Chapter 5 Part1: A Day With Cloud
Note: Okay, first of all I'm sorry to say that Laura only makes a brief appearance in here, but part 2 is her episode! YAY! And don't get scared away by what you think this chapter is about. Because it IS supposed to be
funny.
I haven't gone back to sappy.
And it's supposed to be cute!
The story!
Oh, yeah, and this belongs to Squaresoft.
Not to mention LadyTifa26's permission has been issued. YAY!
And Rachel's permission is mine, AND the rest are Squaresoft. Got it?
"Hey you!", said Tifa, waking up Rachel. "Time to get started." Aeris was already getting out of the bed next to her, and Rachel sluggishly opened her eyes and saw Tifa looking down at her. She merely ignored her presence, and stuffed her head back under the pillow. "I SAID GET UP!", snarled Tifa, and she pulled back the covers.
"ALRIGHT! JESUS! YOU'RE PERSISTENT!", yelled Rachel, clutching her chocobo plushy 'Mr.Warkster', and flinging off the pillow.
"Good. And what are you doing with Mr. Warkster?!", asked Tifa, taking back her plushy.
"Tifa, do you think you should be so hard on her? I mean, she's only 13.", said Aeris when she got downstairs.
"She's been annoying me ever since she got here.", said Tifa as she poured some coffee into her mug.
"But still, give her a chance. She could be useful, or maybe even nice.", said Aeris, sitting down to breakfast at the table.
"You're TOO nice."
"You're being TOO harsh."
"Okay, okay, I'll ease up."
"Grumble, grumble. . ."went Rachel as she groggily climbed down the stairs. She just looked at who would be joining her at the table and said, "Is it just me, or does everyone in this house have a thing for Cloud? Oh, and Tifa, I used your toothbrush because I don't have one."
"GRRRR. . . .!", began Tifa.
"Deep healing breaths, deep healing breaths. . .", said Aeris.
"Sigh. Okay, today's itinerary is that we need to help Cid finish the repairs on the Highwind. Any questions?", asked Tifa.
"Yeah, is there any maple syrup?", asked Rachel as she piled pancakes onto her plate.
"Sigh. . ."
"Tifa! I'm here with Laura!", said Cloud as he opened the door.
"HEY CLOUD!", they all shouted in unison, all vying for his affections, and they all glared at each other.
"Er. . .hi.", he said a little nervously. "Today, I'm supposed to teach Rachel how to use that katana, and Aeris is supposed to teach Laura how to use her staff, right?"
"Uh, we're supposed to help Cid.", said Tifa.
"But what about all the work here and the weapons lessons?"
"Maybe someone should stay here and do that.", said Aeris. "How about Laura, Tifa, and I go to see Cid and I'll give Laura's lesson there and you and Rachel can do all the stuff here and you'll meet us when you're done." Tifa grabbed her arm, and whispered, "Do you think that's such a great idea? I mean HER with Cloud?"
"Don't be so paranoid. He has no interest in her, right?"
"Yeah, well. . . Okay, Cloud. We're going along with Aeris' plan."
"Cool. It's been a while since I used this thing for a demonstration. . .", said Cloud, looking at his Buster sword fondly. The door opened, and Vincent entered.
"I got a call from Cid. He wants us to leave now."
"VINNIE!"
"AAUUGGH!"
"See ya' later!", said Aeris as they departed, Laura constrained again on a chocobo. Rachel and Cloud goodbye, with those little sweat marks.
"Okay, let's get to work. We'll start the laundry, then the stables, then we'll move on to your weapon lessons. Uh, what are you looking at?" She was grinning at him widely, almost insanely.
"CLOUDY! WE'RE HERE, ALONE AND TOGETHER! WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR?!?! SQUEE!"
"HEY HEY! HOLD ON THERE!", yelled Cloud before she lunged.
"What?"
"I want you to get this straight. Repeat after me: "I will not jump on Cloud."
"You will not jump on Cloud."
"No. I will not jump on Cloud."
"No. YOU will not jump on Cloud."
"Okay how about this. YOU will not jump on Cloud."
"YOU will not jump on Cloud. Why do you keep telling me to say you won't jump on yourself, Cloudy?"
"Sigh. . .hopeless. Just don't jump on me, okay?"
