Sorry for the long wait for this chapter, it took me awhile to find a name for the new character and the fact I was in the hospital for new years didn't help any at all and still recovering and on so pretty good pain killers x.X so um yeah and I got a few side projects going as well, hopefully people like the next chapter and such and it is much longer anyways enjoy. Though I might change the name if someone suggests a better one.
Warnings: some Language in this chapter
Disclaimer: I don't own ff7 or AC but one came dream :P
Chapter 2 : What The Hell Is It
After a few moments letting the dust settle the figure pushed some rocks off with a few groans following and sat there for a moment before rubbing its eyes to clear its vision when its eyes met with the view of the end of a sword, gun, and electrified night rod pointed right at its face only inches away causing a small squeak to pass through the lips of the figure on the ground but didn't move at all but just stared at the objects in front of it.
Cloud looked to Reno then to Vincent unsure what to think for the moment before Cloud finally spoke up out of the trio.
"Who the hell are you and why are you following us?"
His words fell upon thin air as the figure continued to stare at the objects in front of it before slowly bringing its half human clawed hand to the sword placing a single finger on the pointed end for a moment causing Cloud to stare tilting his head to the left a bit wondering 'what the hell'. A few seconds later the figure pulled its finger away only to find a trail of red liquid oozing out of the small cut leaving the tip of the blade with a drop of red on the end. It then brought its finger to its face almost looking like it was studying it for a moment before it looked up to the sound of someone speaking to it again.
"I suggest you answer us sir unless you have a death wish" with that Vincent had moved the gun to point almost right between the eyes of the figure or close to it since its face was shadowed by the hood of the black cloak it wore.
Finally a response rose from the figure as it huffed in protest placing a few fingers on the barrel of the gun pushing it a side slightly "I am no man thank you very much and chill out a bit..." the voice was definitely no man but sounded more like a girl around the age of Reno and Cloud.
The three guys looked at each other shocked a bit before Reno blurted out .
"THAT thing is female...?"
She smiled slightly to herself as she pushed the gun away from her some more but ended up having one of her fingers slip inside the barrel of the gun only to get stuck. Which caused some whining from her and made the trio laugh slightly as she almost look like she was pouting trying to free her unfortunate finger.
"Wow... and I thought Reno pulled the stupid stunts.." Cloud said but found that as quickly as he had spoke the back of his head met with Reno's hand then him on his back from the swift kick in the leg from the girl in the cloak.
"You try being locked up for most of your life and see how you turn out" she continued to sit there on the ground looking a little pissed off yet it looked funny yet when she still had Vincent's gun stuck on her finger which he was trying to be careful as she pulled and twisted before her finger popped out.
Vincent placed his gun in its holster for now as he looked down at the odd girl who was babying her finger for the time being before glancing at the other boys before speaking sounding slightly cold towards the girl before him on the ground.
"So... why are you here"
She looked up at the dark man for a moment before speaking softly almost as cold as him.
"Only if you guys promise not to attack me if I remove my hood...I will tell you everything..."
The three looked at each other before Reno spoke and receiving a dirty look form Vincent.
"Sure.. why not..?"
"Are you even sure Reno if that is a good idea"
Cloud shook his head with a slight sigh "lets just give her a chance to explain ok?"
With a moment of silence the two decided to agree with Cloud for the time being as the trio turned to face the girl on the ground in a pretty dusty black cloak now.
She slowly brought her hands to the hood of her cloak her hands seeming to be partly claws and human fingers mixed into one. As she pulled the hood back more, her eyes remained closed as hair dyed black and red fell loosely around her fair skin which seemed normal except for the few odd scales around the bottom and sides of where her eyes were. Hearing the slight gasps from the three as the waist length silver hair was exposed from under the hood she opened her eyes revealing a pair of soft green eyes just like Sephiroth.
Cloud stumbled back in complete shock the moment he saw her eyes. The other two pulled out there weapons despite what they had said stumbling back a few steps.
She sat there for a few moments in silence placing her hands in her lap watching the three of them with a sigh watching them point their weapons at her again. But who could blame them when another so called Sephiroth sibling was right in front of them.
