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Chapter XVIII: In The World of... FINAL FANTASY VII?
Rose's P.O.V.
" Ouch, my damn head," I mumbled as I sat up. ' I think next time, I'll be diving feet first, NOT head...'
You should have thought of that before you dived then.
Who asked ya? I semi-snapped at Rine, who again scared me slightly. I looked at the others, who were all still out-cold, including Ebony and the animals.
Do you have an idea of where we are at Rose?
Uh... nope, zilch on any ideas. I looked around. An ocean and beach nearby, a field of nothing but grass... This field looked slightly familiar, and so did that city in the far distance. Hm... looks like somewhere I SHOULD know, but can't quite place it...
Perhaps we should look back when the vortex has appeared. Where you thinking about someplace?
What kind of investigation is this? You really expect me to remember?
Just try please, Rose.
Fine fine... I thought for awhile, trying to remember if I was even THINKING at that time. ... I was thinking of Midgar, from Final Fantasy VII, I finally said to Rine. It was any place better than where we were at.
A place full of monsters and dangerous people called Shinra? You shall HAVE to tell me the difference of danger between Malshano and the monsters plus Shinra.
Shuddup...
I think the others shall take awhile before they awaken.
Yeah... I guess we'll have to wait for them, then. We'll need to get to Midgar soon, since that place will have protection from the monsters... I made my wings and horn disappear during this conversation. My tail, I just wrapped around my waist. It's better than having people knowing that you're not human, to make things easier for me. I hope they won't take long to wake up...
So we, or should I say, I, sat there, watching out for any monsters. It was about two hours before they began to wake up.
" Ack... where are we?" Ebony said as she sat up.
" I believe in the world of FF7, but we better be nice to the others, as much as it pains me to say..." I said, becoming my new usual self.
" FF7? With Cloud and Sephiroth?" Ebony said, becoming a little excited. We ALL love Sephiroth and Cloud... Well, I USED to, at least...
" Yup..."
" What da hell just happened?" Joey said as he sat up with everyone else.
" Yeah, all I remembered was a purple hole or something appearing right in front of us, with no way to stop..." Bakura said.
" Don't worry about that right now guys. It's just the question of finding some civilation right now," Duke said to them.
" Right," I said as I was about to stand up. But then I thought I heard something...
" She's here..."
" The Guardian of Life, as Laxirin said..."
" The new Guardian..."
" The White Cheetah..."
" The one who can drive the Chaos Warriors away..." There was just series of voices talking to me!
" Who the hell is talking to me?" I said.
" Rose L.M... I, we, the planet, is in the path of destruction that the Chaos Warriors will bring..."
" As Laxirin has said, you will be the one to drive them from their course of war and bloodshed..."
" Laxirin?" I said as I leaned a little closer to the ground, listening now.
" The Keeper of Life..."
" The one who have guarded all of Life until the Chosen One finally appears... which is you..."
" Now that you have appeared, Cosmos shall be even more cautious and yet unafraid..."
" Cosmos? Who's that?"
" The one who has released Malshano from the world of Enternal Darkness and Imprisonment..."
" Cosmos was the only one who could release Malshano's powers, and now Malshano is free once again to hunt you down..."
" And now Cosmos is beginning to find the other Chaos Warriors, to reunite them so that they may be the strong force they once were..."
" Gee, any other good news...?" I mumbled.
" The prophecy shall have to be fulfilled, or else everything will fall into a universe of despair and pain..."
" Please do not ever give up hope, for if you do..."
" We will be without hope..."
" For all of Life is connected to you..." And the voices faded.
" Hey wait a minute! What did you mean by that?" I said as I hoped that MAYBE the planet will give me answers. Just too much to hope though... it, or they, whatever, is now gone.
" Uh... Rose? Why are you talking to the ground...?" Triston said.
... Now I suddenly realize that I was laying on the ground, talking to it as though it was a somebody... which, it is... now I'm just confused... But another thing bothered me... weren't the Ancients, or Centras, the ONLY people who could hear the planet talking? This is going to drive me up the wall, isn't it...?
" Bored? Perhaps the ground was more talkitive than you?" I remarked, trying to make it as though I wanted him to ask me that.
Ebony didn't really fall for that, but she still played her part and laughed. " Well anyway, you think we should start heading to Midgar, Rose?"
" Yeah, we should, we just-" I fell silent, looking around in a alert matter.
" Rose? What's wrong?" Serinity said.
" What's wrong is that you are now in our cusody," someone else said as I spotted soldiers coming from all directions. Shinra soldiers.
" Well, look at this. We got a group of strange people, animals AND an Ancient to boot. This outta get me a good promotion," the leader of the guys said as he laughed. He was one of those red guys, while the others were the low common soldiers in blue.
" Who da hell do ya think ya are? The police?" Joey said.
" Whatever this 'police' is, I guess we COULD be something of a sort," the red guy said as he jabbed his gun in Joey's face. " Now I suggest that you behave, or else I'd HAVE to shoot you. And I'm sure you don't want to be a corpse to be fed upon by the local monsters here."
Joey backed off. The soldiers completly surrounded us with their machine guns trained on us.
