A/n:
Emi: Hi, everyone! I just came back from vacation! It was great!
Tifa: What did you do?
Emi: Shop, swim, went on some dates, and ate till I was full.
Tifa: Wow, you had so much fun, huh?
Emi: ^-^ Yup yup!
Sephiroth: Milady went on dates? ;_;
Emi: Yeah, so? You've got Tifa.
Sephiroth: Oh, yeah! **Places an arm around Tifa's waist**
Tifa: No, he doesn't! ** drop kicks him in the jaw**
Emi: Ouch, must have hurt....**shrugs** On with the fic.
The materia within our grasp
I hopped off the landed airship as Vincent and Sephiroth waited patiently. I dust my blue outfit off and made sure I had all my materia and my glove snuggled on my knuckles. I quickly made my way toward the tall duo, looking at me to proceed. I took the PHS just in case we needed help. We were in charge to look for the silver materia while the others stayed on board.
I looked out and observed this beautiful yet unusual island. It was a long vast jungle that was as wide as the sea around it. The expansive jungle seems a problem to get through, but I expected Sephiroth would use his long sword to lead the way. Soon, my thought became a reality as she swung his sword through the bushes.
Several times we battled monsters, but they seem not a problem to the boys and I. Vincent' strength and aim were better as he would kill one monster in one turn. Sephiroth, of course, was swift and powerful with his sword. He looked at the creatures and killed many in one turn. It was amazing to watch the two, but I also had to show them how to fight. My swift and lethal punches and kicks did as much as they did, so I knew I wasn't extra weight on this team.
"Boy, I'm a little pooped," I stated wiping my sweat off my forehead.
"What? They were no challenge at all. How could they make you tired," scoffed Sephiroth moving ahead of the group.
"Oh, shut up! It wasn't their quality that was a problem, it was the quantity," I shot back stomping my foot to the ground.
Sephiroth and Vincent looked at me as I froze. I was acting like a kid. I was twenty-three years old and I acted as if I was a preteen. I covered my mouth and blushed in embarrassment hoping they wouldn't know I was acting this way. They knew. The two men grinned and even broke out with simple chuckles from their mouth. I gave sudden glare to the both of them and walked up before them.
Soon after, we came to a large temple. It reminded me of the Ancient Temple, but it seemed small. We began to walk the step looking around for anything unusual. As we reached the top, we looked down at the marvel of the place. It seemed to be made of ice. How a place in the Southern Hemisphere could be made of solid ice in the inside. It was amazing, but we didn't have much to gape at the sight. We ran threw the place looking for vines to climb and stair to walk.
"It's so cold and unusual here," I stated while letting my hands rub my arms.
"Here, warm up with this," spoke Sephiroth pulling off his black cape.
He places it around my body without letting me say a word. He was doing that for me to stop my complaining, right? He didn't really do it because he was concern for me, did he? Whatever his reason, I was thankful giving him an appreciative smile. He gave me a nod as we followed a path into the temple. As we ran further into the passage, it began to feel warmer. Soon, I felt drops of sweat roll down my forehead unto my nose. How could the temperature change so rapidly?
"What's going on in this place?" I asked looking up to both of the men.
"This might be a guess, but I think each room we go in is a type of materia element," stated Sephiroth looking down at me.
"Yes, long ago, I heard of this temple from Hojo. It was supposedly the Elemental temple. He said that there were five rooms of elements that must be conquered to get to a treasure. It is said that the five elements are ice, water, fire, lightning, and wind," commented Vincent not looking at us.
"I guess this is the fire element room," I concluded looking down pointing toward the small fires along the room.
Both men nodded as were progressed the room. We dodged as small fire began to grow into huge flames. One wrong step could lead to a burning agony. I gulped hoping I wouldn't step into tragedy. We looked for any upcoming passageway when I pointed toward a small door on the right. I stopped at waited for them to catch up with me.
"Sephiroth, Vincent, we can go through that," I shouted looking at them.
"Tifa, watch out!" shouted Vincent.
Sephiroth sprung out and grasp me in his arms. He leaped toward the door as a sudden shot of flame sprung out from the area I was standing at. I couldn't see what happen for he cover my body and head with his cape. I pushed the clothing off me and looked at him. His face winced pain yet wondering and looking at me.
