Disclaimer: This chapter might be weird but that is because I had some weird dreams last night and I am using some ideas form the dreams. PS: Due to an attachment to my Kool-Aid™ addiction I don't own any SquareSoft™/SquareEnix™ characters. Damn you Kool-Aid™ man. Also if anyone has seen my disc one to FFIX, please tell me.

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"Down the dark hall, up the stairs and past the chambers. I saw him." Cloud's thoughts escaping into his dreams, cause him to relive events. "A vile creature at the apex of the stairs. A tall figure with dark hair, in a perilous battle with a man of equal height, but long silver hair only outdone by his massive sword."

"You think you can kill me, Sephiroth," a voice said from under the dark hair.

"Not only can I kill you, but I will spit on your ashes after I smote your ass." Sephiroth cradled a hand full of Fire behind his back. Sephiroth unsheathed his sword and slit the man's right arm, which was holding his sword. The man switched hands and tore off, up the stairs, and cut off Sephiroth arm. He stared into Sephiroth's cold eyes and laughed at Sephiroth's pitiful attempt to regain his stance. With blood streaming form his nub of an arm, Sephiroth took his hand to his arm, then to his mouth and drank from his blood. The man sprang into the air with a final attempt to murder his foe. But with the elegance of a swan, Sephiroth wrote his sword in the heavens, and painted the moon with the man's blood. He laid his fallen foe upon a chamber, and looked stragiht into Cloud's eyes. A cold trickle fell across Cloud's spine, and Cloud set off running. He didn't know where to go, he knew only that his legs still worked.

"Why didn't I help him?" Cloud began mumbling, "I was too weak."

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Cloud awoke in a cold sweat. He looked to his right and saw Aeris. While staring at his love, he mumbled, "How can I protect you, when I'm not even safe in my own dreams?" Cloud climbed out of bed and dressed, remembering last night, he walked to the bar..

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*The Night Before* Cloud and his friends gathed in the bar and drank to their lives. He, Aeris, Cait Sith, Yuffie, Barret, Cid sat around the table. They all spoke of their undying friendships to each other. Everyone looked toward the clock as it tolled out nine o' clock. Then they looked toward the door, like it was a normal routine, and saw Tifa walk through in her tight nightgown, that was too small in a lot of places. Everyone knew she was a drunk, but she would never admit it. Everyone knew that in about two minutes, she would walk up to Cloud, profess her love to him and throw up in the well-placed bucket next to him. Then they'd laugh like they did every night. They always had a good time, but tonight was different. Tifa walked right past him and traipsed to the bar. She ordered a large bottle of whiskey and stormed out.

Tifa was permiscuous and would sleep with anything that stood on two legs. She slept with troglodytes of men. Everyone knew that ever since Cloud went on the Journey with Aeris, that Tifa broke down every week and cried for three days straight, until her eyes dried up and they started to bleed.

"Tonight is the night," Cloud thought,"I will tell Aeris how I feel." He didn't know if it was the alchohol or his emotions that took over, but he told Aeris, she smiled and kissed him.

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With their friendship renewed and brought to a higher level, they went back to work. Their next mission was about a Chocobo Eater in the east. It seems that the Chocobo Eater is terrorizing the townsfolk and destroying their herds.

"You can count on us," they joyfully said together.

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They set off for the Chocobo farm in the east to investigate. Yet they didn't know they were being followed.

"You two look very happy together," the mayor said to them, "about an hour ago their was a person with dark hair here asking for you. Besides that we need your help. Here, I'll show you to the last chocobo."

They walked to the stables and looked upon the beauty of the lone chocobo. Aeris put her hand up to block the sun, but as she did the sun was replaced by shadow. A person standing on top of the silo was blocking out the sun with it's dark hair.

"Get ready," Cloud shouted to Aeris, "OK?"

The figure jumped off the silo and landed to the ground with a crack of glass. It was apparent that the person was holding a bottle of whiskey.

"Damn it, Tifa, how many times do I need to tell you, we're over." Cloud's temper was rising,"We never were and never will be, there was no promise."

"But, Cloud -hic- I don't want you -hic-, I'm here to kill her -hic-." She stumbled with every word as she pointed in the general vacinity of Aeris. "You stole my man and I will take him back."

"I won't let you kill-" Cloud started but was coverd with a whale of a dolphin and couldn't speak.

"You think you can kill me, Tifa," Aeris said to Tifa.

"Not only will I -hic- kill you, but I'll -burp- spit on your ashes after I smote your ass." Tifa's eyes filled with tears and she threw up all over the chocobo. With that the chocobo jumped into the sky and fell upon Tifa. It ripped her eyes out and as the blood speckled the chocobo's feathers, Tifa cried out. The chocobo tore out her laranyx, so she couldn't scream. Ironically, the chocobo scared away everyone and Cloud was under the dolphin and couldn't hear. Her pitiful cries for attention, numbed by the fact that no one would pay attention to her already, went unanswered.

Cloud's hand found his sword and cut the dolphin to free himself. He looked upon Tifa's bloody torso and saw all that was left of her grace stream from her eyes.

"She's beyond the point in which I can heal her," Aeris cried.

"It's all right Aeris," Cloud said unfaultering, "I think she deserved to finally rest, after all she had done." Cloud carried her body to the nearby lake and set her in. Watching her go down, he neither wept nor celebrated, he just looked into the depths of the water and bid his farewell.

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Aeris and Cloud never saw a Chocobo Eater so they returned to Midgar. Turns out that the Chocobo eater jumped into a lake after seeing blood in it and drowned. So Cloud and Aeris collected there money and no one ever spoke of what happened on the farm again.

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I hope you liked Chapter Two, it may seem weird but maybe you liked the fate of Tifa. I'll be writing more if you didn't like it tell me in a review and flame me if you want. Go on I dare you.

Next Chapter I'll introduce the true enemy or enemies. You'll have to wait to find out. Tune in for the next installment of:

Final Fantasy: Project X