Crossover Fan Fiction / Bleach Fan Fiction / Saiyuki Fan Fiction ❯ Aint Nothing But Magick (reverse) ❯ Chapter 20 ( Chapter 20 )

Title: Ain't Nothing But Magick (Reverse)

Author: J'dee, Mabelle, & Tobias

Rating: PG-13 some smoking and drinking refs…

Genre: Drama / Humor/ Action / Adventure / Romance

Author's Note: The original ANBM was a fic where 25 authors + were pulled in to the DBZ/GT world, the reverse is just that… a reverse where a select number of anime characters are yanked in to the real world, with not a true reason why, and no idea how to get back to their home…

 

Chapter 20

 

Zack came though realizing he was face first on the ground, the array was gone. The ground was different and he knew he was outside.

Pushing himself up off the ground he looked to the side and stopped. It was the cliff face overlooking Midgar and he stood up slowly.

“I came back…” He looked to where Angeal's sword had been marked like a grave. It wasn't there anymore.

“Angeal…” He looked up at the sky shielding his eyes from the light.

 

He made a move to the path leading back towards the road passing the cliffs where the ShinRA infantry had stood with their guns aimed at him.

Making his slow trek towards Midgar he flinched in pain, his stomach was hurting like a ghost pain from having part of it carved off.

Lifting the shirt up he looked down seeing what looked like someone had smudged ash over his wounds. His hand moved to it trying to wipe it away but he found it hurt.

“What is this?” It was mingled in with the dried blood that covered his former wounds. “Geostigma…” He frowned at his verbal thought. “I hope not.”

 

~*~*~*~

 

Belle knew she was asleep, but the dream had a realistic sensation to it due to the fact that she wasn't seeing but feeling. Her fingers began to brush over the cool tile. The iciness almost tickled as her fingers barely touched the tiles again and again. The air seemed to spin her around and around. Slowly more than just her fingers brushed the tiles but her whole hands pressed over the tiles, feeling the walls and floor of the room.

It was a strange but oddly pleasant sensation as Belle felt the room again and again. Then her fingers brushed over something alive. It was smooth and she could only brush as she could with the walls. The something was moving too and Belle couldn't control her brushes. She brushed something inanimate and she swore as she searched for the living thing again. Slowly she brushed the living thing, her fingers brushing it again and again.

Slowly Belle realized that it was a man. She was moving around the man her fingers brushing his skin here and there. Slowly she realized that there was a shower on and she was the steam. As she filled up the room she could feel more of the man as he brushed his teeth. It was difficult at first for Belle to sense the room but slowly she became aware that she was in a bathroom with a man about to shower.

She was wrapped around the man as he finished brushing his teeth, aware that he was in boxer shorts. Belle brushed against the man's body again and again. Slowly she was caught up in his hair and she became certain that she knew the man.

Then Belle felt the man's movement and she knew he was stripping out of his clothing from his movements. She didn't get a sense of the man beyond his basic shape in the room. Then his hand was suddenly real, it was like the man's hand was inside of Belle in a pleasant way. She knew each contour, each line on the man's hand. Slowly the hand vanished and the man's body was there. As Belle felt the man's body she realized she was no longer the steam in the room but the water from the shower.

The man's face was suddenly in the water and Belle realized she was touching and seeing Roy. She blushed as she felt all the way down his front. The lean muscles of his body underneath her touch were amazing and Belle shivered at the contact. Roy shivered and moved towards the knobs. Belle enjoyed touching his chest and stomach but then she realized that part of him was growing.

Belle felt embarrassed as she realized that she was seeing something very private as Roy began to grow. The water moved over his body and Belle was amazed to see him come to full arousal as he showered. It was embarrassing but also very arousing. Belle's body even thought it didn't exist in the dream, was reacting to Roy's body. Slowly Belle gave into the dream, running over Roy's body. She explored that part of him she was unfamiliar with. She became aware of a few scars on his shoulder. They were slashes, but they indented in the center and Belle became aware that they were bullet grazes. She wished she could taste them but instead ran her fingers over them again and again.

