Chapter 9: Cloud's Revenge
(Wooo!! I just finished the 8th chapter, and I'm ready to rock on the 9th! Thanks for the reviews [Consisting of my awesome supporter Precious Fire, thank you!] and the support! I'm trying to get a little bit more funny, but it keeps curving into the seriousness! .o; Well I hope you enjoyed the mini story in the middle! It's to make you giggle, even during times of seriousness (but this chapter is going to be the extreme-o serious u.u; )! I don't "pwn" ( yes. PWN... not own. Pwn. ) any of these characters... Or do I? j/k... Anyways. ENJOY!)
A young Tifa runs up and spots a young Cloud, "Sorry I'm late. You said you wanted to talk about something?" She sits down, next to Cloud and she stares at him, waiting for him to say something. "Come this spring... I'm leaving this town for Midgar." Tifa looked away, "...all the boys are leaving our town." Cloud turned sharply at Tifa and said with a bit of frustration in his voice, "But I'm different from all of them. I'm not just going to find a job. I want to join SOLDIER. I'm going to be the best there is, just like Sephiroth!"
Tifa looked up the night sky, "Sephiroth... The Great Sephiroth. Isn't it hard to join SOLDIER?" Cloud looked down into his lap, "...I probably won't be able to come back to this town for a while." Tifa jumped from her spot and started to climb behind him, up a flight of stairs. "...huh?" Cloud turned to look at her, but she moved. Tifa stood above him, "Will you be in the newspapers if you do well?" Cloud looked up at her, "I'll try." Tifa came back down to join him, "Hey, why don't we make a promise? Umm, if you get really famous and I'm ever in a bind... You come save me, all right?"
Cloud looked at her with a puzzled look, "What?" Tifa smiled, "Whenever I'm in trouble, my hero will come and rescue me. I want to at least experience that once." Cloud continued with his confused mind, "What?" Tifa pouted for a moment, "Come on! Promise me!" Cloud gave Tifa a soft smile, "All right... I promise."
Cloud...
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Cloud...?
What?
"Cloud! Wake up!" Cid shook him as if he were a rag doll. "Cloud! Geez man! You sleep forever! You were tossing and turning too much, it was annoying everyone. Get up!" Cloud sat up and rubbed his eyes, and yawned, "Why did you have to wake me up? We have nothing to do today... Or ever again! The planet is saved, Sephiroth is gone, and Midgar still smells like shit. Ok?! Leave me alone." He punched Cid and turned around.
"Geez, man! What's your damn problem?" Cid threw his cigarette butt at him and returned to the others. After a moment or two, Cloud then realized that the cigarette butt was still partially lit, "Oh no. OW, OW, OW!"
Cloud jumped up, smacking the butt off of him, "Damn you Cid!"
Cid sat down at a table, propping his feet up, giving a mean smirk. Aeris sighed, "Threw another cigarette butt at him?" Cloud got up with a mean smirk and punched Cid, "Thanks a lot there, Cid." Cid laughed and fell out of his chair in result of the punch. Aeris sighed at Cloud and Batter sat in the corner with his arms crossed, silently. Red XIII rested under the bar counter and stayed silent himself. All of a sudden, Barret stood up, stomped the ground, and shouted, "Where is everyone?! I mean Tifa, Vincent, and Cait Sith left. And where the hell is Yuffie? She disappeared! God dammit!" Barret punched his fist on the bar counter and growled.
Red stuck his head up, "Just chill Barret. They'll come back." Cloud turned to Red XIII and said sharply, "What makes you think that? Huh? TELL ME!" Cloud stomped his foot forward and yelled. Red then sat up and growled, "They aren't all bad people! They were with us before to save the planet, to defeat Sephiroth, and to love one another! So SHUT UP! You act like everything will die and AVALANCHE will be no more! Accept the fact they are gone! But they'll come back! Why? Because we're their family!" Cloud stepped back from Red and his face filled with anger, "Oh yea?"
Cloud started to shuffle around, grabbing his sword and materia, while Aeris is following him around, trying to stop him, "Cloud! Stop being so stubborn!" Cloud heads for the door, as Aeris lays a hand on his shoulder and he jerks away, "I'm going to find Tifa." He turns to Aeris, and his eyes are filled with either hate or love. Aeris steps forward, "But why Cloud? You have me here. I don't know where Yuffie is at, but it doesn't matter. Do you love Tifa or something?" Cloud gets a gnarled look on his face and he runs out of the pub, while Aeris falls to her knees, holding her hand outward, "Cloud! Cloud...wait! Cloud..." Aeris then scooted back with fear in her eyes. Her face turned pale and tears started to form and roll down her ghost like face.
