Rin wasn't sure what happened or even how it had happened but the fact of the matter was it did happen.
Rin, Braska, Jecht and Auron had been thrown into what seemed to be the farplane. Pyrefiles flew past them in a tunnel that shimmered in a multitude of colours. Rin was in front of the other three. The momentum they were currently moving at didn't allow her to slow down and the six wings she had on her back were practically useless here.
"Rin!" even turning to face the trio behind her was almost impossible but she managed it
"I'm good!" she shouted back though she could barely see them as the extremely long white dress she was currently wearing billowed all over the place. The tunnel took an interesting turn as all the flowing colours twisted into a beautiful shade of green. Though it didn't last long, a black hole opened above Rin and a strong gravity pulled her through
"RIN!"
The green soon became black and before Rin knew it she was falling through the clouds at an alarming rate
"WHAT THE HELL?" Rin panicked, the wings on her back weren't responding like they should and one by one the feathers dispersed "ULTIMA!"
"Your voice is quiet young one"
"CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!?" Rin screeched noticing the ground was now coming into view. Rin could a see a sea of white … was that ice? She could feel herself picking up speed as two of her wings vanished completely "Seriously, Ultima. If this is a joke, very funny now stop it. I can't survive a fall from this height!"
"I can't...find...you"
"ARE YOU JOKING?!" Rin noticed that the blue skin she had obtained from bonding with Ultima was fading.
"Oh God. I'm going to die!" Rin tried to summon her magic nothing, even Yojimbo wasn't answering her. The ice covered ground soon took its true form of a pure white forest. Rin was down to her last set of wings and still donning Ultima's long white dress which slowly faded back into her normal clothes. Rin covered her head with her arms even thought she knew that wouldn't stop her dying on impact.
'I DON'T WANT TO DIE!' Her eyes clamped shut tight Rin hit something that wasn't a painful face first collision with the forest below.
"Well what do we have here?" a deep calm voice mused; Rin opened her eyes and looked up past her arms which were pressed against someone. A tall silver haired man with stunning vibrant green eyes and a singular ebony black wing that, somehow, was keeping them from falling. Rin caught herself getting lost in his unblinking eyes when she felt the last of her one wings dwindle down into nothing.
"An angel?" Rin felt her face flush when the man chuckled and flew her to the ground. There was a hidden city in the white glittery forest. The building in front of her was a huge conch shell. The silver haired man entered and not knowing what else to do followed him cautiously inside. He looked over his shoulder briefly as if it were a sign for her to follow and ventured down a set of stairs.
The stairs glowed and didn't look solid but the man hadn't fallen through them so they must be safe. So down she went carefully until she caught up with the tall mysterious man. A large castle with large medieval style towers sat before them.
"You have an interesting power" he said glancing down at Rin who was taking in the beautifully ancient furniture
"You're the first person to say that" she replied brushing her curly green hair out of her eyes she had lost her hair tie and after her brief skydiving experience was all over the place.
"Hm?"
"I've always been told it was unholy and an abomination to magic but that could just be my mother" Rin rambled
"You do not possess materia?"
"Huh? No I was born with the ability so I don't need it but for some reason I can't hear my aeons, which is strange because they're practically burnt into my skin" Rin showed him one of three fayth markings she bore.
"Interesting. What aeons do you control? I believe I can find the relevant materia" Rin grabbed his arm in shock
"Aeons in materia? That's possible?" The man nodded observing the woman's sudden behaviour change
"Yojimbo, Leviathan and Ultima"
"Stay here" he ordered and headed back towards the door they had just come through
"WAIT! Can I at least know whose company I'm in?" Rin hollered after him, he'd saved her and she had no idea who this strongly helpful stranger was
"Sephiroth" he replied calmly
"I'm Rin by the way! Okay by then" Rin shouted as Sephiroth left her alone in the large and eerily quiet underground mansion.
