MASMaking Appearance Soon

MALMaking Appearance Later

MASoLMaking Appearance Sooner or Later (undecided where to make appear)

DISCLAIMER

I absolutly do NOT own any of these characters that are from the games, shows, and books. The only characters I DO own is Rose, Rine, Laxirin, Rose's ancestors, Rain, Malshano, Cosmos, Zikomo, Ryu, Anthony (MAL), Rose's animal companions, Kiley (MAL), Devon (MAL), and random people such as the doctor in here. The other characters, Ebony, Coalar (MAS), Inuakkie (MAS), Faye (MAL), Roach/Amanda/Turk (MASoL), Jackie (MAL), Kaisume Karamaru (MASoL), and a few others are people I have ASKED to borrow from my friends. They would like to appear in here, so no saying I'm Copyrighting...

Chapter XIX: A Sudden Request

Rose's P.O.V.

" ... and the laaaast one," the doctor of the clinic said as she pulled out the last bullet and dropped into the pan with the other bloody bullets. " Amazing that you could take all this pain without yelling once. Going in AND coming out."

" As everyone continues to say..." I told her as she then used Cure 2 on my shoulder, healing it instintly. I pulled my shoulder sleeve back over it as soon as she pulled her hand away from it.

" And I still can't believe that the Shinra soldiers took you as an Ancient," Ebony said as I thanked the doctor and left. " I mean, were you ACTUALLY talking to the planet itself?"

" Yeah, though I don't know why I could hear all those voices. How weird and twisted will my life be...? 'Oh yeah Rose, you're actually 1/25 Centra, you have powers, you're connected with all living things, and you have killers after you. Happy trails to ya, because it sucks to be you,' " I said quietly as we reached outside. " Why me?" I said in a normal voice as I rolled my eyes.

" Don't know, and will probably never understand the whole thing."

" Man, all these people are staring at you more than me. Is it because that there's not many black people, other than Barret?"

" They must be used to him because of his cussing, not his skin color," Ebony laughed.

" Oh well, at least we aren't really the center of attention..." I said as we reached the others. Kaiba and Joey were at each other's throats again. Cloud and them were watching with confusion, since Joey and Kaiba keeps talking about something from their own world.

" Let's do this, here and now!" Joey said as he indicated his duel disk, meaning a duel wih Duel Monsters.

" Your skills, however proved to be once in awhile lucky, could never beat me. So why even bother beat an amatuar like you?"

" There ya go again! I outta beat ya with my own two fists-"

" There you are Rose," Trila said loudly, intrupting the fight. They all looked our way.

" Well hey, how's your shoulder?" Reeve said. I shrugged indifferently.

" Better now."

" Go on, big brother," Mokuba said to Kaiba. Kaiba sighs as he approached me.

" I want to say... thank you. For saving me alot of pain and possible death..." he said with alot of regret. He really hates thanking people, doesn't he?

" Hell, you're welcome. Rather not have you taking the pain like I did."

He looks suprised that I sounded so casual, but didn't say a word. All he did was back off and went back over to Mokuba, who was happy that his brother apoligized for anything in a long time.

" So Rose... it's Rose, right?" Cloud said. I nodded. He gestured everyone to the Seventh Heaven Bar, which was rebuilt and looks better than ever. All of the Sectors, as far as I can tell, has been rebuilt, been purified of pollution, and more people living in them. All of us began going to it. " What was the Shinra soldiers all babbling about you being an Ancient?"

" It was because I was talking to the ground," I said, trying hard to sound casual. Cloud and the others listening were quite surprised by that answer.

" Was the Planet talking to ya?" Cid asked before Cloud could reply. I nodded again. I looked over to Ebony with a look of 'Help', though she couldn't do anything anyway.

" Wha my question is, why the fuckin' hell was the Shinra even on our continent? We've destroyed their corporation, why won't they go the fuck away!" Barret ranted, waving his gunarm around.

" Because they're damn, persistant bastards who don't know when to give up," Cid said. " You should know that by now."

" Give them some credit, since Reno, Rude, and all of them helped get rid of the Geostigma Syndrome, and stopped Kadaj's gang. Those soldiers were people who only THINK that they are doing the good for the company," Reeve said.

" Rose, what the heck are they talking about...?" Triston asked me quietly. Since the others knows me more than Cloud and others, and I know what they are talking about, they want, the expression, the forein language translated to English ( in their case, Japanese).

