Out of the frying pan and into the Fire
Kat walked off the plane from Tokyo to Osaka, she hated her aunt but knowing Kats aunt she wasn't even home from her trip to Tokyo. Kat having kept a key to her aunts house incase she threw her out was able to enter the lifeless home easily. Kat made her way to the attic stopping at her aunts room and making a detour.
"Lets see what you used my money for." Kat grumbled as she went through her aunts stuff. Opening a drawer and pulled out a jewelry box and opened it. Inside was many new and expensive bracelets, rings, and necklaces. Kat looked at them in disgust. She closed the box and put it back in the drawer and slid it closed.
"That's what you have been using my money for." Kat said not wanting to see what else her aunt had bought with her money for school. Kat walked up the stairs to the attic and found the three boxes of her parents things that had been packed away to keep. The first two that Kat took down stairs were heavy as if filled with books and papers. Kats parents were researchers and had been traveling to research new things, and perhaps to find more ways to get into the Final Fantasy world. The third box wasn't as heavy as the first two but it wasn't filled with feathers either. Kat picked up the phone and called a cab. She then returned to her aunts room in search of cash so she could get home. Once the fat purse her aunt had in the closet was located Kat had enough money to pay for her way home and to pay for her over due rent money. Kat also took some of the jewelry from the drawer in her aunts dresser. Half of it must have been bought by Kats money so she took some of what her money bought. In her hand Kat had a pendent with a star sapphire and a golden phoenix holding it in its talons.(Note star sapphires are expensive) The pendent was on a gold chain. Kat took a moment to put the necklace on and tuck it under her shirt. The cab came and took Kat and her things to the air port. The boxes went through the scanners and they took the third box opened it up and fumbled through the items inside. Kat hadn't even thought that there might be a weapon in the boxes or anything.
"Is something to problem?" Kat asked walking through the scanners.(took pendent off and put it through separate scanner.)
"Miss, this box has some unknown items in it. Care to explain?" the officer asked Kat. Kat looked in the box and said.
"They are just some collector items that my parents bought me." The officer looked through the box again and said.
"Ok let her through."
I entered the plane and my boxes were labeled and put in the storage compartment of the plane. The trip back to Tokyo was long with Kat being so hyper to look through the boxes. Cloud, Sephiroth, and Vincent had agreed to stay at the apartment and wait for Kat, but on one condition only. If she didn't return with in one day from leaving they were going looking for her. Kat on the other hand wanted to go and get out of there as soon as possible. She didn't want to see her aunt again so soon and after their fight it would look bad if she found Kat in her home snooping through her aunts stuff. Kat thought sadly about the note her father had written her in the box with the Materia. It was so clear now that he had driven the car off the cliff into the ocean committing suicide. Kat understood that her father probably didn't know how to explain why her mother wasn't with him and he didn't want to face the sadness, so he made Kat face the sadness that she had no real family now. Just an aunt that hated her but waited for Kat to move out and leave everything behind so she could spend Kats money to get into Tokyo U.
Kat took a cab to her apartment complex and buzzed up for Cloud Sephiroth and Vincent to come down and help her with the boxes.
"What's in this?" Cloud asked lifting the box unsteadily.
"Don't know papers and book probably."
"Cloud stop your complaining Kat had to carry all three of these when she went to Osaka." Sephiroth said lifting box number 2 easily. Vincent had box number 3 in hand and was heading up the stairs. Once all three boxes were up in Kats apartment She pulled opened the one that was checked by air port security. Inside was a jar of reddish dirt with fragments of something in it. There was a jar with some shimmering white wood from the forgotten city. There was a Shin-ra company poster that looked tattered. A picture of a woman with Kats father. They looked happy together in the picture, the woman had light brown hair while Kats fathers hair was black like hers.
"Kat, that's Midgar." Cloud pointed out a sign in the background saying welcome to Midgar. Sephiroth was looking at a rock that was in the box as well.
"Why did they bring all of this stuff back? Its so random." Sephiroth said putting the rock back.
"They were researchers they study things to find out what is in them and makes them different from other things. Like the difference between this rock from your world and one from this world. I think that they thought if they could find out what made everything there different then they could find a safer way to travel between our worlds."
