Note: I do not own Final Fantasy blah blah same old stuff. On with the story now?

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Clash

Chapter 3:

"Prince Sephiroth?"

"It is a bit of a surprise, isn't it?" said the solider, as he glared demonically at the three people standing before him. Cloud pulled out his sword, prepared for battle. Selphie pulled out nun chucks. "Can you fight with those?" Vincent asked. "Sure, just watch me!" Selphie said with utmost confidence, as she charged at the solider. However, the Soldier just laughed a bit, and without even touching Selphie, he swung his arm forward, and Selphie flew back, almost hitting Vincent. (He'd stepped out of the way.)

"Why'd you move?" Selphie yelled angrily.

"You said you'd be fine."

"I DID NOT!"

The solider released his demon, shadowy yet not as fierce as it appeared.

Cloud charged with his sword, fighting off the demon, cutting its arm. The demon screeched in pain, and Cloud took that chance to finish it off Cloud leapt into the air, slicing the demon down the middle as he returned to the ground. Quick as a flash, the solider, equipped with a knife, literally slid through Cloud. He felt empty, like the solider had cut through his very soul…well, if he had one anyway. He was frozen, yet unsure of what had happened. He felt no pain. He began to wonder if that simple attack had killed him.

"Very interesting…" said the solider. He pulled out a radio. "Mission complete, target selected."

"Target selected?" Selphie asked.

"I've sampled Cloud's innermost feelings….Prince Sephiroth loves nothing more than to emotionally kill a person before physically killing them."

"I thought he was supposed to eliminate Cloud." Selphie whispered to Vincent, who remained silent.

"Coordinates? (7, 28) Innermost sector Seven." The solider said into his radio. Then, he vanished, simply vanished into thin air. Vincent pulled out a device from his cape. "

What's that?" Selphie asked.

"It's a mapping system. It allows me to match coordinates with locations in the city." Vincent spent a few minutes messing with the mapping system.

"We have a problem…The coordinates…" Vincent began. The voice of the Solider was suddenly all around them.

"Say goodbye to your "friend", Strife." Then the voice was gone.

"Where are those coordinates exactly?" Cloud asked, his voice filled with a mix of anger and concern.

"Seventh Heaven" Vincent said. Cloud got on his bike, motioning to Selphie to get on, as he sped off in the direction of the Seventh Heaven, the sun in his eyes as he drove towards the now setting sun, the long ride ahead of him. He repeated the same thing in his head over and over as he drove.

"Tifa…please be alright…I'm on my way…just hang on…"


REWIND!!!! (Our setting is just after Cloud leaves the bar, Tifa sitting outside when she encounters Aerith…….now, we're inside the Seventh Heaven.)


"Sooo…What's on your mind?" Aerith asked.

"Hmm? Oh, it's nothing, really." Tifa replied.

"If it was nothing, you wouldn't be so sad."

"I don't wanna talk about it."

"Fine, but I'll be here if you need me, Ok?"

Tifa was silent. Aerith rose, then walked away, leaving Tifa with her confusion, and her pain. Was it right to love somebody you couldn't have? How'd he feel about her? Is he as lost and confused as she was? Instead, she stared at Marlene, who sat at one of the tables with Duane. Duane looked very angry.

"I am not short Marlene!"

"Yes you are!"

"No I'm not!"

"You're shorter than Aerith."

"So?"

"You're a little shorter than Yuffie."

Yuffie came in as Marlene said that. She walked up to Duane and measured herself.

"She's right." Yuffie giggled.

"Grr." Duane was really angry now as Marlene showed pride in her victory.

Tifa smiled as this all happened. But in the end, she was the one who cooled off Duane's anger and sent everybody off to do something else. She continued her work at the bar as normal, until the sun began to set……….


Yuffie sat with Aerith, Duane, and Marlene upstairs in Marlene's bedroom. She was having a conversation with Aerith, one that was hard for Yuffie to grasp.

"So, you're….not happy here Aerith?"

"No……I was happier….in the Promised Land."

"What about Cloud?"

"He requires happiness that he can not gain from being with me."

"Where will he get it from?"

"I believe he will gain it from-"

Aerith was cut off when she noticed that there were 5 suspicious men standing in the room with them. Marlene hid behind Duane, and Yuffie was up and ready with her shuriken. The suspicious men, or soldiers, as they appeared to be, prepared to attack, and Aerith pulled her staff out, ready to fight. The soldiers sprung forward to attack. Marlene let out a scream of fear, which caught Tifa's attention as she cleaned mugs in the empty bar.

"Marlene!"

Tifa called out in response to Marlene's scream of distress. She turned her attention towards the staircase when she heard somebody snicker. Tifa faced the doorway, noticing yet another solider blocking the entrance to the bar. She stepped out from behind the counter towards the stranger.

"Prince Sephiroth requires you at the palace. You will be taken there…whether you consent to it or not….."


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