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Hikari-Angel143- Carmina Sanchez
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Chapter 11: Sephiria strikes back

Opening Theme: "Sullya Springs" Final Fantasy XIII Ost

We'd stayed out in the fields of the Slums all night until sunrise. Izzy and Carmina practicing on Hedgehog Pie and Whole Eater monsters even a few rogue machines created by ShinRa and discarded. Slowly but surely they were getting better, Izzy's swings became a lot more fluent and she was able to slice through monsters completely. Carmina learned to use her materia, something I didn't even know and combine spells with her fan swings. She could swing her fan and release a gust of wind, a glacier of ice or a ball of fire.

I sat back mostly to see and not waste ammo, watching them fight I always thought my style would be swords or fists. But I like using guns a lot more, I don't have to get so close to the target.

They're practicing had sparked small crowds, the scum of the Slums would gamble on who would take out the most monsters, who killed the quickest or whose body could you see more while fighting. After swinging my gun around a bit, I got some of the profit.

I stood up with a sack of gil, which in this world were gold coins and green dollars, anything above 100 gil was in dollars while anything below were gold coins with a G engraved in them like tokens or doubloons. The girls had just dispatched about group of Hedgehog, five of them to be exact.

"Alright that's enough, I think you guys got the hang of fighting." I made my way over to them raising the sack. "How's about we get something to eat."

"Oh my god, yes! I'm soooo hungry." Carmina sighed then held both of her fans up on her shoulders. She mopped her forehead of the

"Food sounds good." Izzy sheathed her cutlass into the small holster on her side. With that we made our way over to a fried rice stand where an asian looking man had his grill out on display. I gave him about three thousand gil which landed us each a deep-fried pork rice special with barbeque ribs. We all tore through it with some sweet gold tea and left a tip for the guy.

"Thaaaat was heavenly!" Carmina raised a hand as if to fake cry.

I shrugged and nodded. "Yeah it was ok."

"Kel you should be arrested and beaten. That was more than OK!" Izzy nudged me.

We continued walking towards Sector 06 until we met a huge crack in the wall, it was an unofficial opening into Sector 06 from Sector 05. I remembered this area, this is where the player thinks they snuck out of the house only to see Aerith standing... I heard Carmina suddenly gasp then I looked down at her to see her pointing ahead.

Aerith was standing atop an old refrigerator next to the crack in the wall. She hopped down from it and cutely fixed her hands behind her waist. "Naughty! Naughty Kel, where do you think you're going with my little sisters?" She cooed.

Just as I was about to speak up the two stepped up in front of me. "Aerith, these past three months you've been like an older sister to us. You and Mom took good care of us and we thank you for that. But I think it's time we moved on." Carmina nodded.

Izzy shook her head. "Yeah, birds have gotta fly the coop ya know?"

Aerith sort of gave us all a blank stare, it was almost as though she was possessed for a second. "I...I know...I knew the moment you guys told me everything about your pasts that you'd leave us to follow him." As the girls had their tender moment, I folded my arms to try to focus on my task.

I had to reunite with AVALANCHE, but then what? What'll I do next? Do I quit? Can't do that Izzy and Carmina are with me now, I feel like they're my responsibility now.

Suddenly I'd gotten a really bad sinking feeling, my heart pounded and my eyes widened seeing behind Aerith. Sneaking up from behind was a blur...I didn't know how to describe it. It was a blur or bending of images that looked as if someone was wearing something of a stealth suit. Whoever or whatever it was, it was closing in on Aerith's back.

While she, Carmina and Izzy spoke they didn't seem to notice.

I immediately reached to my back grabbing my BC M4 assault rifle. With that I shouldered, aimed and open fired shooting a three round burst at the figure. PACHINK! PACHAA! POW! A sharp and glimmering blade chopped the three rounds away as the stealth suited figured slid backwards.

The camouflage dropped and rising from the dust was the silver-haired beauty, Sephiria. She raised to her feet as her silver hair dangled to her shoulders and chest. Aerith, Izzy and Carmina were dumbfounded. They couldn't form the words to speak. I simply walked past them knowing full well what this woman was capable of.

"Kel what is..."