"Kat, look at this." Cloud said holding a dog tag that was a bit rusty but the name on it was clear. Zack First-class SOLDIER Shin-ra electric company.
"Oh my god, Cloud this was Zack's. How did my parents get this?"
" Zack lost it at the reactor in the fight with you Sephiroth."
"So my parents somehow got in the reactor." Kat pulled out a solid looking block of stone and set it on her lap. She examined it for a moment running her fingers along the sides.
"What are you doing?" Vincent asked, he was sitting next to her.
"This is to light to be a solid block. Meaning there is something inside of it."
Kat paused her fingers not moving. She ran them over the same area again this time putting her palm on it and trying to push half of the block away while holding on to the other half. The stone moved slowly over an inch and then stopped moving. Kat then pulled up of the lip of the stone and the top came right off. Inside was a pistol similar to the one that Rufus Shin-ra has in Advent Children.
"Nice work." Cloud said looking down at the stone block.
"My parents weren't away all the time, they showed me how to do some of this stuff. But I wonder why they were so concerned about keeping this gun hidden?"
"I don't know." Cloud said, his hand clutching Zack's dog tag. Kat looked at Cloud for a moment then said putting the stone block box back in the card board box.
"Lets go to bed its late." Sephiroth stood up and said.
"Ya, anyways Aya called and said she wants to come over tomorrow. I told her that you would call her in the morning. Well night." Sephiroth said walking to the guest room and closing the door. Vincent stood and walked to the bathroom leaving Cloud and Kat there at the couch alone.
"Kat…"
"Its ok, I know what you are going to ask. You can keep the dog tag. I don't know how my parents got them but this is all new to me as well. So giving you that tag is no problem. Just hold on to it and don't lose it like Zack did." Kat said standing up and walking to her room. Cloud went to the guest room as well and Vincent set up camp on the couch again. Vincent couldn't sleep again and with his boredom he opened box number one and began to read some of the papers inside. Kat woke up at 2:00 am cause something in her neat room that had only a small TV on a table with her play station on top of it and her bed centered against the wall with her dresser next to her closet door. The door to the hallway was opened. Vincent stood in the door way looking at Kat in her panda bear pajamas.
"Kat you need to read this." Vincent said. He was holding a packet of papers that had been neatly stapled together. The packet was opened to the middle.
"What? Let me see it then." Kat said rubbing her eyes and turning on a small glow pillow she had. (real thing) through the dim pinkish glow Kat read the papers out loud.
"Through the research conducted at the location in question we have concluded that the connection to the other realm is a portal made when there are two locations in the realms that are alike. We have found one of these portals and are preparing to enter it tomorrow. The current location of this portal is in the center of the crater of Mt. Fuji. We have both agreed that this project is to go unheard of until we have gone to the other realm and returned. We have come to the second realm without any problems. Going through the portal feels like being put in a small box while you are traveling between the realms and once you arrive you break through the box and return to normal. Everything but our compass is accounted for. What happened to the compass we do not know, we believe that the compass being lost is no problem to living beings. We have discovered that this realm we have entered is that of the game Final Fantasy. As we travel we have been collecting items to take back with us. We have even obtained a Materia orb to give to our daughter. What kind it is we do not know. We now know that the location we arrived at was a place called "Sephiroth's Wake". We searched the northern cave and our findings were spectacular. We have recovered part of the calamity named Jenova, it has been sealed within the stone block we carry. Within it we also put a gun we found next to Jenova. We have yet to research these findings but our work here is not done. Date 12/20/2004."
"Kat, your parents have Jenova within that block, we need to close it again. If Sephiroth finds out then there is no knowing what he will do." Vincent said flipping the packet closed. Kat was silent for a moment then said.
"We need to close that box and make sure that no one is ever able to open it again."
Kat walked with Vincent to where the stone box was sitting in the card board box. Kat closed it and said to Vincent who was sitting next to her on the couch.
"You guys can go back now. You know where the portal is, there is nothing keeping you here. I can tell you guys miss your world."
Kat looked at Vincent his crimson eyes seemed to glow in the dark apartment. Vincent's hand pulled the back of Kats head into a kiss that shocked Kat at first but she dared not pull away from him. When they parted Vincent said.
