Chapter 14
.and now you Know
Disclaimer: As I've said in all the other chapters Final Fantasy doesn't belong to me but all OC's do.
A/N: And finally, we're going to learn a bit about Daitona. What she is came from my own head, so that's why all guesses would have probably been wrong except for Juzu-who has already read the entire story. (And she better not give anything away until I have.) Now on to the story.
.And Now You Know:
"Hojo!"
The black haired scientist turned to the snarled to find the young silver haired teen glaring angrily at him. "Yes, what is it now?" Hojo sneered impatiently.
"Two things really," Sephiroth retorted with a roll of his eyes. "Why have Daitona and me been assigned chores fit for a custodian these past two week. It's not like it was our fault that Guld." Sephiroth didn't like the way 'kidnapped' sounded, ".abducted us. So why were we punished for that?"
Hojo waved off the questions and started back to his task, no intention of answering Sephiroth's questions.
"One more thing!" Sephiroth snapped at the departing scientist, Hojo sighed irritably and tuned back to face Sephiroth. "What's up with Daitona? She's not like other humans, and if I wasn't mistaken, for a while she was fighting she had fangs. Three sets of them to be exact." Sephiroth narrowed his eyes. "Humans don't have fangs Hojo."
Hojo's eyes were glittering with interest. "She started to turn? How much of the transformation happened and what triggered it? Answer me!"
'Her transformation; what is he rambling on about?' Sephiroth frowned. "She didn't 'transform' at all. Her eyes and hair changed, and she grew fangs, if you call that a transformation then so be it. What is she?"
"She is as much human as you are," Hojo grinned. "But her other half is the ticket you see. Her father was not of this word. We thought her father might have been a surviving creta, last of the full bread. Oh he was full bread all right, but not creta. He was a species far evolved from any other I've ever seen. He was a divine creature in himself, strong, quick, and extremely intelligent." Hojo grunted. He wasn't getting anywhere explain this to Sephiroth.
Hojo walked away from Sephiroth and went to an old filing cabinet. He quickly went through it until he pulled out the file he had been looking for. It was old and didn't have hardly anything in it now; he handed it the surprised Sephiroth.
"Read that. It'll give you a little insight," Hojo said waving Sephiroth out of his office then closed the door.
Sephiroth looked down at the dusty file in his hands and read the label: The Divine Species. "Divine Species? HE was trying to flatter himself." He looked around and found a spot against the wall to sit down, then opened the file to Daitona's past.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-001 Date: XX-XX-XXXX
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: (It's erased.)
Date of Capture: XX-XX-XXXX
Location of Capture: Kalm Plains
Note: Specimen will be referred to as the Divine Species or Being until we can conduct the propped test to verify 'what' he is. (Divine Species.that's what Guld called Daitona.)
Resent military reports have reviled very little on the Divine Species, besides this little note about abnormal strength. I await for the full report for further evaluation. Hopefully by then I'll have been able to talk with the specimen. Currently, he is sedated and in safekeeping. That is all.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-002 Date: XX-XX-XXXX -two weeks after capture-
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: -Divine Species-
Military Report:
Standard military training took place on the Kalm plains on XX-XX- XXXX, at 0900 hours. At 1100 hours a man approached our camp and was stopped for questioning. As prior told, the area was to be restricted and normally people don't travel out on the plains alone and under-equipped. He carried a starling long sword that had a slight curve in it. When we approached him his nature was quiet and calm. We were given orders from HQ to contain the man. In my own words, from that point on all went to hell. The man retaliated with extreme force. He was unnaturally strong and quick. He took out half out troops in the blink of an eye with a blinding flash.
When the light dimmed the man stood at the middle of his one-sided battlefield. Stranger then.he wasn't standing, in fact he was flying. Sometime during that flash of light he-'transformed' into something that can only be described as magnificent. He wore heavy armor that took the color of pure gold, and hovered inches above the ground by huge leathery wings that had somehow sprouted from his back.
Just as quickly as I took this in there was another flash and was gone. Shortly after our field scouts found him unconscious outside our camp a short distance. We had him drugged for precaution and sent him to HQ. That is all.
