Summary: Squall and the gang found out that the person watching them was none other than Cloud Strife. He introduced himself in a less than friendly way. They find out where they are but they have never heard of the places around here. After learning a bit about each other, Cloud decided to take them to Kalm and let them stay at the inn.

Chapter 4 – Adventures on the Way

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Everyone was silent as Cloud led them to Kalm. Squall was back in his thinking state. Where were they? And who exactly was this man? Squall had never heard of AVALANCHE before. Cloud has said they were a resistance group. Resistance against what? Squall thought that they might be a group from Timber, but all of the groups names started with 'Forest.' He knew one thing though, he was going to get to the bottom of this and find a way home.

His thoughts then drifted to Garden. What was happening? Cid had probably sent out a search group to look for them. But Squall had no idea where he was. He was pretty sure that no one in Garden had heard of Kalm. He needed to find out what had really happened before he could figure out a way to get home.

Rinoa looked round and saw the pensive look on his face.

"Squall, what is it?" she asked quietly. She and Squall, along with Angelo, had been walking together at the back of the group.

"I'm just worried, that's all." He said barely audible.

"What about?"

"Everything. Something must have happened to us when the Ragnarok crashed, and I don't know what. I don't know where we are and I don't really trust this Cloud guy."

"I'm sure he's not that bad. He seemed to generally want to help us."

"Yeah, so much so that he attacked us."

"But that was to protect the town. I'm sure you would have done the same, if it were Garden you were protecting."

She was right, but he wasn't about to tell her that. He felt more anger towards Cloud than he did with Seifer. Seifer and Squall had been rivals ever since they were kids. The both wielded Gunblades and were very skilled at using them. Squall was the better of the two, he had proven that on many occasions but he was shocked at how easily Cloud had defeated him. He somehow knew the reason why. People who fought Cloud must think that he is weak because of his height. Then he used only one hand, which made his attacks weaker. When they see his attacks and strengthen up theirs, Cloud attacks with a lot more power, catching them off guard. Squall knew that Cloud was a very experienced fighter and a very strong one at that. Squall mentally kicked himself for falling for it.

But there was something about Cloud that scared him slightly. His eyes. The glow in them seemed unnatural. There was something else different about Cloud. Somehow, to Squall, it seemed almost imposable that someone this young could be so strong. The guy looked in his very early twenty's. Unless he had been fighting longer than Squall had, who had been trained in fighting for over 12 years, something else must be increasing his strength. Squall wanted to find out, but he certainly wasn't going to ask.

The group past a small forest, that seemed to have been growing for a short period of time. The trees were only about 8 or 9 feet high, where as most forests were about 15 feet.

Selphie looked into the forest and she saw something move. Through a gap in a hedge, she saw a slick black tail slither across the ground. Angelo also noticed this, and she began to bark loudly, getting everyone's attention

"Hey what's that?" She asked as everyone turned around.

As soon as she finished asking, a large jet black dragon shot out of the forest. It had two pairs of wings which had three toed claws on the end of each. Squall took out his Gunblade in case it attacked. The dragon looked at Cloud, then to the others. As its eyes landed on Squall's Gunblade, it let out an ear-piercing shriek and sent an energy blast down at the ground. Everyone was blasted of their feet as the ground exploded in front of them. Squall shakily stood up, raging. He shot a Flare spell at the dragon, but it was stopped in its tracks as it hit a barrier. It exploded, and both the spell and the barrier disappeared. Squall looked round to see Cloud, one of the armours spheres glowing, with his hand outstretched towards the dragon. He had stopped Squall's spell.

"What the HELL are you playing at!?" Squall shouted furiously. Cloud looked at him casually, and then put his hand into his pocket. He drew out another green orb and started changing it with one in his armour.

In the mean time, the dragon fired another energy blast and it hurled towards Squall. Unable to dodge it, the blast his Squall in the chest and hurled him backwards. He landed on the ground, uninjured but stunned. The dragon swooped down, its legs in front of its body, ready to attack. Squall sat up, wide eyed, and put his hand over his head protectively. But a few feet away, Squall heard Cloud shout 'STOP!' and it froze in mid-air. Squall opened one eye and looked up. It had been placed under a Stop spell. He looked at Cloud, who, again, had his hand outstretched. He walked in between the dragon and Squall and looked up at it. The dragons eyes could still move and it looked at Cloud.  Cloud shook his head.

"How many times have I told you not to attack strangers?"

Squall and the others were shocked as he finished saying this.

"What? This thing knows you!?" Irvine asked

Cloud looked round at him. "Yeah, he's mine." Cloud nodded at the dragon and the Stop spell was taken off. The dragon landed heavily on the ground and lowered its head, ashamed that he had just been told off. The dragon was almost twice as tall as Cloud and could easily kill him in one shot, but he didn't want to hurt his master.

"I don't want to have to tell you again, okay Bahamut."

Squall's eyes went wide.

"Bahamut!" he said in surprise. Both Cloud and the Bahamut looked at him, confusedly. "That's impossible."

"What are you talking about? How is it impossible?"

"Because we have the only Bahamut that exists."

Cloud looked more confused than ever.

"I don't think so kid," he said, "There are two Bahamut summons. One is mine; the other belongs to my friend Yuffie."

"Summons?" Quistis said. Cloud nodded.

"They exist in materia" he explained. He lifted up his armour to show them the spheres. "These are all materia. They are produced by a substance called Mako. It's usually magic that is stored inside, but sometimes, a monster would be born into the materia. The monster is called a summon. This one's called Bahamut."

"We have a Bahamut too," Selphie said, "But ours is a GF, or Guardian Force."

Cloud was now totally baffled.

"I've never heard of a GF before."

Selphie turned to Zell.

"Zell you have Bahamut junctioned don't you?" She asked. He nodded, already knowing what she was going to ask him to do.

He closed his eyes and concentrated. He awoke the GF inside of him as the sky darkened. From the dark clouds burst another dragon, one almost identical to Cloud's. It landed beside its 'twin' and they looked at each other. Angelo yelped in fright and ran behind Rinoa, hiding behind her legs, before she started barking at them.

"Wow!" was all that Cloud said, looking at the GF.

The clouds started to become lighter but not totally. Cloud, noticing this, looked up.

"Looks like there's a storm coming." That got the others attention and he looked up towards Kalm. "We should hurry if we don't want to be caught out in the storm." The others nodded and started walking after him, with the Bahamuts in toll, flying side by side.

"You guys should come to my place before going to the inn," Cloud continued, "There's someone I'd like you to meet."

A/N: Well, there's chapter four. Sorry if it was a bit boring. I wanted to get that Bahamut scene in cause I've been imagining it in my head for ages. Chapter 5 should come out a bit quicker than usual, since I'm it's the school holiday here. Anyway, hope you've enjoyed the story so far. 'Cause it's going to get better.

P.S. Sorry if the Bahamut descriptions aren't perfect. I haven't played Final Fantasy VII in a while. Oh and I just updated this chapter and the last. I forgot about Angelo, so I added her in. Just some small parts so it didn't affect the story.