"I will not leave you here alone. Come with me, come with me back to the world of Final Fantasy. I could not bear to leave you." He said hugging her tightly. Kat knew in the game Vincent had fallen in love with Lucrecia. When he lost her he had locked himself in a coffin in the basement of the Shin-ra building punishing himself for his "Sin".
"Vincent, I'll go with you." Kat said as Vincent let her go. His eyes were shining with joy. That was the first time Kat had ever seen Vincent truly happy. The door to the guest room opened and Cloud walked out mumbling about something. He walked into the bathroom and closed the door. Kat stood up setting the stone block back in the card board box and then whispered to Vincent.
"Good night." Kat crept back to her room and closed the door silently.
Next Day
Chi was sitting on Kats chest meowing none stop.
"What is it Chibi?" Kat said rubbing her eyes and looking at her kitten. Chi was getting very fat now that Sephiroth had agreed to feed the kitten each day.
"How much is Sephiroth giving you." Kat said picking up the fat kitten.
Chi kept meowing at Kat. "Come on lets clean your litter box." Kat said getting up. Chi bounced down to the floor and lead Kat to the litter box that was in the bathroom corner. It was smelling terrible. Kat cleaned the litter box putting the bag of dirty cat litter into her small dumpster she had. Sephiroth walked out of the guest room dressed for the day. He stopped and looked at Kats panda bear pajamas and said.
"Your going around like that?"
"No I had to clean Chi's litter box. How much food have you been giving him now that we are on the topic."
"Yesterday when you were gone he wouldn't stop meowing so I kept filling his bowl. He meows when he wants food right?"
"He wouldn't stop meowing because the litter box need to be cleaned. Next time he does that clean the litter box, everything you need to do that is under the sink in the bathroom." Kat said looking down at the half full bowl of food for Chi.
"You better enjoy this little gluttony trip you had cause its not coming again." Kat said to the little happy kitten.
"Sephiroth you only need to feed him one scoop a day, ok?"
Kat picked up her book bag and said to everyone.
"Ok, we have work today so we shouldn't be late." Even though Kat didn't need to work today after getting the money from her aunt Kat wanted to thank John for the key chains he gave her for Christmas. Inside the store there was a group of girls looking at the Advent Children movies. When all four of us entered the store they all broke into a giggling fit and walked over to Cloud, Sephiroth, and Vincent. Kat hopped over the counter and pulled on her apron and said to John.
"Thanks for the key chains, I love them." She said motioning to her back pack where they hung with joy.
"Though you would like those. I'm glad you brought those three with you. Sales haven't been so good since they started to hang out here."
"Really?"
"Ya, by the way here is your pay check from last week. Apparently an aunt of your kept you from getting it." John said handing Kat her check.
"How did you find out about that?"
"Well from what those three said you were on a raging rampage because your aunt decided to come out at the lat minute."
"That means they were working here Christmas eve. So that's how they got the money to buy me some gifts." Kat said looking at Cloud, Sephiroth, and Vincent who were crowded around by girls and more coming in.
"John I also came to say that I'm going on vacation here for a few days. I get 2 weeks off of school and all but I'm taking work off to."
"Going sight seeing?"
"Yup, have three disposable cameras to."
"I'll make sure to get you one before you leave. Cant have you going off and having fun without you bringing me back pictures." John said with a smile.
"If my hair was brown would I look like Aerith?"
"You already look like her. Why do you ask?"
"No reason, just wanted to know if I should dye my hair brown."
"I think you would look a lot more like Aerith with brown hair."
The day went on with the fan girls packing in the store to see Cloud, Sephiroth, and Vincent. Vincent had gotten tired of people touching Cerberus so he had gone behind the counter with Kat and John. This worked even better for the sales. Everyone wanted to see the Final Fantasy characters and if Vincent was behind the counter no one could crowd around him so anyone buying something could see him clearly. Kat didn't know why but that kind upset her some. She would rather have people see Vincent clearly rather than crowding around him and touching his arms and Cerberus.
"Is this all your buying miss?" Kat asked not even looking up to see who she was taking to. Scanning the Advent Children movie and patch of Reno Aya said.
"Ya that's all I'm going to buy, you never called me back though so I came all the way here to you." Aya said with a smile.
"Aya, I'm sorry I didn't call you back. There was a lot going on."
"Ya I'll say with your aunt coming to town at the last minute."
