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[attr=class,bulk] He woke with cheek pressed into the earth. He felt a cool wind rustle through his hair. He heard the slow, laughing call of a loon. There was the sound of swaying long grass. The pulsing swell of insects in summer. He was-
(-on the cold stone tile of the Chaos Shrine, gasping as blood leaked between his fingers and he staggered, struggling on one elbow to keep the darkness at bay. The sky was a corona of fire and magic. He grit his teeth, fighting for breath, ‘Help-!’)
Something crawled along the back of his neck. Something small and quiet and squirming. It buzzed like-
(-the ringing in his ears, so loud he could hardly hear a woman’s voice shouting for him as he sank even lower, curling around himself as he tried, tried, tried to hang on and force his eyes open even as the colors blurred into spots.)
He was
(dying)
It was then that Verik Einhart took his first breath.
It came all at once, a painful gasp of air that nearly wrenched him in two. It broke into coughing which then led to more breaths which fueled the coughing. His body racked and his eyes watered and he felt for a moment as though he might wretch. Then his vision faded back and the pain subsided and he was left panting on his knees with his fingers digging into the dirt.
’Where am I?’
Verik looked up to see a field of wheat and long grasses. The sun was sinking over the horizon, and the sky was a deep, cloudy pink. Everything seemed strangely quiet and surreal. In that moment, he was alone.
Alone.
But then where was…?
”Tonya!” Verik shot upright then stumbled back to his knees, wincing before scrambling to his feet again. ”Tonya!” His voice carried across the vacant space, rough and desperate. His heart was hammering in his throat
No one answered him.
He swayed on his feet, looking desperately in one direction and then the next. There was a road nearby -- unused. In the distance, a grain silo. His sister was nowhere to be seen.
Had she saved him? Had they defeated Chaos? Or had he sent them to yet another time and place?
His head was spinning. He’d never understood any of it.
Verik drifted slowly to the road. There were imprints of wagon wheels and bird tracks in the hardened earth. He watched them dully then sank slowly onto his knees, head in his hands.
He was alone.
Away from his sister.
”What am I supposed to do?” There was no one else, not the sly thief nor the brave warrior, Densil. There was only him, lost and confused. And what had happened to them? Were they even…
Alive?
He sank farther into his hands, eyes closed. ”I’m useless.”
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Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Jun 14, 2021 6:00:53 GMT -6
"Get ready, Torensten, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
So far, Yuffie had established some things about where she had ended up. It did not seem to be Gaia. At least not her Gaia. Nobody had ever heard of the Great Ninja Yuffie, which she thought was absurd. Sure, okay, so people usually hadn't, but c'mon, she saved the entire world like yesterday. How long did it take to become a living legend? But more than that, nobody had heard of Wutai either. And nobody seemed to remember that a gigantic meteor had just nearly smushed the planet. Which meant only one thing.
Yuffie had gone back in time!
That had to be it, right? Way back in time to before Wutai was fully established, and well before the meteor. She wasn't sure what year Wutai had been established because history lessons were boring and she spent most of the time doodling moogles in her workbook even when she HAD bothered to show up for classes, but it had been around for at least a couple of centuries, right? So she was WAY back in time. It was the only explanation!
Which meant she had to be SUPER careful, otherwise, she might change the future, and never be born! Weren't you meant to like, never step on a butterfly if you went back in time? Or, uh, something. That's how it worked, right? To that end, she had rented a chocobo, working on the theory that if the chocobo trod on a butterfly, it was okay because it was from that time. Okay, yes, so the chocobo would be walking a way it hadn't before because of Yuffie but, well, critical thinking was never her strong point.
"Do-do-do-do do-do-do-do dooooo...." she sang to herself as the chocobo made its way down the path. Oddly, she felt surprisingly at peace, which was strange given everything she had been through in the last few days. There was a lot to be concerned about. Trapped in what was quite clearly the past? Problem. Her little run in with you-know-who? BIG problem. The fact that she had no idea if meteor was stopped? BIGGER problem. But somehow, also, being trapped in the middle of nowhere, where nobody knew you and you knew nobody, where there was no Wutai going to ruin or big evil Sephiroth to stop or people constantly telling her to actually study, well, it was kind of liberating.
Here, she could do whatever she wanted, and there were NO consequences!
....Which was pretty similar to how she lived her life anyway, but that was beside the point.
