Leon and Materia Don't Mix
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Gala: Oh I am so ashamed to leave y'all with such a cliffy. But unfortunately I got caught up in real world stuff. I started college! YAY! Now comes the hard part. Staying IN college. Grrrr...anywho, I'm just a poor college student who can't pay her own bills much less pay a multi-million dollar software company oodles of noodles for stealing their characters. I don't own anything except my Biology notes and even then most people wouldn't want them...well maybe that hot guys that sits in front of me in Biology might want them...since he's failing the class and I'm not. Heh heh, school is fun...Oo wow, I can't believe I just said that. Anywho on to the next chapter!


Chapter 7: Slippery Situations
Leon never knew what hit him. One minute he was walking down the hall and the next he was engulfed in some sort of strange light. When the light faded he found that everything around him looked…bigger? He looked down at his feet and nearly had a heart attack. Since when were his feet green, and webbed? He tried to call out, but all he could manage was a pitiful 'croak.' He was indeed a frog.

The first thought that came to Leon's mind was "Yuffie." Leon noticed that a statue down the hall seemed to be giggling. What might have been a dozen steps to Leon before now was quite a journey for him as an amphibian. Leon had never been one to suffer from motion sickness but now as he was hopping towards Yuffie's hiding place his stomach felt like it was about to rebel.

After what seemed like an eternity, Leon finally reached Yuffie. Yuffie stared at him in silence for a moment and burst out laughing even harder. Leon in a fit of rage whacked her as hard as he could with his little webbed food, and in the blink of an eye Yuffie was transformed into a frog as well.

If you were to compare the two you would find that Leon was larger, and was a dark shade of green with bright blue eyes; while Yuffie was quite small with a grayish skin and dark grey eyes. Yuffie hopped up and down in an erratic pattern, "I cannot believe that my plan backfired on me. It was soooo perfect."

Meanwhile Leon tried to look as intimidating as possible, which wasn't going very well, since frogs aren't the least bit intimidating. Yuffie tried to whine or scream but all it sounded like was something dieing a horrible death combined with a few 'ribbits'. During her rant she remembered something very useful. "If I hit myself then I can change myself back! Two wrongs really do make a right!" Trying to twist her frog face into a smile she punched herself in the head…nothing happened. She stared at her webbed foot in confusion, "GAH! I'm immune to my own attacks. I guess I'll just have to wait for someone to find us. I could change Squall back…nah, he'd probably just leave me for the vultures."

Yuffie finally noticed that Squall was giving her his best death-glare, although being a frog kind of negated the fact that he looked like he was about to spontaneously combust. She watched him as he lowered himself closer top the ground and his back leg muscles flexed. Whoa, Squallie's even hot as a frog!" All coherent thought left her brain as she realized that Leon was getting ready for a powerful jump, although they were both amphibians she was indeed, much smaller than him. She took off in the other direction as fast as she could with Leon hot on her heels.


Aerith hummed softly to herself as she set the mop back into the bucket full of dirty water. Leon and Yuffie were sure to make a mess while she was gone, she might as well have it clean so it would be less work when she got back. Cloud had told her about Leon volunteering to stay with Yuffie. It bothered her slightly that he might be interested romantically in the young ninja, but she quickly brushed that idea aside. Leon didn't like anybody much less love anybody. He was just fulfilling the charge Aerith had given him in taking care of her. It was duty, nothing else.

Aerith's eyed widened as two frogs hopped through the open kitchen door and all over her clean floor. It seemed like the bigger one was chasing the smaller one. Aerith grabbed the mop by her and charged the frogs. "GET OUT OF MY CLEAN KITCHEN!" She hit the bigger frog but only stunned him momentarily.

As Aerith chased the big frog around waving her mop like a maniac; the small frog jumped out and punched Aerith in the ankle. The mop crashed to the ground smacking the largest frog with the handle. The newest amphibious member was a tiny brown frog with bright green emerald eyes. She sat on the middle of the floor and croaked pitifully, as the other two frogs chased each other in circles around her.


Cloud was puzzled. Aerith had said she would be ready to go hours ago. Yet he couldn't find her anywhere. He was starting to get worried, Cid was working on perfecting a few last things on his ship but he couldn't find anyone else in the castle. As he passed the kitchen he realized that the lights were on. Aerith never left lights on unless she was in the room, she was very energy conscious.

