Disclaimer: ... -.- don't own FF7... just the story.
So I guess I got to update a lot sooner then I though I did...I'm don't have a lot of experience in fight scenes. I will go more in depth when it is an important battle though. Thanks for reading!
Zack and Cloud dodged the patrols as they entered the train station and took the train to the slums. Zack did it to see if he still had the skills. Cloud on the other hand only copied Zack.
"So, Sector 5 right?" Cloud asked.
"Nope, we are headed towards the Hill," Zack said.
"Okay." Cloud simply followed Zack out of Midgar and into the wastelands.
"While we walk, tell me what your plan is to fix things." Zack commanded.
"I don't know the goddess just shot us back with no helpful hint." Cloud said.
"Cloud, are you sure that you haven't meant Genesis? There is no goddess," Zack said. "Minerva is more the figure or symbol of the lifestream's desire. What you heard talking to you is more of the planet itself. It took a form that you would recognize."
"So, the planet is what took away our peace and sent me back?" Could coldly said.
"I don't know. I mean I don't mind the second chance." Zack stopped walking, they were in between the city and the hill where he died. He summoned his weapon, Angeal's gift, w as in his hand instantly. "Cloud, let's fight."
"Before we start, how do you have Buster sword? The last time I saw it, it was rusting." Cloud asked eyeing the flawless blade.
"I guess the lifestream helped us out by giving our strongest weapons; the Buster sword for me and the Fusion for you." Zack supplied. "No are you done stalling?"
Cloud didn't say anything, but instead summoned his own six bladed fusion weapon. He smiled as they began the mock fight. Neither was able to scratch the other. They were perfectly matched. Where Cloud had strength and speed, Zack had the agility in both physical and mental. Having kept an eye on Cloud, Zack knew how he fought. This was not supposed to be possible because well he was dead. However because Aerith, a cetria, was his girlfriend, he got special privileges. Two of such was being able to talk to Aerith and Ifalna and keeping an eye on Cloud. He was able to help his friend when times got too tough for Cloud to stand on his own.
Cloud knew Zack's moves from when he thought he was his friend. If Cloud was honest, he would tell any who asked that the base of his style was Zack. Sword clashed, taunts were passed, but no blood was dropped, a true testament to their skills. Their dance didn't last long before Zack called it quits.
"What's wrong?" Cloud asked frowning.
"My body is not so used to being able to move around like yours is," Zack said as he sat in the dirt.
"What do you mean?" Cloud asked.
"I have been dead for close to four years. In that time… well." Zack shrugged as he got to his feet. "So we were shot back in time to fix things so that the planet doesn't die. The first step then is to give Genesis a reason to live."
"What do you mean?" Cloud asked as their weapons disappeared.
"Well, the whole mess started because Genesis didn't have any self-worth. He left Shinra to find the cure." Zack said as the started the trek back to Midgar. "After a while he dragged Angeal into his search for self-worth. During that search, they found out that they were lab experiments since birth. With that point of view, they thought that they weren't humans. And if they weren't human, what were they?"
"Monsters," C Cloud said.
"Exactly, So Angeal died believing he wasn't human. Then the last straw was when Sephiroth found out the truth as well. Upon already feeling like he failed, all that he once thought was true turns out to be nothing but lies," Zack said.
They walked the rest of the way back in silence. Once they entered Midgar, the two made their way to the park.
"So what're saying is that if we save Genesis from himself, then the rest will fall into place?" Cloud said.
"Well we not only have to mentally save him, but physically as well. Same goes for Angeal," Zack said.
"The degradation," Cloud said, continuing to walk.
"Yeah," Zack scratched the back of his neck. "I have no clue where to start. I don't even know how far back we were sent. There is also the problem of Shinra itself."
"What do you mean?" Cloud asked as they walked into Sector 5.
"Angeal was going to tell Lazard that there was something up between the two of us. Genesis, Sephiroth, and he noticed the mad man's handiwork," Zack said. He stopped in front of the church. "How did we end up here?"
"I guess it was just out of habit," Cloud shrugged as he headed for the doors.
"Cloud, I don't think we should go in," Zack said.
