After such a wonderful conversation which led nowhere, Elly started to wander around the house. It didn't change much. She entered a room at the end of the hall. It was simple and there was only one bed. There was nothing interesting in it. She sighed and left the room. There was nothing that would show Cloud's presence in the whole house. It was like he wasn't even living there.

She was lost in her thoughts when Rude motioned for her to follow him.

"I can't. I can't save anyone, I don't think. Neither family or friends."

It was Cloud's voice. Tifa must have woken up and lectured him. It sounded like something she would do. Elly smiled unconsciouly. She missed that.

"Drifting, drifting"

"How long are you going to drag along like that, yo?" Reno's interruption surprised Cloud. He must have thought they left. She did too until she saw them in the hall.

"You couldn't find them?!" Tifa shouted. She must have been really worried. Elly didn't enter. She didn't want to embrace the warmth yet. It was too sudden. She hid behind Rude and remained silent.

"There was a witness who saw them being taken away, yo" Reno responded.

"Where did they go?"

"The Forgotten Capital" Rude said. He took a dramatic pause and continued. "It's their base." She didn't notice but Cloud glanced at her, maybe for support. She sighed.

Somehow they ended up going together. They were on their way to Ajit. Actually, they were very close. Eloise glanced at Cloud and saw him completely lost in his own world. Her eyes traveled from him to their surroundings.

Suddenly, she felt a presence near her. It felt soothing and she relaxed instantly. She felt secure and peaceful like nothing had the power to harm her.

"You're thinking way too much. Just relax" That voice again! She looked up to see something in the distance. It was a boy with black spiky hair. She tried to take a closer look and find out who that person was.

"Look at you. What have you became?" That voice sounded hurt. She bent her head and sighed.

"It wasn't my choice" She mumbled.

"Stop blaming yourself!" She tried to look at anything but the person in front.

"But I wasn't there. I wasn't there when you needed me the most" She was dissapointed in herself and her actions. There was no one to blame for her brother's death but her selfishness.

"These two are really stubborn."

The second voice was a woman's. It was sweet and comforting. She raised her head but whoever was in front, disappeard. She could see just trees and the empty road.

"Cloud…" She wanted to ask him if he felt and heard that too. Unfortunately, they were interrupted by gun shots. She turned her head and saw the three brotehrs. The two ex-SOLDIERs tried to dodge the shots.

They were getting closer when out of nowhere, kids jumped in their way. The closest to them was a young boy who, from what she remarked, Cloud recognized.

They both stopped, Cloud not so good. He was thrown off his motorcycle when he abruptly stopped.

"So he did show up!" Kadaj started. He glanced at Eloise and smirked. "And he came with a surprise"

"We came for the children" Cloud was pretty calm.

"This guy is our Brother!" Kadaj started completely ignoring Cloud. "And this girl is our Sister. But you know…it's a shame. They're traitors." He said while pointing his sword at Cloud's neck. Kadaj was ready to strike until they heard Marlene's innocent voice. Taking advantage, Cloud took his katana and leaned to Kadaj. Yazoo and Loz came too and Elly grabbed her rod.

It was a disaster. Eloise was trying to dodge Yazoo while Cloud wasn't in his best shape . She jumped in front of Cloud and dodge the gun shots coming towards him.

"Concentrate on Kadaj. I can't take care of these two" He tried to protest but she shut him up with a glare. He was on hsi way to Kadaj when Loz slammed his fist into the earth, making the water below rise like a big wave. Yazoo jumped over it making it even powerful. Eloise ran fast next to Cloud and placed her hand over his. He didn't know what was going to happen and, truthfully, she wasn't sure of what she was doing either. She tried, though, to remember what she had been taught.

A younger version of Eloise was leaning on a tree in the Training Room, not really in the mood of training. She felt someone sneaking on her and jumped out of the way.

"Nice try" that wasn't something new. It happened before. She was already used to him appearing out of nowhere.

"It worth at least one try" He was half smiling half smirking. He sat in her place and patted the ground, next to him. When they both got comfortable on the ground, he got a book out of his jacket and started to read it.

"LOVELESS. Can you do anything but that?" She was joking but he rolled his eyes at her comment.

"I do a lot of things" She chuckled. Even if she was 16 years old, her mind went to more adult-ish things.

"I'm sure you do" She titled her head to the right, trying to get a better view of him. He looked bored. "Why don't you train me?"He looked up from his book.

"Now now…"He started with a smirk. "Why would I train you? This is Sephiroth's business" She raised an eyebrow.

"I don't remember making him my tutor. He helps me improve because he wants to. You too can help me improve if you want to" She leaned closer to him. "Do you want to, Genesis?" For a moment, she thought he just choose to ignore her. However, she was someone that Genesis couldn't say no to. He placed the book back into his jacket and turned to her.

"Fine" His response was simple. She grinned victoriously. However, she couldn't even take her katana out when she felt his rapier pointed at her neck.

"I take it like I won, already?" She narrowed her eyes at his proud smirk. He was too cocky for his own good.

She jumped over him and hit him hard in the back of his head. He smirked finally taking it seriously, maybe. He raised his sword and trailed his hand over it. The sword started to glow.

"I really like that sword" She mumbled. She was completely entranced by that sword.

The fight was intense and fortunately for her pride, it was a tie. After they finished, they sat back under the tree. He was reading and she was thinking.

"How did you do it?" She asked

"How did I do what?"

"The thing with the trailed your hand over it and then BANG!" She clapped and did a loud sound. "You had energy flowing through it"

"Actually, I hadn't done anything. That's just how it work" He shrugged. That was going nowhere. He was too interested in that stupid romance novel. She wanted his attention. The only way she could have it was to take the book out of his hand. She did that and started to sway it in front of him.

"Teach me" That certainly sounded more like an order than a requirement. He stared into her eyes and blinked.

"You don't have a sword and I don't know how to teach you. It has to come from inside of you, I guess" He pushed her back and grabbed his book. He went back to reading.

It has to come from inside of you. Those were the words she needed. She had to look into her own body and find that energy.

The wave was getting closer and grew even bigger.

"Point the katana at it" She ordered Cloud. He didn't dare comment and did what she instructed him to.

"Let's hope for the best" Cloud's eyes narrowed at her words. Her eyes closed and she started to concentrate. She felt the energy building up inside of her. She gripped Cloud's hand tighter and felt the energy slipping into his katana. She opened her eyes and the energy just flew and destroyed the wave.

Eventually, Cloud did go and fight was alright fighting Yazoo and Loz on her own. Of course it wasn't so hard to dodge and fight but it was tiring. She heard a loud noise and turned around. Cloud was on the ground. She went beside him. Right on time a long red cloak appeared from thin air and grabbed Cloud Eloise with it.