Chatper 12: Rocket Town
Aeris continued to walk with the two, getting tired as she went, but refused to stop. Zack seemed tired as well and the sun was beating down its heat firecly. Dyne's shirt had turned from white to gray from the sweat that soaked it. Aeris used her staff to keep her balance pushing it into the ground as she took a few more steps forward.
"Damn Zack.... I thought you said it was only a few miles away..." Dyne said as he hunched over for a minute and then pulled back his head, pushing his hair back from his eyes.
"It is. We- We'll be there soon." Zack told him trying to sound convincing as he stuttered over his words. The sun pushed through the top of the forest and continued to beat down on them dispite the trees that covered the sky above them. Dyne suddenly tripped over a fallen tree and fell forward smacking his arm off one of the thick trees next to him.
"OWWW!!! SHIT!" Dyne screamed holding his right arm up with his other arm, not letting his gun touch it. "Most of time, like this one, I hate myself for losing my damn left hand to those dumbass Shrinas!"
Aeris quickly picked up her pace and walked over to him and placed her fingers gently around his arm. It had a deep cut in his upper arm and she let go of his arm and placed her hands gently behind her head and pulled her bow from her hair and then moved it under his arm tying it tightly around his wound.
She then quickly moved her hands back to her hair and started to unbraid her hair so it wouldn't become a mess and a small ball fell from behind her and rolled onto the ground. It glew brightly in front of her as it settled gently in the debry.
"What the hell is that?" Dyne asked and Zack stopped and turned to see the small orb that laid safely on the ground.
"I don't know....." Aeris told them shaking her head, while blankly staring at it.
"What do you mean you don't know? It came out of your hair!" Dyne told her as he bent over and picked it off the ground, staring at it curiously.
"I don't know what it is, you know that monster could have put it there when he grabbed my jacket. It could have hacked it up when I was pounding on it or something!" Aeris told him taking it from his hand and stared at it deeply.
"Just leave her be Dyne. We'll have this all sorted out when we get to Rocket Town ok?" Zack asked him narrowing his eyes at him, basically saying that everything was driving his patience especially the heat. "Lets just keep going..."
Aeris nodded quickly not wanting to make him upsetter then he was and unbraided the rest of her hair after placing the orb gently in her red short jacket's chest pocket. She pulled all her long brown hair over her left shouldar, then started to try to make sure it was at least a little straighter then it was.
Dyne watched as Aeris rubbed her hands against her hair trying to pull it straight and then snapped out of it, standing as he shook his head to regain his focus.
"I think we all need to see the doctor..." Zack said as he turned his gaze from them and started walking again. Aeris and Dyne followed close behind as well. Aeris watched in front of her carefully noticing that the end of the forest was right ahead of them. She began to pick up her pace trying hard not to slow down since she really wanted out the forest now. Her hair was getting caught in the bare branches that stuck out at them and she was getting very annoyed as she pushed through. Zack was ahead of them and was slashing at the vines and branches that came near him.
"It's only a few minutes now til we get there now." Zack told them, the heat really driving his patience now it seemed. Dyne turned to Aeris and shook his head at her as she looked away from him.
"Ignore him, he's always like this if he doesn't eat something..." Dyne told her, trying to convince her he wasn't as bad as he seemed at the moment.
Aeris nodded in agreement and pressed on through the forest and finally Zack slashed through the other end of the woods. The bright afternoon sun poured its rays into the opened forest and Dyne shielded his eyes with his bandaged arm.
She took a step out of the woods and stared out across the plains. A gold metal object gleamed off the sun's rays in front of them and Aeris squinted at it to see it better and Zack breathed in a deep sigh of relief.
"Y- YES! There it is!" Zack yelled as he placed her sword quickly on his back and through arms into the air.
"Calm down it's just a city!" Dyne said laughing as he spoke at him. Aeris giggled at them as they laughed at each other happily.
"Last one there is buying lunch!" Zack yelled as he took off towards the city.
"HEY!! That's not fair we're injured!" Dyne yelled as he went after him with Aeris closely following behind.
