Chapter 22 Travel to the caves.
We spent the night at the chocobo ranch, where cloud told us the story about sephiroth. Nightmares about the OKV kept me up all night, where I calmed my nerves by spending time with the chocobos. Awhile after, I kinda dozed off, and was woken up later by a peck to the head.
"OWW" I yelled. The chocobo ruffled its feathers and warked at me. I look up to see Aeris staring at me.
"Good morning!" she said, laughing behind her smile.
"Easy for you to say, I have a lump the size of materia on my head." I said back, also laughing slightly. I just got powned by a chocobo, and it was kinda funny.
Barret walked by, and looked at me, then Aeris, and mumbled something as he walked away. I got up and went to the outside corral. I went up to a chocobo and he warked at me."Wark!" I said back. For some reason, that I'll never know, they started to dance and in the end, a choco-mog materia rolled out between my legs. I pocketed it and went to my gathered comrads.
"Have a good night sleep in there?" Tifa joked. "Cloud is right."
"Right about what?" I asked.
"Ohh nothing." She responded slyly.
"Tell me!" I exclaimed.
"Nope."
"WHAT DID HE SAY!" I yelled. She just stood there smiling as she walked in to talk with cloud. "Yeah Yeah, pick on the little guy." I was close to there sizes, but I was still younger then all of them.
"Enough, lets get going." Cloud said, walking towards the marsh.
"Uhhh don't we need a chocobo?" I asked
"The way you and Aeris handled that odd looking Midgar Zolem, we'll be fine." He said assured.
"Yeah, thats right, because I can easily take out one, in fact, I am the mighty Zolem killer." I bragged.
"Ok then mighty Zolem killer, go and take one out."
"Fine, I will." I walk into the marsh to see it gliding right towards me."AHHHHH HIDE ME!" I hide behind Barret.
"Some fierce warrior." Cloud declared, running into the marsh.
"I said I was good at killing them, that doesn't mean I'm not terrified." I run back in. Everyone made the charge and watched in fright as the beast rose out of the water. I loaded a clip and and got ready to fire as Barret and Cloud started to attack relentlessly. Tifa was attempting to climb it, Riker chomped a poison fang into it, definitely tweaking it out. His venom took effect immiediatly, as I fired a wave cannon at the head, burning its face preaty badly. Cloud's Sword did the final blow, We were attacking so firecely, that it didn't even have a chance to cast beta. I loaded a new clip and we finished the trek through the marshes unscathed, except for minor cuts. We were walking towards the mines when there it was, a Zolem skewwed by a giant wooden stake, blood dripping everywhere. It scared me and caused an instant reaction.
"BETA!" I fired a concentrated fireball it it, setting it ablaze while I was at it. I then realized my arm was burning again, and scrambled to dip it in the marsh. Everyone has learned not to say anything anymore when something stupid happens like this, so they just watched. I came back after plunging my arm into the water. personally, Im glad that just drains my magic.
"Are you done?" Cloud asked.
"Yeah, sorry. But it Looks like Sephiroths handywork." I commented. "By the way, what did you say about me eariler?" i asked him.
" I said that you belong with the birds, and for no reason, everyone thought it was funny." Cloud said, and one perfect cue, everyone started laughing.
"I think I'm having a negative impact on all of you." I said joining the laughter.
Cloud mumbled " It wasn't even that funny." and started to the cave.