"Ok is there anyone you didn't tell?" Kat asked Vincent who was sitting in a chair behind Kat.
"We only told John and Aya. Its not that many people." Vincent said, his voice almost drowned out by the giggles of the fan girls around. Aya stuck around making sure no one tried to kidnap Sephiroth or Cloud. The store closed with the last few girls that were there having to be asked to leave. Aya leaned against the counter and said.
"Those people are crazy, they kept pulling Sephiroth's hair. Have they no respect?"
Kat looked over at Sephiroth who had somehow gotten a brush and was fiercely brushing his hair to the sleek way it was in the morning when they came. Cloud looked dead leaning against the wall.
"Cloud you ok?" Kat asked looking at the zombie like Cloud. Cloud moaned and Kat didn't bother him again.
"Much more of this and you guys are going to get killed by those fan girls." John laughed.
Mr. Soma walked out from the back room a smile on his face.
"With you three coming here we have to make extra orders so we don't run out of items."
"Mr. Soma, I don't mind bringing them with me here but we need to do something about them being crowed by people." Kat said her eyes glanced over at the zombie like Cloud.
"We can rope off an area. Want to do that tomorrow?"
"Actually, Mr. Soma I am going on vacation. Those three wanted to go sight seeing around Japan."
"Ok, well we'll do that when you get back." Mr. Soma handed Kat an envelop.
"Sir, I haven't worked at all this week."
"I have to give something to the person that brought these three here." Mr. Soma said motioning to Cloud, Sephiroth, and Vincent.
"Now go on home." He said returning to the back room.
"You guys herd him lets go." John said jumping over the counter. Kat followed him with the check in hand. Vincent came as well. John said his good byes and handed Kat a disposable camera. Aya walked with them back to Kats apartment.
"Kat, where are you going for your vacation?"
"We'll talk about that in a moment." Kat said opening the door to her apartment and lead them in. Kat put the 3rd box on the coffee table and everyone sat around. Cloud to Kats right Aya to her left. Vincent stood next to the couch while Sephiroth sat in the chair adjacent to the couch. Kat pulled out the jar with the wood sample from the forgotten city out of the box.
"You know what this is?" Kat asked
"Ya it's the wood from the trees in the forgotten city. Where did they make this?"
"Its real wood Aya."
"You can't mean this is from the Final Fantasy game. I thought you were kidding that they were from the game."
"I wasn't"
"Kat this isn't enough proof that there really is a different world."
"No, ok look at this." Kat pulled out the shin-ra poster.
"Kat anyone can make a poster."
"Fine, well there is something you cant make here." Kat said standing up and walking to her room. She came back with the little wooden box. Opening it up she showed Aya the Materia orb.
"Its, its got to be like those glow sticks. So it will just die when the chemicals even out."
"There is nothing I can show you to make you believe me is there?"
"Kat, its not that I don't believe you its just that I can't believe what I am seeing here. None of this is anything more to me than someone found a way to make these things. I can't go to Tokyo U. next year and think that a game world is real."
"Your going to Tokyo U.?"
"Yes, I got a scholarship to I could go."
"Aya, I'm just going to Mt. Fuji and some other places. So I guess you should go home. We have some exams I need to study."
"Kat I really am sorry but I cant believe this to be real." Aya said standing up and leaving. When the door closed Kat said.
"We are leaving tomorrow morning. We should pack."
"Kat what is going on?" Cloud asked as Vincent said down where Aya was sitting moments ago.
"Well, I know where to go to get you guys home. So I thought that you have been here long enough and you probably miss your home."
"Kat we are fine here." Cloud started.
"Don't lie to me Cloud, I see you always looking at your phone hoping for a call from Tifa or anyone else that you left behind. Sephiroth I can tell that you don't like Tokyo you always are looking out the windows then just sitting down for a long time and you don't say anything." Kat stood up with the wooden box in hand.
"So pack, tomorrow you three are going back." Kat turned to walk to her room. Sephiroth grabbed Kats shoulder and said turning her around.
"You brought us here because you needed someone so you wouldn't be alone. I will not leave you here alone."
"I wont either." Cloud said.
Kat smiled and said.
"I wont be alone because I am coming with you. I want to know more about everything in your world." That night they packed and Kat called Aya.
