Xejicka: Hey! It's me and Thalkxene again with chapter 7. This time we have a special guest.
Thalkxene: Say hello to rikufanattic! (A portal appears and out comes rikufanattic)
Xejicka: Hello it's nice to see that your here.
rikufanattic: It's nice to be here and Xejicka, I agree with everything Thalkxene says about Sephiroth.
Xejicka: WTF!
Thalkxene and rikufanattic: Sephiroth fangirls unite!
Xejicka: Dammit, just do the disclaimer, Thlkxene.
Disclaimer: Xejicka does not own the kingdom Hearts Series, the Final Fantasy Series or the actual being that is of Fate, only the OCs
Xejicka: Look this is going to be a serious chapter so lets talk about something that we can all agree on while we still remain happy. 3..2..1..
All: We love you Riku!
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Chapter 7: Fate and Pain
The being from the portal walked up to Sephiroth. Kathleen could finally see who the being was. it was a young woman that looked like she was in her early twenties wearing a lavish purple robe that billowed out at the bottom and sleeves, it fit snuggly around her small waist, the shoulders were cut out out with two silver threads covering little of the revailed flesh on each shoulder. She had a long, mauve v-neck shirt that had a zipper in the middle under the robe, with dark billowing pants with a pair of lilac flats on her feet. She had a violet witch's hat on, a small hourglass tied to the side the pupil in her red right eye looked like the three arms of a clock, her other eye was covered by her short, grauing purple hair. She donned a necklace with another small hourglass on it and she held a staff that have three small clock arms floating between two prongs that stuck up from the top of the staff..
"Hello, Fate," Sephiroth said to the woman.
"Hello again, Sephiroth," Fate said to him calmly.
"Any reason why you are here?" he asked with a hint of impatience in his voice.
"I came to check up on you. I see that you finally got Kathleen," she said as she walked toward Kathleen. She got up from the ground, she was now eye to eye with Fate. "You hate your uniform, don't you?" she asked Kathleen, she nodded at this. "Sephiroth, fetch Kathleen something more comfortable, I can easily see the discomfort in her eyes," a smile widened on Fate's face as she looked at the teenager in front of her. "Hello, I'm Fate," she said to the gaping teen as she extended her right hand.
Jackie felt herself falling, falling into a darkness that felt like liquid and yet she could breathe. Her eyes were closed and she kept falling into the dark abyss. Then she opened her eyes. She felt herself turn and something solid formed under her feet. She lookeddown and suddenly hundreds and thousands of origami cranes started to fly away from around her feet only to reveal a large glowing mosaic platform appear. Surrounding the edge of the platform was fourteen silver circles. In each circle was a mosaic design of a person. She looked closely at each circle and noticed that each one contained an image of a member of Organization XIII or Namine. The rest of a platform was a dark blue color, except for the center, which had a heart shaped moon.
She walked to the center of the platform when she heard an ominous voice speak. "Immergite intus pectus pectoris. Operor non timeo. Lux lucis ero vestri rector quod vos ero suus populus. Vos mos intereo tunc orior oriri ortus quondam interum. Vos es non validus subterlabor Fortuna." As soon as those words were finished a giant platinum key fell from the darkness and onto the platform, shattering it into thousands of peices.
Jackie was falling again, she was falling with mosaic shards and the giant key. She grabbed the key and a dim light formed underneath her. she felt solid ground beneath her feet again and saw before her dozens of women fighting. All of them had a unique weapon and choice of clothing, they were fighting against each other. none of them seemed to notice Jackie's presence yet.
She stepped forward with the key still in her hand. One by one at a rapid rate, each woman stopped her fighting. they stared at Jackie with their weapons still drawn. She tried to look at the faces of each female, but then reality as she knew shattered. She was back in the darkness again but there was something soft and plushy in her arms. It felt like a stuffed animal she had at home. she opened her eyes to see two round circles.
Jackie jumped to the opposite corner of her bed. the two round circles belonged to a head, the head belonged to a body, the body belonged to what looked like Mickey Mouse. She let out a small wail as she prodded the mouse with her foot. To her releif it was a plush toy, nothing more, nothing less. It wasn't the fact that the toy was of Mickey Mouse that freaked her out. It was the fact that it donned the same exact same outfit he wore in Kingdom Hearts II.
She crawled toward the stuffed animal but for some reason, her butt hurt and some other part of her body had a bunch of pressure on it. She didn't know what it was so she put her on her rump to see what caused it pain. She let out a small high pitchscream. there was something sticking out of the tip of her spine. She traced where the odd protrusion led to, only to find that her knees were on part of the long protrusion. Jackie held it, she jumped out of the bed and ran to the window to see what the protrusion was.
Jackie traced the now visibly almost black and fuzzy protrusion from her butt to the tip, she did this several times as she started to breathe very hard. "Oh my God! I got a tail!" she shouted as she figured out what it was. Her heart was racing so fast and then she passed out.
