My name is Seraphim and I am conflicted, the last of a dead breed if you can consider me an ancient that is. I'm not fully an ancient, I am an experiment gone horribly wrong. Or not so horribly wrong if you pair me up against all of the other projects that Gast and Hojo had go horribly wrong. I'm not the badest bouncing baby to come from that brood. I looked down at Kadaj whose body was near to lifeless. He hadn't woken up yet and I hadn't dared to use a phoenix down on him. He almost died, he could be a zombie. Upon the long and tedious drive back to Edge City I had a lot of time to think, and now as I sat in my tiny apartment watching him I knew that I Seraphim had probably done something wrong.

Yazoo and Loz were not dead, and they wouldn't be too happy with the fact that I had taken Kadaj from their happy little brood. I pursed my lips and stared at him, all this trouble I was throwing myself into and all for a boy. I shook my head and stood. Seraphim you are losing it. I did know however that I had a mission after Kadaj woke up. I had to talk him into coming with me to find the remaining pieces of Jenova, and destroy them. So this would never happen again. When they were beaten they simply died, but the head of Jenova, that was dead too. So that meant that Yazoo and Loz could still be turned into Sephiroth. That was something I didn't want to happen at all.

I walked into the bathroom and started running a bath. I took off my clothes; all the leather was stifling with the steam from the water. I then closed the door and started to sink into the water. Then my phone rang.

"Of course" I hissed stepping out of the water and quickly pulling on a t-shirt and panties. I grabbed my phone from the small table next to the bed and answered it.

"Hello?" no one had any reason to call I was confused.

"You… have… brother" I recognized Yazoo's voice his voice was strained he must have been hurt. I pursed my lips and glanced back at Kadaj passed out on my bed.

"And you have silver hair… now captain obvious tell me why it's relevant" I smiled slightly while I said it.

"We need ….Kadaj… you should… give him back"

"Or what… you'll hobble in here and I'll be forced to kill you? I think not, I don't want stray bullets all over my apartment. Go away for a while Yazoo, heal… patch up Loz let him cry on your shoulder… and then we'll let Kadaj decide and if he makes the wrong decision then it will come to that, but not now… it's too soon and the race has yet to begin…so don't let your chocobo out of the stable yet" I flipped my phone closed and set it back on the table. I knew they weren't going to be happy with this. I knew in a few days that I was going to have to call Cloud and ask for help, I looked at Kadaj and I hoped that he was worth all of the trouble that he was going to cause me.

I went back to my bath and soaked for what seemed like hours. I was sick of having so many situations that I could not solve with violence. It was making me tense, that was why I was soaking in the tub. Slowly but surely I was lulled into sleep by the tinkling of rain drops on my window.

I had a terrible dream. Yazoo found Jenova's heart and became Sephiroth. I was the only one there to fight him, and it went horribly wrong. He kept bombarding me with attacks not giving me enough time to do anything. In the end I suffered the fate of Aeris, impaled on Masamune.

I woke up with a start. I was getting sick of my dreams. I dried off and changed back into my clothes. In the main room Kadaj was still passed out. I went over to my small pack that was on the floor and picked out a Phoenix Down. I opened the bottle and sprinkled the fine dust over Kadaj's head. He started shifting and moving instantly.

"M-Mother?" his voice came out rasped and whisper quiet.

"No Kadaj, it's me" I set the bottle on the table and put my hands on my hips.

"Seraphim," he smiled, "where am I?" he sat up slowly rubbing his head

"You're at my place… and we need to talk about Jenova…" he looked at me and furrowed his brows a bit.

"Why do you need to talk about her?"

"You need to understand that I saved your life, first I want you to understand that I could have let you go into the lifestream and be done with you"

"But you didn't, you saved me… I guess you did really care for me after all"

"Yes, Kadaj… but either you join me in finding and destroying Jenova or I kill you now and then destroy Yazoo and Loz and then go after Jenova" he stared at me. I unsheathed my sword "I am serious"

"I suppose you are...serious, I will help you… but don't expect me to go against Loz or Yazoo" I sheathed my sword and narrowed my eyes at him… I didn't trust that answer, it was too quick.

"Why so fast?"

"I have grown quite fond of you, of course, you will trust me.. I will make sure you trust me" he leaned towards me and then stood. I took a step back. Something about him unsettled me. He laughed. "Oh, don't worry… I won't bite, unless… you ask me to" and then he grinned like the cat that ate the canary and stood up towering over me… effortlessly. I am after all short at 5'3", it is quite easy to tower over me. "You know you never answered my question before right?"

"What question is that?" I asked as I turned my back on him and put my sword back up against the wall.

"What are you?" the world flowed from his lips effortlessly as he kind of hobbled around my tiny apartment looking for something. Phoenix Down only kind of heals you after all.

"I am..." I hung my head and shoot it a little this was going to be harder than it should have been "I was born an ancient, then a few days later after professor Hojo killed my parents with experiments I was injected with Jenova cells, also I underwent mako radiation therapy," I laughed "So when I should have been cuddled and cared for I was poked and prodded so excuse my lack of compassion for the human condition… what I am I don't know, I am I suppose closer to what Jenova was than Sephiroth, I did get more of her gene's than he did but… apparently I am not as susceptible to Jenova's influence as he was or you are for that matter" I looked at him for a moment still hobbling about searching. "What are you looking for?"

"My sword"

"It's in Midgar somewhere…we'll go look for it when the rain stops"