Gosh, this is kind of a hard story to write. I know where the plot is suppose to be going, but I'm not quite sure how to get it there... Oh well, bear with me. Heh... Once again, the chapter may be slightly boring as I'm still trying to explain a lot of things. So if you can handle a few boring explanations here and there, I think you'll be fine. Anyway, here's chapter two! Enjoy! And, as always, please leave a review.

Chapter Two
Answer Me This

It had been almost three weeks now since Rufus, president of Shin-Ra Inc. had sent the Turks from the mansion in Nibelheim to the great metropolis of Midgar in search of three powerful dragons. A sorceress named Lillith had made her base in the city, taking over every area of every sector, from the highest skyscraper to the lowest valley of the slums. The people now lived under her rule. Children walked to school at the sight of soldiers standing guard at every street corner. And in the center of the city, a large building once belonging to Shin-Ra Inc. had now been distorted to look like a dark fortress, just as the sorceress wanted it.

On arriving in Midgar Tseng, Rude, Reno, and Elena stealthily sneaked past the heavily guarded streets and into the base. Upon entering that base however, they were abruptly halted by a two men holding machine guns and a woman standing between them The woman had long black hair pulled back in a braided bun. Her eyes were blood red, her gown a deep shade of crimson violet. The soldiers, leading their four prisoners to a dungeon deep beneath the fortress, referred to this woman as Mistress Lillith.

"64,827 bottles of beer on the wall. 64,827. You drink it dry and then tape it high. 64,828 bottles of beer on the wall."

"Aren't you suppose to start that song at a hundred and then count down?" Karra asked, annoyed, as she walked over to the dungeon cell and sat down. It was her shift on prison guard duty...a job which she loathed. Mostly because it meant putting up with the annoying red head and his almost as annoying friends.

"Well, I was doing that," Reno answered. "but I kept running out of beer. So I started singing it from one and kept going higher."

"And he's been keeping track of what number he's on so that he can take breaks and then start again..." Elena added, obviously at her last nerve after being stuck in a cell with him for 19 days. "I thought you and the dragon were finding a way to get us out."

"We are," Karra answered. "But if it were that simple, do you really think that we ourselves would have been trapped here for almost a year now?"

"You've been here for that long?" Tseng asked from his corner of the cell.

"Unfortunately," she replied, Kotoba nodding her head as if to confirm the fact.

"Great..." Reno complained. "So we could be here a while."

A couple more hours had passed. Guards came, guards went, only to be replaced by another set of guards. What the hell do they think they're guarding anyway? Reno asked himself, annoyed and bored by the whole situation. "It's not like we can get out," he blurted out loud, not really meaning to. But then again, Reno never had a tight rein on his tongue. Realizing it was too late to take back his words, he decided to just go with the flow. Now that was something he was good at. "You're wasting your time," he continued.

The two men, weighed down with steel armor, glanced at each. They seemed then to be asking themselves the same question.

"Ya know," the shorter, fat one said. "He's got a point. They're not getting outta that cell. And even if they did manage to find a way out, they'd never make it out of the building."

The taller, but still rather stocky, soldier pondered the idea of abandoning his duties. "Yeah, that's true. But if Sorceress Lillith found out, we'd be dead men."

"Then we wont let her find out," reassured the short one. "Now come on. Lets go hunt down a couple of cute soldierettes and have a good time."

The taller man looked back in the cell and his prisoners.

"Hey, I wont tell," Reno assured him jokingly.

The man looked back over at his comrade, nodding his head in agreement. The two men then left the room, and the four Turks were once again left in the chill, darkness of their prison.

"UGH!" Reno exclaimed no more than fifteen minutes after the guards had left. "I swear to God, this dreary silence is gonna be the death of me!"

"Praise God," Elena sarcastically replied. "It's about time something finished you off."

Reno just glared at his coworker. "...Ha ha..."

The dungeon was frigid, damp, lit only by dim lanterns hung between every other cell. The silence of the hall gave off an ominous chill.

The tone in Elena's voice suddenly grew serious. "I really don't like being down here...I feel like I'm in some R rated horror movie."

"Aww...what's wrong, Elena? Scared?" Reno teased.

"Hey!" Elena exclaimed in a hushed voice, afraid to talk any louder; fearing that if she did, she may wake the dead and they would come devour her. "I watched a horror movie with my nanny when I was only four years old and dark scary places have terrified me ever since."

Reno glanced over at her, lifting an eyebrow in a mix of surprise and confusion. Oh, he wasn't surprised that she was afraid of ghost stories. What shocked him is that she was actually pouring her heart out to him about her secret fears. He just sighed, wondering if the solitude of this place would have the same effect on him. "Elena, I think you've been stuck here too long. It's going to your head..."

The four of them suddenly heard footsteps coming from the darkness of the dungeon hall. The torch lighting their cell flickered out, as if it were in alliance with Reno, wanting to scare the blonde out of Elena's hair.

"AAAAAAHHHHH" Elena screamed as the cell went pitch black.

"AAAAAAHHHHH" came another scream from outside the cell. The scream sounded rather childish, but then again, in Reno's mind it sounded just like Elena's.

"Hold on," the childish voice said, still sounding rather shaky from the sudden shock of hearing a woman scream bloody murder. The footsteps slowly sounded farther away from the cell again. Rude and Reno could see from where they sat, a small girl grabbing at one of the hanging torches from another part of the wall. She walked back over after retrieving it, and set the torch in place of the one that had gone out.

"I'll light this one back up later," she said, setting the burned out lantern on the cold stone floor. "So you're the people that Riku and Mama told me about."

"You scared me to death!" Elena cried, breathing heavily.

"Oh, come on, Elena," Reno continued to mock her. "How can you be scared of a little girl? Or is that another secret fear of yours?"