"Alright, ye-olde-times people! Get ready for... YUFFIE!" she announced, pointing dramatically into the air as she rode the chocobo. She wondered if it counted as stealing if she stole materia in the past and took it back to the future. Because then technically it was her's in the future, which means she was meant to steal it in the past, right? No, it meant it was her DUTY to steal it in the past, to protect the timeline! Yep, that was it! To save the future, Yuffie HAD to steal all the materia she came-
She snapped out of her incredibly delusional thoughts when she spotted a figure on the road. He was on his knees, and pretty upset. She paused for a moment, not quite sure how best to approach him. She could just ride past, but that wasn't really in Yuffie's nature. She might have been a thief, but she still didn't like to just completely ignore people. She stopped her chocobo and slid from the saddle. "Uh, hey, um, you... you okay there?" she asked, approaching him curiously. Wait. Crap. If she was stuck in the past, he might not understand her SUPER hip modern speak. "Uh, I mean, greetings... yonder.... traveller... how.... be... thou?" Crap. Why didn't she ever pay attention when she had to study all those stuffy old plays?
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[attr=class,bulk] Verik didn’t know how long he sat there at the side of the road. The earth was hard beneath him. He listened to the swelling hum of surrounding cicadas. His heart was still racing despite itself. His head was still swimming.
Breathe. He needed to breathe. His body felt strange to him -- almost as though it wasn’t his at all. He felt like something stitched back together with the wrong parts. His gloved hand was shaking.
Breathe.
Whatever he remembered, he was alive. He was grounded in his space, and he tried his best to count the ways. What could he hear? The cicadas, for one. They were nearly overwhelming. Then there was the soft, staccato chirp of crickets. The rustle of tall wheat grass. He smelled its dry pollen and the musty scent of overturned dirt.
That was two things he could smell. Three things he could hear. Four things if he counted the footsteps.
Footsteps?
Verik lifted his head from his hands, blinking. The dim glow of sunset met him as he looked to the sky. Less than an hour had passed -- of that he was certain. But what did that matter when-?
When someone was approaching him. Why couldn’t he focus?
It was a girl. She was older than fifteen, he thought. Younger than twenty. She appeared to be riding on the back of...something. A giant bird? Verik blinked slowly and without comprehension. It was most certainly a bird, taller than any man, with short wings folded in along both sides. Its feathers were of a brilliant yellow hue, and as it slowed to a stop in the road, the sun seemed to shimmer off its coat.
Verik stared.
The girl hopped off her saddle and landed with a thud on the side of the road. ”Um, hey, um. You...you okay there?”
”What?”
”Uh, I mean. Greetings! Yonder...traveller. How be...thou?”
Verik’s eyebrow furrowed. His mouth opened uncertainly, but no words came out.
”I…” He cleared his throat. In that moment, it was as though everything else had faded away. His fear. His worry. Chaos. All of it was replaced with a feeling that he was all too familiar with and one which he could never quite get used to.
Verik was confused.
”I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to worry you.” Verik forced himself back to his feet, frowning as he noticed all of the dust and dirt that had gathered over his cloak while he’d been ill-disposed. He tried to brush it off, but couldn’t really tell the difference. What must he have looked like? Kneeling in the dirt with his head in his hands?
And she was just a young girl out traveling on her own. She must have been very kind to have stopped for him.
”I’m fine,” he said with a smile that betrayed his weakness. ”I’m just...lost.” He felt a stab of phantom pain where Chaos’ claws had torn through him. There was no blood. The wound was missing. ”I’m missing someone as well. Have you seen a woman nearby? She wears a red cloak similar to mine. We look very alike.”
This felt better, speaking to someone who was outside of his head. His eyes drifted past the girl back to her strange avian mount. ”What is that creature, if you don’t mind my asking?” His head tilted to the side. ”Are you a beastmaster?”
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Jun 16, 2021 10:47:16 GMT -6
"Get ready, Torensten, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie paused to consider his response, apologising for worrying her. She sniffed a little, rubbing under her nose and did her best to look confident. "Oh, I wasn't worried," she assured him. "Just, I'm, y'know, kiiiinda a hero. I mean, don't tell anyone, but I TOTALLY just helped save the world. It was in the future though but it really happened. So, y'know, a hero's work is never done! Can't just ride past a sad person when you're a hero," she beamed, obviously proud of her newfound status. Part of her wanted to stop and think up some new names to add to her usual list of titles she gave in these situations. 'Sephiroth Slayer'? Ohhh, that was a good one!