Note: I have concluded from this report that this being is not a creta as stated in a report that was destroyed. The Divine Being was woke by force and has been in a dazed state of mind for a week now. I wonder if it has something to do with the drugs? That is all.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-003 Date: XX-XX-XXXX -eight weeks after capture-
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: -Divine Species-
Note: This being is not so divine when it comes to his temperament. He is very bad tempered towards me but seems to have some kind of agreement with Pr. Gast. I get the idea the Divine Being is very dangerous, but I also believer there is a 'trigger' to his transformation-I have yet to see. I'm in the process of finding a mate suitable for him. Breeding him will hopefully produce a child that will be easier to handle. The temperament of the mother I think is the key. I have to find a way to tame this Divine Being. He has threatened even Shinra and me. Bad fortune has come to all those unlucky enough to gaze into his hypnotic eyes too long. Just yesterday, one of my assistants was caught by his eyes and is now being treated at a mental facility. I fear before we get underway with my experiments that I won't have any help left. He has begun to throw off the effect of the materia we use on him. Drugs are forbidden to him; I have found his blood alters all substances and our drugs for the worst. He was lucky to have survived that little sudation he was given on capture. That is all.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-004 Date: XX-XX-XXXX -six months after capture-
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: -Divine Species-
Note: He has become increasingly aggressive towards me in these past few weeks. I have found a mate and it seems to only add to his temper. Six weeks ago he almost killed Shinra, and sent the company into turmoil before he was subdued again. He has told me what he really thinks of me and I have decided after his child is born he will be put out of commission. I have determined that an amount of a certain substance will send him into a comma that I can control. Pr. Gast is the only one who can go near him anymore with out a nasty statement.
Chosen Mate:
Specimen: SH-392-41
D.O.B: December 22
Age: 23
Species: Human
Name: Sasha
Note: Sasha came to me as an assistant, and it quite a bit of convincing to get her to agree to be the Divine Being's mate-possible fame and fortune won her over. She will have to be disposed of after the birth of the child. Her nature is mellow and I have yet to see an outburst of anger from her. The child will have good looks no matter what parent it takes after. Sasha is how I want the child in temperament and wit; the child will be extremely intelligent.
I have observed her around the Divine Being, she seems attracted to him and he's slowly giving into her charm. This experiment has been kept from him and Gast. If they knew.everything would be ruined. That is all.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-005 Date: XX-XX-XXXX -16 months after capture-
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: -Divine Species-
Chosen Mate:
Specimen: SH-392-41
D.O.B: December 22
Age: 23
Species: Human
Name: Sasha
Note: Yesterday, Sasha gave birth to the Divine Beings child-it was a girl. The Divine Being gave her a name-apparently in his natural tongue because it was not understood. Sasha has somehow become accustom to his language and translated the name to Daitona. Last night Sasha was dealt with, and the child brought to my lab. This morning I found the Divine Being gone, Gast's doing no doubt. This afternoon I was ordered to hand over the child to Gast-Shinra said I need to concentrate more on my prior specimen and that I wouldn't have the time for both children. I had no other choice; I had the child delivered to Pr. Gast moments ago. I'll have her back in time, but my attention has been gone from Sephiroth for too long. I will resume my experiments until Daitona is given back. That is all.
Final Report
* * * *
'Daitona's father is still alive.and she's.she's.something. Hojo killed her mother, and.does she even know what she is? Pr. Gast, not only did you save Daitona from Hojo so long, but I know you helped her father to escape.'
Sephiroth stood up and left the file to where Hojo could find it before leaving the lab. It nagged at him that the only real detail came from the military report. There was no real description of either Daitona's mother or father. What was Daitona's father, and where was he now? Was he still alive?
"Sephiroth!" Hojo hissed from the lab door.
He sighed and turned back to Hojo. "What is it?"
"Did that report explain what you wanted?"
Sephiroth arched one silver eyebrow. "Why would you care?"
"That report stated over and over again of how dangerous that girl's father was, and frankly.from all the new reports I've been given about your guises disappearance, she is no less dangerous," Hojo warned.
"The report didn't say 'what' she is, only that description in the military report of what her father turned into, and why did you call him the 'Divine Being, species, whatever?" Sephiroth asked dryly.
"Because that was what he was. He was much older than me yet looked to be in his late teens early twenties. Her father is immortal to time and can take a lot more abuse than a normal human and live. His only major flaws were his susceptibility to drugs and his temper. He was the perfect fighter. Perfect in every way, your sword came from him you know?" Hojo stated as if Sephiroth had always known.
