Final Fantasy
VII:
Before and After
Part II
The team continued down the long road to Midjun when they finally came to the vast city. Noise filled their ears as the walked past all of the streets and shops. But something just didn't seem right. Cloud could sense something bad in the area, but he couldn't put his finger on it. He was lost in thinking so much, he forgot to look where he was going and bumped into a large, black man with a gattling gun for a hand. "Yo!" the man said. "Look where ya goin'!" Cloud looked up, staring into the eyes of the large man, and was scared that he was the evil he was sensing. "Who are you?" he asked. "My name's Barret. Nice ta meet ya!" he stuck out his large and hand put put his out too, but Barret's hand far oversized his. "What's ya name, man?" Barret asked. "Cloud, Cloud Strife." Cloud replied. "Hi, I'm Aeris, Cloud's partner." Aeris said Barret, giving him a slight wave. "Nice ta meet you, too." He said back to her, grinning.
"Barret, I'm looking for a guy named Hojo. Ever heard of him?" Cloud asked Barret. "Yeah, wasn't he that mad scientist who escaped the day Sephiroth attacked his lab?" he replied. "I guess so," Cloud said to him, shrugging. "I was out cold the whole time." He looked back at Barret. "I think I can shed some light on that part." They all started walking, out of Midjun and into some old slums in an old raggedy city. "YO! TIFA!" Barret yelled into an old building. The sign in front said "Tifa's 7th Heaven" in old, scratched out letters. A young girl stepped out of the shack, and looked outside. "Barret? What're you doing here?" she asked Barret, giving him a smile. Cloud guessed she was about 17, judging from her size. "Listen, this spikey haired guy right here needs to know about the day Sephiroth attacked." He said. "Think you can tell 'im? The girl looked at Cloud, and nodded. "Yeah, why not?" she said. She came down the steps, and went in front of the group. "Okay, it goes like this..."
"Continue the experiments! We haven't the time for failure! Now go!" Hojo said in a rage. The employees scrambled back to their seats and went back to work. Hojo sighed, "Maybe things will be better next time if I got better employees!" "There's not gonna be a next time" said a man who crashed through the roof, holding his sword to his chest pointing straight down as he stabbed through one worker's whole body with his long sword. Blood sprayed out onto the floor as he took his sword out of the dead man's cracked skull. "What!?! Who the heck are you? What have you done to my employee?" Hojo cried out, staring in horror at all of the blood. "You have disgraced the name of Sephiroth! How dare you clone me for your own reasons! You are a disgrace! A complete DISGRACE!" the man said angrily, raising his sword to Hojo. Hojo panicked, and ran out of the lab, screaming and yelping in horror. "And you! You pathetic workers! Helping this man! How dare you!" the man said ashe sliced all of the men to bits, blood spilling everywhere. The man walked over to the tank labled : J.E.N.O.V.A. and cut open the door. He dragged a metal encased bodyof its tank, but stopping at an empty tank. He wrote a small note and put it on a large sword, and putting the sword by the empty tank. He smirked evily, and dragged the body out of the door, leaving the lab.
"So that's it. That's the night of Sephiroth." Tifa said. "Thank you, thank you for the information." Aeris said. "Yeah, thanks." Cloud said. They all walked away, down another long road, and thinking of what to do next.
...to be continued