See now didn't I tell you I'd have this chapter up in just a few hours? Well I know y'all just LOVE me so much hehehe so I decided to make this one longer then the last, because wow was the last one ever short. I didn't even break two thousand words on the last one. *shake head in shame* I'll just make up for it. I'll try and make this chapter at least twice as long so we all get a feel of things to come. Actually I need it this long to... oops almost gave it away lol. Anyway, instead of just chattering with y'all I'm just going to start typing me story here.

Disclaimer- I don't own Final Fantasy 7. OH time to add to my list of what I DO own

11)The Liberators

12)Mika Brundel

13)Kao Brundel

Alrighty then let's get this chapter started already.

Chapter 23- Up Above Ground

"When we found you, you had some gear with you." Kao explained as he leads Yuffie down the halls of the base. Yuffie follows silently listening to everything Kao tells her. Kao stopped in front of a metal door with the numbers 132 on the top of it. "Equipment can be found here. Your equipment should be here." Yuffie nodded her head and Kao continued down the hall giving Yuffie a small tour of the place.

Yuffie continued looking around as she followed Kao to wherever he brought her. The first thing she noticed about the place is that everything seemed to be made of metal like an old bomb shelter or something. Candles and torches lit up the hallways and rooms. She looked up at the ceiling, "Why don't you guys use the lights?" Yuffie asked noticing them.

Kao gave a wave of his hand as he answered her question, "We don't get electricity down here. When Midgar was attacked the electricity was cut so we have no power." Kao explained.

"Oh..." Yuffie didn't know what else to say besides that.

"Hey.." Kao suddenly stopped and turned around to face Yuffie. She stood in front of him waiting for him to continue. Kao gave a small grin as an idea struck him, "A small group is going to the surface tonight. Would you like to come?" Kao asked.

"Isn't it dangerous to go by night?" Yuffie asked thinking about the hadions.

Kao shrugged his shoulders, "It's dangerous to go at any time. The hadions, as you call them, are pretty rare around this area. We mostly have to watch out for zombies." Kao explained, "If you don't want to you don't have to."

Yuffie immediately shook her head, "No, no, no, no, I want to I was just concerned." She explained, "But I'd need to get my gear. How long before you leave?"

Kao pulled out a watch from his pants pocket and looked at the time, "In about twelve minutes." He said calmly.

"TWELVE MINUTES!? GAWD thanks for telling me sooner!" Yuffie said annoyed.

Kao just shrugged his shoulders, "Hey, hey, I didn't know you wanted to go. Alright go get your gear and head towards room 213. We leave from there." Kao explained.

Yuffie nodded her head and immediately sprinted off towards room 132 to get her equipment.

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Kao taps his right foot growing impatient. He pulled his watch out and looked at it again, 'Where is she?' He thought frustrated.

"Hey Kao what are we waiting for? Let's go." A man said annoyed.

Kao sighed, 'Maybe she changed her mind' He thought before turning around to face the other three men, "Alright open the hatch." He orders. The man closest to the hatch began opening it up.

"WAIT FOR ME!" Yuffie yells as she appears in the room panting. The three men look at her oddly wondering what she's doing here.

Kao walked up to her, "Hey Yuffie. I wasn't sure you were coming."

Yuffie gave him a glare, "It would of been closer if you gave me directions on how to get here." She shot at him.

Kao laughed nervously and turned to the three men, "Guys this is Yuffie. She's coming with us tonight." The three nodded there heads telling him they have no problem with it. Kao turns back to Yuffie and places a hand on each of her shoulders, "Now Yuffie, when we're out there you have to be as quiet as possible. Zombies could be lurking around anywhere and unfortunately they are getting smarter." Kao explained.

Yuffie nodded her head telling him she understood. Kao gave a slight nod and turned back to the three men, "Let's go" One man opened the hatch and one by one they began climbing up the later to the surface.

Yuffie is the last to climb up to the surface. When she reached the top and saw what lays above she gasps. Midgar is in shambles, only a few tall building remain, others are torn down or are falling apart. The half moon up in the sky is their only source of light. "I didn't think it was this bad." Yuffie whispered more to herself then anyone else.

Kao heard her and turned around, "Are you alright?" He whispered a bit worried. Yuffie just gave him a slight nod. "Alright follow me." He ordered Yuffie quietly. They stealthily follow the three men ahead of them.

