Hey! Third chapter. I wrote this more easily than the others. Anyway I've the idea for this oneshot after re-read some chapters of the amazing "Splintered Dreams" by Fairheartstrife. If you can you shall read it, it's really good! Please enjoy!
Tifa took two steps to the left, avoiding the SOLDIER who was shouting something about lost chances for glory or another thing like this. It made her sick. All those SOLDIER guys, little less than cold hearted killers to her eyes. 'Don't do this' thought. She disliked think about SOLDIER. The life in the slums was enough hard to add this kind of thoughts. Besides... What about him? If he had joined SOLDIER... He had became an assasin, too? The only fact of thinking on it made her shuddering. Suddenly she felt a hand graping her bottom. 'Who is the bastard?' She turned right around and saw a Shinra infantryman watching her with lust.
-I can make you a nice job, babe.- He said, licking his lips.
Narrowing her eyes Tifa throw him a punch to the face, sending him into a pile of debris. She approached slowly to the fallen man and gave him a deathly glare.
-Do it again and I'll hit you into a much painful place. Got it? –The man nodded, slightly dazed.
While she was going away Tifa can't help but thinking that her body can be a nuisance, sometimes. Fortunately the training into Zangan-Ryu style served her very well. Then she began to remember her master, and this thought join to the SOLDIER thoughts, bringing a certain face to her memories...
The mountain path to Mt. Nibel reactor wasn't an easy walk. Besides the cliffs, the landslides and the damn bridge you must took care with an enormous amount of monsters, each one stranger and deathly than the earlier. Even with her training, she can will be in a trouble if it weren't for the two SOLDIERs. The silver-haired, the General Sephirot himself, was looking unconcerned by the monsters, killing them with a single slash of his sword, wearing all the time the same cold expression. While she was thinking the group walked into another bunch of monsters, this ones looking like birds. Tifa can see Sephirot unsheating his sword when they heard the other SOLDIER.
-C'mon Sephirot, you had enjoyed yourself enough time! Let me take care of this!- The spiky black-haired SOLDIER, Zack was called, was complaining. Sephirot let escape a chuckle.
-Very well, Zack. All yours since now on.
Without previous notice Zack charged to the monsters with a grin on his face. Slightly alarmed, Tifa saw that his sword stilled on his back. It wasn't that he needed it. He connected a round of punches to the first bird, knocking it out. The second one plummeted towards Zack but he was too fast for the monster. Zack jumped, grabbing the monster's neck, turning on himself like a spinning top and throwing the creature to the ground. Before the third monster had time to react Zack was doing a somersault kick on it. In no moment Zack was finished off the three creatures. Tifa was frozen. Those movements... She knew them! Before she can say anything Zack yelled.
-Piece of cake! C'mon guys! Keep walking before this ones awaken!
Later that day while they're reaching the last part of the path Tifa managed to gather enough courage to ask Zack a question.
-Zack, can I ask you something?
Zack gave her a big smile.
-Sure thing, Tifa. What do you want?
-Well... Back then... When you attacked those birds, the moves you made... Are they from the Zangan-Ryu style?
-Woah! Yes! How do you know that?
-I'm training with master Zangan. He said that I'm one of his best students!- A proud grin growing in her face.
-So, you know the guy?
-Yes, don't you?
-Nah. I just learned a few moves from my mentor, who was been trained by Zangan.- Suddenly the smile left Zack's face, and his shoulders fell a little.- He was called Angeal. Maybe Zangan talked about him.
-Angeal... No, I don't think I ever heard of him by master Zangan.- Tifa had felt the sadness over Zack, and took care to sound kind. Seeing that he didn't, Tifa kept talking.- So, you are a Zangan-Ryu style student?
-Nope.- The smile brightening his face again.- I just know a few things. In fact I'm sure you are more skilled on this than myself.
-Yes! You aren't so much subtile with some moves.-Tifa was giggling.- It's a good thing you are superstrong and superfast, don't?
-Hey! Don't dare to mock me!- Zack was laughing- But yes. I suppose that with my strenght and my speed I don't need too many technique in my fights, right?
The memory made her smile. Not everyone in SOLDIER was a cold hearted bastard. A rush of guilt broke over her. He didn't deserve it. Her last words to him. 'I hate you'... Shiva! What she was thinking back then! Zack went to the reactor only to help her and to stop Sephirot. But after her father's death she was so full of anger and hate... In this moment she was ready to hate anyone who reached her.
Her thoughts were broken by the train horn. The crowd in the train station began to move away. Suddenly something catches her attention. A sword she knew, attached to the hand of some guy. Tifa approached the man carefully. He was sitting on the ground, with his blond head lowered. 'Blond?' she thought.
-Hey. Are you okay?
The man raised his head and looked her with unfocused, glowing eyes.
-Te... Teef...?
'Cloud!' Suddenly all the thoughts about Zack left her head.
So, you like it? Dislike it? She is on character? Please tell me what you think. It'll make me happy!