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Don't own FF7, YGO, InuYasha, so on! Ta ta! (sings, currently trying to cheer up from a bad day)

Chapter XXII: Explaination

" There's no sanity anymore..."

" Has there ever?"

" Good point..." Joey and Duke were basically trying to grasp what they have in front of them, along with everyone else. There, in front of them, are three people who were dead, and one me, with my wings, horn, and tail showing now. There's no point of hiding them anymore in front of these people. All the kids, though, were all over my wings, petting them and exclaiming how soft they are.

" I want wings!"

" The feathers are so white and soft... can I have one of the pretty feathers?"

" What are you... really," Nananaki said to me as he sits some distance away, watching me closely.

I shrugged. I don't feel up to talking...

" How'd you bring people back from the dead?" Barret demanded.

I shrugged again.

" Dammit, answer the questions!" Cid yelled from his vid speakers, where his face shows of confusion and anger.

I glared at him as I gave him a slow, small shake of my head.

" Will you just gawddamn talk!"

" Leave her alone, guys," Ebony said as she came to my rescue. " She's not even up to talking, can't you see that?"

" They're just curious..." I said softly. " Aeris, here's your Materia..." I said as I took out the shining orb from my pocket and rolled it at her, my arm not willing to move that much. " Gawd... I can't move... I hate this..."

" Hey, my Materia!" Aeris said in surprise as she picked it up. " It's glowing green. So it did worked, the Holy."

" Saved all of our butts," Cloud said. " But how'd ya know about it?" he asked me.

" I was given directions to get it..."

" By the Planet?" Aeris asked. I nodded. " No wonder that the Planet is more active than usual, because the voices were talking to you.

' You were the one giving me many commands... Jeez, this sucks that she doesn't remember one thing after being revived, other than getting killed by Sephiroth...'

" You better get some sleep, Rose. You really do look pale," Tea said as she tries to help me up. I'm sick and tired of being treated like I'm some helpless victim, but that's exactly how I felt. My body felt like lead... literally. After a few tries, Ebony, Tifa and Aeris came over and helped Tea. It was only when I was on my feet that I shook them off and tried walking on my own. Ebony stayed by me though, after I stumbled over my own feet and nearly landed on the floor again.

" I'm not going to do that trick for a long time," I told Ebony as I finally managed to get to one of the rooms onboard the Highwind. " In fact, I'm not listening to voices in my head..."

" Too bad Rose. Remember that the Planet will talk to someone, even if they didn't want them to?" Ebony pointed out, laughing at my complaint.

" Some friend you are," I said jokingly, though I couldn't even muster up a laugh. But at least she didn't take it seriously and chuckled.

" I sure am. Now, get some sleep before I have to knock you out myself."

" Yes, sir..." I said, Ebony scrowling at me for calling her 'sir'.

" That's right, you better follow my command, soldier," she said, trying to look serious. " When you wake up, you better come up with a good, long speech for them all," she said normally.

" I hope so... Though I have no clue what happened myself..." I plopped onto the mattris and fell asleep in an instant, leaving Ebony for my enclosure of darkness.

Ebony's P.O.V.

" She's asleep," I said as I entered the control room again. " Whatever she did, it really knocked her out. I doubt she'll be awake for many hours."

" All questions are going to stay postponed, then," Tifa said. " It's great that Aeris and Zack is back, but... why she bring Kadaj back as well?"

Kadaj, the guy that's currently in one of the other rooms as well, asleep. Zack as well in one of the others, though Aeris refused to go to sleep, not after meeting up with all of her friends again. She's been asking questions of how everyone was doing, what's been going on while she was dead, and whatnot. Cloud and Zack had a happy sort of reunion, as well as everyone with Aeris. But all it raised with Rose was questions, not praises, thank you's, or anything like that.

But it brought questions in mind. Now that she knows how to do this ability, would she be able to bring back her family? Or would it be too complicated? Or dangerous?

" Hello? Reno calling to Ebony," Reno said as he waved his rod in front of my face. Bad mistake, for I snapped out at it, seized it and his arm, and slammed him into the ground. " Owww..."

