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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
"He was a fool for getting in our way." Kadaj ignored her sobbing and hissed at her. "Now you'll meet the same fate. See you in hell whore!"
Another clang of metal sounded, adding to the crash of thunder that made its way through the background. Loz knocked Kadaj's sword out of his hand. He had arrived just in time to see what he once considered a brother slaughter the only other person he had seen as family. With a growl, the elder of the two trudged toward his now bitter enemy, Dual Hound pounding against his other hand as a threat.
" You've done enough you bitch. You won't be taking any more lives!" Loz lunged at him violently at an insane speed. Still shocked from being disarmed like that, Kadaj was caught off guard and was hurled backward, his body crashing into another small building. Loz stared at the dust and wood fragments that flew, and watched the ruin as the debris settled. Soon he stared in silence, the only sound being his breathing, and the rolling of thunder in the distance. He felt a droplet of water fall from the sky and hit him, and he averted his attention to wiping it off.
Before he could react, the building erupted in blue light as Kadaj flew at him, grasping him by the throat and lifting him inches above the ground. " How dare you defy us?! You ignorant fool! You'll all die!" The young man was screaming, fury radiating from his blackened eyes.
Sweat beaded down his forehead as Loz struggled to break free of Kadaj's grip. His fight was useless as JENOVA only forced Kadaj's slender, gloved hand to tighten around his neck.
"You bitch... You will die... There's no way you could take this Planet as your own... You're no more significant than any life in this universe... Which means you have no right to slaughter so many... Release him... Release Kadaj!" He choked, flailing in the constricting grip.
"That is what you think!" JENOVA's voice cried from the man holding him. "I will never release him... And if I did, he would only die! Is that what you want?" She forced the hand around his throat to give a gentle push on the side of his neck.
"I'll kill you!" Loz reached for his gun blade, but in one swift movement, Kadaj's hand jerked.
Cloud and Tifa both heard the disgusting sound of bones splintering and snapping. Hurling him to the ground, Kadaj laughed as Loz slammed into the now muddy ground. Rain beat down on his limp body, and his awkwardly bent neck. The younger man had just snapped his neck like a twig, and the eldest lay on the ground dead before him.
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Cloud stared in amazement at how Kadaj had just finished off both Yazoo and Loz. Tifa had managed to slowly drag Yazoo's body to the ruin she had hidden in earlier while Loz had fought, her body being covered in the man's blood in the process. She would be safe for now, noting how Kadaj was busy laughing over the death of his former 'brothers'.
' How could he do that... They were like his family... His loved ones... and he just murdered them like they were garbage...' The blonde spoke in his mind.
' That is the influence of JENOVA. If it wills you to do something, you do it, regardless of how you feel. It is uncontrollable.' Sephiroth explained to him.
' I don't understand... Why is JENOVA like that?'
' In a sick and twisted way, JENOVA is doing the right thing. It is a parasitic life
form, that feeds off the life energy of a planet in order to help it's own kind. That is what it was born to do, and this planet happened to be it's target.' The ex-general droned on in his mind, unsure of how to put it. ' It does what it needs to in order to survive, even if it means deceiving and lying... Even if it means murder...'
Both men contemplated this. A million memories rushed into Cloud's mind, flashing in his head like pictures. Not only his memories, but also Sephiroth's as well. Thoughts of JENOVA lying to Sephiroth, promising to show him love as a mother... Promising him acceptance... And then forcing him to slaughter for its benefit. JENOVA had manipulated both of them, and in the end messed up both of their lives. A memory of JENOVA controlling the clone of Sephiroth to impale Aeris, bringing her innocent life to an end... Another flash of Nibelheim, and how JENOVA had manipulated Sephiroth to burn it to the ground even from a distance... Cloud had watched his hometown burn to the ground that day, and Sephiroth had been thrown unwillingly into a mad conquest of death.
' I don't care if it's doing what it had to...' Cloud thought.
' It isn't necessary for it to destroy everything...' Sephiroth added to his words.
' No lives should be lost... It is unnescessary for it to take all the life from one planet... Our planet...'
