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"No can do, Barret, we won't let you do this alone, as all of us are part of it," I patted his arm.
He looked around the room and saw everyone nodding. He lifted his head, and it lit up almost immediately. Cloud seeing this he started picking whom to bring along with Barret. Aerith and Red XIII were picked, but soon I found after they were gone, I could see through their eyes, (well Red XIII's and Aerith's).
Didn't think I could do it but it was unusual. They found Dyne in a junk yard grieving over the loss of hi wife and daughter Marlene. Yes, he was Marlene's original father, Barret found her at the village after the Shinra goons left. How did she survive, a mere baby, nobody knew. Barret and Dyne fought like cats and dogs, but Dyne gave in to his best friend. Told him to take care of Marlene and give her the locket of his late wife. Before he could catch him, Dyne committed suicide. Barret howled like an injured animal and banged the ground.
Diamonds fell from my eyes, as I watched. They arrived back in the evening, and Barret needed a chat with Mr. Coates about busting out. The only way was to take part in the chocobo race and win. It was a job for Cloud but I wanted to give it a shot. The others either shook their heads or shrugged their shoulders at my overwhelming attitude. Nothing could seem to hold me down. Ester was our manager and taught us the basics of racing. Seems to me it was like riding a really fast ostrich, but its build was as stable as a horse. It was fun at first but when it neared the finish line the pressure ascended to my head. When all had past the finish line, I found the chocobo I rode was tossing me up and down nearly throwing me over board. I won the race, on my first ride. Everyone congratulated me and Ester passed a letter from Dio to Cloud. He apologized for the misunderstanding and to make up for it, gave us a buggy.
With the help of the buggy, it was a cinch crossing the shallow parts of rivers. Before going to the next spot, I flew to the blacksmith's house bearing the mythril we got form the old man from the cave. The blacksmith was overjoyed when I gave him the mythril as he was running out of minerals and metals to forge weapons.
"You could choose items from either the big or small box." He said thankfully.
"Ok, thank you. I was glad to be of service to you." I smiled childishly.
I chose the small box which contained Aerith's final limit break, Great Gospel. The sight of it made me shiver as this meant the end was near. I scratched my head, thanked the blacksmith and left. While the others journeyed to Gongaga town, I flew back to the North Corel town and went to the Gold Saucer. Without anyone there to help me, I went through the battle square and battled at least 10 times, without getting tired and all the losses that the cast on me had no effect. I was amazed at myself, didn't think I'd last 80 battles (not to mention in record time of half an hour, though it didn't feel like I had gone for 80 battles). I managed to win Cloud's final limit break along with other great things like a champion belt and potions. Used up the extra GP that I had as the GP we collected before was 200 GP higher than the limit so at least I used it wisely.
All the competitor wanabes stared open mouthed at me as they didn't think a girl would last going through the battle square more than twice.
"... Sigh..." I left the Gold Saucer and flew to Gongaga to find Cloud and the rest already at the town.
I saw Tifa and Aerith standing on opposite sides of the town. I stumbled upon Cloud, who rushed out the door of Zack's parent's house, made me go in a spin when he pushed me out of the way to check on Aerith. He chose to be jealous when Aerith explained who Zack was. I went to Tifa, she talked as if she and Zack were lovers, but she only met him a few years back when he arrived at Nibelheim with Sephiroth. I scratched my head once more, blinked and left her there. I noticed Cloud didn't rush to her as he did Aerith but instead went with Aerith on a walk. That's strange, usually he'd go to both, never mind, it must be really fate that they'll be together. Tifa on the other hand stared at them jealously; it was plain to see that she had feelings for Cloud.
Rolling my eyes, I murmured to myself, "Where were you Tifa, years ago when he wanted to be your friend?"
She wasn't even close to Cloud when she was younger (will reveal later on). Wandered through the shops again, dad was right all along, I'm a very spendthrift girl. The variety of merchandise wasn't great but, worth purchasing. I managed to get some handy materia and other useful equipment.
"Lisa, where's our next destination?" Cloud called from outside the materia shop.
"It's your hometown, Nibelheim, across the river." I returned the call, while exiting the shop.
Cloud froze. Nibelheim had burned to a crisp 5 to 7years ago. That was what he believed. Didn't want to scare him, but what to do, he asked for the next stop. On the road, he was mute till we reached Nibelheim. It was still standing; even Tifa turned as white as a sheet to see all the houses were like she remembered. Why it was still there, no one knew. All the villagers were hush, hush. The stories they told didn't seem to ring bells in anyone's head. They were hiding something, but wouldn't blurt it out. No matter, at the Shinra there still was a surprise waiting for us. We crept up the creaky floor boards of the stairs and into a room with a safe. There was a combination needed to open it.
