Author's Notes: In here, Sephiroth meets Aeris here!
Final Fantasy
Revelation
Part 6
By Neo
Seify
Age: A few months old
Height:1'4
Weight: 19 lbs
Job: Guardian
Weapon: Claws, Fangs
Birthdate: Mar. 12
Birthplace: Midgar Slums
Bloodtype: Unknown
Eye: Green
Hair: Gray
Fave Food: Meat
Least Fave Food: Sweet Foods
Fave Color: Gray, Green
Magic: Thief Magic
Skill: She is an expert thief and a sneaky one also
Nationality: Midgarian
Family: Mother (dead)
"Now, I want you to concentrate and aim for that target right there." Reeve pointed to a dummy hanging loose on a tree branch.
It was outside Sephiroth's backyard where he was practicing his magic. The backyard was beyond beautiful. Cherry Blossom trees with pink leaves swaying everywhere from the wind, a crystal clear lake sparkling from the sun's light, flowers in different areas, a small waterfall, a couple of fountains, and a couple of small temples, lastly, they were all surrounded by giant concrete walls. It was paradise.
Sephiroth concentrated hard, summoning up all he had and he let out a golden fireball-like attack which...didn't hit the dummy, but the wall. Sephiroth sighed. Yet another target missed. If this keeps up, every part of the wall would be charred and black. Aunt Jade would kill him.
"If you keep missing targets, Sephiroth, you will never survive." Reeve lectured. Sephiroth sighed and hung his head low.
"Go easy on the kid, he's only 10." Hojo said from afar.
"When I was 10, I had much harder work then this!" Reeve retorted, "And believe me, they were anything but easy!"
"Well, that was your time, this is the future now, get with the time, old timer!" Hojo smiled. He was underneath a beach umbrella that was connected to a round white table complete with its own set of chairs. Hojo sat on one and started his research on his labtop.
2 weeks have gone by since the attack of the killer nurse and every Guardian has been training. Reeve tutored Sephiroth's magic, Hiroshi taught him fencing and karate, and Jade tried to teach him concentrating, but that seems like the only problem he has with.
"Didn't you meditate like your Aunt Jade told you to do?" Reeve asked, "Maybe it'll help your concentration." Sephiroth's head wwas hung even lower.
"You're destroying the kid's confidence!" Hojo shouted, "He already has these kind of things at school!"
"Damn it, Hojo!" Reeve shouted back, " We're talking about the boy's future here, he needs to be ready at all cost!"
"Well, he won't be if you keep lowering his confidence!" Hojo ricoheted, "At this rate, the kid will be too busy moping that a monster will end up splitting him in two!"
"Hojo, don't mess with me, I have more experience then you do, so I-" The argument went on for a while.
Sephiroth sighed and headed back inside. In there was the basement area. it was sent up like a dojo. Usually for practices when needing wide spaces or rainy/snowy days, other then that, the fightings are usually practiced outside. Sephiroth expected the same empty dojo with a few swords and shields hunged up, but he gasped at the sight of giant hoops, tunnels, and other training stuffs you's expect in a military campground. Sephiroth wanted to know what was up with all the junk, but Jade came in, ready to answer.
"It's designed to look like a tightly secured area." Jade started, "I am training Seify to maneuever through these obstacles to better advantage her skills as a thief, Observe."
Everything was silent, then Seify came in. She darted pass the tunnel, climbed long levers, lepaed through hoops, dodged fake guards and eveuntally, ended up in the finish line.
"Hmmm....15'3 seconds, not bad, but we gotta get it down to 7 seconds!" Jade shouted, "By now, the guards would've caught ya!"
"7 seconds!?" Seify gasped for her breath, "What do I look like, a roadrunner?!" Sephiroth sighed and picked up the exhausted puppy and gently petted her on the head.
"I never knew anyone giving up so easily!" Jade placed her fists on her waist, "You're not a quitter, now are you, Seify?"
"No!" Seify shouted, "I'm gonna be the best thief, just like my mommy!"
"Aah, so your mother was a thief." Jade crossed her arms.