"You okay, Lockheart?" asked Sephiroth gently rubbing my back.
"Yeah, I guess," I responded unsure of what happen.
I looked down at his arm and saw a burnt wound. It didn't look lethal, but it did seem to leave a scar. I frowned at the sight. He saved me from getting hurt he developed a wound. I ripped a piece of cloth from his cape and tied the wound. He looked down at me with thanks until Vincent pushed us to move on.
We rushed through the next room as we saw many rods isolated around the room. We watched as lightning shot toward the rods and the ground a couple of times. I guess this was the lightning materia room. I didn't like lightning since I was little. I crept up to Sephiroth and shielded myself slightly every time I heard the clash of thunder. Boy, I never thought I would act so wimpy.
"Come on, Tifa, shape up. Vincent and Sephiroth are counting on you to be strong," thought Tifa recovering.
She looked up at the men and signals them to keep going. They ran through the room dodging lightning bolts hoping they would be fried. Vincent took me by my waist and helped keep up with them. I gave an appreciative smile as we came to the next door. When we stepped into it, the floor became a pool of water. We dropped into the pool and swam up for air.
"I guess we should have watched our first step," I commented moving my hair out of my face.
"Look over there. There's a statue with an orb in it," stated Vincent pointing to the item.
"I bet it's the gold materia. Let's get to it," commanded Sephiroth paddling over to the statute.
Vincent and I looked at each other then started to swim after him. He lead the way threw the pool. We fought a few monsters through the rooms and yet the monsters in here were huge, useless fish creatures. It was simple money actually, so we didn't run away from them out of boredom. After our fighting, we made it to the surface. I slowly observed the statue as we walked up to the item. It was a sculpture of a beautiful woman and a handsome man. The man held the woman in his arms as their hands held the small gold materia. It was a romantic sight and yet an unusual curiosity to what their story was. I was curious, of course.
"They seem peaceful and in love," I stated touching the woman's cheek.
"They were. Their love created the gold materia. They were two Cetras who served to protect the Planet. They created the gold materia to summon the goddess of creation," noted Sephiroth walking over to my side.
"The goddess of creation?" asked Vincent pushing his hair back.
"Yes, that's why this was placed in a mysterious temple like this. We're lucky we could come, but let's get going," concluded the white hair leader looking over to the materia.
He took grasp of the materia and yanked it from the statue. As we turned to leave, the materia began to glow bright. How could it reply in that way? Was it because Sephiroth took it from the statue? We all stopped and looked at the item until we began to hear a voice. It was near and soothing. We looked behind us and saw the statues opening their mouths. The marvel sculpture was talking! I was speechless while I heard the word it spoke.
"You cannot have the materia. You do not have a pure heart!" said the man pointing at Sephiroth.
With that, the materia shot out of his hands and out the ceiling. Vincent grabbed me and covered my body with his to not let the rocks hit. We looked up and watched the gold materia shine brighter. Suddenly, the materia broke into four pieces and shot toward four different directions. I looked over to Sephiroth as anger began to fill in his veins. I walked to him and placed a gentle hand on him. He looked down and felt his muscles loosen up as he was back to normal.
"Only the pure heart can touch the materia and only the painful heart can touch the silver materia. With that, the two will combine to make the perfect weapon to defend the planet," replied the woman of the statue.
"The pure heart.." I repeated thinking of her words.
"Guys, look! The place is falling apart now!" Shouted Vincent.
"Yes, let's get going before we get crushed," commanded Sephiroth ready to run.
"We don't have enough time to get through all the other rooms!" I shouted looking around.
"HEY! DOWN THERE!"
The three of us looked up through the ceiling and saw the Highwind flying above us. Thank the stars they were here at the nick of time. They dropped the climbing rope for us to grab. We took grip unto the rope as the plane itself lifted us out of the temple. As we reached out the place, the temple crumbled. We were lucky. I gave a loud sigh of relief seeing Sephiroth and Vincent smirk up at me.
We landed on the island of Mideel and decided to have a meeting in the Operation Room. We had to discuss how to get the gold materia back if it was like a puzzle. Sephiroth sat at the head table while Vincent and I sat to his sides. We were all waiting to hear what the ex-general had to say.
"We have a problem, ladies and gentlemen," began Sephiroth tapping his finger on the table.
