Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2

Chapter 10

"So, what brings you back here suddenly Yazoo?" Kadaj hollered over the roar of the two engines. He looked over at his elder brother, a hint of amusement crawling across his features.

"I never left. I simply went to spy on them under my own terms, brother." Yazoo lifted his one hand to push aside a few stray locks of silver hair. His face remained completely emotionless and cold.

"Do not call me that." Kadaj glared at him. "Neither of you." His gaze wondered over to Loz, who was looking at him puzzled.

"Why not?" He asked with a quizzical look on his face, completely dumbfounded.

" Because. Didn't I ever tell you two?" A smirk crept across Kadaj's face as he screeched to a halt, as did Loz.

"Tell us what?" The oldest of the three got a look of slight annoyance on.

"Only one of us is truly the brother of Sephiroth. Only one of us is truly even a natural being. You fools are nothing more than pathetic creations, both failures... Both of you are insignificant to this world. I am the true brother of Sephiroth, you two are nothing more than experiments made in his image." Kadaj laughed at them both, as he caught notice of both of their expressions. "Loz and Yazoo... Or should I say Project L02 and Project Y4200... Ha. It doesn't matter. You are not related to myself in any way. You're clones. Loz..."

Kadaj's gesture toward him caught the attention of the eldest of the three. "You're lying..." He managed to say to the younger man.

Kadaj merely ignored the comment and continued. "You were the first of us to be created. Twenty-seven years ago, Shin-Ra Inc began adapting clones of Sephiroth, even though he was still young. You were created first, intended to be superior to Sephiroth in every way possible. You failed, and were sealed in a mako-filled tube for twenty-three years. The same became of Yazoo, almost immediately after his creation twenty three years ago."

"How do you expect us to believe you?" Yazoo growled at him, eyes full of anger. He knew deep down that this man wasn't lying to him, but he didn't want to believe it.

" Yazoo... Loz..." He smiled, and in a voice laced with venom he continued on. "Neither of you has the right to call me brother. You have the right to call me master... I am JENOVA's only child now..."

"Why are you telling us this now?" Loz seemed angry as well.

" Because. You and I both know very well you two won't bail on this. What else would you have to live for? I'm right, and you know it. Now go! Go to the lab, and bring me Mother's head!" Kadaj yelled, slamming on the gas, and speeding off towards the ruins of Midgar. He knew that while he visited his brother there, they would go and get it.

" Should we go...?" The older of the two broke the 10-minute silence that had befallen them since their 'brother' had left.

"We should. He is right, what more do we have to live for...?" Yazoo didn't seem to want to talk anymore.

Loz simply stared at the ground for a moment, before tearing off once more toward their destination.

Cloud wandered out of the small ruin they had found to shelter themselves in. The others had long fallen asleep, but he just couldn't. He couldn't help but keep himself absorbed in his current train of thought.

"What is the afterlife like?" He said aloud suddenly. He fiddled with the small pink ribbon that was fastened on his arm; a memorial item that he had used to remember the one he lost two years ago. The day she had died, her ribbon had fallen from her hair. Cloud and the rest of AVALANCHE had taken a strip from the piece of fabric and fastened it to their arm in memory of the half-cetra.