Chapter 3: New Friends

It was approaching seven o clock at night in Nibelheim, Cloud and Max had found themselves a room at the inn. The room was quite big for saying it was an inn in a relatively small town, Max and Cloud had both chosen their beds and Cloud went for a shower to wash off the zombie residue. That was over ten minutes ago now and Cloud was sat on his bed waiting for Max to finish in the shower. Cloud thought about what had happened that night and he found it to be a very strange evening. He knew that there were strange things going in that mansion but he never expected this, now he was sharing a room with a strange creature.

Cloud sighed to himself, "this has not been my day," He said quietly to himself, "who knows, maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and find that this had all been a dream."

Cloud looked up when he heard the bathroom door opening and a ¼ naked Max walked out of the bathroom drying his hair with a towel all five of his tails were frizzed out. Cloud tried hard to stifle his laughter but was unnerved as the last remnants of false hope that all this was a dream left his mind.

"So…" Cloud spoke up, "you're a Kitsune, right?"

Max sat down on his bed and began to de-frizz his tails, "yeah," He answered.

"And that's a race of fox like creatures with multiple tails, right?" Cloud asked again.

Max nodded in response, "yes."

Cloud sighed and placed his head in his hands.

Max stared at Cloud, "What's wrong, Cloud?"

Cloud looked up at Max, "I don't know Max," he answered, "it's just that…you're not supposed to be here, I mean creatures…like you," he pointed at Max's tails, "only exist in fairy tales."

"Well believe it or not, I do exist."

Cloud nodded, "how did you end up here?"

Max shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know," was all he said, "one minute I was showing my teleportation devices to my friends and the next…"

"Teleportation devices?"

"Oh," Max showed Cloud the teleportation device which was no badly damaged, "I invented it myself, but it must have gotten damaged in the storm."

"A storm?" Cloud enquired.

Max laughed slightly, "well…at least I think it was a storm, there was a lot of wind. We saw a planet in the sky."

"How can you see a planet?"

"Every 300 years or so," Max explained, "it's said that two distant planets align. I don't know why it happens, it just does. That's when…the teleportation devices went all funny. Now I'm separated from my friends."

"So that's how you ended up here?"

Max nodded, "yeah…wait a minute," his eyes lit up as realisation hit him, "the planet I saw in the sky, that was this world. It had to be."

Cloud stared at Max as he tried to take it all in, "so you're saying that, our worlds have aligned?"

Max closed his eyes to think, after a few moments he opened them again, "it's a theory," he said "how else would we have been teleported here?"

Cloud nodded his head in agreement, "I guess so. How did you end up in the Shinra Mansion?"

"I guess it must have been when I teleported here."

(Flashback sequence)

Max felt himself being pulled away from his friends by the strong force of the wind and disappeared, he materialised in the sky and fell quickly crashing through the roof of a building.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Max crashed through a brick wall that held the entrance to a winding staircase. He crashed to the ground with a thud, and skidded a few feet until he came to a stop near a door to a room.

"Owwww…" Max moaned in painas he slowly lifted his head up to get a good look at his surroundings and he saw a severed hand lying next to him) "Aaaahhhhhhh!"

Max fainted at the sight and smell of the hand.

(End flashback)

Cloud continued to stare at Max, "you fell out of the sky?"

"Yeah," Max answered and he instinctively rubbed his back, "and it was painful too."

"You fainted?" Cloud asked as he tried to stifle his laughter.

Max gave Cloud an evil glare, "yeah well, you'd faint to if you saw a rotting severed hand."

Cloud shook his head at Max and tried to stifle his laughter. Max stood up and slowly walked to the fireplace in the far right hand corner of the room, he produced a small fireball in his hand and threw it into the fireplace and it ignited. Cloud stared at him in awe.

"How did you do that?" Cloud asked as he stared at Max in awe.

"The fireball?" Max answered grining smugly. "Oh that's easy, I just closed my hand, concentrated and…"

Cloud interrupted him, "no! You created a fireball, and it looks like you did it without materia."

Max stared at Cloud with a confused expression on his face. "What's materia?"

Cloud sighed, he reached for a bag under his bed, opened it and pulled out a piece of green materia that was glowing brightly. He stood up and walked over to Max and held out the materia in front of him.

"This is materia," Cloud answered, "and you can cast magic without using this?"

Max stared at the glowing orb in Cloud's hand, "yeah…that thing looks interesting, may I?"

