You guys rock! Thank you for the reviews so far! Now its time for the epic battle (besides Gaara and Sasuke's) of the third exam!
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Scroll 12: Ezi vs The One Winged Angel
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Heaven's Dark Harvenger.
The One-Winged Angel.
Sephiroth.
Whatever you called him, he was still the most notorious thing to have ever existed on the planet Midgar. Maybe, in the entire universe.
Sephiroth was born on Midgar, and his childhood and life was fairly normal. He was raised by adopted parents, as his mother supposedly died at childbirth. His real mother, Lucricia Crescent, was actually a former scientist of Shinra, who had used experiments on her unborn child using the Jenova cells. Jenova was a specimen that crash landed into Midgar a while back, attempting to destroy the planet in a particular way. Once Shinra got their hands on Jenova, they began to run all kinds of experiments with the alien matter. Of course, Sephiroth did not know any of this while he was growing up and living his successful life. He became Shinra's best first class soldier, an elite crew of men and women pumped with mako in order to become supernatural. By being trained with this injected in them, with superhuman abilities, First Class shoulders were on top, and Sephiroth was the best of the best. Everyone wanted to be a hero like him.
Cloud Strife looked up to Sephiroth. He wanted to grow up for the day that he himself would became a soldier and worked along side Sephiroth.
They had a mission in a town called Nibelheim, together, and that was where Sephiroth eventually realized his true identity and developed a malicious purpose for himself. He went crazy, slaughtering the entire town and setting it ablaze. He returned to the research lab in the mountains nearby where he found what was left of his 'mother' Jenova. It was said that he was pronounced dead after he jumped into a boiling pool of macco energy with the severed head of Jenova in hand, but he and his many clones being manipulated by Jenova were seen years later, and Cloud and his comrades discovered that he was attempting to merge with the lifestream of the planet in order to destroy it and make it his vessel to travel through the universe, just as Jenova had attempted years before him.
During his attempt to destroy the planet, he slaughtered many people, whether they were in his way or not. The terrible things he had committed, and have yet to commit, were still horrifying to anyone who knew him.
Sephiroth. The dark harbinger meant to destroy the world.
Cloud Strife, was the only man alive to have ever defeated him, and Sora nearly got killed when he battled him in the royale on Mount Olympus. But other then that, no simple being could defeat him and his powers of Jenova. What was worse now was that after he annihilated Cloud in the chunin exams preliminaries, it seemed he had become quicker and agile than ever before—not even Cloud was prepared for his strength.
It was likely that the Sephiroth standing before her was just a clone, survived somehow across the galaxy, just like all the Sephiroths that kept appearing on Cloud's journey for the truth before he killed Sephiroth's real body. But even so, with a physical body and memories intact, it was still the deadly Sephiroth they had all come to know.
This was it.
The arena they were in could be her grave or her salvation. They were surrounded by people of all kinds from the union villages from the land of shinobi they had been bound to. A man in a mask, vigilant and villainous, watched from the crowd. Naruto and Shikamru were observing beside the sand ninja in the contestant balcony. The kages, Sora in included, with Inuyasha alongside him, waited tensely for the battle to start. All of Ezi's friends, from Sonic to Cloud Strife, were mixed in the crowd to watch the extravagant round begin.
Gekko stepped back, meaning he had allowed the round to commence.
"Ezi, was it?" Sephiroth tilted his head, starting the match off with a question.
"If you don't know what my name is, you're about to." She tried to sound courageous, but he was already laughing lightly. He slowly crouched down and put his hands on his Masamune's grip, the long swift sword he had slain so many with.
"I think I may you know already."
Before she could calculate what that meant, he swung at her. Silver met crystal, and Ezi pushed back on the heavy impact on her Phantom Gem that had appeared in her hands. The sound of the swords clanging was like a sharp bird crying out in agony, and it echoed with every time they clashed. She clenched her blade with a firm strength, but the swaying and careful focus on footwork was just like in training, or when she had gone on certain missions and fought real monsters and men. She felt light, even if she was swinging swords against the First Class soldier, Sephiroth.
"Whoa, he's fast!" Shippo commented.
"At least Ezi is able to keep up and block him, I didn't think she'd be fast enough, to be honest." Knuckles added.
"Come on, Ezi! You can do it!" Amy called out.
The three Kages were observing from high above as well.