"Lost, huh? I mean, I wasn't gonna say nothin', but, yeah, you past peeps, not so hot on signage huh? I mean, I've been ridin' down this path for HOURS and I still ain't seen a sign pointin' nowhere!" Yuffie declared, looking up and down the path, having utterly forgotten her attempts to speak in 'past person lingo'. "And I don't recognise any of these forests or fields and, well, did I mention, I'm a total legendary hero who's travelled the world. I mean, I know I'm stuck in the past, but eugh! Surely, like, fields and stuff can't be that different?" she asked. She realised this probably wasn't the news that this strange person wanted to hear.
"Don't worry though! Even in unfamiliar lands, or travelling through the mists of time, the Great Ninja Yuffie is unphased!" she declared, dramatically posing with her hand in the air. "Plus, well, like, this is a road of some kind, right? I mean, you just follow it and it's gotta lead somewhere eventually," she pointed out. "I already found the chocobo stable, but, well, the Great Ninja Yuffie never asks for directions!" she announced. Perhaps she should start doing that, actually...
"Nah, sorry. I've seen some CRAZY things, but nobody else in a big cloak like yours. Say, where'd you get it from? It's kinda cool. I used to have a cloak that looked like a moogle, but I lost it ages ago. I should get another one. Nothing makes an entrance like having a cloak you can throw off dramatically!" she mimed the action for a moment, sweeping back an imaginary cape. And then she paused. This person seemed upset. Maybe now wasn't the time to discuss the merits of moogle cloaks.
"Hey, don't worry, just stick with the Yuffmeister and I'll find you somewhere safe. We just gotta keep following this path, like I said. Easy as pie, right?" she smiled cheerfully. "Nothing to worry about!" she added, hoping her optimism was, at least on this occasion, infectious. Besides, it wouldn't hurt having somebody else along. Travelling alone was always harder than it seemed, even if Yuffie wouldn't admit that to anyone around her very much. She kinda missed the old party too. Sure, they had a rocky start, but after a while, they had been her friends. More than that, her family. And now, she was just alone. So, yeah, having a travelling companion could work out.
"You mean the chocobo? It's a chocobo!" she answered, looking confused when he asked about the animal. "Do you, like, not HAVE chocobos in the past? No, wait, that doesn't make any sense, I got it from a stable here. Wow. Where are you from, guy? They have chocobos everywhere!" she declared. She paused again when he asked if she was a 'beast master'. "Beast master? Me? N-" she paused. She was about to say 'no', but, well, Beast Master sounded PRETTY cool. And she was totally the master of the chocobo, right? "I mean, yeah, of course! I'm a TOTAL Beast Master! Yuffie Kisaragi, Master of Beasts, at your serv- HEY!" At that moment, the chocobo, who had grown bored with Yuffie's prattle, bent down and plucked her shuriken clean off her back in its beak, and began to walk away with it. "Give that back! Right now!" She commanded, but the chocobo ignored her, walking away, its head held high. Too high for Yuffie to reach. "Give it baaaaack!" she said, this time her tone that of a whiny child, jumping in the air, arms flailing as she tried and failed to reach it.
Then she realised the strange red cloaked guy was still watching her and laughed a little. "Uh.... I mean...." she paused, and took on her best commanding tone. "Pick up my shuriken! Now, uh, walk over there a bit! And, um, look at that tree. Now, uh, scratch your butt!" she called out, 'commanding' the chocobo with enough of a delay that it was already doing whatever she was saying by the time she said it. She turned back to the Red Mage and smiled, with a slight laugh. "See, does whatever I say!" she said with as much faux confidence as she could muster.
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[attr=class,bulk] Verik might not have known where he was. He might not have known what had happened. He might not have known much of anything at all, but there was one thing he learned very well, and he learned it quite fast.
This girl, whoever she was, liked to talk.
Verik had never heard anyone speak so voraciously. At first, he was almost too stunned to even try to follow what she was saying, and even once the initial shock had worn off, he still felt as though he were trailing five steps behind.
A hero? From the future?
Was that what she’d said? Was that what she kept saying?
”A ninja?” Verik found himself repeating because it was one of the only words that held any meaning for him. “The Great Ninja Yuffie.” Which meant she’d once been a thief. That she’d been blessed by the dragon king Bahamut. That she’d come from the future and saved the world…
His eyes flew open and he straightened, all of it coming together like a flash of lightning. ”You’re a Warrior of Light!” It all made sense in that one, brilliant moment. Why he was here. How he’d come here. Why they’d been brought together! He rarely raised his voice when he could help it, but he couldn’t help it now. Relief flooded him like waves of sea foam.
