Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Revival of the Departed ❯ Chapter 1

Title: Revival of the Departed

Author: J'dee

Series: Final Fantasy VII - Post Dirge of Cerberus

Rating: Mature - NC-17

Pairs: Cloud X Tifa (now this pairing I do ship)

Story: Zack survived thanks to Hojo, but after Hojo's death he left Zack floating in a tank infested with Jenova cells for three years in hopes of creating a new son for Jenova… Will Zack succumb to Jenova? Will Cloud try to redeem his personal guilt of Zack's death by trying to save him this time around?

AN: Just so you know this is up on AFF as well about up to chapter 24/25 so if you want to read more and think I'm slow at updating go there… if you're over 18 of course…

Disclaimer: Make no money yadda yadda yadda, not my characters ect ect

 

 

Chapter One

 

Three Years Later…

 

 

Another excavation of another Mako reactor, apparently this was next on Barrett's list but he had been drafted with Marlene and Denzel for the weekend. Thanks to Tifa saying Cloud needed some downtime, so the two had closed the bar, sent Marlene and Denzel to Barrett's while she sat at home and licked Cloud's mental wounds… yet again.

 

Tseng looked through the hallway, Elena walking beside him. There was nothing out of the ordinary here. Rude though had uncovered notes upstairs in a locked office. So two by two the four Turks were sweeping the reactor before Barrett could blow it to the ground on Monday when he didn't have to play daddy day care.

“It's strong evidence.” Elena remarked in reference to the notes Rude uncovered.

Tseng nodded and flipped out his phone checking the blueprints and motioning ahead. “There's a lab up here.”

Elena moved ahead gun ready and she pushed the door open looking round the lab gun pointed as she slipped carefully in to the room.

Tseng waited till Elena had done a sweep of the room and called out to him.

“Sir it's clear.”

 

Tseng walked in the room and he looked round. Elena shone a flash light round the debris of the lab.

She stopped walking up to a table and looked at a SOLDIER uniform laid out on the metal slab.

Tseng stepped up beside her. “1st Class uniform.” He mused.

Elena picked the uniform up looking at the bullet holes and dried blood. “Looks like a firing squad execution.”

Tseng placed a hand on her shoulder and pulled her back. “Step back.”

“Sir?” She looked at him confused.

He flipped the uniform over checking the name on the inside of the turtle neck collar. “Zack…” He breathed sucking in a lungful of air looking round the room.

Tseng heard Elena gasp. “Didn't he…” She trailed off.

“Obviously he didn't if his uniform is here, even if it lacks the body that belongs inside.” He flipped his cellphone closed switching it to push to talk mode. “Reno Rude… eyes open we could come across a Mako tampered with 1st Class. If he attacks shoot to kill.”

“Roger.” Rude's voice commented through the phone.

Elena looked at Tseng. “Shouldn't we let them know who it-?”

“No…” Tseng cut her off. “If he's too far gone, they have strict orders to terminate. Then we'll find out what Hojo did to him later.” He looked at her.

 

~*~*~*~

 

“Man this jobs bites yo.” Reno sighed looking at the grates on the floor. “Next time we're switching places, Tseng and Elena can do this.” He added following Rude through the small shaft. Cramp, musty, rusting and a low ceiling so much even he was ducking as he walked the path over the grates. The floor creaked a weak metallic groan with each of their steps echoing their movements.

“You can tell them that.” Rude grunted as he walked across the grate covered floor carefully. They had to be cautious; it was a rickety building falling down round its ears.

 

Reno followed behind him tapping his EMR against the back of his neck. He looked down for a moment wishing he hadn't. It was some drop least it gave him that impression. Below them was nothing but a greeting of pitch black.

“What section are we above?” Reno asked.

“The lab Tseng and Elena discovered twenty minutes ago.” Rude replied looking at the blueprints on his phone.