"Knock yourself out," was all Cloud said.

Cloud handed the materia over to Max, he looked carefully at it his eyes deeply focused on the materia's glow. He could feel the aura of the materia pulsing through his veins.

"Hmmm," Max mumbled half to himself, "this is fire materia, it's been used a total of 5000 times, it's currently at level 3, but it's almost been mastered. Here catch."

Max threw the materia back to Cloud, he caught it and stared at Max in awe.

"How could you tell all that just by looking at it?"

Max grinned at Cloud, "the aura of the materia tells you more than just what type it is. It also tells you how many times it's been used and how powerful the spell is."

Cloud gave Max a sceptical look, "you've never seen materia before and yet you know a lot about it."

Max ruffled his hair, "I'm a member of a race of incredibly strong magical beings. If it's one thing my race knows, it's magic."

"You know pretty much everything about magic?"

"Yeah," Max replied, "what's materia made of?"

"...Mako..." Cloud answered reluctantly.

Max gave Cloud a blank stare, "what's Mako?"

Cloud sighed, "it used to be an energy source for this planet," he explained, "it was a potent energy source, it provided all the towns and cities in the world with energy, but at a price."

Max stared at Cloud, "what kind of price?" He enquired.

"A wise man once told me that Mako was spirit energy, the very life force of this planet. And it was being sucked right out of the planet and used as energy."

"So Mako is the spirits of living things?"

Cloud nodded, "yes, the spirits of those who died dwell within the life stream. The life stream can't be seen or heard, except in certain places where it gushes up to the surface."

"Yet, you know it's there?"

"Yes."

Max's eyes lit up as he realised something, "wait a minute, you said the spirits of all those who died. Does that include your friends?"

Cloud's eyes went wide with shock, "my friends." It only took him a few seconds to realise who Max was talking about. "Zack and Aerith."

Max nodded, "yeah."

"How do you know them?" Cloud enquired.

"I heard them talking before," came the reply.

"I still don't get how you can hear the dead."

"Kitsunes are also psychic," Max answered, "we can read minds, possess people, and talk to the dead."

"How?"

"The voices of the dead can enter our minds and talk to us. Sometimes we can even see their spirits. Kitsunes often act as mediums between the dead and the living."

"This is all just too much." Cloud began to feel faint at this new information, he sat down on the bed to stop himself from collapsing to the floor. Max saw this and walked over to where Cloud was sitting.

"Are you ok, Cloud?" Max asked out of concern for his new friend.

Cloud looked up at Max and nodded, "yeah, I just…Zack and Aerith were talking to you?"

Max nodded, "yeah, Aerith told me to say hi."

"Next time you talk to them say hi, and tell them I'm sorry. They'll know what I mean."

Max stared at Cloud, "why are you apologising?"

Cloud shook his head, "it doesn't matter, just give them the message."

Max nodded to show that he understood, even though he had only known Cloud for a couple of hours he had grown to respect him, both as a fierce warrior and as a friend. "Ok, I'll tell them next time I talk to them."

Cloud nodded then he quickly changed the subject, "so what are you going to now?"

"I need to find my friends," Max answered determined to find out where they are.

"So you don't know where they are?"

Max shook his head, "nope."

Cloud started to think of what he could do to help, then he had an idea, "hold on a second."

Max stared at Cloud, "Cloud, what are you doing?"

Cloud didn't answer, he reached into his bag one more time and pulled out a phone, he started dialling a number and the phone rang.

It was early morning in Edge and the phone in the Seventh Heaven rang, Denzel was walking out of his bedroom when he heard the phone ringing, he walked over to it and picked it up.

"Strife Delivery Service, you name it we deliver."

Cloud spoke on the other end of the phone, "Denzel?"

"Cloud, is that you?"

"Yeah," Cloud answered, "listen Denzel is Tifa in?"

"Yeah, I'll just go get her."

Denzel ran down the stairs and into the bar. Tifa was already down there getting ready to open up the bar. Marlene was also downstairs.

"Tifa!" Denzel called to her, "Cloud's on the phone."

Tifa stopped what she was doing and ran up the stairs, Drogo had woken up and opened his door as he saw Tifa run passed to Cloud's office. She picked up the phone.

"Hello?" She asked using her polite phone voice.

"Tifa?" Cloud asked.

"Cloud!" Tifa exclaimed, "how's the travelling going?"

"It's going fine," came the reply, "listen Tifa, I'm in Nibelheim right now."

