There was silence in the middle tunnel, no noise heard but the constant dripping of water along the walls. The silence was quickly broken by the ring of Cloud's PHS. He took it out of his pocket and looked into the screen.

"Red, did you find something?"

"Yeah, a bit more than something. There's a door here. Yuffie and Reno are trying to pry it open right now."

They seem to be getting along fine. Hmmm.. Kai looked at Cloud. "Cloud do you mind if I talk to Red really quick?"

He seemed a bit surprised at the request but handed her the PHS, nonetheless. "Uhh.. yeah sure."

"Hi Red, it's Kai. Have you tried cracking the ice next to the door?" She looked into the screen and saw Yuffie and Reno in the background ramming into the wall.

"Hmm. Good idea, I'll point that out." Red turned around but Yuffie had already replied.

"Nevermind, I overheard and plus, I like that idea so much better." She grabbed her Conformer as Reno took his Nightstick and began hitting the ice near the door. Nothing seemed to be happening.

"That's funny. The ice next to the door isn't even moving." Red looked back into the screen at Kai but instead saw what looked like the icy pattern of the cave floor.

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Vincent looked up to see that they were surrounded by white dragon-like creatures from both sides. Kai had already thrown down the PHS and began to attack the one coming from the entrance of the tunnel.

Hah, maybe these ones will give us some new type of nut.. Cloud grabbed his sword. It was an old joke of Cids about getting the Mountain chocobo, he had to admit, it took hell to pay just for a damn Carob nut. Well, only one- way to find out. He began to dash towards the dragons but to his surprise Vincent's hand stopped directly in front of him.

"Let us see this lovely flower at work, shall we?" He looked at Cloud.

"What if she gets hurt?" Cloud had a sense of urge to help her.

"If a petal is hurt, the entire bud will not whither away." Vincent looked behind him. It appeared to Cloud that Vincent had shot the other dragon in the heart as it lay on the ground in a great icy mound, he nodded. But still he noticed that the dragon had many other bullets along his body as well.

Why not? I guess this is going to answer my question if Kai is a fighter or not.

Kai expertly guarded all the blows the dragon delivered with her rod, which she held with one hand as she used her other to deliver blows that even the dragon itself could not block. Soon enough Kai's Limit Break became available.

Vincent seemed to notice because he pointed towards the dragon.

Kai held her rod in the very middle with her left hand more towards the bottom, and her right more towards the top. She screamed, "Heavenly Star!" As she launched her rod into the ground, kicked up with her feet and pummeled into the dragon, she then launched up into the air and came down with her two arms in an X while bringing it down upon the dragon's forehead.

Kai grabbed her rod out of the ground and slashed the dragon once across the area where she had made the X earlier. The dragon stood in the same position that it did before the attack even started, about ten seconds ago. It fell to the ground in a giant heap.

Cloud looked down at the dragon's forehead to see what looked like a deep, red star. Vincent walked up to Kai.

"Hmm.. not bad. Not bad at all." He looked at Kai. I wonder if Tifa could handle a blow like that. He imagined Tifa with a deep red gash across her forehead and shivered at the thought. He threw a potion at Kai with his metal arm, but she threw it back.

"I'm ok. We might need to save it for later, thank you though." Kai smiled at him. Very beautiful, indeed. Vincent expected something to jump at them from the tunnel but heard a scream from the other tunnel instead.

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"What the hell are these things?!?!" Elena screamed, backing into a cave wall. Cid, Barret, Elena and Rude were surrounded by crystal clear worm- like creatures that covered the walls and the floor; they had sprung down upon them when they walked through the passage.

"I don't know, and I don't exactly give a damn right now. Let's blast these mother$%%^ers to hell." Barret loaded his gun and began to shoot at the entrance of the cave.

Cid took his spear and with one sweep cut three worms in half, but only to see that six of them sprouted from their space. "What the?."

"Don't use physical attacks on them! You'll never kill them that way! You'll have to use your Materia orbs!" Rude shouted from behind them, who already held a Poison Materia in his hand.

"Sure thing." Elena grabbed a Comet Materia from her pocket. Just as she was about to use her spell she noticed that the glow from her Materia had disappeared, she ignore it and pulled out a Mastered Fire Materia, then she let sparks fly.