The Empyrean Sphere
Prologue
Disclaimer: I don't own Yuffie, Squall, Cloud, or Aerith, but I do own Zenith and Kari, KARI, not KAIRI. There's a difference.
"As if, I'm ever gonna take you back, as if its ever gonna come to that come to that, so seeya 'round, wave goodbye, be a bird, pass me by-"She froze in mid dance, her arms up in the air, imitating a bird. Someone cleared their throat from behind her.
"Why did you turn the music off?" The young dark haired girl asked angrily, turning around to face her intruder. The older woman placed her hands on her hips.
"Yuffie, I told you to keep your music down, I can hear it though the wall." Yuffie Kisaragi sighed, and strode past her into her small living room of her apartment.
"Aerith, I told you to stop barging in here," she turned around to face her, and began talking very slowly, "You don't live here." Aerith Gainsborough rolled her bright emerald eyes before walking over and sitting down on the dark violet loveseat; a big smile coming over her face.
"What now?" Yuffie asked with a sigh, entering the kitchen.
"I've got a surprise!" Groaning while throwing her head back in disgust, Yuffie reached into her tan colored fridge, and grabbed a Pepsi. After chugging half of the can, she walked back into the living room.
"Okay, what?" Aerith bit her lip as she stood up; hardly containing her excitement.
"Two words, r-"Before she could say anything more, Yuffie backed away with her hands up, appalled.
"No, no way Jose. Not on my life." With that, she disappeared into her room. Sighing deeply, Aerith sat down dejectedly on the small sofa.
"Road trip."
"I cannot believe you dragged me into this. I am going to kill you." Ignoring her death threats, which were present every other minute or so, Aerith stopped her dark blue Tahoe in front of an apartment complex about three blocks from their own. Before she could step out of the car, Yuffie grabbed her arm.
"It's only gonna be us three right?" Aerith only grinned evilly as she pushed open her car door. 'No no no . . .'
"Right!?!" She screamed at Aerith.
"Damnit." She let her forehead fall against the glass passenger window.
"I'm doomed." After a few minutes of banger her head against the window muttering, 'This is not happening, this is not happening,' she glanced up to see Aerith exiting the building with their best friend, Kari Moose, she has waist length dark brown hair with highlights with five different shades of blonde and brown; clad in a white t-shirt that says, "X-Phile" on it with dark blue jeans. She has a purple duffel bag slung over her shoulder, smiling as she listens to Aerith rambling on about the trip. Trip. I hate that word. Yuffie still couldn't help but smile as her best friend neared. They lived next to each other for fifteen years, until college, now they live three blocks away from each other. It being winter vacation, Aerith, Yuffie, and Kari sported dark blue wind breakers from their softball team they play on during the summer. The freezing winter air whipped Aerith and Kari's pony tailed hair; causing it to fly into their faces. They reached the truck, and Kari threw her bag in the back, and then hopped into the backseat, grinning broadly.
As the engine started, Yuffie glanced up into the mirror on the visor (thingy) to see Kari's face. Twisting around in her seat to glare at her, she spoke up.
"What gives you the right to be so fucking happy?" Kari snorted and looked out the window.
"Zenny's coming back, he's going with us." Ah, Zenith Brok, her boyfriend/obsession of two years, (well she was obsessed with for a lot longer than that) he goes to the School of Mines.
"Why's he coming?" At her look Yuffie sighed, "Except the fact that you're going out and attempting to be stuck at the hip for as long as you can?" Confusion appeared on Kari's face.
"Aerith didn't tell you?" Eyes narrowing, Yuffie glared daggers at her friend.
"What . . . are . . . you . . . not . . . telling . . . me?" Aerith bit her lip, trying to avoid the question.
"AERITH!"
"Okay okay. Zen and Cloud are coming."
"That's it?" Yuffie asked suspiciously. Smiling, Aerith replied with a hidden evil grin.
"That's it."
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Aerith's POV
The wind howled loudly as I drive the truck through the thick and fast falling snow. The windshield wipers pump fast, but not quite fast enough. I was forced to lean forward and squint to make sure I wasn't playing chicken with any other vehicles. I spared one glance at my sleeping companion in the passenger seat. Yuffie's head was resting against the window as her petite body lay hunched up beside the door.
Kari on the other hand is sitting with her legs crossed, listening to music through her head phones and a dark purple CD player. She also has a notebook sprawled across her legs, writing furiously; her mouth moving as she silently mouths the words to the song. She was always the quiet one, not many friends because she was so shy, but not many people could understand her. Except for Zenith, or Zenny, as he likes to be called. They're so cute together; they've been going out since the summer between their junior and senior year of high school, their both twenty years old, sophomores in college.
This always confused me, because Yuffie is two years younger, yet they played or hung out together for fifteen years. Something I always admired her for, because Yuffie never really fit in with the crowd, nor did she try to. During high school, for what I was told, she was her only friend. Not including me, my father was friends with her uncle, her legal guardian; her parents burned to death in a fire when she was three months old. I was usually taking care of her after school, and we became closer when she reached high school.
As I glance once more at Yuffie, I smile uncontrollably, she has no idea what we're about to throw in her face. I squint at a sign that says Colorado Springs: 6 miles; and I can only hope the guys got to our destination safe, even though they're only coming from the Air force Academy, Cloud that is, Zen has been on the road for some time, coming from the School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Yuffie doesn't know who else will be there or where exactly we're going, an old castle that belonged to Zen's aunt who died recently, I think the name is Glen Eyrie . . .
(A/N: OMG that sucked so badly! I'm so sorry to have to put you through that, anywho, the next chapter is longer and better and almost done, so I should have it up soon! Please review or I won't continue!)