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Final Fantasy VII: Awakening	By : Saan Category: Final Fantasy VII > General Views: 844 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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They finally made it to the top of the steps and out of the mansion. A large metallic aircraft was coming towards them. It was the Highwind. The sound of the huge propeller driven engines was music to Vincent's undead ears.

A metal basket was lowered for the three to climb into. Four sturdy cables attached it to the side of the mighty airship.

Cid had the feeling that Cloud would not be in the best of shape. His original plan was to toss down a rope but he remembered how battered the kid was right before Sephiroth snatched him away.

Leira checked out the basket and helped the ex-SOLDIER inside. It was big enough for Leira to sit him down. She knelt down and leaned the blonde haired boy against her. Vincent was the last to enter. "I think we're home free." He said as he gave Leira the thumbs up.

The basket began to lift off the ground. It was an uneasy escape. Leira wondered what Sephiroth's motive for kidnapping Cloud was. The ex-Turk himself was not entirely sure either.

The basket was a few feet from the observation deck of the Highwind, when a figure clad in black appeared outside the Shinra Mansion. Vincent and Leira focused on Cid and Yuffie running over to the deck to speed up their rescue. They were almost within shouting distance.

"What are they doing?" The Elite asked suddenly.

Vincent turned his attention from their rescuers and eyed her slowly. "What do you mean?" He looked up again to see the old captain and young ninja flailing their arms.

"Do you think they're trying to warn us about something?" Cloud reached up, grabbed one of the support railings, and pulled himself to his feet. He was frozen in horror. Leira and Vincent looked over the side. Their friends were trying to warn them about Sephiroth.

The ex-general glared evilly at them.

"What are the chances of him attacking us?" Leira asked.

A fireball flew past the basket, missing it by inches.

"I'd say pretty good." Vincent shouted as he pushed the others down and reached for his pistol.

"That was an awful quick change of heart." Leira grimaced as she held the wounded boy to her body.

More fireballs were launched from Sephiroth's hands. Several of them hit the Highwind.

"He's hurting my baby!� Cid shouted.

Yuffie was trying to turn the crank that controlled the winding of the cables. She rolled her eyes. "Cap'n, I kinda need your help over here or those guys are gonna get toasted!"

"Oh, god! Vince! I forgot about them!� Cid yelped and helped her pull them up.

"Bring her back here! Bring her back!� Sephiroth bellowed.

"Why is he not flying?" wondered Vincent. "I know he is capable of flight�" Vincent cradled his weapon to his chest.

"What's wrong with Vincent?" asked Cloud as he looked at the ex-Turk

Leira was wondering herself.

When the basket reached, the top Vincent hopped out first. He climbed over the railing and helped Yuffie pull out Cloud. The fireballs missed them several times. The heat was almost unbearable as they worked. Black scorch marks formed with each hit. Vincent pulled Cloud onto his back and ran him inside the ship. Yuffie stayed behind to watch Cid help Leira aboard.

"Y'know, for punchin' me back there, I should just push ya back an let him have ya." Cid gave a slight nod to Sephiroth's position on the ground below them.

"You won't." She smirked. "You don't want to piss off your friend now, do you?"

Cid stuck out a hand and pulled her up. He knew that she had him cold. "Yer a mean one ain't ya. Real cold�kinda like the kid�can almost see where Cloud gets his winning personality."

Leira put her leg up over the railing to get on the inside of the deck. She wanted to try and help Cid lift the basket back onto the deck when another bolt struck the huge airship. The fireball landed just underneath the basket and blew it back onto the ship. Cid was knocked across the bridge and landed on his back. Leira was not as lucky. The force of the pounding shook her off her perch. No matter how strongly she had tried to grip the bars, it was not enough. The ground was beginning its rush to meet her.

"Whoa, now! I can't let you fall now! What will your uncle think?"

A giant pink hand had saved Leira. She followed the arm of her savior to reveal a cat sitting on the shoulders of a large pink mog. "Cait Sith?" the last time Leira had seen this strange creation was when she was ordered to meet the toysaurus spy at the Golden Saucer. At the time, Cait Sith was a spy for the Shinra army. He was given artificial intelligence so he could act on his own. Another time Leira had seen this creature was at one of her childhood birthday parties thrown by..."Reeve, are you there?"

A voice crackled from a microphone hidden under the giant mog's nose. "Hi, Leira honey. It's me, Uncle Reeve."

Sephiroth stopped his onslaught, smiled, and turned back to the foreboding mansion. No one onboard saw a figure draped in a strange robe follow the general inside.

The mog and cat team pulled her up to the deck of the Highwind. "What is going on, here?" she asked.

"Cait Sith helped with the first mission to bring down Sephiroth and his knowledge of the Highwind's inner workings makes him invaluable to its crew. Plus, I can keep tabs on you too. I knew what Tseng had assigned you to do and by the time I got a chance to voice my concerns you had already left."

"It's my mission and it will be carried out,� she said flatly.

"You're stubborn just like your mother was." Reeve's voice sighed. "Cid is going to be flying all of you over to me. Once we're all here, I need to explain something to you, Leira, in private. What I say you might not want to hear but I've been sitting on it for a long time. It needs to be said."

A look of shock ran over Leira's face. 'What could this be about?' she wondered. Reeve had a touch of sadness to his voice. She had never heard him this upset before.

"Wow, that was different,� said Cait Sith. The little black cat looked over at Lieandra who was now deep in thought. "You think he's still upset about the calendar?"

Leira looked up at the cat and scowled. She turned around and started to head below deck.

Once below, Leira hunted Cid down. She found him at the bridge of the newly rebuilt airship. "Where are we heading?" she asked as she approached him.

Cid straightened up and looked at her. "Reeve told me to meet him over at his villa in Costa del Sol. He said that it's important that we meet him."

"Did he say what this was regarding?"

"No."

Leira scratched her head. "We're not too far away right?"

Cid smiled at her. "No, there it is."
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