"Masamune use to be her fathers?" Sephiroth repeated and blinked.
"Yes it was, now to what she is.her true race her father refused to tell us, but.the easiest way to put it she is a dragon."
"A what?" Hojo sure did lay that on thick, Sephiroth thought.
"The Divine Being had the power to transformer himself into a dragon. It's as simple as that, now don't you have somewhere to be?" Hojo hurriedly went back into his lab.
'Daitona, you're.you're a.dragon.but how can that be? I thought dragons were huge monsters that killed hundreds of people every year? She's no monster; Guld was the first and only person she's ever killed. None of those reports said anything about the changes I seen.a half transformation?' Sephiroth shook his head, was he really starting to believe that Daitona really was what Hojo had said?
So deep in thought Sephiroth didn't see the person in front of him until he ran into the. He blinked in surprise then started to apologize when he noticed whom he had run into.
Long dark gold hair, aqua green eyes, questioning look.Daitona was looking at him as if he had grown a horn or something.
"Ahhhh, sorry Daitona. I wasn't watching where I was going," Sephiroth said guiltily.
"Don't worry about it, it looked like you were thinking about something. Is there something wrong?" Daitona asked remembering the intense look on his face when he was coming down the hall. She had been in plain sight and he had still failed to see her.
"It's nothing," Sephiroth assured her.
"And you're a bad liar. But if you don't want to tell that's ok, it's none of my business what you're thinking anyways."
"I just can't tell you right now, maybe some other time. I'm still not sure if I believe what I was thinking about." Sephiroth now finding the floor quite interesting, he wouldn't look up to meet Daitona's gaze.
Daitona smiled and turned her back on him. "Don't start to explain things to me now. Meet me in the lobby in two hours.I have a few things that I really should tell you."
Before Sephiroth could say anything, Daitona was already gone. "Things to tell me? Could you really be.? No, I'll meet you," he said out loud to no one in particular considering he was alone.
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-End Chapter 14-
A/N: Just one thing-if anyone has anything they'd like to see happen in this story, even if you don't think it'll tie in, let me know. I would like to see what you want to happen to this story.
.and now you Know
Disclaimer: As I've said in all the other chapters Final Fantasy doesn't belong to me but all OC's do.
A/N: And finally, we're going to learn a bit about Daitona. What she is came from my own head, so that's why all guesses would have probably been wrong except for Juzu-who has already read the entire story. (And she better not give anything away until I have.) Now on to the story.
.And Now You Know:
"Hojo!"
The black haired scientist turned to the snarled to find the young silver haired teen glaring angrily at him. "Yes, what is it now?" Hojo sneered impatiently.
"Two things really," Sephiroth retorted with a roll of his eyes. "Why have Daitona and me been assigned chores fit for a custodian these past two week. It's not like it was our fault that Guld." Sephiroth didn't like the way 'kidnapped' sounded, ".abducted us. So why were we punished for that?"
Hojo waved off the questions and started back to his task, no intention of answering Sephiroth's questions.
"One more thing!" Sephiroth snapped at the departing scientist, Hojo sighed irritably and tuned back to face Sephiroth. "What's up with Daitona? She's not like other humans, and if I wasn't mistaken, for a while she was fighting she had fangs. Three sets of them to be exact." Sephiroth narrowed his eyes. "Humans don't have fangs Hojo."
Hojo's eyes were glittering with interest. "She started to turn? How much of the transformation happened and what triggered it? Answer me!"
'Her transformation; what is he rambling on about?' Sephiroth frowned. "She didn't 'transform' at all. Her eyes and hair changed, and she grew fangs, if you call that a transformation then so be it. What is she?"
"She is as much human as you are," Hojo grinned. "But her other half is the ticket you see. Her father was not of this word. We thought her father might have been a surviving creta, last of the full bread. Oh he was full bread all right, but not creta. He was a species far evolved from any other I've ever seen. He was a divine creature in himself, strong, quick, and extremely intelligent." Hojo grunted. He wasn't getting anywhere explain this to Sephiroth.
Hojo walked away from Sephiroth and went to an old filing cabinet. He quickly went through it until he pulled out the file he had been looking for. It was old and didn't have hardly anything in it now; he handed it the surprised Sephiroth.
"Read that. It'll give you a little insight," Hojo said waving Sephiroth out of his office then closed the door.
