The Other Truth PG-13. (details inside)

[~Moony~]

Main Character list:

Sephiroth- He is evil by most people's standards.Really, I think he is more confused, angry, and totally misunderstood...but well...he goes WAY to far sometimes.
(for pict click here: www.ffcompendium.com/misc/kh-sephiroth-a.jpg)

Sara: My own creation. She is a shape shifter, who is Sephiroth's only living Blood relative, she is his daughter. She trusts very few people
(currently no image avalible. Will look for one.)

Cloud: Cloud is...well Cloud. He never answers his cell phone. He trys to stay out of other peoples problems...cause he has more than enough of them on his own.
Picture: bishounen.info/cloud/Cloud1.jpg

Vincent: Strong and silent...got to be the best words for him. He is well...dead..but he is still alive..or rather was brought back to life by the Shinra Power Co.'s evils. He has an evil deamon type thing inside of him, known as Chaos.
Vince: www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/images/C/C7282.jpg
Chaos: www.animovies.com/PImage/9072.jpg (not the best pict, but I can't find a better one.)

Zack: In the movie, he is dead, but for the purpose of this story, he is alive. Zack is a lot like Cloud.
Pict: www.ffodyssey.com/ff7ac/203.jpg (he's the one leaning against the wall, not the girl in the forground)

Tifa: Tifa is a sweet girl that Cloud grew up with. She is very close to Cloud. She can fight.
Picture: img82.imageshack.us/img82/443/tifasotw59rb.jpg

Denzel: He is a quiet boy, he wants to follow in Cloud's footsteps.
Pict: www.cetraconnection.de/advent-children/film/charaktere/denzel/1.jpg (best I could do.)

Those are just quick bios. You want to know more, google them darnit.

This is based off of Final Fantasy: Advent Children, the movie. I do NOT take any credit in creating any of these characters or places, with the exception of Sara, and the Meeting Place. All other places and characters belong to Square Enix.

This is rated PG-13 because of mild to strong language, moderate violence, and sexual tearms and sugestions, such as the word rape.

All new additions to the story will be added as seprate posts to this thread. It is written in secions that tell diffrent points of view. Only the narriator's section in in the first person though ok. Proceed to next post for story.

[~Moony~]

Note to self:
Sephiroth:black
Sara:purple
Cloud: blue
Vincent:red
Zack: lime green
Tifa: teal
Denzel: yellow
Shinra:orange

[~Moony~]

((OK sorry about all the long, explanation posts. They really were needed. Feel free to comment and tell me how bad (or good) you thought it was. As well as any suggestions or corrections you have.))
Just ran a check with the rules...scratch the cussing...

Sephiroth:

Sephiroth seated himself in a chair that faced a window, though he technically was staring out the window, he did not see the window, or what was outside of it, he was too deep in thought.Waves of pain that Jenova controlled hit him, as he sat there, seemingly idle. Despite all of this, he truly was ready or at least looked ready, for anything this world could throw at him.

"It ends tonight Cloud. It will end, you and your friend, Zack, corrupted my child against me, you will pay for that." Sephiroth hissed, angrily into the air around him.

The child he had spoken of was a shape shifter. She was fifteen, her name was Sara. Her mother, also a shape shifter, had died in child birth, so Sephiroth had raised the child on his own...in a very rough manner.

Sephiroth did not stand, he rose, moving as gracefully as a dancer. It was sunset, time to launch his plan in to action.

In the two years since he and Cloud's last meeting, all those who were involved, had changed drastically, but some more than others. Sephiroth truly did not know what to expect from Cloud this time.

Cloud

Cloud stood upon the cliff beside his motorcycle, and the sword that marked his friend's grave...or so he thought. He knew now, that Sephiroth had returned...from what had seemed to be the grave. He had not seen Zack, since he had been shot down my Shinra agents, here, in this very place. Had his friend, and fellow Soldier truly fallen?

Cloud sighed and flipped open his phone. The phone rang seven times, but there was no answer. "Where could she have gone?" He asked himself aloud, in a distrusting tone. He shook his head sharply.

