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idea. I do not own Final Fantasy VII, nor do I own the character of
Sephiroth. But Jenova II and her plot are my own. If you would like to use
her at all, or complain about her background and her connection with
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The rain poured down the outer windows and walls of the Shinra Corporation. Everyone was at ease on Christmas Eve, but no one stopped to enjoy the season. Sephiroth sat alone in a room of the Corporation, leaning against the wall as he watched the rain flow against the window side. His face was expressionless, as always, as his sea green eyes watched the water drip slowly down. It has been a long time since the company was graced with his presence. Time to time he would show up on no occasion, but lately he has been visiting quiet often, and leave just as suddenly as he came. The battlefield began to bore him, finding no one capable of calling his "equal." Finding it distressing and irritating to use his favorite blade against those who were weak, like everyone inside of the building he waited in. The rain continued to fall, and his eyes never left the window, even as the door on the other side of the room opened, two figures walking into the dim lighted room.
"Is it dark enough in here Sephiroth?" A mans voice said, flicking on the light to reveal Sephiroth in the corner. His eyes moved away from the window as the lights were turned on, looking to the tall man in the doorway. This man was dressed fully in black, and his own raven like hair draped over his shoulders slightly as he looked to Sephiroth. It was Tseng of course, but he didn't care much. It wasn't the man he was waiting for inside the room, but the other being that was being escorted by him. Sephiroth's eyes slowly descend upon the small girl holding Tseng's hand, a smile upon her shining face. The little one was about 3 1/2 feet tall, almost looking to be around 7 years old. Her silver hair shined in the light, as her bangs were bent upward and then back down, the same style as Sephiroth's, but messier. Her sea green eyes stared eagerly to the man as her smile brightened, letting go of Tseng's hand and running to Sephiroth.
"Brother Sephy!!!!" Sephiroth bend down on one knee as the young girl ran towards him, opening his arms wide for her as she screamed out her nick name for him over and over and over again until she finally ran into his arms, Sephiroth embracing her tightly.
"Sephy. I'm glad you came and visited me!" The little girl rubbed her face on his chest, and looked up at him as she tried to hold his waist with her small arms, her smile bright and innocent. A smile dawned upon Sephiroth's face, as he held the little girl in his strong arms.
"Of course I would visit you Jen. It's Christmas Eve and I have no orders from SOLDIER so I thought I would take this day off to spend it with you." Jen's smile grew wider as she burst from his arms, standing a few inches away, pointing to her bangs of her long silver locks, pretty long for someone her age.
"Looky looky Sephy! I did my hair like yours!" Jen smiles again as she pulls on her hair slightly, Sephiroth, taking on from her hand and rolling it between his large fingers.
"That's very nice Jen. It needs some work but it's nicely done. And it looks very good on you." Sephiroth lets go of her silver hair, rubbing the top of her head as her eyes sparkle from his comment. "And I got you a very special gift. I hope you enjoy it." Sephiroth stands back up, walking over to a corner of the room where the light is out. His precious Masamune lays there, but a box of some sort holds it up. He lays the blade aside, and picks up the box by the handle on the top, bringing it to the light, showing that it is a cage or pet carrier of some sort. Jen's eyes open wide as she looks upon the box he carries, though not knowing what lays inside the dark box, where the shadows hide what's inside. Sephiroth sets it before her and she sits in front of the box, peering inside with such aw that she looked like a lost child. Sephiroth slowly puts his hand upon the small lock, pulling it open and opening the door.