Sephiroth looked down at the dusty file in his hands and read the label: The Divine Species. "Divine Species? HE was trying to flatter himself." He looked around and found a spot against the wall to sit down, then opened the file to Daitona's past.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-001 Date: XX-XX-XXXX
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: (It's erased.)
Date of Capture: XX-XX-XXXX
Location of Capture: Kalm Plains
Note: Specimen will be referred to as the Divine Species or Being until we can conduct the propped test to verify 'what' he is. (Divine Species.that's what Guld called Daitona.)
Resent military reports have reviled very little on the Divine Species, besides this little note about abnormal strength. I await for the full report for further evaluation. Hopefully by then I'll have been able to talk with the specimen. Currently, he is sedated and in safekeeping. That is all.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-002 Date: XX-XX-XXXX -two weeks after capture-
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: -Divine Species-
Military Report:
Standard military training took place on the Kalm plains on XX-XX- XXXX, at 0900 hours. At 1100 hours a man approached our camp and was stopped for questioning. As prior told, the area was to be restricted and normally people don't travel out on the plains alone and under-equipped. He carried a starling long sword that had a slight curve in it. When we approached him his nature was quiet and calm. We were given orders from HQ to contain the man. In my own words, from that point on all went to hell. The man retaliated with extreme force. He was unnaturally strong and quick. He took out half out troops in the blink of an eye with a blinding flash.
When the light dimmed the man stood at the middle of his one-sided battlefield. Stranger then.he wasn't standing, in fact he was flying. Sometime during that flash of light he-'transformed' into something that can only be described as magnificent. He wore heavy armor that took the color of pure gold, and hovered inches above the ground by huge leathery wings that had somehow sprouted from his back.
Just as quickly as I took this in there was another flash and was gone. Shortly after our field scouts found him unconscious outside our camp a short distance. We had him drugged for precaution and sent him to HQ. That is all.
Note: I have concluded from this report that this being is not a creta as stated in a report that was destroyed. The Divine Being was woke by force and has been in a dazed state of mind for a week now. I wonder if it has something to do with the drugs? That is all.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-003 Date: XX-XX-XXXX -eight weeks after capture-
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: -Divine Species-
Note: This being is not so divine when it comes to his temperament. He is very bad tempered towards me but seems to have some kind of agreement with Pr. Gast. I get the idea the Divine Being is very dangerous, but I also believer there is a 'trigger' to his transformation-I have yet to see. I'm in the process of finding a mate suitable for him. Breeding him will hopefully produce a child that will be easier to handle. The temperament of the mother I think is the key. I have to find a way to tame this Divine Being. He has threatened even Shinra and me. Bad fortune has come to all those unlucky enough to gaze into his hypnotic eyes too long. Just yesterday, one of my assistants was caught by his eyes and is now being treated at a mental facility. I fear before we get underway with my experiments that I won't have any help left. He has begun to throw off the effect of the materia we use on him. Drugs are forbidden to him; I have found his blood alters all substances and our drugs for the worst. He was lucky to have survived that little sudation he was given on capture. That is all.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-004 Date: XX-XX-XXXX -six months after capture-
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: -Divine Species-
Note: He has become increasingly aggressive towards me in these past few weeks. I have found a mate and it seems to only add to his temper. Six weeks ago he almost killed Shinra, and sent the company into turmoil before he was subdued again. He has told me what he really thinks of me and I have decided after his child is born he will be put out of commission. I have determined that an amount of a certain substance will send him into a comma that I can control. Pr. Gast is the only one who can go near him anymore with out a nasty statement.
Chosen Mate:
Specimen: SH-392-41
D.O.B: December 22
Age: 23
Species: Human
Name: Sasha
Note: Sasha came to me as an assistant, and it quite a bit of convincing to get her to agree to be the Divine Being's mate-possible fame and fortune won her over. She will have to be disposed of after the birth of the child. Her nature is mellow and I have yet to see an outburst of anger from her. The child will have good looks no matter what parent it takes after. Sasha is how I want the child in temperament and wit; the child will be extremely intelligent.
I have observed her around the Divine Being, she seems attracted to him and he's slowly giving into her charm. This experiment has been kept from him and Gast. If they knew.everything would be ruined. That is all.
