onepassingnight | 001; Wutai

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001; Wutai

On the mountain of Da Chao sits a lone girl, her legs swinging off the ledge as she contemplates the town below.

It's her home - Wutai, a once proud nation that has been reduced to nothing more than a cheesy tourist attraction. By none other than her father, a man she doesn't exactly get along with in the best of times.

Something's off though.

Yuffie squints as she studies the town, telling herself her eyes must be deceiving her.

Usually there are people strolling through the town, children playing tag in the streets. The ones who had recently been infected with Geostigma are recovering, and there is a jovial air about the town. Now, though, there is no sign of life. Not even a stray dog roaming through, begging for scraps.

This just isn't right, and Yuffie has to investigate.

Standing up, she brushes the dirt off her legs, then plants her fists at her hips.

"Only one person can get to this bottom of this mess!"

She pauses without looking back, shifting her weight as if she wants to fidget.

"You can come too. Having an extra pair of eyes wouldn't hurt," she says this with a little hesitation. The truth is, she's a little bit worried at the absence of people, and could use a little support as she tries to find them.

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[Keeping on track is a good idea. Yuffie puts the chocobo out of her mind, and starts in the direction of the pagoda. It is a little bit outside of the town itself, but it doesn't take long to get there.

Last time she'd really been in here was when she fought her father...which was a strange experience. Not that she should have been surprised, Godo could be a little insane.]

I don't know what we'll find in here. Last time, I had to fight a bunch of guys, so we might get ambushed.

[Even with everything that's made her colder and more ready to attack, Ami would have difficulty facing her mother. Fortunately, she's never had to.]

If you're afraid of an ambush, just go ahead back to where you started, and I'll take them on at once. [Arrogant, this one.]

[Parents can be the most difficult of enemies, even a father like Godo who is two parts insane and one part leader of his people. Yuffie would never admit she is just like him in most aspects.

Mercury's statements makes Yuffie raise an eyebrow, and then grin. If anything, she can appreciate some arrogance.]

Naw, I've taken them down once, I can do it again.

[With that little boost of confidence under her belt, she flings the door open, ducking into the incredibly empty and dark room.

She'd taken out her shuriken in the process of entering, but after seeing no enemies she drops her arm, a little disappointed.]

Crap, I wanted a fight too. Guess there's nowhere to go but up.

[Hey, what's wrong with a little boasting? Besides, she's sure of her powers. Perhaps it's being thwarted of the fight that makes Mercury frown.]

Are we being led?

[Boasting is A-Ok with Yuffie here. She's a little put out too - she'd feel better about this whole mess if she could at least get her hands on someone in order to wrangle something out of them.

Being led is entirely possible though, and she glares around the room.]

Probably. My dad is really into this kind of stupid crap.

[Yuffie starts to bellow into the dark, her hands on her hips.]

Listen up you old geeze! What the hell is going on?

[Too late to grab Yuffie back.]

Don't be a fool. If something is planned here, it's better not to alert him to put it in place. We'll be the ones to catch him.

[Sorry Mercury, sometimes Yuffie doesn't think of those things, even though she should. With all her boasting of being a ninja, she usually has the habit of announcing her presence in a big way.

But she knows Mercury has a point, and grudgingly stops with the yelling.]

I guess you're right. If anyone's here, they're probably at the top of this place. We should sneak up on them.

Let's go, then. We can let them know we're here by our attack.

[If need be. She's not rash enough to attack them without assessing the situation first. She just feels they don't need a head start.]

[As they make their way through the empty rooms, Yuffie can't mask her astonishment. The place looks like people had just vanished - papers out like they were just being read, a mug of tea sitting on a table that smelled like it'd only recently been made.

They reach the final room without trouble, and the sense of foreboding growing in the pit of her stomach felt like a lead weight. She pressed her ear against the door, and could hear some noise inside. It was faint, but it was there.]

Okay there's definitely someone in there. How should we go in?

[Though Yuffie is usually one to try to take a leadership role, she's still a teenager. And just as she deferred to Cloud as a leader, she saw Ami as a leadership type at the moment. With confusion and worry in her mind, it was easier to have someone tell her what she should do. She had to admit, the other girl had been calm and collected the entire time.]

[First of all, if they were searching for this person, it wasn't impossible to think that whoever it was knew they were here, too. They might not really have the element of surprise.

Well. Whoever could be there, she'd take them on.]

We go in. They're nothing next to us.

[This sounds like a plan to Yuffie and she bursts through the door. At first her eyes have to adjust - after crawling through dark rooms the lights that were on hurt her eyes.