The sight that greeted Cloud made him want to laugh and yell at the same time. There were three frogs hopping around in dirty water on the kitchen floor. Apparently they had knocked over a bucket of water that Aerith had probably been mopping the floor with, since there was a mop lying in the middle of the floor.

Cloud unsuccessfully chased the frogs around the room; but was not able to catch even one of them due to the slick floor. He kept falling down into the dirty water on the floor. He looked down at his clothes in disgust, who knew that there were that manydead bugson the kitchen floor.

A stack of medium sized plastic bowls sitting on the counter caught his eye. He slipped twice getting over to them but succeeded at last. Cloud pulled himself up onto the counter and proceeded to fling the bowls at the frogs. He trapped the small brown one quite easily; the other two were more of a challenge. He eventually had to hop down from his dry battle station to gather up his ammunition once more. Merely throwing them wasn't enough, no, these frogs were devious. Devious and very elusive, Cloud had always laughed whenever he heard of the outlandish stories of rare frog collectors. Now he thought of them with a newfound respect.

Hiding behind the table he leapt and managed to trap the smaller gray one which he assumed was Yuffie. It hadn't taken him long to figure out that Yuffie had decided to play a prank on Leon and it had backfired on her and somehow Aerith had got caught up in it as well. At that moment Leon hopped within grabbing distance and Cloud quickly slammed a bowl over him.

When Cloud released the bowl it started to pop up; almost releasing its prisoner. Carefully Cloud scooted the bowls along the floor; soaking his clothes even further in the process. He was able to grab three plates from the edge of the counter and slid them under each bowl. With a tight grip he stacked each bowl and plate on top of each other. He carried the stack of dishes and frogs to the item storage room and set a small box on top of the stack so as to keep them there until he could make a potion for each of them.


Yuffie stared at her ceiling sighing in boredom. After her little prank that left Aerith traumatized, Cloud had taken all of her precious Materia and confined her to her room. Now on top of everything else they were going to leave her with Leon, of all people, until they returned. Cid had laughed the entire time and had even given her a thumbs up behind Cloud's back. At least someone had found the situation funny, she giggled as she remembered the look on Squall's face after he had been transformed back. He had been practically livid.

Yuffie contemplated the idea of a person spontaneously combusting due to excessive amounts of blood rushing to the face. If anyone would ever prove her theory it would be Squall. He acted like he had no emotions but deep down he was merely suppressing them. One day the good emotions he had tucked away would surface.

Yuffie wondered what Squall was like when his girlfriend, Rinoa, was alive. She knew that something had happened before she died causing him even more pain, but she was clueless as to what would scar a person so deeply as to make them want to change their name and entire identity.

Her musings were interrupted by Cloud knocking on her door, telling her of their departure. "Yuffie I want you to behave while we're gone. You wouldn't be even staying here if Leon hadn't convinced me that you wouldn't pull any more stupid jokes like the one today. Can I trust you?"

Yuffie grinned and saluted him in a patronizing manner, "Yessir, you can count on me!"

Cloud relaxed and pulled her into a headlock giving her a noogie. "HEY SPIKE, cut that out! Lemme go!" He released her and laughed as she tried to smooth her now tangled hair down. "Don't beat up Leon to much Yuff." He grinned and ruffled her hair again as she scowled at him. She punched him lightly in the arm, "Don't worry I won't do anything drastic until you guys get back."

After Cloud left, Yuffie resumed staring at the ceiling and contemplating the mysteries of the enigma known as Squall Leonheart. For once she resolved to behave, maybe if she tried a different tactic it might catch him off-guard. A devious smile grew bigger on her pixie-like face. "Be scared Squallie, be very scared."


-sigh- Midterms are almost here, I promise to work very hard so I can relax afterwards and write lots of chapters. If I get too bogged down I might post the first chapter of "Bloody Roses", emphasis on MIGHT. I'm still not sure what's going on with all my stories, curse my overactive imagination.

Oh btw, sorry about all the spelling an grammar errors. I still don't have a reliable beta reader and I don't have much time to revise. Then it would take about twice as long if I made everything perfect on my own. Once again sorry about all the errors.

Laterz-Gala