"His eyes..." Aeris said quietly. "Aeris?" Barret, Cid, and Red stepped up as Barret bent down to her. "His eyes..." She repeated. Barret said softly, "What about them? What's the matter?" Aeris turned slowly and looked at him as cold tears ran down her velvet face, "Did you see? His eyes... They had the look of... Sephiroth's eyes." Automatically, Cid stepped back, Red growled, and Barret straightened up, "I thought something seemed wrong."
Red growled a low tune and said softly, "This is bad... Real bad." He turned away and walked behind the counter, "I must tell Tifa." He clawed at his bracelet and a small screen popped up, "Phone: Tifa." The screen made a small chirping noise and Tifa picked up.
"RED! What are you doing? I was on a date!"
Red grins, "Oh really? And with who?" Tifa blushes and looks away, "Ugh, you're such a dog." He barks at her, "I take that to offence!" Tifa jumps back slightly, "Oh sorry! I didn't mean it like that." She chuckles slightly, "Anyways... Why are you calling Red?"
"Well... I got your letter and I wanted to call to tell you, that day will be fine." He kind of grins, but then Tifa catches on, "And?" Red sighs, "Ok... and I wanted to tell you that Cloud is out for you." He continues to smile, but with his ears lowered. "Oh... Good or bad?" Tifa scratches her head. "I can't tell. Her...I have a recording of what happened."
Red pressed buttons on his bracelet with his claws and a recording of what happened show up on the screen. Tifa watches the movie in horror and watches it a couple more times. The sound and picture fades and Tifa is back on the screen.
"See? It's just so odd..." Red sighs and looks down. "Hmm..." Tifa leans against a wall, teasing a strand of her hair. "You better watch out Tifa. I don't know if this'll be a good thing or a bad thing." Tifa smiles and looks at the screen, "Ok... Thanks Red! I can't wait 'til Thursday!" He nods and the screen disappears and she turns her phone off.
Red sighs, "Tifa. Please be careful." He walks over to the others, "How's Aeris?" Cid is sitting at a table, smoking a cigarette, "She's calmed down a bit." He points to Barret and Aeris is talking to him about something.
Barret speaks to Aeris in a calmed voice, "Do you think we should go after him?" Aeris' eyes widen, "NO! We can't! It's his business..." She stands up and runs over to the arcade machine and it lowers, going into the lower level. Red sighs, "She must be frightened..."
Meanwhile, Cloud runs hard towards the only place he can think of to go... ShinRa. His face mangled with expressions, his eyes deepened with hate or love, his heart racing, and his mind asking questions. 'What to do?' 'Where to go?' 'What should I do when I see her?' 'I hate her!' 'I love her!' 'Why?'
'Why?'
'...Why?'
Cloud continued to run for hours, but he started to slow down. A few minutes later, he slowed down completely and passed out from being exhausted. He lied there in Midgar's polluted soil for a couple of hours. It seemed as if no one dared mess with him if anyone walked by. They kept with their business and let him be. Soon enough, his eyes start to wake up and he sat up, "I must have ran myself to exhaustion. I need to get a drink." He got up from the soil and ignored what mess of him remained and sat down on a piece of rubbish. He pulled out a water bottle from his belt and drank the water in haste, "No time to waste. I must go!"
He stood up, threw the water bottle down to the ground and began to run, "It'll make no difference. There is trash everywhere anyways." Cloud's face loosened up, but still had raging emotions in his heart, 'Tifa... Why?'
After a couple hours he stood outside of the ShinRa entrance. He looked around, "Where should I go? The stairs of front entrance?" He shook his head, "Geez! This is familiar. Oh whatever. I'm here for Tifa, and not for any other ShinRa scum." He then ran straightforward into the front.
"HALT! Stop right there... OOF!" Cloud knocked the ShinRa SOLDIER against the head with the hilt of his sword. "HEY!" Another SOLDIER ran up to him. "I don't have time for these games..." Cloud said in a deep, angry voice. The SOLDIER tried to swing his sword, but with one slick movement, Cloud slid his sword straight past the soldier and the soldier fell to the ground. "Uhn..." The man fell and blood started to pour out. Right before his last moments, he contacted security and warned them, right as Cloud started too walk away. Cloud sneered, "How dare you." He turned and stabbed the SOLDIER in the back, twisting his blade to make sure the SOLDIER wouldn't cause any more trouble, "Now then." Cloud ran inside and up to a flight of stairs, killing SOLDIERs along the way. He checked every floor and right up to the 42nd floor, he stopped and spotted a map with people's names on that level, "Where is she?"