"You mean a big %^&*&^$ problem, right?" asked Cid taking a puff from his cigarette.
"Yeah, the gold materia had been broken into four parts and transported to different places of the Planet," I noted looking at everyone's face.
"We'll need to retrieve them before Jenova and Hojo get their hands on them," replied Cloud.
"How can we if we don know where those broken pieces went, yo?" asked Barret waving his gun in the air.
"Maybe I can help on that," stated Aeris rising her feet.
We all looked at her except Cloud. She clapped her hands together in a prayer. She was silent and had her eyes closed until she reopened them. Tom many, it would seem strange for her to do that, but Aeris was different and she was close to the Planet.
"The gold materia can be placed back together, but only in the hands of pure heart people. If not, the second time, they will break up in smaller forms like pebbles and then they'll disappear. I can say now that the pure hearts here are Yuffie, Nanaki, Tifa, and I. We must break into groups of two and search for the missing pieces," stated Aeris grasping her hands together.
"We don't even know where the hell those damn pieces are!" shouted Cid finishing up his cigarette.
"Let me pray and I'll ask the Planet where they are," told the older woman as she kneeled down.
She lowered her head down silently praying. I could sense the group thought it was weird of her to do that, but I knew better. She was strong Cetra and of course her powers can't be described. What she does might seem odd, but she does it to protect all mankind. IN no time, she opened her eyes and stood up with a sweet smile. I could tell she had the answer to our problem.
"So, what we gonna do now?" asked Barret looking at Aeris carefully.
"The planet has told me where the places we'll find the pieces at. ONE is in the Nibel Mountains, the others are at Wutai, Junon, and Crater where we fought Sephiroth," reported Aeris looking from each face.
"All right. I'll take Ae..Yuffie to Wutai," announced Cloud looking away from the group.
"Cool, Cloud. We'll find the piece for sure," stated Yuffie placing a friendly hand on his shoulder.
"I'll take Vincent with me into the Nibel mountains," told Aeris looking over to the Ex- Turk.
He crossed his arms and nodded to the grinning Ancient. It seemed though this was a mission, this was an excellent time for the two girls to make their moves on the boys of their affections. I wonder if this was coincidental or it was fate.
"Barret, Cid, and I will go to the Junon to find to that piece," spoke Nanaki looking at his group.
"I guess that leaves you two, Tifa," stated Yuffie grinning wildly at me.
"We'll take the Crater then," spoke Sephiroth looking over in my direction.
"Yeah. We should all get equipped before we head off," I replied checking my items.
"Yeah, so I'll drop off everyone to their destination and we'll phone each other when we have our pieces," spoke Cid.
"Wow, old man, that's a pretty good plan," complimented Yuffie placing her hand up for him.
"Shut up, brat, before I say something you'll regret," commented Cid giving her an evil smug look.
She narrowed his eyes at him and slumped down in her seat with a pout lip. Cloud looked over at the ninja girl and couldn't help but to smile at her cuteness. Maybe it wasn't going to be hard for him to like Yuffie. What's not to like about her.
Soon after we departed grabbing items and talking to one another. I decided to take a short walk around the airship to contemplate. I never thought I could be able to be a big help in this mission. I was needed to retrieve the pieces of the gold materia. It was hard to believe, but maybe this is a blessing for me. A blessing for me to get to know a certain silver hair man. Hopefully, nothing wrong would happen to any of this.
"Hey, Lockheart," said a familiar voice.
Turn to my left and saw Sephiroth walk up to me. I wonder what he wanted to say. I turned my body towards him showing my 100% attention to what he had to say. He bent down to me and began to whisper words in my ears.
"I'm glad we can have some time alone. I wanted to tell you something important," whispered Sephiroth.
I looked up at him with a confused face as he swiftly rose up and walked off. I wonder what he wanted to tell me. He seemed so strange. Maybe he wanted to speak of love to me? Nah, he wasn't that type of guy. It would be too weird. I sighed to myself leaning on the wall as I wondered what the dark, handsome, arrogant ex-general wanted to speak of. All I have to do now is wait until we land at our destination. What a bore.
A/n: So, did you like? I wanted to begin the mission now as we get to see pairings are about to begin. I hope you like it. Tell me what you think! Love to hear from you people. Maybe next chapter will finally get to see Jenova, Hojo, and maybe even ...Zack.. Who knows!
