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Chapter Ten
"What is that?" She mumbled from underneath the blanket. Yuffie moved to pull the blanket down, but hissed when light radiated through out the room. After a moment, she realized that it was safe now to pull down the blanket. It was early morning, yet the light shined brightly through out the room. Dark clouds still threatened to snow once again, but Yuffie wasn't worried about it. She was anxious about the sudden noise that woke only her up. It sounded like...
"My cell phone," She breathed, her heart beginning to pace twelve times faster than it normally did. Sliding out of bed, Yuffie tip-toed over to her bag and reached ever so carefully into the dark depths of her bag. Feeling around for the object, her trembling fingers fell across the hard plastic covering. Pulling away like acid had burned her skin, Yuffie took a deep breath for assurence. So this was what fear was like? The loud beeping noise rang through out the cabin once more reminding her she had a message. With swift motions, Yuffie snatched the cellphone from her bag and opened it. Peering down at the screen, she stopped breathing.
One missed call--One new voice mail
She could have died right then and there. Her fingers almost turned to mush, as she almost dropped the cellphone. With one attempt, Yuffie punched in the code to her voice mail then shakily put it up to her ear.
"One new voice mail. "..." "
"Heh... No one left the message. It's blank." Blank seemed to be the keyword to start it off.
"Once more, I will say this again. I know where you are, heh," her breath caught as she retorted accidently, "In my cabin, of course, you idiot. Where else.."
"And I will say this once more. If you are alone, I will kill you. This is a juvenielle camp. It's almost... Expected, heh." Next thing Yuffie knew, she had hurled the phone into the cabin wall. It cracked, and the battery fell out of the back lifelessly, as the phone died. Yuffie heaved her bag a top the celluar device and kicked her bag.
"Yuffie?" A tired voice rang quietly to her.
"...What?" She replied hoarsely. Her breathing had not yet cooled down to a normal pace, so she used hand gestures to keep her breathing stable.
"Was that... a cell phone?"
"No," She replied flatly. When she turned around, she faced the taller figure. "I was thinking and my... Mp3 player broke, so I stuffed it into my bag and got a little.."
"Angry? I see," he inquired. Squall smiled slightly. "Temper, temper." Yuffie almost felt bad for lying to Squall. An mp3 player was her dream present, but that wasn't the point. He didn't need to know about some stupid childish prank. It was nothing... right?
"Of course," she replied smiling slightly, "Now get out." He quirked an eyebrow, but then Yuffie began to push him to the door. Of course Aerith's locks were chained to the door from the night before, but Yuffie just flicked the lock and it came undone. Squall had the look of bewilderment.
"How-"
"I have the skills of a thief. I know my way around her traps," she interrupted, but opened the door and shoved him outside. He stumbled slightly and turned around to give a confused look. Yuffie leaned on the doorway with a smile and told him, "Go get ready, I'll be by your cabin later with for activities with the chipmunks." With that, she slammed the door before Squall could register what she said. Sinking down by the door, Yuffie let out a long breath and let her head rest on her knees.
Every lovely day begins with song birds singing in their nest, bees buzzing through the pollen filled flowers with humming tunes, and the sky as blue as the oceans waves. In Camp Wapatuki, it was this way. Keyword: was.
"AHHHH!" The high pitched screamed echoed the cabin as the door burst open. A young teenager ran in the cabin Cloud, Riku, and the current paralyzed Sora slept peacefully. Well, that is until now. Riku's eyes flashed open waking from his sweet dream of yesterday's events. Sora and Cloud, on the other hand, did not budge. Next thing Riku knew, a girl was a top of him screaming bloody murder about a bloody snake.
Riku, surprised, blinked twice, before the next thing he knew the girl had thrown him out of bed onto the floor. "Ow!" He whined and looked towards her. Her towering figure stood over him anxiously. It made him shrink back in fear. "What's up with you!" Riku inquired forcefully rubbing his bum.
