Distance
Cloud opened his piercing blue eyes slowly , only to find another pair of blue eyes blinking not too far from him. The waking man laying down on the floor beside the ex-soldier had a confused expression on his face as he stood there figuring out why in the planet he was there and most important, next to that man. As their thoughts got into place both men stood up, jumping for their lives. They both drew their swords out and froze there, glaring at each other.
"You!" Squall was the first one to groan. Cloud frowned an eyebrow and sqweezed his sword on his hands strongly. Somehow something was telling him he could trust the new-guy but in another hand, he was threatening him with a gunsword and his first ideal of a speech wasn't the most kind.
"Have we met before?" The blond man asked but instead of an answer he got an attack atempt if it wasn't to be blocked by Squall's opponent. "Hey! What did I ever do to you!"
"Oh don't make me laugh…" Squall said between gritted teeth. He jumped for the enemy again and a metal sound echoed from the place that none of them had realized they were in.
"I seriously don't know what your problem is." Cloud kept blocking the attacks until the cold gun-sword hit his arm, making a tiny cut that started bleeding lightly. This made Cloud change his attitude, now it was his time to attack and so he went for it but Squall was agile too, avoiding the furious attacks of the blond man. Squall smirked, now he had captured his attention. Loud sword blocks were heard from behind a bush nearby the place the two were fighting for no specific reason. The young blue eyes of a boy shined while watching the two in amazement. Squall placed all his strength in the last blow of his sword and the metal block made Cloud's huge sword fly all the way to the bush were the young boy was kneeled, but he was in time to crawl back till his back hit a tree. He opened his eyes, thinking he was dead, but the sword was vertically stuck on the ground inches from him, between his legs.
"Aaahh!" The boy screamed looking at the huge sword standing still in front of him. Squall, who now had his gunblade pointed at Cloud's face turned his own face to look at the place where the scream had came, followed by Cloud's eyes. They both ran up to the green bush hoping the sword hadn't killed anyone while going down. It was then they saw a blond head with teary eyes looking up at them. "I-I didn't mean to spy…!" Was all the boy said. Cloud picked up his sword away from the boy as Squall helped him get up from the floor.
"Sorry about that." The ex-soldier apologized looking a little worried he had scared the boy to death. "Are you ok?"
"Yes!" The boy nodded. Although his voice was firm, his knees were shaking like canes on the wind. "I'm Tidus… I'm training to become a swordsman so one day I can kill all those black devils that torment my island. Destiny Island." The two men could notice the boy's hands shaking, not of fear but of rage. "I'll get those heartless one day and kill them all!"
"Hey.. hold on there kid! Leave that job to us." Squall said patting the boy's head. Seeing that from the man that tried to kill Cloud minutes ago was pretty shocking for him.
"You could teach me some techniques!" Tidus' lips formed a grin of wonder. "Come on! I bet my friend Wakka would love to meet ya! Come with me!"
"For what it's worth, I won the battle." Squall said to Cloud in a smirk.
"No you didn't." Cloud replied. "You didn't finish me off. Plus, we were interrupted."
"You really thought I would kill you?"
"Humm.. geez I don't know.." Cloud replied sarcastically.
"Please, I have better things to waste my energy on."
"And I have better things to think about than defending myself from you."
"HEY WAKKA! COME MEET THE NEW DUDES I JUST FOUND!" The men were interrupted, once again, by Tidus' voice, while walking behind him. Suddenly, they saw a little red head running quickly to them.
"Yo Tidus!" Wakka greeted. "Whatcha talkin' about?"
"These are.. err what are your names again?" Tidus scratched the back of his head.
"I'm Squall."
"Cloud here." I swear I heard his name before…
"Yeah well! I saw them fighting! They were the best! Those moves! And what a technique! They could teach us a lot about swords I tell ya!" Tidus excitedly exclaimed.
"Heyhey! Wait a minute there. We have no time to waste here. We need to find a way out back to Traverse town." Squall informed them hoping they wouldn't get any ideas.
"Awwh please?" The two kids exclaimed at the same time. "We'll help you out but teach us something first!"
