Dislaimer: I don't own FFVII, yadda yadda yadda, but I DO own the OC's, namely Daeda and Yu Long! I'm gonna include the reason to the story this time: last time, t was just the intro, but hey, it needed to be done! PLEASE, read and review!

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"CID?!?!?!?!?"

"Yuffie, calm down..."

"CALM? DAEDA, THIS IS CID WE'RE TALKIN ABOUT!!!!!!!"

"Erm, did I interrupt owt?" asked Cid.

Tifa shook her head. "No, I just hadn't got round to telling Yuffie, that's all!" She turned, to see Daeda holding a paper bag to Yuffie's face, telling her to breathe. "Oh, yeah, these are Yuffie's friends, Daeda, and Yu Long."

"Pleased to meetcha!" grinned Yu Long, shaking his hand warmly.

Yuffie, now calmer, went up to Cid. "What? How? I mean, you and Tifa?!?!?"

"Yeah, nice to see you too, ya little runt!" growled Cid. "I can't believe that you find it so hard to believe!"

"I'm just shocked, is all! After all, you're so old!"

"OLD?!? Why you little &*$^£$!)

Tifa sighed. "Not much has changed then..."

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3 hours later, and everyone was calm, Tifa turned to Cid.

"So, how come you're home? I thought you were helping Reeve to round up recruits for the new SOLDIER."

"Yeah, I was, but see, something happened. And I REALLY wanna talk to Cloud about it."

"Well, what is it?" asked Daeda. "Maybe we can help..."

"Well, ok, but you can't tell anyone!" Cid hissed. "An' I'm only trustin' you two coz Yuffie does. Not that she's entirely trustworthy herself..." he grumbled.

"Carry on Cid" said Tifa.

"Right, well, me an' Reeve came across this weird guy, who said he can hear voices. Well, obviously I just thought hes just a weird little &^%(, and nowt more. That is, until he said he heard the Cetra,"

"Cetra? You mean tha ancients?" asked Daeda.

"Yup. Anyways, he had tons of book of the stuff, one of which included a ritual. A ritual to bring back the dead."

"Aeris..." whispered Tifa.

"Wait a minute," said Daeda. "Bring back the dead? Nothing good can come from that. Even if Aeris WAS a Cetra. There'd have to be a price..."

"But surely, if you cared for her so much, it'd be worth it!" said Yu Long.

"Yeah, well, that's why I need to find Cloud. I need his advice." Cid pulled out and old book, fairly small, black, with silver engravings. "I don't even know half of the stuff in here. I only know about the ritual, coz the crazy guy who could read a bit of the language told me."

"Well, let's find Cloud then!" said Yuffie. "I haven't seen him for a while, never even got the chance to thank him for all the materia he gave me afterwards!"

"But Cid, the engagemnt party, its in two days!"

"Aww, Shit, yeah, I forgot about that!"

"Well, we can do it without you!" said Yuffie. "We'll set off tomorrow to find him!"

"Yeah, but first, I wanna see what weapons and materia they're selling!" said Yu Long.

Daeda shook his head. (I don't like this) he thought. (Not one little bit...)

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A/N- Sorry, this is only a short chapter, but it seemed like a good place to finish. Remember, Read and Review!