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Discliamer: We don't own FF7. Elora, Pink14, and Silent Moon belong to me. Kriel belongs to MercuryKnight (Used with permission)



A Memory Never Erased



The sun rises the next morning, to find Kriel, Elora, and Silent Moon asleep. Elora is the first to wake up. She sits up and stretchs. She puts her arms down and looks over to the branch Silent is on. The panther's angier had mad Elora uneasy. She knew that the big cat wasn't going to trust Kriel anytime soon, it had tooken her over a month for her to trust Elora. But somehow, Elora felt Silent should change her mind REAL quick about that. The sound of somebody stirring draws Elora's attetion away from the sleeping panther. She turns her head and smiles as she sees Kriel alseep on the ground. He seemed only slightly taller then Elora and had beatiful greenish blue hair. Elora sits and plays with his hair for a few minutes, forming small braids. She muffles her laughter and right before she stands up, she kisses his forehead. She stands up and walks off in the direction of the lake. Five minutes later found her splashing in the water, getting cleaned off. Another five minutes pass and Elora becomes aware of somebody watching her. She smiles slightly. She knew who it was. She turns her head back for a very brief instant and sees Kriel turn his head away. She smiles again and dives under the surface of the water. Twenty minutes pass and Elora walks into the clearing where the camp was. She has a blue dress with a red tint silk dress on and her hair is back up in it's braid.

"Ummm....well, where do we go from here?" Kriel asks.

Elora walks over to her packback. The one that she had gotten from Fort Condor and rummages through it. Silent walks up and sits down, flicking her tail in slight irratation.

"I need to get these replaced, so we should get to a town as soon as possible." Kriel says, holding up his weapon.

Elora looks over her shoulder and sees the weapon he's holding up. It doesn't look familar to her. Maybe her could use a sword or dagger. Elora thinks about that, then represses a shudder. Sword was defanitly out. Maybe a gun? Elora does a very slight shrug, then stands up. Elora then notices Kriel had gone over to his own pack.

"But right now I should get wash up. So umm...I'll head to that lake."

Elora giggles softly as he starts off in the oppisite direction.

"Where is it again?" He asks, innocently.

"The lake is that way, Kriel." Elora said, pointing to the north.

"We'll head to Junon and then I have to get back to the city and get back to standing gaurd at the temple. I hope we find Aeris on our way though." Elora says as a feeling of sadness washes over her.

Elora clutchs her staff and her eyes start to water, remembering the day Elora had first meet Aeris and Sephiorth. On that day, Aeris looked truly tranquil, as if she knew she was going to die. On the other hand, Sephiorth had a look of pure murder. Kriel walks over and pulls Elora to his chest as Elora keeps replaying the memories in her head.

Don't worry too much. We'll find your friends, even your friend Pink14. I will protect you and we will get Sephiorth back for his deeds."

Kriel hugs Elora tighter as she cries into his shoulder. But as Elora finally let out her angier and frustation, she couldn't help wondering. How had he known about Pink14? She hadn't mentioned her yet. Maybe he had seen her. Maybe she had gotten serpated from the group, much like Silent had.

"I miss Pink so much and I fear for Aeris's life. Sephiorth wanted to kill her for some reason."

Elora looks up at Kriel. Tears kept coming down her face, but it didn't matter to her. One thing that had been foremost on Elora's mind, besides finding her friends, was why Sephiorth wanted to kill her. Had she done something wrong? She doubted it, but still....

"I really want you to stay with me, please? I feel something about you and I think you should stay."

Almost as Elora had got done saying that, she realized it didn't quite sound right. But she couldn't correct it now. But she was still crying, so she didn't really think it mattered.

"Don't worry, Elora. I'll stay with you. I feel something. I don't know what it is though, but I will find out!" Kriel said, then kissed her forehead.

Neither Kriel nor Elora knew, but he had been thier before. Silent was the only one who knew it and that was one of the main reasons she didn't trust him. As she walks up, she sees Kriel kiss Elora. She growls loudly.

"Don't try anything, sneaky boy." She growls out, then leaves again.

"Elora, I'll go wash up. I'll be back soon."

Elora waves and Kriel returns it as he walks off. Elora sits down on a tree stump and looks up into the sky.

"There's something about him and Silent. I wonder what happened."

It hits her and she gasps softly.

"No."

She had just remembered that Silent had had a sister, back when she was living in the Sleeping Forest. Elora puts her head in her hand and sighs.

"Is that what happened? Has he been here before? Was he the one who killed her sister?"

The answer to the second one she didn't know, but as she would soon find out, the answer to the thrid was no.