Everyone climbed onto the grounded Shera. Barret sat in between Marlene and Denzel, Vincent going in his usual corner, Cid behind the wheel calling Reeve, Red sitting in the corner, Yuffie about to puke her guts out and I sat still, away from everyone else, lost in my thoughts. Cid clicked off his phone.
"All right." he starts. "That was Reeve. He said it'll take awhile to get a good signal from Tifa's phone." Everybody groaned.
"So what's gonna happen now?" I ask.
"I'll tell ya what we're gonna do! We'll drop Denzel and Marlene off then you to Seventh Heaven so you can grab your damn sword and Fenrir. Bad enough the ninja brats on here. I don't want two people hurling on my fucking ship!" he lit a cigarette. "Besides it'll cover more ground with two people driving. I can't do fucking everything around here!"
"Cid! Language! There are children here!" I glare. That sounded a lot weirder when I said it. But he's right. It'll cut time in half if we both drive . He looks at me with a strange look. "What? Bad enough I have to hear your mouth! I don't want the kids having a foul language, too."
"Cloud's right." Barret says. "It would be the death of me to hear Marlene say stuff like that." Everybody looked at him. "What? Got a problem? I'll rip ya a new 'ne!" he pumps up a fist but Marlene comes and grabs it with her tiny hands.
"Papa! It's okay."
"All right honey." He cools down. "So what are we waiting for? Meteor to show up? Move it!"
"Now don't go start callin' the shots! It's MY ship!" Cid says and grumbled something under his breath. He started up the Shera and it rose from the ground, and shot through the air. I immediately clutched my stomach and doubled over in my chair. So much for getting rid of my motion sickness. Yuffie ran out of the room searching for a room to 'die in'. This is gonna suck.
"Cloud?" I heard. I look up with my pale green face to see Denzel staring at me with concern. "Are you okay?"
"I..." I couldn't finish my sentence. I felt a rush of water coming up my throat and I ran to the bathroom. I was in there for 10 minutes hugging the toilet bowl until I heard a small but booming knock.
"Hey! Chocobo Brain! Get out or I'm gonna-" Yuffie choked out. I came out of the bathroom and wobbled back to my seat.
"Motion Sickness got you bad?" Vincent asks. All I can do is nod and clutch my stomach some more.
"OH GOD IT STINKS IN HERE! STRIFE! You get off first!" Cid exclaimed. I felt like jumping when he said those words. The sooner I get out of this hell hole, the better. I heard Marlene giggle.
"Yeah Cloud! you're stinky!" she said, pinching her nose and plopping down next to me.
"I didn't know Cloud had motion sickness." Denzel said. "What about when you drive Fenrir?"
"That's d-different." I choke out. "Wh-when I'm driving or doing something, I forget about it." I slumped back in my chair.
"Oh. But that doesn't make since."
"I don't get it either. It J-J-" I jump up again, heading towards the bathroom.
I knock on the bathroom door, holding the bile back.
"Dying ninja. Sorr-" She hurled.
"Hey are you okay?" I heard Zack."Try looking next to you." I looked down and found a trash bin to my right. Yuffie must've used it before me. Blech, it stinks. I lunge for it anyway. I heard laughing. Must be Zack again.
"What?" I growl.
"Oh, come on! That's disgusting!" he chuckles. I ignore him "Hey don't worry you're almost there." I kind of don't want to see what disasters happened at home.
I got back at around 12 AM. Two hours of slowly dying in a trashcan past by the time I made it to Seventh Heaven.
"All right, kid." Cid says. Marlene and Denzel ran and hugged me, and I crouch down and return their embrace.
"Bye, Cloud! See you soon!" Marlene smiled. Denzel let go and looked at me with his cerulean eyes.
"You'll be back. Promise?" he says. I stood up and gave him a firm nod and patted his head.
"Take it easy, Spike." Barret said. Vincent gave me a short wave. And then Yuffie popped out of the bathroom with a tea bag hanging over her head.
"Later chocobo head! Don't sulk so much!"
"Yuffie!" Everyone shouted.
"What? I know he'll come back! Just the wreckage in the bar might be too depressing-"
"Yuffie!"
"All right All right! Bye!"
"Rendezvous at my house!" Cid shouted in the back. I scoffed and turned to the cargo hold. I jump out of the ship and landed in front of the bar.
"Well, here goes nothing..."I reached for the door and slowly opened it to see the destruction that lies within.