Whilst Rin was stuck alone in a mansion, Jecht, Auron and Braska had crashed through the roof of an abandoned church.
"What the hell just happened?" Jecht looked around they were surrounded by yellow and white flowers "Gross"
Auron helped Braska to his feet despite the fall they seemed to be for the most part unharmed
"Are you hurt?" unlike Jecht, Auron was a very dutiful guardian
"Yes fortunately we survived the fall" Auron grabbed the hilt of his sword and brought it up to meet another blade
"Who are you?" the attacker asked aiming for Auron's head
"I can ask you the same" Auron wasn't going to yield to this blonde man who attacked them out of nowhere. Jecht wouldn't let him live it down if he lost.
"CLOUD!" two women entered the church one with black hair the other red. The woman with dark hair seemed concerned for Cloud's actions and for Jecht, Auron and Braska as she kept giving them worried looks. The red haired woman on the other hand seemed eager to fight and her hand would twitch occasionally to her gunblade,
"Not now Tifa!"
"Listen to woman Cloud. I don't think they came here for a fight" The one called Cloud jumped back still holding his sword in front of him just in case,
"I'm sorry this idiot runs off on his own" The woman with black haired apologised
"No I should apologise too. Is this your building? I'm sorry we seemed to have made a hole in the roof" Braska bowed
"It's okay the roof had holes anyway" the woman with red hair shrugged, "so how did you fall through the roof?"
Braska laughed nervously "I'm not entirely sure but it appears we have lost one of our companions. A young lady with green hair"
"And a vicious temper"
"That's only around you Jecht" Auron added coolly
"Anyway let's get you guys out of here" Tifa smiled "I've never seen clothes like that, where are you from?" Tifa questioned looking at Braska's red petal themed robes and blue headdress.
"Spira" the group looked bewildered
"Never heard of it" the read headed woman who had been introduced as Ayama said.
After gathering up the strange men who'd fallen through the roof of Aeris' church Tifa insisted they all return to Seventh Heaven for what Ayama liked to call 'processing'
"I should probably tell Rufus three guys dropped in from wherever the hell Spira is" she mused leaning against a wall with her arms crossed over her chest as Cloud scowled at the strangers and Tifa tended to any wounds, "Or you know I could stay here and watch you stare holes in their heads for touching 'your woman'" she joked her lips curling up in a smirk,
"I what? No! They fell through the roof and they say there're from some place no one ever heard of so I'm assessing the situation to see if they're a threat!" was Clouds response,
"Uh huh I'm sure that's just what you're doing" Ayama smiled raising her eyebrows suggestively at Cloud,
"We mean you no harm" the one with long dark hair and a red headband spoke, he had an authoritative voice and Ayama suspected him to be the 'grown up' of the trio since the other two seemed rather like school boys playing hooky, "We do not know how we come to be here but we must find a way back to Spira and our other companion"
"What's her name?" Tifa asked, "We can ask around"
"Her name's Rin and she's this little tiny green haired chick with one hell of a temper" the one named Jecht laughed running a bandaged hand through his dishevelled black hair,
"Her temper only flares up around you Jecht" the last of the trio spoke, "She's really a good girl" he assured us,
"I guess that remains to be seen" Cloud said coldly staring at the three men,
"We thank you for your hospitality and your kindness. I am Auron, this is Jecht and this is Braska" the one named Auron introduced himself and his companions to Cloud, Tifa and Ayama
"We were on a mission to find and defeat SIN before we found ourselves in your church" Braska explained,
"SIN" Ayama asked clearly confused, "You can't kill sin, it's not a corporeal being it's just something people do" The trio looked even more confused than Ayama,
"You do not have SIN here?" Auron asked
"Well we have Hostess Clubs and some Brothels and a lot of bars. This is a bar for example and sometimes people sin in it but I don't think we have whatever it is you're talking about" Ayama explained,
"Then we will trouble you no more" Braska said standing up to shake Cloud's hand, "I pray many blessings on this bar. Thank you for your assistance we must find our companion now"
