#kh!cloud

"I'll get him. This time we settle it. Me, and the one who embodies all darkness in me."

How long has it been? Cloud couldn't remember anymore, nor does he care. Time had seemed to have gone in an agonizingly slow crawl whenever these intervals of peace were given to him. Even if he wasn't fighting with Him, he still felt uneasy. Cloud could never relax nor let his guard down. It had been two years, two slow years since he had last fought with Him. His Darkness was still out there, still very much alive... still inside his Nightmares.

He was out of the Underworld now and he had gone back to Hollow Bastion with Leon, Aerith, Yuffie and Cid. They had convinced him to come back with them. He had left when Hades' contract had been broken when Sora had fought him in the Colosseum. 'Guess he owes the kid a lot.

There was no point staying there for long anyway... The god of the Underworld had merely used him as a pawn. He had told the Hades that he wasn't interested in doing his dirty work for him in the first place. But the lure of battling strong probably worthy opponents was far too good an opportunity to pass up.

And then--- He was there. His Darkness had found him in the Colosseum. Sephiroth had appeared with all the grace of a man who cares nothing for the world, his black wing spread out in all its glory. He had shared the same kind of wing as his Dark counterpart. Cloud could still remember the very day he had acquired it...

When Radiant Garden had been swallowed by the Darkness, Cloud was too weak and helpless to resist it. He had let the Darkness swallow and consume him so easily that it gave birth to his Darkness... his... Sephiroth. After this 'birth', his demon wing had sprouted in his left shoulder blade, tearing at his flesh. It was a symbol of his own sins and it served as a constant reminder of it from then on. Even up until now, Cloud could still hear the echos of his own screaming in his head.......

"Sure. Well... 'be seeing you Cloud." the kid's voice had suddenly broken him out of his revere.

"Be careful. He messes with your head." He tells Sora, "Makes you think darkness is the only way."