Final Fantasy

Eternal Silence

Chapter 4

"Seph?"

The flower girl walked into sector five, looking around for her partner. "Sephiroth?" She walked over to her house, but to no avail. "Hmm…." She turned around, to find herself staring into a pair of makou-green eyes.

"Heh… were you looking for me, Aeris?"

Aeris smiled and threw her arms around him, "Yes I was!"

Sephiroth embraced her, then looked down at her, "So how did your day go?"

Aeris’ smile dropped, ".. I need to talk to you."

Sephiroth furrowed his brow, "About what?"

Aeris took hold of his hand, and led him into the house. They sat at the table, and Sephiroth looked at her, listening intently.

"… I saw.. him, today."

Sephiroth narrowed his eyes, "After all this time… Who is it, then?"

"I don’t know him, but he looked like he was, or is, a SOLDIER. Makou eyes, standard uniform… he carried a rather large sword too."

"…did he have blonde hair?"

Aeris nodded, "Styled pretty odd… ‘spikey,’ I guess, is the word."

"Cloud…."

"..you knew him?"

Sephiroth nodded, "He was my second in command back in SOLDIER, before that accident in Nibel. Good fighter too. Are you sure it’s him?"

"Yes.. the Planet was crying out when I saw him… I went over and asked what had happened; it was right after the reactor had exploded. He didn’t want to talk about it, but he bought a flower. And if I'm not mistaken, he was hitting on me while he did." Aeris shuddered lightly.

Sephiroth glared, and clenched his fist. "…."

Aeris noticed, but kept going, "…..so, if we’ve found Jenova’s son, now what do we do?"

"…. We have to kill him."

~*~

"Cloud, wake up!!" Tifa ripped the blankets off of Cloud, looking quite angry.

"ACK!!!" Cloud jumped up, looking around, "What’s going on???"

Tifa giggled, and threw Cloud his uniform, "Barret’s getting pissed, we were supposed to leave an hour ago, but a certain spike-boy slept in!"

He blushed, "Oh…"

Tifa walked out, letting Cloud change.

~*~

"Well, you two look like ya slept good!" Barret crossed his arms, looking at Biggs and Jessie, who both had bedhead, Jessie having many hickeys over her neck and what part of her chest was visible. They blushed, and Jessie giggled.

Biggs wrapped his arm around her shoulders, and looked at Barret, "Well, maybe you’re jealous! When was the last time you got any?"

It was Barret’s turn to blush, "…Honey-bee Inn… last month…"

The group laughed, just as Tifa walked in, "Hey guys." She caught sight of Biggs and Jessie, "…what—"

Jessie held her hand up, and giggled, "Don’t say it Tifa… you know what happened!"

Tifa joined Jessie in a bout of girlish giggling, when Cloud walked in. He took one look at Biggs and Jessie, and nudged Tifa, "Got any ideas?"

"Oh, you!" Tifa playfully slapped his chest.

"Awright you lovebirds, less go! Train leaves in 15 minutes!!" Barret shouted. He then looked at Marlene, "Sweetie, can you watch the bar while daddy’s gone?"

"Yes, daddy! I’ll watch the bar!!" Marlene said proudly. Barret patted her head.

The group left and headed towards the Train Graveyard.

~*~

"..so what are we doing again?"

Sephiroth sighed and looked at his girlfriend.

Aeris smirked, "What? Come on, seriously, I want to make sure."

"Alright, one more time. First, we get into the reactor. Then we set the bomb. Lastly we get the hell outta there."

"I got all that, but why a bomb?"

Sephiroth picked up a small rectangular box, "I was told that Cloud is involved with those terrorists. They’re heading to blow up the 5 reactor. If we set a bomb before they get there, it will explode before they can even reach it."

Aeris blinked, "Oh. But why are we killing so many when there’s only one person who needs to die?"

Sephiroth put the box in his pocket, "It’s the only way. We can’t get into their hideout to kill the alien without being found."

Aeris sighed, "I dunno. I just wish there was another way to solve this without anyone dying."

Sephiroth hugged her, "Believe me, if there was a way, we would do it." Aeris hugged back and closed her eyes.

It would be a long day.