Sorry its been taking so long and that this chapter is so short and that the last one wasn't that good. Still though I hope this is better then nothing. Also a big thanks to Molly-chan the Anime/Game Fan who has reviewed every chapter so far.

I never have nor never will own the rights to any of the people, places, or things within this story because I am a loser and I suck.



"Light" Chapter 3 Return to Transverse"



Well, in time the four of us reached Transverse Town. It had been months since I had suddenly disappeared with out warning. I now wondered what they would say to seeing me again. We stepped through the giant doors, into the strange city, in which the night was everlasting. Things hadn't changed too much; the streets seemed a bit more crowded but still pretty quiet. Well it was quiet until a familiar voice from the past called my name.

I looked in time to see a small green and white blur heading towards me at a great speed. Then suddenly I felt something embrace me in a rib- shattering grip. "Cloud, where did you go off too? We left you for a few seconds and you were just gone! Did you see Tifa or something? I mean, you really freaked me out there. How did you do that anyway." Said the voice speaking a mile a minute.

"Hi, Yuffie good to see you too. But could you let go? I can't breathe." I managed to choke out. The young ninja released me from her death grip with a smile and slight blush. "Oh.sorry. I was just happy to see you." She said, then noticing the rest of my companions. "So did you guys find Cloud?"

"Yeah, he kind of joined us for a while." Said Sora, I glared at him for a second then turned by to the ninja girl. "Either way, Yuffie, we can catch up later. Right now we need to talk to Leon."

Yuffie thought about it for a moment second before replying, not sounding too sure of her self "I haven't seen him in a while. He probably is in the sewers. I know he likes to practice there, Areith goes with him sometimes." she said trailing off near the end of the sentence.

With a few quick thanks we started toward where the old, rusted entrance to the sewers, hoping that Leon was there. The heartless we encountered were quickly dispatched with us only receiving a few small cuts and bruises in exchange. We realized that the sewer gate was locked. A few remaining shadows were taken care of courtesy of my sword while Donald, Goofy and Sora forced there way through the gate. Donald charging and ramming the entrance with his body, Sora then doing likewise crushing the unfortunate mage against the gate, Goofy doing the same finally pushing both himself and Sora into the smallest of the three and knocking the sewer entrance open. Donald, crushed into the gate again fell to the ground with a groan.

The four of us, Donald still shaken, entered the sewers. Leon stood with his gunblade, which he kept swinging, cutting the wall at points. Next to him stood Areith in her pink dress. "Leon, we found this weird gummi block. Can you tell us anything about it?" asked Sora.

Leon seethed his signature weapon as he turned around. He looked over our group. Arieth turned as well, slowly walking to me wrapping her arms around me in a soft hug. I returned her embrace, slowly wrapping my arms around her. I heard her soft voice, hardly a whisper, in my ear, "Did you find her?"

Very few knew me as well as Areith did. The only people how knew me that well were her and Tifa. She probably had figured that my disappearance had something to do with Tifa from the beginning. Softly in a low whisper I replied, "Not yet, but I not going to give up."

I felt her grip me tighter for a moment, wishing me luck before stepping away. Leon was still talking to Sora, though I missed out on most of what he said. ".no idea. You'd have more luck talking to Cid. We can catch up later." Said the apathetic SeeD.

Sora stepped back and turned to us. He spoke with his usual excitement and enthusiasm to us, "You heard he. To Cids!" I only could smile at his attitude, it was if for one moment he made us forget how desperate our situation was, it was as if for one brief second we were just children playing a game. Still the moment ended and we were brought back to reality. As we started out I heard Leon's voice call back to us, "Sora," my youngest companion walked back to where the ex-SeeD commander stood. "I just want to wish you luck," Leon started, sounding somewhat awkward and unsure of himself, speaking was never his strong point. "I found this a while ago. Its been sort of a good luck charm to me." With that Leon dropped a small, green, sphere (which bared a resemblance to a magic meteria orb) into Sora's hand. "I'm not really sure what it is, but take it.

Sora nodded, pocketing the stone while thanking him for it. We then proceeded to fight our way back through the legions of heartless that now made residence in Transverse until we reached Cid's shop. We all hoped that the short-tempered shopkeeper and self-proclaimed "gummi expert could be of more help then the SeeD. We entered to the familiar voice of Cid Highwind. "What do you want?" he said, not even bothering to turn around from whatever he was busy with.