A/N: Rawr! Chapter 6! Uh… conflict No. 2! YES! WHOO! Alrighty, in this chapter… it's somewhat filled with… humor! That's right… HUMOR! Hm. I guess I was feeling… humor…ess when I typed this. :shrug: Oh, and… Merry Happy Pretty Eggs Day! May all the chocolate and sugar treats make you explode. :explodes:

To one of my reviewers: Ahahaa, yeah… he does sound kind of like Slade. He's so cool and mysterious. :stares in awe:

Summary: Everyone finally arrives at the Gold Saucer. But they put aside their cheerful greetings as they come face to face with… what seems to be Sephiroth's old 'pal.'

Disclaimer: FF7 doesn't belong to me… only the spooky ghost woman and her cool dragons and the whole storyline thingamabobs belong to me. :points: Yoooshi!

Silent Wind
Chapter 6

Old Foes

Bullet shots sounded off as it echoed throughout the ShinRa mansion. Down the spiral stairway, flashes of light were seen, casting a shadow of what looked like Reno. Through the long dark tunnel, Elena, who was cornered against the wall, shivered in fear as the ghost woman floated towards her. Reno and Rude were already down and out on the ground at this point, leaving Elena to defend for herself. She quickly picked up her trusty gun and aimed it at the woman.

"W… what… what do you want?" Elena asked with a shaky voice.

The woman snickered as her two dragons flew towards the Turk, sitting on both of her shoulders. "You… will be my puppet."

Elena shifted her gun closer towards her opponent. "So… this was a trick all along!"

"A trick?" the woman snickered. "I need a human body, so that I can fulfill my revenge on that… SOLDIER…"

Elena shook with fear. 'SOLDIER?' she thought to herself. 'Is she looking for that spiky haired boy?' She shook her head, thinking that it wasn't appropriate to think of such irrelevant things at the moment. But somehow, it all fit in.

"… so, you are not after… us?"

The woman narrowed her eyes and backed away. "I needed a little help from you. You three… will help me fulfill my revenge."

"Once it has been fulfilled… will you let us go?"

"… yes."

Elena sighed at that. 'Just need to cooperate. I don't want anyone to get hurt…'

"However," the ghost continued, making Elena perk her head up. "I cannot say how long it will take. I need to possess a body. I need to see him fall before me with my own two eyes."

'She doesn't really make sense… but… it would feel really great to see that SOLDIER what's his name fall to his knees! The Turks have been wanting to see that since day one…' "Okay… but, what about… Reno and Rude?"

The woman bowed her head and grinned. "Oh, don't worry about them. They'll help also."

"… how?"

The two black dragons' eyes glowed brightly, giving out a strong aura that engulfed the two figures. After it settled down, the ghost and her dragons weren't seen. Reno and Rude slowly stood up as their eyes glowed a demonic red color. Elena followed. Her eyes opened, revealing green aquamarine colored orbs. She chuckled as she looked at her new form.

"I'm coming for you… SOLDIER."

"… EEEHHHHH? THEY LEFT WITHOUT HIIIMMMM?"

Bugenhagen lifted his eyebrows with shock as Cloud cornered him to the wall. Cloud grabbed onto the old man's beard and gave him the most pissed off look ever.

"Why didn't you stop them?"

"I… er, but you… you wanted to stay behind!"

"Damn! Is Cloud stupid or something? GOD!"

Bugen tilted his head. "Uh… Cloud? Is… is that you?"

Cloud grinned and let go of Bugen. "Damn… took me a while to take over his stupid body again."

Bugen widened his eyes then pushed Cloud back, making him fall on his bottom with a loud 'thud.'

"Look!" Bugen growled. "I don't know who you are… but, get out of Cloud's body, NOW!"

"Ohhh… someone's acting shitty," the swordsman said, not even worried by Bugen's warning.

"Who are you?"

Cloud slowly stood up, brushed himself off, and pointed upwards in a 'victory' type pose. "I AM……… someone that doesn't concern you."

"WHO ARE YOU!"

"Alright alright, sheeesh. Look, I'm Sephiroth, but-"

Bugenhagen started laughing like crazy, practically falling to the ground. 'Sephiroth' lifted an eyebrow and folded his arms across his chest, not quite sure why he was laughing so much.

"The heck is so funny?" he growled at the old geezer.

The old man finally came to his senses, wiping out the last tear that was about to drip down from his eyes. "Hohohooo… for a second there, I thought you said, 'I'm Sephiroth.' Well, c'mon then, you better head to the Gold Saucer!"

