(Author's Note: Hello! I'm back! Actually I never went anywhere but hey…okay! This story is the sequel to the story To Save An Angel. It's going to focus on Sephiroth, Cassandra, Rueh, and Dete…mostly. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to have happen and I have another story I'm working on too so updates might be every other day but I will try for a chapter every day. Any ideas you have for names and things to have happen are welcome. Oh yeah! I'm putting this in paragraphs too! Please R&R! Thanks!)
Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Cassandra and Dete are. Rueh belongs to Rueh…(I hope…)
Chapter 1
-3 weeks later-
Sephiroth sat at a table in the center of a circular room. The walls of the room were covered with books. He had one elbow on the table top and his chin rested in his hand. He looked bored and somewhat annoyed.
"We look through every book here and the 2 we needed we the first 2 we saw but didn't look at," he said in a dull tone as he watched the person sitting across the table from him.
Cassandra looked up at him from the book in front of her. She stuck her tongue out at him. "I told you you could help but you decided to go out and find a place for us to live instead. We would have found these 2 books faster if you would have helped," she said.
"Well in any case we found them. Now what are we going to do?" he asked leaning back in his chair.
"Talk to Red for a few minutes. Then…I guess we'll be on our way to wherever you found us a house," she said standing up.
He stood up and put his arms around her waist as she walked past him. She looked up at him and smiled. "Come on. Let's go," she said.
He followed her from the room. After searching for a few minutes they finally found Red XIII talking to Rueh and Dete.
"Hey Red. We found the books we were looking for. Do you think we could borrow them for awhile then return them when we were done?" Cassandra asked.
"Certainly. For some odd reason 2 copies of those books were made. I am not sure why but you may keep those for as long as you need," Red said looking up at her.
"Thanks. Sephiroth says he found us a place to live so I guess we'll be on our way," she said.
"Very well. We'll see each other in the future I suppose," he said.
"Yeah. Thanks again. Rueh, Dete, let's go," Sephiroth said.
"Where are we going? Huh huh?" Rueh asked.
"To our home," he said.
"Where where?"
"You'll see," he said and headed for where their 2 chocobos were tied. They mounted the chocobos, Sephiroth and Rueh on one, Cassandra and Dete on the other. "Now follow me," he said. They started forward.
"Are we there yet?"
"No Rueh."
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"Are we there yet?"
"No Rueh! For the last time not yet!"
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"ARE WE THERE YET?"
"YES! WE'RE HERE!"
"Good."
Sephiroth sighed in relief as they dismounted the chocobos. They were on the outskirts of Costa Del Sol.
"So. Where's our house?" Cassandra asked looking around.
"Cloud bought a villa didn't he?" Sephiroth asked.
"You got the villa from him?"
"Yep."
"Yeah!" all 3 ran to the villa leaving Sephiroth with the chocobos.
"Oh fine. I'll take care of them…" he started toward the back yard of the villa where a shed for chocobos was. He put the chocobos in separate stalls then gave them food and water. He groomed them and took the packs off their backs. He carried them to the back door and turned the knob to open it. But it was still locked.
"Hey Cassandra! Come unlock this door!" he said and knocked on it. There was no answer. He knocked again only a little louder. Still nothing. With an annoyed look he tried again…and again…and again…but still nothing.
It took a few tries but then Dete appeared and unlocked the door. Once that was done she turned and disappeared again.
"Hey! Come back here!" he said closing the door behind him and following her. She stopped and turned to face him. She yawned. "Oh. Let me guess. Rueh's already asleep," he said.
She nodded and went into the bedroom to claim the other bed. Sephiroth set the packs down and went to the living room to find Cassandra looking through one of the books.
"Find anything yet?" he asked.
"Yeah…it says that the Creta have the ability to feel others when they are conscious. But they're not Creta are they?" she said looking up at him as he sat down beside her.
"I don't know…we don't know what Hojo did to them…what's that?" he said pulling the book away from her to turn the page and look at what had caught his eye.
"What's what?" she asked looking over his shoulder.
"It looks like some kind of legend…'That in which hides in the shadows is your enemy, but that in which hides in the darkness is not.' Hmm…wonder what that means?" he said.
"I don't know but I leave you to think about it. I'm going to unpack," Cassandra said as she stood. She walked down the hall to where the packs were and opened one of them then began to take things out of it.
Sephiroth continued to skim through the book while still thinking about that legend. 'What does this mean?' he was determined to figure this legend out. After a few minutes he put the book down and got up to help Cassandra with unpacking the second pack.
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