So, chapter four is up and the reason it took me so long is because of school. D: But anyways! It's here now~ Hope you like it!

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A party of six could be seen near Mideel's Grasslands, they had set up camp there and four of them were currently sparring each other while the other two were resting from their walk from Mideel.

"Keep it up, you're improving!"

Genesis swung at his sister's side and she dodged quickly, flipping over and lashing out with her fists which struck the Red Commander's right shoulder, pushing him back a little but Genesis retaliated quickly with a sharp strike to Christina's stomach, sending her flying back and crashing on the ground.

Christina groaned and climbed back up, "Damn it," before charging her brother once more. On the other side of the two, Angeal and Elain were also fighting, exchanging blows at a rapid speed, but not fast enough to match up to the speed of a SOLDIER.

'Keep right, dodge, punch, swing, parry..."

Elain's thoughts were on autopilot as she fought her brother, noting down her moves as she analyzed Angeal's. She slowly lost herself in her thoughts though, and was beaten by the SOLDIER of honor.

Angeal smiled and shook his head as he extended a hand to his sister and said, "Focus, Elain, focus."

Elain smiled sheepishly, "Yeah..."

"What were you thinking earlier?"

"My moves? And analyzing yours..."

Angeal shook his head, "You have to do that subconsciously, you can't expect to focus on a fight when you're thinking of your own attacks. You have to observe the enemy and exploit their weakness—if they have one, that is. You got it right on the analyzing part, but don't get lost in your thoughts so easily."

Elain nodded and slid into her battle stance, "Let's give it another shot," with that, the fight continued.

Time skip...

For the fifth time, Christina was on her back, again. "Ughhh, crap." She tried to get up but failed and decided to be content by just lying there. Genesis smiled and walked up to where his sister had landed and said, "Want to catch a break?" the SOLDIER First himself hardly broke a sweat. "That would be nice, thanks, Gen," Genesis pulled his sister up and helped her walk over to their campsite, Angeal and Elain following behind.

"Here, you four must be very hungry," Gillian ladled some broth into bowls that the widow packed before leaving Banora and served them to the pair of siblings.

"Thanks, mom,"

"Thanks, Mrs Hewley,"

Silence filled the area for awhile as the two pairs of siblings ate their late lunch. That is when a loud beeping noise emanated from Angeal's pocket, startling everyone and they froze. Angeal slowly reached for his pocket and took out the offending item which turned out to be his PHS.

"What is it?" Elain looked nervous, Angeal gingerly flipped open the device and sighed in relief, he cast the others an apologetic look, "It was a notification from the mission log," the SOLDIER was about to close the device when he saw what the new mission was really all about.

"Damn,"

Genesis tensed and Angeal said, "Shin-Ra is sending out a team of SOLDIERs to give the areas surrounding Banora a sweep, we have to move,"

"Trying to sweep us out, for sure," The Red Commander muttered grudgingly before he ordered everyone to pack up and move. In less than ten minutes the party of six were ready to go and began moving swiftly across the Grasslands. They encountered a couple of monsters which was quickly dealt with by the Copy and Angeal before arriving at the shores as the sun was setting down.

"So, how are we gonna cross?"

Christina glanced at her brother as he smiled darkly, ruffling the feathers of his brought out wing, "My wing, how else?" "But Angeal can't fly, that makes four of us who can't fly and two of you who can," Elain protested, "If you and Nico—" here the younger Hewley nodded at the Copy, "Fly back and forth just to take us across, we'll be losing a lot of time and Shin-Ra may spot us from the skies easily if they choose to send in some choppers."

Genesis thought for a moment and sighed, "I do not want this to happen so early...but, Angeal, can you bring out your wing?" Said SOLDIER looked startled, "What? I don't even know how I'm supposed to do that,"

The Red Commander smiled slightly and said, "You can feel it inside, you can tell that it's folded behind your back. Focus on the feeling of flying, imagine that you have wings...that sort of thing. That's how I brought mine out and it worked." Here Genesis's smile faded, "But it will trigger your degradation early..."

Angeal gazed at his childhood friend and said solemnly, "For my sister and my mother I will do it. After all, we might find the cure,"

"And if we don't?"

