Chapter Five

Lion

Within the two days that had passed Cloud had conducted a plan and he was keeping it too himself he didn't want to bring Tifa into it, he was going to go find Nymph on his own and bring her home even if it killed him he was going to do it. He had made sure Fenrir was in top notch and had been preparing to head out the following morning sadly though for him Tifa had caught on to what he was planning, his sneaky behaviour, the lies he had told everything had built up and the pieces of the puzzle had been filled in.

It was that night as they prepared for bed that Tifa confronted Cloud about his plan.

"Cloud you can't go or at least not without me!" Tifa shouted suddenly taking Cloud by surprise

"Teef you know?" Cloud questioned shocked that she had found out he thought he had been so careful

"Of course I do you're not that good at covering your tracks" Tifa sighed trying to suppress a giggle she had to act angry after all she was rather

"I'm not am I" Cloud blushed scratching the back of his neck.

"No you're not so I'm coming with you and we'll take the horses instead as after all Nymph is still too small to be riding on Fenrir" Tifa stated Cloud sighed and wrapped his arms around his wife's waist she was right Nymph was too small to ride on Fenrir just now and he understood why she wanted to come to.

"Alright we'll do this together just how we to put an end to Rufus" Cloud agreed and then captured Tifa's lips with his and when they broke apart they climbed into bed and began to discuss which horses they would take before sleep consumed their tired minds.

The creature was bearing down on the two ready to bite when Nymph rolled over and ended up whacking the creature in the face with the back of her hand. The creature growled at the action and began to strike again when it was suddenly attacked. A red wolf like lion that's tail was alight with a flame had pounced on the creature and sunk it's teeth into the neck of the creature, it yelped in pain which caused the girls to wake, they screamed seeing the animals fight and the blood run down the creature's neck. They watched in horror as the two animals battled it out as they were frozen to the spot unable to move as the fight raged on.

Eventually after what felt like a life time had passed the creature had dropped down dead and the wolf lion like animal limped over to the girls that still sat nervously under the alcove.
"It's all right I won't hurt you" the animal said soothingly so not to frighten the girls

"You can talk?" Kirsten asked clearly shocked the animal could talk

"My Name's Nanaki" the animal said and lowered his head almost in a bowing type manner

"I'm Kirsten and this is Nymph" Kirsten returned the greeting

"It's nice to meet you I'll protect you but I must ask what are you girls doing out here and dressed like that?" Nanaki asked clearly curious

"We escaped from this lab we had been held prisoner there after being taking from our parents" Nymph explained

"Oh yes I know of it so where are you two from anywhere?" Nanaki pressed

"Well I'm the daughter of Cloud and Tifa Strife I live near the 7th Heaven stables" Nymph said as her eyes began to water with the mention of her parent's names.

"And what about you" Nanaki gestured towards Kristen, nodding at what Nymph had said.

"I'm an orphan I was bought from an orphanage in Wutai I never knew my parents" Kirsten sobbed she had been alone her whole life and nobody had wanted her until they had taken her but she knew it wasn't because they loved her they wanted something from her and they had most likely got it now.

"Now sleep girls I'll watch over you" Nanaki said and with that they girls nervously lay back down and tried to settle down to sleep.

Once the girls finally allowed sleep to consume their world Nanaki settled down to rest at their feet, resting his head on his paws he kept watch on the horizon as the girls slept rather restlessly on the uncomfortable stone that was their bed for the night. Thankfully the rest of the night had indeed been uneventful and as dawn broke the girls began to stir from their sleep. Nymph was first to wake up and once she had rubbed the sleep from her eyes she realised she was alone besides Kirsten who was still fast sleep the only sound was her breathing the wolf lion like creature was nowhere to be found.

"Kirsten wake up the lion's gone" Nymph said shaking Kirsten roughly, the girl groaned as she rolled over and began to wake up.

"What?" she yawned wanting nothing more than to go back to sleep.

"The lion thing has gone" Nymph said louder this time

"I haven't gone I merely went to get you something to eat" Nanaki called from just above the alcove before coming into view carrying a hare in his mouth.

"We're supposed eat that?" Kirsten asked questioning the creature

"Of course unless you want to starve, we'll cook it first off course" Nanaki grinned bearing his teeth as the hare fell to the ground.

