KINGDOM HEARTS
THE WANDERER
The Deep Jungle Pt.2
Cloud's eyes slowly opened to the sound of odd grunting noises, which made him very uncomfortable. He slowly opened his eyes and frowned as he saw a number of gorrilla's staring at him curiously. He grumbled a bit as he stood up ignoring
them for the most part, they would not be a threat to him. He shifted his eyes looking for the leader of the primates, which backed up upon his sudden movement.
"I don't suppose any of you speaks english." Cloud muttered sarcasticly. In reply the biggest of the creatures came forward and made some more of those grunting noises.
"I'll take that as a no." Cloud said dryly. A confused grunt was his only response. He started to take a step, then groaned as sudden agony rushed through him. He stumbled forward as his hands flew down to find a stab wound in his abdomen.
"Shit! I forgot about that." Cloud growled to himself through gritted teeth.
A look of suprise crossed his face as a young boy looking to be maybe fourteen came through the gorrila's with a curious look on his face. "What the?" Cloud asked.
The boy made some unintellgible grumbling as the appearant leader of the group tried to push him back.
Cloud stared for a moment, then shook his head as he said "I don't know who the hell you are, nor do i care. I have important buisness to attend to, so i guess i'll see you later." Then his wing came out of his back and slowly lifted him up into
the sky and carried him towards camp.
By the time he got back it was dark out and everyone was getting ready to go to sleep for the night, except it seemed for Zidane and Kuja who were both missing. Cloud ignored this and landed with another grunt of pain as blood trickled from
the wound he had sustained.
Sephiroth was leaning against a tree when Cloud landed. He said "What took so long?"
"I was attacked by the enemy." Cloud said, then stumbled slightly as a sudden dizzyness came over him.
Sephiroth turned his head and observed the wound silently. "Hey, we searched the whole area and couldn't find him. Oh, there he is." Zidane's voice said as he and Kuja entered the camp site.
"Hey Kuja, i need healing." Cloud said, though his pride hated the idea of asking for help.
"Sure." Kuja said as he cast a curaga spell, fully healing the blond.
Zidane sat down on a tree stump and asked "So what happened?"
Cloud ignored him and turned to Sephiroth as he asked "Does the name Angeal mean anything to you?"
Sephiroth, for the first time since Cloud had met him looked suprised. "Angeal!? He's alive?" Sephiroth asked in a shocked tone.
"Yeah, he's the one who gave me that stab wound, you know him." Cloud replied.
Sephiroth composed himself and chuckled, though the chuckle had a sinister undertone. He said nothing else the rest of the night, just chuckled until the sun came up.
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The next morning was just as sunny as the day before, with birds chirping their heads off. According to Zidane it was because Kuja had told the flying toilet joke yesterday, thus frying their brains. Cloud wasn't sure he believed this story, but
Kuja seemed to agree with it. Cloud became worried.
"Alright, another nice day of hunting some guy who happens to be really tough." Zidane declared cheerfuly.
Sephiroth ignored him anhd said "Everyone listen up, i want this to be our last day in the jungle. Therefore we are going to stay right here."
"Uh, how are we gonna find theguy if we just sit here?" Kayla asked.
"He will find us." Sephiroth commented, then trying to speak with him became useless as he became silent as a statue.
The group just made idle chat for the next few hours while they were waiting.
It was mid noon when Angeal suddenly decended from the sky, his wing already fully extended.
"I was wondering when you would show up." Sephiroth commented.
Angeal glared at Sephiroth as he hissed "You!"
Sephiroth chuckled as he suddenly shoved Cloud forward and snapped his fingers. A barrier flared up around Cloud and Angeal, roughly thirty feet across.
"What the hell!?" Cloud demanded angrily.
Sephiroth's face took on a cold look as he said "You will fight him, we will watch."
Cloud growled as he turned back towards Angeal.
"Still manipulating people Sephiroth?" Angeal asked as he drew his sword, then struck the barrier shattering it. "I will fight your pawn, but on my own terms."
Cloud smirked as the darkness in him rose ever so slightly. "I owe you one anyway." Cloud said as he drew the Buster Sword.
They faced off, then Cloud sprang forward and swung his sword over his shoulder at the older man who met the blow head on with a quick parry then shoved forward in an effort to stab Cloud, who turned his body to avoid the strike bringing his blade around in a quick ark which Angeal knocked away with an almost casual swipe of his sword. The two fought back and forth for a few minutes, slashing and parrying, retreating suddenly, testing each others speed and strength. Cloud's
wing came out as he drove forward, but his foe took to the sky. He followed and swun his sword furiously attacking savagely.
"You think such a frenzied attack come win this fight?" Angeal asked as they dueled in the air, then he darted behind the blond and struck suddenly but Cloud flew straight down avoiding the blow and turned and used a sonic strike, which
Angeal deflected with a quick precise slash. Cloud growled and hammered Angeal's defenses with a barrage of heavy slashes, pouring his rage into each one, they swerved around each other swinging and blocking faster than the eye could see before finally they lowered back to the ground. The second they landed Cloud darted forward and stabbed the ground releasing a wave of darkness through the ground blasting Angeal who cried out in sudden pain, then the blond retracted his
sword and came forward with a quick slash which his foe blocked then ducked low and moved along the ground coming up behind Cloud who whirled only to be knocked back by a mighty slash which he barely blocked.
Cloud struck a hard tree hard and slumped tot he ground at the base. He quickly pulled himself up as he scowled angrily, then sprang forward crossing the distance between himself and Angeal in less than a second but the white winged man
lifted his wing into the path of the blade using his wing much like a shield blocking the blow. Then pulled back his hand and threw a pulsating sphere of white light into Cloud's chest causing the young man to scream out in pain as the light expanded to consume his body as Angeal angrily declared "I will expel the darkness from you!"
Suddenly a pulsating sphere of darkness slammed into Cloud engulfing the light and snuffing it out. Angeal whirled to see a smirking Sephiroth, the Masamune in his hand. With a scowl Angeal teleported away fromt that world.
