(Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. This chapter is longer than the others…but it makes up for the next one to that I already have typed. It's only like a page long…but here's the next chapter…)
Disclaimer: Don't own ff7 or Squaresoft so don't sue! Cassandra and Navarro are mine though!
Chapter 3
Sephiroth sighed and sat back on his bed. It had been a year since he had seen that girl…Cassandra. He had found out that she was receiving the same treatments as him. 'Why? She seems different but what does Hojo want with her?' he thought. He sat thinking for a few more minutes.
The door to his room unlocked and Hojo came in with 3 soldiers. One was dressed in a different uniform. 'Probably a higher rank,' Sephiroth thought watching them with distaste.
"Sephiroth this is Navarro. He will be in charge of your training," Hojo said indicating the soldier.
"What training? I don't remember signing up for any kind of lessons," Sephiroth said.
"The first stages of your SOLDIER training that's what. You'll be reporting to him and me. Your treatments will continue with even higher dosages while he trains you," Hojo said.
"Lucky me."
"Well. He's all yours," Hojo said ignoring him and leaving the room.
"Come with me," Navarro said.
"Why not?" Sephiroth asked stretching and following him from the room. The 2 other soldiers followed him. They walked silently down hall after hall until they came to a dead end. It was a locked door. Navarro took a key out of his pocket and opened the door. Before he moved into the room he signaled to one of the soldiers. He nodded and went back the way they had come.
"In here," Navarro said. Sephiroth followed him into a huge circular room. A weapons room. "You may pick what ever you want to use. If I decide you can't use it well enough you'll pick something else," Navarro said.
Sephiroth started walking around the room looking at all the different swords, guns, and other weapons. "What would you say if I said I didn't see anything I liked?" he said.
"Then I'll just pick something out for you and we'll start with that," Navarro said.
"Right…you might just have to do that," Sephiroth said as he finished looking through half of the room.
"Here she is sir," the soldier said as he came back to the room.
Navarro turned. "Cassandra?" he asked. Sephiroth stopped and turned.
"What's it to ya?" the girl asked and jerked her arm away from the soldier. She looked at Sephiroth when she noticed his gaze.
"Pick your weapon," Navarro said.
"I don't want to fight," she said.
"You sure do have confidence for a little 9 year old girl with no one but herself to talk to," he said. She stuck her tongue out at him. He raised his hand to slap her and she cringed back. "Good girl. Now pick your weapon," he said.
She started walking around the room. Sephiroth continued his search. He kept glancing at the girl every once in a while. A half hour later neither had picked out a weapon.
"I don't see anything I like," Sephiroth said.
"I don't want one period," Cassandra said.
"Well I've just have to pick one out for you then won't I?" Navarro asked walking to a cabinet they hadn't noticed earlier. He opened it got turned around showing them 2 weapons that were inside it. Two swords of almost the same length. "This sword is called the masamune. No one on the Planet can use it because of its size and length. Legend says that this sword was made by an Ancient. This other sword is made of a rare crystal like metal. Some scientists who have examined it say that it has Mako infused in it making it able to cast a spell of any kind without the use of materia. As with the masamune no one has been able to use it…" Navarro trailed off.
"I like the masamune," Sephiroth said surprising himself.
"I doubt you could even lift it though," Navarro said.
"We'll just see about that," Sephiroth said walking forward.
Navarro moved to the side with a smirk. Sephiroth lifted the sword off the hooks that held it in place. He unsheathed it and cut the air in front of him twice. The 2 soldiers stared at him in shock.
Navarro just laughed softly. "Hojo hinted as much as that you could use this sword. After all you have Ancients blood in you," he said as Sephiroth resheathed the blade. Sephiroth just snorted and put it back in the case. "Now Cassandra. Get the other sword," Navarro said.
"Why?" she asked in a dull voice.
"NOW!"
"All right, all right. Hold your chocobos," she said walking forward and picking it up.
"…and no one can use it because it's heavy…wimps," she said. She swung the blade easily then put it back.
"Very good. Now that you have your weapons you'll start with basic training just like any other soldier," Navarro said only slightly annoyed.
"But I don't want to be a soldier," Sephiroth said.
"Really you have no choice. Hojo wanted to see you both when we were done so you better get going," Navarro said.
Sephiroth started for the door. Cassandra didn't move.
"Get going," Navarro said.
"I don't wanna go to that lab!" she said.
"Move it little girl!"
"No!" She hit the floor with a thud when he back handed her on the side of her face. "I said move," he snarled.
She slowly sat up. "No…" she said softly. He raised his hand to slap her again.
"Stop!" everyone looked at Sephiroth.
"What did you say?" Navarro asked.
"Leave her alone," Sephiroth said taking a step back as Navarro stepped towards him.
"I don't take orders from the likes of you," he growled.
"I'll go," Cassandra said softly stopping any argument that was to come.
"Good. Now get," Navarro said. The 2 soldiers escorted them to the lab.
"It's about time! Tell Navarro that they will be in basic training until they are both the right age to join the army," Hojo said. One of the soldiers nodded and left the lab. "Now…Mako treatments…" Hojo said.
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