"But you don't even know where you're going or where she is. Let me go with you, I'll help you look for her" Tifa insisted pulling on her gloves, "Cloud look after the place"
"What! Why can't she do it?" he asked pointing to Ayama,
"Two reasons. Firstly I have a date where I plan to do some sinning" Jecht broke into a wide grin making Ayama narrow her eyes at him, "Plus" she added dropping her voice, "I want to tell Rufus about these three dropping in out of nowhere. I don't trust the red head"
"Fine" Cloud huffed claiming a seat at the bar, "I'll stay"
"Well I'm off I'll see you later Strife hope you get those panties un bunched soon and I'll see you guys around I'm sure. Good luck finding your friend"
"Why don't you and I do some finding of our own?" Jecht asked Ayama sliding up beside her,
"Whoa there I have a boyfriend so there will be no finding" Ayama quickly moved away from Jecht having dealt with men like him before, it never ended well, "Tifa" giving the brunette a curt nod Ayama left Seventh Heaven and pulling her phone out of her pocket immediately dialled Rufus Shinra something about those guys just didn't sit right with her.
Rin found herself back above ground investigating the pure white trees that seemed to be made of crystal rather than wood. After a bit more wandering around the wood she found a lake, everything about this place made Rin feel uneasy. It was all too quiet and too still. Kneeling down to look closer at the lake maybe to see if there any fish swimming around in there or to see how bad her hair actually looked. Rin felt like someone was watching her from the shadows and instantly reached for her blades slowly rising back to her feet.
"A little on edge are we?" Rin could have jumped into the lake if her brain hadn't computed fast enough that she knew this person...sort of
"Sephiroth you shouldn't sneak up on people" He simply smirked before handing her several glowing orbs,
"I think those will be to your liking" Rin looked at them closely they each varied in colour, she never had to use materia since she was born with the ability to use magic
"So how do these work exactly? Never really had to use them" Sephiroth took hold of a blue coloured materia and pressed it against her arm letting it sink in
"Rin? Rin? STOP BEING IGNORANT!" that was the voice of Leviathan her aquatic aeon which joined her after almost drowning in a dungeon, Rin wasn't the greatest person at holding her breath.
"I hear you" Rin let out a sigh of relief, setting the remaining materia on the ground she jumped into the lake. Letting herself sink a fair bit before trying out her summon. "Leviathan" the place where the materia was shone blue and engulfed her. Rin found herself with a tail, fins at her hips and lower back, webbed clawed hands, a mask which covered her eyes and she now possessed the ability to breathe underwater. Swimming back to the surface with a bizarre smile plastered across her face
"Thank you. I never thought I'd miss this ability" Sephiroth observed her calmly from the lake edge as Rin swam around the surface for a small time before climbing out and returning to her normal form,
"I have never seen such magic" Rin looked up at him as she slowly placed the other materia into her arm
"I'd explain how it works if I fully understood it myself but my father was the first to use it and I kind of inherited it"
"One of a kind it seems" the way Sephiroth stared at her almost scared her but he had been nothing but kind to her if a little stoic but it made a change to her usual company. The feeling that she was being watched hadn't faded and made her feel very nervous to the point that she kept her hand on her butterfly swords and glancing around
"Someone's here..." Rin stated quietly but Sephiroth removed her fears just by simply placing a strong hand on her shoulder
"It's only a bat" the tall silver knight stared off into the shadows behind Rin before looking back down at her with his glittering green eyes "I am intrigued to know how your magic works, I may be able to help enhance it"
"Enhance...how?"
"I have something that might help" his lips curved into a slight smile as he guided the smaller mage back to the conch shaped building.
The 'bat' that had been watching in the shadows also left if he were to take on Sephiroth alone it wouldn't end well not with his odd new protégé about but he would have to be quick before he turned that girl into mindless monster.
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