I raised a hand to them. "I'm gonna push her back, you guys get through Sector 06."

"Who is..."

"No time to explain." I said shouldering the assault rifle and pointing it at her.

Sephiria rose to her feet correctly holding up her long katana in a Sephiroth like style.

I open fired shooting off another three rounds at her, she blocked all three of the rounds with her sword but the force of the bullets managed to push her back. With that I fired off rapid fire rounds at her, she began batting them away then retreated into Sector 06. I bolted in after her meeting the demolished highway with the old yellow crane and the caved in street side.

I remembered this area from the game, it's the area you get through right before the Playground Ai.

Sephiria was standing atop the crane house.

I pointed my rifle up at her as Aerith, Carmina and Izzy darted past me immediately working their way through the demolished highway labyrinth.

"What do you want?! Why the hell are you trying to kill us?" I asked.

She smirked looking down at me. "To use this planet as a vessel and sail the cosmos, certain nuisances must be eliminated. One has already been taken." She said raising her katana.

"Wait what?" I said with wide eyes.

To use this planet, as a vessel and...certain nuisances.

"You're...you're working for Sephiroth." I pointed the tip of my gun up to her. Of course, she looks exactly like him. "You're the one who killed Cloud!"

"Maybe." She smirked then flipped off of the crane coming down at me like a meteor. I loaded the grenade launcher of my rifle up then pulled the trigger sending a grenade blast bullet flying straight at her. She raised her katana and swung down at it, the moment it collided there was an explosion in mid-air that sent her flipping backwards.

She slid along the street away from me then looked back to see Aerith, Carmina and Izzy running up the board to the high ledge. With that she took off running towards them. "The last ancient must fall! Without her prayers there will be nothing to stop meteor!"

"Shit!" I cursed running after her, I hopped over a ledge landing on the same platform as Sephiria but she was like a wild cat, fast as all hell. She caught up to the girls in seconds and hopped up to try to impale Aerith as epically as Sephiroth did in the game from behind. The images of Aerith dying like she did the game flashed in my head.

"NO!" I screamed reaching my right hand towards her and in that instant everything flashed white for a second. Suddenly my right hand was no longer human. It looked like a massive green demon's claw. My entire body was outlined by an emerald green aura as I dashed forward my speed was doubled.

I hopped into the air beside Sephiria and slammed my fist into her cheek sending her flying off and crashing into a wall. I landed down and suddenly I felt the rage well up inside of me, my hair burned like it was on fire...Hell my entire body burned. Both my arms were beginning to morph and I felt innards shifting and changing around.

It hurt like hell, blood pooled out of my mouth as I gazed at Sephiria whom was still trying to get to her feet, dazed from the punch.

This is what happened in the Reactor, I can remember now...what's happening to my body...it's transforming. I'm...I'm becoming a monster.

I growled like a beast and let out a shockingly loud roar that caused the crane to shatter apart and a shockwave to disperse from my body.

"When the Black Materia is activated the WEAPONS of the world will awaken to destroy what ails the planet. You WEAPON, will be condemned to the wrath of my blade." She spoke in riddles like she did before. With that she took a few steps back then leaped up high-flying through the air like a black blur and disappearing beyond the folds of garbage and mountains of metal in the slums.

I dropped to my knees feeling my sanity being torn to shreds.

My lungs stopped working, it was like it was before. I couldn't breath...then...

Just when I was about to slip into the black, I felt a pair of cool soft arms wrap around my neck from behind. "It's ok...It's alright, calm down now. Stop crying, you're going to be ok." I heard Aerith. Her soft words went into my ears and my body began to calm down as per her words. My body began to cool off from it's rising temperatures.

My lungs began to work again and I inhaled a lot of air. "Huuuff...Hufff...(cough) (cough)" I dropped down onto my stomach folding my arms over my face to take in a breath of fresh air.

That's exactly what happened in Reactor 05, I turned into a monster. What am I exactly? Am I even still human? Sephiria called me a WEAPON. The President knew of my origin and referred to Professor Hojo. The twisted scientist of Final Fantasy VII there is always a twisted madman in the FF games. I have to get to the bottom of this...They did something to me and I can't control it. It's only a matter of time before I destroy everything.