Chapter 2 Spira, and Besaid

Faster, and faster. They speed didn't seem go slow down at all. The four men were apparently traveling the galaxy in seconds. Each second it seemed as if they passed large numbers of planets and stars. Sephiroth's gaze was straight ahead of him, looking for Spira. After what seemed like forever, he finally saw it. A planet with mostly water on it, and onereally large land mass.

They started to slow down very quickly as they approached Spira. Apparently the council had directed them towards the bottom of the large continent. They were now in the planet's atmosphere. They could see a small island in there direction. When they were about 500 feet from the ground, they stopped. The four men were puzzled, but not for long.

Like lightning they starting dropping like a rock, obviously not supported by the council anymore. All four of them shifted there weight so that they were headed for the ocean on the bottom side of the island. Then, splash. They hit the water, hard, really hard.

Sephiroth was the first to get up. He gently brushed his wet hair out of his green eyes with his left hand. He wasn't that far from the shore, where he saw seven people, all looking at him. He started to walk towards them, while noticing that his sword, Masamune was with him, along with the one Materia that the council let him have. After a short walk he was now on the sandy shore of the island standing about twenty feet from the seven that were still there.

Sephiroth now paid attention to where he was. The area seemed mostly sandy on the beach surrounded by short cliffs with thick vegetation. The sky on the other hand, was perfectly blue, few clouds in the air. This planet more economically balanced than the one he used to be on.

A man with a slight muscular body, strange yellow clothes, and a spiky red hair tip on the front approached him followed by a shorter blonde with stranger looking clothes.

"That was one mighty long fall ya,"said the red head. "What happened to ya?"

Sephiroth shrugged, "Not much, just a little agreement with the higher ups."

"Well, glad your okay. But, what about your other friends?"

Sephiroth had completely forgotten about them. He turned to see if they were alright, if they were standing up in the water. They weren't. Sephiroth immediately ran towards his clones looking for there bodies in the light blue water. After a short search, he found Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz all piled up on each at the bottom of the ocean floor. Sephiroth drew his six foot sword from it's sheath with his left hand and poked each one in the butt with it.

After the three had woken up by Sephiroth, they looked at their surroundings. Needless to say, they weren't that happy about. Loz was crying about leaving there mother. Yazoo was angry at being wet. Kadaj just looked pissed. Sephiroth went back to the red head and blonde while the other three were settling in. The blonde was laughing his butt off, probably by either the condition that they were found in, or that Sephiroth took his six foot sword out and poked them in the rear.

"Well it seems like they'll be okay too ya," said the red head. "By the way, I'm Wakka and you are..?"

"Sephiroth," said Sephiroth putting his left hand out to greet him. Wakka shook his hand

though Sephiroth couldn't but notice that he was staring at his left arm. "Do I have something on

my left arm Wakka?"

Wakka took his hand off of Sephiroth's shaking his head. "No, it's just that...your left handed."

"Yeah, so are those three over there," said Sephiroth moving his head to Kadaj's position. "Is there a problem being left handed?"

"Kind of. You see, Yevon demands that all citizens should be right handed. Left handed people are said to be traitors. Because the devil rides on the left arm."

"Don't worry," said Sephiroth laughing at what Wakka just said. "I'm no traitor of this...Yevon, whatever that is. I was just born like that naturally. And I certainly don't look like the devil...much."

The blonde that had been behind Wakka suddenly stepped in front of him and looked eye to eye at Sephiroth. The blonde was about 6 inches shorter than Sephiroth, and had dark blue eyes. The blonde looked around Sephiroth, circling him like a vulture. Sephiroth remained perfectly still, letting the young man explore.

Finally after a long while at looking at Sephiroth he said, "Isn't that sword overcompensating for something?"

The other six men were roaring with laughter as Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz finally got up on shore with Sephiroth. Sephiroth felt kind of embarrassed. The young man wasn't laughing at his own question, he was merely asking a simple question. Still, Sephiroth didn't feel comfortable with this.