When she is able to focus, she sees...a tonberry. She gives it an absolutely stunned look, and it chattered at her, starting a slow trek in her direction.]

Oh. What the hell? [She skims by the creature. If they got a hold of someone, their attack was devastating. But the things moved like they were trudging through mud sometimes.]

Okay, tonberries definitely don't hang out around these parts.

[Tonberries? The creature that just passed, she assumes. It's sort of creepy, stalking them so slowly, with that lantern and that knife. She takes care to avoid them; Yuffie seems to have an aversion to engaging them.]

It resembles a youma. [Certain types of youma, at least.]

Let's go on. We'll find the source instead of wasting our time with these.

A what?

[Unfamiliar term is unfamiliar to Yuffie, but she agrees with the Getting-Away-From-The-Tonberry thing. As they leave the room, she shuts the door behind them.]

I don't think those guys can open doors, but who knows. Cats can open doors for crying out loud.

[A secondary sound can be heard as Mercury stretches a hand towards the door.]

That should seal it from any creatures like those. [It's not the strongest of seals; but it's enough for the theoretical cat. Or tonberry.]

Youma are creatures that served us in the Dark Kingdom in my world. [She makes no apology for that, as the softer-hearted Jadeite might.]

[Yuffie looks at the seal, fascinated. She can't say she's anything like that before.]

Huh. That's pretty cool. Wait the Dark Kingdom? Where the heck are you from?

[From the Dark Kingdom, the soldier of Water and Knowledge, Mercury.

It's been a few years since the Dark Kingdom existed that way. She doesn't introduce herself that way now; and the question is harder than it seems it should be.]

From Earth.

[She finally decides that this, true, is a good enough answer.]

[Yuffie has never heard of Earth and now she starts to wonder where this girl actually came from.

It's all too much and she rubs her temples, trying to concentrate.]

No idea where that is. No idea where my people are. What the hell is going on?

You're pretty slow to notice it, but that's alright.

[And then she says it, as if it's entirely natural and simple:]

This is a dream.

Yeah well other things on my mind, ya know?

[Yuffie nods at the revelation, not really taking it in when Mercury says it. Then does a double take.]

Wait. A dream? So, my town isn't really a ghost town?

[It would explain all the weirdness to Yuffie. Also it would explain random chocobo, tonberry, and Mercury. She rubs her eyes roughly. Yuffie never remembered her dreams, and now she was aware of her dream while still dreaming?]

Go figure. I guess that's a good thing, then. If its a dream of mine, then I bet you a Restore All that tonberry ate everyone.

It'd be better to take care of that, dream or no dream.

[She doesn't like to leave unfinished business in her dreams. She knows how thin the line between dreams and waking is.]

[Yuffie has to admit this is a good point. They make their way back through the building, and even if she's aware that its a dream at this point, she still does feel some anxiety about what it means. She'll just try to decipher that later.

As they leave, a loud roar alerts her to something outside. In front of the pagoda, an Ifirit summons waits for them. As if expecting their arrival. Yuffie reaches back to grad her shruiken, narrowing her eyes at the beast.]

I guess we gotta fight this ugly jerk.

Doesn't he know Fire's weak to Water?

[She grins, arrogant in her skill and power as always, hand on her hip in a cocky pose. She readies her sword.

Then Mercury makes an impossible aerial somersault. She lands confidently, in position to force the creature to split its attention between herself and Yuffie. They'll take it down in no time.]

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[Her grip on her weapon tight, she swings her arm forward, throwing the shuriken as hard as she can toward the creature's head. She ducked and rolled out of the line of fire, the heat of the passing flame making her arms burn.

Pushing herself off the ground, she runs forward a couple of steps, grabbing her weapon out of the air as it returned to her. The grin spread wide on her face - a fight was always exhilarting, and it was a good way for her to release some of this tension that had been building up.]

[She makes a sharp strike with her sword against the air, and it releases a blue energy that heads straight for her foe. It's sure to draw the creature's attention, and Mercury slips away quickly to avoid taking the heat of that anger.]

[Once Ifrit is distracted, Yuffie takes this opportunity to throw her shuriken again, the blades slicing across the creature's neck. It roars in anger, and she rushes forward , going into a slide right into its leg. She knocks it off balance, and it goes slamming to the ground.

She pops up, jumping in the air to catch her shuriken again. The creature reaches out one large hand to grab her, but she dances out of reach. It barely manages to swipe her arm, leaving a pretty nasty scratch ]

Aw, hell!

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