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Chapter 6 - Chapter Five: "The Curse That Never Sleeps"

Scene 1 - The Attack Begins

Setting: A remote city, light fog, empty streets, and rain falling gently.

The camera pans slowly over deserted streets...

The sound of dripping water... The sounds of heavy footsteps coming from the shadows...

The four previously bound monsters are freed.

Their bodies are massive, their skin is cracked, and evil oozes from their eyes.

One has four arms and a chain extending from its back.

The second has a body of black fire.

The third walks on all fours and has two heads.

The fourth is thin, fast, and walks on walls.

They advance slowly through the city... and people are heard running and screaming.

Swift cut - A girl with short black hair, her right eye red and the other green (her name is Tifa), appears on a rooftop, kneeling, wiping blood from her cheek, holding a bazooka on her shoulder.

Her right eye glows red, her left green.

Tifa (in a low voice, watching them):

> "Finally... all four of you?"

She leaps from the rooftop, landing like an arrow, the bazooka ignited...

She fires the first shell at the Fire Beast—it explodes, but the flames absorb the blast.

Fire Beast (in a cracked voice):

> "Human... half-corrupted."

Tifa (raising her head, smiling):

> "Your fault, you came to me..."

And the big battle begins...

Tifa begins hitting them with weapons and a bazooka, but they don't budge. One of them grabs Tifa and throws her to the ground. Tifa falls, but then... Tifa begins to hear many disturbing voices in her head... And then...

Scene: "Mindless Fire"

Tifa stands amidst the corpses, her eyes turning completely red, her breathing heavy... Her claws slowly extend from her fingertips, her teeth sharpening, her features so frightening that the air around her becomes heavy.

One of the monsters screams:

> "Blood... The blood is moving... She's starting to wake up!"

Tifa roars in a terrifying voice, as if she were another creature, and rushes madly towards the nearest monster!

The battle begins:

The first monster - walks on all fours and has two heads

Tifa attacks it like a tornado, punching it in the chest, breaking its ribs, then digging her claws into its neck and exploding its head from the inside. Blood splatters on her face, but she doesn't stop; instead, she laughs a terrifying laugh.

The camera trembles - the other three monsters take a step back.

Next scene: Dream and John enter

John jumps from a nearby rooftop, fires two shots from his pistol, and lands next to Dream.

John (surprised at Tifa):

> "What's this crazy woman?!"

Dream (focusing his eyes on the monsters):

> "I don't know... but this isn't the time to analyze."

The second monster attacks Dream from behind - but Dream quickly turns around, stabs the monster in the chest with the Kyubi sword, then pulls the sword out and slices its head in half.

The third monster attacks from above. Dream jumps over him, stabbing him violently with his sword. He draws his sword and shoots him with his demon bullets. He spins in the air, then brings his sword down on him, separating him from the spine.

Dream (cleaning his sword):

> "Two gone..."

John (drawing his weapon):

> "Let me take my heat off the third one."

The fourth monster runs toward John. John plants a bomb in the ground, jumps over the monster, and the monster explodes from below, disintegrating completely.

John (extending his hand to the camera):

> "And that's how we get rid of them all..."

The camera cuts to Tifa—still in her monstrous state—standing in the blood, breathing heavily, looking at Dream. Hanifa attacks him with fierce force, and Dream avoids her. Then Tifa cuts Dream's hand, but Dream heals it immediately and grabs her hand, saying, "Oh... strong girls, my favorite kind." Tifa gets even more angry and attacks him even more forcefully, while John looks at them without intervening. Then Dream pushes her back forcefully, causing her to fall onto the body of one of the four demons. She breathes heavily and looks at Dream.

But this time... she doesn't attack him.

Her gaze changes. Her face trembles.

Her eyes slowly begin to return -

Left: Green

Right: Red

She trembles, then whispers in a trembling voice:

Tifa:

> "Are you... are you going to kill me? Like them?"

Dream

"If you were like them, you would have died long ago."

He stands close to her, but doesn't touch her.

Tifa whispers, confused:

"So... what do you want? Are you going to take advantage of me?"

Dream, in a warm voice for the first time:

It's bad that someone would take advantage of a beautiful girl like you."

He shrugs with a half-smile.

Tifa, with suppressed anger, says to him:

"Shut up."

"End of Chapter 5"

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