Love Across Worlds - Chappie 9: Mysteries
Disclaimer: Don't own Kingdom Hearts, the Final Fantasy series, or Angel: the Series and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Too bad...
Glor: Hiya everyone!
Ghost Girl: The answer to who the shape shifter's name is...
Glor: The First! If you watched the 3rd or 7th season of Buffy you'd know about it.
Ghost Girl: The people the First changed into were...
Glor: 1st Buffy, then Spike, then Drusilla, then Glory, Buffy again, Spike again, and finally Buffy for the 3rd time.
Ghost Girl: Arsenic Angel was the first one to review answering all the questions right! Yay for you! Other then spelling Dru's name Drew but hey no one's perfect!
Glor: Thanks for the reviews! Oh, by the way... I'm a total Spuffy and Angel/Cordy shipper.
Ghost Girl: Another note. To Sora's Girl, sorry but the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel world takes place right after the end of Buffy therefore...
Glor: Can't help spoiling Angel season 5 for ya. Sorry... Don't worry, I haven't watched many Angel eppys other then a few selected ones and season 5 but if you wanna know what's going on, go the buffyworld.com for full scripts of the eppys... They really help if you wanna know what's goin' on...
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Amaya placed the now clean dishes in their cabinets, "So, shouldn't we find Squall and Yuffie?" she said as she close the last cabinet, walking back to her seat at the table.
"Yeah, but where do we start?" Sora asked.
Leiko was standing by a window and spotted Ragnarok, "Start with that ship over there" she said evenly.
The others looked up, "Right, that would be a good place to start. Thanks, Leiko" Amaya said with a smile at an attempt to be polite.
Leiko just rolled her eyes in response as she pushed away from the wall, heading out the door. Once she had left the room the others began to get up to follow, "I was trying to be civil..." Amaya muttered as walked out of the gummi ship.
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Yuffie sighed as Squall and his friends had left the room. She had lied, saying she was tired and needed some rest although she didn't, she just wanted to be alone. 'I shouldn't be this torn up... Ugh... Its just Squall! And that Rinoa makes him happy... Then I'm happy for him... But I'm still sad...' she thought silently to herself.
"So Sleeping Beauty's awake... 'Bout time too," a voice said interrupting her sulking.
"Huh?" Yuffie questioned turning to the man behind her, "Oh, it's you... The man from the beach,"
"Yeah, the name's Seifer Almasy," he said then added, "Now what were you doing out on the beach cryin'?"
"None of your business," she answered turning away.
Seifer grabbed her shoulder, forcing her to face him, "I helped you and your not even gonna tell me why you were there in the first place?"
Yuffie looked him in the face, "Not. Your. Business." she said punctuating each word with a sharp poke to his chest.
Seifer sighed letting go of her shoulders, "Fine, you're right but don't keep emotions bottled up, it's not smart,"
Yuffie quirked an eyebrow, "And tell me, why, it's not smart, huh?"
"The new fiends around here lately have been pickin' off the people who can't keep emotions in check..." he continued with a smirk, "You're lucky I came when I did or you'd had been killed,"
"What kind of fiends? Did they look like shadows?"
"Yeah... How did you know that?"
'Heartless...' she thought, "I-"
"Yuffie, you can tell him..." Squall's voice said from the door.
"Tell me what, exactly, Puberty Boy?" Seifer asked, turning to him.
"About what those creatures are" Yuffie answered then looked to Squall, "Me and Leon, or are you going by Squall again?"
"Squall"
"Alright, me and Squall," she said stressing Squall's name, "have been fighting these creatures for a while... They steal hearts, because they have no hearts. We call them the Heartless"
"Heartless, huh? Sorry if the name doesn't strike fear into my heart... Can't be any more difficult then defeating Ultimecia," Seifer said cockily.
"Not that you helped with that" Squall muttered then added, "But it's not the Heartless we're worrying about"
"It's who created them we're worrying about..." Yuffie said, "We thought he was defeated but we've found he's come back... Seemingly more powerful than before"
"This has brought around problems, inevitably plunging every world into darkness if not stopped soon. That's why I came back" Squall continued Yuffie's information.