The SOLDIER of honor shrugged before closing his eyes and focusing his thoughts on flying, feathers, and etcetera... It took quite some time before something twinged on Angeal's right shoulder, he immediately latched onto that feeling and began to slowly get a grasp on the entire shape and size of his extra appendage, or rather, appendages.

"Huh,"

"What?" Everyone chorused together in curiosity, "I have two wings on my right side," Angeal mused as he continued his attempts to bring out his wings and succeeded, after a brief moment of strain. Angeal grunted as the skin behind his back split open and two white wings unfurled from it, blood seeping out of the open fissure.

"Woah...they're beautiful," Elain murmured as she stared at her brother's wings in awe. Angeal blinked at his sister, "You think so?"

"I know so,"

Everyone looked at Gillian who was gazing at her son with a smile on her face. "Okay! So, me, Commander Rhapsodos and Commander Hewley can fly now, problem solved. Can we please get a move on?" Nico, the Copy, bounced a bit on the balls of his feet nervously.

Soft laughter broke out from Genesis and he agreed, "Let's go, guys, Nico, I trust you to take care of my sister," he then gently swung the younger Hewley into his arms and took flight. Angeal smiled and reached out for his mother as Nico once again, like that time in Banora, carried the auburn haired female and they began their journey to Fort Condor.


Tseng of the Turks leaned back in his chair, allowing a tiny sigh to escape from his lips. He had opened all the files that were available to him and yet he could not find a single thing on the mystery girl in Banora. He had also tried to access Hojo's files but he simply did not have the clearance to do so and hacking into them would only bring out more unnecessary questions.

And Tseng hates not knowing something.

"Troublesome..."

Tseng bit out his frustration in his native tongue before dejectedly turning his attention to all the other reports on his desk when he noticed new mail in the SOLDIER side. Upon clicking on the link and reading the mail, Tseng instantly grabbed his PHS and dialed a familiar number.

"Zack,"

"Hey, Tseng! What's up?"

"Have you heard of the latest SOLDIER mission?"

"Uh, yeah, why?"

"Do you know what that means?"

There was a pregnant pause on the other end before Zack slowly answered, "You think that Angeal and the others are still somewhere nearby? That's why they're sending out a search party, right?"

"Very good, and most likely to tie up any lose ends that have been left unattended to. The reason I called is because I saw that your friend, Kunsel, is going on that mission."

Tseng could practically see the startled and surprised look on Zack's face on the other end and had to suppress a smile.

"Uhh, yeeaahhh? And, what has it got to do with me?" Zack sounded lost from the way he dragged out the first two words.

"Tell Kunsel to be alert and look for any clues regarding our mission in Banora yesterday, I want to know the true identity behind the girl."

"Hmm, okay, ya got it!" Zack cheerfully answered before hanging up.

Tseng smiled and relaxed slightly, turning to his other work with more ease knowing that someone will be keeping an eye out for details and clues.


"Spread out and find them! If they're not there, then just patrol around and make sure there's nothing suspicious left behind, got it?!"

"Sir!"

The few SOLDIERs on this mission fanned out with some infantrymen as they began to carry out their objective. The infantrymen came with them because SOLDIER was really shorthanded right now, what with all the deserters.

Luckily for Kunsel, he was assigned in Mideel, so he could easily fish out whatever Zack wanted him to. After everyone else had spread out to the other parts of the town, Kunsel did the logical thing and headed straight for the inn because he knew that by this time their adversaries would have already escaped town.

When he arrived, he immediately began interrogating the innkeeper, "Excuse me, but have you received any new guests lately?"

The innkeeper, a portly man, looked nervous and surprised at the same time as he stared at the SOLDIER in front of him. Nervous because he knew he was going to be interrogated and surprised because he totally had not expected this question.

"Um, yes, six of them, in fact. One of them seemed to be SOLDIER and there was...Commander Hewley and Commander Rhapsodos with two girls and a woman. They left real early this morning and haven't come back since."

'So they did come here, and left...two girls though, the woman must be Angeal's mother.' Kunsel then casually leaned on the counter, "Tell me about the girls, describe them,"

The innkeeper swallowed, "Right, well, the first one looked a lot like Commander Hewley, and the second one looked like...well, she looked exactly like Commander Rhapsodos in terms of appearances and seemed a little sick, like as if she just recovered from something. Oh, and the SOLDIER had a black wing sprouting out of his right shoulder."

