Life as It Is
Believe
Normal Text "Person speaking" Thinking. emphasis ((A/N: author's notes))
A/N: I lost some reviews! ((cries)). Give me attention! ((cries like a 2- year-old)). XP Ah well, at least I still have some very faithful reviews. Three's enough to keep me going! I found SO many errors... I want an editor! XP The format's now going to be a little bit different... the review-stuff will be in the END, cause it didn't look too good in the beginning... and I added a summary paragraph, just basically a place where I jot down my ideas for the next chapter... skip it if you want, since there may be some spoilers or things changed... the author notes in the beginning'll probably end... eep I talk too much... I'll shut up now.
Summary: Hm... definitely Squiffieness when we zoom into Squall and Yuffie, something bad's going to happen to Cloud and Aerith, we'll return to that semi-cliffy with Riku and Sorina and turn the tables, basically major plot stuff...
Disclaimer: whines and faints in boredom
Yuffie: clears throat We're having some... technical issues with the disclaimer... so I'll just say it for now. The poor, thoughtful author does not have a licensed agreement with Disney and Squaresoft and does not own the following characters: Me, Squall, Riku...
Squall: Basically she's saying that the author doesn't own anything.
Me: Actually, I own Sorina and Hikari... but ON WITH THE STORY! points forward
This is dedicated to Zilly, who has a completely awesome name! And feels sorry for Riona. ((nods)) ··§· ·§ (A/N: Let's hope the border works this time) "Cloud, turn on the light, will you?" Aerith asked.
"Sure..." Cloud said, quickly turning on the light. Aerith screamed. Cloud quickly turned around and whitened in shock as well.
"What's up? Aw come on, I thought we were friend!" said a black-haired girl, twirling her hair.
"T-t-tifa?" Cloud stammered. The girl gave Cloud a sultry look, letting her gaze sweep over Cloud's body, letting out a low whistle. Cloud felt himself redden. Aerith's reassuring squeeze was all the kept him from running away and hiding in the bathroom. Tifa's gaze now wandered over to Aerith.
"I remember you... you were the little brat and stole my Cloud away from me!" her oily voice accused, "Well, all the better..." she whispered, and with that punched Cloud in the face. Cloud heard Aerith scream before he sunk into darkness...
··§· ·§ Riku quickly turned towards the voice. Sorina quietly stood besides him. A silver-haired man a few years older than Riku appeared.
"You!" Riku said in a disgusted voice.
"Yes, me." the man said impatiently, "And who is this beautiful young lady?" Sorina blushed, despite herself.
"Don't you dare..." Riku spat angrily. He can't be told her name...
"And what's your name, little lady?" Sephiroph asked, ignoring Riku.
Ack! What am I supposed to say? Sorina shivered. "My name is Yuffie," she blabbered.
"Yuffie, eh? Didn't I go to that dance with you?" Sephiroph pressed on.
How am I supposed to know? she thought, and where did Riku go? He must've slipped away... She noticed someone behind Sephiroph nodding his head desperately.
"Yes!" she nodded, thankful that it was dark so he couldn't see her clearly.
"You're cheating on me for this piece of crap? Such an bad girl. Bad girls need punishing," Sephiroph said with an evil grin, taking a step towards her.
Riku! Help! she thought desperately as she took a step back, but as powerful as Riku was, he wasn't a mind reader.
"Oh no you don't, you pervert," Riku snarled vehemently, savagely pouncing on Sephiroph. Sephiroph quickly got up and walked a few feet away.
"My work is done. I know the name of the Prince's girlfriend. And I'll be paying you a visit soon," Sephiroph growled seductively, giving Sorina one last look.
"Thanks," Sorina muttered to Riku a few moments later.
Riku looked around to make sure Sephiroph was gone. "Why did you use one of my friend's name? You may be off the hook now, but SHE'S going to be in for it!"
Sorina sank to the ground. "She's in danger now... I completely forgot!" she confessed, embarrassed.