"Well then one of you two will be buying lunch!" Zack yelled laughing as he continued to run as fast as he could.
Aeris smirked as she passed Dyne and raised her staff in front of her and started to spin it fast.
"If I had the power to heal, who says I don't have the power of other things..." Aeris whispered to herself as she tried to focus her energy to the edge of the spinning staff. It began to glow a bright yellow and she stopped spinning it running through the yellow circle and she flew in extreme speed. Dyne's eyes widen as she sped off and Zack suddenly stopped too to watch her fly by him. Dyne noticed that the yellowish gold ring was starting to fade and quickly jumped through it. He didn't feel any different and shrugged as he took a step forward. He didn't even feel like he moved at all but he was at least a meter away from the ring now. He smirked evilly at Zack as he narrowed his eyes and chuckled to himself.
"Look who's buying lunch now!" Dyne yelled as he sped off passed Zack. Zack's mouth dropped as he hung over wide eyed and rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn't imagining their speed.
"Shit! How'd you do that?!" Zack yelled at him as he started off after both of them.
Neither of them heard him as they continued towards the town. Aeris stopped outside the city looking up at the gleaming object that was now looking a bright silver. It was a grand rocket that stood slightly to the side. A villager seemed to ignore her as she walked as slowly as she could into the town looking around for anyone that might resemble a doctor, as he continued to pound nails into the roof of a house he was building. Dyne came up beside her looking just as awed as she was.
"Is this Rocket Town?" Aeris asked almost completely speechless at the sight of the Rocket.
"Sure is," Came a familar voice in front of her. A young man strolled in front of them with his hair a bright blonde, roughly combed. He looked around thirty years old, his blue jean jacket a clean bright blue and he wore a white freshly pressed T-shirt underneath it. His baggy blue jeans look newly bought as well as he stood before them.
"Cid?" Aeris asked her mouth dropped in surprise at him.
"Yup, I'm Captian Cid. How'd you know that? Is the Shrina spreading shit about me wrecking their god damn fucken rocket project again?" He asked rolling his eyes at them.
"Wait is this the same Cid you saw before, Aeris?" Dyne asked as Zack approached them, leaning over to catch his breath. Aeris nodded to Dyne's question slowly and turned to Zack.
"Looks like you're buying lunch Zack." Dyne told him smirking still at him as he turned back towards Cid.
"You kids ok? You look like you need to rest. I don't know who you ar ma'am but you look like you got to close to the LifeStream, come on. I'll take you all to the INN." Cid told them raising an eye brow to Zack who refused to say anything while breathing in deeply.
The same familar smell came from Cid as he pulled a cigerette from his pack that was placed in his blue jean jacket's pocket and lit it pulling it to his lips and puffing it gently.
"This way." He said as he turned and started towards one of the large buildings.
Aeris stared curiously at him. It seemed like him but he was too young to be him it seemed. She followed the others through the door of the INN and Cid came to the counter slapping down a small bag of money in front of him.
"These kids are really bushed it seems, the rooms are on me." He told the manager as he turned away and looked to Aeris.
"Come see me in the morning. You seemed pretty intrested in my rocket, I'll tell you guys about it if you like. I'll be at my home near the rocket, see ya in the morning then." He told them saluting to them with his two right fingers quickly and then set off through the door, closing it softly. Aeris looked to Zack as he stumbled into the nearby room and collasped into the first bed, falling into a deep sleep instantly snoring softly. Dyne covered his mouth as he snickered at his sudden tiredness.
"Now who's the wimp...." Dyne whispered to Aeris as she made her way passed him and sat on the bed next to Zack's giggling softly at him and then looked at Dyne as he walked slowly over to the thrid bed and plopped back against it and closed his eyes.
"I guess we'll be seeing Cid in the morning then?" Dyne asked Aeris as he placed his hands behind his head and fell into a deep sleep as well.
"I guess so...." Aeris said to him as she watched him fall asleep and laid back herself against the pillow and stared up at the ceiling for a moment. Slowly, she closed her eyes as well and fell into a dreamless sleep awaiting the morning to come to get some answers from Cid.
