"Damn, traffic is heavy."
"That's because most people are heading off to work." Cid adjusted his hat. Red scratched his ear. Cait Sith hummed to himself lightly. TIfa leaned over slightly to me. "So, you think this will work?"
"I sure hope so," I said as I tightened my gloves, "because we need it."
"Damn right." Barret turned to look back at us.
"BARRET!"
"FUCK!"
Barret turned his head back in time to barely dodge a car. "Learn to drive, people!"
"Yeah, don't mess with a big black guy driving a van full of mercenaries." Yuffie made a joke, and for once it was a good one as we all got a laugh out of it. "Well guys, we have a few minutes...wanna play a game?"
Cid took a cigarette out from his pack and lit it up. "Whatcha got in mind?"
"I don't know."
"How about the Alphabet Game?" Cait Sith and Yuffie were the humorous ones of the group, which entertained the rest of us without annoying us.
"Male or female?"
"Male. We did female when we went to Bone Village last week."
"Male it is. Who's in?"
Cait Sith, Yuffie, Tifa, and Cid raised their hands. Red raised his paw. Vincent was asleep. Barret was driving. I really had no interest in playing.
"I'll start...hmmm...A...A..." Yuffie was sexy...a girl with no shame.
"Fuck it, let's try it now." Cid opened his other pack of cigarettes and pulled out a rather fat looking cigarette. Well, it looked more like it was the size of a baseball bat. Ojkay, that's exaggerating, but... "Hit the stuff, Yuff."
"Cid, excuse me for a second, but do we really need to be smoking marijuana before we go fight?"
"Come on, man. Admit it...you like getting stoned." Cid introduced weed to us all shortly after the fall of Midgar, and we all liked it.
"Yes, I do. But only when I can sit on the couch, drink some peppermint Schnapps, eat pizza, and watch TV. Not when I have to fight the mob over control of the world's electricity and energy sources." Cid had already taken a hit and was coughing, passing it to Tifa.
"Why the hell not..." Tifa took a nice large hit. The joint was now in my hand. I held it out to Red. I never thought I'd see the day, but the four-legged warrior was capable of smoking. Red figured out how to put the joint in his old hairpin and hold it with his paws. (It served as a very good roach clip.) He reared back and inhaled it through his nose.
"God, I love that smell.." Red passed it back to me. I gave it to Yuffie, who hit it like no tomorrow. She coughed like she had bronchitis for a minute, then handed it to Vincent. Vincent was asleep, so she nudged him lightly.
"What?" Yuffie waved the joint in front of his face. "Sorry, Vinnie, but you gotta try this." Vincent took a hit and nodded, then laid back down.
"God, I wish I had my body..." Cait Sith frowned. "You owe me a buzz, Cid."
"Not a problem. Found this shit growing wild by the Crater. I cut it down, cured it on the Highwind, and I got seven pounds of it. Sephiroth weed." Funny, one of our world's greatest villians was now remembered in the name of a strain of marijuana. It was good shit though.
"No thanks, I'm driving." Barret was responsible, but you knew he was getting a contact buzz.
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"E...elephant trunk!"
"Good one, Cid! Tifa?"
"F...I have F...lemme see...I can make this good...Frankly Fucktastic?"
Everyone laughed. Even Vincent, who woke up and felt the love. We were all high as hell.
"Cloud has G."
"G? Easy. Gongalong."
The van rocked with laughter. Barret definetely got a contact buzz, as he laughed to.
"Can I try H?"
"Sure, B."
"Heffalump."
"What the fuck? Heffalump?" Cid started another loud laughing fit.
"Hey, guys. I hate to be the party pooper..."
"Dude, if you could poop parties we wouldn't be in this van, dude! I'd be on the Highwind right now getting drunk..."
Barret slammed on the brakes. We all flew around the back. Tifa landed on top of me. For a split second, I started to fathom her and I together. How beautiful she was, how nice she would fit in my arms, how her lips would feel on mine...my daydream was broken by Cid shorlty after.
"We're here, dude. Let's get this show on the road, dog."
"Move out, people. You know what to do."
