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F I N A L F A N T A S Y VII a d v e n t c h i l
Darkness.. all was darkness at the sight.. but memory did exist.. as little subjective flashes between the harmony of vibrations and wavelengths here in this existence.. He could remember the day he abandoned his training pistol and rapier for his signature look.The long black military style long coat with his silver pauldrons.There was an emptiness there then.. and the only time he could remember having any feeling other than emptiness was when he was in Nibelheim figuring out that his mother; Jenova was one of the Cetra that Dr Gast mentioned.. that his whole life was some sort of military operation performed by a mad scientist..
The madness was contagious perhaps.. However potent..
He had encountered an entity in this darkness.. and this dimension had not become flooded with new vibrations, when the lifestream had not become filled with the sounds of the Gaia populace.. he supposed that one of the three things had happened.. That The Meteor had been destroyed.. Or it had hit and the humans had escaped..or the most likely.. the Ancient.. the last of them, she had cast some sort of magic from the lifestream..
Casting any sort of veil or variant;from the lifestream...
How brilliant.. he had never thought of it before...As a bodiless sleeper amidst the others, he learned the true appreciations of such. And so much of this while he was dwelling as his mothers pawn.. her puppet.. Sephiroth understood more.. Mothers.. they could be like this.. but he was starting to break away.. as growing young men had..
Here in the this darkness,This entity seemed adamant about this impulse..That was when he made out her face.. Auburn hair.. rosy red cheeks.. Gainsborough..
"Listen to me! I forgive you.. but if you go back theres no telling what could happen to you.. I think youre starting to like giving Jenova control, Sephiroth.. I think you like it when she sucks the beauty out of everything.. I think you like being numb because then you dont have to feel anything!"She had said and there was an impulse in him to run..
Away from the brilliance to that glory he had for so long.. There was a pressure and a light and that conversation.. her pleading became like a dream as he drew his Masamune for the first time in over a year.The silverhaired; mako eyed gentleman felt a weight pressing against him.. an annoying pressure.. like a little brother trying to force a door.Sharp neon-hazel eyes scan across his parrying impact.
"Cloud."Sephiroth noted..Still he was waking from this dream.. but then, a realization.. So.. this was casting from beyond the lifestream.
So it worked...
He whipped his wrist back and Cloud had not anticipated that kind of strength.. being hurled back off of the rafter Sephiroth followed with a cross slash technique as he gracefully soared to the higher point of the building.
He looks down at them.. the sea of faces..
Edge..the city.. it looked better than the last time he was here.. Funny how you could kill one crooked leader and everything seemed so much greener.He wondered briefly if they'd cleaned up Midgar, that thought was fleeting.Here in Edge,There were children.. young and some teenagers..All watching Avalanche..and who else.. and then he felt it.. It was familiar to him.. Like the tune of a familiar song.. something that inspired rebellion and movement.He whipped his head towards Kadaj, who was standing with others."...It worked.. Our brother is.. he is.."Kadaj spat from below.. Sephiroth hadnt heard his voice but the silver haired SOLDIER had read his lips.With his free hand he had cast a regen spell on Kadaj and with the other he had managed to stuff another offense by the ever persistent Cloud Strife who seemed to do twice the work to keep up with the swift mannerisms of the 68 inch Masamune.
"Oh, Cloud.. youre still at it with this..folly.. You were much stronger.. in my memory.."Sephiroth taunted calmly as Cloud reared for another angle but Sephiroth broke from his form to close in on this particular movement and he had cut hard at right arm.This seemed to call attention from below.. Cid vaulting upright and Vincent seeming to appear out of nowhere,that three chambered revolver drawn to kill.. 6 shots....His blade caught one and Sephiroth seemed to readjust himself on a whim to avoid the other shots..Now Sephiroth was moving much faster.A step backward from Cid smacking that rod before him and he barely has to tilt his sword to deflect Vincents final shots.He keeps Vincent guessing as he uses Cids lack of mobility due to the size of his weapon as well as Clouds to trap them.This results in Cid rushing forth and Sephiroth side stepping him on the catwalk forcing Vincent to transform into Chaos and go after him.Sephiroth walks to an injured Cloud.Sephiroth didnt want to fight.. right now..
