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Chapter 28 Cloud surprise cake!
Shing.
Sephiroth finally decided to swallow all that chocolate and combat with the girls. His sword glistened in the low light of the torches as he slowly pulled it out of its sheath. A smile curled its way onto his face as Sephiroth positioned himself to strike.
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Alathia and Alexia froze mid-strike and stared at him with eyes as big as dinner plates. Kadaj and Yazoo, who were about to be attacked by the girls, smiled at each other and whispered, "They're gonna get it." in a singsong sort of fashion.
Sephiroth sighed and shook his head just before launching himself at the two frightened women.
"Neah!" Alathia yelped as she barely escaped a slash to her gut.
Alexia fired quickly as she did her best to dodge his blows. Alathia slashed back with one blade and met Mesamune with the other. Sparks flew as the blades clashed, sending Alathia hurtling in the opposite direction. To gain her composure once more, she dug both blades into the hard stone floor, and stopped her backwards hurtle.
Alexia and Sephiroth were combating now. Each and every time Seph made a cut at her body, the girl would twist over the blade, seemingly trying to wrap herself around it. Alexia had learned from Alathia's mistake and never once tried to block one of his blows with only one of her gunblades. Instead, she used both, and made sure to plant her feet hard into the ground.
"You're getting brave." Seph whispered approvingly as Alexia spun over the blade and blocked a slice to the back.
She was breathing hard and concentrating on the long sword positioned at her back.
"Not brave…just don't want to get cut." She sighed in between gasps for air.
"That's not true. You've been flipping over my sword for a good five minutes now." Seph chuckled, jabbing at her arm.
"Neah! I've been trying to flip AWAY from you, but for some reason you keep following me with that ridiculous sword!" Alexia hissed as she jumped back…right into Loz's arms.
"My dear, look how easily you've fallen for my trap…now I can cut you all I like." Seph smiled sadistically.
He stepped closer, eying her body for the best place to make a cut. Just as he was about to make his move, they heard a gunshot a little farther down the corridors.
"What the hell! Where were you hiding that thing?" Alathia growled as she dashed right past Sephiroth, Kadaj and Yazoo right on her tail.
"Let's watch…. then we'll come back to torturing you." Seph mused, glancing back at Alexia evilly.
She smiled back sheepishly and gulped.
"Neh, hold still so I can shoot you." Yazoo smiled slyly as he took aim at Alathia's back.
"The hell!" she snapped back, rushing behind a pillar just as he began to shoot.
The bullets bounced off, sparking each time they hit something. Alathia thought she'd be smart and attack from behind, but was surprised to see the two waiting for her.
Yazoo's Velvet Nightmare sounded and Alathia saw blood spatter to her left. Her upper arm oozed out warm blood, and she covered the fresh wound with her hand.
"Damnit." She hissed and ran again.
"You can't keep running." Kadaj growled, chasing after her and leaving Yazoo behind.
"Why not…you run every time I try to talk to you." Alathia snapped back, turning around…swords drawn.
"N-no I don't!"
"Y-yes you do." Alathia mocked back, flipping in the air and slashing at the very irritated boy.
"We talk all the time!"
"Then talk to me right now…Do you love me?" Alathia purred just loud enough so that Kadaj knew everyone could hear.
Sephiroth watched calmly as Kadaj began to fumble with his techniques. That was Kadaj and Yazoo's weakness…what others thought of them.
The general looked back at Alexia with a nonchalant smile, and turned to face her.
"Shall we finish?"
"…Oh for cryin-" Alexia sighed angrily and kicked Sephiroth as hard as she could in the gut.
He hunched over and suddenly remember that he'd downed a whole bag of candy…and was beginning to regret it.
"This is ridiculous! Training with you guys is nothing but a game of tag! That's all! At least with Avalanche they TRY to let us attack them! They let us fight back, they let us argue…That's one of the key elements to battle…unless you're the Great Sephiroth and slash people to bits before they even realize they're supposed to fight you." Alexia went off, struggling loose from Loz and knocking him in the nose.
