Final Fantasy VII

Shinra Reborn

Chapter Two

Outside Rufus' mansion, Reno and Rude sat by the front door. They had been chosen to guard the president's mansion. Neither were happy about it, so they didn't take the posistion very seriously. Rude moaned as they continued playing poker.

'Why are we on guard?' Rude moaned, Reno smiled, he could tell Rude was moaning because he had bad cards.

'It's best for everyone,' Reno assured him. 'I can see bloodshed coming.' Rude sighed.

'Elena...' Rude muttered. Reno was worried too, but he would not show it.

'Don't worry, she's a qualified Turk, she can handle herself,' Reno smiled. 'Okay, I'll raise your five hundred to a thousand...' Reno then placed more money on the table. Rude looked at him.

'You're bluffing...' Rude faintly smiled and placed more money down. 'What you got?' Reno grinned as he showed Rude his cards.

'Seven queens,' Reno laughed. 'Read them and weep...' Reno dragged Rude's money towards him. Rude sighed.

'Damn...' Rude thought. '...Hang on...' Suddenly Cloud, Tifa and Barret walked up to them, Cloud kept a firm grip on his buster sword, Reno in return kept his hand on his electro-cane.

'The President wants to see us,' Cloud informed them. Reno nodded.

'He's expecting you,' Reno grinned. 'Enjoy yourselves.' Cloud slowly walked inside the mansion followed by Tifa and Barret.

Cloud, Tifa and Barret sat down at the dinner table at Rufus' mansion. A chef then brought out three delicious meals. Cloud stared at the dinner, he would not eat it. Rufus then strolled in followed by Tseng and Elena. Rufus sat opposite Cloud with Elena and Tseng standing to his side.

'What the hell is this!' Barret yelled. 'We suddenly buddies now!' Rufus smiled faintly.

'Please, enjoy your meal,' Rufus pointed to their dinners that no one had touched.

'I wont be eating this Rufus,' Cloud said sharply. Rufus slowly nodded.

'Straight to business eh?' Rufus saw the looks on their faces. 'Don't worry, it's not poisenous, why would I resort to such a coward's murder. I could kill you perfectly easy myself.' Barret stood straight up.

'Is that a challenge!' Barret demanded. Suddenly Elena and Tseng got out their guns and aimed them at Barret. Cloud was ready to rise up and begin fighting, when Rufus spoke to him again.

'Cloud,' Rufus begged. 'Join me, help me build this city up. Help me train new SOLDIERS.' Tifa looked at Rufus and was disgusted.

'You are re-creating it all,' Tifa cried. 'Don't you learn from your mistakes?' Rufus looked offended.

'Mistakes?' Rufus yelled. 'Mistakes didn't end Shinra, Sephiroth did. Now that he is dead...hopefully for good this time, we can start again.' Cloud couldn't listen to anymore of this, he stood up.

'It's not going to happen Rufus!' Cloud burst out. Rufus shook his head and sighed.

'I'm sorry to hear that you wont join me,' Rufus then turned to his Turks, and after a long silence, gave them an order. 'Kill them,' Rufus then stood and went to leave before he faced Cloud one last time. 'Farewell, old friends.' Rufus then slowly strolled out of the dining room. Tifa then jumped up, the Turks fired at Cloud straight away, he guarded all their shots with his sword. Tifa kicked Elena's gun out of her hand, Elena then swung for Tifa who countered and through Elena to the floor, she was unconcious. Barret shot at Tseng, who dived forward, avoiding the shot, he then kicked Barret to the floor. Cloud jumped over and kicked Tseng in the head with a spinning kick. Tseng was knocked out cold, Barret regained his feet and looked at Cloud, then at Tseng.

'Lucky shot,' Barret said. Tifa walked over to them, she sihged.

'Rufus got away...' Tifa cried. Cloud shook his head.

'We can still catch him!' Cloud reassured her. Cloud, Tifa and Barret then sprinted out of the dining room, they suddenly saw many shinra soldiers running at them, Barret shot at them, but there were too many.

'We have to get out of here!' Cloud yelled. 'C'mon!' Cloud grabbed Tifa and Barret and they quickly retreated.

The Sierra landed in Edge just by the Seventh Heaven bar, Denzel and Marlene awaited Cid has he came and picked them up. They were ready to board the ship.

