Chapter 2

Ok..Second chapter up. The first one was just some random thing I created. I decided that I should finish the story. Everything is kind of last minute, so I hope it makes sense! Please review. I'd like to know how I'm doing.

I do not own final fantasy VII or anything related to it.

Chapter 2

"Hey! Don't step on them, you brute!" Aeris shoved Zack away from her flower bed that was in her church and guided him to the nearest pew.

"Whoa! Hey…sorry. Didn't see 'em. Man, you're rough!" Zack laughed, leaning against the back of the pew, running his hand through his dark hair.

"You, sir, shouldn't be so reckless. You could've crushed them all!" She giggled, holding her delicate hand over her lips.

"Besides, I wouldn't want to kick your butt if you crushed my babies." She quickly changed her expression, glaring her eyes and squishing her lips together, trying to make a 'mean' face. Zack burst out laughing.

"Oh, Boy! You sure are frightful! I'm so sorry! Don't hurt me! AAAEEEIIII!!" He held his arms in front of his face, acting like a scared little girl.

"You should be in SOLDIER. I bet you'd fool everyone into thinking you were a beastly, little thing! Even the Great Sephiroth would be shaking in his boots!" Zack watched the grin on Aeris face. He remembered how he wanted to be like the Great Sephiroth when he was young. Now he works with the guy.

"Boy, isn't it funny? Ya know-…" the complexion on Aeris face paled and everything went dark.

"Aeris!? AERIS!?" A spotlight lit up the area around Aeris, leaving Zack alone in the never ending darkness. A large black form came falling down above Aeris, a demon.

"I'm sorry…" A soft whisper came from Aeris soft, innocent lips.

"What!? What's going on!" The dark figure lit up for a second as he pulled out his long sword, crashing into Aeris fragile form. All that was left of the girl were dilated pupils as she fell into the crimson abyss. The only sound was the scream from Zack's pain. The light was gone. His love was gone.

'What the hell is going on!?'

An image of Aeris lying in her own pool of blood appeared. Images of her laughing, crying, yelling, and dying flashed in his mind. Her delicate features were disappearing before his eyes. She was fading like a candle at the end of its life. Needles punctured her skin; chemicals were poured into her body and her blood…

'So much blood…'

Everything blurred, and blended together. No image could be identified and they too began to disappear along with her laughter and joy he once knew. The ending to his dream crashed into him as hard as Sephiroth's sword did in Nibelheim.

"Zack!! How…how could you let this happen? You…left…me."

"Ah!" Zack's eyes opened. What kind of nightmare did he just have? He never experienced anything like it.

"So real..." Shock from the dream faded and was filled with a new type of pain, physical. Zack was in a breaker.

'Much like the one Cloud and I were in. I remember now. We escaped the lab after the incident in Nibelheim.' Zack recalled the time he heard Cloud tapping on the glass of his new prison cell and 'Lets get out of here' was scratched into the panes of glass.

"Feeding time…that's our chance! Then we broke out when the soldier came in with our meal…man, we beat the shit out of him. Wonder if we killed him? Then…" He thought of the ride in the back of a truck traveling to Midgar and the ambush from Shinra. He had resisted, allowing enough time for Cloud to escape. During the time he was resisting, a soldier had fired unexpectedly, causing everyone else to hail bullets upon him. He didn't remember anything else.

"I told him everything. My dreams, me being a mercenary. Heh…what bullshit. Look at me now." At this point, Zack had no idea where he was. He hadn't even taken the chance to look around. He was too scared. Needles and tubes were sticking him throughout his entire body. He looked like a science project. The familiar smell of Mako surrounded him along with a new smell. It was much different.

'Kind of a sour smell.' Zack knew he was in trouble. He was back in the Shinra Corporation, but instead of being on duty for SOLDIER, he was in the lab inside a tube.

"Shit! This is bad…Very bad! I thought I was dead! How long have I been inside this thing!?" Adrenaline pumping, Zack knew he had to get out. The question was, how. His brain ticked trying to think of an idea.

'There is no way I can break through this thing! It's like bullet proof glass!' The sound of a machine starting up distracted his thoughts. The machines around his cell were winding up, preparing his next treatment. The needles in his body were torn out and pulled through tiny holes in the top of the breaker. They flew into slots inside the machines. All the tubes were then filled with a green substance.

'Wh-…What is that? Mako…no. That's something different! It's like green blood or something!" Zack's body had never hurt so badly in his life. Bullet wounds felt better.

'What was the deal with Sephiroth? Didn't he find out he was an experiment? But what was it? What was it that made him so superior?" Zack watched as all the tubes were filled and prepared to reenter his body. That was when he remembered.

"Jenova!? Those are Jenova's cells!! Are they going to try to make me a monster like Sephiroth!? Shit! This is bad! This is very bad!!"

Zack pounded on the glass around him. He had to get out and he had to get out now!

Wow. Ok done with this chapter! It is longer than the first but still not as long as I'd like to make these. Is it an ok length?

Poor Zack. I'd be freaking out too. Was it exciting? I had a lot of fun writing this one! Again, please review. I'd like to know what the readers think.

Annubis