LYDIA DEETZ AND FINAL FANTASY 7
Capítulo 15: The betrayal of a spy cat
The group's seaplane was heading towards Gongaga, as according to information given to them by Yuffie's father, there was a black stone in the shape of a pyramid.
“We have to retrace our steps" Wedge resigned himself when they saw the coast.
The group arrived at the house where the black pyramid was supposed to be, but the owner of the stone told them that he had sold it to Dio, the owner of Gold Saucer.
“And now that we're going well, we can't go back to that place!” Barrett shouted once outside the house.
“Have the cat check the ground first," Cid would suggest, in a bad way, and by releasing the usual insults.
Wedge agreed with Cid's idea and the group turned to Gold Saucer again.
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“In the shape of a cat, fly to Gold Saucer and see if they're looking for us," said Vincent.
“No winged mouse will tell a feline what to do," said Percy poisonously.
“I'm not a vampire and I don't turn into a bat either," said Vincent in his monotonous voice.
“Then what do you become?” Cait asked him.
“In a kind of werewolf with horns, replied in a boring tone.”
“What, another canine!” shouted Percy indignantly.
“Percy please don't pick a fight and do what Vincent told you,” Lydia asked him with a frown and Percy obeyed.
After half an hour, Percy returned and informed friends that no one knew the identity or description of the attackers, yet the local police were still on the trail of anyone with a forearm weapon.
“No way. Barrett, Dyne, you stay here," Wedge ordered, and the giants accepted.
“We'll set up a tent at the base of the stairs," Barrett told them.
“I wonder if I'll be able to buy beer at Corel's camp," said Dyne and the other members of the group rolled their eyes or looked at them with their eyes narrowed in reproach.
The rest of the group went up to Gold Saucer and searched everywhere for the black pyramid.
“I just spotted our target," Nanaki pointed to Vincent and the man carefully stole the pyramid that was on a pedestal next to a fountain in the park.
“Apparently Dio didn't know the true value of the stone to put it in this place," said Vincent to Nanaki, and then they rushed to his friends.
Already with the black pyramid, the group was about to leave Gold Saucer, however, damage to the cable car caused by the storm put all means of transport out of service.
“Vincent, turn into a bat and tell Barrett and Dyne that we'll have to spend the night here," Percy told him.
“I'm not a vampire," the man reminded him in a boring tone.
“Why don't you transport us down?” Jesse asked Percy.
“The distance is too much," Percy explained. “Besides, with the storm it would be your funeral, I couldn't even transport you one by one. However, I could fly myself down and tell our friends we'll be spending the night here.”
The group agreed and after Percy returned from talking to the two giants downstairs, they decided to find a place to sleep.
“All the hotels are full," Cait told them sadly, "but don't worry, since I worked in this place, I know a place where we can spend the night.”
The place Cait Sith was referring to was the attraction of the park: the haunted house.
Needless to say, the group had its reluctance to enter the grim place, even with the storm roaring over them, or rather, the storm made things scarier.
“A haunted mansion on a stormy night," said Tifa nervously.
“And if you didn't notice, there are 13 of us," Yuffie made them even more nervous.
Only Lydia and Percy seemed to be in glory, as Lydia began taking pictures of the "haunted house" and her friends next to the Victorian-style mansion. Percy also took one of Lydia's cameras and started taking pictures of the Goth girl with the house in the background.
“This attraction is very much like your house, Lydia," said Aerith apprehensive and holding on to Cloud's arm.
“Yes, it's great," Percy said happily.
“It's terrifying and beautiful," adds Lydia, radiant.
“Well, let's go in," Wedge ordered, and the others looked at him with the face of few friends. “Remember, this is not a real haunted house, it's just a park attraction.”
“Pity...” Lydia and Percy sighed at the same time with a sad expression.
The interior of the house looked creepy.
“This place is beautiful," Percy said, admiring the place. “Lydia, let's get married here!”
All the other members of the group spat out loud drinks they had not drunk before and looked at Percy with eyes open like plates.
“Cait Sith! Can you get a priest or something? Cid, you're a captain! Can you perform wedding ceremonies?” asked the cat boy with eyes open like plates and full of little stars inside.
“Hey, hey, not so fast...” Jesse was braking him impressed.
“But...” Percy said.
“Jesse is right Percy," Lydia smiled radiantly at him, "it would not be convenient to get married in a tourist attraction, we have already talked about that, we will get married properly and with all the paraphernalia in a more suitable place... like a Gothic castle.”
