(Author's Note: Hey…I'm running out of ideas for this story…I thought I had it planned out but…I don't. If anyone has any ideas at all please leave them in your review or e-mail them to me. I'll look over them and then decide what to do next in the story! Thanks! Enjoy chapter 5!)

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

Chapter 5

Junon was in better shape than it had been the group surmised as they left the Highwind and entered the city. The water didn't look as polluted as it had been and there were more, better houses that had been built.

The group made their way to the biggest building in the city. The Junon Training Center that belonged to Shinra.

It wasn't hard for them to get in. Once in they spilt up in into groups of 2 or 3 and began to search the place.

Halfway through the building they had met up again. They were about to continue the search when Cloud's PHS rang. He answered.

"Hello? Cloud Strife here."

"Cloud it's me," the voice on the other end said with a worried tone.

"What's wrong Tifa?" he asked. They others looked at him sharply.

"She's gone! I can't find her anywhere!" Tifa said starting to get a panicked tone to her voice.

"What? Who's gone?" he said. Sephiroth's eyes narrowed.

"Dete! I can't find her! I've looked all over!"

Cloud stopped and looked at Sephiroth. "Cloud?" Tifa asked. "Did you hear me?"

"I heard you Tifa. When was the last time you saw her?" he asked.

"Last night when she went to bed," Tifa said.

"All right. We'll finish up here real quick then we'll get back to Nibelheim…"

"No." Sephiroth's voice was quiet. Everyone looked at him. "We go to Nibelheim now," he said.

"We're doing something else at the moment…or do you not want our help?" Cloud snapped.

"I never asked for your help!"

"Then why did you show up at my house and tell me of your problems?"

"Because they…" Sephiroth looked at Vincent and Red, "…thought that it would be best if we had more in a group to search and help fight if it came to that!"

"In any case you started this so now we're going to finish it!" Cloud said. "Just relax Tifa we'll be there later," Cloud said into the PHS. She said something to him then they hung up.

"I left Dete at your house with the reassurance that she would be kept safe in case anything should happen…but I guess I was wrong and now Hojo probably has her along with Cassandra and Rueh," Sephiroth said fighting to control the urge to strangle Cloud.

"He might but then again he might not. We'll finish here then go back," Cloud said.

"Fine you stay here and look around. I'm taking the Highwind and going back," Sephiroth said.

"Now hold on…" Cid said but stopped at the look Sephiroth gave him. Now was not a good time to argue with him. "Well if he takes the Highwind he takes me too," he said turning to Cloud.

Cloud growled in frustration. "Do you want our help or not Sephiroth?"

"I never asked for it. You just decided to come along on your own," he said turning towards a hall that would lead him to the closest exit. No one followed him except for Cid, Vincent, and Red.

They had reached the exit when Cloud and the others finally caught up. Not a word was said as they boarded the Highwind and it turned to the direction of Nibelheim.

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Dete looked around as she poked her head out of her hiding place. No one was in sight. She quietly left her hiding place and turned to the old mansion. She walked up to the gates and found them unlocked. She pushed them open and went to the front door. She hadn't wanted to go in here but her curiosity got the best of her.

She pushed the door open and it closed silently behind her. Clouds of dust swirled around her feet as she walked around exploring the first room to her left.

Finding nothing interesting there she went to the room that was to the right of the entrance. Nothing there either.

This time she went upstairs instead of looking through the room at the end of the hall. She looked at the floor and began to follow what looked like the trail of something being dragged across the floor. She went to the right and down another short hall and found a one person bedroom. She followed the trail to where it disappeared into it. She frowned then turned and went to explore the room at the other end of the hall deciding to come back to this room later.

She walked to the middle of the new room and looked around. Before she could get a good look at anything the floor boards underneath her suddenly gave way.

She let out a sharp cry and found herself falling into the darkness below. The impact with the cold earth completed the darkness…

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The Highwind landed and Sephiroth was the first one off. He walked right into Cloud and Tifa's house with the others trying to catch up with him.

"Where is she?" he asked Tifa already knowing the answer.

"I don't know," she said.

He turned to look out the window at the town.  Red had a thoughtful look then went back outside. He began to sniff the ground.

"Oh yeah! I forgot about your sense of smell!" Yuffie said. "Smell anything?"

Everyone turned their attention to Red. He walked around smelling the street just outside the door then walked a few feet up the street.

He shook his head and sat down. His tail flicked back and forth. "Too many people have already walked over her scent. I can't tell them apart very well," he said looking at them.

"So she walked out of the house…can you tell which direction she might have gone?" Sephiroth asked with a feeling of annoyance at the back of his mind. 'You left on purpose didn't you?' he could almost hear her giggling.

"Well…her scent seems to be in the direction of the mountains…" Red looked unsure.

"It could take us forever to find her there!" Tifa said.

Sephiroth closed his eyes in thought. 'Now if I was a 10 year old girl and wanted revenge what would I do? Hmm…well…I'd probably hide…but where?'

"Well maybe you could get her scent if we walked the mountain path for a few minutes?" Vincent suggested.

"That might work," Red said.

They all walked to where the beginning of the path. Red walked around trying to catch Dete's scent but was having a difficult time. Sephiroth glanced around when Red shook his head and turned to face them.

It was then he noticed the gate to the old Shinra mansion was open…

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