After what felt like an hour in the unconsious, Jackie felt herself being lifted from the marble floor and placed onto her bed. Then she felt a set of lips touch hers and out of sheer reflex she slapped the kisser. The sound of one stumbling onto the floor and a peice of metal breaking followed by the sound of a portal appearing and disappearing filled her ears. She got up from the bed and looked at the floor.
There was a peice of metal on the ground and she picked it up. By God, it was the exact same one as before. "Why would Demyx kiss me? Is this bad karma or something?" she asked herself. A glow was emtting underneath the peice of metal in her right hand. She dropped the metal and saw that the words on her palm were glowing. There were too many weird things going on, she had to find Vexen. Now.
As the teens were running upstairs, Matt stuck behind to talk to the moogles. "What happened to Lee Ann? I thought she went with you to get the weapons and armor," he asked the well dressed moogle that was flying in front of him.
"She did, kupo, but she she was hungry as we were synthesizing and Mog gave her some of our specialty nuts," the moogle replied.
"So?"
"She turned into a moogle! She lost alll of her memories too!"
"What?!"
"We only managed to teach her her name, kupo, and her favorite word that she always uses. While we were synthesizing, Lee Ann got distracted and wandered off. We haven't found her since."
"Are you kidding me? We can't find her now! We need to train more so we can get to a place of refuge. Things have been going to Hell since Earth disappeared. This doesn't make any since, Earth shouldn't have been destroyed, Organization XIII is alive, none of this should be possible." Matt said angrily.
"It can be," said Diz, Matt stepped back as he let Diz get included in the conversation, "Have you ever heard of Fate?" he asked Matt.
Jackie rumaged through the wardrobe, looking for a pair of gloves. She couldn't afford to have anyone else seeing the glowing letters on her hand. She finally found some fingerless gloves and a pair of black boots. She quickly put them on and started to run to Vexen's lab.
For once, Jackie didn't get lost and she found the door to the lab. She rushed in there to find Vexen sitting at one of the tables, he was working on an experiment. "Vexen! What he Hell did you do to me?!" she shouted at him, her tail was dragging behind her. Vexen looked up from his work and noticed the angry Jackie and her tail.
With a smirk on his face he replied "Ah.. that. That was the result of those two pills you took earlier."
"What were they for exactly?" Jackie asked with growing rage in her voice.
"A.D.D. and a controlled berserker form,"
"A controlled berserker form? That doesn't even make any sense. It's an oxymoron. You have any better explanation?"
"It was supposed to turn you into a berserker, but it looks like the A.D.D. medicine and the berserker serum cancelled each other out. The results must've created your tail as well as some other things..." he said, staring at Jackie. She didn't like the look he had on his face, he was staring at her, her head at least. She put her hair behind her ears only to notice something scary about them, they were pointy! And her hair, it had grown an extra two feet!
Jackie let a small, vicious growl but then halted as she remembered what she came down to the lab for in the first place. She ran to Vexen's side, ripping off her glove. "Vexen, do you have any idea what this means?" she asked, showing him the glowing text in her hand. He stared at it for a few minutes before he said anything.
"This was not the result of any of my work," Vexen finally stated.
"What?! Are you fricken' kidding me? Glowing tattoos don't just happen! Tattoos don't just happen! I want an explanation, now!" Jackie shouted, rage was growing inside her. Her nearly hazel eyes were now slowly turning yellow, her fang teeth were growing and sharpening as well as all of her finger nails. Her voice was turning into a montrous one one and she let out a sharp growl when a gloved hand gribbed hers tightly.
The hand was pulled up to the face of Xemnas. He read the glowing words, Jackie was almost lifted off the floor, still in her ever growing berserker form. "You want an explanation? I'll give you one," Xemnas said in his cold voice to Jackie as he opened a portal with his free hand.
"Wait! I need to get a blood sample!" shouted the Chilly Academic as he tried to get near the berserker. Xemnas stopped him with his foot.
"Don't worry, there will be plenty of blood," Xemnas assured Vexen. There was a small smile forming on his malevolent face . Jackie tried to pull herself away, but Xemnas still had a strong hold on her as he dragged her into the darkness. The portal vanished as soon as they entered it.
"It worked..." Vexen said as he stared at the spot where Xemnas and Jackie disappeared at.
Jackie found herself at the very top of the castle that never was. She saw Xemnas walking toward the edge nearest to the heart shaped moon. She was still in her berserker state, full of rage, she ran to the nobody. Her claws were drawn and sharp and she jumped. ready to land on, stab and kill him. Out of nowhere a hand grabbed her head and gripped it very tightly.
She let out an inhuman wail that could be heard all over The World That Never Was as she felt nails digging into her skull. Back at Memory's skyscraper a short, brown haired girl named Sara halted her fighting with shadows as she looked up at the top of the castle. Two silhouettes were there. One was cloaked and had his right arm lifted. A small feminine form that almost looked conected to the arm was hopelessly flailing, trying to escape. Sara let out a small gasp at this. "Jackie," she said silently with worry in her voice. Unfortunately she didn't have time to do that as she quickly hacked at a shadow that tried to pounce on her.
