Come Forth the Demons

Disclaimer: well I think after a while this starts to get old and I can continue to make up new ones so you know the same applies as the last chapter

Cloud was actually surprised that he was standing in Cosmo Canyon with the rest of the group on their way, he seemed slightly out of place. Many people would be wondering why? Why would Cloud find it strange that his friends would listen to him? Why would Cloud have to convince the others that in fact Reeve had been kidnapped and they needed to work together?

Cloud actually wasn't quite sure why, it had happened all to fast. He was still unsure how they drew up these conclusions so fast, when he had any barely time to think. It had happened a few days after Yuffie had disappeared into thin air, they began to detest him and ignore him completely. Even Tifa had become slightly less comfortable around him. To make matters worse Vincent had left soon after, and the team once again blamed him. He winced at the thought of what they had said to him, he hoped that they didn't find a way to turn this around and make it seem like he was also responsible for Reeve missing.

Cloud laid down on the rock formation, where they had all sat the first night they had visited, back when Aeris had been alive. Even though Cloud was laying down he could see the flames from the campfire, rising up towards the night sky. It was as though the fire was being drawn to the stars. But could never reach, never succeed, just like him. He'd learnt that no matter what ever happened, no matter what he did. There would always be a way that would eventually make him somehow fuck it all up. Cloud closed his eyes and sighed, the dust, dirt and sweat made his face feel firm as it began to cool down from the night. He longed for the old times when he could talk to the group and not have the feeling of being judged or not really listened to. Cloud felt a shadow fall over him and opened his eyes meeting two garnet ones in return, Tifa, who looked even more striking in the firelight, was looking down at him with a strange look on her face as though she was torn.

"I thought you'd be preparing," Tifa asked him as though he was getting ready of a battle just at the idea of a meeting. "You haven't seen them all for such a long time; do you think that they've forgiven you yet?"

"First of all I am preparing, I'm actually having my last moments of peace. Secondly it is not my fault that I have not seen them or heard from them in such a long time, as last time I checked Cid told me never to ring them. Thirdly I seem to be repeating my self but they won't forgive me, which is stupid when I didn't do anything." Cloud growled, his anger once again getting the better of him although he knew that Tifa didn't deserve it.

"Did you ever think that maybe that was the problem?" Tifa told him raising an eyebrow at his naiveness. "You are the leader and although it's not fair to say, you always know all the solutions. But you didn't even try to find them, Cid and Barret thought of Yuffie as a daughter. They were so worried, but you said we shouldn't worry." Cloud grinded his teeth but didn't say a word, it was very hard to concentrate when you were being accused left, right and centre. Tifa realised that Cloud was not going to add anymore she continued, "Did you tell everyone?"

"Yes, most are being picked up by Cid," Cloud paused wondering if he should tell her about the messages to Vincent and Yuffie. "I sent a message to Vincent and Yuffie just in case they wanted to come and to inform them of what has happen after all it is their comrade too" Tifa for once didn't look mad for doing something with out consulting her first. Red XIII came running down the stairs and looked at both of them and told them something that made Cloud's Blood run cold.

"The others have arrived."

Vincent was beginning to regret asking if Yuffie was coming or not, he had a feeling she was only coming because he asked in a tone that had suggested that she wouldn't come. But that wasn't what was bothering Vincent, he was more concerned about the way she continuously looked at him in pure hatred.

'That glaring is becoming annoying, can't we kill her, no body would notice most of the others already think that she's most likely dead' Chaos asked rather annoyed.

'See that could work seeing as the glaring would stop, but most likely we would be stuffed as Valentine would go into his 'I-must-atone' mood again and that didn't work out so well for us last time' Death Gigas said to Chaos

'point made' Hellmasker supported.

"Shut up" Vincent accidentally said out loud, the demons laughed at his slip up.

"What?" Yuffie asked suddenly taken aback that Vincent actually replied. "All I bloody fucking well did, was ask how much longer it would take us to get there?"