"It's just my weapon, the Masamune," replied Sephiroth as the six mens laughter died out. "What's your name?"

"Tidus. I come from a place called Zanarkand," said the blonde with pride in his voice.

"Well, these are my, uh, friends, Kadaj," Sephiroth pointed to Kadaj as he nodded. "Yazoo," Yazoo gave a slight smile. " and Loz," Loz gave a small hi wave.

"Alright then, I'll take you all to the village where you guys can get some rest," said Wakka to Sephiroth and his group. "Aurochs back to practice. By the way, Sephiroth, where are you going?"

The thought hadn't really crossed Sephiroth's mind. Where would he go? When he thought about it, something came into his mind. North. Something was calling him, telling him to go north.

"North," said Sephiroth with an undetermined sound in his voice.

"Alright. Then you'll have to catch the boat that going to be here tomorrow ya," said Wakka. "We'll go to Besaid, the village that's on this island, and rest up for tomorrow. Sound like a plan?"

Sephiroth, Tidus, and the other three men nodded in approval. It was best to trust this Wakka, Sephiroth thought. He didn't know this world to well yet, and if he was going to be here for the next god knows how many years, he might as well make friends. Wakka and Tidus seemed like a good start.

While the other five men were playing with a blue and white stripped ball, Wakka took the five to a small opening that led to a much more lively part of the island. It was obvious that this island had mostly vegetation around it. There was a fork in the road. One, on the left, that lead upward. The one on the right, seemed to go into a darker part of the island. Wakka took them to the right part of the island.

They seemed to stop at a ledge on the end of the trail that seemed to lead into a calm river. Without warning, Sephiroth and everyone else seemed to get pushed into the cool dark water. Wakka had apparently got behind them, and ran into them. Wakka gestured for them to follow him, and they did. Wakka was a good swimmer, but no one had trouble keeping up with him.

After a short swim they got up on land on a higher part of the island. Sephiroth could see a small village from where he was standing, obviously Besaid. Wakka ran towards the village down the hill followed by the others. On there way they met two men who warned them about to be on guard, for there are a large number of fiends on the road.

Before they entered the village, Wakka stopped them. "Hey, do you guys know the prayer?"

Sephiroth, Tidus, and the other three shook there head no. Wakka showed them how by bowing slightly putting his right leg behind him, putting his hands together as if holding a ball, and bowed. After that the six entered the village. It was a small and quiet village, perfect. Wakka pointed out the crusader lodge, and left, leaving Sephiroth and the others to explore the village on their own.

Loz and Yazoo went to the item shop to hopefully buy a map of the world. Kadai and Tidus went the large building in back of the village together. Sephiroth went to the crusader lodge for some rest.

When he got in the large tent he saw the two crusaders that warned them about the fiends earlier. However, what really got Sephiroth's attention were the three men in the back. One was a tall, bold, dark skinned man with shades on and a white shirt with a tie, and a buttoned midnight blue suit, and black gloves. The second had an untucked white shirt, unbuttoned suit, spiky flaming red hair, and goggles. The last one, though Sephiroth didn't recognize, had the same features as the bold guy, but with flaming spiky hair. A combination of the two in other words. One word came into Sephiroth's mind when he saw them. TURKS.

The three Turks paid no attention to Sephiroth as he entered the lodge, which suited him fine. 'But why were the Turks here', thought Sephiroth. He walked pass the two crusaders without saying a single word, and headed to the back where the Turks were. They eyed him suspiciously as he took a free bed at the left side on the end of the small room. He closed his eyes to try and get some sleep.

His sleep didn't last long however. He could here footsteps, one Turk, coming towards him. Sephiroth opened his eyes, lifted his body up slightly with his hands, and stared to his right at the Turk called Reno, the one with flaming red hair and goggles.

"Yo, why do you have Materia?" asked Reno standing right next to the side of his bed. Apparently, having materia was wrong in this world. The two crusaders, inn keeper, and two other villagers looked away from what they were doing and stared at Sephiroth.

