Thanks to Chaotic Rei for beta checking this chapter.
I think this chapter is a little plain. Chaotic Rei added bits here and their to make it beter.


Chapter 10

/Yuffie's POV/

Almost everything about my date with Cloud was perfect. I had so much fun with him! But of course everything good has a down side, if something good happens then something bad has to happen to even out the balance. And that's exactly what happened. Someone stole the Keystone! Can you believe it! Oh Gawd, when Cloud found out he went crazy! He started running around, waving his big ol' sword around and cussing like Cid! It would have been funny had one of his swings not nearly took my head off! And I like my head too!

It was a good thing that Barret was a bit of a techno wiz. He told Cloud that he could find out who stole the keystone by watching the security camera's footage. Watching the footage was not a good idea to me and I was sort of right, then again I am The great Ninja Yuffie, so of course I'm right! You would be a fool to think otherwise. Nyuck. The camera showed me entering Cloud's room and leaving a few minutes later with Cloud in tow. I looked at Tifa and I saw a burning hatred for me. But I don't really care, as long as Cloud and Aeris like me, what the others think don't matter. So there, Tifa!

Cloud had some explaining to do about why he left his room when he had the keystone and would you believe it, most of the group blamed me! Well it was my fault for taking Cloud on that date but Cloud needed to get out and have fun, I mean he is just so boring! It like he walks around with a stick up his butt! Or his sword, having that up your butt would really make you stand up straight.

I quickly fast forwarded the security tape and stopped it when a really big Mog and a cat in a hat, which was sitting on the Mog's head, came up to the door. The mog attempted to put a key into the door but as it did the door open on its own accord. Oh Gawd can you believe Cloud forgot to look the door when we left! It would not have mattered but the group was not happy that he gave the thief free entry into his room. Cloud made a speech about going to the Temple of the Ancients, that we still had time to catch up and find out why Sephiroth is after the Promised Land, and no one bothered to mention that we had no idea where the Temple was. Well I had a vague idea. On the rare occasion that I got bored, when I was still at home, I read books. One book that I read was about the ancient people of the Cetra. I don't remember much about what I read, but one part in particular got stuck in my head. The Temple of the Ancients was said to be a full of knowledge and MATERIA! I always kept it in the back of my mind where the book said it was located. I want that Materia!

I told Cloud about this and he did something I will never forget. He kissed me! And not on the cheek or the forehead, either. It was full on, smack on my lips baby! Just like any girl in love, I melted into him trying to make the kiss last longer. It was a good thing Tifa at the time was in her room, getting herself ready for the trip or she might have tried to kill Cloud and me.

/Normal POV/

AVALANCHE were all squashed on the Tiny Bronco and making their way to where Yuffie said it should be located, everyone except Yuffie was fine. Every ten minutes Yuffie would toss her stomach contents up and over the side of the plane. Everyone got a sickly feeling just looking at her. About an hour into the trip the group came up to a large mass of land covered in forest. Somewhere in the centre of the forest the group can make out the tip of what appeared to be a pyramid.

"That's it! That's the temple! Aeris cried out.

"How can you tell?" Cloud asks.

"I can feel it, and I can almost hear it. Lots of voices just out of hearing." The group looks at Aeris like she lost some of her sanity. Cloud and Yuffie believed her though.

"Well let's check it out. Standing here won't do us any good." Cloud says to reassure Aeris. The group make their way into the forest.

/Yuffie's POV/

Cloud had ordered Vincent to go on ahead and like to strange thing he is, he jumps up into the treetops, his cape moving like if has a mind of its own, and disappears. I wonder if Vincent has had any Ninja training? He's very sneaky and quiet and is stealthier than I am, grrr... We carried on moving through the forest, every now and then gunshots can be heard and the sound of dying monsters echoes through the forest.

We eventually made it to the temple and Vincent was waiting for us at the archway, leading to the pyramid. Aeris started mumbling to her self… It was kind of scary.

"Aeris? Are you alright?" I ask.

"There are so many voices. Voices … voices I don't understand."

"What voices? Only you and I are talking"

"No, voices of the dead. They're trying to tell me things but so many are speaking at once. I don't understand."

"Perhaps they will make more sense if we go inside the temple?" Aeris starts running up the stairs of the temple. We all follow close behind. When we finally catch up and enter the temple I have to hold my nose to keep myself from being sick. The scent of blood is so strong I wanted to faint. Looking around I see Shinra soldier bodies everywhere, all appear to have been killed by sword.

I look at Cloud and he is on edge, his hand firmly griped around his sword ready to kill anything that moves. A moaning sound hits the group's ears and Cloud swings his sword towards the sound. The person was lucky to have been sitting down or he would have lost his head. It was one of the Turks, a member I have not seen yet. Tseng is his name and the way Aeris looked at him made me want to kill him! I have seen fear in her eyes before but never like this. I grab my Double Edge throwing weapon and make a jump at him just to be caught by Barret. He left me hanging like towel on a clothes line while Cloud integrated the Turk scum. After the integration we Cloud mad a group to go further into the temple. Well that's not true, Aeris and me didn't take no for an answer and went with Cloud. The rest of the team will wait outside; they would only slow us down anyway.


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