Escaping the Hands of Sephiroth

A Sequel to "A Day in the Life of Sephiroth" by Galaxy of GalaxyDreams

Disclaimer: I do not own FF7. This is all in the good nature of fun. Also, if you haven't read the first story "A Day in the Life of Sephiroth," I strongly urge you to read that first. one. This story is a sequel to it. The first one explains what happened before all of this, and is packed with comedy. So, please search that story first, and you will understand everything here. Enjoy!

Chapter 2: Looking For Evidence

As the Highwind neared Costa Del A Sol, Tifa could fell her limit gauge filling up. She looked at Vincent and she could see the signs of claws growing out of his fingers.

"Vincent, do you think you could can control Chaos? Or do we have to take shelter from a far distance from you again?" Tifa asked Vincent nervously as she inched closer to the exit.

"No, I shall find a way to control the beast within myself. So please do not worry. What we must do now is find Cloud," Vincent said solemnly.

"Yes, you're right," Tifa said as she tightened her gloves called "God's Hand."

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The Highwind parked in the loading center. Yuffie was the first to jump off of the ship, despite Cid's unusually loud screaming. Yuffie could make out a few words of what he was saying which included "Lousy kid!" "Jump off too soon!" "Ship still in the air!"

Barret motioned for everyone to follow him. Red 13 moved very slowly, looking tense and nervous. Cait Sith even had a cloud of hesitation hanging above his head. Barret stopped and gazed at his group of friends.

"Ok, lissen' up everyone. This is gonna be one of those missions. But this ain't no ordinary mission," Barret said with a serious tone as he looked up at Sephiroth's mansion. He turned his gaze back to the group. "Our leader is in there, and we gotta do whatever it takes to get his spikey-head back here safe 'an sound, or else he'll run off with all of MY materia! Man, that wimp borrowed my MASTER MAGIC materia!" Barret exclaimed much to the surprise of everyone. But deep down, he knew Cloud was a good friend too. But he wouldn't show it. "Alright, let's go."

The group followed Barret as he stopped in front of the silver door knock of Jenova's head on the door. He gave each of them one final look as he kicked the door open.

Cait Sith had his eyes shut the whole time, but he slowly opened them when he noticed the silence around himself. He opened his mouth in shock. "Hey, where's Cloud? There seems to be nobody home.." he said.

Red 13 sniffed the ground a little. "It appears that Cloud was just recently here...but..." Red 13 said but paused. He walked around a little trying to sniff out Cloud's scent or any signs of Sephiroth. The group watched him hoping he would uncover any clues. Red 13 paused in his footsteps. "But something is wrong. I could trace a strong scent in the foyer..but it stops right here," Red explained as he pointed to a closed door.

Vincent closed his eyes. "Since I am half of a beast myself, I can feel that Cloud has been inside this chamber," Vincent said as he put a hand to the iron door. The door was sealed shut and seemed like there could be no way of opening it.

"Hey Vincent, you never told us that you could feel people's presence! Man, that's pretty cool!" Cid piped up ruining the tense atmosphere around everyone.

"Well, folks, whatever is behind this door must be important since Sephiroth sealed it shut like this," Cait Sith declared holding up his megaphone.

Tifa walked over to the door and performed her limit break, "Final Heaven" on the door hoping to dent it a little. But nothing happened.

Finally, Barret made his way to the door. "Awright! Everyone step back! I'm gonna break through by force!" he yelled putting up his gun-arm. He started to fire..but the bullets just made holes. "Well..at least we can look inside.." Barret said looking through the door.

Everyone walked over to the door trying to look in a hole. But they were shocked to see a horrible sight. Inside was a Cloud's sword, Ultima Weapon. It was inside a glass case that covered it completely. On the left side of the glass case that held all of Cloud's materia suspended in the water...and the last and most horrifying sight of all was our dear friend, Cloud. He was trapped inside an aquarium big enough for a human, and it seemed like he was unconscious.

"Cloud! Oh no, Cloud! We gotta get him out of there before the water penetrates his barrier and drowns him!" Tifa screamed frantically as she put her hands on the side of her face. "Barret! Please! We have to do something!" she said again as tears filled her eyes.

"But what can we do? There seems to be no way inside this room," Yuffie said sadly as she looked for a way in the sealed room.

Cait Sith just sighed in defeat as everyone was panicking. "Man, I guess this really is the end of our "Rather Good-Looking and Courageous Group of Heroes Who Were Born to Kick Sephiroth's Lousy Behind Out of Town Until We All Were The Last Ones Standing in Order to Dominate the World Group" he said sadly hanging his head down.

"Lissen to y'all! Can't you jes' stop yer whining for a minute and find a way inside there? Cloud is gonna drown y'know!" Cid exclaimed to everyone. He started to go around the foyer looking for a possible way inside the room.

"I believe Cid is correct. Instead of panicking, how about we split up and find an entrance. I'll stand guard here just in case Sephiroth returns. I'll signal if he's here," Red13 said bravely. "I'll fill up my limit break gauge just for safety as well. You all find a way in quickly!" Red 13 commanded everyone. They all looked at each other and decided to go into the basement. There had to be an underground route somewhere... But little did our heroes know that Sephiroth was on his way home with a brand new batch of Jenova cells to inject into Cloud. Time was their enemy right now.

*~End of Chapter 2*~

Author's Notes: I hope you all liked this chapter. Sorry, if it wasn't as good, but I ran out of ideas. Ja ne!