"We'll be there in a moment" Biggs replied in order to buy some time
Wedge then asked "What do we do?"Then both of the guys looked at Jessie
"Keep it to ourselves for the moment I guess. See what information we can find out though"
"Heh guess you're right" agreed Biggs
Wedge kept it to himself but he felt he could trust Elmyra. They went down to dinner.
"This is good" Wedge still enjoyed a good meal
"Thank you dear" Elmyra blushed at the compliment
"Where'd you get the clothes from? This dress fits perfectly." Asked Jessie to see if Elmyra would give anything away.
This fetched a glare from Denzel
"Your dress was my daughters fortunately she was quite slim. The boy's clothes were my late husband's. Unfortunately I didn't have any which really fit Marcus. My husband was quite a big man." somewhat nostalgically. Biggs looked at the rather large t-shirt he was wearing
"I don't know how with this delicious food any chance of seconds?"Wedge interrupted hoping partially to change the subject.
"Certainly dear."Elmyra cheerfully responded and pour out a bit more form the large bowl of food in the corner
"So any memories come back yet? Any ideas why you were in Midgar? "questioned a suspicious Denzel
Biggs attempted to deflect Denzel's question "No. No idea. But then again why were you there?"
Elmyra answered this "I was just there to visit my late daughter's church she used to tend the gardens there. I always do today. Denzel just came to give me some company"
Jessie felt bad "I'm so sorry. Are you sure you want us to stay tonight? "
"That's ok. My daughter always told me not to be sad" Elmyra
Biggs decided it might be a good idea to change the subject
"Why do you have that sword? Surely kids like you shouldn't carry something like that around" Biggs directed at Denzel
"My legal guardian is the greatest swordsman ever and he's taught me how to use this" Denzel was smugly replied
"The greatest swordsman ever?"Biggs gave a sceptical look at Denzel
The phone rang. Elmyra went to answer it.
Denzel then simply responded "he beat Sephiroth."
Biggs just looked stunned. Jessie raised her eyebrows. Even wedge stopped eating
"Sorry about that. Denzel you'll be picked up in about an hour"
Denzel nodded at this and they went back to dinner.
An hour later. Biggs and Wedge were upstairs. Jessie had decided to help out Elmyra with the washing up. Denzel was sat watching the TV. A loud motorcycle pulled up to the house. The doorbell rang. Denzel rushed to the door. Elmyra followed. Jessie continued washing up but decided to evesdrop.
"You're here!"Exclaimed Denzel
"Yeah can you wait by Fenrir for a bit?"A voice replied Jessie thought she recognised the voice.
"Sure, Bye Elmyra" Denzel then ran off
"Bye Denzel"
"Thanks for looking after him today." Replied the man from the doorway
"It was good to have company today." Elmyra then quickly changed the subject "so congratulations are in order"
"Yeah I still can't believe she said yes" the man said with what seemed to be genuine disbelief. Jessie was sure she knew this voice.
Elmyra gave a small chuckle "Well you'd better believe it"
"Guess so" the man replied
"Give my love to your future wife"
"Will do. Goodbye Elmyra"
"Goodbye Cloud"
From the kitchen whilst washing up some dishes was Jessie
"Did she say Cloud?"
Wedge was sat on the Bed in their room Biggs was leaning on the wall
"Are you ok?"Wedge was concerned about his friend
"I'm just surprised. That all" Biggs didn't want to talk about what was bothering him,
Wedge refused to let the issue drop "No it isn't. I know you have a crush on Tifa."
"How do you know?" Biggs was flushing bright red.
Wedge smiled at this "Because we're best friends and I know you very well"
"Can we please keep it between us?" an embarrassed Biggs asked
Wedge honestly replied "Your secret is safe with me."
"So what do we do tomorrow?" Wedge questioned
"There was a pause and Jessie decided to answer" guess we need to find out more"
"Yeah perhaps we need to find a library. We definitely need to find out more" Biggs blurted out getting a nod of approval from his two friends
"Ok that's fine by me I'm not getting any extra information from this paper that make much sense" Wedge put down the newspaper
"I'm more concerned what we heard earlier about Denzel's legal guardian" Jessie felt it was necessary that the guys knew what she had found out.
Biggs thought back on it "Yeah some guy who's able to beat Sephiroth. The world really has changed"
"There is more. When I was doing the dishes I heard his voice and his name. I recognised them both." She then paused "It was Cloud"
"no way" responded Biggs realising what this implied
"What does this mean?"Wedge questioned
Jessie answered "I don't know"
"My head hurts" Wedge stated to no-one in particular.
"Let's all just get some sleep and leave it till tomorrow" Biggs
The room was dark Jessie suddenly became aware she was alone in the room. She was concerned that her friends weren't present and decided o investigate. She opened the door and in front of her stood a figure. He had spiky blond hair and glowing eyes that Jessie could never forget.
"Hello Jessie" the figure greeted in a deep voice.
