Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Final Fantasy VII; Second Generation ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Sephiroth?”, Jessie gasps, taking cover behind the seats with her brother; Zack, Nicole, and Ruvie, “Sephiroth had a kid…?”

 

“Apparently he did…”, Ruvie whispers.

 

“Where is the Black Materia? I can feel it's nearby!”, Sephanie questions, “Where have you hidden it?”

 

“We don't know what you're talking about!”, the WRO-commander shouts.

 

“Then I'll just have to kill everyone in the building until I do find it…”, she psychotically replies, raising her arm and a katana materializes in her hand, “Now who's first?”

 

“Fire at will!”, the commander orders.

 

The soldiers fire their weapons at the crazed young woman, but their bullets are stopped by an invisible-shield.

 

“She's using a shield-materia…”, Zack mutters, watching the failed attempt of the soldiers to stop the madwoman.

 

“I guess you're first commander…”, she laughs, suddenly vanishing in a blink of an eye and reappears behind the man, “Die…”, she says, thrusting her blade through the man's chest from behind.

 

 

 

 

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-Meanwhile-

-At the Bar-

 

 

 

Tifa flinches at the unnecessary blood-shed, before turning and bolting towards the door.

 

“Tifa!”, Marlene calls out, stopping the older woman in her tracks, “Where are you going?”

 

“To save my children…”, she replies, without turning around before resuming running to the door, only to be quickly followed by Vincent; who never really taken his gun from his holster.

 

“Marlene. Denzel. You two stay here…”, Cloud says; having retrieved his buster-blade from wherever he had been keeping it, as he followed his wife and friend out the door.

 

“Be careful…”, Denzel prayed, glancing at the chaos happening on the screen.

 

 

 

 

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-Back at the Concert Hall-

 

 

 

A few of the audience members try to run to the doors, but Sephanie notices them and raises her other hand towards them, and black bat-like creatures manifest in front of the fleeing people, some of the people were immediately attacked and killed while the other people stop in their tracks and begin running in the opposite direction, away from the creatures now.

 

“There is no way I'm going down without a fight…”, Zack retorts, pulling out a pair of dark-grey fingerless leather-gloves from his pocket and slips them on.

 

“Damn it! I was I had my buster-blade right now…!”, Jessie curses, as she slips on her own pair of identical gloves, “I guess I'll just have to fight with my bare-hands…”

 

“Nicole, I want you to stay here where it's safe…”, Zack says, as he leapt over the seats to defend the two girls behind the seats, while Jessie took up the position on top of the seats behind them and punches one of the shadow creatures in the head.

 

“But…”, Nicole protests.

 

“No `buts' Nicole, just do as he asks. If you fight too, there is no way we'll get to you in time if you get into danger”, Jessie remarks, punching another creature away.

 

“Okay…”, she mutters.

 

Sephanie just smirks to herself as she continues to cut down soldiers as she came across them, until all the soldiers that had surrounded her were laying on the ground, dead. Out of the corner of her green eyes, she sees Zack and Jessie fighting off her summoned minions to protect Ruvie and Nicole.

 

“They think they can defy me…”, she sneers, materializing a second katana into her other hand and jumps off the stage, calmly walking towards the four teens.

 

“Nicole! Ruvie!”, Zack shouts, noticing Sephanie closing in on the two women, rushing the intercept the woman, “You're not getting past me…”, he defiantly states, taking up a fighting stance.

 

“You're brave little boy…”, Sephanie purrs, before she thrusts her right-hand forward; with the sword still grasped in it, punching Zack in the abdomen and knocking the wind out of him, she then grabs him by the collar and tosses him off to the side, “I'll finish you off later…”, she retorts, before resuming her approach towards her targets.

 

Ruvie puts Nicole behind herself, determined to protect her with her body if the need be, as Sephanie raised her arm up preparing to cut the two in half. As she swung down, a spray of blood splatters onto Ruvie's face, her hazel eyes widening is shock as she saw Reeve leap into the path of the blade to protect his child.

 

“Dad!”, she screams, as her father collapsed onto the floor, bleeding profusely from a slash across his chest.

 

“R-Ruvie…”, Reeve weakly whispers, reaching up to touch his daughter's face, “I'm sorry…”, he mutters, before falling limp as he passed out.

