(Author's Note: Hello! Well…here's chapter 5! Hope you all like it!)
Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Any other character is though…
Chapter 5
After searching for awhile Aeris had finally found a shelter for the night. She berated herself for dragging Sephiroth to it. He was the one who had killed her! Why should she help him now! After searching the same cave like room she found a bunch of dry wood and tried to get a fire started.
A soft humming sound filled her head after a minute of struggling with a fire.
CHILD…YOU'RE BACK…BUT DANGER AWAITS…
'What do you mean Planet?' Aeris thought.
MORE SHADOWS…DARKNESS…MONSTER…THE ONE NOT OF MY CHILDREN…
'The crisis from the sky?'
YES…BUT MORE THAN THAT…YOU BOTH ARE SAFE FOR NOW…
'Both? You mean Sephiroth is in danger to? But what is this other danger? And why should I care about him?'
HE CAN HELP…JOIN POWER…
'Planet? What is this other danger? What will happen? When will it happen?'
BUT MUST WORK WITH HIM AND FORGIVE HIM…
'How can I do that?'
HAUNTED BY THE MEMORIES…IF NOT FORGIVEN AND SHOWN A PATH OF LIGHT…WILL TURN TO DARKNESS AGAIN…
'Planet! You haven't answered my other questions!'
TIME WILL TELL…ALL I CAN SAY…HAVE WARMTH…
With those last words the wood Aeris had been trying to light for fire burst into flame. The soft humming slowly faded. Aeris glanced at Sephiroth's unconscious form. She shook her head and turned away from him. Why should she care? Yes it was her job to help keep the planet safe but why with him of all people? Why not Cloud? He would be better in any case because the others would follow him.
She shook her head and laid down. She got comfortable then slowly fell to sleep.
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"I don't understand," Red shook his head. "Everything was done as it should have been. I don't know if something went wrong with the spell or maybe I didn't say a word right?"
The group sat around a camp fire in the Forgotten Capital still. They all were thinking about what had happened earlier that day.
"It doesn't make sense…but what do those words actually mean? Maybe there was something in the spell that was in that language that we didn't realize?" Vincent suggested.
"That's probably it!" Cloud exclaimed hopefully.
Tifa looked at the ground. Yuffie watched her then she too looked at the ground. Cid and Barret looked baffled.
"I could translate it but it might take some time," Red said looking at them all.
"We'll go back to Cosmo Canyon in the morning so you can do that then," Cloud said.
"I'll stand first watch," Vincent stood and vanished into the night shadows.
"Let's turn in," Barret sighed standing and heading for his tent. The others followed and went to their own tents.
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'…what is this warmth? Yet I am cold at the same time? Maybe a better question…where am I?' Sephiroth slowly opened his green/blue eyes. He sat up to get a better look at his surroundings. 'A cave? And snow? Is this a part of the crater?' he thought as he looked to the cave's entrance.
He turned to look at the fire. '…flames everywhere…screams…no no NO!' He shook his head to get rid of the memories. He looked past the flames at the person sleeping there. 'Isn't she the same one I…murdered? No! This is just more of my punishment! That light was an illusion! I'm still in that dark pit…' he shook his head again to clear his thoughts as she stirred in her sleep.
He moved after a minute but only to the wall of the cave behind him. He brought his knees up to his chest and crossed his arms over them. He rested his chin on his arms. 'This is where I belong…in the cold and shadows…' He had moved out of the fire's light. It was awhile before his thoughts settled and he was able to fall to sleep.
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"Yes Red?" Vincent asked as Red walked up and sat beside the rock he sat on.
"I'm just here to take the second watch…but something's been bothering you," Red stated.
Vincent gave a slight smirk. "Indeed. There's something wrong somewhere…even Chaos feels it…a dark power is stirring…don't you feel it?"
"Yes. I have noticed a dark feeling ever since we used that spell…but what exactly does Chaos feel?" Red asked.
"He feels a lot of different things but this has bothered him for a long time…from the time I first woke up and realized he was inside of me…I can't really explain this feeling…there's a lot of them…" Vincent turned his crimson gaze to the full moon. "And when the moon is like this the feelings are at their peak."
"But you can't really tell what the feelings are?" Red tilted his head to the side in interest.
"No…I'll try though…there's…longing?"
"Longing? For what?"
"Another darkness other than what we can sense now…it…it doesn't make any sense to me," Vincent sighed.
"Hmm…besides what Chaos feels had you been feeling strange things?" Red looked thoughtful as he said this.
"I've been having a dream of a past encounter for the past month if that's what you were asking," Vincent looked at him.
"Who was this dream about?" Red asked.
"Someone I met while on a mission for the Turks…she was lost in the forest at night. Her parents had been killed by a monster. I helped her and took her to the chocobo farm. Haven't seen her since then…but the dreams are about when I met her," Vincent thought back to the dream and told everything that happened during it to Red.
"Hmm…too much darkness on the planet at this moment to try and figure it out. Let's just do this one mystery at a time. We'll figure out what happened with the spell and after that I'll help you. I'm sure you don't want the other's involved," Red said.
"Yeah. Have you thought about that spell any more?" Vincent asked.
"I have and I was able to translate a few words while at it. It says something about 2 souls…but other than that no," Red sighed.
"Well we'll think about it more at Cosmo Canyon. See you in the morning," Vincent said standing and walking back towards the camp.
Red watched after him. 'Funny. That's the most any of us have ever gotten him to open up,' he thought shaking his head.
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