Wow. I wrote this about a few months ago, and I thought that I had already posted it up, but it turns out not. Heh heh, well, that's kinda embarassing ^^' At least it's already posted now. This was inspired when I saw this one picture of Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo as little kids trying to get Mother out of a crane machine. I thought up of how that came to be, and thus this little drabble is born!
Random Advent Children drabble where everyone is a whole lot more younger. (Oh, and btw, their dad is Sephiroth, just so you know! ^^)
But no matter how much I beg, nothing belongs to me. Everything belongs to their respective owners.
Dedicated to my lil sis, T. J. Nightshade A.K.A. Roxas. For telling me yesterday that I forgot to post this up.
"Kadaj! Where's Mother?" Yazoo asked his brother. "We've been walking around the mall for hours!"
"Just be quiet, Yazoo!" Kadaj said as he led the way. "I know exactly where we're going."
"We've been walking through the same stores for hours!" Loz said as he trotted up to Kadaj, making him stop. "We're just walking around in circles because we're lost! We're never going to find Mother."
"Oh yes we are! It's just that, I lost sight of that red-headed meanie who had the box." Kadaj said as he walked around Loz.
"Why is Mother inside the box again?" Yazoo asked.
"I don't know! All I know is that Mommy's head is inside the black metal box, and the box has a yellow tape on it with black letters. Although I can't read yet."
"Why don't we ask big brother, Cloud? I think he knows how to read."
"I don't know where Cloud is either. He left us a few hours ago."
"Cloud is a meanie! I don't think Mommy is going to be happy with him."
"I don't think Mommy is ever happy with him. That's why he's always so grumpy and emo."
"Oh, okay. What was the red-headed boy's name again?"
"I think it was Reno," Loz said to Yazoo. "Cloud told me about that kid a little bit."
"Maybe when we find Reno, he can tell us where Mommy is!" Yazoo exclaimed.
"I don't think so, Yazzy," Kadaj said. "That boy was throwing the box around like a ball to another bald kid with cool looking spy glasses. After that, another kid in a white lab coat took that box away from them."
"I thought you said that Reno had the box, not Rufus," Yazoo corrected.
"He does! He snatched the box away from Rufus and ran for it. The last I saw him was that he was running around in this part of the mall, and then I lost him."
"Bummer," Loz said. "Why don't we ask everyone around to see if they had seen Reno, or else one of Cloud's strange buddies?"
"I don't think a bunch of boring adults will pay attention to three lost eight year olds, Lozzy," Kadaj said. "And I don't want to ask any of Cloud's buddies. They're a bunch of big meanies. Remember how Tifa got into a fight with you?"
"I didn't get beaten by a girl!" Loz defended himself, looking like he's close to crying.
"Don't cry, Lozzy. We won't talk about it anymore if that will make you feel any better," Yazzo comforted his brother.
Kadaj led them all to a metal bench so Loz can let his feelings out. He looked around the mall, scanning the different people to find a certain red-headed boy with a ponytail.
There were lots a people around in the mall at lunch time, but there weren't very many eight or nine year olds on their own. There was one kid with spiky red hair, but he didn't have red markings under his eyes. He saw a couple of Cloud's friends, like Tifa, Zack and Yuffie, but they didn't see him.
Agitated, He climbed up the metal bench to have a higher view to watch people. He finally saw Reno walking around casually with a box in his hands, followed closely by his buddy Rude.
"Over there!" Kadaj yelled as he jumped off the bench. Loz and Yazoo followed likewise and ran after their excited brother.
Reno was the one who saw them first. "Rude! Split up! They're coming our way!" he said as he bolted off in one direction, his ponytail flailing along behind him. Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo followed him, hot on his heels.
"Give us back our Mother!" Kadaj said, trying to yank on Reno's ponytail.
"NO! I WILL NEVER GIVE YOU YOUR MOMMY'S HEAD!" Reno yelled behind his shoulder.
"Give her back, you big meanie!" Loz said, almost touching Reno's ponytail.
"NEVER! AND DON'T TOUCH MY PONYTAIL!" Reno yelled as he pulled his ponytail away from Loz's grasp.
Reno ran through the crowds, clutching the box tightly in his hands. He didn't know how he can lose them, or what to do with the box called "Mother". He's just doing this because Cloud promised to give him a huge jar of candy if he makes his little brothers briefly leave him alone.
He ran and weaved himself through people, oftentimes making them bump into walls or drop whatever they held in their hands. He knew there was a crane machine somewhere in the place, and he already had figured out how to stuff things inside it without having to open it.
Reno headed into a different part of the mall, looking for the crane machine while Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo spat out threats of their dad getting him in trouble. He finally saw the crane machine, and bolted towards it. He added a bit more speed and got there before any of the three kids caught up to him.
He opened the flap where the prizes come out of, and he wriggled his small frame into the opening. He threw the box up into the machine, hoping that it wouldn't come down and smack his nose.
He felt himself get pulled out of the machine, and he found himself staring into three pairs of angry looking, funky colored eyes.
Kadaj picked Reno up by the hem of his shirt. "Where is Mother?" he said.
Reno smirked. "Inside the crane machine," he answered simply.
Kadaj looked confused. "What? How can Mother be inside the crane machine? You just had her in your arms—"
"Nope! She's inside the crane machine! Even look for yourself!" Reno said as Kadaj let him go.
