Chapter 3

"Outer space huh?" Squall said walking towards the edge of the forest. "That's pretty neat, what's it like out there?"

"Not all that great, it's all just blackness, stars and planets"

"But surely it must've been pretty cool when you first got up there"

"Yeh, I guess. Anyway were are you from? What's your life like?" Squall looked away and frowned.

"My past doesn't matter all I can really say is that I'm currently just at a school were I mostly learn to fight monsters, self-protection, that sort of shit which I already know." They were both quiet after that and just kept walking; eventually they reached the edge of the forest. Squall looked around and then sharply turned right and kept walking.

"Hey, wait up!" Ratchet yelled. "Why are we heading this way?"

"Look up, see that smoke? Somebody's made a camp. Not the cleverest idea, making a fire. The more intelligent monsters can tell by smoke that people had made camp somewhere as well as other, maybe more dangerous people" Squall looked away like him he thought.

"You think it might be Cloud then." Squall nodded. "Well, we'll soon find out anyway won't we."

Yuffie checked her pockets, luckily all the things she had had before being transported here were still there. Her purse, mini torch and most importantly, her shurikens. They were all there. She sat down on a nearby clump of grass and thought through what she should do. She had had some lessons on basic survival tips back at the school although most of the lessons were more about just fighting monsters. She sighed; when she was transported she also had a backpack with some food that would probably last her a couple of days but what if she had to spend the rest of her life here? She put the thought out of her head and decided the best thing to do first was to make a camp. She got up and swung the backpack onto her back and then walked away to try and find a suitable place to camp.

Ratchet looked round the corner at the camp they had been tracking. "There's nobody there Squall" Ratchet said. Together they walked over to the now deserted camp. Someone had definitely been there, but whoever it was they certainly weren't there anymore.

"Ratchet, look footpri…" Suddenly there came a tremendous roar coming from the direction of a set of a trail of footprints. Squall un-sheathed his gunblade and Ratchet pulled out his omni-wrench. They both ran off in the direction of the roar. They kept running until they got to a small valley in which was a gigantic half dog, half dinosaur beast and fighting it was a man with blonde hair and a huge buster sword. "Cloud!" Squall shouted and rushed down to fight alongside the man with Ratchet right behind him. The beast took a swipe with its claws at Ratchet who blocked it with his omni-wrench. The creature then leant down for a bite at Squall, who stepped to the side. While the beast brought its head down, the man grabbed on to its ear and as it brought its head back up it brought the man up with him. From the top the man took out his buster sword and pushed it into the monster's head. The beast roared in agony and fell to the ground and explouded into multi-coloured wisps of smoke.

"Thanks for the help" the man said. "It's good to know I'm not the only one here. Good to see you made it Squall, and you are?" The man looked towards Ratchet.

"The names Ratchet.

"Nice to meet you Ratchet." The man said. Although Ratchet somehow didn't think that he really meant it. "I'm Cloud, Cloud Strife"

"From another planet?" Cloud said. "No wonder you look so, well, different"

"Hey I could say the same about you!" Ratchet said smiling although none of the others smiled with him. Geez. Ratchet thought What a depressing bunch

"I was thinking Cloud" Squall said. "If we made it here maybe others from our class made it here. Yuffie, Seifer, Sep…" Squall suddenly stopped. "I'm pretty tired" Squall said. "I think I'll get some rest."

"Me too" Cloud said.

"Guess I might as well then." Ratchet said.

In the treetops sat a man with a long black cloak and long, white hair. "A perfect chance" he said to himself. "A perfect time to kill. All of them. All of them will pay for what they did. What they did to mother. I'll kill them all!" He said. He smiled and flew off into the night.