"What are you doing in Nibelheim?" Tifa quieried.

"I thought I'd see how the town was doing. Anyway I found something really strange in the Shinra Mansion."

"What did you find?" She questioned, she was so busy talking to Cloud on the phone that she didn't even notice that Drogo had entered the room.

"I found this fox like creature with multiple tails," Cloud explained "he called himself a Kitsune. And get this, he can cast magic without materia, and he knew what kind of materia it was, it's strength and the amount of times it was used just by looking at it."

"Let me guess!" Drogo shouted so that Cloud could hear him over the phone, "he's a pain in the ass and he's psychic…that'll be Max!"

"Tifa, is there some else with you?" Cloud asked his tone wasn't accusary, rather it was curious.

Tifa sighed, "that's Drogo," she answered, "I found him in the bar last night."

"What was he doing in the bar?"

"It's a long story," Tifa explained, "anyway, he seems to know the guy that's with you."

"Do you think you can get Drogo on the phone?"

"Sure," Tifa said as she passed the phone to Drogo, "I think…Max, wants to talk to you."

Drogo took the phone, "Thanks, hey Max."

"Drogo, where are you?" Max asked.

"I'm in a city called Edge," Drogo explained, "I'm in a bar called the Seventh Heaven."

Max rolled his eyes, "figures," He muttered under his breath so that Drogo couldn't hear him.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Drogo demanded as he heard what Max said.

"Oh nothing…"

"Where are you anyway?" Drogo asked.

"I'm in a town called Nibelheim," Max answered, "me and Cloud had a run in with a zombie."

Drogo looked confused, "Cloud?"

Max sighed, "he's the guy that found me."

"Right, hey is Sunny there with you?" Drogo questioned.

Max shook his head, "no, I haven't seen her. Have you seen Pandora?"

Drogo shook his head, "nope, I haven't seen anybody else."

"We have to find them," Max said a hint of desperation in his voice. "Then we can start finding a way to get home."

"How?" Drogo questioned and he looked athe damaged device on his wrist. "my teleportation device is broken and I'm guessing everyone else's devices are too."

"I'll have to figure out a way to fix them;" Max stated, "in the meantime we have to find the others."

"Ok."

"Hey, can I talk to Tifa again now?" Cloud asked.

"Sure," Max answered as he passed the phone over to Cloud.

"Tifa?" Cloud asked quietly.

"No it's Drogo."

"Drogo, can you put Tifa back on?" Cloud asked again.

"Ok," Drogo handed the phone back to Tifa, "he wants to talk to you."

"Cloud?" Tifa spoke into the phone.

"Tifa," Cloud responded, "I'll get back to Edge as quick as I can, alright."

"Ok, see you soon, bye."

Cloud and Tifa hung up.

On Cloud and Max's side.

Cloud smiled at Max, "well at least one of your friends is found," he said encouragingly.

Max nodded, "yeah, but we still need to find the others."

"Don't worry we'll find them," Cloud replied, he placed his hand on Max's shoulder to reassure him, "what are their names?"

"Well," Max answered, he turned his head to face Cloud as he spoke. "We just spoke to Drogo on the phone, he's currently in Edge with your friend Tifa. Then there's Pandora, Angel, Lance, Sunny, Isis and Nightshade."

Cloud whistled, "that's a lot of friends."

Max laughed, "yeah, I have to find them, then I can start thinking of a way to get us all home."

"Don't worry, we'll find them," Cloud said again.

"Yeah I know," Max agreed, he climbed into bed. "Well, goodnight Cloud."

Cloud also got into his bed, "yeah, goodnight Max."

Cloud turned off the bedside lamp and both he and Max fall asleep.

On Tifa and Drogo's side.

"Well at least your friend Max was found," Tifa said, trying to sound encouraging.

Drogo sighed, "yeah, but Sunny isn't with him."

Tifa placed her hand on Drogo's shoulder, "well if your friend Max is found then that means the others can be found too."

Drogo snorted, "yeah, right..." he muttered under his breath.

"Don't worry," Tifa said reassuringly, "we'll find her."

Drogo smiled, "yeah, I know. Hey do you have any vehicles?"

"I have a car," Tifa replied as she gave Drogo a questioning look, "why?"

"Great, thanks."

Drogo left the room and went down the stairs into the kitchen, Tifa followed him.

"Hey, where are you going?" She yelled after him.