”I understand.” He touched a fist to his chest, nodding seriously. This girl (as her name Yuffie or was it Yuffmeister?) was a fellow Warrior of Light chosen by the crystals to save the world. She must have come from a separate cycle from a different time loop in a vastly different iteration than his own. His heart panged for his lost friend, for his own Thief of Light, but he did his best to tuck that loss away.
”I too have traveled through time. I was tasked with the word’s protection, but...I fear I may have failed.” He looked at the ninja earnestly, his eyes bright and almost desperate. ”You succeeded then? In your own time?”
Garland had spoken to tearing them down time and time again. He had spoken of the futility of their fight and of their inevitable defeat. Had he been right? Had Verik...had he really…?
He shook the thought away. The girl made it hard to sink into despair.
”I’ve never seen a mount such as yours,” Verik said apologetically. ”You called it a...chocobo?” The way she said it, it made him feel foolish, but not for long. She went on with the gag so far that Verik couldn’t help but chuckle quietly as the creature stole her four-sided blade and she did her best to look like it was on purpose.
Were all thieves such jokesters?
”I see,” he said, smiling. It felt strange to smile. ”Well then. Yuffie Kisaragi, beast master, ninja, and savior of the world. I am honored to make your acquaintance.” He gave her a practiced bow. ”I’m Verik, a red mage of house Einhart. I assure you, I’m feeling much better now.”
He straightened, head slightly tilted. ”If your offer still stands, I would like to accompany you. I’m sure this road leads somewhere, but to where, I couldn’t say.”
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Jun 17, 2021 14:17:57 GMT -6
"Get ready, Torensten, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie seemed to hold her head a little higher, smiling a bright grin when he recognised the word 'ninja' with a level of awe. That didn't usually happen. Usually people looked at her like she was lying, or crazy, or possibly both. Sometimes they laughed at her, which was totally unfair because she WAS a badass ninja. But not this guy. He seemed to know how cool being a ninja was.
And then he said something else. That she was a Warrior of Light. Well, that was a bit weird. She wasn't sure if she had ever been called THAT before, but, hey, it sounded good. Which meant, of course, the only thing to do was confirm.
"Yeah, I'm, like, TOTALLY a Warrior of Light or whatever," she replied, which was slightly less impressive because she was still jumping in the air at that moment trying to retrieve her shuriken from the Chocobo's beak, since her attempts at 'beast mastery' hadn't exactly gone according to plan.
"You too, huh?" So, he was another person who got thrown back in time? And judging by what he was saying, he had fought to save the world from something too! So, something mysterious was plucking warriors who helped save the world out from the future and throwing them back in time!? That was the only explanation! Yuffie wondered for a moment why it had picked her, and not Cloud, or Tifa. Wow! Maybe she really WAS the most kickass member of the group! She usually just SAID that, but if some cosmic space god that sent her back in time thought it, it must be true! Well, she assumed Cosmic Space God. After all, who else would pick Yuffie as its chosen warrior to travel across time and fight evil!
Because that was obviously why she was there, right?
”You succeeded then? In your own time?” he asked her. She looked back, frowning slightly.
"What? Like it's hard?" she asked. "Had to travel to the centre of the Earth and fight a guy. He turned into like, 60% wings, which, now that I think about it, was TOTALLY weird. I mean, legs, waist, hips, one arm, ALL wings. That's just, WAY too many wings. Anyway, yeah, I totally kicked his butt and saved the world. No biggie," she said with a 'modest' shrug. "Had a bit of help, but it was basically all me, y'know?" she beamed.
Suddenly, she gasped.
"What if that's why we're here? You know, history's greatest warriors, assembled from across time, sent back to the past to battle evil! If you're a Light Warrior or whatever, and, like, OBVIOUSLY, so am I, then that must be it!" she decided. 'History's Greatest Warrior'. That would be a good title to add to her list! Possibly even better than 'Warrior of Light'.
"Yep! He's a chocobo! I'm thinking of callin' him 'Beaky'," she answered.
Ohhh, 'saviour of the world'? She liked that one too! She liked this guy!
