Haunted Memory

Disclaimer: I have no rights over The final Fantasy Characters. This story is based off joint effort of Mix mastah Mike and Sailor Poison. Any reviews is very much appreciated.

“ Haunted Memory “
By Mix Master Mike and Sailor Poison



~Ch 5b:

While the group hurried to the reactor to help the former Turk and stop Sephiroth Toshihro had been fighting Cid, Barret, and Nanaki. Toshihro's ear piercing growl rang out as he lifted his sick sword of death “Damnation” into the air muttering a phrase. It was a form of Ultima; when he finished it was soon spewing forth taking everything with it almost. His final words he muttered were odd almost in Latin Ultimo magnificio!"

Cid's eyes widen as he says only thing he can think of saying at a time like this, "Oh SHIT!"

Nanaki has been casting Ice 1 to put out the fire on the homes. The beast’s actions slowly came to a screeching halt as the large man issued the death warrant to the town with the devastating spell.

Even Zack gets a bad feeling about this attack; shutting his eyes doing his soldiers prayer. He spoke softly even though his mind was rotten and diseased he remembered it, those pale lips of his parted as he finished looking forward. Just as Zack had gave up the rest of them hung their heads low as the blast started to pull them and the town towards it. But then a bright white light flooded out as two bullets gracefully exploded in the air. A barrier formed in front of the Ultima blast taking all of the impact busting through it only a drop of Mako left. A figure stood on top the town well looking forward; raven black hair blowing in the wind as well as that maniacal grin being shown on the face of the man. He spoke out; almost out of context, "Air Beaner!"

Cid's face was white. This is not an easy feat to scare a former Shin-Ra fighter pilot considering how shitty they got treated anyway. In fact he almost shit in his pants those blue eyes very wide at all this. Soon he shook it off and tried to impale the rather large man in the chest with the spear simply out of reflex rather than thought.

The One Winged Angel and the Turk had been battling it out tooth to claw, and even gun to sword as Cloud entered the reactor and found his way to their location. Vincent soon lost his guard and stumbled Sephiroth striking him down like a small child sending out a kick making Vincent spin and hit a Mako pod. Sephiroth smirked looking to Tifa and Cloud laughing oddly, his laughter filled with insane poisoned motives.

"Vincent!" Rage boils in her as she rushes forward trying to send a combo punch at Sephiroth’s stomach and chest. This madman has hurt her friends and people of her town for the last time. Okay, her little act might have been foolish if not known that Tifa had been known to rush at him before in attacks. Tifa lashed out a combo of four hard punches and a roundhouse kick flying at Sephiroth who only looked on dazed.

Toshihro on the other hand had been focusing on the new-comer Cid's spear sliding through the animal fur piercing his chest. A cry rang out as blood ran down turning the white fur red. Toshihro pulled up Damnation that sick looking sword trying to burry it deep in Cid's shoulder with the sharp tip.

Sephiroth stumbled backwards his chest felt of iron almost. It was as if hitting a car door; he simply laughed at the silly girl even though he spat up some blood at her face. Sephiroth's eyes wandered to the gunman who had opened up another shot; soon the one winged angel reached out grabbing Tifa using her as a human shield. Cloud kind of froze in place shaking a ringing noise erupting in his head he felt tired, used, and abused all of a sudden as the voices returned he cried out, "No!, You can't take my town again Sephiroth." Cloud blindly charged in after him.

Cid being Cid was more into shoving his oversized pig sticker into Toshihro even deeper so he took the hit in the shoulder without regrets; he does his best to push that spear in as hard as he can. He didn't like Magic! Cid was a man who preferred science though technically his spear was magic based. He gritted his teeth as he felt the sharp edge of the sword dig into his flesh. The pain almost made his blue eyes light up even more; blazing with pain they narrowed as his very flesh shook.
The sound of pain came from Tifa’s lovely lips as her throat was almost collapsed by the madman and his shield technique. She tried to claw at the hand holding her slender neck kicking at his stomach and groin to get free from the maniac.

