Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Because of a Garden and a Twilight Walk ❯ The "Danger" Enters Kalm ( Chapter 2 )

Author's Notes: T.T Waaah! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I knooow, I know that the conversation part with Barret and Sephiroth wasn't very good! Plus, Who says Sophia is anyone from the past? Geeeeeezee, not EVERYONE that died is once again alive! Just three, maybe four people. ^~ I'm not saying whether or not i'm gonna have a fourth person (So far: Aeris, Sephiroth, Rufus.) You'll have to find out! Um...please please pleeaaase don't hate my fic. -.-;; I got a really long email on everything that was "wrong" with this fanfic. Pleaaase, pleaaase, if you don't like my fanfic, be nice about it! Good greif, like it or don't like it. I'm not making you read this story! You're making yourself read it! And don't read it if you're gonna complain over the bloody pairing!

By the way: Thanks, people who corrected me on the Sephiroth thing...but..hey, in the game his hair looked white, so i'm keeping it white. =p. And, since I already have most of this fanfic written down (just being really slow so I'll get more reviews! ^_^! I wrote it on a notepad so it takes time to put it on the computer!). I don't think i'm going to change Sephiroth's eye color. Oh..heck, alright. We'll call it "Aqua-green" since it looks blue-green. (Turquoise? Are you aware that that is really stand-out light blue? I don't think Sephiroth's eyes are THAT color! Please don't take offense. ^^;) I'll fix the already put up chapters later. Once I have the whole fanfic up I might fix all the mistakes I know I'll end up having, to make the fanfic better!
Thank you so much for reading my unworthy fanfiction! ^_^;
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"I am falling..I am fading...I am drowning..Help me to breathe.." - Duvet, Boa. ^^; (Thanks, xxxIrisxxx!)

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Wind rushed past her as she ran through the lush green of the forest.

She looked to the left, to the right, for anything that would allow her to hide...though from what, she did not know.

"Please...please...please..." She ran as far as her feet could carry her, until she came to a cliff..where she was not quick enough to stop.

She fell.

Aeris jumped up from sleep with her soft green eyes wide. She brushed a few droplets of sweat from her brow and waited until her breathing went from heavy gasps to a calm, normal rhythm.

She sighed when her breathing went normal and looked around her bedroom. Everything was exactly where it had been the day before. Aeris slid out of bed and began to prepare for the rest of the day.

There was noise outside, and she leaned her head out of her window to see what it was. A bunch of children had surrounded Rufus and had begun to tease him. Rufus stared at them in silence, not seeming the least bit hurt.

Nonetheless, Aeris narrowed her eyes and stormed downstairs in her pajamas, rushing outside and stomping to the scene. All of the children surrounding Rufus turned to face the chestnut haired woman with her hair down, moving in the wind and in an ankle-length dress-like soft pink sleep-outfit.

Rufus' eyes widened just slightly and turned his head to the side so his slight blush wasn't noticed. Aeris looked at the children disdainfully.

"How could you all be so cruel to Rufus? He hasn't done you any harm. I thought I had taught you all better. You ruined my hopes for you."

Humans will be humans... a voice rang in her head. She tried to ignore it. The children were all looking down at the ground and apologizing profusely.

"Alright, alright. I forgive you, but don't ever do that to someone again. It's wrong." Aeris looked to Rufus, who was watching her with slight amazement.

"Why defend someone like me?"

Emerald eyes blinked, taken aback. "Why let someone hurt another?" Aeris answered with a question of her own and picked him up.

"....Th.....Tha...Thanks." He managed to blurt out quickly, then pretended as if he had never said it. Why could this woman, this flower girl that had traveled with Cloud Strife, this ancient with human blood mixed inside, make him regret all of his actions? His thought process stopped as she smiled at him.

"I need to get dressed, but could you wait for me in the garden?" Rufus nodded at her words and ran there once she put him down. She turned and headed back to her home to get dressed.

When she got there, she found the blonde boy watering her plants and ripping out weeds from the roots up. Aeris kneeled down next to him and smiled, beginning to help him. Rufus jumped when he saw her hands, then looked to her and tinge of red appeared on his cheeks. He turned his head away from her and said quietly and grumpily,

"Since...since you helped me I thought I might as well help you out. That way I don't owe you."

Aeris let out a laugh and patted Rufus on the head affectionately. "You and Sophia are wonderful."

"Man, I'm so nervous!" A blonde, spiky haired boy spoke up. His eyes were purple and he wore a blue shirt and jeans. The girl that answered him, Sephiroth remembered as Aerith, sighed exasperatingly.

"I can't believe you're my brother. Gawd, don't be so nervous. We practiced alot with Mom and Dad, and you almost won against dad!"

"But I don't really like to fight..." The boy looked discouraged. Sephiroth tilted his head towards them, his arms crossed and legs spread out, sitting on a crate as the huge van drove closer and closer to Kalm. Aerith smacked him on the back, grinning, and spoke up again.

"Don't worry Cliff, You have Sephiroth coming with you! I'm allowed to see you off since this is in the direction of where I'm headed."

"Where are you headed again, sis?"

"Se. cret." Aerith laughed then sat down. Cliff looked to Sephiroth and sat down next to him, his smile eager.

"You're going to Kalm too?"

Sephiroth raised an eyebrow. "Isn't that what your sister just said?"

"Sis already told me about you. She said you acted just like the original Sephiroth! That's cool!"

Aerith smacked Cliff. "The original Sephiroth wasn't cool, this one is. This Sephiroth hasn't done anything bad!"

Or, have I? Sephiroth thought. Perhaps what she said is not true.

The van came to a stop and Aerith swung the van doors wide. "First stop, Kalm! All leaving, leave now!" Before Cliff had a chance to move, he was in the air having been thrown by his sister. He landed on the ground and slid a few feet. Aerith grinned.

"Have fun, Bro!"

Sephiroth stepped out of the van and stood at full height. The town was small, he observed. But peaceful and quiet. Why would monsters be crawling around the outskirts of this town? There had to be something attracting them here.

But what?