“Imagine a 1st Class Mako infected SOLDIER running round through this building. That would definitely make this more exciting yo.” Reno tapped his EMR up against the wall hearing the clang of metal touching metal. He dragged the EMR along the wall bored.

“We have our orders if we come across him.”

“Yeah yeah shoot first ask questions later, but it's been three years don't cha think he would be long gone by now?” Reno questioned as he walked. The red head fascinated by walking over the pitch black pit of death below.

“If he was free then yes, if not then he could be trapped in any one of the rooms here.” Rude replied.

 

Reno blinked out of the corner of his vision below a glint of green bubbled.

“What is that?” He stopped walking crouching down to look. The green liquid was in a cylinder the level below them, but that was impossible that level was completely empty Tseng and Elena just reported it as clear, nothing. “Mako…” he went to stand up and reach for his communicator to ask Tseng to check there again when he felt the grate buckle under him. He looked at Rude ahead of him with flat eyes. The much larger man had been standing in this very spot only moments ago.

“You shoulda laid off the hotdogs yo.” He remarked before it gave way and he fell through the floor.

“RENO!” He heard Rude call for him but his partner was to late to grab his hand.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Tseng stopped hearing the shout through the vents. He pulled out his cellphone in its push to talk mode. “Rude report!”

“Reno fell sir.”

“Reno's status?” Tseng demanded.

“I'm trying to get down there to find out.” Rude replied. “Will contact you when I know sir.” The communication ended abruptly.

Elena looked at Tseng. “Should we go help?”

Tseng nodded flipping his phone open to check their position. “Two floors on top of us.”

The two took off in a run heading to the staircase.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Reno caught a pipe on the way down. He sighed hanging from it looking round at the laboratory below. He swung round the pipe several times flipping off landing on the ground in a crouch. The drop was lower than he thought when he felt the pang in his left leg with the landing.

 

Round the corner was a faint glow of green and he followed it heading in to a secret section of the lab, he blinked there was a pitch black sheet hanging up like curtain wall.

“What do we have here?” He pulled the curtain back and he let it hit the ground as he stared at the figure hanging in tube shackled up by his wrists and feet.

The part that crept him out more than who it was, was the fact that there were handprints all over his body like he'd just been slapped only five minutes ago.

 

Swallowing he looked at the spiky raven haired figure floating in the tank of green, seemingly unconscious, but none the less alive.

The last time Reno had seen Zack moving had been when he was SOLDIER, just before Zack, Sephiroth and Cloud had gone off to Nibelheim. Right before Sephiroth lost it.

The last time he saw him alive was when Hojo was taking his unconscious form off in a stretcher with Cloud. Then four years later they were hunting the two down. He never expected him to be the tampered with 1st Class Tseng was talking about.

 

“Reno! Reno! Are you okay?” He heard Rude call through the comm on his phone.

Reno pulled the phone up and hit the reply button. “I'm fine yo… Though I think Tseng needs to see this.”

“Hold on I'm on my way down.” Rude remarked.

 

Reno walked up closer to the tube. The figure inside had two large white wings coming out from his back.

“Zack.”

Eyes shot open in the tube and Reno jumped back as they stared at him intense violet glowing at him in a glare.

“Shit!” He couldn't break the gaze, Zack's eyes weren't violet they were suppose to be mako blue. He could feel his heart pound it was like a predator was staring him down before the big kill.

 

The crashing sound behind Reno made him turn round and he looked at Rude standing up off the ground brushing himself down, before adjusting his sunglasses. Reno turned back to the tube he blinked Zack's eyes were closed.

“Creepy. I'm staring at a living dead man.”

Rude walked up to beside him. He took one look at Zack before pulling out his cellphone and hitting the push to talk option.

“Sir… Reno found him. Unconscious. It looks like 1st Class SOLDIER Zack.”

With the mention of his name his eyes shot open and Reno jumped back as the side of his body rammed the side of the tube thrashing. Violet eyes were screaming death to the both of them.

“I don't think he likes us using his name.” Reno commented.