* * * *
DZ-188239-AR-005 Date: XX-XX-XXXX -16 months after capture-
Specimen: DZ-924-38
D.O.B: unknown
Age: unknown
Species: -Divine Species-
Chosen Mate:
Specimen: SH-392-41
D.O.B: December 22
Age: 23
Species: Human
Name: Sasha
Note: Yesterday, Sasha gave birth to the Divine Beings child-it was a girl. The Divine Being gave her a name-apparently in his natural tongue because it was not understood. Sasha has somehow become accustom to his language and translated the name to Daitona. Last night Sasha was dealt with, and the child brought to my lab. This morning I found the Divine Being gone, Gast's doing no doubt. This afternoon I was ordered to hand over the child to Gast-Shinra said I need to concentrate more on my prior specimen and that I wouldn't have the time for both children. I had no other choice; I had the child delivered to Pr. Gast moments ago. I'll have her back in time, but my attention has been gone from Sephiroth for too long. I will resume my experiments until Daitona is given back. That is all.
Final Report
* * * *
'Daitona's father is still alive.and she's.she's.something. Hojo killed her mother, and.does she even know what she is? Pr. Gast, not only did you save Daitona from Hojo so long, but I know you helped her father to escape.'
Sephiroth stood up and left the file to where Hojo could find it before leaving the lab. It nagged at him that the only real detail came from the military report. There was no real description of either Daitona's mother or father. What was Daitona's father, and where was he now? Was he still alive?
"Sephiroth!" Hojo hissed from the lab door.
He sighed and turned back to Hojo. "What is it?"
"Did that report explain what you wanted?"
Sephiroth arched one silver eyebrow. "Why would you care?"
"That report stated over and over again of how dangerous that girl's father was, and frankly.from all the new reports I've been given about your guises disappearance, she is no less dangerous," Hojo warned.
"The report didn't say 'what' she is, only that description in the military report of what her father turned into, and why did you call him the 'Divine Being, species, whatever?" Sephiroth asked dryly.
"Because that was what he was. He was much older than me yet looked to be in his late teens early twenties. Her father is immortal to time and can take a lot more abuse than a normal human and live. His only major flaws were his susceptibility to drugs and his temper. He was the perfect fighter. Perfect in every way, your sword came from him you know?" Hojo stated as if Sephiroth had always known.
"Masamune use to be her fathers?" Sephiroth repeated and blinked.
"Yes it was, now to what she is.her true race her father refused to tell us, but.the easiest way to put it she is a dragon."
"A what?" Hojo sure did lay that on thick, Sephiroth thought.
"The Divine Being had the power to transformer himself into a dragon. It's as simple as that, now don't you have somewhere to be?" Hojo hurriedly went back into his lab.
'Daitona, you're.you're a.dragon.but how can that be? I thought dragons were huge monsters that killed hundreds of people every year? She's no monster; Guld was the first and only person she's ever killed. None of those reports said anything about the changes I seen.a half transformation?' Sephiroth shook his head, was he really starting to believe that Daitona really was what Hojo had said?
So deep in thought Sephiroth didn't see the person in front of him until he ran into the. He blinked in surprise then started to apologize when he noticed whom he had run into.
Long dark gold hair, aqua green eyes, questioning look.Daitona was looking at him as if he had grown a horn or something.
"Ahhhh, sorry Daitona. I wasn't watching where I was going," Sephiroth said guiltily.
"Don't worry about it, it looked like you were thinking about something. Is there something wrong?" Daitona asked remembering the intense look on his face when he was coming down the hall. She had been in plain sight and he had still failed to see her.
"It's nothing," Sephiroth assured her.
"And you're a bad liar. But if you don't want to tell that's ok, it's none of my business what you're thinking anyways."
"I just can't tell you right now, maybe some other time. I'm still not sure if I believe what I was thinking about." Sephiroth now finding the floor quite interesting, he wouldn't look up to meet Daitona's gaze.
Daitona smiled and turned her back on him. "Don't start to explain things to me now. Meet me in the lobby in two hours.I have a few things that I really should tell you."
Before Sephiroth could say anything, Daitona was already gone. "Things to tell me? Could you really be.? No, I'll meet you," he said out loud to no one in particular considering he was alone.
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-End Chapter 14-
A/N: Just one thing-if anyone has anything they'd like to see happen in this story, even if you don't think it'll tie in, let me know. I would like to see what you want to happen to this story.