Aeris: Ryoko's asleep. *She looks over at the blue haired girl asleep* How cute.

Disclimaer: I don't own the places, chars, or enemies of FF7. Silent Moon, Pink14, and Elora belong to me. Kirel and Phire belong to MercuryKnight.



A Memory Never Erased



Elora stay's at the young man's house for a week. Durning which time she got to know a little more about him. His nickname was Mercury and he wouldn't tell her his real name. He was seventeen and really nice. He often took travelers in who either got lost, or passed out along the trail from the bitter cold. Elora had fallen under the second one, but in the week's time it took her for her to recover from her cold, she had made friends with most of the people around Icicle Inn. A couple people were stubborn and didn't want her friendship. She didn't mind, but one thing kept bugging her. Actually two things. Her white crystal was glowing almost contantly and she felt something bad was going to happen. Well, she was right. But something happened before then. It started one day while Elora was asleep on the couch Mercury had let her sleep on. She had flat out refused to take the bed for she was quite content with the couch. Her chood was on and she was sleeping soundly. On the outskirts of the town, two weary travelers are seen. It takes them an hour to get into the town. At this time, Elora had turned in her sleep, hiding her face. A couple hours later and the two travelers are knocking at Mercury's door. The brown haired male opens the door and lets the two in. Had Elora been awake, she would have automactily reconized them. But she was still sleeping peacefully on the couch. The two travelers ask Mercury for a place to stay for the night and he agrees. The two thank him and one of thier eyes stray to where Elora is sleeping. She had turned over again and now her arm was dangling over. A couple hours pass and Elora finally wakes up. She yawns and stretchs, still laying down.

"Nice to see you awake, Day. How was your nap?" Mercury asks.

"A lot better. Thanks for asking."

Elora had never told him her real name, just he never told her his. Elora stands up and looks around.

"I thought I heard voices while I was asleep. Was it my imganation?"

Mercury laughs and shakes his head.

"No. I have two travelers. Going up to the Crater."

Elora perks up at this bit of news. That's exactly where she was heading. She had planned to go to the mountians anyway, so would end up there eventually.

"Why were they going there?"

"To fight somebody."

Elora pales under her hood slightly.

"Can I see them?"

Mercury nods and opens the door to his room. She pokes her head in and sees somebody on the bed and somebody on the floor. She takes a closer look at the one on the bed and pales again.

"Oh no. Thier going to fight him? They'll get killed."

Elora shuts the door and leans with her back aganist it, looking down.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Another week passes. Mercury is kind enough to give the two travelers food, water, winter cloths to fight the storm, and pieces of advice. As they were about to leave, Elora steps up.

"I'm coming with you."

One of them looks at her in shock.

"Your just a young girl. You'll get killed."

"I'm fourteen and I can handle myself." Elora says icily.

The other one looks at her, something in his eye.

"What is your name?" The second one asks.

"Day." Elora replies, not as icily.

"Phire. I think we should let her come with us."

"Fine Kirel. But if she gets killed it's your head."

Elora smirks under her hood and sets out with them. She always kept quiet, not saying anything for fear of discovery. She had a feeling Kirel could tell her she really was. And Elora was sure there was Anicnet blood running through his veins. But she still was curious to how it had happened. Three days pass and Elora starts noticing the wind become colder as they enter a cave. She thought they were soppuse to get warmer, not colder. She's looking around at the walls when she gets roughly shoved aside. She hits the ground and slides.

"Ow." She mumbles.

She looks up to see Kirel and Phire fighting a two headed dragon. One head had fire attacks and one had ice. The look in it's eyes told Elora everything.

"Syat out of this battle, Day!" Kirel yells.

Elora nods and watchs the battle. It seems to last forever. Both of them were making scores, but the dragon seemed to dish them back three fold. Finally, Phire goes down. A red orb in Elora's staff glows brightly as her angier goes higher. Kirel holds his own for a while, but he too evenutally goes down. The orb glows more brightly as tears run down Elora's face.

"NO! KIREL! PHIRE!"

Elora's body glows as the glow from the orb surronds her. Her hood flies back and she holds out her arm. The orb appears and one of Elora's tears hit it as she brings it to her chest. It's glow intensifes and her, Kirel, and Phire disapper. A golden tear drop falls to the ground and ripples appear as it hits, then a ball of fire appears and expands. An orange bird appears and calls out. It spreads it's wings and a colum of fire appears around the dragon from it's wings. The bird, however, doesn't disapper when the dragon does. Elora, Kirel, and Phire reapper and the bird walks over to Kirel first. It puts it's head down near his face and a tear drop hits his head. His wounds heal and the the bird does the same to Phire. Elora smiles slightly, before collapsing to her side and passing out. The bird disappers and a closer look at Elora reveals her red tints are back. Her first time using a summon brought out extraoridnary powers within her, but how would that effect the battle aganist Sephiorth? Nobody knew. A couple hours later and Elora finally comes around. She slowly opens her eyes and the first thing she sees is a greenish hue of water. Elora lifts her head up and looks around. Kirel and Phire were no where in site. Elora jumps up. Had they gone on to the Northern Crater without her? No, they were still in there. Somewhere. She shakily stands up and walks on. She didn't want anybody fighting Sephiorth for it her he wanted. Nobody was going to get killed for her. Unknown to her, the group was watching thier battle with the two headed dragon and now were following Elora. As they keep walking, Elora stops and sighs.

"I want to travel with Cloud and them again. Maybe I can convince him otherwise that I didn't kill Aeris."

Elora looks up further into the caves and leans aganist the wall. She slowly sits down and sighs.

"I'm too weak to keep on right now." Elora mumbles, slowly falling asleep.

When she competely falls asleep, a woman with brown hair steps forward and picks her up. Her red eyes are soft and she's smiling.

"Can she travel with us? She didn't do anything wrong."

She looks back and see's somebody smiling at her. She smiles happily and walks back over to the group.

"Thank you." She whispers.

"Your welcome." Somebody answers her.

They walk on. The woman holds Elora in her arms, protecting her when needed. And Elora sleeps on, oblivious to everything around her.