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Ryoko: Let's see if you can do it right.
Disclimaer: I don't own FF7, but Elora, Pink14, and Silent Moon belong to me. Kriel belongs to MercuryKnight.
A Memory Never Erased
The day wears on and the ship keeps going to Costa Del Sol. On it, a black panther and a thirteen year old girl struggle to wake up. As the girl struggles, a wound in her leg slowly heals. Finally, when night falls, she wakes up. She opens her golden eyes and sits up, groaning softly.
"Silent? Silent!" She calls.
The panther twitchs her tail and opens her eyes.
"Now need to yell, Elora."
"How do you feel?" Elora asks.
Silent stands up and stretchs.
"I could be better. I hurt all over." Silent answers.
Elora nods in agreement and stands up, stretching.
"So do I. Come on, the ship should be docked."
Both walk out of the engine room and out into the cargo part. Silent twitchs her tail and sniffs the air.
"Somebodies been here. Thier scent is still in the air."
Elora looks over to Silent, then walks off the ship and onto the pier. Silent follows behind her and sniffs the air again.
"It's too dark to travel now. Let's rent a room and travel tomarrow."
Silent nods and they walk to a hotel. Elora bows politely to the clerk.
"I need a room."
"How long?"
"Tonight only."
"100 gil."
Elora opens her pack and takes out a hundred gil. She hands it to the clerk, who takes it.
"Do you allow pets?" Elora asks.
The clerk nods and Silent smiles.
"I'll lead you to your room."
Ten minutes later found Elora laying on a bed, looking at the ceiling. The room was nice, enough room for both cat and girl to be confortable, yet not too big.
"Who's scent are you picking up, Silent?" Elora asks.
Silent sniffs the air again and swishes her tail.
"The wolves."
Elora sits up and looks at Silent.
"Both of them?" She asks.
Silent nods and her eyes start casting an eerie glow as the moonlight falls over her body. Elora notices the numerous cuts on her body and wonders why she didn't say anything.
"Silent..."
"Hmm?"
"How come you never told me you were injured?"
"How come you never told me?"
"What?"
"Your leg."
Elora puts a hand to her leg and whinces. being too caught up in finding her friends had distracted her. And she was now feeling how exhausted she really was. She lays back down on the bed with a sigh.
"Why do I have a feeling this will not be a good night?"
Silent shrugs and licks her paw. She rubs her ear, but keeps her eyes on Elora.
"Go to sleep, Elora. I'll stay up."
Elora sits up and looks at her.
"Always independent. You need rest."
Silent does a kind of soft purring laugh. Elora smiles and walks into the bathroom. As Elora changes, Silent jumps onto the bed and sniffs the little bit of blood that had gotten onto the confonter from Elora's wound.
"Why doesn't she heal herself? She's strong enough too."
The smell of the blood stirs something from within Silent. Long repressed memories. Silent represses them again and jumps down onto the floor, making no sound. Elora comes out of the bathroom dressed in a blue nightgown. Silent bides her good-night as both lay down. Elora returns it and falls asleep almost instantly. Silent however stays awake. She flicks her tail and stands back up. She stands up on her hind legs and puts her front legs onto the bed. She watchs Elora sleep, not caring about what the young girl said. Silent was worried about her. She could see how pale her face was when the moonlight casted it's light on her and noticed her quick, unever breathing.
"Nightmares."
Silent touchs her nose on Elora's forehead and a crystal, embedded in her front left paw glows softly. Elora's injury heals and so does her own. Elora's breathing becomes even and her face regains it's color. Silent puts her paws back onto the floor and lays down. She falls asleep and a nightmare of her own starts.
*Nightmare*
A black panther runs through the Bone Village. She's ignoring all the shouting people. She gives a growl as she gets stopped in the front of the Sleeping Forest.
"Get out of my way human. Before I kill you."
The human doesn't back down. The panther narrows her eyes and growls more loudly.
