Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:45:28 -1000 Subject: [ffml] [MW] Jaana and Sephiroth Return It was a quiet day in the countryside. A camel wandered aimlessly through the grassy meadow, stopping every now and then to munch on some clover. It was a happy camel, it had never liked the desert very much, and when it found itself mysteriously teleported into this field, it hadn't lamented too much. A blue portal opened in front of the camel. It blinked. Two figures stepped out of the portal and looked around, surveying the area. The smaller of the two figures saw the camel and began to approach it. The camel eyed the figure, and the still open portal behind it. The portal began to shimmer with a strange light, as it used up the last of the reagents. The camel looked to the figure, to the portal behind it, then charged, knocking the figure down. "Ow!" Jaana cried as she hit the ground with a thud. She watched the portal and the camel disappear. Sephiroth laughed. She scowled at him. "I don't see what's very funny about this situation, Sephiroth....." He tried to contain his laughter. "Nothing....just you getting bowled over by a camel.....it was a funny sight." He offered her his hand. "Need some help?" "Thanks." She got back on her feet and picked up the bag she had dropped. She looked around. "Where on earth are we?" She looked puzzled. "I don't recognize this spot at all." "Hey, you were the one that opened the portal...." "You know, I never could get the hang of those things. We're lucky I didn't portal us into the Event Horizon Dimension." "The what?" "Nevermind.....bad joke...." Sephiroth pointed to the horizon. "What's that?" "What's what?" He pointed again. "*That*" Jaana squinted, trying to make out a figure. "I have no clue." She closed her eyes, holding her hand toward the unknown shape. She let her consciousness slowly expand, enveloping the surrounding area, trying to get a reading on the figure in the distance. She gasped, her eyes wide with fear. "Oh crap! Take cover!" "What?" "Don't ask! Just run!" Jaana cried as she grabbed her helmet off of the ground and started running for the nearest bush, which was several hundred feet away. Sephiroth followed closely behind. The figure approached at a frightening speed, its elongated form growing larger as it approached. Jaana and Sephiroth dove into the bush just as it flew over. They peered out of the bush. "Omigosh....look at that thing......" "I'd heard stories, but never imagined....." "It really is a gigantic dildo!" Jaana giggled. "Thank god it passed over." "Shhhhh!" Jaana held up her hand. She ducked her head back in the bush. "What?" Sephiroth whispered. Jaana pointed in the direction Dildo Weapon came from. A cloud of dust approached. "Moogles...." Jaana hissed. "Are they chasing Dildo Weapon?" "I don't know....but whatever they're doing, they're doing it fast. I've never seen Moogles run that fast." "Oh my god, Jaana..." Sephiroth's eyes widened. "What?" "Get down." "What??" Jaana looked behind her to see what had disturbed Sephiroth. Her jaw dropped. "I really ported us to the wrong place, didn't I....." A low rumble was heard, as, in the distance, the menace approached. The small band of Moogles ran past Jaana and Sephiroth's location, screaming. The rumble grew louder, as the ground began to shake. Jaana ducked underneath the bush and huddled against Sephiroth. "Cann you ffeel itt?" she asked, the question taking much longer than it should. "Y-yeeaah." "It'sss....sssslow....innnng.....dowwwwn ......tiiiiiiiiiimme....." Sephiroth nodded, each bob of his head an eternity unto itself. Jaana looked up, seeing it pass overhead. It uttered a single sound that made itself the only inhabitant of the millenium that passed while Jaana blinked. "ThanX!!!!!" it boomed. "Ohhhhhh.............Gooooooddddddddddd" Sephiroth put his hands to his ears. "IT'S REIS WEAPON!" Jaana cried. END Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:36:14 -1000 Subject: [ffml] [MW] Finally! Sephiroth opened his eyes. The first thing he noticed was the damp smell of the earth beneath his cheek. He raised his head to try to get a better look of his surroundings. "What on earth?" he questioned himself. He was disoriented to the point where he couldn't even begin to guess at what had taken place. He reached his hand out and touched the object in front of him. "A branch." he said aloud, "This is a branch." He heard a voice calling from a distance. "Sephiroth.......Sephiroth!........" He looked up, suprised that the voice wasn't traveling the great distance he thought it was, but was instead coming from above him. The face he saw grinning at him from between the branches directly above him looked oddly familiar. The face smiled. "Hey there!" Sephiroth blinked, confused. He tried to remember how he had ended up curled up in a fetal position inside a small shrub. The last thing he remembered was seeing......something.......then hiding. He was hiding with.......with........ "Jaana!" "Yes!" She laughed. "Jaana, what am I doing in a bush?" Jaana extended her hand inside the bush and began to pull him out. "You were hiding....we both were." "Yes, I remember that, but...." He rose to his feet, his long, silver hair snagging on the branches of the bush. "OW!" Jaana laughed outloud. "Watch it....we wouldn't want you to mess up your beautiful hair..." Sephiroth scowled. "Jaana, what were we hiding from?" He stepped out of the bush into the clearing. Jaana stood before him "Reis Weapon." "Oh my ..." his eyes widened as the full memory returned to him, "You're right." "I don't know how it got back into this realm, but it did." "It was chasing moogles...." "And Dildo Weapon." Jaana pointed to a spot several hundred meters in front of them. The remains of a large, oblong object stuck straight out of the ground, vines entangling themselves throughout the wreckage. "Reis Weapon did *that* to Dildo Weapon?" "It looks that way." "But....it looks like it's been that way for....months....." "I know." "Then that would mean......" Sephiroth stopped, letting the though form completely in his mind. He turned abruptly to Jaana, his brilliant green eyes reflecting his realization. "Jaana, that would mean that we've been......gone.....for months...." Jaana nodded gently. "I know. I think that...somehow....Reis Weapon changes the boundaries of time." "What, so that, time passed for everyone but us?" "Maybe.....I don't know.....But, we couldn't have been knocked out for several months.....we would have changed...." "You're right....we haven't changed at all." He paused, another realization creeping into his mind "What about the war?" "The war?" Jaana shook her head bitterly. "I don't think we have to worry about....leaving our goal unattained. They wouldn't let us." "You're right." "Our little vacation in Yew was all we're going to get." Sephiroth nodded. "We need to act." "Yes." Jaana paused as a sly smile crept over her face. "But then again, after several months, I'm sure an extra couple of hours wouldn't matter to them....."