Nibelbeim
As Misty, Cloud, and Vincent entered Nibelbeim, they heard soft moans coming from the back of the town. The town looked all most dead except for the two dogs that were crying by the water tank. They looked around the small houses and shops. Nothing. They walked into the inn. Two people were there in black clocks covering their faces and bodies.
"Seeephiiiiroth…" One said.
"Must follow," The other.
"Reunion." Both.
Misty looked at Cloud. "What?" She looked at the cloaked people. "It sounds familiar." She looked at Cloud.
"He's here." Cloud looked at Misty then Vincent. He walked up to one of the cloaked people. "There's something written on his hand… the number 4…" He took a step back. "Why do they have numbers? I wonder where he is? Come on, let's go." He left the house. "Let's meet up at the mansion." Cloud walked out the door.
Misty looked at Vincent. "Who is Sephiroth?" She raised one eyebrow.
Vincent shook his head. "He's a man who wants to take over the world." He walked out without saying another word to Misty.
Misty, Cloud, and Vincent met up at the mansion.
"Shin- Ra Mansion." Misty looked up at the tall mansion. She squinted at it because of the suns glare from a house's window.
"How did you know?" Vincent looked at her with his arms crossed in front of him.
She glared at him. "I'm a secret spy agent from Shin- Ra…" She gave him an evil smile. "Happy???"
"O.k. you two, knock it off." Cloud was annoyed at them for bickering. "We got a more serious job here then argue about who knows what and why. So let's just go in and find out with we need to know." He started off for the Mansion's doors. He turned and looked at Misty. "What?"
Misty snapped out of her daze. "I…I…I don't know… I can't explain it…it's a weird vibe I'm getting from this place… Like something bad is going to happen… Maybe it's just me…" She began to walk and then suddenly froze with fear. "We're looking for Sephiroth and…"
"Jenova."
"What does that Jenova look like? Tall, Silver-blue hair, ice cold blue eyes…?" She looked at Cloud and Vincent.
"Yeah, you remember seeing her somewhere???" Cloud move closer to her.
"No, at least I don't think so. Remember??? Amnesia…" She hit her temple with the edge of her palm.
"It could have came back…" Vincent's eyes were cold.
"Yeah, fat chance." Misty eyed her eyes.
Cloud looked back at Vincent. "But anyways, what about Jenova...?" Cloud looked back at Misty.
"Oh, well if it's her then she's standing on the roof." Misty pointed towards the Mansion's roof. "That is her, isn't it?" Misty pulled out her two Katanas.
"Uhhh," Cloud and Vincent just stared at the woman who was standing on the roof. She looked like a human female.
She wore Amazonian like clothes, made out of platinum or some type of unknown metal. She held a sharp pointed staff, made out of what she was wearing. It was about 6'0" tall. It looked like Aerith's staff. Her hair was about to her ears but with five parts of hair that were an inch and a half longer then her normal length of her hair. She looked at Misty and pointed at her. Her eyes stabbed Misty's like ice picks. "You." She glared at Misty.
"Wha? Who are you?" Misty squinted her eyes because of the sunlight and glare of the woman's clothes. "What do you want???"
"I'm Jenova… '…Terror from the sky…' I have what you want. The answers to your confusion and past. Who Sephiroth is. Who loved you. Who you loved. Where you came from… Everything." Jenova smiled at Misty. "Come with me…"
"NO!!!" Cloud pulled out his sword. "Go back to your world!!! Get the hell out of ours!!! You have no power over us!!!" He stood in front of Misty, guarding her.
Jenova laughed. "Look at what I did to Sephiroth! He thinks I'm his mother!" She laughed hysterically. "So you tell me what I got power over! I know your true past. Your family. Everything!!!" She stepped closer to the edge of the roof. "Same for you Vincent. Your love for Lucrecia. I can offer you all the world."
"Go to Hell Jenova!" Vincent aimed his Quicksilver at Jenova's forehead. "You put so much pain in the world… you should die…"
"Pull the trigger I dare you! You won't do it you chicken. You could never pull it." She smiled.
