A/N: So, you want the story to continue. That's wonderful. I'm happy you don't hate the idea of me adding this weird little adventure to their story. I'm sorry about the whole, 'not updating for forever' thing. I'll try to be better about this.

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Chapter 8

When Seiji awoke he was lying on the ground over very soft grass. He groaned and started to get up. A sting of pain shot through his head.

"You okay?" A familiar voice asked from beside him. Seiji shook his head, but the pain doubled so he grabbed his head and decided to stay still. "Seiji, it'll be fine. We'll find Ryo and get out of this joint quick."

"Ryo!" Seiji yelled, his eyes shot open-he remembered why he'd jumped through that thing- but he regretted that as well. The sun was bright through the few trees that he had seen when he had opened his eyes.

"Sye and me are right next to you. It's okay; you just hit you head pretty hard." Rowen whispered.

"Is it bleeding?"

"Yeah." He felt Rowen's gentle hand on his back.

"Where are we?" Sye asked tiredly from somewhere to Seiji's left, but he couldn't tell how far away. He felt Rowen move from beside him to where Sye was. He could hear the twist of dirt beneath Rowen's shoes and he heard him kneel, but he refused to open his eyes to see him do this. It hurt him too badly.

"Dude, Seiji!" Sye gasped. "Is he alright?" Sye asked Rowen, more quietly now. Rowen whispered something inaudible, then went back over to him. Seiji groaned, thinking that Rowen had lied about how serious his injury was.

Rowen started to say something, but Sye silenced him, demanding for quiet.

"What do you hear?" Rowen asked softly.

"Someone's coming." Sye replied, then there was the sounds of bushes around them rustled and the sound of metal clacking against metal and shouts.

Seiji was confused, but he felt Rowen still next to him.

"What's going on?" Rowen asked, stressed.

"You are trespassing!" A man yelled.

"Hey look!" Another shouted. "It's General Thunder and Advisor Lord Sephiroth!" There were some murmurs and someone walking over to Sye.

"Lord Sephiroth, what happened to you?"

"Was it this man?" Another man came close to Rowen making a lot of ruckus.

"What the Hell's going on!?" Seiji shouted, though it hurt his ears.

"General! Are you alive, sir?" Another asked.

"I don't get this at all." Rowen was worried. "I think that you two resemble some people they know though."

"Stop talking!" A man yelled.

They sound like soldiers. But where on Earth could we be that there would be soldiers in a jungle? Seiji wondered.

"Let's bring them to the Prince. He will heal the General and Lord Sephiroth." They grabbed a tight hold of Rowen and yanked him up and away from Seiji. Seiji also felt himself lifted from the ground and in someone's arms. There was a lot of walking through forest, then the sound of metal on stone. They walked up some steps and across a long corridor. Now there was an echo on marble against walls that were a distance to either side of them.

"Oh, gods!" That was Ryo's voice, but it sounded different, frightened. Seiji had never heard Ryo frightened before; not like this. "What happened to them? Where did you find him?"

"In the forest, your Majesty." One of the soldiers answered. "He was wounded when we found him."

"Put him over here on the table!" Ryo ordered and Seiji was placed on a stone table that was quite cold.

"Ryo." He whispered.

Someone put their hands on his temples and he felt something wonderful and peaceful enter him. It made the pain go away with one breath. He opened his eyes and grabbed the person's wrists.

He saw Ryo when he opened his eyes, only Ryo was dressed in the weirdest outfit, with gold plates in his hair, and he was very shocked that Seiji had grabbed him.

"Ryo." Seiji whispered. "What happened? Where's that monster thing? Where are we?" He paused, then remembered his friends. "Rowen! Sye!" He sat up quickly and looked around the huge room of white stone until he found Sye still in another guard's arms and Rowen standing near him, his hands bound and a guard holding him painfullystill. "What the hell's going on?" He scowled.

Ryo frowned. "What are you doing?" He pulled his hands hurriedly away from Seiji with a glance to him as if to be careful. Seiji swung his legs off the table as Ryo backed away. He slipped off the table and after Ryo kept backing away from him, he just walked over to Rowen.

"You alright?" He asked kindly. Rowen groaned and nodded.

"Release him." Ryo ordered and the guard in the armor let Rowen go, his bondage off. Rowen fell against Seiji rubbing his wrists, then he righted himself and looked at Sye, who was unconscious again.

"Okay, I am so confused, it's not funny." He snapped. "Now, that looks like Ryo, but he's dressed weird and not acting normal, and what's with the greeting? Where are we?!" He yelled.

"Don't be so insolent!" A guard yelled and Rowen's attention snapped to him.

"You know what? I'm just a little confused right now and we don't have time for games!" He screamed and the whole room echoed it back.

"Silence!" Ryo yelled. "We are all slightly bewildered at the moment. Let us just take this carefully and considerately. Yes?"

"Why's he talking like that?" Rowen asked, out of breath, turning to Seiji and ignoring this Ryo.