"BUT WE LOVE EACH OTHER CLOUDY!", she exclaimed.
"HOLD ON HERE!", he yelled before she jumped again. "If we", he shuddered, "DID love each other, you would respect my wishes, right?" She nodded. "Good."
"Squee!", she yelled and tackled him.
"What did I just say?", he asked.
"That you would respect my wishes and let me jump on you."
"AARRRGH! IS THERE NO GETTING THROUGH TO THIS CHILD!? I ASK YOU GOD, IS THERE?!" He managed to get her off of him, and he stood up.
"Okay. Look here. Let's play a game. It's called 'Do not jump Cloud', okay? The rules are that whoever stays off Cloud the longest wins. Got it?" Once again, she nodded. "Good. Let's get started with the laundry."
They retreated to his basement, and they went to the washer and sorted the clothes, some to Rachel's disgust, such as his socks and underwear, but she would not release his trademark shirt.
"Let it go!", shouted Cloud.
"Mine!"
"Let it go!"
"Why should I?"
"Lest you incur the wrath of Tifa."
"EEEK! IT'S YOURS!", she screamed.
"Thought so."
"Hey Cloud. What's this?" She reached into the pile and pulled out one of Tifa's thongs. "I though this was YOUR laundry."
"Uh, heh, heh, heh. . ."
"Well?"
"Gimme that!", he said as he snatched it from her hand. "Okay, how about this. I'LL finish the laundry. Let's go to the stables."
"Our job here is to keep this place clean.", said Cloud. "Which means. . ." He pulled out a shovel. "we do the nasty work."
"Eeew!", she said.
"Quit complainin' and start shovelin'.", he said as he threw her the shovel. Half an hour passes. Cloud is all done will his stable stalls. "How's it going?"
"This guy is like a faucet!", said Rachel. "You'd think there'd be a switch or lever but NOOO! He won't stop!"
"You haven't even started have you?"
"It smells. It weighs more than 10,000 suns. How can I start?", she said.
"Sigh. Fine then, I'LL do this, too. Just get them their greens, it's time to feed them." And she went to fetch them their food, as he hastily shoveled away.
"Got them!", she announced.
"Good. You feed them like this.", he said as he was hand-feeding Knight.
"Okay, got it.", she said. "Here ya' go.", she said to Mike, a mountain chocobo. But he refused to eat it. "I said, here ya' go!", exclaimed Rachel. He still refused.
"Uh, Rachel. . .", he started.
"HERE YA' GO, GODAMMIT!", she screamed at it as she shoved it into his mouth.
"WARK! WARK!", screeched Mike as he went berserk.
"AAAHHHH!", she screamed. Mike went insane and began pounding in Rachel's head with his beak.
"He doesn't like Reagan greens. . .", he said with another sweat mark over the unconscious Rachel.
"Rachel?"
"How now, brown cow?", asked Rachel as she woke up, feeling the bandages on her forehead.
"Are you okay?" She saw Cloud standing above her, with that same exasperated look he has when he gets a little nervous.
"Er, yeah."
"Great. Because. . ." He turned around and picked up something. "It's time for your weapons lesson.", he said as he flung her her sheathed katana.
"WOOHOO!"
"Now. . .", he began in his backyard, looking at her stance. "Move your right leg out a little, your weight must be even. Good, good. . ." She was standing there, a little nervous, because she had only one sword lesson in her life, and she was suited more to hand-to-hand combat. "I knew I should've picked fighting gloves. . .", she muttered. "What?", he asked. "Oh, nothing. I just know more about hand fighting. . ." "Then why didn't you pick that?" "Because when I thought of Tifa as my instructor and her getting angry well, she scares me when she's angry." "Ah, you know she's a good person. You just rub her the wrong way." "Well, it's not just the thought of Tifa beating my brains out."
"What else?"
"Do you honestly expect me to waltz up to a Nibel dragon and punch it in the face when I can stab it with something?", she asked with a hint of sarcasm..
"It worked for Tifa."
"Well, she's Tifa. You know, she practiced under Zangan. She's SUPPOSED to be good. . ."
"Yeah, well. . . Come on, we have to continue. Now move your arms out a little like this. . .", he said, stepping behind her and taking his arms and correcting Rachel's stance. She blushed slightly, but she just tried to keep focusing. He was surprised she didn't squeal and tackle him as usual.