"Is it ok if I borrow your car?" Drogo asked with a pleading look in his eyes.

"What?" Tifa cried out.

"Great, thanks."

"You need the keys."

"That's ok," Drogo stated grinning inanely "I'll hotwire it."

"What?" Tifa shouted, "you're not hotwiring my car!"

"Relax," Drogo said as he gave Tifa an encouraging smile. "I've done it loads of times. Please Tifa, I need to find Sunny."

Tifa sighed she knew there was no way out of this. "Alright, you can take my car, but please bring it back in one piece ok."

"Don't worry, I'll take good care of your car."

Drogo opened the door that led round the back to the garages and walked out. Tifa took one last look at him then returned to the bar to start serving customers.

"Hold on Sunny," Drogo said quietly to himself, "I'm on my way."

It was approaching sunrise in the newly built town of Coral, and Barret was overlooking the digging of a new oil well they had found. He took a picture out of his pocket and looked at it. It was a picture of himself, Cloud, Tifa and Marlene when they had first opened the Seventh Heaven. Barret sighed, he missed those days back with the gang, and he missed Marlene but he knew that she was safe with Cloud and Tifa, and he did promise Marlene in his letter that he'd see her soon. After all he was doing this for Marlene as well as himself.

A surveyor approached Barrey. "Mayor Wallace," He said crisply, "we're ready to survey the oil well."

Barret grinned at the man, "good," he replied, "with more oil coming through we'll soon find enough energy sources to replace Mako."

When the town was rebuilt two years ago, Barret was appointed mayor, a challenge he took all too enthusiastically. The coal mines had been re-opened and an oil well was discovered. It was only in the passed few days that a second oil well had been discovered.

"I'm sorry Marlene," Barret said to himself as thoughts about his daughter entered his head, "but as soon as this oil well is up and running I will come and see you I promise."

"Sir," the surveyor spoke suddenly causing Barret to snap out of his train of thought. "The survey is done, we can turn the oil well on now."

Barret clapped his hands together in anticipation, "excellent, Coral's finally getting back on its feet."

"Would you like to do the honours mayor Wallace?" The surveyor curtly asked him.

Barret grinned, "sure."

Barret walked over to the switch for the oil well and was just in the process of turning it on when a construction worker came running up to Barret.

"Mayor Wallace!" He shouted urgently. "There's someone lying unconscious near the oil well!"

"What?" Barret yelled back out of concern for the person there, "what are they doing there?"

"I don't know" The construction worker replied, "she just appeared. If we turn the oil well on now it could seriously hurt her, maybe even kill her!"

Barret started running towards the oil well as fast as he could. "I'll get her out of there!" Barret shouted, "get ready with the switch and turn the oil on when I give the word."

The construction worker nodded to show that he understood, "ok."

Barret ran towards the oil well and found a young girl lying unconscious next to the well, she was an unusual looking girl but Barret didn't have time to look at her in great detail. However she didn't look too badly injured and Barret was able to carry her without risking further the girl further injuries. Barret carried the girl until he got her to a safe distance away from the oil well, he then looked at the construction worker at the switch he gave the man a thumbs up sign, the oil well burst and a fountain of oil emerged. Barret placed the girl on to the ground and a construction worker checked her over.

"Well she's breathing," The construction worker said as he and Barret heaved a huge sigh of relief.

"That's good news," Barret replied happily.

"She looks unusual though," The construction worker added, "I've never seen a woman look like that before."

"I'll take her back with me, and make sure she's ok," Barret replied.

Barret picked up the girl and carried her back to his house. It was a regular, two storeys, detached house. Even though Barret was the mayor of Coral, he didn't want to live in luxury, a normal house with the essentials was more than enough for him. He opened his front door and entered the hall, he carried the girl through the hallway and entered the living room which was the first door on the left. The living room was small but cosy. There was an old three piece suit leaning against the back wall, a comfortable looking armchair in the corner, a wide screen TV and cable. (Barret liked some luxury) He placed the girl on to the sofa. Barret took a closer look at her, she was hedgehog like in appearance. Her fur was peach coloured, her head spines were short and held in place by a blue headband. She wore a light blue halter-neck top which extends down to her legs, a blue short skirt, light blue sleeves that were not attached to her top, blue gloves and blue knee length boots. She had a bow and quiver (that was empty) on her back, Barret had long since removed them and leaned them against the armchair. Barret was momentarily shocked by her appearance but making sure that she was alright was more important. Five minutes later the girl began to stir.