"Well, the harm's already done. We better go warn Yuffie..." Riku sighed, pulling Sorina off from the ground. ((muhahahaha. Just a twist to put the spotlight on Yuffie...)) ··§· ·§ "Mmmmm" Yuffie groaned, rolling over. She breathed in the peppery smell of her blankets, and smiling happily, snuggled deeper in them. Wait. Her blankets smelled of cinnamon, not pepper! She snapped her eyes open. When did she have black silk sheets? She heard the toilet flush and a second later Squall walked in.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yuffie screamed.
"I see you woke up," Squall said, nodding.
"What happened? Where am I? What day is it? What—" Yuffie said, in a panicky stream of words.
"You fell asleep under the car. You're in the 3-room apartment Riku and I share. Today's Monday. And no, you did not loose your virginity," Squall answered.
"I didn't ask if I lost..." Yuffie searched her brain for the appropriate word, "it... or not!" she rebuked.
"You were going to," Squall said, smiling, silently chuckling at her childlike behavior.
"OH MY GOSH!!!" Yuffie squealed, "Did Squall just SMILE??"
"You better shut up if you want me to do it again," he glared, "And it's LEON, L-E-O-N, not SQUALL, LEON. Care to get it through your thick skull?"
Yuffie pouted a bit and stole a quick glance at Squall. He was facing the balcony in those leather pants again.
"What are you staring at?" Squall asked, turning.
Ew, was I just staring at his butt? thought Yuffie.
"Well?" asked Squall.
"You... er... have a bee in your hair!" she quickly lied.
Yuffie nervously looked at Squall. He wasn't angry! He looked terrified.
"Is it still there?" he whimpered pitifully. Yuffie laughed so hard she fell over the bed.
"What?" Squall said, sulking.
"It's gone," Yuffie said. Squall was so cute when he sulked. "But seriously... a grown man afraid of bees?" Yuffie teased, dissolving into another peal of giggles.
"Hey! I'm highly allergic to bees!" Squall, squatting her lightly on the head, flashing a rare smile.
"Hey, today's Sunday right?" Yuffie asked.
"No... I just told you... today's MONDAY!" Squall sneered, his playful side disappearing.
"Oh my gosh! I'm late for school!" she squealed, jumping off of the bed. Squall caught her quickly by the waist. She flushed slightly.
"Nuh-uh... today's a holiday," he whispered, letting her go.
"Oh. Well, aren't we supposed to celebrate or something?" Yuffie asked, leaning closer towards him. "Gawd he's hot" she though, and surprising Squall and herself, kissed him lightly on the lips. "Oh my gawd, what did I just do?" she thought, blushing furiously, "Now Squall's going to really hate me!" She felt soft lips against hers, returning her kiss, arms wrapping around her. "Squall!" a voice floated into the room, followed by a knock. Squall quickly broke the kiss, whispering, "Who could that be?"
"Squall! It's Riku!" the voice came again.
"Well, that answers your question," Yuffie said, giggling.
"Should we ignore him?" he said, kissing her lightly on the forehead.
"I know you're in there! If you don't, I'll just slam down the door!" Riku's voice commanded.
"Squall, please, just open the door," a silky voice quickly followed Riku's. Squall sighed, and got up. Riku always forgot the keys. Yuffie sat thinking on the bed. What had she done? And did Squall just kiss her back? Shuddering, she sunk back into the sheets.
"Yuffie!" Riku called, barging into the room. Yuffie looked up, surprised. He grabbed her hand and pulled her out.
"Ow! What was that for?" she whined at Riku, but instantly stopped when she saw his grim face.
"What's the matter?" Squall asked, standing behind Yuffie.
"Yuffie's in danger," he articulated clearly.
··§· ·§ Cloud opened his eyes slowly. Where was he? His head hurt painfully, but he couldn't do anything. He was bound to a chair. He looked over next to him. Aerith was there too! She was still asleep though. I have to get out. he thought, struggling against his bounds.
"You can't get out," a voice called from the shadows.
"Tifa! What are you doing here?" Cloud called.
