Alright, finally I've gotten to the fight scene that takes place in Edge. FINALLY! It took me months to get here! So I won't keep you in suspense with a long author's note; let's just jump in.

Unclouded, Sequel to Unarmed

Chapter Seven: Battle At The Edge


As we drove through Edge, people were running away from the monument in the center of town. They seemed to be running for their lives in a panic. "Something really bad must be going on," I yelled to Cloud. I saw him nod.

"It must be Kadaj and his lackeys," Cloud concluded, revving the bike to go faster as we entered the center of town. Just as we entered, a HUGE monster fired a large ball of energy ahead of us. I looked over to where it was heading to see Tifa in midair. She moved quickly to avoid the blast; it narrowly missed her and hit the scaffolding behind her. The scaffolding creaked and started breaking and falling to the ground. My eyes widened as I saw that someone was underneath where it going to fall.

Denzel.

"Cloud!," I shouted, pointing ahead of us. He opened the sides of Fenrir, pulling a sword out and, after taking aim, threw the sword at the scaffolding. He revved the motorbike to go faster.

The sword cut through the metal scaffolding, making a path for us to get to Denzel. Just as we got to him I grabbed his outstretched hand, pulling him onto the bike behind me. Cloud caught his sword, tossing it and catching it by the handle and swinging it at the scaffolding falling in front of us. It was cut to ribbons and we rode away from the wreckage without a scratch.

Tifa ran over to us as we stopped. I helped Denzel off the bike and he ran over to Tifa. "You okay?," she asked him; he nodded fervently. Tifa looked at me then at Cloud, nodding as she did so. "Marlene?," she asked me.

"Marlene will be safe; we took her home," I informed her, smiling broadly. She smiled back at me as well.

"Thanks. You two okay?" I nodded; she looked over at Cloud after nodding back at me. I looked over at Cloud as well; he was pulling another sword out of the bike, putting it in his back holster.

"I feel lighter," Cloud said. I blinked. "Maybe I just lost some weight…," he glanced at me as he spoke again, "…All that dilly-dallying." I stared in disbelief at him for a moment before I looked at Tifa. She looked at me, her eyebrows raised, then she smiled knowingly at me. I blinked and looked away, my face reddening slightly. Tifa giggled lightly at me.

"I'm gonna back and go see Marlene okay? We'll wait for you. Cloud, Christina," Denzel informed us, starting to head away from us, "we'll see you there, won't you?" Cloud looked back at me, and we both smiled and nodded. Denzel nodded, grinning as well.

Tifa placed a hand on my shoulder. "Be careful out there." I nodded at Tifa.

"We will." I smiled at her as Cloud swung a leg over the motorbike; I hopped on behind him and he revved the engine, turning the handlebars and heading in the direction of the huge monster that was attacking Edge.

I watched Barret, Yuffie, Cid, Nanaki, and Vincent battle with the huge creature as we rode through Edge. Every one of them was doing everything they could to keep the monster at bay, but none of their attacks even seemed to hurt it. Cloud stopped the motorbike and pulled out his other sword, looking back at me for a second; I nodded at him and he jumped up into the buildings above us. I pulled out my pistol and began quickly jumping up the scaffolding, taking out numerous Shadow Creepers as I did so.

As I made my way through near the top of the building, I watched as Cloud started to attack the huge monster, one sword in each hand. He kept striking the monster but it wasn't getting through its tough skin. Eventually the creature grabbed one of his swords in its mouth. After yanking it out of its mouth he jumped, and flipping he landed on one of the scaffolding beams, putting the two swords together into one and taking a battle stance as the monster roared loudly, coming towards him again.

I started up the scaffolding again, eventually reaching a huge tower that seemed to be the highest place in Edge. I looked down to where Cloud was; he had just struck the creature and it went crashing into the ground, part of its metallic face cracking as it slowly righted itself. I doubled my speed, knowing I had to get to the top as fast as I possibly could, though I had no idea why.

What…is this feeling telling me to go up the tower? Could it be…

As I reached the top, I ran to the ledge of the scaffolding and looked down. Suddenly the huge creature flew up and past me; I had to grab onto the edge just to make sure I didn't get blown off by the force. I looked up and watched the dragon-like monster fly higher and higher.

Get ready, a voice in my head echoed. I tilted my head to the side in curiosity but I stood up to the edge anyway, looking down. Suddenly I saw Cloud getting help from each of his friends to reach the creature as it went higher. Now!, the voice called again, and I obeyed, jumping over the edge and grabbing Cloud's hand as he approached. He looked at my face for a brief moment. "Don't mess this up Spikey," I told him jokingly as I used all of my power that I had to throw Cloud as high as I could. He launched even higher into the air towards the creature, which had begun to build up energy in its jaws.

I flipped a couple of times before landing on the scaffolding not far above the others and catching my balance, then looked up towards Cloud and the dragon-thing.

I saw Cloud speeding towards the creature at break-neck speed, surrounded in the same blue flame that I had seen from his limit attacks, his sword at the ready. The creature suddenly let his energy burst fly, sending it directly towards Cloud. My eyes widened at the sight; I wasn't entirely sure if Cloud could survive a powerful attack like that head-on.

No…it can't end here… I squeezed my eyes tightly before opening them to watch once again as Cloud collided with the energy blast, disappearing inside it. Aerith…please if you can hear me…

Sure enough I heard Aerith say, Ready?

Not two seconds later Cloud reappeared on the other side of the energy blast, swinging his sword and stabbing the creature in the head, then ran along the monster's back, carving his sword into it and jumping away with a yell as it fell to its demise, encased in blue flame.

About ten seconds later Cloud flipped a couple of times before landing beside me. I looked at him wide-eyed and grinned broadly at him as he straightened. He grinned back at me as well.

"That was impressive," I stated happily.

"You'd be surprised," he replied, winking at me. I couldn't help but laugh; it just made him grin more.

Suddenly we both heard a loud yell, followed by a glowing light and an explosion. Quickly, we turned to the left to see Kadaj and Lindsey standing on an unfinished building; he had just blasted a part of the building causing the explosion…and I quickly noticed that he had knocked someone off the edge. Cloud and I both looked at each other and jumped down from where we were, sprinting for the motorcycle the second we landed.

That was Rufus he knocked off the edge, I'm sure of it, I thought as we jumped on Fenrir and Cloud started it up immediately, his brakes squealing as we took off towards where we had seen Kadaj.

As soon as I got a good view, I tapped Cloud quickly on the shoulder and pointed at Rufus and Kadaj, who were both plummeting off the building, Rufus firing a gun at him as they did so. Kadaj seemed to be reaching out for something as he fell; quickly I squinted and saw a small black box.

Not two seconds after I spotted the thing one of Rufus's bullets hit the box, splitting a hole in it and sending stuff flying out. Ew…what the hell is in that thing, I thought disgustedly as Kadaj finally managed to grab the box, flipping and landing on the ground right after he did so. Cloud revved the motorbike to go faster as Kadaj and Lindsey jumped on his motorbike and sped off, trying to get away. Oh no you sons of bitches…you're not getting away that easily, I thought as I pulled my pistol out, pushing another full clip into it and flipping off the safety as we went onto the ramp that led up to the main highway into the ruins of Midgar.


Man, for a while there I wasn't sure if I was gonna be able to get all those details correct. Thank god for movies on DVD and Blu-ray, haha.

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-Catalyna Christopher