"Okay, now here are some movements.", he said as he took out his Buster sword and moved in front of here. "Up, down, up, down. . .good, just copy my movements. Now, we shall practice it until we get you up to speed." They practiced for quite a while, practicing basic moves and even some tricks, and she even learned his famous sword spin, of course, not without SOME error. "Good! Now, let's try and see how you battle against me."
"WHAT!? ALREADY?!", she yelled.
"Don't worry. I won't go all out on you. Now, let's begin!" They circled, keeping their eye contact, and Cloud dashed in with a stab, but Rachel moved out of the way in time for him to miss. "Keep up with the pace! You should've easily dodged that!" She groaned a little, and she stepped in and twirled the sword a little, and she cut his shirt but not his skin, and left a cursive 'R' there. "What the?", he asked.
"I watched 'Zorro' as a kid and tried that.", she shrugged.
"Okay, BUT...!', he said as she he moved in and ducked as she swung her blade, sweeping his feet and tripping her. He then moved his sword up to her throat as she tried to get back to her feet. "Never do fancy moves if you don't know the basics."
"God, I thought I'd last a little longer than that.", she said as he helped her to her feet.
"Here I'll give you a different opponent."
"Holy WHAT?!", she screamed as they went out and found a Nibel dragon for her to fight.
"Come on! You can fight it!", he shouted his encouragement. She looked back up at it, and whimpered.
"Mommy. . ." It snarled back at her, and it reminded her of Tifa when she gets mad. "Eeeep!", she cried. It hit her with its tail, and she was flung back, but she tried to get back on her feet.
"Come on! What was that?! Focus!", he called out.
"Gulp. Here I go. . .", she said as she charged back in. "YAAH!", she cried, fearing more for her life than focusing on the fight, and she managed to cut part of its stomach.
"See?! You're doing better!", he cried. Feeling a little better about this, she looked back into its eyes, but it swung back with its tail. "Grrrr!", she yelled.
"That's it! You've hit your limit!" She automatically healed, became faster and yelled "Lightning Strike!", and she moved in forward in a blur, swung her sword in sheer flashes of light, then landed behind it and stabbed it, much like Cloud's Climhazzard move. It roared and then disappeared.
"HAH! BOOYAH!", she said while doing a dance.
"Hey, not bad.", said Cloud. "All you have to practice now is focusing. And look, you received 300 gil!"
"Woohoo!", she said, finishing her little dance. "But why do you get gil after they die? I mean what, do they carry change purses?"
"Heh, it's a mystery to me. It's getting dark. Let's go."
"Dark? Doesn't it only get dark if you go to an inn or something?"
"You always ask the weirdest questions, you know that?"
"Sorry if being curious is a crime."
"Yeah, well as long as we're asking questions, why are you so weird? I mean, lunging at me and everything."
"That's just the way I am. But there's more to that, really. Maybe it's even just a façade."
"A façade?"
"Yeah, if you knew me better, you wouldn't just see some Cloud obsessed fan girl. That's only part of who I am."
"I guess I didn't realize that. Sorry.", he said as he put his hand behind his head.
"Look, I'll try and be less annoying. OK?"
"Sounds good, but you don't need to change yourself. When you called Tifa 'Madam PMS', I almost laughed."
"Yeah, I thought she was going to kill me with just the look she gave.", laughed Rachel a little. "But come on, this isn't my style. Do something funny.", she said.
"No way, not me. Come on, we have to go and see Cid and the rest."
"Fine then. But remember, I AM still a Cloud obsessed fan girl. Starting tomorrow, I go back to being annoying."
"Then try and NOT get on Tifa's nerves. She doesn't like it when you hang off of me. And THAT results in no. . ."
"Results in no what?", asked Rachel, remembering finding Tifa's thong in his laundry.
"Ahem, nothing. . ."
HELLO THERE! One of you asked for me to tone down the annoyance factor, so for the ending, I thought you might want to see what that results in. And part 2 will be up soon, and its LAURA'S episode! With VINNIE! YAY! And I'm planning a weird ending so. . .heh heh. But I promise the ending will be at least funny in the mildest degree, so PLEEZE don't abandon me, at least while I'm sulking over not being on a lot of favorites lists. . .sob.
