A/N- gosh. This musta been a pain in the ass. Edited. Enjoy.
Part 3
The crowd cheered for her as she dismounted Aquarius and scanned the crowd. Yazoo was practically having a seizure full of happiness and anger… AT THE SAME TIME! She thought she saw his velvet nightmare slowly being pulled out from under his trench coat, but one look from Sephiroth and the gun had disappeared again.
Alathia was in the stands with them all, as fully healed from her race as possible, and signaling that they had to get going.
Alexia watched as Alathia slipped away quietly and made her way to the meeting area. What neither of them noticed was the fact that Yuffie and Loz were watching them intently, and scooted away as soon as Alathia had snuck off.
After the award ceremony was finished, Alathia and Alexia met up at the chocobo stables (Yuffie and Loz hiding in an empty one.), and packed away the birds; awaiting the arrival of their ride back to the mainland… he was late (or maybe they were).
"Hello ladies, you're just the two I've been waiting for." A very scary looking man slunk up to the two surprised women.
They blinked back stupidly. He chuckled at their awkwardness and continued to speak as if nothing were terribly wrong.
"Do you have my money?" the man nearly whispered, snapping both of them out of their confusion.
"Err, yeah… H-here tis." Alexia sighed withdrawing a tiny black bag from her back sac and handing it to the man.
Alathia snatched it out of her hand and held it tightly to her chest, surprising the other two.
"What makes us so sure that you're not trying to screw us over?" she snapped, jeering at her opponent.
The man simply smiled and pulled back his long, dark, oily hair.
"Can you afford not to trust me?"
Alathia blinked hesitantly… and slowly released the money to the man.
"That's a good girl. Now, when would you like to leave? The next trip is about two weeks away. Is that too soon?"
"N-no I think that's fine." Alexia replied, kicking at the straw on the ground.
This felt wrong.
"Good then. Now, let's go have a seat and I shall give you directions and a map to my boat."
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The tiny stall smelt of fresh straw and mud…
Yuffie loved it.
Loz hated it.
As soon as the two girls had walked off with the man, Loz made sure to drag Yuffie out of the stall and out of the stables completely.
"Ow, Loz what are you doing? Let go, you're hurting my arm!" she squealed, pounding on his rock hard arm.
Loz let go and just grumbled a ' we're telling Sephiroth and my brothers'.
Yuffie's eyes widened with fear and she ran ahead of him, outstretching her arms to stop him.
"No! C'mon Loz! (He went around her determined to find his siblings) Think about this! They'll be too upset to hold out at the Great Battle! Do you really wanna kill your own brothers?"
Yuffie's last question seemed to strike a nerve as she stopped and shouted it at his back. The hulking man in front of her went into a dead stop and sighed.
"I think I should at least tell Sephiroth. He has a right to know. My brothers do too, but its those girls' responsibility to tell them… I guess."
Yuffie slowly walked up and gently wrapped her arm around his.
"I'll come with you. It'll be easier that way." She smiled up at him and lead the way back through the crowd.
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"Are you sure?"
"Yes brother. Yuffie says they've been making phone calls since they started living with Avalanche. And we just watched them making the arrangements for the departure." Loz stated, Yuffie still clinging to his arm and nodding.
"Let them then."
"W-what? Why? What about Kadaj and Yazoo?" Loz gasped.
"They'll understand. I'm sure the women won't leave without saying goodbye in some way. Don't say anything to them. We can't risk them failing at the Great Battle."
Loz blinked in astonishment. He couldn't believe how calm Seph was being. Unfortunately the only response he could do was a sad shake to the head as he followed Sephiroth to meet everyone else by the entrance/exit to the gold saucer.
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Loz glared at the women as they stood talking with Kadaj and Yazoo. Everyone said their goodbyes quickly, and Kadaj & Yazoo were begged to hurry up and get the gold chocobo and grab the materia.
Everyone was getting anxious and felt Jenova was read for the final show down.
"Ok…we'll have it all done by tonight. Promise." Kadaj stated firmly to everyone, leading the Chocobos out.
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"Wow, I can't believe this thing can walk on water! This is so awesome!" Kadaj shouted over his shoulder to his brother.
Yazoo 'uh huh'ed back and clung even tighter to his brother.
Only one gold chocobo was made, and the brothers had to share the ride. Yazoo was getting motion sickness.
Kadaj was laughing and cheering, all the while his older brother was clinging around his waist; ready to vomit.
They flew up over the last mountain and Kadaj stopped the bird at the mouth of a grand cave. After shimmying out of Yazoo's grip, Kadaj slashed away the foliage around the gaping entrance. Yazoo scrambled off the bird and joined his brother shortly after.
"What if someone else took it?" Yazoo sighed, gaining his composure and walking right next to his younger brother.
Kadaj hesitated to enter the dark hole and just stood there looking at its blackness.
"Its really big." He whispered, barely being heard by Yazoo.
His brother smirked in response and patted his back playfully.
"What's wrong little brother? Afraid of the dark?"
Kadaj's nostrils flared in anger as he spat an 'I am not!' at Yazoo and chased him into the cave. Yazoo was laughing as Kadaj caught up and football tackled his Nisan.
The two hit the ground with a dull thud that echoed off the cavern walls, making both realize just how big it was.
"Let's just find the materia. Its nighttime and I can barely see a thing in here. What's that light coming from?" Yazoo chuckled, dusting off his leather outfit.
"I think its coming from our summoning material. C'mon, follow the light." Kadaj mumbled back. They could sense something was wrong.
Water dripped from the walls, creating the illusion that Geostigma was oozing from its cracks. It crept the both of them out.
The two silver haireds wandered around stalactites and stalagmites, curves, crevices and waded through water until they found their material. The brothers gasped in awe as the natural red light from the material sparkled and danced off the cavern walls.
Kadaj went to dash up and grab it, but Yazoo yanked him back at the very last moment.
"W-what the hell's your problem? Let go, I wanna get the materia!" Kadaj protested, trying his best to yank his arm free.
Yazoo withdrew his gun blade and cocked it, freaking his younger brother out even more. Was Yazoo gonna shoot him?
"H-hey, wait! This is silly. You can go get it if you really want! Don't gotta get all hostile!"
"I think you'd better get Souba out… seems someone got here before us." Yazoo whispered, releasing his brother's arm.
Kadaj turned to see what the hell his brother was talking about, and withdrew his blade as soon as he saw the enemy.
A pair of Mako green eyes stared at him from behind the rocks with the materia on it.
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"Seph, I'm going to the entrance. Something feels weird about it. I already called Avalanche and they're coming to visit. I'll be back in a bit." Loz told Sephiroth just before walking out the reconstructed door.
Loz and Seph had spent a few hours completing the living room. They'd gotten tired of the attention to detail and just rushed through everything… Turned out nicer than they thought it would. Seph was going to use that as a surprise when his younger two siblings returned with the materia. He knew they'd be excited because it'd mean the girls could come back… and they could be almost like a real family again.
Seph sighed, not REALLY wanting to see Avalanche yet again and wishing he could uninvited them. Seph sat down in what was left of a couch, leaned his head back, and closed his eyes.
He heard footsteps come in the entrance.
It'd only been a moment, why was Loz back? Seph blinked away the sleep that was threatening to over take his body and looked at the man in the doorway.
"No…fucking…way."
The protective seal was finally broken.