Even though everything and everyone seemed to be against him, calling him a betrayer. But she trusted him. She had his back when no one else did.

Though he didn't say anything she could tell he was grateful to have someone by his side.

Until the day that her world went dark, the last thing she could hear was his voice… at least she thought it was his voice. The last she felt was strong arms wrapped around her and salty water dripping down onto her face.

…

Tifa woke up, her face wet with tears from the pain she felt in her dream but as she faced reality- or what counts as it in this world- the memory of the dream faded. Faded before she could make out any details or what it meant.

It took Tifa to notice that instead of the warm shoulder she accidentally fell asleep on she was curled up on the sand, and it appeared that she was alone.

Did he…

"Kain!" Tifa called out, "Kain! Where are you!"

She expected him to answer not land a few feet in front of her. Though there was something strange about the way he was standing. He was too tense, and it appeared that anything could make him attack. He was waiting for something but what.

"Kain…" she started but the next she knew was that his hand covered her mouth and she was sandwiched between him and the cliff wall.

"Shhhh…." he whispered in her ear.

Tifa muttered angrily against his hand, what was he doing! He could have just told her to be quiet.

Then she heard it voices, one of which was familiar and gave her chills. Part of her wanted to attack the owner, but she knew better. Especially since the other voice sounded like a psycho killer in a horror movie.

Tifa knew that voice knew which warrior of chaos it belonged to, someone who lived for destruction and laughed at the suffering of everyone around it. One who used a poor girl as his personal puppet- a weapon he used to attack others. But for the life of her, she couldn't remember his name. And she could barely see his colorful face in her mind as she tried to remember who this was and how dangerous it was.

But the other, the one she wanted to attack she knew all too well. A once-great hero from her world who lived long enough to see himself become a villain. Killing the rest of her family, killing her friends, and almost taking both Cloud's, a dark-haired soldier's, and her lives. Not to mention that she was forced to watch such a beautiful soul, her newest friend and companion die by his hand.

She hated Sephiroth, wanted to lash out. But Kain's presence and his body against her's grounded Tifa. Not allowing her anger and pain to get the best of her, she knew it wasn't in anyone's best interest for her to lash out. The way kain was acting, it seemed like he was worried that she had already given away their position by calling out for him. If there was a chance their enemies couldn't hear and didn't know they were they it was best for them to stay silent.

But oh boy it was hard not to attack, she wanted to hurt the man who hurt both and her friends and family. Memories that only made her anger growl because not only did she have her memories of home… she had the memories of this place and the people she met here. And what the warriors of chaos did to them all.

Though the only thing she seemed to forget was why she felt so comfortable around Kain and why she trusted him. But a lot of their interactions were cloudy. But he did have her back when she needed someone the most.

Like now, he was preventing her from doing something stupid. In fact, he almost turned Tifa's thoughts away from the danger before them and kept her from doing something stupid. Preventing her from one or both to be maimed and/or killed.

"Well since we're all stuck in this world we might as well take over, kick those gods out and destroy this world," Kefla said with so much glee in his voice that it sent shivers down Tifa's spine. Though it should surprise her previous encounters with Kefka made her believe that there was nothing that he would not do.

But why destroy a world that was finally beginning to form into something new? And what did he mean by they were stuck here?

Tifa went from looking angry up at the cliff above them, to turning her gaze to Kain with fear and worry in her eyes. Where they going to destroy the beach just for the shear fun of it?

"If we do that Spiritus will catch on and the few that follow him will join the rest of our enemies," Sephorith said.

"Yeah but there's more of us than there is of them? Come on Sephy it will be fun!"

A slight chuckle filled the air as the footsteps stopped above them.

Oh no! Tifa thought. Part of her was worried about getting caught while the other wanted to fight. But she knew that no matter what both her and Kain will either be forced into a fight or try to flee.

And any second now the two would look down and see them. They had to at least see Kain. While they were somewhat hidden- though more her than him- but if you looked one would see the purple dragoon armor that he wore. Even in the shadows he could still be was too much light to hide him.

Tifa tensed, hoping that they wouldn't hear her heart beating loudly.

"Just think of it chaos and destruction everywhere!" Kefka laughed, a laugh that would send shivers down people's spines and bring out the fear in everyone, "the world burning up! It will be glorious!"

Not if I can do anything about it, Tifa thought as her angered renewed itself. Especially since this clown wanted to destroy everything for the sheer fun of it.

"Calm yourself," Kain whispered in her ear, the hot air moving against her ear and neck brought her back to reality. And made her realize that Tifa was struggling against Kain's hold. Tifa also noticed that he pressed his body closer to hers as he tried to bring them closer into the rock.

And she didn't know what was worse the heat of his body doing strange things to her-including speeding up her heartbeat, even more than it already was- or the fact that her back was starting to hurt.

If they didn't get out of this situation soon Tifa would either hurt Kain while breaking free so she could attack the two men above them or their enemies would come down on their heads.

"But remember we can't do that right now," Sephorith said, "we must bide our time and-"

She couldn't hear what else he had to saw as Tifa was swallowed but a golden light that suddenly appeared behind her. Finally…

the next she knew was that she was fallling, and screaming at the top of her lungs.