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Aerith smiled, as everyone had made there greetings and spoke with eatch other, or just did there own things. The young women kneeling to the ground as she reached out a slender hand to pet Nanaki on the head.She loved the little--rather, large beast! "Hello, Nana-kun." A soft giggle escapeing as she said the name.Nanaki didn't like the nickname Aerith choose for him, but he would never say anything against her.Aerith,Tifa and Marlene,as well as Ariel were just about the only ones that could get away with even petting him.Anyone else would get there hands bit off. . . Well, not really. Standing once more, She glanced around the room slowly.Takeing in the sight of all her friends. This was the best idea she probably ever would come up with.

As soon as Aerith stepped away from Nanaki, the lion-like beast padded his way to the balcony.He layed down at the side,curling up and resting his head upon his large paws.The flameing tail swishing from side to side as he watched the people in the room.Humans...They seemed to have so much fun together, He couldn't help but feel a little downward, the last of his kind, There would be no other like himself would there? He was alone..
He continued to watch the humans gathering in complete silence when I thought came to mind. "......." His friends, These people were his only dearest friends in the world, He wasn't as alone as he thought.

Soft footfalls were heard echoing through the creepy hallway of the Ghost Hotel.Deep brown eyes adjusting to eatch and every small corner as if expecting to jump out at her.It was amazeing, that this girl fought so many times side by side with Cloud and his friends, with out a single fear in the word! But..A small ghostly hotel frightend her to absolutely no end.

As she walked, she felt something brush against her face,something like a web.The very thought made Yuffie jump back and shrik,a hand brushing up against her face as she tryed to get the web off her face.It wasn't long that she felt something Crawling on her arm..up her arm..

"Oh my gawd! Spider! Spider!! Get off get off get off!" It was clear she didn't quite like bugs, ether. Just like the time she freaked out in the airship back when Cloud was fighting with Kadaj.After a moment of freaking out, she sliped out a ninja star,flicking it in such a way to go sliceing across into the poor little spider.The ninja star stuck into the other side of the wall,as she brushed herself off. "Gawd! I -really- dont like this place!" She pouted, still rather grossed out that the bug had touched her.

As she finally got herway to the door of the room everyone was inside, she quickly calmed herself down.No use ruening a party over a bug, right? Putting back her cheerfull little smile, the young ninja grinned and waved. She never did get to greet Cloud before..

"Hey, Cloudie-san!" Though Yuffie's greeting wasn't like any other normal calm,shake of the hand, or simple nodding greeting. Her's consisted on her own cheerfull way, which poor Cloud was soon to find out.The young hyper active ninja ran over to the spikey headed wonder, before jumping into his arms,hugging him tightly.Though the force of her suddenly leaping into a that tackle-hug only caused the two to swiftly lose there balance.If Cloud didn't have a ninja hanging onto him he -might- of just been able to catch his balance and avoid fallening into a certin dark haired brunette women but it didn't seem like that was going to happen!...The moment Yuffie realized what was happening she let go,her cream colored knee high sneakers touching the ground as she pushed off one foot,only to make a quick flip in the air and land crouched just a few feet from him and Tifa. "....Oops! Sorry, sorry sorry! Haha..ha...ha..." Yuffie tryed to stand,though just before she could get herself to stand up,she begain laughing even more.Her hands resting on her knees while trying to catch her breath as she pointed at the two.Then she went into a small coughing fit from all the laughing.It was just a mix of fits!

Yuffie fell to her knees,holding her stomache as she tryed to get herself to stop with her laughing fit.If she missed the reactions on there faces, she would kill herself! "Oh. Gawd! My side hurts from laughing so--- OW!"

She felt a hand hit her upside the head,makeing her stumble foward,falling flat on her face.Her hands suddenly slid across the floor,proping herself up as she darted her eyes to who ever it was that hit her. The sorce of that problem being a blonde women standing there just a few feet away from her, dressed in her normal navy blue suit. "HEY! " She jumped to her feet suddenly. Just about ready to slip into her formal battle stance, when....She noticed Aerith shakeing her head at her as to tell her no fighting. "Hmmph! Turkey." Crossing her arms, she turned and walked toward Elena slowly.A small smirk forming at the girls features, This was only telling Elena one thing,and she knew what it was.But as to not disturb the party any, the two ignored eatch other. Yuffie walked to the other side of the room and leaned up against the wall, Her atention wandering over to Cloud and Tifa again. Stupid Turk had to turn her fun! Besides, it wasn't as if she intended to have -that- happen. She just wanted to give Cloud a big welcome! It would figure, her ideas always went like this.The Turk meanwhile, Stepped out to the balcony, stareing down at Nanaki for a moment before kneeling down. He looked to be asleep so she took this short time to reach down and pet him gently.