While they moved quietly in the darkness Yuffie took in her surroundings. Seeing how much different everything looks from before. The place looks like it is a war zone. Building, walls, telephone polls, and signs are all torn apart. They place looks like it's now inhabitant. "What are we doing out here anyway?" Yuffie whispered to Kao, realizing she has no idea what they are doing.

Kao keeps his eyes out in the darkness to watch for any zombies not bothering to look at Yuffie, "We come out to get supplies every now and then. Like weapons, food, clothes, and wood to burn for our light." He whispered back.

One of the men signals to Kao that the coast is clear, "Come on." Kao whispered quickly before quickly moving. Yuffie trials behind him. They soon make it to the three other men. Kao stood up in front of everyone, "Ok everyone. Grab whatever supplies we need and we'll head back" Everyone nodded and spread out searching for supplies.

Yuffie looks around the area trying to figure out where she is. When she can't identify the area she turns towards Kao and asks him, "Where are we?"

"We're in what's left of the Wall Market. Get supplies and come back here." Kao began walking away to find anything of any use.

Yuffie walked into the closest building which she immediately recognized as a bar. The place looked like a bomb was blown up in it. Everything was in shambles, there is no stool, table, or beer bottles that isn't broken. Yuffie shook her head telling herself she won't find anything of any use in here and walks out.

Yuffie walks out into the cold night air. Everything looks so different to her now. There's even taller buildings from what there used to be. Obviously when they were fixing up Midgar they added a few things to the Wall Market. Yuffie felt a bit nervous about how quiet the night is.

Except for the wind blowing through the ghost town everything is dead silent. And it's not that just normal silence. To Yuffie it feels like that eerie silence that spreads out before something happens, something you don't want to happen.

Yuffie began rubbing her arms trying to warm herself up. She decided to head back where everyone split up since she can't find anything here. As she walks back towards the spot Yuffie looks from side to side feeling as if someone or something is watching her, waiting to jump out and attack her.

She kept imagining in her mind a pair of shadowy hands reach out from behind her and pull her away and start ripping her apart. Yuffie used to like the dark but ever since the attack on Wutai she fears it like nothing else. She always scares herself into thinking someone is either watching or following her.

Even now she makes herself think that there's another set of feet following her, trying to match each step she makes. And when she stops the other one stops, when she turns around she sees nothing in the moonlight. When she starts walking again she could swear someone is trying to match her step for step.

Yuffie began to walk a bit faster and in her mind she thinks her stalker does the same. Sweat starts to drip from her brow as she begins growing more afraid. All she needs is to make it back to the place and then she will feel safe. But that lingering thought of something following her won't leave her mind.

Finally she made it to the place everyone split up and to her great relief everyone is there waiting for her. Although she managed to make it back she still felt the fear inside her gripping at her spine. "You find anything?" Kao asks Yuffie.

Yuffie shakes her head no not trusting her voice. Kao gives her a concerned look as he notices her troubled face, "Are you alright?" He whispered trying not to be too loud.

"I feel like someone or something has been following me for a while." Yuffie said a bit frightened.

"A zombie?" Kao asks.

Yuffie shakes her head, "No It felt like someone who knew what they were doing not some soulless person." Yuffie sighs trying to will her fear away, "I'm just scarring myself that's all" She tried reassuring herself more then Kao.

Kao nods his head, "Alright then let's head back." He orders ready to start back.

"Uh Kao?" One man suddenly said. Kao turns around giving the man his attention. The man points in front of them, "We've got company" The man said a bit shaken.

Kao quickly turned his head and cursed. Nine zombies stood before them heading straight towards them. Yuffie too noticed them but is a bit relieved when she notices none of them have any weapons. Having no weapons naturally means they should be easier to fight right?

Kao immediately pulls out a weapon, a broadsword. Yuffie wastes no time in pulling out her Conformer and immediately throws it towards the zombies. She smirks as she notices her accuracy is dead on towards the neck of one of the zombies. She waits and then the Conformer hits the neck, TING. The Conformer bounces off the zombie's neck and heads back to it's owner. Yuffie easily catches the Conformer, "Huh?" She says dumbfounded, 'That should of chopped it's head clean off!' she tells herself.

"The zombies have changed." Kao tells Yuffie getting ready to attack, "Their necks are protected by a layer of steel imbedded in their skin. You have to find a way around it." Kao tells her before him and the three other men charge forth ready to fight the zombies.