" The good guys here brought down the bad guys, Shinra," I simply said. " Shinra was sucking up the energy of the Planet here, Mako energy, which is what it lives on. If no more Mako, means no more Planet, meaning no more life. And Kadaj's gang threatened to destroy the planet with that disease called the Geostigma Syndrome, because if the kids and people died with it, it would get into the Lifestream, the Mako. And that would cause the planet to die, meaning all would be perished."

" Ohhhh..." they said. Luckily, Cloud and them didn't bother listening, so we won't have MANY supections. Just got to watch out about what we're talking about. At least for now, because I SERIOUSLY doubt we could keep this secrete to ourselves... It slipped at Yugi's world, remember?

" But anyway everyone, I'm sure that our new guests here are hungry, so Tifa, you need any help in the kitchen?"

" As long as Yuffie helps out a little bit, I'll cook a big meal for everyone," she answered Cloud as she smiled at him. She went around the counter and into a new kitchen that was probably added in the plans. Everything was new inside the bar but are like the old things, even the new pinball machine was in here, in the original's spot. I really wondered how long it has been between the end of the game, the movie Advent Children, and now, with everything fixed up. The buildings were crude-made earlier, but now they are ACTUAL houses. Amazing how they did it...

Everyone was beginning to talk to one another, getting used to one another. Nananki and Trila were talking about something, though I don't know what, since I wasn't paying attention. I just sat at one of the tables, reading 'Acorna: The Unicorn Girl', one of the Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball books.

( Nyaaaaa... I love their books, but I can't make a story since they didn't give permission to allow us to do so... So! I say say that I READ them in this story!)

Perhaps I was a little too engrossed into it, since I think someone's talking to me...

" Like, hello? Anyone in there?" Yuffie said as she waved her hand in front of my face.

" What is it?" I said as I finally looked up, just a taaaaad annoyed.

" Hungry?" She offered a plate of food, which was actually meat of some sort and some salad next to it.

" No," I said as I looked back at my book. " I'm not hungry..."

" Rose! You have got to stop that!" Ebony said when she just heard me turn down food again. " That would make it SIX days of not eating!"

" So?"

" So! So you gotta eat!"

" You're not my mother," I said a bit coldly. I think I have hit a spot, because she didn't bother about me not eating again, but shrugged it off and began talking to Cloud again. Yuffie was staring at me.

" You haven't eaten for six days?"

" Exactly, so what? Got a problem with it?"

" No, not really. It just sounds like you're training to be a ninja or something," Yuffie said with a shrug. " But anyway, what are you reading?"

I let her looked at the cover of a girl with a horn on her forehead and hooves instead of feet, with only two-digit fingers instead of the usual three-digit like a regular human sitting on the ground. " Nani? What's with that girl? I haven't seen a book like this in my life."

" It's a fiction book, about a girl named Acorna, found by space miners and raised by them. So on, so forth," I said. But somehow, all my ideas of books being just books were shattered, since a fictional person came out of nowhere and killed everyone...

" Yuffie, don't bother her," Cloud said.

" She doesn't mind me talking to her!"

" You sure...?" I mumbled to myself as I rolled my eyes. She didn't hear me as she sticks her tongue out at Cloud and sat down across from me, staring at the book for awhile. " You better not be thinking about stealing this or something."

" Hey hey hey! Who said that I will steal a book!"

" What's the matter? A book isn't good enough like our Materia?" Tifa teased Yuffie as she sat down at the bar.

" You mean MY Materia!" Yuffie said as she looks at Tifa. Tifa just laughs as she ate. Cloud rolls his eyes, Barret scuffs, Cid chuckles, Vincent remained quiet, and the other FF7 and Yugi and them just eats. Reeve's cell phone was suddenly ringing. He answers it as some had perked interest in who's calling.

" This is Reeve," he said. " Ah, Reno, what's with this surprise call?" Silence as he listens. " Mr. President needs me? What for this time?" Silence. " Okay, okay, fine. Tell him that I'm coming." He flips his phone closed as he stood up. " Great food Tifa. Now I gotta get to work on a mission."

" See ya Reeve," Cloud as Reeve left the bar.

" Hell, are we that sure that Rufus isn't controlling the Shinra soldiers?" Barret said as he pushes his empty plate aside.

" Not that again," Tifa said.

As the others continued talking, mostly about the beliefs that Rufus is or isn't in control, I got up and walked outside. The place was too noisy to me now. I looked back to see that nobody noticed that I just left. Sighing, I started walking towards where the church was at, where Aeris had always hung around... Sure, it was going to be a bit of a long distance, but I might as well explore the city before I lose this chance. Who the hell knows when Malshano or some other trouble came along?