"Ooooh. What is it Sephy.?" Jen's head moves forward as she tries to see what hides in the back in the shadows. As she leans forward, Sephiroth places a hand upon her shoulder, pulling her back a bit. Without even speaking, she already knows that he wants her to stay back some. He taps lightly on the back of the box; a small rustling from inside the shadows shakes the box, Jen backing away with the sudden movement. The constant rustling slowly stops, and out from the darkness of it's cadge, crawls out a small baby Chocobo, being only a bit smaller than Jen. The little Chocobo shakes its body a bit when brought into the light, showing off its bright red feathers, some from under seeming to be silver. It looks up to Jen with big sea blue eyes, filled with such innocence as hers, yet such fear of the being that sat before it. Jen raises a hand a bit, bringing it toward the Chocobo, to only get a fearful reaction as it backs away. She pulls it back and places it in her lap as she sits on her knees, looking to the Chocobo with her innocent sea green eyes, a smile upon her face. It rustles its wings a bit as it stands before her, neither of them making an inch, as the whole room remains quiet. It slowly walks towards, her Jen not making a single movement, and sniffing a bit at her knee, to only back away and look towards her when she lifts up her hand. She sees its fear and places it back upon her small lap, smiling once again. The little Chocobo moves its neck forward, sniffing little Jen and crawling forward to where it flaps its wings at her small knee, Jen making no movement or sound. She tries to lift her hand once again, and the small Chocobo stays, not moving at all. She slowly places it upon its head, petting it slightly where it rubs its small head against her palm, its eyes closing as it shows such happiness to her petting.
"Aww Sephy. it's so cute." Sephiroth smiles as she watches Jen take the little Chocobo into her arms, holding it in a hug, like it was a doll, though knowing that it's a living being.
"This is your early Christmas present Jen, I hope you like it." Sephiroth sits down next to her, petting the head of the Chocobo with his finger. Jen however, looks up confused to him.
"Cwistmas?" Her head leans to the side, showing much confusion. The Chocobo looks up at her movement and does the same thing.
"Yes. It's a day when people of the world join with their families and give gifts to show how much they love each other. It's one of the few special days I had to spend alone before you were born. I thought this little Chocobo would be a nice gift for your first Christmas, though it's the day before. Someone to spend time with while I'm away." Jen smiles again, the Chocobo mimicking her movements and looks down at it.
"I wuv it Sephy." Jen holds the small red Chocobo in her arms again, rubbing her cheek against its own.
"The farmer I bought it from called it 'Shinta.' I believe it knows itself by that name anyway."
"Shinta? Ok!" Jen holds it tighter as she twists her hips back and forth with it in her arms, "Shinta, Shinta, Shinta! I wuv you!"
Sephiroth smiles again to Jen, the small smile seeming to be painted on his face from such a rare occasion of being seen, showing the love for her that can be seen within his own sea green eyes. But to their dismay, this rare occasion was to be cut short. Tseng coughed lightly a few times, without hesitation; Sephiroth and Jen look up to him, waiting silently.
"I'm sorry to break up this loving reunion. but Dr. Hojo was not finished with Jenova II's tests when you arrived. I have to take her back now." Tseng's voice sounded very reluctant as the young man said this, not wanting to break up the loving scene of Jen with her new Chocobo, and Sephiroth with a smile upon his face. Though that smile slowly fades from their faces, Jen's face becoming very sad, and her frown being large.
"But. But I don't wanna go back. I wanna stay with Sephy and Shinta!" Jen cried out, picking up Shinta and running over to Sephiroth where she hid herself within his arms, not wanting to let go.
"I'm sorry." Tseng tried to explain, his hand brushing through his black hair, "But I have no choice in the matter. He told me to bring you right after Sephiroth had finished whatever he came here for." He walks over, bending down to Jen, backing away as she holds little Shinta. "But I don't think he will argue if Shinta and Sephiroth joined you, now would he?" Jen nods a bit to Tseng, smiling a bit as her way to say 'ok.' Sephiroth rises to his feet again, though his serious expression does not fade. Not once did he ever want to see that old fool who called himself the 'genius' in this crummy dump they call the Shinra Corporation. He hated him more than he hated the business itself. But unfortunately, this ordeal was out of his control, unless he wanted to endanger Jen. He nods to Tseng, showing he agrees with the plan. Tseng bows to take Jen's hand, but she refuses, taking hold of Sephiroth's hand putting Shinta down to hold onto his red feathery wing.
Tseng leads the group up to Hojo's lab, who's working with some data on a computer while he waits impatiently for Tseng to finally arrive back with Jenova II. As he hears the mechanical door slide open from the side, he rises from his seat, walking over to watch Tseng, Jen, and Sephiroth enter the lab. His eyes narrow at the sight of Sephiroth entering; holding Jen's little hand tightly.
"Well, well Sephiroth." Hojo says in a low tone as he makes his way over to Sephiroth and Jen, "It has been such a long time since you've actually visited the lab." The two of them make eye contact, staring at each other, not saying a single word as Jen looks back and forth at the two.
