A/N: Weee, an authors note! :D Anyway, heres chapter 6. please note that no amount of bitching will get me to upload faster, so STOP IT. Anywho, read and review, because reviews give me the fuzzys, and the fuzzys make me write more.

DISCLAIMER: For the love of god, I don't own anything mildly related to Final Fantasy! Only the characters are mine, along with the overall storyline. Everything else is Square Enix's, because I don't like being raped by ninja lawyers.

Chapter 6: The City of Dreams... Sort of

The next morning I woke up first, for once. Everyone was still asleep, at peace. After my little meltdown the night before, I was feeling a lot better. I mean, I still wanted to murder Kathryn, but that was different. Anyway, I shook off the weariness and slowly dragged myself off the ground. Looking around, I heard a growling noise. I quickly spun around. Nothing. Then it happened again. I then realized that I was hungry. Quickly, I looked around. Nope, the deer was gone. Looking around, I saw a tree. Or, rather, the apples in it. I smiled.

Watching the others wake up was new. Normally, I was the last one to wake up. So, this was a new experience. I watched as Hannah woke up and kicked Lathen until he woke up, snorting the whole time. I watched as Mathew slowly got up, dusted himself off and spent 15 minutes cleaning his hat. As each of them got up, I threw an apple at them, laughing whenever they caught it with their face. I also got a few strange looks, as I'm normally the living dead in the morning, but here I was, having a good time, eating an apple of all things.

"So, why you in such a good mood?" asked Robbie, sitting beside me and ripping a chunk out of his apple.

"I dunno. But I suppose it has something to do with the fact that we should be sleeping under a roof tonight," I said, pointing at the spires of the castle. At some point, most likely while running for my life from that Behemoth, I noticed that there was a small city built around the castle.

"Oh ok then. I'm starting to miss having a bed," said Robbie, tossing his apple core away. Yeah, he eats FAST.

"Right! Let's go! And no pissing off the local wildlife," I said, jumping to my feet and smiling.

We walked towards the city gates, me at the head, naturally. As we got closer and closer to the city, the bigger it seemed. Now that we were only a few hundred meters away from the gate, the walls seemed impossibly tall, almost indestructible.

"Hey! Kids! O'er here!" I turned and saw that a guard was waving at us. Clad in orange armor, leaning on his spear, he seemed friendly. We walked up to him slowly.

"Well, aren't we an interesting lot, eh? Not very often we have travelers like you lot pass through our lovely city of Alexandria," he said, smiling. For whatever reason, I liked him. He had that grandpa feel about him.

"Anyway, whatcha need? You can go into the city, but you'll be hard pressed to find much of anything in there. At least, not without directions," he said.

"Well..." I looked at my ragtag followers/friends, and they all looked worse for wear.

"An Inn. Or anywhere that we can stay," I said, turning back.

"Got just the place. Small inn, not too far from the gate. Place called The Angelwing. Just say that Captain Travis sent you there. That should get you a free night," he said, smiling.

"Thanks," I said, smiling in return, before entering the city.

Wow. All of this stuff... Just crammed into this small space. In the space of about 300 meters, we saw 2 pubs, each of which was full with people, an armory, a blacksmith, 2 general stores, a magic store (must look there lately) and a brothel. Looking around and trying to take it all in was doing my head in, so as soon as we found The Angelwing Inn, I dived in, in an attempt to escape all the noise.

Inside the inn, it was actually rather nice. Arm chairs, some bookcases full of books, a fireplace with evidence of recent activity, a bar, an eating area and what appeared to be a fairly decent kitchen. Once all of us were inside (Reece and Nick had to be dragged in), I went up to the bar and rang the bell.

"Hold on, I'm coming!" came a cry, followed by a crashing sound and some swearing. Then a door near the end of the bar was flung open and a girl about our age came up to me.

"What'll it be, then?" she asked, tying her hair back in a ponytail. She looked good, you know, the bits that I could – Shut up!

"Well, Captain Travis said there were some rooms here...?" I said.

"He's not wrong. Hmmm... 14 of you... Well, bugger it. Here. Rooms 4 and 6, across the hall from each other. Go up those stairs and to your left. Now, kindly piss off. I've got to clean this place up," she said, shooing us away and up the stairs. Blinking, I shrugged, then went and found Room 4. Opening it, I found that it contained 2 sets of bunk beds, 3 singles and 1 double bed. Running to the double, I claimed it as my own by jumping onto it and hugging the soft pillows. I then regretted it as a yawn overtook me.

Looking up at 6 of my bemused friends, Charles, Tayla, Harley, Amylee, Sam and Morgan, I said:

"Piss off, it's MY bed! And as my first act as ruler of the double bed, I will spend the next few hours hugging the pillows in my sleep."

I then closed my eyes and felt sleep overtake me almost instantly.