"The best!" Seify smiled in confidence, "She could get pass a store, grab a whole turkey, and run on back in a few seconds flat!"
"I see." Jade smiled as well.
"Yea, I was never hungry because of her." Seify closed her eyes and lifted her head up the ceiling, "No matter what...no one could catch her...except that one day."
"What, what happen?" Hojo popped in, looking a little beat up. The Reeve came, looking the same.
"What on the world happen to you two?!" Jade gasped.
"Reeve and I had a little argument and one thing led to another and we ended up beating the stuffing out of each other, but we're cool now." Hojo answered, smiling the whole way despite that every part of his muscles were aching, "So...what happen to her?"
"I...I wish not to talk about it." Seify's voice grew sad and she buried her nose under her front paw. Sephiroth gently stroke the puppy again.
"Oh...I see." Hojo scratched his head.
"I...I'm gonna get a snack." Seify leaped of Sephiroth's arm and went to the kitchen.
"Dogs...they always think of food." Hojo placed his hand on his waist and shook his head.
RING! RING! The phone rang loudly, breaking up the moment.
"I'll get it." Hojo sighed.
He picked up the phone and answered, "Hello?"
Everyone was silent as to try to hear who the caller was.
"I see...uh-huh....Oh, I see....Oh, okay...I'll bring him over right away." Hojo placed the phone down and stared at Sephiroth, worried.
"What is it?" Reeve asked.
"Uh...Sephiroth, Raven wants to see ya." Hojo slowly said, "Come on, I gotta take you to the lab." The lab! He knew what that was! They were gonna experiment on him again. Sephiroth hated that. Too many shots, too many test tubes, too many blood test, no, he didn't want that. Sephiroth clung onto Jade and gave his fear face, meaning he was deadly scared.
" I know you don't wanna go, but please, for your sake, let's go." Hojo said, his face still full of worries. To him, he didn't want Sephiroth to go in as much as he doesn't want to, but alas, it couldn't be helped.
It took 20 minutes to drag Sephiroth out of the house and on Hojo's motorcycle. It speed passed before Sephiroth could leap off. The poor boy sighed and stared at the passing cars and buildings and people and-
"I'm sorry, Sephiroth." Hojo apologized, "I don't want you to go through this, but you do have Jenova cells inside of ya and it's worth checking out to make sure you feel better." Sephiroth sighed.
"Yea, I know..." Hojo sighed as well, "But who knows if these cells could affect you in a bad way, that's why we have to test to see if you will be safe in the future." Sephiroth now gazed at Hojo, his face full of question marks, each waiting to be answered.
"I'm worried about you, ya know." Hojo forced himself a smile, "I want you to grow up, get married, have kids, start a family, ya know, the basic!" Sephiroth still gazed at his uncle.
"I don't want you to die so early, ya hear?" Hojo said, "Besides, when you get those testings, I'll be there by your side, you know that, right?" Sephiroth slowly nodded.
"Good...you may be special, but you're normal, like everyone else." Hojo smiled, then kept his eyes back on the road.
In the lab area, Raven impatienly awaited Hojo's arrival with Sephiroth.
"Stupid little Chinese idiot!" Raven groaned, "I give him a day off and he slacks off like there's no tomorrow, UGH!" Using the full force of her arm, she wiped off an entire table full of test tudes and chemicals. The other scientists backed off in fear of the powerful female general.
"He had better enter that day or else!" Raven shouted.
"I'm here!" Hojo came running in with a relunctant Sephiroth clinging onto him for dear life.
"Good, let the experiment begin." Raven grinned.
The experiment always felt slow for Sephiroth. He was practically naked and sometimes, he had to be, which he didn't like at all due to the fact Raven was a female. The only thing keeping him from going crazy was Hojo, who kept his distance, but watched over closely to make sure nothing went wrong.
Shots after another, blood tests after another, it went on and on. Poor Sephiroth, he grew exhausted. He slowly took a huge breath. He was on a metal table with bucklers hanging from every part of the table. Tubes were stuck to him in almost every part of his body. The light on top of him was blinding him and making him dizzy. It felt like hours....and hours...and hours...