Meanwhile, Tifa was up in her room, eating a little snack. "Hmm... I don't think this snack will fill me up. I'll order some down in the cafeteria." Tifa got up, wrote a small note for Yuffie saying she was down in the cafeteria if she woke up and needed her. Tifa walked down the hall and got inside the elevator. She pressed the button to the cafeteria, but with a sharp stop, the elevator stopped suddenly and loud sirens went off along with red lights, "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! An unknown, blonde haired man was identified in level 53! Caution! He carries a weapon! Caution!" Tifa looked around, "That must be!" She gasped and placed her hands over her mouth.
Cloud ran out of the stairs and onto his designated level, "Shit. They set the alarm." He grinned, "It took them long enough." He ran over to the room and Yuffie's door open and there stood a silhouette of a man, holding a sword, "Where is she?" Yuffie looked at him, "I don't know!" Cloud took the note for Yuffie, "The cafeteria?" After he read it, he ran out of the room. Yuffie stood up, "NO! I must follow him!" Yuffie ran out of the room and tried to keep up. He stood at the edge, where the elevator is supposed to be and he looked down, spotting Tifa in the elevator.
Tifa looked up and spotted Cloud, "It's him! Cloud!" Cloud stared down upon her and grinned, "There you are..." Yuffie ran up from behind and grabbed him, pulling him back, "Stop it! Stop it Cloud!" Cloud sharply turned his next and looked slightly at Yuffie, "So this is were you ran to? I guess we aren't good enough for you. Traitor!" Cloud got himself free and pushed Yuffie back, "I said I don't have time for these games!" He yelled and swung his sword at her, but right before he made his sword to her, he made his sword in contact with Reno's electric prod, "Cloud, don't you dare harm her!" Cloud sneered, and at that moment, Yuffie saw a different emotion in his eyes, "Sephiroth?" Yuffie quivered back, "RENO! GET AWAY FROM HIM!" She screamed and moved back. Reno tried to push Cloud back, but Cloud seemed too strong and he pushed Reno back and slashed his sword at him. Yuffie's eyes filled with hot, angry tears and she screamed, "RENO!" She went to his side as a slash across his chest started to bleed, "You're hurt!" Reno smiled, "Run. I'll take care of him!" Cloud started to walk towards the edge again, but Yuffie got up, "You stop right there!"
Cloud turned and looked bored at her, "I said I have no time for these STUPID GAMES! SO LEAVE ME ALONE!" He slashed at her and got her on the arm and leg. Yuffie stumbled onto her butt and she grabbed her arm. Reno gasped and went to Yuffie, "Are you alright?" She nodded and her face seemed to cringe.
Cloud walked towards the edge and looked upon the frightened Tifa, "There you are." He turned to Yuffie and Reno, waving slightly, "Bye bye!" He then jumped down a couple of floors and landed on top of the elevator, making it shift a little. Tifa screamed and fell to the floor. She sat up and looked at the roof of the elevator as Cloud started to open the emergency door. "He's going to kill me... He hates me!" She shivered and tears started to form, but then she realized something, "I'm a part of ShinRa. I can take him down!" She stood up and cloud removed the door, jumping inside.
"There you are." He stepped closer and she stepped back, "Cloud..." He stepped forward slowly, as she stepped back, but then she hit the side of the elevator and was cornered. She felt her heart beat, "Don't..." Cloud stepped up to her, face to face and sneered, "You left me. You destroyed our group. You made others leave! You selfless person. All you think about is yourself! What about us Tifa?" Tifa straightened her fear and pushed him back, "Yea Cloud! What about us? You cheated on me! YOU CHEATED ON ME!" She screamed at him. His eyes got filled with anger and he pushed her against the elevator glass, cracking it slightly, holding her by her throat, "Don't speak to me like that! You're the one who left me."
Tifa started to close her eyes, "I hope you are proud." Cloud tightened his grip on her throat. "Uhhg..." Tifa tried to gulp, but then she opened on eye, "Now you really are what you said." He yelled in her face, "What do you mean by that?" She smirked, "You became The Great Sephiroth. I can see it in your eyes. Jealousy, hatred, abuse, strength. Everything you have dreamed up, has come true." She gasped while she spoke, losing more air at a time. Cloud stepped back with a shocked face. "Shut up! I'm not like that!" He stepped back, grabbed his head, and fell to his knees. Tifa gasped for air and rubbed her neck, looking down upon Cloud, "You don't feel it? It's burning in your heart. I can see it in your eyes. You've turn into Sephiroth." She kneeled down and he scooted away from her, knocking into the other side of the elevator, "STOP IT! Stop saying that! I'm not!" Tears started to form in his eyes out of anger and shock. Tifa then smiled softly and leaned forward to him, stroking his hair, "Just breathe." Cloud growled, between sniffles, "How dare you say I'm him."