" Captain, what should we do with the others? Bring them along?"
" Of course, you idiot! With this lot, we will get at least some money, even with the Shinra Corperation scattered because of that AVALANCHE group."
" Who says we're going with you?" Kaiba said, being the stubborn one here to refuse.
" We say, because if you don't follow orders, we shoot," one blue soldier said.
" It's a bluff," Kaiba said, quite sure of this. The blue smirked as he trained his gun and was about to shoot.
' Dammit Kaiba!' I thought as I stepped in front as soon as the bullets sped out of the barrel, all hitting my shoulder that I was able to get in front of the path. Believe me, I saw stars, but I held back my screams.
" You damn IDIOT!" Red said as he gave the blue a punch in the face. The firing stopped as he fell backwards, holding his face. Red used his arm with the metal gun on it, so it's going to leave a deep impression that will last for QUITE a long time. " I didn't give you any permission to shoot any of them, let alone the Ancient!"
" I'm s-s-s-sorry Captain," the blue sobbed as he held his face in pain. The pain that couldn't really compare to my poor shoulder, though... I looked back at the others and they all had the face of fear and worry. Kaiba had the look of, ' I can't believe they really did it!' as he looked at my shoulder with shock and surprise.
" Oh my gawd, Rose!" Ebony said, coming over to me.
" I'm fine," I lied as I kept myself from reaching over to my shoulder. It may be bleeding, but I didn't want to infect it by messing with it.
" No, you're not! How can you call the bleeding in your right shoulder from bullets fine?"
" Hey! Shut-up over there!" Red yelled at us, still continuing to glare at the blue soldier that shot me. " Here's what we're goin' to do. You all are to follow the orders I give you, or else you all but the Ancient will be shot dead! Any problems with that?"
" Yeah, we have one- you guys aren't suppose be here at all," a new voice joined into the conversation.
" Rose, it's Cloud!" Ebony whispered to me. I kinda guessed that because of the fact that ALL the Shinra soldiers froze with fear on their faces. Red turned around to face Cloud and everyone else. Nananki #Red XIII#, Yuffie, Barret, Vincent, Tifa, Cid, and Reeve, who was Cait Sith, were all with Cloud.
" Ya Shinra soldiers aren't suppose ta be anywhere near Midgar! Nor anywhere on this continet!" Barret yelled at the soldiers. " Get your scrawny asses out of here before I have to goddamn shoot ya'lls balls off," he said as he waved his gunarm at them.
' And the mouth of Barret lives...' I thought as I looked at all the soldiers. They all were looking at Cloud and them.
" D-don't tell us what to do, you don't want these people to be shot, do you?" Red said as bravely as he could, though it is still shaky. Him and the four soldiers that was still standing #five if that one didn't have a busted pair of chops # kept their guns trained on us. But none of them were looking at us anymore.
' Perhaps an oppontunity?' I thought. I kept watch on Red as they continued to talk.
" I suggest that you let the kids go and be on your way," Cloud said, keeping a hold on his sword.
" Let the Ancient go! How can you expect me to just do that? I don't-"
I went and attacked the first soldier, grabbing the gun from him. Before they could react, I went for the other three and got their guns, using my speed advantage. I gritted my teeth throughout this whole thing, the wind from the speed rushing onto the wound was causing stinging pain. I stopped and threw the guns into the ocean's water, then went after Red, grabbing his gun and pointed at him.
" You were saying?" I growled. He looked REALLY nervous now.
" A-a-as I was saying, I don't think that that will be a problem... RETREAT!" he yelled as he ran for it, all the other soldiers scrambling around and following his lead. I could've sworn I heard Red said, " There goes my big promotion!" as they disappeared in the distance.
" Well, at least those guys won't be a problem anymore..." Cloud said as he watched them. He and the others looked at us, then just at me. " What was all that about you bein' an Ancient?"
" Hey, not now Cloud. She's injured," Tifa said as she came over to me to try to examine my shoulder. I was about to just back away by instinct, but I stopped and held still after she grabbed my arm to keep me still. " Nine bullets to the shoulder, that's a major ouch. And you didn't scream either."
" I can't believe you did that Rose," Kaiba said. I smirked as best I could.
" You couldn't handle the pain like me," I said, attempting to make this whole thing humourous. Weak effort, but give me credit.
Rose, you are in pain, yet you do not let others know that. Pain is not a weakness, you know.
Shut it, I'll decide what's a weakness is to me, a'righty?
Whatever you decide then...
" We better get ya to the clinic in Sector 8. We'd heal ya with the Materia, Cure, but the bullets need ta be removed first," Cid said. Yugi and then just has the look of saying, ' Cure? What the hell?'.
" We got to walk there, though. We didn't bring a vehicle with us," Reeve pointed out.
" Walk? And after we ran ealier!" Joey said, though he didn't say anything about WHY.
" C'mon, let's get you guys to Midgar before the Kalm Fangs and other monsters smell the blood," Nananaki said as he flicks his tail and turns around, going to lead everyone. Tifa offered to help me there, but I turned her down.
" I can walk on my own,jeez..." I mumbled as I follow behind everyone. I can stand and walk alone, even if I am in pain. Just watch me...