A/N: Thank you lone reviewer, hopefully this chapter meets approval. Danke


Chapter 7


"What do you MEAN there are no tickets to the Northern Continent!" Alicia screamed at the ticket taker. The team had just arrived at Junon to catch a boat to Bone Village, but the ticket man seemed…relentless.

"P-p-please m'am, we've been struggling to keep connection after the Shinra incident." The ticket man said shakily. "W-we barley got Wutai to agree to let us dock there."

"I'll dock you." She said as Shadow and Nightshade grabbed her arms and pulled her back a bit. Vincent stepped up to the ticket man in her place.

"Sorry, but do you know any other routes that can get us near there?"

"W-well, there is the six ten to Wutai, that one takes about a day to get there but you can get a Transfer to the Icicle inn. Then there is the seven fifteen to Costa del Sol, now that takes ten hours, but there you will need to get your own ride."

"Thank you will go decide."

"Well?" Tifa asked as Vincent came back.

"There is a twenty-four hour to Wutai that can give us a ride, but the Costa del Sol ride is faster by fourteen hours."

"What's the catch?" Nightshade asked

"We need to get our own ride from there. Then good thing from this is we can get straight to Bone Village."

"Where do we go from Wutai?" Shadow asked.

"The Icicle Inn, it would be about a two day walk to Bone Village."

"Well, does anyone know a pilot of sorts?" Alicia asked still glaring at the ticket taker who seemed to flinch a little. Tifa nearly jumped out of her skin as a thought hit her.

"You know there is someone we do know." She said walking over to Vincent. At first he stared at her perplexed, but he soon got the hint.

"Do you think they're out on a job?" he said pulling the PHS out of his cloak.

"We'll never know till you try." She said as the others just stared as a gruff cussing voice broke out over the little black communicator.


On the opposite side of the street Narro listened and watched the team as Caelum kept the chocobos quiet. Their cloaks were drawn over their faces and were moving in-between buildings.

"Why did the boss tell us to follow these guys anyway?" Caelum asked as one chocobo let out a yawn. Narro shrugged as he tried to listen to a voice over the intercom.

"What are they saying?" Caelum asked as he walked beside Narro as the chocobos laid down for rest.

"I think there headed to Costa del Sol, and hitching a ride with a Cid."

"Where is this Cid taking them?"

"…I think to the Northern Continent…Get the boss on the line and ask permission for a small vessel at Costa del Sol. We'll tail them from there." Caelum nodded and headed over to his chocobo and commandeered a small communicator. Narro looked back at the team and noticed that each one of them were in a happy state. His mind flashed and he recoiled painfully as the memory evaporated in his mind.

"Narro?" Caelum called as he put back the communicator. "You okay?"

"…Ugh...Yeah, lets get going. I'll get the tickets, you watch the chocobos." Caelum nodded worriedly and headed back over to the sleeping chocobos. Narro shook himself off and waited till the team walked off till he went to talk to the ticket man.


"So the Airship is being used by Barret and the others?" Tifa inquired as they began to walk to the town inn.

"Yeah," Vincent said. "So Cid said he'd give us a lift from Costa del Sol, we'll be in the land of the ancients in no time."

"So we leave tomorrow then?" Shadow asked.

"Yes, are ship leaves at seven-fifteen tomorrow morning, we should arrive at five-fifteen." Vincent said as he entered a large gated entrance. The team looked on in awe at the inside. After the Shinra fell, the harbor was renovated from a Naval Base, to one of the most advanced harbor towns around, despite the lack of docking areas.

Tifa's mind wondered back to her memories of Cloud. Each memory strung together causing Tifa more pain after each image flashed in her mind. She began to swerve as she walked. Vincent noticed and went to her side.

"Tifa you okay?" He said as he tried to steady her walking.

"Is she okay?" Alicia asked as she went back to help Vincent. Tifa nodded weekly and straightened herself up. Alicia and Vincent walked her over to a bench and sat her down gently.

"What happened?" Shadow asked as he caught up with Alicia and Vincent. Vincent put his bare hand on Tifa's head, causing her to blush a little.

"No temperatures…are you feeling sick, Tifa?" he asked looking her over for any injuries. "Are you feeling ill from the fight?" Tifa shook her head, annoyed by all the questions.

"No…no I'm…fine. Just some…just too much on the mind." Tifa said as a sharp, but quick pain rushed to her sinus.

"I got our rooms at the inn," Nightshade said as he entered the group around the bench. "Let's get her to her room."


"Mornin' Tifa," said a man with spiky white hair, as he entered a small house beside the construction of a new bar.

"Good morning." Tifa responded at a kitchen table. "I see you got more fire wood."

"The weather man did say it would be a long winter this year."

"Speaking of years it's almost been a year since we started dating."

"I know I can't…wait…"

"Cloud, are you alright?"

"Yeah…it's just really Col-"

"Cloud! CLOUD!"


Tifa woke up in a pool of sweat. She found herself in the hotel bed she was placed in earlier. She glanced over at a clock in a bed stand, it blinked two a.m. maliciously. She looked around and found no one else around, they seemed to have each gotten a small room. Her head began to swell with pain as she heard a voice pop up.

"You know, you really should let go of those memories."

"Oh great, you're the last person I wanted to 'talk to'." She thought as she got up and went to get a glass of water. "So…to what do I owe this visit?"

