A crowd rushes through the town circle startling Cloud. Kids rush towards him almost knocking him down.

"Hey, watch where your going!" He yells as he re-centers the straw hat on his head.

"Well, what are you doing just standing there! Didn't you hear, they are going to hang Eloia!" One of them says. The boy towers over two other kids by his side with a annoyed look on his face. Clouds eyes widen.

"Eloia, Right.. I was looking for her, where is she?" He says.

"Follow the crowd dummy!" A short shy voice approaches from a small girl hiding behind the tall kids leg. She peaks over at Cloud as he ponders deeply with one hand tapping his chin.

"Ah, I know! I'll follow the crowd!" He exclaims.

The three kids standing before him all look at each other in confusion.

"Who are you anyways, we've never seen you around here." A boy with fuzzy patches of hair on his head approaches Cloud, he crosses his hands across his chest giving him an intimidating look.

"I'm Cloud.." He looks over at the crowd disappearing into the distance and he brings his attention back to the children in front of him.

"-Lucas! Alana! We have to go save her before they finish her off!" The tallest kid grabs the two that were with him and run off.

"Wait, i'm coming too!" Cloud quickly turns the bottom half of his body into wind. As he passes by the kids, he tosses Alana onto his back and grabs Lucas and the other boy by his hands catching up behind the crowd. They all look back at Cloud in horror.

Before they know it they are standing in a large crowd of people and Eloia is seen at the top of a platform. Cloud notices her kneck tied to a pole while her body is surrounded by barbed wires. She looks unconcious. A man steps forward onto the platform and stares down at the crowd with a sinister look on his face. Cloud instantly recoginizes him.

"I'm coming Eloia!" The un-named boy shouts as he releases Clouds grip from him and pushes through the crowd.

"Tony, wait!" Lucas runs after him. Cloud reaches out towards him but it is too late and they are gone. He gives a stern look at Alana, a warning not to run off and she quietly sits on his back hiding her eyes from him. He sighs.

"Eloia has done a lot for us.." She struggles to speak.

"I know, it seems like she can be cold and heartless... but she is one of the kindest people I've ever met. Before her.. this town.. was horror.." She starts to cry and wipes her nose on Clouds back.

"We were abandoned here by our parents, none of us knew each other, but because of Eloia.. me, Lucas and Tony, we've found a family within one another! We've always planned to pay her back, she gives us food, change, everything we need without us asking for her it, she hardly says a word to us, but we know.. she's a good person at heart." She starts bawling her eyes out.

"That's why, we will save her! We don't care what happens to us as long as she's okay! Without her we might aswell be dead!"

Cloud places Alana on the ground and places his straw hat onto her.

"Hold that for me." He gives her a cheerful smile.

"I'm going to bring all of them back in one piece." He says.

Alana gazes up towards Cloud noticing the feeling of peace his presence emitts. She felt nothing but trust.