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Warning: GORE!!!!!! MUHAHAHAHA!!! Dont like it, dont read. Or if you like the story and have a weak stomach, hold your puke in. ^^
---FFVII AND TES4 UNITE---
After having an inner discussion with himself, Sephiroth went over to the dead corpses of the attackers, and Captain Renault, to see if they had anything interesting on them. Two of the assassin's carried a weak potion of sorcery, and a weak potion of healing. Captain Renault had two different swords on her, a katana and steel short sword. Sephiroth took the katana and strapped it to his back. The katana was much shorter then Masamune but of the same style.
Sephiroth soon stepped towards the door to see if the Blade's forgot to lock it. They hadn't, so the silver haired man took a step back and glared at the door handle. Sephiroth turned around and stomped off, but stopped in the main room. The place he was in was like a catacomb of some kind. Everything was made of stone. There were cracks in the roof so the sunlight sneaked in and gave everything an unearthly glow. The place had that abandoned, spooky feeling to it. But it hadn't even been taken note by Sephiroth.
Walking to the wall, the ex-general leaned against it. Taking a breath in, he smelt the place. It smelt like dust and dirt. Maybe a bit of old decaying bodies too. Sephiroth still had his eyes closed and was relaxing.
Soon after, he had heard something like rocks being scratched against each other with a crushing sound soon after. That had made Sephiroth open his eyes. What Sephiroth saw made his eyes open a bit wider than usual. Two gigantic size rats ran out and headed straight for the silver haired man. One of the two rats jumped at Sephiroth, with its yellow long teeth showing. Sephiroth jumped to the right and grabbed the creature by its tail. Not wasting anytime, Sephiroth spun around, smashing the rat into the wall. Blood and chunks of rat innards were splattered all over the wall. The rat slowly slid down. Hearing the other rat screech and its long claws scratching across the ground, prepared to jump, the ex-general ducked down and the rat jumped over him. Getting up and turning towards the rat, Sephiroth drew the katana from his back and made the blade go down with incredible speed. The rat was perfectly sliced in half. Blood was pooling around underneath it and the insides of the rat plopped on the ground between the two slices of rat skin.
Looking at the two rats, Sephiroth didn't even have a hint of disgust on his face. He has seen bodies been flattened, burned, eradicated, torn apart and more in the Wutai war. He, being the cause of most of them. Turning around so his back faced that of the dead rats Sephiroth, shook the blood off the katana then strapped it back onto his back.
Walking to the newly made hole, Sephiroth slowly walked in. The place was a cavern, tall enough so Sephiroth could stand his full height. There were old pillars here and there but they appeared to still be quite strong. There was dirt between the cracks of bricks, walls, the roof and the ground. Some light was seeping in from cracks where thick tree roots broke the ground. The whole place smelt like rotten flesh.
Looking around, Sephiroth made note at a skeleton at the far left of him, an old chest to the right of him. But first there was another rat straight ahead of him. Sephiroth walked calmly towards the rat. The said rat turned around to only see a massive boot above its head. The ex-general placed his foot down to hear a satisfying crack of a small skull. He saw blood squirt in all directions from under his boot. Smirking, Sephiroth lifted his boot to see that the remains of the rats brain were connected to the floor as well as his boot. Walking towards the wall, the silver headman wiped his boot on it, clearing it of blood and gore.