Tifa looked at him with an odd face, "What?" He looked up at her and then tackled her upward to the glass, making it smash and shards fly off the elevator and some into her, "CLOUD, DON'T!" Blood started to trickle down her face and back. He growled, "I loved you." He tightened his grip and cried, "You broke my heart. What did I do? I'm sorry! I SAID SORRY!" he pushed her into a sharp piece of glass, "Ooow! Stop it Cloud!" Tifa winced in pain, but all of a sudden a huge thump was heard on top of elevator, and from what Tifa could tell in the dark and in all the red lights was a figure of a tall man, "Let go of her Cloud." Tifa couldn't make out the voice, and started to fade because lose of blood. "Who is that?" She tried to look, but she fainted right there as the unknown man knocked out Cloud.
The next morning, Tifa slowly woke up in an unfamiliar place, "Where am I?" She looked around slowly and found a huge, grinning plushie with a cat on his head, "Cait Sith?" He jumped up a bit and smiled, "Good morning Ms. Tifa. How are you feeling?" Tifa tried to sit up, but couldn't, "I feel sore. What happened?" The cat jumped down from the plushie's head and sat next to Tifa, "Cloud intruded and attacked you Ms. Tifa." Tifa closed her eyes and remember seeing what happened, "Oh yea..." She sighed and looked out the clean window of the ShinRa building and onto the dungy site of pollution, "I wish sunlight would shine through and I could see blue sky. It would be much more relaxing than that uneasy sight." Cait Sith patted Tifa's hand, "I understand. It'll be cleaned up soon enough." Tifa sighed and turned to Cait Sith with a smile, "You are so nice to me."
As soon as she said that, the door opened and Yuffie came in with a bandage on her arm and leg, followed by a suited Vincent, "Tifa! Oh my gosh! Are you ok?" Yuffie went over to her, "I'm fine, but what about you Yuf-er-Taki?" Tifa glanced at Vincent, as he nodded, knowing that this 'Taki' was Yuffie. Tifa then looked back at Yuffie, "What happened to you Yuffie?" Yuffie sat down carefully at a seat next to Tifa's bed, as Vincent took Yuffie's crutch, "I got attacked by Cloud. I'm so sorry Tifa, but I tried to stop him. Reno tried to stop him too, but he got us both." Tifa sat up a little, "Oh my gosh! Is Reno alright?" Yuffie looked down at her lap and tears started to form, but she tried to keep a smile on her face, "Cloud... He got Reno pretty bad. He slashed him pretty bad across his chest. The medical says he'll be ok, but I'm worried. I'm worried for both of you." Tifa frowned, "I'm so sorry Yuffie."
Vincent cleared his throat, "Reno is in the next infirmary. He's doing very well in recovering. Yuffie, I think you should go comfort him." Yuffie looked up at Vincent and she nodded, grabbing her crutch and standing up, "I will." She turned to Tifa and wiped her eyes, "Get better soon. It'll get lonely in the apartment." Tifa smiled and nodded, "I'll be back sooner than you know it! Now go!" Yuffie smiled and went to the door as Vincent opened it and let her through, "Bye Yuf." He closed the door and turned back to Tifa, "Tifa..." Tifa turned her head from the door to him, "Yes Vincent?" He sat down on the edge of the bed, "What was Cloud doing here?" Tifa sighed, "Red warned me. He told me Cloud was after me. He said he wanted his revenge on hurting him, leaving him, and leaving the group. Then he attacked me... When I told him he had the emotions of Sephiroth. He went ballistic on me, attacked me, and then..." Tifa stopped and then thought, looking down. Vincent tilted his head, "What is it?"
"A man." Tifa said quietly. Vincent rose an eyebrow, "What?" Tifa looked up at him, "A man came to my rescue. I couldn't think of who it was or who's voice I heard." Vincent sat up and thought for a moment, "Hmm... Oh yea!" Vincent snapped his finger and pointed at her, "You saviour was..." He went into a thought again. Tifa stared at him strangely, "Who was it?"
Vincent smiled and chuckled, "Sorry I forgot for a moment." He thought for a second more, "I just heard the small details, but I believe your saviour who helped you out was Tseng." Tifa sat up with a shocked look, "What?!"