"My, this is a sword fight if I ever saw it." Sarutobi commented. "There aren't very many samurai around these days."
"Uh, yes. Well, as I said, before, we've been in hiding for a long, long time. Old traditions are not that foreign to us." Sora enlightened. Inuyasha nodded, impressed that Sora was coming up with stories so easily.
"Its true that while blade to blade fighting is entertaining to watch, there are few samurai around for a reason. They do not bat well against Ninjutsu." The Kazekage pointed out. "I'm interested in seeing how your sword fighters differ from the traditions, Harekage."
Inuyasha glowered at the man. The situation was delicate enough without having to hear comments from the indulged sand leader.
Sephiroth was following a pattern: he would saunter around in a circle, then leapt into the air towards her with one swing for her roll away from, or block with her Gem.
"He did this pattern to me in Coliseum." Sora said to Inuyasha. "He's scanning her abilities, and he won't show his full strength until she gives him something."
"Like what?"
"He's probably waiting to see if she's worthy somehow…" He rubbed his chin, recalling the fight. "…Oh! I bet once she can strike him he'll turn up the heat!"
"Great, she hasn't even done that yet." Inuyasha drawled. "This is hopeless."
The crowd watched in silence as Ezi dodged and blocked every one of his swings. He hopped through the air like he had wings, gliding effortlessly over her and behind her, then one foul lunge at a time to try and cut her.
He is so much faster than this; he's just toying with me! She thought. What do I have to do to make this progress?
She was nervous. She thought about all the hard work and training for years she had done with Kega sensei, but that still didn't seem to be enough if all she could do was defend.
"Watch out." Someone said, probably Sephiroth mocking her. She realized what the voice meant when she tripped in one of the holes that had been made in a previous fight. Sephiroth took the moment to swing at her from behind, but she twisted her legs fast enough to turn and block his Masamune. He jumped back and she took the moment to adjust herself, and then hop out of the hole, facing him.
She felt dizzy; the air was unbearably cold suddenly, and it made her numb to her senses for a second, causing more concern in her thoughts that she was not ready for another strike.
She was not ready to do this. What had she been thinking?
The crowd seemed to notice as well.
"Man, its obvious who's gonna win." A man in the audience said.
"She should just forfeit, that guy seems way too advanced to be just a genin." A woman said to her other girlfriends.
"I wouldn't want to be her! How embarrassing."
"Quit playing around, finish it already!"
All of her friends looked around them at the cruel faces and negative comments.
"She's like a block of ice out there. What do we do?" Rouge asked them.
"COME ON EZI!" Their eyes turned to the loudest spectator, Naruto, who was east of them at the contestant's balcony.
"I'VE SEEN YOU FIGHT WITH WAY MORE CONFIDENCE! DON'T LET THIS CREEP GET TO YOU AND SHOW 'EM WHAT YOU GOT!"
"Naruto…" Sakura said nostalgically.
"YEAH, WHAT HE SAID!" Sonic yelled suddenly, belting his voice over the railing. "YOU'VE COME TO FAR TO GIVE UP NOW!"
There was possibly that she could die, but the reassurance in their voice seemed to ring an alternative outcome. She took a deep breath in and out, the humming in her ears and the chill dissipated, and she was warm with life again.
Sephiroth lunged for her again, the pattern all too familiar, and she ran towards him. He swung his sword in a horizontal sway, and she slid and ducked under the strike, taking the initiative to swing her sword at him. Sephiroth did not finish his full swing, seeing her slide under his arms, and he leapt to the left, avoiding the strike, but barely. She stood up quickly with her Phantom Gem pointing at him, the sun reflecting off an exultant blue. He looked down at his waist; she had cut through his black clothes, and his pale flesh contrasted against the dark uniform. He looked back up and his face was bemused.
Then, he was gone.
The audience and whispered and wondered where he could have disappeared to without reappearing so obviously.
"Ezi, he teleported!" Cloud yelled out. "You know what to do!"
She knew this trick too. There had to be some change in the wind and air around her, but she would sense it and be able to see where he was coming from.
Sephiroth was in the air behind her all too quickly, and he slashed across her figure.
Yet, suddenly she was gone too. She vanished in the blink of an eye, and then reappeared behind him. Her stance wasn't quick enough for a harsh blow, so she just kicked him forward in the back. He was able to catch himself from falling, but he did not look pleased in the slightest when he faced her.