Note: Okay, first of all I'm sorry to say that Laura only makes a brief appearance in here, but part 2 is her episode! YAY! And don't get scared away by what you think this chapter is about. Because it IS supposed to be
funny.
I haven't gone back to sappy.
And it's supposed to be cute!
The story!
Oh, yeah, and this belongs to Squaresoft.
Not to mention LadyTifa26's permission has been issued. YAY!
And Rachel's permission is mine, AND the rest are Squaresoft. Got it?
"Hey you!", said Tifa, waking up Rachel. "Time to get started." Aeris was already getting out of the bed next to her, and Rachel sluggishly opened her eyes and saw Tifa looking down at her. She merely ignored her presence, and stuffed her head back under the pillow. "I SAID GET UP!", snarled Tifa, and she pulled back the covers.
"ALRIGHT! JESUS! YOU'RE PERSISTENT!", yelled Rachel, clutching her chocobo plushy 'Mr.Warkster', and flinging off the pillow.
"Good. And what are you doing with Mr. Warkster?!", asked Tifa, taking back her plushy.
"Tifa, do you think you should be so hard on her? I mean, she's only 13.", said Aeris when she got downstairs.
"She's been annoying me ever since she got here.", said Tifa as she poured some coffee into her mug.
"But still, give her a chance. She could be useful, or maybe even nice.", said Aeris, sitting down to breakfast at the table.
"You're TOO nice."
"You're being TOO harsh."
"Okay, okay, I'll ease up."
"Grumble, grumble. . ."went Rachel as she groggily climbed down the stairs. She just looked at who would be joining her at the table and said, "Is it just me, or does everyone in this house have a thing for Cloud? Oh, and Tifa, I used your toothbrush because I don't have one."
"GRRRR. . . .!", began Tifa.
"Deep healing breaths, deep healing breaths. . .", said Aeris.
"Sigh. Okay, today's itinerary is that we need to help Cid finish the repairs on the Highwind. Any questions?", asked Tifa.
"Yeah, is there any maple syrup?", asked Rachel as she piled pancakes onto her plate.
"Sigh. . ."
"Tifa! I'm here with Laura!", said Cloud as he opened the door.
"HEY CLOUD!", they all shouted in unison, all vying for his affections, and they all glared at each other.
"Er. . .hi.", he said a little nervously. "Today, I'm supposed to teach Rachel how to use that katana, and Aeris is supposed to teach Laura how to use her staff, right?"
"Uh, we're supposed to help Cid.", said Tifa.
"But what about all the work here and the weapons lessons?"
"Maybe someone should stay here and do that.", said Aeris. "How about Laura, Tifa, and I go to see Cid and I'll give Laura's lesson there and you and Rachel can do all the stuff here and you'll meet us when you're done." Tifa grabbed her arm, and whispered, "Do you think that's such a great idea? I mean HER with Cloud?"
"Don't be so paranoid. He has no interest in her, right?"
"Yeah, well. . . Okay, Cloud. We're going along with Aeris' plan."
"Cool. It's been a while since I used this thing for a demonstration. . .", said Cloud, looking at his Buster sword fondly. The door opened, and Vincent entered.
"I got a call from Cid. He wants us to leave now."
"VINNIE!"
"AAUUGGH!"
"See ya' later!", said Aeris as they departed, Laura constrained again on a chocobo. Rachel and Cloud goodbye, with those little sweat marks.
"Okay, let's get to work. We'll start the laundry, then the stables, then we'll move on to your weapon lessons. Uh, what are you looking at?" She was grinning at him widely, almost insanely.
"CLOUDY! WE'RE HERE, ALONE AND TOGETHER! WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR?!?! SQUEE!"
"HEY HEY! HOLD ON THERE!", yelled Cloud before she lunged.
"What?"
"I want you to get this straight. Repeat after me: "I will not jump on Cloud."
"You will not jump on Cloud."
"No. I will not jump on Cloud."
"No. YOU will not jump on Cloud."
"Okay how about this. YOU will not jump on Cloud."
"YOU will not jump on Cloud. Why do you keep telling me to say you won't jump on yourself, Cloudy?"
"Sigh. . .hopeless. Just don't jump on me, okay?"