Kunsel's eyes widened behind his helmet when he heard that, 'No way! Genesis has a sister too?! And the wing thing must be some sort of glitch from the Jenova experiments, but...right, the SOLDIER's a Copy.' Composing himself, Kunsel carried on questioning, "Did you notice anything weird about the girls?"

"Hmm, oh yeah, they had the same mako glow you SOLDIER types have," Here the innkeeper chuckled nervously, hoping that the information he supplied would be enough.

Kunsel was silent for a moment before thanking the innkeeper for his time. Upon exiting the inn, the Second typed in the info he gathered into his PHS and sent it all to Zack before resuming his duties.

Kunsel knew that he, Zack and Tseng were really treading in deep waters now. Whoever the girls are, they definitely had something to do with the Science Department, especially with the Jenova Project.

Back in Midgar...

Zack was reading the message that Kunsel just sent him with blank shock. Angeal has a sister and now even Genesis of all people has a twin! What is this world coming to? Shaking his head, the usually bouncy Second whispered, "I can't believe this..." before forwarding message to Tseng.

As Zack waited for the Turk's reply, he ran through all the events that led up to this in his head, 'First, Genesis defects for a personal reason, thus the appearance of copies. Then, he must have discovered the girls' existence and told Angeal, the girls must have been found and freed somewhere, and they decided to run off because they want to protect the girls from Shin-Ra...understandable, but what am I going to say to Sephiroth? Damn it! Should I even tell him?'

Zack's PHS vibrated and the SOLDIER quickly answered the call from Tseng, "You got anything?"

"I see now, it's definitely tied to the Science Department, but I don't have clearance to access the files I want,"

Zack hesitated for a moment, 'Should I tell him about Kunsel's laptop? After all, he has all the information in there...' "Kunsel has it, he's got the reports and everything,"

There was a pause before Tseng spoke, "I'm guessing that he hacked into the Science Department's database,"

"Uh, yeah, I think so,"

"I want them, meet me in my office,"

With that, the call cut off and Zack was left at a loss of what to tell his best friend when he came back to find that his precious treasure trove was gone. Knowing how Turks can be, Zack just groaned out loud and smacked his forehead, "Ain't gonna make this easy for me, isn't he?"

Sighing, the SOLDIER hit a quick text to his best friend before heading off to Kunsel's room to get his laptop.


Unknown location...

In a semi dark room, a silver haired girl was inside an active mako tank, silver locks floating around her frame as she breathed evenly. Her eyes opened for a second, allowing her to see a blurred out science laboratory as pain seized her body once more.

Closing her eyes, the girl felt a sense of desperation and hope as she latched onto a presence that she had found using the Jenova cells inside her. Knowing that she would not be awake for long, the girl pushed her emotions through the connection to the presence and sent one word along with it: Help!

The skies above the sea between the eastern continent and the island chain where Mideel is located...

The party of six were flying smoothly overhead, having encountered no obstacles so far. Christina was enjoying the ride when she felt pain striking her head all of a sudden.

"Ugh! Ouch,"

"Are you alright?" Genesis asked, concerned, as everyone cast worried looks at the younger Rhapsodos. "Yeah, just a sudden flash of pain, that's all," Christina murmured, touching her temple. "You sure it's nothing, Christi?" Elain asked her friend.

"Yeah..."

Even as the auburn haired girl was saying this, she felt a rush of emotions that were not hers, a riptide of fear and desperation when she heard a soft, frightened, "Help!" in her head. A flash of something appeared in her mind's eye but it was gone before Christina could make anything out of it. But she was sure it was some sort of hidden dark room and that there was someone out there, calling for help.

But who?

A little tired, Christina closed her eyes and decided to take a short nap as the setting sun threw a soft light around them.


Any ideas where Sephiroth should come in? Like when is he going to be sent out to pursue his friends and he couldn't say no about it? Or like when is he going to discover Project Jenova and everything. Tell me in the reviews, thanks a bunch~

-Ninniacthel