"Get out of my way!"
The human shakes his head and steps towards the panther. The panther takes a step back.
"Why not?"
"You need a speacial item to get into the forest."
The panther sits down, glaring.
"You must be new around here."
The human nods and the panther smirks. If she had done what she had intended, what she feared wouldn't have had happened.
"I live in the forest. And everybody knows who I am. Since you are new, I will tell you. I am Silent Moon and never get in my way!"
Silent lunges at the human and knocks him down. She keeps running and arrives at the trial her and her sister always take. She stops short as her nose catchs something wrong in the air. She smells a creature and blood?
"Luna!" Silent screams as she sees a panther on the ground.
It's almost identical to her for the mark on it's forehead and the gash in it's neck. Silent whrils as she senses somebody beside her and growls.
"Get away from me, before I kill you."
The firgure disappers and Silent walks over to Luna. She lays down beside her sister and cries softly. She hated humans from then on. She survived from stealing from the people of Bone Village and stayed in the Sleeping Forest at any other time. The only time she was not at peace was when a human attacked her.
*End Nightmare*
Silent wakes with a jolt. She lets out a mournful cry and runs out of the room and out of the hotel, not noticing Elora is already gone. Day had come and it was time to travel. Elora had started early, knowing Silent would full well catch up. Besides she didn't go that fast. Elora turns her head and watchs as Silent runs up beside her. Elora smiles as Silent stops. She doesn't catch the haunted look in Silent's eyes, nor does Silent notice the exhausted look in Elora's.
"Can you smell the wolves?" Elora asks as the contuie walking.
Silent sniffs the air and nods.
"Thier not that far from us."
"Pink! Red!"
Silent perks her ears and smiles. Elora's eyes light up as two howls reach her ears.
"Pink! Red!"
Both run to try to get to the two wolves. When they finally do, they spend five minutes greeting each other and trading stories. They finally get on the move and travel over a couple of moutians. Elora looks over to the two wolves and notices the exhausted look, then she looks over to Silent and notice she's gotten tense. Elora pales and takes out her staff.
"Pink, Red. Have you guys ran into any trouble?"
Both nod and look up at her.
"Yes. We've gotten attacked twice since we got serepated."
"Prepare for a thrid." Silent says, walking in front of Elora.
A gust of wind blows up and everyone sheilds thier eyes. When it stops, Elora looks up and steps back with a gasp. Red is on the ground, uncoiuncess.
"You will pay, Sephiorth!" Pink yells, then lunges at the silver haired man.
Sephiorth smirks and brings his sword around. Silent is there to block the attack. She slashes the hand Sephiorth's sword is in, making him stall enough for Pink to attack him. She gets in three slashes, everyone successful in tearing the skin open, before she gets thrown down. She yelps as her back hits a rock and she falls to the ground, uncoiuncess.
"We shouldn't even be fighting this fight. We're too exhausted." Elora mumurs.
A crystal in her staff glows red and her and Silent disapper. A woman appears and holds out her hand. It glows and ice appears on the ground around Sephiorth. It shatters, showering him with ice shards, cutting his body more. Elora and Silent reapper as the woman disappers. Sephiorth glares at Elora, who's swaying on her feet.
"Elora! Look out!" Silent calls.
Elora gets slashed across her face by the Sephiorth's sword. She spirals to the ground and lays still on her side. Silent roars and lunges at Sephiorth. He turns to her and smirks. A green orb in his sword's hilt glows and Silent cries out as a lightning bolt strikes her. She lands on the ground and shakily gets up on her front legs. Her back legs have temporaily been parayzled and Sephiorth turns to Elora, knowing she can't fight anymore. He's wrong. A green orb, embedded in Silent's right front paw glows. She opens her mouth and a fireball forms. She throws it at Sephiorth and when it hits his back it forms a colum of fire around him. It doesn't do much, expect give him a first degree burn, but that quickly heals. He glares at Silent, but turns back to Elora. The girl is laying at his feet, competely vunerable to his attack. Her cheek is seeping blood and is covering her face.