"We're done…I want to fight Yazoo."
"Fine. Have it your way…you won't like the outcome though." Seph gulped, swallowing a bit of the candy that had come up.
Loz pinched his bloody nose and glared at the girl.
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"Hey, um, can we check to see if Cloud's at the church first Cid? I kind of want to talk to him in private." Tifa asked solemnly.
"Tifa don't you be getting' all sappy on me or I'll haveta shove you off the balcony, understand?" Cid groaned and headed the Sierra in the direction of Midgar.
"Hehe…yes sir. I just wanted to drag him back to 7th Heaven and beat some sense into him." She laughed back happily.
"'Atta girl."
"Oh yay we're stopping! Good…. I was about to upchuck again." Yuffie chimed in, looking at tad bit green.
"Man, you'd think ya'd be smart enough to take a pill by now. Why ya gotta make me all grossed out atcha?" Barret grumbled irritably.
The group fell silent as they neared the church
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"Are we done yet?"
"No Aeris."
"How about now?" Aeris whined again.
"You want me to mash those flowers?" Zack grumbled, tossing dirt out of the small hole.
"No."
"Then keep on diggin'…Geez, I've never met such a lazy dead girl!"
"But…:sighs: I think I broke a nail…and my dress is getting dirty." Aeris complained, tossing a small handful of dirt out of the hole.
Zack blinked at her angrily before floating out of the hole.
"Aeris, you're such a baby! Your nails are fine, you're using a garden shovel…and your dress never stays dirty! YOU'RE DEAD, THAT'S YOUR DEATH GOWN! IT CLEANS ITSELF ONCE YOUR DONE DOIN' WHATEVER!"
"Zack…that was mean! Meanie! Oh if I had my Princess staff right now I'd make sure to whack you with it." Aeris pouted angrily and got out of the hole herself.
":sighs: sorry…look, how about we take a break. You can go play with your flowers." Zack reasoned, smiling at the still pouting Aeris.
"Ok." She smiled, biting her bottom lip.
Just as she was about to sit in the middle of all the flowers, Tifa walked through the door.
"Hey look! Its…its that girl from Nibelheim!" Zack said happily, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Hm…she's grown into a pretty girl hasn't she?"
"Zack, you're dead…and you're mine. Her name's Tifa and she likes Cloud anyway…so back off." Aeris pouted, sticking her tongue out at him.
Tifa looked around and sighed with disappointment when she knew Cloud wasn't there. She glanced at the hole in the corner and walked over to it curiously.
"Look, she's admiring our handy work." Zack laughed heartily.
"Um Zack, I don't think she…OH GET HER AWAY FROM IT! SHE'S GONNA FILL IT BACK UP!" Aeris snapped, rushing over to the hole.
Sure enough, Tifa had mistaken it as something a bunch of kids had done, and dumped most of the dirt back into the hole before the two spirits had gotten there.
"AH NO! DO SOMETHING! AERISH START THROWING FLOWERS AT HER!"
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"Tifa what happened! Did Cloud do that to you?" Red XIII perked up, staring at the bewildered woman.
Tifa had rushed back onto the airship with dirty hands, flowers mashed into her long hair, and panic looming in her eyes.
"The…the flowers they just…L-let's go. We'll come back when Cloud's here." Tifa mumbled, and walked off to clean up.
The rest of Avalanche just stared at each other as Cid headed off towards Bone Village.
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"Ug now we have to start all over again! And my beautiful flowers are ruined." Aeris began to sob.
"No no, its fine. Look, how bout this…you clean up your flowers and I'll dig the hole myself. And when I'm finished, you can make it look pretty by planting a few around it." Zack panicked, trying to get her to stop crying.
":sniffles: ok…"
Aeris walked off and began fiddling with the flowers once more, while Zack secretly imagined stomping on them all.
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Sephiroth and Loz sat and watched as Yazoo & Alexia, and Kadaj & Alathia battled like maniacs.
Not only were they trying to kill one another, but also they were arguing aloud about their relationships.
