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 Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:02 pm
Tifa's kick landed successfully on Cloud as he stumbled forwards a bit, managing to maintain his balance. The brunette fighter kept her stance, her guard remaining high as she ran forwards to give the blonde man another round of fists. Yet, she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw him about to send another slash her way. She raised both her hands, as she was going to make an attempt to catch the blade when it came down. But it never did. Instead, it was pulled back from her. Tifa gave a blink of slight confusion. Why didnt he slice her to pieces? Maybe her Cloud was still underneath that skin after all. She gave a small smirk to herself, putting up her fists again as she was about to take this golden opportunity to give him a smackdown.
However, people were full of suprises for her today, there was never an end to them. All of a sudden, Grenz comes flying out of nowhere onto the scene, interrupting her fight. She had to stop herself from accidently punching him, as he had stood directly infront of her target. She stumbled forwards a bit, maintaining her ground as best she could. She quickly stood straight once more, frowning slightly at the young man as he stood infront of her. She shook her head in disagreement with his words, "Sorry, but I have to do this on my own. I dont care if I do get injured, or even killed.. At least I'll have the honor to go down and say I tried. I know I can do this without any aid."
After her brief overview, Tifa quickly glanced over at Cloud, who was now heading straight for Grenz.. Or so she thought. Going by only her instincts, she quickly pushed him out of the way, "Look out..!!" Despite the fact that Grenz was now out of the way, it seems that Cloud wasn't intentionally going for him anyway. He quickly lept into the air, causing Tifa to swiftly glance upwards. At the sight of the incoming Cloud with his blade, she lept backwards, doing a swift backflip out of harms way before the blade was landed. Tifa placed a hand over her heart as she breathed in deeply, too close. Shaking her head, she got herself into a fighting stance once more, charging towards Cloud as quickly as possible, her fist held high as she prepared to throw him a series of punches.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:12 pm
"So be it, allow me to assist you then!"
He would say as he kicked off his foot to go forwards as he hit the ground and slid around to face the two. He kicked off his foot once more as he launched himself at the back of the ex-SOLDIER as he turned the blades around in his hands as they were now on the blunt edge. His steps kicking up the dust behind him, Grenz would suddenly enter a trance that allowed him to view only his opponent, his ally and all other obstabcles that entered his path. In his own vision, Cloud become a startling shade of dark red as Tifa became a light blue and all others in the area that prove some form of threat became yellow.
Bearing his fangs, he rushed the back of Tifa's attacker, leaping lightly off the ground to go into a quick twirl, in which if the blunt edges connected with Cloud, they'd knock him towards Tifa.
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Aerith Gast Gainsborough Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:29 pm
Clouds eyes narrowed dangerusly. His target was missed again! Sliding the blade from the ground upon which it had landed his eyes darted from both Tifa,and the one whom had so quickly barged into the fight.It seemed as though he felt outnumberd,or was getting worryed about the whole thing.As he only got angryer, They might of known what was soon to come.Cloud suddenly leaped into the air,flipping over both his opponets. He had avoided Tifa's attempt to attack him with her powerfull fists.But..
As soon as Grenz made his move to attack him from behind, Cloud suddenly made his own.Raiseing the blade,he begain twirling it in the air,as he did this, the blade itself seemed to be gathering energy.In this case,instead of that soft blue glow he useally had when useing his limit,it was a dark aura. He stopped the blade,and turned into the direction of Grenz and Tifa, before slamming the blade into the ground.What followed next was a massive explotion,the ground explodeing infront of him, following down further in the diretion of the two before he leaped up onto one of the tree branches in a sudden black flip.He needed to get out of there, somehow..And quickly.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:36 pm
He halted to a stop as there would soon come their way an explosion of massive proportions. Not wanting himself or his ally to get hurt, this tranced Grenz would flip his blades around to their sharp edges. Raising them up, he dashed in front of Tifa as he slammed them into the ground and forced magical energy through the spikes embedded into the earth in front of them. A shield had been raised up in front of the two as Grenz merely kept his cool now, not focusing on offense but rather defense, obviously.