"Ohhhhhh…" She moaned softly as she opened her eyes and saw Barret standing over her.

"Are you alright?" Barret asked, his face was filled with concern.

"Yeah, I think so," The girl answered, "who are you?"

"The name's Barret,"

The girl smiled, "I'm Sunny."

Barret smiled bakc, "Sunny huh? I'm guessing you're not from this world."

Sunny stared at Barret her eyes were wide with shock. "How did you know?"

"You don't look human," Barret answered, "and you don't look like anything from this world."

"And you're not shocked by me?" Sunny asked.

"I was," Barret explained, "but only for a short while. Making sure you were alright was the important thing. What happened?"

"I don't know," Sunny responded looking confused, "one minute I was inside a giant whirlwind and the next…" She sat up suddenly as she remembered, "Drogo!"

"Take it easy," Barret said softly and calmly.

"Where is he?" Sunny demanded, "I have to find him!"

Sunny tried to stand but Barret stopped her, "just calm down, you had a terrible shock."

"Have you seen him?" Sunny asked again.

Barret shook his head, "I didn't see anybody at that oil well apart from you. What does this Drogo fellow look like?"

"Well," Sunny explained, "he's a hedgehog like me. He has purple fur, his fringe spikes are light purple but often mistaken for pink. He has sea-green eyes, he wears mostly blue, he wields two Kitanas."

Barret shook his head again, "I haven't seen anyone like that around here, but if I do see him I'll let you know."

Sunny smiled and she began to feel more relaxed. "Thank you…Barret."

Sunny convinced Barret that she had regained her strength and she slowly began to sit up, Barret sat down on the couch next to her and the two began talking.

"So," Barret asked staring at Sunny curiously, "where are you from?"

"Oh, I'm from a world called Terra Firma," Sunny replied, "it's a planet far away from here."

"And it's inhabited by creatures like you?"

Sunny nodded, "oh yes," she answered again, "but I've never seen any of your kind before. What are you?"

"I'm a human," came the response, "this world is predominately inhabited by humans."

"I see..." She looked at Barret's right hand and was shocked to see that it was metallic, "is that a cybernetic hand?"

Barret lifted up his hand, "yeah," he answered.

"How did it happen?" Sunny asked enquiringly.

Oh, it was years ago now," Barret explained, "when my hometown was destroyed, I was helping a friend when I got shot in the hand. From that point on I lost the use of my right hand. I had it replaced with a gun arm, but after the meteor incident four years ago I had my gun arm removed and a metal hand put in, so I have the use of both hands again, but I can morph it into a gun whenever I want to."

Barret morphed his metal hand into a three barrelled gatling gun, Sunny was impressed by this.

"That's impressive!" She exclaimed.

Barret chuckled at this, "thanks."

"You know," Sunny divulged, "I have two friends that have cybernetic implants and one of them can materialise guns in her hands at will."

Barret stared at her, "now that is impressive."

Sunny sighed then fell silent, Barret looked at Sunny and saw that she held her head in her hands, it was obvious that she was missing her friends, missing Drogo. He tried to think of something he could say that would have encouraged her but his mind went blank. He saw his PHS lying on the table, he stood up and walked over to the table and picked up the phone. Even if he hadn't seen Drogo maybe someone else had seen him. He began to dial a number and the phone rang.

Meanwhile back in Edge Drogo was in the garage looking at Tifa's car. It was a basic car, that wasn't built for speed nor long distance travelling, but Drogo soon changed that. He had been working on the car all morning and it was now approaching early afternoon and Tifa could do nothing but stare in shock as Drogo began dismantling her car and adding his own modifications to it. He assured Tifa that he was improving her car.

"Hey Tifa," Drogo asked as he was busy working on the car, "where are the hydraulics on this thing?"

"There isn't any," Tifa answered and she gave him a questioning look, "why?"

Drogo grinned at her, "now, there is." Was all he said.

Tifa glared at Drogo and for a while was too shocked to speak. "What?" She eventually stuttered, "what did you do to my car?"

"I improved it," Drogo answered, "now it can go faster and it has better suspension. I also modified the speedometer, your car can now go up to 340 MPH."

Tifa placed her hands on her hips, "why do I want it to go at that speed?" She demanded to know.

"Oh trust me," Drogo stated, "you'll want it." Drogo started tampering with the front of the car and pulled out a small black box. "What's this?"

"That's my stereo," Tifa answered staring at the box.

