[Treasure Princess Yuffie]

AnT

Knock knock! A nurse taps upon the door to the room Yuffie has more or less barricaded herself inside. "Miss?? ...Did you flood the toilets?" she asked. Yuffie pressed an ear to the door, listening in. "...Yeah?" she hesitantly replies. "Why??" the nurse asks in bewilderment. "Lady you should be thanking me. There were snakes crawling out of them!" Yuffie indignantly replied. "All of them?!" the nurse replied. The camera pans out to reveal both are standing in shin high water. "Yuh-huh! I checked each one. You all have the worst plumbing situation." Yuffie replies. "...We do now." the nurse laments.

...Cut to a few hours of desperate clean up later.

"Miss, the virus is eating your brain. Can we please come in??" the nurse pleads in frustration. "Are you still a zombie?" Yuffie shrewdly asked. "...No." the nurse replies somewhat dryly. "Liar! I can smell you all the way through this door! Barret would kill me if I let you near Marlene! Besides, you're just planning on taking her away again, isn't that right? You can't fool me." Yuffie quickly retorts. Why was she still worried about Barret? Who was Barret? Which set of memories was that name from? The mention of his name sent her into a brief feverish state, grasping her forehead as she tried and failed to process the multiple sets of memories contradicting each other in her mind. She shook them off, not wanting to sink back into an existential stupor. "...Is... Barret someone you would open the door for?" the nurse hesitantly asked. "...Yes." Yuffie reluctantly replied. The nurse leaves for a bit. Yuffie returns to her chair, hopping up onto it to get out of the water.

We really stumbled into one crazy town, huh Marlene? I think this entire place is run by undead. They're weirdly nice, but I still don't trust them. There's no way we aren't on their menu.

Marlene furrows her brows at Yuffie. She can't help but feel Yuffie isn't nearly concerned enough about that brain eating virus thing, but her throat isn't doing too well and it hurts to talk. Plus, she's slightly afraid of what the response might be.

...It's alright. I won't let anything bad happen to you. If they start biting I'll just bite back three times harder! You just stick close to me.

The nurse eventually comes back. "...Miss, nobody named Barret currently stays in the Life Sphere. Is there anyone else we can contact?" she asked. Yuffie's head became cloudy again as an invasive thought came to her. A pretty face, owner of the Seventh Heaven? ...No. Punchy jerk! No--cool strong lady from Radiant Garden! Which memory was hers? Which was the truth?! Who was she?! Yuffie could feel herself dissociating as she got caught up with trying to make sense of all this and had to fight to keep herself focused. It wasn't important. She had a name. That was all she needed. "...Tifa Lockhart." she softly replied.

Not long later, Tifa receives a polite request to come to the hospital. Apparently a patient named Yuffie knows her name and desperately needs to see her. The letter fully explains that the patient is suffering from starvia induced hallucinations and has been very difficult to work with, and that she's in a moderate amount of danger if she doesn't let the hospital help her. They're not sure her body will survive fighting off the virus on it's own. It also mentions she has a small child named Marlene with her.

Upon arriving, Tifa would be lead to the room Yuffie was holed up in by the world's most miserable nurse and invited to knock for herself and try to negotiate her way inside. ...Or just burst in. While Yuffie had made an effort to barricade the door by stuffing chairs in front of it, they probably wouldn't hold up to an assault by Tifa.

Yuffie

[AnT]

She's been exercising ever since she came to this world, for she hadn't had any missions...at least not ones she can remember. And she has no idea where Cloud or Aerith are, she spent her time in the gym, punching bags and costing them so much on them.

That is until her phone rang. Thinking it could be Cloud or Aerith, she picked it up...and was proven wrong, but she was close. But this more serious...

...for another of her friends were finally found...and she's in trouble! She's...

VROOOOOOOM!!!

Without bothering to change, she blasted out of the gym.


And after sometime of racing through the streets, she arrived where Yuffie was, with the nurse leading her there. "Yuffie!" Trying to open the barricaded door, "Why are you...?" There was no time for questions...

WHAM!!

...when she can just punched down the door, smashing whatever barricaded it.

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Tifa
HP: 140
SP: 45
Status:
Punching solves everything

[Treasure Princess Yuffie]

Wham! The door flies open as the chairs and such Yuffie had strategically positioned give way under the force of her punch, one getting smashed against the wall and the other wasn't actually locked because ...well, even if Yuffie had tried, it wasn't like the hospital staff didn't have the key and wouldn't have simply tried unlocking it at some point. The door itself remains at least visually intact, though the chairs probably suffered some damage. Regardless, Yuffie had been sitting on the bed with Marlene. The door opens enough to let Tifa in, startling Yuffie with a sharp yelp. Marlene attempts to scream, but all that comes out is a sickly cough.