“Understandable. We were chasing him. If we weren't he probably would have got away with Cloud.” Rude remarked.

Reno blinked as Zack's body slumped back in to unconsciousness at the mention of Cloud's name.

“Now that's interesting yo.” Reno mused.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Tifa's cool flesh pressed tightly against Cloud. His hands settled on soft feminine hips. She lay beneath him waiting willful as his hands traced the shape of her body slowly. She bared all just for him. Looking at her beneath him he decided they needed to close the bar more frequently. Both their schedules never gave them an opportunity like this often. So he was taking the chance the opportune moment as it was laid out for him.

“Tifa…” He began.

“Shhhh… don't spoil this…” She touched her finger to his lips to silence him.

 

Cloud's ultimate problem was he never knew the right words to say in situations like this. Granted he didn't really have much to say to begin with. But lately he hadn't been able to word what was bothering him until recently. His sleep in the past week had been rough and broken. Sleep that was haunted, dreams of Zack blaming him, hating him for leaving him to die. The dreams had caused that old guilt ridden memory to resurface. Aerith's spirit had told him she not once blamed him for her death. But Zack… Zack had yet to speak to him. So in a haze of his after work drinks yesterday Cloud had finally told Tifa about the dreams. Instantly she had shipped Denzel and Marlene to Barrett's place explaining that he needed down time.

 

Though right now he was anything but down, it was more up and caressing thighs he would soon consume himself in. His hand found the soft spot between her thighs. His fingers nestled inside, stroking inner walls slow and languid as his mouth devoured her neck. Letting the feeling of her breasts pressed firmly up against his chest motivate his own need. Her hands gripped his shoulders, nails dug in to the flesh of his shoulder blades while he nipped a line down her neck.

“Cloud… please…”

 

Tifa practically begged him, hearing her voice caused the hair on the back of his neck to stand up on end. It was a slow torture, yet he wanted to make it worth the long wait they both had suffered. But even he knew he couldn't hold out much longer. The soft teasing caresses of her body were giving him an aching want he needed a release for. Slipping fingers out Cloud pulled one leg up over his elbow, he shifted over her as the arousal she had caused slipped in to the slick, wet and waiting heat. Her walls tightened around him, forcing a groan from the back of his throat at the feeling. Her back arched skyward, hips rising against his own urging him in deeper and deeper. Cloud slowly began to move with her body as they slowly began to fall in to sync rocking forward then back in a motion to their own private beat. His mouth moved from her neck to suck in air as he panted driven on by the newly formed warmth between them.

 

Humid air clung to their bodies, causing beads of light sweat to form as they moved as one for the late Saturday morning bedroom journey.

Cloud's hands moved planting one on either side of her head as he pushed deeper in to the warmth of soft feminine thighs. His movement rocking the bed in to the wall with a light thump thump thump sound. Each thrust he sank in deeper, his hips moving forward and harder as Tifa clung to him insistent like she was mentally guiding him on his own way to completion.

“Cloud…” She let out breathlessly. It was the only words he needed to know he was reaching that moment that they both needed so desperately.

Thighs milked him, pulling his arousal in deeper as if sucking him in, ready to take everything he had to offer.

 

Rarely they shared moments, let alone these ones, making him wonder why she stayed so loyal and true to him.

It was obvious they had loved each other for a long time, but the pain of his past and loss of loved ones prevented him from physically returning that love. At least until he'd saved the planet a second time.

 

True he did miss Aerith but she was now with Zack. Cloud hoped they were happy where ever they were in the life stream, as happy as he was now. At least she wasn't alone anymore and she finally got to see that sky and know that there was indeed nothing terrifying about it. Zack would show her help her and Cloud knew he would love her. Love her like she needed.

 

Cloud was snapped out of his thoughts and worries as he felt the pressure build up inside him. He felt the restless release stir inside himself, the arousal swelling in the confined thighs. Hearing his name on her lips drove him to get lost deeper inside. The warmth of her body made it harder to hold out for much longer, but she was always there for him, his support his everything

“Tifaa… ahh.”