After he had done that, he walked towards the skeleton. The pile of bones had an old wooden bow next to it, a shield made of leather, a sack to the left of it and a chest to the right. Going through the sack first, Sephiroth saw that it held a quiver that had few arrows in it. He took the quiver out and put it on. Back when he was still with Shinra, and they were fighting the Wutai war, he had met an old Wutai solider. Sephiroth was going to kill him but the Wutain was quick and made a bargain with him. The Wutain said that he would teach Sephiroth how to use the bow with great expertise if he spared his life. Sephiroth thought about it and agreed but said if he was not true to the bargain and wasnt to tell anyone about it, he was going to slice off his head and feed it to monsters. Since Sephiroth didnt really have friends then because he hadn't met Angeal or Genesis, he always went to the Wutain to proceed with his training. Not long after Sephiroth had mastered the bow. It was a good thing that he had agreed to the training because they didnt teach the bow at Shinra. Everybody preferred the gun as a range weapon. As a gift for mastering the bow in a short amount of time, the old Wutain was happy to give Sephiroth a special type of bow that had been passed down through out the generations of bow grandmasters. The bow was gold, red and black. The sides of the bow had been flat but the handle had a circler shape and perfectly fitted into his hand. The string that had been used was unknown to Sephiroth, but it was strong, it never broke and it always shot powerfully. The bow had bended perfectly too. A dragon had been imprinted into the side of the bow. At the top of it was a dragons head and the bottom was a tail. The whole thing, besides the string, was also an unknown metal. When he got home from the war, Sephiroth had hung the bow up on the living room wall. He had never seen that old Wutain bow grandmaster again.
The quiver felt weird upon his back. He shrugged it off as a poorly made quiver. Picking up the bow that was on the ground, was also weird. As if it didnt fit in his hands. Looking at the other room, the silver haired man saw an old well with a bucket. Pulling an arrow out from the quiver, Sephiroth put the arrow on the poorly made bow and pulled it back. Sephiroth fired the arrow, which hit dead center of the bucket. He looked down at the bow. It was old but usable. He put the bow in the quiver with the arrows.
He soon moved to the chest on the right side of the skeleton. It was locked, but that wasnt going to stop Sephiroth. He ripped the top off with ease. Inside were just a couple of coins and two lock picks. Finding nothing of interest, the ex-general moved away from the chest. Going to the other chest that was near the hole to the room where he killed the rats, he tore that chest open too. Again, nothing of interest to the silver haired man was found in the chest. Walking around the room, Sephiroth noticed a door and a dead goblin. Sephiroth walked towards the door but stopped right in front of it. Sephiroth looked at the goblin and found nothing interesting on it. Sephiroth soon kicked opened the old wooden door.
Since the door was smashed open with Sephiroths boot, it had alerted another rat. Pulling the bow from the quiver with an arrow, Sephiroth pulled the string back with an arrow loaded, waiting for the right time. The rat jumped up in hope to get a chunk of meat out of Sephiroths abdomen, but was shot in its own. The rat was pinned down but still alive. Sephiroth soon ended its life with a flare to its upper body. The rat was roasted.
Sephiroth saw another chest and walked towards it, successfully kicking the lid off. He saw a bunch of arrows and picked them up and put them in with the rest of the arrows on his back. Seeing a walkway, Sephiroth headed towards it. He saw a couple of rats. They also saw him but didnt attack. Walking towards the rats, Sephiroth soon smelled something absolutely disgusting. He scrunched his nose in disgust. Wondering what was making this horrendous smell, Sephiroth kept on walking. Turning a corner Sephiroth soon saw what was causing the smell. A zombie. Its whole left side was gone, possibly eaten by maggots. One of its eyes was missing, as were chunks of flesh. The right side of the zombie was turning green. A few fingers were missing. The zombies skin was a dark murky colour.
Sephiroth pulled the katana from the magnet that was under his black leather coat. The zombie tried to hit Sephiroth but the ex-general was quicker. Moving to his right, Sephiroth quickly brought about the blade, chopping the decaying hands off the zombie. The decaying creature didnt even notice that and started to attack Sephiroth again. The ex-general casted a flare, and the zombie stumbled backwards. While the zombie was stumbling back, Sephiroth sliced its head off in a nice clean cut. No blood came out of the body or head, showing that it had been dead for quite some time. The head rolled on the ground and soon the body fell on its own weight, in front of Sephiroth.
