Final Fantasy VII

Another X-Soldier



Chapter: 5

Future and Past



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"Are you sure Cloud?" Tifa asked.



"Yeah...don't worry about me...I'll be fine." Cloud coughed a little trying to sit up.



Cloud was starting to have many feelings in his thoughts. But the weirdest one was that he was feeling angry. Angry at Tifa? But why? He had no reason to...but he was starting to get really confused because he couldn't understand it. It was something that not even he expected to happen. But he was told by his mother many times before, that he was going to have to expect the unexpected at all times because anything could happen at any time.

"Uh...I have to go outside...to get some fresh air...." Cloud stuttered, pushed Tifa and then ran off as fast as he could taking his sword with him.



"Cloud!" Tifa yelled as she watched him jump upstairs.



That was when Berret went to Tifa and he was going to lecture her again about how bad or useless Cloud was.



"I told you that boy is going to cause AVALANCHE a lot of trouble one of these days. I just bet that Spike ass is goin' off to see that Sephiroth and join em'." Berret huffed folding his arms.



Tifa turned to him. She had tears in her eyes. It was something that Berret hadn't seen before because she was always tough, she laughed a lot and smiled, but she never cried. Not even Cloud would remember her crying even when she was a young girl.



"Tifa...your worried badly about Cloud aren't you?" Jessie asked.



"Yes...he never acted this way before. I'm afraid that he'll get himself killed if he's going to go try again with Sephiroth again. I don't think that he's strong enough yet." Tifa then covered her face just as the rest of the gang returned again.



"Why did Cloud look like he was angry? Did something happen here?" Cid asked.



"For some reason, Cloud just seemed angry, or something and now I'm starting to think that he's going to be going back to see if he can take another round with Sephiroth. " Tifa then was getting more worried and worried as she kept thinking of what might happen to him.



"Cloud what!?" Vincent was outraged and worried just as Tifa was. Vincent was Cloud's best friend and he really knew Cloud, but not as well as Tifa did.

"Well what are we doing here!? We have to follow him and stop him before he gets himself killed out there!!" Vincent no sooner said that and he was up the stairs like a dirty shirt. He was pretty quick and it surprised that group.







"What am I doing???" Cloud asked himself as he sat upon the top of a slide that he and Aeris sat on when they first met.

"I was mean to Tifa...but why??? Why do I feel hatred all of a sudden???" He folded his arms and closed his eyes, only to end up quickly opening them after he heard a familiar voice.



"That's because it's who you are Cloud Strife..."



"Who's there?! You better show yourself jerk or I'll knock your ass out!" Cloud threatened.



"Heh heh heh. You actually think that I .Sephiroth. The strongest of all SOLDIER. Would actually take a threat from my rival? I don't think so. Besides, you should watch your language and respect your elders you little brat." He snickered. It angered him to hear Cloud try to make a fool out of him by outsmarting him.



"Sephiroth. You were always second from me and you'll never get any better than I either. But I'm not in the mood, so how about you go bother someone else. Besides, your more annoying than Berret." Cloud looked down at the ground still. He didn't really care now that Sephiroth was there and that he might get hurt or something, but he still didn't really care. He was still worried about something else.



"Let me help you young SOLDIER. You really could use my help. I can teach you more and more. Soon, you'll be able to become stronger than I." He smirked. "Then we can rule the world together, or destroy it, and maybe even take over some new lands." He snickered.



Cloud looked up at Sephiroth who had his sword sheathed. He had his arms folded. He was still wearing the same armor that he had killed his friend in. He had also killed Tiffa's father too. If Cloud was to join him...but wait, why was he even thinking of doing such things. Why would he even consider to join such a dreadful man? Cloud was getting more confused. Yet more feelings were going to still try to take over him. He knew now that it was Sephiroth trying to control him. But he knew that he was stronger at resisting such things unlike himself. Cloud was still weaker than that. Cloud wasn't even trained in knowing how to stop this kind of power that Sephiroth was using.

"Sephiroth, why would you even ask? You know damn well that I would never join you even if my life depended on it, and ya know what? It still don't! So just!!....." Cloud then fell to his knees because Sephiroth was making Cloud's insides sore and painful. So much pain that he might even die from it.