"So you didn't come back for Rinoa?" Seifer asked with a slight smirk.
"I didn't say that... I came back to make this world safe for all of you,"
"Especially her?" Seifer said still smirking.
Yuffie rolled her eyes, "Enough... We still have tell him about the others, Squall"
"Others?"
Yuffie pushed some of her hair out of her face, "Yeah, we have friends who are the only ones who can save the worlds from total darkness..."
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"What was it like?" Selphie asked Rinoa from her bed.
"What was what like?" Rinoa questioned brushing her hair in front of a mirror, looking at Selphie's reflection in the mirror.
"You know! The kiss!"
"Oh... You want to know if Squall's a good kisser,"
"Yeah!" Selphie yelled with an enthused jump on the bed.
"Well..." Rinoa said as she thoughtful brushed her hair as Selphie leaned forward in anticipation, "I'm not telling!"
Crash! Selphie fell off the bed face first causing Rinoa to turn around concerned, "Are you ok, Selph?"
Selphie sat on the floor rubbing her head, "No fair... How can you do that? Getting me all wound up and then not telling me!" she said with a pout.
Rinoa giggled, "Sorry..."
"Yeah, you're sor-" Selphie's sentence got cut off by a knock on the girls' door, "Come in!"
Quistis entered the room, "Hello, Quistis, is something wrong?" Rinoa asked as she grabbed for her hairbrush.
"Nothing... It just seems like Squall is keeping something from us... An odd group of people came asking for Squall, saying they were friends of his... I led them to Squall and they seemed to be well acquainted with him, but I've never met any of these people before. Could he have made that many friends over the time he was missing?" Quistis inquired to the two other women.
"He could have..." Rinoa said as she continued to brush her hair.
"No offense, but Squall isn't the poster-boy for socializing... He's usually a loner, ain't he? He hardly let us in and we are his best friends!" Selphie argued.
"Selphie is right, we'll have to confront Squall about this," Quistis stated as a frown formed on Rinoa's face.
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Blood trickled from the barely living body tied to the ceiling, dripping down on a circular seal with an intricate star pattern. The man was unconscious, breathing the last breathes in his body. Rasping his very last breath the body went limp and the last few drops needed to open the seal fell.
The corners of the star on the seal began to rip up from the rest of the seal. It formed a pyramid and it went into the ground leaving a hole. A clawed hand emerged from the newly formed hole. The creature pulled it self out, snarling like the untamed beast it was.
From the shadows The First emerged in the form of the blonde slayer, "My pet..." she purred as the seal closed up again, "The beginnings of my new army..."
"This is what you were so anxious of raising from the Hellmouth... It seems...pathetic in comparison" Ansem said as he examined the creature.
The First laughed, "In comparison to what? Your lil shadows?" it patronized.
"Let's test out your 'pet', shall we?" Ansem sneered, raising his hand and an enormous Darkside Heartless emerged.
The First switched into the form of the crazed raven-haired vampire and clicked her tongue signaling her 'pet' to attack the giant Heartless. It snarled and lunged forward towards the Heartless. Soon the Heartless had evaporated into heart floating away. The First changed into the bleach blonde vampire in leather and smirked.
"You were saying?" The First said with the vampire's cocky British accent.
"I must admit... These are quite remarkable... What are they called?" Ansem questioned.
"Toruk-Han, the original vampires, not a half-breed like this git whose form I'm borrowing," it said.
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Coughs came from the dark corner of the cell. The woman shook her head, dust falling from her tangles of red hair. She struggled to get up by holding herself up with the wall only to fall again with a sharp pain in her head that was not caused by being thrown into cells hard concrete walls. A vision of her daughters passed by in her head as well as two boys with the Keyblades as well as a blonde man with an unusually large sword protecting the girls from the creatures that had risen from the seal.
As the men slashed at the fanged creatures, her eldest had also gotten into the brawl as her youngest tended to her other sister's wounds. Her middle child had taken out a stone ready to cast a spell...