"Well all these surfaced memories…keep this up and I might make an actual appearance. Well, you better get to bed, as must I. Pleasant sleeping." Loley's voice faded at that moment. Tifa stared at her water in the glass.

"I wish it was that easy to sleep." She said aloud. She gulped down her water and headed back to a sleep that she pleaded had no dreams.


The others were up and ready four hours later. Alicia had made sure that each one of them had a wake up call, except Tifa because of the incident. She had checked on the others first. Receiving cusses in high English from Vincent, a few pillows from Nightshade, one suspiciously filled with heavy objects and from Shadow a yawn and a "five more minutes.'

Alicia calmly walked into Tifa's room surprised to find her awake.

"Tifa, you're up! Are you feeling okay?"

"Fine thanks, must have been exhausted."

"Well come on we have an hour and fifteen minutes for breakfast!" She left the room excitedly, with an eager Tifa following behind her.


Narro glanced up at the clock tower that hung over Junon; it had just started to chime for seven o' clock. He signaled over to Caelum and he came with the two chocobos.

"Hey, why didn't we just ride the chocobos? It would have been much cheaper!" Caelum said as one chocobo tried to brake free.

"The ship is faster, besides, it should be relaxing." Narro responded. Caelum looked at him suspiciously but let it drop. "Lets hurry or we'll be late."


"Are we there yet?" Nightshade moaned as he looked at the vast, sun-lit sea. They had been sailing for only seven hours and he hadn't stopped whining. They hoped it was just his sea sickness making him moody, but they were sure Alicia wasn't helping.

"Mm-mm, gotta love this calamari. MMM!" she taunted as she devoured a plate full of the sauced entrée. Nightshade just upchucked in response.

"Look, you can faintly see it from here!" Tifa yelled pointing to a speck in the vast distance. Vincent grabbed out his PHS.

"Cid, come in Cid, over." He said into the little box

"Yeah, yeah what is it Vinny." Cid grumbled back, using the name to eat at Vincent's nerve.

"…Very funny… are you at Costa del Sol yet, over."

"Just arrived, when the hell you planning on being there?"

"…Soon, we have about three hours, see ya then, over."

"Yeah, yeah, over and out…Vinny." Vincent shut the PHS to keep himself from hearing Cid's mocking laughter.

"Gotta…loath him…" He said out loud to himself.


Caelum kept his eyes on the team. It had been around three hours since Vincent put away the PHS. Behind him, Narro was just sitting in a beach chair and relaxing.

"Caelum…they're not going any where, pull up a chair and relax." Caelum looked at him suspiciously.

"Since when have you been so calm?"

"Hey…I like sailing." Caelum just sighed in response and pulled up a chair.

"You, know we've been friends for a year know and I don't know of your past." Caelum said looking over at Narro. He suddenly got very tense.

"…what about your past, you never told me of that."

"Hmm, I guess. Hey, I think there docking come on, we got to contact the boss and get to our ride." Caelum jumped up and began to move. Narro sat for a little while, memories of his past burdening him.

"…Narro!"

"Yeah, I'm coming" He got up and the two snuck off, avoiding the team.


"Cid!" Tifa yelled in excitement as she saw the blonde smoking in front of the Tiny Bronco. He accepted the hug dully as he looked at the others.

"This the whole party." He said lacking in excitement. He looked over the party and just shrugged. "Less than before."

"Still haven't fixed that thing." Vincent said dripping with the same amount of sarcasm as Cid. Cid just put up a phony laugh.

"Well if it ain't ol' Vinny." He said mocking the caped man. "How's the journey been so far?"

"Long, so can we not waste any more time!" Alicia said, sick of the "heart felt" welcoming. Cid smiled at her and began to laugh.

"Wow, just as impatient as Cloud I see." Cid shut his mouth instantly. The team looked back to find Tifa in a safe distance. She didn't seem to hear anything due to her happy face as she re-entered the group.

"The Bronco seems so much smaller than the boat. Are we leaving?" the group nodded in relief as they headed for the tiny ship.


"They're leaving know…yes…yes…we're on it." Caelum put away his small communicator. He turned to the ship he and Narro would be traveling. It bore the logo 'Shinra' in scratched up white paint.

"Narro, are we ready to depart?"

"…Why are there so many people joining us?" Narro asked as another person in a black cloak knocked into him.

"This must be big; it shouldn't be too much of a problem, now are we ready or not?"

"…Systems are go." He responded. Caelum nodded and headed to the hull. They began to sink as the small submarine began to set off.


In a small lab in Mt. Nibel a man with silver hair began to get ready for his departure to the northern continent.

"With the power of those ancient gems the life stream will be mine. With that power I will redeem Shinra's name, unlike my…half brother Rufus. Then I Waro Shinra will gain control of this world." He looked over at the clock. "The helicopter will arrive soon, I better get going, but before I go…" He walked over to a desk near him and placed a stack of several discs laced together with wire and a small timer neatly on top of some papers. He set the timer for fifteen minutes then set off into a helicopter and towards a snow drenched continent.


A/N: ...I don't know about this chapter, I seemed to ramble a little, either way it's something in a span of a few weeks, I have horrible writers block, and a small attention span that also keeps me away from the computer…Oooo, what' that…bad joke, I know. Anyway thank you lone reviewer I hope you read again!

A/N: I just edited this and i found out I have way too many tiny sections in this! Aiya! Either way hope it is good!