Roy shuddered slightly under her petting and Belle could feel him move. His hand wrapped around his need and Belle could feel everything. His hand was tight as one pressed against the wall. His hand moved back and forth and Belle felt her own arousal grow. She throbbed as she ran over Roy's body over and over again. She wished she was in human form and she could do more than just move over him like water. She knew he was close, she could practically feel the blood inside of him before he groaned and Belle realized what had happened.

She moved over him again and again, cleaning him off. Belle kissed his shoulder before he exited the shower and Belle could only brush against him. He left the room and Belle panted in her non-body as she floated in the air.

In her room, Belle writhed in her sleep and Grimmjow grinned happily as he lay behind her. Slowly Belle returned to a restful sleep and Grimmjow pouted before sighing and nuzzling her back before going to sleep himself.

 

~*~*~*~

 

J'dee woke up with a start she could feel her eyes were sore and she rubbed them, aware that it'd happened again. She'd been crying in her sleep. Tears never came so freely when she was awake.

“Toby… Zack… you assholes making me worry about you.” She grumbled before slipping out of bed, she grabbed her smokes heading outside to the balcony and she clutched on to the railing over looking the view from the apartment.

She decided against lighting the cigarette, her stomach was turning bad. She was only partly aware of Renji sitting on the railing over looking the sun coming up.

“You're up early.” He commented off handedly.

J'dee nodded. “I had trouble sleeping.” She turned round walking inside making her way in to the kitchen.

 

For once the lounge area was vacant. With the news of Alphonse's being alive everyone had finally stopped hovering over the mourning faces of Ed and Belle.

Moving to the kitchen J'dee pulled out a mug and began to make herself a hot chocolate with the Cadbury hot chocolate her mother had sent her.

She wasn't hungry, the dream had been too sad, it killed her hunger, but she needed something stable to line the base of her stomach.

 

J'dee had been in the flowers tending to them again, dressed in pink, for the promise she made to Zack.

“Promise me next time.”

She had been thinking about him aware of the rain falling some of it drizzling down through the hole in the church, watering the flowers, when she had felt it. Standing up she had turned round hands clasped in silent prayer. Hoping, wishing, and praying Zack was alright, when she had felt it that moment just before he had passed away. Her head shot up looking up at the sky.

J'dee's eyes closed as the jug boiled and she looked to the ribbon tied round her right wrist. “I promise…” She whispered. “I hate the color… but I promise.”

The jug popped and she turned her attention to it making the drink up before walking to the table and sitting down in the silence of the room.

Her hands covered her face. She could feel how scared Aerith was how upset she was and she wanted to cry, she wanted to so badly.

She understood, Aerith loved Zack and those feelings were seeping through in to her consciousness.

“Don't do this me… it's too foreign…” She whispered.

 

J'dee stopped hearing the door open, she watched as Kougaiji walked in from the balcony and her eyes widened. In everything that had been going on she forgot to report to Kougaiji her findings on the curse.

“Kougaiji…”

He looked at her and nodded. “I came across Hisagi last night he told me about Zack.”

She looked away. “I'll go grab the notes and show you what I've found out-” She went to stand up but Kougaiji's hands touched her on the shoulder sitting her back down before he sat down next to her.

“Stay… You should know this as a spell caster. Spells are linked to the emotional side of the caster that determines how effectively it will work. You are suffering the spell will suffer. We can't risk it.”

J'dee picked up her hot chocolate taking a sip, she looked to Kougaiji, for once he was dressed sort of casually, he looked human, an obvious power limiter in a single silver wrist band, an open jacket showing his bare chest, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and jeans. Human Kougaiji was still as hot as demon prince Kougaiji, but at least he was playing it safe… finally.

“Thank you.” She whispered.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Belle yawned as she got up, pulling away from Grimmjow and pouting when she saw the busted lock on her door.

“I'm telling Ed to transmute the door into something stronger,” Belle stated and Grimmjow chuckled.

“I'll just rip out the doorframe,” he purred as he rolled over.

“I'll stop feeding you,” Belle threatened.

“I'll ruin the building,” Grimmjow stated.

“I'll get the Shinigami to kill you,” Belle countered.

