CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 5

The skies of Icicle Inn were blur. Some far on the horizon, a large blurry figure slowly approached the quiet snowfields. Soon, there was a loud noise. Engine noise. Noise from a large airship. And that was what that landed on the snowfields. Shortly after the airship landed, a rope ladder was throw toward to snow from the deck, and there are people who slowly climb their way down.

"Br……it is really cold out here!" Yuffie said.

"How can humans live in such a cold place?" Red XIII continued.

"We are heading for the forgotten city." Cloud said.

"What? Why in tha hell are we gonna go to that place?" Barret protested.

"We are going to gonna there because I told you to." Cloud replied.

"You @#$%^&*()@#$%!!!!!!!!" Barret cursed Cloud with the top of his voice.

"I am not going to waste my for all this. If you all don't want to go, I will go alone." Cloud replied.

"At least we can stop by at Aeris house first. All of us will be froze to death if we go there in this outfits." Tifa suggested while calming Barret down.

Cloud rubbed his chin for a while. Then he started walking towards Aeris's house.

"We are going to Aeris's house now." Cloud said.

The journey to Icicle Inn wasn't easy at all. This place had turned so cold and they could hardly even move. Only Cloud that was marching ahead with full speed.

Finally, they reached Icicle Inn. They were exhausted when they finally found Aeris's house. Cid walked in front now and pushed the door open. The door was unlocked. All of them entered the house without much thought.

The living room was empty. A few of the members of the party sat on the couch while the other sat on the floor.

Cid felt so cold. He needed to find a fireplace to warm himself up. He walked until he was in front of Tifa.

"Where is the fireplace?" Cid asked.

"In the first room on the right. Come, I will show you." Tifa told Cid and lead him to the fireplace.

Cid and Tifa were now in front of the door. Cid pushed opened the door and both of them got the biggest shock of their lives.

"Um…didn't anybody knocked the door or shouted 'anybody home'?" Cid asked.

Tifa and Cid can't believe their eye, they saw Sephiroth embracing Aeris on the bed.

The couple on the bed stopped when they found out that two people were standing in front of the door. Both of them were even more shocked when they realized that one of them was Tifa.

"Aeris…what are you…"

By now, all the other members of the party are in front of the door. Some were shocked to see what happened while some didn't even know what was going on.

"Wait! I can explain…"

Aeris tried to defend herself but suddenly she saw Cloud pushed Cid aside and pulled out a green colored materia.

"We meet again." Cloud smirked and mumbled something in his mouth.

"Everybody take cover!!!"

Shortly after Cait Sith shouted, a green light started growing form the materia in Cloud's hand. Now, everybody realized what Cloud was doing and took cover.

The Cloud in Sephiroth's form quickly pulled Aeris and hide with her behind a cabinet nearby. The green light grew brighter and then there was a source of light so strong that would blind everyone that saw it. But it just lasted for a few seconds. After that, the green light faded and the Cloud in Sephiroth's form that a peek to see whether it is safe.

"Come out. I want to fight you hand-to-hand, no materia. Weapons only. What do you say?" Cloud asked.

"I am not afraid of you! This time I am really going to kill you!" the Cloud in Sephiroth's form picked up his musamane and charged towards Cloud.

Cloud didn't even get ready into a defense position. He just wait for the Cloud in Sephiroth's form the come. When they are only about a feet away, Cloud jumped and kicked at the side of Sephiroth's (I will now call the Cloud in Sephiroth's form Sephiroth) face and sent Sephiroth flying toward the window.

Sephiroth smashed through the window and fell outside of the house. He could hardly move. The injury he inflicted before was too much. He couldn't fight in a state like this. Cloud jumped through the window too and landed in front of Sephiroth. Cloud is so badly injured that he couldn't even move.

"Too bad. You are going to die just like this. Any last words?" Cloud said while pointing his huge sword at Sephiroth throat.

"I will kill you one day. I will." Sephiroth answered determinedly.

"Too bad that day won't come. Die!"

Cloud shouted as he lifted his sword and prepared to give Sephiroth a final blow.

"Wait! Great Gospel!"

Once again, Aeris cast her most powerful spell. Cloud's huge sword came down but was deflected by an invisible shield. Sephiroth immediately gained his strength and started his skillful slashing against Cloud.

Tifa saw what Aeris had done. She couldn't believed what she had done for Sehiroth. Tifa ran in front of Aeris and slapped her in the face. The impact was so powerful and made Aeris fell onto the floor. The other members of Avalanche was astonished by what they had just saw.

"Tifa!"

Sephiroth shouted at Tifa but was immediately hit by a blow so powerful that knocked him onto the floor.

"You are now invulnerable and it is almost impossible for me to kill you. We will meet some other days. That time, I will make sure she doesn't cast that spell again!" Sephiroth said and jumped high into the sky. Soon, there was no sight of him already.

Sephiroth got up on his leg and walked towards Tifa and Aeris. Suddenly, Barret appeared in front of Sephiroth with his gunarm pointing Sephiroth's head.

"Oh no yer not gonna seduce Aeris again becuz I swear I am gunna blast yer ^($^&(* head off!" Barret warned.

Sephiroth stopped at his current spot and dropped his musamane on the floor.

"What do you say if I said that I am Cloud and that guy is Sephiroth?"

Everybody except Aeris looked at him with their mouth wide opened.