"Nice to meet you too, Verik!" she said, thrusting out a hand. "I'll tell you where it leads, Verik, my new loyal minion!" she announced, placing a hand around his shoulder. "It leads to... adventure!" she declared. "And hopefully a bathroom 'cause I haven't been since I got here and I kinda drank loads of water from the nice man back at the chocobo stable," she added a little more urgently. She headed back over to her chocobo, which still dutifully held her shuriken in its beak.
"Okay, ground rules before we set off. I get to ride the chocobo. I get first dibs on any materia. And we split the treasure..... seventy forty?" she suggested. Yuffie also was not great at Math, it seemed...
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[attr=class,bulk] Verik wasn’t quite sure when it was his turn to speak and when it was best to smile and nod.
Yuffie, this great Ninja of Light, certainly had a lot to say for herself. He had the impression that she’d entertain herself just as well if he said nothing at all, but that wouldn’t have sat well with him either. He didn’t mind listening. She was certainly a lot to listen to.
Every time that she said something that would have given him hours of thought otherwise, she went on again, so loud and boisterous that it was hard to really consider any single word she spoke. She said that it was nice to meet him. She called him her minion which was…. questionable. She put a hand on his shoulder spoke of calls to adventure and also bathrooms.
It was all questionable if he was telling the truth.
He had so many questions.
”Seventy - thirty,” he corrected her as she claimed a position on the bird and also any “materia” they might find. He assumed that was some kind of equipment, but he couldn’t be sure. ”You hunt treasure then?” he asked before doubling back with a shake of his head. ”Of course you do. You’re a thief.”
Just like a thief to be preoccupied with treasure.
”I don’t mind. Though pray tell...What is a materia?” It was the least important of his questions, but that seemed to be where their conversation had ended. He’d need time to unravel the rest.
A monster at the center of the earth? Made entirely of wings? An assembly of history’s greatest warriors? Now that part he had trouble believing. While he had no doubts that this Ninja might have proven herself worthy of such a thing, Verik was…
Less so.
”I was injured before this, but I think I should be strong enough to walk.” He tried for a smile. ”Perhaps we should take this conversation to the road? We can still make ground before the sun sets.”
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Jul 2, 2021 14:46:06 GMT -6
"Get ready, Torensten, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie cocked her head a little, hands on her hips as she considered his counter-offer. Well, technically it was a correction, but that was how Yuffie took it. On one hand, it seemed kinda uppity for her new minion to be asking to renegotiate the deal, but on the other hand, it still worked out well for her. She still got treasure, right? "Wow, you drive a hard bargain, Verik, but deal!" she thrust her hand out for him to shake, a big grin on her face.
He asked if she hunted treasure, and then seemed to call her a thief. She turned, confused for a moment. "Wait, how did you know I was a-" And then she paused. She was PRETTY sure she hadn't told him. And confessing being a thief didn't USUALLY end very well. "I-I mean, I'm not a thief. Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Where would you get THAT crazy idea?" she asked with ridiculously feigned innocence and a nervous laugh, followed by a small smile and a giggle as she headed back towards the chocobo.
"Though, y'know, people DID used to call me the Treasure Princess," she remarked with a proud smile, itching her nose as she climbed onto the chocobo. She wouldn't point out that by 'people' she meant 'herself'. She was a person, so it wasn't even a lie! "I'm super good at finding treasure where ever I go! Especially when you trick some rube into doing all the hard work for you and then you just swoop in and steal the treasure at the last second!" She threw her head back and laughed. "Nyuk nyuk nyuk!" And then she paused. "Uhhh, not that I'm doing that to you. TOTALLY different working relationship this. Besides, I was young then! And he was Shinra, so, y'know, it was fair game," she shrugged.
When he asked what materia was, she paused, gawping for a moment. "You don't know what materia is? It's only the COOLEST thing ever! It's like these orbs except they're like... um... crystalised... mako... memories... of...?" Yuffie trailed off, frowning. "Okay, look, you don't have to know WHAT they are, all you gotta know is they're, like, magic orbs that make you able to all kinds of neat stuff. Like use magic!" She grinned. "Boy, you're lucky to have me here! I just so happen to be the world's greatest materia hunter!" She beamed. "I can show you how to find it and all the neat stuff it does!"
And then she paused, realising that she'd have been a LOT better off telling him it was just worthless. "Uh, I mean, although, of course, you gotta be a pro to use it at all, so, like, I'm sure you're better off giving anything you find to me," Yuffie grinned quickly.
