Gone in to the Life Stream
Gone are the days of happiness, caring, and what ever else you wanted to need to survive in this world. I on the other hand have not even know what that means, all I know is that some one died and hence here I am to take the person who died and stuff that I had no clue. See I am not that old but I am older than what most people would consider, I know things that no one dose. I am part of the life stream, then part of Genova herself, then there are this fickle people, and that they make up what is bad in me to the good. I know who Sephiroth is and the two people that make me are Tifa and Aerith.
Yes Aerith was consider as an ancient, who there are not that many out there and they keep them selves low keyed to be noticed. Aerith was my sister in many ways, I am considered as an ancient and Rufus Shinra knew about me, got me and kept me away from other people and the life I was suppose to live.
So here I am lying in a place that I have no clue where, but I know that there is water around me and that I am wet. I heard a weeping somewhere in the corner, I moved just a little bit and saw that there was a child.
"Child why do you cry?" I asked.
"Marlene, but who are you?" Said the girl's voice.
"I'm not for sure what my name is or why I am here." I said to the girl. "You did not answer my question."
"I lost a mother figure and Cloud lost his love, and very close friend while the rest lost their friend. My brother Denzel is here also but I think he went to get Cloud considering that he saw you first." Marlene said.
I move around the water and got my footing, just then noticing that I was naked as a jaybird. I hope this Cloud can bring some cloths. Before I know it, I heard a cycle that was coming this way and it was going fast. I was standing in the shadows just to keep my dignity; I was still talking to the young girl as I head footsteps walking up the steps and inside of the building that I was in.
"Marlene, you ok? Who were you talking to?" He said
"A lady, she is still here some where." The girl said to him.
"Hello? I do not remember my name or where I came from. I am in the corner to the left of you in the shadows because I am naked and I so not wish to show that to the children." I said to the tall blonde man standing next to the girl.
"Ok, there should be a blanket near the wall just a bit farther to the right of you." He said and I looked over to where he was talking about and there it was. I grabbed it and wrapped it around me and made sure that it was tight and would not fall down on me.
I walked out to the small light and each one of them gasped, the loudest was Cloud himself. I looked around to see what he was gasping at, and then it had to be me that he was gasping at.
"Ok, this is awkward. Why do you gasp at me for?" I asked getting mad.
"You remind me of a friend and another friend that I lost today, from an illness that was not seen." He said in all honesty.
"Ok, sorry for that." I said back to him.
"Marlene, you ready to go back home?" He asked the girl.
"Yes cloud I am. What about her? She dose not remember her name. Can she come with us?" the girl asked.
"Sure, but there is not enough room for you and her." He said back to the girl.
"I can wait if you want to come back and get me, it is late the kids should be inside anyway." I said to him. I had this odd pull to him.
"Will you wait?" He asked. I nodded my head and sat down on the steps of the place as he put the girl on the back end and she grabbed a hold of him and he took off, leaving me to my thoughts and waiting for memories to take a hold so I could remember who I was.
It had been at least 20 minuets of sitting there when I heard sounds of something, not for sure what it was but I was kind of spooked. Just as I was ready to run for it I heard Clouds cycle coming closer to where I was at, but I could not keep my eyes off the sound and where it was coming from.
It showed it self and punched on me like I was dinner. I reacted on instinct as I grabbed a steal pole and swung it around and it connected to what ever it was that was attaching me. I heard a yelp and then scampering away from me, but I did not let go until I heard his voice calling me from my right shoulder.
"Hey, you all right?" He asked, I looked down and some how I knew to get into this stance.
"Yea, I am all right, just spooked that is all." I said to him as I dropped the pipe and walked back to his cycle as he got on and I got on behind him, wrapping my arms around him as he took off into the night.
The wind in my hair felt wonderful but I knew that we were to fast to let go so I tucked my head down on his shoulder blade, I smelled his sent and slightly smiled, it was something that I was use to and should have remembered it. He did not ask question at this time, which I was thankful, cause the honest truth I do not remember much of anything. We stopped and he parked his cycle, I get off and he did not that much after I did. He led me to the kitchen, which had a sandwich and a drink for me. I looked at it with a question look.
"Marlene made it for you, she has a feeling that you have not eaten for a while." He said as I sat down and started to eat the sandwich and drink what it ever it was. I got up and started to clean the dishes that I had. He got back up and motioned me to follow him to a bedroom that I am sure that has not been used for a while. I saw that there was clothing there and a nightshirt to sleep in.