The queen bit back a scream and whimpered instead, 'Please... Powers That Be... Do not allow my daughters to fall into darkness...' she prayed silently in her dark cold cell.
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"Yuffie, you go... I'm staying here to protect my friends..." Squall said to Yuffie as he glanced over to the group and then to Seifer, "Seifer we'll see to it too, so no worries"
Cloud spoke up from the door with the others behind him, "Yuffie, you can stay and help out here, you two work better together anyway,"
"Hey! Are you tryin' to get rid of me? And who says I'll stay here with Squall?" Yuffie exclaimed angrily as he turned to the blonde.
"Just a suggestion, since you and I both know our world was decimated," Cloud said as Yuffie looked down.
"Ok... I'll stay... But I'm not gonna like it... And if you here anything from Tifa and the others, you'll tell me?" Yuffie gave in and raised her head.
Cloud nodded, "I'm sure they're safe..."
"I hope so... We shouldn't have left them alone..." Yuffie said sadly remembering the night the Heartless consumed her world and her, Aerith and Cloud had gone out to get food leaving Tifa, Barret, Vincent, Red XIII, Cait Sith, and Cid alone, but they had found Vincent and Cid. The thought crosses her mind again, 'Where are the others?'
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The queen groaned and herself lying on a red furry pillow. After blinking a few times, she saw it was not a person but a creature of some sort but he didn't seem to be a threat.
"Are you okay?"
She turned her head to the voice, which was coming from in front of her. She saw a man next to a big pink monstrosity with a stuffed cat perched on what seemed to be it's shoulder and snuggled in the arms of the plush machine was little girl fast asleep.
"Maybe she can't talk... What do you think, Red?" the man asked the creature that she was using as a pillow.
"I can speak..." she said hoarsely.
"Good," the man stuck out his hand to her as a greeting, "They call me Cait Sith,"
"I'm Amarante... Amara if you may..." the queen answered deciding to not mention her royalty, "and you are Red, am I correct?" she asked Red as she turned to him, leaning off of him.
"Red XIII... Nice to meet you" Red answered.
"So, Amara... Why are you in this dark dank dungeon?" Cait Sith asked.
"I have visions... And if I were to tell the warriors what I see it would foil the evil ones plans..."
"Then we should get you outta here!" Cait Sith exclaimed.
"And how do you propose we do that without weapons?" Red asked, being the voice of reason.
Cait Sith slumped, "I guess we'll have to wait for Tifa and Barret to come around..."
A yawn came from behind Cait Sith, "Where's daddy?" the little girl asked.
Cait Sith walked of to the girl and scooped her into his arms, "He'll be back soon Marlene... He just has to find a way out of here..."
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Night had fallen and Yuffie was walking to the girls' room. She knocked, "Come in!" a perky voice said from the other side of the door.
Yuffie poked her head in, "Uh... Hi? Squall said I could stay in here..."
Selphie bounced out of her seat, "Of course you can! We have an extra bed you can use," she said as she led Yuffie to the Yuffie's new bed.
Yuffie swung a bag filled with her belongings over her shoulder onto the bed, "Thank you, uh... I didn't catch your names..." Yuffie said as she turned to the three girls in the room.
"Well... I'm Selphie and these two are Quistis and Rinoa," Selphie answered as she respectively pointed out Quistis and Rinoa.
Quistis stepped forward, "Nice to meet you, and do forgive me for being quite blunt about this but, may I ask, how do you know Squall?"
"Uh well..." Yuffie stuttered, 'I can't tell them... Squall doesn't want them to the know about the Heartless...'
"Quistis... I think Yuffie must be tired and she might answer your question better in the morning..." Rinoa spoke up.
Quistis turned to her and nodded. Quistis turned back to Yuffie, "We'll discuss it in the morning," she said as Yuffie nodded and Quistis left the room.
Yuffie let out a relived sigh fell onto her bed, 'Tomorrow's gonna be a looong day...' she thought as she slipped into a relaxed slumber and Rinoa and Selphie followed in pursuit.
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"They're not coming back with us so does that mean we just leave?" Sora asked, breaking the silence in the cabin.