"Sure thing! Let's get movin'," Yuffie chirped, kicking her chocobo to move. "Let's get goin', Beaky! So commands Beast Master Yuffie!" she called out, pointing down the road as the chocobo began to plod in a slow walk. She turned back to Verik. "Injured, huh? I mean, sure, most people get pretty beat up savin' the world. Don't tell anyone, but I totally saw Cloud on his knees crying when we were fighting Sephiroth. The whole PARTY woulda gone to pieces if I hadn't been there, holding us all together," she gloated as they walked. "Yep. It's a big responsibility bein' the greatest warrior on your world, but, hey, someone's gotta do it, right? The others were lucky I was there!" she beamed. She was enjoying this, building up her own legend without the others around to point out the slight... flaws... in her claims.
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[attr=class,bulk] Verik was learning to hone his patience when it came to Yuffie. She was the kind of girl who liked to wear her heart on her sleeve, and who it didn’t seem had ever been taught to build a barrier between her thoughts and her tongue. Still, it was interesting enough to listen, and Verik didn’t mind. There were many things that one could learn by listening. There were always many things that one couldn’t.
She used plenty of words that he didn’t understand. ‘Shinra.’ ‘Mako.’ ‘Cloud.’ ‘Sephiroth.’ She seemed very concerned that he was going to take an interest in the treasure she was hunting. Verik laughed quietly.
”I can use my own magic,” he said. ”If your ‘materia’ let you use spells then I don’t mind if you keep them.” He didn’t mind if she kept everything, honestly. If they happened to come across anything of value, he hoped she didn’t think she’d have to double-cross him for it. If it meant that much to her, she could consider it payment for the company on the road.
He wasn’t used to being alone. The terrible, chilling thought twisted in his heart. Alone. He was alone.
Verik slowed to a stop and looked out across the grassy field in which he’d awoken. The wind rustled across the yellowing sea of wheat tufts, echoing softly.
”When I lost consciousness, I was with others,” he said. ”They were still standing. Still fighting. We’d traveled beyond time and space to somewhere I hardly recognized.” He brought a hand to his chest, fingers tightening into a fist.
”They should be here, shouldn’t they? Somewhere?”
He wished he knew some spell, some power, something that could point him in the right direction or at the very least tell him if he really was truly alone. For now, he felt nothing but uncertainty, and a terrible tinge of guilt.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Sept 11, 2021 16:24:51 GMT -6
"Get ready, Torensten, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie gave Verik a quizzical look when he mentioned having his 'own' magic. How did somebody have their own magic? Sure, you could learn from materia, right? But it was the materia that evolved and grew. Not the person. Maybe he DID have some materia of his own and he was just holding out on her. Maybe they just called it something else in the past? Like, Ye Olde Materia Ball or something. She'd have to listen closely to find out more.
"I mean, hey, I got my own spells too," she said defensively and quickly, in case he thought she wasn't as AWESOME as him or something. Plus, well, she did, even if her's came from her own materia. "But hey, you can never have too much materia, right? Since you offered, sure, I'll take ALL the materia we find," she beamed a smile at this. Wow. This was working out even better than she had expected. She had a new party member AND he was willing to fork over all the materia?
RES-ULT!
Then he asked a more serious question. It seemed he was concerned about his fellow party members. Yuffie had to admit, she had wondered where Cloud and the others were too, but she didn't have any reason to believe they'd be here. She had, maybe, privately, hoped. Not that she'd admit it, because of COURSE she was fine on her own, but maybe, quietly, at the back of her mind, she had wished the others were there with her.
"Okay, see, that sounds like a sorta 'leadership' question an' people don't normally ask me stuff like that," she admitted. "Uh, even though I was TOTES in charge, obvs," she said quickly. "Honestly, I got no idea. I mean, I dunno how we came to be stuck in the past or why or if anybody else is gonna show up here. BUT, if they are, you gotta figure, they'll follow the trail same as us, right? And then we can all meet up in the nearest town! Better than hanging around the woods, yeah? I mean, don't you want a nice comfy bed 'n stuff?" Yuffie pointed out, in a stroke of what was, by her standards, actually reasonable logic.
"Plus we don't even know if everybody shows up in the same place. Maybe they're like, a gazillion miles away! We'd never find 'em and just spend all our time loitering here til we like, turn into trees or somethin'. Nope, the smartest thing to do is head for the nearest town. Yep, that's totally my decision as the boss lady!" she said proudly.
And not just because she wasn't quite sure how to make Beaky stop on his methodical plod along the path...
