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Final Fantasy 7. Tifa Lockhart: Journey to Midgar.	By : Nickamano Category: Final Fantasy VII > General Views: 7306 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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4. A Hiding Place.
They made it out of the reactor with only a couple of minutes to spare. Zangan could see the helicopters almost right above them and preparing to descend onto the flat area of the mountain in front of the entrance, the only place they could land safely.

Hefting Tifa higher up on his back, as gently as he could, Zangan slipped around under the reactor’s exterior, using its large cylindrical external structure and all the huge arachnid-limbs of metallic piping surrounding it, to conceal them from the approaching Shin-Ra personnel.

A few dozen paces brought him to a series of naturally formed caves which he knew well enough. He navigated the numerous passages quickly, noting part way along that the rotary-engine noise of the helicopters had now ceased and he could hear the distant and echoing shouts of orders being issued.

He knew where he was heading and he knew the quickest way of getting there. And soon enough the iridescent pale azure glow of naturally crystalized Materia was drawing him onward, his close companion for the last few hundred paces.

He stepped under a low rock entryway into the largish bell-shaped cave with its opposing entrance and exit. The mass system of tree roots and thick trunk that filled half of the cave’s interior and much of the ground was still present and would provide a good cover for both himself and Tifa. He had often tried and failed to trace this root system through to the surface. Though he had never been able to find a tree anywhere around the upper slopes of the mountain. However, the roots always appeared healthy enough and well sustained. There were even a few leaves growing from the upper trunk-like reaches of the vertical root system.

In the middle of the cave, surrounded by a small though deep pool of crystal-clear water, was the crystalized essence of blue hued Mako. No one knew how or why the different colours of crystalized Mako developed and grew, seemingly not even old Bugenhagen, but it was a naturally occurring phenomenon. The many natural Materia caves throughout the world were evidence enough of that.

The crystalized Mako had emerged from out of a rock in the middle of the pool, and it sat there at chest height, like some kind of altar. There was even a greenish illumination making the natural Materia dazzle, a sunbeam that came down from the bell-shaped ceiling. Though whether that was actually sunlight, possibly turned green through some concealed foliage, or whether it was the light of more glowing Mako somewhere above them, Zangan had never been able to discern.

He found the particular place he had wanted quickly; a low, smooth, flat area between two of the tree’s thicker roots, with a bed of fallen leaves forming a soft mattress. And he lay Tifa gently down into it. It would be unnoticeable without a proper search of the chamber. So, she should be safe enough there for the time being.

Once settled down, he checked her pulse and temperature, finding her pulse steady and surprisingly strong. Though she still seemed warm and clammy to the touch, which was worrying.

He hurried around the cave, pulling together the elements required to make, he hoped, an adequate healing poultice - a couple of larger leaves from the tree, some of the moss that grew at the edge of the little pool, plenty of cobwebs, a little crystalized Mako crushed into a fine dust, and a few drops of the clear pool water.

He mashed the ingredients together with the water, spread the mixture across another leaf and then gently eased the poultice directly into the wound. Finally covering it with the leaf and then rebound her dressing again, this time using his travelling cloak as both binding and to cover the poor girl’s modesty. It made him feel better to have her well covered.

After an estimated hour had passed, he brought out the Cure Materia again and gave her a few more spells. And was relieved and gratified when, on taking her temperature again, she felt cooler. He fed her fresh water from the pool via his own hip flask, a trickle at a time, down over her full, parted lips.

Part of him knew he should clean the wound properly of her dried, congealed blood, however that would mean exposing her all over again and another part of him was worried about his reasons for wanting to and he shook the thought away with rising anger. The dried blood would help protect the wound and it hadn’t looked particularly dirty. The poultice would take care of infection and later, once they were somewhere safe where she could recuperate, he could deal with any necrotised flesh that might bring about infection or potentially poison her blood.

He waited another hour in the cave, listening for Shin-Ra patrols and keeping an eye on Tifa’s pulse and temperature, which remained steady. Once he felt waiting any longer would begin to increase the risks to his fifteen-year old prodigy, he lifted her carefully onto his back again and left the cave.

He took a path, not well known, that led East out of the Mountains and down onto the edge of the plains south of Corel. From there he ‘bribed’ a Chocobo to take him South, skirting the edge of the Great Desert and the across the river, and then West to the edge of the Ancient Forest, a few miles from Gongaga village.

Only a few miles in from the edge of the Forest, in a quaint little clearing beside a pretty waterfall, he had a built small cottage of his own that was essentially out in the middle of nowhere. He rarely used it, except as a stopover when travelling in this neck of the woods. Though, for now it was secluded and to all intents and purposes, on dangerous enough ground that other people never came anywhere near, admittedly that was with his relatively minor experience of staying there.

The Ancient Forest held its own untold and yet frightening mysticism and, along with the number of supposedly dangerous animals and even rumours of carnivorous plants, vast swathes of the place were mostly avoided by humans.

Emerging from the foreboding forest, into a small clearing that housed his cabin, Zangan hurried over to the small, single storey wooden construction, booted open the thick door of hewn and sanded wooden planks and carried Tifa inside.

End of Prologue.
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