He ran over as and landed inbetween the two. He looked at both of them and nodded. "Ready to go?" He asked and Barret shrugged. "I ain't a fool to let my pal go by himself right?" Red XIII nodded and Cloud sighed. "Same here." The three walked away from the Cosmo Candle and prepared to go into the dark depths of the cave of Gi. Red XIII opened the small outlet box and the doorway slid away. Barret and Cloud walked in one after another, Red XIII came in last. Little did they know that someone was following them.
Cloud descended the ladder first, Barret followed, he shuddered as his boots touched the cold floor of the cave. Red XIII jumped straight down, curling into a ball to slow his fall and landed on his feet. He looked around then at Cloud and Barret. "Lead the way." Red XIII said with an anxious smirk. Cloud nodded adn began walking along, making sure to watch out for any slippery substance. They walked for awhile, fending off what the cave had in store for them. Whether it was a Gi Spector, a Sneaky Step, or even a Heg. they knew how to take care of it.
After a couple of hours they came to a wall with markings over it. Red XIII recognized them and pulled out the materia Ghandi gave him. The emblem matched the same one on the wall. There wa sa slot big enough for the materia to fit through. Red XIII slid it in, the materia glowed a bright red then the wall moved to the side, the materia reappeared in Red XIII's slot. Barret looked abit more confused then amazed as Cloud did. "Uh..What the hell was that?" He asked as Red XIII shrugged, standing in the doorway. "I don't know but it gave us a new path. Come on." Cloud nodded and began walking again as Barret scratched his head and followed.
They continued their way, but now they discovered monsters they ahd not previously fought before they opened the doorway. They encountered cactaurs, Vlakorados, and even Malboros. Cloud finished off the malboro with a swing of his buster sword, he placed it behind his back and wiped the sweat from his brow. "Geeze what have we done? I think when we opened that doorway monsters from different parts of the planet appeared." Logic, you couldn't beat it. Red XIII and Barret both nodded, agreeing with the blonde.
They all began talking, explaining theories about why this doorway was here in the first place, why they hadn't noticed it the first time they came here, and why there was a foul odor in the air. By the time they ahd finished they were all in trouble. They looked around and saw Malboros, cactaurs, and tonberrys surrounding them by the handful. Barret reloaded his gun arm as Cloud pulled out the sword from his back.R ed XIII positioned himself and growled. A load of enemies like this always signaled a glorious battle.
The three of them charged in opposing directions, swinging or firing their weapons, even trying to claw the moneters' eyes out. Red XIII jumped atop a Malboro, biting the eyes, sinking his teeth in. The Malboro screeched in pain as it ran around, screeching to get the young warrior of it's head. It fell to the ground moment's later and disinegrated after Red XIII finished it off with a fire3 spell.
Barret fired at a cactaur, countering it's thousand needle atatck with his own barrage of bullets. He muttered an incantation while firing and destroyed the cactaur like nothing with a simple demi 3 spell. Cloud swung his buster sword and decapacitated the tonberry before it even got near him. It disinegrated before a single drop of blood fell.
The group of monsters began to descrease slowly as the three members of AVALANCHE continued fighting. As there was only one monster left the foul odor in the air got stronger. Barret fell unconcious to the floor and Cloud fell on his knees, holding his head as he cried out in pain, falling into a black unconciousness. Red XIII fought to keep his eeys open but the odor got him in the end.
Wutai, around afternoon.
Tifa rose her head from the book she was reading. A chill was in the air. Yet she couldn't quite plac her finger on it. "Hey Tif! Come on! We're gonna be late!" Yuffie called out, pulling on Tifa's arm. "We promised Vincent and Cait Sith that we'd meet them at the tower. Cid's getting impatient anyway." Yuffie said as she rolled her eyes at Cid who was taking a smoke by a tree. Tifa nodded hesitantly and followed Yuffie. She looked back one more time then thought of Cloud, Red XIII, and Barret.
'I hope they're alright.' She thought to herself silently as she followed Yuffie and Cid.
Anyway that's the fourth chapter. Fifth chapter might be up soon. Please comment.