"You can't be serious!" Angeal demanded slamming his fist onto the desk that separated him from Cloud and Tifa, Aerith placed a hand on her father in laws shoulder, she too was worried and shocked at the words that had just left the couple's mouth.

"We are serious after all the police aren't getting anywhere!" Cloud debated back, Zack was the only one for once staying quite he couldn't get his head round what he had just heard, his best friend, his cousin and his wife setting off into the world to find their daughter, he understood their concern their love but he was at war with himself whether or not to voice his thoughts but Angeal was already doing that for the three of them so for the meantime he just kept quite chewing on his lip.

"Tifa are you sure you should be going too shouldn't you stay here?" Aerith asked with a sad voice

"No I'm going to I would be worse off if I stayed I can't bear to lose Cloud too that's why I must go to and that's why I need you and Zack to be the ones that chase up the police and keep us informed I'm sorry" Tifa sighed

"Alright fine which horses are you taken then?" Angeal mumbled still unhappy about it but now whenever these two got an idea in their minds they wouldn't let it go and he had learned that arguing was pretty useless but that wasn't going to make him fight to see sense all though in most cases this one included he would lose the fight and just give up.

"Well Indi, Maggie, Sally, Hennessey, big Barney, Aaron and Paddy we intend to take after all we need a few to carry our supplies and then of course when we find the girls we have to get them back somehow" Cloud said ticking off each horse with his fingers.

"Well I'll go prepare them, oh and Yuffie wants to see you too before you intend to leave" Zack finally spoke up as he began to leave not wanting to hear anymore as he was taken this harder than the rest of the group at least though he could speak to Aerith later about what his friends were about to do and why exactly it was bothering him but here in this room full of people he cared about he couldn't bring himself to say anything.

The hare had been cooked almost to the point it was black but at least they had something to put in their bellies and that was the main thing. During their meal Nanaki had kept watch while the girls ate and once done Nanaki suggested that they moved on but as Kirsten had finally stood up she whimpered in pain her ankle flaring with the weight of her.

"I don't think I can walk" Kirsten muttered lowering her head almost in shame.

"Kirsten it's not your fault you fell so come on get on" Nanaki said just before Nymph could say anything

"Are you sure?" Kirsten questioned raising an eyebrow nervously

"Of course I can be trusted" Nanaki bowed his head and with a quick look towards Nymph who nodded Kirsten cautiously limped towards the creature and climbed on his back, his fur was soft against Kirsten's touch and they began to head further into the forest, further away from the place that had held them prisoner.

After around 10 minutes Nymph was starting to feel a little lightheaded after pushing herself the day before and within seconds she had collapsed with a rather audible thud on the hard ground. Immediately Nanaki and Kirsten came to a stop and turned to look back at the sound they had just heard, there on the ground was Nymph clutching her head and fighting with herself to stop from crying.

"Nymph!" Kirsten cried seeing the younger girl writhing in pain.

"Nymph are you okay can you hear me" Nanaki asked trying to stay calm so that Kirsten would stay as clam as possible. A very almost inaudible moan escaped Nymph's lips as her finger nails dug into the dirt.

"Nymph are you able to get up?" Nanaki asked he had to be try and get the girls as far away from the house of torture as he could well actually he wanted to get the girls home, he had experience himself of loosing family he had lost his mother in hunting accident and his father cowered away and had fled with his tail between his legs so he could understand the girls wanting to well get home all though that only counted for Nymph what with Kirsten's background he wonder what would be best for her but it was the right thing to do, take them back to the humans.

finally chapter 5 is up 'evillaugh' for making you wait so long espically on that cliffhanger :D I'm so evil

You can tell why I called it Lion however I'm not sure if the right title I'm really not sure if Wolf would of been better but then again he's not really one of either he's like a hybrid really.

So the girls are now safe well from the creature however they still aren't out the woods yet and of course now it looks like Nymph has gotten Mako addiction just like her dad in the original game or rahter Crisis Core Hojo you are a sick ****** so Cloud and Tifa are taking matters into their own hands.

Again if you do want more of this story I want at least 5 reviews just so I know if it's living up to it's predecessor or not or to try and sort out my grammer and so on. I am trying to stop with the run on sentences however I can't seem to help it. anytips on stopping that would be great it's a bad habit. So pls review and let me know wot you think. I have already got up to Chapter 10 written so if you want to find out wot happens and don't watch me on DA then your going to have to review. I'm just feeling a little evil right now lol