Chapter 6: Sephiroth's new enemy

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Sephiroth walks around the town, with the help of his crutches, and watches the children playing around him. He smiles at them and walks through them toward the outskirts of Kalm. He hears a shout nearby as he walks. He turns around and sees a group of men shouting at an elderly man.

"Hey, silver man! Do me a favor… get out of this town or I'll kill you!" Yells a red-haired man with dark sunglasses resting on his head.

"Why…? I've lived in this town for years and you want me to just leave? No thank you sir!" the middle-age silver-haired man replied. A bald man with sun glasses on stares at the red-haired man, he wasn't expecting this kind of reaction.

"Idiot, we're going to kill you unless you leave!" yells the red-haired man. The men shout toward the middle-age silver-haired man. Sephiroth sighs and walks toward them, stooping to pick up a stone on the way. He casually lets it fly toward the red-haired man's head.

(Bonk!)

They stop and turn around to see Sephiroth there.

"Run, old man!" yells Sephiroth. The old man nods his thanks and runs away. The red-haired man glowers at Sephiroth, "You! We were about to kill him but you made us to lose him!" Sephiroth smiles at him,

"I suppose saying sorry wouldn't help?" Sephiroth said innocently, counting the number of men. The leader of the group spoke again;

"We kill all people who have silver hair, the same that Sephiroth had!" the red-Haired man says.

"Only silver haired people? I'd think some hair dye would be easier, but if you want kill me, go ahead…" Sephiroth continues to smile.

"Are you mocking me! I killed Sephiroth myself! Me, Reno, an ex-Turk for Shin-Ra!" Reno yells.

"Well, I heard Sephiroth was defeated by Cloud and his team. Your ass was wiped out by Cloud's team too…" Sephiroth replies. Reno's eyes widen, "How did you…Never mind! KILL HIM!" shouts Reno. The four men advance toward Sephiroth, "You can't run away from us with that leg," Smiles Reno, eyeing the bandages along his leg.

"Well, try me…" Sephiroth stretched his arms casually, eager to get a fight started.

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Cloud raises an eyebrow, "Oh, crap…I forgot to tell Sephiroth about Reno and his men."

"Oh no!" Tifa gasped, her hand covering her mouth in shock.

"Why don't we go find him before Reno does?" Red pawed into the room after hearing Tifa's gasp.

"Gotta hurry," says Cloud as they leave the house and start to search around the town. Red sniffs the scent Sephiroth has left, "Hey, I found his scent here, follow me." They follow Red toward the area where Sephiroth and Reno are fighting. Cloud stops and looks around,

"I hear fighting nearby…" they hear a bunch of men screams and groans on a small alley behind some houses.

"Yo, I think they're behind this house." Says Barret as he points past the house. Cloud nods as they walk past the house and find Sephiroth and Reno.

"HOLY SHIT!" gasps a shocked Barret, as if he has seen a ghost. They see a bunch of men are laying unconscious around the alley, Sephiroth leans on his crutch, carefully wiping some blood off the metal studs on his gloves. He finishes with a sigh and hobbles toward the red-haired man.

"Feh, what a moron…" Says Sephiroth as he digs his crutch into Reno's shoulder, "Never, ever mess with silver haired people again. If you do, we'll do this all over again, but you won't get up." Reno groans and barely nods at Sephiroth.

"Sep…Valeria! You all right?" Cloud helps support Sephiroth's shoulder, "Yeah, I'm fine. My leg is a little hurt again, but that's all," he turns to Reno,

"Reno, get your men and get out of this town. Think about what I just said…" he moves the crutch away from Reno's shoulder. Cloud looks back toward Reno and watches him get up. Reno helps some of his men to get moving and they hobble out of the alley.

"I'm going to Ruins of Midgar. Would you mind taking me there?" asks Sephiroth.

Red paws up to Sephiroth, "I'll go with you. In case Reno comes back."

"We'll give you a ride," Says Cloud. "We were going back there anyway to continue the reconstruction."

