Sephiroth pulled the Buggy to a stop outside the forest across Gongaga.

"Hey Sephiroth, why'd you stop?" asked Barret.

"Just going for a walk. Get something to eat, drink, and rest up for the night. It is nightfall. You're welcome to join me."

"But there's nothing out there…is there?" asked Aeris.

Sephiroth smiled. "Maybe, if you guys want to see, come with me." As he turned to the forest, he whistled. It sounded like a bird from the eastern continent. None of the others expected to hear a bird return that call but one did. As he started walking, he said over his shoulder, "There'll be a grand welcome for Avalanche, a warrior of Cosmo Canyon, and the last of the Cetra."

They looked amongst themselves for a moment and shrugged. They had nothing better planned for the night. So they got out of the buggy and followed him. All except Cait Sith.

"You guys go ahead; I'll stay in the buggy."

After five minutes, Sephiroth stopped and held up his hand for them to stop. As he looked at them, they saw him smiling. "Don't help."

He took a few steps forward, and then jumped to the side. Four shurikens and throwing daggers were sticking in the ground. Two women appeared, one on his left, wielding a wakizashi, and right, wielding a nagitana. Both were dress in forest camouflage. "Get him!"

As they came at him, he pulled out his katana and wakizashi. And it only took thirty seconds to disarm the two. After sheathing his swords, he pulled the two in a hug.

"Huh, does anybody know what's up?" asked Yuffie.

"My apologies. These two are my sisters, Alexia and Veronica."

"…And you three say hello with swords clashing?" asked Tifa.

"Not that often. Veronica, Alexia, this is Cloud, Tifa, Aeris, Barret, Red XIII, Cait Sith, whom isn't here right now, and Yuffie."

The two took off their mask, revealing faces very similar to Sephiroth's. Their hair was silver and fell to the middle of their backs. "A pleasure to meet you," the two said simultaneously. "Sephiroth, dad wants to talk with you."

"U-oh, what'd I do now?"

"How are we supposed to know?" the two said before running off.

"Sephiroth, what's going on?" Cloud asked wearily.

"Up ahead is a village called Windsong. It is completely free of Shin-Ra and the troubles it causes. And the people of Windsong go through great lengths to keep it that way. Even going as far as keeping it closed off to the world."

"And if someone stumbles onto it?" questioned Aeris.

"They won't. You see, the forest seems to be alive in the respect that path ways change almost every trip in. Only those that know the forest can get through it. The path ahead is so twisting that you won't be able to recall how you got to it.

"And for those that come this way without a guide, their path always seems to take them around."

"…It sounds like you're making this up," stated Barret.

"Then try to get their on your own," Sephiroth said before going ahead. "Not even compasses or walky-talkies work in this forest. Anything that relies on electricity or magnetism gets interference. Probably from a large amount of magnetized iron spread out in the forest."

"Did the people from the village put that there?" asked Yuffie.

"No, it's just there."

Sephiroth was right. The forest took many paths and turns. Even Red XIII got lost after a few minutes. But ten minutes later, they walked into a clearing. There were two things that they noticed at first. The houses were reminiscent of those from Wutai and that they could see three Mako Fountains just in sight.

"HOLY…Aren't they worried about Mako Poisoning?" asked a disbelieving Cloud.

"No one has ever gotten it since I was born here," stated Sephiroth. "Oddly enough, it doesn't harm the people here. And it keeps the monsters away."

"But how?"

"The planet knows, I don't. For all I know, maybe people here are used to it. Or maybe that the planet doesn't want it to hurt us. All I know is the walls around the buildings go two feet into the earth to force it down to be soaked back up into the earth. It is quiet safe here. So long as you don't go swimming in it."

Sephiroth got them a room in what passed as the inn in Windsong and went to see what his father wanted.

When he came back later that evening, the party that he had foretold was well on its way. Avalanche was a sort of hero in this town. And with Cosmo's warrior and a Cetra, everyone thought it was a good time to break out the bottles.

He sat down at a table in the common room and milked a glass of Windsong wine for half an hour, thinking about what his father had said. Not the 'how are you, son' or even the 'what the hell do you think you're doing bringing outsiders in town?' He calmed down after he explained who they were and why they were here.

No, it was what he said about Cait Sith: 'Don't trust him just yet. If he didn't want to come in the field, he may have something he doesn't want shut off. Keep your guard up.

Yuffie sat down in a chair next to him. Her face was slightly flushed, with a huge smile on her face, and the smell of Windsong wine on her breath. "You really shouldn't drink that much. You are pretty small and young."

A look of indignation appeared on her face. "You're no older."

"Yes I am. While you are only sixteen, I am nineteen, almost twenty. And this is still my first glass."

"So…"

"So, I mean that, not counting the very obvious drinking laws about minors, you have obviously drank allot. And that was all I'm really worried about."

"Oh," Yuffie said smiling again and starting to take another drink.

"Which also means I'm cutting you off," he said as he took the glass from her.

"Oh no, you don't," Yuffie said trying to take it back. Sephiroth just raised it out of her reach. And when she reached higher, he raised it higher. When she was about to stand at her full height, she fell forward, limp.

"Yuffie?" When he looked at her face, he saw her asleep and unlikely to wake up before noon tomorrow. He smiled, "Rule one of drinking, if you drink allot, do it standing. If you don't and you stand after a few minutes had past since your last drink, you will probably pass out."

Author's notes: Neither I nor the town of Windsong in anyway promote underage drinking. It's just in Windsong, it is a light wine made from the fruits common from the forest, only making the drunken condition in large quantities. And Yuffie is the greatest ninja in the world.

Author's Notes: I do not own anything about Final Fantasy 7. I wish I did. But I don't.