"Why? Why am I really doing this? For Her memory? Or because I care about these people? Zack....I said I would live out both our lives...easier said than done." He said quietly, his voice low. "AERIS WHY!" He called out, half in pure anger...half in true pain. "Did I really love you?" He asked the thin air..knowing there would be no answer. He got on to his motorcycle, and rode off toward Midgar...his home. As always, one arm was covered, to hide the Geo-stigma that spread a little every day.

Zack

Zack was totally still, in his well hidden position, from which he was watching Cloud. Zack shook his head, listening to Cloud's words. Cloud didn't seem to make anymore sense now, then he had two years ago. They had been young then...heck they were still young...they played at being adults but really, they were as lost in this world as everyone else. After Cloud had ridden out of sight, Zack went up to the cliff top. There he saw his own, old, sword.

Zack was coming to understand why Cloud had been here. He smiled slightly as he grasped the hilt of the sword. He yanked the blade from the earth, and surveyed it carefully. It would do. Yes, it was rusted, but well, not too badly.

He watched the sun as it set with a very odd look on his face. His gaze snapped upward, as he heard the cry of a hawk in the distance. Of course it was only one returning to it's nest, but it had reminded him of Sara...her favorite form, besides human, had been that of a red tailed hawk.

Zack had survived the shooting, contrary to everyone's knowledge, but he had taken his time to resurface, waiting and watching. He had no active part in the fight to come, as of yet, but he would. He wanted Sephiroth dead..soon. He was growing tired of waiting and watching it all. He was growing impatient, Sephiroth had a lot to answer for.

He had too much to answer for, to allow 'sorry' to cover it. Sephiroth would die as soon as Zack could manage.

Zack loved Sara, but he would never admit it. He cared for her well-being in a way no one else did. He was there for her to talk to, anytime. He would not allow Sephiroth to hurt her...if only he was given a chance to say anything.

"It ends soon...or it begins, either way, you will fall, Sephiroth." He said in a deep, unemotional tone.

Sara

Sara stood alone in her own rooms...if they could be concidered even that much. They were more like a prison. As it was, she stared into a mirror.

Her hair was just below waist length. Sara's eyes were a silver green color, her eyes were also slitted like a cat's...or a snake's. Her hair was silver already, like her father's. Her skin was pale, due to constant slight illness. A large bruise covered her right cheek, a reminder from her father to be on her best behavior.

She slipped out a small, warn picture of Zack. "Why? Why did you have to go? Why did you have to die?" Sara wispered to the image of the one person she could ever have trusted.

There was a knock on her door. She slipped the picture away, then she opened the door. "Yes, Yazoo?" She asked in a low, fearful, voice.

"Sephiroth wishes to see you, in his rooms." Came the definately amused anser. Yazoo thought it was funny that a simple request from Sephiroth, had literally reduced the girl to shaking.

Sara tensed, and was actually shaking "Yes." She said very softly.

Tifa

Tifa sat at the bar completely alone. She sighed aloud, growing worried. She had not seen Cloud in around two weeks, that was beginging to worry her. She knew something was going on, but she could not figure it out. She was also worried about me, my stigma was only growing worse by the day. At this moment, both Marlene and I were playing outside.

There was a loud crash from outside. Tifa stood up, and moved toward the window. The door slammed open and Kadaj seized Tifa where she stood. They dragged her out of the bar. Then they rode out of the city with her, not giving her a chance to fight. Soon they reached the Forgotten City.

Sara:

Sara knocked on the door to her father;s quaters. "You wanted me, Sir." She siad softly. SMACK! Sephiroth's hand connected with the right side of her face...again. "Do NOT be pert." He warned coldly.

"but..." Sara began to protest.

"No buts, you knew better than that. Now, I did want you. I need you to shift, and patrol the forgotten city." Sephiroth said, his voice deadly cold, and completely even.

Sara nodded. She could see Tifa on the bed behind him, but wisely said nothing about it. She was good at hideing ehr emotions..thankfully. She hated her shifting, ever since that injection Sephiroth had given her, shifting mad eher violently ill. She had told him...once, He had told her that she was being childish and that she could work through a little discomfort.

"Is that all, Father?" She asked him softly, resolutly ignoring the pain in her jaw. He nodded his head, and Sara left. She shifted and began the patrol he wanted her to do.

Cloud:

Cloud rode into the city. He hadn't seen any of his friends in the day..which was normal actually. He pulled up in front of the bar, with a feeling of wrongness. The door was wide open...Tifa never left it that way. He stepped inside and saw Marlene and Me asleep on the couch...even odder, because he had not seen or heard Tifa.