His shield took the brunt of the explosion and only left the pair with a bunch of dust and bits of ground flying towards them. Easily knocking away the bigger chunks with his blades, Grenz beared his fangs again as he rosed the blades horizontally and flung them like boomerangs at the tree Cloud escaped two. The trunk was easily decimated in a clean cut as he caught both blades once again. Cloud was either going to be caught off guard and crash into the ground or leap off the tree and escape the mighty oak's demise. Grenz, however, didn't care to find out as he slammed the blades together and caused a spark of electricity from them as they merged into one blade.
It was Cloud's Buster Sword he had created.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:51 pm
Even though Tifa had specifically said that she could do this without any aid or help, he decided to help anyway. She felt discaouraged at this point. Why were so many people helping her? It was almost as if they thought she couldn't do it on her own, and she needed someone there to back her up. Well she felt that she didnt. She didnt want help. She just wanted to fight Cloud, to release all or her anger and frustration on him from the years of sorrow she had to endure, and to get the old Cloud back. It was a self-led mission, and everyone wanted in on it. She didnt understand.
Tifa stood her ground as Grenz's shield went up when Cloud's attack headed for them, blinking slightly at the sight. She could have done that too... She glanced up as Grenz had sliced the tree Cloud had landed in, causing it to begin to tumble. Her eyes widened slightly as she gave a small gasp, "H-Hey! Dont hurt him too badly! My Clo--..er..the real Cloud is still in that body you know..!!"
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:04 pm
A small smirk formed at the ex-soldiers lips. As the tree begain falling down, He suddenly ran the leanth of the tree that was still quite high into the air,and leaped to yet another tree.He did a quick flip into the air,placeing his boots upon the side of another tree,thus pushing off of the tree once more as he landed onto another one.The last tree he had leaped for,he suddenly jolted his sword into the tree bark,haveing gone fast enough before he used it to swing himself into the air into another direction away from the two,pulling the blade out once as he flew across a few more trees, until he was in a completely darkend area,and a good distance away from the fighters.A soft thud sounded as he landed onto the ground in a crouch.
As he stood there,the weapon was lowered to the ground and he placed both gloved hands upon the ground. It had took a few minutes for him to catch his breath,and calm his breathing down.Slowly,his right hand moved across the ground and recaptured the blade Kadaj had made for him.
"........." His eyes slowly darted in eatch direction, makeing sure no one was following him as he got himself to slowly stand. He was in fact, a little worryed that he couldn't find Kadaj. Where did he go? Did he follow him? Shakeing his head slowly, without a sound, he begain hurrying off into the darkness. He had to find a safe place to stay which wouldn't get the atention of any others but his own 'brothers'.
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Aerith Gast Gainsborough Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:20 pm
The young woman's deep brown eyes never removed their gaze from Cloud as he lept off of the tree, moving out of sight as he slipped off into the darkness of the area. Tifa silently cursed herself, she let him get away again... What if something worse happened to him now? She would never forgive herself for this, it was all her fault that all this happened in the first place. She placed her gloved hands on her hips, sighing slightly as she looked towards the sky momentarily. The young woman had so much on her mind right now, so many mixed emotions revolved around her heart..
Deciding to leave this situation for now, Tifa turned on her heels, heading back for the city to calm herself for a while. She needed to just sit alone for a while, and just get her thoughts straight. The young woman would find Cloud soon enough. She nodded to herself reassuringly. He would turn up eventually. For now... she just needed a bit of 'Tifa-time'.
A few moments later, she was back into the city, watching as people wandered the streets with their children, their faces smiling radiantly as they went. Everyone was happy...why wasn't she? Sighing a bit, she began to roam the streets a bit, heading for no place inparticular.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:55 pm
Clouds eyes slowly took in the sights as he walked. He walked for quite some time already, and only had just gotten out of the anicent forest and once again, into the big city.He didn't know why he ended up comeing back to the city, with all the people around, and the main area Tifa and the others lived, Was it really the best hideing place? There was a reason he came here though, there had to be.