"You don't think a lot of things," Cloud said as he pushed opened the doors and entered.
"Cloud..." Zack followed suit to see what his friend was thinking.
Upon entering Zack saw Aerith in her white dress tending to the flowers. A sad smile appeared on his face as she stood up and looked at her two guests. Cloud kept walking forward to only sit in the first row pew. Zack remained at the door. It's like a strange dream. What do I do?
Zack could tell Aerith was trying to talk to Cloud, whether Cloud was responding or not, Zack didn't know. Zack took a sudden interest in his feet. He reached for his cell phone, hoping there was some appointment that he had forgotten about. Zack paled as he remembered he deliberately left it behind. I am going to be dead when Angeal finds out.
Zack jogged up to Cloud. "Hey Spike do you have the time?"
"No, infantryman can't have phones or watches," Cloud said.
"Oh we are so dead if we don't go back. Angeal is going to kill me!"
"I'm not going back," Cloud stated.
"What?" Zack wasn't sure if he chased him off, or maybe it was Sephiroth.
"Zack, look at me. I am supposed to be an infantryman, a cadet. Nowhere does my body display signs of that," Cloud said.
"Where are you going to stay?" Zack knew that it was dangerous if Cloud stayed at Shinra. Zack needed to talk to Lazard before the Army started to chase after Cloud.
Cloud only shrugged as he pointed up behind him. Zack didn't look, remembering that there were Turks guarding Aerith.
"I know of a place that you can stay," Aerith said from behind Cloud.
"Great!" Zack said turning around and giving Aerith a big smile. "You're the best!"
"My name is Aerith." Aerith held out her hand for Zack.
"Name's Zack Fair," Zack got a twinkle in his eyes. "Are you sure that it's not Angel?"
"Nope," Aerith returned Zack's smile. Then she looked down at her watch. "And it's about 12."
"Shoot! Got to go. Cloud get a phone, then call me," Zack instructed as he left the church at a jog. "Angeal is going to KILL me!"
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Angeal was standing in the middle of the living room floor, Zack's phone in one hand, and an eye on Zack's weapon leaning against the wall. Director Lazard was sitting on the couch with Sephiroth and Genesis.
"I'm going to kill him," Angeal said just as the door opened.
"Angeal I am so sorry….oops…" Zack said as soon as he spotted the director. "I have a perfectly good story for this."
"Save it." The director got to his feet. "Second Class SOLDIER Zachary Fair, explain yourself."
"Uhhhh…." Zack was speechless. He had forgotten how to handle this sort of situation. "Didn't you tell me to save it?"
Zack knew that he had said the wrong thing when everyone else turned just as speechless as he was. An awkward silence filled the air. Zack could see Angeal and the director steaming. Sephiroth just stared and Genesis was trying not to laugh. Zack bowed his head as he tried to figure out what to say.
"Umm, I left my phone here because I didn't want to get followed," Zack said after a while.
"And your weapon?" Angeal asked. He sounded a lot calmer. Zack looked up to see that everyone had recovered from his slip up.
"I didn't need it. I will start with how I got out of Shinra without being seen, but I will only show it to the director," Zack said, but he didn't pause for the others to start arguing. "Sephiroth has responsibilities as the general. Angeal is supposed to be training with the Third Class SOLDIERs. Let's not even mention Genesis's desk and his paperwork."
"Zack has a good point," the director said. "You three are dismissed."
Zack waited until they had all left. He felt like he had been put on a hit list by the three Firsts; but they left the room with an air of indifference.
"Oh boy, they are not happy." Zack looked at the director to see that he was seemingly indifferent.
"Alright Fair, How did you get out of Shinra without getting on the cameras?"
"If you will follow me to the window," Zack said. They stopped in front of it. "You see that building over there?"
"Yes, what about—" The director never finished his sentence as Zack shoved him out the window.
"Well I am definitely going to end up back in the lifestream tonight." Zack said as he jumped out to catch the director.
So now that you have read. Leave a comment, whatever you are thinking, good, bad, it doesn't matter!
Thanks for reading!
Edited 12/14/2012