"No! Leave her alone!" Silent yells.
As Sephiorth lowers his sword, something stops him. Silent sees a bit of green-blue and gives a slight smile before she falls to her side, passing out.
*Dream*
"Elora."
Elora looks around and looks confused. She could hear the screams coming from the planet, but she had learned long ego to tune it out. Now it was louder then ever and she couldn't tune it out.
"Elora."
"Momma?"
A woman with gold hair appears in front of Elora and the girl gasps.
"Momma!"
She wraps her arms around the woman and she smiles. The woman returns the hug and Elora draws back.
"Momma, I'm so happy to see you."
The woman smiles again.
"I'm happy to see you as well, alive and well. And even traveling the world."
Elora laughs.
"Couldn't be under better circumstances."
This time the woman laughs.
"But Elora, you have to find Aeris quick. Sephiorth keeps attacking you, to keep you from getting to her. The longer you are away, the further away she gets. Pretty soon, you will not be able to find her."
Elora nods and the crystal in her hair glows. Her mother blows a kiss as she fades. Elora smiles and disappers also.
*End Dream*
Elora slowly opens her eyes and sits up. She's still laying where she had fallen, but her cheek was hurting. She puts a hand up to her face and feels the scar. She heals it and looks around.
"Kriel?!"
She runs over to him and sees blood seeping from a slash over his eye. She heals that also and waits till he wakes up. She looks up to hear a soft moaning.
"Don't move, Pink. Your back could be broken."
Pink obedintly stops moving and lays on the ground, looking at Elora through her good eye. Elora looks down at Kriel to see him looking at her. She jumps, then hugs him.
"I'm so glad your alright!"
Kriel smiles. Elora restrains aganist from kissing him. Unfortantly they couldn't travel for the rest of the day. Silent's body still had to flush out that eletric attack and the two wolves needed some serious rest.
Ryoko: Let's see if you can do it right.
Disclimaer: I don't own FF7, but Elora, Pink14, and Silent Moon belong to me. Kriel belongs to MercuryKnight.
A Memory Never Erased
The day wears on and the ship keeps going to Costa Del Sol. On it, a black panther and a thirteen year old girl struggle to wake up. As the girl struggles, a wound in her leg slowly heals. Finally, when night falls, she wakes up. She opens her golden eyes and sits up, groaning softly.
"Silent? Silent!" She calls.
The panther twitchs her tail and opens her eyes.
"Now need to yell, Elora."
"How do you feel?" Elora asks.
Silent stands up and stretchs.
"I could be better. I hurt all over." Silent answers.
Elora nods in agreement and stands up, stretching.
"So do I. Come on, the ship should be docked."
Both walk out of the engine room and out into the cargo part. Silent twitchs her tail and sniffs the air.
"Somebodies been here. Thier scent is still in the air."
Elora looks over to Silent, then walks off the ship and onto the pier. Silent follows behind her and sniffs the air again.
"It's too dark to travel now. Let's rent a room and travel tomarrow."
Silent nods and they walk to a hotel. Elora bows politely to the clerk.
"I need a room."
"How long?"
"Tonight only."
"100 gil."
Elora opens her pack and takes out a hundred gil. She hands it to the clerk, who takes it.
"Do you allow pets?" Elora asks.
The clerk nods and Silent smiles.
"I'll lead you to your room."
Ten minutes later found Elora laying on a bed, looking at the ceiling. The room was nice, enough room for both cat and girl to be confortable, yet not too big.
"Who's scent are you picking up, Silent?" Elora asks.
Silent sniffs the air again and swishes her tail.
"The wolves."
Elora sits up and looks at Silent.
"Both of them?" She asks.
Silent nods and her eyes start casting an eerie glow as the moonlight falls over her body. Elora notices the numerous cuts on her body and wonders why she didn't say anything.
