Between these two slums is an upturned road and broken construction equiptment. Apparently they tried construction through here and it either failed from an earthquake, they quit, or the monster damage was way too heavy. Take precaution and don't trip.

Kiwi was so lost. Sooo so lost... And this area lacked so many people, was so torn up and mangled, that he was naturally scared. Afterall, wouldn't you be? I mean, come on. He's only 13 years old and it's his first time in Midgar, all ALONE. Only commonsense.

Oh sure, he started off in Sector02, looking for the 03 gate. But there was some huge, HUGE thug guy chasing after him. Muscles over muscles! Kiwi didn't know what pulp was, but that guy would definately make him into some if he was caught. So he raced towards what he thought was the gate, to get stopped by guards! They thought he stole something and took out the time to search him over! But even then wouldn't let him through. So now... Now... To get to sector03 he had to go through this area.

Of course, it wasn't as if the guards intended for him to take them so seriously. They treated going this way as some big joke. Damn Kiwi's innocence!

So here we go, a young boy - who looks far younger than he is - traveling through an area of torn up roads and trash strewn about. Scared. Cause the boy knew by now that he was being followed still. By the thug? By other scary people? How should he know???

A shadow followed the Wutaiian kid. But it wasn't his own. Stalking up close. Dragged behind Kiwi as his traversing became more and more lame. Kiwi was practically crying now.

And just then he did something that only a white person in a horror movie would do. He tripped and fell, tumbling down from a cliff of upturned road, rolling down a hill, and landing onto his back in some trash - hitting head pretty hard.. "Itee... Ah"

Poor kiwi looked up just then to see what was following him. A bulky dog-like animal. Except blades were extending from it in weird angles and it had a scorpian tail of metal. It's front legs were also cyborg in natura. And beyond all this, it looked at Kiwi hungrilly.

The monster howled and lunged down towards the young teen to finish him off!

Lathian's attemps to recruit people have been feeble. People laughing at his face, others disgusted by the act of rebellion. " Deal with the change!! It's futile!! "

" Hell no!! I will not accept this change! " He thought in his mind.

Just then, Laithian noticed a commotion of sorts. He couldnt tell what was going on, but he did notice that there was this horrifying monster, as if he was stalking some....at that moment he noticed that the monster was about to feast on a little boy who was terrified.

" Oh crap!! That kid needs help!! Hang on kid!! " Laithian unsheates his dazzling runic blade, and it makes the typical blade sound. The sword beamed with brilliance as it was taken out of it's slumber. As if the sun touched it for a brief moment.

" Hang on kid, i'm coming!! " He dashes to the kid's aid, hoping he will make it on time.

"DADDY!" Kiwi cried out, which is kinda pathetic if you think about it. Not only cause it degrades his actual age at the present yearage, but it also degrades his outer pride considerably. Oh well, at least he's not crying to his mommy. He put his arms infront of him, like this would somehow stop the monster.

Of course, he called that word out AFTER Lat called out to him. Sorta like a meak weenie response that a kid would give after some preamble towards being eaten by a giant cyborg scorpian wolf.

The dog... Didn't take it's eyes off the kid, unfortunately. Staring with it's big slitted red eyes towards Kiwi's tiny, terrified pupils..

It was only JUST when Lat got close that the dog looked up and, instead of impaling Kiwi on it's tail to flood him full of toxic poisons, the monster simply landed on the kid with claws extended. Which didn't only knock the air out of the boy, but also knocked his head against the trash behind it... And on the side gave his body a few new holes around the chest area with those large claws.

The massive critter froze from nearly taking Kiwi's green-highlit head off to instead bare it's teeth at the guy who decided to enter the scene and challange it's meal.

Laithian taking the long way, due to not wanting to deal with those retarded Shinra guards, finally made his way to the wounded boy. The lad was badly punctured by the beast's claws. Grasping his runic blade with his right hand, Laithian is ready dish out some serious punishment.

