Chapter 11- In the Corel Corral.
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Unstable Railway
"AHHH!" Cloud screamed for the third time as her fell through the crappy railway again.
"I have to say…" I said looking down at Cloud from the hole he made. "It is rather nice not to be the butt end of funny coincidence."
"SOMEBODY PUSH HIS ASS DOWN WITH ME!"
I felt a presence trying to sneak up behind me. "Zack. If you even dare. I will make due on my threat to toss someone to the Golden Saucer" I growled.
"What did you find this time spiky!?" Barret yelled down to Cloud. Somehow he kept finding items on the way climbing back up.
Then I heard a crack underneath my feet and a certain weightless feeling before crashing into Cloud who was on his way back up. "Ow…" I moaned as I landed hard on a wooden beam with Cloud. I could hear Zack and Sparky's laughter all the way from the top.
Old Bridge
"Oh hell no." I complained when I saw the bridge.
"I have to agree with crybaby here. I am not crossing this crazy thing." Elysia agreed.
"Well then how do you expect to cross?" Cloud asked in a slight growl.
I pulled out a long rope with grapple hook tossed it across the other side. "This is how." I replied before swinging with Sparky to the other side.
"Show off!" Marlene yelled.
"I will wait for you guys at the village!" I yelled back before taking off. Too bad I didn't notice the passing dragon who noticed my acrobatics. It must be migration season for the beasts.
"GAAAAHHHHH!" I yelled as the Dragon scooped me up with his claws and took off. "Somebody help me!"
In order to save Sparky I immediately recalled her into the Pokéball materia.
3rd Person POV
"Not again…" Marlene moaned as she watched Sephiroth get carried away. She was getting rather tired of this. Granted she failed to remember in her head she was the cause for some of the similar incidents.
"OH MY GOD SOMEONE HELP HIM!" Yuffie yelled as she watched him get taken away.
"Hagh… Forgot about him. He will be alright." Cloud replied.
"Was he this much trouble in your town?" asked Zack to Marlene. "He used to be the total definition of calm and badass. Now…"
"Does anyone else besides me worried about him?!" continued Yuffie. Sephiroth was now nothing more than a mere dot in the sky.
"Oh this happens rather often. How do you think he got separated from our group?" Aerith explained.
There was a large flash of light and plume of purple flames from where Sephiroth was last seen in the sky. "See?" Marlene pointed to the large explosion proving the point.
"Damned fool is gonna end up in Corel Prison for that stunt…" Barret muttered silently.
"Barret? What's wrong? You have been silent for a while now." Tifa asked the large man.
"It's nothing. C'mon the sooner we get going the sooner we can met up with the silver haired fool." Barret replied pushing past everyone and started crossing the bridge.
Corel Prison
"Goddamn it Hydreigon…" I complained as we sat in a corner of the desert prison. Surprisingly in my time of need my faithful dragon managed to rescue me. However he got overzealous and well…
"Sorry master… I didn't mean to land on the man after I saved you from that rogue dragon." The dark-type three headed dragon said in apology slightly bowed beside me.
I looked at the sad look on her face and merely shrugged. "Meh. If anything, you made it easier for Cloud and the others to find me." I replied.
Sparky leaped to Hydreigon's head. "Nice to see ya again Hydra!" she said cheerily.
"It is quite pleasant to see you again as well Ms. Sparky." she replied.
"To be quite honest with you… I wasn't expecting you so soon. I was expecting Suicune or Sceptile."
"Why?"
"You know how these worlds work. You don't get the badass dragon summons until later."
"Ah… I see. What is the intel I need to know anyway?"
30 minutes later
"Master…" Hydreigon started with a rather large sigh.
"Yes?"
"How the hell do you end up in such horrible situations? Seriously… It makes me regret the day you caught me so long ago." I immediately laughed in response.
"Oh please. I know how much you love a challenge. Besides I gave each and every single one of you a way out a long time ago. If you want to take it then go ahead."
