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Flames (if any) shall keep me warm when a cold front comes in...


We now join the crew in the caravan towards the next town. The town has a problem with trolls and they were called to get there and get rid of the trolls for the town. But alas, this spooks Sora for he hasn't even handled a weapon except a wooden sword. He and cloud were in the first wagon being dragged by a choboco that they had lying around. Sora was twiddling his thumbs but cloud told him to stop since Aerith never did that. "You know…I never liked you anyway…." Sora hmphed and scooted to the other edge of the wagon, behind the items. Cloud sighed. A little farther, closer to town, the caravan stopped so they could all get a stretch. Vincent didn't get out. He went to the caravan where the items, and Sora, were. He got such a view since Sora was asleep in a pose only he could pull off when he was male. "Aerith?" Vincent tugged on Sora's dress to get her/his attention and he sprang up clutching an imaginary wooden sword. "Oookk…" Vincent grabbed a water and walked away slowly from Sora.

Once in the town everyone went to the inn. That is if you include a pissy Sora mumbling all the way there. The town mayor was very glad to see the whole group he was clapping the whole time they entered. "When I got the news that you got your white mage back I nearly fainted from the joy!" Yuffie leaned close to Cid. "I think this is going to take a while, want me to get you some water?" Cid nodded and Yuffie walked off. "And now that you are all here we can finally get rid of these monsters that have terrorized our beloved town…" Leon elbowed cloud. "He's not going to pay that much, he pulled the 'beloved town' card…" Cloud 'shssed' him. "Wait, he's wearing a lot of Gil so we might have a cash cow here…" The mayor walked over to Sora. "And the white mage is as lovely as ever…" The mayor kissed Sora on the hand and Sora started to look sick. Cloud shook his head slightly and Sora gulped down whatever he was about to leave in a toilet.

Going to the designated area cloud dragged Sora away from the group. "Now listen, you are what's known as the white mage. You summon huge monsters to fight for you and heal us with various magic attacks you a-" Sora stopped him. "Well screw you then, I'm gunna try to get me back to my world, now if you don't mind…." He shoved cloud out of the way and started to walk towards the nearest inn. Cloud lasso'd Sora and dragged him along. "What took you so long?" Cloud patted Sora on the back, who was in fact giving him the dirtiest look he could muster. "Just seeing if Aerith could still do magic!" "Let's see her summon a choboco then!" Everyone looked at Tifa. She shrunk and skittered away. "So where're the monsters we need to beat?" Cid jerked a thumb to the small horde walking slowly towards them. Sora's eyes lit up then and there. "C'mon! Let's go kick some Monsters asses!" Sora charged with cloud's sword in hand. Cloud patted himself down and cursed. After Sora managed to slice one of the trolls in half everyone looked down at Cloud.

"That's not Aerith is it Cloud?"

Cloud scratched the back of his head. "Maybe…eh heh heh…"