Angels, lend me your might
Forfeit all my lives to get just one right
All those colors long since faded
All are smiles are confiscated
Innocent by Fuel
Chapter 15
Silverfall
There had been almost nothing at the Northern Crater. Still it gave Yazoo a satisfied sensation to watch the area burn from the mix of flammables they had dumped over it from the Sierra. The shadow creepers had found next to nothing. Yazoo gave them a farewell and boarded the ship. They were all tired and would rest before the next and hopefully last stop. They would head back to Midgar and Cid would drop off Vincent and Yazoo and head back to Rocket Town. Yazoo would go and pay a visit to Rufus after he had had some sleep. So far their trip had only taken a little under two days but they were all exhausted.
When they reached Midgar they stayed at an inn rather than 7th Heaven. It was a pretty good guess that Shinra was on to them by now and it was too easy a place to look. Cid dropped down on the outskirts.
"Don't go getting your crazy asses killed now" drawled the pilot. Vincent said nothing just inclined his head in acknowledgement.
"Thanks for your help" said Yazoo. He had grown to like Cid over the trip. The man said exactly what was on his mind when it was on his mind, with as many expletives as could be grammatically possible. It kind of grew on you.
On their way back (Yazoo had insisted that he at least would walk) Yazoo found himself hoping that Rufus really did have more pieces of Jenova. There was a lot of evidence against it but in some ways he felt that if there were than maybe the long search he and his brothers had been on wasn't completely futile. Yazoo sighed. Or maybe if they had known the truth in the first place than they would both still be alive. Jenova had never cared about them, she just needed them to complete the Reunion so Sephiroth could have another crack at using the planet for their own purposes.
Yazoo shook his head to clear it. There was no sense in letting his thoughts about his brothers run in circles. Tommorow he would see Rufus and destroy whatever was left of the mad puzzle that had lead to all the pain he and Kadaj and Loz had to go through.
RedFlame
They had been too late. Reno and Rude had tracked Cid's Sierra only to think they would finally catch him at the Northern Crater. All they had found was more cinders and ashes. Yazoo had been very thorough in the torched places he left behind. Reno had to wonder if the thing for fire ran in the genes or something. Sephiroth had burned Nibelheim to the ground just as Yazoo was doing to Shinra property now. Reno shuddered at the memory of Sephiroths rampage. It had been a disaster.
Rude was trying to track the Sierra again on the helicopters computer that was linked to Shinra radar. The elevation and terrain of their location was making it impossible.
"Hey Rude! Lets head to Icicle Inn for the night. There's nothing we can do now and I'm beat. We've been doing this for two days now." Reno climbed into the cock pit and nudged Rude out of the pilots seat.
Rude just sat in the co pilot chair and looked out at the blackened sides of the crater.
"We almost lost Tseng and Elena there"
Reno blinked at the instrument control panel in front of him when he heard the words come out of Rude's mouth. Rude was a pretty quiet guy. And when he did talk it was hardly ever about something like this.
"Yeah, we did. Thanks to Vincent though" replied Reno. He wasn't sure what had brought on such a mood in his partner but it was making him edgy.
Rude rolled his shoulders as if shaking the thoughts away. "It just makes me think. Yazoo lost his brothers, his only family. What would it be like if we lost Tseng, Elena……you."
Rude's voice was so low that Reno had to strain to hear over the wind. But he had picked it up clearly and it sent his stomach into knots.
"Rude, don't think about that, man. We're Turks. We don't go down easy." Reno almost regretted the words after he said them. Hadn't they just lost a whole handful of comrades?
Rude was quiet for a moment then rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I'm sorry partner. This place just wierds me out. Lets go"
Reno wasted no time in getting the copter off the ground and headed south to Icicle Inn. They would continue tomorrow and hopefuly Rude would be out of this weird funk.