BOOM!
"Gyaarg!" I screamed as Akumi unleashed a large Thunder attack on me.
"Oh please don't insult us master. We made a promise long ago. I intend to keep my end." said Hydreigon to my charred corpse on the ground. My soul then rose out of my body.
"HOLY SHIT! GET THE PHOENIX DOWN OUT OF MY POCKETS NOW!" I screamed to the two idiots.
"Shit… I overdid it…" Sparky replied as she revived me with the magical feather.
"GUOOOUGH!" I said as sweet air started to refill my lungs. "Ow…" I moaned as I used my Cure materia to heal the wounds.
"Hehehehe…" Sparky laughed weakly as she rubbed the back of her head. "I guess you are rather fragile in that body?"
"Sparky…" I growled menacingly. I felt slight satisfaction as she started backing away in fear. I just let go off my hate and sighed heavily before sitting back down.
"So master?"
"Yes Hydreigon?"
"Considering this is a different world than the one you and Akumi came from does this mean you will eventually head back?"
I let the question swirl around in my head while looking at the sky. "I have no clue. We could never return or we won't return until we are done with whatever Gaia decides we need to do. Besides…" I sighed.
"The second Akumi…" Sparky let the answer hang in the air.
"This doesn't make any sense. Mistress is a special existence that can only exist at only one instant in time and space." growled Hydreigon.
"I don't like the implications either. We need to be very vigilant you two. I don't even think Gaia is the one who sent me here anymore."
Sparky gasped rather dramatically. "You mean…"
"Yes… Whatever is causing the future imbalance of this universe could have the power to topple the entire balance of Creation." I replied in seriousness before I growled into the sky.
Undisclosed Location
Five shadows appeared in a dark chamber. "How goes the plan, Sister 10?" a male voice asked.
A feminine voice responded with a slight childish laugh. "All is according to plan, Brother 2. Even as expected, 0 has followed the orders of Creation and has appeared in the Universe."
"If only the others knew of how well we were doing." Another male laughed.
"Without the support of 1 or 13 it is to be expected Brother 8. But, even if we fail if we can strike a hard enough blow to 0 with only less than half of us…" a more calculated female responded.
"Correct sister 5, though it is a shame that we are unable to locate Megiddo. He most certainly would have loved to help us." replied 2.
"In regards to brother Megiddo I have unfortunate news to report." A calm male voice interrupted.
"Speak 6." ordered 2.
"It has been confirmed that Megiddo was sealed by 0. Sadly the place of sealing is currently unknown." He reported.
"I see… It is a shame. We will need to continue without him. You all know your orders. We will succeed. We will rule all as GODS!" 2 ordered before flashing away. The rest followed except for 5.
"Well Brother 0? I wonder how you will react to this. The sins of our mother The Creator, are plenty, we will have our revenge." She said to no one before flashing away as well.
Corel Prison
"Hmm…" said Sephiroth out of nowhere.
"What is it?" asked Sparky.
"That which chases the shadows of their past, end up less than the very shadows they chase." He replied.
"Master?" asked the purple hydra.
"Sorry… for some reason I got nostalgic about when Akumi created me."
"No wonder you said that then. Akumi gave up everything in her chase for you. She truly was less than a shadow."
Sephiroth stood up with a sigh. "Hey Hydreigon? I ever tell you the full story between Akumi and me?"
"No master. I know that it is not a happy tale so I never asked." She replied with an added shake of her heads.
Sephiroth gave a rough laugh before looking up at the sky. "No you are right Hydreigon. It is not a happy tale. But, since we have time, I figured why not tell you? You are the only one of my main team that doesn't know yet."
"Are you sure Ash? I know how you get about Akumi." asked Sparky in concern.
"She deserves to know Sparks… and besides." Sephiroth looks toward… Ah fuck… I am going to have to fix the goddamned wall again? I mean I just got that thing fixed from all the last stories. "All those out there watching us right now will need some of the background necessary to understand what the hell what is going on."