"No! Don't do it. I want to see what else she as to say…" Misty put her hand up to Vincent. He looked at her with no emotion. "Please." Her eyes wondered his face for some emotion. He put his gun down. "Thank you." She whispered. She turned back to Jenova. "What do you have to say about me?"
"Don't believe her." Cloud looked at Misty.
Jenova smiled. "You are a SOLDIER. You were born from family and raised from Mako. You worked with…" Cloud cut her off.
"No, she can be! Look at her eyes. There's no sign of Mako, You liar!!!" Cloud jumped back from the house. He was almost at the gate.
Jenova floated down. "Don't listen to him dear. He doesn't know what he's talking about." She wove her hand in front of Misty's face. "You believe me and only me… no one else…" She smiled. "You understand?" She put her hand down.
"No." Misty smiled. "Mind manipulation doesn't work on me." Misty stabbed Jenova in her right side of her hip. "Lets fight." She smiled as Jenova looked at Misty in horror.
Jenova screamed. "Uuuurrrgggghhh!!!!!!" Then a flash of light blinded Cloud, Vincent, and Misty. "Ultima!!!" She raised her hand and arms over her head. Green light covered her. As the world surrounding them went black, then a flash of white and yellow light came over them with hard green winds.
"Ugh!" Misty and Vincent were thrown back in to the steel gate.
Misty slid down to the ground and sat there in a ball hoping to live through the Ultima magic. "Damn!" She gritted her teeth. "Sonovabitch!"
"Can…you…do…this…?" Vincent blocked his eyes from the light and dirt the wind was blowing.
"Yeah." When Misty said that, the wind died down and the light went away and their original backgrounds came back. She looked out the gate. Cloud was blown about 10 yards away. "Damn! Cloud!!!" Misty yelled as she tried to summon Shiva.
"Here!" Vincent tossed Misty a red summon. "It's Odin!" He began to summon Leviathan. Vincent stepped forward and twirled his gun in the air, then he disappeared so did Misty and Cloud too.
Water flooded the town. Roars that shook the world echoed in the air. Then a huge dragon-like barracuda came out of the water. Then a big tidal wave began to form.
"Urrrggghhh!!!" Jenova went flying back when it hit her. "You all are going to die!"
Vincent, Misty, and Cloud returned.
"Ha ha ha!" Misty laughed. "Do it and see what happens!" Green light shun around her. "Bolt 3!!!" She pushed her hands out in front of her. A big flash of lightening hit Jenova.
Jenova was pissed. So pissed she was levitating. "Comet 2!!!" She pulled her hands back and then pushed out with all her might.
"I think now would be a good time to say 'SHIT!!!'" Misty looked at Vincent.
Vincent nodded.
Misty had a face of worry written all over her face.
The all of sudden huge and heavy tremors shook the earth beneath them. They fell to their knees.
"Shit!!! M-BARRIER!!!" Misty shouted out aloud. Then a gray diamond shaped shield covered her and Vincent. "Cool. Now… umm…"
"Think fast!!!" Vincent was holding the ground for support.
"Yeah!!! Umm!" Then the tremors got worse. "W-A-L-L!!! WA-L-L!!!" It was to late the comets began to rain on them. Hit after hit. Then it stopped. Misty was lying on her back. All cut up and bruised. Same thing with Vincent. When she looked over at him, her whole body ached. Every bone in her body felt broken. "Damn…" She could barley move her head.
Vincent could barley blink. "I…think…we're…dead." He passed out. The so did Misty.
"You got that right!!!" Jenova laughed. "Who as the last laugh now???"
"I do…"
Jenova looked up sharply. "?!?!?" She was confused. "How??? I thought I killed you for sure! Your suppose to be dead!!!" Jenova's mouth dropped open.
"Yeah well, life's a bitch then you die!" Cloud pulled out his Phoenix summon materia. "Phoenix!" The bird rose from the earth and fire outlined its shape in the grounded. The brightly colored bird gave life to Misty and Vincent and knocked down Jenova for them.
"No!" Jenova fell to the ground. "You can't !!! I must…" She reached out to Vincent and Cloud.