With a breath, she yelled, "SNAKE!" Riku covered his ears as Cloud smacked his head on the top bunk from the sudden noise.
"Well," Riku responded after a moment, "Go kill it." The girl's face turned a bright pink, before she kicked him as hard she could. He jumped up and howled in pain.
"GO kill it," she shreaked at him, and the next thing he knew, the girl had dragged him further across the floor.
"Holy crap woman! You're strong!" Riku squealed in an unmanly way. Cloud, dumbfounded, found himself snickering toward Riku and the woman. Cloud knew who this woman was. Her name was Olivia, and she was sent here because she did not have a true home, and she also stole for a living. She attacked people for money, swiped cars, and belonged to bad groups. It would seem she would have been sent to an orphanage, but she was sent to Juvy instead because she was not old enough to rot in jail.
Olivia had raven black hair that bounced everytime she walked, lips that were lucious, yet dangerous, and most of all..
A temper.
Riku stood gaping at her. "Alright, alright, alright, Kitty," He gave her the nickname. She attacked him like a cat, and he did not know her name at the current moment. His aqua eyes peered down her body for a moment, as a smirk settled on his lips.
"Meee-oow-ooww," he mewed to her seductively. Her face turned almost red, and at the moment, his eyes sparked fear. Her hand reached up setting place to smack him. He ran for his dear life, Olivia chasing him. A snort sounded from the other side of the room when Sora sat up rubbing his eyes and stifling a yawn.
"Wazzjusshappin?" He yawned. "Where's Riku?" Cloud took a deep breath.
"He's at his funeral," Cloud told Sora. "I'm surprised you didn't wake up. Olivia Tresscar just ran in and threw Riku out the door to go kill the snake you left in her cabin."
"That was her cabin...?" Sora inquired more of a statement. He shrugged as a malicious grin settled on his face. "Are they around here?" Sora's questioned was answered almost instantly when they both scrambled to the window due to a loud scream. With the window ripped open, both boys peered towards the two. Riku was curled into a ball whimpering as Olivia kicked the crap out of him. Uh oh.. An idea sparked Sora's mind. "Sweet revenge," he murmured.
"What?" Cloud's voice broke his thoughts.
"Nottin'!" Sora replied quickly. But it was certainly nothing as the wheels of Sora's mind worked together as a sweet plot corrupted his mind for revenge. To some up his plan, we could say this. Riku + Olivia Revenge.
Cloud winced. "Eww...That's gotta hurt," he whispered. Cloud then gasped.
"What, what?" Sora inquired hastily. Cloud bit his lip.
"Riku's dead. He just used the snow trumph card. Now... he's running away and.. oh... Just ran into that snowman you built." Sora snickered. Riku had just thrown snow into Olivia's face, who wasn't very happy. Cloud peered into the distance through the window and gasped once more. Sora didn't even bother to look up, as Cloud began to make his way to the door.
"HEY!" Cloud bellowed from the doorway. Sora curiously looked over as he began to plan more of his sweet revenge. It hurt though to think. Sephiroth had pretty much paralyzed him enough. The brunette snapped his head to the doorway when Cloud began to run out the door yelling. Quirking an eyebrow, Sora slowly moved his way to the door hearing Cloud shout, "STOP HURTING THE MAN'S DIGNITY!" Sora gasped, grabbed the door and shut the screen, and locked it. He knew what was coming. The next thing you knew, Cloud's scream echoed the morning sky. Sora pressed his face to the screen to watch as almost ten little girls began to kick the crap out of both Riku and Cloud on the ground.
"Take that meanie!" A little girl squealed. Sora could hear the little girl ask, "Is that good, Miss Olivia?"
"Right on!" Olivia called over to the seven-year-old. "Make sure you kick 'em where it hurts." For being so beautiful, the teenager was surely evil. "Okay Miss Olivia," She obeyed. Sora shut the door quickly and hid behind his bed. He didn't know what he feared more. Sephiroth, or the womanly power of little children and their evil leader.
