Goddess' Gift
A Final Fantasy VII Story
Chapter 2:
You Are Beautiful
AN: Okay this was unexpected, I got a review from someone for this so I guess I can continue it. Shout-out...
Sango-44: Thanks for saying this was not trash, I have never been too nice to myself when I have thought about my work. I've always been way, way hard on myself. I've just never had that much confidence. I actually took Creative Writing classes in high school, and they failed me for some odd reason, so that's why I've never thought that I was any good. So it's really nice to hear that someone likes what I write.
So back on track, I didn't think I was going to continue this and I have no idea where it's going to go, so I'm just going to jump on a wave of the Lifestream and ride it out till the end. Hopefully, it will go somewhere without turning to cheesy or sappy or horribly Mary-Sue, or sappy. I just really DON'T want that to happen. And a few things will be reversed in the story like what happened to Genesis, and so on and so forth. SO he won't end up going crazy.
But I'm going to leave it at that so I don't spoil what is to come in this chapter. Sooooo, here goes nothing! Once again I present to you the edited version of Chappie 2.
DISCLAIMER: This was already done in the first chappie so I'm not doing it again. I mean it's obvious that I don't own this...
"Infinite in mystery is the gift of the Goddess. We seek it thus and take to the sky. Ripples form on the waters surface. The wandering soul knows no rest..."
LOVELESS Act 1
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
― Maya Angelou
Previously
Raising his hand, he called upon his ablilites within himself to activate the orb of materia housed within the armor on his arm. The green orb of materia began to glow and red and black fire swirled around his hand. Genesis called up the most powerful Fire spell that he knew. Casting Dark Firega, a ball of dark fire flew from his hand and smashed into the fallen equipment. It exploded in shards of red and black and Genesis turned his back to it, further shielding the girl and shielding himself as well.
Looking over his shoulder, Genesis turned and checked his work. The equipment was gone. With one last look down at the girl, he ran out of the lab door.
Chapter 2
As soon as Genesis was out of the lab, he b-lined for the lift, ignoring the questioning yells from his friend who was right behind him. He didn't give a damn about anything else right now. The girl in his arms was hurt and he was going to see to it that she was healed, but there was no way in Gaia's hell was he going to take her to another scientist. He pressed the lift door button and waited impatiently for it to arrive. Angeal finally caught up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
Genesis whirled around with a hiss, ready to fight to keep the girl away from any harm. When he realized it was just his best friend he relaxed and turned back to the lift.
"Genesis, you do realize that Hojo is going to come looking for the girl. You're going to have to give her back. You won't be able to keep her hidden forever. You're only one man." Angeal began to reason with him.
Genesis sucked a breath of air in and whirled to face Angeal. His eyes were still dark with anger, and Angeal actually took a step back. The anger he saw seemed to come from a person he did not know, it was as if Genesis was not the man that was standing in front of him. He was a possessed man that would not release the captive woman in his arms.
"This girl is going nowhere but to my room, Angeal. I am going to heal her, and she WILL be kept away from Hojo. Even if I have to fight him myself, I will not give her back to him. Even if I have to fight Sephiroth, I will not let her go. She is MY "Gift" Angeal. I will not let her go!" he hissed, growing more and more angrier with every word he uttered.
"Genesis, you're..." Angeal shut his mouth as he saw fire start to swirl around Genesis.
It wasn't hurting the girl, nor was it hurting Genesis, but it meant that Genesis was beginning to get to the point where he was beyond reason. When he lost control of his fire, he was losing control of his emotions, and that was not a very safe thing. Finally, the lift dinged behind him and the door opened. Genesis turned and walked inside. He gave Angeal one last look before hitting the button for level 48, where the apartments were.
The doors slid closed, and Angeal's sight of Genesis was closed off. As the lift moved, Genesis began to take calming breaths so that he wouldn't scare the girl in his arms. If she saw the flames that were circling the both of them, she would assuredly have a conniption fit. He loosened his hold on the girl and looked down at her. She seemed to have started to become sleepy.
