Eyes on Me: The One Winged Angel
Chapter 4: Unbearable Chaos
A/N: Major spoilers here. If you don't know who Sephiroth's parents are or Squall's parents... don't read on... If you want to know then indeed.. read on ^^;
Nanaki paced back and forth inside Tifa's bar. 7th Heaven in Kalm, that fire blazing intensely on his tail. Feathers that adorned his mane shook violently as his pacing picked up speed. Cloud sat at the bar, looking at his dear friend in turmoil. "Nanaki stop... You're making the situation worse to an extent. Be calm."
The fire red beast halter his movements and glared at Cloud. "You tell me to be calm... when my first born son N'var is missing?! I'd love to see you calm my friend if your child was missing with no trace to find him." He snorted.
"Papa..." Sienna walked over to her father and nuzzled him gently. I could be clearly seen that she had been crying. N'var was the one she was closest to out of him and Sekato. "We'll find N'var... so don't worry okay?"
Nanaki nodded reluctantly and turned away from the group gathered there. Tifa crouched down next to him and offered her sympathies. Suddenly Aeris burst through the bar door, holding a piece of paper.
"We have to go to Nibelhiem now. Vincent has sent for us.." She handed the paper to Reeve.
"What the #@$%^* is going on!" Cid fumed.
"Hey watch your god damned language in front of the children!" Barret warned.
"Why don't you all just do me a favor... and shut up!" Reeve was getting an headache with all the disagreement. "Vincent's got some information for us that he's kept from us for five years. And a special guest is with him. Cloud you should know who it is..."
"Sephiroth!" Yuffie called out before Cloud had a chance to answer.
Indeed Yuffie. Shall we go now?" Aeris was becoming impatient.
"Let's go" Cloud stood up and headed out of the bar to board the Highwind
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"We're here... Reeve does that letter say where to meet Vincent?" Cid asked.
"In the Shinra Mansion, the basement to be exact," Cloud said apathetically.
"Well what are all you waiting for? Let's get this done and over with." Barret said with anxiousness.
Slowly the group headed into the mansion one by one. The inside of the place hadn't changed since the time Cloud and the others were there. The only thing that was different was that there was more dust. The winding staircase leading down into the basement was rickety and squeaking. The hallways were dark and damp, infested with rats. They walked past the room they found Vincent locked in a coffin those five years ago. They entered the basement library.
"Could it take you any longer to get here?" Vincent stood there impatiently. Next to him stood the platinum-haired Sephiroth, his Masamune in hand.
"P-p-please understand. Our b-b-brother is missing. P-p-please don't be too angry Mr. Vincent. Papa is really worried about him." Sekato said this while hiding behind his father.
Vincent couldn't help but smile at the young one. "Understandable. Don't take my tone to heart. I'm not upset at you but I just figured you would have been here sooner."
"Anyway, we're here. What's so important to tell us now that you couldn't tell us five years ago?" Nanaki asked venomously. He wasn't in the greatest of moods.
"I can tell you that." Sephiroth stepped forward, those boots clanking against the wooden floor. "You all know that I have Jenova cells injected into my body right? And that I have no idea who my parents were... but now I know."
Hey.. isn't Jenova.." Yuffie's sentence was cut off.
"You all just assumed that Jenova was my mother. But she is not. How could she be? She's nothing but a monster. She used me as a helpless puppet, much like I used you Cloud." He paused, glancing to Cloud who had turned his head to the floor, looking hurt. "Look, it wasn't as if I wanted to hurt you but having my mind and body being controlled made me do it. And my father, Hojo, was more interested in making me the superior specimen than my own well being. My mother just backed his wishes, not wanting to go against him and her name was.."
A hologram of a woman with dark brown hair pulled back in a bun, wearing a white lab coat, holding an infant appeared. She was also wearing glasses.
"His mother was Lucrecia." Vincent said this flatly, with no emotion. But inside, he was being ripped apart because he missed her.
"What the #%$^@ is this? You're meaning to tell me that Sephiroth is just like you and me but he's infused with cells of Jenova... therefore making him stronger?" Cid was bewildered.
"I'm just a normal...... guy indeed."
"But you're god damned inhuman! What about those stories Cloud-"
"Don't you remember? Cloud was telling his story as if he was Zack, the true first class SOLDIER member. Cloud was just a Shinra MP officer. Yes, Cloud did 'kill' me, knocking me into the reactor. My body was preserved in the Mako and I slipped into a type of cryogenic sleep. I was harmless.. but Jenova began to corrupt my mind, she was slowly taking over. The Mako and Jenova's powers allowed me to separate my spirit from my body. My spirit was what you saw, not me in my true state. She made me retrieve her body from Shinra Headquarters, which is where you first realized I must not be dead. President Shinra had seem me with Jenova's body and was carrying on like the baby he was. Jenova of course told me he had seen and knew too much, and he had to be dealt with. She had brainwashed me so I obeyed every wish she had for me to do. I killed him, leaving my Masamune in his back for you to find and the I disappeared with Jenova's body." Sephiroth paused for a moment, seeing the others making themselves comfortable in the basement library. They knew they were going to be listening for quite some time. The only one who was not listening was Cloud. Out of the corner of his eye, he watched Cloud reading some of the books in the library, the same books he had been reading before Jenova began controlling him and before cloud 'killed' him. He snickered. "Ti looks like one of you has taken up what I used to do..."