" Ok you piece of scrap metal. How about you pick on someone your own size and skill?!! Be careful though....you might not make it out of this one alive. "

With that Laithian stand his a side sword holding stance, with elegance and poise. With his left hand, he signals to the beast to make the first move.

" Come on you beast, accept your fate and let's get this over with already!! "

Alright, that sure got the monster interested. Though Kiwi's whimpering and crying was definately tempting. Even so, it was either finish the kid off and have this human thing take it away, or finish off the human thing and get 2 meals.

Mind made up, the cyborg dog monster steps away from the kid - shaking his sharp paw to detatch Kiwi from it in a harsh manner - and turns fully towards Laith.

After that, it just rattled uncontrollably, took a deep breath, and spewed out a cloud of poison material towards the guy with the weapon. Presumably charging forwards through the cloud after this for some random attempted strike with foreclaws.

Kiwi... Laid there. Scared shitless.

Laith caught a whiff of the poisonous cloud, and almost instantly it began to burn his chest.

" UNNNNGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! Damnit!!!! "

The beast caught him off guard and got a good claw on his arm, giving him a nice little scratch on his left arm. Blood dripping off his arm and trickling on the floor.

Laith was infuriated, and reached a whole new level of rage. His face red with anger. He couldnt believe that he dropped his guard so easy, and that he was hit. He hadnt been hit in a long time.


" AHHHHHHH!!! You piece of sh*t!!!!! You're going down now!!!!!! "

He grasped his runic blade with both hands and felt the power surging through his arms.

" You're done for now, you little bastard. "

Both of them running toward each other at full speed. Both the beast and Laith get a blow in. And in dramatic fashion like in those action flicks where born have their backs turned waiting for the other to fall. Laith had a scratch on his torso, but soon after they stopped the beast halted in his tracks, and suddenly his robotic head was lopped off and green oil pulsated from his neck. Laithian kneeling to the floor to rest who is in obvious pain, and the poison is eating at his inner chest.

The monster let out his wicked scream that shrieked over the area, echoing a bit. A few seconds later and a small piece of trash rolled down a hill a ways away. Kiwi laid there and breathed, tears staining his face, his chest a little bloody - but intact. It was quiet, too quiet. Way too quiet. Well, with exception of the quiet stream of voices from the slums not too far off this long distance.

Finally, after what seemed like eons, the kid slowly got up. Shaking like a leaf, sniffling. Too afraid to even touch his chest incase he finds his fingers inside of it. He knows there's blood there, but how deep are the wounds? The only two things keeping his little fragile mind off the true extent of the monster's mere presense were a pinch of adrenalin and a tankard of shock.

He looked over towards the dead monster. Still terrified that it was going to jump up all headless and eat him somehow. Kiwi saw the guy there and changed his mode.

Running over, Kiwi cried out, "Don't Die!!" Almost as if pleading was going to save Laith's life miraculously.

Looking at the terrified kid, Laith is battling to stay conscious.

" You ok kid? * slightly panting and holding his chest * NNNGGGG! My chest is burning! "

Laith clutching his chest in pain, and blood still trickling down his arm. Not having any antidotes of any sort on him, he turns to the kid he saved, still trembling and crying.

" You wouldnt happen to have any antidote of sort on you, would ya kid? I'm kinda dying here. "

As if on cue, he falls on his back and still battling to stay conscious.

" Well at least you are alive....got some gnarly holes on you, but you're safe. You'll live. Damn, bastard just had to be poisonous! UGGGHHHHH!! "


Laith was fighting for his life, and losing the battle fast.

Zane stumbled into the broken and shattered ruins between the sectors in time to hear the heart-shattering scream of death from the cyborg. Shit.
He hated monsters, but that sure sounded like a dying one. His mind was drawn to the kid. Damn. No way he could kill anything like that. It's some other suicidal adventurer out killing things for the hell of it. Idiots..