The dark swordsman reached behind his back pulling out a dagger that was sharpened on every side almost like a two sided blade it hurt him to swing it at Cid's spear shoulder. Toshihro was trying to shove the piece of metal which looked almost like a giant flint into Cid's other shoulder and lodge it so he couldn't push the spear deeper anymore. The frustration of not being able to kill the pilot was almost unbearable to him.

Zack being Zack jumped up and sent a kick at back of Toshihro’s head not that he cared if Cid got hurt but this was payback for when Toshihro attacked him after He got Sephiroth down. "Ha, the fuzzy bear got some trouble from the lunger!” Lunger referring the pilot who smoked more than he needed to giving him lung problems often."

Vincent barely pulled his gun back the bullet whizzing by Tifa's head busting a pod up high the Mako pouring out. Sephiroth went into overdrive then as he sniffed the air that mad look grew on his face again as he shouted out, "Your doomed Strife come embrace death tightly in my arms I will guide you into the underworld!" Sephiroth tossed the girl away as if she was puppet heading full sprint after Cloud.

As soon as Nanaki gets the fire under control does he turn to face the fighting. This was not a pretty sight. His tail wagged slightly as the beast let out a sigh convinced truly that none of the fighters truly held sanity in their grasp.

The Bartender soon smacked the wall good enough to daze her for quite a while. A small groan slowly escaped her lips as he stumbled to her feet everything a blur.

Toshihro got kicked flying forward to head butt Cid and reach at his side, to pull him off and slam him down on a broken tree stump. The anger was shown in his face, the large man was obviously angry because it was a bright red color almost as intense as the sun. Toshihro was angry now; he seen a glimmer in the distance a different glimmer, the glimmer of an ancient blade of the Seraphim.

Cid bites his lip to keep from making cries of anything as the pain from the incision in his shoulder began to hurt. Thus he does lose grip of his spear, and is unable to drive the spear deeper. The pilot bit his lip deep enough to cause bleeding and the head butt makes him see stars. Soon the pilot spoke out loud in a whisper to himself, “Stars?" He was slammed into the tree trunk where his back got cracked but not broken entirely.

Nanaki uttered a few words then an Ice 2 spell was soon flung at the man named Toshihro now that Cid was out of the way. He did have high hopes that the pilot didn’t break his back from the slam which was obviously seen by everyone standing in the square. The leader of Cosmo Canyon hardly worried about Zack who looked over one of the bodies of the two goons looking for a weapon on the ground to satisfy his bloodlust and selfish desires of protection.

Toshihro looked over to Nanaki growling as the ice spell hit him hardening over the spear and his body he went to pull damnation out of Cid's shoulder and deliver a final blow to the pilot's chest. He left the cold ice on his chest letting it be used as armor covering the spear and most of his chest. He was shivering, shaking, and his legs tensed from blood loss. As the man in the distance seemed to disappear and appear again in vision looking straight at Derringer.

Nanaki then tries to do a tackle jump into the large furry man who was like a slightly frozen large furry man. He wasn't going to let his friends get killed; not here, not now, not never. Not even the annoying pilot who could use more than a few lessons in manners. The beast used all his weight; talons out and teeth ready to gasp flesh as soon as he can hit the man.

Cloud muttered as a tear wept from his eye he was furious and shaking. The Swordsman went to strike down his former leader. He whispered again as his face went by Sephiroth’s, "Not again, not my town again." Cloud looked down seeing blood leaking out apparently Sephiroth had gashed him wide open. Cloud then looked to Sephiroth’s chest seeing as he left a rather large gash as well. Sephiroth turned in rage picking the former swordsman for him up by the shirt slamming him down against a Mako pod repeatedly yelling in his face, "Your nothing but a failure, a fake, a fraud; that's is all you are, and is the only thing you ever will be! You are a useless waste of genetic material."

Cloud moved to the side busting the pod the door falling on top of Sephiroth. Hojo's monster was left now going at Sephiroth clawing at him, ripping at his flesh. Sephiroth's infuriating growl made the place trembled as Cloud looked over to Tifa giving her to nod to go. Vincent nodded to Cloud too they had to go the place was falling apart; Vincent apparently had busted up the supports when they had their lengthy fight.

