Aerith & Tifa

[Elario Luminus]

Leon hung his head slightly and nodded.
'I hope so...'
Leon looked around and, not seeing Tifa anywhere, he turned and headed towards the bailey.
'Is Tifa one for good views? If so, she might be at the bailey.'
Leon quickened his pace to a brisk walk, his hand now clenching his gunblade.

[Tifa Lockhart]

"Good views? Yeah Tifa's always liked good scenery." Zack replied, striding along behind Leon in a much more casual manner. "Most of the views on our world have been ruined... so she'll probably be enjoying while she thinks." The SOLDIER then fell silent, letting himself think.
Cloud was chasing Sephiroth all over the worlds... claiming that defeating him would be the only way to get rid of the darkness in his heart. This saddened Zack... they'd kept it secret from Cloud for as long as they could... but it would seem he had figured it out... no doubt part of his inadvertantness towards Tifa was because he was afraid to face her... or any of them...
Zack sighed out loud by accident.

[Elario Luminus]

Leon looked at Zack questioningly when he heard the SOLDIER sigh.
'Something bothering you?'
Up ahead he could see Tifa watching the view over the bailey, but didn't quicken his pace. He needed to think of what to say to her in apology.

[Tifa Lockhart]

"Just thinking." Zack said, reaching up to rub the back of his head and giving a nervous chuckle. "I'd explain... but it'd take a while... and..." His eyes roamed to where Tifa stood, her hair billowing in the wind. "I don't think it's something Tifa wants to hear about ever again."

[Elario Luminus]

Leon nodded, making note of Zack's insecure tone. He stepped up towards Tifa and cleared his throat loudly to get her attention.
'...Tifa...I just wanted to apologise for my reaction to you earlier about both our friends' locations. It was wrong for me to assume you didn't know how I felt. I guess we're in the same situation here. I'm sorry.'
Leon's face wore a sorrowful expression as he spoke.

[Tifa Lockhart]

When Tifa first turned at the sound of Leon's voice, her face suggested she was looking for a good opening to punch him in the nose, rather than listening to his apology. But this soon softened into a sad expression.
"I'm sorry..." She whispered, "I'm terribly ungrateful... acting as though it's all about me." She raised her red eyes to gaze over Leon's shoulder at where Zack paced in restless circles as he always did when he was uncomfortable or thinking. "We'll find Rinoa." She then added, looking back to Leon.

[Elario Luminus]

Leon nodded and smiled slightly, as he always did.
'Thanks. I don't blame you; you've been by yourself for a while. It would be a bit of a shock to the system to have someone else to worry about as well.'
He put a hand on Tifa's shoulder.
'I hope we do. Hopefully she'll be away from that world Zack saw her in and with Cloud, or all your other friends, or back in my own world. That last one would be good, even if I can't find a way back.'

[Tifa Lockhart]

"You could sit comfortable in the knowledge that our folks would look after her if she did somehow end up in Midgar." Zack interupted, he was now opening and closing a fliptop phone that he had produced from one of his pockets.

"He's right." Tifa said with a nod, "As part of the WRO we're all willing to help just about anyone." Tifa brushed a lock of hair back behind her ear.
"How are we supposed to get from world to world? I heard it was hard... and that kid is long gone... he had a rocket."

[Elario Luminus]

Leon laughed quietly.
'Cid would kill you if he heard you calling it that.'
He got serious and business-like quickly, however.
'But Tifa's right; we have no way of getting from world to world in search for both Cloud and Rinoa. How have you been getting around?' he turned to Zack at this, slightly confused.

[Tifa Lockhart]

Tifa gave a nervous laugh.
"Yeah... come to think of it he probably would." She smiled at her last memory of the grumping captain.

Zack looked up upon being spoken to and slipped the phone back into his pocket, folding his arms and tilting his head.
"I guess i willed it. The first time i did it was an accident... i'd woken up in this strange half-place... i couldn't really even call it a world... so, i closed my eyes and willed to be wherever Aerith was..." He shrugged, trying to recall what had happened next.
"When i opened my eyes i was somewhere new... i'd look around and then do it again..." He shifted to a sympathetic look, "Sorry i can't really help you... my area of expertise is more along the lines of killing stuff." He put his hands behind his hand in a gesture similar to that of Sora.

[Elario Luminus]

Leon cocked his eyebrow at Zack, then turned to Tifa.
'Do we follow his lead? Or are we going to try and find an actual mode of transport?'

[Tifa Lockhart]

"I'm not really the kind to put my life in the hands of my will alone..." Tifa murmured... "As much as i want to find Cloud i'm afraid... afraid that the tiniest doubt might leave you stranded somewhere... like the darkness." A funny look came into Tifa's eyes and she shuddered, hugging herself tightly as she clenched her eyes shut, a tear squeezing it's way from beneath closed eyelids.
"I never want to go back there... never..."

[Elario Luminus]

Leon nodded, understanding Tifa's opinion. He turned to Zack with a what now? look.
'Tifa doesn't trust her own will, and nor do I trust my own. Somehow, I doubt you could will us all at once, as well. It looks like we might have to find a way from world to world, otherwise we'll be looking for our friends in a place we know they're not.'
Leon put a hand to his forehead as he leaned against a wall and crossed his legs as well, thinking deeply.
I have no ideas...I'm out.

[Tifa Lockhart]

Zack opened his mouth to reply but was cut short when a voice spoke from somewhere.

"I have an idea." The speaker said, vaulting up onto the bailey wall from the CHASM side of the wall. The kid was clad in black with red, blue and yellow striped throughout. His hair, a similar brown to Leon's, sat spiked atop his head and his eyes of bright blue glimmered with a childlike determination, though an element of maturity lurked in their depths. These eyes had seen much in their short lifetime.
"Why don't you lot come with me eh?" The kid said, grinning and leaning back on his hands, "Hey Leon. Bet you didn't think you'd be seeing ME again so soon huh?"
Sora gave a casual laughed and waved to Tifa, "Still no luck?"

Zack blinked at this kid... he seemed like someone with spunk! XD Zack liked anyone that could hold themselves in this sort of self-confident fashion... like Yuffie XD

((I wont permanently control Sora. he's a NPC))

[Elario Luminus]

Leon smiled at Sora, and nodded his greeting.
'Sora, we need the Gummi. We have more than just Cloud to look for now, ad we have no way of getting to and from worlds.'
Sora would be used to Leon's questions appearing as statements.