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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Cloud woke up on the floor of Aeris' church. He groggily sat up and looked around to figure out what happened.

' Where am I?' He thought. ' How did I get here?'

' You still have just as bad of a memory as ever. I teleported you here before Bahamut struck. You had better get up; Tifa is over there and she looks injured.' Sephiroth explained, before retreating into the depths of Cloud's mind.

At the thought of this, Cloud bolted upright, but almost lost him balance. He realized how weak he was from Sephiroth using his energy to teleport, and just about fell over. But as soon as he saw Tifa, he forgot about his tiredness. He strode over to the garden quickly, and slipped his arms under her delicate form.

"Are you alright?" Cloud whispered softly to her, his expression full of worry.

" Cl...oud?" Tifa choked at him. "Cloud... Is that you?"

"I'm here Tifa..."

"A man... With silver hair... He attacked... I couldn't..."

" Shhhh..." He placed a gloved finger over her lips. "Save your strength. Rest for now, and I'll try my best to take care of your injuries..."

She only nodded, and gazed at him through her narrowly open brown eyes.

Cloud got to work examining her leg. Sephiroth concluded in his mind that it was broken, and she would need medical attention fast. She managed to lose consciousness while he looked at her injuries, spreading his worry even more.

' She'll be fine. I sense that you'll have to worry about someone else pretty soon...' The ex-general in his head growled.

As is on cue, a dark figure could be seen through the corner of Cloud's eye, and he whirled around, sword in hand.

"You..." He narrowed his eyes at the ever so slowly approaching Yazoo. His glared didn't seem to faze him- the same with his sword- and he continued to approach Cloud.

"Yes. Me..." Yazoo looked at him coldly. He didn't seem to have a violent air about him; in fact, he seemed rather calm this time. His gun blade was sheathed at his side, and he didn't look at all as if he was going to draw it on him.

"What do you want?" Cloud questioned him, while he studied his every movement. His hand flexed around the grip of his sword eagerly as he prepared to block any bullets.

"Relax you fool. I'm not here to fight you." The silver haired man seemed amused with Cloud's paranoid movements. "Tell me... Was it really you who destroyed Sephiroth and JENOVA?"

"I never truly destroyed them... I believe I simply held them off. Sephiroth is still very much alive... And JENOVA will never die, so long as those who contain its cells live..." The blonde stared at him, while explaining calmly.

"Hmmm. I see. You say Sephiroth lives. How so?" Yazoo's yellow eyes were transfixed on him, as though he were truly interested in what Cloud had to say. His pupils were larger than normal and he cocked his head to the side curiously.

"Well... I guess it's a long story..." Cloud had begun to explain, but something shot through his mind. Sephiroth pushed Cloud's conscience back, and took over with his own. Cloud spoke again, this time with another voice. Sephiroth's voice.

"Why are you so interested in knowing that I live?" Sephiroth asked in a cold voice.

Something in the back of Yazoo's mind clicked, as if he recognised this voice. HE instantly recognised his 'brother's' voice and knelt down.

"My brother, forgive me. I had no idea you were contained in this form... But why would you assume the form of the one you want dead?"

" Brother? Want dead?" A look of almost confusion crossed Cloud's features.

"You and Mother both requested Kadaj, Loz, and myself exact revenge upon 'Cloud Strife', your murderer..."

"I have no brothers... How could you... Unless..." Sephiroth was deep in thought, and Cloud took this chance to retake control.

Yazoo stared up at 'them' confused. "You are Sephiroth, correct? Then you are my brother... JENOVA... Mother... Told me so..."

" JENOVA?" Cloud's voice took over. "For one thing, JENOVA is not Sephiroth's mother..."

' What are you talking about? Have you gone mad?' Sephiroth seemed both angry and surprised. Yazoo simply stared.

" Sephiroth's mother was a woman named Lucrecia... She died while giving birth to him, because of Hojo's experiments on her body..." Cloud felt Sephiroth fill with both rage and confusion.

" Lucrecia?" The silver haired figure staring up at him questioned.

' Who is Lucrecia? Why was I never told who my mother was?' The ex-general seemed furious, and sad at the same time.

"I'll explain it all..." Cloud took a deep breath and explained to both of them everything about Lucrecia, Vincent, Hojo, and everything else. It took the better of two hours to explain it all fully, answering their questions, with a few outbursts from Sephiroth taking over Cloud. Finally, the story had been told, and both silver haired figures understood.

"So Sephiroth... Is not our brother...?" Yazoo looked down slightly. " But how could he have told Mother of his want for revenge?"

"I never said any such thing. She must have sensed a weakness in one of you emotionally and took over, telling you lies. She is just using you for her own vengeance." The ex-general told him. "And another thing... I highly doubt JENOVA is your Mother..." Cloud's voice took over.

"Why is that?" He glared at Cloud with an insulted look.

"IT- not she- isn't even human... And therefore couldn't have produced you."

"Hmph... Whatever." Yazoo simply growled at him.