 

“Dad…”, she sobs into his chest.

 

“Ruvie!”, Jessie shouts, rushing to her side, “Ruvie, snap out of it! You can't stay here!”, she warns, only to see Sephanie towering over them with her katana raised above her head again.

 

“Now die!”, she laughs, swinging the blade down towards Jessie; who was caught in a position she couldn't dodge-roll out of, causing her to close her eyes and hope for a quick death.

 

The sound of steel grinding against steel rings in her ears, causing her to peek open an eye and sees Cloud standing there, his buster-blade stopping Sephanie's strike.

 

“Dad…?”, she gasps, as she climbs to her feet.

 

“Jessie, I want you to grab Reeve and bring him to safety…”, he father says, using his sword to shove the daughter of his former foe backwards, “Go now!”

 

“Right…”, Jessie nods, grabbing Reeve by the under-arms and lifting the top half of his body up, “Ruvie, help me carry your father!”, she orders, snapping the older teen out of her stupor and she grabs her father's feet and carries him towards the back-stage.

 

Zack coughs on the floor, trying to get breath into his lungs and as he tries, one of the creatures spots the weakened fighter and slowly starts to stake his prey.

 

“Zack, look out!”, Nicole's voice screams, causing him to look up in time to see the creature leap into the air to pounce onto him, only to hear a gun-shot go off and a bullet pierce it's head; going straight through it, and the creature falls to the floor dead.

 

“You alright, Zack?”, Nicole asks, when she reaches his side, using her left hand to touch his shoulder while she help a gun in her right hand; still smoking.

 

“I think so…”, he coughs, trying to push himself onto his knees, “You actually brought your gun to a concert…”

 

“You know I always carry it in my bag”, she replies, couching beside him and braces her back against the stage, aiming her gun towards the seats, prepared to shoot anything that was to come towards them to harm either Zack or herself.

 

“Then I'm glad your father taught you how to use it…”, he continues to cough, still struggling to breath.

 

“Don't you stop breathing on me…! Even though the idea of giving you mouth to mouth is exciting, I don't want to resort to that to keep you alive!”, she orders, with tears in her eyes as she squeezes the trigger to shoot down another shadow-creature.

 

“You won't have to resort to that…”, he coughs, the ability to breath getting easier.

 

Click…Click…, came the sound from Nicole's gun, she was out of bullets.

 

“Shit…!”, she curses, as two of the shadow-creatures closes in on them.

 

“Nicole!”, Zack yells, as he leaped up to shield her with his body as the two creatures leap to pounce onto them.

 

Two gun-shots rang out and the creatures fall dead to the floor, and the two teens look up to find Vincent standing a good 500-feet away, his smoking `Cerberus' still in his hand.

 

“You two alright?”, he asks.

 

“Yeah…”, they nod.

 

“Good…”, he says, briskly turning around and fires his gun a few more times, before popping his gun open to expel the used shell-casings and puts in new bullets, quickly shooting the creature that had leapt into the air at him while he was reloading.

 

“You alright, Zack?”, Tifa questions, as she runs to his side.

 

“I'm fine, mom. I only had the wind knocked out of me”, he replies.

 

“Where is the one who did this to you?”

 

“She's over there, fighting against dad”, Zack answers, pointing.

 

“Get to safety, we'll handle this”, Tifa says, making her way towards where her husband was fighting, punching any creature that so much as tried to come near her without even looking.

 

“Mom's pissed!”, Zack comments.

 

“I don't blame her. You got hurt, Zack…”, Nicole remarks, pistol-whipping a creature across the head as it tried to attack them.

 

“You're right…”, he sighs, punching another creature at the base of the skull, severing it's spinal-cord.

 

 

 

 

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-Meanwhile-

-Back Stage-

 

 

 

“Ruvie, I want you to stay with your father”, Jessie says, slipping off her jacket and bunching it up to form a pillow, placing it under Reeve's head before heading back towards the auditorium.

 

“Where are you going?”

 

“To help my dad…”, she replies, looking over her shoulder at Ruvie and the unconscious Reeve before turning back towards the stage and running out onto it, punching whatever creatures got in her way.

