Misery
Ch. 19
I woke up to a wolf licking my face. I reached up and pet his neck. Cloud must've seen me reach up out of the corner of his eyes because he jumped up. "Kai! Are you alright?" I glanced at him real quick, then turned my attention back to the wolf. "Hi Zack." The wolf's eyes met mine as he seemed to smile. I petted him again as the wolf nuzzled my neck. "Good boy...Zack..." Cloud walked over just as the wolf was nuzzling my neck. "You've always been a flirt Zack." Cloud laughed. The wolf turned his head. I could see Zack blushing. Not literally of course just imagined it. "Of course in this case I don't blame you." Cloud ruffled my hair. When I looked up at Cloud, I found myself blushing as I looked into his eyes. Such pain...such sorrows...but so...beautiful. I realized that I was staing at Cloud and quickly averted my eyes. My face was burning. /Calm down! You're looking like an idiot/ Cloud helped me up as Zack stayed by his side. "You okay?" Cloud was serious now. "Yeah. I've never had a memory, that memory, become so bad." "What memory?" "It's a memory of me strapped to an operating table. All I see is a knife shining in the bright white light and the pain of the knife cutting into my skin. That's the first time it's every affected me like that." Cloud didn't say anything for a minute, then sighed. "Kai I...I know about your eyes. About how you were forced to have the Jenova cells put inside you. Rufus explained the whole thing to me." My eyes drifted from side to side to facing the ground. I glanced up to see Cloud's arm bleeding. "Cloud! Your arm!" He glanced down. "Kadaj stabbed me." "Kadaj?" I tore off the arm of my own shirt and used the water from the lake to clean up the blood. "How did you find me anyway?" "I went back to the 7th Heaven after I left your hotel room. Reno and Tifa were in there and they had asked if I had seen you. I told them no and Reno told me that you had something was bothering me and that you were going to find out what." He stopped when I reached up to touch his face. He gasped when I touched his skin. "Did Kadaj-" "Yeah." Cloud closed his eyes when I caressed his bruise, something I didn't expect he woulddo. I continued to work on his arm while he finished telling me how he found me. "Anyway, I looked around and when I couldn't find you, I suddenly thought of The Forgotten City. After your fight with Reno, Tifa told me that you had gone to The Forbidden City to think. Well you ended up there by mistake but it made me think you'd be here now." "Oh no. My secret's been found out. " Cloud laughed. "Don't worry. I won't tell anyone." "Well well well. Isn't this cute." Cloud and I looked around frantically. Spinning around, we saw Kada step out of the shadows. "What happened to Reno Kai?" I glared at him, my eyes changing. I could sense the change. Cloud looked at me and saw that I was glowing with a light blue aura. "Kai you okay?" I looked at him, winked and gave him a thumbs up. "Kai, your eyes." "I know." Cloud didn't say anything but out of the corner of my eye, I saw him smile and nod his head. "Kadaj!" "Hm?" "I'm sick of you hurting my friends! You are goin' down!" "Hm. Oh I highly doubt that Kai." I drew my sword as Cloud did. We stood at the ready, waiting for Kadaj to make the first move. I smirked. "Jenova's a joke." Kadaj's eyes widened then narrowed in rage within a second. "I'd rather tear out my eyes than have that parasite infesting my body." His arm came out with an attack following soon after. The bluish ball hit me in the stomach, sending me backward. "Kai!" Cloud yelled. I slid on the ground, dirt flying behind me like a cape. "I'm fine Cloud." "Not for long you won't be." Kadaj glared at me. I glared back with equal intensity. I stood there, my sword ready. My hand motioned twice to "come get it." When they ran at us, Yazoo and Loz split while Kadaj took the middle. Kadaj attacked me first while Yazoo and Loz ganged up on Cloud. "Cloud!" I yelled turning my head back. "I think you should worry about yourself Kai." I turned back to glare at him. "Your eyes are back I see." I attacked him, missing him with my sword but succeeded in a roundhouse kick to his face. He hit the ground, bouncing a few times. I didn't waste any time. I rushed at him, ready to jump on him. Kadaj flipped backwards at the last minute to avoid my blade. He countered with a roundhouse kick. I landed on my stomach. I could see Cloud face down, immobile. "Cloud!" Yazoo and Loz stood over him like predators about to dig in. I heard Kadaj land behind me. I got up and glared at him.
"I hold your life in my hands." "Really?" I said sarcastically. "It's right here." A tiny knife caught my eyes, followed by a sharp piercing sound. "You are a sister. It's about time you started acting like one!" I was on my kness holding my head. "K-Kai!" I heard Cloud yell. I looked up at the night sky and just screamed, tears running down my face. I hit the ground, unconscious.