"We should lock this world first, Sora," Riku replied.
An unladylike snort came from Leiko, "Well you two can do that on your own, so I'll be in the gummi ship," Leiko said as she left the Ragnarok.
"I'll go with her, anyone else who wants to head back to the ship is welcome... We leave tomorrow morning?" Cloud stated as he directed his question to Amaya.
"Yeah, but if we don't find the keyhole tonight we'll need to stay until we do... I'll go with the Riku and Sora... Kairi, are you coming?" Amaya asked as her sister nodded and the foursome went one way as Cloud went in the direction Leiko had gone.
As the group split up, a figure loomed from above them on the roof of the Ragnarok. The figures long silver hair gleamed in the remaining light from the setting sun. His mouth twitches upwards as he took out a communication device.
The mysterious figure pressed a button and brought the phone to his ear, "In position... What's the next phase?"
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Glor: Cliffy! *hears groans from audience* Oh, I know... I hate 'em too, unless I'm writing 'em that is! *smiles innocently*
Ghost Girl: *rolls her eyes* *looks at a review* Hey! One of your reviewers got taste! This one says we're funny!
Glor: Well, yay! Hm... I gots a favor to ask reviewers! I wanna test your writing skills for Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel fics! (If you know what Buffy or Angel is, or anyone who does tell 'em 'bout this if they write fics) I gots a challenge for you!
Ghost Girl: She gotta couple fics she tried to write during school but got discourage cause her teacher took it away... And read it... And if you know about Spuffy happenings in Season 6 you know why she got in trouble...
Glor: I got it back though!
Ghost Girl: Yeah, After he told you to write something 100 times in your fanfic book...
Glor: The bastard! *growls*
Ghost Girl: That's what you get for writing smut during THEOLOGY class!
Glor: *shudders* You sound like Megan!
Ghost Girl: It's better then soundin' like you!
Glor: Hmph... *ignores Ghost Girl* But I digress... And I'm kinda outta time since I need to post this to read so in the next chapter I'll post my challenges... If anyone's interested, review or e-mail me at corporealspuffy@aol.com Bye-e!~
Disclaimer: Don't own Kingdom Hearts, the Final Fantasy series, or Angel: the Series and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Too bad...
Glor: Hiya everyone!
Ghost Girl: The answer to who the shape shifter's name is...
Glor: The First! If you watched the 3rd or 7th season of Buffy you'd know about it.
Ghost Girl: The people the First changed into were...
Glor: 1st Buffy, then Spike, then Drusilla, then Glory, Buffy again, Spike again, and finally Buffy for the 3rd time.
Ghost Girl: Arsenic Angel was the first one to review answering all the questions right! Yay for you! Other then spelling Dru's name Drew but hey no one's perfect!
Glor: Thanks for the reviews! Oh, by the way... I'm a total Spuffy and Angel/Cordy shipper.
Ghost Girl: Another note. To Sora's Girl, sorry but the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel world takes place right after the end of Buffy therefore...
Glor: Can't help spoiling Angel season 5 for ya. Sorry... Don't worry, I haven't watched many Angel eppys other then a few selected ones and season 5 but if you wanna know what's going on, go the buffyworld.com for full scripts of the eppys... They really help if you wanna know what's goin' on...
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Amaya placed the now clean dishes in their cabinets, "So, shouldn't we find Squall and Yuffie?" she said as she close the last cabinet, walking back to her seat at the table.
"Yeah, but where do we start?" Sora asked.
Leiko was standing by a window and spotted Ragnarok, "Start with that ship over there" she said evenly.
The others looked up, "Right, that would be a good place to start. Thanks, Leiko" Amaya said with a smile at an attempt to be polite.
Leiko just rolled her eyes in response as she pushed away from the wall, heading out the door. Once she had left the room the others began to get up to follow, "I was trying to be civil..." Amaya muttered as walked out of the gummi ship.
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Yuffie sighed as Squall and his friends had left the room. She had lied, saying she was tired and needed some rest although she didn't, she just wanted to be alone. 'I shouldn't be this torn up... Ugh... Its just Squall! And that Rinoa makes him happy... Then I'm happy for him... But I'm still sad...' she thought silently to herself.
