A/N: Hey, this story is really not a Mary Sue, no romance involved! I'm serious! Thanks again to Klose for editing this J I appreciate it J Thanks to Lucrecia LeVrai for pointing out the mistakes in the names in the earlier chapter
Chapter 3
Suddenly, Elizabeth recalled something that she had once heard Ifalna saying…and then she understood. Muttering under her breath, Elizabeth repeated the same words that she had heard Ifalna saying to Professor Gast, "It looked like our dead mothers…and our dead brothers…"
So that was it! Jenova was a shape-shifter! Elizabeth wondered why she hadn't realised till now, it had always been so obvious, and it was probably the reason why Jenova could take on the many different forms that Elizabeth had seen when she fought it during the game.
Elizabeth looked up at Sephiroth and Jenova again. During the time that she had been lost in her thoughts, it seemed that Sephiroth had managed to persuade Jenova that she might be of use to them, or had Jenova managed to convince Sephiroth that she was better-off dead? She was clueless.
The atmosphere was tense, and silence hung heavily in the air as Elizabeth awaited her "verdict". Knowing Sephiroth, he would do anything his "mother" asked him to and without a doubt, she would die. Yet, she was numb and devoid of feelings because she just knew, or perhaps she just had that last hope that she might survive. Elizabeth looked down upon the floor again, wishing that the angel had not come to her, wishing that she wasn't stuck in this terrible mess.
She was startled when Sephiroth suddenly spoke, and she lifted up her head yet again, this time of her own accord, and not because she had been forced to by a sword under her chin. She was shocked to see that Jenova had suddenly vanished into "thin air" and Sephiroth was left standing all by his own. Elizabeth wondered if Jenova had changed itself into the form of a mouse and quietly sneaked away. As if! Elizabeth was fully aware of the fact that Jenova was not the sort who would sneak around…
A cold and emotionless voice spoke once again, "Did you hear what I just said?" As Elizabeth's vision focused again, she saw that the one who had been speaking was Sephiroth. She nodded her head, although she had not really paid close attention to him, and was clearly clueless about what he was talking about. Sephiroth seemed to have noticed this because he repeated himself, a frown evident on his face, "Mother and I have decided that you might be of some use to us. Your powerful magic might assist us when the time comes…yet you must promise never to leave this crater." With that, he looked at Elizabeth intently, as he waited for a reply.
All Elizabeth could do was stare at Sephiroth in confusion. She knew she had to answer him or he might decide to strike her again with Masamune, which was in a dangerously close range, but she just couldn't find the words to say. "Powerful magic? What powerful magic? What powerful magic does he think I possess?" was the question that circulated through her head over and over again, as she tried desperately to think of something of say. In the end, she only managed to nod her head.
Sephiroth's frown deepened and he looked as though he was about to reach for Masamune again. But he only nodded and left, leaving Elizabeth all alone in the small cave. It was not until Sephiroth was gone did Elizabeth manage to calm down again. She wondered what she had gotten herself into. True, she had been excited at first at the prospect of seeing Sephiroth in reality and when she did see him, she had truly been in bliss but only for that short moment of time…now she was just really afraid of him. She touched her chin, the blood had dried up, it hadn't been a deep wound.
"No, no, no! What am I thinking? Isn't this what I've been dying for so long? Haven't I always dream of meeting him and being in love with him?" Elizabeth thought to herself. A silent debate raged in her mind, but she finally came to a decision. She was going to love Sephiroth with all her heart and she would not be afraid of him. She would take whatever intimidation that came her way and change it into love, to make her love for him even deeper and even stronger.
Now that she had decided, she was suddenly overwhelmed with this strange and mad desire to see him again and so she wandered out of the cave. Elizabeth was amazed at the sheer size of the northern crater. Sure, she had seen it thousand of times due to the fact that she had played FF7 a hundred over times, but she had never expected it to be that big. And there were so many minute caves all around, how was she to find Sephiroth?
It was at that exact moment when she suddenly remembered. "Ice! Sephiroth lay in the ice when Cloud gave him the Black Materia! So that must mean…" Elizabeth looked desperately around, trying to figure out where she was and how to get to Sephiroth. However, as hard as she tried, she couldn't recognise where she was…she had never ever seen this part of the northern crater before…
Suddenly she hit against something hard and as she turned around, and saw what it was she had bumped against, her stomach gave a sick jolt. She had bumped against Master Tonberry… and she was defenseless. Elizabeth knew that he was more than capable of killing her instantly, having encountered him many times in the northern crater during the game. She reached into her pockets to see if there was anything that she could use against him.
Nothing…except a lousy pack of cards…what could she do? Throw them at him? "A pack of cards against a knife and a spell which could cause instant death. Great…just great." Elizabeth thought to herself, as the fight commenced. She was barely able to throw the deck of cards at him when he casted "Everybody's Grudge" and she felt her life being drained out of her. Just before she blacked out and collapsed onto the ground, Elizabeth thought she could distinctly hear chuckling behind her.
A/N: Well, this chapter is evidently much longer than the last one and I hope it was good? :) *crosses fingers * Reviews are greatly welcomed…should I continue the story or just end it?