All four of the eight year olds looked inside the huge crane machine on their tip toes. They saw many different stuffed toys inside the machine and in the center of it all sat a black box with a yellow tape surrounding it.
The silver-haired boys all looked at the box in horror. "Why is Mother inside the crane machine?" Kadaj yelled out.
"That's because I put her inside there before you guys got me out," Reno answered.
"Wha—?" Kadaj said as he kept staring at the box.
"I'm going! Good luck on trying to get your Mommy out!" Reno said as he left the three boys.
The first thing that Reno did was find Cloud.
He finally found him talking to his friend, Zack. Reno walked up to Cloud proudly.
"Hey Cloud. Where's my candy?" Reno said as he caught up to him.
"Did you manage to get them busy for a while?" Cloud asked.
"Yeah. If you call putting the box with Mother inside it inside a crane machine, 'busy for a while.'" Reno replied with a smirk on his face.
Cloud chuckled slightly at that. "I have absolutely no idea how you managed to pull that off."
"You know what Cloud? You can be an evil brother to them sometimes," Zack said, also amazed at what Reno accomplished.
"Yeah, well, it's fun to do things like this from time to time." Cloud answered. He got out a jar of candy. "Here ya go, Reno. Just try not to get too many cavities, or else I will never be able to talk to you."
Reno's eyes brightened as he took the jar of candy. "Thanks a bunch, Cloud! It was awesome doing business with ya!" he said as he bolted off to who knows where.
At the Crane Machine
"How are we gonna get Mother now?" Yazoo said as he looked inside the machine.
"There's only one way how to, Yazzy," Kadaj said as he took some munny out of his pocket. "Loz, give me a boost. I'm gonna get it out by playing with the crane machine."
"But you're heavy!" Loz complained.
"Do you want to get Mother out or not?"
"Yes, I do."
"Then gimme a boost, Lozzy." Kadaj demanded.
Loz sighed in annoyance as he bent down. Kadaj scrambled up his brother and sat on his shoulders. Loz stood up again, standing up to almost his full height. Kadaj inserted the munny needed into the slot, and took control of the joystick.
The claw moved as Kadaj moved the joystick around. He placed the crane roughly in the same spot where the box was. He made the claw go down and grab the box securely in its grip.
"Carefully… carefully…" Kadaj said as he slowly inched the joystick towards the opening, trying not to make the box fall out.
The box reached the hole, and Kadaj let the claw release it. The box fell, hit the edge of the hole, and went back inside the machine.
Kadaj widened his eyes in shock as he saw what had just happened. "NOOO! I WAS SO CLOSE! I WAS THIS CLOSE!" Kadaj yelled as he started to cry.
"Kadaj! Don't cry on me! You'll get wet boogers all over my head!" Loz complained.
Kadaj wiped away his tears with his sleeve and fished around in his pockets for more munny.
He tried again, with the result being that the box slipped out of the claw. Again, and the claw missed the box entirely. The box either slips out of the claw, the claw misses the box, or else the box bounces from the edge of the hole and stays in the machine.
After a while, Kadaj had used up all of his munny, then all of Loz's munny, and finally all of Yazoo's munny. The three brothers sat around in a small circle and started to bawl their eyes out from their failure.
Aerith was walking around the mall looking for something when she heard crying. She got curious, and followed the sounds to see three kids huddled closely together next to a crane machine. She knelt down and gently placed her hand on one of them.
The boy immediately stopped. "Mommy?" he whispered.
Aerith bit back a giggle. "No, I'm not your Mother," she said. "My name is Aerith. What's yours?"
"Kadaj," Kadaj said, looking up at Aerith. "And that's Loz and Yazoo over there," he said, vaguely gesturing at them.
"Nice to meet you three," she said. "Why were you all crying?"
"Because of Mother," Yazoo answered.
"Someone thought that it would be funny to put her inside this box and stuff her inside this crane machine," Loz added.
"Oh," Aerith said, standing up and looking inside. "Is the box black with a yellow tape around it?"
The three boys nodded their heads in unison.
"Okay then. I'll try to get it out," she said as she fished out some munny from her pockets.
The three boys looked up at the teenager with wide eyes, watching her move the joystick around. They heard the hum as the claw moved around inside the machine, and a loud thump as something fell.
"There you go!" Aerith said as she turned to leave.
Kadaj looked at her strangely then opened the flap. He reached his hand inside and felt something hard and cold. He grabbed the thing and pulled it out, happiness coursing through him as he held the box containing Mother's head.
"MOTHER!" Kadaj said as he started to snuggle with the box. Loz and Yazoo started to snuggle with the box as well, but mostly ended up hugging Kadaj instead.
"You guys finally found Mother?" Cloud said as he came up to the celebrating boys.
"Yeah, no thanks to you, big brother," Kadaj said. "This one teenager named Aerith helped us get her out of the crane machine."
"Well, we have to go now," Cloud said. "I don't think Dad would be too happy to see us wandering around the mall without him."
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Let's go." Kadaj said as he continued clutching Mother.
"Not until I do something first," Cloud said mischievously.
"Like what?" Kadaj said as he turned around to face his brother.
"This!" Cloud said as he snatched the box out of Kadaj's hands. He bolted off, leaving Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo stunned for a few seconds.
"AFTER HIM!" Kadaj said as he ran after his brother with Loz and Yazoo close behind him.