Aeris continued to walk with the two, getting tired as she went, but refused to stop. Zack seemed tired as well and the sun was beating down its heat firecly. Dyne's shirt had turned from white to gray from the sweat that soaked it. Aeris used her staff to keep her balance pushing it into the ground as she took a few more steps forward.
"Damn Zack.... I thought you said it was only a few miles away..." Dyne said as he hunched over for a minute and then pulled back his head, pushing his hair back from his eyes.
"It is. We- We'll be there soon." Zack told him trying to sound convincing as he stuttered over his words. The sun pushed through the top of the forest and continued to beat down on them dispite the trees that covered the sky above them. Dyne suddenly tripped over a fallen tree and fell forward smacking his arm off one of the thick trees next to him.
"OWWW!!! SHIT!" Dyne screamed holding his right arm up with his other arm, not letting his gun touch it. "Most of time, like this one, I hate myself for losing my damn left hand to those dumbass Shrinas!"
Aeris quickly picked up her pace and walked over to him and placed her fingers gently around his arm. It had a deep cut in his upper arm and she let go of his arm and placed her hands gently behind her head and pulled her bow from her hair and then moved it under his arm tying it tightly around his wound.
She then quickly moved her hands back to her hair and started to unbraid her hair so it wouldn't become a mess and a small ball fell from behind her and rolled onto the ground. It glew brightly in front of her as it settled gently in the debry.
"What the hell is that?" Dyne asked and Zack stopped and turned to see the small orb that laid safely on the ground.
"I don't know....." Aeris told them shaking her head, while blankly staring at it.
"What do you mean you don't know? It came out of your hair!" Dyne told her as he bent over and picked it off the ground, staring at it curiously.
"I don't know what it is, you know that monster could have put it there when he grabbed my jacket. It could have hacked it up when I was pounding on it or something!" Aeris told him taking it from his hand and stared at it deeply.
"Just leave her be Dyne. We'll have this all sorted out when we get to Rocket Town ok?" Zack asked him narrowing his eyes at him, basically saying that everything was driving his patience especially the heat. "Lets just keep going..."
Aeris nodded quickly not wanting to make him upsetter then he was and unbraided the rest of her hair after placing the orb gently in her red short jacket's chest pocket. She pulled all her long brown hair over her left shouldar, then started to try to make sure it was at least a little straighter then it was.
Dyne watched as Aeris rubbed her hands against her hair trying to pull it straight and then snapped out of it, standing as he shook his head to regain his focus.
"I think we all need to see the doctor..." Zack said as he turned his gaze from them and started walking again. Aeris and Dyne followed close behind as well. Aeris watched in front of her carefully noticing that the end of the forest was right ahead of them. She began to pick up her pace trying hard not to slow down since she really wanted out the forest now. Her hair was getting caught in the bare branches that stuck out at them and she was getting very annoyed as she pushed through. Zack was ahead of them and was slashing at the vines and branches that came near him.
"It's only a few minutes now til we get there now." Zack told them, the heat really driving his patience now it seemed. Dyne turned to Aeris and shook his head at her as she looked away from him.
"Ignore him, he's always like this if he doesn't eat something..." Dyne told her, trying to convince her he wasn't as bad as he seemed at the moment.
Aeris nodded in agreement and pressed on through the forest and finally Zack slashed through the other end of the woods. The bright afternoon sun poured its rays into the opened forest and Dyne shielded his eyes with his bandaged arm.
She took a step out of the woods and stared out across the plains. A gold metal object gleamed off the sun's rays in front of them and Aeris squinted at it to see it better and Zack breathed in a deep sigh of relief.
"Y- YES! There it is!" Zack yelled as he placed her sword quickly on his back and through arms into the air.
"Calm down it's just a city!" Dyne said laughing as he spoke at him. Aeris giggled at them as they laughed at each other happily.
"Last one there is buying lunch!" Zack yelled as he took off towards the city.
"HEY!! That's not fair we're injured!" Dyne yelled as he went after him with Aeris closely following behind.