"Ow, ow, ow!" Riku hissed.
"That's what you get for hitting on me, jerk! These poor little girls were waiting for you to kill the snake and.." Her voice was drowned out when Sora began to talk to himself.
"Poor, poor boys. Now I don't know whether I should have revenge..." A smirk appeared on his face. "Of course I shall!" Sora grinned. "He knows I love him anyway." Sora almost snorted when he heard a familiar voice through the door. His eyes widened when he listened through the door.
"Hey you," the voice called, "Leave him alone!" Sora whipped the door open and peered through the screen. He could see the form of the so-called-ninja running towards Olivia angrily.
"Uh oh," Sora whispered. He wasn't quite sure of what to do because one: he didn't want to die, or two: he didn't want to die.
"What is it to you, missy?" Olivia spat. Olivia was nice on most occasions but when you get her pissed, it's like the end of the world. He saw Yuffie's fist clench into a ball and she stooped down to grab snow. Swiftly, she launched toward Olivia, who noticed too late as another ball filled her face. Sora swore that if her face could get anymore red from anger, it would have melted the snow away. Within a second, Olivia launched herself onto the young girl in front of her.
"Hey!" Yuffie protested when they rolled down the hill into the snow. When they reached the bottom of the snow hill, Olivia landed a top Yuffie and straddled her hips quickly picking up snow and dropping it on her face. Yuffie yelped coughing up the sudden cold feeling numbing her face. With her casted arm, Yuffie swiped her arm towards the other teenager to cause Olivia to jump off of her. Quickly after the sudden parting, Yuffie crouched slightly. "I wouldn't mess with me if I were you," She hissed, "I'm faster than a ninja." Olivia sneered.
"I have the grace of a cat, apparently," Olivia shot back, "Don't try it."
"TRESSCAR!" A voice boomed. Olivia's eye shot further along behind Yuffie. With a snap of her fingers, Olivia said to Yuffie, "Lovely time with you, ninja." She bowed slightly and added before sprinting in the other direction, "I advise you run too." With a glance over her shoulder, Yuffie's eyes widened. Jesse, who was plumeting through the snowy fields, was raging like a mad bull. It seemed she had finally snapped, and everyone noticed her hippo form moving quite fast. The little girls, who were beating up Riku, began to scream for the knowledge of this woman clicked in their head instantly. They ran off in all directions quickly, Yuffie soon following them. With her speed, of course she would outrun the hippo, but she remembered Riku.
"Damn!" With a whirl and direction change of her footing, Yuffie soon found herself sliding back toward the figure struggling to get up off the ground. "Riku," she breathed, almost out of breath from the sudden change of direction, "Are you okay?" He was rubbing his head, before he responded to her kind worry.
"Kind of," he muttered, "If you count my dignity... That's dead. Other than that, I should be okay..." The silver-haired-boy coughed slightly. "What about Cloud?"
"Cloud?" The name left Yuffie's lips as she searched around. "I don't see him."
"Kisargi!"
"Damnit," she muttered. Not too much later, the camp director herself towered over them. They both gulped as her glare bore wholes into both of them.
"Fighting on camp grounds once more I see," she hissed.
"I was defending Riku! Kitty attacked him, and so did her little gremlins," Yuffie said back defensively.
"One more, Kisargi, ONE MORE TIME," she bellowed pointing her finger at her. "I will kick you out, and all your juvenialle friends." Like the hippo she was, she stomped away, which made Yuffie wonder. Why didn't the snow envelope her yet? She was big enough for it to do so.
"Hmph. She doesn't mean it," Yuffie hissed.
"I think she might. She's gone a little coo-coo in the head," Riku reasoned with her. Yuffie bit her lip in thought as she gazed upon the silver-haired-boy beneath her. "Who was that girl?" Riku's voice suddenly interrupted the ninja's thoughts.
"Huh? You mean Olivia? Hmm.. She's just another Rinoa 'cept not as bad. Annoying as hell, but not as bad."