'I noticed she left out that she asked 50 other times first' Chaos groaned, 'I'm a demon and even I consider this a form of cruel and unusual punishment.' Vincent ignored both chaos and Yuffie and continued walking forward. This only seemed aggravate Yuffie further which might also explain why she took off her shoe and suddenly threw it at Vincent's head.

'Can we kill her now?' Hellmasker asked. Vincent ignored them all once again and continued walking, Yuffie's throwing of her shoe seemed to calm her down as she resorted back to asking; 'are we there yet?' Every 5 seconds. Vincent tried his best to act like she was not present, as that was their normal routine. However he couldn't help his eyes falling on her changed appearance. She had grown muscles in her arms and legs that would probably rival Tifa's. She was covered in dirt she had gained from sleeping outside, and her clothes dusty. He was unsure why he had been able to recognise her when he had first seen her, he guessed it had been the demons.

"Are we there yet?" Yuffie asked again, Vincent was beginning to have trouble controlling his demons anger towards her.

"Yuffie you know perfectly well how long it takes to get to Cosmo Canyon" Vincent growled hoping that she might possibly stop with the dreaded sentence.

"No last time we had the car thing, that you all got when you got arrested and now we are walking" Yuffie explained. Vincent realised that for once Yuffie was actually correct and he was wrong. Well there was that other time but…… Vincent shook his head that was a past he did not want to relive; it was immoral and defiantly frowned upon by society. "I almost wish that we were actually using Cid's ship even if that hunk of junk makes me sick" It was almost like it was all planned for at that moment the Shera flew over their heads and continued to Cosmo Canyon. "That is so not fair" Yuffie groaned. Vincent realised this was a sign to start running now, he'd been wondering if he'd see the Shera again. He realised that Yuffie was not behind him but she was still sitting on the ground.

"We have to go now! They don't realise that we are coming remember, from here onwards we run" Vincent told her and then started running again.

"Have I told you how much I hate you today?" Yuffie groaned getting up and running after Vincent following the Shera which was quickly disappearing in the distance.

Kale sat on the rock formations that surrounded Cosmo Canyon, he was preparing for the final ending of the team AVALANCHE. He almost smirked at the irony of it all, they had used Valentine's demons to save the world and now it would be the ending of them all.

"How much longer do you estimate that we have to be here for?" Mya asked watching his every move.

"Until it was complete," Kale replied coldly. Mya rolled her eyes at him behind his back, "go check on the prisoner we still don't know just how the old man is doing"

"Yes master," Mya rolled her eyes and left a rather annoyed Kale.

"You did WHAT!" Both Barret and Cid yelled at Cloud, although Cid had a few extra added words in. Cloud wondered if his lack of more swearing was due to Shera. Tifa had told him that she had managed to finally boost up her confidence it just took awhile. Cloud rolled his eyes, realising already that if he had done nothing it wouldn't have mattered. He would have done the wrong thing by them anyway.

"Why do you keep on fucking reminding her of why she fucking left?" Cid cursed at the spiky haired blonde.

"I just did what I believed was right, after all it was her comrade as well. I would have done the same for you," Cloud growled. "Just as I'm sure you would have done for me as well" Cid closed his mouth, his lack of response slowly ebbing away at his anger. Cloud and he both knew that there was a strong chance that the pilot wouldn't have at all. Cloud sighed and looked at the stars, he hoped that Yuffie would come back and explain this entire mess. But he'd been hoping for so long he doubted that anything like that would happen now.

"Well you still should have consulted with us first, you probably didn't think to use Tifa's phone" Cid growled knocking Cloud quickly down from his short peace.

"We can't have a leader that doesn't think rationally especially when we're looking for an old friend" Barret told the group loudly. "We need to vote for a new leader."

"Fine then," Cloud growled at both Cid and Barret wanting nothing more than to wipe those smirks off of their faces.

"I want no part of this," Red XIII said speaking for the first time. "Leadership is something that you are born with and comes with experience. This is both offensive and stupid, I will not vote"

"So… let's see" Barret smirked. "All those in favour of Cloud being the leader raise your hand" Tifa put up a shaking lone hand, Cloud mouthed a thank you to her and she smiled softly at him. "All those in favour of anyone else taking over the role of a leader" Barret asked. Both he and Cid raised their hands in the air, sentencing Cloud to his doom………or so they thought.

