Disclaimer: I still do not own pokemon or FF7. If I did, I would be very happy, but no. They belong to Game Freak and Squaresoft. Lucky them. Hey! I found a quarter! ~Smiles~

Last Chapter: When everyone was almost to Junon, Ash got a phone call from his mom. A rather embarrassing phone call. The interesting side to it was, Ash found out that his mother knew Hojo, he was the one she was on the run from. After the call, they all arrived in Junon, were they went down to the beach and scared a girl, making her sprain her ankle and fall into the water. If things weren't bad enough, the sea serpent, Bottomswell, is now after them. Will they survive?

Note: 1 bottle of pop on the wall, 1 bottle of pop, you take it down, pass it around, no bottles of pop on the wall . . . ~buuurrrpp~ ah, Dr. Pepper. Wow, out already? That only took three chapters! Oh well, better get some more . . .

Oh me, oh my, see here, see why, my brain, I have lost.

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Chapter 10: Bottomswell and the Parade

The monster, Bottomswell, screeched and flailed it's tail, hitting Brock in the stomach and sending him flying into the rock face on the beach shore. While Aeries ran over to him to give him a potion, Barret assaulted it with his gun arm.

Bottomswell roared savagely after being hit in the head, and splashed at the water, causing everyone but Ash to be deluged, since he was in the air at the time. Doing a quick check to make such everyone was ok, Ash face the monster.

"Is that the best you got you mutant bastard son of Leviathan?!"

He flew at it, and with one horizontal swipe cut off its tail. The creature shrieked and roared, then fired a blue, bubble-like thing at him at incredible speed, catching him inside.

"What the hell?!" Ash shouted, pounding on the bubble's surface.

While the others continued to fight, Misty ran over to Ash. She too began to pound on the surface with her mallet, but it did little good. Then she suddenly got an idea. She took out her Materia and cast ice2 on the bubble. Within moments, the bubble barrier disappeared.

"That was brilliant Misty!" Ash said.

"I know" Misty beamed.

Out in the fight, Aeries was kept busy constantly healing everyone. Barret continued his never-ending shooting spree, and Red didn't like the idea of getting wet too much. Somehow Tifa ended up on the monster's back and was punching it's head like no tomorrow. Brock was swearing because he was thrown back into the rock face again. And Cloud began to glow red. Tifa saw this, and jumped off Bottomswell, just as Cloud shouted "Blade Beam!"

A blade of light erupted out of Cloud's Buster sword as he swung it downwards. The blade blasted through the air, right at Bottomswell. When it hit him, the monster gave one last painful shriek right before it was obliterated.

With that done, everyone seemed to notice at the same time the girl who had fallen into the water. Brock ran up and lifted her up and brought her to the sandy beach. Right then, an old man came onto the beach and noticed the situation. He ran up to her and checked her pulses.

"She's not breathing! Someone has to give Priscilla CPR!" The old man shouted to the group.

"I'll do it." Brock said, making everyone give him a warily look.

"Why you?" Misty asked.

"Well, a girl wouldn't do it, Barret and Red wouldn't do it, and Cloud and Ash have girlfriends that would kick their asses if they even got near another girl." Brock answered.

Silence for a moment.

"Alright, but it damn well better not look like your enjoying yourself." Misty said, taking gout her mallet to prove her point. Brock sweatdropped and went over to Priscilla.

Everyone closed their eyes when Brock was giving the girl CPR. It was just to disturbing for them to watch, but when the sound of coughing was heard, they saw the girl Priscilla twitch and open her eyes. The old man thanked them, and took Priscilla and brought her back home.

"Brock, don't you ever do that again." Aeries said as they walked up the steps back into town.

"Why?" Brock questioned.

"Because." Aeries answered, her face turning slightly pink.

"Because why?"

"Just because!"

"Well, if you say so."

When they reentered Junon, an elderly woman came up to them.

"I heard what you all did for dear Priscilla. If you have no place to stay, would you like to stay at my home? There is plenty of room."

"If that is ok with you ma'm." Tifa answered.

"Of course it is! I wouldn't be asking if it wasn't!" The woman chuckled and motioned them to follow her.

Her home was at the entrance of town. It was a pretty large home, and beds had already been prepared for them. Exhausted from the fight with Bottomswell, they went to bed quickly.

~Ash's Dream~

There was light. Whispers echoed from the glowing stones. Shouts from many familiar, yet blurry faces called out in some unknown warning. A cruel and unearthly laughter. A glint of metal. Falling. A flash of light. Red dyes the aqua blue water.