"I see." Hojo says suddenly, taking his eyes off Sephiroth and placing them upon Jen. He walks over with his hands behind his back, as always, kneeling before her. "Well Jenova II, we were interrupted from your data reading. We'll have to continue if either of us want to eat dinner tonight." He gives her a slight smile as she cowers behind her brother's leg, his expression a bit more happy than it was before when he looked to Sephiroth. His smile fades though as he looks at little Shinta, who's cowering behind Jen as she cowers behind Sephiroth. His eyes look disgusted as he looks to Shinta, standing upon his feet again.
"Jenova II. who gave you this creature.?" Hojo says to her as he keeps his eyes on the little Chocobo, his tone very low, almost demanding.
Jen gulps a bit at the sound of his tone, taking cold of Shinta in her arms, "Sephy did. he gave it to me for Cwistmas."
"He did did he.?" Hojo pivots around, walking back over to the controls. "Tseng, put Jenova II in her testing tube, and get that horrible thing out of here. You may leave now Sephiroth." He sits at the computer again, tying in a few things as his glasses gleam in the light. Tseng sighs, but knows he cannot ignore the order, and picks up Jen, pulling her away from Shinta. She grabs outward, struggling to get free of his arms but her little body is to weak compared to his, helpless to Hojo's orders. He places her inside the tube, hitting a few numbers in the console to close the glass door, Jen banging constantly as she cries out to Shinta and Sephiroth, though her voice unheard from the glass. Shinta runs away from Sephiroth, heading for the tube as his little eyes seem serious, to run to Jen's aid. Tseng turns around, looking to Shinta as he dashes towards him, and puts his arms down, catching him as the little Chocobo tried to run between his legs. Shinta warks and struggles, but like Jen, being to small to break free from this man as he carries him away from the tube.
"You're going to regret this Hojo." Sephiroth says quietly to himself, his arms crossed as he watches from where he stood, his expression totally serious, but a small curl to the side of his lip. It's to small to be noticed from afar, but up close you could see the small smirk he has on his face as he watches Tseng walk past him with the Chocobo under his arm, still kicking, flapping, and struggling to free himself. Hojo does not react to Sephiroth's warning, finding it false in every way possible, but as he hits a button upon the keyboard to switch screens, he sees the rising levels inside the tube. Jen has stops banging and her hands were at her sides, her head bowed, as her silver locks blocked her face, though the back of her long hair was floating in a breeze that didn't exist.
"What the.?" Hojo says silently to himself, baffled by the strange readings he gets from Jen. He looks over at the tube, watching as a slight ora surrounded her, a black light, whirling up her body like twister. The tube itself starts to crack, black bolts dashing around the glass, the control panel exploding, as with the tubes that connected the tube to the computer, Hojo's computer exploding also right in his face. He looks in complete confusion, then looking to Sephiroth who stood there unfazed by the events. Even as the glass of the tub exploded, sending the flying glass everywhere, he stood there as a slide hit his cheek, drips of blood pouring down his cheek. Hojo however was hit hard with a large piece of glass, it slicing his left arm, cutting a deep gash, where the flowing blood stained the white jackets sleeve. Jen walked from the broken tube, the glass on the ground cutting her feet, but she marches on. Her head rises to look to Tseng who stopped, looking in fear to her. Her eyes no longer had the green mako glow to them, dark pits of nothing as her eye color were gray; both her small pupils almost vanished inside the darkness of her eyes. She raises one of her small hands, it pointed strait to him as she continues to march over the broken glass.
"Inscript the Dark god. into a rotting body." Jen says silently; though her voice no longer the high-pitched sound of a child, but the low tone of an older woman, sound over her normal voice. Her voice seemed a bit screwy also, like something was disrupting a connection in her voice, like an air disturbance in radio waves as you listen to it, her voice scraggly and breaking up. "Flare." She stops a moment as her hand glows a dark purple, to a bright reddish orange, and the glow stops. All sound seems to fade as Tseng's body starts to glow slightly, looking confused he drops the Chocobo who runs away from him. The glow vanishes, and right by his side a giant blast forms, the explosion burning his arm and side of his leg as he is thrust hard into the metal plated wall, blood dripping down the wall from where he hit his head, as some drips from his mouth, being knocked out from the impact. Hojo holds his bleeding arm as he looks to Jen in fear, his whole body shaking, and picks up a phone, calling for medical help as soon as possible. Though he stops his sentence as he sees Sephiroth slowly walk over to Jen, bending before her, as she looks expressionless up to his with her gray eyes. Without fear he places a hand upon her head, her eyes snapping back to normal suddenly at his touch, blinking wildly as a few tears drip from her normal eyes.