"So Sleeping Beauty's awake... 'Bout time too," a voice said interrupting her sulking.
"Huh?" Yuffie questioned turning to the man behind her, "Oh, it's you... The man from the beach,"
"Yeah, the name's Seifer Almasy," he said then added, "Now what were you doing out on the beach cryin'?"
"None of your business," she answered turning away.
Seifer grabbed her shoulder, forcing her to face him, "I helped you and your not even gonna tell me why you were there in the first place?"
Yuffie looked him in the face, "Not. Your. Business." she said punctuating each word with a sharp poke to his chest.
Seifer sighed letting go of her shoulders, "Fine, you're right but don't keep emotions bottled up, it's not smart,"
Yuffie quirked an eyebrow, "And tell me, why, it's not smart, huh?"
"The new fiends around here lately have been pickin' off the people who can't keep emotions in check..." he continued with a smirk, "You're lucky I came when I did or you'd had been killed,"
"What kind of fiends? Did they look like shadows?"
"Yeah... How did you know that?"
'Heartless...' she thought, "I-"
"Yuffie, you can tell him..." Squall's voice said from the door.
"Tell me what, exactly, Puberty Boy?" Seifer asked, turning to him.
"About what those creatures are" Yuffie answered then looked to Squall, "Me and Leon, or are you going by Squall again?"
"Squall"
"Alright, me and Squall," she said stressing Squall's name, "have been fighting these creatures for a while... They steal hearts, because they have no hearts. We call them the Heartless"
"Heartless, huh? Sorry if the name doesn't strike fear into my heart... Can't be any more difficult then defeating Ultimecia," Seifer said cockily.
"Not that you helped with that" Squall muttered then added, "But it's not the Heartless we're worrying about"
"It's who created them we're worrying about..." Yuffie said, "We thought he was defeated but we've found he's come back... Seemingly more powerful than before"
"This has brought around problems, inevitably plunging every world into darkness if not stopped soon. That's why I came back" Squall continued Yuffie's information.
"So you didn't come back for Rinoa?" Seifer asked with a slight smirk.
"I didn't say that... I came back to make this world safe for all of you,"
"Especially her?" Seifer said still smirking.
Yuffie rolled her eyes, "Enough... We still have tell him about the others, Squall"
"Others?"
Yuffie pushed some of her hair out of her face, "Yeah, we have friends who are the only ones who can save the worlds from total darkness..."
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"What was it like?" Selphie asked Rinoa from her bed.
"What was what like?" Rinoa questioned brushing her hair in front of a mirror, looking at Selphie's reflection in the mirror.
"You know! The kiss!"
"Oh... You want to know if Squall's a good kisser,"
"Yeah!" Selphie yelled with an enthused jump on the bed.
"Well..." Rinoa said as she thoughtful brushed her hair as Selphie leaned forward in anticipation, "I'm not telling!"
Crash! Selphie fell off the bed face first causing Rinoa to turn around concerned, "Are you ok, Selph?"
Selphie sat on the floor rubbing her head, "No fair... How can you do that? Getting me all wound up and then not telling me!" she said with a pout.
Rinoa giggled, "Sorry..."
"Yeah, you're sor-" Selphie's sentence got cut off by a knock on the girls' door, "Come in!"
Quistis entered the room, "Hello, Quistis, is something wrong?" Rinoa asked as she grabbed for her hairbrush.
"Nothing... It just seems like Squall is keeping something from us... An odd group of people came asking for Squall, saying they were friends of his... I led them to Squall and they seemed to be well acquainted with him, but I've never met any of these people before. Could he have made that many friends over the time he was missing?" Quistis inquired to the two other women.
"He could have..." Rinoa said as she continued to brush her hair.
"No offense, but Squall isn't the poster-boy for socializing... He's usually a loner, ain't he? He hardly let us in and we are his best friends!" Selphie argued.
"Selphie is right, we'll have to confront Squall about this," Quistis stated as a frown formed on Rinoa's face.
