Disclaimer: I don't own the Final Fantasy characters appearing in the story. All belong to Squaresoft/Square Enix.

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Final Chapter: The End?

Kringggggg... Kringggggg... my alarm clock rang not far from my bed.

"Yawn... Morning...already... Hardly had any sleep. " I said as I woke up.

"Eh? Why was he here?" I looked beside me and saw Jacques lying beside me.

I looked around my room. Serena, Siew Mei, Sam and Naz slept on mattresses on the floor. Jacques woke up after me and touched my face gently saying good morning. What was I missing here? Wait! Wakka sent us back and instead of sending us to our respected homes, he crowded everyone into my room, but why?

"What's wrong, Lisa, not happy to see me?" Jacques asked.

"Oh... it's not that, I was just wondering why all of you are here in my room with me." I replied (a very unusual answer).

He didn't seem to care if I said something weird and kissed me (he seems to like doing it, but what about his girlfriend?). Everyone woke up at once.

The mission we went on was still fresh in our minds, but was it real? They themselves don't get why they're all gathered in my room. Out of the blue, mom knocked on the door asking if 'we' were ok.

"Mom... how did you know there were others in my room?" I asked her.

She unlocked the door and said, "Silly girl, don't you remember, you wanted a sleep over with them and we allowed you to. Breakfast is ready, come down when you're ready."

Brr... This was really weird. Down below, all acted normal, even Auntie Aisyah was there. She had come all the way from Pulau Pinang to visit us and stayed in the guest room. I sat beside Jacques at the breakfast table. Serena sat on my other side, Naz sat beside Sam and Siew Mei sat opposite me.

"What time did you sleep guys? You look bushed." Dad asked as we ate breakfast.

"Well dad, we had a pillow fight till 1 a.m. so we're kinda tired." I replied him.

"Oh... don't forget to get ready by 11 as we're about to go to Sunway Lagoon. Better 'wake' up." He reminded us. Oh goody... Now I remember, we got together to go have fun at Sunway Lagoon.

The day was fun while it lasted; we made sure we went all the rides. Siew Mei and I went on the scary roller coasters together and ice skating after we dried off. I managed to take a lot of photos and promised to show them all when they were developed.

(The next week)

I had collected my film from the shop and was surprised to find photos of my favorite chocobos, Cloud and his party and the triple wedding! OH MY GOD! It was real after all. I called everyone over to the house and said it was urgent.

They rushed over as soon as they could. I showed the photos to them and they were as shocked as I was. Then it was true, we were missing for what seemed liked months but was a mere week.

No wonder we were closer than ever and explained the materia Naz had as he said he talked to Yuffie nearly every night. I remember now, the time we had in the Final Fantasy world, how we helped save the Planet with them and saved Aerith from death itself.

Jacques pulled me towards him but I pushed him away and asked, "What about your girlfriend? You told me you had one two months ago." "Oh...her... It didn't seem to work out between us and she chose another. I'm more available than you think." He explained and stroked my hair.

I was speechless and hugged him back. "It's official now, you're mine and I promise you, I'll take care of you better than Rufus might have done." He assured me. This is just too much and surprisingly, my parents finally accepted him.

Sam walked to me and said, "I suppose you already know that I have eyes for your childhood friend," he brought Siew Mei forward.

"Siew Mei, jie-jie (means big sister, in Chinese), you and him. I can't believe it." I let go of Jacques and hugged her as a sign that I was with them all the way. It was a happy day for me, but Naz and Serena weren't feeling so great. Yuffie and Rude weren't here and they were quite lonely.

(Two weeks later)

"Hey, Naz, early as usual, forget to do your homework?" a classmate teases him.

"No... As class monitor, it's my duty to come early and make sure the class is in order." He replied confidently.

"Hope you won't cause havoc." The guy continued.

"Keep that up; you'll be having a date with my fist tonight, something even worse than getting the Rotan," he threatened.

"Ok, ok, hold your horses, chee...I didn't mean any harm. Did you know we have a new student coming today?" he asked.

"Yeah, I heard al right, he or she is coming from an outside country, but the teachers didn't say from where." Naz scratched his head.

"I hope the student is a girl, girls from other countries are prettier than the ones from here." He dreamed.

"Oh... is that what you think? So you won't mind if I tell what you just said to your girlfriend. What will she say, I wonder?" Naz had a sinister grin on his face. The boy pleaded him not to.

(20 minutes later)

"Good morning, Sir." All the students said at once.

"Good morning class, please be seated now." The teacher said, "I'm pleased to say that we have a new student from Osaka, and here she is now. Come in dear." He held out his hand as a signal for her to come in.

As she walked in, everyone stared at her beauty while Naz stared in surprise, "She looks familiar, could it be her?"

"Hello, my name's Yuffie Kisaragi, I had just transferred from Osaka. I hope we'll be great friends." She said as she bowed following her local custom.

"Yuffie...? How did she end up here?" Naz wondered in amazement with his mouth still open.

No doubt about it, it was her only with longer hair. Instead of really short hair, her hair was straighter and was until her shoulders. She sat beside Naz.

All gathered around her and introduced themselves. Yuffie wasn't really interested in talking with the boys, but became really close to all the girls. She noticed Naz sitting all alone deep in thought and went up to him.

She surprised him when she whispered... "Long time no see, Grey Fox or more accurately, Naz." She smiled at him.

"It's really you, but how?" Naz was surprised and glad at once.

"Long story, will tell later." She hugged him and he hugged back.

This made the other boys jealous and the girls blushed. Naz explained that he and Yuffie were friends from way back. At least they believed that. It was double shock for me when I found out that Godo was my ninjuitsu master.

"Godo, how did you get here?" he said the same thing Yuffie did.