“Like they could,” Grimmjow chuckled and Belle stared at him.

“You'd like that too much,” Belle stated as she headed to the shower to bathe. While Belle was in the shower she used her new perspective to explore the room, it was amazing. She knew every inch of the bathroom and it was a fantastic feeling to be everywhere at once.

Belle got out of the shower and got ready for work. She pulled out a needle from the fridge and winced as she slid it into the skin like Washu had shown her. After that she grabbed her things for work. As soon as she stepped out of the apartment the elevator door opened and Abel and Hugue held the door for her. While she stood between the two men she realized that in the not so distant future she would probably be getting Noelle's memories. Belle took Abel's arm and smiled at him as they headed to her car.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Zack let out a breath as he leaned against the door in the church, he turned round pushing it open and he looked to half the wall missing, a large chunk of the ceiling one of the pillars on the ground, several destroyed pews and even one of the rafts half connected to the ceiling was angled and touched the ground.

He walked up the side isle his boots making a steady rhythmic clunk on the ground as he walked, he stopped by the water's edge looking down at his reflection and he crouched down his hand moving through the water, water where the flowers Aerith loved so much used to be.

Pulling the shirt off he dunked it in the water rinsing off the blood and using it as a clothe he tried to clean the dried blood from his abdomen.

He looked up to the rafters at the sunshine streaming down. The sound of water dripping with an echo in the distance, it felt so empty without her here. He felt empty.

Turning back round he touched the water soaked material to his stomach and hissed in pain, the black smear had expanded. It wasn't going with the water washing his body clean either.

“It's not stigma… what is it?” He whispered.

 

~*~*~*~

 

J'dee had hardly touched her food and she had called up work to take the next week off, claiming that a death back home in New-Zealand had affected her.

She looked to the breakfast Belle had made, the effort was obvious. It was a home made fruit salad with strawberries and grapes, bananas, pineapple, watermelon all of her favorite natural fruits, she had picked at it but every time she swallowed a mouthful she felt hurt. She was becoming a shell again.

Kougaiji was still sitting next to her. He was sipping at the tea Belle had made him watching her face she knew he was.

“You need to get out. Go for a jog with Hawke-eye.” Kougaiji commented.

“I'm sorry I just hoped I really hoped he was okay. But when Roy verbalized it, it was like reality came crashing down on me.” She whispered standing up slowly. “But you're right. I think I'll go for that jog now.” She slipped out of the room to her bedroom.

 

~*~*~*~

 

“You look really pretty today, Miss B,” one of the students said and Belle blushed as she held the door open to her room.

“Thank you,” she said as the students headed out of the room to their next class. Hugue stood across the hall from Belle and she blushed as he stared at her intently.

“They're right you know, you're glowing,” he stated before he turned to go into the gym. Belle blushed deeply as she smiled at the floor. She was glowing; she couldn't wait to see Alphonse.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Zack sat on the ground of the church looking over the water, when he heard the door open. He couldn't be bothered moving, he didn't want to look, he needed to be left alone, and they were using his home world against him.

He could feel the unease the shift in balance, was this what was going to happen if a major player from each dimension was taken from their world?

 

The shoes made a sound as they walked up the isle.

Zack covered his face it was childlike hope that if he didn't look they wouldn't see him.

`Just leave me please just leave me…' He silently begged.

“Cloud used to come here too.” The female voice spoke. “When he was sick with the stigma. You should have come to us Zack.” Her voice familiar he knew who she was instantly, she had grown up so much in just her voice alone, he was too scared to look.

“Tifa… I…” Zack looked over the water. “I let them hurt Cloud. Now they're going to use me to hurt Aerith's soul… You should stay away I don't want to hurt you too.”

The footsteps continued and she moved in to his view crouching down looking at him. He blinked looking at her.

Tifa touched the side of his face. “Come back with us Zack. Tseng is worried… not that he would show it, but I know he is. Even Reno keeps coming by to see if you've dropped a line. Reeve has everyone in WRO out looking for you, even though they don't know you or ever met you they're all looking for you.”

“They're looking for me… how?” Zack asked in surprise.