"It's alright Jen. you don't have to hurt anyone anymore. Shinta is alright." Sephiroth tells her in a calm but kind tone, a small smile forming upon his face as she jumps into his arms, crying hard.
"Sephy. I. I hurt Tseng didn't I.?" Jen stops her crying for a few moments, trying to hold back the tears of what she just did, and the pain in her bleeding feet. Sephiroth slowly picks her up into his arms, and walks from the room with her. Hojo yells to stop, but he ignores his orders of course.
***
They arrive downstairs, back in Jen's room. Sephiroth has bandaged Jen's feet, and calmed her tears, as she sits on the edge of the bed with him, holding onto a small rag doll, the only possession Hojo allowed her to keep. The doll is torn in many places, cotton falling from the foot, a beaded eye missing, and stained from being unwashed for a long time. Sephiroth keeps an arm on her head as she rests her head upon his leg, sniffling a few times as she quivers in fear under his hand. Shinta sits by her side off of the bed, looking sad to how Jen is, her sadness making him sad also.
"Jen. tell me. if you want of course. How did you summon all that power to create a flare attack.? That's a very difficult magic attack to summon." Sephiroth says lightly to her, petting her head to relax her.
"Mommy told me. how to do it." Sephiroth's eyes open a bit in surprise. Mommy? He knew that Jen was a part of Jenova, but how could she of done that if Jenova wasn't even close, though he had no clue even where they were.
"She told me. to look inside for my hate of the doctor. for the hate of Tseng as he took Shinta away." Jen says this softly, but not with a crying tone like she was scared of what her mom told her, she pulls her legs up to her chest though, curling into a slight ball beside him. "She told me. what to say. to cast the power she would give me. all I had to do was be angry. and want to get Shinta back. and she would help me." Jen nuzzles her head against his hand a bit, looking up to him with her big sea green eyes.
"I don't like the doctor. I don't like Tseng. I hate it here. I want to stay with you Sephy." Sephiroth shook his head to her comment, looking away from her sad face. There was no way he could bring her with him without endangering her life. She was powerful; especially in the use of magic, which she sometimes lost control of. But she was still a fragile little girl. and he had no way to go against the SOLIDER. He was afraid of hurting the only living being that actually cared for him. Ever since Doctor Gustav died. He's felt so alone. His mother was dead, he had no known father. and most of his childhood ever since Hojo took over the science field he was left alone with nothing to do but be alone. There were no holidays; there we're no birthdays. He spent time with Jen so that she would not find herself being as sad and as lonely as he was so long ago.
"I cannot take you with me Jen. The SOLDIER would hunt you down and hurt anyone in their way to get you back." Sephiroth raises Jen from her laying position, pulling her onto his lap where he holds her small body tightly in his arms. "It's to risky to keep you with me. Not only would that put me in danger. But that would put you in much more danger." He lifts her from his arms, laying her in the bed and pulling up the covers up to her neck. Little Shinta hops up, dashing over to the inside and crawls under the covers, having trouble getting under at first, his legs swinging widely as he tries to push himself under. But he finally gets there and curls himself into a ball next to Jen, where she puts her doll next to his breast, and hugs him from behind with one arm as she lays on her side.
"Sephy.? Can you stay with me tonight.?" Jen's large eyes plead for him to do so, the small frown almost impossible to ignore. Sephiroth smiles a bit to her actions, and kisses her forehead.
"Yes. I will stay with you tonight. I'll sleep beside your bed. I'm used to sleeping without one." Sephiroth goes over to the door, where he hits off the switch to the lights. "Goodnight dear sister." Through the darkness of the room he sits beside the bed against the wall. He looks to the window that the bed sits beside, watching the rain continue to pour as the lights of the dim polluted city flicker from outside. His eyes slowly become heavy as the rain continues to pitter patter against the window, till he falls asleep.
