Chapter 10 Warning
Sephiroth somehow was holding Kairi down with black fire pillars. "HOW DARE YOU! LET ME GO OR I'LL KILL YOU!" Cloud got his weapon and charged Sephiroth, but the attack was blocked by Sephiroth's arm. Sora helped Cloud, and Sephiroth pushed them away.
"What do you want now?" Tifa said helping Sora and Cloud up.
Sephiroth ignored her and stabbed Kairi on her right palm. She screamed in pain, and a mark appeared and disappeared in black smoke with. No one noticed the smoke going into a small box one out of two cloaked people on a high window edge and disappeared.
Sephiroth and the pillars quickly disappeared and Kairi woke up. "What am I doing here? Why am I bleeding?" Sora helped her up and hugged her.
"I'm glad you're back." The two followed Ren to her room and everyone else looked at Phoenix, who was sitting on a chair drinking beer.
"You're such a smartass." Riku said putting a hand to his head.
"Riku. Phoenix…" Phoenix payed no attention and just took another drink. Luna got mad and snatched the bottle away. "You're such a retard! You let Sephiroth in here and he could have killed everyone!"
"But he didn't. Do you want to know what I found or not?"
Leon walked up. "We're listening."
"Ryuu was at the basement level of the fortress with his followers, monsters, and Ares-King. There were bones in cages, bottled blood, etc. While I was there, an inmate was killed by a follower, a girl, who was taking out the eyes. You wouldn't want to know what they did to the body afterwards."
Everyone was silent and their faces looked pale. "Wait, how were you able to get out if all those people were down there?" Yuffie asked her voice sort of low. "I had anonymous help from someone you won't believe. Even if I told you, you'd think I'm lying."
"Try us." Cid said taking out his toothpick. "Sorry gramps, but no." Cid got mad and threw the toothpick at him. "Wiseass…"
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"YOU ARE COMPLETELY USELESS!" A hooded girl smashed a stone wall with her fist and was in rage toward the general. "WHY THE HELL WE KEEP YOU ALIVE IS SOMETHING THAT PISSES ME-"
"Calm down Thorn." A young man with long bronze hair, an eye patch over his left eye, said picking up the debris and putting them back where they were with the wave of his hand.
"AND YOU! IF YOU KILLED THAT DAMNED BROTHER OF YOURS WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE HE WOULDN'T HAVE COME HERE SERIF!"
"Enough." Ryuu's voice said through the box. "Serif has his reasons and we have what we need. All I need now is a heart for my true form. As for you, Ares-King," the general was shaking and staggering until he was at the wall, "you are of no use to me. But your heart is something I might require for my human body."
"N-no you will not! I kept my end of the deal! You promised not to harm me! Guards!" No answer. "Guards?"
"Sorry, they can't hear you, not where they are at least. Courtesy of Thorn." Serif said pointing to one of the piles of bone dust and blood. "Thorn, please get me my heart from this imbecile. And don't get too messy."
The girl took off her hood revealing all blood red eyes and very short gold hair, with creepy fangs and facial tattoos to top it off. Then she pulled a strand of hair and it became a long, thin metal whip. "My eating habits are never messy." She said as she licked her teeth.
"Master, what about those four? You know they may be necessary for the door."
"Patience, young one. We only need those boys to help with that. As for the girls, I have a feeling they will be having a family reunion with me. A heart from one of them can be good for my little pet."
Then there was a ripping and crunching sound. Serif turned around and found Thorn's mouth bloody, her eyes were just red at the iris, and was holding the heart (not the organ one) in a glass orb. The general was just a pile of blood and bone dust.
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"So, Riku's got a new girlfriend? He sure goes quickly." Kairi asked looking at her hand that is good as new. She got rid of her cloak and is wearing her pink outfit. She had been filled in on everything…even about Riku and Luna.
"Yep. They're even having a date tomorrow." Sora said grinning.
"Sora, why do you do this type of stuff?" Sole said eating a lollipop and rolling her eyes.
"That's how I am." He said laughing and hugging Kairi with one arm. "And you usually do this type of stuff." Sole stuck her tongue out. Riku and Luna came in and sat down on one of the benches. "So, are you okay Kairi?"
"Yep, I'm fine Riku. That girl next to you, is that your girlfriend?"