Tifa grabs for Cloud before she takes off running. All that slamming might have hurt him and she wanted to make sure he got out so if he needed aid she was going to be there. Not just because he was the leader and spirit of the team but; because she loved him deeply.

Toshihro struggled with the creature as Aukijin charged Zack because he was in the damned way. The evil manifestation swung his sword up at Zack's chin trying to uppercut him with the sword, and knock him up into the air and deliver a furious set of blows to his chest. Aukijin showed no mercy he was the leader of a unique society in New Midgar, he was the leader of the Assassin guild.

Cloud nodded as the Turk lead the way the ceiling was collapsing. Vincent tried to hold it up for them; he almost did it was collapsing almost to the ground. It almost crushed Cloud and Tifa but then he morphed into Chaos out of pain. The hideous creature lifted the ceiling high growling the Turk could barely control his urges his movements were strained and tensed from holding all the damned weight.

Zack just got a hold of a sword when he looked up. His otherwise crazed eyes look surprised before the uppercut hits his chin sending him reeling up into the air. Aukijin was on his chest just about; he was almost breathing down his neck. Soon Zack's chest was getting pummeled heavily. He landed on his ass to roll towards the new man ignoring the pain. Zack rolled past him almost barely swinging the sword weakly at Aukijin’s legs.

Tifa, "We better get back to the others!" She headed back to the town quickly since she couldn’t do anything to hehe ghe gunman. Not while he was in bloodlust as chaos anyway. The bartender hoped he got out okay as her mind turned toward others now.

Cloud looked over at Vincent trying to pull him in Chaos form. Vincent simply moved his hand the roof collapsing on him. With the last move he could muster Chaos pushed cloud of the reactor with a hard shove, sending him rolling on the ground a large crashing sound being hard as the dust flied up everywhere.

Aukijin’s leather pants were slightly ripped open his leg bleeding down them as he pulled hard almost like swinging his sword like a baseball bat. Even through the brick wall then he swerved towards Zack pulling the brick's and wall literally towards Zack almost on top of him. He was toying with the wrong man.

Nanaki tries to use his teeth to anchor himself to Toshihro as his claws do the work of slashing at the man's flesh. The beast growls because his mouth was full of flesh and unable to speak. The protector of Cosmo Canyon would not be denied victory; his tail also strikes the man in random places.

Derringer was bored watching blowing that ravenous hair up with his air out of his mouth, "I need my bloody fuckin' tea before I deal with this bastard."

Cid soon staggered to his feet and tries to free his spear cursing and ranting in a dazed fashion, "Damn you for making me work. I am gonna shove my boot up ya ugly ass and spit down ya throat after I cut that mug of a face off and make the world goddamn prettier!"

The pilot turned to the new man spitting out orders as if he was a maid, "Hey get me a cup too while ya at it!"

Zack, "Avalanche! Wahoo!" the former swordsman was covered with half of the wall because he wasn’t able to roll away from it. Just his lower half was buried as he held the insanely sharp flint like sword ready to defend himself at all costs.

Derringer muttered to himself then looked at the Pilot, "What tha hell do yhinkhink I look like? A maid? Get your own damned tea." Derringer charged Aukijin jumping up sliding across the half-wall on his backside firing a few shots at him laughing manically. Aukijin seemed to deflect them somehow as the two tussled; Toshihro took off mid-sprint Nanaki on his back and jumped into the mountain side turning to where Nanaki would take the blow. Nanaki jumps off before the first shots even went off because he had no real desire to get shot by anyone let alone some insane gunman. One bullet grazes his side as he lands on his feet and growls at Toshihro’s direction.

Cid, "No you look like my fucking butler!" He chuckled as he collected his bearings again using the freed spear for balance because his back still hurt not counting his shoulder wouhat hat bleed freely. He wasn’t worried about his wounds; the pilot had much more pressing matters.

Toshihro looked to the side then to them the puddle of blood was getting larger and larger. He simply pulled out the sick blade again raising it up high as he casted tornado. The fierce winds were easily shown in his green eye as he blew out a large gust of wind trying to blow the group astray only for a moment so he could make his grand escape.

Zack takes the time to unbury himself from the brinks laughing at something else unrelated. Who knew what he was really laughing at but; it must be a good joke to get him laughing. Obviously the former lieutenant wasn’t laughing at them.