Walking along further Sephiroth entered another cavern. Seeing another rat, Sephiroth shot the rat and it went air bourn. Once it was at its peak in the air Sephiroth shot a flare making the rat a burnt piece of meat. Another rat saw this and ran towards the ex-general. Sephiroth just walked towards the rat and picked it up by its massive head with one hand. Once the rat was squirming to get its head free, Sephiroth mercilessly crushed it. The body of the rat fell to the ground and Sephiroth shook his hand to get the blood off it. Sephiroth soon resorted to wiping his hand on the wall.
Finding nothing of interest, Sephiroth causally strolled in the next room. After seeing about three rats, Sephiroth wondered about how many rats are in this place. Picking up a stone brick that had probably fallen out of a wall or the roof at some stage, he quietly sneaked up on an un-suspecting rat. The silver haired man dropped the brick, and the rat was flattened. Walking to the next rat on the list, Sephiroth slowly drew the katana and sliced off the rats tail. The rat screech alerting the other rat. Sephiroth looked up and there were two rats rather than one. Quickly picking up the tailless rat, Sephiroth lit it on fire. The rat was screaming. Sephiroth threw the tailless rat to another un-suspecting rodent. Both were on fire and running around aimlessly. The last rat ran up to Sephiroth. Sephiroth put the katana back onto the magnetic underneath his coat. The rat jumped and Sephiroth caught it. The rat was withering between Sephiroths hands. Twisting his hands, the rat was killed (twisting like a Chinese burn). Blood poured out of its mouth. The ex-general threw the rat to the side. Before Sephiroth started to walk off he first made sure the burning piles of rats were actually dead.
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After brutally killing a lot more rats, zombies and a new foe: the goblin, Sephiroth finally entered a massive cavernous area. There were two levels. Quietly walking in, Sephiroth made a count of how many enemies there were. Three goblins on the top level and one on the bottom level. There were three rats in a cage-like container. The first goblin on his list was the one closest to the entrance he was at. In one quick movement, Sephiroth cracked the neck of the goblin. Sephiroth caught the body and placed it silently down. Crawling up to the pit of the second level, Sephiroth looked down and noted that there was a gate holding the rats in. Soon he looked around and to his right, the silver haired man saw a lever. Pulling the lever down, the gate opened. The rats attacked the goblins that had trapped them and began to devour him in revenge. The rats attacked the goblin on the lower level as well. The other two goblins on the higher level ran down to kill the rats and save their kinsmen. One goblin though used magic. Pulling the bow out, Sephiroth fired an arrow right through the head of the goblin that was being eaten alive by rats. The rodents started to head for the next goblin.
Sephiroth let his presence be known by standing up. Putting the bow back into the quiver, Sephiroth pulled the katana out. Sephiroth jumped to the other side to where the magic casting goblin was. The goblin snarled at Sephiroth and casted a flare at him. Sephiroth quickly dodged it but got struck with a thunder spell from the staff the goblin was carrying. When struck, Sephiroth didnt even flinch. The goblin looked surprised and tried to cast another one. Sephiroth dodged it by leaning to the left but held the look of 'must kill' in his eyes. Sephiroth stared right into the goblins eyes. In one quick movement the goblin was chopped in half. Blood, intestines and other organs came out of the top half as it fell backwards. The bottom half just plopped forward.
After the goblin down below had killed the rats, it ran straight to Sephiroth. Since the goblin was already weak from the rat Sephiroth just punched it in the face when it was close enough. Hearing a satisfying crack, Sephiroth just turned around to walk out, but something shiny caught his eye. Sephiroth turned around to see it. What he saw made him smile in excitement. It was Masamune. The almighty sword was lodged in the wall. Running over to the blade Sephiroth easily pulled it out. Feeling his familiar blade through the leather glove was good. Excitedly, he removed the katana from his back and replaced it with Masamune. He held the other one as he headed for the exit.
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As Sephiroth came out of the door there was a walkway in front of him. At the end there was another whole big enough for a human to fit through. After walking through it, he started to hear voices.
"...Should find a defensible spot to protect the emperor until help arrives." That was Glenroy. He must have found the emperor and his lackeys again.