Still, he picked his way over the heaps of rubble. After a 20 minutes of hard labor, he clambered over the junk into a crevasse with an oil and ichor -soaked dead monster body, and to his dismay, a seemingly freshly dead human corpse. He hoped not. He stumbled down in a hurry, and saw, as another hill shifted perspective, his young monster-bait quarry. What a day...

"Hey kid! I found ya!" He said in a rush as he slides to a stop. With a heavy breath he sits down. So the guy wasn't dead after all. Just seems about it. And I'm fresh out of potions. That kid's got some new decorations, but they're not bleeding bad. That guy's not in good shape though.

"Hey, wait a tick!" Rivek calls after Zane as the man heads far into the ruins between sectors. Just great. Guess I'll follow after, and see if the kid's there -- and that this guy doesn't get killed. He follows into the wreckage, and it's not too long before he hears the familiar sound of a monster's death cry.

"Oh, you've got to be..." Didn't think the kid was armed. So that leaves, who? With not much time left to guess, he heads on, silently, working his way through the debris with a bit more confidence than Zane. It's not long before he's caught up, and right beside the dead monster and wounded humans.

He looks both people over, and decides talking about wounds or toxins would be a major faux pas. "So, that's the kid you were talking about. But who's this?" he asks, pointing to the prone man who smelled of poison. Whoever he is, we need him out of here, now. He won't survive with whatever that thing gave him, not without help. He kneels beside the stranger to get a closer look.

Zane watched as the merchant approached, faster than he had. He didn't know how he'd deal with the new guy. The one who saved the kid without any real regard for his own health. He'd call him an idiot in any other situation, but now, it really was very heroic.

Zane responds to the question after a moment "I dunno. I guess he's the one that saved this kid's life. At least he's safe. But this guy.. I guess we'll have to drag him to the clinic, huh?"

His arm wasn't that badly hurt, he could do it. But he'd just about had enough of this day already. He'd like to go someplace safe. But he wasn't that much of a coward. Carry him it is...

Kiwi was still trembling and scared out of his wits. After all, he was use to seeing regular animals. Wolves, birds, giant lizards, not monsters like THAT! Not to mention that it just cut him open, hurt the person who saved him, and is still dead on the ground Right Over There. So yeah, Kiwi was pretty damn scared.

"Wha.. What in the world was THAT!?" Kid's first question when passing by Mr B. Headed over there. Laith asked him about an antidote. Something was still wrong with Laith? "Antidote? ACK! Um um..." Kiwi now panicked. He was all alone with a guy who was poisoned and still dieing..

But the fact that more people showed up, including the cool guy that helped him back in sector 01 and 02, calmed him down just marginally towards how he was going to help his new savior. Kiwi looked pleading towards Zane - then the new guy. Back to Laith. No, Kiwi had to help Laith.

"I. It attacked me. And tried to eat me. Then he helped me and.." Kiwi made up his mind. He had to help! So the kid ran forwards, past Laith, and towards the other exit (which was now in site). Turning back towards the three, "I'm gunna get an antidote! He needs one!"

He thereafter quickly bolts off in that direction.

On the other direction, two more creatures trailed behind Riv. They were farther away than the first, but their scorpiowolven howls sure sounded up close and personal.

"Be careful out there," Rivek says to the kid as he runs off, though he probably wasn't heard. What did that kid think he was doing running off on his own like that, anyway? He must be nuts.

It's about that moment he hears another familiar sound, from behind him. And this one's not as welcome as the last. "Oh, just great. Let's just get him out of here, shall we?" Scanning over the rubble, he finds a busted piece of fence with two steel posts, just the right size for a makeshift stretcher. "Ah, this should do! We'll just take this, get him on it, and..."

As he lay on the floor drifting in between conscious and unconsciousness, Laith wondered if this was it for him. The poison was ripping at his insides like a diamond cut sword, that was crafted in the bowels of the hottest volcano on Earth. His tolerance for pain was nearing it's peak point and he did not know how much pain he could bear, let alone his body. Slowly but surely, he was losing his feel of his arms and legs.