"Thank you for everything Cloud, I know I am a total stranger to you and the kids." I said to him. He smiled a sad smile.
"Its no problem, you can stay as long as you want or need. Maybe we will talk some more tomorrow. I bid you good night." He said and then left to his room. I looked over to the bed and sat down on it and then laid down and instantly fell asleep.
Looking out of a window while suspended in green water, Faces staring at me, some smiling and some looking in pure sadistic glee.
"Rufus, she is awake, do we proceed in the experiment?" The one in a lab coat asked a younger looking man who was standing by the door.
"Yes, start with the injections of Jenova cells and then with the others." He said and then turned away, hearing screams coming from the tank.
The screams were coming from me and they were blood curling to hear even in my own ears. I heard a voice that was soothing and yet sad.
"Sarith, calm down you will come out of this with more knowledge. You will be our avenger, for when you get out of this. I will be dead." The voice said and I knew it was my sister. I cried and screamed as the injections continued.
Time shifted and I was standing in a clearing while wielding a sword that was twice as long as I am and then there was other swords and stuff, it was all most like fencing but with deadly animals and stuff.
Lets just say that there was consequences to reactions that was not to their liking, so when I refused to kill another animal that was scared of me. I was punished for what I did not do. Those left scars not only physical and mental, either way I screamed when there were needles or other things that go bump in the tank.
I woke up screaming into the darkness that was around me. I looked everywhere and nowhere all at the same time as bits and pieces of my memory came back to me. I heard a door open and then slam shut. I felt arms wrap around me…
"Hey, you are having a nightmare wake up, before you wake up the kids." The blonde-haired person said to me. Slowly my vision came to the here and now; I was shivering not from cold but from fear.
"I'm all right for now, Thank you for waking me up and my name is Sarith. Some of my memories are coming back; just not ready to talk about it at the moment until all of my memories are all with me. Cloud, do you happen to know a Rufus Shinra?" I asked.
"Yes, he is something al together different, but that is some of my past that I am not ready to talk about either." Cloud said to her. "Sarith, why does that sound like Aerith?"
"Cause she was my sister, I remember a little of it well of me and her." I said to him as he looked confused.
I smiled at him, "You don't have to say it, I know what happened, and it was not your fault."
"I know, a lot happened a year ago. Tifa is the one I was talking about who left us this year. You also look like her also." He whispered, we sat there not talking but just trying to communicate with out talking.
"Where is she?" Rufus asked Rude
"She some how gotten out and we have no idea where she is." Rude said back.
"I want her found, now." Rufus said before he walked away.
"Yes sir." Rude said as he went to find his partner.
"Reno, come on we have to find her. Before she remembers." Rude said to the red headman standing by the door.
"I know, it is going to be hell if she does, It the point where she got so good and now she is gone, I think there was inside help." Reno said. As they left.
Rufus was in his study looking around. "If this is, a big mess up me has been in. I knew I should have killed her when she messed up the last time. She knows where all of the Mako is at. I need her back and now, before all this hit's the fan." He thought as he went towards his bedroom.
Waking up to children laughing was something that I was not use to. I got up and put the cloths on that was sitting out for me last night and walked up to the door. Walking down the hall, I noticed the pictures on the walls and slowly looked at them until I saw one that was standing on its own.
I reached it and study it then I was hit with more memories of my life before. I shook my head to clear it and then reached up and touched the portrait of the two women that was there with the rest of their friends.
"Sister, what happened to me? I have very little memory of what we were growing up. " I whispered to the person in the picture. I looked over to the dark haired woman that was next to my sister. I smiled and I knew it was Tifa. I felt a small hand on my arm, I looked down to the girl that saved me from being alone.
"Marlene, how did you sleep?" I asked.
"Good and how did you sleep?" She asked me.
"Good if you can call that." I said back and then smiled as I saw her brother standing in the doorway.
"You must be Denzel." I asked the young boy. Who smiled and then nodded his head. "It is good to meet you."
"As it is Sarith, It feels that I met you some where but I know that this is the first time that I have seen you." He said back to me. I felt the girl pull me to the kitchen I looked in and saw that they made me breakfast. I smiled again and sat down with them and eat with them. We heard heavy foot falls down the hall and coming this way.
Cloud walked in and looked at what was going on in here. " Well I see that you are up." He said.
I nodded my head and then eat some more. " I need to go to the store for a few things, don't worry about it I have money." I said.