(Wooo!! I just finished the 8th chapter, and I'm ready to rock on the 9th! Thanks for the reviews [Consisting of my awesome supporter Precious Fire, thank you!] and the support! I'm trying to get a little bit more funny, but it keeps curving into the seriousness! .o; Well I hope you enjoyed the mini story in the middle! It's to make you giggle, even during times of seriousness (but this chapter is going to be the extreme-o serious u.u; )! I don't "pwn" ( yes. PWN... not own. Pwn. ) any of these characters... Or do I? j/k... Anyways. ENJOY!)
A young Tifa runs up and spots a young Cloud, "Sorry I'm late. You said you wanted to talk about something?" She sits down, next to Cloud and she stares at him, waiting for him to say something. "Come this spring... I'm leaving this town for Midgar." Tifa looked away, "...all the boys are leaving our town." Cloud turned sharply at Tifa and said with a bit of frustration in his voice, "But I'm different from all of them. I'm not just going to find a job. I want to join SOLDIER. I'm going to be the best there is, just like Sephiroth!"
Tifa looked up the night sky, "Sephiroth... The Great Sephiroth. Isn't it hard to join SOLDIER?" Cloud looked down into his lap, "...I probably won't be able to come back to this town for a while." Tifa jumped from her spot and started to climb behind him, up a flight of stairs. "...huh?" Cloud turned to look at her, but she moved. Tifa stood above him, "Will you be in the newspapers if you do well?" Cloud looked up at her, "I'll try." Tifa came back down to join him, "Hey, why don't we make a promise? Umm, if you get really famous and I'm ever in a bind... You come save me, all right?"
Cloud looked at her with a puzzled look, "What?" Tifa smiled, "Whenever I'm in trouble, my hero will come and rescue me. I want to at least experience that once." Cloud continued with his confused mind, "What?" Tifa pouted for a moment, "Come on! Promise me!" Cloud gave Tifa a soft smile, "All right... I promise."
Cloud...
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Cloud...?
What?
"Cloud! Wake up!" Cid shook him as if he were a rag doll. "Cloud! Geez man! You sleep forever! You were tossing and turning too much, it was annoying everyone. Get up!" Cloud sat up and rubbed his eyes, and yawned, "Why did you have to wake me up? We have nothing to do today... Or ever again! The planet is saved, Sephiroth is gone, and Midgar still smells like shit. Ok?! Leave me alone." He punched Cid and turned around.
"Geez, man! What's your damn problem?" Cid threw his cigarette butt at him and returned to the others. After a moment or two, Cloud then realized that the cigarette butt was still partially lit, "Oh no. OW, OW, OW!"
Cloud jumped up, smacking the butt off of him, "Damn you Cid!"
Cid sat down at a table, propping his feet up, giving a mean smirk. Aeris sighed, "Threw another cigarette butt at him?" Cloud got up with a mean smirk and punched Cid, "Thanks a lot there, Cid." Cid laughed and fell out of his chair in result of the punch. Aeris sighed at Cloud and Batter sat in the corner with his arms crossed, silently. Red XIII rested under the bar counter and stayed silent himself. All of a sudden, Barret stood up, stomped the ground, and shouted, "Where is everyone?! I mean Tifa, Vincent, and Cait Sith left. And where the hell is Yuffie? She disappeared! God dammit!" Barret punched his fist on the bar counter and growled.
Red stuck his head up, "Just chill Barret. They'll come back." Cloud turned to Red XIII and said sharply, "What makes you think that? Huh? TELL ME!" Cloud stomped his foot forward and yelled. Red then sat up and growled, "They aren't all bad people! They were with us before to save the planet, to defeat Sephiroth, and to love one another! So SHUT UP! You act like everything will die and AVALANCHE will be no more! Accept the fact they are gone! But they'll come back! Why? Because we're their family!" Cloud stepped back from Red and his face filled with anger, "Oh yea?"
Cloud started to shuffle around, grabbing his sword and materia, while Aeris is following him around, trying to stop him, "Cloud! Stop being so stubborn!" Cloud heads for the door, as Aeris lays a hand on his shoulder and he jerks away, "I'm going to find Tifa." He turns to Aeris, and his eyes are filled with either hate or love. Aeris steps forward, "But why Cloud? You have me here. I don't know where Yuffie is at, but it doesn't matter. Do you love Tifa or something?" Cloud gets a gnarled look on his face and he runs out of the pub, while Aeris falls to her knees, holding her hand outward, "Cloud! Cloud...wait! Cloud..." Aeris then scooted back with fear in her eyes. Her face turned pale and tears started to form and roll down her ghost like face.