The group turned around to see Cloud walking back into the study of the basement, a book about the Jenova Project in his hands. They turned back to Sephiroth. Tifa crossed her arms. "Cloud won't go insane like you did will he?"
Sephiroth laughed demonically. "Dear Tifa. He can't be controlled by Jenova, she is dead. I refuse to control anyone now and the only things he will find in those books are experiments don on me by Hojo, Professor Gast, and Lucrecia. Oh.. and he may learn about the things done to him and Zack..." He looked at the shocked expression on Tifa's face and snickered. "Don't worry about him. I'll drag him out before I leave here tonight so he doesn't read all of the books like I did. He's not completely ready to know the entire truth." He ran a hand though his silver hair before continuing. "Besides the fact that I wanted to tell you who my parents were, I have some troubling news. There are two alter dimensions out there, and soon our dimension will begin to merge with the other two. One of the dimensions is home to a sorceress, she controls people much like Jenova did. But sorceress' are more powerful." Chatter broke out amongst them and Vincent had to shut them up before Sephiroth could continue.
"This sorceress... has taken your son out from under your nose Nanaki. That is why his is nowhere to be found." Vincent said guiltily.
Nanaki jumped to his feet. "This sorceress had my son?!" He began to growl, eyes narrowed and his body lowered to the ground.
"Calm down Nanaki. There's nothing we can do about it now. We have to wait until our dimensions merge together. Then we can get N'var back and defeat the sorceress. This will be one long, tough battle, longer than your battle with myself and Jenova." Sephiroth glanced down to the study in the library, seeing Could reappear amongst the group once more. Hatred could be detected in those Mako infused jade eyes. He coughed a bit, turning his gaze to Vincent, who also saw Cloud reappear.
"I agree with Sephiroth. I was doing a little reading, and I learned things I never knew before. I believe we should stop the sorceress now, once out dimensions first merge and defeat her before she has a chance to do anything." Cloud said.
Everyone nodded in agreement. Sephiroth was willingly ready to join Cloud and the others for this cause. But there wouldn't be much time to prepare... since the dimensions had already begun merging together though no one seemed to notice any difference
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"Ow! Jesus Squall... Julia has some grip!" A man with shoulder length black hair said as he put Julia Rain Leonhart on the ground after she pulled his hair. "Just like her father..."
Squall shrugged as he looked at her. "I don't think she's anything like me dad..."
"She does have those eyes like your mother's and I'm surprised that you named her after yours and Rinoa's mother."
"Well Rinoa always loved the name Julia, even if it was her mother's name. Hell, you even fell in love with her..." Squall snickered. as he picked up Julia and held her. 'And I felt I needed to remember mom... since I never got to meet her."
"Squall... your mother loves you regardless. She just had some difficulties but in the end, it cost her her life and look at what she did it for... you. Rain... gave up her life to bring you into this world."
"Laguna... shouldn't you stop reminiscing in the past with your long lost son?" Quistis asked as they stood outside a SeeD classroom.
"You've got a point there instructor." Laguna and Suqall snickered, watching Quistis scowl.
"Attention.. may I have your attention for one moment. Will Squall, Quistis and those accompanying them please go to the Main Gate. Someone is here to see you." The loudspeaker clicked off after Xu finished speaking. Squall, Quistis and Laguna looked at each other and headed down to the Main Gate.
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"Well ... now you won't let me into the Garden eh Xu? I'm hurt... that struck me right here..." Seifer pointed to his heart and snickered, watching Xu roll her eyes.
"I can't let you in until-"
"Xu let him in. He's welcome here and you know it. Why you wouldn't show him in baffles me." Squall, Quistis and Laguna had arrived at the Main Gate. Squall crossed his arms, looking from Seifer to Xu.
Xu lowered her gaze slightly. "I was told by Rinoa..."
"Oh... Rinoa eh? She never did forgive me for when I pushed her at Adel. But that was the past! Just cause Rinoa told you to do something... doesn't mean you have to listen to her!" Seifer gripped his gun blade tightly to hide his rising anger.
"Enough. Xu, Seifer is welcome here so any other order you are given cannot be verified over mine." Squall was getting impatient and Laguna saw this in the tone of his voice.
"Anyway... Seifer what do you need to tell us?" Laguna asked, trying to lighten up the mood.
"Oh yeah I came to tell you something. Well it has to do with Zell." Seifer's face became very stern. "Remember the Sorceress War? And how I was the sorceress' knight? Well... there's another sorceress out there and she took Zell as her knight. Why is beyond me..."
Quistis sighed and Squall uncrossed his arms. "You mean to tell us that we have to go threw another Sorceress War? And we have to fight Zell?"
"Correct. But I don't know where they went. It seems like she lives in another dimension like Ultemicia did. And to make matters worse... something is happening to all of the dimension flows. It seems like two others besides our own are warping together, meaning we'll have two dimensions to search to find the sorceress."
"Dammit. Quistis, assemble the SeeDs and the new cadets. We need to train and become stronger before our dimensions completely merge together. If we have any hope of getting Zell back.. it's through going directly to the sorceress, no lingering in wrong dimensions trying to make friends." Squall turned and headed into the Garden with everyone following. It seemed like a Battle Royal would in sue... but who would be on top? Time... my friend... is the key to all of your questions.
A/N: End chapter... sorry for the spoilers. And the next chapter will come soon. Give me time... school sucks you know... and it holds me back from writing more often. And I apologize for the lack of recent story updates.