Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2

Chapter 5

Out of instinct, and in a flurry of blind defensive movements, she charged for him, throwing several punches. He dodged every one of her blows, and half-heartedly threw a few of his own. Tifa could tell that the man was hardly trying, and that if he had wanted; he could've easily struck her down then and there.

Remembering her training, she punched him square in the face and aimed the next few blows for his chest. She struck sending him back a bit, and then she made her biggest mistake.

She did a roundhouse kick straight for his head and he grabbed her leg in the process. He smirked and laughed arrogantly as he swung her around several times before launching her at the church's altar. 

Time seemed to slow down, and just enough for her to figure out how to absorb the attack. She stretched her one leg out, and tucked her other in, steadying the impact with her hand. She seemed frozen in time and the force of the throw caused flower petals everywhere to fly up. She lifted her head slowly to meet his sneering gaze.

He smirked again, and her eyes clouded over with tears as she realized how much pain she was in, and how hopeless this fight was in her case.

"Give up yet, woman?" Loz laughed at her.

" You're... a monster..." She fell to the broken, wooden floor of the church. Just before she made impact, Tifa noticed that she was going to smash into a jagged board of wood and that it was likely to impale her. She braced herself and...

Nothing. She felt that her body was in someone's arms and her gaze met Loz's. For a second she thought that just maybe he had the ghost of decency in him, but he simply tossed her into the dirt of the garden.

"Can't have you dying, now can we? Cloud can find you here and snivel over your broken leg later."

Tifa listened to his words, and then tried to move her left leg. There was no movement, just sheer pain. He was right, her leg WAS broken.

"I think I'll get back to my brothers. You should be just fine here. The children on the other hand, should be falling pleasantly ill now. GeoStigma spreads fast through them. Ah well, you'll know soon enough. Farewell, Tifa Lockheart. It's been a pleasure." He pressed his hand to his lips, and blew her a kiss before snorting a laugh and leaving her there.

Tifa just began to cry softly. She managed to choke out Cloud's name before falling unconscious.

Cloud raced toward Kadaj at full speed. Kadaj looked up and smiled menacingly at him before raising his glowing blue hand. With a sudden wave of his hand, he sent dozens of blue, laser-like beams soaring at Cloud.

The blonde knew it must've been intentional for the beams to crash into the ground behind him, because it exploded so both he and the motor cycle flew straight towards the smirking man. Cloud held out the buster blade with one hand at him and Kadaj jumped up into the air to clash swords with him. 

The collision of the steel sent Cloud and his bike hurtling into the cracked pavement below. In a single swift movement, he jumped off it, just before it slammed into a pile of rubble and exploded violently.

Kadaj flew at him with a speed that more than rivalled his own. He swung viciously at him, with the intent of contact. Cloud held his blade up and used all of his might to hold off the surprisingly immense strength of his opponent. His enemy flung him back, and swung again. 

This time, however, Sephiroth took over and- with the combined strength of both himself and Cloud- overpowered him. Kadaj was sent flying backwards at the pavement but flipped gracefully, landing cat-like. His green eyes flashed dangerously.

"Pretty good." He commented, flying at Cloud once more, and with a violent swing he disarmed the blonde. "Not good enough. Now you're done." He lashed out once more, but was caught off guard as Cloud parried his attack with another sword that he had concealed in the trench coat half of his outfit.

Kadaj yelped in shock at being disarmed himself, and then he got angry. He glared at Cloud with and incredible intensity.

"What's the matter, gonna cry?" Cloud taunted the younger man.

His opponents face twisted into a hideous smirk. "No. But you are." His hand glowed blue once more, and his eyes glowed turned hollow and black looking, with the exception that the iris part turned silver. He charged the energy for a few seconds and launched it at the sky. Cloud gasped as he saw the rune like flashes in the sky and instantly knew what was coming.

The great dragon launched itself from the clouds as they parted and flew at the two, his mouth open. A massive amount of energy built up and he unleashed a ray of fiery destruction straight for Cloud.

' Bahamut...' Sephiroth said calmly in his mind. ' No matter. But brace yourself Cloud. Tifa is in danger right now, and this is also going to take a lot out of you since I will be using your physical energy...' Cloud felt his entire mind being engulfed by Sephiroth's and everything went white...

Kadaj laughed as the ray of fire tore at the ground and engulfed his enemy. But he lost his cockiness when the he saw the white light. He knew Cloud had somehow teleported out of his precious summons attack, and it quite frankly pissed him off.

"So you got away again. That's alright. Soon I will kill you, Cloud. Kill you for what you did to Mother and Sephiroth..." He said aloud while retrieving Souba from the ground.

JENOVA smiled in Kadaj's mind. He assumed she smiled because he was doing as she and Sephiroth willed. And he was half right. She also smiled because of how gullible and naïve he was. 

She laughed in his mind, but not with him at the massive crater Bahamut's attack had created, but at the monster she had wrought him into. JENOVA had managed to deceive and manipulate another person's mind, and the thought of Cloud's demise pleased her greatly.

Yazoo burst through the concrete wall of the building he had been trapped in, emerging in a full-blown rage, eyes red with the pupils of a snake. He snarled at nothing in particular and flung his fist as hard as possible at a concrete block, sending bits of it flying everywhere.

"Temper, temper..." The voice of his younger brother taunted from behind him.

Yazoo whirled around and glared down at him. "Calm yourself, brother, or I will have to dispose of you."

The longer haired man didn't say anything. His eyes remained red, and he simply walked away from Kadaj.

"Go then. Join them. You're of no use to me anymore, Yazoo." Kadaj said coldly.

Yazoo still said nothing and he walked away from his younger sibling like he didn't even exist. He and Kadaj both walked away in opposite directions, as if they had never even spoken or acknowledged one another in the first place.

The older of the two stopped and thought for a moment. Maybe he would join Cloud. Whether it want a want to oppose his brother, or his complete disagreement with Kadaj in the first place that motivated him, Yazoo now felt as if he wanted to help Cloud. He turned around, knowing that Cloud was in Midgar and that was the other way. He dashed as fast as he could, almost becoming a blur, and rushed past Kadaj.

The younger man smirked. "You have no idea what you are." He whispered softly. "You don't even know that you aren't my brother..." Kadaj mounted his motorcycle and sped off the in the same relative direction, but instead just headed back to their camp.