"How did she do that?" Inuyasha yelled. Sora's jaw was dropped, and he had no explanation.
"Are they using teleportation jutsu? I haven't seen that in ages." The Hokage sounded astounded, clarifying that the technique was rare.
Sephiroth was gone again, and at her side, swinging away. He spun around four times consecutively, like a dancer, twirling with harsh collision against her weapon. She was pushed back, her heels digging into the dirt, and then she vanished again. Sephiroth eyes scanned to the right, and suddenly she was there. He blocked her wild swings as she remained balanced in the air, landing effortlessly and preparing to strike again. He blocked and jumped far away from her.
"Wow! Ezi could teleport too?" Shippo said excitedly. "I didn't see her use it in the fight against Aritob!"
"She didn't have that ability then." Cloud almost sounded upset. "She learned it in the last month."
"What? How?" Amy wondered.
"Why are you here?" Ezi decided to ask, and it echoed across the field. When their swords weren't clashing. It must have been very simple for the audience to hear their conversations. "What business do you have in this world?"
"Business?" His eyes widened. "I have no business with this world in particular. I am simply following Mother's intentions."
"Mother? You mean, Jenova?"
"Mother is the life and death of all planets. It just so happens I plan to use this one as my vessel across the universe."
"You're insane." She shook her head. "Maybe it is a good thing we got stuck here, so we could stop you!"
"We?" He said, his eyes widening again for a flash moment. "Little girl… you seem to be the only one who can even keep up with me. Not even Cloud is that strong anymore. When it comes to stopping me, you're all alone in this… none of your pathetic friends can help you now."
She didn't know what to say to that. It rang some truth; her friends couldn't interfere in the match, thankfully. She didn't have to worry about him harming them, at least.
"Oh, but it wasn't a coincidence you were trapped here either; I did plan to destroy all of you with this planet when I gained Mother's true power, but I have a new goal now."
"What?"
The other's overheard him as well.
"Did he just say he was the reason for us being trapped here? He's the reason we can't leave?" Kagome exclaimed.
"That bastard." Sango added in a fury.
"How did you go about doing that?" Ezi asked him. "How did you trap us here?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" He pointed his long sword towards her, killing intent returned. "I suppose you'll have to defeat me to find out."
The fight continued. Both of them had a serious expression as they clashed with one another effortlessly. Every swing seemed fatal from both contenders, yet for some reason they never landed a blow. They were both inhumanly fast, avoiding and teleporting on a whim, as if it were rehearsed or had been practiced for this performance. Ezi could feel the burning now. She wanted to win. She charged at him again and he raised one arm up.
"Figara." He said plainly. Ezi was right in front of him when four thick pillars of fire surrounded him. The heat was so immense the audience near them could feel it from above.
"Oh no, Ezi!" Knuckles cried out.
"She's been burned to a crisp! I can't look!" Shippo buried his head under Kagome's chin, whose shoulder he was accustomed to perching on.
When the walls of flames cleared, there was an orb of swirling fire in front of Sephiroth. It booshed forward, like a fireball, into him. The ball bounced back, and he spun around a few times to relinquish his clothes from burning. He stood there calmly, observing the bouncing orb. It rolled around him slowly, like a predator.
"What is that thing?" Naruto wondered.
"It's a shield." Sonic was suddenly behind him and Shikamru, approaching to view the fight with them.
"A shield?"
"I have them all over in my world. There are regular green shields, and water shields; I used them depending on what land I would be zooming through. Somehow, Ezi must have used one."
"That thing is Ezi?" Naruto realized. "Wouldn't she be hot in there?"
"No inmate; it's a shield, so the heat and flames on it are only going outward, no matter how she moves around. Its really quite useful."
Cloud was talking to the others in the audience:
"Sephiroth won't be able to harm with that Figara Wall now. As long as she's protected by her own fire, it looks like that attack is useless.
Sephiroth watched the fireball impatiently. He created another wall of pillars, but the orb knocked into his chest, and he ceased the fire attack.
"To be able to summon all that fire without so much as a hand sign…" The Kazekage was amazed, "that is some very advanced Ninjutsu, if that's what it even is."
Sonic was smiling as he looked down at the fight. "The only problem with that shield, is it does well against the elements its for, but if it hit by anything else, it pops."
