Chapter 12!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Final Fantasy. I do claim ownership of Harper though, and the plot to this story.
Note: OK! Only a few more chapters to go, then I can start on the "sequel." Yeah, that'll be interesting. I'm not sure where to put it, so, SimsRulz...tell me where maybe, since you know the plot to it. This chapter's uber-short, so sorry.
"What do mean 'there was a hic-up at the factory'?" Loz threatened the shop-keeper.
"O-o—o One of the machines broke! One that makes the parts for the engine. Y-your order won't be in for another week!" the man squeaked.
Loz released the roughly, and only at Kadaj's order. "Then we'll stay here for a week. Maybe we'll go camping around the Canyon," he told us. To the shop-keeper he said, "Maybe we'll kill some of the monsters that've been disturbing you."
"Th-thank you!" the man said, bowing as he left his post.
I moved in front of Loz quickly and held out a hand in a "stop" sign. "Did you have to do that to the poor guy?" I asked.
The question seemed to confuse him. He just crossed his arms and looked down at me, intimidating me.
Me hand curled and I let it fall to my side. I backed away and we all started moving after Kadaj. Yazoo fell in beside me and we let the other two walk out of hearing range. "That's just his way. I'm surprised you asked him. Not many people would do that," he commented.
"Hmm, I'm not sure I like Loz all that much now," I started rummaging through my backpack.
"It's a wonder that you had to wait this long to see this, though."
"Well, it's probably because we haven't run into many people till now," I said. I found what I wanted and drew it out, and at the same time almost run into someone.
"What's that?"
"Materia necklace," I replied, closing the clasp at the back of my neck.
He understood and said, "It's pretty."
"Hey! Keep up you two!" we heard from ahead of us. Kadaj and Loz emerged from the crowd in front. "We're going camping, so go...get ready," Kadaj said. "And Yazoo?" He cocked his head and raised and eyebrow.
Yazoo gave a weak smile and an even weaker laugh.
I was utterly lost.
Kadaj turned to me and said, "I'm sorry you'll have to wait so long to get this thing," he was referring to what ever it was that was the second gift, "but some things I have no control over. And a factory hic-up is one of them."
"Uhm...it's ok. The people will actually let us into the Canyon?" I asked.
"Normally, no. But someone figured out how to open the door that'd been sealing it for so long. Turns out that it wasn't sealed with super-glue, but with a machine." Yazoo explained.
"Bugen's machine, right?" I asked.
"Yes, but Bugen passed away a while ago and somehow word got out that you can get in if you know where the switch is. The little boy that was always wondering how to get in finally found it. Ask anyone and they'll tell you," he went on.
"Then, what's the point of still keeping it shut?"
Loz turned a bit cross, "You ask a lot of questions."
"To keep monsters in," Kadaj said. "We are going to go rid the people of some of them. But that's not why we're doing it, is it Loz?"
"We're having fun," Loz answered.
Yazoo and I said nothing and soon we all started moving again. Eventually we broke off from each other, each of us going "get ready" as Kadaj had said. We were to meet at the entrance to the cave when we were ready. All I did was go back to the bikes we used to get here and grab my backpack. Then I went to the old house on top of everything.
I'd never been to Cosmo Canyon before today. And I never thought I'd see it with three almost complete strangers. I thought it was going to be with Barret and Red XIII. I knew that Red would want me to see Bugenhagen's house though. And see the observatory. Even the huge materia was still kept there. It was hard to think that Red had been here not that long ago, and that Cid went to Midgar because he was mad Red and Barret came here and didn't go see him. In truth, it was kind of hard to think at all.
End—OK! I'm soooo sooo sooo sorry that it took this long just for a chapter. -- eat me if you must. I'm also sorry that Loz and Yazoo and Kadaj are going to be really, way way way! Ooc. See, I haven't seen the movie Advent Children yet, so I was basing their attitudes offa the impression I got offa the trailers. One of my best friends told me that I actually have Yazoo and Loz kinda switched, since she's seen the movie. But then she also told me that this is a fanfic story and since I haven't seen the movie, I'm allowed to play with the chars. I see I'm still alive over here. So yeah, instead of going through and changing the rest of the story, I'm going to just leave Yazoo and Loz the way I thought they were and ...yeah, that's what I'm going to do. Review please!