-Chapter 2-
Author's Note: This chapter we get more of Cloud's perspective to the events on the beach. Hope you enjoy and please review!
She would hum to her melody that stroked your ears like fine silk. She would dress in a long fancy pink dress and a short red denim jacket. Her long brown hair would hand to the bottom of her back braided and in a pink bow. Her face was charming with alluring jade eyes that glittered to in the scorching sun. She would pick orchids, lilies and more from her garden and across the land. However, her life was captured by terror and fear. Never-ending danger shadowed the young woman because of something she didn't fully understand. Cloud studied her in ore like it was the first time he found himself in her acquaintance. Her smile was lush and perfect as she turned towards his view. Her stomach was a vile blood bath. A long magnificent sword stuck through twisting round in circular motions to really finish the job. Her smile turned to sorrow and her eyes swelled up. Cloud's heart-felt like it was going to implode from within his chest as she fell to the floor with the sword removed.
A man with silver long hair stood over her wearing a raven coloured cape. His vicious nature, Sephiroth. Everything went white.
The blonde spiked hair hero tumbled out of the light gateway and onto the friable beach below. Beside him his close friend Barrett, equipped with a dexterous mechanic gun to his arm wiped the sand from the depths of his eyes. The woman with raven like hair and hazel eyes, Cloud's child hood friend, Tifa, mirrored Barretts action. Cloud glanced up from the sand and saw a prodigious tidal wave advancing on their position. Cloud jerked to his feet and led the race to shelter behind a levelled chunk of land. With crashing impact, the wave annihilated the sea in a watery abyss as the excess water turned to the air causing a heavy downfall. Fiends piled out off the vortex that was still going strong in near the sea and then, came Sephiroth. Cloud's animosity built up in his bones. How could he be alive? Barrett gripped him tightly by the shoulder. Now wasn't the time. Tifa gasped at the sea creature that splashed around in the sea that seemed to be leaving the scene. It's body was drab and it's scales silvered. Sephiroth inspected the area with a quick look round. A ravishing grin appeared on his face. A new world, a new place for Jenova. He walked languidly to the sea and kept going. His feet walked across the blue water and he increased his pace, zooming to catch up with Sin.
Suddenly, the vortex closed and fiends invaded the beach remains. Cloud, Tifa and Barrett departed from their safe spot and bared their weapons for battle. Yuna and Tidus came into view on the opposite side of the beach. Cloud squinted to try and make out the ambiguous figures. "Looks like there are survivors," Cloud pointed out the obvious. "Hey, he kinda looks like you a bit? With the hair and that," Barrett winded Cloud up. A small dog like creature jumped at Cloud. Easy mistake. Cloud raised his fascinating buster sword and sliced it clean in two. Tifa sprinted to an identical one and threw it on the ground and pelted it several times with impactful kicks. Barrett shot at a flying bird that got to close for comfort.
"There's someone over there," Yuna pointed out to Tidus as the two stood back to back. Yuna with her double pistols, Tidus with his aqua blue sword. "Yeah, we should make our way to talk to them," Tidus impaled an upcoming Mafdet that had outer shells that were tough, but it's center was weak and easy to reach. Yuna unleashed a trigger happy combo on a red larva and set it crashing to the ground and returning to the Farplane. The two made their way forward to combat a new set of fiends. Yuna potshooted an Iguion which was a serpent like creature that was best suited to the cold weather, so it wasn't up to it's usual standard. Tidus tackled a Garm which he took a successful insert cut across it's face causing it to whine in pain and begin it's future endeavors in the afterlife. "Hey! Over here!" Tidus called out waving a hand like a maniac in the air. Yuna eliminated the last fiend on the beach with a quick shot to the abdomen. The three newcomers walked up to them, looking them up and down. "Hi, we're Cloud, Tifa and Barrett," Cloud announced as he pulled a face at Tidus' resemblance to him. Tidus shrugged it off. "We're Tidus and Yuna,say, were's you guys come from? You came out of the thing in mid air," Tidus wanted answers. Tifa looked at Yuna with a horrified expression. If Tifa wore what Yuna wore in her hometown of Nibelheim, she would of been arrested. "We were just inspecting a Mako incident and, BAM! We got sucked up here," Barrett scratched his head. "So you weren't sent then?" Yuna asked as the trio gave her puzzled looks. "Sent, it means you fulfilled your life in this world," "Nope, we don;t actually know where we are," Tifa answered glancing around at Besaids beauty. "We do however recognise one thing," Cloud started as his sight trailed off to the sea. "Sephiroth," his blood boiled at what the man had done to his life. "Who's Sephiroth?" Tidus tried to follow Clouds sight. "You mean that silver haired guy, looking a big menacing?" Cloud nodded. "That creature in the sea, it was Sin, it's impossible," Yuna stamped her feet. "We defeated Sin 3 years ago, how can he come back now?" "You killed that thing?" Tifa raised an eyebrow. "That thing's huge!" Yuna gave a brief smile of triumph. "This is all a bit complicated," Cloud admitted. "Is there somewhere we can talk? I want to hear more about this...Sin,"
Besaid village was in a period of panic. Crusades resembled their forces ready to march once again for the people of Spira. Temple's people scurried into the church to pray to Yevon for their sin's. Lulu and Wakka worried sick for the safety and well being of their one year old daughter, Lightning. Tidus, Yuna, Tifa, Cloud and Barrett walked in. A horde of the village people enveloped round Yuna. "Lady summoner!" one shouted clenching his hands together to plead. "Help us high summoner Yuna!" another shrieked and burst into tears. Yuna bit her bottom lip. She didn't know what to say. No one anticipated Sin to return. Quite frankly,
everyone had completely forgotten about it. However, everyone's attention turned to the three that were with the blitzball superstar and the famous summoner. "Lady summoner? Who are these people?" an old man questioned her. "These are people that have come to help,they are good people, please treat them how you would treat anyone else," she painted a smile on her lips as she tried to squeeze through the crowd to get to Lulu and Wakka. Lulu's face was filled with distraught. Yuna could be read like a book. Her initial reaction was to just reach out and pull her in for a tight hug. But Yuna wasn't the same 17-year-old summoner she once was. She had matured to an accomplished woman. This could send it all back to the beginning.