Her eyes were halfway closed, and her body seemed to move easily in his arms.
"Hey, are you alright?" he asked softly, hoping she was okay.
The girl moved a little, but it was sluggish, almost as if she was drugged.
She managed a slow shake of her head, telling him, No.", and he became worried.
She was not presenting these symptoms when they were in the lab. He punched the lift button harshly, trying to get it to go faster.
"Hang in there, stay with me. We're almost to my room, I can heal you there. Just stay awake." he whispered.
She nodded her head slightly and tried to smile, but she was too tired to do so and her eyes fell closed and her head fell against his chest. Horror passed across Genesis' face and he raced out the doors of the lift as soon as they opened and he flew down the corridor to his room. He slid the keycard out of his pocket and into the door with difficulty, then pushed through it before it was all the way open and made for his bedroom. He wanted a soft place to lay the girl if he was going to do extensive Materia work. He laid her softly on the bed and yanked open a drawer on the other side of the room that held all of his best Materia.
He pulled out a Mastered Full Cure as well as a Mastered Esuna and yanked out two Materia in the bangle he was currently wearing. He slid the Full Cure and Esuna in place and flew back to the bed. He cast a Full Cure over the girl and waited for a minute to see if that would do anything. The burn on her arm slowly closed itself. But when she failed to do anything else but lay there, he cast Esuna and waited to see if that would work.
At first, it seemed like the two spells did nothing but heal her arm. But after what felt like an eternity, the girl took a sharp, deep breath then coughed a couple times. Genesis gently turned her on her side so that she was able to breath easier. After a few minutes of heaving breaths, her breathing started to slow and Genesis allowed the girl to slowly lay on her back again. She opened her eyes and looked around a little.
Her eyes were unfocused, so Genesis was unsure if she really saw anything.
"Are you okay." he asked softly, trying not to scare her.
Her eyes snapped to him and she started to move away a bit.
"Hey, hey it's okay. It's me remember; the one who got you out of the lab. I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to know if you're okay." he said gently.
Her eyes came more into focus and she started to smile, obviously realizing who he was. She sat up slowly with Genesis helping her with gentle movements. Once she was finally sitting up she turned to look at him.
"Thhhaa...thhhann...she started but was unable to finish.
"It's hard for you to talk, isn't it?" Genesis asked.
The girl looked down sadly and nodded. She held out her hand flat and then imitated a writing utensil with her finger and Genesis got the hint. He fumbled around in the desk across the room for a moment, trying to find a pad of paper and a pen. Once he found one, he rushed back over to the bed and sat down next to her and handed her the two articles.
Immediately she wrote the two words, "Thank you."
Genesis shook his head.
"There is no need to thank me. I would have saved you no matter what. You...you are something special to me. I may not have met you before this, but I have seen you before in that lab Hojo kept you in..." he began.
At Hojo's name, the girl shivered.
"When I saw you, I heard a voice whisper to me that I was to save you from that place and to keep you under my protection. I believe that voice belonged to my Goddess, Minerva. The Goddess of Gaia." he continued.
"Minerva...Goddess of Gaia, who is that? I have never heard of someone named that." the girl wrote quickly.
Genesis was shocked. This girl never learned about the ever present, all powerful, ever loving, Goddess of Gaia? The girl looked at him with such innocence, she couldn't have been lying to him. So he took a deep breath and tried to think of a way to tell her all about the Goddess that governed Gaia. However, every way he looked at it, he drew a blank.
He just couldn't figure out a way to explain it to someone who had never even heard of her. His friends always told him he'd go off on tangents and rants when speaking about his Goddess and then went even more into a rant and tangent about his favorite poem LOVELESS when it concerned his Goddess. He would have to try at a later point to introduce her to his Goddess. (Right now I'm having a bit of trouble of thinking how Genesis would talk to my OC about the Goddess without going into a LOVELESS rant that would go on for hours and have my OC looking at him like...Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? (Which means...What the Fuck?)
