Oh dear! What will happen next? (Of course if you've seen Last Order you might already know)

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Five Years Ago:

The blaze hadn't ceased since they had first appeared, the fire still continued to eat at the homes and buildings of Nibelheim. There were many dead innocent people, either burnt by the flames or they died by the hands of their hero: Sephiroth. The heat was next to unbearable, yet there were a very small few who still survived. Zangan was one; he carried the dead body of a young man. The thought of one so young left to die in the flames seemed immoral and dishonorable. The blood had stopped flowing, hence the poor man had been dead for nearly a half and hour. Once Zangan made it out of the town with Tifa, he would give the young man a proper burial. But that of course was after he found Tifa.

His pupil raced up the mountain Nibel, so he didn't know how she was faring. Though he hoped that she was all right, he still worried about her welfare, and he had every right to do so.

"Hey, Geezer!" Called a voice from behind him. He turned, only to be greeted with two more from SOLDIER. He recognized the one with the black hair; Tifa had taken him to the reactor with Sephiroth. The other he had no idea who it was not that he cared.

Zangan sighed watching the running figure. "Oh, it's you." He paused. "You're still sane, right?" Zack turned to glance at the fire.

"How can I keep sane in this kind of situation?" He turned to face the martial artist again. "Sephiroth, Sephiroth did this, didn't he?" The First Class SOLDIER asked in which the older man nodded grimly.

"Everyone calls him a hero, but he's just a killer." Zack shook his head from side to side. It was a horrifying thought, but it seemed that the general had gone completely insane. What had made him act like this, he wondered? They had been sent to protect these people in the first place and prevent an invasion of fiends and monsters from attacking the town and its people. Now it seemed like Sephiroth had done the fiend's work for them. It just felt wrong and dirty.

"It's gone too far." Zack declared. "What happened to you Sephiroth?" The martial artist over heard the last part and asked Zack a favor.

"Wait, you go ahead and help Tifa out." The two men looked at Zangan as if he had six heads.

"What's wrong with Tifa?"

"She's looking for her father." Replied Zangan. "She went to the mako reactor atop of Mount Nibel. Sephiroth is there too." Zack nodded his head in understanding. "She is no match for him. His opponent, on the other hand," he looked intently on Zack. "Should be a SOLDIER like you…"

"I'm not a normal SOLDIER…" he agreed turning his head towards Mount Nibel. Zangan adjusted the weight of the dead man on his back. "I am a First Class SOLDIER." Zack turned towards the man next to him. "You stay here with the old geezer and help out." The young shrouded man saluted and answered with a quiet "yes".

"I'll catch up with you later. Please take care of Tifa"

Zack smiled and replied confidently: "Leave it to me."

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See, I told you there would be a few shorter chapters! Just kidding, but really… Yeah, some reviews are truly appreciated and again: I love Zach!