Story Time
A long time ago before the creation of the first Reality. I once lived as a human with no powers in a utopian society. All that existed did so in a single Universe.
Humans were a rather advanced species and were dabbling in the process of transcendence. Becoming gods. My parents were the leads of the project. They were the ones who would later become the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Creation.
Akumi was my best friend when I was a kid. She always adored me and in turn she was the person I cared for most.
Those were the days. Ignorantly happily playing around with not a care in the future. If only we knew what would have happened…
In our early teenage years I was diagnosed with a terminal illness. The only possibly cure was my mother's research. Using my DNA as the base she began experiments to finish her research. Eventually my mom succeeded in her work. However I died the morning she finished. With my death all her work reverted down back to where she was.
Akumi was heartbroken over my death. She never really did let go of me. However that became her motivation to eventually join my parent's research team. She made groundbreaking strides in the research that my mother never could.
Then one day everything changed… Akumi found a way to resurrect me, at a horrible cost. It soon became all she was obsessed with to the point it corrupted her soul. Eventually using her research she became a corrupted god and left the world.
She conducted horrible experiments on multiple planets or if it was a bad day, entire galaxies. She manipulated souls beyond repair. Killed countless people. Committed horrendous crimes against all forms of life.
Her mind had long deteriorated and she had gone completely mad. All that she could think of was me. Sometimes she just obliterated lives for fun and used their corpses to make demented statues of me. She became less than a shadow of her former self chasing after my shadow.
My parents spent untold amount of time and resources chasing after her to stop her. Again and again they failed to stop her experiments. She was always a step ahead of them. Then it was too late.
Akumi finally found her answer to bring me back. She prepared the body and the core that would power it. All that was left was too add my soul and power it. Her solution? To sacrifice every soul in existence.
She sadly succeeded. Untold countless souls were used and tortured to bring me back. What I saw when I woke up… I have no words that can properly describe the horror I felt. The look in Akumi's eyes…
She was no longer the woman I loved. I needed to stop her. So I did. I did not have the heart kill her though… After our final attacks and we were being sealed under the weight of own powers, I stripped her of her immortality and pushed her soul out of her body. I got sealed way and my memories wiped away in sacrifice.
` Now. I follow her as she reincarnates time and time again through so many different universes. To the point it became my job as the one that balances Universe that are affected by outside sources.
Story Time end
"The rest you should know Hydreigon."
"Wow…" she replied in awe.
"Yup know you know how bat-shit insane and evil she is now." Sparky replied.
"Sparky!" Sephiroth admonished her.
"Sephiroth!" was yelled by two blurs.
"Huh? AGH!" screamed Sephiroth as he was tackled by said blur.
Cloud and the others had finally caught up to Sephiroth. Though granted they were not expecting to find him after getting tossed in the prison.
"ASH!"
Huh? What the hell is Samus mad about now? I told her I would be in here today.
"WHY THE HELL IS MY PERSONEL FILE SAY I AM THE LOVE CHILD OF A HALF MAN HALF BEAR AND HALF WOMAN HALF SHARK!"
What? What is she…? Crap… I forgot about that joke. Dratana I thought I told you to fix that!?
"I planned my own joke. Good luck with surviving."
BAM! SMASH! Clatter…
Oh C'mon Samus I already had to fix a wall today I don't need to fix gagh! Samus let me go! Please!
"So I am hybrid shark bear woman am I? Let me prove you right bastard…"
NO! NO! SOMEBODY SAVE ME! AAHHHHH!
AN:… I know that this is slightly late but life has been extremely busy for me since I started the semester. So… Backstory and villains' first appearance. Actual plot. I feel accomplished. Now if only I could get reviews. Any reviews. A simple hi. Maybe a go f! # yourself for all I care. Some feedback would be much appreciated. Please? Oh and I have gotten zero votes on the poll. So if somebody could do that. Please? So that is it for now. Review, etc… have a nice week.