"His eyes..." Aeris said quietly. "Aeris?" Barret, Cid, and Red stepped up as Barret bent down to her. "His eyes..." She repeated. Barret said softly, "What about them? What's the matter?" Aeris turned slowly and looked at him as cold tears ran down her velvet face, "Did you see? His eyes... They had the look of... Sephiroth's eyes." Automatically, Cid stepped back, Red growled, and Barret straightened up, "I thought something seemed wrong."
Red growled a low tune and said softly, "This is bad... Real bad." He turned away and walked behind the counter, "I must tell Tifa." He clawed at his bracelet and a small screen popped up, "Phone: Tifa." The screen made a small chirping noise and Tifa picked up.
"RED! What are you doing? I was on a date!"
Red grins, "Oh really? And with who?" Tifa blushes and looks away, "Ugh, you're such a dog." He barks at her, "I take that to offence!" Tifa jumps back slightly, "Oh sorry! I didn't mean it like that." She chuckles slightly, "Anyways... Why are you calling Red?"
"Well... I got your letter and I wanted to call to tell you, that day will be fine." He kind of grins, but then Tifa catches on, "And?" Red sighs, "Ok... and I wanted to tell you that Cloud is out for you." He continues to smile, but with his ears lowered. "Oh... Good or bad?" Tifa scratches her head. "I can't tell. Her...I have a recording of what happened."
Red pressed buttons on his bracelet with his claws and a recording of what happened show up on the screen. Tifa watches the movie in horror and watches it a couple more times. The sound and picture fades and Tifa is back on the screen.
"See? It's just so odd..." Red sighs and looks down. "Hmm..." Tifa leans against a wall, teasing a strand of her hair. "You better watch out Tifa. I don't know if this'll be a good thing or a bad thing." Tifa smiles and looks at the screen, "Ok... Thanks Red! I can't wait 'til Thursday!" He nods and the screen disappears and she turns her phone off.
Red sighs, "Tifa. Please be careful." He walks over to the others, "How's Aeris?" Cid is sitting at a table, smoking a cigarette, "She's calmed down a bit." He points to Barret and Aeris is talking to him about something.
Barret speaks to Aeris in a calmed voice, "Do you think we should go after him?" Aeris' eyes widen, "NO! We can't! It's his business..." She stands up and runs over to the arcade machine and it lowers, going into the lower level. Red sighs, "She must be frightened..."
Meanwhile, Cloud runs hard towards the only place he can think of to go... ShinRa. His face mangled with expressions, his eyes deepened with hate or love, his heart racing, and his mind asking questions. 'What to do?' 'Where to go?' 'What should I do when I see her?' 'I hate her!' 'I love her!' 'Why?'
'Why?'
'...Why?'
Cloud continued to run for hours, but he started to slow down. A few minutes later, he slowed down completely and passed out from being exhausted. He lied there in Midgar's polluted soil for a couple of hours. It seemed as if no one dared mess with him if anyone walked by. They kept with their business and let him be. Soon enough, his eyes start to wake up and he sat up, "I must have ran myself to exhaustion. I need to get a drink." He got up from the soil and ignored what mess of him remained and sat down on a piece of rubbish. He pulled out a water bottle from his belt and drank the water in haste, "No time to waste. I must go!"
He stood up, threw the water bottle down to the ground and began to run, "It'll make no difference. There is trash everywhere anyways." Cloud's face loosened up, but still had raging emotions in his heart, 'Tifa... Why?'
After a couple hours he stood outside of the ShinRa entrance. He looked around, "Where should I go? The stairs of front entrance?" He shook his head, "Geez! This is familiar. Oh whatever. I'm here for Tifa, and not for any other ShinRa scum." He then ran straightforward into the front.
"HALT! Stop right there... OOF!" Cloud knocked the ShinRa SOLDIER against the head with the hilt of his sword. "HEY!" Another SOLDIER ran up to him. "I don't have time for these games..." Cloud said in a deep, angry voice. The SOLDIER tried to swing his sword, but with one slick movement, Cloud slid his sword straight past the soldier and the soldier fell to the ground. "Uhn..." The man fell and blood started to pour out. Right before his last moments, he contacted security and warned them, right as Cloud started too walk away. Cloud sneered, "How dare you." He turned and stabbed the SOLDIER in the back, twisting his blade to make sure the SOLDIER wouldn't cause any more trouble, "Now then." Cloud ran inside and up to a flight of stairs, killing SOLDIERs along the way. He checked every floor and right up to the 42nd floor, he stopped and spotted a map with people's names on that level, "Where is she?"