"I have this Materia because I requested it," replied Sephiroth in a cold tone. Reno and the other Turks didn't seem affected by this.

"Only Yevon, and Shinra can have Materia," said the other red head in the room. "Those who have it will either be executed or banished from Yevon. Only people from Shinra may use it. And believe me, I'll have no problem executing you in public."

This raised more questions in Sephiroth's mind. 'Why is Shinra here? Why is Materia forbidden?'.

"So hand it over and we won't have to kill you bro," said Reno holding out his right hand to take the Materia from Sephiroth.

Sephiroth simply shrugged, laid back down, closed his eyes, and turned to rest on his left side. With Sephiroth's abilities he could tell that the sigh he just heard from behind was an 'OK KILL HIM' sigh.

Reno raised his electro rod into the air and flung it down hard. Sephiroth was one step ahead of them. He quickly dodged in a split second by rolling off the left side of his bed. Then he crouched on his legs, jumped and kicked the bottom of the bed hard with his left foot, causing it to go high up in the air. He then kicked again with his left foot when he landed, and made it go straight ahead and hit Reno causing him to hit the wall hard, cracking it.

Rude, the bold guy, ran towards Sephiroth at full speed. But it wasn't enough, he quickly drew his six foot sword while dodging Rude by going under his left arm, at the same time. Sephiroth's bottom part of his sword hit Rude in the back causing him to crash through the wall, breaking it and collapsed the surrounding area along with him.

The other Turk ran towards him with two circular fire and wind wheels, each in another hand. Sephiroth took the now fully drawn Masamune, ran to him, and cut upward with his left

hand and sword. This made the Turk go up, break the roof, fly into the sky, until he later crashed back down on Rude, hard.

Sephiroth smiled as he sheathed Masamune back into it's rightful place. He then heard someone from behind his cursing. He turned his head to see that Reno had gotten free of the wall that the bed had pinned him to. Without a second thought, Reno charged him with his electrorod in his right hand. Sephiroth simply jumped away, but about five feet away from Reno. When Reno stopped and turned his head in Sephiroth's direction, he tried to attack, but Sephiroth gave him a left hook, sending him out of the lodge and into the streets of the village.

Sephiroth then through a bag of 100,000 Gil on the inn keepers desk for damage. He then took the other empty bed on the edge of the inn. He closed his eyes, and began to wonder off. Until again, he was rudely interrupted by the same foot steps that had disturbed him in the beginning.

"What do you want now Reno?" said Sephiroth not even opening his eyes to look at him.

"You know my name, good," said Reno as he was brushing off the dust off his uniform. "You know that we are the Turks right?" Sephiroth nodded slightly. "What do think about joining us eh?"

This caused Sephiroth to open his eyes, sit up in his bed, and look at Reno. "I have no intention on joining the Turks again," he said coldly. "Besides, I have other things to do besides working for weaklings."

Reno began rubbing his head with right hand. "So you were in the Turks before eh? Cool, well that's fine, didn't really think you join us anyway. Yo, I got a deal for ya. You don't tell our boss about our loss, and we don't pursue you, or your friends either, Ok? In return, we'll get you something nice."

Sephiroth was a little surprised about them knowing that they were there in the first place , but didn't show it. He nodded slightly to the agreement, and laid back down for some rest. Reno was starting to walk off.

"Hey Reno," said Sephiroth in his bed causing Reno to stop half way th. "What was that other red head guys name?"

"He's my cousin. His name is Axel," said Reno. "He's a little rough around the edges, you know. Tries to do everything by himself."

"Kinda like you," replied Sephiroth. He heard a little laughter from Reno, and ran off to join Rude and Axel who were waiting for him outside with aking heads.

Yazoo and Loz were looking around the small shop in Besaid. It didn't really have anything to offer other than basic supplies. They had bought a map, a few potions, and other

healing items, but that was it. They would've already have left if they didn't have this feeling that something else was there.

