Chapter 3

A week has passed since the arrival of clouds friends arrived, and things haven't gotten better, Tifa and Lightning still hate each other and Cloud is unable to talk to them, without making them angry. Currently we find Cloud at the famous bar where he and Noctise run off into whenever they were in trouble. Cloud wore w red scarf that covered his face and wore some baggy clothing, he manage to force his hair into a spiky ponytail kind of like Reno, to improve his chances of not being noticed. Sitting on the bar seat next to him was Barret, and on the other side Noctise.

"So you finally got yourself in a situation that your Omni slash can't save you, ehh Spiky." Barret spoke, on his third mug of hard liquor making the bartender stare at him in amazement. "I just don't see how I could forget, I mean I only remember that we just lived peacefully after Sephiroth not that we settled down. How could I forget something important?"

"Maybe it was when you traveled here there is a side effect to a few people whenever they travel so fast. One of the many side effects is memory loss." Noctise said, "I know because Sazh forgets a lot of crap whenever he makes those trips to Gaia and back."

"What you're telling me I forgot for something so stupid, how come nobody told me." Cloud started to shout. "Maybe when Sazh went to pick you up he fore got to tell people about the side effects."

"Now that you mention it, Sazh never told us that, and I can't stop the feeling that I forgot something back on Gaia." Barret said aloud. Meanwhile back on Gaia we find Reno and rude waiting in the lobby of a hotel. "I can't believe they left without us, Cloud's our friend to." Reno complained. "Well they did only call Avalanche members to go. And we aren't the only ones they Left Reeve behind." Rude said being left behind not bothering him much. "But still I heard they got some pretty fine girls on Pulse and Cocoon." Rude just continued to ignore Reno's monologue now as he didn't really want to hear it again. Seriously women are women; any type of woman is good enough for Rude so long as she is loyal.

Back to Barret, the former leader of Avalanche can't seem to remember what he forgot. "Well that's perfect I forgot about my engagement because of a side effect. Just when my life was turning great it just falls apart."

"Haha Cloud life just likes messing with ya don't it." Barret said now on his fourth mug. The soft jingle of the door opening caught everyone's attention when they turned and saw four men having a conversation. Cloud eye's widened and immediately his body went into action. In a fraction of a second, cloud was across the bar his fist about to make contact with the man in front of him, "Cloud wait I brought them here to help." Cloud was frozen in his position fist about to break the man's face when he heard a whistle, "Damn, he's pretty fast, don't you think so Sephiroth?"

"It's impressive but," He left the sentence in the air when everyone realized Sephiroth's own right hand was a few inches away from Clouds diaphragm. Cloud looked up and starred at Sephiroth's face, and then his eye's made their way to Noel who looked beyond nervous. Cloud then looked over the other two but stopped when he noticed something, a man with spiky black hair and a huge sword on his back. "Wow I guess you did place us in the future, last time I saw cloud we were trekking in the mountains to Nibelheim, you were just a grunt." There in front of Cloud was Zack Fair, the man that saved Cloud's life, and immediately became best friends.

"As you can see I brought some people from the past to help you, oh I also brought this guy here he is from the future." Noel pointed to the last member of their group. Cloud faced the new man; the man was around the same height as Cloud and around the same physical fitness. He had raven hair with copper an brown high lights, its style was similar to a popular 70s hair style. (Danny Zuko will be a good example for the hair.) His face is what many women would call dreamy. His eyes are the color of polished bronze, clothes wise he sported a dressy button shirt the color of royal purple, white jeans a few golden rings and a blue diamond pendant, he had a goatee/mustache bread combination, and he wore some sport shoes that were black and white with purple laces, last he wore a sash belt combo, the color of red. His skin tone was similar to Fang's tone maybe a little lighter. Cloud also noticed the man had two double sided axes.

"This guy here is named Peringo Oreba, he is from my time, when I went back to the future I wasn't the last person anymore, there was a small resistance trying to hold of Daemon's forces." Noel went explaining things too fast.

"Whoa whoa whoa hold up, lets explain things after a few drinks." Barret announced, "Calm down a bit and then explain this shit to me. I'm not intoxicated enough for this yet." Everyone seemed to take the hint and found their seats in the bar, and after a few minutes of explaining every one finally understood what's happening.

"Ok so to put things in a nut shell. Since Daemon tried to kill cloud ahead of time, he altered the future, and since he failed , Cloud prepared for the next encounter." Barret said receiving a nod from Noel. "And when you went back to the future your wasn't the last human anymore, suddenly instead there was a war going on between Daemon's army and the last humans." Noctise asked, getting another nod from Noel. "so taking advantage of this change in the future you took the strongest person at the time then went to the past to get the strongest people you knew of, then came back to our time, with Peringo from the future, and Sephiroth and Zack from the past before their death." Cloud said.

"Yes you also forgot to mention that Peringo, here is the son of Fang and that I took Sephiroth and Zack before the incident at Nibelheim. Oh and that there here to help you train for Daemon's ambushes." Noel threw in, causing Cloud, Noctise, and Barret to hold their heads trying to fight of this head ache. Sephiroth on the other hand was listening to Zack look around in amazement while Peringo (Yes he's an OC and this guy is a reviewer known as Fanfictions4ever. I told him I will place him in this story and well his character's design and weapons were his idea. So no I don't own him.) Peringo just looked outside the window amazed by the calm civilian life outside, having grown up in a war the cost both of his parent's lives.

"So this is your solution to Daemon, bring back the strongest people you could find from the history of Gaia and Cocoon/Pulse. This is starting to sound like a poorly written sequel to a authors first fantasy story." Cloud said, "Well no need to make it sound so amateurish, I knew you were cold Cloud but come on this is the best I could come up with." Noel replied, not liking the fact that cloud was ripping up his plan.

"Well now that everything is Clear, Cloud was it. It's time to train you." Sephiroth said standing up, "If you are this Daemon's target, then you must be stronger than all of us." Zack said, and Peringo took the chance to stand up as well. "I have always wanted to fight the legendary Cloud, but to think I got the chance to see three Legends in one room, I have to say I feel honored to be a part of this group, and will take this seriously."

"With the strongest warriors of our time Daemon wouldn't stand a chance." Noel said. But just then the bar's doors busted open and in the entrance was not only a very pissed of Tifa, but a very pissed of Lightning, a very pissed off Stella as well. And all three women had a dangerous aura around each other. "Every time, every time you hide you always run in here." Stella spoke causing Noctise to shrink in fear. That was When Stella unnaturally dragged him out while Noctise tried desperately to stay in the bar. "You're no exception Cloud," Lightning said as Cloud felt all of his hairs stand up from the cold chilling air, paralyzed in fear Cloud was taken away without resistance.

The rest of the guys watched in fear as both men were dragged away one screaming bloody murder the other so scared that he couldn't move. "Are you sure this Daemon guy is the biggest threat here?" Sephiroth asked nervous by the sight he just saw. Noel laughed nervously, "Yeah, I mean I don't think those girls would kill them…. I think." Barret announced his curiosity, "you don't think it's possible that they had their time of the month at the exact same time do you." Zack chuckled nervously, "It's a possibility, let's just pray those two don't piss those girls off to much." Zack chuckled remembering the day when aerith had her period and he made the mistake of talking to her.

"In that case let us pray for our two brothers for they are now at the mercy of demons." Noel said as they all bowed their heads.