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Return of the One-Winged Angel

Chapter Two: The Battle



A drop of sweat fell from Cloud's face, mixing with the rain, just as Cloud rush ar Sephiroth, pulling his Buster sword above him. In one felt swoop Cloud brought the massive sword downwards at Sephiroth. Sephiroth in turn, brought up his Masamune, and placed his right hand on the blunt side of the Masamune's blade. Bringing the sword up, Sephiroth put the blade in front of Cloud's attacked, pushed on the blade, and through Cloud to the ground. "Hmph.. What a weakling. How on earth did you ever beat me in the lifestream..?" He tilted his head back and let out a low cackle that very often shook the heart of even the bravest warriors.

Sephiroth, now taking the offensive, dashed towards where Cloud was laying on the ground, bringing up the Masamune to the side, and swung the mighty blade at him. Cloud rolled to the side, but not quick enough as the Masamune's cold metal dug into the leg of Cloud spilling some blood on the ground. Without even noticing the wound, cloud jumped up from the ground, swinging his Buster sword at Sephiroth's legs. Sephiroth, now, leaped high into the air, easily avoiding the attack. In one placed blow, Sephiroth sent his sword into a near by building, planting it their. While holding onto the Masamune's handle, and suspending himself in the air, Sephiroth pulled out several Molotive Cocktails. He through them at Cloud, all except one.

Cloud brought the his sword up, and hit the Molotiv Cocktails one by one, deflecting them to the side, where they then blew up. Now Sephiroth through the last one at Cloud, when he turned around to look where one of the cocktails went. The bottle hit Cloud in the back, exploding instantly, and one again throwing cloud to the ground. Now Cloud wasn't only bleeding from his leg, but he had a fairly good size burn mark on his back. Sephiroth yanked the Masamune from the building it was planted in out and fell to the ground, landing in a loud thump. Cloud crawled back up now, this time a tad bit slower. "Don't you ever give up....?" Said Sephiroth, so Cloud in turn said, "NEVER as long as you are around I must punsih you for all the inocent lives you have taken! Like Aeris! This time you shall DIE!!" And at one Cloud's temper soared to the point where he was able to do his most powerful attack. A green, blue, and yellow, auroa sourounded Cloud, and with a flash it disapeared. Right after the flash, Cloud raised his sword in the air and charged at Sephiroth yelling one word. "Omnislash!!"

Cloud ran straight at Sephiroth swinging his sword at Sephiroth when he got their, Sephiroth bloked it. And now Cloud when into a massive frenzy of attacks swinging like a madman, but in an orginized way. He was jumping from side to side, attacking Sephiroth left side, then right side, and then his middle, and then his left again, and so on. One by one, Sephiroth, knwoing the patter and memorizing it from his previous fight with Cloud, blocked every single blow thrown at him by Cloud. And then Cloud stopped his frenzy, and held the blade back as a ball of light grew around the tip of the blade and once more swung at Sephiroth. Sephiroth took a few steps back, and the blade hit the ground infront of him, but the pure energy from the attack caused a small explausion, that was a lot more powerful then it looked. Sephiroth was thrown backwards and into a the bar's wall, crashing through it. He went all the way through the wall and finally stopped when he hit the bar counter itself.

Wounded, Sephiroth got back up from the ground, some blood comming down some various spots. "Hmm finally you show me the power you used on me at the Crater.. But it shant not be enough to beat me this time. For this time I shall win!" And Sephiroth pulled a small green orb, a mastered Fire Materia. "I will burn you and this town down right now!" Cloud got worried now. He knew he shouldn't have let Yuffie have the Materia when she went back to Wutai. He had no magic offense now. Or defense for that matter. Sephiroth just stood thier, as the magic casting auroa sorrounded him, and flashed. Sephiroth now walked out of the bar, just as small rather small explosions surrounded the place, and then one massive explosion happened as the place caught on fire from the Fire3 attack, and half of it was nearly vaporized from the explosion.

Sephiroth now raised a hand to his mouth and started cackling as he started another spell. While he was casting the spell, Cloud just stood their in shock. "H.... How could you do that!? There were living people in that building!" And then as if an answer to his question, another building was demolished by another Fire3 spell right behind him. And then from the fire of that one, a building caught on fire next to it and went up in flames. Quickly, Cloud dashed into the building to try and save anybody who was in there. Realizes a little to late that there was no one in the building, the roof collapsed on top of Cloud. In a clash the entire buildings second floor, attic, and rook came down on top of him. And he fell down from it, unconsious...

Sephiroth went back to work now, one by one, burning down each building. The fire could be seen all the way in Coral, and so could the screams of the people burning alive in the building. When it was all done Sephiroth went over to the building that Cloud was in and dug around until he found him. He brought the battered and half dead man out of the ruble and held him up by the collar. The storm was over now too but Cloud's suffering was far from over. Sephiroth raised cloud in the air and shook his head at him, "What a pitiful man..." just as he through Cloud at one the very few things still standing, and when it was it, it fell down instantly when Cloud's body smacked into it. Sephiroth walked up to Cloud know, and kicked him in the gut, the already dieing man rolled a few feet away. "Hmm... maybe I should just end it now for you?" He kicked Cloud again. "Or maybe I should tortue for a few hours and then kill you?" Cloud was kicked again. "Decisions... decisions.." And now Sephiroth smirked.

"I suppose I should take it easy on you now, and just kill." He tilted his head back and cackled once more. He pulled the Masamune out of it's sheath, which he had put their while he was burning down the place, and held it above Cloud's chest. In one fatal swoop, Sephiroth plunged the sword into Cloud chest, into his heart, and even all the way through the man's body. As Sephiroth did it, Cloud took a last breath, a breath of death, and died. Now Sephiroth pulled the impaled sword out of the corpse, whipping the blood on his pants leg. Now he walked off and out of the town, a town that will be considered in the future another Nibelheim, but this time no survivors...

The end of Chapter Two: The Battle. Chapter Three: Aftermath will be up soon. Hopefully..