'C'mon young'ns,' Cid called them. 'We got to get our asses out of here quick.'

Reno and Rude continued playing poker at the entrance.

'Are there seven queens in a deck?' Rude finally asked. Reno was lost for words, when suddenly Cloud, Tifa and Barret sprinted through the front door and ran straight past them. 'Shouldn't we catch them?' Rude wondered.

'We haven't been ordered to...' Reno shrugged. Suddenly shinra soldiers ran through the door and looked at them.

'Sieze them!' a guard ordered. Reno quickly hopped up.

'We've been ordered.' Reno and Rude quickly sprinted out of the gates and chased after Cloud.

Cid sat at the cockpit of the Sierra, he was ready to take off, Denzel and Marlene stared out of the window.

'3, 2, 1, takeoff...' Cid said. Denzel jumped up as he saw something out of the window.

'Wait!' Denzel screamed. 'Cloud's running towards us.' Cid looked at Denzel confused.

'What?' Cid asked. He then stood up and looked out of the window himself. Cloud, Tifa and Barret were sprinting for the ship, Cloud signalled Cid to takeoff. 'We're going now,' Cid yelled, he hopped back at the controls. The Sierra started lifting.

The hatch was open, Cloud and Tifa both dove up in the air and climbed in the ship, they helped Barret up as well.

'Close the hatch,' Cloud yelled. Suddenly Rude dove at them, he clung onto the hatch, but when it closed up, he had to let go as his fingers were seconds away from being crushed.

Rude fell to the floor hard. Reno ran to him, as he saw the ship fly far away. Rude looked to him.

'They...got away...' Rude moaned. Reno smiled.

'You're kidding...' he replied.

Cloud, Tifa and Barret sprinted into the cockpit. Cid was smoking on his pipe, he still hadn't given up. Cloud sighed and leaned back on a chair.

'You could say thank you,' Cid yelled. Cloud shrugged.

'Whatever,' Cloud moaned. 'We have a problem.'

'Shinra will try to take over the whole planet, until there is not one acre of this earth not taken over,' Tifa cried. There was a long silence, when Cid decided to break the ice.

'I take it the meeting didn't work out?' Cid laughed. All three of them looked at Cid angrilly, he sighed and went back to his flying.

Red XIII stood on top of the highest cliff of Cosmo Canyon. He suddenly saw a mass of Shinra troops slowly marching towards them. Red then gave out a giant roar...

Cloud, Tifa, Barret and Cid all sat in the meeting room, they had a big problem that they had to sort out.

'I think we need to call everyone in,' Cloud finally said. Barret nodded and looked really excited.

'Oh yeah,' Barret grinned. 'Reform AVALANCHE, blow some Shinra up!' Tifa sighed and shook her head.

'Didn't you learn anything from the last time?' she asked him. Barret shrugged.

'Shinra has it coming,' Barret muttered. Cloud looked at his laptop, he was seaching up all of the old crew, to see where everyone was.

'Red is still at Cosmo Canyon, he'll be easy,' Cloud spoke. 'Yuffie is in Wutai, Reeve is at Junon...' Cloud searched through the laptop for any information on Vincent Valentine. 'Vincent is the hard one. I don't know where he is?' Cloud sighed.

'Vinny's just wierd,' Cid sais. 'He's never still, he's always on the move...' Cloud shrugged.

'I'm sure he'll turn up,' Cloud sighed. 'To Cosmo Canyon then, Cid, let's mosse.' Barret looked angrilly at Cloud. 'Sorry,' Cloud apoligised. 'Let's get to business.' Barret and Cid slowly left to the cockpit, Cloud noticed the sad look on Tifa's face. 'Tifa, are you alright?' Cloud asked. Tifa shook her head.

'It's happening all over again...' Tifa cried. Cloud shook his head and held onto Tifa's hand.

'Don't worry, it will end the same way it did last time, Shinra will die, and it wont come back,' Cloud promised her.

'You know...' Tifa began. 'There's only one way to guarantee that...' Cloud nodded.

'I know,' Cloud reassured her. 'I'm prepared to kill Rufus. If it's for the planet, and our family...'

'Thanks Cloud.'

Cosmo Canyon was in ruins, the natives fought galliently with the Shinra troops. Red had to defend his town, he fought off as many soldiers as he could.

