The Black Threads of Fate
Chapter 7: Killing
The one winged angel rocketed through the air at supersonic speeds the wind creating frost on his silvery hair and trench coat. As he neared Wutai he sensed Vincent and sent a psychic burst of energy that would have knocked out any mortal but knew that it would simply alert Vincent to his arrival.
'It is fitting that the servants should know when the master arrives…' he thought to himself. He stopped suddenly, the change in speed producing a sonic boom, he looked around the area as he looked down to find that girl and Vincent.
'Yes...the Wutai do know how to fight...she could be an asset...if only for temporarily..…' he found his mind slipping into the gutter
'Get your mind out of there Sephiroth...Am I really that desperate?' he asked himself still hovering in air
'Has it been so long since I looked upon someone with care? Has it been so long since I have felt anything?' he pushed those thoughts aside
'...plus for me to even consider taking a mate, she would have to be at least 1/2 Cetra.…' he thought as he descended slowly, majestically, and deadly in front of Yuffie and Vincent. He felt the girl run into his toned chest and bounce off. Sephiroth achieved an almost impossible feat by rolling his eyes, catching the girl and standing her back up in the same motion.
"Watch where you are going girl...someone less forgiving might make you pay for it..." he said softly as his bright green eyes stared into her eyes casting their spell. He moved a silvery lock from his face gracefully then broke eye contact and moved to talk to Vincent
"Vincent...I have need of you...before your primary mission...you must meet me at the edges of Midgar...we shall destroy it...I expect you to be strong enough to do what needs to be done..." he looked at Vincent expectantly waiting to hear his response.
Yuffie stood there in a daze, confused as to what had just happend.
'Damn...he showed up again and I ran right into him...I'm getting too clumsy all of a sudden.' She overheard Sephiroth's comments about Midgar and looked up, staring at him in anger. She had been to the city many times before, and although she knew it was destroying the planet with it's lifestream use a large quantity of the people were good hearted: They didn't deserve to die.
"If you destroy that city then thousands of people will die! You can't do that!" She shouted. She didn't care how cold or dark Sephiroth was: She'd do anything to keep decent people from getting hurt. No one deserved to die just because one major corporation rooted in a city was destroying everything.
Her new burst of determination to save the humans put Yuffie into a new light for Vincent.
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'Silly
girl, bravery, yes, but Sephiroth is not one who will casually argue
with you. He would rather slice you in two…'
On the topic
of Midgar, however, he truly did not care either way; if the people
died, he would get a little practice and if they did not, then the
world continued to slowly die, inevitably decreasing their life
spans.
Either way, the humans die.
Vincent lightly gripped
Yuffie's shoulder(which, being not entirely human, made his group
quite strong) and pulled her back, away from Sephiroth and next to
himself. Yuffie, now relatively safer from any impulse Sephiroth
could act on, Vincent took a few steps closer to the silver-haired,
fallen angel. The metal of his boots was hushed by the ground beneath
his feet, making his movements seem even more eerie than usual.
"I have been getting a bit rusty, I am in need of the practice."
Sephiroth's lips peeled back into a smile
"Excellent my friend, will your..." he motioned with his head towards Yuffie
"..girl be coming? if so I expect her to know her place and to not get in the way..." he said honestly while thinking
'Though it would be a shame to spill blood so young...especially when she could have her future uses…' he chuckled to himself
'I really am becoming too much like mother.' he thought. He put a gloved hand on Vincent's shoulder and smiled
"You're more of a warrior than I remember, I value your help Vincent...if you need any equipment...I am sure my old stash would be of use to you and your girlfriend over there." he said laughing a little. Then he moved past Vincent to look Yuffie in the eyes as his expression softened a little
"Do not fret girl, your village is safe...the Wutai have always had a code of honor that I have always treasured..." he held up his gloved hand and took off his left glove revealing a Wutai tatoo that meant Caged Dragon though Sephiroth didn't know that.
"A Wutai warrior gave this to me when I spared this village...so do not think me so cold as to slaughter those with honor..." he put a gloved hand on her head and ruffled her hair lightly
"As long as you stay on my good side you won't have to meet my soul mate...Masamune..." The deadly sword always hung at his belt, long, graceful and deadly just like it's master. He turned to Yuffie and Vincent after stepping back a couple of steps.
"So then, are you ready?"
Yuffie stared wide-eyed at Vincent, her mouth agape in shock.
'He's siding with that horrible man!? How could he do such a terrible thing!?' She gritted her teeth and watched Vincent angrily. She thought he was a nice man, but judging by what's going on now she determined that it was all one big lie. Vincent was an evil man just like Sephiroth, and they were going to cause nothing but destruction. She thought of taking out her shuriken...but then her eyes darted to the Masamune. The huge weapon had killed hundreds of people in the past: She had even vaguely seen it in use before. She realized that she could do nothing anymore. She was just a pawn, and it would be impossible for her to stop whatever the two were planning: She was only one person, and she was much to weak to be a formidable enemy to the two men. All she could do was clench her fists and grit her teeth as she watched the two speak.
Vincent did not fail to hear the tone in which Sephiroth said 'girlfriend', nor did he fail to see the look of disgust on Yuffie's face.
'The
girl is finally seeing me for the monster I am, eh? She will be safer
that way.'
Hearing
Sephiroth speak of weapons and secret stash, Vincent proceeded to
pull out his own, the one thing in his life he truly knew and
understood, his Death Penalty.
"I have my own means." He said curtly, trying to avoid any questions about ammo or his transformations.
"Sephiroth, Cloud is in Midgar. With AVALANCHE."
'Cloud…' the name seemed to stick out in Yuffie's head for some reason. She remembered hearing a name like that before: Something about a rogue member of SOLDIER leaving Midgar to do something else or something along those lines. She wasn't the kind of person who read many things (after all she was too busy "hunting" materia) so she wasn't exactly sure whether or not the image in her mind was true. Either way, he seemed important.
Yuffie heard a squeak come out of her mouth.
"Are you going to kill him?" She heard the question before she realized it was her who was speaking it. She stepped back a little bit, unsure of whether or not the two men would try to kill her. Without realizing it, being friendly with Vincent had gotten her into deeper hot water than she could imagine, and she wasn't about to take any chances now that she realized it was happening.
"I
have no intention of killing him. He is like me."
Vincent
regretted having to intentionally distance himself from Yuffie; she
seemed like a nice girl, but just speaking with Sephiroth and himself
could get her into more trouble than she could ever conceive.
Hearing Yuffie's comment about Cloud being an ex-SOLDIER, his
hope for answers grew. Cloud was once involved with Shinra and he
himself had been experimented on, meaning he would at least be privy
to more information than he was.
"He
is a monster like I am." He muttered under his breath.
Now
all he cared about was finding Cloud and getting the information he
knew before Sephiroth could instruct him otherwise, so Vincent would
be forced to be a pawn for Sephiroth, that is, if he wanted the
answers he so vehemently sought.
