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No joke; this was jaw-dropping to watch!

Trees and more white trees. Cloud continually watched the monotonous sight as he drove through the Forgotten City. He knew he needed to fight Kadaj's gang, but who knew how long he would last against them, being as he had the Stigma and was by himself. However, he couldn't afford to think like that. Just as he promised, he wasn't going home until the four of them were together again.

Familiarity was setting in again. Suddenly, Cloud was no longer on Fenrir and was standing in a white mist. Again. A few weeks ago, he was starting to get visits just like this from Aerith.

"You came," came the late-Ancient's voice. Cloud looked over his shoulder and spotted her out of his peripherals. "Even though you're about to break, hm?" Aerith placed her hand on the man's arm. He flinched slightly at the touch. "That's a good sign."

A few moments of silence past. Eventually, she spoke up again. "So...why did you come?" she asked.

He thought for a few seconds. "I think..I want to be forgiven...Mm...more than anything," Cloud answered truthfully.

"By who?"

He turned his head back around, surprised at the question.

However, he found himself staring back at the path he'd left behind. He was back on Fenrir. What did she mean? "By who?" My family, of course, he thought.

Cloud looked up and heard a gunshot. He narrowly moved his trusty bike out of said projectile's path. After he refocused his sight, Cloud saw Kadaj smirking like he had in the wasteland and Loz and one other with an out of place glow on their gun arms. They had utilized the stolen materia.

Cloud opened the compartments that held his six swords. He pulled out First Tsurugi and a secondary blade with a handle guard as part of the blade that spread from tip to butt. Suddenly, Kadaj started to approach from his position behind the other two men. He drew his sword, which had two blades, side-by-side, shaped like a katana. He waved his hand like he was calling someone over. Turns out he was: the missing kids leapt from wherever it was that they were hiding from and in front of the three armed men. Right in front of the mob of prepubescents was a brunette boy with eyes just like the rest of them, and Sephiroth's cat-like ones.

Denzel. Cloud gasped softly as he recognized the child. He maneuvered Fenrir onto its side, groaning out loud, in hopes to halt his rapid approach. That failed, which caused Cloud to fall from the seat of the bike. Somehow in the chaos, First Tsurugi had flew from his now open hand; although he'd lost one sword, he still had the other. He was rolling on his sides from the velocity of the vehicle that was halted of its spin-out by the one called Loz.

When Cloud stopped rolling, he dropped the secondary blade by his side and struggled to use his arms to hoist himself onto (at least) his knees. He looked up and saw Kadaj standing above him and the children circled around them.

"I'm glad you could make it," came Kadaj's cliched greeting.

Cloud looked up at him in annoyance. "I only came for the kids."

"See this man," Kadaj adressed the unresponsive kids, "he's our big brother. But, alas...in our happy flock," he changed his tone to one of despise as he pointed his sword to Cloud's neck, "he's what you'd call a black sheep."

Kadaj was about to deliver a slice to Cloud, but was halted by Cloud's lightning-fast parry with his secondary blade that the silver-haired man had neglected. Cloud swung his sword at him in vain. Kadaj flipped back and ordered his young audience to retreat. A shot cracked through the air, but was blocked by the lone wolf. The gunman continued to fire round after round at the swordsman. Loz broke into a run at Cloud with a grin on his face. Yet again, he was doing his phasing ability. He yelled out a battle cry as he drew in range of the blonde and brought his fist down from the leverage of his leap only for Cloud to dodge it.

Multitasking proved troublesome with these two. Cloud had to block the bullets coming from Loz's companion and the brawler's punches and kicks. Eventually, Loz kicked Cloud a few feet away. Cloud recovered smoothly. He bared his teeth and jumped at the burly man, sword raised over his head. Loz flipped Cloud behind him, evading him.

Cloud landed on his knees, right in front of First Tsurugi. He swapped his secondary weapon into his left hand and picked up the main sword in the other. The gunner jumped in front of Cloud, brought his gun down onto his opponent's blocking sword, and spun into a kick to Cloud's face, knocking him back a few paces. The man continued to fire rounds from his pistol.

Cloud blocked a few and flipped to the side. He jumped back at him and swung his sword, just to have it blocked by the gun. Cloud tried again with the secondary weapon. The gunner leapt on the flat of the sword. The swordsman attempted to bring the flat of First Tsurugi against the man forcefully, but the aforementioned silver-hair jumped behind him and kicked the blonde successfully back.

Loz suddenly brought his armed fist down into the ground, causing a trail of earth to race towards the otherwise engaged warriors. The gunner smiled and said, "I'm Yazoo." Yazoo jumped back behind and above the approaching wave of rock, letting off a few rounds. These still did not deter the ex-SOLDIER. Cloud raised his sword behind his head, released energy to charge in it, brought it down, and released Blade Beam at the earthy substance, canceling out its approach.

When the dust settled, Loz was in front of Cloud and utilized his gauntlet. Luckily Cloud raised his swords in front to block, but still felt the force of the punch. Loz kept circling around him while Yazoo was using his gun and dodging Cloud's attempts to hit them. The burly one jumped forward and kicked Cloud with both feat, flipping backwards from the contact. Yazoo leapt forward and grabbed a second pistol form Loz's holster and met both guns with Cloud's swords. The lone wolf noticed the brawler appear behind him and jumped before he could hit him. Regardless of Cloud's evasion, Loz launched Yazoo at him. Yazoo swung the guns in a series of contact with Cloud's weaponry. Two shots were fired at First Tsurugi, forcing it out of the swordsman's grasp.

The blade impaled itself to one of the many white trees. Cloud leapt from the branch he landed on, and flipped himself onto the flat of the sword by the handle. Below him was Loz, poised for destruction of the tree his adversary had himself on. He did so, causing the pale, wooden structure to slowly fall. Yazoo still attempted to shoot the blonde, but to no avail. Loz broke through the falling tree and joined the fray. With both swords, Cloud swung and spun his swords to drive them both off. He blocked a series of rounds after a distance was put between the three men. Cloud positioned his crouched body against another tree and attached his second sword to First Tsurugi.

He spotted Kadaj and leapt at him, using the leverage into his swing. The left-handed son of a bitch swung his katana at the approaching weapon, parrying its owner's attack. Everything happened in slow-motion until Kadaj started swinging. His posture, his swings, his speed; it all matched Sephiroth.

After a combo of slices-all blocked of course-Kadaj dealt a crushing blow that hoisted Cloud further into the air. The Sephiroth look-alike leapt above the defenseless swordsman and looked to be ready to finish him off. He would have if a gun shot hadn't halted his swing. Kadaj grunted in annoyance and flipped back to the ground as a red cloud approached overhead. Cloud hit the ground hard, knocking him unconscious and his phone out of his pocket, right into the water.

The red cloud circled over and around Cloud. A few rounds came from the form at Kadaj in threes. He blocked all of them. Loz ran from his far away position while Yazoo shot at the scarlet storm. Said manifestation grabbed the unconscious blonde and flew away.

Kadaj growled in frustration.