'SHIT! Cosmo Canyon's being attacked!' Barret screamed as he looked out the window of the Sierra. Cid quickly looked himself.

'Shit...' he sighed.

'Damn Shinra!' Barret punched the wall. 'We have to help them!' Cid nodded.

'I'm taking her down,' Cid told him. Cloud slowly walked in.

'Cloud...' Barret began.

'I saw it Barret,' Cloud nodded. 'Cid, make sure Denzel and Marlene are safely hidden. Let's go...'

Red fought off four troops on the cliff of Cosmo Canyon. He took one down, but while he did that, a troops hit Red across the head with his gun. Red gave out a great howl. Suddenly Cloud, Tifa and Barret fell from the sky, they quickly killed all the troops. Cloud looked to Red, who was barely concious.

'Red...' Cloud sighed.

'You...came...here...to...help me?' Red asked. Cloud nodded.

'Of course.'

'Right...let's go...' Red tried to regain his feet, while Tifa held him up.

'Red!' she cried. 'You're in no fit state to fight...'

'I have to, this is my home,' Red cried. Barret picked up Red and held him in his arm.

'Look Tifa, he's not that bad. I'll keep watch on him. C'mon Red! Let's kick ass!' Barret then sprinted off with Red.

'Right. Let's go,' Cloud said. Suddenly Cid climbed up the cliff to them. 'Cid?'

'The Sierra's hidden safely,' Cid assured him. 'Let's go!'

The four of them all ran into battle, Cloud took down the troops easily, Cid and Tifa worked together to take them down. Red howled orders to his troops while Barret shoot down as many guards as he could.

Back in Edge, in Rufus' mansion. Rufus sat in his chair, sipping wine as he looked out of the window. Elena walked behind him.

'What news?' Rufus asked.

'Junon is under our control sir,' Elena replied. 'Cosmo Canyon is proving difficult.'

'Well, I never knew that Nanaki was such as willfull warrior,' Rufus replied.

'It's not that sir,' Elena said nervously. 'Cloud and the others have joined Nanaki in battle...' Elena lowered her head as Rufus stood up furiously.

'He has got in my way for the last time!' Rufus yelled. 'It's time to call in Arasmis...' Elena nodded.

'It will be done.'

'Tell him I want him in Cosmo Canyon now!' Rufus ordered.

'I'll call him now Mr. President,' Elena bowed and left the room. Rufus looked out the window, he could see Cosmo Canyon in the distance.

Reno walked into an office in Junon. In the office he could see troops trying to restrain a chubby man.

'You will not take Junon away from me!' the chubby man yelled. Reno looked at the man, then at the troops.

'Who's this?' Reno asked. The chubby man looked at Reno angrilly.

'I'm Pollis Walters, President of Junon!' he yelled.

'Ex-president,' Reno corrected him. 'There's only one president now Pollis.'

'What are our orders?' the troops asked. Reno looked Pollis in the eye.

'Throw him out into the streets. Let him see what it's like to be one of his citizens,' Reno ordered. Pollos was dragged out.

'You wont get away with this!' Pollis screamed. Pollis was dragged out, Reno sighed and sat at Pollis' chair and put his feet up.

Outside the outskirts of the Canyon, a dark mysterious man rode on his bike. He stopped just outside the town. He was dressed in black, and kept his hood up.

Cid stood on top of the cliff, he took out all the guards coming at him, when the dark mysterious man floated up to the top of the cliff. He faced Cid, Cid stared at him.

'Come for some eh? Take this!' Cid ran at the mysterious man. This man was called Arasmis and he was the best troop Shinra had at the moment. Arasmis jumped over Cid as Cid ran under him. He kicked Cid in the face as Cid fell down. Cid swung his spear, Arasmis kicked it away from Cid as it flew down the cliff. Cid slowly got to his feet.

'Heaven is waiting...' Arasmis coldly said. Cid punched Arasmis down, the began punching and kicking. Arasmis stood on the edge of the cliff. Cid barged him, he did not move. Arasmis grabbed Cid by the throat and lifted him up.

'What the hell are you!' Cid squeeked.

'My name is Arasmis...' he said evily. 'And you will die now!' Arasmis then flung Cid off the cliff. Cid fell into the darkness as Arasmis smiled...

END OF CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE UP SOON

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