“We got a letter from her she asked Tseng to find you, she's worried.” Tifa replied.

J'dee had contacted them asking them to look for him? He swallowed, they sent him here to re-educate him, to turn him to kill her, and they were looking for him because she asked. He shook his head.

“I'm poison so long as I'm here.”

“I don't care.” Tifa grabbed him by the arm pulling him up. “Come on leave her a note, she does check the bar daily. Warn her tell her everything before it's too late. Don't leave her to worry about you. Trust me that kind of abandonment can hurt someone.”

Zack let Tifa pull him up and she held him by the hand dragging him down the isle.

He understood like Aerith had waited for him, Tifa had relentlessly waited for Cloud, over and over. He let Tifa pull him out of the church and he stopped seeing the truck parked outside.

Zack never meet Barrett personally but there he was one of the leaders of AVALANCHE behind the wheel. The large black man lent out the window.

“Hey you a friend of spiky's?” He asked in an almost booming voice.

Zack nodded. “Yeah.” He used to fight these people because of ShinRA they should want nothing to do with him.

Barrett grinned, one hand gripping the wheel the other large gun attached to his other arm. “Well then hop in! Any friend of spiky's is a friend of ours!”

Zack jogged up to the door opening it and looking at Tifa. She smiled at him. “Tifa… thank-you.” He climbed in to the truck.

 

~*~*~*~

 

“So, Alphonse will grow at an accelerated rate,” Abel said. “What's going to happen to you?”

“I suspect I'm going to get stretch marks very quickly,” Belle sighed. “Oh well, Hakkai can probably patch me up.”

“What will you do here?” Hugue asked and Belle sighed.

“I'm going to work for a while but then I'm going to have the Shinigami mind wipe the officials for the next few weeks, hopefully Abel can teach the students,” Belle sighed.

“I'll help however I can,” Abel said and Belle smiled.

“How many souls have woken up in you?” Hugue asked and Belle blinked.

“Three, Koumyou, Trisha, and Rem,” Belle stated.

“How many have the others had?” Hugue asked and Belle blinked.

“Oh, J'dee has o-two,” Belle said. “She just got Aerith.”

“Do we know anything about Toby?” Abel asked and Belle shook her head.

“No, but Washu gave no indication about Toby having any souls wake up,” Belle sighed.

“Why do you think you have so many souls awakening?” Hugue asked and Belle shrugged.

“For me, my emotions and feelings are always open while J'dee has always kept her feelings close. She doesn't like to show any weakness so crying and such is something she suppresses. As for Toby, well, he's a man, men rarely show off all their emotions,” Belle suggested. “Of course, being trapped in that tiny ship for as long as he has will probably give him a lot of time to think and to realize just who he was.”

 

~*~*~*~

 

“Oh ho, what's this?” Washu muttered, noting an odd reading appearing on the edge of the property. She began typing away, trying to scan it before it disappeared. Frowning, Washu noted the time and what little data she was able to gleam. Since this had been happening periodically lately it set her on edge. Nibbling her lip as she contemplated it, she nodded to herself and set aside her current project.

 

Time to make some preparations…

 

~*~*~*~

 

J'dee sat on the couch playing her own game something Ed had encouraged she do to ease her mind so she was running round as Sora in the Kingdom Hearts 2 game.

Her memory card had been wiped accidentally and after chewing out Gojyo and Goku for making her loose thirty-seven hours on her game she sat down and started from scratch.

 

Gojyo was leaning against the wall watching her play the RPG, it was a solo game she probably wasn't in the mood to have her ass kicked by the boys in the fighting game.

“Belle can I chip your play station?” J'dee asked casually.

“No!” Belle called out from the kitchen cleaning up the dishes.

“I want to play street fighter but I only have the pal format disk.” J'dee whined.

“Chip your own play station.” Belle remarked.

J'dee sighed. “But I can't even plug my play station in here without blowing a fuse.”

Gojyo looked to Belle who shot J'dee an unseen glare and he moved up to the couch sitting down next to J'dee.

He looked to the screen as the blonde leaning against the wall had a cut scene with Sora.