"DO NOT EVER TRY THAT AGAIN!" Xemnas shouted loud and bold at Jackie. She was flailing, she tried to reach his arm, but hers would hardly move. "Now tell me what our fate is," he demanded in a forceful tone. She was still flailing wildly, she didn't have any idea what he meant at all. She looked around herself the best she could. She looked beyond the edge of the floor she was on when she saw a sight that almost made her stop. She saw the top of Memory's Skyscraper, on it was her friend Sara. She was staring right at Jackie, worry was written on her face.
A tear rolled Jackie's cheek. She reverted back into her more human form. Xemnas' grip on her head hurt even more. She turned her sad gaze to Xemnas' fiery orange eyes, thos accursed eyes that seemed to etch into her soul. "What is our fate?"he asked jackie, his nonexistant rage and grip tightening with every word.
"I... don't...know!" she answered weakly, tears were now streaming down her face. Blood was starting to pour from the nails in her head.
"You...are...lying!" Xemnas shouted as he summoned his glowing red sword in his left hand. At the instant he jabbed it into her stomach. Jackie let out another peircing cry. The pain was unbearable as she wished for death to come. Blood was falling everywhere. Xemnas hacked the glowing saber to the left as Jackie felt some of her organs rip apart. She never knew real pain until this very moment. A final scream that could almost be heard almost all over the worlds was let out, and then silence.
A lone moogle was standing in front of the entrance of the castle. She had on a small pair of glasses, a long blue t-shirt with a balt at the waist, a set of jean shorts and a poofy sandy blond pom pom on its head. it looked up in horror at the top of the castle. There was a person, no, a girl, being brutally slain up there. The moogle jumped into flight to investigate the situation.
Everything was starting to fade in Jackie's vision. She saw Xemnas with a look of dissatisfaction in his soulless gaze. She was feeling light-headed from the loss of blood. She saw Xemnas walk to the edge closest to the moon. Xemnas held the limp almost lifeless body body over the edge and dropped Jackie. The last thing she saw before drifting into the darkness was the shine of those accursed eyes that belonged to her killer. A smile cutting into his face as he looked at her, then at Kingdom Hearts.
Kathleen shook Fate's hand. "It's nice to see that somebody around here has some decent manners," Fate told her. Kathleen nodded. FAte turned her head to Sephiroth, who was croutching down on the ground. He looked like he was making something, but Kathleen couldn't tell what it was. Fate started to talk again. "Sephiroth, I brought some aid."
"What? Fate, I don't need any help," he responded coldly
"It's not for you, it's for Kathleen. You're plenty strong enough as it is. Besides, oyu're not the one to talk, especially with the deal we made,' she pointed out to him. She planted her staff hard into the ground. She backed away as a wispy white portal formed around it. Fate extended her arms into the portal and pulled out two unconsious guys.
You didn't have to bring him did you?" Sephiroth asked with disgust in his voice as he looked at one of the unconsious guys.
"I had to, Sephy, both of them. The white haired one was wandering aimlessly, without a purpose. I proposed him an offer and he accepted. As for Reno, he was just so darn cute. He saw me use a portal and I didn't want to erase his memories, so I gave him an offer and he also accepted, seeing that he had nothing to do at the time."
"Why are they knocked out then?" Kathleen fearfully asked as she jumped into the conversation.
"Oh that. It's the main flaw of my portals. For some reason when a person uses one for the first time, they get knocked out," Fate explained to Kathleen. "Sephy! Get Kathleen her clothes, now!" she ordered. He did as told and handed a bundle of clothes to Kathleen. She held them in her arms when a sudden stabbing pain hit her in the back. She fell over on the ground, losing consiousness. Poor Kathleen had no idea what was going on as she saw Fate's feet next to her face. And that was the last thing she saw before falling into darkness.
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Thalkxene: Xejicka are you okay? (walks over to a crying Xejicka and tries to console her)
rikufanattic: Don't worry, we have a Sephiroth plush we can give you so you can stop crying.
Xejicka: It's not that, it's worse. So much worse. There's something big coming and I have to hide. I just hate what I had to do.
Thalkxene: There can'tpossibly be anything wrong that may have been caused by your stor- (The wall next to all three girls explode with the sound of One Winged Angel starting to play)
Xejicka: Fate, you bitch, you cause me pain.
rikufanattic: Wait, is that-
Xejicka; Just start running, I deserve it with this guilt.
Thalkxene: Read and reveiw! I have to see what's wrong with Xejicka. There will be a next chapter. See ya then.
Xejicka: Do not forget to include your gender in your reveiw because you will be in my next chapter. If you want to add a brief physical description so I can describe you, do it, it's only optional.
(dark silhouette comes out of the shadows in the whole in the wall)
