A/N:

Hey! FinalHeaven here. I finally got enough free time to write the new chap. ^_^* I haven't even posted this damn thing yet....Anywayz, here's the chapter.

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Lamirra sighed and tapped her pencil on the piece of paper she was supposed to be reading.

'The office sure is boring without Reno and Rude...' the young woman leaned back in her chair and stared up at the ceiling.

'Haven't we got someplace else to be..?'

"WHOA!"

Lamirra jumped out of her seat. Looking out of her cubicle, she saw Nadesiko fall and fling her papers up into the air. Snickering, she looked at her partner.

"That was smart."

"Shut up." the brunette snapped as she quickly went about collecting her papers. "I'm sick of this. All we do is paperwork while the guys are out having fun. I bet ELENA's having more fun than us. SHE's checking out the ammo!"

"I wouldn't exactly call pretending to be criminals on death penalty to get certain information 'fun.'" A cool voice came from the doorway. Tseng stood and inwardly grinned at Nadesiko. "I don't think I've ever seen such a display of grace in my entire life. You rival Reno."

"God do I have to have everyone ratting on me about this?" Nadesiko muttered. Lamirra laughed outloud. "You should see her at home!"

"Leave me alone!" Nadesiko snapped. With that she stomped off into her cubicle. Tseng gave Lamirra a puzzled look. The twenty year old just flapped a hand.

"She gets like this when we don't get an active job."

Tseng smiled at her. "I'm sure you're the same?"

Lamirra leaned back. "What? Do I show it?"

Tseng shook his head. "No. Not really. But the way you move when you do your work looks tense. You seem to be agitated."

Lamirra inwardly cringed. Something about a person noticing the way you moved everyday scared her. "I guess I can just hold out longer than Siko."

"Soon you'll get a mission. We know that you're more than capable of doing it."

"Then why haven't we gotten one?" Lamirra half snapped. Even if she COULD control her cabin fever better than Nadesiko, if she found out that they were being kept in for no reason...

"It's not so simple assigning missions you know. Although your qualifications meet, there's more to it than that. We have to do research, and mostly make sure that you know how to carry out the mission."

"We know how to carry out a frigging mission." she growled.

Tseng looked at her with calculating eyes. "There's more to it than just being able to play your part right. We have to make sure you're mentally fit for the assignment. Many of the past Turks have been sent to asylums for how they had reacted to the things they've seen and done." with that, Tseng turned and entered his office, leaving the shocked Lamirra.

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Nadesiko had heard the conversation of Tseng and Lamirra as easily as though she was there. She too, was shocked by Tseng's last remark. It even frightened her, to know that they did deeds so horrible that it damaged the mind forever.

'Is that the secret of the Turks?' She looked at her monitor, but found she was unable to work. Her imagination got the better of her, and she shuddered as she thought about what scenes could have caused such a mental breakdown.

Looking at her wall clock, she saw it was her break time. Standing, Nadesiko stretched and walked out of her cubicle. She entered the elevator and went to the ground level.

'Coffee would be great right now...' She walked along the streets of Midgar, scanning the stores.

'Don't they have a Starbucks around here or something?'

Nadesiko continued to walk. Unsuccessful in her coffee shop hunt, she decided to head over to Wall Market. Unable to find a shop there, she growled.

'Dammit, that means I have to use the vending machines at the headquaters.' Waving down a taxi, she headed over to Shinra Inc. After finally getting her coffee, Nadesiko remembered the entire reason they got into Shinra in the first place.

'Those files we needed about the key sure did get lost in our agenda.' Quickly she headed over to one of the highest floors. There, she entered the Data Room that only authorized employees could enter. It was times like these that she really appreciated being a Turk.

