FF Union.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Squaresoft' characters.
Note: ACTION!1 IT'S TIME FOR BATTLE.
Chapter Three: Stage to settle..
Part Two.
The ground shacked like enormous waves against them.
Squall tried to stand up instead of falling unconscious on the bridge.
The entire ship was infected of the enormous power.
Quistis made her way on her feet, while Zell was dancing crazy to hold his balance.
Suddenly Irwin appeared from the elevator.
"What is happening?" yelled Quistis to him. Irwin just smiled and pointed at the window.
"Take a look."
The sight was too hard to bear, the sky was getting darker and the nature surroundings died slowly.
Squall was paralysed, why did it happen? Why did something like this happen every time when he was around?
But this was totally different from the episode with Ultimecia; he couldn't sense the evil anywhere.
Irwin seemed to be very happy, strange.
It wasn't like him to be that way, insane? No he wouldn't believe it, there must be a reason for the actions recently.
On his feet, with a torn of fear. Squall turned around, his eyes cached the figure behind him.
It was her!
She stood there, her face hidden in darkness, no shadows. The only thing Squall could think of was she wasn't safe there on the bridge.
"What are you doing here? It's not safe, so take the elevator down and return to your room, before something happens to you!"
Then the floor beneath him disappeared. A large black hole was created and Squall fell.
Down in the nothingness.
Tidus felt the quake; the ground shacked like floating waves. Aeris kneeled beside the fainted general; he was pale and not his former self.
A great hole appeared over their heads, large and conquered in darkness.
Soon it conquered the sky itself, it was swallowed with reach to the humans below it.
Aeris closed her eyes, Tidus covered himself and the general still pale was looking at the darkness.
Ahead the future, yet unknown of the actions that appeared.
Now, humans are forced to stay together from the danger, with their strength to aid others in need.
Or others will come.
Cloud opened his eyes, starred at the weird coloured sky.
He wasn't home, not in his bed, not with Tifa anymore. Quite mysterious.
But something attacked his mind more than the thoughts of his home, this wasn't something he recalled seen before.
This wasn't his world!
"Where am I?"
Another voice asked the same question, but it wasn't familiar. Cloud raised his head and saw a stranger before him. This guy was dressed differently than himself! He carried a weird weapon, a gun with blade.
The stranger stood on his feet, starred at the sky like Cloud did before.
He turned his head and realized that someone looked at him.
"Who are you?"
Cloud got on his feet's, removed some dust from his clothes.
"Cloud Strife, and your name?"
"Squall… Leonhart"
The two men gazed at each other, to see if they were enemies or future comrades.
They found nothing.
"Do you know what happen here?"
"Nope, but I'd like to find out soon enough. My friends are waiting for me, probably."
Squall knew all too well that fact, the guy's friends and the one he loved. Just like his own position.
Then something fell from the sky, a dark light?
A figure was shown, not mortal nor demon. Why he knew it wasn't the question. The only thing Squall needed was getting some information and finding the way home!
The surroundings changed to battlefield with rocks, the sky was dark with fearsome clouds.
The figure landed, a woman apparently with long black hair. Just like ….!
Her.
Cloud looked closely at the appearance in front of him, definitely powerful with that aura she spread!
"Squall, nice to see you well. And you have company, Cloud Strife I assume?"
She was smiling.
Suddenly Cloud came out of nowhere behind her and tried to slash her with his buster sword.
But somehow he missed and hit only the air.
Squall was shocked; she was really fast and apparently impossible to fight with weapons!
Flames surrounded her body, like a protecting shield to dismiss every attack they both made.
"I sense a great evil within you."
Cloud was sure of it.
The image faded, the flames burned out and left a young woman was standing.
Something was familiar about her, but Squall couldn't place the feeling anywhere within his mind.
She looked like she was in shock, her eyes starred at Squall and tears was falling down her face.
"Squall?"
I know this woman, but from where?
