Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Final Fantasy characters or the storyline.


"Kak Lisa ... Kak Lisa, wakeup it's time for practice," Naz called from outside my room early that morning.

He thought my door was locked and banged the door calling my name, but no answer. He turned the door knob and found it was unlocked.

He looked in my room to find it empty, examined the bathroom, no one was there. My room was spick and span unlike me, as I always made a mess.

"Argh... where is she? Slowly burning a fuse as he always does and started hunting for me all over the house but was unsuccessful.

"Where can she be? Her bag and hand phone are missing, too." He looked at his hand phone, "Can't hurt to try," dialed my number.

It was out of order. "Weird, how can it be out of order?"

Suddenly, something shone on my bed, near the pillows. He picked it up and found it was from Wakka, it read...

" Your sister is on a mission to stop the tragedy in the Final Fantasy world, with Cloud and his friends, fighting side by side. They'll take care of her and she'll be back when it's all over. Don't fret ... man.

She won't die, as she is an immortal in our world and our heroine, whom we've been waiting for. Want to join her you say, you can but, you must show the same amount of passion she had for us or a creation and we'll pull you in.

We understand that you're worried about her, but there's nothing you can do to help being in different worlds.

One word of caution, though. Don't reveal her absence to anyone as if you do, she'll be stuck here forever and all her hard work will be wasted.

If you're really close to her, we'll know through your actions when you read this letter. Believe in her for now, she'll need it more than ever now. She chose this path, let her follow it. Hope you understand,

Wakka …"

Naz squeezed the letter in his hand. He had mixed emotions now, of jealousy, anger and concern.

"Oh man, how come you always get all the fun," and walked off to continue his greatest creation, a character named Grey Fox with his adventures.

"Huh...! I cried out loud suddenly.

"What's wrong," asked Red XIII.

"Um nothing... I thought I heard someone call my name." I answered, scratching my head.

"Maybe you're hallucinating, you didn't get that much sleep last night," Barrett continued as he patted my shoulder.

"Yeah maybe your right," I gave in to him.

We packed our bags and left the inn. As there was no other route to follow, we took the long way to the North Corel village, Barrett's old hometown.

On the way there, we had pass through a reactor which resembled Midgar, which the Shinra had built and an old railroad. Upon our arrival at the village, we were received coldly as the villagers blamed Barrett for what happened to their village, years ago.

Barrett tried to argue but couldn't as they didn't want to hear him out and he kept feeling sorry for himself.

I went up to him to comfort him but he said instead that he was fine. West of the village was a rope train going up to the Gold Saucer a sort of theme park, owned by Dio, a heavy weight champion.

It had various chutes leading to various excitements and activities, which were, battle square, wonder square, chocobo square, event square, ghost square, Round square and the main square, station square.

Aerith got all excited and asked Cloud if we could go on rides. Tifa scolded her as it wasn't the right time for that sort of talk, but Aerith was prepared for her. Barrett threw a tantrum and went off.

I wanted to follow but Yuffie held me back. I guess it is time to get our minds of these things.

"Cloud let's all go have fun, might as well do as we'll need the GP for later on. If we don't get it now, it will be harder to get later." I advised them.

Yuffie and Red XIII agreed immediately, while Cloud, Aerith and Tifa gave it some thought.

"Oh yeah, before I forget, you'll have to pick two of us to be in your party, don't ask me why, I just know these things." as I scratched my head.

Ok, it wasn't my choice, but Cloud chose Aerith, and instead of me they chose Yuffie who declined the offer.

"You two have fun and I'm sure you'll need Enima with you as she would come in handy," she said grinning sheepishly.

That was unusual coming from her. Didn't think she could talk that way.

They looked at one another and sighed, "I guess you're stuck with us."

Aerith giggled and held out her hand. After that was settled, we jumped in the wonder square chute. At the end of the tunnel, Cait Sith, a robot cat on a moogle asked if he could read our fortunes as he served a purpose as a fortune telling machine.

"We don't have time for it now," Cloud declined.

"Are you sure? I can find missing items or people and tell the future," he didn't give up.

"Alright, tell us where Sephiroth is." Cloud asked.

"You won't regret this," started to walk on the spot.

Ting, ting, out came the prediction, it read "May your life be active and your favorite color is blue."

"Is this some kind of joke?" Cloud nearly lost his patience.

"Must be a glitch in the system, I'll try again." He started walking again, only faster.

Ding, ding, out came another card.

This time it read, "What you pursue will be yours, but you will lose something dear,"

"What does it mean?" Aerith asked,

"There's more," Cloud said and continued, "But till an angel calms your fears, beware, your doom may be near."

"Creepy, I've never gotten anything like this before. I'm going with you." He shivered.

"Why...?" Cloud asked.