"Yo, Cloud, take my truck, I have to stay here to join Marlene's party like I promised her." Barret searches his pockets a moment before tossing a set of keys to Cloud.

"Thanks, Barret." He turns to Tifa, "Think we can make some lunch for the ride there Love?" Tifa looks worriedly at Sephiroth's leg a moment.

"Yes Cloud, I can whip up some sandwiches while you get those bandages changed on Valeria."

Tifa changed the Sephiroth's bandages and made some sandwiches for those boys. She gaves a bag of sandwiches and extra bandages to them before they leaves. Cloud gives Tifa a kiss and waves goodbye at her. Tifa smiles and yells while the boys hops in the truck and drive away; "Be safe!"

As they drive down the road to Midgar; a huge tree suddenly falls to the road. Cloud's eyes widen as he slams on the brake, struggling to keep control as it screeches and does a small spin into the tree.

CRASH!

They groan as they look at the damaged truck, a large dent in the tire-well has stopped the rear tires from spinning.

"Who the hell did this?" says Sephiroth as he looks at the huge tree splintered in the dirt road. "No way, we can't move this tree." Red walks up and sniffs a moment along the roots.

"I'm picking up a scent here." Says Red as the others look around.

"Enjoy your little crash into the tree, eh?" says a voice behind them. Sephiroth spins around and sees the red-haired man.

"Reno, you again!" growls Sephiroth. Cloud pulls his buster sword out and levels it at Reno. Red growls at Reno and crouches low, ready to pounce.

"Well, I thought your face was very familiar to me when we first met." says Reno as he walks toward Sephiroth.

"I've been getting that a lot lately." Sephiroth looked around, trying to find anyone else hiding along the road.

"I know who you are…because your voice, your eyes glow green with mako, the way you fight..." Reno takes a good look at Sephiroth, "You're Sephiroth!" Reno raises his electro-prod and aims at Sephiroth, "Even if you're not, you're dead."

"Hmm, I don't know who Sephiroth is, my name is Valeria and I guess I might happen to look like him." smirks Sephiroth.

"Yeah? Bullshit!" Reno shouts as he gets ready to shoot his electro-prod toward Sephiroth, but suddenly Cloud dashes forward, slashing Reno's electro-prod in half.

"KILL THEM! KILL THEM!" Shouts Reno as his men jump and run toward them.

"Stand back, I'm going to summon Knights of the Round!" says Red as Cloud and Sephiroth nod and step backwards.

"Knight of the Round, I summon you to attack them!" shouts Red as his red materia begins to glow, and 15 knights pop up to surround Reno and his men.

"Erm, um, uh…" stammers Reno as he looks up at the fifty foot tall knights while they look back down on him. Rude grabs Reno's arm and pulls him away from the Knights of the Round. The Knights of the Round jump and slash Reno's men into pieces. Reno and Rude grab their motorcycles and ride away. A voice from Reno; "NEXT TIME WE WILL BRING YOU DOWN, SEPHIROTH!" Sephiroth watches Knights of the Round rip Reno's men to pieces, but they miss Reno and Rude as they escape. He scratches his head; "Knights of the Round….where the hell did you get that from?"

"From a materia vein in a small island." Red answers.

"That materia is pretty rare I must say! But its seems to have rid us of Reno's men. Problem is, they know me as Sephiroth." Says Sephiroth. Knights of the Round finish their job and go back into the red materia. Red puts it away into his bracelet.

"Well, only Reno and Rude know you but millions of people don't. So don't worry about it. Most people know that Reno and Rude are the most pathetic Turks in the world." Cloud scratches his head as he chuckles. Red walks up to the wrecked truck and sighs,

"Barret is not going to be happy about this…"

"Oh, don't worry about it, we'll tell him it was Reno. Well, Midgar is over there, about 5 miles away from here." says Cloud as he walks. Sephiroth joins along and Red as well.

...To be continued. Chapter 7 coming up!