Avalanche was almost to the dome.
"Why do you always want to talk about feelings?" Yazoo hissed clashing gunblades with Alexia.
"Why DON'T you?" she retorted.
Yazoo ignored her and began swinging madly with the gun at her head. Finally after a moment he'd hit his mark (her cheek) and knocked her to the ground.
"You have no feelings…the only thing you feel is pleasure." She growled, holding back angry tears.
Yazoo didn't retort, move, or even look at her…. Those words cut deeper than any sword could.
"If you really feel that way…then maybe we shouldn't be together."
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Alathia and Kadaj started watching the very second Yazoo had hit her.
"Do you feel that way as well?" Kadaj asked solemnly, not looking at her.
"Yes, I'm…I'm sure there's someone out there that'll show me they care instead of making me beg for it." Alathia stammered, not really wanting to end up like Alexia.
"Then…lets not keep this up… If I make you miserable then there's no point in this."
"Maybe if you were a little more mature it'd be ok, but NO! You have to make everything difficult!" Alathia shouted back, still waiting for him to look at her.
BOOM!
Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared in the direction of the gunfire.
Vincent stood in front of the rest of Avalanche; gun pointed upwards and still smoking.
"Now children…play nicely." He smirked, lowering the still smoking gun to his side.
Tifa ignored their dramatic entrance and stepped over to Seph politely.
"Hey, um…. we were wondering if we could train the girls today…that is if you don't mind."
"Sure, we weren't getting anywhere with them anyway. Bring them home when you're finished." Sephiroth sighed.
The girls glared at the men, feeling quite dejected and slunk over to Avalanche.
They left silently, without a goodbye.
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Kadaj paced the kitchen floor angrily as Yazoo watched from a stool.
"I…Nrrr! Do…:sighs: its not easy to talk about feelings ya know!" he growled angrily.
"I
know." Yazoo said coolly.
"How do they expect us to do it when
we've never done it before!"
"I don't know. They are from another world…Maybe the men over there are sappy." Yazoo sighed, resting his cheek on his hand.
"Is that what they want? I mean, I'll do anything to keep her." Kadaj groaned, having a seat across from his brother.
"They want more. They want what they had on the mainland…not some robots stuck in a hole…"
"Come with me brother. We'll…talk to them." Kadaj gulped before saying his last sentence.
"We will show them our real emotion."
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"W-what's that…Is that Yazoo and Kadaj?" Alathia gasped.
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The rest of Avalanche took a hint and shuffled into 7th Heaven.
"Why are you here?" Alexia growled angrily as the two strode over to the women.
Both men were on their knees the instant they were in front of their woman.
"Forgive me please. I don't understand emotions…or love…I don't know what I'm supposed to do, or when I'm supposed to do it. Give me another shot. I'll try this time." Kadaj's voice wavered.
…Boy
he hated this stupid sappy stuff…
When he was finished here he'd
have to go break some things and make a REALLY big mess.
"If you teach me…I promise to do it right. Tell me what I'm doing wrong and I'll fix it." Yazoo whispered, sniffling lightly.
"…YAAAAAAAAAAY!" both girls screamed happily, hugging their guy.
"Way to ruin it loves." Yazoo laughed happily, hugging her back.
"Shut up. I don't wanna hear it." Alathia said before Kadaj could add to his brother's comment.
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After everyone had calmed down, they stood up and brushed themselves off.
"Now what?" the men asked…not quite knowing what to do with themselves.
"How 'bout we finish training with Avalanche, and you two can watch." Alexia reasoned and lead the way towards 7th Heaven.
Suddenly…Cloud swooped out from behind a tree and charged her.
"Alexia look out!" Yazoo screamed just as Cloud reached her.
She gasped and bent backwards as far as her spine allowed, avoiding his slash. It was such a surprise; Alexia lost her balance and landed right on her bum. She shook her head dizzily and looked up at Cloud. Just as he was about to bring the blade down on her skull, Yazoo blocked the blow, sending sparks flying off the metal weapons.
