FINAL FANTASY VII

THE KALM REBELLION

Chapter Two

Sephiroth narrowed his eyes as a tingle worked its way along the back of his neck. He had felt many such tingles in the past, and they always brought danger. Zack must have noticed it to because he suddenly stopped singing the numa numa

song. That was good as it meant Sephiroth no longer had any reason to kill him. Suddenly a bright green light surrounded the truck along with a horrible screeching noise. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!???" Zack shouted as he stomped down on the breaks bringing the truck to a complete stop. An ominous low groaning sound came from the green mist that surrounded them.

"Get out of the truck slowly, and take your weapon out with you." Sephiroth said calmly opening the door on his side of the truck. He stepped out with the Masamune in his left hand. Zack came out holding the Buster sword in his right hand.

Zack began to speak, but Sephiroth gave the SOLDIER hand signal for silence. He carefully scanned the mist for any threats that might be lurking.

"You will protect." Came a voice. Sephiroth narrowed his eyes looking around for the source of the voice. "You will journey into the future and protect, you will right the wrongs of your existence." The voice said again.

"Who are you and what are you talking about!?" Sephiroth shouted outwards. No anwser came forth, instead the mist faded to reveal there surroundings. Sephiroth looked around quickly taking in the new area. It was obviously night time, and he was standing on a long beach, and the temerature was about sixty degrees. The next thing he noticed was a complete lack of Zack. For a moment Sephiroth considered celebrating, but ultimately decided against it.

"SEPHIROTH!!!!!!!!!!!" Came a feirce cry from the left. Sephiroth whirled towards a town made of golden colored buildings and stairs leading off the beach. He realized that this must be Costa Del Sol. However he had no time to think on how he

got here, as flying through the air at him was a man with spiky blond hair, Mako blue eyes, a SOLDIER uniform that was missing the right shoulder gaurd, and was weilding the Buster sword. How this man had gotten it Sephiroth had no idea, Zack would never willingly give that sword away. Sephiroth jumped backwards into the air as the massive blade slammed into the ground where he had been only a second ago, two-thirds of the blade sank into the sand as a result of the power

behind the blow.

"Mistake." Sephiroth muttered, then shifted his weight in the air to carry him towards the man who suddenly ripped his sword free of the sand swinging upwards forcing Sephiroth to shift the Masamune into a defensive stance in mid-air.

Whoever this person was, he was stronger than most SOLDIERs that Sephiroth knew. Sephiroth twisted as his feet struck the ground and easily turned aside the incoming slash, then shifted onto the offensive knocking his attacker across the beach, sending him crashing into the wall that seperated the beach from the town. "Who are you?" Sephiroth asked calmly.

"Its me, Cloud, THE MAN WHOSE LIFE YOU RUINED!!!!!" Cloud roared, then a Materia orb in his blade shimmered with building magic. Sephiroth dashed to the side as a bolt of lightning hurled out of the air at him and exploded on impact with

the ground sending a spray of sand outwards.

"This grows tiresome." Sephiroth commented to himself, then swung Masamune upwards as Cloud came flying through the dust cloud still surrounding him. Cloud cried out as the long thin sword caught him in the side launching him several

feet backwards, where he crashed onto the sandy ground and slid to a stop. Sephiroth lowered his blade and calmly said "Surrender now and i wo'nt have to kill you." He said this with a certain note of finality, signalling that he would not give his opponent another chance. He ignored the cool breeze as Cloud dragged himself to his feet, using his sword as a crutch.

"Screw you!" Cloud declared hatefully. Sephiroth found himself wondering what he had done to earn Cloud's hate.

"Cloud!!" Came a womans voice, causing Sephiroth to turn towards a large man with a gattling gun for an arm. He was massive, covered in bulging muscles that looked to big to be real. He wore dark green pants and a dark green vest and had dark skin.

Then was a thin looking young woman with an asian complexion and a four-pointed shuriken that was huge. She wore a green turtle-neck shirt and short shorts that were tan colored.

Then came a red feline creature with one eye, and a small flame on the end of its tail.

Next to that was a well endowed woman with wine colored eyes, long brown hair. she was wearing a pair of spiked gloves, a white tank top, and a black leather mini-skirt.

Then came the woman who had spoken. A woman with striking green eyes, and brown hair tied back with a pink ribbon. She wore brown boots, a pink dress, and a red vest. She was casting a spell.

Sephiroth turned his eyes back to Cloud as a green light surrounded him healing his wounds. He raised his sword once more and cast a thankful glance at the new arrivals, all of whom shifted glaring eyes filled with determination upon him.

"I would like to know why you are attacking me, now." Sephiroth declared in a cold menacing tone.

"WHY THE HELL DO YOU THINK!?!? AFTER WHAT YOU"VE DONE HOW COULD WE NOT ATTACK YOU!?!?" The woman with the mini-skirt screamed at him.

"Ah, you must be Wutai sympathizers. I assure you i had nothing to do with that attack." Sephiroth informed simply. It made sense really, that a bunch of Wutai supporters would assume that he had been behind the attack on that nameless

villiage. But he found his confidence slipping when he saw confusion in there faces, and rage building in Cloud's face.

