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AN: Here's chapter two, I hope this explains some things......and...thanks for the reviews, I didn't expect it to be so popular!...After scouring the net, I found a name I think is right for doctor...it could be incorrect, though
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Chapter 2: Headmaster
" Are you telling me you have no idea what, or where, Balamb is?"
Cloud looked up irritably at the youth, " Yes, can I eat now?"
The man sighed, and nodded, it wasn't that Cloud thought the food was very good...actually it was normal cafeteria quality, all-too-remnisant of ShinRa...it was just...he did not want to talk about it... the only logical explanation, he could not accept it...except that it was proven...
It was 230 years Post-Meteor...no one remembered what meteor anymore, all that remained were vague myths...it had come from the sky, some said it was made of living creatures, some did not believe it was a meteor at all...the only world-wide knowlege was, that it had wiped out an extremely advanced civilization....the Centra...
Cloud couldn't help but wonder if the extra 'n' hinted at more than a spelling mistake....
Hahaha....You fool...no matter how hard you try, I will always win...
Cloud snapped his head up, and looked towards the voice, a dark-skinned SeeD-in-training, was playing some sort of card game with a woman of similar rank.
" Triple Triad." Squall said suddenly.
Surprised, Cloud looked in his direction, in askance.
" It's an absurdly popular card game, that's spread throughout the world...."
" There you are!" Came an oddly familiar voice, from behind Cloud, " You had Doctor Kadowaki worried half to death!"
Cloud turned his head to see the Yuffie-look-alike, and said cooly, " I'm fine."
" That's for-" The woman started, then gasped, when she saw his forehead, " ...What....how..?"
Cloud simply ignored her, and went back to eating, noting Squall's silent staring at the woman.
" You have alot of questions to answer...for starters...how in the world are you sitting there alive?!" The woman ranted, " You have enough toxins in your blood to--"
" Mako." He said cooly, hoping she would be satisfied, and leave...but scientists never were...
" Oh, so now you'll answer me..FINALLY! How are you alive? Huh??" The woman insisted.
" Ah! Squall! I knew you'd be here." Came the voice of another woman.
All this chittering and foot traffic reminded Cloud far too much of ShinRa..the food didn't help either...of course....even ShinRa was something of the past....just like all of his friends...just when he'd finally allowed himself to become close to people again...Aeris....Avalanche...
Cloud frowned at his fork, as it clattered to the plate, he'd lost his appitite.
" You must be the mystery man, I'm Instructor Quistis Trepe." The new woman said, stepping into his view, she was tall, blue-eyed, and had blonde hair, pinned up fashionably. " I apologize for my student, Seifer's rashness earlier. I trust you were not seriously injured?"
" What?" He asked flatly, looking up at her.
" Don't you remember? You appeared while he and Squall were training, and you caught th bad side of Seifer's blade."
" No."
She frowned slightly, before saying, " Well, at any rate, I have to steal Squall from you, and the Headmaster wishes to speak with you."
" Where is he?"
" I'll take him there!" The woman from the infirmary said.
" I think I just remembered." Cloud replied sarcasticly, standing up.
" Let Emily take you there..." Quistis nodded, calling a teen-aged girl, with her hair up in braided pig-tails.
" Hi!" She smiled, " I'll take you to Headmaster Cid! This way!!"
Shaking his head slightly, he bid Squall farewell, and followed the energetic young girl through the huge corridors, to a large elevator.
" Floor 3, here we come!" She chirped, as they entered.
As the elevator moved upwards, she stared at him intensely, directly into his eyes.
" How do you do that?" She asked finally.
" Do what?"
" Your eyes...glow so prettily..."
The mark of a SOLDIER...but, apparently, no one here remembered ShinRa....or any of it's creations...
Fortunately, the elevator reached it's destination before he had to explain himself, he hated explaining himself.
When the doors slid open, a man was standing patiently in front of the door...at least....he thought it might be a man...it looked far more like a monster, than a human.
His skin was yellow, and he had huge yellow hands, his face was elongated and misshapen...that creature could not possibly be Cid!!
It bowed slightly at their arrival, but it's bow held no humility.
" The headmaster waits....you may leave, child..."
Emily nodded, depressed, and waited only until Cloud exited the elevator, before pressing the button to close the door, the...creature scurried up to a pair of heavily engraved doors, and opened them carefully, inside stood a man who looked like an identical twin of Cid Highwind, if slightly younger, brown haired, and unscarred.