Nanaki is blown off his feet and backwards like a kitten that got kicked by a man's boot in a tumble like fashion otherwise he was okay. Cid grabs the tree stump and groan as this hurt to use his arm that much otherwise not blown away.

Derringer blurted out loud, "What the hiz-a?!!?" he quickly hit Aukijin with a blow to the mouth sending him reeling back into the winds watching him being thrown off the cliff. Derringer quickly found something to hold onto as he seen the big man make his escape. Barret had been finished helping with the people of the town and ran back outside soon after it was over looking around shaking his fist.

Cid gets back to his feet and looks at Barret, "Oh yeah, that'll stop him. You get dumber and dumber very year, don't ya?" Then makes his way to Derringer, "Who the hell are you sir?"

Zack stands up and looks at his sword, "Need a better model defiantly a better mode. " he soon threw the sword away, it was too small for his tastes.

Derringer shook his head; almost flabbergasted as he grabbed the pilot by the shirt spouting out gibber gabber after gibber gabber till finally some words came out you could actually understand, "You’re needed in New Midgar by the President."

Nanaki shakes his slightly manned head, dust flies from his fur as he takes account of himself and then glances at Barret, "The townspeople are safe?"

Cid just looks at him, "You need a fucking breath mint!" The pilot simply starts to rant back at him though something about him; he simply was not in the mood and some cuss words that were too merged together to even understand came out. They were almost like a new language in itself as he tries to slap the hand off his shirt, "I will go there when I am fucking ready!"

Barret simply nodded, "Sephiroth?" The large man scratched his head quizzically.NanaNanaki shrugs, "We need the others to return to find out about him. Oh no, they are ranting at each other now."

Derringer yelled back at him, even though they were two inches away, it almost looked like two brothers yelling at each other, Derringer shaking as he trailed off, "You'll go or I'll stick my foot up your skinny white wanker ass!"

Zack wandered over to Barret to lean on him as his wounds seem to heal on their own. Simply it was just that Barret made such a good wall.

Cid, "You and what god damn army?!" Yelling right back into his face, "I have to wait for my goddamn leader! I don't go anywhere without the full group so you can take ya stupid accent and go hump Sephiroth's leg!"

"You damn wench." Derringer's face turned red as he went to backhand the pilot hard across the face and slap the sense into him.

Cid looks in shock just a moment as he cheek is red from the slap. Then his eyes narrow and he gives the hardest fastest punch he could possibly give to the right side of Derringer's face because no one slaps him in the face and gets away with it. Unless, of course they have breasts; only women can slap him damn it!

Nanaki asks the big black man calmly, "Barret, please stop them." They didn’t need their pilot ing ing any more hurt.

Derringer was hit clear across the face turning it the frustration literally lit up on his face as he was silent. He was in assassin mode now; he looked straight at Cid blinking. Even before Derringer knew what happened; much less Cid he was on top of him pummeling away, the insane man didn’t get very far. The former leader of avalanche blindsided them both trying to knock them across the ground.

Cid skips backward away from them both with scowl on his face. A hand on the more wounded shoulder he hears a beep, beep noise and pulls out a special radio, "What? I'm at Nibelhiem ya fucking idiots so come here and pick us up! About time to radioed! I was starting to worry that ya broke her! Yes. I am fine, minor pain. Thanks yeah, yeah. Hey I'm captain so do what I say! Over and out!"

Zack smiles though who knows why this time he, asks Cloud if he can get a real sword since his buster sword shattered in a fight otherwise he seemed content to just sit there. Zack’s mind wandered, he didn’t need to be with the group but would probably end up with them through Cloud’s favor.

Nanaki waits quietly, his mind worries about Cloud and how he is dealing with this and on Vincent who has not returned. Knows this was no time to voice his worries.

Tifa is quiet also. Cid on the other hand demanded was the only one to know where Vincent was loo looks visibly upset that Vincent didn’t come back. The fact he realized Vincent was maybe his best friend in the world was the main reason why..

With that the group waited to regroup in the square sitting for the leader to come not knowing the fate of Vincent or Sephiroth.