The two men exchanged looks and sighed. What could they do…
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A flash. A fall. A scream. A landing…
"Aaaaahhhhhhh!" A scream was heard across the deep jungle as a woman fell down from a tree to the dense green floor of the jungle making a loud thud as she hit the ground. "I didn't want to use any bad words but this shit really hurt my back!" Yuffie replied getting up and cleaning her clothes from the green leaves that were glued.
"It's ok. We're in firm ground now." The woman in blue giggled helping her get up.
"Where are we?" Yuffie asked looking around the trees.
"I'd say we are in a deep jungle." Rinoa answered smiling and looking around as well.
"How can we get out of here?" Yuffie asked.
"I don't know." Rinoa answered. "Guess we have to find a way.
"Does anybody live here?" Yuffie asked.
"Hum… Doesn't look like it." Rinoa answered.
"Did you hear that sound?" Yuffie stopped and stared at the direction she had heard some bushes waving.
"Nope…" Rinoa continued walking.
"You know… I think the reason why we are here is the feather Cloud caught." Yuffie confessed as she walked behind Rinoa, with the corner of her eye still on the place she thought she heard someone moving.
"Really? Why do you think that?" Rinoa asked looking back at the ninja.
"I heard about some objects that are transporters between worlds. Cid told me. They are rare but they hold black magic inside so they must be up to no good. They transfer people from one world to another just by touching it." Yuffie explained. "One minute you are about to try this tasty ice-cream and the next second you are caught by a wave right in the shore of a beach! BAM! Water in your face." The two girls laughed but as they did, they noticed they weren't the only ones doing it, as a louder, high pitched laugh was heard echoing through the trees.
"Ok… What was that?" Rinoa asked motionless.
"You might not wanna look back… and probably start running." Yuffie whispered with a terrified expression on her face. "Run Rinny ruuuuuuuun!" She exclaimed as the two started running away.
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"I saw him you know… After all this time. I found him." She started. "And thanks to you… I'm here and we couldn't meet."
"You saw him with another woman." The white haired man smirked.
"He wasn't doing anything you know. She could be a friend." Aerith defended the man she loved, not wanting to believe another story.
"They were hugging. You don't know what might have happened next…" Sephiroth continued, looking up at the sky.
"Guess I'll never know." Aerith looked down at the floor. "I know what you are doing… Trying to fill my head with nonsense. Cloud was looking for me, I know it! He wouldn't do that to me. Take me to him…" This time, she showed him determination in her eyes and to his surprise, something he wasn't expecting, rage. She was mad at him. He never thought he would live to see that emotion in her, towards him. "Take me to him!" She yelled as she jumped forward and punched him on the chest. "You cruel son of a bitch! I was metres away from him! Me calling his name was enough for us to meet!" She continued punching his chest as tears started streaming down her face, contracted with furiousness. "Take me to him, take me to him, TAKE ME TO HIM!" She yelled. He only held her electric arms, trying to control her body to calm her down. She slowly started to pause as their bodies led to a hug. She cried, holding him tightly. "I hate you."
"You'll thank me for this one day." He only said, caressing the back of her head as she cried.
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Cid ran panting. His spear on his hands.
"Damn these creatures." He muttered as he fled. A small amount of heartless chased him closely behind. Sure he could end them smoothly, if it wasn't for the fact that they kept coming from everywhere no matter what. Suddenly several gunshots were heard from behind, which made him stop and turn back to see a man with long brown hair and a cowboy hat and a long cream coat aiming for the creatures. On his right the sound of a whip echoed on the once busy streets of Agrabah, as a blonde woman with glasses waved it on the fight.
"Bang! They're gone." The man blinked on eye and turned to look at Cid.
"Follow us." The woman said. Confused, Cid ran after the two through the tight streets full of destroyed huts with food and artefacts scattered around the ground. Better trust this people than be killed by the heartless.
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"Do you have gummi ships here?" Squall asked the two kids, "Because we really need to get out of here."
"Gummi what?" Tidus asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Don't tell me you don't know what that is." Squall replied shaking his head as the boys shrugged their shoulders.
"Perfect. Just perfect." The man sighed. "Stuck in the middle of an island without anything to make us leave."
"I wonder what brought us here in the first place!" Cloud said, looking around at the beach. Suddenly he noticed something that wasn't there before. A boat. A boat right in the middle of the sea, two miles away from the shore.
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Sorry about the late update!