"I don't know." Seiji replied. "Let's humor them though." He looked around and smiled. "I'm Seiji, this is Rowen, that's Sye. We were fighting this big guy with red hair when he grabbed our friend –who looks just like you-," Seiji gestured to Ryo, "created this diamond like portal thing and disappeared with him inside it. We came jumping in after him, then woke up where the guards found us." He explained and most of them looked baffled. This Ryo went along with it.

"All right. My name is Prince Ryo Fay Soma, and these are my guards. This is my palace. You look remarkably like my general, Seiji, but he has been missing for a few days now and I have been frantic looking for him. My guards were out on a patrol, then they came back with you three." He turned to look at Sye. "This boy looks exactly like my advisor, Sephiroth, but I have never seen you before." Ryo gestured politely with his hand to Rowen.

"This is really screwed up." Rowen groaned and looked over to Sye. "Um, Prince? Could you do what you did for Seiji, to Sye, uh, please?" He tried to remember his manners vainly.

The prince thought about it for a second.

"Yes, place him on the table." He ordered the guard. Rowen intercepted the guard and took Sye gently from him.

"I have you." He whispered. "Sye, wake up." Sye's eyes opened slightly.

"Rowen." He whispered, but seemed in pain. Seiji noticed the blood behind his ear on his skull. It matted his hair down in that place. Rowen lowered Sye onto the table and gently laid his head down. The Prince went over to him and touched one hand to each of his temples. A light started to glow from his hands and Seiji saw all the guards bowing their heads obediently.

Sye gasped, his eyes shot open, and he sat up quickly looking at Ryo, frightened.

"Sye! It's okay!" Rowen called to him and they embraced when Sye saw him and half laughed and smiled, but still seemed afraid, then he became more calm, and got off the table.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"We've got a look-alike problem." Rowen answered. "That looks like Ryo, but it's actually some prince or something. We must be in like another dimension, like in those sci-fi flicks."

Sye furrowed his brow. "That's not Ryo?"

"Well, one of his names is Ryo, but there isn't any other connection." Rowen answered.

"Okay." Sye seemed nervous. "Well, uh, we have to find our Ryo then, don't we?"

"And my general Seiji!" Ryo added stepping closer to them timidly. "You have come from another world, I believe. I also believe that you are here to help us, so I will help you if you aid me in our search."

"When was the last time you saw… General… Seiji." Sye's glance shot to his friend and he shrugged.

"Two days ago, walking into the palace after a hunt." A guard answered.

"You sure that was the last time?" He asked the prince.

Prince Ryo was slow to reply. "Actually, I saw him after that." He mumbled. "Outside my chambers." He blushed lightly for a moment, but then it was gone. "He was speaking with a red-haired man. They were talking heatedly, then they left together." The prince looked over Sye, Rowen, and Seiji. Sye and Rowen looked at Seiji, who blushed. They all were thinking the same thing.

"Can I ask you something?" Seiji wondered, a small blush on his cheeks as well. Ryo went pale for a moment, then he nodded. Seiji stepped closer and leaned close to Ryo's ear so no one else would see or hear what he said. Ryo blushed deeply, turning red as he nodded and Seiji stepped back. "Ah! Thank you." He walked back over to his friends. "We have a lot more in common than we thought." He smirked.

"Oh!" Rowen and Sye replied together, nodding understandingly.

Suddenly, a tall auburn haired man walked in. He also had plates in his hair and looked just like Sye. The guards bowed to him as he walked by.

"My prince." He bowed to one knee in front of Ryo. "I heard the general has returned." He didn't wear a shirt, only pants with a cloth belt and jewelry around his neck and arms. He wore odd Indian shoes, and bracelets and rings.

"No, Sephiroth. The people the guards found are not from our world." He caressed Sye's hair briefly. "Over there." Sephiroth stood and looked at Sye, who was already gaping at his other self. They both gawked at one another shocked and the guards mumbled things to each other, also in awe.

Sye and Sephiroth circled around each other making judgements, then they finally faced one another again.

Rowen was smirking and blushing. Seiji leaned close to him wondering why.

"If you were right about there being more than one similarity between our counterparts, then Sephiroth also has a secret friend like I have Sye."

Seiji smirked as well and watched the twins face each other.

"Do you have a scar over the bone of your right hip?" Sephiroth asked seriously.

Sye scowled oddly. "Yes." He answered and pulled down his pant lip and boxer just enough to see a pink line across the bone of his hip. "You?"

Sephiroth also pulled down his pant and belt so they could see the same mark on the same leg in the same place. "How'd you get yours?"

"Sliding across home plate. I gouged it on a rock. You?"

"I was a bit too careless when I practiced sword fighting with my comrades."

"It took two months to heal." They said together and the room was filled with gasps and mumbles; not only from them, but also from servants that had been watching or overheard.

"It seems that we lead very similar lives though we are in different worlds." Sephiroth reasoned. Sye nodded. Sephiroth looked at Rowen next. "Rowen." He gasped.

A/N: Sorry it took so long to update, but I was a bit distracted with Christmas and all the other stories I have to update. I have like… fifteen, including the ones at fictionpress. So, anyway, I'm sorry. I hope you like it and I hope you review!!!!!!!