“I'm sorry Lydia I let myself be carried away nya," Percy replied, holding a hand to the back of his head for shame, not for suggesting the ceremony, but for suggesting such an inappropriate place.
“You know," said Tifa nervously, "I don't think we should be looking for single rooms.”
“Right girl," added Aerith, reading Tifa's thought. “I think girls should share a room, like a pajama party!”
“What a ridiculous idea...” was trying to say Yuffie, but Jesse elbowed her.
“It's true," Jesse hurriedly said in a cold sweat, "this is going to be a girls' night out.”
Percy was trying to talk but all the girls grabbed Lydia and took her to a spacious room.
“I think the girls don't want Lydia and Percy sleeping in the same room," Wedge whispered to Biggs.
“It's amazing how things are moving forward more and more these days," Nanaki noticed as he walked up to the fireplace and readied himself to sleep near it.
“I'm looking for my own room," Cid barked, releasing a string of insults to no one in particular.
“I see a coffin in that corner, I think I'll sleep there," said Vincent trying to act cool after the scene with Percy and Lydia, but late because he reacted the most comically.
“Hey Cloud," said Biggs with a sneer. “You think Wedge and I should take Percy and have another pajama party of our own.”
Cloud looked at him badly and then went to find his own room, then Wedge and Biggs did the same thing.
“Why me!” Percy shouted to the roof of the house.
“Do you have to ask that?” Cait Sith shook his head and then disconnected.
Percy, frustrated, knocked down Cait Sith and his golem cat, and then transformed himself into a cat and climbed onto the cat-golem's belly.
“At least it will be like sleeping on Totoro's belly," Percy yawned and hummed the anime song and fell asleep.
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Percy noticed in the middle of the dream that something bad was happening but didn't care and went on sleeping. But then he got up uncomfortable.
“How strange... it smells like a dog," said Percy who tried to focus on Cait Sith, but saw that he was on Nanaki.
“Growwww," Nanaki roared as he felt Percy's claws pierce his back.
“Why do you wake me up like that!” Nanaki snarled at him.
“Why did you get me out of my bed-Totoro!” Percy frowned back.
The two of them were arguing for a moment and then noticed the disappearance of Cait Sith and his "saddle".
“I wonder where they went?” Percy muttered, and in that Aerith and Cloud went down to the ground floor.
Although they had nothing to hide, Nanaki and Percy were pulled by their animal instincts and were frightened by the presence of the two young guys approaching, thus pretending to be asleep. Nanaki hugged Percy and vice versa.
“Look Cloud, those two look so cute.”
“They only get along well when they're asleep, Aerith.”
When they both left the house, the performance ended.
“Get away, you smell like, you smell like a dog!” Percy let him go and Nanaki grunted at him.
“Those two look suspicious," Percy the cat muttered thoughtfully and looked at the floor or ceiling, while eluding Nanaki's bites with the grace of a ballet dancer.
“Stop bothering and leave at once," Nanaki growled.
“Nanaki, you're a genius!” Suddenly Percy shouted and hugged him with what Nanaki was stunned with.
Percy turned into cat boy and took Lydia's cameras and shot out of the house.
“Cats!” Nanaki cursed and returned to the fireplace to go back to sleep.
It turned out that Aerith and Cloud had a date on the sly and Percy decided to keep taking all the pictures of them and at the most impossible angles to make it look like they were more "candy" than they really were.
"Good thing I paid attention to Lydia's hobby and her photographs," Percy thought.
In the end, Percy gathered a large, "juicy" material, but then saw that the two of them followed Cait Sith who was acting suspiciously and was carrying the black pyramid!
To the outrage of the two young pair, Cait Sith turned out to be a spy for Shinra and handed over the pyramid to the Turks. Apparently Cait Sith, or rather, whoever operated on Cait Sith by remote control, had Marlene and Aerith's mother in his custody, however, he promised them that he would not harm them, provided they would let him go with them until they found Sephiroth.
Percy left immediately for the house and called out to everyone. When everyone was on the ground floor, Cait came in, along with Cloud and Aerith, the two of them were holding hands.
Tifa was looking at the scene in amazement and was already addressing the couple but Percy stopped her and told them all about Cait Sith's betrayal, without of course ignoring the appointment of Aerith and Cloud.
The whole group started screaming and Cait insisted on staying with the group.
“If you don't believe me, look!” Percy said and gave the photos of the betrayal (and the quote from Cloud and Aerith) to the others who passed them on to each other.
