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The figure moved just into view and stopped, Cloud's grip suddenly loosened on the handle, the end of the blade falling to bounce off the ground.
"Hurry up, you two, it's getting cold, everyone's inside" Vincent said as he emerged from the white-out" .... why is your weapon in your hand?"
"Oh, ahh, forget it, I jus', I got carried away, it came so sudden, you know." Cloud said, slightly embarrassed from the situation.
"Well sheath it and hurry up." Vince exclaimed in a monotonous voice.
"Ri... Right, well be right there." He replied, as he turned to hold Tifa's hand, which she kindly allowed him to, caressing his hand with her thumb and quickly moving up beside him, as he led her to her bar.
"What the hell took you two so long," said Barret, slightly aggravated then noticing them holding hands. "Ahh, you were making out" he said with a smirk.
"What! No, no he was jus helping me through the snow, that's all, right Cloud" Tifa exclaimed.
"Yeah, jus', jus' helping her to the bar, that's all." He said as his eyes twitched from Tifa to Barret, checking if he believed him.
"Yea right Cloud, we know you have feelings for Teef. Ain't that right Vincy" Yuffie interrupted leaning across the counter towards them
"Uhh, I'd find this conversation irritating and would not like to be brought into it, and, please, don't call me Vincy, be civilized." Vincent said, looking slightly awkward to the attention he was getting.
"Well I sure as hell noticed it." Cid said, waving a cigarette at them. "Yer still holcing her han' " he smugly said as he slouched back in his chair.
Strife, noticing this let his grip on Tifa's hand loosen, her hand slipping out of his. His face was red from embarrassment
"Leave them be, I think we have bigger problems than that." RedXII exclaimed, his voice slightly rough. "This weather isn't like this for no reason, I can feel it. Something is disturbing to natural meteorology of the planet, and its not a natural disturbance. Something, or someone, is doing this, and I think we should do something about this, agreed?"
"Hey, why the hell is it always up to us to sort out this shit!" Barret exclaimed, his fists clenched by his sides.
"Calm down Barret, it won't take us long to sort it out anyway, we have the highwin' ta take us to the source quickly, right Cloud." Cid blurted out, trying to keep a straight face as he looked at him.
Cloud didn't know what to say but he knew he had to tell them now. "Well you see, I sorta don't have the highwind with me." He muttered, looking at his feet.
"you...what..." cid said as he looked dumbstruck, Cigarette falling from his lips. "well, well where... where is it then..."
Cloud could sense Cid's heart was broke, he didn't mean to crash it. Cid spent half his life on building the highwind and going to space so Cloud knew that the truth would hurt him. "well I crashed it" he said as he prepared for cid to hurl stuff at him.
"Well, Well can I not repair it, I built that ship, I know it inside out. I... I could repair it, where is it?" Cid breathed out, his voice hanging on to every word.
"It lies at the bottom of the sea." Cloud mumbled, then raised his head to look at Cid, Cloud never seen cid look like this before, his eyes were wide, tears forming underneath them. The full grown man was about to cry over a crashed ship, he had fought with them, through heaven and hell, he had defeated the mighty Sephiroth alongside the rest of them. He witnessed meteor collide with holy, just before it destroyed the planet, and he never once shed anything that even remotely resembled a tear.
"I see." Cid said, dropping his head. A shimmer of light reflecting of a tear as it ran down his nose and fell to the ground.
Cloud immediately hung his head in shame, he didn't like to see Cid like this, Cid was a strong guy.
"Don't look so gloomy, Cid, we don't need the highwind anywho, do we?" Yuffie blurted out, looking to support Cid through it.
"Nah, we don't need it, we explored the majority of the land before we got the highwind last time." Barret established. "Cid, you ok?"
"Sorry" Cloud said, he couldn't think of anything else to say. "it was purely an accident."
"Yea, I know you didn't mean to, I can't hold it against you, it was, it was jus a ship, a... a chunk a metal. Nothing else."
"Cid cheer up, your happy now anyway, you were doing so well without it as Cloud had it. How would you feel if Shera seen you like this" Tifa said
"so we'll start tomorrow, will we?" RedXII exclaimed, avoiding Cid's state.
"We don't know where to start, where would we go?" Vincent pointed out.
"Well" Cloud said, grabbing the attention of everyone. "We could start at the north crater."
"An' why ta hell would we start there, I don't wanna hell go back there!" Barret shouted. His voice quivered at the thought.
"Well, it seems the logical choice, that's were the evil was breeding when we first journeyed. There may still be sin lurking there." Cloud said, "plus, plus I've had recurring nightmares taking place in that area." He said, turning to look at Vince, who seemed to realize that the incident outside referred to that.
"So then, to the Northern-Crater!" Tifa said to everyone, but focusing on Cloud. He didn't seem to notice. "Everyone can stay here tonight" the bar's shut tomorrow since it's Saturday, so its ok for you to sleep down here."
Most of that day was spent revolving around the dream, Cloud helped behind the counter at the bar with Tifa and Yuffie. And when it got late he helped tidy up and close the bar.
They set up there sleeping bags and sat talking till it got late and everyone decided that it was time to get sleep, although none of them really wanted tomorrow to come and leave there loved ones again, but Cloud as he would be with his loved ones and exploring the world like he wanted to...