"DIE!" Misty jumped up in the air and plunged her Katanas into Jenova heart and stomach. Misty smiled as she twisted the swords in Jenova's heart and stomach. "I know your not it…"
Jenova smiled. "Good girl…"
Misty yanked out her swords and chopped off Jenova's head. Jenova's head tumbled on the ground. Jenova's pale pink and red blood covered the ground and Misty's swords. Jenova's body fell forward and splashed Misty's feet in Jenova's blood. "I know you to well." Misty turned back to Cloud and Vincent. "She'll be back in another form though… We have to prepare, but after this…"
Cloud nodded. "I know… We got to find Sephiroth." Cloud turned his back from the house and Misty. "Are you ready for this?" Cloud spoke over his shoulder. "If we run into him god knows what he is capable of doing…" Cloud looked at Vincent. "You think she can handle it?" He spoke low so Misty wouldn't hear him.
Vincent shrugged.
"I am. And please don't try to speak low so I won't hear… because I can hear everything…" Misty walked towards Cloud and Vincent. "It annoys me." She walked between Cloud and Vincent. She looked at Cloud. "Lets go."
"No, not yet. I have to be sure your ready." Cloud looked back at Misty.
Misty rolled her eyes and crossed her arms in front of her chest. "Oh please! If I didn't see Jenova you guys would have been dead! Look I survived fighting Jenova! I don't think there's going to be much difference between her and Sephiroth." Misty got in Cloud's face. "So don't give me that, 'Not yet. I have to be sure.' Crap! I can do it, and if I die I die! But I die fighting." Misty walked past Cloud. She opened the Mansion's door. "And if you don't like it… to bad." She walked in and faded into the darkness.
Cloud clutched his fist. "If it wasn't for me…"
She came back out. "We," She motioned to Vincent. "Would have been dead! Yeah, thank you now lets go!!!" She walked back in.
Cloud shook his head.
"I think she wants to find any pieces of her past here… She needs to remember so she can help us." Vincent began to walk to the mansion. "She just needs to know too." Vincent turned back to Cloud.
"Why do you care now?" Cloud glared at Vincent.
"Because she fought good and with us, not against us." Vincent walked inside the mansion and disappeared into the darkness.
Cloud sighed and then walked in.
As the darkness in gulfed them, their eyes began to focus in the darkness. Covered furniture was scattered about in the front room. White sheets with dust were thrown on the furniture. Dust fell from the ceiling when they closed the door behind them. It was quite until a demonic laughter was heard. "Hee hee hee." Then what seemed to be a small round orange pumpkin with a white cloth floated in. It had a mouth and eyes cut into its orange skin. "Hee hee hee hee!!!" It then flew towards Misty. Misty ducked. The pumpkin spun back around and did its demonic laugh.
"What is that?!!?" Misty kept on ducking when the pumpkin head came at her.
"A Dorky Face." Cloud stepped forward. "Hey! Dork!" He yelled at the Dorky Face.
The Dorky Face spun around to Cloud and growled then laughed demonically. It sped towards Cloud. Then it froze and fell to the floor. It gave one last laugh then disappeared. It left a small pile of Gil. Cloud saw Misty smiling after it fell. She had one of her swords in the Dorky Face.
"Gil???" Misty raised one eyebrow. "What's this all about?"
"After you kill a monster it usually leaves behind Gil. His kind," Cloud pointed to the Dorky Face. "Leaves behind about two hundred and two more or less." He bent over and picked up the Gil. "Well since there's enemies in here, be cautious they can pop out anywhere…" Cloud took out his Buster Sword and began to walk up some stairs that where in front of them.
Vincent pulled out his gun and Misty held one of her Katanas out. Then they began to follow Cloud. They came to what seemed like a guest room or something. There was a chair in a corner, a large painting with a pot next to it, a barrel on the floor and a desk behind the barrel. Then there was a door on the left side of the wall. They walled into the next room. There were two windows on the left, a bed under the windows, a bookshelf, and chair on the bottom right corner of the room and next to it there was a flake wall. Cloud walked up to it and gave a push. The wall slid open. Cloud walked in. There were stairs going around the wall. Cloud walked down them then so did Vincent and Misty. Then a group of black bats came down on them as they got to the bottom of the stairs.