It took a few more moments for Cloud to finally speak up but didn't seem to happy at all. "How many more of those fucking things did Hojo create...!"
She growled a bit at the harsh words Cloud had used and spoke threatening dark voice giving him a death glare. "I would appreciated that you don't refer to me as a thing and don't ever mention that horrifyingly disgusting name again..." For a brief moment her voice soften a bit "though... I am grateful for you for killing that stinking piece of garbage..."
Vincent then lowered his gun placing it back in its holster with a low sigh "garbage is better looking then he ever could be..."
Cloud looked a bit dumbfounded for a moment before putting his weapon away with Reno following the same actions. So far from what they could gather she was harmless, unless you pissed her off but hopefully they were smart and not to push her that far. Though.. it would be funny to watch a enraged half human thing chasing after Reno while he whined for and pleaded for forgiveness. He couldn't help but chuckle to himself a bit but stopped after he noticed the looks he was getting from them and rubbed the back of his head acting like nothing was wrong .
Reno patted the blonde's shoulder just feeling slightly disturbed at the small grin on Cloud's face but shook his head for a moment. " ANYWAYS..." he spoke trying to break the silenced that had creped up on them after the blonde's crazy moment. "anywho.. would you like to explain things now...?" Reno wasn't sure what else to say since she hadn't spoke of it yet.
She nodded softly "well.. where to start is the question... so first what would like to know?"
"How about a name to start" Vincent spoke.
"Then why you were following and for how long..." Cloud spoke up right after Vincent.
Suddenly she sneezed from the dust and cause the trio to chuckle a bit at how cute it looked and laughed a bit more at the look she had on her face giving them a glare before going with her story. "Anyways... my name is Kiana" She smiled brightly then went to continue on but was cut off by Reno.
"Well... whadda know... she has a pretty name" Reno smirked.
"Shut up smart ass and let me continue" Cloud couldn't help but hold his gut in laugher at Reno. Apparently he wasn't the only one who though so and the look Reno's face was priceless as well.
Reno gave them both a death glare for the moment and gave a slight cough in his hand to regain himself so to speak.
Just watching Reno was pretty good she thought to herself then continued on with what she was about to talk about before being cut off by the flaming red head. Though she had to admit he was cute.
"Getting back on topic now... I have been following you guys well mostly Cloud for the last 6 months, it took me about a year to find you. You really are a hard person to find when I hardly had knew my way anywhere since I was locked up for the last almost 8 years..."
"But why me? and why were you locked up so long?" Cloud said getting a little curious.
"Sephiroth and Zack told me lots of things about you and told me if something were to ever happen and they disappeared I was told long with my younger brothers to find you because they said you are they only person they could ever trust" She watched Cloud for a moment seeing if she was confusing him yet.
Cloud nodded understanding so far and sat down on the ground in front of her a few feet away listening.
She smiled a little bit as the rest followed Cloud's idea of sitting for the moment before she continued on with her story "But... unfortunately... things didn't work out like we all hoped. When Sephiroth was killed, Hojo decided to take us since it Sephiroth was the only thing in his way for taking us back for his experimenting. I tired to find Zack he had seemed to disappear along with you so we had no where to go. That's when I was locked up and Hojo began to stick me with needles everyday with some DNA crap and it altered me as you can see..." Lifting her hands from her lap she held them in front of her showing the claw like nails and some blue and purple like coloring here and there with a few scales as well.
Reno leaned over taking a look at her hands and for a moment he reached out his fingers to touch the odd scale on her hands she giggled slightly at his curiosity but having of knowing Zack, his habits kind of rubbed off on her, so she decided to spook Reno since it was too good to pass up.
As he continued to look over her hands a bit, which had the other two males looking at him no so use to Reno having a curious side to him. The silence sure didn't last long but it caused the others to laugh so hard watching suddenly how high Reno jumped up from the ground almost freaking out with a few curses spewing out .
"WHAT the freaking hell..! She has a god damn fucking tail...!" He was brushing his pant leg viciously for a moment. 'She was sitting there looking so damn innocent! god damn it!'. He was in fact correct about the tail part though as he watched what it seemed to be a dragon's tail of some kind colored a dark blue with a purple hue to it.
