Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2

Chapter 14

Loz awoke from his unconsciousness, and rolled over onto his stomach. He groaned as he felt pain in his entire body, and wasn't surprised to find even more pain as he used his arms to pick himself up. Now on his knees, he surveyed the area.

Strife and his companions had since disappeared. He was unsure of whether or not to assume them dead or assumed they had fled from death. 

He quickly made his judgement as being the latter when he saw what he had once thought of as a brother laying on the ground before him. Loz felt his strength slowly returning to his body, and he stood, walking over to the younger man.

Looking around once more, he saw that his vehicle was gone, and that JENOVA's head lay on the ground where it had once stood. He slowly limped over there, his Dual Hound glowing with an aqua light.

' JENOVA, you monster... You're the cause of all this...' He thought bitterly, gathering more power in his weapon. "You bloody parasite! DIE!" Loz drove his metallic arm with extreme force into the head. The force from the explosion not only left a crater in the ground below, but also sent him flying backwards.

"Fool... You have only made your problems worse..." The calamity's voice limply poured from the unconscious Kadaj's lips. "By destroying the head with such an explosion, you have managed to unleash GeoStigma into the air! Soon, many humans will be taken from the face of this planet, combining with the precious Life Stream that will soon be mine!" A wicked laugh escaped the younger creation's mouth, and Loz decided it was definitely a creepy sight.

He turned his head to face the crater he had just scarred the Planet's surface with. A small dent, but it was going to a lot of damage in the long run. He watched as a misty, blue light emerged and spread itself into the air, fading out and becoming one with it. 

Loz realized what he had just done, and a horrified look passed over his face as he thought of so many people losing their lives because of an outburst he had. He tried to shake off this feeling, but he couldn't help but feel concern for these pitiful creatures that had been called humans. 

The oldest of the three creations didn't quite understand why he had been having these strange emotions lately, ever since he had been told by Kadaj of his true beginnings.

Many memories he had never had before surfaced in his mind. For the time being, Loz sat there on the dirt ground to think about these things. 

Out of the three experiments, he had always been emotionally weak and susceptible to outbursts; whether they be of anger, sadness, happiness, or anything he was feeling. Right now confusion radiated from him, and a deep sadness at the thought of destroying so many lives. It had never before bothered him to kill, so why now?

His thoughts were abruptly end as the other figure began to stir for real this time. Kadaj opened his once emerald eyes to expose the ugly hollowness they had become. It was then that Loz noticed how ghostly pale his companion was.

More thoughts raced through his mind. ' How is JENOVA inside of him? He, like Yazoo and myself, all have JENOVA cells in our bodies, thus giving us our healing ability, but how is he channelling her? How long have you been hearing her voice? Kadaj, have you truly been lost to her?' He questioned in his mind. From the beginning, Loz hadn't agreed with Kadaj's sudden want for this 'Cloud Strife's' death. He had wondered what it was that had possessed him to become so violent all of a sudden. Of course that was then, and now he had realised that the young man was being controlled by the parasite itself.

Kadaj began to slowly walk his way, picking up his bloodthirsty Souba as he progressed towards Loz. The older man barely had a chance to think any further before the double bladed sword was pointed at his throat.