Wings behind her back, the long black hair and those dark brown eyes shocked in fear.
Then he saw it, the ring on her left hand.
A ring with a lion.
She was calling his name, this woman he knew but didn't remembered.
Cloud took a step forward; he was looking at her in strange way. Squall noticed it.
Like he saw someone else.
Meanwhile, someone awaked in strange looking place.
A group matter of fact, the flower girl, the general and of cause the youth from a different place to belong.
But the first one who noticed the other place was the flower girl, Aeris.
She looked around; they were all inside a room with no door or window.
But the room was not quite empty, a few steps away from her there was a mirror.
Large and dark.
She got up, walked towards it and touched the surface.
It was warm, not like any mirror.
"What do you think it is?" came it from Sephiroth; he was standing across the room.
"I don't know, it feels warm like it's alive."
The general's gaze wasn't readable. His mind was still wondering about how they all got here and why.
He couldn't figure out a reason or a motive, he was a dead warrior and the others… dead too.
Why am I here?
No answer, no voice to tell him why. Only a mirror and the rest of the dead ones.
"Look Sephiroth, something was moving inside the mirror!" said Aeris.
She was right; a shadow appeared within the surface of the mirror, Sephiroth took his sword, ready for combat.
Then the shadow appeared as a guy standing in a weird place. His hair was spiky, light yellow and couldn't be missed by the eye.
He was wearing black pants and a same coloured west, while holding his enormous buster sword.
Beside him, appeared another guy with short brown hair, dark eyes.
A scar was seen own his pawn.
"Cloud…?" whispered Aeris, she was shaking with both happiness and fear for seeing him again.
Sephiroth starred at the one who killed him, the puppet of his own mother.
Cloud, the only one who ever could kill him!
A presence beside him, he turned his eyes around and saw the youth, Tidus.
He was looking at the mirror like them, but not with fear or confusing.
His eyes showed realization.
Aeris touched the surface of the mirror, whispered something unheard while crying tears of pain.
"I want to see you, Cloud."¨
The room faded and left was the open filed where the two men was standing.
Her voice reached Clouds ears and surprised he turned around.
He yes met hers; they were starring at each other.
"Aeris….?"
He dropped his word, turned around and was taking a few steps towards her when a sword was pulled through his chest.
Aeris creamed with fear, and rushed herself to Cloud. She kneeled beside him, he was sitting on his knees and starred at the sword.
The blood streamed out the terrible wound, likewise out of his mouth too.
Tidus and Sephiroth watched her, while the stranger came beside Cloud kneeling body.
A woman appeared behind the stranger.
"My my, what a mess we have here."
Long black hair and dressed in a white cloak. The hood was hidden her face.
"Since we are here, we might as well talk."
"Why are we here?" yelled Tidus, tired of being kept out of information's.
The woman gave him a tiny little smile.
"You are all supposed to fight me; however I will change that fact. Being here changes the course of the future ahead us all, which gives me more time to gain more power."
"You're our enemy?" mumblered the stranger, she nodded and his eyes went darker than before.
She nodded.
Aeris pulled out the sword from Clouds chest, with that result he collapsed on the ground.
"Look at this poor boy, dying like we all do someday. But he won't this day."
The woman kneeled beside him, touched his chest; a glowing light surrounded the wound.
It was healed!
"Now… he will wake up, to the real world."
As expected from the woman, cloud opened his eyes, but they didn't look like the same as before.
Suddenly every one of them collapsed, they faded and were sleeping on the ground. The woman just watched them, before she touched Clouds eyes.
"Come with me."
Then they disappeared in a flash light, without any trace left.
Authors Note: Hey, this is getting more exciting! One thing, it wasn't Tifa and Cloud that would encounter Rinoa, only Squall and Cloud.
Sorry my mistake.
And I've decided not to ANYTHING about the next episode, cuz I change the text all the time.
Okay, I'll come with the next episode as soon as possible.
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Valdera.