Jha’Meia : Lookie. He’s down.
Shi’Iana : Morning, Sephiroth.
D’Brah : How’d your date with Aeris go?
Sephiroth : ( mutters something )
Jha’Meia : Come on, don’t be shy…
Aeris : ( comes into room ) Good morning!
D’Brah : Good morning Aeris!
Aeris : ( turning to Sephiroth ) Good morning Sephiroth.
Sephiroth : ( still mumbling ) Morn’ng. ( heads for kitchen )
Jha’Meia : So… Aeris… how’d it go?
Aeris : What?
Shi’Iana : Your date.
Aeris : Quite well, quite well.
Jha’Meia : (murmuring to Shi’Iana ) Novel answer. Never heard of a more original response. ( In louder tone ) By the by, we were discussing a New Year party, Aeris. Any particular people you want to invite? Cloud and Tifa? Or are they still on their honeymoon?
D’Brah : Come on, FF VII came out two years ago. Whoever heard of a honeymoon lasting two years?
Shi’Iana : Hey, there are some love stories where the honeymoon … ‘lasts a lifetime’.
Laguna : (walking in ) Good morning. I heard something about a New Year do?
Jha’Meia : Anyone from FF VIII you wanna invite?
Laguna : Squall? And ask him to bring along Rinoa?
Jha’Meia : Okay. ( takes out piece of paper and writes names ) The Leonhearts and the Strifes. And?
Laguna : Why don’t you ask Vincent?
Jha’Meia : Okay. ( writes on piece of paper ) Lucrecia. Anyone else?
Shi’Iana : Mell’Esia?
Jha’Meia : As sick as she is of FF VII?
D’Brah : M’Ream?
Jha’Meia : We’ll get along to the real people later. Let’s take care of the fiction characters first.
Vincent : (walking in ) Good morning.
D’Brah : Hi Vincent. We’re going to invite-
Shi’Iana : ( Nudges D’Brah ) Sshhh.
D’Brah : - Some people to our New Year’s party.
Sephiroth : ( clears throat very very loudly )
Jha’Meia : Sephiroth! Anyone you want to invite to the New Year party?
Aeris : ( going into kitchen ) Seph, what’s wrong?
Jha’Meia : ( muttering to D’Brah and Shi’Iana ) I hope you didn’t forget to put up the -
Sephiroth : Who put up those pictures of us on the fridge door?
D’Brah : Don’t worry. We did.
Shi’Iana : Gee… how long is he gonna stare at those pictures?
Sephiroth : ( pulls out masamune ) Oh-kay. ( turns around ) WHO PUT UP THOSE PICTURES ?
Jha’Meia : ( very cheerfully ) We did.
( LOUD CRASH )
( Jha’Meia, Shi’Iana and D’Brah run out of the window )
Jha’Meia : GO GO GO!! LAGUNA! VINCENT! HOLD HIM BACK!!! HOLD HIM BACK HOLD HIM BACK!!!
Aeris : Sephiroth, put the sword down. They didn’t do anything all that bad.
( Laguna and Vincent are doing their best to restrain Sephiroth by the arms )
Laguna : ( effort wearing him down ) We need another person here… IR-VINE!!
Irvine : Yes?
Laguna : Help us hold this one back!!!
Irvine : Okay. Why?
Aeris : ( takes masamune from Sephiroth and sets it aside. ) No harm done, Seph. What would you like for breakfast?
( ELSEWHERE )
( Jha’Meia, D’Brah and Shi’Iana leap behind a bush )
Shi’Iana : ( panting ) Is he close?
D’Brah : ( peeking over bush ) Aeris just took his sword away.
Jha’Meia : Good god, the effect she has on him is worse than I thought.
Shi’Iana : Well, what do you expect? She… she...
D’Brah : She…?
Shi’Iana : ( sighs ) I don’t know. She’s doing something to him!!
Jha’Meia : Is that bad?
Shi’Iana : Did anyone give her manipulate materia or something?
D’Brah : Why would she need manipulate materia?? All she probably needs to do is… smile… and then bat her eyelashes and then…
Jha’Meia : Remind him that he killed her once so he should feel guilty…
Shi’Iana, D’Brah, Jha’Meia : HEH HEH HEH!!
Jha’Meia : Okay, okay, okay, who else?
D’Brah : Who else what?
Shi’Iana : Oh! The New Year do. The Turks!
Jha’Meia : I’m throwing in Rufus.
D’Brah : But… Rufus?!
Jha’Meia : He’s a well-dressed man. Just for deco, you know.
D’Brah : That sounds logical.
Jha’Meia : It is. Heh heh.
Shi’Iana : I hope you haven’t got Irvine on your list.
Jha’Meia : Irvine and Seifer.
Shi’Iana : Seifer?? Why are you inviting him??
D’Brah : Call along Quistis?
Jha’Meia : Yeah, sure.
D’Brah : And Selphie.
Jha’Meia : Why her??
Shi’Iana : Can you imagine any of those girls dancing with Seifer??
Jha’Meia : Can you imagine any of those girls dancing with Reno? Or Rude? Or Rufus? Or Tseng?
D’Brah : I can imagine Aeris dancing with Tseng!
Jha’Meia : Aeris…?
Shi’Iana : So who’s gonna dance with Reno?? Yuffie??
Jha’Meia : Capital idea! Yuffie. ( Writes on paper. )
Shi’Iana : So who’s gonna dance with Elena?
Jha’Meia : Seifer?
Shi’Iana : What??
Jha’Meia : You heard me.
D’Brah : But Elena’s one with the crush on Tseng.
Jha’Meia : So?
Shi’Iana : ( grabs paper from Jha’Meia ) Okay. ( Scribbles ) This is who we’re gonna invite.
D’Brah : Tifa, Cloud, Squall, Rinoa, Yuffie, the Turks and Rufus - yeeeugh - and Reeve.
Jha’Meia : Reeve?
Shi’Iana : He’s a nice guy!
Jha’Meia : Well…
Shi’Iana : And we musn’t forget who to invite for Vincent’s peace of mind.
Jha’Meia : This is gonna be one heck of a New Year Party… But I’m still having Seifer along.
Shi’Iana : ( sighs )