Summery: In their search for Cloud and Jenova, Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz wind up in Costa de Sol for what Loz considers to be a well-earned vacation.
Genre: Humor
Pairings: none…yet.
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy 7, nor Advent Children, even though I really want to because Kadaj and Yazoo are so cool!
Note: Italics represent thoughts and dreams, while bolds represent very loud shouting.
Chapter 2: This Isn't a Pleasure Cruise!They had been driving all night (only stopping once due to the odd Mdgar Zolom) before the three silver haired brothers finally reached the town of Junon. In Kadaj's opinion, the city was the same as Midgar, it was metallic, dirty and everything below it was an absalute dump. The only difference was that Junon was still in one piece while Midgar was in ruins.
Yazoo had learnt that their boat was at dock 12, which unfortunately was on the other side of town, and they only had thirty minutes. Forced to leave their bikes, the three had to run all the way through the city, attraction quite a number of stares (I mean, you'd stare too if you saw three silver haired guys wearing black). Thankfully, they managed to make it in twenty five minutes.
"Good morning Gentlemen," a woman in a suit, obviously someone who worked on the boat, said to them as the three boarded the ship, "May I see your tickets please?" Yazoo stepped forward.
"We booked a room on this ship last night," he said, his monotone voice unnerving the woman a little.
"Oh, uh, ok," the woman replied, flipping through a small book she was carrying, "And your names?"
"Johann, Gabriel and Mortis."A few months ago, Kadaj had insisted on the three of them taking on fake names to hide their identity. Kadaj was Gabriel, Yazoo was Johann and Loz was Mortis.
"Let's see," the woman responded, looking through the book, "Oh, here you are!" She reached into her bag and pulled out three sets of keys, "Your room is number 264. Have a nice trip." Yazoo nodded as he took the keys and the three headed to their room. When they were gone, the woman breathed a sigh of relief. That long haired man was giving her the creeps.
"We should be in Costa de Sol by 5:45," Yazoo said when the three reached their room. Loz smiled.
"That means we've got seven and a quarter hours to kill," he said, stetching his arms, "I'm gonna explore the ship. What about you guys?" Kadaj didn't say anything, but turned and headed down the hall.
"I'll look around as well," he said, "Just remember. This isn't a pleasure cruise. We've got a job to do remember." Loz sighed when his brother was out of earshot.
"That guy needs to lighten up. So what are you gonna do Yazoo. Yazoo?" Loz looked to find that Yazoo had already gone into the room and closed the door behind him. Loz shook his head.
Am I the only normal guy here? Well, sure, we're not exactly 'human', but geez. Am I the only one with a social life?
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Loz grinned happily as he layed back on the sun lounge, a nice cool glass of lemonade sitting on the small table next to him. He was happy to find the there was a pool on the ship and a small restaurant to boot. Now the silver haired man was just laying back and enjoying the weather.
"Not a pleasure cruise indeed," Loz said softly with a smirk, "We may as well have our vacation here." His smirk broadened when he thought about what he was going to do when they reached Costa de Sol.
"I wonder what the others are up to?"
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After exploring the entire ship, Kadaj was feeling a little peckish and decided to head down to the restaurant for a quick snack. Now, here he was, sitting at a lone table snacking on a sundae. Sure, Kadaj may have no life outside of hunting down Strife and reclaiming Jenova, but didn't mean he had bad taste in food. In fact, he never told anyone this, but icecream was one of his favourite foods. Whenever he went out to search for Cloud, chances are he'd stop and grab a cone first before finding the chocobo look-alike.
As he was savouring his delicious little treat, he failed to notice a pair of young girls, who were sitting at a table nearby, were looking over at him. They were speaking in hushed voices and giggling as they stared at the silver haired teen (A/N: in this fic, Kadaj is 19, Yazoo is 20 and Loz is 22). Finally, one of the girls, a pretty blonde, stood up.
"Go on," her friend, a brunette said, signallign towards Kadaj. The blonde laughed softly and shook her head.
"Come on!" her friend continued, egging her on, "He's sitting right over there!" The blonde finally gave in and slowly walked over towards him.
"Hello!" he said in a friendly fashion as she appeared by his side. Kadaj, who was too into his dessert to notice her approach, slightly jumped and looked up at the blonde. The blonde giggled in amusement and Kadaj used every ounce of self control not to growl in embarrasment.
"Hey there," the blonde said, giving Kadaj a friendly smile. Kadaj just stared at her for a few seconds before turning back to his dessert.
"Hello," was his only reply. Sure, Kadaj may not exactly like humans, but that was no reason for bad manners.
"I'm Brittany," The girl said, a bit of nervousness in her voice, "What's your name?" Kadaj picked up the nervousness in her voice and couldn't stop a smirk appearing on his face, although Brittany mistook it for a smile.
"I'm Gabriel," he replied, remembering to use his fake name. The girl was silent for a few seconds, trying to think of something to say. Kadaj looked up at her. He could see in her eyes that she was searching her brain for something to say.
"I like your clothes," she said dumbly. Kadaj couldn't help notice her friend stiffling a laugh not far from them. Kadaj couldn't hold bak a chuckle himself.
"Thank you," he replied, felling he should return the compliment, "You look nice too." Brittany blushed slightly and tried her hardest not to giggle like a school girl.
"Hey Gabriel, wouldn you like to eat with Serena and me? We've got a spair seat." Serena. That must be the name of her friend. However, even if it was two cute girls, Kadaj still prefered to be alone.