"How do you know her?" Riku inquired standing up brushing himself off, but not before he winced at the slight bruises he would soon have. Yuffie grumbled angrily as she began to look around. "Guess you would rather not answer that," Riku murmured to himself. Gazing around, he then asked, "What are you doing?"
"Looking for Cloud."
"Oh... I'll help." Riku breathed in air into his lungs for a reason known to Yuffie, yet she would soon find out. A loud whistle rang through out the camp in a periodical melody. Must be some secret boy whistle or something. Yuffie covered her ears and dipped down in the snow. Her hand swiftly balled the crystalized snow and then chucked it across from her terrain into his mouth.
"Hey!" He choked. That was when they went dead silent as a soft whistle sounded. Well, a wannabe whistle it was to Yuffie. It wasn't even THAT good. Riku grinned and turned to Yuffie. "Follow the yellow-headed whistle." Yuffie trampled through the snow as she heard the soft whistle spurt out. Riku ran after her. He walked slower to get closer but ended up stopping when she heard a groan from beneath him. Something stood up slowly.
"AHH," he screamed, "ABOMINAL SNOWMAN!" Yuffie slapped Riku in the back of the head as she sighed. The "so called abominal snowman" brushed himself off.
"Oohh more like abdominal snowman. Damn Cloud! When did you get so buff?" He moaned once more as he shook the snow away like a wet dog. That's when Riku pushed Yuffie in the back of the head.
"Stop drooling," he teased.
"I'm not drooling," she hissed back. "Holy shiz Cloud! Speaking of Abs, your SHIRT? Where'd it go?"
"Hmn...They took it as a proof they could kick my ass." Riku snorted as Yuffie snickered. "Not funny. We're going to get kicked out for a lame reason. Watch yourselves. Jesse has gone berserk and Steve is on his way there." Yuffie grumbled at the thought of the stupid Gay instructor.
"Stupid Steve."
"I know," Riku responded.
"You guys okay?" Yuffie inquired anxiously as she peered at the both of them. They seemed okay.
"No," they replied in unison. Sighing, Yuffie added, "OTHER than the dignity issue."
"..."
"Good as new."
"Jolly."
"Good," she replied joyfully. "Aren't you guys cold?"
"Hell yes," Cloud shivered. He began to walk toward his cabin, but Yuffie held her arm out.
"Wait. I have a question. Have you guys seen Squall?" Cloud blinked and looked at Riku. Riku shrugged and shook his head.
"Nope." Yuffie blinked. Where was Squall? He should have been in the cabin along with Cloud and others. Curiosity and worry began to poke Yuffie. "Okay... If you guys see him, tell him to stop by my cabin, okay?" The shivering Cloud nodded slightly as he and Riku went inside to close the door. "That's a bit strange if you ask me." Trudging through the spangling snow, Yuffie called out Squall's name in curiosity. She neared the entrance to the woods gazing around timidly. "Squall?" Her voice echoed. Shifting her eyes around slowly, the young teenager walked down the edge of the forest entrance. "Are you around here? Squall-"
SMACK!
Yuffie was knocked to the ground out cold face swelling up by the second.
"I told you that if you were alone I would kill you." Then her figure was dragged off into the forest depths.
"Are we still stuck in here?" The young pink fanatic yawned as she sat up in bed. "Did the snow get any worse?" Kairi peered out the cabin door quickly and shook her head. The red-head whirled on her heels quickly and turned toward Aerith.
"Naah. The snow's fine. Looks like we can resume camp activity and we won't have to go home after all," Kairi chirped happily. Aerith nodded gratefully and stuff her head back into the pillow. A loud knock echoed the cabin door, both Aerith and Kairi glancing at each other, before they turned to Yuffie's bed. Empty. They then turned to Squall's bed. Also empty.
"Where are they?" They both asked in unison. The knocking pounded harder and Kairi ran to the door only for it to be slammed open.
"...Rinoa?" Kairi stated confused.
