Slash *Steal *Fire2 *Greased Lightning *Landscaper *Bloodfest *Gauntlet *Doom of the Living *All Creation *Use
Vincent Lv.85 880 HP 24 MP ;Shotgun *Quake2 *Fire2 *Debarrier *Despell *Galian Beast (Beast Flare, Berserk Dance) *Death Gigas (Gigadunk, Livewire) *Hellmasker (Splattercombo, Nightmare) *Chaos Demon (Chaos Saber, Stun Slam)
Kairi No change
Yami No change
Tidus No change
Yuna No change
Auron No change
Author's Note in Closure: Yay! A new chapter in a little over a week! I'm SO SPESHUL, now aren't I? Whatever. Anyway, if you're still reading this and you hate the very mention of Pokemon, then thanks for puttin' up with it. In case I haven't made myself clear enough, I'd like to say again: POKEMON IS DEAD! IT IS DEFINETLY NOT COOL IN MY (And hopefully anyone else's reading this) BOOK! So, if any of you good readers are wondering why I used it, these are the best 3 reasons I can offer:
1. Old time's sake. I played these games for 4 years, so I guess I kinda feel it deserves one last gasp or something like that. Besides, they're in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and no one really complains about them there (In fact, I think most people would be very happy to pull Articuno out of a pokeball, and watch it KO your opponents while they're at 17% damage or something like that.)
2. I was running out of summons ideas. Most everything else was, like, already taken by Yuna or will join the party later.
3. Despite the fact it's dead, the Game Boy Games are still kinda fun, and some of the attacks look pretty cool. I figured they'd, like, make good overdrives and or unique attacks (Like Heavenly Strike and Impulse).
So yeah. There ya have it. Next chapter, I'm going to post a trailer for the rest of the story. It will feature a theme song of a game currently out. Since no one knew what game 'Qwarktastic' is from, if you can name the song and the game next chapter before anyone else, you can build the Blitzball team for Traverse Town. Well, that's it. Guess I'll shut up now.
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