"Cloud, you might as well surrender to me, because you know that your still no match for me no matter how much you try. Besides, we've been through so much, I really think that we made a great team don't you think?" He walked up to Cloud and kicked him in the side.

Cloud yelled in great pain and Sephiroth was enjoying seeing Cloud down on the ground in pain and agony. It made him happy because of what he had found out before.

"Do you remember when I could've killed you before but I didn't? I didn't because I had thought of you as one of the great SOLDIERS. You had what it took and you told me you had done it to become like me. Well now's your chance. You can join me and we'll destroy Midgar together. And we'll have anything we want." He laughed.



"I refuse to kill or hurt anymore people Sephiroth." He said as he stood up.

"I used to want to be like you until that day when you changed into a complete monster! You had killed one of my friends too! Aeris!" he was surrounded in anger at Sephiroth. He was now someone that he couldn't trust.

"To hell with you Sephijerk! I've had a better life without you trying to ruin it as it is!"



"My my my." He shook his head.

"You should know better than to think such things that you know very well you can't keep them. Besides, you chose to work with me, now you will continue to work with me. You should be thankful that I spared your life that first time. You should have known that I was going to release my mother. You were lucky that you got to work with me. Besides, I'm twice as smart as you."



"You read all those books about the past trying to figure out if you were made or not. But if you are so smart...then why do you still not know what you are yet hmm???" Cloud smirked. He was going to see how far he could go.

Sephiroth still wasn't sure. He was starting to feel angry and outraged. He wanted to see blood again. The blood of helpless fools who couldn't stop him from killing them. The blood that he seen when he killed Aeris, The President of Shinra, and mostly everyone from Sector 7. He had killed them all…it hurt Cloud much from seeing it.

"Besides, I'm sure that you still have much more studying to do considering your still not all that smart as are still as dumb as you were when you were created. It's still such a shame that Jenova never taught you any manners." He started to laugh. But that was when he had pushed it too far and Sephiroth jumped in for the kill, missing Cloud and nearly killing himself.



"You fool! You know very well that I could kill you no problem! Why do you not try!?" Sephiroth was angered as he tried again to hit Cloud.



"Sephiroth, I tried to help you and I asked you what was wrong, but you wouldn't give me a chance. Why? I was by your side, and it was my dream to work with you. But I guess I shouldn't have asked the question if you were real or just an experiment. That was what made you do the things that you were doing. But I still do refuse to hurt you. You were like a brother to me. Why did you have to do what you had done?" Cloud held his sword, but did not take it out. He refused to move. He also refused to be killed by this man. It just wasn't right. Everything. It just didn't make a whole lot of sense to him.

"Besides, when I was in my first top class fight with you. I owe you my life. You saved me from being killed by that monster. So hopefully you will understand what I've been meaning."





Sephiroth fell to his knees and yelled in pain. The agony that cost him from killing and all the pain he had suffered through that time. He had then had so many flashbacks of what had happened to him when he was with his mother. Jenova. She was the greatest mother to Sephiroth. A mother that taught him his fighting skills. A mother who cared for her child.



"Mother..." he breathed.



"Sephiroth...you can stop your killing and live with your mother. She is still alive. That machine thing that you supposedly called your mother was not her. It was a fake. Your real mother is sick though in the Hospital in Sector 8. I had found her lying in Sector 5. It was Shinra that had hurt her. But you got your revenge on them. You killed the Shinra president. Please. Go to the hospital and see your mother.



"How do I know that you speak the truth?"



"Because wisdom is only found in truth. It takes a while to realize that but there are some things that it would be best to find out yourself. " Cloud smiled.



"But still, I killed your friend....I killed so many people...and for what? I killed them all just because it was what I thought I was supposed to do." He stood up.

"Cloud, I must thank you. But though you may want to help me, you can't. I've done too much evil to get help now. Maybe I will consider it. But for now, stay away..." He then disappeared as Cloud was trying to reach him.



"Sephiroth...." Cloud knelt to the ground and yelled in agony and anguish....





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