"Where's my Seifer? Where's my Squallie-Poo? They disappeared in thin air! First, they were fighting and then they were gone like that!" Rinoa cried with the snap of her fingers. Kairi became wide-eyed. What was Rinoa talking about?
"Wait, Wait," Kairi stopped Rinoa. "What do you mean they disappeared? They were fighting? Where?"
"No time for questions! We need to find my Squallie-Poo!"
"Ah, ah! That's Yuffie's property," Aerith growled slightly from her bedside.
"Sure," Rinoa said letting the comment slide off of her.
"He is hers," Kairi hissed.
"Alright, alright!" Rinoa said throwing her hands up. "We need to find Seifer-"
"Whoa ho ho," Kairi hissed, "You're on your own."
"But-"
"Nope. It's not like were your friends suddenly because both Squall and the devil disappear."
"But-"
"No."
"HMPH," she huffed crossing her arms. Quickly, she left the cabin without a trace. Kairi turned to Aerith defeated.
"They'll pop up in no time. She's worrying too much."
Activities for the day resumed as all the kids in camp stayed in the warm mess hall. It would be an arts and crafts day for the gremlins as their camp leaders would help them make snow flakes out of paper. Yuffie or Squall had not shown up at all and everyone was beginning to wonder what the two were doing. It was getting close to dinner time when out of the blue Squall popped into the mess hall. He seemed a little tired and out of breath. Plopping down at the table with Kairi, Cloud, Sora, Aerith and Riku, he rested his head in his arms.
"You okay?" Sora inquired as he cut a paper in his hands that was shaped like a heart.
"Who's that for?" Squall asked pointing out the object in Sora's hand. "That looks like... a heart.." Squall smirked slightly. Sora's face turned a light red.
"It's not a heart! It's not for anyone.." Riku now began to turn his attention to Sora as well as the other people. "STOP LOOKING." They all hastily looked away as Squall laughed. Sora gasped slightly. "You laughed."
"I know."
"..." Sora hid the heart shaped paper under the table. "Shut up."
"I didn't say anything," Squall replied. Yes, there was a purpose to the heart shaped paper. No, it was not for Sora or from Sora. It would be a little... revenge.
"You guys seen Yuffie?" Squall asked suddenly. They all shook their heads as Kairi soothed, "I thought she was with you. We were wondering where you were at. Rinoa came marching into our cabin looking for you and Seifer. She said you guys were fighting again." Squall became silent in thought.
"Yuffie's been acting kinda strange," Squall said aloud and jumped up. He left the mess hall quickly as a new destination formed in his mind. He opened the screen door and walked over to the bag tossed aside. Peering down at the black back, he moved it carefully, but carelessly aside as he picked up the cellphone. Sitting down on the floor frustrated, he made an attempt to put the cell phone back together. It seemed it cracked, but the only thing wrong with it was the battery fell out. The light flickered on.
"Hello. Welcome to Verizon." Squall tampered with the cellphone for a moment.
"Ahh crap. I need a password. Umm... When's her birthday?" The wheels in Squall's mind began to move quickly as he tried every possible numbers he could think of. After a moment of trying, he just tossed to phone aside. "I give up."
"2 Old voices mail."
"Huh?" He picked up the phone slowly put it to his ear.
"Hello… Yuffie," It began. The voice was deep, dark, and a bit intimidating. "You must be in question as to who I am or why I would call… Well, take this warning. You better watch it or else you might get yourself killed." Squall's eyes widened slightly as his mind tried to comprehend what this meant. He listened to the other message in horror. Pocketing the phone, Squall jumped up. Yuffie WAS alone. Yuffie had NO chance. Yuffie was in trouble.
A/N: Wow.. Not a very long chapter, but I promise you that the next two chapters are going to be LONG because everything has to be explained. I'm just leading this chapter up into the full climax, so I hope this was good for now. I will update as fast as I can because I will have the free time soon. That is when I move. So thanks guys. Here's that thanks comments. You guys blow my mind with humor.
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