Right now.. he had to prove Aerith wrong..
"Shall I grant you.. despair?"Sephiroth asked and he did something brutal then.Jamming his blade into Clouds chest just as Cloud had jammed this very same blade unto his chest years ago.Expressionless as he picks the blonde up like a meatball on a kabob and whips him down to the ground like nothing.
"Its a pity I know you will survive.."Sephiroth said using the chaos to break from the party.He began to wander the streets of Midgar.
-----
He spotted the party there at the centre, the rafters had forged a path, a man of his speed and agility had no troubles finding the way.. The untrained eye wouldnt catch anything but the crimson kiss of his cowl.He met Yuffie's eyes and the teenager was in his face.
"You werent even TRYING to shoot him once during that fight." The girl complained.Vincent just stared at Yuffie, she always seemed to get this way after a big battle.So worked up and for what? He showed no emotion and he looked to Cloud who was being healed up by Tifa.
That voice.. in his head.. Lucretia.. What was she saying?
"Now.. you begin yours..."Vincent heard his goddess say to him underneath the waves.. Maybe this was how he got.. just like Yuffie in a way.. He sat in silence before Yuffie followed him over,"Now we have Sephiroth on the loose again and its only a matter of time before he summons a giant meteor or lord knows what he'll do.. and all because you did NOTHING."Yuffie nagged.
"I fired 6 rounds.. The first was too low.. purposely.. I forced him to give up little of his position but it was just enough to keep him from lunging forth and taking me out.. The next was higher.. should have been a direct hit but he parried with that blade.. he deflected the next four and Cloud got the worst of the very last shot.. We need to find out where he is headed.."Vincent started to say but he stopped when he noticed a familiar silhouette followed by two others there in the alleyway.
"He's severed himself from Mother and Father.. now he seeks to destroy them both.. with or without you.."The silver haired Kadaj spoke.Now, Cloud with a bullet still in his arm was on his feet.Sword in hand."Oh, Cloud.. Dont you see.. we were wrong.. we were all wrong!" Kadaj said with a bit of emotion, the brothers seemed disheartened by this.Before they could turn away, Yuffie piped up."You pipsqueaks better get out of here before you get a taste of the real thing!"She threatened in a snarl.
Vincent just stared.. They had broken off into groups that night.. Yuffie, Vincent and Cid headed back to Wutai to gather resources and regroup with Reeve. It was 3 days later that the media took hold of it;
"REPORTS ARE CALLING IT A MONSTROSITY- MAN, MACHINE OR MENACE? NOW THE QUESTION ON EVERYONES MIND... HAS SEPHIROTH THE GREAT RETURNED FROM THE GRAVE AND WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON NOW?- - TONIGHT AT 7; SHINRA, SECRETS, THE LIES..."
"Turn it off.."Cid muttered,"Christ, cant hear myself think with all those bozos naggering on.."He mused.Vincent seemed to watch.. The footage, it was of Sephiroth combatting something.. a sort of machine with the face of a man.. that man.. he knew that face.
HOJO. Wait but how? And why? It was three days after Sephiroths resurrection that Vincent had discovered that Hojos mind was still alive and in some sort of computer network.It was the next day that Yuffie and Vincent began tracking down all of his old facilities and raiding them.. Sometimes they'd lead a team of a dozen or so Wutainese soldiers but for the most part, Yuffie and Vincent were the operatives.. and though Vince hated to work with the girl he had to admit, she sure could move. She was blossoming into a true ninja.. however not a very knowledgable one.
It was in the first lab they decided their ultimate plan.. but by the third or fourth they ran into some... Issues.
Prisoners, half starved and some that hadnt made it, test subjects and highly advanced systems.. It would take Vincent a bit longer to crack into this mainframe so they could even travel this place.. Damnit.. the guilt.. if his heart were still beating, hed feel it there.. Hojo, you cruel bastard.. Vincent felt he needed to set these prisoners free.. however, as they began to crack into the mainframe a strange blue light began to flash.Thats when Yuffie perked up saying,"Oh, Great Vince.. now Soldiers are coming straight from a base to check on their land! Vincent checked the radar.. two gunships.. it had to be at least 18 soldiers coming in armed.. Damn, he should have brought just one more person along.. then they could help these people!