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Blood trickled from the barely living body tied to the ceiling, dripping down on a circular seal with an intricate star pattern. The man was unconscious, breathing the last breathes in his body. Rasping his very last breath the body went limp and the last few drops needed to open the seal fell.
The corners of the star on the seal began to rip up from the rest of the seal. It formed a pyramid and it went into the ground leaving a hole. A clawed hand emerged from the newly formed hole. The creature pulled it self out, snarling like the untamed beast it was.
From the shadows The First emerged in the form of the blonde slayer, "My pet..." she purred as the seal closed up again, "The beginnings of my new army..."
"This is what you were so anxious of raising from the Hellmouth... It seems...pathetic in comparison" Ansem said as he examined the creature.
The First laughed, "In comparison to what? Your lil shadows?" it patronized.
"Let's test out your 'pet', shall we?" Ansem sneered, raising his hand and an enormous Darkside Heartless emerged.
The First switched into the form of the crazed raven-haired vampire and clicked her tongue signaling her 'pet' to attack the giant Heartless. It snarled and lunged forward towards the Heartless. Soon the Heartless had evaporated into heart floating away. The First changed into the bleach blonde vampire in leather and smirked.
"You were saying?" The First said with the vampire's cocky British accent.
"I must admit... These are quite remarkable... What are they called?" Ansem questioned.
"Toruk-Han, the original vampires, not a half-breed like this git whose form I'm borrowing," it said.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Coughs came from the dark corner of the cell. The woman shook her head, dust falling from her tangles of red hair. She struggled to get up by holding herself up with the wall only to fall again with a sharp pain in her head that was not caused by being thrown into cells hard concrete walls. A vision of her daughters passed by in her head as well as two boys with the Keyblades as well as a blonde man with an unusually large sword protecting the girls from the creatures that had risen from the seal.
As the men slashed at the fanged creatures, her eldest had also gotten into the brawl as her youngest tended to her other sister's wounds. Her middle child had taken out a stone ready to cast a spell...
The queen bit back a scream and whimpered instead, 'Please... Powers That Be... Do not allow my daughters to fall into darkness...' she prayed silently in her dark cold cell.
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"Yuffie, you go... I'm staying here to protect my friends..." Squall said to Yuffie as he glanced over to the group and then to Seifer, "Seifer we'll see to it too, so no worries"
Cloud spoke up from the door with the others behind him, "Yuffie, you can stay and help out here, you two work better together anyway,"
"Hey! Are you tryin' to get rid of me? And who says I'll stay here with Squall?" Yuffie exclaimed angrily as he turned to the blonde.
"Just a suggestion, since you and I both know our world was decimated," Cloud said as Yuffie looked down.
"Ok... I'll stay... But I'm not gonna like it... And if you here anything from Tifa and the others, you'll tell me?" Yuffie gave in and raised her head.
Cloud nodded, "I'm sure they're safe..."
"I hope so... We shouldn't have left them alone..." Yuffie said sadly remembering the night the Heartless consumed her world and her, Aerith and Cloud had gone out to get food leaving Tifa, Barret, Vincent, Red XIII, Cait Sith, and Cid alone, but they had found Vincent and Cid. The thought crosses her mind again, 'Where are the others?'
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The queen groaned and herself lying on a red furry pillow. After blinking a few times, she saw it was not a person but a creature of some sort but he didn't seem to be a threat.
"Are you okay?"
She turned her head to the voice, which was coming from in front of her. She saw a man next to a big pink monstrosity with a stuffed cat perched on what seemed to be it's shoulder and snuggled in the arms of the plush machine was little girl fast asleep.
"Maybe she can't talk... What do you think, Red?" the man asked the creature that she was using as a pillow.
"I can speak..." she said hoarsely.
"Good," the man stuck out his hand to her as a greeting, "They call me Cait Sith,"
"I'm Amarante... Amara if you may..." the queen answered deciding to not mention her royalty, "and you are Red, am I correct?" she asked Red as she turned to him, leaning off of him.
"Red XIII... Nice to meet you" Red answered.
"So, Amara... Why are you in this dark dank dungeon?" Cait Sith asked.