Drogo shook his head and tossed the stereo to the side.

"Hey!" Tifa yelled as she gave him an evil glare.

Drogo merely shook his head in response. "That is not a stereo," he slipped out of the driver's seat and walked over to the boot of the car and opened the door to reveal a large black boom box that took up most of the space."THIS IS A STEREO!" Drogo stated with a wide grin on his face, Tifa merely stared in shock.

"I won't have any room to put anything else in the boot..." She stammered hardly able to believe that Drogo was tampering with her car.

"At this moment in time, it won't matter."

"Hmmmm…" Tifa started to respond but was interrupted by the sound of her PHS ringing in her pocket. She reached for the phone and answered it. "Hello?"

"Yo Tifa, it's Barret!" Barret's voice boomed down the phone.

"Barret, how's it going?"

"It's going great, we found another oil well."

"Barret, that's great!" Tifa exclaimed happily.

"Yeah," Barret agreed, "but I found something else there too. A creature from another world. A female hedgehog, Sunny I think she said her name was."

Drogo stopped what he was doing and stared at Tifa, "Sunny?" Was all he said and he ran over to whereTifa was standing.

"Sunny! Is she alright?" Drogo asked quickly.

"Hey Tifa!" Barret yelled, "is there someone else there with you?"

Tifa nodded, "yes," came the reply, "I found someone from another world too, a male hedgehog, goes by the name of Drogo!"

Sunny's voice could be heard from Barret's end. "Drogo? He's there? Let me speak to him!"

"Err, Tifa…Sunny wants to talk to Drogo."

"Ok," Tifa said and she handed the phone to Drogo, "someone wants to talk to you."

Drogo took the phone and spoke into it.

"Sunny?"

"Drogo?"

"Where are you?" Drogo asked urgently, "I was so worried about you."

"I'm in a town called Coral," Sunny answered, "where are you?"

"A town called Edge," came the reply, "are you hurt?"

Sunny shook her head, "not really, a man named Barret found me, he's very nice."

"Sunny, stay where you are, I'm on my way to get you ok."

"Ok," Sunny replied hardly able to contain her excitement, "see you soon Drogo."

Sunny hung up on the phone, and Drogo gave the phone back to Tifa.

"Hey Tifa, where's Coral?" He asked.

"It's on the Western Continent," Tifa answered, "but you have to get there by boat, it'll take at least a couple of days."

Drogo moaned at this, "isn't there a quicker way?"

Tifa nodded, "yes but it would involve flying. A friend of mine is a pilot, he owns an airship. It would take him at least half an hour to get here from Rocket Town, that's another town on the Western Continent."

"I have to leave now!" Drogo yelled urgently, Drogo opened the door on the driver's side and sat in the seat. He then grabbed two wires and fused them together, the car's engine roared to life. "Yes! I've still got it."

Tifa opened the door on the passenger side and slid into the seat. "Wait, you don't know where Coral is."

"I'm sure I can find it," Drogo said.

"Yeah, but it'll be a lot faster if I guide you," Tifa replied.

"I don't know," Drogo said trying to choose his words carefully. "I mean you put me up for the night and I'm grateful for that, I don't want to impose on you anymore."

Tifa smiled and shook her head, "it's no trouble, I'd actually like to meet Sunny, she seems like a wonderful person."

Drogo smiled back, "oh she is. Alright, let's go, but what about Denzel and Marlene?"

"Don't worry," Tifa answered, I knew you'd want to find Sunny so I called a neighbour earlier on this morning to keep an eye on them for me.

Drogo's grinn grew wider, "you've thought of everything haven't you?

Tifa noded, "yeah, I always like to think ahead, "let's go and get Sunny."

Drogo pushed his foot down on the accelerator and the car sped out of the garage and round the corner. Tifa took out her PHS and sent a text message to Cloud.

"We've located Sunny, (Drogo's wife) she's in Coral. Barret found her. Drogo and I are on our way to Coral now. Meet us there. Love Tifa."

A few seconds later Tifa received a text message.

"Understood, we're on our way to Coral. See you there. Love Cloud."

Phew, finally chapter 3 is over. Not as action packed as chapter 2 but I try. Chapter 4 is coming soon, remember this is my first fanfic so go easy on me. Please tell me what you think (make any criticisms as constructive as possible). Just a reminder that I don't own Final Fantasy vii and any associated characters, they belong to Square Enix. I do however own characters I made myself.