Meanwhile, Tifa was up in her room, eating a little snack. "Hmm... I don't think this snack will fill me up. I'll order some down in the cafeteria." Tifa got up, wrote a small note for Yuffie saying she was down in the cafeteria if she woke up and needed her. Tifa walked down the hall and got inside the elevator. She pressed the button to the cafeteria, but with a sharp stop, the elevator stopped suddenly and loud sirens went off along with red lights, "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! An unknown, blonde haired man was identified in level 53! Caution! He carries a weapon! Caution!" Tifa looked around, "That must be!" She gasped and placed her hands over her mouth.
Cloud ran out of the stairs and onto his designated level, "Shit. They set the alarm." He grinned, "It took them long enough." He ran over to the room and Yuffie's door open and there stood a silhouette of a man, holding a sword, "Where is she?" Yuffie looked at him, "I don't know!" Cloud took the note for Yuffie, "The cafeteria?" After he read it, he ran out of the room. Yuffie stood up, "NO! I must follow him!" Yuffie ran out of the room and tried to keep up. He stood at the edge, where the elevator is supposed to be and he looked down, spotting Tifa in the elevator.
Tifa looked up and spotted Cloud, "It's him! Cloud!" Cloud stared down upon her and grinned, "There you are..." Yuffie ran up from behind and grabbed him, pulling him back, "Stop it! Stop it Cloud!" Cloud sharply turned his next and looked slightly at Yuffie, "So this is were you ran to? I guess we aren't good enough for you. Traitor!" Cloud got himself free and pushed Yuffie back, "I said I don't have time for these games!" He yelled and swung his sword at her, but right before he made his sword to her, he made his sword in contact with Reno's electric prod, "Cloud, don't you dare harm her!" Cloud sneered, and at that moment, Yuffie saw a different emotion in his eyes, "Sephiroth?" Yuffie quivered back, "RENO! GET AWAY FROM HIM!" She screamed and moved back. Reno tried to push Cloud back, but Cloud seemed too strong and he pushed Reno back and slashed his sword at him. Yuffie's eyes filled with hot, angry tears and she screamed, "RENO!" She went to his side as a slash across his chest started to bleed, "You're hurt!" Reno smiled, "Run. I'll take care of him!" Cloud started to walk towards the edge again, but Yuffie got up, "You stop right there!"
Cloud turned and looked bored at her, "I said I have no time for these STUPID GAMES! SO LEAVE ME ALONE!" He slashed at her and got her on the arm and leg. Yuffie stumbled onto her butt and she grabbed her arm. Reno gasped and went to Yuffie, "Are you alright?" She nodded and her face seemed to cringe.
Cloud walked towards the edge and looked upon the frightened Tifa, "There you are." He turned to Yuffie and Reno, waving slightly, "Bye bye!" He then jumped down a couple of floors and landed on top of the elevator, making it shift a little. Tifa screamed and fell to the floor. She sat up and looked at the roof of the elevator as Cloud started to open the emergency door. "He's going to kill me... He hates me!" She shivered and tears started to form, but then she realized something, "I'm a part of ShinRa. I can take him down!" She stood up and cloud removed the door, jumping inside.
"There you are." He stepped closer and she stepped back, "Cloud..." He stepped forward slowly, as she stepped back, but then she hit the side of the elevator and was cornered. She felt her heart beat, "Don't..." Cloud stepped up to her, face to face and sneered, "You left me. You destroyed our group. You made others leave! You selfless person. All you think about is yourself! What about us Tifa?" Tifa straightened her fear and pushed him back, "Yea Cloud! What about us? You cheated on me! YOU CHEATED ON ME!" She screamed at him. His eyes got filled with anger and he pushed her against the elevator glass, cracking it slightly, holding her by her throat, "Don't speak to me like that! You're the one who left me."
Tifa started to close her eyes, "I hope you are proud." Cloud tightened his grip on her throat. "Uhhg..." Tifa tried to gulp, but then she opened on eye, "Now you really are what you said." He yelled in her face, "What do you mean by that?" She smirked, "You became The Great Sephiroth. I can see it in your eyes. Jealousy, hatred, abuse, strength. Everything you have dreamed up, has come true." She gasped while she spoke, losing more air at a time. Cloud stepped back with a shocked face. "Shut up! I'm not like that!" He stepped back, grabbed his head, and fell to his knees. Tifa gasped for air and rubbed her neck, looking down upon Cloud, "You don't feel it? It's burning in your heart. I can see it in your eyes. You've turn into Sephiroth." She kneeled down and he scooted away from her, knocking into the other side of the elevator, "STOP IT! Stop saying that! I'm not!" Tears started to form in his eyes out of anger and shock. Tifa then smiled softly and leaned forward to him, stroking his hair, "Just breathe." Cloud growled, between sniffles, "How dare you say I'm him."