"Reno, stop it," another voice said. This time Elena wasn't the one arguing with him. It was Tseng. "Leave her alone," he said sternly. Tseng gave Elena a sidelong glance, watching her shiver from the cold and her own imagined fear. He smiled at her, revealing that he does in fact have a soft side, if not only for her. "Come here, Elena."

Elena lifted her head from the fetal position she had placed herself in, wondering why he asked this of her. She crawled over to him on all fours. She would have felt stupid standing up walking a few feet and then sitting back down in another spot. At reaching Tseng's side, he held out an arm, wrapped it around her shoulder, and pulled her in beside him.

Next thing Elena knew, her head was resting on Tseng's chest. OHMYGAWD! she thought. How did this...why is he...but I thought...OHMYGAWD! She felt her heart about to beat out of her chest. She tried to steady her breathing, not wanting to seem too surprised, but she found this to be a most difficult task.

"Yeah, yeah," Reno said in what sounded like annoyance. "Go run to your boyfriend for protection against the evil Reno monster."

"He's not my– " Elena quietly started before being interrupted by Tseng.

"Shut up, Reno," the stoic man glared at his inferior partner. "If we're all stuck here, we may as well try to get along. We need to help each other as I'm trying to help comfort Elena."

Elena's face suddenly grew disappointed, and she thanked the darkness for once for concealing her emotions. Is...is that all he's doing? Just being my boss... Elena bit her lip to stop herself from letting any emotions get the best of her.

Rude shook his head at the antics of his unusual coworkers. "Reno, I have a feeling your walking down the road to getting fired."

"Umm...excuse me..." the little voice rang timidly from outside the cell.

"I apologize," Tseng spoke to the girl. She looked to be about eight years old, her hair long, black, and thick, just like Tseng's. "You'll have to excuse my undisciplined underlings."

"Did you say your mom is here with you?" Elena said, pushing herself up from where Tseng had placed her and into an upright position. "What would you and your mother be doing in a place like this?"

"Well, they came to my house and said they were going to take me away. Mama, refused to let them and said I could only go if she came too. So my mama, my baby brother and me are all here. It was scary at first, but then I met really nice people like Riku and his girlfriend, Kaira. Draco is really nice too. Some of them aren't as nice though. Like Kotoba...she's creepy."

"Riku. Kaira. Draco. Kotoba," Elena said, listing off all the names. "Gah! Too many people! Who are they all? And why are they here?"

"More importantly," Rude added. "What would this sorceress want with a little girl?"

"They said that I had a power that Lady Lillith wanted." The girl looked up and down the hall to make sure they were alone. She then turned back to Rude and whispered, "Draco says I can use that power to get you out. But, shhh, no one is suppose to know."

Tseng was beginning to agree with Elena about the whole mess. All the names, all the "special abilities." None of it made sense. (A/N And I'm sure I'm confusing and annoying all of you just as much as I am the Turks) "Enough of this!" Tseng raised his voice slightly, more in frustration rather than anger. "Everyone be quiet and let me do the talking." He turned back toward the little girl. "Now, at least answer me this: What is your name?"

"My name is Rin," the young girl responded.

"Now, tell me who these other people are," Tseng continued. "This Riku. And Karra and Kotoba. And now there's someone named Draco too?"

"Riku is a small, black dragon. They call him the Dragon of Darkness, whatever that means. And Draco is a giant," the girl motioned with her hands and arms to emphasize the word 'giant,' "brown dragon who they call Dragon of Neu...Noootroll– ..."

"Neutrality?" Rude offered his assistance, remembering Riku had said about the three different dragons.

"Yeah! That! Then Karra is a quiet and pretty bad tempered woman if you ask me." Rin sounded rather offended at this. "Supposedly, Lillith MADE her! I don't know how that works, but it sounds cool whatever it means. And she made Kotoba as well. But I think she messed up on her, because Kotoba can't talk."

"And tell us about this 'Lillith'? Who is she? Why is she here?"

"I don't know," the little girl stared down at the ground. She sat in silence for a moment, but Tseng couldn't tell if it was because she was thinking or because the thought of the Sorceress depressed her. He assumed it could be either. After all, such a young girl living in such a place under such suspicious circumstances...that would frighten any child, and most adults as well.

"And you said you could get us out?" Tseng asked. He was quickly shushed by the little girl.

"I said that nobody else was suppose to know that!" she whispered. "So keep your voice down." Rin looked up and down the dark halls in suspicion. "Yeah," Rin whispered moving closer to the cell bars. "I can get you out, or at least that's what they told me. But you guys have to trust us or it wont work!" she said in gentle accusation.

"Trust you..." Tseng repeated, processing what this little girl could possibly be able to do to get them out.

"Come on, Sir," Elena stared innocently at Tseng. "What harm could such a sweet little girl do to us? I mean, I highly doubt there's a serial killer hidden inside her mind."

"Besides," Reno added as he lazily slumped back against the wall. "It's not like we have any other plan of escape."

Rude chuckled slightly. "Reno has a point for once."

Tseng stared at Rude and Reno for a moment. Then glanced back at Elena who was still staring at him with an awe filled, naive innocence. His team seemed to trust this idea. Why they were willing to put their lives in the hands of these strangers, he had no clue. But if they were willing to, he concluded that he should be as well. After all, Reno was right. They had no other plan.

Well, there's chapter two. A little boring, I know. But it was completely necessary. I mean, what would you rather have? One boring chapter with explanations, or a confusing fan fiction that doesn't explain anything? lol. Anyway, don't worry about being bored anymore. Then next chapters should have a lot more humor and a little slightly twisted romance too. Please leave a review to tell me what you thought!