The phone began ringing. Cloud picked it up "Hello?" He siad calmly into the reciever.

"Cloud? Where's Tifa?" Came Barret's rushed words. "I've been calling all afternoon." He added in a rush.

"I don't know...I haven't heard from her today." Cloud said quietly. He was getting worried...if they hadn't heard from Tifa...where could she have gone?

"Well, we have to find her. We know that Kadaj, Loz, Yazoo, and Sephiroth are running rings around the city's normal protectors. What if they have her?" Barret said, suddenly sounding calm, this was his area of expertise.

"Don't say that...don't even think it!" Cloud said, a bit sharply. In truth, he feared they did have her...that was the only explination that seemed to make any sense...but if it was true...

"Fine! Fine! We still need to start looking for her." Barret said, then he hung up, Cloud did the same.

Vincent:

Vince stood, his back agenst the old building of Shinra. He was about two...maybe three hundred feet in the air...on the side of a building. Now..most people would ask Vincent why he is here....he would probably not answer...but if he did on the off chance answer you..it would be somewthing like this: Well, there are two Turk(Shinra) agents up here. They were captured and tourchered by Sephiroth and his friends...This was the only play I thought safe enough to hide them...so they might live.

Vince shook his head and slipped into the window, completely unseen. If you knew Vincent...you would understand that odd, haunted look in his eyes...if you really knew him, you would also understand the sometimes-to-fast- to-be-seen movements. Vincent was only remotly human..well, to start with, he's already dead..he had been for twenty three years...no matter. He still looked, acted like and everything else like the twenty seven year old he had been when he was murdered...as he would forever. You see Vince is...has a demonic being inside of him...we call it Chaos. Chaos is really scary...Anyway...

Vince looked at the two with those bright, red eyes "Well, you two seem to have survived the the day...a good sign, I think." He said in a low tone. He gave them both water, then tossed a numbver at thier feet. "Call it, if you need help." He said as he began walking away. Mind you, Vince didn't have a phone...the number was Shinra's...they should know it by heart...but what ever.

Vince sighed and slipped out of the window. Vince got off the building the fast way, he jumped. He landed perfectly on the ground, as if it had only been a few feet, then he walked off.

Denzel:

I watched Marlene bein to awaken. She stirred slightly, then her eyes opened. "Cloud, where is Tifa? We haven't seen her since a little before sunset." She siad in a shaking voice.

Cloud turned to face us. "I don't know Marlene, I don't know." His voice was calm, but his eyes said a lot more...Cloud was scared.

"Well, there were these three guys hanging around...but that was before, I think." I said quietly, looking at him.

"Denzel, what did these men look like?" Cloud asked me.

I procedded to describe Yazoo, Kadaj and Loz.

Cloud nodded. "I need you two, to stay here, I have to meet up with some friends, so we cane get Tifa back." He said to us.

"Promise to come back?" We said together. Cloud noded once, sharply, that was the best we were going to get out of him...and I knew it. Cloud left then, closing and locking the door behind him.

[~Moony~]

Zack

Zack entered the meeting place, which was a small cave outside of the city. He knew the others would come here, to dixcuss their plans. By now, he knew about what was going on. Zack seated himself neatly in his acustomed palce, waiting for the others. Sure enough Barret, Yffie, Cid, Cait Sith and the Dog, followed shortly by Cloud, then finally Vince. No one saw Zack, because of where he seated himself. Zack stood up and stepped into the light. "Hello." he siad and he waited for the outbursts.

Everyone looked up in shock at the sound of his voice. "Zack you are alive!" Yffie said sharply, clearly startled. Vincent smiled the slightest bit as if to say 'finally', as soon as he knew Zack had seen it, the smile fadded. Cid and Barret didn't react except for the initial look of shook, neither did Cait Sith or the Dog.

Cloud looked into Zack's eyes for several long moments "Welcome back, Zack." He said softly, with a short smile. Zack flashed everyone a smile, then it was gone.

"Ok, what do we know?" Zack asked, then as a group they traded everything they knew back and fourth. Just making sure everyone was up to date.