"Hey Aya, since I'm going on this trip can you take care of Chibi for me? Also if its ok can Chibi stay at your place? He is litter box cat. Ok thanks, He only eats one scoop of food a day. If he keeps crying to you in the morning that means he wants you to clean his litter box. No he doesn't do that every day. Yes he has a collar just in case he gets out. Seven? Ok see you then." Kat hung up the phone and sighed. Grabbing a large plastic bin she filled it half full with clean litter. Kat pull out a small 5 pound bag with a one cup scooper in it. Finding Chi Kat put his leash on and gave the fat kitten a hug.
"Your going to stay with my friend for a while, be good and don't pester her all the time." Kat said in a babyish voice to Chi. There was a knock on the door and Kat opened to see Aya with her father.
"Hello, I have everything you'll need for him right here." Kat said motioning to the plastic bin with the clean litter in it(lid is on). The bag of food and Chi with his leash.
"He has no toys?" Aya's father asked.
"No he is to lazy to play. He sleeps most of the day. I hope this is no trouble."
"No not at all, father you said that if I could cats sit well then you would let me get a cat so don't say this doesn't count." Aya said scratching behind Chi's ear.
Aya and her father took Chibi and his stuff. Kat and the others had packed some stuff. They didn't really pack many cloths because when they got back to their world they wouldn't need them. Kat on the other hand packed more cloths than other stuff. Kat planned to take all of the stuff in the three boxes that her parents had. Kat put the Materia in her jeans pocket. The golden phoenix pendent hung around her neck. Getting to Mt. Fuji wasn't the hard part of this trip. Getting to the portal that her parents described in their log was the hard part. Kat had packed everything she could carry in her back pack. It was mostly clothing but she had put some things in her back pack like the wood from the forgotten city, the Shin-ra poster folded up. The stone block was in Kat's back pack too. Kat lifted one of the boxes that was filled with papers and said to the other three.
"Come on get those two boxes."
"So we are leaving tonight?" Sephiroth said picking up one box.
"We are getting to the location to night we are going in the morning."
"Ok well lets go." Cloud said picking up the box with the totally random looking items in it. Vincent took Kats box and carried it. Kat got a cab and they went to Mt. Fuji. Once the cab had driven off Kat said.
"Ok, they don't let people in here at night so we are going to sneak in. Follow me." Kat lead them away from the front gates to the path up to the summit.
Kat followed the fencing until she found a spot where the fence was hidden by bushes. It looked as if a fox had dug a small hole to get under the fence. Whatever happened it was going to help them get the boxes through. Kat began to dig the hole down more with her hands then slid under the fence. She was dressed in a black sweat shirt and some jeans so it wasn't like she was getting a dress dirty. Kat pulled her back pack through the hole and said.
"Lets try and get the boxed under." Cloud set his box down in the hole and got it stuck trying to get it under.
"Keep digging." Kat said to Cloud who was now helping her dig the hole so it could get the box through. After some time the box got free and Kat pulled it through to her. They sent the boxes through that way then tossed most of the dirt back in the hole. Cloud climbed over the fence while Sephiroth and Vincent just jumped over it. It was a simple chain link fence that was only 6 feet high. They hiked up the side of the Mt. staying on the path most of the time. Once they got to the end of the path Kat started to climb up even farther. When she reached the rim of the volcano's crater she looked for a safe way down. There was a way down, it would be mostly sliding down trying not to fall and role down, but it was better than just jumping down and hoping you lived.
"See over there, we can get down over there."
"Looks like it could get risky fast too." Cloud said.
"Then you can jump down there. I don't know about you but I think that gravity is stronger in this world seeing as you guy cant fly."
"Fine I was just make a comment." Cloud said making his way to the area Kat pointed out. When they got there they spent most of the time getting down sliding in the crusty ash. From time to time Kat would be able to work her way down when her feet meet rocks. Taking the boxes down was tricky. Kat had to catch the box of papers that Sephiroth was taking down when he lost his grip on it. Kat found getting down easier with the box though. She cloud hold on to it while it slid down and it often went over the rocks without incident. When Kat got to the bottom Cloud was waiting. Kat was covered with ash. Cloud had ruffled his hair to get some of the ash out. Sephiroth slid down next to Kat.
"Sorry I lost the box."
