Chapter 2

Cloud's eyes flew open, but he was too late. How had this happened? How had he been caught off guard like this? The man threw his sword to the floor, and drug Cloud off the bed, throwing him into a headlock, and started rubbing his knuckles against his head.

"Say uncle bitch!" The man yelled with glee.

"Z…z…Zack, ca…can't breath."

Tifa had sat up, and was watching with amusement.

"Ah bullshit," Zack said. "I'm not squeezing that hard, now say it."

"Un…uncle." Cloud gasped as Zack released him. Falling to the floor, color returned to him, as he took a few deep breaths. He looked up at his old friend, watching as Zack dance around in Circles, celebrating his achievement. By now, Marlene and Jerik had both woken up, and were at the open door, staring at the strange man that had seemed to of broken into there home. Cloud climbed to his feet, as Zack picked his sword back up.

"Wow, you were to easy. It's a shame man." Zack teased.

"How the hell did you get in here Zack?"

"I broke in the front door."

"You what!" Tifa said, her eyes widening.

"I said I br…" Zack was cut off by a crash that came from downstairs. Cloud looked at Tifa, and then everyone ran for the stairs. As they reached the bottom of them, they saw a man dressed in black. Upon seeing them, the man drew a sword.

"I'm here to kill you, compliments if my Lord, Lord Dragok." The man said, and then leapt at them.

Zack, being the only one that was armed, moved like lightning, drawing his sword, and hitting the guy so hard, he flew into the wall.

"Are you that stupid?" Zack taunted. "Look at the size difference." He pointed to his sword. He ran over to the guy as he was getting up, and hit him again. "Stay down!"

The ninja tried once again, but Zack stepped on the back of his head, and held him to the floor.

"Who's this Dragok guy?" He asked. "Why is he after my friends?"

Instead of answering, the man shoved a pill in his mouthed, gargled for a few seconds, then lay dead. Zack stared at him, then turned to the others.

"I think he's dead," Zack said.

"Um, really?" Tifa asked.

Zack turned back to the man and poked him with the tip of his sword, then turned back to everyone else.

"Yeah, I think so."

Before anyone else could speak, the sound of an engine started outside the bar, followed by a flash past the window. Zack ran outside just in time to see a car disappear around the corned of the street. He looked back, and spoke to Cloud.

"I think someone is out to kill you Cloud."

Despite the seriousness of what had just happened, Cloud couldn't help but chuckle to himself, Zack was just as dense as always.

Zack spoke again. "I'm not tired, why don't you guys go back to bed, and I'll stay up and make sure they don't come back."

After a few minutes of arguing, Tifa finally managed to get Cloud to agree to go back to sleep.