"BUT WE LOVE EACH OTHER CLOUDY!", she exclaimed.
"HOLD ON HERE!", he yelled before she jumped again. "If we", he shuddered, "DID love each other, you would respect my wishes, right?" She nodded. "Good."
"Squee!", she yelled and tackled him.
"What did I just say?", he asked.
"That you would respect my wishes and let me jump on you."
"AARRRGH! IS THERE NO GETTING THROUGH TO THIS CHILD!? I ASK YOU GOD, IS THERE?!" He managed to get her off of him, and he stood up.
"Okay. Look here. Let's play a game. It's called 'Do not jump Cloud', okay? The rules are that whoever stays off Cloud the longest wins. Got it?" Once again, she nodded. "Good. Let's get started with the laundry."
They retreated to his basement, and they went to the washer and sorted the clothes, some to Rachel's disgust, such as his socks and underwear, but she would not release his trademark shirt.
"Let it go!", shouted Cloud.
"Mine!"
"Let it go!"
"Why should I?"
"Lest you incur the wrath of Tifa."
"EEEK! IT'S YOURS!", she screamed.
"Thought so."
"Hey Cloud. What's this?" She reached into the pile and pulled out one of Tifa's thongs. "I though this was YOUR laundry."
"Uh, heh, heh, heh. . ."
"Well?"
"Gimme that!", he said as he snatched it from her hand. "Okay, how about this. I'LL finish the laundry. Let's go to the stables."
"Our job here is to keep this place clean.", said Cloud. "Which means. . ." He pulled out a shovel. "we do the nasty work."
"Eeew!", she said.
"Quit complainin' and start shovelin'.", he said as he threw her the shovel. Half an hour passes. Cloud is all done will his stable stalls. "How's it going?"
"This guy is like a faucet!", said Rachel. "You'd think there'd be a switch or lever but NOOO! He won't stop!"
"You haven't even started have you?"
"It smells. It weighs more than 10,000 suns. How can I start?", she said.
"Sigh. Fine then, I'LL do this, too. Just get them their greens, it's time to feed them." And she went to fetch them their food, as he hastily shoveled away.
"Got them!", she announced.
"Good. You feed them like this.", he said as he was hand-feeding Knight.
"Okay, got it.", she said. "Here ya' go.", she said to Mike, a mountain chocobo. But he refused to eat it. "I said, here ya' go!", exclaimed Rachel. He still refused.
"Uh, Rachel. . .", he started.
"HERE YA' GO, GODAMMIT!", she screamed at it as she shoved it into his mouth.
"WARK! WARK!", screeched Mike as he went berserk.
"AAAHHHH!", she screamed. Mike went insane and began pounding in Rachel's head with his beak.
"He doesn't like Reagan greens. . .", he said with another sweat mark over the unconscious Rachel.
"Rachel?"
"How now, brown cow?", asked Rachel as she woke up, feeling the bandages on her forehead.
"Are you okay?" She saw Cloud standing above her, with that same exasperated look he has when he gets a little nervous.
"Er, yeah."
"Great. Because. . ." He turned around and picked up something. "It's time for your weapons lesson.", he said as he flung her her sheathed katana.
"WOOHOO!"
"Now. . .", he began in his backyard, looking at her stance. "Move your right leg out a little, your weight must be even. Good, good. . ." She was standing there, a little nervous, because she had only one sword lesson in her life, and she was suited more to hand-to-hand combat. "I knew I should've picked fighting gloves. . .", she muttered. "What?", he asked. "Oh, nothing. I just know more about hand fighting. . ." "Then why didn't you pick that?" "Because when I thought of Tifa as my instructor and her getting angry well, she scares me when she's angry." "Ah, you know she's a good person. You just rub her the wrong way." "Well, it's not just the thought of Tifa beating my brains out."
"What else?"
"Do you honestly expect me to waltz up to a Nibel dragon and punch it in the face when I can stab it with something?", she asked with a hint of sarcasm..
"It worked for Tifa."
"Well, she's Tifa. You know, she practiced under Zangan. She's SUPPOSED to be good. . ."
"Yeah, well. . . Come on, we have to continue. Now move your arms out a little like this. . .", he said, stepping behind her and taking his arms and correcting Rachel's stance. She blushed slightly, but she just tried to keep focusing. He was surprised she didn't squeal and tackle him as usual.