' No one had to die for the parasite to feed... With all the lives it has extracted from the face of the Planet... JENOVA should die as well...'
" JENOVA!" Cloud yelled, his voice now a combination of both Sephiroth's and his own. He could feel the ex-general's mind completely melding with his, truly becoming one with him. "THIS ENDS NOW!" He grasped the handle of his sword from the ground, the silver blade gleaming momentarily from the flash of lightning that tore across the dark canvas above them.
" Ahhhh, both of my former puppets wish to stop me..." The parasites voice poured out of the silver-headed man's mouth as he turned to them. "I knew you were there all along Sephiroth, I am not a fool."
"I don't care what you know! Your life will end now, along with the others you have ruthlessly taken."
One final time, Buster Blade met Souba with incredible force. With their combined might, Sephiroth and Cloud smashed one of its dual blades, which clanged the ground. The other part of the sword flew from the smaller man's hand as he was gripped and thrown on top of it.
With his eyes flickering between green and black, Kadaj started to regain control. His eyes widened in pain, as the realization that he had one of the blades of his sword through him came into effect. Kadaj stared at the blonde man towering over him, and spoke in his own soft voice. "Do it..."
Emerald eyes clenched shut, and the Buster Blade tore the flesh in his chest. Both Cloud and Sephiroth twisted the blade, until they found the pulsing organ they wanted. Knowing this was for the sake of the Planet, the blonde thrust the sword across Kadaj's heart, tearing the organ in half. No sooner had he drawn the blade, and the silver haired man lay in a mess of his own gore, life drained from his body.
Cloud closed his eyes as he felt the ex-general's mind separate but stay within his own. "It's over..." He murmured softly to himself. "JENOVA is dead."
' Don't get your hopes up too high...' He saw blue light starting to pour from Kadaj's body. An orb of the aqua light floated in front of them and then flew upward. Three long beams of the same colour shot from the light, and into Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz's bodies.
The corpses levitated slightly, being forced to float upright. Tifa stared in shock and made her way out of the ruin, as she watched the three dead men draw closer together. When they were just touching shoulders, and beneath the orb, their eyes flew open, glowing aqua like the ribbons of light attaching them to it.
JENOVA's voice rang out in a wicked laugh as their bodies glowed intensely until they were nothing more than blue light themselves. They came together, melding with the orb, and reshaped into a new form.
The thing was at least a good twenty feet tall, looming above the small buildings around them. The flesh of the monster was blue, and was covered in many scale-like growths. Its limbs were long tentacles, thick where they were attached, and thin and whip like near the ends. The most peculiar thing about the creature was its head, or lack of one at least. It had a wide set of jaws in the middle of its narrow abdomen, lined with fangs and dripping with saliva. Cloud noticed the jaws that it had on each of the ends of its tentacles, and also made note on the fact that the monster had no legs. JENOVA's new body ended stump-like, but somehow remained mobile. It loomed over him and released an inhuman howl that sent chills down Cloud and Tifa's spines. "My revenge is now Strife! You will die!"
Cloud felt his mind melding once more to Sephiroth's, both of them struggling with the JENOVA cells in his body that threatened to manipulate him. He gripped the handle of his sword and pointed it at her, his voice becoming two and he yelled. "It's the other way around, JENOVA! You are the one who is going to suffer! The Planet takes it's own revenge now!"
Furiously, he ran at JENOVA, swinging the Buster Blade at her with all his might. This was it, he had to either kill or be killed.
' And for the sake of the Planet Cloud... You had better kill...' Sephiroth thought grimly to himself.
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A/N: HAHAHAHA! TWO-PARTER ENDING! MWAHAHAHA! I'M EVIIIIL! Nah, I'm not, I just thought the ending required two parts. Again, very sorry about Yazoo... And by now Kadaj and Loz... But... you'll see! Mwahahaha. Stick around for the last part of this un-epic tale! HAHAHAHA! Too much sugar... Too much tea... Epic. Haha, that's a funny word. Hope you enjoyed the beginning of the end... Mwahaha. Oxymoron.... Actually the only moron here is me. Ok, I'll stop babbling and write the next part... Ahh, yes... And thank you all for the reviews!