" Is this the....end for me?...Am I done for?....Dammit this hurts so much!!!! "

He lay there helpless as the poison traveled through his body. Slowly but surely agonizing his existence.

Zane nodded and looked at the mumbling would-be hero and rolled him carefully onto the piece of refuse fencing, carefully. He didn't seem to have any cuts, just poisoning. It was enough just to be poisoned!

He looked worryingly towards their pair of visitors. "This'll be close.. He looks like he didn't get scratched or clawed, just poisoned. We better hurry if we want to avoid THOSE two over there."

Zane knelt to grab the makeshift stretcher poles. It better not be too late..

The cyborgian scorpian wolves grunted a few huffs to eachother than went redeyed with fury. They both shivered uncontrollably like a bad car trying to start up. Before racing towards the two. Give or take a minute before they get through the trash to them.

Don't talk about the monsters, just remember they're there. Don't talk about the monsters... Repeating that thought in his head, Rivek kneels and reaches down to his side of the stretcher. "Okay? 2... 1... Up!" With that, he stands up, lifting the stretcher up with him. As soon as Zane's set, he'll start moving, and try to guide the group to the quickest route back, if he can find it.

All the while, he knows those two scorpion-wolf-things are coming in quick. He'll know when to give the warning.

Zane lifted on his count, his half lifting somewhat easily. At least it isn't as heavy as I thought it'd be., he thinks absently as he starts to get a good pace going. At least put some space between us and them.. It's no use to blabber about the monsters now, though.

The sector 03 entrance wasn't too far. It'd take a bit of time, and they'd probably be better off staying out of view. He wasn't really steering though, just following Ravik's lead.

Laith feels that he's being transported by some people, but he's too much in pain to notice. One thing he did hear was the sound of scorpion wolves making their way towards them, due to their howls.

* The wolves are quick on the humans tracks, as if they know someone was wounded, and the smell of blood is in the air. Both of them are communicating through barks and howls. As they make it closer, they suddenly are backtracked when a slide of rocks falls from a steep hill and pummel them to a corner, slowing their progress significantly. *

Laith is still battling for his life, as the poison shows no mercy for his body.

" Yep, i'm a goner....there's no doubt about it...."

Rivek takes the front, guiding them towards the exit quickly, all the while listening for the beasts behind them. The clatter of rocks falling makes him smile. That should give us a little more time. They're making pretty good progress, but somehow he doubts they'll be able to make it all the way out. For speed, four legs always beat two.

And right from here, then we should almost be able to make out the neon glow over the hills... Even with wolves at their heels, he resists the urge to move much quicker, knowing if he did at least one of them would trip on something.

Zane hears the tumble, and lets out an almost imperceptible sigh of relief. Not out of the woods yet, but the light of day's just over that hill... He thinks, hoping that the labored breathing of their new companion doesn't stop. I don't know who you are, but you better not die!

The glow of mako lights grow slightly brighter as the exit draws near, and Zane resists his urge to dash forward. I might be fast enough to get away, but they won't be.

The pain that Laith was feeling at this point was entirely too great, and unconsciousness sets in after battling for a long while. His body numb from the poison, but his inners very much in pain.

The wolves's progress was regressed dramatically with the rocks falling from the hill, and the slide injured one of them fairly great. His speed has noticeably diminished.

Laith is starting to have hallucinogenic dream in his mind, must be from the toxins running rampant in his body.

Keep moving keep moving... That's pretty much all there is to this, now. Just keep moving as quick as you can and...

He keeps listening for the wolves, and while they're a ways back, there's something else he hears. Or rather, doesn't hear. The stranger they're carrying seems to be out cold. "Come on, just keep breathing..." They have to keep moving, especially now that the lights of the city are just moments away.

Zane feels a moment of relief flood over him. He doesn't notice how close Laith is by hearing, but doesn't stop still..C'mon, looks like that kid'll need to get us an antidote after all. That is, if we want this guy to live to get to the clinic

They pass through the gate, but don't stop. The streets' pavement is even now, so there's nothing to slow them down anymore.