Angel Trapped On Earth

Chapter Fifteen

.+. The Start of Panic .+.

The bullet took an amazing flight and missed Sephiroth's head by a fraction of an inch. Sephiroth exhaled a breath that he didn't realize he was holding. He whipped around to see that Vincent had brought down a man that was trying to strike Sephiroth while he was distracted. He turned around at Vincent and a ghost of a smile touched his lips.

"Can you?" He repeated his earlier question and Vincent gave him a nod.

Sephiroth sped past the men, deciding that he didn't have the time to deal with them, but only came faced to face with more stupid men. One guard tried to lunge at him. Big mistake. Sephiroth punched him with a soundly crack that could only be the fracturing of an eye socket and the man stumbled backwards. Sephiroth then continued to make a clean swipe of him with the Masamune and only smirked at the blood that dripped slowly down. He ran towards the direction of the Highwind and stopped in his tracks when he spotted a room and a form of someone all too familiar.

Hojo.

Anger won over reason as he dashed inside the room. Hojo turned towards him and gave him a haunting smile. No chance, Sephiroth thought to himself savagely as he raised his massive sword and swung.

.+.+.

"Oh shit which button, which button?" Reeves asked nervously. He had never come with his situation before. But then again, he'd never seen so many buttons before in his life.

"Just fucking press one." Cid suggested impatiently. He really needed a damn cigarette.

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Nanaki curled up in the air and sprung forth, his hind legs kicking some guards in the process. Hojo was nowhere to be found and it looks like they're a little lost in this large building. Simon was having a tough job of everything and got injured rather than doing the injury himself. He wasn't a fighter, Nanaki thought to himself wryly, he was a damn kid. Barret on the other hand, was having no trouble at all. The bullets that sped out of his gun-arm had amazing efficiency and effect.

"How the hell do we find the bastard?" Barret yelled over the gunshots.

"How the hell do I know?" Nanaki retorted. Cursing wasn't like him but he was so irritated with everything right now that he pretty much didn't care.

.+.+.

"Where the hell are you taking me?" Tifa hissed as she felt Cloud close behind her back, holding her wrists in place.

"Somewhere, now shut up and be a good girl." Cloud replied harshly and his hold on her wrists tightened.

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Sephiroth frowned. The sword went right through him! It must be a hologram, Sephiroth decided disappointedly. This wasn't going too well and he frowned deep in thought. It was as if they had expected an attack and had fully prepared. If they had expected it then--

A growl.

Sephiroth's head whipped in the direction of the sound and he met a pair of dark garnet eyes. It had a figure of a human form, but Sephiroth couldn't be sure. He gripped his Masamune tighter and narrowed his eyes for a better look. No. It was definitely not human. When the creature snarled, fangs bared and its mouth frothed unattractively. A scar ran deep across the cheek of the creature and a wart was protruding out of its forehead. It was walking slowly towards Sephiroth and then suddenly sprang to action as it made a mad leap to attack him.

"Fire 3." Sephiroth murmured coldly, and the fire took a considerable amount of HP away from the creature. It advanced upon Sephiroth and it's fist flew out and Sephiroth dodged it with ease.

"If this is all Hojo can do then this is pathetic." Sephiroth muttered.

Another growl.

Sephiroth whirled around and two more faced him. What the hell?

'Doesn't matter, I'll fuck them up anyway,' Sephiroth thought to himself grimly.

Yet, another growl.

'Now this is getting stupid.'

Three more came into view and they all attacked Sephiroth at once. Sephiroth shrugged off his cloak and used it as a weapon against one that was attacking his right side, smacking it with the thickness of his coat. It got flung off of him and he elbowed another from the back in the eye and it staggered back before advancing upon him again. His hp went down by 100 and his limit break went up.

"Fury." He simply said and rose up in the air, raising his sword high above his head.

He brought it down upon the cold floor with a thundering crash and red slashes vibrated from the sword across the floor. It sliced into all of them, neatly swiping them all into little pieces. One by one, they dissolved acidly. With a smirk, he fastened on his cloak with a flourish and disappeared towards the Highwind.

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"Red…for stop? ..Green for go. Yeah that's it.." Reeves chanted to himself, sweat glistening on his brow.

"Damn it just choose one." Rufus muttered.

"I can't! What if..?" Reeves contained his cool and smiled at Rufus, "No problem. I'll figure it out, don't worry."

.+.+.

"TIFA!" Sephiroth bellowed as he opened the door with a vicious yank.

An uneasy feeling settled in his stomach when it wasn't locked like it was supposed to. He was going to kill her if she hadn't already gone and done that herself. He blindingly sped down the hallways of the Highwind and off into the laboratory again. He hoped she was safe.

Safe so he could rip her head off.

Lost in thoughts and his legs racing towards the building, he didn't notice that he had gone in the wrong way. Now he was faced to face with about a dozen of guards. They all looked at him and reached in for their weapons. Sephiroth narrowed his eyes dangerously, all reasonable thoughts were tossed out the window and replaced by the hunger to kill every stupid man that dared to stand in his way.

'Not now, boys.' He thought to himself as he glared at the men.

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"Cloud, let me go!" Tifa cried in a strangled voice. Her wrists was hurting like hell.

Cloud just sneered and reached inside his coat. He frowned as he rummaged through the pockets and found nothing there.

"The talisman!" He uttered in horror.

He had woken up to a rustling sound inside his bedroom but when he looked around he found nothing. Rustling sound….

Someone had stolen the talisman! Cloud's thoughts raced in bewilderment and he looked at Tifa in puzzlement. Her eyes were clouded over with anger and yet he saw no fear amongst the crimson and mahogany depths. That bothered him.

"….Damn it. Let's go." He growled as he hauled her towards a flight of stairs.

Her legs stumbled as she had troubled fighting against his insistent dragging up the short case of stairs and they rounded a corner. "Cloud, just let me go." Tifa pleaded.

He looked at her and closed his eyes in agony. Truthfully, he didn't really know why he was doing at this instant. He just knew he had to do it. His lips curled up sinisterly, letting the visage cover up his indecisiveness.

"My my, Tifa. Since when did we resort to begging?" He said with a leer.

"If you were a man, you'd let me fight." Tifa spat at him.

"In case you haven't noticed, you can't win a battle against me." He said smugly.

Tifa's eyes glanced at the figure that was approaching them but decided not to comment, instead her eyes narrowed into slits and she seethed.

"In case you haven't noticed, we've never fought a battle against each other." She retorted back.

"You're much weaker than I am."

"Let. Me. Go." Tifa said through clenched teeth as she twisted and turned, but all that gave her was more pain in her wrists.

"No. We're going to put you somewhere 'till I know what to do." He replied curtly.

"You mean until you know what to do to me." She added bitterly causing Cloud to chuckle.

Bastard.

Cloud rummanged through his racing mind for what could've happened to the talisman until it all came down to one name. Hojo. He had probably taken it, and before Cloud could think any further, he felt a cold, hard, metal object pressed into the back of his head.

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[ A/N: My my..how evil I am. ^^ You're not going to kill me now are you? Hehe..well hmmm reviewing would surely quicken the pace of the update of the next chapter..*hint hint* =) I appreciate all the reviews I've been getting *getting tearful* You guys are so great! *Sighs* I just looked up FF12 and Yuna looks very ahem..revealed. Noooo……!! Whyyy whyy whyy!? Okay, well hehe enough of my babbles, bye bye and I hope you enjoyed this chapter! P.S YAY! I reached over 100 reviews! Thanks guys! I really appreciate it! Keep on reviewing, thanks!!!]