"Cloud what are you doing here?" Jessie couldn't' help but stare
"I'm here for you" simply replied the ex-Soldier who moved in closer
Jessie looked around and saw that she was alone with Cloud "Where are the guys?"
Cloud simply answered "I don't care. I want you"
Then he pulled Jessie into him and kissed her Jessie didn't resist. He then stopped kissing her and removed his shirt Jessie then kissed him again she was about to remove her dress and then heard someone clear her throat.
"Am I interrupting something?" A voice asked sweetly
"Aerith!"Jessie exclaimed
"Hi" replied Aerith slightly giggling
Jessie was very confused, Cloud turning up was unexpected but for Aerith to be there as well was too odd. Them Jessie worked out what was going on.
"Oh I see. This is a dream isn't it?"Jessie
Aerith stood there smiling and slightly chucking, "yes it is. Good to see you again Jessie"
Jessie then realised that unlike Cloud Aerith seemed to be out of place in the dream "Are you real?"Asked Jessie
"Yes. I'm real" Aerith answered "well as real as any spirit can be"
"Why are you in my dream? No offence but you're not exactly my type"
"Well in order to communicate with people directly, I go into dreams until we have built up enough of a close relationship that I can communicate with you when you are awake."
"Ah ok so what about Biggs and Wedge"
"I'll set up a collective lucid dream in a bit"
"Well why haven't you done it?" a frustrated Jessie asked.
"I figured you wouldn't want me bringing the guys into this dream"
"Couldn't you have done it from one of their dreams?"Slightly peeved that Aerith had interrupted her dream.
"You don't know what they were dreaming about" Aerith said simply
"What was it?"
"Well Biggs dream had one of my best friends wearing nothing but a smile and Wedges dream was just plain disturbing" Aerith put bluntly
This confused Jessie. Given what her dream had contained Jessie was surprised by the notion that her wasn't as disturbing as he two male compatriots "And this doesn't disturb you?" pointing at the dream version of cloud for added effect.
Aerith gave a slight chuckle "Are you kidding me? I've had this dream."
Jessie realised what Aerith meant by this but still felt she needed to clarify "You and Cloud?"
"Yeah. That's a long story."
"So does that means you're unhappy about him getting married?"
"No not at all, but I'm definitely a bit Jealous" candidly replied Aerith. She was slightly jealous.
"So shall we get down to... whatever you need to see us all for?"
"Ok good idea"
Then Jessie saw a flash of green her dream had changed in to field of flowers, Biggs and wedge appeared in it suddenly.
"What the hell?"A surprised Biggs exclaimed
"Hi Aerith" greeted a rather sheepish looking Wedge
"Hello guys"
"So what can you tell us?"
"Firstly I will be contacting you like this in the future but I won't be contacting you every night" Aerith stroked her chon and then continued "Umm... also in order to complete the mission you need to be ready to fight and defeat those who are in your way. When the time is right I'll tell you what you need to know but in the mean time get ready"
Wedge groaned at this
"And finally stay alive; remember what I said if you fall you won't be able to be brought back again" Aerith went deadly serious whilst saying this.
"Ok any questions for me?"Aerith asked happily
Jessie asked the first question "Why did your mother take us in?"
"Because she's great" Aerith decided to admit "and I may have given her a slight psychic nudge"
"Does she know who we really are?"Biggs decided to further press the matter
"No and I'd prefer you not to tell her unless you need to."
"How did you die?"Wedge asked
"Why do you want to know?"Genuinely asked a surprised Aerith. She had not been expecting this question.
"So we don't say something that might upset Elmyra" honestly replied Wedge
"Ok well to cut a long story short Sephiroth killed me" Aerith her smile slightly faltered
"And then Cloud killed him?"Jessie asked trying to put the story together
"Yep he actually did it twice" Aerith said absently the she regained her concentration "but that's another long story and we've run out of time"
"When will we see you again?"
"In time. good bye for now"
Then all three saw a white flash and suddenly woke and they were in the same place where they had been sleeping.
"Then we I guess begin training" Wedge said not too enthusiastically.
Both Jessie and Biggs nodded.
Jessie added "there's something else. Tomorrow we need find out what we've missed"
Wedge asked "so that we understand the state the world?"
"Yeah that's important. But it's more so that we know who we can trust" Jessie felt it was necessary to be clear.
Wedge pondered for a moment "yeah guess that's true. At the moment the only person we know we can trust is Aerith"
Biggs interjected "can we even trust her? After all she can raise the dead and yet rather than raise herself she chose to raise three people she didn't really know."
Jessie stated "we need to know if what we've been told so far is even true. Some of it seems impossible... "
Biggs "and she's told us very little"
"You guys are hurting my head again can't we just sort this out tomorrow"
All three nodded and tried to get to sleep.
Authors note not the best chapter I'll admit. Next chapter is mostly done and will feature the Turks. Please review. I have enjoyed reading the reviews I've received so far.