"Me? Shouldn't you be asking what are you doing here?" she said, smiling, looking down at Cloud. Cloud gulped.
"But I thought we were friends... remember, no hard feelings?" he whispered, thinking back.
"No hard feelings? When did I say that?" Tifa asked, disgusted. Aerith moaned slightly in the background, opening her eyes.
"We were just friends, Tifa, remember?" Cloud replied.
"We were more than that before this slut came!" she nearly shouted, tears lightly springing to her eyes. Cloud grew angry. No one talked about his Aerith like that!
"Cloud..." Aerith whispered, noticing his clenched fists. Tifa seemed to have recovered her sense of cool.
"Ah yes..." she continued, "I was sent to ask you two a variety of questions..."
"First of all, who is Riku's girlfriend?"
Aerith smiled. That question was easy. "A girl" she replied. Tifa frowned and touched a button. Aerith felt a shock of electricity flow through her, and grimaced in pain.
"Now... let me rephrase that. What is Riku's girlfriend's name?" Tifa said, smiling cruelly. Suddenly, Sephiroph burst into the room with a smile on his face.
"Tifa!" he said triumphantly, "I got Riku's girlfriend's name! It's Yuff—"
"Shhhh" Tifa shushed him quickly. "Did you hear what he said?" she asked, turning towards Cloud and Aerith.
"I heard something about Riku," Aerith said truthfully. Cloud just nodded, scared that he'll say something else bad.
"Good. As I was saying, what was Riku's girlfriend's name?" Tifa asked. Sephiroph looked at them, sticking his tongue at Cloud, who promptly also stuck out his tongue, and was zapped by Tifa.
"We're never going to tell!" Aerith said defensively, putting up an act.
"We'll see to that..." Tifa sniggered, zapping both of them until their hair stood straight up.
"Her... her name is Yuffie..." Aerith managed to stammer, shivering in pain after being shocked so many times. ··§· ·§
"You did what?" Yuffie and Squall both said at the same time.
"I'm so sorry... I wasn't thinking! Would you please forgive me?" Sorina pleaded.
"I forgive you... I guess..." Yuffie muttered.
"What are we going to do?" asked Squall, after a moment of silence.
"Well... we're going to contact Cloud and Aerith... and hide Yuffie," Riku said, writing some notes down.
"I'll go call Cloud," Squall said, reaching in his back pocket for his cell phone.
((italics is the other person on the phone talking))
"Hello?" an oily voice asked. Screaming could be heard in the background. Squall quickly hung up. "That wasn't Cloud..." he muttered to a silent crowd of 3 people.
"That means they're held captive?" Riku asked.
"Well, there's only one way to check, eh?" Sorina said, grabbing the cell phone from Squall.
"Sorina! Isn't it dangerous?" Riku asked, concerned.
"Honestly! You treat me like I'm this precious baby!" Sorina snapped lightly at Riku.
"What's she going to do?" asked Yuffie naïvely, watching the red-headed girl concentrate on the cell phone. Suddenly, a stream of semi-transparent binary numbers flowed from the cell phone to Sorina's forehead. Shaking her head, she snapped the cell phone closed and handed the phone back to Squall.
"Using the transmitter in the cell phone, I can track wherever that call was placed. Even if it was blocked, I could mess around with the transmitters and get where they were. Since it was Cloud's phone, it wasn't blocked so it was fairly easy to find where they were. Except... it's not... on this world..." Sorina answered.
"You mean..." Riku's eyes widened. Yuffie indignantly stood up, angry that she was getting so confused. Glancing over at Squall, he also gave her a confused shrug.
"Riku! We're ignoring the other two!" Sorina whispered to Riku.
"Ah... sorry guys..." Riku muttered, "As with the other world thing... there are three worlds in all. We're in the middle world. A mixture of the two worlds – this world was never meant to be. That's why most people from this world don't know about the other two worlds... and vice versa. The people who do know about this world call this the perfect world. A perfect balance of good and evil, ying and yang. A few people were granted with magical powers to keep it safe and perfect, so nothing disturbs this balance. The people who have magical powers... like us... are the guardians."