"No thank you," he replied, taking a bite out of his sundae, "I'm fine where I am."
"Please?" Brittany asked. Kadaj was about to refuse again when he was cut off by a male voice shouting "Hey!"
Kadaj's expression turned to one of annoyance as he saw a muscular, blonde man heading in their direction.
"What do you think you're doing with my sister?" he demanded, trying pitifully to sound threatening.
"It's nothing Daniel!" Brittany replied, sounding rather annoyed, "I was just inviting him to eat with us!"
"Don't defend him Brittany! Look, if you think you're getting my sister you've got another thing coming you punk!" The man gave Kadaj a rather hard shove. Kadaj gave a small growl of annoyance. This whole time, his Souba had been sitting on his lap, hidden underneath the table, and there was absolutely nothing stopping him from decapitating this ape right here. However, he throught better of it and tried to calm down.
"Don't worry," Kadaj replied, "I didn't want to sit with your sister anyway." Instead of leaving with his sister, the man became even more hostile.
"You think you're too good to sit with us is that it?" He snarled, his hands clenching into fists, "Well then, let's see how good you are hot shot!
"Stop it Daniel!" Brittany butted in, trying to prevent a fight.
"No Brittany! Someone needs to teaching this punk some manners!" Kadaj couldn't help but grin. This guys pathetic attempt to sound powerful was almost laughable. He chuckled softly, just loud enough for the Daniel to here him.
"What's so funny?" he demanded. Kadaj's eyes stared up at him, full of amusement.
"It's always quite cute," he replied, "when a small puppy tries to sound big." Kadaj's smile broadened as Daniel's face turned red with rage. He knew exactly how to push people's buttons.
"That does it!" he shouted, attracting attention from everyone in the restaurant, "Let's take this outside punk!" Brittany was about to intervene when Kadaj slowly rose to his feet, his hand concealing the Souba behind him.
"Let's go," he spoke softly as he turned and headed for the door. Daniel cracked his knuckles as he followed, closely followed by the two girls. A couple of other guys followed as well, wanting to see how this turned out.
Kadaj had a triumphant smirk on his flawless features as he headed back to his room, a small group of people gathering by the side rail.
"What happened here?" one of the sailors asked. A man pointed in Kadaj's direction.
"That silver haired kid threw that guy overboard!"
Kadaj felt something grab his shoulder and he turned to see Brittany standing behind him.
"How could you do that?" she demanded, "I expected better from you!" Kadaj gave a soft chuckle.
"Well then," he replied, Brittany's jaw dropped as he brought the Souba into full view, "Would you have prefered if I had killed him then?" He tipped an invisible hat, turned, and smirked as he left a dumbfounded Brittany standing on the deck.
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Yazoo had pretty much remained in the room the whole trip. He sitting on one of the beds, his eyes glued to the novel he heald in his hands. He had found it sitting on the nightstand, possibly left by a careless traveller. It was about an army captain and a baroness who were trying to reunited with eachother after a war seperated them. Normally Yazoo wouldn't be interested in such things as romance, but there was something different about this book. There was something that drew him into it. Maybe it was because the captain reminded Yazoo so much of himself.
The window was open and a warm ray of sun was shining through onto the silver haired man. It felt kind of nice, considering how lousy the weather was in Midgar, and it wasn't long before the warmth lulled Yazoo to sleep.
A happy smile spread across Yazoo's face as his eyes focused on the woman running towards him. It was the baroness from the book, and he was the army captain. After years of searching, the two were finally together again. The woman wrapped her arms around him.
"Oh Dante," she said between joyful sobs (Dante was the captain's name in the story), "I've waited long to see you again!" Yazoo couldn't help a small ear treacle down his face.
"As have I Esmeralda, as have I." The two looked into eachother's eyes as Yazoo leaned forward for a kiss.
"Yazoo."
Yazoo ignored the voice as Esmeralda closed her eyes, awaiting his kiss.
"Yazoo."
Yazoo was now confused. The voice sound awfully like…
"Yazoo!"
Yazoo awoke with a start, to find Kadaj standing at the edge of the bed, a amused smirk on his lips, and Loz, who was sitting next to him with a big grin on his face.
"I'm sorry," Kadaj gave a mock apology, "Did we wake you?"
"What's this?" Loz grabbed the novel which was sitting on Yazoo's chest and took a look. Yazoo tried to grab it back off him, but Loz's superior strength prevented him.
"'World's Apart' huh?" Loz chuckled in amusemet, "I didn't know you were a fan of romance novels Yazoo." Yazoo managed to snatch the novel out of his brother's hands.
"I am not! Its just some, uh, light reading," he tried to explain as he slipped the book into his coat. His brothers gave him an expression that said "Yeah Right!". Kadaj was about to remark on this when the ship's horn sounded.
"Attention passengers," the captain announced over the loudspeaker, "We will dock in Costa de Sol in five minutes. Please get ready for departure."
"Well then," Kadaj said as he reached for his bag, "Let's go." Loz reached for his bag and followed his younger sibling to the door, but stopped and turned back to Yazoo, who was rising to his feet. He noticed the broad grin on Loz's face.
"You tell anyone about this," Yazoo threatened, pointing the Velvet Nightmare at him, "And I'll kill you."
Yep, they're finally here, now here's the fun really starts, but first, the thank you's.
-Daenis TooShy: thanks dude. I wont be revealing the pairings just yet though.
-Kraele and Bremon: thanks dude. Appreciate it.
-Rotharell Jenova: thanks. What's SQUENX?
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