(Author's Note: Hey there…sorry that this chapter is so short…)

Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Dete is mine. Rueh belongs to Rueh.

Chapter 7

Training and the Death Penalty

"It's freezing!" Dete said.

"No it's not," Rueh said.

"I thought I would be able to trust your judgment on what clothes to pack!" Dete said. Rueh looked mover her clothing. She was wearing a t-shirt and shorts…the same as Dete.

"Well…I used to live here so to me it's warm," Rueh said with a shrug.

"You call 3 degrees warm!?"

"Of course I do! You guys live in the hottest place I've ever been!" Rueh said.

"That's why you're always sweating and your house is always freezing. Gosh! I should have seen the signs!" Dete said and slapped her forehead.

"Your fault not mine," Rueh said.

"So where do we train?" Dete asked through chattering teeth.

"At the underground training center. It's at the bottom of the snowboard slope," Rueh said.

"Oh boy. Do we have to snowboard to the bottom?"

 "Unless you want to roll down the hill," Rueh said. They rented snowboards and made it to the bottom of the hill without any major problems.

"Here we are," Rueh said.

"Well. Let's go in…I'm cold," Dete said.

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Vincent sighed as he walked past a bar in sector 7. A drunken soldier stumbled out and ran into him.

"That Hojo's…*hic*…a freak…*hic*…" the soldier said.

"How so?" Vincent asked.

"He sent me and another…*hic*…to a waterfall in the middle of nowhere…*hic*…we tool this lady with us and left her there…*hic*…" the soldier said and passed out.

"Lucrecia…"

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"Who's there?"

"It's me…Vincent…"

"Vincent!" Lucrecia cried and ran to him.

"Are you…what happened to you?" she asked.

"Hojo," he said bitterly.

"Hojo did this to you?" she asked weakly. He nodded and held up the metal claw.

"It's my fault…" she said.

"No it's not. I came to get you. To take you back to Midgar," he said.

"I can't go back. Not after what I did to Sephiroth," she said.

"Red and I are working on a plan to get him and Aeris out of there. You could help us. We've got 2 girls helping us already. Rueh and Dete. They're at Icicle Village training right now," he said.

"I wish I could help…here…this will help you more than I can…" Lucrecia said and handed him a rifle. Vincent took it and weighed it in his hand.

"In my opinion Hojo needs to be put to death," she said and placed her hands over his on the rifle.

"The Death Penalty," they both said.

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