"The combination is, Right 36, Left 10, Right 59 and Right 97." I said in order.
They just stared at me, while Cloud clicked the knob turning it following the combination. It clicked open. There was a rumble, all of us crashed to the floor. Before us was the monster called the Lost Number? That's a very farfetched name.
"Hit it with all your might; be careful when it turns blue!" I shouted for all to hear.
We used many summon spells and limit breaks. Luckily it never got to turn blue, but maintained its half red and blue figure and sometimes turned red. It put up a fierce fight but, it lost dramatically. Not used to using so much power, I panted hard
. "Time to get Vincent from the basement," I said, quietly as sticky beads trickled from my forehead.
I took the key from the safe and led everyone to Vincent's chamber. He slumbered in a room with coffins, his BED was a coffin. Cloud knocked the coffin with the sealed lid. From in side, Vincent threw off the lid and swooped up into the air like Count Dracula. I ran and hid behind Aerith, I was terrified of him even though he was to be our comrade. His first impression scared me out of my skin. Cloud talked to him till he stumbled on an issue about Sephiroth and Lucrecia, Sephiroth's real mother.
After that, He asked us to leave. Cloud knocked again and this time, he explained that he was a former Turk, but Professor Hojo experimented on him and made him look the way he was now. He wanted to be left alone after that, saying he was sinned. In the Laboratory, next to the room, we found Sephiroth lingering amongst the books. Cloud approached him. Sephiroth lectured about his plan to conquer the Promised Land again and flew off knocking Cloud out of the way with a materia. I picked up the materia, and helped Cloud to his feet.
Aerith comforted him as I spoke up, "We have to get moving, there's another person we have to pick up, not far from here."
They were mute, then nodded. As we made our way back to the staircase through the freaky underground corridor, Vincent swooped down out of nowhere saying he wants to join us. Cloud agreed and he joined the team. Though he is our compadre, he still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Getting past Mt. Nibel wasn't a problem, but getting past the materia keeper a spider like monster was. It was immune to fire attacks and the problem was most of our materia were fire based. I shot many combos of arrows, including lightning, poison and ice, even transformed using Paine's warrior dress sphere. Aerith was our healer during the fight and cast gravity attacks on the monster. Cloud slashed away, every now and then used his limit break Climb Hazard. Red XIII was busy casting summon spells which weren't fire based. Finally, after twenty minutes of fighting, it kicked the bucket.
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"No can do, Barret, we won't let you do this alone, as all of us are part of it," I patted his arm.
He looked around the room and saw everyone nodding. He lifted his head, and it lit up almost immediately. Cloud seeing this he started picking whom to bring along with Barret. Aerith and Red XIII were picked, but soon I found after they were gone, I could see through their eyes, (well Red XIII's and Aerith's).
Didn't think I could do it but it was unusual. They found Dyne in a junk yard grieving over the loss of hi wife and daughter Marlene. Yes, he was Marlene's original father, Barret found her at the village after the Shinra goons left. How did she survive, a mere baby, nobody knew. Barret and Dyne fought like cats and dogs, but Dyne gave in to his best friend. Told him to take care of Marlene and give her the locket of his late wife. Before he could catch him, Dyne committed suicide. Barret howled like an injured animal and banged the ground.
Diamonds fell from my eyes, as I watched. They arrived back in the evening, and Barret needed a chat with Mr. Coates about busting out. The only way was to take part in the chocobo race and win. It was a job for Cloud but I wanted to give it a shot. The others either shook their heads or shrugged their shoulders at my overwhelming attitude. Nothing could seem to hold me down. Ester was our manager and taught us the basics of racing. Seems to me it was like riding a really fast ostrich, but its build was as stable as a horse. It was fun at first but when it neared the finish line the pressure ascended to my head. When all had past the finish line, I found the chocobo I rode was tossing me up and down nearly throwing me over board. I won the race, on my first ride. Everyone congratulated me and Ester passed a letter from Dio to Cloud. He apologized for the misunderstanding and to make up for it, gave us a buggy.
With the help of the buggy, it was a cinch crossing the shallow parts of rivers. Before going to the next spot, I flew to the blacksmith's house bearing the mythril we got form the old man from the cave. The blacksmith was overjoyed when I gave him the mythril as he was running out of minerals and metals to forge weapons.
"You could choose items from either the big or small box." He said thankfully.
"Ok, thank you. I was glad to be of service to you." I smiled childishly.