Emi: Hi, everyone! I just came back from vacation! It was great!
Tifa: What did you do?
Emi: Shop, swim, went on some dates, and ate till I was full.
Tifa: Wow, you had so much fun, huh?
Emi: ^-^ Yup yup!
Sephiroth: Milady went on dates? ;_;
Emi: Yeah, so? You've got Tifa.
Sephiroth: Oh, yeah! **Places an arm around Tifa's waist**
Tifa: No, he doesn't! ** drop kicks him in the jaw**
Emi: Ouch, must have hurt....**shrugs** On with the fic.
The materia within our grasp
I hopped off the landed airship as Vincent and Sephiroth waited patiently. I dust my blue outfit off and made sure I had all my materia and my glove snuggled on my knuckles. I quickly made my way toward the tall duo, looking at me to proceed. I took the PHS just in case we needed help. We were in charge to look for the silver materia while the others stayed on board.
I looked out and observed this beautiful yet unusual island. It was a long vast jungle that was as wide as the sea around it. The expansive jungle seems a problem to get through, but I expected Sephiroth would use his long sword to lead the way. Soon, my thought became a reality as she swung his sword through the bushes.
Several times we battled monsters, but they seem not a problem to the boys and I. Vincent' strength and aim were better as he would kill one monster in one turn. Sephiroth, of course, was swift and powerful with his sword. He looked at the creatures and killed many in one turn. It was amazing to watch the two, but I also had to show them how to fight. My swift and lethal punches and kicks did as much as they did, so I knew I wasn't extra weight on this team.
"Boy, I'm a little pooped," I stated wiping my sweat off my forehead.
"What? They were no challenge at all. How could they make you tired," scoffed Sephiroth moving ahead of the group.
"Oh, shut up! It wasn't their quality that was a problem, it was the quantity," I shot back stomping my foot to the ground.
Sephiroth and Vincent looked at me as I froze. I was acting like a kid. I was twenty-three years old and I acted as if I was a preteen. I covered my mouth and blushed in embarrassment hoping they wouldn't know I was acting this way. They knew. The two men grinned and even broke out with simple chuckles from their mouth. I gave sudden glare to the both of them and walked up before them.
Soon after, we came to a large temple. It reminded me of the Ancient Temple, but it seemed small. We began to walk the step looking around for anything unusual. As we reached the top, we looked down at the marvel of the place. It seemed to be made of ice. How a place in the Southern Hemisphere could be made of solid ice in the inside. It was amazing, but we didn't have much to gape at the sight. We ran threw the place looking for vines to climb and stair to walk.
"It's so cold and unusual here," I stated while letting my hands rub my arms.
"Here, warm up with this," spoke Sephiroth pulling off his black cape.
He places it around my body without letting me say a word. He was doing that for me to stop my complaining, right? He didn't really do it because he was concern for me, did he? Whatever his reason, I was thankful giving him an appreciative smile. He gave me a nod as we followed a path into the temple. As we ran further into the passage, it began to feel warmer. Soon, I felt drops of sweat roll down my forehead unto my nose. How could the temperature change so rapidly?
"What's going on in this place?" I asked looking up to both of the men.
"This might be a guess, but I think each room we go in is a type of materia element," stated Sephiroth looking down at me.
"Yes, long ago, I heard of this temple from Hojo. It was supposedly the Elemental temple. He said that there were five rooms of elements that must be conquered to get to a treasure. It is said that the five elements are ice, water, fire, lightning, and wind," commented Vincent not looking at us.
"I guess this is the fire element room," I concluded looking down pointing toward the small fires along the room.
Both men nodded as were progressed the room. We dodged as small fire began to grow into huge flames. One wrong step could lead to a burning agony. I gulped hoping I wouldn't step into tragedy. We looked for any upcoming passageway when I pointed toward a small door on the right. I stopped at waited for them to catch up with me.
"Sephiroth, Vincent, we can go through that," I shouted looking at them.
"Tifa, watch out!" shouted Vincent.
Sephiroth sprung out and grasp me in his arms. He leaped toward the door as a sudden shot of flame sprung out from the area I was standing at. I couldn't see what happen for he cover my body and head with his cape. I pushed the clothing off me and looked at him. His face winced pain yet wondering and looking at me.
"You okay, Lockheart?" asked Sephiroth gently rubbing my back.
