Notes: I would like to thank all those that reviewed! Thank you so much! I'm really happy I got some reviews and I'm so happy you guys liked my Terra! I haven't played 7 much, I only did it once...so I had to study FF7 on Youtube to see how Cloud acted. As for Terra, I had help from two people here on this site - MagitekElite & my best friend, Hei An Yin (his name is that here) to get her more on character, so thank you guys for doubly helping me out! Also, The Black Wolfe for helping me out on where to find the script of Dissidia so I could have a rough idea as to where what is or at least providing images of what the game looked like as I don't have it yet...I don't own a PSP, I mean. I have the game now.
Oh I should mention this again. I know I am not even close to the story, but have mercy with me. I haven't played it yet as I just got the game but not the system, but I'm being told there isn't much of a story line anyway...As for my comment at the end of chapter 2 about Terra being emotional, one must remember the anguish and pain (?) she was experiencing in the game. What she had to deal with, not remember, hurting her friends. So I've heard about the new Dissidia game. I didn't expect it, but Terra looks mighty beautiful in her new clothes! Also, Vaan better take his dirty thief hands off of her - she belongs to one man only! Well, in this fic its Cloud, but you get what I mean. Anyway, looks like I gotta hurry and get a PSP for this new one.
I hope it goes into detail about Terra's role with the Chaos side...
So thank you all for sticking through with it. I hope to see more reviews from you guys! I hope you enjoy the new chapter! If you see any mistakes, please let me know and I'll fix it quickly!
Chapter: Laboratory of Nightmares
Cloud knew that what he did, or rather didn't do, had annoyed the green vixen he traveled with. It wasn't as if he were staring, he didn't even pause to stare. All he wanted to do was hurry up this battle Cosmos called them for and be sent back to his world safely. Yet he had to go and tick off her again for something he had no idea about. It was about two days ago when they last stopped and he could start to see the wear in Terra and he had to admit, even he began to wear down. His legs were weak, but he forced himself to keep walking.
At last they reached the end of the lively forest and could see a smaller field before them. The blue castles were so close! A day or two and they would be there! Maybe less if they could get something to eat and a good night's rest. He could tell the full view to the sun's warmth lightened Terra's mood and decided it was the time to call for a quick stop to gather some food. He sighed when she didn't seem to remember or at least forget, about what he did or rather didn't do.
Squall had taken off some time ago while Buntz and Zidane we're sleeping, leaving them to plan for themselves. Luckily though, they had Buntz! He was a master at surviving in the wild, so he knew what to do and how to feed themselves.
Buntz could see the blue castles and grinned, looking down at his traveling companion. "Look, check it out Zidane!" he pointed ahead of him. "We're so close! I hope we find some of the others..."
"Man, I'm starved! Can't we get something to eat before we start off again?"
Buntz laughed and jumped down from the tree to land beside Zidane. "Sure, but we should hurry! I can smell a storm..."
Cloud ran to the entrance of the blue castles just as the ran started up. It was early in the morning and the sun had raised only to be shadowed by the dark, storm clouds. Terra had run in before him due to her being faster than him and already ran off deeper into the abyss of the castle. He sighed and followed the wet foot prints up a flight of stairs and saw her pushing the doors open, calling out for OK.
"Onion Knight?" she called into another room, desperately in hopes her little companion was okay. "Onion Knight?" she called again, opening another door to an empty room. She turned to Cloud with a grim face on. "I'm heading up the stairs, can you check the rest of the rooms down here...?" Cloud nodded and began to check the rooms when she ran up the rest of the stairs twisting high above him in a semi-circle up toward the spiral top of the castle.
When Terra reached the top of the stairs, she began to open the doors and repeat her previous process of calling out to Onion Knight. Oh, its all my fault this happened...if only I had just been able to help. She pushed another door open and gasped at the the new stair case heading down. The stairs were dark and gloomy. The air suddenly got cold and stale and she stepped forward. What if Onion Knight was down there? She couldn't really take the chance of turning back to get Cloud, OK could be in serious trouble. She took a deep breath and gently laid a sure hand on the hilt of her sword buckled to her right hip and started her travel down the new set of stairs into the deep, black abyss.
The temperature was hot and very heavy and she couldn't help the feeling that someone was watching her, or following her. As she stepped off the last step of the stairs, she stared in amazed fear at the giant laboratory before her. Tall, empty test tubes scattered about the lab, some filled with green-blue liquid, others empty and broken. There were channels of different levels of the test tubes, which stretched high above her for what seemed like miles. Her acute nose smelled the burning coal that made the engines work to power the active test tubes. Yet, all the test tubes were empty. Why have them on?