She couldn't help but laugh as the others did as well but Reno didn't seem to thrilled about it but it was still funny, she had no idea the red head could jump so high so fast. After a few moments her laugher slowly died but she still had that kind of grin were she looked so devilish in a sense, but the rest of her would make think she was so innocent but she was far from that 'heh'.
Brushing a few silver strands from her shoulder she turned to them to continue on once again. "Sorry Reno Zack's habits die hard..." she rubbed the back of her head slightly. Watching him settle down to the ground she went back to the topic on hand. "Well know that I found you, I know as well what happened to my younger brothers..." her voice broke into pain slightly talking about her siblings. "To be honest... I have no clue where to go from here now since I am basically alone and I don't think your little group will take to kindly to me if you showed back up with me following..."
Cloud sighed heavily, he knew she was right on the mark with that one. How was he suppose to explain this to Tifa of all people? She had such a grudge against Sephiroth and then the newer silver haired siblings. Having Kiana tag along back would have Tifa in an uproar, but what was they suppose to do with the girl. He knew that they couldn't just leave her here and plus Zack and Sephiroth themselves told her to seek him out in case of trouble, so in away he couldn't turn her down since it would be going back against the two close friends of the past.
He finally came to his senses after a few moment from the jabbing finger in his side ever so hard... from the flaming red head next to him.
"Hey cloud..? you ok yo?" Reno spoke lifting a brow slightly at the spaced out blonde boy.
He then swatted Reno's hand away " just fine, just was thinking...speaking of which..." the blonde paused for a moment thinking about this over for about a minute first before opening his mouth again "I say she should come back with us..."
Reno and Vincent's eyes were on him in a split second making cloud feel a little uncomfortable for his liking and the protesting wasn't helping either.
"You really think that is a great idea?" Vincent spoke lifting his brow ever so slightly.
"I think you are asking a death wish of yourself from the rest of the group and so on. Nothing against her or anything just I think just the mere sight of her would cause a great stir among the people yo..." The red head r scratched the back of his head as he spoke.
Kiana was just sitting there a little shocked at the fact Cloud was thinking of taking her to the city. The thought slightly scared her about heading back to Midgar , since that's where all the trouble started. She softly ran her fingers through her hair slightly as she sighed and continued to let them speak for now.
Cloud hated to let the Reno be right most of the time and grunted at himself mentally for a moment before shaking his head a bit. It was unfair but didn't care anymore what right did he have to deny her some where to go let alone rest. With that he stood up looking to Vincent then to Reno.
"We are going to take her, plus she can hide in her cloak the whole time and no one will notice since the hair in the front of her face is not silver is it not?" Cloud looked to the other two men for a moment.
The red head looked to the dark haired mystery for a moment then they looked to Cloud. He did have a point there. It couldn't hurt ... could it?.
Vincent folded his arms over his chest gently as he spoke "well i guess she could come for now until we can figure out where to go from there ..."
The trio nodded with the girl smiling brightly for now with her tail sway softly along the ground in excitement at the fact she had a place to relax a bit for now anyways. Reno's eyes fell upon the tail slightly disturbed at the fact it was on Kiana but other then that she seem pretty descent enough and kind of cute. Though it was something he would never say out loud of course.
With the decision made the rest of them got off the ground and headed back over the cliffs back to the black car that Reno drove around most of the time. Kiana was tagging along near Reno until they got to the car, but Reno didn't go for the driver side first but to the passenger door in the front and opened it. She blinked a bit at first but after a few moments she nodded him a thanks before getting into the car. The others got in the back seat with Vincent sitting behind Kiana and Cloud behind the driver seat where Reno was not sitting pulling on his seat belt with everyone else doing so. He turned the ignition on and sped off back towards Midgar.
Sorry this chapter took awhile to write I had so many other things happening along with work and such :shakes fist at her housekeeping job: anyways... I hope people like this so far and I hope to get the next chapter in maybe a month at the longest since I got so much stuff to worry about. Also I am sorry if there is any mistakes I tried to make sure I got them all and I hope the characters aren't to bad and such x.x. Don't forget to review, ideas and stuff are good :)