"Help!? What makes you think..." that one was Baurus. He suddenly stopped saying that line as both him and Glenroy said, "Here they come again!" The assassins must have still been attacking them. Sephiroth jumped down and grabbed one of the guys in red and black armor by the head and smashed it against the ground. Blood splattered everywhere. Another one tried to get him for killing his friend but Sephiroth stabbed him in the torso, as the two blades struck the assassin in the head and the chest.
"Damn it, its that prisoner again. Kill him; he might be working with the assassins." Sephiroth swore he felt his eye twitch. How many times did he have to tell them that his name was Sephiroth?
"As I said before my name is Sephiroth. It is not that hard to say." Sephiroth said extra clearly while lowering his eyes into a glare.
Before Glenroy could lift his blade, the emperor spoke and lifted up one of his hands "No, he is not one of them, he can help us, and he must help us." Glenroy mumbled a tiny as you wish after the emperor said that. Uriel walked up to Sephiroth and started to talk to him.
"They cannot understand why I trust you. Theyve not seen what Ive seen." The emperor spoke wisely. Uriel thought a bit. "How can I explain? Listen you know the Nine? How they guide our fate with an invisible hand?"
Sephiroth held milded confusion on his face. Uriel soon said that they were the gods.
Sephiroth didnt know that this world had Nine gods. Maybe he should learn about them after he gets out of this place.
"Im not on good terms with the gods." Sephiroth spoke quietly but everybody heard it. Sephiroth looked down at the ground.
"Ive served the Nine all my days, and I chart my course by the cycles of the heavens. The skies are marked with numberless sparks each a fire, and every one a sign." The emperor spoke on. Sephiroth remembered when he was with 'Mother' he wanted to go other worlds among the stars. Take all knowledge and then destroy those worlds, only to create the perfect one, where he and mother would forever be happy. "I know these stars well, and I wonderwhich sign marked your birth?"
Sephiroth was stuck. He was not born on this world, so he had no idea about the signs that marked people when they were born. The emperor Uriel saw that Sephiroth was confused. "There are thirteen different birth signs. The Apprentice, the Lady, the Mage, the Thief, the Atronach, the Lord, the Lover, the Ritual, the Serpent, the Shadow, the Steed, the Tower and the Warrior. Each has different effects of what you choose." The emperor soon went on about the different effects they had done. On particular one caught his interest though. The ritual. You could use something called Maras gift that healed your health quite a lot and blessed word which made undead creatures run away. That was a good one, considering that the zombies he had come by smelt like Zacks apartment. Only ten times worse." I was born under the ritual." The emperor nodded.
"The signs I read show the end of my path. My death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." The emperor spoke with a sad look in his eyes.
"What about me?" Sephiroth looked straight into Uriel eyes.
"Your stars are not mine. Today the Ritual shall speed you on your star-patterned path." Uriel smiled at Sephiroth but still held that sad look in his eyes.
"Arent your afraid to die?" oh how Sephiroth knew how scary death was. He had died three times all by the same person.
"No trophies of my triumphs precede me. But I have lived well, and my ghost shall rest easy. Men are but flesh and blood. They know their doom, but not the hour. In this, I am blessed to see the hour of my death to face my apportioned fate, and then fall." Something about this emperor told Sephiroth he was willing to give his own live for his people. That man was loyal, not like the fat tub of lard call Shinra; all that man wanted was money. Always money. And if people didnt pay bills or fines they were killed.
"Can you see my fate?" Sephiroth was interested. If this man could see his own fate, could he see other peoples fate?
"My dreams grant me no opinions of success. Their compass ventures not beyond the doors of death. But in your face, I behold the suns companion. The dawn of Akatoshs bright glory may banish the coming darkness. With such hope, and with the promise of your aid, my heart must be satisfied." The man spoke with such honor; Sephiroth wondered if this guy held honor higher then Angeal did.
"Where are we going?" Sephiroth asked trying to change the subject.
