Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Shadow of the Lifestream: Shadow Blood ❯ Chapter 6: Shadow of Sephiroth ( Chapter 6 )

Barret, Cid and Rude were walking through the Train graveyard, or what remained of it. It now sat as wreckage of twisted metal. They slowly walked through. Barret turned to Rude.

`So yo man,' Rude looked at him, raising an eyebrow, `Sorry bout all that, like, attackin you few years ago.' Rude nodded an apologetically at him. `Anyway, let's go…' Cid lit up a cigarette and drew in deep. Ash fell on his top, and he stopped brushing it off. As he lifted his head and looked around, and seen dark figure staring at him.

`Holy shit!' he yelled out. Barret and Rude turned noticing the figure as well. Dressed in black, his silver haired blew in the wind. He turned, staring at the group. `It can't be?' The man laughed and jumped behind the upturned train. Barret looked at Cid, nodded, and then ran behind the train where he had landed.

`He…he's gone!' Cid dropped his cigarette in shock, and Rude wiped his forehead.

 

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Denzel waited with baited breath. His heart hammered against his chest. He held the sword in his hand, waiting. He heard the clanging of foot on metal, the top of the black hair coming through the hole. Denzel ducked behind what looked like an old desk. Peeking round the corner, the man was out the hole and looking around, smiling.

 

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Elena had stayed behind at the Sierra, waiting from a call from Reeves or Vincent. She stared out from the Sierra cockpit. Midgar was dark, gloomy, a city dead from an ancient evil. She waited went back to the radio, listening. Nothing. Bored, she sat at the pilot's seat, leant back and closed her eyes. The wind gently blew outside. The streets empty. The radio crackled, making her jump with fright. She stared at the radio.

`Huh?' she stared at it, walking over. It crackled no sound. Something was reacting with it. She picked up the receiver. `Hello? Anybody there?' The cockpit door opened, standing at the door was Tseng. `Sir, what are you doing here?' She said as she turned and noticing her boss. He stared at her and walked over. The radio still crackled, getting louder at each step he took, until he stood right next to her. Tseng smiled his hair turning silver, eyes green. In his hand a long sword appeared. Elena opened her eyes wide. `No!' She backed into the radio. He slashed at her; she dodged it, crawling past him. Sephiroth turned, laughing. Elena ran for the door, almost there. She heard the whipping of the air, and piercing in her back. She looked down to see the sword through her. She fell to her knees, skin turning pale, eyes empty. Sephiroth smiled and pulled his sword out of her, walking away. Elena lay on the ground, dead. The radio cut out.

 

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Cloud, Reno and Yuffie were staring into the Honey Bee room. Or what it used to be. Now it was a cold room, black. The walls covered in dark marks, shadows everywhere. Cloud stepped in, walking forward a few steps, before staring down the hole.

`He's followed Denzel along the train tracks.' Cloud though for a second, `Denzel is at the Midgar building.' He turned, motioning them in, before jumping down the hole. Reno and Yuffie walked forward, the room warping them into a daze, before they woke up in a place far away from where they had started. Far, far away. Yuffie sat up staring at a giant tree.

`City of the Ancients!' She jumped up, Reno staring round. `How did we get here?' He shrugged and stood up, brushing himself down.

 

Cloud meanwhile had started along the track, looking back every so often to see where Reno and Yuffie were, but he thought to himself `Mustn't let them keep me, I have to help Denzel. As he reached a point in the tunnel, his head started to buzz. Flashing before his eyes was an old evil, laughing, calling him. He held himself together, the evil soon disappearing. He continued on.

 

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The man was now staring around him. Denzel had to strike now. He leapt over the desk, flying at the man, who in response pulled out his sword hitting Denzel backwards, smashing through the desk that was his hiding place. His head spinning Denzel jumped up, running for his fighter. The man jumped in the air, bringing down himself down with force. Denzel dodged, the man's sword being planted into the ground. He struggled to pull it out, Denzel ran for him spinning his sword at his side.

 

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Barret, Cid and Rude reached the old Sector 7 reactor. It was sunken into the ground. Deep down, it was connected to the life stream itself, but had long been shut down. They entered and walked along the thing walkways, the darkness surrounded them. As they reached the central control room they looked down to see a light. Shining, sparkling. It rushed up, smashing pipes as it came up. Smashing through the walkway in front of Barret, who fell backwards, almost crushing Cid. It stopped and stared at them.

`Weapon?' Cid said, shocked again, and also losing another cigarette. Staring at them was a Weapon, buried under Midgar. `Ultima Weapon?' It was a dragon type weapon, much like that of Ultima. It raised his head, summoning forth a force of power. It fired, destroying the other side of the walkway. The whole walkway bent to the side, the three men holding on, staring down at the pit.

`I ain't dying yet.' Barret said, as he jumped firing at the Weapon. Cid and Reno fell as the walkway snapped off. `Ahhh!' The Weapon turned, hitting Barret into the pit below.

 

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Denzel ran at the man, leaping at him, slashing him leg. He pulled the sword from the ground, and stabbed it into his arm. Denzel screamed in pain, dropping his sword. The man raised the sword above his head, swinging it down.

`Zack!' Cloud yelled. The man stopped and stared at him. He kicked Denzel down and ran for Cloud. Cloud drew his sword, staring at his old friend as he rushed him.