 

She could see her brother and Nicole defending themselves with their fists and/or whatever they had in their hands, Vincent at least 500-feet from them shooting down whatever creatures his gun could hit, he father relentlessly attacking with her mother charging in for a few hits whenever Sephanie had managed to push Cloud back a few feet.

 

Suddenly, Sephanie notices a weakness in Tifa's defenses and quickly pushes Cloud backwards, slashing and kicking at Tifa as she charged in, the blades catching her on the shoulders; slicing them, and a powerful kick hitting her square in the abdomen and sends her flying backwards, her back colliding against the wall.

 

(A/N: I just had an eerie flash-back to Tifa's fight with Loz in Aeris's church from the movie; `Advent Children'!)

 

“Mom!”, Jessie screams, gaining the attention of Zack and Nicole.

 

“Mom!”, he yells, watching as his mother collapses onto the floor, motionless, “Come on, Nicole!”, he orders, grabbing the teen beside him and throws her over his shoulder, running towards his mother; fast enough to make a Track-Coach proud if his school had a Track-Team. Upon reaching his mother's prone body, he drops Nicole beside her, “Nicole, I want you to put pressure on her wounds and keep it on till her bleeding stops”, he states, throwing his jacket to her.

 

“What about you?”, she asks, laying the jacket over his mother and presses down onto the injuries through the cloth.

 

“Hold off these bastards…”, he growls, cracking his knuckles, watching as about twenty creatures surrounded them.

 

“Tifa!”, Cloud shouts, momentarily distracted during the fight.

 

Sephanie takes this moment of opportunity to attack the man in front of her, first disarming him; knocking the buster-blade from his hand, using one of her swords, and then swings her other katana downwards, successfully slicing deeply into the flesh of his right arm, the metal grinding again bone. Cloud falls away from her, clutching his rendered useless arm in his other arm, crouching in pain in front of her.

 

“So you're the bastard who killed my father?”, Sephanie retorts, staring down at Cloud like her father used to do, “I'm going to take pleasure in cutting off your limbs, one by one… Leaving your head for last…”

 

“Dad!”, Jessie shouts, running towards him, grabbing his buster-blade out of the floor with her right-hand from where it had landed; standing up, as she ran past it on her left-side, “Get away from my father, you bitch!”, she angrily yells, swinging the sword diagonally-upward; going left to right, forcing the evil woman to retreat backwards.

 

“Is that the best you can do, little girl…”, she mocks, before a cut suddenly forms on her left-cheek, “It seems I've underestimated you…”, she continues, starting the levitate towards the hole in the ceiling, “I'll just have to put my search for the Black Materia on hold for now. But I can still start the destruction of the planet without it…”, she laughs, “We will meet again…”, her voice echoed as she vanishes through the hole and her minions disappear into thin air.

 

“She got away…”, Jessie growls in frustration, resting the buster-blade on her shoulder before turning towards her father, “You alright, dad?”, she asks.

 

“Yeah…”, he nods, still holding his injured arm, “How's your mother?”

 

“Hey Zack! How's mom?”, she shouts over to her brother, as he wipes sweat from his brow with the back of his hand.

 

“She's stable right now! Nicole got the bleeding to stop!”, he shouts back, “How's dad?”

 

Jessie glances down at her father for a moment, “His arm is badly hurt! But other than that, he's fine!”

 

“We still need to go after Sephanie… Before she causes anymore destruction…”, Reeve's voice says from the side of the stage, causing everyone who was conscious to look and see him stumble his way onto the stage clutching his chest with Ruvie desperately trying to get him to stop walking around.

 

“Dad, stop moving! You're seriously injured!”, she pleads.

 

“Reeve, your daughter is correct. Sit still and wait for the paramedics to arrive, then we can discuss our next course of action after your injuries have been treated…”, Vincent replies, walking over to Reeve and stops his walking, forcing him to sit on the floor, “I don't think any of us brought any Phoenix-Downs with us”

 

“Finally! Thank you Vincent”, Ruvie sighs.

 

Vincent looks over at the Strife twins, seeing so much of their parents in them from the way they were 20-years ago, `Cloud and Tifa must have past on their techniques to their children… Kind of makes me wish me and Lucrecia had gotten married and had kids…', he thinks, feeling a tinge of jealousy over his former traveling-companions' children.

 

 

 

 

 

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