"Okay, we're done, you can have the kid back." Raven said Hojo, "Well, until next time."
Hojo sighed and waited till Sephiroth put on his clothes. Sephiroth quickly put them on, afriad someone else might enter and see him.
The scientists all started to leave, lunch break.
"Don't break anything!" Raven pointed to Hojo.
"I won't!" Hojo spread his arm apart, one hand knocked off a test tube which came crashing down on the ground, it is now broken.
"Uhh...Oops." Hojo laughed nervously, "Uhh...I won't break anything...now." Raven and her scientists left, leaving Hojo and Sephiroth alone in the giant lab.
Sephiroth sighed and sat on the table where he was experimented on. How long must he take this kinda of pain.
"Sephiroth, I'm really sorry about all this." Hojo shook his head, "You've been very brave throughout the whole time you've been experimented on."
Sephiroth hung his head low once more.
"....Here." Hojo took of his small black cowboy and handed to Sephiroth.
Sephiroth grew confused. Why in the world would Hojo give his hat away?
"This isn't really mine, it belong to your father, Vincent." Hojo smiled, " He gave it to me telling me to give it to you when the time is right...I think it is."
Sephiroth couldn't believe this! Tha hat! The hat that Hojo wore everyday and he finds out it was orginally his father's. He saw in total shock to recieve such a great gift, even if it was as simple as a hat. he slowly took the hat and hugged it.
"Uhh..you put it on your head." Hojo advised.
Sephiroth gently placed it on his head. Perfect fit, which was pretty strange since Hojo's head was bigger then his...Oh, well, whatever.
"Well, It's lunch time, you stay here and I'll get us some food, okay?" Hojo smiled. Sephiroth nodded. He watched Hojo leave. Now he was all alone.
Being alone in a lab can be kinda scary. Total silence. Scary. He huddled together and buried his head under his legs. Eerily scary. Silent. Crying....wait, crying? Sephiroth gasped and got up from the table he was sitting on. He searched around. Someone was in here, crying! Sephiroth ran and ran around the lab until he couldn't run no more. he panted from exhaustion. Where was that crying coming from? He wanted to know so much. He wanted to meet this person. Maybe this person was experimented as well? Sephiroth thought these kinda things. Maybe this person is like him. He could only imagine. Sephiroth leaned back on a wall. He could still hear the crying, but he couldn't find the person anywhere! He sighed and thought some more. He lean back some more, but he ended up loosing his balance and falling down. The wall was pushed and Sephiroth ended up tumbling down the stairs.
"WAHHHH!" Sephiroth shouted as he fell down the stairs. He landed with a small thud. Sephiroth gasped as he saw a prety dark place. He got up and dusted himself off. he searched around the area. It looked more dungeon like then lab like. Where was he? Wait! Hold that thought! He could hear the crying! He was near that person. Desperate, Sephiroth ran to the crying direction. The crying grew louder and louder each step he took. He halted when he saw a small cell. It was had a light shining to make the cell shine. There was a giant glass wall so that people could see through. Next to the cell was a door, slightly opened. Sephiroth looked throught the glass and saw a small girl crying. Ah-ha! He found the one! Excited, he went in the door, not caring about the consquences he might face when in.
When inside, the girl gasped at the sight of the boy.
"Who..who are you?" the girl asked.
Sephiroth pointed to himself with a face of utter confusion. How was he to answer her question? He didn't know how to speak!
"Umm...I'm Aeris....what's your name?" the girl asked. Sephiroth tried to speak, but no words came out of his mouth. He didn't get it. Can he not speak at all or was he not trying hard enough?
"Can't you talk?" Aeris asked.
Aeris, she looked around 5. She wore a pink dress and pink matching shoes again. She has long chestnut brown hair and emerald green eyes. She was sickening cute.
"Well, even if you can't talk, it's nice to meet someone other then scientists." Aeris commented, "Are you from around here?"
Sephiroth nodded. He pray that she kept asking "yes" and "no" questions so he could shake his head or nod his head.
