Disclaimer: Owning of nothing, that I am.

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"I tried to be someone else

But nothing seemed to change

I know now, this is who I really am inside.

Finally found myself

Fighting for a chance.

I know now, this is who I really am.

Ah, ah

Oh, oh

Ah, ah

Come break me down

Bury me, bury me

I am finished with you, you, you.

Look in my eyes

You're killing me, killing me

All I wanted was you"

My arm flew to the alarm shutting off the radio without the aid of sight. Shivering and trembling I opened my eyes to something red, I touched my hand to it discovering it was an unusual fabric. Slowly I forced my body into a sitting position, which was when I saw I had Vincent's cloak on top of me. I caressed the cloak for a moment gazing around for Vincent; I couldn't find any sign of him in my room. I swung my feet off of the bed hearing a grunt of pain from the floor, "Vincent! I'm so sorry! Are you okay?!"

"Fine…" he muttered as I handed him his cloak.

I watched him buckle it up, "come, we have arrived at Rocket Town."

Following him silently from the room we left the airship for the fresh green fields of Rocket Town. I gazed around the group looking timidly at Melinda and Kamui; I fell to the rear of the group beside Vincent as we unloaded equipment. I gazed around at the group, "well, well, a puppy in need is a puppy indeed."

"Zack be nice," Angeal cautioned.

"Hmm well Wallace I think I know what you wanna do," Zack had his devious grin on. "Ariella could you bring me some paper?"

"Zack what are you planning?" Sephiroth asked.

"Oh hey Seph, well I think the little puppy is jealous, so now we're formulating a plan to get the world back in order."

"If you need me I'll be with Vincent…" he muttered.

Bjanik meanwhile was in the middle of negotiations with Cid, "so then would you like to come with us?"

"Would I like to go with you? What the fuck kinda question is that?" He laughed taking a pull on his cigarette. "Like I'm gonna go with a buncha godddamn nutcases into that sorta fucking danger!"

"Well you miss out on a bunch of adventure," Bjanik offered watching Ariella scampering past with some paper and a pencil.

"Like I said I'm gonna pass, oy Shera! Get your ass out here and get me some tea!"

"Yes sir," came the meek reply from inside.

Bjanik shrugged watching me crowded into a cubby of SOLDIERs, Zack's familiar devious grin in place. Melinda stood with Kamui nearby, watching me for a moment. I felt my attention jerked back to Zack's plan. "Are you absolutely sure this will work?"

"Aww come on Koinu when have I ever led you astray?"

"Let's see there was the time--"

"Okay I get the point!"

A collective chuckle rang through the group, "Wallace would you like one of us to go with you?"

I smiled at Angeal, "can Ari come with me?"

"Ari would you like to go with her?"

Ariella nodded, "yep, it could be fun!"

"Ehehe, well come on then. Zack put on the music."

He grinned pulling his MP3 player and stereo out of his bag, "well Koinu I wish you luck."

I sighed before putting on the most confident look I could, "okay well if that's the way it's gonna be then grrrrrah!" I walked over to Kamui and gave her a good hard push kick.

Melinda went wide-eyed as I did so, and I picked her up into my arms bridal style, "back off and next time ask."

"What are you doing?" Melinda asked.

"It seems I had a weak moment back there on the airship, I know I should have called you more, and I am sorry for this. Lance and I are nothing but friends, of this I can assure you."

"Okay," and with that I hopped onto my chocobo and rode into the sunset.

I know what you're thinking, 'wow she finally did something right!' Wrong! That was how I would have liked it to go but here's the actual story:

"Well Koinu I wish you luck."

I sighed before putting on my best confident face, "hey Kam, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"What, you ungrateful excuse for a warrior?" She asked walking with me around the Highwind.

"Erm… well…" I faltered for a moment.

"Speak!" She snapped.

"I was… I was wondering… could you… maybe lay off… on Melinda?"

"So that's what you think this is about?! And I suppose Vincent and you coming out of the same room this morning was just a pure coincidence?!"

"No he was just trying to help me!"

"Then why were you wearing his cloak?!"

"I don't know!"

"See? Now how do I know that I can ever trust you with her again?! She saw you two and she panicked again! So just stay the hell away from her."

I winced staring at the ground before glaring at her, "fine! You know what? I don't need your guys' crumby help! I'm gonna go to Nibelheim!" I snapped, before I could collect my thoughts I ran around the Highwind, leaped onto my now startled chocobo taking off at a gallop towards the mountains.

Ccccccccccccc

Bjanik watched me go concerned, she meandered over to Sephiroth, "you know sometimes I worry that you go to far."

"Me? What'd I do?" His voice didn't falter despite the question.

"Well, let's see, your clone just drove off my friend into perilous danger in the mountains," she replied.

"And how does this warrant you being upset with me?"

"Well she is your clone."

"Yes, however…"

"Give it a rest Seph, point is the puppy ran away from home so now we've got to perform lost puppy recon."

Melinda watched Kamui wide eyed, "will she be okay?"

"I doubt it," the silver haired girl stated, "but with a little luck we can find her before something bad happens, I promise."

Angeal watched Ariella for a moment, "Ari dear could you track the chocobo she rode off on?"

The young girl nodded, "no problem."

Angeal turned to Sephiroth, "we should follow her, and Ariella can only follow the traces of our lost puppy so long."

Sephiroth nodded, "alright everyone, saddle up."

Cccccccccccc

I smirked, my chocobo stood a short ways off trembling in fear, "now then, who wants to play tag?" I asked summoning Acrossing Two and Fenrir.

The swirl of darkness drew closer, the tide swelled washing over me, completely engulfed in darkness, I laughed seeing small glowing eyes peering at me. "Alrighty then, who wants to die first?" I fought my way through the darkness until I felt my strength draining away as the monsters overtook me, one hand slashing into my body from behind plunging all the way through. I keeled over gazing up at a shadowy figure. "Go on, claim the Keyblade you should rightfully have had from the start."

"Yeah, she's not fit to wield the Keyblade," I heard Lance say as my Keyblades were wrenched from my hands.

"Why… Lance?" I muttered coughing up blood feeling the large hole in my chest.

"Cause you got it all, look at you, a nice girl, power, talent, what's that leave me? 'This is my story and your not a part of it!'" Leave it to Lance to make his bad guy debut with a quote.

"Shit…." I muttered blacking out feeling my body get cold.

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A/N: Did I really die? Why did Lance take the Keyblade? Where's Waldo?! He still owes me twenty gil! Stay tuned!