Meanwhile, inside. Marlene and Ariel were just stareing at the two on the floor, giggleing away.Poor Tifa, she was going to be so embarrissed! But who was to say Cloud wouldn't be ether?

Finally, Aerith stepped foward, she didn't know what to do! Should she help Cloud and Tifa up? Any other women might of had a jelousy heart attack, but Aerith..The women was so innocent she really thought nothing of it.It was just a simple mistake caused by that young ninja. "..Um...?...Are...you two..alright?" The flower girl stood out of the way, and would only come closer if they actually did ask for her help.

Her body began to tremble nervously as she heard the room grow silent, sending an ice cold chill shooting up her spine. She felt all eyes on her as everyone in the premesis stared at the two in their rather...awkward position. If someone would have walked in at that very second, completely wrong assumptions would have been made. The silence went on for what seemed an eternity, her eyes never removing themselves from Cloud's as she simply stared. That's all she could do. Even if she had wanted to stand, she couldn't. He was laying directly ontop of her.

The elongated silence was then completely shattered as Yuffie broke into a fit of laughter, dropping to her knees as she teared up from her sudden giggle-fest. More laughter was heard as the two small children in the room began to lightly giggle amongst themselves, their eyes staring directly at the two. They were laughing at her...Everyone was laughing at her.

A sudden weight was lifted off of her as Cloud quickly scrambled to his feet, exteneding his hand to help her rise to her feet. The young woman kept her head bowed in shame as she attempted to hide her face, her cheeks still flushed bright red. She sat for a moment, trying to recap on what had just happened. It had all went by so quickly.. Who knew that one simple accident could make a person feel completely crushed. Tifa slowly reached for Cloud's hand, grasping onto it tightly as she pulled herself to her feet, regaining her own stance once more. She managed to lift her head up slightly, her deep eyes scanning the room carefully. Everyone... they were looking at her. Some were still smiling, others just looked on with curiousity. Nevertheless, it still made the young brunette feel mighty awkward. Without another word, Tifa silently slinked out of the room, the sound of her shoes clicking against the wooden floor as she began to head for the door. Once she passed through the doorway, her walking pace quickened to a run as she dashed down the stairs, abruptly pushing open the tall hotel entrance doors as she headed outside. She placed her forehead in her hand as she took in a deep breath, shaking her head in pure disappointment as her cheeks kept their rosy tint. She was so embarassed. She supposed that she would never hear the end of this one..

Nanaki had never woke up once, Elena had been petting the beast for well over 5 minutes once she got back to him after hitting Yuffie.Maybe he was a hard sleeper, or the truth was.He was enjoying the scratching and the only way to cover that up was with sleep.Smirking slightly,she stood and opend the balcony doors once more,walking through the room without a single word to anyone.She stepped out the doorway and into the hall.

As she walked through,she spotted something glinting on the wall.

"..Ninja star?" Shrugging, she slipped it out and set it into her pouch.It was no doubt Yuffies, Why it was in the wall though, she would never know,ddin't care ether.After a few minutes, she arived outside.Yuffie and Tifa were still outside there, talking. Yuffie begging, trying to get the brunette cheerfull again.She loved it. It was about time Yuffie got in trouble for once.

On her way down the path, she shoved the ninja down before continueing her way and soon dispapearing into one of the slids.Besides makeing Yuffies life harder then it already was, she had other plans of what to do.Eventaully she had gotten to the main gateing area and slipped into the train-car to leave the Gold Saucer.Korangar was still there, maybe. But if he was, she knew he could get back on his own or go with the others so she wasn't nessesarly leaveing him alone.After she got to her destination and a short walk was made out of the North Coral town she would then have quite a way's walk back to the sub in which she came in.


Meanwhile, Just soon after Elena had left Nanaki dived off the balcony,leaping to another below him,He was by far an exellent jumper.He lept off another, and another, until his paws were touching the ground once more.He took off just as soon as he touched ground, running off through the park, following Elena's sent.He practiclly gave some people a good scare as they saw the beast running. They didn't exactly know if he was a monster comeing to attack or not,It wasn't every day you saw a huge lion-like beast with a flameing tail run in an amusement park.

Just as the train car arived, he hoped inside.Just as well,rideing it back to north Corals town.Elena wasn't to far off in the distance,he could see the faint figure of blue just turning around the mountain to go around the sand dunes.Heck, even Nanaki had to get out of the ammusement park for a while. But for now, he just felt the need to follow the young turk.

Elena, feeling as though something was following her quickly turned,pulling out a small gernaid looking thing,one of those familour fire bombs she always used on poor Avalanche.A hand moveing to pull the pin before...She noticed the flameing red tail as it got closer enough to make out just who or what it was.