Sephiroth smiled faintly as his daughter left. Didn't know that already Cloud and his friends were prepairing to move against him. He did how ever know that they had seceeded in captureing Tifa, seeing as she was laying on his bed, waiting for him. He moved to the side of the bed, gazing at her. She looked terrified as he lay down beside her he still had a shirt on, when he lay down...

Tifa lay on the bed, alone now...that he had left. He had raped her. She sat up, and got herself dressed, before colasping back onto the bed. She was exausted and in a lot of pain.

Denzel:

I sat on the couch, beside Marlene. We were both scared...but neither of us spoke. My stigma hurt...but I didn't react to it at all. We sat in almost total darkness, with only a small lamp on. Neither of us knew what to do...so we just sat there.

Vincent had let his smile fade imeadatly after knowing that Zack had seen it. He really was glad that Zack had returned. "Well, now that we are done here, why don't we DO something?" Vincent said calmly. There were nods all around so they left, all of them scattering to see what could be done.

[~Moony~]

Sara:

Sara flew around the city several times. Pain, and faint illness slid through her in waves, but she ignored them. They really wouldn't affect her until she shifted back to human. She looked down lazily and shook her head, it looked odd from a hawk. Curse you Father...curse you again. I hate you. She thought viousily. She landed on the cliff staring. Where was the sword that marked Zack's grave? She shifted human without thinking. Stupid move Sara thought, as her stomach lurched. She fell to her knees and she vommited twice. Then she sat up. She was staring at where the sword had been stuck in the ground for two years. What had happened? Where could it have gone?

Sara heard a motercycle halt behind her, but she did not move. "Sara?" Came the single, questioning word from behind. It sounded like Zack, it was that fact that caused Sara to turn around. "Zack..." She wispered. Sara wipped her mouth hurriedly. She sat up, now starign at the person that looked, and sounded, so much like Zack.

"Yes, Sara, it's me. Are you alright? He forced you to change again, didn't he?" Zack said softly, moving forward, and kneeling beside her.

"I'm fine. Yeah, he did. How are you? Where have you been?" Sara said, all at once.

"I have been well. In the city, actually." Zack assured her lightly. Sara nodded slightly.


Zack:

Zack was riding circut around the city. He decided to head up to the cliff, just to check up there. He halted his bike about six feet away from a girl on her knees...it looked like she was getting sick. Can that possibly be Sara? Zack thought, trying to figure it out. After a moment he called out to her "Sara?" He was standing totally still, waiting.

The girl turned around, her eyes widening and he knew in that moment that he was correct. He smiled slightly, as she spoke. They spoke for several moments.

Then he folded his arms around Sara, pressing his eyes closed, just happy to be with her. She hugged him right back...then gun shots errupted from behind Zack. "NO!" Sara yelped as she looked up and saw Yazoo, shooting at them.

"Sephiroth, you aren't gonna be happy with Sara." He siad into a cell phone, as he shot at the two. He shook his head slightly, and then smiled dangerously. He shook his head and shot Zack in the back, left shoulder, just above his heart. Sara sat straight up. "I'll come, just don't hurt him anymore." She said softly. She stood up and walked toward him "Sorry, Zack." She wispered as she walked over to Yazoo. Sara had her head hung low, and her eyes were dark with pain.

"We're comming home, Sephiroth, be ready to deal with her." He siad with sardistic pleasure. He jerked Sara roughly on to the motercycle, and headed off toward the Forgotten City.

Zack was helpless to do anything but watch. He left should hurt. He knew better than to try to drive with a damaged shoulder. He pulled out his cell phone "Could, look, I ran into a bit of trouble up on the Cliff. I got shot." Zack said into the phone, he chose not to mention his meeting Sara.

"You alright? Where were you shot? I be there in a sec, Vince and I are about done here." Cloud said quietly.

"The left shoulder. I'm fine..." Zack said softly.

"Hm." Clopud said as he hung up.

Vincent:

Vince took one last look around. "Well, Cloud, what did he call about?" He asked calmly.

"Zack was hurt, not too badly. He had a run in with Yazoo. I'mn heading up ther, ok?" Cloud said quietly.

"You do that." Was all that came for Vincent. He knept looking around. "I'm gonna stay here. I know Shinra left it here." he siad quietly.

"What is it?" Cloud asked.