The rain poured down the outer windows and walls of the Shinra Corporation. Everyone was at ease on Christmas Eve, but no one stopped to enjoy the season. Sephiroth sat alone in a room of the Corporation, leaning against the wall as he watched the rain flow against the window side. His face was expressionless, as always, as his sea green eyes watched the water drip slowly down. It has been a long time since the company was graced with his presence. Time to time he would show up on no occasion, but lately he has been visiting quiet often, and leave just as suddenly as he came. The battlefield began to bore him, finding no one capable of calling his "equal." Finding it distressing and irritating to use his favorite blade against those who were weak, like everyone inside of the building he waited in. The rain continued to fall, and his eyes never left the window, even as the door on the other side of the room opened, two figures walking into the dim lighted room.
"Is it dark enough in here Sephiroth?" A mans voice said, flicking on the light to reveal Sephiroth in the corner. His eyes moved away from the window as the lights were turned on, looking to the tall man in the doorway. This man was dressed fully in black, and his own raven like hair draped over his shoulders slightly as he looked to Sephiroth. It was Tseng of course, but he didn't care much. It wasn't the man he was waiting for inside the room, but the other being that was being escorted by him. Sephiroth's eyes slowly descend upon the small girl holding Tseng's hand, a smile upon her shining face. The little one was about 3 1/2 feet tall, almost looking to be around 7 years old. Her silver hair shined in the light, as her bangs were bent upward and then back down, the same style as Sephiroth's, but messier. Her sea green eyes stared eagerly to the man as her smile brightened, letting go of Tseng's hand and running to Sephiroth.
"Brother Sephy!!!!" Sephiroth bend down on one knee as the young girl ran towards him, opening his arms wide for her as she screamed out her nick name for him over and over and over again until she finally ran into his arms, Sephiroth embracing her tightly.
"Sephy. I'm glad you came and visited me!" The little girl rubbed her face on his chest, and looked up at him as she tried to hold his waist with her small arms, her smile bright and innocent. A smile dawned upon Sephiroth's face, as he held the little girl in his strong arms.
"Of course I would visit you Jen. It's Christmas Eve and I have no orders from SOLDIER so I thought I would take this day off to spend it with you." Jen's smile grew wider as she burst from his arms, standing a few inches away, pointing to her bangs of her long silver locks, pretty long for someone her age.
"Looky looky Sephy! I did my hair like yours!" Jen smiles again as she pulls on her hair slightly, Sephiroth, taking on from her hand and rolling it between his large fingers.
"That's very nice Jen. It needs some work but it's nicely done. And it looks very good on you." Sephiroth lets go of her silver hair, rubbing the top of her head as her eyes sparkle from his comment. "And I got you a very special gift. I hope you enjoy it." Sephiroth stands back up, walking over to a corner of the room where the light is out. His precious Masamune lays there, but a box of some sort holds it up. He lays the blade aside, and picks up the box by the handle on the top, bringing it to the light, showing that it is a cage or pet carrier of some sort. Jen's eyes open wide as she looks upon the box he carries, though not knowing what lays inside the dark box, where the shadows hide what's inside. Sephiroth sets it before her and she sits in front of the box, peering inside with such aw that she looked like a lost child. Sephiroth slowly puts his hand upon the small lock, pulling it open and opening the door.
"Ooooh. What is it Sephy.?" Jen's head moves forward as she tries to see what hides in the back in the shadows. As she leans forward, Sephiroth places a hand upon her shoulder, pulling her back a bit. Without even speaking, she already knows that he wants her to stay back some. He taps lightly on the back of the box; a small rustling from inside the shadows shakes the box, Jen backing away with the sudden movement. The constant rustling slowly stops, and out from the darkness of it's cadge, crawls out a small baby Chocobo, being only a bit smaller than Jen. The little Chocobo shakes its body a bit when brought into the light, showing off its bright red feathers, some from under seeming to be silver. It looks up to Jen with big sea blue eyes, filled with such innocence as hers, yet such fear of the being that sat before it. Jen raises a hand a bit, bringing it toward the Chocobo, to only get a fearful reaction as it backs away. She pulls it back and places it in her lap as she sits on her knees, looking to the Chocobo with her innocent sea green eyes, a smile upon her face. It rustles its wings a bit as it stands before her, neither of them making an inch, as the whole room remains quiet. It slowly walks towards, her Jen not making a single movement, and sniffing a bit at her knee, to only back away and look towards her when she lifts up her hand. She sees its fear and places it back upon her small lap, smiling once again. The little Chocobo moves its neck forward, sniffing little Jen and crawling forward to where it flaps its wings at her small knee, Jen making no movement or sound. She tries to lift her hand once again, and the small Chocobo stays, not moving at all. She slowly places it upon its head, petting it slightly where it rubs its small head against her palm, its eyes closing as it shows such happiness to her petting.
