Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII, Advent Children, or any of their characters.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
The dying fire crackled slightly, and sent an ember sparkling at a half-sleeping Loz. He jolted awake, and poked a bit at the small flames with a stick in a bored fashion. Then, yawning, decided he would wake Yazoo for his watch.
"Hey... Hey wake up..." He shook his brother roughly.
"I'm awake you idiot."
Loz looked over his brother and their eyes met, one with a look of stupidity, the other with a look of mild annoyance. "Sorry."
" Whatever. Get some more sleep." Yazoo rose coldly and walked over to the fire, and seemed to neglect the fact that Loz was even alive.
"Hey man, what's your problem?" He ran his hand over the Dual Hound, and grunted at his sibling.
The man in the trench coat said nothing and proceeded to re-ignite the fire to his satisfaction.
"Yeah well good night to you to." Loz rolled over onto his sleeping mat and tried to go back to sleep, ignoring the growl he got from Yazoo in the process. He was fast asleep within minutes.
Yazoo turned and stared at the two, and then decided to get up and leave. He was just about to walk off into the trees when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Where do you think you're going?" Kadaj glared at him. Yazoo glared at him harder but said nothing. "I asked you a question now ans..." Yazoo answered him with a punch in the jaw, eyes flashing green.
"Fuck you." He turned on his heel, and stormed off..
"I don't THINK SO!" Kadaj roared at him, grabbing his sword and pinning his elder brother on the ground. He held the blade to his throat. "I'm sick of your damned attitude! Now do as I say or I'll KILL you!"
His victim remained calm, and retained a bored expression, as if the fact that two razor sharp steel blades were at his throat was nothing. " Kill me. I really don't care."
"I told you earlier not to talk..."
"Too late." Kadaj growled but was met with a sharp kick to his abdomen. Out of reflex, he grasped his stomach and rolled off.
"You bastard..."
Yazoo smirked and dashed over to his vehicle. "I'll put an end to this 'Cloud Strife' myself, without your orders." He started the engine, the commotion from it waking Loz up, and drove off recklessly, firing a few shots from his gun blade at Kadaj, with the intention of missing.
" Should we go after him?" The shorter haired man asked while watching his brother drive out of there like a bat out of hell.
"No. We'll meet him sooner or later, and then we'll kill him along with Cloud." Putting his sword down, Kadaj glared in the direction Yazoo had took off in, and smirked. "Yes, this means death for you my dear brother..."
"Huh?"
" Nothing. I wasn't talking to you."
"Oh..." Loz shrugged slightly.
' Death to both of them soon...' JENOVA said inside Kadaj's mind. He laughed a little.
' Of course. But I'm not done with them... Or else Yazoo would be dead.' He answered back to the parasite.
' It doesn't matter... All that matters is that you kill Strife and gain revenge for your dear brother and myself... Sephiroth would be most pleased if you were to destroy him... He told me himself from the Life Stream how vengeful he is.' JENOVA whispered.
' Cloud and all of his comrades will pay for what they did to you Mother... And for what he did to Sephiroth... I promise.'
"Kadaj, are you ok? You look completely off in another world..."
"I'm fine." He muttered.
Both men decided to remain the rest of the night awake, although neither said a word to the other.
Cloud had made it home safely. Tifa was there to greet him, and she ran up and hugged him happily.
"I'm glad you're all right... There's been word of a terrorist group consisting of three silver haired men. No one knows who they are, but they've apparently been causing a lot of trouble."
Cloud's eyes narrowed. "Their names are Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz. I had a run in with them on the way here, so that's why I'm late."
"They let you live?" A familiar, dark tone spoke up. Vincent stepped over to Cloud, causing any of the children around him to scatter in fear.
"Hey Vincent... Long time no see... And yes, they let me live..."
' Obviously. It was a rhetorical question.' Sephiroth said sarcastically inside of him.
' Shut up.' Cloud thought back, as yet another question arose.
"What did they so to you?" Tifa questioned him, a look of worry passing over her face.
"They attacked... And then they took off." He shrugged at her. " That's really all there was to it."
"I see..." she responded.
"I think we need to call up everyone. This really is serious Cloud. They have been terrorizing people, and yapping on about 'GeoStigma', and 'JENOVA reunion'. We should round up everyone and find out what they are up to..." Vincent spoke, everyone nodded. The three flipped out their PHS devices, and began calling everyone up.