"My mommy and me were captured from our home and taken here." Aeris started, "I've been here since I was a baby, so I mever saw what the outside look like. Those stupid scientists always experiment on me and my mommy."
Aah! Someone eles who was experimented on. Maybe she, too, has Jenova cells?
"My mommy isn't here right now, she's being tested." Aeris said, thinking Sephiroth wanted to know where her mother was, "We're Cetras and that's why we are being experimented on." Sephiroth made a silent gasp. He once read a book about the mysterious of Cetra. It was told they could speak with the Planet and they can heal it as well. He always thought Cetras were all extinct, but now he saw one, right next to him.
"Do you know what a Cetra is?" Aeris asked.
Sephiroth nodded.
"Good." Aeris smiled, "Me and my mommy can both talk to the Planet and understand its feelings." Sephiroth nodded.
"Someday, we Cetras are gonna find the Promised Land and live happy lives." Aeris had ona dreamy face. Sephiroth was betting she was imagining her Promised Land.
"You can come, too...if you want." Aeris too Sephiroth's arm.
"....." Sephiroth started to blush a little. He never had a girl hold his arm before...unless of course it counted when Rune grabbed him on the arm and started to yell at him or Raven examining his arm and every other part of his body. He shook that sick thought outta his head.
"It's really nice meeting ya, I think we can be great friends!" Aeris gave Sephiroth a gentle hug.
It was quite amazing. A small girl half his own age trusting him so easily with her secrets and thoughts. Even though she was trapped, she had no care in the world. It felt as though she was alreayd free from the cell she was stuck in. Lucky. Sephiroth wished to feel that way, too. Maybe this Promised Land will bring him supreme happiness. He would talk and smile and be near all his friends and family.
"Sephiroth!?" came a voice.
Sephiroth gasped. Hojo! He forgot about him! Sephiroth immediately started to leave.
"Wait, will I see you again?!" Aeris asked, wishing he wouldn't leave so soon. Sephiroth didn't know if he could, but he nodded anyways.
"Great, see ya sometimes." Aeris waved,"....Se..per..roth." She slowly tried to pronouce his name. For a 5 year old, it would seem difficult.
"SEPHIROTH!" Hojo shouted, "Where are you!?!"
Sephiroth looked at Aeris one more time, then quickly made haste. He ran up the stairs he previously fell from and went out from the secret wall. He quickly closed it and went up to where Hojo was.
"There you are." Hojo smiled, his hand with lunch, "I told you to wait right here." Sephiroth shrugged and digged through the paperbag for his food.
"So, did you get bored waiting?" Hojo asked as they both left the lab. Sephiroth shook his head.
"Oh...that's good." Hojo said, "Really good."
The two were outside after lunch was finished and was on their way home when they found out-
"-MY MOTORCYCLE!!!" Hojo gasped, "Where is it!?" He frantically searched the spot where he parked the cycle. Sephiroth, however, saw tire marks and sighed from embarassment. He tapped Hojo on the shoulder and pointed to the skid marks.
"....Oh...I...I saw that." Hojo blushed, "Well, come on, let's follow the track!"
The two ran, following the track, hoping it would lead to the thief. It didn't take long. The track ended up in a pretty large alley.
"Okay, something bad could be happening." Hojo whispered to Sephiroth, "Let's be prepared." Hojo took out an ofuda while Sephiroth charged up his magic.
"Okay...CHARGE!" Hojo shouted.
The two ran, screaming battle cries. They all ran like brave warriors in a battle field, but stopped dead on their tracks when they saw who stole his motorcycle. A.....police officer?!
"Not just an police officer!" the officer grinned, "I was sent by the boss to get rid of the little brat!"
"Great...first the killer nurse, now a killer cop, this is not my day." Hojo groaned.
"You shall perish..both of you!" The cop smiled mischieviously.
The cop made a daring leap, aiming for Sephiroth.
Sephiroth gasped...this certainly wasn't his day either!
To Be Continued....
Oh, what happen next?! Will Sephiroth ever be safe?! Will he be captured?! Will I ever stop asking myself these corny questions like some overdramatic narrator!? Find out in Part 7!!!!!!! Until then, peace out!