Misty and Cloud swung their weapons at them as Vincent shot at some of the bats. As each bat disappeared after it died, Gil rained on to the floor. After the bats were gone they picked up the Gil. There were two doors ahead of them.
"This one." Cloud opened the door in front of him and walked in. Misty and Vincent followed. "Urg…" Cloud grabbed his head as high-pitched noises came into his mind. He fell to his knees. "Stop… please… stop…" Then he slumped forward unconscious.
"Cloud!!!" Misty ran over and kneeled next to Cloud's motionless body. She shook his body. "Cloud, wake up!!!" She kept on shaking him. Vincent was next to her. "What happened to him???" She looked at Vincent.
"I dunno." Vincent went to feel a pulse. "He's alive though."
Misty sighed in relief. "Oh good."
As Cloud fell unconscious, he felt like he was floating and a bright white light flash. He saw a man in a SOLDIER outfit in a yellow pick-up truck. He had black, spiky hair like Clouds. Then he saw another man sitting in the back of the pick-up. He had blonde hair like Cloud… It was Cloud!!! "Zack?" Thought aloud. But he didn't hear him. "I must be remembering…" Then it flash to when him and Zack were above Midgar and some Shin- Ra soldiers were chasing them. He saw Zack at the edge of the cliff. Then the soldiers shot him in front of Cloud. The soldiers walked over to Cloud.
"Should we kill him?" One soldier said.
"Naw, lets leave him here to die. He'll die sooner or later." Another one spoke.
"Yeah, he saw his bud die." They all began to laugh then left him there for dead. "I think we got a raise." They began to laugh again as they got into their truck.
Cloud saw himself crawl to Zack and picked up his Buster sword a vow to destroy Shin- Ra.
Cloud woke up with Misty and Vincent next to him. "Urg…" Cloud's head hurt. It felt like somebody hit him over the head with a hammer. He looked at Misty and Vincent. He sat up.
"Good morning. What happened?" Misty stood up.
"I-I-I dunno." He rubbed his head.
"We thought you were dead." Misty helped Cloud up onto his feet. "You were gone for two hours…"
"That long?"
"Yeah. We're still in the Mansion." Vincent got up.
"He not here?" Cloud dusted himself off.
"No he's not, but I found this while you where unconscious." She handed him a book. "It's about Jenova." Then Vincent found this." She handed him and other book. "This ones about Sephiroth and Ancients. We already read them…" She went back to the back of the room. "Ahhh!" She shrieked.
Cloud and Vincent went running back there.
"Not you again?" Cloud sighed and then he pulled out his sword.
Vincent pulled out his gun. "Misty was right…"
Misty stepped back to Cloud and Vincent, with both of her swords out. "I told you but nobody believes me!" Misty snarled.
"We believe you… But why are you back?" Cloud pulled Misty back a little more.
It was Jenova back to her old self. She was behind the desk that was in the middle of the small area. She laughed. "Always not believing someone until it happens…" She giggled. "But I'm not here to fight… I came to talk to you." She smiled at Cloud. "It doesn't concern any of you," She looked at Vincent and Misty. "But you can stay. So we are here to talk, not fight."
"How do we know that? That's how it started last time, and look at what happened." Misty growled.
"Oh hush!" Jenova put a Silence spell on her. "That takes care of that problem… So now Cloud, how did you like your little dream?" She smiled at him. "It's the truth don't worry."
"You did that?" Cloud raised one eyebrow.
"No, but I saw it." Jenova looked at Cloud this time not smiling. "I'm sorry about your little friend…Zack was it?" She opened a book that was on the desk.
"Shut up!!! You don't know anything!!!" Cloud face was red from his anger at Jenova.
"Well, I know that you where on a mission with Sephiroth here. Then he went berserk and killed everyone in this town. Shin- Ra captured you; they made you as an experiment with Zack. You two escaped at dinnertime. Got a ride from some hillbilly to Midgar. Then got chased by Shin- Ra soldiers and Zack got killed and they left you to die. Sephiroth killed them because of that, and then you vowed to destroy Shin- Ra. And now you're here, again!" Jenova flipped some pages in the book.
