Tifa and Marlene waited patiently in the church for Cloud to return. Suddenly the doors opened up and a figure walked in. Marlene turned around happily and ran to the door thinking it was Cloud. Tifa thought it was Cloud as well, but when she got a look at the person she saw it wasn't Cloud. She quickly grabbed Marlene and held her back.

The person who entered was wearing all black and he had silver hair with a strange silver spiked gauntlet on his left forearm. Tifa stood there while holding Marlene. "Wanna play?" Loz said as he stopped and held his hand out. Tifa didn't respond.

"I guess that's a no." Loz said.

"Where's Mother?" he asked as he continued walking towards them, but stopped when he noticed the flowerbed and the many flowers adorning it. He got a disgusting feeling from looking at the flowers. "Gross."

Tifa was confused and was curious as to who the man was. She had a feeling it had something to do with Cloud. "Hey, where's Mother?" Loz asked again.

"There's no one here!" was Tifa's response.

"Fine, then play with me." Loz said back to Tifa.

Marlene quickly ran and hid behind a pillar seeing that a fight was going to ensue. Tifa pulled out her black gloves from behind her and put them on her hands before getting into her battle stance. "Heh, this'll be fun." Loz said with a smile as too got into his battle stance. Now the two were ready to go at each other.

Squall had woken up from his good nights sleep to see Tidus spread out all over the other couch and snoring loudly. Squall sighed in annoyance as he got up and stretched his arms out. Suddenly, he sensed an unfamiliar presence behind him. Squall quickly grabbed Revolver and swung the sword around at the uninvited guest.

The blade was stopped instantly as it collided with a blue energy barrier. The person who brought up the energy barrier was shrouded in a brown cloak. "Who are you?" Squall asked.

"An ally." is how the person replied.

"How am I supposed to believe that?"

"Because I'm here to help Cloud and Lightning." the person answered.

"How do you know their names?" Squall asked, curious since he'd never met the person before, and Cloud never mentioned anything about him.

"That isn't important right now. Where are they now?" the person asked

"I don't know, maybe they went out into the city or something." was Squall's answer.

"Then I guess I'll have to wait until they return." the cloaked person said as he lowered the energy barrier and sat on the couch Squall slept on as Squall lowered his sword.

"So what, do you know them from the past or something?" Squall asked.

"Well, let's just say that from a distance, I've been keeping them two of them safe from harm, and watching over them without them knowing it." the person answered.

"Why do that?" Squall asked.

"You'll find out soon enough." the person responded.

Squall wasn't sure if the cloaked person was trustworthy. Something about their story just sounded kind of funny. If they were helping Cloud and from a distance, then surely he, or one of the others would've known about it, or at least noticed it. "Well Cloud, I hope you can shine some light on this." Squall thought as he waited for the two to come back.

Cloud and Lightning were riding through the city at high speeds. They were skilled drivers so they didn't have to worry much about crashing. As they sped though the streets, Lightning felt very peaceful for some reason. Something about the wind just seemed to be able to take people's minds off their worries, and it was working for her. Lightning didn't want to think about the vision any more since it was a little much for her to take. "Hey Cloud, do you know a guy named Sephiroth?"

Cloud gasped when he heard the mans name spoken. "How do you know about him?" Cloud asked with much curiosity.

"I heard it from somewhere." Lightning responded, not being entirely honest with Cloud.

"Yeah, he's the guy who tried to use Meteor on the planet two years ago. The others and I managed to stop him in time though, but it also cost us one of our friends." Cloud said.

"Were they important to you?"

"Yeah, she was kind of like another mother to me, but Sephiroth took her and my real mother away from me. I don't think I've ever hated anyone as much as I hate him." Cloud said with some anger in his voice.

"Sorry for bringing it up." Lightning said.

"No, forget it" Cloud responded, calming down. The two then heard the sound of another motorcycle behind them. The two looked back to see Genesis speeding towards them. Genesis quickly pulled up next to Cloud with a bit of a worried look on his face.

"What's wrong Genesis?" Cloud asked.

"We've got a problem Cloud. Kadaj and his gang have been kidnapping children all over the city, telling them that they have the cure for Geostigma. I think they're just going to use them for whatever they're planning" Genesis said.

"Kadaj?" Cloud asked, not recognizing the name.

"He's the leader of this gang which includes himself and his brothers. I think their plan has something to do with Sephiroth and Jenova, but I don't have any other details yet." Genesis answered.

