As the sun slowly sets into the horizon, the sky turned crimson red and orange. The silver-haired leader leaned himself back on the chair as he placed his legs on the table.
The front door suddenly burst open as Yazoo appeared, his arms wrapped around an injured Loz.
"I see she was too hot for you to handle." Kadaj said coldly, unimpressed.Loz looked about to argue back but Yazoo quickly interrupted.
"Kadaj, he was hurt by the one you called our 'brother'."
Interesting, Kadaj thought as he slowly removed his legs from the table and sat up a little straighter. "Cloud was there?"
Loz nodded. He might not have been badly bruised physically, but his ego sure took the hit. "Yeah. He showed up just when I was about to have the girl."
A slow smile crept onto Kadaj's face. "You didn't get the little one back."
"That child was almost mine! But Cloud…"
"Shut up!" Kadaj shouted suddenly, his green eyes narrowed in rage. Black attitude filled the room as Loz and Yazoo both quiet down. "You're thinking too much of Tifa. When I first allowed you to have your fun with her, I specifically told you to bring the child back."
"Yes…" Loz muttered, his head low and full of shame.
Kadaj rest both his hands on the table as he leaned forward, a few strands of his rich silvery hair fell across his otherwise, flawless childlike face. "You disgraced the name of Mother, fool." He whispered, every word he said, full of spite and venom.
Yazoo remained quiet as he watched the exchange between Loz and Kadaj, his expression unreadable.
"Maybe…give me one more day, I'll…" Loz started to plead but Kadaj raised his hand suddenly, as if to command him to be silent.
"No." Kadaj said firmly. "I'll bring that child back. We need her for the reunion." Casting a sideward glance at Yazoo, he continued, "Think you can distract our traitorous brother down, in the meantime?"
Yazoo gave a stiff bow. "Considered it done."
"Good." Kadaj muttered, nodding his head slightly. "Leave now, both of you. We have work to do…tonight."
The plan was simple and that was how Kadaj like it. Simple and clean. Yazoo and Loz were to distract Cloud and his friends in whichever way possible while Kadaj would infiltrate into the Orphanage and picked the child up.
As security around the Orphanage had tightened up recently, following the attacks Kadaj and his brothers had given just a couple of days ago, Kadaj must make certain this infiltration mission remained a stealth mission.
Marlene, the child they were after, was somewhere hidden in the huge Orphanage that house thousands of homeless children after their homes were destroyed two years ago by the Meteor summoned by Kadaj's lord, Sephiroth. The children played an important role in his plan.
In fact, even his brothers are still uncertain of their goals and aims. They only knew they had to find Mother.
They didn't know that Kadaj's real plan is to revive Sephiroth, and sacrificed Mother in the process of doing so.
As the Orphanage came into view, Kadaj slipped on his black cloak. Feeling his double blade sheathed nicely, just underneath his cloak, he smiled.
In his dream, she always smiled so kindly at him. As if he was some long lost friend, when he never even met her before.
"What are you smiling about?" he would ask, irritation and annoyance written all over his face.
"Why are you so angry?" she would retort, rolling her emerald green eyes at him until he would be at a loss for words.
"Why are you here? What am I doing here? Why won't you leave me alone!"
"Complaints, complaints." She mocked him with a teasing glimmer of light in her eyes.
It was weird however, that Kadaj never thought to kill her. Even though in his dream, he always held his blade with him.
"This is not a dream." Kadaj muttered. "This is a Reunion."
"Huh?" she tilted her head slightly, her green eyes questioning.
"I need to get that child…for this type of Reunion. But with someone else." He said slowly, a smile appeared on his face.
"No…" It was the first time Kadaj had seen her lost her carefree smile and instead, replaced by a concerned frown.
"Wait, don't go." She called out to him. But already, Kadaj had his back turned against her and was walking back down the aisle, towards the entrance of the church.
"Don't go, I say!" she called out again, this time, there was annoyance in her voice.
Kadaj stopped in his tracks. "Who are you?" he asked, his back still facing her.
There was no reply. Finally, when Kadaj thought she had disappeared, and he was about to turn around, she suddenly spoke.
"Cloud, don't do this."
Kadaj walked quietly towards the Orphanage and noticed, at once that there were two young teenagers stationed at the front door as guards.
Can't they come up with a better defense? He thought, shaking his head in disgust. Clutching his blade now, he unsheathed the weapon and the moonlight cast thin reflections of the blade back into his eyes, so much so that he narrowed his eyes slightly, pleased.
"Say your last prayers now, boys." He muttered coldly. As soon as he finished his sentence, a sudden gust of wind blew across the road as the teenagers witness a gigantic black raven just hovering over their heads.
It took them about three seconds to realize that it was not a raven, but a piece of black cloak.
But by then, it was too late. The last thing they saw was the deep green eyes of their enemy and then a sudden sharp glint of white light that momentarily blinded them.
After that, the blade did the talking.
And all was silent.
Smirking, Kadaj sheathed his weapon in again as he deliberately swung the door open loudly and walked into the Orphanage.
The Orphanage was quiet and it was larger than Kadaj would have expected. It wouldn't be an easy job locating the young girl if she wasn't so special.
However, Kadaj knew the girl would lead him to her. And so he walked passed the silent corridors, occasionally hearing the soft snores of the children.
He stopped short at one particular door. There was complete silence from the inside. He reached out and turned the knob.
It was locked.
"Marlene…" he whispered her name, letting his word hung in the air between him and the room.
Then, he heard soft footsteps coming from the inside. As if some small thing had hopped out of bed and was slowly making unsteady steps towards the door.
"Who is it?" a small girlish voice called out. "Is that you, Cloud?"
Cloud, don't do this.
He did not reply but the knob started to turn and the door creaked opened. A small brown head peeked out from the door.
"You're not Cloud." The small girl whispered, her voice trembled slightly as she said so but still, she remained calm.
"No, I'm not Cloud." He replied coldly. "It's funny how some people can mixed us up."
"What do you want?" she asked and Kadaj admired her courage.
"You."
Note: There ISN'T a typo error when Aerith called Kadaj "Cloud" in the dream. It was meant to be that way.
Hope you all like it! Oh and do let me know if you're confused about anything so that I could try to clear things up a bit in the next chappie.