“So who's that?”

“That's Cloud.”

“Zack's friend?” Gojyo asked.

J'dee nodded but didn't say anything.

“He has a nice voice.” Belle commented. “But nothing on Vincent. Now that… is a voice worthy of phone sex.” She teased.

Gojyo saw J'dee smile and he felt relieved. Belle was trying to cheer her up.

 

After the cut scene J'dee ran to a save point saved it quickly and stopped when her phone began to warble out a phone call in the Final Fantasy VII mission accomplished tune.

She jumped up and over the couch making Gojyo jump back.

“Round the furniture! Not over it!” Belle shouted.

“I assigned the ring tone to Zack's phone!” J'dee exclaimed.

Gojyo stood up watching her answer.

“Zack! Where are you?! Are you okay!” J'dee blurted into the phone.

“I'm… not…” The softer voice remarked on the end.

 

J'dee slumped against the wall sliding down it defeated. “You're not… Zack.”

She saw Belle's face look at her apologetically.

“Aerith… I'm sorry… They sent Zack home.” The voice J'dee blinked she knew that voice, she heard it enough to know who it was.

“Cloud…” She remarked softly. “It's not your fault. Tell me where you are… We'll come and get you.”

“I don't think that's a good idea… I promised Zack I would protect you. If you come here I'd be putting your life in danger.” Cloud replied. “You stay where you are and when I'm out of harms way I'll call you again with my location.”

J'dee shook her head. “Cloud… I won't come then, I'll send some of the others.”

“No… I'll come to you I'm not putting you or any of your friends lives in danger. I told Zack I was going to live for you… and I will… I won't put any other lives in danger.” Cloud explained. “I have to go they're still following me… I'll phone in the verdict.”

“Cloud don't you dare hang up on me!”

“I'm sorry Aerith… Keep safe. I'll see you soon.”

“CLOUD!”

The phone then went dead with the sound of it being hung up.

J'dee spun round her fist hitting the wall and she curled up.

“Jerk jerk jerk!” In anger she threw her phone across the room.

 

Gojyo held up his hand catching the cellphone to prevent it from breaking.

“Easy honey… Tell us what did Cloud say?”

“They sent Zack home… but he made Cloud promise to protect me. But he won't let us go get him!” She exclaimed. “How can he protect me if he can't even escape?!”

Gojyo walked up to J'dee crouching down and pulling her in to his arm letting her cling to him he rubbed her back slowly.

“It's okay beautiful, at least he's alive…”

Belle stepped out of the kitchen. “This Rufus wrote you a letter right…? Well write him back let them know Cloud is still alive… And if Zack is there, at least he'll know Cloud survived past his return. I'll talk to the Shinigami we'll GPS Zack's phone and go and get Cloud whether he wants to be collected or not…”

J'dee looked up at Belle. “But Al… and the pregnancy we can't put you in danger…”

Belle smiled. “We'll sort something out. Cloud might know how they sent Zack home.”

 

~*~*~*~

 

“Isaac, its me. I wish I could talk to you. I'm sorry-” Isaac cut off the message with a sigh and rubbed his face. He felt so tired. Even without the marker, that asteroid should have destroyed whatever was left of the Necromorphs. He heard rustling to his right and turned to look. His eyes widened as Nicole's Necromorph possessed body let out a scream before lunging at him…

 

The Necromorph's head exploded. Isaac whipped around to face the back of the shuttle where a red blast had come from. A tall, beautiful red head, stood there, wrapped in an elegant toga of ancient roman design.

 

“One moment.” She said, flicking her fingers again, and removing the limbs from the Necromorph, effectively killing it.

 

“Isaac Clarke?” The woman asked. Isaac's response was to pick up his helmet and snap it back on, sealing his suit with a hiss. He raised his plasma cutter at her, lining up the three blue lines on her chest. The woman sighed.

 

“Too bad, you were rather cute too.” She said, sighing. She extended her hand towards him, palm facing him, her fingers spread. Nothing seemed to happen and they stood there in silence for a minute.

