SOLDIER Bros.: Chp 3
"Get it!", Cid shouted.
Cloud and Zack were ahead of everyone in the pursuit of the invitation. Cait Sith and Nanaki dove for the red paper, but missed and crashed down onto Yuffie and Cid.
"Owies…", Yuffie groaned.
But the chase continued. The wind blew the invitation sharply around the corner of a small public pool. Barret tripped trying to make the sharp turn and took Vincent and Tifa with him. Aeris stopped running and tried to help Barret, Vincent, and Tifa out of the water.
"You guys keep chasing that invitation!", she called out to Cloud and Zack.
"No problem!", Zack yelled back.
Catching this invitation was tougher than they thought. Cloud and Zack jumped up a few times to grab it, but the wind always took it higher. As they turned the corner, they ran into somebody, knocking them down. A big, tough, strong somebody.
"Hey, watch where you're going!", Zack roared, holding his nose.
Trembling, Cloud tugged on Zack's sleeve and stared at the person they ran into. Zack tried to wave it off, but Cloud would not let him. Zack reluctantly looked up and went pale. A certain silver-haired general was glaring down at the two boys angrily. Nobody knocked him down and got away with it.
"SEPHIROTH!", they shouted in unison.
Both made a run for it. Sephiroth angrily ran after them with his sword drawn. They ran a few blocks and Zack found a hole in wood fence. He quickly pushed Cloud through and went in after him. Sephiroth tried to go after them, but Zack had placed a heavy block of cement in the way. He growled and ran around the fence.
Zack and Cloud kept running and stopped when they saw a sign with a chocobo on it and some construction equipment nearby.
"I have an idea", Zack said slyly.
Sephiroth, clearly filled with rage, stomped past the sign and froze when he came up to something that looked like a poorly made chocobo dummy. He curiously began poking it with his sword. The dummy backed up a couple of steps and Sephiroth gasped. He stomped down onto the yellow cloth and Zack and Cloud walked out from under it.
"Uh oh", Cloud gasped.
"I have you now!", Sephiroth yelled, raising his sword.
"RUN!", Zack shouted, running as fast as he could.
The chase continued.
"I'm getting tired of running!", Cloud said, panting.
"We can't stop!", Zack cried. "He'll kill us!".
Suddenly, Cloud came up with an idea as they ran past another construction site.
"Follow me!", Cloud said, sprinting into the unfinished building.
Zack hesitantly followed him. Sephiroth followed the two boys into the building. Cloud pulled Zack into an elevator for the construction workers and hit a button. The elevator doors closed and took them to the top floor. Sephiroth, who ran into the elevator doors, was really angry and decided to wait patiently.
On the top floor, Cloud and Zack collapsed onto the ground and stared up at the clouds in the sky. They felt like they ran a few miles and were exhausted. Zack suddenly laughed.
"What is it?", Cloud asked.
"That cloud looks like the a chocobo", Zack giggled, pointing at the sky.
Cloud smiled and looked up. The wind blew again and a piece of paper flew into Cloud's face.
"What the heck!", Cloud exclaimed as he peeled the paper off of his face.
Zack and Cloud gasped. It was an invitation! They happily jumped up and did a small victory dance. It was the invitation they had been chasing and it was finally in their hands. Cloud and Zack cheerfully took the elevator back downstairs and began to walk back to the Seventh Heaven, where they knew everyone was waiting for them. When they turned the corner, they gasped.
"Hello, boys", Sephiroth growled, sword still in hand.
Zack and Cloud ran yet again.
"Doesn't this guy ever give up?", Cloud asked Zack.
"Apparently not!", Zack replied. Cloud came up with another idea.
"Zack! See that fire hydrant up ahead?", he asked.
"Yeah. What about it?", Zack answered.
"When I shout 'split', we split up and run around it, understood?", Cloud asked. Zack nodded.
As they approached the fire hydrant, Cloud shouted 'split!', and they separated. Sephiroth, blinded by his rage, ran into the fire hydrant and was sent soaring into the sky by a rush of water.
"Alright!", Zack and Cloud cheered, giving each other a hi-five.
Sephiroth finally bounced off of something soft and fell onto the ground next to it.
"I'll get those boys", he growled.
Snoring noises came from behind Sephiroth. When he turned around to see what he had fallen next to, it was too late. A napping Palmer rolled over and squashed the poor general like a pancake.
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A/N: I'm baaaaaaaaack! No, I'm not dead, just...busy. Please review and updates will come soon!