As he said this, Sephiroth swung with fury at the orb, and even though it jumped back, his long sword was able to cut through the fiery bubble, and it vanished, revealing Ezi's slender form lunging away in its place. She slid on the floor, catching her balance and blocking several more of his fast swinging attacks. They parried and lunged back and forth, appearing and reappearing in different spots throughout the arena. They had appeared over Genma's head, much to his startle, and then vanished again.
"I should get off the arena for now." He said to himself. "It looks like I could get in the way of this incredible fight." Genma leapt onto the wall, running into the contender's balcony beside everyone else.
Then, Ezi and Sephiroth were across the arena from one another, catching their breath, or at least taking a break.
"Oh my," He said, smirking, "Where did you acquire this strength, little girl? Surely, Cloud didn't teach you all of this?"
"None of your business! But for your information, Cloud didn't want to help me!"
"Oh, I see..." He titled his head up to look overhead, probably in the area Cloud was sitting in. "I wonder if he refused for the reason I'm thinking of?"
"What reason?" She demanded, and it echoed across the field.
"Oh, I'm sure you don't know yet." He stood up straight, as if to say he wasn't going to strike again just yet.
"How is she doing?" Beside the group, Kega was standing on the staircase next to them. Her brown stringy hair was a bit longer, reaching her shoulders, and she had on the usual maroon dress and boots.
"Not you again!" Knuckles complained. "Let me guess; you trained her for this match too, didn't you?"
"Oh, the Echidna may have some IQ after all."
He growled, but didn't retort to the insult.
"Kega, how did you train her so quickly?" Cloud stood from his seat so he could see her. "Even if she had years, Sephiroth is way too advanced, so how..?"
"Oh, it wasn't easy." She began. She folded her arms, and watched the fast fight below as she continued:
"Well, as you know I can travel to worlds on a whim. Its not on my own wish, though. I have a relic that helps me control time and space."
"What relic would that be?" Shadow demanded.
"Ah ah, it's a secret. Anyway, Ezi has one too, I just helped her figure out how to use it properly. She used it to travel between her own world, Earth, and to the animal world, Mobius, now she can use it for battle too."
"Chaos Control." Shadow said. "The black chaos emerald in her heart…"
"Exactly. She was afraid of the power of the dark emerald, but her heart is pure enough to use it. So, I simply showed her how. After the preliminaries, she went with me to a distant galaxy, where an old friend of mine helped her train. We worked on her for years; but I guess only a month went by in this world."
"How are you manipulating time like that?"
"I'm not manipulating time, I'm simply traveling through it. We went to distant worlds in the future, or to a long time ago, in galaxies far-far away, where Ezi gained hands on experiences, life and death training, and of course, practiced and prepared for this fight particularly. She already knew her enemies abilities, she just needed more time to train to combat against him."
They could see it now; the faint black glint that whipped in the air for not even a mili-second, every time Ezi teleported. It was the power of the black chaos emerald.
Sephiroth landed on the ground, away from her. His hand began to glow a light pink radiating a violet light. To Ezi it looked tranquil and ominous at the same time.
"Sin harvester…" He said, and began making some kind of sign in the air, swinging his hand around in a certain motion.
"Ezi, stop him!" Sora cried out.
"What is that, what's he doing?" Inuyasha asked.
"It's a spell! He used it on me in the Coliseum! It drains your energy completely, I could barely move… then he strikes!"
"Damn it!" They watched as Ezi's Phantom Gem shifted into a thin bow and arrow made of crystal; the sharp end of her dagger became the arrow, and she adjusted it in her grip to aim at him.
"Descend, Heartless Angel."
The spell had been completed. A foreboding halo appeared over her head abruptly, and then a light imploded into her body. She grunted out in pain, and in a moment she was exhausted, falling to her knees.
"I… can't… move…"
Sephiroth was running for her. He was upon her in seconds.
"C-Curaga." A large yellow plant soared above her head, and she teleported just before he could slash into her. His Masamune dug into the ground, and he had to yank it out. He turned around for her, until she appeared again and they were slashing and teleporting again.
"Phew, that was close!" Amy said, clenching her chest.
"I don't get it… why did you go through all the work to train her? Why are you helping us?" Sango asked Kega.
