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Chapter 50: Backtracking!
Opening Theme: "Confessions" 8 Ball and MJG
[Back in Midgar]
Midgar, still scarred from the rebellion's war was a wasteland, though all districts aside from Seven still stood. The buildings were thrown into a holocaust of Deepground Soldiers policing the streets with rifles and security machines constantly scanning the wet and battered streets for enemies.
The citizens who remained in Midgar were of few, men were treated as slaves and workers. Women were raped and beaten and children were left on the streets to pick and scrape for food, barely surviving. Within the ShinRa building looking over the mako powered city was it's new ruler, Weiss.
He wore his signature white pants with his twin gunblades sheathed in a cross to his lower back. His bare chest to the wind facing the direction of his enemies in Junon Harbor. "Rosso has fallen." A voice carried by the wind came into the President's Former office. Weiss turned his head to greet Shelke who stepped in and bowed her head respectfully.
Her glowing topaz eyes scanned Weiss' manly figure. Shelke was beyond her years as a child, but because of her many treatments and experiments forced upon her by ShinRa she remained animated in a child-like body. Secretly she wanted Weiss' flesh pressed against hers, but she knew in her current body. That wasn't possible.
She remained still like a machine. "She has expired at the intersection before the marshlands."
"Rosso, dead?" Weiss didn't have any feelings for his subordinates. He treated them all as tools, yet they looked up to him like a noble leader. Though he was far from the sense. All he sought was power and dominance, common goals found in any villain.
Shelke bowed her head again, confirming.
Suddenly appearing from the darkness of the room was Nero, his body wrapped in his strait jacket and mechanical wings spread abroad. Also being puked up from that same darkness was Rosso's crimson cross blade. "One of us has been taken, brother...this feeling within me. It is revenge that I seek..."
"It does not concern me. Rosso fell because she was weak. I don't need such at my side..." Weiss replied.
"Rosso was still one of us, brother. Allow me to seek vengeance...please..." Nero's golden eyes flashed in the darkness.
Weiss narrowed his eyes with a grin. "Do as you please, my brother."
"Gratitude." Nero once again became one with the dark and completely disappearing with his mechanical wings covering his form.
WHAM!
The doors to the office slammed open and stepping in was Azul, he was so large he had to lean his head down to fit into the room. "We have an unidentified flying summon coming our way from the East." He reported.
"Move to intercept." Weiss replied.
Location: Wellspring Woods
Time: About 2 Minutes Later...
[Location BGM: "A New Hope" Musashi Samurai Legend]
(Kel's POV)
It was getting late in the day and the sun had already set to the west, stars lit the skies beyond this forest and light bugs began to find their way to the air to do mating rituals. "Better get moving to back to Midgar, as much as it pisses me off to backtrack. I have to go back for them...I was so blinded by Dez showing up that I didn't even care for their safety."
I started to back track through the forest, hopping over the river we crossed to save Yuffie.
Once I'd landed on the grassy banks of the other side I spotted a green orb lying in the grass, a Materia stone. I picked it up and noticed it had an ice crystal on the inside of it. [Kel found Ice Materia!]
I equipped the materia to the chain hanging from the end of my Blood Berry then continued on through the forest. I continued my jog through the forest, pacing myself not to run too fast to exhaust but not walk so slowly that I wouldn't get out of here. As I hopped over a bush I noticed I was coming up on the end of the mouth of the forest.
The entrance was in sight but before I could reach it, I suddenly felt the heat around me raise to an unbearable temp. I quickly reached to my belt loop, unhooked the Blood Berry and turned it on. Appearing around me were three fireballs with wide eyes and jackal like mouths.
Bombs!
The three of them came at me like missiles, I waited for the last minute then took to the air. I flipped over their heads then landed down behind them and gripped my Blood Berry, I wished for the Ice Materia to work and suddenly my blade began to emit a cold smog from the lit blade.
With that I released slashed my beam katana releasing snow balls that pelted the Bombs causing them to swell and explode. Two Bombs unfortunately exploded while the last one looped around my fire and came at me from the right. I gripped my beam katana into a reverse position then slashed upward releasing a flash of ice crystals that slashed through the remaining Bomb. He disappeared into pyro particles.
And in a snap the battle was over.
The last bomb dropped another orb, only this one was yellow.
"Another Materia, looks like this one is a Technique." I picked it up remembering the color code of materia.
Materia came in many different types and colors, Green was magic, Blue was support, Purple was enhancement, Yellow were techniques and Red were summons.
After equipping the Yellow Materia to my key chain, my body moved on its own. My right arm hiked up to my back drawing my beam katana to my back then whipping it down in a hard hammering slash to the ground causing a dome of crimson red, explosive energy to expand from my body. [Kel found Ripple Drive Materia!]
Moving on out of the forest I found myself in the open valleys again. It was here where I sped up my strokes into a full blown sprint, the night time was the worst. Not only did the real strong monsters and prowl around, but it was hard to find out my real direction. Every few minutes I would look back to see the forest directly behind me and make sure I was running in a straight line.
This was an effective tool I used to get back to the Wastelands.
It took about an hour of sprinting and fighting wild wolves before I got back to the Wastelands, of course naturally I was out of breath. I stopped the moment I crossed the borders between the Valleys and Wastelands.
Taking a seat on a boulder to rest, I noticed my back pocket rumbling. I yawned in exhaustion then grabbed my cell and opened it seeing the contact RALLY on the front. "Speak on it." I said answering my phone the way I did back on Earth.
"Kel, where are you guys?!" Rally's voice, one I'd missed pooled through the phone speaker.
"Where are you guys now?" I asked.
"We're at Fort Condor. Waiting on you guys."
"Just wait a bit longer, we ran into a little trouble on the way. We'll be there shortly." I replied scratching my neck a little.
"Wait trouble?! What kind of trouble?" She asked.
Suddenly I noticed the air around me get tense. "Kel?! Kel are you still there?" I looked around then stood up from the boulder noticing the shadows shifting like they were alive. The dark skies above and the moon casted shadows from the tall rock formations and boulders of the wastelands surrounding me.
"Can I call you back?" I asked.
"Dammit! Kel!"
CLICK.
I closed my phone then stuck it into my back pocket, switching my phone for the Blood Berry.. I didn't turn it on, yet, I still wasn't sure what the hell was going on. The shadows were dancing and moving, as if someone large kid was fumbling them around. The shadows then stopped shifting around like serpents and gathered before me in a huge gathering pool of darkness.
From that darkness, arose a man with black spiky hair in a straight jacket with mechanical wings. Nero the Sable.
"For our sister's death and for the honor of my Brother...you...enemy of my family. Will be swallowed by the darkness." Nero's voice seemed to make its way into my head telepathically. It was creepy.
"Sister? If you mean Rosso, then I'll have to tell you that I didn't kill her." I replied pointing the Blood Berry hilt at him. "But don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to talk my way out of fighting you. I just don't claim kills that aren't mine is all."
"Submit yourself to the darkness, condemn your soul to my vengeance." He said as his wrists unhooked from the strait jacket as he reached to his side pulling two long pistols from the holsters on his thighs.
"Those are some pretty sick poetry. Now let's see if you can handle my rhymes." I said turning on the Blood Berry and bending my knees.
Author's Note: Kel has sent Aerith, Carmina, Izzy and Yuffie to their deaths. Now he has to hurry back to try and save them, but with Nero blocking the path can the Hero of Harmony get through?
