Chapter 4

It took many days for Lightning and Tifa to calm down enough not to fight each other or kill Cloud, but now Cloud isn't allowed in the beach house or the local hotel, because his friends and Tifa live there. Right now Cloud is with the group of warriors brought out of their time. The totals of five powerful warriors are sleeping under the stars on the beach. A small campfire lighting up the area, Cloud's Fenrir parked nearby on the pier not so far away. Sephiroth, Peringo, and Zack are asleep on a few blankets. Noel was currently talking to our blonde hero by the campfire.

"So have you recovered from the beating you got from your women?" Noel teased his friend.

"Not cool. But I recovered enough to start training." Looking at the sleeping legendary warriors cloud questioned Noel. "So are they here to help me fight Daemon?"

"No they are here to train you, each of them have abilities where you lack. Abilities that will put you in the same league as Daemon." Cloud raised a brow beckoning Noel to continue. "Your style is originally based of Zack's but if it came to swordplay you are no doubt better than your friend now, mainly cause he died before learning to use his Jenova cells. But when it comes to pure magical ability, he can easily kick your ass. The main skill I want him to teach you is Lucky Star."

"Lucky Star?"

Noel nodded, "The ability allows the user to boost his strength speed agility, and practically anything. Of course you also need to learn some other skills from him but Lucky star will be first." Cloud nodded his understanding and looked at his nemesis sleeping form.

"And….Sephiroth?"

"He is the best warrior, you may have beaten him but each time you fought a cocky arrogant and insane version of Sephiroth. While right now you may have more than enough physical strength to rival him you don't have his years of experience, and precise attacks. But he will mainly help you raise your sword skills. Not to mention he almost never uses magic, and purely relies on his swordsman ship. My hope is you can evolve your style to cooperate his a little more."

Cloud then noticed the only warrior asleep from the future; the guy looks to be in his mid thirties. The man had his dual battle axes to his side, close enough to use as soon as he is awake. "What about him what's his story?"

"Well originally he wasn't alive, but when I went back to my time I discovered more people who where rebelling against the revenants of Relinquo Flamae. He just happened to be the leader and the youngest son of Fang. His father well, it's not my place to tell you." Just then Peringo shifts in his bed roll, his hair free from its Elephant trunk hair style. "But he has something you don't, And that's the experience of fighting Daemon, and a unique fighting style.

"Seems I got a lot of training to deal with. But explain to me what was the whole deal of 20 flames of purgatory and other stuff?"

"Well before you died some scientist took your blood sample, and managed to clone Jenova cells from you." Cloud shivered at being related to Jenova due to Hojo's experiments. "Well that scientist eventually experimented with a secret cult obsessed with power. The scientist soon went underground and ten years later comes back as Diabolus, the leader of Relinquo Flamae. They came with 22 blades made from the same material as your sword, and they learned to channel the life stream like you do, to ignite a ghost like flame around themselves. Most of them grew green or red color flames, the 20 flames of purgatory. While Diabolus and Daemon had red flames, calling themselves the flames of rage and hate."

"Ok so basically they are like Kadaj's gang but focusing on their own personal agendas." Cloud said gaining a nod from Noel. "My head hurts." Cloud said falling back on the sand as he took a deep breath before looking towards the stars. "Can't we just kill them in my time."

"We would but their identities are unknown."

"Of course."

"Well let's get some sleep, in the morning you will receive Zack's training then after work You will learn from Sephiroth and before we sleep with Peringo."

"What about you?"

"I will have to go back to our time lines and try to keep you updated, the best way to see when Daemon might strike next." Cloud nodded as he closed his eyes reading himself for sleep. While Noel looked around. "Etro, if you can hear me, we are getting tired of playing your games. After this, let our worlds have peace. Go make trouble for other worlds." With that said the youngest man in the group fell asleep.

Next morning, after Zack's training session…..I won't show training session except for like a few filler chapters ok so :P

Cloud found himself in the shower room at Fang's Gym, Never had Cloud expected for Zack's training to be tiring. It has been so long since he used magic, luckily he had the materia he brought from Gaia with him, but the things he was learning from Zack was different from a fire ball. Zack tired teaching Lucky Star immediately, performing the spell within five seconds. Cloud took an hour to have the same effect as Zack, but Cloud won't have an hour in a middle of a fight so he had a long way to go.

Cloud sighed as the water washed away the soap suds, the bar in his hands. "Hey buddy, you did a good job this morning." Zack said a little to loud from the shower head right over, Zack patted Cloud's back with enough force that Cloud dropped the bar of soap. "Oops, well now that's staying their." Zack said laughing, causing his best friend Cloud to laugh, as both men continued their showers. "You know I always knew you would surpass me." Zack said washing his scalp.

"Really, how so?" Cloud said using shampoo to wash his arm pits with the soap he picked up. Knowing that dropping the soap in the shower room was only a joke, so long as you were out of prison. Neither man looked at each other, simply focusing on their hygiene.

"I knew you were going to be a lady killer just like me." Zack laughed before calming down, "But I also knew that you will become a great warrior." Cloud raised his brow at his friend, turning the shower off before making his way to the towel rack. Zack soon following after, now both men stood in front of the Mirror with a towel covering their waist. Both about to shave put on deodorant, brush teeth and other morning things. "Noel told me how you eventually became stronger than me, and even defeated Sephiroth a few times. Becoming the best soldier in Shinra."

Cloud just shrugged as he started to realize, that Zack seems to not know that Sephiroth becomes insane later on, that Noel just gave a modified background for Cloud. So that when they go back to their time, they won't know what lies ahead.

"And I'm glad you picked up my fighting style, but even more impressed on how you modified it with fusion blades. That's smart, makes me want to want to challenge you at some point."

Cloud thought about it, "If I have time we should my friend." They both shook hands as they looked into each other's eyes with respect. The two Best friends finished up and made their way to the park where you can find four legendary warriors sitting by a table, with many plates of food on it. Cloud set down the last burger on his plate as he sat with his friend, enemy and future ally. Weird group.

"You know over at Shinra we Soldiers never had the opportunity to just grill at a park, it's nice." Zack said, as he took a bite, while Sephiroth ate his burger with such finesse that he made it look fancy.

"Just because we are off duty at the moment doesn't mean you can act foolishly Zack, at the very least eat without making a mess. We are representing Shinra everywhere we go." Sephiroth said looking at the younger First Class Soldier. Zack's response was a ketchup covered face looking puzzled. Sephiroth just sighed, while hiding an amused smirk.

"Wait if SOLDIER never had time to grill out in the park how do you know how to grill Cloud?" Peringo said his burger had everything on it, and two beef patties. The biggest out of the group, one thing for sure, he ate like Fang.

"I started off as grunt infantry. I had shore leave by my home town once and usually spent it grilling out with a few old friends, mainly Tifa and whoever showed up with her." Cloud said as good memories came back from a part of his life he locked away. Then Cloud frowned after realizing how mad his Fiancé is.

"You should probably go talk to her, you already gave her three days to cool off, along with that Lightning girl." Zack offered his advice.

"Your right, but first let me finish this burger, I not ready to get my ass kicked again just yet." Cloud joked as the other three laughed while Sephiroth couldn't hide his amused smile.