"Okay, now here are some movements.", he said as he took out his Buster sword and moved in front of here. "Up, down, up, down. . .good, just copy my movements. Now, we shall practice it until we get you up to speed." They practiced for quite a while, practicing basic moves and even some tricks, and she even learned his famous sword spin, of course, not without SOME error. "Good! Now, let's try and see how you battle against me."
"WHAT!? ALREADY?!", she yelled.
"Don't worry. I won't go all out on you. Now, let's begin!" They circled, keeping their eye contact, and Cloud dashed in with a stab, but Rachel moved out of the way in time for him to miss. "Keep up with the pace! You should've easily dodged that!" She groaned a little, and she stepped in and twirled the sword a little, and she cut his shirt but not his skin, and left a cursive 'R' there. "What the?", he asked.
"I watched 'Zorro' as a kid and tried that.", she shrugged.
"Okay, BUT...!', he said as she he moved in and ducked as she swung her blade, sweeping his feet and tripping her. He then moved his sword up to her throat as she tried to get back to her feet. "Never do fancy moves if you don't know the basics."
"God, I thought I'd last a little longer than that.", she said as he helped her to her feet.
"Here I'll give you a different opponent."
"Holy WHAT?!", she screamed as they went out and found a Nibel dragon for her to fight.
"Come on! You can fight it!", he shouted his encouragement. She looked back up at it, and whimpered.
"Mommy. . ." It snarled back at her, and it reminded her of Tifa when she gets mad. "Eeeep!", she cried. It hit her with its tail, and she was flung back, but she tried to get back on her feet.
"Come on! What was that?! Focus!", he called out.
"Gulp. Here I go. . .", she said as she charged back in. "YAAH!", she cried, fearing more for her life than focusing on the fight, and she managed to cut part of its stomach.
"See?! You're doing better!", he cried. Feeling a little better about this, she looked back into its eyes, but it swung back with its tail. "Grrrr!", she yelled.
"That's it! You've hit your limit!" She automatically healed, became faster and yelled "Lightning Strike!", and she moved in forward in a blur, swung her sword in sheer flashes of light, then landed behind it and stabbed it, much like Cloud's Climhazzard move. It roared and then disappeared.
"HAH! BOOYAH!", she said while doing a dance.
"Hey, not bad.", said Cloud. "All you have to practice now is focusing. And look, you received 300 gil!"
"Woohoo!", she said, finishing her little dance. "But why do you get gil after they die? I mean what, do they carry change purses?"
"Heh, it's a mystery to me. It's getting dark. Let's go."
"Dark? Doesn't it only get dark if you go to an inn or something?"
"You always ask the weirdest questions, you know that?"
"Sorry if being curious is a crime."
"Yeah, well as long as we're asking questions, why are you so weird? I mean, lunging at me and everything."
"That's just the way I am. But there's more to that, really. Maybe it's even just a façade."
"A façade?"
"Yeah, if you knew me better, you wouldn't just see some Cloud obsessed fan girl. That's only part of who I am."
"I guess I didn't realize that. Sorry.", he said as he put his hand behind his head.
"Look, I'll try and be less annoying. OK?"
"Sounds good, but you don't need to change yourself. When you called Tifa 'Madam PMS', I almost laughed."
"Yeah, I thought she was going to kill me with just the look she gave.", laughed Rachel a little. "But come on, this isn't my style. Do something funny.", she said.
"No way, not me. Come on, we have to go and see Cid and the rest."
"Fine then. But remember, I AM still a Cloud obsessed fan girl. Starting tomorrow, I go back to being annoying."
"Then try and NOT get on Tifa's nerves. She doesn't like it when you hang off of me. And THAT results in no. . ."
"Results in no what?", asked Rachel, remembering finding Tifa's thong in his laundry.
"Ahem, nothing. . ."
HELLO THERE! One of you asked for me to tone down the annoyance factor, so for the ending, I thought you might want to see what that results in. And part 2 will be up soon, and its LAURA'S episode! With VINNIE! YAY! And I'm planning a weird ending so. . .heh heh. But I promise the ending will be at least funny in the mildest degree, so PLEEZE don't abandon me, at least while I'm sulking over not being on a lot of favorites lists. . .sob.