She moved with him her arms slipping from his shoulders to grab on to his biceps pulling him in close as lips intertwined and tongues battled it out while they each rode on the same wave of sexual lust.

Breasts caressed up and down his chest slick from the beaded sweat of their united bodies. Her long legs moved to round his waist her hips moving continually with his building need for release. Her back arched skyward as she pulled him deeper in to the heat of her body.

He couldn't stop. Cloud was trapped in that moment that if time did stop, he would probably die happy. That moment that perfect second before the most mind blowing peak ever where he felt he could see clearer, sense everything and feel the warmth of the love he was basked in. It was mind blowing on its own, but to see it in her eyes too that she was feeling that same moment. It made him want to fight the need for release just that little bit longer. He was saved the embarrassment of letting it come first when her hips slammed against his. Her back arching so high they were stomach to stomach with only a thin coat of beaded sweat could slip between them.

Tifa cried out in ecstasy his name coming from her lips. That alone was enough to send him over the brink, and he followed her body's climax only moments later.

Her name coming out between gasps as his forehead dropped to hers and his mouth captured her lips. Letting his tongue slip between willing lips he felt her own tongue circle his in a taunting dance.

 

Eventually despite how comfortable he felt between her thighs his arms were having trouble holding his own weight and Cloud slipped down next to Tifa. He pulled her in to his arms, the memories of the dream faded in to the back of his mind. They had this moment and the future to look forward to. He made a vow not to let the worries of his past damage what they had now. He hated seeing her worry about him, he wouldn't repeat that… never again.

 

Tifa couldn't word how breathtaking it had felt. For the first time in a long time Cloud had been focussing on her, just her, he was saying her name in his sexual paradise. She smiled to herself curling in to him, her head resting on his shoulder. She looked to the door glad that the bar was closed she didn't want the regulars downstairs hearing that over their early morning drinks.

 

The sound of the knock knock knock brought Cloud out of his foggy delusional state of after sex.

“What's that?” He looked to the door then the sounds of footsteps coming up the stairs. He grabbed the blanket quickly yanking it over both of them as the door opened.

“Yo…” The red head stopped and blinked looking at them both. “Heeee-llllllllllllooo.” He grinned.

“RENO!” Both of them shouted.

“So that's why you weren't answerin' the door yo.” He grinned.

 

Reno saw they were both shooting him the dirtiest look they could manage. The amusement of busting in on them left his face immediately.

“Tseng needs to see you Cloud.”

Cloud blinked. “Tseng?”

“That mako reactor Barrett was to blow up on Monday… we found something there you might want to take a look at yo.” Reno stated and he held up the SOLDIER turtle neck tossing it at Cloud. “He's not dead… but he doesn't seem to be alive either. Car's waiting downstairs. Elena will drive you.” He turned round and walked out. His hand clenched at the side he hated to break up a moment like that with news like this.

 

Rufus had left the mystery of Zack for Tseng to solve while he tended to other business and notes from that Mako reactor. Walking down the stairs he couldn't help but smile, he should have taken a photo for future black mail. Who knew when Cloud would get laid again especially after he saw who wasn't dead after all.

 

Reno walked outside and looked at Rude. “Partner you won't believe what I nearly walked in on yo!”

“I don't want to know.” Rude looked at him.

“Yo, I knew something told me to take my camera up there.” Reno grinned walking to the motorbike.

Rude sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “They got the message though.”

“Oh yeah they got it.” Reno looked at him.

 

 

Cloud looked at the dried blood on the turtle neck the bullet holes. His eyes widening he reached for the top slowly he pulled it up to him swallowing hard.

He felt Tifa touch his arm lightly. “Cloud is that…?” She asked softly sounding worried.

Cloud looked inside to see the name on the inside of the collar on the tag. “Zack.”

 

 

To Be Continued…