Tifa looked at him with an odd face, "What?" He looked up at her and then tackled her upward to the glass, making it smash and shards fly off the elevator and some into her, "CLOUD, DON'T!" Blood started to trickle down her face and back. He growled, "I loved you." He tightened his grip and cried, "You broke my heart. What did I do? I'm sorry! I SAID SORRY!" he pushed her into a sharp piece of glass, "Ooow! Stop it Cloud!" Tifa winced in pain, but all of a sudden a huge thump was heard on top of elevator, and from what Tifa could tell in the dark and in all the red lights was a figure of a tall man, "Let go of her Cloud." Tifa couldn't make out the voice, and started to fade because lose of blood. "Who is that?" She tried to look, but she fainted right there as the unknown man knocked out Cloud.
The next morning, Tifa slowly woke up in an unfamiliar place, "Where am I?" She looked around slowly and found a huge, grinning plushie with a cat on his head, "Cait Sith?" He jumped up a bit and smiled, "Good morning Ms. Tifa. How are you feeling?" Tifa tried to sit up, but couldn't, "I feel sore. What happened?" The cat jumped down from the plushie's head and sat next to Tifa, "Cloud intruded and attacked you Ms. Tifa." Tifa closed her eyes and remember seeing what happened, "Oh yea..." She sighed and looked out the clean window of the ShinRa building and onto the dungy site of pollution, "I wish sunlight would shine through and I could see blue sky. It would be much more relaxing than that uneasy sight." Cait Sith patted Tifa's hand, "I understand. It'll be cleaned up soon enough." Tifa sighed and turned to Cait Sith with a smile, "You are so nice to me."
As soon as she said that, the door opened and Yuffie came in with a bandage on her arm and leg, followed by a suited Vincent, "Tifa! Oh my gosh! Are you ok?" Yuffie went over to her, "I'm fine, but what about you Yuf-er-Taki?" Tifa glanced at Vincent, as he nodded, knowing that this 'Taki' was Yuffie. Tifa then looked back at Yuffie, "What happened to you Yuffie?" Yuffie sat down carefully at a seat next to Tifa's bed, as Vincent took Yuffie's crutch, "I got attacked by Cloud. I'm so sorry Tifa, but I tried to stop him. Reno tried to stop him too, but he got us both." Tifa sat up a little, "Oh my gosh! Is Reno alright?" Yuffie looked down at her lap and tears started to form, but she tried to keep a smile on her face, "Cloud... He got Reno pretty bad. He slashed him pretty bad across his chest. The medical says he'll be ok, but I'm worried. I'm worried for both of you." Tifa frowned, "I'm so sorry Yuffie."
Vincent cleared his throat, "Reno is in the next infirmary. He's doing very well in recovering. Yuffie, I think you should go comfort him." Yuffie looked up at Vincent and she nodded, grabbing her crutch and standing up, "I will." She turned to Tifa and wiped her eyes, "Get better soon. It'll get lonely in the apartment." Tifa smiled and nodded, "I'll be back sooner than you know it! Now go!" Yuffie smiled and went to the door as Vincent opened it and let her through, "Bye Yuf." He closed the door and turned back to Tifa, "Tifa..." Tifa turned her head from the door to him, "Yes Vincent?" He sat down on the edge of the bed, "What was Cloud doing here?" Tifa sighed, "Red warned me. He told me Cloud was after me. He said he wanted his revenge on hurting him, leaving him, and leaving the group. Then he attacked me... When I told him he had the emotions of Sephiroth. He went ballistic on me, attacked me, and then..." Tifa stopped and then thought, looking down. Vincent tilted his head, "What is it?"
"A man." Tifa said quietly. Vincent rose an eyebrow, "What?" Tifa looked up at him, "A man came to my rescue. I couldn't think of who it was or who's voice I heard." Vincent sat up and thought for a moment, "Hmm... Oh yea!" Vincent snapped his finger and pointed at her, "You saviour was..." He went into a thought again. Tifa stared at him strangely, "Who was it?"
Vincent smiled and chuckled, "Sorry I forgot for a moment." He thought for a second more, "I just heard the small details, but I believe your saviour who helped you out was Tseng." Tifa sat up with a shocked look, "What?!"