(Author's Note: Hello! This chapter…well the title should tell you that something bad is probably going to happen…The Artistic Vampire said that I need descriptions and stuff like that…Rueh told me the same thing awhile back to…so I'll see what I can do to fix this…anyways…here's chapter 19…enjoy!)

Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Dete is mine. Rueh belongs to Rueh…

Chapter 19

Jenova's Storm

Sephiroth woke with a start. Lately he had been hearing strange voices. He had decided to ignore them because he had asked Dete and she said she didn't hear them. Now the voice was the reason he woke:

"Alas! for this great shadow, once a man-

So glorious in his beauty and thy choice

Who madest him thy chosen, that he seemed

To his great heart none other than a god!"

Sephiroth shook his head and looked at the still sleeping Dete. They had found that it got cold at night so they picked a coffin each, much to Dete's refusal, to sleep in. He had told her that they were warm. She had just rolled her eyes. Sephiroth laid back down and fell back to sleep.

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Dete woke up in the middle of a good dream. "Figures," she muttered. She looked at where Sephiroth slept. She didn't see him. 'Probably still asleep,' she thought.

She rubbed the last of the sleep out of her pale blue eyes, unaware of the red glow that faintly illuminated the room.

The thing that caught her attention was the unreal silence that pressed around her. There wasn't a single noise in the entire mansion. She looked around again as she noticed the red glow.

"Sephiroth!" she said. No answer. The door to the room was wide open. She got up and looked in Sephiroth's coffin. It was empty.

She brushed her light brown hair out of her face and went into the hall and went to the lab. It was also empty. In fact the entire mansion was empty. Dete was alone.

"Okay…this is weird," she said to herself. She went outside. A few houses were on fire and people were lying on the ground. Dete walked through the town and stopped beside the well.

All the people she saw were dead or dying. She was starting to panic. The fires were spreading. She turned in a full circle and found herself surrounded by fire. She had her back to the well and didn't see the flames start to climb up the supports.

As the fire closed in, she backed up. There was a snapping sound behind her. Then the sound like something giving out. Dete whirled around. Her eyes went wide. The well was collapsing and she had no where to move out of the way.

In her panic she did the only thing that came to mind…she closed her eyes tightly and screamed. Dete didn't know what happened next. All she knew was that her feet left the ground and she was pulled against something. Her feet touched the ground again.

"Dete! Are you okay?"

"Huh? Wha…Sephiroth!" she said and hugged him.

"Let go," he said coldly.

She did and he stepped away from her. He turned his back to her.

"What's going on?" she asked.

"My mother told me to," he said without emotion.

"What? What are you talking about?" she asked with a confused look.

"My mother…Jenova…she told me that the people of this planet are my enemies as well as hers…she told me to destroy them before they destroy us," he looked around at the destroyed town. The fire was reflected in his glowing green eyes.

"I still don't understand," she said.

"I have done what mother told me to," he said ignoring her and brushing his silver bangs out of his face.

"Jenova? That's that monster that Rueh and I found on the glacier…that's not your mother. Your mother's name is Lucrecia. How can you call that monster Jenova your mother?" Dete said.

"Mother said people would try to turn me against her and that I should deal with them first…"

"Sephiroth! What's gotten in to you? What are you saying? Lucrecia is your mother, not Jenova!"

"Lair! It's the ones like you I'll deal with first! You try to turn me against my mother!" he snapped.

Dete jumped in surprise.

"But…Sephiroth…" she started and never finished.

Sephiroth spun around faster than she could react. She found it hard to breath and there was an overwhelming pain in her side. Sephiroth smiled coldly and pulled his sword back as she fell to her knees.

"…Sephiroth…why…would you…do this…?" she asked as she placed a hand over the deep gash.

"For my mother," he said coldly and laughed as he walked into the flames. Dete slumped forward…barely conscious.

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"My gosh! What's going on?" Red exclaimed as the chocobos passed Nibelheim. The town was completely surrounded by fire.

"Let's go see," Barret suggested.

"Come on Hojo," Vincent said. He grabbed Hojo's lab coat and they quickly went into the town.

"Dete!" Rueh yelled and ran forward. Zack followed and sat Dete up. "Dete? Can you hear me?" Rueh asked kneeling in front of her. Dete didn't answer.

"Who could have done this?" Cid asked looking around.

"I don't know but I'm not thinking about that right now. I'm more worried about Dete. She's been hurt bad," Vincent said kneeling down where Zack supported her. Her eyes were glazed, barely open, and slowly closing the rest of the way. "Come on," Vincent said and picked her up. They reached the chocobos and her eyes slid closed.

"Where's Hojo?" Yuffie asked as they headed away from the town.

"Who knows and who really cares?" Rueh snapped. After a few minutes they reached Rocket Town.

"Here. This is where I live," Cid pointed to a house. They went inside the house. "There's an extra bedroom down the hall," he told them.

Vincent and Aeris went to the room. He laid Dete down and Aeris cast a healing spell. The wound on Dete's side stopped bleeding.

"We need to clean it and bandage it," Vincent stated.

"Who did this to her? Why was she alone? Where was Sephiroth?" Rueh asked angrily as she came into the room brushing her long white, black tipped hair out of her aqua green eyes.

"I don't know where he is. We won't know anything until Dete wakes up or there's a report made," Vincent told her.

"Just hope that I'm not alone when I find whoever did this," she growled.

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"I've held up my end of the deal. Now where's my specimens?" Hojo asked.

"There's a group of people that you've been fighting. Take care of them first," Jenova said.

"I've done my part!" he snapped.

"The deals changed."

"But…"

Sephiroth appeared between them.

"You were saying?" Jenova asked.

"Nothing," Hojo snapped and left.

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