"So... Are you planning on returning to your 'brother's' any time soon? Or are you just gonna stick around?" Cloud questioned him, the man looked away.

"I had planned on aiding you. I haven't agreed with Kadaj since we first started this whole 'quest' to murder you. I would rather help you; Cloud, so we may hopefully stop his madness. Lately, Kadaj has been acting... Strangely. Usually, he's calm, somewhat shy, and is more kind to people in general. Lately, he's been rather bossy, arrogant, and rather explosive as far as his temper goes. It all started after he claimed our Mother had spoken to him and requested vengeance. Loz and I had no choice but to follow him, since he has also become more powerful..."

"I see. So you don't want to go back to them, because they'll kill you and you don't want to die. Fine."

Yazoo's eye flashed to the green cat-like state that Cloud recognised as representing anger. "I'm not afraid to die, fool." He hissed, his teeth bared slightly.

"Ok, ok. You can stay with us I guess. It seems as though I can trust you, at least from what Sephiroth says..."

" Whatever. Anyways, I'm not too much of a social butterfly. I've talked with you all I want for now. Don't expect too much out of me for a while." Yazoo crossed his arms and spoke softly, yet with a tone that suggested he was basically politely asking both Cloud and Sephiroth to shut up.

"Why don't you like to talk...? You seemed chatty enough earlier." A female voice invaded the current conversation. Tifa had awakened, and was looking their way. She still looked as though she were in a great deal of pain. Obviously the pain caused her to not even realise that it was Yazoo, or she wouldn't have been so calm.

"I dislike conversing with anyone. It's just the way I've been since I can remember. Now, can you choose to not ignore that, and leave me alone?"

"Sure. You can be a stick in the mud if you want." Tifa said, a slight sarcastic smile on her face.

"Good to see that you're awake. How's your leg?" Cloud seemed instantly absorbed into a conversation with Tifa. The two exchanged words and such, which Yazoo chose to block out. He simply stood up and walked over to a corner away from them.

"Where are you going?" Cloud called over to him, waiting to see a reaction. A loud shot went off and he felt the metal rush past his face. He stared at the silver haired man, whom was laying on the broken wooden floor, the Velvet Nightmare in his hand glinted with the hint of moonlight through the broken roof.

"Good night." Yazoo grunted coldly, and he turned over onto his side, facing away from Cloud and Tifa. Cloud suddenly had the feeling that having Yazoo around wasn't exactly going to be a pleasant experience.

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The sun rose calmly across the dark, ruined building. Kadaj and Loz approached it, both in deep conversation. They didn't even bother to acknowledge the two security guards blocking the door.

They were in a small village that had been assembled at one end of Midgar. A couple hundred people resided there peacefully. The only remotely dangerous area around here was an old abandoned Shin-Ra lab, and accessing it was completely forbidden.

"Where do you think you two are going?" One of the guards pointed a gun at Kadaj, the other pointed at Loz.

"We are entering this lab of course." Kadaj stated calmly. "What are you going to do to stop us?" His hand gently fingered the hilt of Souba, and he gave them a vicious smirk.

"Stay back!" The guards opened fire on them both. Loz dodged the bullets and used his Dual Hound to send one of them sailing through the air. The guard was frightened, and injured slightly, but hadn't died from the attack.

Kadaj wasn't quite so lucky. The guard had managed to get a few rounds in, and metal pierced through his pale flesh. Kadaj cried out as he sank to the ground, his brutally wounded body convulsing in agony.

"You won't be crossing the borders of any Shin-Ra laboratory! We are under strict orders to shoot anyone who had violated the laws!"

Loz stared in shock at his bleeding brother. Kadaj was now shaking, and looked as though he were weary from blood loss. Both the guard and Loz quickly realised; as the wounds on his body closed up and he rose to his feet that he wasn't shaking from pain, but from fury.

He lifted his head, his neck cracking as he did so, and glared at the man in front of him. His pupils narrowed into slits and before the guard had a chance to even comprehend the situation, Kadaj had sliced him in half through the abdomen. The man's intestines and other bloody organs dumped out of either half, and Kadaj's face twisted into a hideous smirk. He then turned and hissed at the other guard, who took off immediately in a panic.

Loz walked up to the door as Kadaj calmed down, and placed a hand on it. He tried to get it open, but it wouldn't budge.

"It's locked..." He stated.

His brother walked up and ripped the door right off it's hinges, tossing it aside like garbage. "We don't have time to open doors the right way. After all, we aren't visiting as benevolent guests..."

Loz just stared at Kadaj and followed him into the darkened, unlit lab.

A/N: Meh. That's all I can think of right now. It's 3am, I'm exhausted, and I'm going to bed. Sorry if this chapter wasn't as good, or ended too abruptly, but I can barely keep my eyes open. Hope it was enjoyed. If not, I can redo it. --AND FOR THE LOVE OF MARSHMALLOWS, PLEASE REVIEW!--