"So what do we do?" Lightning asked.

"Lightning, you come with me so we can see if we can get anymore info. Cloud, you should probably go back to Aerith's church. I have a feeling that something bad is going on down there." Genesis replied. Cloud nodded as he swung Fenrir into a one-eighty and quickly sped off in the opposite direction as Lightning and Genesis continued on their current path.

Tifa quickly dashed over and threw a punch at Loz, who blocked the strike with his Dual Hound. Tifa knocked it aside and used her Beat Rush Limit Break, landing about seven good hits to Loz which sent him back. Tifa quickly ran over and landed a kick to Loz's face, but in retaliation, Loz used his Dual Hound's stun feature to send Tifa flying back.

Tifa landed on the floor with some left over electricity on her glove, but she simply shook it off. She jumped at Loz and kicked with both her legs, but Loz jumped over the attack and landed on the opposite side of Tifa. When he turned around Tifa landed a powerful punch to him which sent Loz flying into the wall.

Tifa quickly went after him as Loz jumped back. Tifa caught him off guard and used her Somersault Limit Break. The spinning kick sent Loz off his feet. When Loz landed on the ground, Tifa quickly dashed at him with a punch, but Loz blocked it with his Dual Hound. Loz quickly pushed Tifa back which caused her to stumble before landing a powerful kick to her.

When Tifa stopped sliding back, Loz came at her with a punch with his Dual Hound. Tifa quickly ducked under the attack as Loz's punch left a hole in the wall. Tifa took advantage of this and rammed into Loz and used her Meteodrive Limit Break. As the two went flying into the air Tifa used the force of her body to slam Loz against the ground while she flew past him.

Suddenly Loz grabbed a hold of Tifa's foot and swung her around, causing her to slam into some of the church's benches before throwing her towards the wall. Tifa quickly flipped and landed on the wall which caused an impact force that made pedals from flowers below suddenly burst up into the air.

Tifa quickly used the wall as leverage to dash towards Loz with great speed. Loz threw a punch at her, but Tifa dodged it and slammed her arm against Loz which made him against the ground before sending him high into the air. Tifa quickly jumped into the air used her Meteor Strike Limit Break. She grabbed Loz before spinning around throwing him towards the floor, which caused him to slam into some benches and a dust cloud kicked up.

Tifa landed on the ground and Marlene quickly ran over to her, thinking it was over. Suddenly the two heard what sounded like the ringtone of a cell phone. Suddenly rubble burst from where Loz crashed which alerted Tifa and Marlene. Loz stood up from the rubble as his cell phone was ringing. He answered the call and saw it was Yazoo from the caller I.D.

"Well?" Yazoo asked.

"She's not here" Loz answered.

"Are you crying?"

"I am not crying!" Loz responded in anger.

"Well make sure you get the little one" Yazoo replied.

"Yeah I got it. I'll bring the girl" Loz said as he hung up.

"Now, where were we?" Loz asked as he pointed his Dual Hound at Tifa. Loz quickly kicked a bench towards Tifa, who destroyed the bench with a swing of her arm. Loz suddenly disappeared in a flash of blue and appeared next to Tifa before placing his Dual Hound at Tifa's stomach. Tifa gasped and realized what happened too late. There was a flash of electricity and Tifa was sent flying back into a pillar. Loz appeared in front of Tifa and pinned her against the pillar with his Dual Hound before she hit the ground.

He used his Dual Hound again to hit her body with a blast of energy, which blew apart the pillar before throwing Tifa into flower bed. Now she was barely able to move.

Marlene could only stand there in fear as Loz walked over to Tifa. He kneeled before her as he grabbed her by her vest and brought his Dual Hound back, ready to deliver the killing blow. Suddenly something hit him on the head and landed on the ground. He saw it was a light blue orb, or a Support materia to be more exact.

He turned around to see Marlene was the one who threw the Materia at him. Next to her, he spotted what appeared to be a chest full of different kinds of Materia. An evil smile appeared on his face as he let go of Tifa and walked over to Marlene. Marlene was frozen with fear and couldn't move from where she stood.

"Cloud." Marlene said, begging for Cloud to help her. Tifa slightly regained consciousness and gasped when she saw Loz standing in front of Marlene.

"Just run!" Tifa cried

A strange feeling suddenly hit Cloud as he felt a sick feeling his stomach. "Something's not right here." Cloud said to himself as he accelerated Fenrir even faster to the church's direction.

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