"Aww Sephy. it's so cute." Sephiroth smiles as she watches Jen take the little Chocobo into her arms, holding it in a hug, like it was a doll, though knowing that it's a living being.
"This is your early Christmas present Jen, I hope you like it." Sephiroth sits down next to her, petting the head of the Chocobo with his finger. Jen however, looks up confused to him.
"Cwistmas?" Her head leans to the side, showing much confusion. The Chocobo looks up at her movement and does the same thing.
"Yes. It's a day when people of the world join with their families and give gifts to show how much they love each other. It's one of the few special days I had to spend alone before you were born. I thought this little Chocobo would be a nice gift for your first Christmas, though it's the day before. Someone to spend time with while I'm away." Jen smiles again, the Chocobo mimicking her movements and looks down at it.
"I wuv it Sephy." Jen holds the small red Chocobo in her arms again, rubbing her cheek against its own.
"The farmer I bought it from called it 'Shinta.' I believe it knows itself by that name anyway."
"Shinta? Ok!" Jen holds it tighter as she twists her hips back and forth with it in her arms, "Shinta, Shinta, Shinta! I wuv you!"
Sephiroth smiles again to Jen, the small smile seeming to be painted on his face from such a rare occasion of being seen, showing the love for her that can be seen within his own sea green eyes. But to their dismay, this rare occasion was to be cut short. Tseng coughed lightly a few times, without hesitation; Sephiroth and Jen look up to him, waiting silently.
"I'm sorry to break up this loving reunion. but Dr. Hojo was not finished with Jenova II's tests when you arrived. I have to take her back now." Tseng's voice sounded very reluctant as the young man said this, not wanting to break up the loving scene of Jen with her new Chocobo, and Sephiroth with a smile upon his face. Though that smile slowly fades from their faces, Jen's face becoming very sad, and her frown being large.
"But. But I don't wanna go back. I wanna stay with Sephy and Shinta!" Jen cried out, picking up Shinta and running over to Sephiroth where she hid herself within his arms, not wanting to let go.
"I'm sorry." Tseng tried to explain, his hand brushing through his black hair, "But I have no choice in the matter. He told me to bring you right after Sephiroth had finished whatever he came here for." He walks over, bending down to Jen, backing away as she holds little Shinta. "But I don't think he will argue if Shinta and Sephiroth joined you, now would he?" Jen nods a bit to Tseng, smiling a bit as her way to say 'ok.' Sephiroth rises to his feet again, though his serious expression does not fade. Not once did he ever want to see that old fool who called himself the 'genius' in this crummy dump they call the Shinra Corporation. He hated him more than he hated the business itself. But unfortunately, this ordeal was out of his control, unless he wanted to endanger Jen. He nods to Tseng, showing he agrees with the plan. Tseng bows to take Jen's hand, but she refuses, taking hold of Sephiroth's hand putting Shinta down to hold onto his red feathery wing.
Tseng leads the group up to Hojo's lab, who's working with some data on a computer while he waits impatiently for Tseng to finally arrive back with Jenova II. As he hears the mechanical door slide open from the side, he rises from his seat, walking over to watch Tseng, Jen, and Sephiroth enter the lab. His eyes narrow at the sight of Sephiroth entering; holding Jen's little hand tightly.
"Well, well Sephiroth." Hojo says in a low tone as he makes his way over to Sephiroth and Jen, "It has been such a long time since you've actually visited the lab." The two of them make eye contact, staring at each other, not saying a single word as Jen looks back and forth at the two.
