FINAL FANTASY
BARBASTELLA
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Final Fantasy or any of its characters!
The rain pounded the window forcefully as Cloud looked out at the nighttime weather. It had been 5 months since the Geostigma was cured but ever since he had seen his friends Aerith and Zack, say everything was all right; he had had a bad feeling. Something bad was going to happen, he was sure of it. Cloud just hoped that he was strong enough to face whatever was on its way.
"Cloud! Cloud!" Tifa shouted from behind him, "Are you even listening?"
Cloud turned round and smiled, "Sorry Tifa, what were you saying?" He asked.
Tifa rolled her eyes in annoyance. "I was saying," She said. "You've been worried lately, what about?"
Cloud hesitated, what was he worried about, the rain pounded harder, the window causing strange shapes on the floor as he sat down on the bed across from her. "Somebody's coming." He said. "And they could be stronger than Sephiroth."
Tifa smiled at him. "Why worry? You're the best there is."
"I hope so," Cloud said, more to himself than Tifa.
Several blocks away, on a rooftop, a dark figure looked down on the flooded streets, he saw somebody who looked rather clever, jumped down, grabbed them and brought them back onto the rooftop. The man he attacked only had time to realise he had moved before he felt himself being hung over the edge upside down by some maniac in a cape. "Where is Cloud Strife?" The figure asked him, its voice had a deep, evil sound to it. One of intimidation.
"I don't know where he is!" The man shouted. "I swear to God!"
"Swear to me!" The figure shouted back and dropped him and grabbed him again.
"Okay, okay!" The man pleaded. "He lives nearby but I'm not sure where."
The figure smirked and dropped him; he fell for a couple of minutes before hitting the bottom, smashing some wooden boxes flat with his weight. When he looked up, the figure was gone, nothing but the rain was on the rooftop.
"Where are you going?" Tifa asked, the rain soaking her hair and clothes.
Cloud mounted his bike, his hair flat due to the rain. "Somewhere to think."
"Be careful" Tifa said smiling. Cloud smiled back and raced off on his bike.
His bike raced through the streets at high speed, causing a large spray of water to form behind the back tyer, above him on the rooftops, somebody was running at the same speed as the bike, obviously following Cloud. Cloud went faster and turned a sharp corner, heading out of the main city and still the figure followed him. When he reached an open road in the desert, the rain had stopped and a cool breeze rushed past him, blowing his hair back and drying it. That's when Cloud noticed a figure behind him, jumping like a kangaroo on drugs at high speed towards him. Cloud went faster but the figure kept up with him, he'd never met somebody so fast before and it was worrying him. Out of nowhere a rock flew towards him, he ducked his head and avoided the muddy missile only to see more being thrown at him, he turned the bike and reached for one of his many swords and proceeded to deflect every last stone. Once the stones had stopped he scanned the area, nobody was there. He turned the bike and sped off to where he was going.
"He is good, a skilled fighter indeed." The figure said to himself, watching Cloud disappear behind a mountain.
Sand blew up against Cloud's bike as he sat on the ground, thinking about everything that had happened in the last 5 months when he heard somebody behind him. "Somebody was following me." Cloud said. "Any idea who it was?"
Vincent Valentine came out from behind a large rockface, his red cape blowing to the side in the wind. "None at all."
"Damn." Said Cloud in frustration. "I thought you would know"
"I don't know everything Cloud" Vincent said to him, walking up and standing beside him.
"Yet you are the first to know." Cloud said back to him, not looking.
Vincent sniggered slightly. "Whoever it is, they'll show themselves eventually, they always do."
Cloud nodded in agreement and lied back in the sand.
Well, that's chapter 1 up, this is my first Final Fantasy Fan Fic so be nice please. R/R