The madness was contagious perhaps.. However potent..
He had encountered an entity in this darkness.. and this dimension had not become flooded with new vibrations, when the lifestream had not become filled with the sounds of the Gaia populace.. he supposed that one of the three things had happened.. That The Meteor had been destroyed.. Or it had hit and the humans had escaped..or the most likely.. the Ancient.. the last of them, she had cast some sort of magic from the lifestream..
Casting any sort of veil or variant;from the lifestream...
How brilliant.. he had never thought of it before...As a bodiless sleeper amidst the others, he learned the true appreciations of such. And so much of this while he was dwelling as his mothers pawn.. her puppet.. Sephiroth understood more.. Mothers.. they could be like this.. but he was starting to break away.. as growing young men had..
Here in the this darkness,This entity seemed adamant about this impulse..That was when he made out her face.. Auburn hair.. rosy red cheeks.. Gainsborough..
"Listen to me! I forgive you.. but if you go back theres no telling what could happen to you.. I think youre starting to like giving Jenova control, Sephiroth.. I think you like it when she sucks the beauty out of everything.. I think you like being numb because then you dont have to feel anything!"She had said and there was an impulse in him to run..
Away from the brilliance to that glory he had for so long.. There was a pressure and a light and that conversation.. her pleading became like a dream as he drew his Masamune for the first time in over a year.The silverhaired; mako eyed gentleman felt a weight pressing against him.. an annoying pressure.. like a little brother trying to force a door.Sharp neon-hazel eyes scan across his parrying impact.
"Cloud."Sephiroth noted..Still he was waking from this dream.. but then, a realization.. So.. this was casting from beyond the lifestream.
So it worked...
He whipped his wrist back and Cloud had not anticipated that kind of strength.. being hurled back off of the rafter Sephiroth followed with a cross slash technique as he gracefully soared to the higher point of the building.
He looks down at them.. the sea of faces..
Edge..the city.. it looked better than the last time he was here.. Funny how you could kill one crooked leader and everything seemed so much greener.He wondered briefly if they'd cleaned up Midgar, that thought was fleeting.Here in Edge,There were children.. young and some teenagers..All watching Avalanche..and who else.. and then he felt it.. It was familiar to him.. Like the tune of a familiar song.. something that inspired rebellion and movement.He whipped his head towards Kadaj, who was standing with others."...It worked.. Our brother is.. he is.."Kadaj spat from below.. Sephiroth hadnt heard his voice but the silver haired SOLDIER had read his lips.With his free hand he had cast a regen spell on Kadaj and with the other he had managed to stuff another offense by the ever persistent Cloud Strife who seemed to do twice the work to keep up with the swift mannerisms of the 68 inch Masamune.
"Oh, Cloud.. youre still at it with this..folly.. You were much stronger.. in my memory.."Sephiroth taunted calmly as Cloud reared for another angle but Sephiroth broke from his form to close in on this particular movement and he had cut hard at right arm.This seemed to call attention from below.. Cid vaulting upright and Vincent seeming to appear out of nowhere,that three chambered revolver drawn to kill.. 6 shots....His blade caught one and Sephiroth seemed to readjust himself on a whim to avoid the other shots..Now Sephiroth was moving much faster.A step backward from Cid smacking that rod before him and he barely has to tilt his sword to deflect Vincents final shots.He keeps Vincent guessing as he uses Cids lack of mobility due to the size of his weapon as well as Clouds to trap them.This results in Cid rushing forth and Sephiroth side stepping him on the catwalk forcing Vincent to transform into Chaos and go after him.Sephiroth walks to an injured Cloud.Sephiroth didnt want to fight.. right now..
Right now.. he had to prove Aerith wrong..