 

<Warning! Suit internal temperature rising! Exceeding 105 degrees and rising!> His suit computer warned. Isaac balked, and tried to unseal his helmet but jerked his hands away as he felt the clasps searing heat through his hand coverings!

 

“Nighty, night!” The woman sang, as Isaac passed out.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Cloud ducked round a corner, he looked over his shoulder back to where the four were. They were standing round an array like the one used to send Zack through, but Cloud noticed something… a figure was on the ground unconscious. They had fought him before the woman with green hair had called them away. So he had managed to hide. But despite his efforts at fighting them, every critical hit he tried they sunk back in to the shadows the only thing he was hurting was his sword. He was tired, and he wanted out. He needed to escape. Find Aerith and protect her. He promised Zack.

He wouldn't let her die this time.

“Her voice it sounded so worried.” He mused to himself. “Not much changes.”

His head rested back against the wall and he grabbed the materia from his sword, it was his third to last one, once the other two were used up he was on his own for his injuries. He had a sufficient amount of potions in his belt but that was to quell any form or hunger he might get in trying to escape.

Activating the cure he let the current shoot through his body for the moment, he knew they would have seen it the flash of green light. He ran down the hall sword in hand he needed to get outdoors and he needed to be in a bigger field to fight them.

 

Looking over his shoulder he caught the sight of Air as the blonde “dashed” past him faster than the wind and stopped in front of him.

Cloud swung the sword down and Air seemed to “flash” out of range, but the wall opened up a decent sized hole and Cloud slipped through.

He stumbled for a moment and stopped dead looking at the two men in the tubes his eyes fell to the third empty one.

He had been in that tube, he knew it he had memorized each scrape on the glass in his time paralyzed in there.

Cloud looked to the one on the end the orange tinted glasses the long red double breasted coat, the one in the middle, in an old suit, wearing a brown coat over top normal glasses and his hair pulled back into a pony tail.

“Strange how your sense of direction always leads you home.” Air's voice reverberated around him.

Cloud looked up and he stopped seeing the two black wings flapping. “This isn't my home.”

“It might as well have been given how long you were there… a few weeks at least…” Air replied his wings flapping.

“What… are you?” Cloud stared at him.

“Nothing much yet… but soon… I'll be a God…” He held his arms out and Cloud caught the maniacal laughter as it echoed off the walls of the cave.

Cloud dropped in to a stance. “Not happening.”

 

~*~*~*~

 

Belle was annoyed to find her apartment invaded. Shinigami fought with Grimmjow, Ed, Goku, and Gojyo for the PS2. Hakkai, Sanzo, Roy, Hawkeye, and Armstrong were sitting around the table talking.

“How's it going?” Goku cried from the sofa as he held Ikkaku in a headlock while Ikkaku yanked on Grimmjow's arm.

“Don't break anything,” Belle sighed as she put her bag down. She noted a pile of mail on the counter. “Oh good, my car bill has arrived. Got to pay that now.” She headed to her room to avoid the craziness; she paused to grab an apple as well as two pears.

“Hey you worthless Colonel?! Where's that extra controller Belle found!” Edward cried as he grabbing Roy's shirt and Belle stared as two scars were exposed on Roy's shoulder. Two indents in his skin that could only be the scars from a bullet grazing his shoulder. Belle's eyes widened as she remembered her dream and she wondered just what the Colonel's bathroom looked like.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Zack walked in to Seventh Heaven and looked round he saw the bar was full. He didn't know half of these people but Barrett had called it in “That friend of spiky's was found” as he had said over the radio.

Zack had heard Reeve's voice on the other end telling them to meet at Seventh Heaven.

So here they were as he walked in he felt slightly exposed topless but he wasn't going to put the wet and bloodied shirt back on.

“Good to see you yo!” Reno remarked with a grin, beer in hand and raised the mug.

Zack looked to the red headed Turk and he nodded before smiling.

Zack turned to Tseng as the long raven haired Turk walked up to him and he blinked at the long black hair slicked back, the crimson chakra on his forehead.

“Zack…” Tseng stuck out his hand.

Zack shook it. “Tseng. Good to see you.”