"It's very disturbing and I'll feel uneasy if I don't know the results of it. Nothing you say will stop me." He replied.

Cloud sighed ... "Well, let's get going, there's a lot of games to play and GP to be won, fun time!" I cried from behind Aerith.

Aerith giggled, Cait Sith gave a salute and Cloud just shook his head. There were many games to choose from, and my favorite was the 3D-Battler, as I managed to beat all the levels. By the end of the day, we had quite a haul. We gathered so much GP till it went over the 10000 GP limit.

"Why don't we check out the gondola?" Cait Sith suggested.

"Yeah, let's go Cloud, Aerith. It'll be fun." I continued, jumping up and down.

The atmosphere really brought out the kid in me. Cloud scratched his head and looked at Aerith, who smiled back at him.

The ticket lady gave Cloud a ticket for 3 GP, and said the gondola was meant to carry only two passengers. Before he could open his mouth to decide who to bring, I pushed Aerith towards him till she fell in his arms.

"Hey... Liisaaaaa!" she scolded me.

I thought I saw a flash of red brighten on their faces, maybe I was a little too over the edge. Hopefully not, as these two lovebirds were meant for each other from the start.

"Honestly, I don't think it was a good idea to choose you after all," Cloud pouted while Aerith glared at me slightly.

Though they scolded me for doing that, they didn't seem to mind being together hand in hand.

While Cait Sith and I waited, I noticed the chute only lead back to the station and nowhere else. The two were back in half an hour as the gondola showed them all over the Gold Saucer without missing any details.

Out they came, and looked as though they played the part of Sakura and Syoaran from the Card Captor Sakura Movie: Enchanted Cards.

Through their eyes, I knew what went on in their heads but chose not to interfere. Next we played on the Shooting coaster at the speed square. It resembled a normal roller coaster but had an extra special adjustment, which was to shoot all the targets that appeared.

"That's a fun ride I assure you," Cait Sith said, as he noticed my knees were knocking as I had a fear of certain roller coasters, especially fast ones that go upside down.

"Don't worry, have fun don't think about the pressure it has on you." Aerith said and smiled. That sure got me on the shooting coaster but, strapped in the seat I began to shiver again.

The ride wasn't bad as I thought it would be and I really enjoyed eliminating the moving targets. When it was over, I went to the gift counter to find that our score had beaten the high score and the man behind the counter gave us some accessories and Aerith's umbrella, an unusual weapon, but trustworthy.

Suddenly, there were screams coming from one of the squares.

"The battle square, that's our stop." I called out.

Arrived at the scene to find blood carpeting the floor and bodies sprawled everywhere.

"Who could have done this?" Aerith's mouth clasped her mouth.

Cloud heard a mumble from one of the bodies which went, "Man ... with... gun... on... arm... cough"

"It couldn't be him, it just can't." Cloud backed away in disgust and gritted his teeth.

Out of nowhere, Dio and his men ambushed us. Tried to explain, but he wouldn't hear us out.

"Seize them and throw them to the prison." Dio commanded.

The next thing we knew, all four of us were thrown down a chute and landed in Corel Prison, but unconscious.

"Where are we?" Cloud asked, rubbing his head.

"At Corel Prison, where there's no escape for prisoners as the area is surrounded with quick sand." Cait Sith, explained.

"Let's look for Barrett; he'll know what this all about." Aerith spoke, as I helped her up.

"I'll bring you to him but don't expect him to be glad to see us." I warned them.

His house wasn't far away from Mr. Coate's caravan. The house was in ruins, and looked as if it were to collapse. Not a moment too soon, Barrett appeared and pointed his gun arm at us!

"Duck...!" I shouted over the gunshots. Ka...Plump ... something fell behind us.

It was a punk about to mug us, but Barrett got him first, He saved us.

"Now could you please explain what's going on, Barrett?" Cloud asked, straight forwardly.

"Yeah, tell us, you can trust us. We saw you rush in here and followed." Tifa called, as she, Yuffie, and Red XIII rushed into the room.

Barrett sighed and began telling the tale that he kept hidden in his heart all these years.

He and his best friend Dyne were on the way back from visiting the reactor, an old villager ran up to them shouting that the village was being destroyed. It gave them a shock when they saw smoke and flames in a distant.

Before the old man could dodge, he was shot by Scarlet. They ran the other, but Dyne slipped and fell in the cavern and Barrett caught him. But a shot from Scarlet's rifle caused him to loose his grasp of Dyne's hand and he fell.

It seems Barrett wasn't the only one to have a gun arm implanted and his arm, because Dyne whom survived the fall had the same operation. No matter what, Barrett wanted to handle the situation on his own.


Ok... Phew... just a few more chapters to go till I've really finished editing this whole story :p . Hope it's easier to read now :).