"Its ok I got down easier with it." Sephiroth had almost no ash covering him. Kat looked up the hill to see Vincent almost down. The sky was slowly growing brighter as morning came. Kat took her sweat shirt off and shook it off. Under the sweat shirt she had on a tank top that was a bright red color. Pulling on her sweat shirt Kat said.
"Ok, well come dawn we need to know where the portal is. Some people come up the path early in the morning to watch the sunrise."
"Ok lets spread out."
They each went one way looking for anything that could be the portal. Kat had hoped her parents marked the area where the portal was. Kat came back to the makeshift camp with nothing. Kat pulled out the packet that Vincent had shown her the other night. Looking at it she slapped her head and laughed.
"Guys come back." putting the packet away she picked up her back pack and waited for them to get back.
"You found the portal?" Cloud asked.
"I know where it is ya. Come on its almost dawn." Kat started to walk to the center of the crater. And sure enough her parents had marked an oval with stones.
"Is that the portal?" Sephiroth asked looking at the stones.
"I think so." Kat said picking up one of the stones and throwing it through the oval of stones, nothing happened. The stone hit the ground on the other side of the oval with a small thump.
Kat looked at the others then said.
"I'll walk through it, if I disappear it's the portal. My parents make this oval with the stones so it must be here." Kat said then grabbed the straps of her back pack and walked through the oval. It wasn't until she got to the center of it that she felt like she was being put in a box. She closed her eyes as the air was taken from her chest. Kat forced herself to open her eyes to see a purple and blue glowing things around her. She was moving to an unknown location standing strait. A blue mass was coming at Kat fast. Kat put her arms up in front of her face closing her eyes expecting top hit the blue mass and for it to be hard. The pressure let up and Kat gasped a breath before landing hard in dirt and snow. Kat pushed herself up and looked behind her thinking she would see Sephiroth, Cloud, and Vincent. There was no one. Kat saw a shimmer of a blue light as it disappeared. Kat let out a shaky breath. She had made it to the world of Final Fantasy. Kat stood up patting off the snow and walking away from the replica oval that marked the portal home. A moment later Cloud came through the portal stumbling forward.
"Cloud!" Kat said walking over to Cloud. Before Cloud could say anything his cell phone began to ring. He flipped it open and Kat could hear Tifa's voice yelling at Cloud for not picking up his phone and disappearing for so long.
"Tifa, calm down. I'll come, I just had to go somewhere."
Kat could hear Tifa say whatever just get here soon. Then Cloud flipped his phone closed in time to be tackled by Sephiroth coming through the portal. A moment later Vincent came through the portal with his box. (all of the boxes made it there)
"Were here, but where is here?" Kat asked rubbing her arms.
"This is the northern cave." Cloud said looking at Sephiroth who shouldn't even be alive at the moment.
"If Sephiroth is still alive now and you have been missing for a long time Cloud. That means I have altered the game somehow." Kat said.
"We can talk about that later we need to get to Tifa she wants to see me and Vincent. Sephiroth you can come if you want. I think that you should come Kat."
"Thanks for the offer Cloud, but seeing as everyone here thinks I'm evil I don't think me being at your little reunion is such a good idea. I'll meet up with you guys later." Sephiroth said setting the box down and walking off.
"How are we going to get to Tifa?" I asked confused. Cloud pulled out a purple Materia orb and said.
"Chocobo Lure." He just held it out in the open air. Soon a sound came that was like birds but different. Four chocobos came into view and Kat smiled.
"So your not Chocobo head because of your hair." Kat joked.
They loaded the boxes on one Chocobo while they sat on the other three. Soon enough they were at Tifa's place. When they entered the bar Tifa yelled at Cloud.
"Where have you been for the past 3 months! I called you at least a thousand times! You" she paused when she saw Kat.
"Who is this?" She asked
"Um…my name is Kat Gainsborough. I am the reason that Cloud went missing Tifa. I kind of summoned him to my world alone with Vincent and Sephiroth."
"What? Gainsborough that's Aerith's name. She was the last Cetra. If you're a Gainsborough then you're a Cetra."
"Tifa, she is the only pureblood of her world. And the last one she is looking for her mother." Cloud said.
"Tifa, its better if we save this for another time, can she stay here for now?" Vincent interrupted.
"Oh, yes I'm sorry. Do you have anything besides this bag?"