"Well then one of you two will be buying lunch!" Zack yelled laughing as he continued to run as fast as he could.
Aeris smirked as she passed Dyne and raised her staff in front of her and started to spin it fast.
"If I had the power to heal, who says I don't have the power of other things..." Aeris whispered to herself as she tried to focus her energy to the edge of the spinning staff. It began to glow a bright yellow and she stopped spinning it running through the yellow circle and she flew in extreme speed. Dyne's eyes widen as she sped off and Zack suddenly stopped too to watch her fly by him. Dyne noticed that the yellowish gold ring was starting to fade and quickly jumped through it. He didn't feel any different and shrugged as he took a step forward. He didn't even feel like he moved at all but he was at least a meter away from the ring now. He smirked evilly at Zack as he narrowed his eyes and chuckled to himself.
"Look who's buying lunch now!" Dyne yelled as he sped off passed Zack. Zack's mouth dropped as he hung over wide eyed and rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn't imagining their speed.
"Shit! How'd you do that?!" Zack yelled at him as he started off after both of them.
Neither of them heard him as they continued towards the town. Aeris stopped outside the city looking up at the gleaming object that was now looking a bright silver. It was a grand rocket that stood slightly to the side. A villager seemed to ignore her as she walked as slowly as she could into the town looking around for anyone that might resemble a doctor, as he continued to pound nails into the roof of a house he was building. Dyne came up beside her looking just as awed as she was.
"Is this Rocket Town?" Aeris asked almost completely speechless at the sight of the Rocket.
"Sure is," Came a familar voice in front of her. A young man strolled in front of them with his hair a bright blonde, roughly combed. He looked around thirty years old, his blue jean jacket a clean bright blue and he wore a white freshly pressed T-shirt underneath it. His baggy blue jeans look newly bought as well as he stood before them.
"Cid?" Aeris asked her mouth dropped in surprise at him.
"Yup, I'm Captian Cid. How'd you know that? Is the Shrina spreading shit about me wrecking their god damn fucken rocket project again?" He asked rolling his eyes at them.
"Wait is this the same Cid you saw before, Aeris?" Dyne asked as Zack approached them, leaning over to catch his breath. Aeris nodded to Dyne's question slowly and turned to Zack.
"Looks like you're buying lunch Zack." Dyne told him smirking still at him as he turned back towards Cid.
"You kids ok? You look like you need to rest. I don't know who you ar ma'am but you look like you got to close to the LifeStream, come on. I'll take you all to the INN." Cid told them raising an eye brow to Zack who refused to say anything while breathing in deeply.
The same familar smell came from Cid as he pulled a cigerette from his pack that was placed in his blue jean jacket's pocket and lit it pulling it to his lips and puffing it gently.
"This way." He said as he turned and started towards one of the large buildings.
Aeris stared curiously at him. It seemed like him but he was too young to be him it seemed. She followed the others through the door of the INN and Cid came to the counter slapping down a small bag of money in front of him.
"These kids are really bushed it seems, the rooms are on me." He told the manager as he turned away and looked to Aeris.
"Come see me in the morning. You seemed pretty intrested in my rocket, I'll tell you guys about it if you like. I'll be at my home near the rocket, see ya in the morning then." He told them saluting to them with his two right fingers quickly and then set off through the door, closing it softly. Aeris looked to Zack as he stumbled into the nearby room and collasped into the first bed, falling into a deep sleep instantly snoring softly. Dyne covered his mouth as he snickered at his sudden tiredness.
"Now who's the wimp...." Dyne whispered to Aeris as she made her way passed him and sat on the bed next to Zack's giggling softly at him and then looked at Dyne as he walked slowly over to the thrid bed and plopped back against it and closed his eyes.
"I guess we'll be seeing Cid in the morning then?" Dyne asked Aeris as he placed his hands behind his head and fell into a deep sleep as well.
"I guess so...." Aeris said to him as she watched him fall asleep and laid back herself against the pillow and stared up at the ceiling for a moment. Slowly, she closed her eyes as well and fell into a dreamless sleep awaiting the morning to come to get some answers from Cid.