Chapter 4 2nd Birth

After that, the image faded back into reality. Sephiroth stood there with a smile that no one could trust.

"How the hell am I supposed to do that" asked Damien.

"With This." Sephiroth answered. He held his hand out to Damien, holding a black orb.

"What type of materia is that" Damien asked.

"This is the black materia, you can use it to destroy the planet or you can use its power on yourself to unleash a demon. Demons are locked away in us all. Yet as every human is different so is there demon. For me it was the One Winged angel, but for you it is Oblivion." Sephiroth explained.

Damien took the materia and just held it in his hand. As he did it started to glow, giving off an eerie bluish-purple light. Then, with incredible speed and strength, Sephiroth took hold of Damien's hand and pierced it threw Damien's chest.

"F.Fa.Father.why" muttered Damien lifelessly.

"Don't worry boy, you have to take it into your body to unlock its power. Just bare the pain for a bit longer." Said Sephiroth

The hole in Damien's chest started emitting black lightning as it rapidly healed up. The lightning started to encase his entire body. Then, as if all the fires of hell were burning him alive, he started to scream. The lightning started to pulse rapidly as the screams grew.

After that the ground began to shake as if the planet it self was trying to shrug both Damien and Sephiroth off its shoulders. Yet with no success. Damien lay flat on his back, still gripping his chest in pain. Sephiroth just stared up into the darkness.

"Well it seems as though you have just been given another task." Said Sephiroth. Damien just looked up blankly at his father who was still looking up into the darkness. Damien wondered what he had meant but before he had a chance to ask, his father spoke.

"Let's go see what it is." he said.

"O.K. where is it" Damien asked as he started to stand up.

"Up in the Northern Crater." replied Sephiroth.

"That's going to take us forever to get up th." as Damien tried to finish his sentence they were surrounded by the cracked and jagged remains of the walls of the Northern Crater. They once contained the colossal weapons that the planet itself created to destroy Jenova. ".there." Damien finished.

"Perhaps." replied Sephiroth simply. He looked up at his once inescapable prison. Luckily for him Cloud infused him with black material, giving him the power to escape.

"When the black materia was used on me the planet unleashed the five weapons to protect itself. I felt the same type of energy release when it was used on you. Yet it was different somehow. It was stronger; it had more energy behind it. As though there were more than five weapons" said Sephiroth.

"Wait I thought they were destroyed. I mean they were all destroyed before I was born but I remember hearing some of the stories. The original five were hard enough to destroy. Now you're telling me there is more and they are stronger than last time! Who the hell is supposed to stop them now" Damien started to yell.

"Well the first two weapons were killed by Sister Ray, but that was destroyed in meteors final descent. The other three were destroyed by Avalanche but most of them have gotten much older and much weaker. None of them have the strength to take out these weapons. I can't fight without my body. The only other person that I can think of is, hmmm… let me think, is you." said Sephiroth.

"Me? But I'm not a fighter! How am I supposed to do it" asked Damien.

"Well considering you have already killed three people, I think your getting the hang off it. Hey this is the only way to find out. Just go take care of Cloud and then deal with the weapons." said Sephiroth.

"Cloud? So that's his name. Ok but why does masamune want him dead" asked Damien.

"Because he is the only person who has fought Masamune and lived." Sephiroth explained.

"Wait, so do you mean that he is THE Cloud? You want me to kill a hero! No way" exclaimed Damien.

"This is your task. You must do this before you can destroy the weapons." said Sephiroth.

"Do you have a grudge against him to" asked Damien.

"Not really, actually it was quite relieving to see that he had surpassed me." said Sephiroth.

"What! Why" asked Damien with surprise in his voice.

"Well it is because I taught Cloud how to fight. By him defeating me he proved that I succeeded in at least one noble thing in life." Sephiroth said.

"You trained Cloud! How? When? Why" Damien started to riddle off questions.

"Hold on now, slow down! Yes, I did trained Cloud. It was back when we still worked for Shinra. Sometimes the upper class soldiers choose one foot solider per officer to train one on one. I chose Cloud because he showed determination and potential. So I trained him." Sephiroth explained.

"So you probably don't want me to kill him, do you" asked Damien.

"It doesn't matter to me, now go. I feel Masamune's patience growing thin." Sephiroth replied.

"Ok, where is he" asked Damien.

"Go to Nibelheim, he lives there." replied Sephiroth.

"Ok, thank you father. I will see you again" said Damien.

"Farewell, and good luck" Sephiroth said as the crater and Sephiroth faded into darkness. Damien came to on the shore of the mako pool. He stood up, picked Masamune up from the ground and started for Nibelheim.