The eight Avalanche members left the Gold Saucer late that night after being kicked out by security and having to pay for the damages done to the Pub due to the bar fight earlier in the evening to meet up outside North Corel. Once everyone was in a huddle surrounding the tram that soon departed again to the Gold Saucer platform, Cid decided to ask the question on everyone's mind....
"So where are we gonna' stay tonight?"
"Can't we stay on the airship, Cid?" Cloud asked, already knowing the answer in his head. He had made his way around the large ship when the group was on their way to pick of Vincent and didn't see any sign of sleeping bunks, just many rooms used for storage and to hold Chocobos.
"Well as high tech and high maintenance my new and improved baby is...." Cid seemed to hesitate after these words, "I really never got around to installing Sleeping quarters...."
"Is it that you didn't have the time, or that you don't want to admit that you made a flaw when drawing out the blueprints of the ship?" Barret asked as he raised his eyebrow with a smirk.
"Now I never said..."
"Just admit it Cid....you finally screwed up when it came to a type of transportation." Tifa said, joining Barret in smirking.
"DAMMIT! I DID NOT SCREW UP!"
"You're just mad 'cause you got no one to blame it on but yourself this time Cid..." replied Barret.
"What's wrong, Cid? Afraid of what Shera might do if she caught you blaming it on her again?" Tifa said, enjoying the tortured look on Cid's face.
"I think I know what'd happen..." Yuffie chimed in with a smirk on her face.
"What!?" Cid spat.
"You wouldn't get any nook...."
"That's enough of that..." Cloud said, cutting Yuffie off in mid-sentence. "We need to think of where we can stay for the night."
"Party pooper..." muttered Yuffie under her breathe.
"Cram it Yuffie..." Cloud spat back, obviously hearing the young Ninja's remarks.
"So any idea's on where we can stay?" Red XIII asked looking up at Cloud.
"None whatsoever..." he replied.
"We can always stay in Corel...Their hotels are real cheap..." Barret said looking hopeful to get a chance to stay in his home village one more night before they left on their adventure once again.
"Cheap's the word...They can't even afford heat in that dump." Yuffie added sarcastically, looking for a laugh out of at least one person, but instead she received scowling faces from 6 of the other 7 Avalanche Members, Cait Sith's undetermined, seeing as how he's a mechanical cat and all.
"I think Corel's a great idea, Barret." Tifa said smiling at the big man standing beside her.
"Yea, I think that'll do for the night." Cloud said walking away from the group and towards Barret's home town.
"Oh but why do we have to stay in such a dump!?" Yuffie whined as the group began to walk away from her.
"Consider it as what you owe me for my roof..." Barret said looking back at her.
"Roof? What roof?" she asked innocently.
"The roof in which you destroyed..." Cid said, anger still evident in his voice from earlier.
Cloud awoke early the next morning to find Tifa shaking him awake, her eyes wide and her face pale.
"Tifa? What's wrong?" he asked rubbing the remnants of sleep away from his eyes.
"It's the Shinra!" She said clenching his arm to get him out of bed.
Cloud dressed quickly, picked up his weapon and headed towards the airship so everyone could fill him in on what was happening and where it was happening to. He walked to the deck of the ship to meet the eyes of the rest of the members of Avalanche. All were gazing at him as if each wanted to tell the story without words.
"What's wrong?" he asked looking all around, his gaze stopping on the cat in which sat atop the giant Mog. "What's going on?"
"It's the Shinra..."
"I know that...What have they done?"
"They...assaulted a small village...Burned everything to the ground..." Cait Sith said with anger and fury in his voice.
"Why!?" Cloud demanded.
"Because...the small village refuse to bow down to Shinra's commands."
"Which were?"
"To hand over every first born son of the family." Cait Sith responded. "When the village refused their order, Dimitri ordered them all to be slaughtered and their village to burned to the ground as proof of what might happen to any other city or town that might refuse his wishes."
"Damn them..." Barret said, hitting a panel on the ship.
"Where's this village located?" Cloud asked.
"It's on one of the islands northeast of the Eastern Continent." Cait Sith answered.
"Take me there...." Cloud said, snapping his gaze on Cid who nodded in response and started the engine of the airship.
Author's notes: These won't come along very often, so don't get use to them...I just wanted to say that I'm sorry it took so long to do another chapter...and a small one at that, it's just that everything hasn't been so great for me lately...that and I'm lazy...but I just wanted to apologize for taking so long to do another chapter. The next one should be up in about a day or so depending on my mood...( got the whole thing planned out in my head and I'm going to see what it looks like typed)...As for the typo's I'm trying to spot more of them...and for the last chapter, the typo live to tale the tale part, or however I typed it, I said I wasn't going to do that, yet I did it anyway, another lack of laziness on my part. Thanks for readin'. Later....
