Final Fantasy VII

The Mystery

CHAPTER EIGHT

Hett sat at his office looking through files. Hett stood up and then walked out onto his balcony. He stared out at the Edge reactor with a huge grin on his face. He then got out a cigar and began smoking. He let out a little laugh at the power he had. He turned to go back in when he saw Reno staring at him. Reno was soaking wet by all the rain.

'Reno,' Hett said shocked. 'What are you...' Hett didn't have time to finish his sentence. Reno grabbed him by his collar and threw him back into his office, smashing him through the glass door. Hett was cut pretty badly, he leaned up as Reno walked towards him. 'Reno...wait!' Hett tried to beg. Reno gave Hett a viscious kick in the face, knocking him to the floor. 'Why are you doing this?' Hett muttered. Reno grabbed Hett by the throat.

'Why!' Reno repeated Hett's words. 'Why! You killed her!' Reno screamed as he punched Hett. Hett shook his head.

'No...' Hett cried. 'You did!' Reno had a plain expression on his face.

'No!' Reno yelled as he began punching Hett again and again.

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Back in the past, Reno, Rude and Elena all returned from Edge to fill in Rufus. Reno was upset to learn that Hett had managed to half-convince Rufus to keep the Edge power reactor going. As Rufus had gone to bed, the four turks all stayed downstairs for a drink together. Tseng raised a toast.

'I want to thank all of you,' Tseng smiled. 'You've all been great this past couple of weeks...'

'Nah,' Reno replied. 'We haven't, really...' Tseng shook his head.

'No! You have...' Tseng yelled. Tseng suddenly lost his footing and Rude quickly caught him.

'Tseng? Are you drunk?' Elena chuckled. Tseng shook his head before dozing off in Rude's arms.

'I better take him to bed,' Rude said. Rude dragged Tseng up the stairs. Elena and Reno smiled awkwardly at each other.

'So...' Elena began.

'So...' Reno agreed. After an awkward silence, Reno continued. 'Are you happy Elena? Doing this?' Elena was a bit taken aback by the question.

'Of course I am sir,' Elena replied nervously. Reno smiled.

'No...I'm not asking you this as a boss...' Reno said. 'I'm asking you as a friend...Are you happy?' Elena sighed and took a sip out of her glass.

'Sometimes...' Elena replied.

'Sometimes?' Reno repeated. Elena nodded.

'When we don't have to deal with death...' Elena said bluntly. Reno nodded and got to his feet and looked out of the window at the stars.

'I'm thinking of leaving...' Reno said. 'I suppose it would be pretty nice if you came with me...' Elena got to her feet.

'Leaving?' Elena asked. 'Not you Reno, you love what you do...'

'It's just a job,' Reno replied.

'What would we do?' Elena asked. Reno shrugged.

'I hear that Cloud and Tifa need some bartenders for their bar...' Reno suggested.

'A bartender?' Elena chuckled. Reno looked at her.

'Anything but this...' Reno replied. Reno looked back out at the trees opposite them. Reno noticed the bushes moving, he could see a tall figure in the bush. Rude came back down the steps.

'Tseng's out of it,' Rude said. Reno quickly ran to the front door, it was locked so he used his keycard to open it.

'Reno, where are you going?' Elena asked.

'I need some air,' Reno muttered. 'None of you leave!' Reno then slammed the door shut and ran down the steps outside. Rude and Elena looked at each other in confusion. It was pitch black, Reno sprinted out into the trees, trying to look for that figure he had seen. It started to rain, Reno sighed as he stared at the 'now' cloudy sky.

'I know you're here...' Reno yelled. 'Come out...and face me like a man!' Reno heared a russling in the bushes, he turned to see Brutas. Without a second to think, Brutas punches Reno full force in the eye. Reno fell to the muddy floor, he felt his eye, blood was running from it. Brutas then brutally kicked Reno in the stomach. Reno then got to his feet, he swung for Brutas but his vision was off. Brutas dodged Reno's swing and punched Reno again in his bad eye. He then grabbed Reno by the throat.

'You should enjoy this night with your friends, because it will be their last..' Brutas smiled. Reno kicked Brutas off him.Brutas got to his feet and slowly began to walk away.

'What are you doing!' Reno screamed. 'Aren't you gonna kill me?' Brutas smiled at Reno.

'I will kill one of them tonight,' Brutas smiled. 'Then one the next night...I'll kill you last Reno.' Reno shook his head, he sprinted at Brutas. Brutas grabbed Reno and flung him down the hill. Reno rolled through the mud and through the rain as he hit the bottom of the hill.

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In the present, Hett sat on the floor of his office with glass covered all around him. Reno strolled around the office as he thought about what he would do.

'You wont do this,' Hett faintly smiled. 'You haven't got the balls to murder me...'

'It's nothing I haven't done before,' Reno replied. 'Remember Sector 7 slums...' Hett shook his head.

'That was following orders,' Hett pointed out. 'You'd never kill someone just for revenge...'

