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The Shin-Ra forgotten filth of Midgar: Sector 7 slums. Darkness had begun to fall, not quite night time yet, but the moon was visible by this time. The breeze was cool, but gentle. Anyone would think that this night would be peaceful one... If it wasn't for the sounds of roaring monsters, that'd be true!
Gatherings of monsters could be heard. There didn't appear to be any reason behind their aggitated behaviour, they usually kept to walkways between the various Sectors of the Slums. Yet, tonight was different...
With a curiously load roar as an apparent signal, a small army of Whole Eaters and Hedgehog Pies began to charge into the settlement. High-pitch screams from fleeing settlers filled the atmosphere. Most of them managed to get themselves into buildings to hide; whether it be the Item or Weapon Stores or even the near-by Pub. But, those unlucky enough to get caught were doomed. The creature's sheer numbers would be enough to overwhelm them. As a woman was burned alive with a Fire spell, a male that tried to fight back was tackled to the floor and bitten all across his chest neck and chest until he bled out and died...
The people here had no chance of survival at this rate, the monsters were attacking in full force with no remorse. It would only be a matter of time before they would break in to the buildings to continue their masacre to its full potential. The Whole Eaters were already banging into the doors and chewing at walls in an attempt to get inside, and it was lucky that the Hedgehog Pies weren't intelligent enough to set the buildings on fire - that would at least give the residents a chance to prepare for invasion. Even still, they had no hope of survival...
Cloud stood straight, his hair being slightly moved by the cold and refreshing breeze hit his face as he lifted his head up completely embracing it. Night time was Cloud’s favorite time of day; at this point he got a lot of calls and customers asking for assassinations and kidnappings as well requesting the services of a bodyguard and more. Cloud was a former SOLDIER member and his services didn’t come cheap, his name was quite known in the upper plates and a few sectors in the slums, he was one of the best mercenaries around if not the best. His abilities were quite impressive and he had built up a name for himself as a person who never fails do to the job. But like mentioned earlier Cloud’s services didn’t come cheap and for that reason he didn’t get a lot of work, but he believed- if you want a premium job you pay the price. His footsteps lightly padded against the dirt road leading from the inn into the center of sector seven.
His mako colored eyes opened widely as he heard the loud screams and blood splattering everywhere. He calmly clenched his fists as he walked slowly towards the center of town or rather, slum. Was he going to play hero? No, that wasn’t his job and that wasn’t his concern if they attack him he’ll defend himself but other then that, it wasn’t his problem. He was wearing his black modified SOLDIER first class uniform and Zack’s buster blade on his back. His arms at his side clenched into fists, his skinny though muscular arms waved heavily as he confidently walked through the hordes of monsters running around him and attacking the town. A monster was running towards him from his left side. Cloud only caught a glimpse of the whole eater as he was a few feet away from him. Cloud’s right arm immediately sprung up gripping the hilt of his blade and tossing it from his back up into the air. While airborne the sword twisted as few times until the blade was pointing into the ground and it fell.
Just as the whole eater was a few steps away from Cloud getting ready to attack him, the blonde mercenary slid across the dirt as his falling sword impaled the monster and sliced it in half making Cloud the victor. He walked up calmly gripping the hilt of his blade and with one arm ripping it out from the dead body of the monster and the ground. He spun it over his head with one arm as he calmly looked at the other monster running at him from in front of him. While his sword was spinning over his head Cloud immediately clenched the hilt with his right arm and lowered the sword to his side clenching it with his left hand as well. As the monster was about to slam into Cloud the blonde mercenary shouted “Come and get it” cutting the hedgehog pie in half and spinning the sword above his head once again before placing it back onto his spine and returning to his cool, straight stance. Just as he took a few steps he heard a grown mans voice shout for help. He turned his head slightly to the right as he stopped in his tracks examining the situation.