"I go to my grave. A tongue shriller than all the music calls me." Great, he was back on angsting." You shall follow me yet for a while, and then we must part." The emperor said that and turned around and walked off.
Baurus came from behind Sephiroth and tapped him on the shoulder. "You may as well make yourself useful. Here, carry this torch and stick close." Sephiroth grabbed the stick with the fire at the end and walked behind the rest of them.
As they were walking along, assassins jumped down and tried to attack the emperor. "Cut them down!" Glenroy yelled. Sephiroth was starting to call him Mr. Obvious in his head. One of the assassins, a female, headed for the emperor with a mace. Sephiroth jumped in front of the emperor and fended off the assassin with the katana. When the female was knocked to the side, Sephiroth stabbed the torch right through the females stomach. Blood poured all around her as she screamed. The ex-general soon ended her life as he stabbed the katana through her head. As Sephiroth got up to kill the others, he noticed that he was too late. Baurus and Mr. Obvious already got to them. They started to move again.
When they got to a room, Glenroy stopped everyone. "Hold up, I dont like this. Let me take a look." Glenroy soon walked off down a platform like thing and looked around.
"Looks clear, come on. We are almost through to the sewers." Sephiroth started to move. The emperor was behind him and Baurus was right behind the emperor. As they came to the door, the silver haired man noticed that the door was locked shut. Sephiroth knew Mr. Obvious was about to state that.
"Damn it. The gate is barred from the other side, a trap!" Sephiroth knew it. He could make a game of this. Sephiroth was about to tell them that he could easily rip the gate open, but decided against it. Glenroy will probably try to kill him and everyone will start asking him how he got his strength. He could already feel a headache coming on just thinking about it.
"What about the side passes back there?" Baurus suggested. Sephiroth liked this guy. Sure he was obvious, but not as much as Glenroy. Sephiroth could live with it.
"Worth a try, lets go" Glenroy said.
"Stop trying to sound heroic, you are starting to give me a headache." Sephiroth told Glenroy annoyed. Glenroy glared at Sephiroth, and Sephiroth stared right back at him. His Mako green cat-slit eyes glowed more powerfully as Sephiroth slowly closed his lids to form a deadly glare. Glenroy backed away and stormed off. The emperor soon followed with Baurus behind him. Sephiroth followed with a smirk on his face.
When they came in the side pass, everyone noticed that all the walls were blocked off.
"A dead end, whats your call sire?" Baurus asked. But before the emperor could answer, Glenroy interrupted.
"They're behind us! Wait here sire." And after Glenroy said that, He took off. "Wait here with the emperor, Sephiroth, and guard him with your life!" After Baurus had said that, he took off.
Sephiroth nodded and did as he was told only because Baurus had said his name, and not prisoner.
"I can go no further. You alone must stand against the prince of destruction and his mortal servants. He must not have the amulet of kings! Take the amulet. Give it to Jauffre. He alone knows where to find my last son. Find him and shut close the jaws of oblivion." Uriel said with most urgency, thrusting his amulet into Sephiroths right hand. Before Sephiroth could say anything an assassin opened a door that had been cleverly disguised in the wall, and cut down the emperor. Sephiroth was shocked at the least. The emperor had just got killed in front of him. The man had more honor than anyone Sephiroth knew. Anger written all over his face, Sephiroth quickly put the amulet in his pocket and drew Masamune from his sheath. Sephiroth sliced the assassin in a crazed frenzy. The man was sliced up in multiple parts. Blood covered Masamune and the other katana. Sephiroth himself was also covered in specks of blood. It was sprayed all over the wall in front of Sephiroth but nothing compared to the blood pool that covered the floor. Sephiroth was breathing heavily out of rage. Sephiroth turned around to see Baurus walking up to the emperors, Uriel Septim body. Sephiroth noticed it was just Baurus. Where was Mr. Obvious? Did he die? Well if he did, that was good. No more obvious suggestion to him.
