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Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children Special Edition Report Part 3 Page One

As luck would have it, Bahamut doesn't seem to like being gawked at. The first order of business was to get rid of the two (2) witnesses that saw its entrance. As the burlier of the two (2) tried to run as far away as possible, a Shadowcreeper pounced on the other onlooker. The surviving one does a desperate dive to avoid Bahamut's aerial assault.

The next scene then takes us to Yazoo on his motorcycle, braking and bringing it about in order to fire off several rounds, from the gunblade, at Cloud. The latter simply brings up his sword, deflects the shots fired at him only to accelerate straight into Yazoo. As he closes in, he brings his sword up to slash but the silver-haired person manages to parry the blow thus resulting in both men locked in a sword showdown with both motorcycle intertwined in a dangerous whirlwind while still moving forward at breakneck speeds. Cloud suddenly brakes, sending Fenrir spinning in another direction, resulting in freeing himself from Yazoo. Using this to his advantage, he regains control of Fenrir much faster and proceeds to speed away from his enemy. At this point, Loz suddenly appears, on his own motorcycle, next to Cloud. He leaps forward and up, and then bears down on his quarry with the goal of punching him off of his motorcycle. Cloud looks up at his attacker and simply makes a small course change in order to avoid the assault. Having done so, he accelerates into the distance. At this point, Yazoo catches up to the unsuccessful attack and takes up the chase, leaving Loz to fetch his abandoned vehicule.

The setting then changes back to Midgar with Denzel foolishly running towards Bahamut with the goal of diving under its attack in order to avoid damage. Just when the plan turns awry, a metallic hand appears on the boy's shoulder, hastily yanking him back to temporary safety. Denzel is surprised at this change of situation and looks up at the individual that just saved his life. As he looks on, the stranger brings up the metallic hand and points it directly at Bahamut. The shot is now centered solely on the hand as it speeds through an amazing and increasingly complex transformation. Three (3) cannons appear and start to fire all the while rotating around the arm. The conversion finally reaches a conclusion and there is an even bigger and longer cannon where the hand used to be. Bahamut rears back under the onslaught, stands up and prepares to take a few steps forward. The man takes advantage of the brief lull in action to turn around and ask, "Marlene's okay, ain't she?" As he says that, his face comes into view and identification is easy as it's none other than Barret. Then again, the gun arm is a dead giveaway as to who it really is. Without bothering to wait for an answer, he turns back to the action and runs toward Bahamut.

Suddenly, a red blur, seemingly shot out of a cannon, blasts past Barret. As the camera centers on the blur, it is apparent that it is Red XIII aka Nanaki. Gathering even more speed, he performs a gigantic leap into the air making for his intended target, one of Bahamut's wings. As he jumps, the large man fires a few support shots to distract the Dragon King. Connecting with the victim brings a screech from the summon. It jumps into the air in order to fly away and as it does that, Barret raises his arm and starts to blast away at the summon in his usual madman style. At the last minute, he ducks in order to avoid being knocked down by the flying dragon.

A shot of the sky reveals a giant shuriken impacting with Bahamut. It turns around after the attack, slicing through the air effortlessly in a wide circular arc. A hand suddenly grabs the weapon out of the sky and the person continues the parachute descent. As the stranger lands and straightens up, Yuffie's face appears. Tifa and Denzel approach from behind and stop when Yuffie turns around. She looks mightily annoyed and even before anybody can say anything, she asks, "Awright, who's been using my materia?"

The next scene shows Cid crouching down with his back to the sky while two (2) of the Shadowcreepers are bearing down on him. With a grunt of effort, he swings around wielding his spear like a giant baseball bat. The spear connects with the first Shadowcreeper and sends it off to the side only to be knocked against the second one. The end result is that both creatures are sent flying away from their intended target, Tifa and Denzel. During all of this, the older girl was bent almost in double over the boy, trying to shield him from the danger. Reveling in his success, Cid spins his spear a few times before striking a pose.

Suddenly, the view switches to that of a golden forearm in front of a red garment. As the camera remains motionless, the figure walks by and the ends of a cape flashes past only to reveal, once again, Tifa and Denzel. The angle pans around for a frontal view and Vincent is simply taking his time, walking away from them and into the battle, cloak flaring out and floating behind him. At this, Denzel inquires as to who he is. Tifa looks at Vincent with a slight smile before replying, "These are our friends."

Following this, there are several short flashes where each of them show Kadaj from a different angle. He doesn't look very happy in any of them. In fact, he looks downright angry in those moments. There is finally a close up of his angry face followed by the camera panning around to show a frontal view of him. As that happens, he yells out in rage and a bluish energy appears around his left hand. Continuing his yell, he brings the hand up only to unleash the spell straight into the lens of the camera.

The setting then cuts to show Reno and Rude on the ground, apparently defeated. As the red-haired man turns around to scowl at his attackers, Yazoo and Loz make an entrance with the former saying, "Isn't this fun? Haha!" The screen turns around so that the Turks are in the foreground and both silver-haired men are in the background, looking down at them. The Red-Haired Turk replied: "Best day of my LIFE!" As he says that, Reno shoots Rude a look and then launches a kick into his attacker's face.

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