”Somebody, please help! You there, please save me, please” the man was holding a trashcan lid as a shield against a whole eater and losing. He let out a few other huffs before the trashcan lid fell out of his hand and he fell to the floor. The man lifted his hands up defensively screaming towards cloud ”Please, help me!” Cloud only turned away and as he started to walk away in a regular pace he muttered loudly “Not my problem” and just as he was starting to walk away Cloud heard a familiar voice in his head that belonged to a cheerful adult “What happened to your SOLDIER honor man?” Cloud gulped heavily as those words echoed in his head, he didn’t know who the voice belonged to or what it meant. Was Cloud going crazy? Was this some kind of reaction to the pollution in the slums? As the whole eater leaped up getting ready to swallow the adult Cloud grabbed his hilt with his right hand and turned around throwing the sword like a boomerang and slicing the whole eater into pieces. The sword fell to the ground the grown man stood up and ran away. Why did he do that? What was he thinking? It felt like someone else took control of him for a second; maybe he really was going crazy. He lowered his eyes to the ground before walking over to the wall and ripping the buster blade out.
He put the side of the blade up to his forehead doing his usual prayer before battle and placed the sword onto his back one again. Cloud turned back to his road to see three monsters dashing towards him, two whole eaters and one hedgehog pie got so close to him that Cloud resulted to using material. He slammed his fist into the air and three fireballs flew out of his fist slamming into the monsters and sending them flying back. Right after that Cloud dashed towards them drawing his sword once again and sliced the hedgehog pie’s head off while the two others leaped at Cloud. The blonde mercenary spun his sword over his head once again like a helicopter and sliced to his right killing one of the whole eaters. The other slammed into Cloud and sent him to the ground. As he was flying towards the ground he did a back flip in the air and landed on his feet charging towards the whole eater and impaling him with his sword. The monster was beaten and Cloud spun the sword above his head once again placing it back onto his spine he moved forward through sector seven. He walked in his regular pace not even trying to play the hero in this he was automatically one and he hated it.
His services didn’t come cheap and he was doing the job free now! Cloud saw one more whole eater charging at him, he gripped his hilt again, not drawing the sword he dashed towards the whole eater shouting “I’ve just had about enough of this bullshit! ShinRa should learn to fucking do their job!” as the monster was annihilated by Cloud the blonde SOLDIER placed his sword back onto his back and let out a heavy sigh “where are the ShinRa grunts when you need them? it seems nothing good every comes from ShinRa” he crossed his arms on his chest and with heavy disregard he continued to walk forward heading towards sector five not caring what happens with this dump.
A man standing in a regal posture watched as the monsters attacked the slums. He kept a hand near the hilt of his sword,in case on of the creatures headed in the wrong direction. His green reptilian eyes watched in enjoyment as he saw people crying out,they did not pay him Shinra did.
He had been working harder than usual,and so to be fair,we got to overlook,the cleansing as the president put it. Shinra was going to clean up the filth and bulldose the slums,from what he had heard. So,this little attack was planned,they took some of Hojo's collection and let it loose. Hojo was finished with them anyways,they would of been disposed of.
While he was Lost in thought,he saw a familiar face,Cloud Strife. This little project had just got interesting,he watched as the boy,walked ignoring the scenery around him. His focus was on the main objective,and that objective was probably money. Sephiroth slowly made his way closer to the town. he heard Cloud's comments as he said in a even voice,""How do you know that we have already seen the problem,and are dealing with it?
He smirked as he waited for the blond,to let the message seep in. Sephiroth for a fact knew that Jenova liked the facts she was collecting.He then asked Cloud," How can you expect to excel in Shinra if you do not live by their ideals,in the end everyone gets something. The monsters get to eat,and Shinra cleanses the world of some of the filth that inhabit it."
(ooc: ...Cloud was is Shin-Ra though. And correct me if I'm wrong, but Cloud has met Sephiroth, it's even in your history that he was there in the Nibelheim Mission with Sephiroth. Also, he has Zack's memories of being in SOLDIER, doesn't he? That's how I understood it. So, he would remember Sephiroth as if he were Zack too... )
[Though it would mess up the whole situation if he rped with me, he has "seen" Sephiroth and went on a mission with him not even talking to him just to Zack, so no they have not met]
OOC: Ok this could be problematic. Cloud I'll be contacting you to discuss a plot feature involving you that I was planning. Although since this problem has come up early it seems we'll need to discuss it earlier as well .
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