" Welcome stranger..." The man said, " I...am Headmaster Cid Kramer."
" What do you want?" Cloud asked dryly, cutting to the chase.
" I want to know where you come from, who you are...with your healing abilities, you would make a valuable SeeD."
" My days as a mercinary are over." Cloud replied quickly, mainly because a part of him feared meeting another Aeris....because a large part of him felt like he betrayed her, even by looking at Tifa, after....
" Aye..I can see that you do not need gil, with the 30+ million gil you have in your pack...but a SeeD is not just about the work...it.."
" Headmaster, I do not believe our guest wishes to hear a speech..." The creature cut in quickly.
" Ah...You think I was droning on? I suppose so...yes, we must cut to the chase." The headmaster nodded, " For the time being, we will welcome you here, as Gardens must always do, the only conditions, are that you answer my questions, and you participate in the daily duties and chores of this institution, as all other residents must."
" What questions?"
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Squall frowned at his terminal, as the inspector continued her lesson.
Who was that girl in the cafeteria?
Who was the strange warrior who had appeared during his, and Seifer's training, that had inadvertantly, spared Squall a grevious wound, and perhaps more? He wished he could have spoken to him longer, more than the massive sword strapped casually to the man's back, he exibited an aura of dangerous power. Squall had little doubt Cloud could kill him in an instant...his belief in no small amount due to the fact that he had seen the man holding his sword as easily and as casually as one might a feather Rapier....could he truly be...from the past?
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Kadowaki frowned as she looked over at her part-time assistant, " Completely healed you say?....I don't understand how..."
The woman's only reply was a slight shrug.
" What do you think of him, Elle?"
" Well...he's cute.." She admitted, blushing slightly.
" Hah! And by the way he talks, he could be your great-great-great-great grandfather, for all you know!"
" Maybe...I've never heard anyone but my family talk about that myth..." The girl whispered, " And he spoke as if the myth were now...."
" What? That Sef-whatever?"
" Sephiroth." The girl corrected.
" Yeah....him, now that you mention it, I remember a family folk-tale with him in it..."
" What was it?"
" Oh, something about an over-ambitious scientist that created a monster he couldn't control...one of my ancestors, my family always claims...the moral was something like, never create what you cannot control."
" Strange, same name?"
" Yeah...something like that...but the tale goes...he destroyed the world...making the entire tale oxymoronic...being as I'm still here.." The doctor said, matter-of-factly, " I think there actually was a 'Sefroth' but...I doubt he's what either of our tales make him out to be,"
" I'll see if I can find anything on him."
" Eat your heart out." The doctor said, dissmissing the girl, somehow, the doctor knew there was something much more terrible to this 'Sephiroth', than the tales revealed....something only their visitor could show...
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AN: Done! With chapter 2, anyway..lol ^.^ Did I think ya? Huh,huh,huh, maybe??
I hope this was as good as you guys made the last one out to be...lol.....To tell the truth, our game only made it through chapter 1...before it melted into self-destructing chaos....
Other books by Me:
FF7=Fate:What If Cloud didn't meet Aeris in the Church? What if Sephiroth did.....How would the world change do you think? Aer/Seph book
Zelda=Hero of Time:The story of Link and...Brian? Set in OOT, done to a RPG me and Sparty ( My brother) once played about it, R&R!...bad Humor throughout
.Hack=Second Chance: Ten years after .hack, Mimiru and Sora re-meet eachother, Tsukasa has long ago logged out, and died tragically, next to his wife, Mimiru, now she seeks refuge in the world that once held her beloved captive...and the virus returns.mi/sora mi/tsuk
.Hack=Alone:Mimiru loves Tsukasa, but he's not sure who to love, and she can't wait any longer....secretly, Crim loves Mimiru, but can he admit it to her, before it's too late?
.Hack=Torment:The highly anticipated sequel to Alone! The team must now cope with the loss of a friend, and deal with a new threat...is Subaru going insane?
Insane x-over=Recruiter:The first chapter of my action packed-badpun-riddled Cross-over, when a young woman finds out that every dimension has collided, and SHE is Chosen to unite them all, and defeat the greatest evil ever known...or doom the Multi-verse, choices, choices...hmm
DBZ=Untold Tale:Perfect edition update, spell checked and everything! Thankies!COMPLETE! All of us know about Bardock...right? Thats where Goku got his dashing good looks, right? But what about his Mother, Juniper...what happened to her
-Yusagi Sombermoon