Suddenly, he came to a stop. Something had just entered his mind, Someone's thoughts. Why, or how he was able to pick up on this persons thoughts, he would probably never understand.Maybe it was Jenova helping out his thoughts? As he continued his way,he turned quickly into another direction, disappearing into the shadows. "You want it that way...Then..You shall have it.." He spoke in a low,cold voice,though to no one in paticular as he was the only one there. Now it was time to hunt, hunt down a special young brunette so dear to Clouds currpted heart.
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Aerith Gast Gainsborough Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:31 pm
Tifa Lockhart deeply sighed to herself, her eyes remaining locked onto the ground as she walked. Her black and white shoes clicked against the pavement lightly, the sound being drowned out by the bustling city life noise. Her hair gently blew in the winds, swaying within its current. Her thoughts began to wander as she went about. What was she going to tell Cloud once he was back to normal? Would he blame her for what happened..? Would he not want to talk to her anymore? So many thoughts and theories, and so many were left unanswered.
As she strolled along the street, she came upon the alleyway she was formally at when she was... confessing to Cloud her feelings. She paused for a moment, gazing at the area as her eyelids lowered midway. She could still see herself pouring out her emotions like a river, and Cloud sat in bewilderment and shame. Her eyes glistened over with tears, but she held them in, her hand holding her forearm gently as she sighed. The young woman kept her gaze to the area, hoping that she could see the real Cloud once more soon..
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:35 pm
Suddenly popping out of that trance he had been in the whole fight, Grenz merely sighed and tapped a circle on the faux Buster Sword as he recieved both of his blades back in one piece. Reholstering the hefty blades, the scarred swordwaltzer would silently turn on his heel and begin to follow after Tifa back to the city. Keep in mind he had no intention of following her but he was just going the same way to get back into familiar territory.
He separated from Tifa's path and set out in the direction of town that would lead him outside and to the airship so he could get some well-deserved rest. He actually hadn't told anyone, but Grenz had been up for nearly a week now on his own crumbling willpower to stay awake. He wasn't sure why, but he disliked the idea of 'sleep' at the moment and decided to wander. Hell, all his job was was to 'tank' the group and make sure no one got severely injured. Giving a heavy sigh, he wandered back to the Seventh Heaven, full-well knowing that Miss Lockhart wouldn't be there as he took a seat on the steps and relaxed back.
Digging around in his side pouch of infinite space, he retrieved a Hyper from it and looked at the bottle. It had been basically his last one, and the only one that would keep him awake for the next 4 hours. Pulling the cork out, he downed the whole bottle in one go and threw it away as he merely sat there, wondering what to do next. Evidently he had upset Tifa a little with his actions, but he meant them all in good-will. He was sure she knew. Bah...Didn't matter. Standing up, he headed up onto the porch of the bar and sat against the wall as he nodded off.....
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:53 pm
However, back on the floating airship, Kaizer had decided to leave Grenz be as he knew his partner was well equipped for any situation and would find someplace to rest. Deciding to continue on with the mission, he kicked the lever into full throttle and began to steer the ship towards the direction of the Golden Saucer. Kicking the button on the bottom of the console, he set the ship on auto-pilot and turned to face the crew standing on the deck of the airship as they were all doing different things.
Raven was merely sitting on the deck as he had been fiddling around with his arm as he adjusted it and upgraded some of the old parts inside. He had gotten used to doing maintenence by himself after the first year of having the arm and has been doing it ever since. He was also watching the small sparring match that was going on between Spiker and Pyro.
The duo had been at it for some time now as some time now means since Grenz leapt off the ship. Spiker with his wave swords and Pyro with his lance, the two battled it out rather loudly and pulling off all sorts of little moves as they did. Of course, they interrupted Grimm's daydreams which of course would lead the engineer to retrieve his wrench and leap into the frey.