"What about the other two worlds?" Yuffie asked.
"The world above is where me and Riku are from," Sorina continued, "Everything is pure. Not perfect, but pure. We're communist. The purest kind of communist. Everyone is equal, everything is controlled. No freedom. Everyone is content, never happy. Everyone is in love, not madly in love. It's... so stifling..."
"The world below... it's pure anarchy," Squall said, "That's where I'm from. Everything is a mess. You can do whatever you want. It's pure freedom. You want that ice cream? You steal it. You want to kill that person? You killed that person, if you could. The two worlds were once ruled by this sadistic lady called, "The Dark Lordess" who wanted to destroy this perfect world, but she disappeared after Riku's great-grandfather banished her."
"But now she's back and sending her minions to destroy us?" Yuffie asked.
"Not just kill. Completely annihilate us. But first she has to destroy the guardians. As long as our king or queen is standing, she cannot destroy us. It's sort of like a game of chess, except with 2 kings. You can't kill the guardians, only capture. When both kings are gone, it's checkmate." Squall continued. Yuffie got up quickly and looked around.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" she asked, "let's go rescue the two guardians!" she said.
"Wait!" Sorina said, "Yuffie, you're now the decoy Queen, and I'll be Squall's girlfriend until this is over, okay?"
"Sure, I guess..." Yuffie muttered, eyeing Squall, who gave her a worried look.
"Well, where do we start?" Squall said impatiently.
"Um... we start with the world below... they're hidden under the pub, shouldn't be too hard, eh?" Riku said, attempting a smile.
"The PUB??!!!" Squall yelled, "That's the most dangerous place IN the underworld! It's HUGE and people are regularly murdered there!" ··§· ·§ "Guess who just called?" Tifa's voice asked a defeated Cloud and Aerith. Cloud just moaned.
"Squall!" Tifa squealed, not waiting for their answer, "He completely bought that I was Aerith! He was SOOOO sad! He said that RIKU and YUFFIE are dead! So that means the king and queen are dead!!!! You guys are hopeless now!" she smiled wickedly.
"You're lying!" Aerith cried.
"Why would I lie about something like that?" Tifa smiled, mentally thinking of all her reasons. Cloud sighed. Tifa smiled inwardly. They were so gullible!
"What are we supposed to do now?" muttered Cloud.
"Well, we WERE going to throw you to the sharks," Tifa motioned towards a tank of sharks, "but we decided against it so now you're just going to hang around here. Oh and here's your food," she continued, handing them a tray of food and untying their hand bounds.
"Riku is dead?" Cloud whispered. Aerith shook her head. "She's lying, I feel his presence" she whispered back at him.
"Well, what do we do?" Cloud asked.
"You dufus! We untie our feet bounds and escape through that air vent," she said, quickly checking to make sure the food wasn't poisonous, and then proceeded to rapidly jam food down her through.
"Well, hurry up then!" Cloud said, after they finished, carefully unscrewing the air vent. ··§· ·§ A/N: Wheee! Some squiffie action! I'm so sorry if Tifa sounds OOC... I don't know her much... give me a tip on how she acts, k? Oh, and what do you guys think about C/A, S/K, and R/OC fluffiness? I can leave it out, since this is mainly L/Y... sorry guys I had camp so I couldn't write... one of my friends at camp was a manga-freek, so she got me into reading DN Angel. It's AWESOME! The only other manga I'd ever read before was Love Hina... and I've seen like ½ of episode of hack.sign, and cowboy bebop last year on vacation. Oh, and I've seen 2 whole episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! I don't have cartoon network OR anime network, so naturally I'm not connected...