"I see." Hojo says suddenly, taking his eyes off Sephiroth and placing them upon Jen. He walks over with his hands behind his back, as always, kneeling before her. "Well Jenova II, we were interrupted from your data reading. We'll have to continue if either of us want to eat dinner tonight." He gives her a slight smile as she cowers behind her brother's leg, his expression a bit more happy than it was before when he looked to Sephiroth. His smile fades though as he looks at little Shinta, who's cowering behind Jen as she cowers behind Sephiroth. His eyes look disgusted as he looks to Shinta, standing upon his feet again.
"Jenova II. who gave you this creature.?" Hojo says to her as he keeps his eyes on the little Chocobo, his tone very low, almost demanding.
Jen gulps a bit at the sound of his tone, taking cold of Shinta in her arms, "Sephy did. he gave it to me for Cwistmas."
"He did did he.?" Hojo pivots around, walking back over to the controls. "Tseng, put Jenova II in her testing tube, and get that horrible thing out of here. You may leave now Sephiroth." He sits at the computer again, tying in a few things as his glasses gleam in the light. Tseng sighs, but knows he cannot ignore the order, and picks up Jen, pulling her away from Shinta. She grabs outward, struggling to get free of his arms but her little body is to weak compared to his, helpless to Hojo's orders. He places her inside the tube, hitting a few numbers in the console to close the glass door, Jen banging constantly as she cries out to Shinta and Sephiroth, though her voice unheard from the glass. Shinta runs away from Sephiroth, heading for the tube as his little eyes seem serious, to run to Jen's aid. Tseng turns around, looking to Shinta as he dashes towards him, and puts his arms down, catching him as the little Chocobo tried to run between his legs. Shinta warks and struggles, but like Jen, being to small to break free from this man as he carries him away from the tube.
"You're going to regret this Hojo." Sephiroth says quietly to himself, his arms crossed as he watches from where he stood, his expression totally serious, but a small curl to the side of his lip. It's to small to be noticed from afar, but up close you could see the small smirk he has on his face as he watches Tseng walk past him with the Chocobo under his arm, still kicking, flapping, and struggling to free himself. Hojo does not react to Sephiroth's warning, finding it false in every way possible, but as he hits a button upon the keyboard to switch screens, he sees the rising levels inside the tube. Jen has stops banging and her hands were at her sides, her head bowed, as her silver locks blocked her face, though the back of her long hair was floating in a breeze that didn't exist.
"What the.?" Hojo says silently to himself, baffled by the strange readings he gets from Jen. He looks over at the tube, watching as a slight ora surrounded her, a black light, whirling up her body like twister. The tube itself starts to crack, black bolts dashing around the glass, the control panel exploding, as with the tubes that connected the tube to the computer, Hojo's computer exploding also right in his face. He looks in complete confusion, then looking to Sephiroth who stood there unfazed by the events. Even as the glass of the tub exploded, sending the flying glass everywhere, he stood there as a slide hit his cheek, drips of blood pouring down his cheek. Hojo however was hit hard with a large piece of glass, it slicing his left arm, cutting a deep gash, where the flowing blood stained the white jackets sleeve. Jen walked from the broken tube, the glass on the ground cutting her feet, but she marches on. Her head rises to look to Tseng who stopped, looking in fear to her. Her eyes no longer had the green mako glow to them, dark pits of nothing as her eye color were gray; both her small pupils almost vanished inside the darkness of her eyes. She raises one of her small hands, it pointed strait to him as she continues to march over the broken glass.
"Inscript the Dark god. into a rotting body." Jen says silently; though her voice no longer the high-pitched sound of a child, but the low tone of an older woman, sound over her normal voice. Her voice seemed a bit screwy also, like something was disrupting a connection in her voice, like an air disturbance in radio waves as you listen to it, her voice scraggly and breaking up. "Flare." She stops a moment as her hand glows a dark purple, to a bright reddish orange, and the glow stops. All sound seems to fade as Tseng's body starts to glow slightly, looking confused he drops the Chocobo who runs away from him. The glow vanishes, and right by his side a giant blast forms, the explosion burning his arm and side of his leg as he is thrust hard into the metal plated wall, blood dripping down the wall from where he hit his head, as some drips from his mouth, being knocked out from the impact. Hojo holds his bleeding arm as he looks to Jen in fear, his whole body shaking, and picks up a phone, calling for medical help as soon as possible. Though he stops his sentence as he sees Sephiroth slowly walk over to Jen, bending before her, as she looks expressionless up to his with her gray eyes. Without fear he places a hand upon her head, her eyes snapping back to normal suddenly at his touch, blinking wildly as a few tears drip from her normal eyes.
