a/n: Barret has a speaking part in this chapter ^-^ and I still don't own anything…
It's Thursday now in the story, if you were interested, and band camp ends on Friday. Now you know if you were lost.
Also to those who don't play cards as frequently as I do—rummy and spoons are card games. If you haven't played them you must learn. Excellent ways to waste your time UNLESS YOUR MATH TEACHER WON'T LET YOU PLAY CARDS AFTER YOU FINISH YOUR HOMEWORK! But there's ways around that. It's harder to notice two people playing 21 because it's such a quiet game *evil smiles* Wait, what am I doing?! This is a Final Fantasy story, not an explanation of card games and how they relate to my life! *ducks a bunch of omnislashes and continues with the story*
Chapter IX: A Mission for Doom of the Living
"I just gave the trumpets their part of the mission!" Yuffie plopped down between Vincent and Barret at a picnic table just outside the dorms where Aerith, Cloud, Barret, Cid, Shera, Tifa, Vincent, and Sephiroth were sitting playing an intense game of rummy with the collector's edition material playing cards Yuffie had let them use. They wanted to play spoons, and had sent Yuffie to find some. She'd taken forever, having stopped to explain to the group Doom of the Living that they would need to wreak havoc tomorrow during band so that the other groups could do their jobs.
"What are their jobs?" Sephiroth asked, amused. "Rummy," he added on, offhandedly, grabbing the card that Cid had discarded. Naturally, Cid had a colorful opinion on the entire matter that would take way too long to censor out and therefore has just been left out. He always did.
"Well, the band's mission tomorrow is to get Commander Leonhart's stick thingy—"
"Baton," Vincent corrected her off-handedly.
"—Taped to the ceiling," Yuffie continued, pretending that she
just wasn't interrupted at all. She also
didn't mention that she'd formulated this plan because she was afraid of the
stick blinding her. "This mission will
involve everyone but the anti's—"
"Anti-s?" Shera questioned.
"People like Elena, Reno, and Rude…" Yuffie explained, then continued, "everyone but the anti's, Cid, and me."
"And why not you two?" Tifa asked, drawing a card, making a face, and discarding it.
"Rummy!" Barret called.
"Is not," Tifa glanced down at it.
"Oh. Sorry, Tif'."
"Stupid," Cid muttered. Barret hit him. Cid slapped back, and Yuffie interrupted before the fight could go on any farther.
"Cid and I…we've got our own plan," Yuffie grinned deviously. Shera noticed that an evil grin from Cid had appeared at the mention of this plan as well. "Just wait and see…"
With that, Yuffie laid the sporks she'd come up with on the picnic table. (She couldn't find any spoons.) She smiled a smile that clearly said 'Spork you all! I'm gonna win!'
So the group engaged in a violent game of spoons, or at least sporks in this case.
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a/n: You know, I can't remember anything about Elena, Reno, or Rude from the actual game…I played FF7 last night and I was gonna go looking for them, but my game was too slow. Probably oughta clean it. Sorry for such a short chapter…I did all of these last night so they just got kind of short…but that's okay, right? Is that okay with everyone? *casts reflect on herself* Um, read and review, maybe, please? Love and peace to everyone who's read this and isn't going, 'She's such a forkin' moron!!' ~~xiffie~~