"Hm, I suppose from your perspective, it would seem that I've done you all a great favor, but I did all this for me. A thank you would be nice, though; I did create a warrior powerful enough to defeat the One-Winged Angel."
"Your cockiness is rubbing me the wrong way." Shadow said.
"Get over it, little life form. I'm stronger then even you. Which, I guess means Ezi could even defeat all of you if she's at this level, correct?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Knuckles demanded.
"Well, I'm just saying you all haven't been supportive of her, right? I mean, I did have to train her, Cloud didn't even want to, and I wonder why that is…"
"You're not going to make us feel bad! We didn't want Ezi to get hurt, that's it!" Knuckles pressed.
"And, you didn't believe she couldn't be harmed? Your lack of faith in her is… disturbing. Especially for labeling yourselves as her 'friends'."
Ezi screamed, and it drew their attention to the battle. Sephiroth had managed to cut into her left arm. It wasn't a deep cut, but a heavy amount of blood trickled down her arm.
"You bleed like a human, maybe I was wrong about you…"
"What are you talking about?" She held her crystal sword up with her good, right arm, as her left arm dangled like a piece of cloth. "You bleed; you're human too!"
"I'm beyond humanity. You are too, little girl. You just have to embrace your destiny."
He was saying things that weren't making sense. She shook her left arm, adjusting to the pain, and then charged. They clashed back and forth again.
Shadow dropped his folded arms and looked to Kega. "You still didn't answer my question. How does training Ezi help you?"
Kega folded her arms, keeping a straight posture and looking into the arena with a serious glow.
"…Its to keep my legacy. I won't last forever, so I had to share my powers of a Sorceress to another Sorceress."
"What?" Some of them bellowed out in unison.
Ezi was spinning in the air, and her blade only cut through a few long strands of Sephiroth's hair as he darted away, but she felt confident.
"Ezi is a Sorceress?"
Kega rolled her eyes to the echidna's question. "Duh."
"Amy?" Sakura whispered to her, and the pink hedgehog leaned in. "What's the big deal? What is her being a sorceress have to do with anything?"
Amy kept her eyes spinning around to the intense fight, but she replied.
"A Sorceress that Kega is referring to is very special. Apparently, they are humans that can harness all kinds of power through their experiences in life."
"They can harness all of the powers," Kega overheard them. "and can use it to their whim. It takes time and training, so no Sorceror or Sorceress has ever found and learned all the powers of the universe, but we get pretty close. Anyway, our kind only appears every hundred years or so. I am from the past, the feudal era, and Ezi from the present, so I had an opportunity probably no other of our kind has ever had: to train one of our own, and show them their true potential as a Sorceress."
"How do you know Ezi is a Sorceress?" Kagome asked.
"She wields the Phantom Gem, her crystal sword; only our kind can do that. When the Sorcerer of that era dies, it sleeps until the next one is born."
"So that's why only Aritob and Ezi could hold it." Knuckles realized. "So, you taught Ezi all of the skills she needed to defeat Sephiroth?"
"Do I need to repeat myself with you? We traveled to different galaxies and worlds, and she learned what she needed to."
"Sounds complicated."
"It was, but that can be explained another time."
As the match progressed, it seemed that they were evenly matched. Now that they knew she was a Sorceress, it seemed that her talents displayed so far were more impressive than they had realized.
"Yeah, you got this!" Naruto cheered again. "She can do it, right Sonic?" He turned to his blue friend, but he was gone. Naruto scanned the crowd around him, and could see Sonic waving from far away, standing where his friends had been sitting.
Ezi gave one more swing, then she stepped back. She was sweating, tired; the use of all the teleporting and constant fencing had used up a lot of her energy. Sephiroth descended onto the earth softly, like a feather.
"Are you becoming afraid to fight me?" He asked, mockingly.
"Are… are you?"
"Don't act so tough. Putting up a front while your tired isn't wise; you should know your limits. Perhaps you could push your limits, though, if you gained your true purpose."
"What are you talking about, man?" Her sword dragged onto the dirt as she slouched and rolled her eyes. "No one gets your crazy, psycho language. If you have something to say, then say it! Stop trying to be all mystical!"
Sephiroth's shoulders motioned slightly when he hummed a chuckle softly. He tilted his head as he glared forward to his opponent.
"You're so lost, in the dark. You don't know the truth, so you can't embrace who you truly are."
