Mother And Daughter Chapter 4: My Father?

"Lightning get out of here." Zack ordered his baby sister, she gave him a confused look at his statement.

"What why?" Lightning questioned looking at each of her siblings.

"It's gotta be Sephiroth's doing. He's after you Lightning, and you don't want him to capture you so run we'll hold them off." Zack spoke trying to convince the younger girl.

"A-alright thank you." Lightning stuttered before hesitating a moment.

"Don't worry Lightning, we'll find you." Fang told her reassuringly. Lightning nodded in response, and flew up the stairs to their room. She quickly grabbed her Blaze Edge, but as she

reached for her vest a Shinra soldier broke through the window right beside her kicking the young woman to the floor. Lightning recovered rolling over, and placing a perfect shot

right between the man's eyes. Quickly getting up Lightning looked down the stairs to see, and hear that the shinra soldiers had already reached the home, and were busy trying to

get inside. But Fang, Cloud, and Zack were already outdoors fighting them off to give their baby sister time to get away. The strawberry blond ran over to the broken window, and took

a look outside. It looked like the miniature army had split into two groups, the first of the two looked to be assaulting the house from the front while the second group came up from

behind hoping to kidnap the young woman inside. Without a second thought Lightning jumped out the window, and started off down into the forest behind the cabin. The strawberry

blond both praised herself, and cursed herself the reason being she remembered to put her boots on, and the other she forgot to grab her coat so all she had on was her long sleeved

light brown turtleneck, and her short brown skirt and her black stockings underneath clinging to her fit legs. Lightning continued to run, the cold wind biting into her face stinging it as

her legs carried her as fast as she could run. Out of nowhere a Shinra soldier whirled from behind a tree, and knocked Lightning to the snowy, and frozen ground. Lightning squealed

as the cold snow came into contact with her body. Jumping to her feet she threw a couple punches at the man both connecting with his face, and gut finishing up with a spin kick to his

right temple. Lightning wasted no time as she continued to run on threw the now knee deep snow, the blizzard outside had picked up, and Lightning was now worried that she may

contract hypothermia before she found somewhere warm to hide. Should have taken time to think it through Light, good going Lightning thought as she felt herself begin to slow down

as she slowed to a walk which she struggled to do. With all the bad luck that had been bestowed upon her today another Shinra soldier appeared from her right. He grabbed her arm,

and twisted it behind her back, but Lightning got out of his hold by elbowing him in the nose breaking it on contact, spinning away from the man Lightning performed another spin kick

knocking the man unconscious, surprisingly she had not used her Blaze Edge yet. Lightning felt a blunt object smack into the small of her back, letting out a cry the young woman fell

into the snow. Rolling onto her back Lightning looked up to see yet another Shinra soldier standing over her, said soldier pulled her up by the collar of her turtleneck so she was at eye

level with him. Lightning kneed him in the gut the sudden pain making him drop her into the fluffy snow the strawberry blond jumped to her feet but the man had already recovered

and grabbed Lightning's arm. He twisted it so she fell against him leaning against his chest, then he took it a step further, and snapped the bone within. Lightning cried out in pain as

shefell back to the ground. Holding her broken arm the young woman moaned in pain hoping the cold would numb it soon enough, she rolled onto her side grabbing her Blaze Edge

and pointing the shaking gun at the man shooting round after round until she finally landed a head shot. The soldier fell into the fluffy snow as Lightning climbed to her feet, and staggered

off into an open plain-a barren open plain. Having no other choice the strawberry started into the open area it took twenty more minutes for Lightning to pass out, she fell into the snow

onto her knees, and breathed heavily until finally falling forward unconscious just as several dark figures emerged from the woods behind her.


"Arggh." Lightning groaned as she awoke the next day, opening her eyes she saw that she was in what looked like a pretty nice house. The young woman looked down to see she was

wearing a sling on her right arm Oh yeah that soldier broke my arm she reminded herself just as heavy footsteps resounded on the stairs as someone was going down them. Dropping

her head back on the pillow Lightning pretended to be asleep because she wasn't ready to face the inevitable mess that awaited her. The person who came down the stairs walked over

to the bed that was currently occupied by the strawberry blond, and sat in the chair beside the bed. Lightning flinched as the man-by the feel of his hand-started to stroke her cheek.