Outside of the small, cottage like home, a few children were playing with one another in a sandbox. They were some of the orphans that had been left from the destruction of Midgar, and they depended on Cloud and Tifa like their parents.
The four children were making small sand castle, and laughing happily. They were having fun, which was a rarity for them, since they had all lost their parents and didn't have much to play with. They were oblivious to the tall shadow that loomed over them, and none of them looked up.
The tall, silver haired man smirked, drew his gun blade and pointed it right at one of the children. He was about to pull the trigger, but he stopped. What was the point in killing the child?
He attached the gun blade to its proper place at his side, and knelt down.
"Why do you play in the dirt like that?" He asked, a look of curiosity on his face.
All of the children turned. Two of them gasped and backed up in fear, one cowered and hid his face, while the other one- a little girl- stared at the man in disbelief.
"Leave us alone! Go away Sephiroth!" She threw sand in his face, and shrieked as his gun blade was pointed at her face quicker than lightning.
"Don't make him mad! That man has a gun!" A little boy cried.
"Too late! He'll kill us!" The four of them backed away, as the snarling cat-eyed man stood there, one hand pointing his gun blade, the other holding his right eye.
Yazoo then smirked as he saw Cloud with his buster blade; Tifa and Vincent come out of the cottage almost as quick as he had drawn his gun. The three of them stared at the cause of the commotion, and Cloud flew at him with his sword.
Gracefully, Yazoo jumped back from the heavy blade before it could slice his body in half. He fired a few shots at Cloud, and laughed as Tifa ducked from the bullets that narrowly missed her. Vincent shot his own gun at him, and managed to snag his shoulder with one of his own bullets.
The children shrieked and ran behind Tifa, as Yazoo grasped the wound. He was about to fire again, but Tifa's scream stopped him.
"Stop it! If you are going to fight, do it away from the children!" She was almost in tears. "In fact it's best if you just stop it all together! I don't know who you are, but you have no reason to try and wreak so much havoc on everyone! Why do you want to kill Cloud?"
"I have my reasons, and they are none of your concern. I respect your request, woman. Come on Cloud! Let's carry this on else where!" He laughed at him.
" Vincent, Tifa stay here and take care of them. Let's go you scum!" Cloud jumped on his bike and Yazoo did the same. The two drove off as fast as possible toward the broken down highway by Midgar.
The silver haired man broke the peace first by roaring ahead of Cloud and swerving sharply to cut in front of him. He grabbed the Velvet Nightmare and fired twice at Cloud's tires. Luckily, Cloud was just fast enough- thanks to Sephiroth using his left arm to swerve away from the bullets- and he put his sword in from of him, charging head on at Yazoo. The man held his gun blade out with a single hand and pushed the buster sword back.
"It's useless." He muttered at the blonde.
"Shut up! I can't believe you would pick a fight with me in front of those little children!"
"Who cares for them?!" He gave a taunting shove to Cloud's sword with his gun blade.
"I do! You three certainly don't seem to give a damn for much, do you?!" Cloud pushed back harder.
"Why care for children? Why protect them? It's your life that's in danger! Why not defend yourself?!"
"Shut up and DIE!" The blondes fist connected with Yazoo's face, and he jammed the buster sword into his enemy's front tire.
Yazoo gave him a look of shock as he lost control of his vehicle and was sent smashing into the wreckage of a building that had once stood tall along the side of the highway.
Cloud looked back at him and then looked forward just in time to see Kadaj standing there smirking at him ahead.
Tifa got lucky since Cid happened to be close by. He had whipped over there with the Highwind and she got him to take her to Midgar in search of Cloud. Vincent stayed behind with the children on her request, and stood there watching as the Highwind took to the skies, and flew off toward the once great city's rubble. She thanked him quickly and dashed off the airship almost immediately after it landed and took off toward the old church, where she thought Cloud might be near.
Upon walking in the doorway, she wasn't greeted by the battle of Cloud and the strange man, but with another strange silver haired man. His Dual Hound pounded against his other hands palm.
"I've been waiting Tifa. Time to die."
She gasped in shock as he ran towards her, not knowing what to do.
A/N: Well that's the next chapter... Hope you enjoyed it, though I'm not to sure that one was any good, since I'm tired, and hungry. Ah well. R&R!