"Ya I have three boxes of my parents stuff. But I have a question."
"Yes what is it?"
" Can you tell me what kind of Materia this is?" Kat pulled out the Red Materia orb."
"I don't know what one that is, but Yuffie is coming tomorrow so she could tell you. Just don't let her run off with it. You wont see it again."
"Ok."
"Cloud take her to one of the open rooms. We'll get the boxes." Tifa said walking out the door. Cloud nodded to her and lead Kat up the stairs.
"You can stay here, the bathroom is right down the hall. You can take a shower if you want to." Cloud went back down stairs. Kat took the opportunity to get clean quickly. When Kat walked out of the bathroom she went back to her room to put her dirty cloths in her bag. Tifa had brought up the boxes and left them by the bed. The room had a small night table and a bed in it. Kat liked how simple it was. It reminded her of her room back at the apartment. Kat had paid for the apartment so she could keep it for 3 months in her world. Kat felt bad about leaving Chi behind now. It was like Chi was being put up for adoption or something. It made Kat want to cry but she wouldn't let herself be seen so weak.
"I'm here for a reason and I wont leave until I know what happened to my mother." Kat said determined.
Next day
Kat walked down stairs dressed in a black tank top and jeans. From the commotion down stairs the bar was already open. Kat felt weird walking around a bar underage. Kat saw Yuffie at once. She was making fun of how Clouds head looked like a Chocobo's head.
Cid looked over at Kat and said.
"Hey Cloud that the kid you were talking about?" Cid pointed to me. Everyone in the bar looked at me. I recognized all of their faces. In the bar was Reno, Rude, Cid, Tifa, Yuffie, Cloud, Vincent, Marlene, and Denzel, Barret.
"This is Kat." Cloud said pushing Yuffie off of his shoulders.
"Cloud, You said that she had the same last name as Aerith. Does that mean they are sisters?" Marlene asked.
"I don't know if Aerith is Kats sister. That's why Kat is here to find out how she is related to Aerith." Cloud said.
"To be truthful I don't know if I am related to Aerith." Kat smiled saying to Marlene. Kat noticed that Vincent had been looking at Kat then when she would look up he would quickly look back at his drink.
"Hey Yuffie, can you tell me what kind of Materia this is?" Kat said pulling out the red Materia. Yuffie squealed when she saw the Materia.
"That's a Bahamut ZERO!" Yuffie scrambled over to look at the red Materia. Everyone one around looked shocked.
"Yuffie are you sure it's a Bahamut ZERO?" Cid asked.
"I'm always sure with Materia! I have seen this type before, but my gil pouch wouldn't let me buy it." Yuffie said looking longingly down at the Materia.
"Um…what's so great about this?" Kat asked feeling stupid.
"Those sell for a nice bit of gil, and they are hard to find. How did you get it anyways?" Cid said.
"My parents gave it to me. You all know I'm from the other world, well my parents found a portal between the worlds. My mother couldn't come back when my father did so I'm here looking for her.
"Kat," Reno spoke up for the first time. " There are no Cetra's here anymore. No one but you."
"I know, but I have to know what happened to her." Kat said her hand gripping the Materia tightly. Yuffie looked devastated that Kat closed her hand around the Materia now unable to get it quickly.
"Tifa get her a drink, she is in for a lot of sad times." Cid said sliding his beer glass to Tifa for a refill. Tifa gave Cid his refill and got Kat a glass of juice. Marlene sat in one of the bar stools and Tifa got her a juice too. Kat sat down next to Marlene and drank the juice thinking. 'I have gone through more than they think I can handle whatever is to come.' Reno and Rude stood up and said.
"We'll see you all later."
"Ok bye." Tifa said as they left.
Outside of the bar Reno looked at Rude and said.
"Rufus will want to hear about this." Rude nodded and they walked off to tell Rufus that there was a pureblood Cetra in Midgar.
Authors note: Hey sorry I didn't get this up until now so I made the chapter longer to apologize for me being late. Send me some reviews we have our first pairing here I expect all of you that read this to send me a review. Happy New Year everyone. I want to say for me only owning Advent Children I have had one hell of a time getting my information, Wikipeadia is great and all but I cant rely on it. So if anyone has something to suggest for the next chapter or so that is welcomed.