She growled in irritation, and lifted her sword up again. She charged at him, and they both moved into the air. Their blades crossed together, and they were pushing back against the ground to throw the other off. Their faces were close enough to each other, but Ezi could not look into his sharp eyes.
"I mean, what you are is someone like me."
"I… I'm not gonna fall for that darkness and light crap! You're not gonna trick me!"
"The only one whose been tricking you, is sitting in the crowd up there."
"That's not true!" She assumed he was referring to Cloud. "Grivaga!" She successfully pushed back against him, using the magical force under feet to push him off balance, but the force wasn't strong enough, and Sephiroth recovered, gripping his sword firmly in both hands with a stance. He swayed forward, and she managed to block, but the impact threw her back. She hadn't noticed the wall behind her until her back slammed into it, knocking the wind out of her. She heaved forward, seeing in a blurry haze that Sephiroth was coming, and she tried to recover. With a sway of his hand, he pushed her sword aside, stabbing his own blade into her.
A pitiful, agonizing scream.
He had only stabbed her on the shoulder blade above her left pictorials, but the pain was excruciating; like a cramp that didn't pulsate, and stuck in her muscles and blood like glue. Desperately, she pried at the long blade, but she couldn't pull it out with Sephiroth holding it still.
Cloud was ready to step in. He jumped up from his seat and his boot was over the railing when Kega grabbed him by his scarf and yanked him back.
"You fool! It's not fatal, let her finish or you're all be stuck here forever!" She chided. There were a lot of reasons Cloud wanted to hop down and help, but he knew she was right. He staggered to sit back down quietly and watch.
"Sephiroth, let her go!" It was all he could do or say.
Sephiroth turned his head to the side, as if to look at Cloud in the crowd behind him.
"I am letting her go… I'm releasing her to the truth."
"What… what are you-?" She was trying to get through the pain, taking sharp breaths and remaining calm, but her legs kicked around like she was choking, gasping for air.
"Sephiroth, don't." Cloud pleaded.
"Cloud what's going on?" Sonic interrogated. "What is he talking about?"
Ezi's curiosity heightened. "W-what does he mean? Don't, what?"
Sephiroth took his time replying. He seemed to relish the moment more then Ezi expected this cold, hard killer to do.
"You may be a Sorceress, but how do you think your body can hold all of these different abilities? Your ability to control your multiple powers, to clarify, is a gift."
"A gift?" She said weakly. The blood was rushing to the wound, she could feel it press against the cold steel of his blade inside her flesh.
He left his sword in her arm, as he walked towards her. The blade dropped slightly, and she yelped at the sting in her arm.
He cupped her chin with his black-gloved hand, forcing her to look up into his beautiful, neutral eyes.
"…A gift from Mother."
"J..Jenova?"
Heaven's little gift to Midgar. Years ago the meteor holding the being called mother crashed into the planet, bringing a certain energy to the world.
"Only a few can control Mother's power, or their bodies reject it violently. You were able to accept Mother, sister of mine."
"What did he just say?" Sonic had heard him, but he didn't believe it.
Sephiroth stood up, and suddenly, he was floating up in the air. The drapery around his clothes stretched out from his back to the right side of him, appearing at first like a second long black hand; then it had feathers. It was his black wing, the symbol that the great Sephiroth had fallen from grace to darkness, embracing his true ambitions to destroy worlds.
"You're lying! I've never been injected with Jenova cells, so I couldn't be like you!"
"You don't recall? Well, I know you were. I saw it in you when I saw you again in the Olympus Coliseum, but you had not gained enough power to face me yet. I'm sure Cloud noticed it then too."
"Again? Cloud… what's he talking about?" She asked desperately. "What does he mean by again?"
"Allow me to help you regain your memories…" Sephiroth pointed his hand at her, and their flick of light that surrounded her head. She felt a throbbing pain there, like it was going to explode. It only took a second for the memories to recover, but it had felt like a lifetime as she recalled the memories she had lost for so long.
Her parents were pronounced dead on earth from a car accident, but that wasn't true at all. They never even found their bodies.
It all made sense now. It was all connected.
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TO BE CONTINUED!
Yikes! For a long time probably when I was going into high school I had all of these ideas. It feels good to present them to all of you now. Thanks again for the reviews so far!