He nodded his head and sat down with us. "You hungry? Thirsty?" I asked him.
"No, I am good, so when do you plan on going? I think we have a lot to talk about well as much as you can remember anyway." He said to me. I loved over and nodded my head. When we were finished, I washed the dishes and then went to the door.
For the first time in a long time, I felt free, but I still had to look over my shoulder, for what ever it was something was telling me that I had to keep on my toes. I was being hunted I knew that much. Walking down the street, I noticed a shop that was open and held a bunch of stuff. I walked in and went to the racks of cloths picking out what I wanted and went to the music that I liked and a few other things that was to my taste. That was when I noticed a long sword, I asked the person behind the desk to get it out for me because I anted to see it.
"Yes ma'am." The owner said and grabbed it and gave it to me to see. I held it and then checked the balance swirling it to see if it would appeal to me and that it did so I bought it and walking out of the store I walked back to 7thheaven and went to my room to get dressed. I then walked back into the kitchen to get a drink of water.
"That out fit appeals to you." He said from the doorway.
I wore a black leather pants, leather boots that went up to my knees that had a slight heal. My under shirt was blood red and above that was a black leather vest. I had the strap the held the sword that I purchased slung across my back. My hair was pulled up into a ponytail and the rest was braided and swung freely. I turned around to see him.
"I just wished they had a black leather duster would have been better, but beggar's can't be choosers. Where are Denzel and Marlene at?" I asked as I finished off the water.
"Beret has Marlene and Denzel for the day or two. So it is just you and me for now. I see that you have a sword, if you can't remember much, how do you know to wield a sword?' He asked.
" I have fuzzy memories of learning how to wield more than just a sword. I also know that I was subject to injection of Genova cells, I know who Sephiroth is, some how he is always in the shadows waiting to pounce on the first chance he can get. I have some memories of me and my sister growing up. " I said but was interrupted by two people standing behind Cloud.
I know I tensed up. Cloud saw me tense up and looked behind him only to see Rude and Reno.
"What are you guys here for?" Cloud asked.
"Sarith?" Reno asked.
I looked him dead in his eye and grimaced as he said my name. I knew I had to get out of there. I jumped up and over them and was down the hall grabbing my sword and I was out of the door and was on food running to where ever I thought I would be safe.
"To answer your question Cloud, We are looking for her, Rufus wants her back." Rude said to Cloud.
"She escaped?" Cloud asked again.
"Yes, Come on Reno lets go and get her." Rude said as they took off.
Cloud did not even think he had a feeling where he could find her. He went to his cycle and got out of there and went to the church but did not find her there so he went out side of the city only to see her standing at the top of heap of dirt.
When he got up there he noticed that she was crying silently. "Hey, it is ok, they are gone." He said to me.
"Its not that only, they had help beat me until I broke, spirit, body and mind. I do not know if I am coming or going. I hate this, I am never going to be free, and they see me as a threat and a pointer for more Mako." I said to him.
"Is there anything that I can do to help?" He asked.
"Can you take me to the last place where my sister was at?" I asked.
Just as I said that, they showed up. I waited for something.
"Sarith come back home." Reno asked.
"Never to that place again, am I done. I want my freedom." I said back as I hunched ready for what ever they had in mind.
"You do know that gives us no choice." Rude said to me. I smirked at him ready.
"Did Rufus ever tell you not to mess with things that can thump back?" I asked him. He looked nervous.
"No, we are just doing our jobs, because if we don't bring you back then we will be punished." Rude said back as he came to me.
"You should have known not to mess with your fucking nightmare." I said as I throw a punch in his face and sailed over the cliff. I looked over to Reno.
"You want this or not come on Reno, You want to mess with this?" I asked as I saw him get mad. He came after me with a high kick to the face but jumps out of the way and landed my own roundhouse kick and his skidded away from me. Rude came up behind me to try to tackle me, which he did, I was tripped and landed on my back looking up into his face. I smiled again and pushed him off me.
"Stop, I do not wish to hurt you both, even though you deserve it, go tell your boss that I will not come back to that fucking hell hole you call home." I said as I got on the back of Clouds bike and we took off.
"I see you can take care of your self." He said to me.
I smiled "Yes, I can and more of my memories come back and the more I hate Shinra and who ever he is friends with that includes the damned science ties that did those damn experiments on me, to me make me who I am now." I said back to him as we went into the wilderness.