Thankies: DemonSurfer: lol hope you don't get your head bashed in! I need your reviews! Sqully: mmm... I updated, does that mean I get a review? ((begs)) zilly: I really love Riona in FFVIII for some reason... maybe she'll appear in KH-2! They're saying that the girl on the beach sorta looks like her... but Yuffie'll always be Squall's. (Yuffie: ((nods quickly)))
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Believe
Normal Text "Person speaking" Thinking. emphasis ((A/N: author's notes))
A/N: I lost some reviews! ((cries)). Give me attention! ((cries like a 2- year-old)). XP Ah well, at least I still have some very faithful reviews. Three's enough to keep me going! I found SO many errors... I want an editor! XP The format's now going to be a little bit different... the review-stuff will be in the END, cause it didn't look too good in the beginning... and I added a summary paragraph, just basically a place where I jot down my ideas for the next chapter... skip it if you want, since there may be some spoilers or things changed... the author notes in the beginning'll probably end... eep I talk too much... I'll shut up now.
Summary: Hm... definitely Squiffieness when we zoom into Squall and Yuffie, something bad's going to happen to Cloud and Aerith, we'll return to that semi-cliffy with Riku and Sorina and turn the tables, basically major plot stuff...
Disclaimer: whines and faints in boredom
Yuffie: clears throat We're having some... technical issues with the disclaimer... so I'll just say it for now. The poor, thoughtful author does not have a licensed agreement with Disney and Squaresoft and does not own the following characters: Me, Squall, Riku...
Squall: Basically she's saying that the author doesn't own anything.
Me: Actually, I own Sorina and Hikari... but ON WITH THE STORY! points forward
This is dedicated to Zilly, who has a completely awesome name! And feels sorry for Riona. ((nods)) ··§· ·§ (A/N: Let's hope the border works this time) "Cloud, turn on the light, will you?" Aerith asked.
"Sure..." Cloud said, quickly turning on the light. Aerith screamed. Cloud quickly turned around and whitened in shock as well.
"What's up? Aw come on, I thought we were friend!" said a black-haired girl, twirling her hair.
"T-t-tifa?" Cloud stammered. The girl gave Cloud a sultry look, letting her gaze sweep over Cloud's body, letting out a low whistle. Cloud felt himself redden. Aerith's reassuring squeeze was all the kept him from running away and hiding in the bathroom. Tifa's gaze now wandered over to Aerith.
"I remember you... you were the little brat and stole my Cloud away from me!" her oily voice accused, "Well, all the better..." she whispered, and with that punched Cloud in the face. Cloud heard Aerith scream before he sunk into darkness...
··§· ·§ Riku quickly turned towards the voice. Sorina quietly stood besides him. A silver-haired man a few years older than Riku appeared.
"You!" Riku said in a disgusted voice.
"Yes, me." the man said impatiently, "And who is this beautiful young lady?" Sorina blushed, despite herself.
"Don't you dare..." Riku spat angrily. He can't be told her name...
"And what's your name, little lady?" Sephiroph asked, ignoring Riku.
Ack! What am I supposed to say? Sorina shivered. "My name is Yuffie," she blabbered.
"Yuffie, eh? Didn't I go to that dance with you?" Sephiroph pressed on.
How am I supposed to know? she thought, and where did Riku go? He must've slipped away... She noticed someone behind Sephiroph nodding his head desperately.
"Yes!" she nodded, thankful that it was dark so he couldn't see her clearly.
"You're cheating on me for this piece of crap? Such an bad girl. Bad girls need punishing," Sephiroph said with an evil grin, taking a step towards her.
Riku! Help! she thought desperately as she took a step back, but as powerful as Riku was, he wasn't a mind reader.
"Oh no you don't, you pervert," Riku snarled vehemently, savagely pouncing on Sephiroph. Sephiroph quickly got up and walked a few feet away.
"My work is done. I know the name of the Prince's girlfriend. And I'll be paying you a visit soon," Sephiroph growled seductively, giving Sorina one last look.
"Thanks," Sorina muttered to Riku a few moments later.
Riku looked around to make sure Sephiroph was gone. "Why did you use one of my friend's name? You may be off the hook now, but SHE'S going to be in for it!"
Sorina sank to the ground. "She's in danger now... I completely forgot!" she confessed, embarrassed.