Baurus leaned down to feel the emperors pulse. He felt none. "No...Talos save us." When Baurus said that, Sephiroth checked out side to find Glenroy. He was on the floor covered in his own blood. Sephiroth smiled and walked back to the emperors body.
Baurus stood up and walked to Sephiroth. "We failed. I've failed...the blades are sworn to protect the emperor, and now he and all his heirs are dead. The amulet! Wheres the amulet of kings? It wasnt on the emperors body." Baurus started to get a bit angry.
"The emperor gave it to me." Sephiroth said calmly in hope to calm Baurus down a bit. And it did.
"Strange. He saw something in you. Trusted you. They say its the dragon blood that flows through the veins of every Septim. They see more then lesser men. The amulet of kings is a scared symbol of the empire." Most people think of the red dragon crown, but thats just jewelry. The amulet has power. Only a true heir of the blood can wear it, they say." Sephiroth was going to stop Baurus in the middle of his speech but thought against it. Knowing a little history about this world is what he wanted. Even if it has to start with a massive red diamond on a golden chain.
"He must have given it to you for a reason. Did he say why?"
"I must take it to a man named Jauffre."
"Jauffre? He said that? Why?" even though Sephiroth was used to being asked a lot of questions, this was getting annoying. Mainly when it was something he knew so little about.
"There is another heir."
"Nothing I ever heard about. But Jauffre would be the one to know. He's the grandmaster of my order. Although you may not think so to meet him. He lives quietly as a monk at Weynon Priory, near the city of Chorrol."
"And how do I get there, exactly?"
"First you need to get out of here. Through that door must be the entrance to the sewers, passed the locked gate. Thats where we were heading. Its a secret way out of the imperial city. Or was meant to be secret."
"I think I will be in need of a map." Sephiroth looked to his right and a second later, Baurus handed him a map. "Here use mine. You seem kind of lost, so dont worry. I can easily get another one when I get out." Sephiroth thanked him.
"Here, you'll need this key for the last door into the sewers."
"The sewers?" Sephiroth looked disgusted. He didnt want to be walking through other peoples waste.
"There are rats and goblins down there, but what I've seen of you, I'm guessing you are an experienced knight. Am I right?" Baurus asked.
"No. I am close to a knight but I am not one of them. I am what you call a SOLDIER." Sephiroth said honorably. He wasnt going to tell him about Shinras elite fighting force yet.
Baurus just raised an eyebrow and shrugged it off. "I wasnt far off. In any case, rats and goblins wont give you any trouble."
"After the sewers, then what?"
"You must take the amulet to Jauffre. Take no chances, but proceed to Weynon Priory immediately. Got it?"
"Yes I understand." Sephiroth felt like a cadet again. This should be exciting.
"Good the emperor's trust was well placed." Baurus smiled.
"What about you? What will you do?"
"I'll stay here to guard the emperor's body, and make sure no one follows you. Youd better get moving. May Talos guide you. By the way, thanks for recovering Captain Renaults sword. Ill see that it is given a place of honor in the hall of blades." Baurus said, taking the katana out of Sephiroths hand. Sephiroth nodded and headed to the sewer.
After going down the drainpipe, the ex-general came across a couple of rats and goblins just like the blade said. But there were also crabs down here. Just like the rats, the crabs were over grown.
Sephiroth finally made it to the last gate and exited.
---FFVII AND TES4 UNITE---
A/N: oh my god! This chapter is properly the longest thing I have ever written or typed but I hope you liked the goriness of it. Maybe I should write a book. 'How to kill rats: gory addition' does that sound about right?? Anyway my back is killing me!! And sorry I havent updated in a long time cause my computer got wiped outtwicesad I know. Well maybe your laughing cause Im not. Well maybe a little. This chapter is so long, I wonder how other people do it.
EDIT: oh my god...none of the " or ' were in the chapter when I first updated it. But when I checked out the actual file on my computer, they were there...very weird. Thank you Landarma for pointing it out^^.
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