Cloud's going back

Chapter 2 After Gafgarion

Has soon as he arrive at Lionel Caste, he start asking the people around if they seen any black armor-wearing knight and the answer every body give him is 'Are you talking about Gafgarion, he's dead you know that don't you.' But someone tell him a guard saw him yesterday. He tought it was a ghost so he ran away scared. That guard was no more on the wall he was in the king room. Cloud make is way to the castle. At the entrance two guard block is way and say:

Guard1-Hi traveler.

Cloud-Hi, i would like to know if i could come in.

Guard2-Why do you want to come in? Is it to talk with the king? He is pretty busy right now come back later.

Cloud-No i want to talk with the guard that is supposed to have seen the ghost of Gafgarion.

Guard1-Hum... Well, i'll have to ask the king. Come in and wait in the room the guard will show you.

Cloud-Thank you very much.

Guard2-Follow me please.

The guard guide Cloud to a big room with confortable chair. On the wall their is a magnificient painting. It must be a painting of the king now. The guard arrive finally with the other one. The two other go back at the door. He introduce himself:

Chad-Hi, my name is Chad and you are?

Cloud-Hi Chad, my name is Cloud and the reason i'm here is because...

Chad-You want to know about the ghost.

Cloud-Yes i'm going to tell you something. It wasn't a ghost. While my friend was reparing a time machine with is dad he came out of it and attacked Goug Machine City. After that, he left looking for someone he wishes to kill. I would like to know which way you saw him going please.

Chad-Wait a second i'll think. I was on the east wall, and he was going... north i think.

Cloud-Thank you for your help. I will beg you my leave.

Chad-It was a pleasure to help you.

After that, Cloud sleep because it's getting late and he don't want to travel at night time. So he goes to the Inn and ask for a room. When he wake up the next morning it's quite sunny. 'Good time to travel' he think. So he eat a little something and leave for his travel. He head north to Dorter Trade City because it seem he was traveling that way. All day long it was really quiet. He knew the war was over so it was quite normal but he wanted to know where were the creature? He didn't see any chocobo or goblin. Maybe they were hiding in the wood around the road he was traveling. He finally arrive at Dorter Trade City. It was about night time so he stopped by the Inn, had something to eat then he went to bed. During the night, there was a lot of noise downstair so he went to take a look at what was happening. He goes down the stairs, wait and listen. Most of the conversation talk about Gafgarion which has been seen around.

Villager1-He killed the shopkeeper because he wouldn't give him a kind of green rock.

Villager2-They found him and it looked like is life was drained out of his body. Could it be really Gafgarion who did that? I was sure he was dead.

Villager1-So does i but look no one else know this skill exept the member of the Cid and why would they want to kill a shopkeeper...

Cloud get in the conversation to see if they know annything about the way he could have left.

Cloud-Hi, i'm sorry to get in the conversation that way but i would like to know if any of you two know the way he left. I'm actually going after him right now so any kind of information would be really usefull. By the way my name is Cloud.

Villager1-Oh, well i heard he was heading to Nevraska Temple. The child of the shopkeeper saw everything that happened. But now he is still in town from the rumor. Everybody is scared and no one leave there house. Lots of knight are patrolling.

Cloud-Do you know anything about the green rock he was asking for.

Villager2-I do it had the sign of serpentarius on it.

Cloud-Thanks a lot for the information it will be very usefull.

Cloud hand over 10000 gil to the 2 man.

Villager1,2-Thanks a lot!

After that he goes to his room pick his Materia Blade and leave the Inn to look in the city. It's pitch black and Cloud don't see a thing. He get stop by many guard asking him what he is doing outside at this time. He just say he is going out of town and keep on looking. Just before the day rise he see Gafgarion getting out of town. The guards at the gate try to stop him but he kill them. Cloud run after but he isn't fast enough. Gafgarion get in Sweegy Wood and is lost of view.

Cloud-All right! I'll head for Nevraska Temple. At least i know where he is going but why is he going there anyway?

Before leaving he goes back to town and buy a chocobo so he'll have a small advantage over him. Now there is a lot of monster. He has to hack and slash his way through constanty being hurt. So he has to stop to heal is wound. He wonder why there is so many monsters that way. Then when he think about it, he followed the path Gafgarion took from Lionel Castle. Now he is or infront of him which is not quite intelligent cause he is helping him, or he is taking another path then Gafgarion is. A priest in this moment would have been really appreciated. But he has to keep on going. He finally arrive at Nevraska Temple. He eat some bread he has in his bag and look if he don't see Gafgarion arriving. Suddendly, all become dark...