"Yeah, I guess," I responded unsure of what happen.
I looked down at his arm and saw a burnt wound. It didn't look lethal, but it did seem to leave a scar. I frowned at the sight. He saved me from getting hurt he developed a wound. I ripped a piece of cloth from his cape and tied the wound. He looked down at me with thanks until Vincent pushed us to move on.
We rushed through the next room as we saw many rods isolated around the room. We watched as lightning shot toward the rods and the ground a couple of times. I guess this was the lightning materia room. I didn't like lightning since I was little. I crept up to Sephiroth and shielded myself slightly every time I heard the clash of thunder. Boy, I never thought I would act so wimpy.
"Come on, Tifa, shape up. Vincent and Sephiroth are counting on you to be strong," thought Tifa recovering.
She looked up at the men and signals them to keep going. They ran through the room dodging lightning bolts hoping they would be fried. Vincent took me by my waist and helped keep up with them. I gave an appreciative smile as we came to the next door. When we stepped into it, the floor became a pool of water. We dropped into the pool and swam up for air.
"I guess we should have watched our first step," I commented moving my hair out of my face.
"Look over there. There's a statue with an orb in it," stated Vincent pointing to the item.
"I bet it's the gold materia. Let's get to it," commanded Sephiroth paddling over to the statute.
Vincent and I looked at each other then started to swim after him. He lead the way threw the pool. We fought a few monsters through the rooms and yet the monsters in here were huge, useless fish creatures. It was simple money actually, so we didn't run away from them out of boredom. After our fighting, we made it to the surface. I slowly observed the statue as we walked up to the item. It was a sculpture of a beautiful woman and a handsome man. The man held the woman in his arms as their hands held the small gold materia. It was a romantic sight and yet an unusual curiosity to what their story was. I was curious, of course.
"They seem peaceful and in love," I stated touching the woman's cheek.
"They were. Their love created the gold materia. They were two Cetras who served to protect the Planet. They created the gold materia to summon the goddess of creation," noted Sephiroth walking over to my side.
"The goddess of creation?" asked Vincent pushing his hair back.
"Yes, that's why this was placed in a mysterious temple like this. We're lucky we could come, but let's get going," concluded the white hair leader looking over to the materia.
He took grasp of the materia and yanked it from the statue. As we turned to leave, the materia began to glow bright. How could it reply in that way? Was it because Sephiroth took it from the statue? We all stopped and looked at the item until we began to hear a voice. It was near and soothing. We looked behind us and saw the statues opening their mouths. The marvel sculpture was talking! I was speechless while I heard the word it spoke.
"You cannot have the materia. You do not have a pure heart!" said the man pointing at Sephiroth.
With that, the materia shot out of his hands and out the ceiling. Vincent grabbed me and covered my body with his to not let the rocks hit. We looked up and watched the gold materia shine brighter. Suddenly, the materia broke into four pieces and shot toward four different directions. I looked over to Sephiroth as anger began to fill in his veins. I walked to him and placed a gentle hand on him. He looked down and felt his muscles loosen up as he was back to normal.
"Only the pure heart can touch the materia and only the painful heart can touch the silver materia. With that, the two will combine to make the perfect weapon to defend the planet," replied the woman of the statue.
"The pure heart.." I repeated thinking of her words.
"Guys, look! The place is falling apart now!" Shouted Vincent.
"Yes, let's get going before we get crushed," commanded Sephiroth ready to run.
"We don't have enough time to get through all the other rooms!" I shouted looking around.
"HEY! DOWN THERE!"
The three of us looked up through the ceiling and saw the Highwind flying above us. Thank the stars they were here at the nick of time. They dropped the climbing rope for us to grab. We took grip unto the rope as the plane itself lifted us out of the temple. As we reached out the place, the temple crumbled. We were lucky. I gave a loud sigh of relief seeing Sephiroth and Vincent smirk up at me.
We landed on the island of Mideel and decided to have a meeting in the Operation Room. We had to discuss how to get the gold materia back if it was like a puzzle. Sephiroth sat at the head table while Vincent and I sat to his sides. We were all waiting to hear what the ex-general had to say.
"We have a problem, ladies and gentlemen," began Sephiroth tapping his finger on the table.
"You mean a big %^&*&^$ problem, right?" asked Cid taking a puff from his cigarette.
