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Chapter 2: Ack! Chocobos, Everywhere!

            The Turks didn't take long to prepare for the trip. As soon as the sun rose the next day, they set out for the chocobo farm farther south of Midgar.

            Reno was assigned to carry the luggage. All of their luggage, in fact. The other two Turks walked in front as Reno struggled to catch up. "Huff, puff…Hey guys…I thought…huff, puff…we're in this…together…thick…huff, puff…or thin…"

            "Don't act so weak, Reno! You're the one that got us into this mess," snapped Elena. Reno, almost out of breath, decided to shut his mouth up the rest of the journey, and instead opted to cursing them in his mind. And to think he was the senior of Elena a few years ago. He found it hard that Elena got to boss him around like that.

            After walking for two days and seeing nothing but mountains and grasses, Reno was the happiest one of the lot when they finally reached the chocobo farm. However, they did not see any chocobos outside of the ranch. Deciding they must be inside the stables, they went straight into it.

            The trio got the shock of their lives when all of the stables were also empty. Reno was especially frustrated because he had worked so hard to drag their luggage over only to find nothing.

"Hey, where are all the chocobos?" Reno cried out.

Only two persons were in the stables, a teenage boy and a teenage girl. The farm boy approached the trio with a huge grin on his face, ready to get some business.

            "Hi, I'm Choco Billy. You old folks are out of luck." Elena almost threw a fist at him for calling them 'old folks' but was stopped by Rude. "We've rented out all of our chocobos, but you can try catching one yourselves." Casting a long look at them, Choco Billy took out a huge book with a cartoon drawing of a singing chocobo on the front from the large pocket on his overalls and continued, "Judging by your looks, you must be them freshies. You're gonna need my book here, 'The Ultimate Guide on How to Catch and Raise Chocobos: Freshies Version'. Only 1000 gil."

            "Anything on white chocobos and gold chocobos?" Reno stared at the book, half-wishing he would say 'yes'.

            "Are you kidding? No one knows how to breed a white chocobo, and I'm only planning on adding the ultimate guide to raising gold chocobos in the 'Expert Version' - which will be out in June next year for only 2500 gils - but I haven't asked my sister, Chole, over there for the methods yet. For the time being, you folks havta ask her for it," Choco Billy pointed towards the teenage girl at the far end of the stables.

            Reno looked at the said girl and whistled. "Rude, how's my hair?" he asked as he tried to tidy up his unruly hair.

            "As sloppy as ever. You're not thinking of hitting on her, are you?"

            Reno made a face. "'Course not!"

            The trio approached Chole, who was busy cleaning a stable. Reno was the first to talk.

            "Hi Chole. I'm Reno," he said, trying his best to look smart.

            Chole put down her work. "Hi, how can I help you?"

            Elena shoved Reno out of her way, "We want to know how to raise gold chocobos."

            Glad to be of help, Chole told the trio everything she knew. "The national hero, Cloud Strife told me this. He has the most beautiful gold chocobo. In fact, he has every known species of chocobos in his very own ranch!" she added.

            "Gee, you know so much about chocobos, what do you say we go out for dinner and you tell me more," Reno smiled his best smile. Rude arched his eyebrow while Elena kicked Reno's shin.

            Chole giggled. "Why don't you try catching a chocobo in the plains just outside of our ranch? It'll be good practice. You should ask for my brother's help and buy some greens."

            Reno whispered the word 'booze' into Rude's ears. Rude's eyebrows arched upwards, and answered, "We're professionals, we can kill the monsters in one go."

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            "EEEEEEEKKK!!" Elena screamed as the huge bird attacked her and everyone else before running away squawking like mad.

            "Elena! You're not supposed to attack the chocobo!" Rude yelled out.

            "I forgot I had an 'All' materia linked with my 'Ice' materia!"

            "Stop arguing, you guys! Those two Elfadunk are still there you know?!" Reno snapped at them both.

            "And that kid said catching chocobos is easy…" Elena muttered under her breath.

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After what seemed like hours trying to catch a chocobo, only to fail every time either because the chocobo grew impatient and ran away or because someone forgot that they were not supposed to hit the chocobo, the three Turks slumped down on the grass exhausted and panting like dogs. "This is stupid," Reno said after he had rested enough, "At this rate, we're not gonna get any chocobos, not to mention getting a white chocobo in a year."

            "Yeah, we have to get ourselves two gold chocobos in another way, like stealing from someone, which we're good at," Elena suggested.

            The trio continued lying on the grass for another few seconds. Suddenly, an idea popped into their heads at the same time.

            "CLOUD!"

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Author's note: Thank you all that reviewed the first chapter. There! The second chapter! What do you think so far? It's gonna get a bit adventurous from the next chapter on. Please review ^__^