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Note: Woot! Nother chapter! Am I good or what? Wonder how far I'm gonna get with this story? Who. . .knows. . . Oh, and remember. All flames will be used to alight my demonic little sister's hair on fire! .
"If there are innocent bystanders, does that mean there are also guilty bystanders?"
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"Blah Blah" = talking
'Blah Blah' = thinking
Falling Stars
Chapter 3: Train Ride
1st person p.o.v. – Holie
The next day came way to soon for my liking. It seemed like I had just fallen asleep, and I was already being rushed over to the station. Actually, now that I think of it, did I get any sleep last night? I never remember falling asleep. . .
"Coming Holie?!" I heard Tifa call from the entryway into the train.
"Yeah." I yelled back, and increased my walking speed to the train.
When I got to the train, I hopped inside, and the conductor shut the door behind me.
'Guess I was the last one.' I figured, and sat down next to Tifa on one of the blue benches that were lined up against the wall.
The train suddenly gave a jerk, and I knew that the train had started. Turning myself a bit, I stole a look out the window. There really wasn't much to see since we were still under the plate in a tunnel in the slums, but watching the blurred brick of the tunnel soothed me a bit.
"Nervous?" I heard Tifa ask next to me.
I sighed and looked away from the window, facing her.
"More than you'll ever know." I stated to her truthfully. In all honesty, I wasn't just nervous, that was an understatement, more like scared outta my mind. I knew exactly what was going to happen there, but I couldn't tell her what I knew. I couldn't tell anyone.
"That's okay. The first mission is always the scariest, but there's always that exiting thrill about it of not knowing what could happen." Tifa said with a laugh, and I nervously laughed along with her.
'Oh yeah, exiting trill. Right. If only you knew Tifa' I thought, mentally shaking my head.
Tifa stood up, stretching herself a bit, than said,
"Well, I'm going to go talk to Cloud. We'll be leaving soon, so get ready, okay?
I nodded, and also stood up, walking more towards the front of the car. I sat myself down again, and began to check over my stuff. When I was almost done, I saw the Shinra employee in a red suit that I remembered from the game.
"This is why I hate the last train, Geeze." He said, looking over at Barret who had practically declared himself king of the train. His feet were up and he was lounging back on the benches.
Barret suddenly stood up, and marched over to the Shinra guy, who I could see was beginning to sweat when he realized that Barret heard him.
"You say'n sumthing?" Barret yelled to the now really freaked out guy. "I said, You say'n sumthing?!" He said even louder, freaking me out a bit as well.
"N. . . No!" The guy stuttered back.
Barret glared at him, but then went back to his seat.
"Oh man, oh man, I can't wait to brag about this to the guys back at work!" I heard the guy say under his breath, and I rolled my eyes.
'Not much to brag about.' I thought, and then went back to looking out the window.
Suddenly, the light above my head blared red, and I instinctively looked around to see what was going on. I noticed that the others were doing the same as well, and Barret also looked pretty pissed. Overhead, I heard the speakers come on. The words were a bit staticy, but you could still understand what was being said.
"Unidentified passengers located in car number one. Preparing lockdown."
"Shit! Someone blew it!" I heard Barret yell.
"Come on! If we keep moving up the cars, we should be able to get by the lockdown." Tifa said.
We nodded, and headed out of the first car just as it locked behind us.
"Car one locked down. Preparing car two lockdown." The speakers overhead blared.
"Hurry up!" Cloud shouted over the crowd of confused people.
I pushed my way through the other people on the train, hearing some rather colorful profanities as I accidentally stepped on their toes or pushed them out of my way a little bit too hand. When I reached the end of the car, I quickly stepped through.
Looking ahead of me, I saw the others open a door that led to the outside. Pushing through same more people, mumbling apologies as I went, I reached the others just in time to see Tifa jump out of the train.
"Aren't you going to go?" I heard Cloud say to Barret.
"A leader always waits till the end." The large man replied.
Cloud shrugged and jumped out of the train car as well.
"Well, what are you waiting for blondie? An invitation? Get mov'in!" Barret yelled to me, pointing out the door.
I glanced out the door, watching the rails zip by at alarming speed. I felt my insides queeze over on me.
"Umm. . . I don't really think I shou. . ." I started, but didn't get to finish my sentence as Barret grabbed my arm and yanked me out of the train with him.
"HOLY SHIT!" I cursed loudly as I went flying out the door and hit the ground, rolling some.
When I stopped rolling, I just laid there on my back on the ground for a moment, trying to regain my thoughts that seemed to have been left on the train, 'cus all that was coming to me now was 'Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god . . .'
My left arm was hurting, nothing serious, but I could feel it bleeding some. Pulling myself up into a sitting position, I took out my restore Materia. Feeling the usual calming warmth that I got from the small sphere, I concentrated on healing my arm. The stone glowed green for a moment, and I could feel the healing effects already start. Within moments, there was no pain in my arm and it wasn't bleeding anymore. Smiling, I put the Materia back and stood up, brushing myself off.
"'Bout time you got off your ass. The others are this way. Hurry up now and follow me." I heard Barret say not to far away from me.
I looked over to him and nodded, following him down the subway.
We walked down the subway for about ten minutes before we encountered Tifa and Cloud waiting for us. The two nodded to us, and the four of us continued walking down the subway together.
We walked in silence for quite some time, and it was beginning to unnerve me. Wouldn't you be uncomfortable too if you were walking down a spooky tunnel in complete silence except for random dripping noises and scratching sounds echoing off the walls?
I took a deep breath and exhaled it, then began cracking my wrists like I had done the night before. The sound began echoing, making it all the more louder.