"Shall I grant you.. despair?"Sephiroth asked and he did something brutal then.Jamming his blade into Clouds chest just as Cloud had jammed this very same blade unto his chest years ago.Expressionless as he picks the blonde up like a meatball on a kabob and whips him down to the ground like nothing.
"Its a pity I know you will survive.."Sephiroth said using the chaos to break from the party.He began to wander the streets of Midgar.
-----
He spotted the party there at the centre, the rafters had forged a path, a man of his speed and agility had no troubles finding the way.. The untrained eye wouldnt catch anything but the crimson kiss of his cowl.He met Yuffie's eyes and the teenager was in his face.
"You werent even TRYING to shoot him once during that fight." The girl complained.Vincent just stared at Yuffie, she always seemed to get this way after a big battle.So worked up and for what? He showed no emotion and he looked to Cloud who was being healed up by Tifa.
That voice.. in his head.. Lucretia.. What was she saying?
"Now.. you begin yours..."Vincent heard his goddess say to him underneath the waves.. Maybe this was how he got.. just like Yuffie in a way.. He sat in silence before Yuffie followed him over,"Now we have Sephiroth on the loose again and its only a matter of time before he summons a giant meteor or lord knows what he'll do.. and all because you did NOTHING."Yuffie nagged.
"I fired 6 rounds.. The first was too low.. purposely.. I forced him to give up little of his position but it was just enough to keep him from lunging forth and taking me out.. The next was higher.. should have been a direct hit but he parried with that blade.. he deflected the next four and Cloud got the worst of the very last shot.. We need to find out where he is headed.."Vincent started to say but he stopped when he noticed a familiar silhouette followed by two others there in the alleyway.
"He's severed himself from Mother and Father.. now he seeks to destroy them both.. with or without you.."The silver haired Kadaj spoke.Now, Cloud with a bullet still in his arm was on his feet.Sword in hand."Oh, Cloud.. Dont you see.. we were wrong.. we were all wrong!" Kadaj said with a bit of emotion, the brothers seemed disheartened by this.Before they could turn away, Yuffie piped up."You pipsqueaks better get out of here before you get a taste of the real thing!"She threatened in a snarl.
Vincent just stared.. They had broken off into groups that night.. Yuffie, Vincent and Cid headed back to Wutai to gather resources and regroup with Reeve. It was 3 days later that the media took hold of it;
"REPORTS ARE CALLING IT A MONSTROSITY- MAN, MACHINE OR MENACE? NOW THE QUESTION ON EVERYONES MIND... HAS SEPHIROTH THE GREAT RETURNED FROM THE GRAVE AND WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON NOW?- - TONIGHT AT 7; SHINRA, SECRETS, THE LIES..."
"Turn it off.."Cid muttered,"Christ, cant hear myself think with all those bozos naggering on.."He mused.Vincent seemed to watch.. The footage, it was of Sephiroth combatting something.. a sort of machine with the face of a man.. that man.. he knew that face.
HOJO. Wait but how? And why? It was three days after Sephiroths resurrection that Vincent had discovered that Hojos mind was still alive and in some sort of computer network.It was the next day that Yuffie and Vincent began tracking down all of his old facilities and raiding them.. Sometimes they'd lead a team of a dozen or so Wutainese soldiers but for the most part, Yuffie and Vincent were the operatives.. and though Vince hated to work with the girl he had to admit, she sure could move. She was blossoming into a true ninja.. however not a very knowledgable one.
It was in the first lab they decided their ultimate plan.. but by the third or fourth they ran into some... Issues.
Prisoners, half starved and some that hadnt made it, test subjects and highly advanced systems.. It would take Vincent a bit longer to crack into this mainframe so they could even travel this place.. Damnit.. the guilt.. if his heart were still beating, hed feel it there.. Hojo, you cruel bastard.. Vincent felt he needed to set these prisoners free.. however, as they began to crack into the mainframe a strange blue light began to flash.Thats when Yuffie perked up saying,"Oh, Great Vince.. now Soldiers are coming straight from a base to check on their land! Vincent checked the radar.. two gunships.. it had to be at least 18 soldiers coming in armed.. Damn, he should have brought just one more person along.. then they could help these people!
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