"Yeah, the gold materia had been broken into four parts and transported to different places of the Planet," I noted looking at everyone's face.
"We'll need to retrieve them before Jenova and Hojo get their hands on them," replied Cloud.
"How can we if we don know where those broken pieces went, yo?" asked Barret waving his gun in the air.
"Maybe I can help on that," stated Aeris rising her feet.
We all looked at her except Cloud. She clapped her hands together in a prayer. She was silent and had her eyes closed until she reopened them. Tom many, it would seem strange for her to do that, but Aeris was different and she was close to the Planet.
"The gold materia can be placed back together, but only in the hands of pure heart people. If not, the second time, they will break up in smaller forms like pebbles and then they'll disappear. I can say now that the pure hearts here are Yuffie, Nanaki, Tifa, and I. We must break into groups of two and search for the missing pieces," stated Aeris grasping her hands together.
"We don't even know where the hell those damn pieces are!" shouted Cid finishing up his cigarette.
"Let me pray and I'll ask the Planet where they are," told the older woman as she kneeled down.
She lowered her head down silently praying. I could sense the group thought it was weird of her to do that, but I knew better. She was strong Cetra and of course her powers can't be described. What she does might seem odd, but she does it to protect all mankind. IN no time, she opened her eyes and stood up with a sweet smile. I could tell she had the answer to our problem.
"So, what we gonna do now?" asked Barret looking at Aeris carefully.
"The planet has told me where the places we'll find the pieces at. ONE is in the Nibel Mountains, the others are at Wutai, Junon, and Crater where we fought Sephiroth," reported Aeris looking from each face.
"All right. I'll take Ae..Yuffie to Wutai," announced Cloud looking away from the group.
"Cool, Cloud. We'll find the piece for sure," stated Yuffie placing a friendly hand on his shoulder.
"I'll take Vincent with me into the Nibel mountains," told Aeris looking over to the Ex- Turk.
He crossed his arms and nodded to the grinning Ancient. It seemed though this was a mission, this was an excellent time for the two girls to make their moves on the boys of their affections. I wonder if this was coincidental or it was fate.
"Barret, Cid, and I will go to the Junon to find to that piece," spoke Nanaki looking at his group.
"I guess that leaves you two, Tifa," stated Yuffie grinning wildly at me.
"We'll take the Crater then," spoke Sephiroth looking over in my direction.
"Yeah. We should all get equipped before we head off," I replied checking my items.
"Yeah, so I'll drop off everyone to their destination and we'll phone each other when we have our pieces," spoke Cid.
"Wow, old man, that's a pretty good plan," complimented Yuffie placing her hand up for him.
"Shut up, brat, before I say something you'll regret," commented Cid giving her an evil smug look.
She narrowed his eyes at him and slumped down in her seat with a pout lip. Cloud looked over at the ninja girl and couldn't help but to smile at her cuteness. Maybe it wasn't going to be hard for him to like Yuffie. What's not to like about her.
Soon after we departed grabbing items and talking to one another. I decided to take a short walk around the airship to contemplate. I never thought I could be able to be a big help in this mission. I was needed to retrieve the pieces of the gold materia. It was hard to believe, but maybe this is a blessing for me. A blessing for me to get to know a certain silver hair man. Hopefully, nothing wrong would happen to any of this.
"Hey, Lockheart," said a familiar voice.
Turn to my left and saw Sephiroth walk up to me. I wonder what he wanted to say. I turned my body towards him showing my 100% attention to what he had to say. He bent down to me and began to whisper words in my ears.
"I'm glad we can have some time alone. I wanted to tell you something important," whispered Sephiroth.
I looked up at him with a confused face as he swiftly rose up and walked off. I wonder what he wanted to tell me. He seemed so strange. Maybe he wanted to speak of love to me? Nah, he wasn't that type of guy. It would be too weird. I sighed to myself leaning on the wall as I wondered what the dark, handsome, arrogant ex-general wanted to speak of. All I have to do now is wait until we land at our destination. What a bore.
A/n: So, did you like? I wanted to begin the mission now as we get to see pairings are about to begin. I hope you like it. Tell me what you think! Love to hear from you people. Maybe next chapter will finally get to see Jenova, Hojo, and maybe even ...Zack.. Who knows!