" Opps, my bad," I said apoligically. " Well, at least you learned a lesson from that."

" Yeah, never to trust you to watch my back, you'd end up breaking it..."

" What he was asking you before you zonked out," Cloud said as he hid a laugh, " was about if Rose was an experiment of the Jenova project or not."

" Oh no! She had all those for... about nearly a week? But otherwise, they were always hidden before, well... until something happened that was required for the powers to be known to her. Before that, she was normal like all of us... or most of us, seeing that some of us aren't human," I said with a smile. I meant Nananaki and the animals. " Oh, and... how to explain this? Oh, the blunt way: We're not from this world." All of the Cloud crew gave me the look of saying, " Are you serious, or mental?"

" And we're actually from another planet, as well," Triston said. " Rose can travel to other worlds. She, Ebony, and their animals happened to come to ours. Why, don't -"

" The government jet planes were chasing us, because we had to take flight from someone named Zikomo. He tried to kill us, like Malshano did to Rose," I answered casually. " We expect them to continue chasing us now."

" ... right, so after they've been our planet for a few days, this Malshinoa or whatever showed up with this badass sword, waving it around and chasing us."

" As I said, he was chasing Rose. We just happened to go along with the chase. And it's Malshano, not Malshinoa."

" Okay!" Triston said, obvisiouly annoyed by my correcting. I enjoyed it every second, annoying him like this.

" Um... should we believe this crappy information?" Barret asked, not believeing this one bit.

" After what just happened about thirty minutes ago?" Tifa answered him. " Rose revived people from the dead, has wings, people with weird clothing and technology... do the math, for once."

" Well, I owe her a thank you, to bring me back and everything," Aeris said, smiling. She always seems to see the bright side of everything, and for once, there was. She's alive again, ain't she?

( Though, personally, why couldn't Aeris be revived by a Phoenix Down when she was stabbed...? Come on, everyone gets killed in battle, you toss a feather on them, and they're back on his/her feet and attacking the foe(s). Hmm... You know that you play too much FF7 when you try to revive a dead person by throwing a feather you've picked up from the ground, saying, " Rise, by the power of Phoenix Down!" lol)

" As do I," Zack said from behind me. I turned to look at him, surprised to see him standing already.

" Seems everyone is felin' better. Now, how da the hell are we going to figure this out and go home?" Joey asked.

" Truth be told, I think Rose has no better clue than we do," I said.

" But she's gotta! She controls dat portal thingie!"

" If she knows how to control it, she'd have already been off this planet."

" Stop it, Joey," Yugi said. " Ebony's right, and besides, we should leave Rose alone with the questions."

" So stop being such a cry baby," Cid said as he signed off from the screen.

" For once, I agree with someone here," Kaiba said. Mokuba just sighs as he went over to the window to watch the clouds go by with Denzal and Marlene.

" Well, we got about an hour to go in the air," Cloud said. " Yuffie is airsick, so don't go anywhere near her, many of the kids are asleep now. So what will pass the time?

" Duel Monsters!" the Yugi crew said at the same time.

For the whole hour, Yugi and Duke was explaining how to play to Cloud and them, while the others were playing by hand, not duel disk.

" This is really difficult..." Barret complained.

" Only because you can't grasp the information yet," Duke said. Kaiba, on the other hand, was very strict on Reno.

" Idiot, you're suppose to flip the Trap card before my monster attacks."

" But how the hell am I suppose to tell the difference of Magic and Trap!"

" This is rather amusing..." Vincent said as he watched them.

" What, the game or watching the others humiliate themselves?" I asked.

" Hm, both."

" I'm rather bored with the cards, since I've beaten Joey at it in nearly five minutes. And he was supposed to be tough!"

" I see..."

" You're really not talkitive, you know that?"

Then they heard a scream.

Mwahahahahahahahahaha, quite a cliffhanger, eh? (gets pelted by bullets of flames) Hey, no flamers! Or else I'll get Roach's stinky shoes! You know, the ones that blew up her toliet? Because she tossed them in there, that's how it blew up! I mean it, I'll get them! I got them and I'm not afraid to use them! ...lol, enjoy the next chapter.