"Don't you think that's need to know information before coming out here!?" Yuffie yells angrily. 'GAWD! I swear! Some people are so stupid!' Yuffie ran forward and attacks one of the zombies from close range. Yuffie slashes at the neck of the zombies with her Conformer as if it's a knife she's using.

No matter how much force she puts into her strike she just can't seem to get passed that annoying protective steel. Yuffie jumps back away from the zombie to catch her breath. Two months in a coma sure has her energy zapped. With just that little scuffle she already feels tired, and that's not a good sign.

Two zombies walk towards Yuffie ready to attack. Yuffie gripped the Conformer tighter and is about to throw it when, BANG! A gunshot rang throughout the area and a split second later the zombie closest to Yuffie, it's head blew up. Yuffie blinked and looked around BANG! BANG! BANG! Three more shots fired and three more zombies fall.

Yuffie stood up and looks around for the source of gunfire. The person must be sniping them so they would have to be some place where they have a good field of vision. Yuffie looks up at the tallest building, BANG! Another shot fired at that moment and Yuffie catches sight of the small explosion from the barrel of the gun.

Yuffie's mind went on overdrive in thoughts, she knew of only one person with deadly accuracy with a gun, "VINCENT!" Yuffie exclaimed her heart racing as she began heading up the building from the fire escape on the side of the building. Yuffie's hopes raise as she realizes that at least one of her friends aren't dead.

BANG! BANG! BANG! Yuffie finally made to the roof BANG! Yuffie counted nine shots which would mean all the zombies are now dead. "VINCENT!" She exclaims happily as she sees a dark figure standing at the edge of the building. At the sound of Yuffie voice figure jumps, their long dark hair and cape swaying in the wind.

Yuffie noticed the features, long hair, cape, mysterious looking, yup it's Vincent. 'Why is he running away?' Yuffie thinks as she ran towards the edge. She looks down from the edge just in time to see the person enter into the building by a door a couple floors down. Immediately afterwards Yuffie hears gunshots from within the building. "VINCENT HOLD ON!" Yuffie jumps over the edge and races down where she saw Vincent enter the building.

'Vincent's in trouble. Vincent's in trouble.' She kept telling herself. Finally she make it and enters the room. A single zombie is left in the room, behind it stood a person, their mouth at the side of the zombie's neck as if biting it. Yuffie stood frozen not wanting to move, "Vincent?" She calls out hesitantly in the darkness.

The head at the side of the zombie's neck pops up, glowing crimson eyes lock onto Yuffie's misty gray. Yuffie smiles in relief and takes a step forward, "Vincent, you're alive!" The crimson eyes narrow and with a quick swipe of their hand the zombie's head is cut off.

Yuffie distracted by it didn't realize the person moved behind her until she felt a tip of a dagger against her throat. Yuffie gasped and froze in fear, "Vincent? What the hell are you doing?"

The tip of the blade being pressed against her throat is her answer. The dark figure moved in front of Yuffie. What Yuffie saw made her pale in fear, "Y-you're not Vincent." She said shaking in fear.

The person in front of her is not Vincent. The person in front of her scared her half to death. The person has crimson eyes that glow in the darkness like Vincent's do. Long black hair hid most of their face. The person's mouth and chin is covered in blood, and what scared Yuffie the most is the long fangs that are dripping blood.

Yuffie can't believe it, she's standing before a real life vampire. She has always thought vampires were just fairytales to scare children and here one was right in front of her. The person in front of her continued to stare at Yuffie as if examining her. Then the person moved their head closer to the side of Yuffie's head.

Yuffie shakes with fear as she thinks the vampire is about to bite her neck. She can feel the vampires warm breath on her neck as it breathes, "Stop following me." A feminine voice whispers into Yuffie's ear.

"YUFFIE!" Yuffie heard Kao voice as she hears his footsteps on the fire escape. Yuffie blinked and realized the vampire is no longer there. Kao entered the room followed by the three men. "Are you alright?" Kao asked breathing heavily.

Yuffie doesn't know what to tell him. She just got the shit scared out of her for one thing. She could tell him she just ran after a vampire and tell him how it was drinking the zombie's blood but instead she said, "Can we go back now?"

Well Everyone that's it for now! I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed typing it. So did Yuffie really have a run in with a real Vampire? Will she ever see it again? Does she actually want too? lol. You'll just have to wait and see everyone. Drop a review and any suggestions you have. TTNC! HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!