Then Yazoo spotted it, or them in this case. Five green orbs of energy, of Materia. They were Cure, Fire, Lightning, Ice, and a new one, Water. Yazoo picked up the five materia orbs and took them to the counter for purchase.

"How much for these five Materia?" said Yazoo has he placed them before the merchant.

The merchant gave a strange look towards them and said "50,000 a pop".

"That's highway robbery," said Yazoo outraged. "It should cost about five percent of that. What are trying to do to us?"

"Hey keep the ruckus down," said a voice from behind them. The three Turks had entered the shop looking at Loz and Yazoo.

"I'm guessing your friends of Sephiroth?" said Reno. Yazoo and Loz nodded slightly. "Well then..," he moved to the front of the desk without looking at either of them. ".make sure these guys get there Materia miss."

The lady quickly took the Materia and put it into a brown bag and handed it to Yazoo. Yazoo looked suspiciously at Reno who was just smiling.

"Consider it a gift to Sephiroth to keep his mouth shut," said Reno as he bowed slightly.

"What's that supposed to mean Reno?" asked Loz stepping a foot ahead.

"He'll know what it means,"said Reno going on his way out. "Just make sure that you said it was from the Turks okay?"

With that, the Turks left with Yazoo and Loz confused.

Kadaj and Tidus were in the Besaid temple looking at the summoner statues. A priest had explained that the summoners were people with the ability to summon Aeons, creatures with amazing power, and had the ability to destroy Sin. The priest told them that when Tidus told them that he had Toxin from Sin. Toxin was something from Sin that made people lose there memories, go berserk, or go insanse.

"So what do think of these summoners Tidus?" asked Kadaj while looking at the Grand Summoner Braska statue.

"Sounds kind of bogus to me," replied Tidus looking bored.

Kadaj thought Tidus had a point. From what he heard from the villagers, Sin was a creature who has lasted a thousand years, and just keeps on coming and killing people. How could one person destroy Sin when people over a thousand years couldn't?

Kadaj was interrupted in thought when he felt someone tapping on his shoulder. He turned to see the Turks were behind him.

"Yes, what do you Turks want?" said Kadaj in a foul tongue.

"Yo, easy bro," said Reno. "We just came by to say that we won't get in your way."

'Well that's good news,' thought Kadai. It definitely be a problem if the Turks had gotten in there way. Last time they fought the Turks held up their own against Loz and Yazoo with their JENOVA powers. Which was saying something.

"Why?" asked Kadai

"Cause your friend Sephiroth came and beat the crap out of us," said Axel moving his chin with his right hand.

After that the Turks left the temple. Kadaj turned back to the statues. He was mesmerized by them. It was as if they were calling him towards them.

"Hey, lets head to Wakka's," said Tidus as he was walking out of the temple. Kadaj agreed and ran to catch up with him.

Loz, Yazoo, and Kadai were all resting in the lodge while Sephiroth went out to get some fresh air from his own nap. He didn't see the Turks while he was walking around the small village. Sephiroth thought that they just left town. He then saw Wakka running from his house and going in the temple. Sephiroth chased after him.

When Sephiroth got in the temple and he looked amazed at the inside of the large building. It had statues everywhere, ancient markings and drawings on the wall, and a beautiful song in the room. 'Kadaj was right, this was a outstanding place' thought Sephiroth.

When he got his attention from the building to Wakka, he walked over there where Tidus also was. Tidus all of a sudden ran to the door in the middle of the room that was located on the top of a flight of stairs. Sephiroth wasn't really listening to what the priest and Tidus were saying back and forth, he was more interested in the room that Tidus was entering. It had a strange feeling to it, a familiar feel.

Without warning Sephiroth jumped from the entrance of the temple to where Tidus was standing. Tidus had the impression that Sephiroth wanted to go with him, and he was right. Together they left to go into the Cloister of Trials.