Tifa was dismayed and what made her most angry was that she couldn't decide which of the two things she should be most outraged about, whether it was Cait's betrayal or Cloud's secret date.
In the end, the group reluctantly decided to accept the company of Cait Sith (who refused to tell the true identity of his operator), but they agreed that they would not tell either Barrett or Dyne about it for fear of not knowing how they would react.
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The next day, the friends and Cait Sith went down to the two giants, who, although a little drunk, immediately knew that something was going on by their friends' long faces.
“There was a drama last night," Percy explained to Barrett and Dyne, to the horror of the others. “Look at this! The pictures of the shame, you can imagine what happened next.”
Barrett and Dyne saw the pictures and shook their heads.
“So a date on the sly," said Barrett and everyone breathed easy.
“Can you believe it! Hey Barrett, last night Tifa and Aerith almost hit each other (he was lying), thank goodness I stopped them with my incomparable charisma or would there have been a whole cat fight or should I say cats? You who are her friend couldn't tell Tifa to stop thinking about the chocobo head and look for someone else, someone I don't know.... THAT IS INTERESTED IN HER!” Percy exclaimed, pretending to be angry and pointing his tail at Wedge at the same time.
"This one knows how to lie," thought the other members of the group, looking at the cat boy in a frown, except for Lydia who shook her head.
The group went to the elders' temple and met the wounded Turkish leader at the door and with the black pyramid in his hands. According to him, Sephiroth had wounded him.
Barrett and Dyne wanted to explain why the man had the black pyramid, but Percy, lying, told them that the one they found was a fake and so they threw it away.
“And why did we come to the temple knowing that we did not have the key (black pyramid)?” Dyne asked.
“Lydia had a vision in which we would find the suit guy here with the key,” the cat boy lied quickly with such an innocent face that he made the two giants end up convinced by the lie.
"Damn it, I won't believe him anymore," thought the other members of the group as they looked up at Percy, except for Lydia who continued to shake her head.
Percy badly took the key from the suit guy and then, walking on him and not forgetting to step on his noble parts, he went to the entrance of the temple. With the help of the key, the group was teleported into the temple of the elders.
The whole interior of the temple consisted of complicated labyrinths, traps and puzzles that the group had to solve. It was a good thing that they had a flying cat that could transport them five by five and so they didn't have to waste time, and they skipped all the way.
In the end, they came to a kind of corridor with Egyptian hieroglyphics which explained that the misuse of Black Materia would summon a meteorite that would head to the planet to destroy it.
It was impossible to obtain the Black Materia without sacrificing himself in the process, so Cait volunteered for the job because he was a machine after all. Once the Black Materia was obtained, the group rushed out of the place as the temple began to crumble.
“Why does this always happen, in the movies or in real life!” Percy complained as he transported his friends over and over again as fast as he could.
The group arrived safely outside the temple of the elders thanks to Percy when Cait appeared there.
“My robotic body saved me from being crushed!” Cait Sith said happily, riding on his cat-golem and everyone in the group approached him less Cloud.
Cloud, was watching the Black Materia when suddenly Sephiroth appeared levitating in front of him and asked him to give it to him. The blond man refused at first, but then he began to talk to himself and spastically advanced and handed it to Sephiroth before he fell unconscious.
By the time the group realized it was too late, as Sephiroth vanished into thin air.
“Let's take him to Gongaga.” Wedge suggested. “There's a doctor there who doesn't work for Shinra.”
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When they arrived in Gongaga, the doctor could not explain what was wrong with Cloud, even Tifa told the doctor about the mental gaps and false memories of his friend, but the doctor could not do much.
Tifa offered to take care of Cloud as long as necessary until his friend regained consciousness, how bad Cloud was delirious and kept mentioning Aerith's name.
“Cloud, who are you in love with?” Percy asked an unconscious, delusional Cloud.
“Of.... of Aerith” he answered every time Percy asked him the same question over and over again.
Of course, Percy did not ask him these questions innocently, but took advantage of the fact that he was near Cloud with Tifa behind him, pretending not to notice the presence of the woman.
Tifa glanced sideways at Percy, but made a decision in which she vowed not to lose her temper with a child, she would not allow herself to lose control as she did with Yuffie.
“Cloud, do you love Tifa?” Percy asked and Tifa was stunned.
“No... no, never.” Tifa was stiff from the shock and when she reacted Percy had already slipped away.
Cloud woke up after a couple of days and was distressed to learn that Aerith had gone God knows where.
“I think I know where she might be, among other things," said Cloud and everyone looked at him in surprise.
CONTINUARÁ...
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