"Stop that." Cloud said, and then continued looking ahead of him. I cracked it one more time for good measure, then stopped.
I huffed a bit, and the tunnel returned to that eerie silence once more.
More time passed by, and I was beginning to wish that a monster would show up so something exiting would happen, but it never did.
'Whatever happened to all those annoying random encounters you always get in the game?' I thought to myself grumpily. 'And I know this tunnel was never this long in the game. Are we lost or something?'
Just when I was about to give up an ever reaching the end, something ahead of me caught my eye. I blinked a couple of times, looking at the yellow green bars of laser light with mixed feelings.
On one hand, I didn't need to walk around that stupid subway anymore, but and the other hand, that meant we were at the reactor, and in my book, that's BAD!
When we got there, Cloud went up and inspected it for a while, and then he shook his head.
"We can't go any further than this." He said, then looked around, seeing the vent I was hoping silently to myself that he'd miss. "Looks like we'll have to continue through here."
Everyone, including myself, looked over at the vent. It wasn't all that big, and Barret would certainly have one hell of a time getting trough it, but, it was the only option left to get into the reactor. Have I mentioned that I didn't want to go?
"You've gotta be shitt'n me! There ain't no way 'n hell I'm climbing into that thing!" Barret shouted at the spiky haired blonde. "What if I get stuck or sumthin', huh? What then?!"
Tifa looked like she was going to agree with Barret. Not about the whole 'go into the vent' plan, but about the part of Barret getting stuck. I had to admit, I felt sorry for Barret too. In the game, you just see Cloud go down, never anything about Barret.
"Well, do you have any other ideas?" Cloud questioned to the large man.
"Well,. . .no. . .but." Barret stumbled, looking around to see if there were any other ways.
"Then stop complaining and come on!" The blonde finished, jumping into the vent.
Tifa turned and gave Barret an apologetic look before she too jumped into the vent, leaving just Barret and me. I stood there, shifting my weight side to side before groaning.
'I'm gonna die.' I thought pessimistically before I too jumped into the vent.
The vent was old and dusty, and I could hardly tell where I was going. Thank god that it was a one-way vent or I knew that I would definitely get lost. Behind me, I heard a loud 'THUNK!' and cursing that would make a sailor blush.
'There's Barret.' I told myself in a game show tone, weirding myself out a little bit.
After going through the vent some more, I couldn't help but thank god that I wasn't first. Poor Cloud, he probably had to deal with a bunch of spider webs 'n stuff.
Eventually, I came across a steel ladder leading down. Taking a deep breath, I climbed down it to where I knew the reactor would be. At the bottom of the ladder, I could see Tifa and Cloud. Cloud being covered in stick gray webs and Tifa trying to get them off.
'Cool. I was right.' I thought, and went down the rest of the ladder.
"Having a little trouble Cloud?" I said a bit teasingly, but good- naturedly.
"Pffffftt." Was the only sound I got from Cloud in reply.
I laughed and helped Cloud get off all the spider webs. They were pretty strong webs and were even holding down his gravity defying pointy hair.
A few minutes later, Barret came down the ladder. He was purple in the face and looked about ready to seriously break something. He just passed by us grumbling out a "Come on lazy asses." Before going down another ladder.
Cloud shook his head in a vain attempt to get the rest of the webbing out of his hair, before going down the ladder as well. Tifa and me looked at each other, shrugged, and followed the two boys.
'This is proving to be more interesting than I first thought'
So ends the third part of The Tale of Falling Stars
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Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drive me into madness
I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away
Don't turn away
Don't give into the pain
Don't try to hide
Though they're screaming your name
Don't close your eyes
God knows what lies behind them
Don't turn out the light
Never sleep, never die
I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain if I will it all away
Don't turn away
Don't give into the pain
Don't try to hide
Though they're screaming your name
Don't close your eyes
God knows what lies behind them
Don't turn out the light
Never sleep, never die
Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me I fear
She beckons me shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaken all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end
Whisper-
Evan Escence
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Reviews
Kitty: Cool, you've reviewed every chapter so far! Yay! Well. . . there have only been three chapters, four if you count this one, but, anyway, I'm still happy! I'm glad that you like this story so far too! It makes me very happy. .
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Note 2: So, what do ya think? REVIEW and tell me, or, or, sniff, I'll cry!
Note3: Ummmm. . . I'm going to need ideas on this one, so, please give me ideas, my muse is like, gone right now, and, someone pointing out my errors would be good too. Hey stratadrake! If your there, your pretty good at that.
Man, this one is turning out to be kinda serious. I'll have to rectify that. Smiles
Okay. 2,500 words for this chapter is what I got on this computer. This is cool. I'm only at the second reactor and I've already got 10,000 words for this story! This is so cool. I'm proud of myself!
If anyone is interested, I have a really weird Pokemon/FF7 Mary-Sue type story I wrote too. It's 40,000 words long at the moment, so it'll keep you reading it for awhile. It's weird though, and it's a humor story, but if you like that kind of thing, go check it out!
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Questions
What should I do for pairings. I'll already tell you I'm no good with romance, but parings are nice. Also, I happen to be more of a Cloud/Tifa fan, but, I still need to know. Should I kill Aeris? Me personally, I hate that part of the game, but if you people want me to kill her . . . Should Red find another of his specie? If you've seen the ending of the game, he seems to have cubs, so, you'd think he found someone, right? What should I do with Sephiroth? Does anyone have idea's for side things that don't involve the main plot? Like one of them getting sick or something? Should I split them up into groups like in the game?
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