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Chapter 4 Mixed Emotions The Journey Ahead

Cloud

"Cloud, are you okay?" I heard Tifa ask me somewhere in the back of my mind. I wasn't paying any attention. "Cloud. Cloud!" She said a little more sternly this time.

"What?!" I asked her in an annoyed voice.

"How are you doing? We've been walking for like, two hours, and you haven't said a word.

I didn't reply. I just kicked the dirt around. We were walking right now back to Midgar from Kalm. She sighed.

"Cloud, come on....you're worrying everyone."

I still didn't say anything.

"Monster!" Cait Sith warned.

They all jumped to arms. They stood at the ready. We were all spread apart by at least 5 feet. Everyone just waited for it to approach one of them. It was just a large spiked brown beast type of thing. I pulled out my sword and approached it. It snarled and foamed at the mouth. It had to be at least 4 feet tall. It leapt at me. Right when it was flying towards me I lifted my sword above me. I dropped it down as soon as it got to me, cleaving it in two. Everyone just stood there. Ignoring them, I just shouldered my sword and kept walking towards the looming dark shape on the horizon that was Midgar. Everyone just followed. Yuffie ran up beside me.

"WHOA! That was really cool! And really fast! But you didn't leave any for me!" She said, punching me in the arm.

I just kept ignoring her until she left in a grumpy mood. We encountered more enemies along the way. I dug my sword in the ground. For each enemy we saw, I made one of them fight, and sometimes fight together. "Yuffie! Come here. You're fighting first." A same type of beast approached, leaping at Yuffie. She ducked right under and threw her pinwheel at it, slicing its hind legs. It yelped and jumped at her. She dodged it by flipping backwards. As soon as she hit the ground, she casted an ice attack on it.

"Yippie!" She cheered at her defeat.

"Hey, that was my ice materia!" Red XIII yelled to her. Her cheeks grew red.

I called Cait Sith next. It was a flying creature he was up against. He hopped up and down swinging his megaphone with a stupid smile on his face. I would have normally been confused but I knew he was just annoying and puzzling the enemy. Right when it swooped towards him he wiggled his megaphone and it stopped. I knew he was manipulating it. That was one of his favorite materias. He spun it again and made the large bird peck itself with it's long beak. He made it keep using its own attacks on itself until it died. As it hit the ground and faded away, a malboro waddled at a high speed towards us. We gulped. This wasn't always an easy enemy to face. I pulled out my sword, ready to face it myself, when Tifa touched my hand to stop me. "I'll do it." She said. I nodded. When she ran forward it slapped at her with one of its long tentacles, but she easily dodged it. When she reached it she ducked under its flailing arms and swung a punch at it. A single punch wasn't effective enough, so she used more of her martial arts skills by kicking and punching more. But it wasn't working. "Do you need help?!" I called out. She dodged another attack. "No!" She called. "I'm going to use my limit soon!" I nodded. She could easily defeat it soon then. Then it opened its mouth and spat a nasty type of goo at her. It was too large to dodge, and stuck to her. She coughed and tried to scratch it off. Then the monster made its move. It smacked her with a tentacle, knocking her over. She stood back up. Anger formed in her wine-colored eyes. "Here it is!" She shouted. She ran forward at it, even if its sticky saliva held her back. She suddenly threw several fast punches at it, landing powerful blows all over its ugly green body. Then she somersaulted over it, kicking it in the face. Lastly she used her water kick, swinging her leg with bubbles following. It slammed into it, automatically killing it. She cleaned herself off and cured herself. She gave me a smile. "Nice job, Tifa." I said

She smiled. "Thank you."

We kept walking. Strangely we didn't encounter anymore enemies. We kept on walking, and no one said a word, everyone just kept staring at the ground.

"Oh my....!" Yuffie gasped. We had arrived. We all looked up at Midgar. My mouth dropped open. In all my life at Midgar, I had never seen anything like this.....