"...Nanaki? " Sighing softly, she shook her head, just as he stopped beside her,panting heavyly. "What are you doing here? You look like your going to faint.." She smirked.slipping him a quick potion to drink. He may not of been hurt but it did help to give energy.

The beast noded softly. "..Thank you.." He turned to the sand dunes,eyeing something that seemed to be raised just slightly out of it.One golden eye narrowing.

"Watch this..But..get ready to run, okay? To the sub..If he does anything." Elena couldn't help herself. It had to be done.She pulled out the pin to the boosted up bomb she held in her hand,before throwing it directly into Ruby Weapon..While everyone was out,getting drunk probably or goofing off, Elena was going to deal with the weapons before they decided to attack.They had to be destroyed no matter what.In just a few seconds, there was a rather massive explotion.Much more powerfull then the small bombs she used to have, These were specially boosted in power...Of course it wouldn't be enough to take out the weapon,though. Maybe injure it pretty good, enough time to let them attack if givin the chance.

"....Damn.. These things -are- powerfull, huh?" She grinned down at Nanaki before looking back to the sand area.

A firce roar suddenly broke through, followed by another...and another..The creature suddenly leaping out of the sand, until it stood high into the air,above them.Elena took her gun out, as Nanaki slipped into battle stance,before the beast leaped high into the air, claws extended as his sharp teeth bit down hard onto its face.He was soon met by a massive hand as he was thrown down harshly into the ground. Elena counterd its attack on poor Nanaki, fireing as many rounds into the creature,aiming for its eyes.

((*Sets on Weapon raid.* Just ignore me. Im bored. >> Gotta type or i'll die.))

Now, it was quite surprising and they had already noticed before hand but there came a sudden burst of static that roared through the whole hotel. It came from the four members of the Falcon's walkie-talkies as a loud voice filled the air.

"Kaizer, Grenz, we got some trouble outside of the Golden Saucer! A giant, red, crabclawed creature just arose from the sand dunes and it seems a blonde-haired Turk and an orange lion-wolf are fighting it! What are your orders, Captain?"

The voice belonged to the main officer of the Falcon, Radic A. Loins. Kaizer immediately snatched up the walky-talky that had sat by his drink as the captain sobered up quickly being mildly surprised that Ruby Weapon would show up again. He was certain that Cloud and his crew had killed it before. Oh well, didn't matter at the moment.

"Have the ship circle around it and monitor the battle. Send Worker 8 out to help Elena and Red. Go with him to make sure they aren't killed. If they are, your a** is grass Radic."

"Yes sir!"

The other side clicked off as Kaizer stood immediately up and walked over to Grenz as he helped him up. The man was definately a lot larger and more musclebound then Kaizer, but he wasn't stronger by any means. Reaching into his bag, he pulled out a Hyper and an X-Potion as he helped his first mate drink them both down. Letting go, he pulled up his walkie-talkie and spoke into it.

"Raven, Pyro, Grimm. We have a situation outside of the Golden Saucer. Ruby Weapon has awoken again and is attacking Miss Korosu of the Turks and Red XIII. Get to the entrance hall as fast as possible."

He got a beep over the reciever that meant the order was recieved and understood. Kaizer dashed from his position without even waiting for Grenz.

In the Falcon's launch bay were the two individuals who were about to send themselves into battle. Worker 8 stood firm and ready as he connected his feet to the launch panels. Radic, however, had a second thought about this whole matter.

"Worker, let Kaizer know I apologize, but the Falcon crew needs me at the moment. You are heading into battle alone."

"Affirmative. Equip me with the Mach Blaster XIII."

Radic pulled a large mini-gun from a rack on the wall as he slowly carried it over to Worker who managed to lift it with only one arm. Connecting it to his back, Worker 8 gave a smile that only he could manage. Radic stood by the launch button, ready to hit it.

"Ready?"

"Affirmative."

"Good luck!" Radic had shouted as the button was hit and Worker 8 was launched from the bay. His boosters kicked in as he neared Ruby. What Ruby wouldn't know, however, was that Worker 8 was going to land on it's back. And on boy did he. The robot made a magnificent dent in the WEAPON's armor as he retrieved the minigun off of his back as he set it to fire into the dent.

Meanwhile, the 3 crewmates had bounded into the entrance hall as they stood in the middle circle, waiting for their captain. Raven quickly made an adjustment to his buster arm as Pyro and Grimm would take their respective weapons out. For Pyro, it was his giant axe and for Grimm, it was his spear. Raven and Grimm strayed towards the door as Pyro was getting impatient as he stared at the Ghost Hotel tube.

"Gaah! That sumbitch needs to hurry up!"

"Just keep your cool Pyro. He'll be here any moment."

"Yeah! We need Kaizer if we are going to have any chance of fighting this WEAPON."