"Well, the harm's already done. We better go warn Yuffie..." Riku sighed, pulling Sorina off from the ground. ((muhahahaha. Just a twist to put the spotlight on Yuffie...)) ··§· ·§ "Mmmmm" Yuffie groaned, rolling over. She breathed in the peppery smell of her blankets, and smiling happily, snuggled deeper in them. Wait. Her blankets smelled of cinnamon, not pepper! She snapped her eyes open. When did she have black silk sheets? She heard the toilet flush and a second later Squall walked in.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yuffie screamed.
"I see you woke up," Squall said, nodding.
"What happened? Where am I? What day is it? What—" Yuffie said, in a panicky stream of words.
"You fell asleep under the car. You're in the 3-room apartment Riku and I share. Today's Monday. And no, you did not loose your virginity," Squall answered.
"I didn't ask if I lost..." Yuffie searched her brain for the appropriate word, "it... or not!" she rebuked.
"You were going to," Squall said, smiling, silently chuckling at her childlike behavior.
"OH MY GOSH!!!" Yuffie squealed, "Did Squall just SMILE??"
"You better shut up if you want me to do it again," he glared, "And it's LEON, L-E-O-N, not SQUALL, LEON. Care to get it through your thick skull?"
Yuffie pouted a bit and stole a quick glance at Squall. He was facing the balcony in those leather pants again.
"What are you staring at?" Squall asked, turning.
Ew, was I just staring at his butt? thought Yuffie.
"Well?" asked Squall.
"You... er... have a bee in your hair!" she quickly lied.
Yuffie nervously looked at Squall. He wasn't angry! He looked terrified.
"Is it still there?" he whimpered pitifully. Yuffie laughed so hard she fell over the bed.
"What?" Squall said, sulking.
"It's gone," Yuffie said. Squall was so cute when he sulked. "But seriously... a grown man afraid of bees?" Yuffie teased, dissolving into another peal of giggles.
"Hey! I'm highly allergic to bees!" Squall, squatting her lightly on the head, flashing a rare smile.
"Hey, today's Sunday right?" Yuffie asked.
"No... I just told you... today's MONDAY!" Squall sneered, his playful side disappearing.
"Oh my gosh! I'm late for school!" she squealed, jumping off of the bed. Squall caught her quickly by the waist. She flushed slightly.
"Nuh-uh... today's a holiday," he whispered, letting her go.
"Oh. Well, aren't we supposed to celebrate or something?" Yuffie asked, leaning closer towards him. "Gawd he's hot" she though, and surprising Squall and herself, kissed him lightly on the lips. "Oh my gawd, what did I just do?" she thought, blushing furiously, "Now Squall's going to really hate me!" She felt soft lips against hers, returning her kiss, arms wrapping around her. "Squall!" a voice floated into the room, followed by a knock. Squall quickly broke the kiss, whispering, "Who could that be?"
"Squall! It's Riku!" the voice came again.
"Well, that answers your question," Yuffie said, giggling.
"Should we ignore him?" he said, kissing her lightly on the forehead.
"I know you're in there! If you don't, I'll just slam down the door!" Riku's voice commanded.
"Squall, please, just open the door," a silky voice quickly followed Riku's. Squall sighed, and got up. Riku always forgot the keys. Yuffie sat thinking on the bed. What had she done? And did Squall just kiss her back? Shuddering, she sunk back into the sheets.
"Yuffie!" Riku called, barging into the room. Yuffie looked up, surprised. He grabbed her hand and pulled her out.
"Ow! What was that for?" she whined at Riku, but instantly stopped when she saw his grim face.
"What's the matter?" Squall asked, standing behind Yuffie.
"Yuffie's in danger," he articulated clearly.
··§· ·§ Cloud opened his eyes slowly. Where was he? His head hurt painfully, but he couldn't do anything. He was bound to a chair. He looked over next to him. Aerith was there too! She was still asleep though. I have to get out. he thought, struggling against his bounds.
"You can't get out," a voice called from the shadows.
"Tifa! What are you doing here?" Cloud called.