Giving a sigh, the airship floated above the Golden Saucer landing pad as he set it to hover and gave the orders to the crew via a microphone to come back tomorrow. Merely pointing to the three fighters on deck, they stopped immediately and nodded to their captain as they holstered and sheathed their weapons as they leapt from the bow of the ship and onto the rope as they slid down below. Raven stood up and shut a hatch on his arm as he nodded to Kaizer. The both of them would run at the railing and leap right over it as they plummetted towards the area below where their teammates would be waiting.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:58 pm
"So..You've come." A cold low voice came from within a few feet behind the brunette.She scrapeing of metal could be heard, as he slowly dragged a rather large weapon against the ground.When she turned around, she would see what looked like Ultima Weapon once again in its rightfull owners hand.Only the slight change it had was it was no longer a bright blue and white, instead replaced with pure darkness at his touch.
He took a step foward, slowly raiseing the blade as he formed into his normal fighting stance.One foot infront of him, while the other stayed at back for the best balance and fighting stance.
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Aerith Gast Gainsborough Captain
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Aerith Gast Gainsborough Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:08 pm
Aerith raised her atention toward the airship above. She had never seen one like this before, Where in the world did it come from?? Still, She thought the Highwind was the most amazeing.The golden chocobo warked at the airship loudly, as if it was botherd by the massive strange thing flying about in the sky.It had to take Aerith reaching out her hand and petting the large birds head genetly to calm it down.They had soon arived just at the North Corel area,before the young women hopped gently off of her Chocobo,reaching out and helping the younger one down just as well.She unclipped her belongings,such as her staff,and bags of items before slipping the bagpack upon her shoulders to hang at her back. After takeing Ariels hand,Aerith slowly walked on into the town, glanceing around for the people who she had saw jump out of the airship to the town.
She had no idea who they were just yet, as before when she first saw them they were clearly out of her view to identify.The cetra walked down the pathway to head on into the Gold Saucer train ticketing area.
"Hello, miss. Can I please have two tickets for the ride to Gold Saucer?" She asked,before slipping out the ammount of gil she would need ,before paying the women. In return, she got her tickets.
"Okay, lets hurry before it closes!" She took Ariels hand again, smileing faintly as she ran to the train.Letting the young one in first, she then took her seat, and set her weapon at the door, keeping it to stay open for the men she had a feeling would be heading this way as well.
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:14 pm
There would be a large storm of dust at the final two landed onto their feet. Cracks appeared in the ground where they stood as one got up and adjusted his glasses rather quickly as he threw a bag of gil to Grimm and pointed to the ticket office. Giving a quick nod, the dragoon dashed off to buy the tickets. Wiping himself off, he looked back to Raven who was doing the exact same. Making a motion with his head to come on, he pointed forwards and began to jog.
The other 4 caught up to Grimm as he flung their tickets at them like shurikens as each caught their own respective ticket. Grimm, Pyro and Spiker went on ahead as Raven walked after them. Kaizer stood still for a moment before following after. He was just admiring his airship like always.
As the 4 men piled into the train cart, only one would speak up as he paid a little attention to the woman in the same area.
"....Aerith?"
Kaizer would hear this as he walked onto the tram and tripped over something on the floor. Hitting it with a loud thud, he shook a little with annoyance and pushed himself up as he spoke.
"Aerith, next time you are going to hold the door open for us, please at least hold your staff while doing so. I think that is the twentieth time I've tripped over it."
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Aerith Gast Gainsborough Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:22 pm
Aerith blinked at the four men that had piled into the small train car.She took a moment to studie eatch one of the men before she gave them a small nod. Her atention went to the man who spoke,before she broke out into that kind innocent smile she had always carried along with her. "Kaizer! Im so happ--- " Her words, were soon cut off as he suddenly tripped over something. She stared down,unsure of what he had managed to trip over until she let out a soft gasp of shock.
"Oh my goodness! Im so sorry!" She quickly moved away the staff, bringing a free hand to her mouth to cover up a few giggles."I...I was trying to hold the door open with the staff, Im so sorry. I didn't think you would trip! Are you okay??" She asked, looking him over with a hint of concern in the innocent womens eyes. Why did things always happen like this? A kind gesture, always seemed to end up in someone getting hurt in some silly way!
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