"… I did say I was Sephiroth. See! I said it again!"

Bugen paused and smiled. "Ah, yes yes. I think that dream has gotten to your head," he pushed 'Sephiroth' out of the bedroom and watched him fall on his bottom on the bottom floor. "Now now! You better hurry before everyone arrives before you do!" With that said, Bugen entered his lab and slammed the door shut.

'Sephiroth' stuck his tongue out at him and stood up, brushing himself off. "Geez… he didn't even let me explain myself. Oh well. I guess I better make Cloud do the rest of the work for me."

A flash of light suddenly appeared, 'causing Cloud's eyes to dilate for a few seconds before changing back to his same old blue eyes. He blinked for a few seconds and looked around, quite confused at the moment.

"… uh… what was I going to do…?"

Bugen's head peeked out of the laboratory door. "Gold Saucer! Cough cough!"

"… oh. Uh, okay. Good bye, Bugenhagen," he said without any questions about why he was standing in the middle of the room.

Bugen watched his friend leave as he narrowed his eyes. "… Sephiroth… is back?"

Tifa was pacing around the entrance of the Gold Saucer while her friends just watched her from afar. All throughout the ride, she was thinking of nothing but Cloud, wondering why he didn't want to take the Highwind. She just wanted to hug Cloud forever and slap him on the frickin' face for not seeing him for a while. Tifa sighed as she paused and paced some more.

Cid grunted and stuck a cigarette in his mouth. "Yo, Tif! Clam down. He'll be here."

"I KNOW!" the fighter snapped. "I can't WAIT until I smack him in the FACE! Does he realize how worried I am right now?"

"Aha! Smack him good!" Yuffie said with such enthusiasm, which made Tifa snicker to herself.

Putting Cloud aside for a second, Tifa shouldn't be acting this way towards her friends. Here she was, thinking about Cloud… making her mind rot with his name infecting every part of her brain, while, she should be thrilled that her friends were willing to put aside their every day usual things to help out with whatever Cloud was worried about. On the Highwind, she barely greeted everyone. Tifa shook her head and ran towards Yuffie and hugged her, while the ninja did the same also.

"I missed you guys," Tifa sobbed.

"Same here."

Red XIII smiled and walked toward Vincent's direction. Vincent was, as usual, by himself, so Red thought he could start one of his little conversations like they used to do.

"Vincent, it's been a while," Red started.

Vincent nodded and bowed his head. "It has."

"I never really expected you to accept this."

"…"

"No offense, of course."

"None taken."

They remained silent for a moment, then Red broke the silence. "Did you know what was happening already?"

"… somewhat. I sensed a little disturbance in the lifestream."

"… really."

"I'm not sure for myself… but what Cloud said before… might be true. That there is some kind of evil force out there… lurking behind the shadows."

Red got to his feet and looked away. "A scared thought, yes?"

'Scared? Hm. I don't want to get into that right now.' Vincent said to himself, ignoring the fact that Chaos was snickering in his mind.

Meanwhile, Cid and Barret were catching up on 'manly men' kind of things.

"Yo, Barret, next time, we should meet each other on a regular basis. I see you haven't been getting out that much."

"Same to you, Cid. You look like a wreck."

"I look like a wreck? What about you! You're huge!"

"… this is how I always look."

"Oh, heh. My bad."

"Lookit lookit!" Yuffie exclaimed to Tifa, waving around a little brown bag. "I found all of my materia!"

"That's great, Yuffie." Tifa smiled.

"Say… you wouldn't happen to bring some of your materia, hm?"

Tifa tilted her head back with half a smile spread on her face. 'Okay,' the fighter thought. 'She hasn't changed one bit.'

"Oi!" Cid called out to the ninja. "Quit being a little brat and stop bugging people about their materia already!"

Just before Yuffie could pull out her trusty shuriken and attack the pilot, a cart suddenly pulled up on the Ropeway. Tifa ran towards it, awaiting for Cloud's appearance. The door slid open as a black shadow of the famous leader was casted out. He finally stepped out of the cart and gave a one-stroke wave.

"Hey, sorry I'm late," he said smiling at Tifa.

With hot tears streaming out of her eyes, Tifa ran towards Cloud and tackled him to the ground, giving her child hood friend a very shocking greeting.

"Cloud…" she sobbed, choking through her tears.

"Tifa," Cloud said as she finally got off of him. "It seems like you haven't ch-"

Before he could finish his sentence, Tifa smacked Cloud really hard on his cheek, making him fall backwards. He slowly placed his hand on the burning cheek and looked at Tifa, who had a very angry face on.