"It's alright Jen. you don't have to hurt anyone anymore. Shinta is alright." Sephiroth tells her in a calm but kind tone, a small smile forming upon his face as she jumps into his arms, crying hard.
"Sephy. I. I hurt Tseng didn't I.?" Jen stops her crying for a few moments, trying to hold back the tears of what she just did, and the pain in her bleeding feet. Sephiroth slowly picks her up into his arms, and walks from the room with her. Hojo yells to stop, but he ignores his orders of course.
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They arrive downstairs, back in Jen's room. Sephiroth has bandaged Jen's feet, and calmed her tears, as she sits on the edge of the bed with him, holding onto a small rag doll, the only possession Hojo allowed her to keep. The doll is torn in many places, cotton falling from the foot, a beaded eye missing, and stained from being unwashed for a long time. Sephiroth keeps an arm on her head as she rests her head upon his leg, sniffling a few times as she quivers in fear under his hand. Shinta sits by her side off of the bed, looking sad to how Jen is, her sadness making him sad also.
"Jen. tell me. if you want of course. How did you summon all that power to create a flare attack.? That's a very difficult magic attack to summon." Sephiroth says lightly to her, petting her head to relax her.
"Mommy told me. how to do it." Sephiroth's eyes open a bit in surprise. Mommy? He knew that Jen was a part of Jenova, but how could she of done that if Jenova wasn't even close, though he had no clue even where they were.
"She told me. to look inside for my hate of the doctor. for the hate of Tseng as he took Shinta away." Jen says this softly, but not with a crying tone like she was scared of what her mom told her, she pulls her legs up to her chest though, curling into a slight ball beside him. "She told me. what to say. to cast the power she would give me. all I had to do was be angry. and want to get Shinta back. and she would help me." Jen nuzzles her head against his hand a bit, looking up to him with her big sea green eyes.
"I don't like the doctor. I don't like Tseng. I hate it here. I want to stay with you Sephy." Sephiroth shook his head to her comment, looking away from her sad face. There was no way he could bring her with him without endangering her life. She was powerful; especially in the use of magic, which she sometimes lost control of. But she was still a fragile little girl. and he had no way to go against the SOLIDER. He was afraid of hurting the only living being that actually cared for him. Ever since Doctor Gustav died. He's felt so alone. His mother was dead, he had no known father. and most of his childhood ever since Hojo took over the science field he was left alone with nothing to do but be alone. There were no holidays; there we're no birthdays. He spent time with Jen so that she would not find herself being as sad and as lonely as he was so long ago.
"I cannot take you with me Jen. The SOLDIER would hunt you down and hurt anyone in their way to get you back." Sephiroth raises Jen from her laying position, pulling her onto his lap where he holds her small body tightly in his arms. "It's to risky to keep you with me. Not only would that put me in danger. But that would put you in much more danger." He lifts her from his arms, laying her in the bed and pulling up the covers up to her neck. Little Shinta hops up, dashing over to the inside and crawls under the covers, having trouble getting under at first, his legs swinging widely as he tries to push himself under. But he finally gets there and curls himself into a ball next to Jen, where she puts her doll next to his breast, and hugs him from behind with one arm as she lays on her side.
"Sephy.? Can you stay with me tonight.?" Jen's large eyes plead for him to do so, the small frown almost impossible to ignore. Sephiroth smiles a bit to her actions, and kisses her forehead.
"Yes. I will stay with you tonight. I'll sleep beside your bed. I'm used to sleeping without one." Sephiroth goes over to the door, where he hits off the switch to the lights. "Goodnight dear sister." Through the darkness of the room he sits beside the bed against the wall. He looks to the window that the bed sits beside, watching the rain continue to pour as the lights of the dim polluted city flicker from outside. His eyes slowly become heavy as the rain continues to pitter patter against the window, till he falls asleep.