She could hear the howl of wind coming through a hole some place and shivered in fear as she stepped further in. Looking to her right, was another stair case leading up to the right side of the channels, to the left, the same. And then there was a stair case leading down further in front of her and she could see what looked like, an control room. There were blinking lights and jolts of electricity bouncing across the floor occasionally. There were empty chairs lined against the control panels...one of them had what looked like an manual on it. She didn't want to enclose herself into a small area, so she turned away from the control panel and ignored the manual and instead, decided to head of the left staircase.
When she reached the top, nothing but another long hall lined with test tubes and at the end, she could see yet another stair case. She frowned. "What...is this place?" She could hear the gears of something grinding against something above her and glanced up slowly. There were wired running across the roof toward a giant gear rotating against another. A pipe popped out of its side and twisted up toward the roof of the lab. It was transparent, she could see the same liquid flowing through it.
Maybe where that water is going, is a way out, or maybe Onion Knight. She decided to run to the end of the hall and when she slid to a stop, she gasped as she almost fell into a hole in the ground. It was burning around its edges and in the hole's belly, was a meteor. She gasped. "Onion Knight!" he was here! But was he in trouble? This spell, she knew it was his, and it was freshly summoned too, she could tell!
She carefully stepped around the weak, burning edges of the pit and then squeezed pass a broken pillar holding the floor above up and then pushed pass a dead wire hanging from the roof was was free from her jungle. She turned and ran up the stairs to see more battle sites. Giant ice cubes melting away, more charred ground and comet pieces shattered about. She gasped when she saw one of OK's sashes lying dirty on the ground. She reached down and lifted the dirty cloth off the ground and held it close to her. Oh she hoped that he was okay.
Tears formed in her eyes as she turned and started down the rest of the wall way adorned by test tubes. She found a circle piece of ground with another control panel, but it was much smaller. She glanced around, searching for more stairs. She couldn't find anything, and then she looked up and saw more channels of halls with test tubes. How does anyone get up there? She ran to the panel and sighed at the buttons. Maybe one will make a staircase for me?
She reached down and pressed a giant, blue button and jumped a bit when something snapped and start to hiss. Steam rolled out of the sides of the control panel were tiny, thin tubes wailed around at the new activity they were summoned to commence. The ground shook for a few seconds and then started to raise up toward the upper channels. When the piece of ground halted to a shaking stop, Terra carefully stepped onto the new level and saw a large, wide, arch leading into what looked like, a special place.
When she got inside, she saw only a few test tubes around and in the center, a giant test tube, being filled with liquid. She couldn't help but feel as if...OK was in here. She could smell him, or maybe she was smelling his sash? No, she knew he was here...she knew it. "Onion Knight?" she called out once more and stepped in further. "Are you here?" something fell in the distance and she turned with a quick motion, drawing her sword. There was nothing there.
Where could he be? "Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Terra stopped moving at the girlish voice. "Its my little pet! You've come home to me?"
Terra turned on her heel and gasped. "Kefka!" she knew he had something to do with this! "What have you've done to Onion Knight?"
"Oh, he's a little tied up at the moment." his girlish giggles boomed and echoed in the chambers of the lab.
Cloud sighed. I shouldn't have let her go off like that... he crossed his arms. He didn't know if she went left or right, and he didn't know if she was in trouble, or needed help, so picking the wrong path would cause a lot of problems.
He heard something fall behind him and glanced over his shoulder to see two young men. One was a little blond boy with a long tail and the other was a rather tall brunette. He knew them, it was Buntz and Zidane. What are they doing here? "Bunt-" before he could name the two, Buntz jumped up with a impish grin.
"Cloud! Wow are we so glad to see you! Have-"
Zidane interrupted him. "-Have you seen Squall around? He disappeared on us while we weren't looking-"
"You mean when you weren't looking!" Buntz chuckled at the little thief. "So, have you seen him?"
Cloud shook his head. "No, I'm actually trying to find Terra...who I was helping find Onion Knight..."
"Terra is missing?" Zidane echoed. "Well why did you lose her! She's a lady, you aren't supposed to do that!"
"She sorta ran off alone."
"Hmpf, some kind of bodyguard you are!" Zidane growled, running off and pass Cloud. He jumped up and used his tail to hold onto the wires and then glanced back at the other two. "Come on, what are we waiting for! Squall could be here too!"
Wow, sorry it was really short! But it had to be! Another chapter soon!
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