"Me? Shouldn't you be asking what are you doing here?" she said, smiling, looking down at Cloud. Cloud gulped.
"But I thought we were friends... remember, no hard feelings?" he whispered, thinking back.
"No hard feelings? When did I say that?" Tifa asked, disgusted. Aerith moaned slightly in the background, opening her eyes.
"We were just friends, Tifa, remember?" Cloud replied.
"We were more than that before this slut came!" she nearly shouted, tears lightly springing to her eyes. Cloud grew angry. No one talked about his Aerith like that!
"Cloud..." Aerith whispered, noticing his clenched fists. Tifa seemed to have recovered her sense of cool.
"Ah yes..." she continued, "I was sent to ask you two a variety of questions..."
"First of all, who is Riku's girlfriend?"
Aerith smiled. That question was easy. "A girl" she replied. Tifa frowned and touched a button. Aerith felt a shock of electricity flow through her, and grimaced in pain.
"Now... let me rephrase that. What is Riku's girlfriend's name?" Tifa said, smiling cruelly. Suddenly, Sephiroph burst into the room with a smile on his face.
"Tifa!" he said triumphantly, "I got Riku's girlfriend's name! It's Yuff—"
"Shhhh" Tifa shushed him quickly. "Did you hear what he said?" she asked, turning towards Cloud and Aerith.
"I heard something about Riku," Aerith said truthfully. Cloud just nodded, scared that he'll say something else bad.
"Good. As I was saying, what was Riku's girlfriend's name?" Tifa asked. Sephiroph looked at them, sticking his tongue at Cloud, who promptly also stuck out his tongue, and was zapped by Tifa.
"We're never going to tell!" Aerith said defensively, putting up an act.
"We'll see to that..." Tifa sniggered, zapping both of them until their hair stood straight up.
"Her... her name is Yuffie..." Aerith managed to stammer, shivering in pain after being shocked so many times. ··§· ·§
"You did what?" Yuffie and Squall both said at the same time.
"I'm so sorry... I wasn't thinking! Would you please forgive me?" Sorina pleaded.
"I forgive you... I guess..." Yuffie muttered.
"What are we going to do?" asked Squall, after a moment of silence.
"Well... we're going to contact Cloud and Aerith... and hide Yuffie," Riku said, writing some notes down.
"I'll go call Cloud," Squall said, reaching in his back pocket for his cell phone.
((italics is the other person on the phone talking))
"Hello?" an oily voice asked. Screaming could be heard in the background. Squall quickly hung up. "That wasn't Cloud..." he muttered to a silent crowd of 3 people.
"That means they're held captive?" Riku asked.
"Well, there's only one way to check, eh?" Sorina said, grabbing the cell phone from Squall.
"Sorina! Isn't it dangerous?" Riku asked, concerned.
"Honestly! You treat me like I'm this precious baby!" Sorina snapped lightly at Riku.
"What's she going to do?" asked Yuffie naïvely, watching the red-headed girl concentrate on the cell phone. Suddenly, a stream of semi-transparent binary numbers flowed from the cell phone to Sorina's forehead. Shaking her head, she snapped the cell phone closed and handed the phone back to Squall.
"Using the transmitter in the cell phone, I can track wherever that call was placed. Even if it was blocked, I could mess around with the transmitters and get where they were. Since it was Cloud's phone, it wasn't blocked so it was fairly easy to find where they were. Except... it's not... on this world..." Sorina answered.
"You mean..." Riku's eyes widened. Yuffie indignantly stood up, angry that she was getting so confused. Glancing over at Squall, he also gave her a confused shrug.
"Riku! We're ignoring the other two!" Sorina whispered to Riku.
"Ah... sorry guys..." Riku muttered, "As with the other world thing... there are three worlds in all. We're in the middle world. A mixture of the two worlds – this world was never meant to be. That's why most people from this world don't know about the other two worlds... and vice versa. The people who do know about this world call this the perfect world. A perfect balance of good and evil, ying and yang. A few people were granted with magical powers to keep it safe and perfect, so nothing disturbs this balance. The people who have magical powers... like us... are the guardians."