"Never you mind that.' Vincent smapped. Cloud left then.

Vincent kept looking around. He just knew it was there, he just didn't know where. He moved a hugwe slab of stone, then sighed. "Found it. Shinra hid it well. He murmered, lifting the weopon out of the ground, slowly.

There were times Vincent really wished he had NOT thrown his phone into a river, and this was one of them. He wanted, and probably needed, to talk toShinra, about the weopon. Shinra knew how to use it...Vincent did not. "Ohh well, I'll figure it out." Vincent muttered to himself.

For a moment Vincent was somewhere else...He could see Shinra standing in an abbondand office, smileing at his son, Shinra Jr. "Now, I've gotten it to work. Watch." The older Shinra had shone his son how to work it, just in case.

[~Moony~]

Vincent con't:

Vincent stood at the door, waiting.
"Sir, is it done?" Vince had asked, at Shinra's nod he had left, having only been there in the first place to insure that there were no interuptions.'[/i]

Vincent shook his head sharply to clear it. "Well...I've got it...lets hope I can use it." He said.[/color]

Shinra:

Shinra sighed looking at the two opritives. "You survived." He said simply after a moment.

"Only because Vincent saved us..." Elena said quietly.

"He did? How curious...I thought he hated the Soldier...and Shinra Co." Rude said quietly.

Shinra looked up "I would not go that far. He waqs angry...and he had every right to be." Shinra said thoughtfully. "He hates seeing others in pain." He mused to himself.

Tseng nodded "That he does, Sir." He said softly. He had been silent up to that point, choosing to listen, rather than speak.

"I don't get. First he murdered one of our best scientists, then he saves two of our oppritives. Will he make up his mind already!" Reno said sharply.

"Well, the scientist in question killed Vincent, placed a demonic being inside of him, then brought him back for the grave against his will. And that was only after he created Sephiroth." Shinra said cal;mly. It was not often that he would admit that his father, and there fore Shinra Power Co., had been very much in the wrong.

"Yeah but..." Reno began.

"Yeah but nothing." Rude said icily, cutting Reno off.

Cloud:

Cloud rode up the cliff as quietly as he could. He got to where Zack was standing, putting presure on the gun shot wound.

"Why did Yazoo attack you?" Cloud asked Zack.

Zack looked up "I'm really not sure...Maybe I know to much about Her." Zack lied smoothly. He didn't think Cloud needewd to know that he had seen Sara again...at least not yet.

"Her again? Well, she was always causing trouble." Cloud growled softly.

Zack didn't say a word. He knew better, Cloud didn't approve of Sara, he never had, but he had never given her a chance, or met her either.

Cloud examined Zack's shoulder. "Not too bad." He muttered. "Come on." He added motioning for Zack to get on. Zack sighed, but nodded and did as he was asked. Cloud rode back to the bar, figureing that even slightly wouded Zack could give the kids a little more protection than they had now. He unlocked the door and walked inside, Zack followed him.

I looked up quickly at their entrence. "Cloud, Zack, you're ok!" I said, without thinking. Marlene was relaxing beside me, she didn't say anything, only smiled slightly.

"Of course. Now, Zack's going to stay here with ya'll unless something really bad happens." Cloud said calmly. Zack nodded slightly. Both Marlene and I smiled, we were glad to have someone here with us.

Sephiroth sat in his rooms, and this time there was no Tifa. His eyes blazed with fury as Yazoo shoved Sara through the door, and closed it behind her, leaving.

"You deliberatly disobeyed my orders. Not only did you leave the Forgotten City you spoke with him." Sephiroth yelled, advancing on his daughter.

Sara whimpered and her eyes widened as he seized her by one arm and threw her into a wall. She cried out as she struck it, her head cracking back against it.

Sephiroth brabbed something coiled and black off of one of the tables, and smiled evilly.

Sara forced herself to stand up, but was also forced to lean against the wall, seeing as she was still very weak from shifting. As Sephiroth cracked the whip at her playfully she raised her right ar to sheild her face. The whip lashed out and litterally cut her arm open. Sara let out an involentary gasp of pain, as he continued whipping her. After ten to twenty minutes of Sephiroth whipping Sara, he came forward and threw her onto the bed...he still had that sick smile on his face.

(to be continued... in other words, I need to write more to it...)