' Trains are too damn slow...' I thought as I stare at one of them that I just came upon. ' At least the church isn't by train, but the exit, which I'm glad was cleared of derbis from the collaspe of the plate about this Sector.' I continued walking until I was out of sight of everyone that wonders around. Kate, Trila, everyone, I'm going to go exploring the city.

What? You just now announced your plan? We didn't even noticed that you left until now!

Don't worry Kate, I'll be back. Eventually, I told them as I suddenly took off, jumping onto one of the buildings roof and jumped roof-to-roof. I hoped that I was a blur to everyone, so that I wouldn't be seen.

Cloud's P.O.V.

" Gawd, Rose is becoming quite a pain," Melody said as she talked to Kate, who merely flicked her tail.

" Huh?" Yuffie said as she turns to find that Rose left the bar silently. " Wow, she slipped without being noticed!"

" You're surprised?" Ebony said as she laughed.

" What? What!"

" Nothing."

" Where'd she get to?" Barret said.

" She said that she was exploring the city," Melody said.

" But didn't you guys just said that you noticed she left?" I said.

" Ummm..." Melody said in reply. Kate sighed heavily at Melody's lack of explaination.

" She told us through mind talk," Trila said, whopping Melody in the head with her tail.

" Mind talk?" Yuffie said. " Impossible!"

" Shows how much you know," Dranzer said.

" Hey!"

" I think that she's heading for that church," Ebony said.

" Why's that?" I asked.

" Just a feeling."

" Then you should go check up on her, Cloud," Barret said.

" Why do that?"

" So the gawddamn Shinra soldiers won't get her!" he yelled. " They tried capturing her, duh! Now get yer spiky ass going!"

" Geez, I'm going already," I said as I quickly left. I found Denzel outside, playing with Marlene and the other orphans. We live with the kids that lost their parents from the battles from Shinra and the effects of the geostigma. I was glad that the water at the church healed everyone, including me.

" Hey Cloud! Where're you going?" Denzel asked.

" Did you see a girl in purple go this way?" I asked.

" Yeah! She went that way," Denzel said, pointing to the Sector's exit.

" Thanks. Make sure to play fair," I said as I ruffled his hair, walking towards the direction.

" I will!"

The walk wasn't that time consuming, since I knew the way by heart. Here and there, you can still see some of the original houses from earlier development of the city. And the tower where Rufus once resided is slightly better, though it's still needs to be more fixed up, and to remove of the ruined buildings. The fight with Sephiroth about three years ago is still shown there.

' Hopefully, Rose is in there,' I thought as I approach the church from a distance, seeing the doors open as usual. The people took better care of the church, fixing it up though keeping the original structure the same. I hopped onto the roof to peer down through the very hole I created when me and the AVALANCHE group blown up the Mako Reactor No.2, result that the bridge collasped and I fell. In the very place where the flowers were once at, that grew in this now-not polluted place, was the healing water. And by the side was Rose, crouching down next to the side.

Rose's P.O.V.

' Amazing how this church changed,' I thought as I stared at the water's surface. I could see the bottom, which was still green from some of the grass that survived the explosion from Kadaj's attack. Flowers has popped out along the edge sides of the water. I switched my attention to the reflection of my face. It was more... different, somehow. My face had the look of no emotion of any kind. I felt my face relax slightly, the reflection changed to a more kinder look. ' Man, will I ever have the pain go away?'

Someday Rose, it will. Give it time, Rine said.

" I don't think it will," I said outloud. I heard Rine sigh.

It seems that you are going to continue making yourself miserable.

" What makes you think that?" I said a bit sarcastically. " Sorry, didn't mean to snap at you... I just feel a bot lost, alright?"

It's alright. I know that losing everyone you knew is hard, I just do not want you to stay like this forever.

" I probably won't, but my wounded heart is still bleeding freely, since it all happened nearly a week and a half ago." I touched the water with my hand as I continued talking. " I guess that it was going to be this way, whether I like it or not."

" Guardian..." we suddenly heard.

" Great, your talking to me again. What is it?"

" You need to go."

" Go to the Ancient City."

" There, you got to do something of great importance."

" It will need to be done as soon as you can."

" Why the hell do I need to go there?" I said.

" You will find out soon as you get there."

" Go alone, if you can."

" I will help with the instructions once you're there," a completly new voice said.

" Fine, I'll go..." I said as I sighed. " I have no clue why I need to go, but I'll go..." I got up and was about to leave, but I stopped and looked back at the water. I thought for a second that it was glowing, but it turned out that it wasn't. I shook my head as I left. The day just gotten better...