Dark-Water-Lily here. I'm totally revamping all of my stories. Here goes nothing. Oh! I don't any of the characters except my OC's. This first chapter is all about my OC's and their background. Just fyi
Kali Swaver looked out the window of her small cottage she shared with her mother. The house actually belonged to her dad who had disappeared several years earlier for no apparent reason.
"Honey, come away from the window you know it's not safe there. The rumors say a man wielding a large sword is headed this way. He's destroyed all the towns he's passed threw." An elderly woman said as she pulled the young girl of 16 away from the window.
"A sword?" Kali looked up interest peaked
"Kali, darling, don't go looking for trouble, ok?" the elderly woman pleaded
"I won't, Mom, I promise."
"Okay, bedtime." Her mom said
"Seriously, Mom? I'm not thirteen." Kali groaned
"Yes, well you still live under my roof. So bedtime." She said
Kali smiled and nodded relenting to her mother's desires. After bidding her mother goodnight she walked down the hallway to her room passing the old servant on her way. The manservant bowed his head as she passed.
"Good evening, Ms. Swaver. Have pleasant dreams." He drawled
"Good night Sampson" Kali said as she shut her door.
Kali's grandfather hired Sampson two years earlier as the man lay on his deathbed. He asked the man to care of his daughter and granddaughter. He also to Sampson in the unlikely event something should happen to the two women he would come into a large sum of money, but he suspected foul play he would have the man killed. Little did he know the servant had people to help plan out the murder of the two women so it didn't look like foul play on his part.
When Kali shut her door, Sampson pulled out a dagger the length of his forearm. "Time to get that money." He said as he started walking toward the sitting room where Kali's mother was still sitting by the fire as the winter night was very cold.
"Oh! Sampson, you scared me. What are you…Sampson?! What are you doing? Sampson! No….Stop…..don't do" she never go to finish her sentence as the man drove the knife down into her heart.
"Mother?!" Kali ran into the sitting room eyes as wide as saucers. "What did you do?! How could you do this!"
"No need to worry darling. You'll be joining her soon." He drawled in his New Orleans accent.
Kali turned and ran toward the kitchen looking for the butcher knife she knew her mother had. As she passed the window she noticed the town was completely engulfed in flames. She flung open the door to the kitchen and grabbed the butcher knife just in time to turn around and block the dagger from going into her spine.
"Why are you doing this? We trusted you!" she screamed.
"All for money dear, all for money." Then he dove for her again.
She swung around the island to keep it in between them and threw the dagger at his throat. He dodged and looked at her with an evil gleam in his eyes.
"You really shouldn't have done that, little girl. Rule one with weapons, never drop your weapon." With that he slammed the island back as far as it would go trapping her between the counter and the island. "Nowhere left to go now. Just stay still and I'll try to make this as painless as possible."
Kali felt wetness on her cheeks and relised she was crying. 'Is this really how I'm going to die? At the hands of some money crazy lunatic?'
Just as she was about to give up hope the door to the kitchen flew open.
"Step away from the girl." A smooth baritone voice said
"And just who the hell are you?" Sampson said with his dagger raised.
"My name is Sephiroth , and I'm taking the girl."