"Silent..."
"Hmm?"
"How come you never told me you were injured?"
"How come you never told me?"
"What?"
"Your leg."
Elora puts a hand to her leg and whinces. being too caught up in finding her friends had distracted her. And she was now feeling how exhausted she really was. She lays back down on the bed with a sigh.
"Why do I have a feeling this will not be a good night?"
Silent shrugs and licks her paw. She rubs her ear, but keeps her eyes on Elora.
"Go to sleep, Elora. I'll stay up."
Elora sits up and looks at her.
"Always independent. You need rest."
Silent does a kind of soft purring laugh. Elora smiles and walks into the bathroom. As Elora changes, Silent jumps onto the bed and sniffs the little bit of blood that had gotten onto the confonter from Elora's wound.
"Why doesn't she heal herself? She's strong enough too."
The smell of the blood stirs something from within Silent. Long repressed memories. Silent represses them again and jumps down onto the floor, making no sound. Elora comes out of the bathroom dressed in a blue nightgown. Silent bides her good-night as both lay down. Elora returns it and falls asleep almost instantly. Silent however stays awake. She flicks her tail and stands back up. She stands up on her hind legs and puts her front legs onto the bed. She watchs Elora sleep, not caring about what the young girl said. Silent was worried about her. She could see how pale her face was when the moonlight casted it's light on her and noticed her quick, unever breathing.
"Nightmares."
Silent touchs her nose on Elora's forehead and a crystal, embedded in her front left paw glows softly. Elora's injury heals and so does her own. Elora's breathing becomes even and her face regains it's color. Silent puts her paws back onto the floor and lays down. She falls asleep and a nightmare of her own starts.
*Nightmare*
A black panther runs through the Bone Village. She's ignoring all the shouting people. She gives a growl as she gets stopped in the front of the Sleeping Forest.
"Get out of my way human. Before I kill you."
The human doesn't back down. The panther narrows her eyes and growls more loudly.
"Get out of my way!"
The human shakes his head and steps towards the panther. The panther takes a step back.
"Why not?"
"You need a speacial item to get into the forest."
The panther sits down, glaring.
"You must be new around here."
The human nods and the panther smirks. If she had done what she had intended, what she feared wouldn't have had happened.
"I live in the forest. And everybody knows who I am. Since you are new, I will tell you. I am Silent Moon and never get in my way!"
Silent lunges at the human and knocks him down. She keeps running and arrives at the trial her and her sister always take. She stops short as her nose catchs something wrong in the air. She smells a creature and blood?
"Luna!" Silent screams as she sees a panther on the ground.
It's almost identical to her for the mark on it's forehead and the gash in it's neck. Silent whrils as she senses somebody beside her and growls.
"Get away from me, before I kill you."
The firgure disappers and Silent walks over to Luna. She lays down beside her sister and cries softly. She hated humans from then on. She survived from stealing from the people of Bone Village and stayed in the Sleeping Forest at any other time. The only time she was not at peace was when a human attacked her.
*End Nightmare*
Silent wakes with a jolt. She lets out a mournful cry and runs out of the room and out of the hotel, not noticing Elora is already gone. Day had come and it was time to travel. Elora had started early, knowing Silent would full well catch up. Besides she didn't go that fast. Elora turns her head and watchs as Silent runs up beside her. Elora smiles as Silent stops. She doesn't catch the haunted look in Silent's eyes, nor does Silent notice the exhausted look in Elora's.
"Can you smell the wolves?" Elora asks as the contuie walking.
Silent sniffs the air and nods.
"Thier not that far from us."
"Pink! Red!"
Silent perks her ears and smiles. Elora's eyes light up as two howls reach her ears.
"Pink! Red!"
Both run to try to get to the two wolves. When they finally do, they spend five minutes greeting each other and trading stories. They finally get on the move and travel over a couple of moutians. Elora looks over to the two wolves and notices the exhausted look, then she looks over to Silent and notice she's gotten tense. Elora pales and takes out her staff.