Alexia scurried out of the way and watched as the two circled each other, weapons still locked.
"Kadaj get them out of here! Hurry!" Yazoo yelled, still staring right into Cloud's deep blue eyes.
"But…" Alexia tried to argue.
"DON'T ARGUE WITH ME WOMAN, JUST GO!"
"Ok…" she sighed as Kadaj grabbed her wrist and yanked both towards the motorbikes.
Just as they sat down on the seats, Alexia looked back one last time.
…Bad timing…
Cloud kicked Yazoo in the leg, catching him off guard. As soon as his eyes were off of him, Cloud jammed the Buster sword through his side. Yazoo's jaw fell open and blood oozed out. In fact, blood was seeping out of his new wound and dripping down towards the handle of the hilt.
"I won't let you take Marlene from us." Cloud hissed and twisted the sword in its place.
Yazoo screamed in agony, falling to his knees. He gasped for air but choked on blood, hunching over to catch his breath.
"No!" Alexia screamed, watching as Cloud kicked Yazoo off the blade.
He rolled over and shuddered as the pain rushed through his body…and looked up half-heartedly at his enemy. Yazoo cupped his wound and gritted his teeth when he saw how much blood was coming out. Cloud grunted with approval and raised his sword once more to end it.
Alexia freed herself from Kadaj's grip (and by freed I mean she bit him as hard as she could and took off running before he could grab her once more) and ran towards Cloud screaming.
"Quake 3!" she heard Alathia scream just before Kadaj sped off…
He was confident that Alexia would get his brother out of there.
"Cure 3!" Alexia whispered to Yazoo, as rocks were still pummeling Cloud.
The wound healed only to the point where it wasn't fatal.
"C'mon Yaz, we gotta get you out of here." She whispered softly and helped him over to the bike.
He clung to her back as they rushed off…Cloud not far behind.
The ride was a blur (because I'm not writing about it :sticks tongue out:), and Kadaj & Alathia were waiting for them at the prayer room.
Kadaj helped Alexia carry the very injured Yazoo down to the boats, while Alathia steadied it.
Kadaj held his upper body, stroking Yazoo's hair and trying everything to keep him talking.
Alexia removed his jacket to better look at the gash… It was pretty bad. As soon as the boat slammed ashore, Alathia rushed off to the house to get Sephiroth.
"C'mon big brother…keep talking to me. We're almost home. Seph's on his way now, ok?" Kadaj purred, moving the silver hair out of his brother's face.
"I…I'll be fine Kadaj…don't worry. Alexia are you alright?" Yazoo stammered, trying his best to hide the pain.
"Yes, I'm fine. Look Yazoo, Seph's here."
"…Yazoo what have you gotten yourself into?" Seph chuckled, picking up his little brother.
Loz and Alathia rushed down and the two watched eagerly as Seph strode off towards the house with Yazoo.
"Will he be ok?" Alathia asked weakly.
"He'll be fine love. C'mon, let's go get cleaned up." Kadaj smiled.
Alathia sighed and obeyed, leaving Loz to take the boat back, and Alexia to wait for him. They reached the house and cleaned blood off of their hands.
"Hehe…now I know how you felt." Kadaj sighed, slumping down next to Alathia in the living room couch.
"Yeah-no…I was ready to go into hysterics…Say, do you hear something dragging?"
"Yeah…oh my-" Kadaj trailed off as they stared towards the door.
Cloud was dragging both Loz and Alexia towards the house…up the front stairs…into the house. Both were semiconscious, bloody, bruised, and beaten.
Kadaj and Alathia gaped at him as he discarded their limp bodies as if they were lifeless. Loz grunted when he hit the ground, and Alexia moaned when she landed on top of him. She slid down his side until she hit the ground with a soft THUD.
Cloud smirked at the two, kicking them slightly, and snapped his gaze to the two horrified figures by the couch.
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"There you go Yazoo…all fixed up. You can rest now." Sephiroth said comfortingly.
He'd heard nothing so far. Yazoo smiled back weakly and pulled the bed covers over his bare frame.