Cloud was dumbfounded. "Sephiroth killed those soldiers?" He looked at the ground. "Why?"
"I don't know. I haven't really haven't dug into his mind that far… but he did."
"Mmmrrrggghhh!!!" There was a muffled voice.
"What?" Jenova took off the spell on Misty.
"Why are you telling us this???"
"So you guys could figure out your past. Don't you understand that??? You are a SOLDIER aren't you???" Jenova was levitating again.
"I don't know…" Misty bit her lower lip. Then she looked at Jenova. "Do you?"
"Yes, but since you didn't want to hear it, I won't tell you! And plus it for your own good, General… And if you don't figure yourself out soon you'll die!!!" She began to laugh. "Good luck!"
"You bitch!!!" Misty yelled.
"Here read this it may help you if you're smart!" Jenova threw the book that she was looking at to Misty. "Read it and see!!!" She laughed again and then flew off.
"Ugh!" Misty was knocked down from the book. "What the Hell?" She began to read the beginning of it the chapter Jenova left it on.
March XX, XXXX
Today we discovered there is more then one Ancient here. There are three living ones. Two female and one male… It's perfect for the breeding of them. Today I sent out some of Shin Ra's Turks to find them. I think there names are Rude, Tseng, and Reno… Very cold-minded men… I hope they don't damage the Ancient's if they bring them. One of the Ancients I know, we been looking for her for years… Aerith Gainsborough, she's about 5 years old and very smart. She'd been living with her "mother". Her real mother was killed while trying to escape us.
Then there's this new assistant named Hojo. He's been getting on my nerves lately. He began wondering around some of the experiment and working on them without my permission. He also has been trying to get me to let him work on the Ancient Breeding Project (A.B.P.). The only way he can get on it is if I die.
I have been working on this project far to long to let anyone else to interfere in my work. The other day we put Lucrecia in a cavern so no one will find her, that failure… We put her son in the new SOLDIER project. This one is a Mako shower type. We have about four different types of experiments for SOLDIER going on. His name is Sephiroth. He's seven. He is a very smart child. Lucrecia may not be a failure at all. Then Lucrecia's boyfriend or whatever was a Turk, he got in the way of my experiment with her so I preformed an experiment with him and now he lives in an oxygen coffin with two others. He'll be a creature of the night with them. He'll be Shin Ra's new SOLDIER, an immortal, blood drinker, or a vampyre. He gave me that idea of a SOLDIER project. I'm so proud of myself. I should thank him but I don't even know the losers name.
April X, XXXX
Today we found out that Aerith as a sister, but we have no clue were she is. She probably right under our noses. But she can't get away from us like her whore mother. I will find her, even if that means I have to bring every person in this pathetic world to find her.
We know the male, Sephiroth. Hojo found out. I owe him; I just might put him on the project now. But I don't know. As for Sephiroth we've been putting him under a lot of hard training. Harder then these idiots. He's good for a 7 year old. He's been a hard worker, he been training 24/7. He won't stop. I wonder if it because we injected Mako in him and his mother before he was born. If that's the reason, good. If not it must be because he's an Ancient.
There as been a new female in the department of SOLDIER Project. She'll be the first and only, if she succeeds. We've been showering her in Mako each day. She's as good as Sephiroth. They'll be a good pair if they make it into SOLDIER. I've been watching her everyday and she is very well, better then any of the older ones, expect for Sephiroth. She's two years younger then him. Tomorrow I'm going to let them fight each other so I can see who is stronger. But other then that I hope the project will succeed with Sephiroth and…
The other page was ripped out. Misty looked through the book and that's was all it said for those days. The other chapters where about the A.B.P. "Damn it! I will never find out what happened or who that was!!!" She threw the book across the room. Then she ran out of the library-lab.
Vincent went over to where she threw the book and picked it up and began to walk out with it.
"Why are you taking it?" Cloud looked at Vincent.
"I want to find out what happened. You better take those one too." Vincent motioned to the ones Cloud was holding. "They may help us on the way." Then he walked out.
Cloud soon followed.