When Naz and I got home from school and practice, we were triple-surprised when we saw that we had new neighbors who turned out to be them. Rude was with them too, but came as Yuffie's older brother by a year (he became younger) and his name was Tendo Kisaragi. It was hard to believe it was them.

Maybe an angel from above took pity on the young lovers and brought them to our world. It was amazing what love could do. Now for sure everyone was happy. Mom and dad never suspected that we knew them already.

Godo was a highly respected man even though he had recently come to our world. He was like a Dato' in our country and a well respected martial arts master. Though he couldn't use his beast form here, he managed to live without it. Tendo was thrilled to be reunited with Serena and the two were great friends.

Many surprises took place this month and the very best one was yet to come. Someone came and deliver some 'special' cargo. I signed the papers and opened the package. Inside were chocobos the size of my hand!

"Hey Bro, check it out, our chocobos," I gleamed as I stroked one on the head.

" Whoa, Kak Lisa, they're so tiny," he chuckled as he picked one up gently and placed one on the table.

As he pampered the adorable little thing, I exmained the other contents of the package.

With it came special stables for them to live in. It had unlimited greens, unlimited space and everything they would need. There was Storm the normal but best chocobo, Shane the black chocobo and Gwen the gold chocobo.

Sam took care of Gwen, Naz and Yuffie took care of Shane and I took care of Storm with Jacques who decided to stay with us till his results were announced.

Things couldn't be happier amongst us and all of us were closer than ever and got even closer every time we looked back on the time in the Final Fantasy world.

I looked the sky and thanked all who helped us make all this possible. We swore among us to keep the story of the mission a secret that must never be told to anyone. Not that they would believe us anyway, but just to make sure we don't give ideas to others.

Auntie Aisyah took the oaf too and promised to take this secret to the grave. May this story only be a story to be told to our children as a fairy tale and never reveal that the mission actually took place? Though it may be only a story to others, we still wait for the day they will call once more.

It was a great adventure to live and it changed us slightly. We were more confident to take risks and the list goes on. We would wish hard for another chance to go back, but like Wakka said, he'll call when we're needed. It may take days, months and maybe years, but we're in no hurry, we can wait.

"Eh, kak Lisa, aren't you gonna finish playing that Final Fantasy VII game?" Naz asked one day when he and Yuffie saw me finishing the last stages in Kingdom Hearts.

"Ah... I thought we finished it already. You said so yourself I should finish what I started. I'm finishing this game before I start any other game." I answered with a grin growing on my face.

He got what I meant. Technically we did finish the game, inside the game itself.

"I rest my case. I was wondering whether you and Jacques would like to join us for a walk in the park at KLCC." He asked.

"Hmm, what do you think, Jacques?" I asked at the person sitting behind me on the bed (I was on the floor) whose head was on my shoulder.

"Why not, let's go." He got up.

"Oh... we'll be meeting Sam, Siew Mei, Serena, Tendo and Auntie Aisyah there too. You don't mind, right?" Yuffie asked.

"No problem was thinking of inviting them, anyway." I stuck out my tongue cheekily.

"You shouldn't be acting like a kid anymore Lisa. You're nearly 19; you should act your age." Jacques squeezed my shoulder.

"OH... and who are you to tell me what to do, huh?" I pushed him away and crossed my arms.

"Your boyfriend..." he twirled my around, swept me off my feet and kissed me.

Not wanting us to have all the fun, Naz kissed Yuffie. At the park, we met them all at the bridge. We greeted them in a friendly fashion.

"So, what do you wanna do?" I asked them. "We should be asking you. You are or were our leader and heroine." Serena replied.

"Nah, I'll let you do what you want this time. Anyway, it was Naz who invited us out so we should ask him." I pointed to Naz and Yuffie.

"Who me, uhh... why don't we just relax around here or check out the Petrosains place. I heard there was a theme picture taking place. It's a bit like taking photo stickers but it's more like taking one large photo.

We'll all pitch in to take a photo and later I'll scan and print out copies for all of us. But, kak, you'll keep the original for being the best leader ever." He patted my back so hard I nearly fell forward.

"What do you think gang, up for it?" I asked everyone.

Some gave thumbs up and other cried out 'Yeah' or 'sure'. At the shop, we chose a background which was of a sunrise to symbolize happiness and a new day. We got into our posses and when it was done we paid the fee.

The man who took it gave us three extra copies for being the 200th customers that week as it was part of a promotion. We were lucky. Suddenly, Yuffie pulled me over and went all hyper.

"Kakak Lisa (she also calls me Kakak), look at the photos!" We looked at them and couldn't believe our eyes.

There were us in our posses, but in our other forms. We smiled and behind and with us were Cloud, Aerith, Barrett, Tifa, Red XIII, Cait Sith or Reeve, Sephiroth, Cid, Shera, Vincent, Lucrecia, Rufus, Wakka, Squall, Yuna, Tidus, Lulu, Paine, Sora, Kairi and Rikku.

A tear trickled from my eye and said "They're with us always and will be watching over us wherever they are."

The others felt the same way. We miss them so much, and one day we will meet again. I have a feeling that, that day will come sooner than we think. The photo proves as a sign that our adventure wasn't over, yet.

On the photo I held, Cloud, Vincent, Cid, their lovely wives and our other friends smiled and they too, will wait for the day we are reunited once more.

The End (Or Is It?)

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Hope you've enjoyed the story. I'm sorry if it was messy before, but I hope it turns out better now. This is my first story so I don't really expect it to be that good as I'm not good and using words.

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Ok… now that's done and over with… now I have gulps how many more pages left to go  . (15/8/06) This however will be my last edit to this story as this was after all my first ever fanfic.