Aeris: You can thank Ryoko for the ideas.

Ryoko: Yea, I thought it was perfect for the timing.

Disclimaer: I don't own FF7, but Elora, Silent Moon, and Pink14 belong to me.



A Memory Never Erased



Elora awakes with a start. She had forgotten she had gotten attacked twice by that dragon. Now as dawn comes, she rubs her hands over her elbows. She looks over to Silent and finds her sleeping soundly. Elora smiles and makes her way back towards camp. She tilts her head as she sees four members missing. The two wolves, Aeris, and Tifa. Elora walks around, trying to find them. She finally does find them. All four are standing in another clearing, talking. Elora runs forward and jumps onto Tifa's back.

"Hi!"

Tifa looks back and smiles at Elora.

"Hi Elora. How was your sleep?" She asks.

"Great. Thanks. What'cha guys talking about?"

Aeris speaks up.

"What your next move was. You already know about how the group feels about you, right?"

Elora nods and jumps down.

"Three of them don't trust me. Cloud, Barret, and Vincent. Personally I can see why Vincent doesn't. He attacked me in the Forgotten Captial. But why Cloud and Barret?"

Aeris laughs and answers her question.

"Cloud isn't the easiest person to get along with. You need to prove your worth to Barret."

Elora laughs and Pink14 comes over beside her. She rubs aganist Elora and the girl smiles. She pets the wolf on the head and all five walk back to camp. Elora sits down by Silent and looks over to the rest of the group. She stiffles her laughter and catchs a slight smirk on Silent's face. Elora looks over to Cloud and smiles. He has a serious case of bed hair. Leaves are sticking out from all angles and it looks a lot more spiker then it did the evening before. A couple hours pass and Silent is walking around with Elora on her back. She tells the panther of the preminition her mother told her about. Silent listens quietly until she finishes, then puts in her sense.

"Elora, you have to take this seriously. Sephiorth could attack today. Anyone of us could get killed."

"No! I don't want that! If he's after me, I'll give myself up!"

"You can't!" Silent protests.

Elora shakes her head and sighs softly.

"If it's the only way to stop this, then I will."

Elora slides off of Silent's back and runs off. Silent lets her go, but not without a soft sigh. Elora was one of the three youngest of the group, and was taking this pretty hard. Silent twitchs her tail and stalks back to the group. She hides within the shadows and listens quietly to the discussion. Things were being packed up and people were talking. Cloud, Tifa, Cid, and Aeris were the main ones in the discusiion. The two wolves were gone and the others of the group were just listening. Silent's ears twitch and she lets out a soft growl as she hears Cloud say a protest aganist Elora. Sure Silent knew Elora was right when she said Cloud didn't trust her, but this was too much. Silent turns and stalks off. She stops and jumps into a tree. She lays down and lets her feet dangle.

"This is going to be a lot harder then I thought."

Three more hours pass and Elora finally comes back. She stops under the tree Silent's in and tenses up. Silent, laying above her, notices it. She jumps down and growls loudly. Elora takes out her staff and holds it in front of her defensievly.

"The time is now. Who will get killed?" Elora mumurs, then runs towards the camp.

Silent follows behind her and both skid to a stop. The trees around the camp are in shambles and everyone is fighting aganist Sephiorth. Red13 and Cait Sith are uncoiuncess, while Tifa, Vincent, and Cid are laying stunned on the ground. A red materia in Elora's staff glows and everyone disappers. A woman appears and holds out her hand. Icicles appear on the ground then shatter, sending shards of ice flying at Sephiorth. However none hit as a huge burst of fire appears before him, melting the ice. He turns to Elora and smirks slightly. Silent runs out from behind Elora and swipes her claws in his direction. Her claws cut into the skin and as her hits connects, a green orb in her left front paw. Fire appears on her claws and make the wound slightly worse, before she gets thrown back. Cloud and Pink14 run up and attack. Sephiorth blocks Cloud's attack with his sword, but still gets hit by Pink's slash. He growls softly and a green orb in his sword hilt glows. A yellow sphere surronds the group as a colum of fire appears and expands. The barrier holds, but Elora's strength is getting zapped. The barrier falls and so does she. The fire disappers and Elora shakily lifts her head up. Her eyes widen as she sees Sephiorth advancing, not on her, but somebody else.

"Aeris!" Elora screams.

Her mother's words return to her. A battle will take place where you will lose somebody close to you, then lose the trust of a few others. No! Aeris was that one!

"AERIS!" Elora screams again.

Sephiorth smirks and brings his sword down. Elora closes her eyes and turns her head as she sword enters Aeris's back. She isn't quite sure what happened, but her sense materia tells her. Sephiorth's sword was so long and he had driven it so hard that it came through Aeris's stomache, killing her. As soon as the deed is gone, Sephiorth disappers. Elora opens her eyes, unshed tears in them. A couple hours pass, and Elora is standing in front of the group. She is bowing her head, keeping her eyes away from Cloud's pericing glare.

"You should leave." He says.

"Why?" Elora asks.

"If it wasn't for you, this wouldn't have had happened." He answers.

Elora doesn't answer. She knew it was true. If she had never left the City of the Anicents, this would have never happened. The group wouldn't be in dnager and Aeris would still be alive.

"I'm sorry." Elora whispers, then turns and runs off into the night, hiding herself from everybody's site.

Back with everybody else, the three animals catch a soft sigh from both Cloud and Tifa. Everybody turns and walks off, leaving them to think.

"What will we do? Cloud shouldn't have accused her like that." Silent growls.

"Did you see the look in her eyes? She believed it." Pink says.

"We have to find her." Red says.

Silent shakes her head.

"No, we'll travel with Cloud and hope she'll come back on her own."

The wolves nod and all three run to catch up with the group.