I chose the small box which contained Aerith's final limit break, Great Gospel. The sight of it made me shiver as this meant the end was near. I scratched my head, thanked the blacksmith and left. While the others journeyed to Gongaga town, I flew back to the North Corel town and went to the Gold Saucer. Without anyone there to help me, I went through the battle square and battled at least 10 times, without getting tired and all the losses that the cast on me had no effect. I was amazed at myself, didn't think I'd last 80 battles (not to mention in record time of half an hour, though it didn't feel like I had gone for 80 battles). I managed to win Cloud's final limit break along with other great things like a champion belt and potions. Used up the extra GP that I had as the GP we collected before was 200 GP higher than the limit so at least I used it wisely.
All the competitor wanabes stared open mouthed at me as they didn't think a girl would last going through the battle square more than twice.
"... Sigh..." I left the Gold Saucer and flew to Gongaga to find Cloud and the rest already at the town.
I saw Tifa and Aerith standing on opposite sides of the town. I stumbled upon Cloud, who rushed out the door of Zack's parent's house, made me go in a spin when he pushed me out of the way to check on Aerith. He chose to be jealous when Aerith explained who Zack was. I went to Tifa, she talked as if she and Zack were lovers, but she only met him a few years back when he arrived at Nibelheim with Sephiroth. I scratched my head once more, blinked and left her there. I noticed Cloud didn't rush to her as he did Aerith but instead went with Aerith on a walk. That's strange, usually he'd go to both, never mind, it must be really fate that they'll be together. Tifa on the other hand stared at them jealously; it was plain to see that she had feelings for Cloud.
Rolling my eyes, I murmured to myself, "Where were you Tifa, years ago when he wanted to be your friend?"
She wasn't even close to Cloud when she was younger (will reveal later on). Wandered through the shops again, dad was right all along, I'm a very spendthrift girl. The variety of merchandise wasn't great but, worth purchasing. I managed to get some handy materia and other useful equipment.
"Lisa, where's our next destination?" Cloud called from outside the materia shop.
"It's your hometown, Nibelheim, across the river." I returned the call, while exiting the shop.
Cloud froze. Nibelheim had burned to a crisp 5 to 7years ago. That was what he believed. Didn't want to scare him, but what to do, he asked for the next stop. On the road, he was mute till we reached Nibelheim. It was still standing; even Tifa turned as white as a sheet to see all the houses were like she remembered. Why it was still there, no one knew. All the villagers were hush, hush. The stories they told didn't seem to ring bells in anyone's head. They were hiding something, but wouldn't blurt it out. No matter, at the Shinra there still was a surprise waiting for us. We crept up the creaky floor boards of the stairs and into a room with a safe. There was a combination needed to open it.
"The combination is, Right 36, Left 10, Right 59 and Right 97." I said in order.
They just stared at me, while Cloud clicked the knob turning it following the combination. It clicked open. There was a rumble, all of us crashed to the floor. Before us was the monster called the Lost Number? That's a very farfetched name.
"Hit it with all your might; be careful when it turns blue!" I shouted for all to hear.
We used many summon spells and limit breaks. Luckily it never got to turn blue, but maintained its half red and blue figure and sometimes turned red. It put up a fierce fight but, it lost dramatically. Not used to using so much power, I panted hard
. "Time to get Vincent from the basement," I said, quietly as sticky beads trickled from my forehead.
I took the key from the safe and led everyone to Vincent's chamber. He slumbered in a room with coffins, his BED was a coffin. Cloud knocked the coffin with the sealed lid. From in side, Vincent threw off the lid and swooped up into the air like Count Dracula. I ran and hid behind Aerith, I was terrified of him even though he was to be our comrade. His first impression scared me out of my skin. Cloud talked to him till he stumbled on an issue about Sephiroth and Lucrecia, Sephiroth's real mother.
After that, He asked us to leave. Cloud knocked again and this time, he explained that he was a former Turk, but Professor Hojo experimented on him and made him look the way he was now. He wanted to be left alone after that, saying he was sinned. In the Laboratory, next to the room, we found Sephiroth lingering amongst the books. Cloud approached him. Sephiroth lectured about his plan to conquer the Promised Land again and flew off knocking Cloud out of the way with a materia. I picked up the materia, and helped Cloud to his feet.
Aerith comforted him as I spoke up, "We have to get moving, there's another person we have to pick up, not far from here."
They were mute, then nodded. As we made our way back to the staircase through the freaky underground corridor, Vincent swooped down out of nowhere saying he wants to join us. Cloud agreed and he joined the team. Though he is our compadre, he still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Getting past Mt. Nibel wasn't a problem, but getting past the materia keeper a spider like monster was. It was immune to fire attacks and the problem was most of our materia were fire based. I shot many combos of arrows, including lightning, poison and ice, even transformed using Paine's warrior dress sphere. Aerith was our healer during the fight and cast gravity attacks on the monster. Cloud slashed away, every now and then used his limit break Climb Hazard. Red XIII was busy casting summon spells which weren't fire based. Finally, after twenty minutes of fighting, it kicked the bucket.
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