"Let's see...'The Neibleheim reactor and it's contents', 'Profiles of Shinra Employees', 'The side effects of mako infusion', 'Recent biological tests'..." Nadesiko skimmed idly along files that many people would die a thousand deaths to get there hands on. She picked out several files that seemed to have to do with mako withdrawal, ancient keys, and expirimental weaponry regarding elementals. As she turned to leave, a bright red file among several black ones caught her eye. How she passed such a vibrant file she couldn't understand, but she quickly walked over to read its title. To her dismay, the words were smeared beyond legibility. Opening the file, she found a small paperback book, dusty and very crude looking. She looked to its first page. She realized it was a journal. The handwriting was sharp and hurried, pressed deeply into the page. Curious, she began to read.

'Date: First Cycle, Black Night, Year of Ice

This is a bleak time for an expedition, but if now's the only time I'll be able to see it, then now's when I'll do it.

Date: First Cycle, Paint Evening, Year of Ice

Can't find it. Heard from a person in the Icicle Inn that it's somewhere in the Limestone Hills. Must go there to search.

Date: Third Cycle, Gray Sun, Year of Ice

Damn! Missed it! Searched whole cycle in Limestone Hills. Our finds were almost as promising, just as important, and give us more information than we could have dreamed of. We found a piece of the scroll. Copied the inscription:

"Earth shakes. Light! Pure light! Filled with fire! Bright like water! Consumes beast. I see wings. Feathered wings."

that was all of the inscription we could find. We now go to the point where the crater is.

Date: Second Cycle, Blue Sky, Year of Lightning

Today is a glorious day! We found two pieces! Here are the inscriptions once again:

"It is hurt. Blood comes from one of its eyes. It looks to me. Its eye! Its right eye! Bright gold! No pupil, like the other. It burns where it lands! I scream. I look down at the burn. It pours blood! The demons eye! It's wounded eye is healed! Black where white should be, gold iris, black pupil. Yes, its eye is healed. The burn. The eye. I scream and writhe at what I see and feel, but no one dares come near the demon and its demon eye."

Nadesiko's blood ran cold. She dropped her files. Somehow, she knew that this creature that the poor man was speaking of was Ronan. How old was this journal, and how old were the even more ancient journal entries?

'I have to tell Mirra.' dropping the rest of the red file and pocketing the small book, she sprinted back to the Turk office.

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Lamirra yawned and stretched. After her conversation with Tseng, nothing interesting happened. She heard Nadesiko get up, but she was too lazy to say anything sarcastic, and Elena wasn't there, so she couldn't talk OR pick on her. Suddenly, she remembered her mission. Find out what the key was...Lamirra grinned at nothing. Her friend Jake had once, very long ago, taught her how to hack. She had experimented and toyed with many websites, and had gained a lot of knowledge about hacking. Now was the time to use it.

She cracked her knuckles and got to work. Typing furiously, she eventually reached her destination. Shinra's secret files. Lamirra frowned. Nothing she could use was here. She began typing and clicking once again, searching for the files she needed. Finally, she found something. To most people, it would seem strange that a file like this was in the Shinra files, but to Lamirra, it made perfect sense.

'The Lothloriel War.' the legend of the battle that raged between Tenshi and Ronan. Shinra told the public that "lothloriel" meant "purify" in an ancient tongue, but Lamirra knew otherwise. She remembered Nadesiko telling her that Lothloriel was a mix of two words: Armageddon; the ultimate battle between good and evil, and Omega; the end of the world.

Mixed emotions flooded Lamirra. She also remembered on one of her trips to Cosmo Canyon she heard lothloriel being referred to as a certain time, not a legend.

'Lothloriel...I know now's not the time to be thinking of such things, but...I can't help but wonder if that war really happened?'

She tried to think of what Nadesiko might suggest. Of course.

'Well lets try to get to Cosmo Canyon. I'm sure someone there could tell us about the war.'

She could almost hear her friends voice echoing in her head. With out a thought she saved the information on the floppy disk she had brought along with her. Now to find Nadesiko.



A/N: The plot thickens. Could this be considered a wannabe climax....nah. Well chapter seven may not be asss interesting BUT it'll be interesting enough. Especially for Rufus fans. ^_~ hint hint. ~Too Human Lately