The two blushed, but Luna blushed a lot more, looking like a tomato. "Sora's idea, not mine." Sole said to Riku holding her hands up.
"I think we should go into the city." Kairi said.
"Why?" Sora asked in a complaining tone.
"Well, you, me, and Riku need new clothes." Riku and Sora were looking at their clothes that they've been wearing since they got here.
"Kairi, we've been able to keep ourselves and our clothes clean. Isn't that enough?" Sora said putting his hands behind his head. Everyone could have sworn there was a little twinkle to pursuade Kairi.
"Nope." Sora looked glum and unhappy. The thought of going with Kairi for shopping scared him.
"Yay! C'mon let's go!" Sole said almost knocking over a potted plant.
"Be careful. Yeah we can-um will you guys wait for me; I'll be in my room." Luna said covering a corner of her mouth with her hand.
"Sure. I'll get you when we're about to leave." Riku said putting a hand on her shoulder.
She left the room and headed for her room. Luna went in her room and closed the door. She went to a mirror and wiped something at the corner of her mouth. Then she looked at it, it was black blood. Some more spilled out of the corner of her mouth again.
"It's getting worse isn't it?" Sephiroth appeared sitting on a chair near the window.
"Why are you here? Get out."
"Message from Aerith. Of course, it will be my way and not her pacifistic one."
Luna turned around and was confused. "You know where Aerith is? And why would she talk to you?"
"It was necessary for her to. She can't come here because of maintaining balance in the worlds business. Besides, this concerns you all…including Sole."
She got mad and sent a huge ice shard at him, but he grabbed it and threw it out the window. "Now, let's try not to kill each other here." Sephiroth stood up. "You were destined to sacrifice your heart the day of the attack on that island world. Of course there was a warning earlier, but you didn't listen."
"Because I will not leave my sister and my friends now."
"But you know what happens when you don't get it over with on time."
Luna gasped and kneeled on the floor. She coughed and a little black blood was on the floor. Some was on her hand and she glared at Sephiroth.
"Exactly the dusk of the day of the attack the person next on the line will experience some pain. The heart will start dying until an unfortunate yet destined death falls upon that said person, or the heart dies out."
"Go to hell. I'm not listening to you."
"It's the truth." Sephiroth took out a light blue flower that had a lot of petals missing and was a bit withered. It was also showing a black aura around it. "This even proves it. Of course, you know what this is."
Luna raised her head up. "Just tell me as if I don't know."
"This shows how much time someone has left to live. Everyone has one. When all the petals are gone and it is completely wilted and dead, so is that person."
"Screw it. Like that thing is true."
A petal fell off and disappeared in tiny sparks when it touched the floor. Luna felt a sharp pain in her heart and lowered her head.
"Are you sure? It looks like your life got shortened a bit. Why are you being so persistent? Is it your bonds of friends? The need to care for your sister?"
Luna was silent and unmoving. "Maybe it is love?" She quickly turned her head to him and he grinned.
"What a tragedy. A young girl stares death in the eye because of love."
Her eyes started to swell with tears and she felt her voice leaving her in fear. Her face looked as fearful as a caged animal ready to be fed to the lions. Sephiroth walked over and took her chin.
"Either way, Luna, your friends, Sole, and Riku will find you. And once Riku sees you, cold and limp, he will wish for his end to come. But he won't get it that easily. Of course there is, I don't know, jumping off a cliff or whatever the hell humans do for suicide these days. That is, if he really cares for you that much."
She bent her head down and cupped her head in her hands. Luna started silently crying and Sephiroth just grinned, "Hmmm, I guess I got some pain out of this after all." He disappeared in black feathers and darkness.
A/n: Me: Finally! Number 10!
Riku: She's happy. (Doorbell rings)
Sora: I'll get it. (Sora leaves for a moment and comes back.)
Me: Who is it?
Sora: Oh it's just Sephiroth. (There is silence and I have a creeped out look on my face.)
Me: Well, it might take a while for me to get the next chapter. But I'll be having a new story...and please R&R. Now I'll be going off to Alaska to escape...
Sephiroth: Going somewhere?
Me: Riku or Sora, please tell me you have Cloud's number.
Riku and Sora: Nope.
Me: Oh...RUN-! (Robotic voice says "we're experiencing technical difficulties" and there is static on the TV.)