"What about the other two worlds?" Yuffie asked.
"The world above is where me and Riku are from," Sorina continued, "Everything is pure. Not perfect, but pure. We're communist. The purest kind of communist. Everyone is equal, everything is controlled. No freedom. Everyone is content, never happy. Everyone is in love, not madly in love. It's... so stifling..."
"The world below... it's pure anarchy," Squall said, "That's where I'm from. Everything is a mess. You can do whatever you want. It's pure freedom. You want that ice cream? You steal it. You want to kill that person? You killed that person, if you could. The two worlds were once ruled by this sadistic lady called, "The Dark Lordess" who wanted to destroy this perfect world, but she disappeared after Riku's great-grandfather banished her."
"But now she's back and sending her minions to destroy us?" Yuffie asked.
"Not just kill. Completely annihilate us. But first she has to destroy the guardians. As long as our king or queen is standing, she cannot destroy us. It's sort of like a game of chess, except with 2 kings. You can't kill the guardians, only capture. When both kings are gone, it's checkmate." Squall continued. Yuffie got up quickly and looked around.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" she asked, "let's go rescue the two guardians!" she said.
"Wait!" Sorina said, "Yuffie, you're now the decoy Queen, and I'll be Squall's girlfriend until this is over, okay?"
"Sure, I guess..." Yuffie muttered, eyeing Squall, who gave her a worried look.
"Well, where do we start?" Squall said impatiently.
"Um... we start with the world below... they're hidden under the pub, shouldn't be too hard, eh?" Riku said, attempting a smile.
"The PUB??!!!" Squall yelled, "That's the most dangerous place IN the underworld! It's HUGE and people are regularly murdered there!" ··§· ·§ "Guess who just called?" Tifa's voice asked a defeated Cloud and Aerith. Cloud just moaned.
"Squall!" Tifa squealed, not waiting for their answer, "He completely bought that I was Aerith! He was SOOOO sad! He said that RIKU and YUFFIE are dead! So that means the king and queen are dead!!!! You guys are hopeless now!" she smiled wickedly.
"You're lying!" Aerith cried.
"Why would I lie about something like that?" Tifa smiled, mentally thinking of all her reasons. Cloud sighed. Tifa smiled inwardly. They were so gullible!
"What are we supposed to do now?" muttered Cloud.
"Well, we WERE going to throw you to the sharks," Tifa motioned towards a tank of sharks, "but we decided against it so now you're just going to hang around here. Oh and here's your food," she continued, handing them a tray of food and untying their hand bounds.
"Riku is dead?" Cloud whispered. Aerith shook her head. "She's lying, I feel his presence" she whispered back at him.
"Well, what do we do?" Cloud asked.
"You dufus! We untie our feet bounds and escape through that air vent," she said, quickly checking to make sure the food wasn't poisonous, and then proceeded to rapidly jam food down her through.
"Well, hurry up then!" Cloud said, after they finished, carefully unscrewing the air vent. ··§· ·§ A/N: Wheee! Some squiffie action! I'm so sorry if Tifa sounds OOC... I don't know her much... give me a tip on how she acts, k? Oh, and what do you guys think about C/A, S/K, and R/OC fluffiness? I can leave it out, since this is mainly L/Y... sorry guys I had camp so I couldn't write... one of my friends at camp was a manga-freek, so she got me into reading DN Angel. It's AWESOME! The only other manga I'd ever read before was Love Hina... and I've seen like ½ of episode of hack.sign, and cowboy bebop last year on vacation. Oh, and I've seen 2 whole episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! I don't have cartoon network OR anime network, so naturally I'm not connected...
Thankies: DemonSurfer: lol hope you don't get your head bashed in! I need your reviews! Sqully: mmm... I updated, does that mean I get a review? ((begs)) zilly: I really love Riona in FFVIII for some reason... maybe she'll appear in KH-2! They're saying that the girl on the beach sorta looks like her... but Yuffie'll always be Squall's. (Yuffie: ((nods quickly)))
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