~End~

Ash woke up with a start. He rubbed the back of his neck and yawned.

"No more tacos before bed for me anymore!"

A noise from outside drew his attention from his thoughts. It sounded like some kind of parade was going on. He got out of bed and put his shoes on, set on finding out what all the racket was about. Eventually forgetting about the odd dream entirely.

~Cloud's Dream~

"What exactly happened at the reactor 5 years ago?"

"Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter. Tifa is hiding something from you. Why don't you ask her about when you went to Nibelheim?"

"Hmmm. Maybe."

"Then wake up!"

~End~

Cloud woke up and rubbed his eyes. He was about to ask Tifa about Nibelheim, but a loud commotion from outside drew his attention away from that. He put his leather boots on, and went outside.

All his friends were in the middle of town, talking to one another. Ash looked like he just woke up to, because he still looked confused as to what was going on.

"Tifa I." He began, but Tifa did not let him ask his question. Instead, she talked.

"Cloud! You won't believe this! There is a parade going on for Rufus being the new president of Shinra! Their going to board a boat to get to another continent were Sephiroth supposedly is now! What do you think?"

"We should try to sneak in and board the boat." Cloud said, forgetting what he was going to ask earlier.

"Alright, you and Ash do that, me and everyone else will follow suit." Tifa said.

Before he could answer, Priscilla ran down the stairs that connected her house to the main street.

"I can help! Follow me!"

She grabbed Ash and Cloud's arms and dragged them down to the beach. She then looked towards the water and blew a whistle. The dolphin that was there earlier jumped higher than any dolphin should.

"He can jump really high!" Ash exclaimed in awe.

"Yep! He can help you get onto the poles so you can climb up to were the Shinra are. Here is the whistle." Priscilla said, handing it to Ash.

"Thank you." Cloud said.

"No problem. It's the least I could do."

Ash smiled and got into the water and blew the whistle. The dolphin came to him and went under him, then shot into the air. Ash grabbed the pole when it came to him, and he climbed up it to steady himself. Then he threw the whistle back down to Cloud, who did the same.

When they were both up, they climbed up the pole until they reached a place that looked like an airport. They walked through the only door there that led into a building. There were troops there, and the leader went up to them.

"What are you doing still dressed like that! Follow me."

The leader led them to a locker room, and much to Ash's horror and disgust, made them put on troop uniforms. The crampy blue uniform with a blue Darth Vader impersonating helmets. The only reason he did was because it might get him onto the boat easier. If that wasn't bad enough though, two more troops came in and made them go through stupid exercises for the parade.

Finally the leader made them follow him out to the parade, and since they had already missed it, they ended up going through a couple of alleys and had to rejoin the parade there. Cloud did ok, but Ash didn't do so hot. All he was able to do was a rough version of mimicking.

When that horror was over, the leader led them to the boat, were they had to perform for the president much to Ash's disgust. Of course, he did much better this time, same as Cloud, and they got new better swords. Cloud got the Force Stealer, and Ash got the Oblivion, which was a little longer then his old sword.

Finally they boarded the boat, and noticed that everyone else was also on as well, disguised as troops and sailors. They talked for a little while with everyone. But when they went to see Barret, who was spying on the president, the intruder alert sounded off.

"Damn! Did they find us?" Barret yelled.

"No. It can't be us they've found." Ash said quietly.

"But, then there is only one other person it could be." Barret said.

"Sephiroth"

Next Chapter: A Cliffy! So, It's Sephiroth who is on the ship. What is he here for? Will everyone survive this boat ride, now covered in the bodies of the crew? Or will the heroes be among that group? Find out next chapter of: Final Pokemon 7!

Note: I was just wondering. Some people spell Aeris's name three different ways. There's Aeris, Aeries, and Aerith. Does it depend on which game you have? The American version I have spells it as Aeris. But, does it really matter? Just wondering.

Also, just for the hell of it, whenever I manage to finish this story, should I do a sequel? Guess it kind of depends how many reviews I get . . .

Oh man, I'm so bored. What is a 15 year old supposed to do? I could continue to write, but, geez, there is only so much I can take! Can't even go on the Nintendo because of my sister. Sigh.
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Dclick: Ash, he is dense. Oh well. It may be a little OOC, but I really didn't want him to be one of those people who wig out at that kind of thing. Misty may have some problems with it later, though. Don't know yet.

DarkHolyKnight: So I'm doing good? Yay! Please, if you want to, inform me of my errors and tell me what I'm missing. Thanks!