"Pink, Red. Have you guys ran into any trouble?"
Both nod and look up at her.
"Yes. We've gotten attacked twice since we got serepated."
"Prepare for a thrid." Silent says, walking in front of Elora.
A gust of wind blows up and everyone sheilds thier eyes. When it stops, Elora looks up and steps back with a gasp. Red is on the ground, uncoiuncess.
"You will pay, Sephiorth!" Pink yells, then lunges at the silver haired man.
Sephiorth smirks and brings his sword around. Silent is there to block the attack. She slashes the hand Sephiorth's sword is in, making him stall enough for Pink to attack him. She gets in three slashes, everyone successful in tearing the skin open, before she gets thrown down. She yelps as her back hits a rock and she falls to the ground, uncoiuncess.
"We shouldn't even be fighting this fight. We're too exhausted." Elora mumurs.
A crystal in her staff glows red and her and Silent disapper. A woman appears and holds out her hand. It glows and ice appears on the ground around Sephiorth. It shatters, showering him with ice shards, cutting his body more. Elora and Silent reapper as the woman disappers. Sephiorth glares at Elora, who's swaying on her feet.
"Elora! Look out!" Silent calls.
Elora gets slashed across her face by the Sephiorth's sword. She spirals to the ground and lays still on her side. Silent roars and lunges at Sephiorth. He turns to her and smirks. A green orb in his sword's hilt glows and Silent cries out as a lightning bolt strikes her. She lands on the ground and shakily gets up on her front legs. Her back legs have temporaily been parayzled and Sephiorth turns to Elora, knowing she can't fight anymore. He's wrong. A green orb, embedded in Silent's right front paw glows. She opens her mouth and a fireball forms. She throws it at Sephiorth and when it hits his back it forms a colum of fire around him. It doesn't do much, expect give him a first degree burn, but that quickly heals. He glares at Silent, but turns back to Elora. The girl is laying at his feet, competely vunerable to his attack. Her cheek is seeping blood and is covering her face.
"No! Leave her alone!" Silent yells.
As Sephiorth lowers his sword, something stops him. Silent sees a bit of green-blue and gives a slight smile before she falls to her side, passing out.
*Dream*
"Elora."
Elora looks around and looks confused. She could hear the screams coming from the planet, but she had learned long ego to tune it out. Now it was louder then ever and she couldn't tune it out.
"Elora."
"Momma?"
A woman with gold hair appears in front of Elora and the girl gasps.
"Momma!"
She wraps her arms around the woman and she smiles. The woman returns the hug and Elora draws back.
"Momma, I'm so happy to see you."
The woman smiles again.
"I'm happy to see you as well, alive and well. And even traveling the world."
Elora laughs.
"Couldn't be under better circumstances."
This time the woman laughs.
"But Elora, you have to find Aeris quick. Sephiorth keeps attacking you, to keep you from getting to her. The longer you are away, the further away she gets. Pretty soon, you will not be able to find her."
Elora nods and the crystal in her hair glows. Her mother blows a kiss as she fades. Elora smiles and disappers also.
*End Dream*
Elora slowly opens her eyes and sits up. She's still laying where she had fallen, but her cheek was hurting. She puts a hand up to her face and feels the scar. She heals it and looks around.
"Kriel?!"
She runs over to him and sees blood seeping from a slash over his eye. She heals that also and waits till he wakes up. She looks up to hear a soft moaning.
"Don't move, Pink. Your back could be broken."
Pink obedintly stops moving and lays on the ground, looking at Elora through her good eye. Elora looks down at Kriel to see him looking at her. She jumps, then hugs him.
"I'm so glad your alright!"
Kriel smiles. Elora restrains aganist from kissing him. Unfortantly they couldn't travel for the rest of the day. Silent's body still had to flush out that eletric attack and the two wolves needed some serious rest.