'Wouldn't I?' Reno asked. Reno then revealed his electro-cane, Hett could see dry blood on the end of it.

'Whose blood is that?' Hett asked, panicking slightly. Reno smiled.

'Yours now..' Reno then hit Hett in the face with his cane.

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Back in the past, Reno sprinted up the Healing Lodges' steps. He used his keycard to get back in, he quickly locked the door. Reno felt his bloody eye and sighed. Elena was waiting for him.

'What happened to you?' Elena asked. Reno quickly sprinted past her.

'We've got to get out of here!' Reno yelled. Reno then sprinted into his bed room and got out his suitcase and began packing clothes.

'Get out of here?' Elena asked. 'What's the rush?' Reno sighed and grabbed Elena's hand.

'We just need to,' Reno whispered.

'Why are we whispering?' Elena asked. Reno shook his head, he was whispering just incase Brutas was in the lodge and he didn't want to alert him.

'Trust me Elena,' Reno said.

'But...' Elena began.

'Would I be doing this without good reason?' Reno asked her. Elena shook her head.

'No...' Elena cried. Reno gave her a faint smile.

'Go wake Rude..' Reno told her. Elena turned to leave, Reno held onto her hand. Reno then gave her a deep kiss, Elena smiled back as she left the room. Reno continued packing. Elena walked out into the hallway, she was just by Rufus' room. She looked out at the window down the end of the hallway, lightning flashed and Elena was sure she saw a figure out in the bushes. Elena slowly got out her gun and walked towards the window to get a better look. Reno was halway through packing, he noticed a picture frame, inside was a picture of Reno and Elena that was taken on their date, Reno smiled. He looked out of the room. He saw Elena looking out of the closed window.

'Elena...' Reno whispered as he approached her, still holding the photo frame. 'There's no time...' Elena pointed out of the window into the dark bushes.

'Do you see that?' Elena asked. Reno looked closely. The lightning flashed and he could see Brutas in the woods aiming a sniper rifle at them.

'Oh no...' Reno muttered. 'Look out' Reno cried. Reno grabbed Elena and dived to the floor clinging onto her. A bullet was shot through the window, it was silent, and just missed them. Reno could see that they were out of the windows range and smiled a little. Reno turned to Elena. Her eyes were closed, he lifted her head, she had hit it on the radiator attached to the wall. Blood was on the radiator, Reno could not speak.

'Hello?' Rufus yelled from his room. 'Is someone there?' Reno could not answer. He looked at his other hand, the picture frame of Reno and Elena...Reno's hands faltered and he dropped it to the ground, the glass smashing made a loud noise. Reno cried as he cradled Elena's unconcious body, he had tried to protect her. Tears were all down Reno's face as his bad eye stung. Suddenly Rufus' door opened, and Reno could see Rufus staring at him.

Reno...' Rufus struggled to say. Reno looked up at him. He couldn't speak, how could he even breathe. 'What happened Reno?' Reno ignored Rufus as he screamed as he clung onto Elena.

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In the present, Hett tried to crawl away from Reno. He crawled out onto his balcony as the rain poured.

'You sent Brutas,' Reno yelled. 'You killed Elena...'

'No...Elena died from a blow to the head,' Hett said. 'A blow you caused...'

'I didn't come after you earlier,' Reno began. 'Because I was afraid you'd come after more of my friends...but I can't wait any longer...' Hett got onto his knees and begged with Reno.

'If you kill me, Rufus will stop the reactors,' Hett pleaded. Reno nodded.

'Thanks for given me another reason to kill you,' Reno replied. Hett shook his head.

'Think of the children we could protect,' Hett said.

'It was never about children to you, you just wanted power...' Reno yelled. 'Me and Elena...we agreed we'd save the children,' Reno cried. 'But not this way...'

'What other way?' Hett asked. Reno grabbed Hett and lifted him to his feet.

'A peaceful way, a way where no one suffered and no one got hurt,' Reno said. 'It was Elena's dream..'

'That bitch was dillusional,' Hett muttered. Reno looked in Hett's eyes, as Hett realized what he had said. 'No Reno...'

'I loved her...' Reno suddenly heared himself say.

'You didn't love her,' Hett yelled. 'She was just another girl you'd sleep with and never call again...'

'You took her away from me...' Reno yelled as he began to raise Hett by the balcony. 'The oath is, if a Turk gets killed...we kill the killer...well mister killer...I fufill my oath..' Reno then lifted Hett above him and was ready to fling him over the balcony.

'Killing me wont bring her back...' Hett warned him. Reno nodded.

'You're right...' Reno began to lower Hett. Reno could see the evil grin on Hett's face. Reno's anger burst and he flung Hett over the balcony. Hett fell over 100 stories to the rocky floor and his doom. Reno sighed as the rain poured. 'Kill the killer,' he muttered. Reno then stood on the balcony, gave a deep sigh and looked to the sky. 'I love you Elena...' Reno then dived off the balcony to his doom...

END OF CHAPTER EIGHT

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