"I've been so worried! Why didn't you come when the Highwind picked you up? You traveled from Cosmo Canyon to here? Are you hurt? What were you thinking!"

Cloud grinned as his little question lecture began once again. He slowly got up and planted a soft kiss on her cheek, causing Tifa to stop her little 'lecture' and blink with shock. He gently brushed past Tifa to greet his other friends, leaving his friend to smile to herself.

"Heyeee!" Cid grinned, smacking the old leader hard on the back. "You've been workin' out all this time, aye?"

"Not exactly."

"You seem different!" Yuffie smiled. "Is it the hair?"

"I had it cut a little…"

Cloud's eyes made its way toward Vincent. 'Glad you can make it, Vincent,' he said to himself. Vincent seemed to get the message as he nodded his head.

"Awright, you!" Barret suddenly blurted out. "Why're we here? I had to leave poor Marlene alone…"

The leader rubbed his head. "Sorry, Barret."

"So, can you tell us what's been bothering you?" Tifa said in the back as she walked towards the group. "I've been wondering about that ever since you called."

Everyone else nodded in unison, agreeing to what Tifa just said. Cloud looked around and sighed.

"I had this strange dream every time I fell asleep. It had to be some kind of message… warning me about something. Something's going to happen… and we're about to be stuck in the middle of it. "

"Not only that," Vincent added in the back. Everyone turned their heads towards the person whom they never expected to say something so suddenly. "I apologize for not saying this before, Cloud, but… what you said before was right. About… 'being connected with Sephiroth.'"

"WHAT!" Cid yelled out in shock. "I thought he went ka-poot! Don't tell me he's back!"

"I detected a slight disturbance in the lifestream. We all know what happens when someone dies. They come back to this planet as part of the lifestream. Perhaps, Sephiroth is..."

Cloud stomped his foot and punched in the air. "RIDICULOUS! I defeated him! He's GONE!"

"You are connected to him, right? He's calling out to you."

"… connected…"

Before he had a chance to think, two explosions were heard from above. Everyone quickly looked up and spotted a helicopter… similar to the ShinRa's. Cloud ran towards the helicopter as it descended towards the ground. He narrowed his eyes as three figures climbed out of the vehicle. None other than…

"… the Turks."

Rude and Reno drew out their weapons and aimed it towards Cloud's group. Everyone else took out their weapons as well, ready for any sudden attacks. Elena walked towards the leader and examined him.

"Well, well… you must be the 'experiment' Hojo's been talking about."

"… what are you doing here?"

"Hm. I sense that you have grown some sort of bond with him, haven't you, experiment."

Elena snickered as she brushed past Cloud, making him growl and turn around. "Answer my question!"

The woman stopped and turned her head towards Cloud. "I want to draw him out of you."

'What?' the swordsman said to himself. "Draw… who out?"

"Oh? You don't know? You poor thing."

Cloud growled and took out his Buster Sword, (I still wonder where he gets it from…) pointing it towards Elena. She snickered and faced Cloud, releasing a black aura from behind. Without any hesitation, Cloud ran towards her, shifting his sword for a quick attack. Elena lifted her hands in front of her as her green aquamarine colored eyes glowed furiously.

"Come OUT you coward!"

At that, Cloud's eyes dilated once again, soon changing into Sephiroth's green eyes. He shook his head around, finally coming to his senses. Elena grinned and aimed her weapon at the SOLDIER.

"So, you finally returned, Sephiroth."

AVALANCHE widened their eyes and shifted into their battle stances. Cloud (or… Sephiroth… eh heh…) turned towards the angry group and waved his hands up and down.

"No, no… I'm Cloud, see?"

"Silence! I've been seeking revenge on you!" the woman growled.

"Can't say the same thing to you… 'cause… I have NO idea who you are. Why don't you reveal your name to me?"

Elena grinned. "A name… you might know me as Number Thirty-four."

Sephiroth widened his eyes. "…!"

"However," she shifted her eyes towards Reno and Rude who were still in their battle stances. "I will take the name of the words that drew me out to this world… for now, my name shall be… Silent Wind."

A/N: End of Chapter 6! Arg... :rubs head: dinky dinky dinky ending! Argy:calms down: Whoo, anyways, it seems confusing, I know. I wanted to put in how Sephiroth got into Cloud's body, but I didn't think it would go well with this chapter. So! Next chapter is when I'll start getting down to details. :pounds fist in palm: Welp!… ow. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and please leave ze review!