(Author's Note: Hello! I was thinking about this story and it might end up being less than 10 chapters…unless I get some ideas…*hint hint*…anyways…here is chapter 4! Enjoy!)
Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Dete, Cassandra, and Salazar are. (You'll find out who he is) Rueh belongs to Rueh…(hopefully…you never know about those aliens…) (don't worry I'm just a little crazy right now…why you might ask? Well…I…*shrug*…don't know…^_~ )
Chapter 4
"So…we're going to Midgar first?" Cloud asked.
Sephiroth nodded and looked to where Dete was still sleeping on the couch in the living room of Cloud and Tifa's house.
"Don't worry about her. She'll be kept busy playing with Salazar. I'll make sure she's all right while you're gone," Tifa said.
"She's under a sleep spell right now so she might be in a bad mood when she wakes up," he said.
"Don't worry about it," Tifa said.
"Well the Highwind is just outside of town. Are we ready?" Cid asked.
"Let's go," Sephiroth said turning towards the door.
They walked to the outskirts of the town and boarded the Highwind. Cid got the airship off the ground and they started on their way to Midgar.
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Tifa looked to the couch when Dete muttered in her sleep.
"…no…wrong way…not there…"
She shrugged it off and turned to play with her son Salazar.
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"Man we really need to clean this place up," Barret said as he stepped around a pile of rubble.
"We?" Cid said.
"Well why not? WE could be the ones who rebuild this place and make it better than it was," Barret said with a shrug.
"All right if you like a lot of work fine," Cid said.
"Quiet!" Sephiroth snapped looking back over his shoulder at them.
They group walked in silence. They had yet to be attacked by any monsters that lived in the ruins of the city.
"So where exactly would they be?" Cloud asked after awhile.
"I have no idea but why don't we try the Shinra tower since that is where Hojo's lab was," Sephiroth said dully as if that answer should have been obvious.
No one said anything else as they walked through the rubble covered streets. It was a few hours later that they finally stopped for a break.
"We should have been there by now," Vincent said.
"With all this rubble we're being slowed down," Red said with what looked like a frown.
"The monsters too," Yuffie said. She had been silent ever since they had entered the city.
They were all quiet for a few minutes after that. Suddenly part of a nearby building collapsed. They all jumped because until then the entire city had been silent. Dust and debris flew in all directions. They put their arms in front of their faces to protect themselves. After all the dust settled they looked around.
"Uh-oh…" Yuffie said. They were surrounded by a pack of Bandersnatches. "They don't live around here do they?"
"No but with all the destruction here and other monsters why not? They'd have plenty to eat and right now it looks like their hungry," Cloud said.
The Bandersnatches growled and stepped towards the trapped group. They readied their weapons for the up coming fight. The Bandersnatches leapt into motion at the same time. They pounced at the group. The group ran forward to meet the attack.
It didn't take long for the fight to come to a close. Everyone looked around when it was done to see if anyone was in need of a cure spell.
"We should be moving on now. With all that racket more monsters are likely to come this way," Sephiroth said starting to walk towards the ruins of the Shinra building that could barely been seen.
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It was some time before Dete woke up. Now she just sat on the couch glaring out the window thinking of ways to get back at Sephiroth for the use of the sleep spell. They were in Midgar and had just finished a fight against a bunch of monsters. She shrugged and returned her thoughts to plotting against Sephiroth. When they found Rueh she'd have to tell her too…
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Once they had reached the Shinra building they had broken up into pairs to search the building. Every once in awhile they were hear a yell and the sound of fighting then laughing from the other person. Some one had just opened a closed door and been jumped at by a monster. That person would then hear laughter coming from other places in the building. They were being laughed at and the bad thing was that Yuffie was the only girl there…her yell was quite identifiable. It took them hours to search the entire building from top to bottom but they did.
Once that was done they began the long trek back to the Highwind. They got there with only a few monster encounters and after more searching found edible food. They spent the night on the Highwind.
The next morning they all rose at different times. Sephiroth was the first one up after having a sleep with troubled dreams. 'That in which hides in the shadows is your enemy, but that in which hides in the darkness is not.' That same legend had been mentioned in his dreams. He shook his head when Vincent was the first to join him.
Red was next. It took the 3 of them to wake Yuffie, Cid, and Barret. But it took every single one of them to wake Cloud. Finally they did.
"So where to now?" Cid asked. Everyone looked at each other.
"How about Junon?" Sephiroth finally broke the silence. They all agreed.
"All right. To Junon it is," Cid said heading for the control room.
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'So…going to Junon now? I see my dreams didn't work…' a smirk slowly spread across her face. 'Guess I'll have to try something else…and I know the perfect hiding place…'
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Hojo looked into the metal cylinder. So far his experiment was working. Cassandra floated inside it unconscious and suspended by the unfiltered mako. He turned to where Rueh sat in a cell with a glass wall to see through in the front. She sat in the farthest corner with her knees brought up to her chest and her arms wrapped around them.
"If only looks could kill…" he said with a smirk.
Rueh glared death at him even more.
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