Mya entered the dungeon where Reeve was currently located, Mya was slightly confused as to why she had to guard him at the moment. He wasn't about to go and walk away. His room was made of black stone and had no windows that he could even receive light from. Well there was one window but Reeve couldn't see out this one. As it was located near the top and the tower so tall that it was hidden. Mya heard the rustling of chains and noted that Reeve was now awake, although she wasn't worried about an attack by him. He was tied by both his hands and legs to the wall. She notice to man's eyes narrow as he finally noticed her, she also noted that he was slightly surprised by his captor appearance. Mya sighed their camp had taught her well, she could read people so easily, even when they tried so hard not to appear so. She hated when prisoners wouldn't do what she wanted.

"What is it you want with me?" Reeve asked his voice cracking, Mya thought curiously perhaps it was the dust surrounding him. She smiled this tower hadn't been used for so long that Kale had checked it 50 times before it was ok. And he said she was paranoid.

"Well nothing really, the council actually don't want you to be hurt, they believe you could be a great asset to them." Mya sighed she felt no problem at explaining anything to this man even if Kale had said not too. She doubted that he would be able to warn his friends. "You're just being used so that we can finish the rest of AVALANCHE off, and get those four demons"

"You're… You're after Vincent" Reeve stated rather than asked, Mya nodded and sat down quite comfortably "Why?"

"Vincent's demons are not really demons, see? Well they are now, but they weren't always" Mya explained, she now realised why Kale never sent her into the prison cells she could never keep her mouth shut. "They were ancients a long time ago; they…… interest my officers"

"Officers? Who are you people?" Reeve asked her not really understanding that there could possibly be an entire group of people they missed during their search for Sephiroth.

"That is something that I will not say" Mya smirked at the dusty man in front of her "Now if you don't mind I have to go" she got up and closed the door, she smirked again and called through the door "Be careful of the rats they have the strange habit of biting people"

"So Cloud since Red XIII won't vote that means your out voted" Barett smirked at him, while Cloud resorted to growling at him. "You can't vote for yourself, its one to two, too bad Reeve is gone, hey?" Cloud was annoyed now, he was just rubbing it in. He knew that in a way Barett had been waiting for a long time to be a leader again.

"Actually I don't think so there are still two of us left to vote" A familiar male voice said behind them. The entire team's eyes widened at the sight of the lone gunman and the bouncy ninja.

A few minutes before

"Oh my god, please tell me I am not dreaming and that we are actually standing in front of Cosmo Canyon" Yuffie begged collapsing on the ground in front of Cosmo Canyon. Vincent turned to her, he believed that maybe he had been travelling to long with his demons and now they started affecting him.

"Your imagining things, we aren't even close yet" Vincent said

"Yes we are," Yuffie yelled at him "If it wasn't real I couldn't do this" Yuffie said kicking a boulder that was just at the entrance, Yuffie eyes watered and suddenly she grabbed her foot and began hopping up and down in pain. Yuffie uttered curses under her breath that would put even Cid to shame, Vincent under his mask smiled at her antics.

"So how are we going to surprise the others, are you going to climb up and drop down in the middle of the meeting ground again." Vincent asked remembering last time she did that she managed to catch herself on fire.

"No have you seen how many cigarettes that Cid goes through in a day, I'd probably give him a heart attack." Yuffie winced remembering the pain and burns she got last time she did that.

"Let's find the others" Vincent said.

Vincent looked at Yuffie slightly afraid that she may have turned around and attacked him for that one sentence. He'd spent the last few minutes trying to convince himself and Yuffie that they had to be hearing things and there was no way that the group would ever get rid of Cloud's leadership. But they were proved wrong as Barret began to rub it in, this had made Vincent lose his temper and that in return had made him speak out.

"Way to go Vincent," Yuffie giggled. Vincent shook his head, the ninja was trying desperately not to show that a few minutes earlier that she would have easily attack the two males that now stood with their mouths open.