“There you are!” Reeve walked up to him patting him on the back the bearded man grinning. “This is extraordinary the dead suddenly popping up like this.”

“I know… tell me about it, one minute life stream next moment a whole new dimension…” Zack thought back on seeing her for the first time that pink dress following behind her friend in the Reno cos-play and the play fighting with the Sephiroth double. “With her…” He looked sad for a moment.

“Is that Geostigma?” Rude asked pulling his shades down looking to Zack's abdomen.

 

Zack looked down. “No… this I don't know what this is…” His hand moved over the black mark, it was growing… slowly. But it was definitely growing.

“We'll look in to it.” Zack looked to Rufus who moved forward the group parting ways for the pale blonde as he walked up to him.

“Rufus… her letter…” He asked.

Rufus nodded. “We received it a week ago from the Aerith of the other dimension she provided the dress you asked her to send and a DVD. I have to say the resemblance…”

Zack nodded. “I know.”

“You might want to read this.” Zack looked up at the dark voice and he spotted the red cape, the black hair red bandanna and he stared and he jumped back motioning. “You're that… that dead guy! The one in the coffin!”

“Zack this is Vincent…” Tifa smiled.

Vincent handed him a letter. “From Aerith… I noticed it appear five minutes ago.”

Zack looked down at the letter and he ripped it open quickly. “Please be good news. I hope she's okay.”

“I'm sure she's fine.” Reeve smiled, “every so often she's been sending us what we ask for, helping us in whatever way she can… from another dimension her response time is quick.”

 

Zack's eyes skimmed over her handwriting and he smiled.

 

To All

 

He's okay! Cloud's okay. You wanted to know. He hung up on me the jerk!

See if I help heal him next time he gets hurt… ;p j/k

But he's okay… Tell me Zack is with you, tell me he's okay. Cloud said they sent him there when I spoke to him earlier tonight on the phone. He sounds fine just a little bit tired. I don't know what they did to him, but I feel he's recovered enough to slip through their hold.

 

Zack if you're reading this… Cloud has your cellphone I thought it was you calling… He didn't tell me too much but we're going to use the GPS on your phone to locate him and find him. He told me to stay away for my own safety because of a promise he made to you. But I can't just sit back. I lost you and it hurt… I actually got scared. I don't like being scared.

 

On a different note though…It's typical I remember our first meeting from your world AFTER you left. You waited so patiently… I'm sorry it didn't come sooner.

But please don't make me wait another four years. I'm not a patient person this time round.

 

Write me… please…

 

~J'dee/Aerith

 

Zack smiled at the letter, “She's worried that's typical…” He looked round grabbing a pen and a piece of paper; he began to write a quick reply before placing it in an envelope and pinning it to the board.

Tseng looked at him. “We'll write her a proper reply later, but there's something you need to know about her DNA…”

Zack looked over his shoulder. “What's that?”

“It's almost identical…” The female voice broke through the group and Zack looked over his shoulder as Cissnei smiled at him, she was sitting at a booth with three other women.

“Identical…” Zack repeated.

He knew one of the other women was a Turk. Elena if he remembered correctly. One was Yuffie; the last though he didn't know her, she looked about twelve, and she was looking at Vincent like she felt uncomfortable being around people.

“There are about several variations in the blood, different strands of an unknown element similar to the Ancients but it's not.” Reeve explained. “But we'll explain this on the way to the med bay; we need to get this checked out.” He motioned at the black mark.

Zack nodded, he looked at Tifa. “Let me know if she gets my letter.”

Tifa smiled. “I'll call Reeve and get him to pass it on.”

“Thanks.” Zack smiled before heading to the door, Reeve, Rufus following, the rest staying behind probably to discuss his sudden arrival.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Belle was sitting in her room grading after dinner when she got the flash of something. She stared at the paper but she could almost feel a room. She closed her eyes and concentrated. She could feel a room slowly. Someone was preparing to take a shower. Belle got up and opened the door but their bathroom was empty. Confused, Belle returned to her room and sighed.