"What are you talking about, i was there!! I watched you burn Nibelheim!!" Cloud roared in fury. Sephiroth frowned in confusion. When had he burned Nibelheim exactly. He thought back on what the voice had said about travelling to the future.

Maybe it had told the truth, and he had burned Nibelheim in the future and these people were trying to avenge it. This was getting just a little confusing.

"I'm afraid i have no idea what your talking about." Sephiroth said carefully, trying not to ignite Cloud's anger. Something about the way Cloud leapt at him with sword held in attack position told Sephiroth that he had failed. It looked like things

could get ugly.

Sephiroth dodged to the side with an intended counter-attack, but was forced to retreat further by a barage of gunfire from the large man. He twisted the Masamune around swiping at Cloud who jumped into the air with a feirce yell bringing his sword down on Sephiroth's head, only for Sephiroth to knock him backwards. Then he dodged a fireball from the skirt lady, and ducked a charge from the feline, which he recognized as one of the defenders of Cosmo Canyon.

He had encountered such creatures before and held a certain respect for them. The only one who did'nt attack was the lady in pink, who had a deep look of concentration on her face. Sephiroth filed this fact away in the back of his head for future reference, and swat the lady with the large shuriken away with the flat of the Masamune sending her flying into the large man who was lining up for another barrage of bullets.

"STOP MESSING AROUND SEPHIROTH!!!!!" Cloud roared as he almost seemed to fly at Sephiroth, bringing his blade throug a wide deadly ark, which Sephiroth blocked on borderline effortless.

"Stand down, or i will have no choice but to strike you all down!" Sephiroth declared as he jumped backwards away from the group. None of his attackers showed any sign of stopping their attacks, so Sephiroth called on the power of his earth

Materia, sending a Quake 3 spell moving through the ground at the whole group. The beach under their feet exploded upwards in sharp jutting spikes of rock tearing into them and launching them into the air. The lady in pink twirled her staff suddenly sending a wave of energy over the whole group, completely healing them and refreshing them.

Sephiroth frowned as he realized that this could be somewhat more difficult than he had thought. He felt his exit Materia, which allowed teleportation, and vanished in a flash of light.

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Zack looked around trying to find his way through the fog in which he found himself. "Where the hell am i?" He wondered out loud in an impatient tone. He found himself growing more frustrated by the second. He wanted out of this fog and back into a

place where he could find his way around.

Suddenly an eerily familiar voice came from off to the left saying "I will not allow you to interfere."

"Sephiroth, is that you?!" Zack called out. The only response he received was a whistling sound through the air from the right. Zack swung the Buster sword around deflecting the thin blade that was racing for his head. He turned as he heard the

sound of flapping leather moving off behind him, then blocked another blindingly fast thrust of the thin katana like sword whose owner Zack could not see through the fog. He quickly dodged to the left as he heard his attacker moving for his right. Realizing that his eyes could do nothing but get in his way in this fog, he closed them while raising his blade over his chest. This time the force of the blow knocked him backwards about a dozen feet, but he quickly rolled back to his feet.

"Your presence can not be tolerated." The voice said in an evil tone. Zack rolled to the side as an unseen blade swished through the air, missing by a hair.

"Damnit, i can't keep this up for long." Zack hissed to himself quietly, then raised his sword upward to block another incoming slash, the force of which knocked him from his feet. He quickly flipped back to his feet growling under his breath as

another swipe of the sword put a small cut into his shirt. "That was to close for comfort!" Zack exclaimed, wishing that he knew where his enemy was attacking from so he could attack instead being forced onto the defensive.

It was very frustrating. The next hit came closer than just a cut in his shirt, the sword tore into Zack's stomache sending him flying onto the ground with a cry of pain. Zack glared up into the fog, and gasped in horror as Sephiroth emerged from the fog with a cruel smirk on his face. Then everything went black for Zack.

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AVALANCHE sat around Cloud's hotel room. Cloud had called a meeting after Sephiroth had vanished. "All right, now we have an idea of what Sephiroth is capable of. As you have all seen, Sephiroth is far beyond any of us, so i do'nt think i need

to impress the importance of keeping our gaurds up on you guys. Still, as you have also seen, he is a master of deception." Cloud said in his best leader tone.

"He seemed so sincere." Aeris said thoughtfully. She then added "I almost beleived him, i could'nt even bring myself to atack i was so convinced."

Cloud nodded calmly as he said "Thats why we need to keep our guards up. No matter how sincere he seems, he's almost definetely lying."

Red looked up and said "If i may interrupt, i agree that we should keep our guard up, but Sephiroth smelled different on the beach as oposed to the cargo ship."

Barret waved his arms around as he yelled "Now what the hell does that mean!?"

"Who cares? I just want to go to sleep." Yuffie said, showing her complete lack of interest in the situation. Cloud shot a glare at her but said nothing.

"Sephiroth is ruthless, if we do'nt pay attention than we'll be easy targets." Tifa said feircely.

"Still, we wo'nt stand a chance if were not well rested either. Everyone, get some rest." With that the group split up to go to there rooms.

"So says he who decided to take a midnight walk." Yuffie grumbled to herself.