"I will vote for Cloud to stay as a leader," Vincent said nodding towards Cloud who was still in his shock mode and would be for some time. Cloud always struggled to process information when it came to these things.

"As will I" Yuffie told Cloud smiling at him. She turned to the two older men and scowled "Doesn't that make it 3 to 2? Cloud stays as the leader"

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL!" Cid cried angry making Yuffie's cheeks go red and her fists clench "Why do you fucking chose to show up now?"

"We got Cloud's message, we'd do anything for a friend, but why are you trying to replace him? What did he do that was terrible that you want him gone?" Yuffie asked angrily.

"He was the one that made you leave!" Barret suddenly cried his shock finally wearing off.

"Made…me leave?" Yuffie repeated not expecting that response. "No he didn't"

"We all know that you were talking to Cloud last, just before you 'disappeared'. Don't bother sticking up for him, he's scum and even he knows it." Cid yelled.

"But Cloud wasn't the last person I talked to, plus I only was talking to him cause he had the master cure equipped and thought it would be better if I took it. Plus there was another person I talked to before I left" Yuffie tried to make Cid and Barret understand, yet they both shook there heads defiantly.

"This is unbelievable!" Cloud screamed. "First you blame me and say that the only way you'll believe me is if Yuffie says I didn't do it. Now Yuffie is saying that I didn't do it and you still WON'T BELIEVE ANY OF IT!" Cloud continued to glare at the two men who suddenly seemed to know that they were facing a seriously pissed off armed Cloud.

"It wasn't Cloud you have to believe him on that," Vincent finally spoke. "I know this because it was-"

BANG!

Kale was busy aiming through his gun; the gunslinger had finally showed up. Kale had almost started worrying that he wouldn't and they would have to come up with a new plan. He smirked this was going to be so easy, by the time that anyone realised what had happened they would be long gone and Valentine's demons would be having fun. He started changing the switches so that they would do their right command, nothing worse than having to report you screwed up because you didn't set your gun up right. He heard a snap of a twig some distance behind him and the curses of his partner under her breath at being found out. She was there again hiding in the shadows, her shadow and presence still haunting him to his most extreme ending. The thoughts of what she and him had had together still entered his mind, the exotic images and thoughts tearing him apart. And yet he was still unsure of how it had all happened, yet he blamed her for it anyways. They had been best friends since as far back as he could remember at the camp, and yet the strange thing was that they were so different in many ways. He followed everything by the book, was quite, studied a fair amount and only really spoke to close friends. Mya on the other hand was lazy, talkative, was known for breaking rules and had a large group of friends. She and he both knew that relationships in the camp were strictly forbidden but it hadn't stopped them, if anything it drove them more. But unfortunately they had been caught, and after everything that Mya went through he promised that never again would he give into her. Even if it meant that he had to push her away forever.

"Aren't you meant to be guarding some one?" Kale growled at her coldly while hating every minute of it.

"He's in a remote location, you have to go through a maze to get there, in a tower on the edge of a cliff and he's tied to the wall by heavy chains. If he manages to escape and get back to his friends then I'll give him a prize" Mya said sighing and leaning against a tree while feeling the setting sun warming her back.

"What is it that you want?"

"To talk"

"You talked, end of story. Now go back to guarding I need to concentrate," he told her bitterly and her face reddened and suddenly had the urge to kill her partner.

"Argh! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LOOK AT ME!" Mya yelled, yet he still refused to give in. His face was blank and he tried to make his mind do the same but with no avail. "Argh! Just look at me!" She screamed but this time she also kicked him as well. The force of the kick made Kale move whom without meaning to pressed the switches on the side and pulled the trigger. "Oh shit," Mya whispered as she could almost guess that Kale would be pissed. Kale got up glaring at his partner with his steel grey eyes showing angry flowing through them.

"We have to go now!" he cried and grabbed what ever stuff that they couldn't afford to leave behind and ran. Kale looked over his shoulder and noticed that Vincent was laying on the ground and four lights were leaving his body. He smirked; at least part of the plan had worked.

Authors Note:

Well I couldn't really figure out how to rewrite this part so its pretty much the same. Thanks to all my reviewers

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