Yuffie immediately jumps up onto the bed in alarm when the door flies open immediately loses her footing on the soft surface, clumsily wobbling off balance before tumbling over the back of the bed with a thud and a soft"--Ow!" A moment later, she can be observed reaching back over the bed to yoink Marlene back with her before she can get any ideas, holding the smaller girl to her side with one arm as she peers back over the bed. "...Tifa? You look ... dead." she greets in a deeply unnerved tone, revealing that she was hallucinating Tifa's appearance as well. Thankfully, Marlene did not share these hallucinations. Didn't stop Yuffie from trying to cover her eyes though. You can see Marlene discreetly leaning out to look past Yuffie's hand though.

Yuffie on the other hand actually does look terrible. She's got kind of a dual black eye thing going on, with purple discoloration around the eyes and a couple of streaks of purple veins going down her face. Her eyes were also milky, raising the question of how well she could even see. In general she looked kinda pale. A bit weak. Scrawnier than usual. Bruised up fingers. But in spite of all that, she gives Tifa a nervous smile while reaching for the window. You can tell she's thinking about fleeing. She's on like, the third floor too, so she's clearly desperate. She doesn't quite go for it immediately though, standing up to address Tifa. Tifa can see Marlene reaching out to her. Marlene kinda mouths something at her, but a cough is all that comes out. She doesn't really seem to be fighting to get away from Yuffie though. She more just seems... concerned with what's going on.

...So! I found Marlene. A while back actually... I'm sure she'd love to say hello, but she has a really bad cough that stole her voice away. But ... other than that we've been doing okay. I was kind of hoping to get her care here, but um ... does a hospital run by dead people strike you as kind of weird..? No offense, but I don't think Barret will forgive me if I let us get zombified.

Yuffie

[Tifa Lockhart]

When she hurried to see Yuffie, she did not expect for Marlene to be here too! And she rather the young girl wasn't in this world, even though she survived living in Midgar. But Barret isn't here to take care of her, especially in the condition Yuffie says she is...assuming what she said is true...

...because Yuffie looks terrible! Just what happened that caused her to be like this? And she sounds like she's talking crazy, which makes the situation difficult. If she handles this wrong, Yuffie could react wildly. "Uh...Yuffie? Trust me, everything is okay. We'll take so you can get some rest." Kneeling down, worryingly looking at the little girl. "Marlene? Can...you...?" Sighing, knowing that Yuffie covering her eyes isn't going to help, "Yuffie, you can uncover her eyes now."

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Tifa
HP: 140
SP: 45
Status:
Trying to handle this

delicately

[Treasure Princess Yuffie]

Yuffie hesitates. There was a point in time where she wouldn't have. It would have been very easy to just fight her way out of any problem and remain in control so that nothing truly bad happened. Or at least, that's how she usually thought of things. But ... she'd developed a bond with Marlene during their time together, and the thought of how upset Marlene would be if she picked a fight with Tifa right in front of her. Was she really prepared to traumatize this poor girl just to protect herself? She... kind of wasn't. It was a weird feeling, but for basically the first time in her life she was actually considering surrender!

...Yuiffie hesitantly uncovers Marlene's eyes to see her reaction. She then observes that Marlene isn't scared of Tifa. Maybe... something really was wrong with her own eyes. Or her brain. That thought was kind of scary. Both of them really. "...Oookay Tifa. I trust you." Yuffie relents, releasing Marlene who quickly runs up to hug Tifa in greeting. Marlene gestures at her mouth and traces a line along her mouth and throat, using charades to communicate she couldn't talk. Yuffie then placed her hand on her hip, leveling a finger at Tifa and and flashing a toothy smile. "But if you eat me, I'm drawing graffiti in your tum!" she mock threatens with a straight face.

A moment later she drops her hand and lowers her guard, turning away slightly and looking to the wall. She seems overtly nervous, but she's deliberately making herself vulnerable to Tifa. "...You're not gonna leave me here alone with nurse zombie are you?" she asked. She had said she trusted Tifa. ...Not anyone else. Frankly it was really hard to trust a stranger that looked like a zombie! No matter how good their bedside manner was.

Yuffie

[Tifa Lockhart]

That...that was a big relief. Fighting in this bit of an enclosed room with Marline here would be disastrous. Whatever happened to Yuffie to have her acting like this was defiantly something she needed to be in the hospital. Or at least maybe have her rest. But then again, she needed to know what is wrong with her. The least she can do is stay and make sure Marlene is safe.

But eating her? Zombies? Yuffie was always the quirky girl, but never like this. "They're...not zombies, Yuffie, but they need to see if...you're perfectly healthy. But I'm not going anywhere. I'll stay and keep an eye on Marlene." Yea, Yuffie never trusted adults that much, not since her father disappointed her after the war, but again, she needs to be checked up on.

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Tifa
HP: 140
SP: 45
Status:
Trying to handle this

delicately, still