Promise by Aridea Moons

|Chapter 92|

The blonde dives into the ocean as he was surrounded by nothingness, he holds his breath as bubbles came out of his mouth.
"Im here"
A voice whispered to him as he looks down and sees a cave magically unveil
Highwind
Y: "THERES NO WAY HES GONNA-"
Swoosh
The door opens to reveal Tifa walking into the room as she catches everyones attention
T: "..Where is he?", she says narrowing her eyes
[flashback]
Before cloud leaves the room he pats Cids shoulder and says to him in a low voice, "Take Tifa back to Midgar I'll be a while"
Cid: "eh?"
[end of flashback]
The dirty blonde was already steering the ship as Yuffie notices she pulls his hair.
Y: "NOW WAIT JUST A DARN MINUTE WHERE ARE WE GOING?!"
Cid: "Ow ow ow!! Your pulling my hair!"
Vincent grabs Yuffies face and comments
V: "So immature"
Y: "but-"
Vincent didn't let go of her face, she was talking but he couldn't hear because his hand was covering her face instead he sighs as Yuffie let go of the mans hair letting him steer. Tifa on the other hand fell on her knees grabbing her torso from his steering. Yuffie ran to her side, "Are you okay?"
T: "Just a little dizzy, where's Cloud?"
Yuffie looks up at Cid who shook his head and she lies
Y: "Clouds fine, we should get you to bed we're almost home"
T: "okay..Can you tell Cloud Im looking for him?"
Y: "Ya of course"
She takes her to her room as Tifa limps
V: "He didn't go to fight the monster.."
Cid: "Yea...", he makes a serious face
V: "Midgar?"
Cid: "Thats what he said..this is his fight"
V: "He doesn't want to put her in danger..I get it but he can't go alone"
Cid: "Too late for that, he's already gone..besides he already knew where he was. He just wasn't ready til now"
V: "...I see", he crosses his arms leaning on the control table behind him, "So he's leaving us to take care of Tifa when its not our job to do so but his own..he's doing it again."
Cid: "You'd think he would learn"
V: "He did..he just chooses to rely on his friends to help him."
Cid: "hmm then we help him"
Unknown
The spikey blonde gasps for air as he gets out of the water to breathe suddenly he hears a whisper from inside.
"Cloud"
The blonde sits up grabbing his sword and he walks inside a tunnel to reveal what looks like a facility of people inside their own tubes. He looks around stunned to see so many then he remembers the missing people flyers from months ago.
S: "So you came after all"
The blonde looks to his side to see the silver haired villain with his hands raised as if he was a god.
C: "You were taking them", he says narrowing his eyebrows grabbing the handle of his sword from behind
S: "Yes..I was"
C: "What about the turks? And Shinra-"
S: "They worked for me when I used 'Zekes' body to do my bidding"
C: "You..you were playing everyone, the president and the turks", he narrowed his eyebrows, "..you were setting them up against each other weren't you?"
S: "I needed to distract them for a while so that I may destroy this planet and create a new one"
C: "If this planet goes where will you go?"
Sephiroth smirks and raises his sword ready to fight him once more as the blonde raised his own. They both clashed swords and Sephiroth slashed him again sending Cloud flying into a concrete wall as his silver hair flows gracefully smirking then he flies towards him.
Midgar
Barret hugs Tifa who just came home and she looks up at the orphanage.
B: "Tifa! Your home I was getting worried, hows the-", he looks at Cid who shook his head making Barret stop talking and welcomed her back instead.
B: "So..uh come inside I'll show you your room", he pushes Tifa inside to see all the children playing and running around while the others were mopping and cleaning the tables. Then Tifa sees Marlene with her pink dress down to her knees as her long hair fell on her face while she was scrubbing the walls, she couldn't believe how fast she grown.
T: "Marlene?"
The teen looks back to see the entire gang was here and she looks at Tifa and begins to cry, she ran towards her embracing her as she pats her head noticing her height under her chest.
T: "Oh? Marlene you let your hair down"
M: "You like it?!"
T: "It looks good on you", she smiles then the gang began to whisper amongst themselves.
Cid: "We need to keep her here until he comes back no one mention anything about Cloud just act like everything is fine"
Y: "But Cloud-"
Cid: "Shh, this is what he asked for because he's busy dealing with his problem", he says firmly and she looks at Tifa concerned even though she was smiling talking to Marlene. The short haired ninja sighs at the sight as she didn't want to lie again but she knew it was for her own good knowing that she would go help in a pinch. Just then Denzel came down the stairs with a bucket and a mop then he looks up to see Tifa as he looks around to see the entire gang but his eyes were left to wonder where his hero was.
T: "Denzel, your mopping?", she says lifting an eyebrow and she came close to him but Denzel ran up the stairs ignoring them all. Marlene looked concerned and looked up at Tifa asking, "And Cloud?". The brunette realized as she looks around to see he was missing but then Yuffie breaks the silence, "Uh he's busy at the airship tightening loose bolts! Uh don't worry about it let's go see your rooms!", she says excitedly as she shoves them both up the stairs eyeing the gang but Barret grabbed his head confused.
B: "Cid whats going on? Where's cloud?"
Cid: "That is a private matter that we shouldn't speak of", he says walking out the door as Barret looks at Vincent who was sighing filling him in.
V: "Its best you don't know aside from the fact that Tifa has a double"
B: "Uh well Cloud told me about that, whats that about?"
V: "Some Shinra experimentations just make sure-"
B: "I have to get going Im late for a job, you take care of em", he says smiling as he pats his shoulder knowing damn well that Barret didn't want to play babysit any longer leaving Vincent to sigh then suddenly a child came running and bumped into him as he fell on his bottom. Vincent looks down to see the kid was looking up at him with wide eyes and Vincent moved his cape offering his hand but the kid was looking at his yellow sharp gear around his hand which caused him to gasp. The random boy got up by himself rejecting his help and compliments him.
"I like your cape!", he smiles at him and waves then runs away  leaving Vincent to look at his cape filled with holes at the bottom.