“Maybe just a flash from the dream this morning,” Belle muttered before she returned to her work, but the sensation persisted. Belle was certain that someone was letting a shower heat up. Suddenly Belle got the sensation of moving over skin and she closed her eyes. A scar ran across a lean stomach, above and to the right of the belly button.

Belle's eyes shot open as she realized that she had seen that scar before. It was a reminder of a near eviscerating wound and Belle had only ever seen it in a manga or anime. That was Hakkai's scar and Belle blinked in shock. The Saiyuki guys' apartment was the opposite set up as hers, making the bathroom almost the furthest spot away from Belle's room.

“I can see that far?” Belle whispered. “I wonder how far I could see if I tried?” Belle closed her eyes and this time she saw much more of Hakkai. She was embarrassed and at the same time horribly aroused. Her body grew hot and ready and Belle blushed as she began to explore further. Several other apartments were washing dishes, many others were using the bathrooms, others were bathing, and some were just washing hands.

Belle explored each and every one at the same time, but part of her attention stayed on Hakkai. She watched him and with a wicked thought, she pushed the water over his cheek in almost a caress. Hakkai jerked and looked around saying something, but Belle couldn't make it out through the water, human sounds weren't carried well through that medium. Belle quickly pulled back, it was horribly hard, but Belle managed to get out of the guys' apartment, but deep down, she was curious. She could see so much, what else could she do?

 

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Three more days had passed and everything was silent. J'dee sat on the couch playing her Kingdom Hearts 2 game she was finally up to the second time she was in PotC world and managed to clock back the thirty-seven lost hours. She had totally hogged the remote control and the game much to Grimmjow's annoyance. But she was pissed off, she needed to beat up some pirates and heartless, to let off some serious amount of steam.

She was happy Zack left her a letter, before explaining they wanted to do some tests and that he would write again when he could. She had a message to pass on to Cloud from Zack but Cloud still hadn't called and she kept glancing at her phone her foot tapping on the ground.

“Oiy don't you have a bar to check.” Grimmjow looked at her. “I want to play.”

J'dee rolled her eyes. “Let me get to a save point.”

“Yeah yeah hurry up I'm bored.” Grimmjow huffed.

J'dee finished the battle and found the save point and she stood up flicking the games over in the ps2 and removing her memory card and putting it in her pocket before shooting Gojyo and Goku a dark look that made them gulp.

“I'm going now.” She stated.

“Would you like some company?” Roy stood up.

J'dee stopped and blinked looking at Roy, since the whole Alphonse thing he'd been spending a lot of time with Belle. She was confused as to why Roy would offer.

Havoc's mouth dropped. “Colonel…” He almost whined.

“The major and I will go with her.” Roy looked at Belle. “I'll be back.” He flashed a smile in her direction.

J'dee blinked and looked up at Roy confused.

“Don't worry with, the Colonel and I protecting you, we will make sure no harm will befall you!” Armstrong announced before ripping his shirt off and flexing.

“Dude… its okay I know that. No need to get dramatic.” J'dee looked at Belle who was stifling a giggle at her. `Oh god save me' look.

“Have fun.” Belle waved.

“Oh somehow I doubt that.” J'dee drawled. She walked out glancing wearily at Armstrong as he walked alongside her. “Wait, are those pink sparkles?”

 

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“Ugh, I really get the worst assignments!” The redheaded woman muttered. She drew her toga closer to her body, walking in her high heels as she walked to the huge body of the Rift Worm. Sniffing in disgust, she waved her hand at the clenched jaws. The teeth immediately turned red and began to burn. Waiting for the mouth to be burned open, she filed her red, sharp painted nails.

 

“I hope this child is worth it.” She sniffed. After she had burned a way in, she continued her walk into the Rift Worm, eventually coming upon Benjamin Carmine's body. She took a small pouch from inside her toga and opened it, sprinkling it on the body. She watched as the acid eaten body was slowly restored. The COG soldier's head slowly rose.

 

“Sarge?” A young male voice asked, clearly disoriented. He promptly lost consciousness when the redhead kicked him in the temple.

 

“Ugh, why are most of these fools men?” She muttered before placing a foot on Carmine's chest. She and her target vanished in a plume of fire.

 

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To Be Continued…