"I have visions... And if I were to tell the warriors what I see it would foil the evil ones plans..."
"Then we should get you outta here!" Cait Sith exclaimed.
"And how do you propose we do that without weapons?" Red asked, being the voice of reason.
Cait Sith slumped, "I guess we'll have to wait for Tifa and Barret to come around..."
A yawn came from behind Cait Sith, "Where's daddy?" the little girl asked.
Cait Sith walked of to the girl and scooped her into his arms, "He'll be back soon Marlene... He just has to find a way out of here..."
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Night had fallen and Yuffie was walking to the girls' room. She knocked, "Come in!" a perky voice said from the other side of the door.
Yuffie poked her head in, "Uh... Hi? Squall said I could stay in here..."
Selphie bounced out of her seat, "Of course you can! We have an extra bed you can use," she said as she led Yuffie to the Yuffie's new bed.
Yuffie swung a bag filled with her belongings over her shoulder onto the bed, "Thank you, uh... I didn't catch your names..." Yuffie said as she turned to the three girls in the room.
"Well... I'm Selphie and these two are Quistis and Rinoa," Selphie answered as she respectively pointed out Quistis and Rinoa.
Quistis stepped forward, "Nice to meet you, and do forgive me for being quite blunt about this but, may I ask, how do you know Squall?"
"Uh well..." Yuffie stuttered, 'I can't tell them... Squall doesn't want them to the know about the Heartless...'
"Quistis... I think Yuffie must be tired and she might answer your question better in the morning..." Rinoa spoke up.
Quistis turned to her and nodded. Quistis turned back to Yuffie, "We'll discuss it in the morning," she said as Yuffie nodded and Quistis left the room.
Yuffie let out a relived sigh fell onto her bed, 'Tomorrow's gonna be a looong day...' she thought as she slipped into a relaxed slumber and Rinoa and Selphie followed in pursuit.
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"They're not coming back with us so does that mean we just leave?" Sora asked, breaking the silence in the cabin.
"We should lock this world first, Sora," Riku replied.
An unladylike snort came from Leiko, "Well you two can do that on your own, so I'll be in the gummi ship," Leiko said as she left the Ragnarok.
"I'll go with her, anyone else who wants to head back to the ship is welcome... We leave tomorrow morning?" Cloud stated as he directed his question to Amaya.
"Yeah, but if we don't find the keyhole tonight we'll need to stay until we do... I'll go with the Riku and Sora... Kairi, are you coming?" Amaya asked as her sister nodded and the foursome went one way as Cloud went in the direction Leiko had gone.
As the group split up, a figure loomed from above them on the roof of the Ragnarok. The figures long silver hair gleamed in the remaining light from the setting sun. His mouth twitches upwards as he took out a communication device.
The mysterious figure pressed a button and brought the phone to his ear, "In position... What's the next phase?"
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Glor: Cliffy! *hears groans from audience* Oh, I know... I hate 'em too, unless I'm writing 'em that is! *smiles innocently*
Ghost Girl: *rolls her eyes* *looks at a review* Hey! One of your reviewers got taste! This one says we're funny!
Glor: Well, yay! Hm... I gots a favor to ask reviewers! I wanna test your writing skills for Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel fics! (If you know what Buffy or Angel is, or anyone who does tell 'em 'bout this if they write fics) I gots a challenge for you!
Ghost Girl: She gotta couple fics she tried to write during school but got discourage cause her teacher took it away... And read it... And if you know about Spuffy happenings in Season 6 you know why she got in trouble...
Glor: I got it back though!
Ghost Girl: Yeah, After he told you to write something 100 times in your fanfic book...
Glor: The bastard! *growls*
Ghost Girl: That's what you get for writing smut during THEOLOGY class!
Glor: *shudders* You sound like Megan!
Ghost Girl: It's better then soundin' like you!
Glor: Hmph... *ignores Ghost Girl* But I digress... And I'm kinda outta time since I need to post this to read so in the next chapter I'll post my challenges... If anyone's interested, review or e-mail me at corporealspuffy@aol.com Bye-e!~