So I am going to have him slowly introduce her to LOVELESS at a later point so that they can actually share their ideas about it together, and then my OC can tell him what she thinks about his last verse.(Oh and don't worry, she will be able to use her voice soon enough, it's just something Hojo pulled for temporary punishment and experiments, trust me there is a good reason she is mostly mute right now...))
"Well, for now, let's put that aside until I can think of a good, true way to explain her to you. My friends say I go off on rants when I try and talk about my dear Goddess. And I don't think you would understand them, and I think they would just confuse you even more. On a higher note, why don't you tell me your name? I think that would be a better start to knowing one another, what do you say." he diverted her question into a question of his own and hoped that she would let the first subject rest.
She tilted her head as she looked at him for a second then merely shook her and started writing on the paper, but before she got too far, she dropped the pad and pen, leaned forward, and crossed her arms over her chest and gave a soft cry that would obviously been a loud scream if she had been able. Genesis leaned in himself and tried to make her sit up so he could look her in the face.
"What's wrong? What's going on?" he asked, eyes searching her body for any kind of injury.
Nothing was presenting itself at first, then the girl threw herself off his bed and began rolling on the floor. Quite suddenly and with a very vocal shriek from the girl, two large silver wings opened themselves from her shoulder blades. They were as silver as the moon on a clear night, and they were at least 6 feet long each if he was thinking correctly. Blood was seeping from the spots where they were attached. Genesis looked down in surprise and horror.
What had Hojo done to this poor girl? Slowly, he moved down beside the girl and moved a hand out to touch her shoulder, which was shaking like a leaf in a violent wind. She curled away from him as soon as his fingers barely brushed against it, crying out softly.
"Please...I mean no harm. I want to help, at least let me stop the bleeding." he whispered gently.
She looked up at him from under one arm, then nodded her head and allowed him to get near her back. This time, she was awake when he healed her, and as he did his hands were cool and soothing as the cure made its way across the broken skin on her back. It was calming and lulled her into a dream-like state. As he finished, Genesis removed his hands and looked down at the girl. Her eyes were half-closed and he thought she was going under again.
He slowly slid his arm under hers, so as not to startle her so he could pick her up, and she snapped into awareness instantly. She looked up over one of her wings and he nodded silently to the bed. She smiled wearily and allowed him to lead her there. Slowly he laid her down on her stomach because it was obvious that her wings were still a tad sensitive from just becoming exposed. He pulled his chair from his desk over to his bed turned it around and sat on it, his arms crossed on the top.
"So is this what Hojo had you for?" he asked gently.
The girl nodded her head.
She reached for the pad of paper and the pen and managed to scrawl out, "You hate me now don't you? Now that you've seen what I am..."
She threw the pad on the floor and buried her head into the pillow. The pad had landed so that Genesis couldn't read it, so he picked it up and turned it over. When he read the words, he felt like someone had slapped him.
"Hate you...hate you...How could I hate you when I don't even know you!? Don't you remember what I said? The Goddess told me to save you, it doesn't matter what you look like to me..." he yelled, "You are...you are..."
He then looked down at the girl, who was now staring up at him, a look in her eye that he couldn't understand. He stood up, turned away and took off the harness that he wore with his uniform. It was getting annoying. As he put it down over in the corner he looked up to the heavens.
"Goddess Minerva, give me strength..." he thought.
He walked back over to his bed and he kneeled beside it. Lifting his hand up to the girl's cheek, he gently brushed his hand down then cupped it. He leaned in slowly, as if to kiss her, then moved his lips to her ear.
"You are...beautiful..." he whispered, then pulled away slightly, only to move back in and chastely kiss her lips.
AN: Oooookayyyy this ended a little differently than I wanted it to, but like I said, I'm riding the wave of the Lifestream and I have no idea where it is going to lead me. So yeah... this might turn out sappier in the end but hey I write to write...XD