Her eyes flew open, and she turned to face him to find that he was an older man than herself with long silver hair that went down his back, he also has green cat eyes which freaked

Lightning out because she has never seen that before in her life. He wore a long black coat opened a bit at the chest area, and also adorned two white shoulder pauldrons one on each

shoulder. "Who are you?" Lightning questioned shakily as she went as far away from the man as possible to the edge of her bed.

"No need to be scared dear." The man spoke his voice seemed somewhat evil although he was trying to sound comforting-not exactly his forte Lightning thought to herself.

"And how do you justify that?" Lightning snapped back at the man "I'm in a place I don't even know, and don't even remember how I got here. I have a broken arm and theres a man I don't

who is petting me!" Lightning yelled out of fear.

"Just relax I won't hurt you." The man replied coolly to the young woman's anger.

"How am I supposed to believe you!? isin't this kidnap?" Lightning asked glancing around the room.

"Not necessarily. You were hurt and we saved your life." The silver haired man answered watching the young woman's nervous looking around her eyes not able to concentrate on a single

object for more than a second. "What do you mean?" She asked still not looking at him rather taking in the sights of the house-Lightning saw that the house was more like a large cabin

than a house as it was made completely of wood with no metal at all, and it had a fireplace a high roof and stairs leading up to the next floor in the upper right corner of the room. And the

bed that she was currently laying in was on what looked to be the main floor of the cabin resting against the east wall seeing as the front door was to her left twenty yards down.

"You passed out in that snowy field and my men found you half dead." The long haired man said grabbing her face and turning it to face him.

"So who are you?" Lightning asked frowning but did not pull away from the grasp the man had on her.

"I'm your father." He answered looking deep into his daughter's eyes.

"My...father?" Lightning asked her eyes wide and the nervousness somewhat leaving her body.


"What happened?" Jihl asked hastily as she quickly stepped through the front door to her children's home.

"Shinra troops came in bulk." Fang replied looking out the window seeing the many craters from the many explosions the company had left.

"Dammit." Jihl cursed walking further into the cabin which was left untouched save for the broken window upstairs. "Where's Lightning?" Jihl asked worried after she conducted a full search

of the house. "We don't know, we told her to run so she wouldn't get captured." Zack told his mother shrugging.

"Dammit! where do you think she could be?" Jihl asked wiping the gathered water from her glasses.

"There are footprints out back." Cloud answered gesturing to the back door of the cabin. "Several in fact."

"Oh man she didn't even have time to grab her coat." Fang said pointing to the piece of white clothing still hanging on the coat hanger untouched.

"She might have died from hypothermia." Cloud stated not seeming worried at all.

"Cloud you idiot! how can you not be worried!? That is your baby sister out there!" Zack yelled getting up in the spiky haired man's face. Cloud didn't answer he only stared at Zack and the

dark haired man saw the worry he had for his baby sister in his eyes. "Huh just can't say it out loud?" Zack asked as he backed up and retrieved his buster sword from a nearby closet.

The majority of the sword was black and the remaining color was a light silver, the handle was red and the bottom of the sword before the handle had a unique gold design.

"What are you doing?" Fang asked watching Zack retrieve his beloved sword.

"I'm going to go find her." He replied seriously his voice losing the joking tone it normally carried with it.

"Alright." She replied grabbing her own red spear from the same closet that carried all of the family members weapons.

"Where do you think they would take her?" Cloud asked Jihl as he retrieved his large silver buster sword from the closet.

"Your father has an outpost village not to far from here. I assume that's where he would be keeping her." Jihl explained to her kids as they all nodded in response.

"Oh right I remember that place!" Zack said brightly as he remembered spending some summer vacations in the very same village.

"Yeah yeah I never did like that place." Cloud muttered putting the sword on his back as Fang did the same with her spear.

"Oh come on Cloud I love that place." Fang grinned as the three siblings got all their weapons and supplies ready to go on their small trip.

"Be careful kids." Jihl said as she gace each of them a hug and bid farewell to head back to the PSICOM headquarters.

"Alright mom!" Zack replied cheerily as Jihl exited the cabin with a wave.

"Well let's get going already." cloud said sounding tired as he turned to head for the back door. "Fang are you coming?"

"So how easy do you think this will be?" Fang asked turning to face her older brothers.


Sorry if the wording is a little messed up I was on pain meds for my back and what not:P