Disclaimer: You know the drill...
Warnings: An interesting picture of Hojo...Or, what WAS Hojo
Chapter 3: Hojo
Sephiroth sat against the glass wall, his mind caught in a web of thought. He had been meant to go to Nibelheim...But Hojo had wanted him for something else then. He thought of escaping, at one point tried to take his own life...But it never worked. As much as he wished he were dead, he couldn't give up his life. People thought of him as a strict general, but they only ever saw one side of him. Like all other men, he had his wants, needs and desires; however, every time he found the object of his desire, she was surrounded by other men, possessed already. He raised his gaze to find Aerith standing on the bed trying to pry the air-vent out of the wall.
"What do you think you are trying to accomplish by that Gainsborough?"
She turned her head over her shoulder. "Well, as I said before, if I can get this stupid...Fucking...Goddamned vent off! I might be able to get through and get rid of the bottle." She growled in between tugs. "Grr! Is this stuck on with superglue?"
"Something like that. I told you, there is no way to escape these cells."
"There has to be SOME way..." Aerith stooped back to the bed's surface and grabbed the thin sheet then stood up once more tying the sheet around a vent. "Help me with this would you?" She jumped off the bed the sheet in her hands as she approached him.
He raised an eyebrow understanding her intentions and took the offering. Together they began to tug on the sheet. "It's going to rip..."
"We might be able to get the vent out before it rips...It's coming..." Aerith's voice gave away the pre-emptive expectation she thought.
"The sheet will rip before that happens..."
"No it won't!"
Sephiroth shook his head. "You've always been such a hard head."
He wasn't sure whether she was turning to yell at him or otherwise, but the sheet ripped, the strength with which they were pulling sending them backwards becoming entwined in each other. Aeris laughed from the cell beside them. "You are such a fool Aerith."
Aerith struggled out of the tangled mess and ran over to the wall Aeris leant against. "I swear, if you weren't in that cell, I'd seriously kick that scrawny ass of yours. And look at that, a stick for a weapon? How pathetic can you be?"
"I may not be a fighter but I am capable of looking after myself in the slums."
"Yeah, I bet you can really swat those flies away..." Aerith growled.
Sephiroth shook his head again. He couldn't believe that they hated each other so much, wouldn't you be more interested in your clone? Not trying to bash it to bits? Considering they were almost identical - save for the fact Aerith had mako green eyes and slightly lighter hair, their personalities were exact opposites...Although they both enjoyed bashing the other verbally.
"At least I'm not a whore!" Aeris yelled.
Sephiroth twitched, he saw Aerith practically turn to dust and crumble to the ground. He knew she was not a whore...But there had been some particularly nasty rumours going around Shin-Ra base for a while. Aerith's face turned bitterly serious.
"I swear, I'll get out of this goddamned fucking cell and come over there and fucking kill you!" Aerith grabbed onto the vent with both hands, then continued to walk up the cell walls till her feet were either side of the vent and began to pull like there were no tomorrow.
"You can't get out Aerith. Didn't you hear your other boyfriend over there telling that to you? Or are you just deaf?" Aeris stood cockily with one hand on her pink dressed hip.
"General Sephiroth, is...Not...My...Boyfriend!" The vent flew from its place in the wall and fell with Aerith still attached to the floor. She scrambled up madly, jumped back onto the bed, putting her hands through the vent, and began to pull herself up. "Sephiroth...A hand?"
Without further word, Sephiroth pushed her up and through the vent, Aeris now backing away from the vent and the door. "Now we'll see just how well you can swat those flies..." Aerith growled approaching the door of Aeris' cell. She pressed the button swinging the door open.
Aeris held her staff before her. "You come anywhere near me and I'll let you have it..."
"You think you can hit me with that stick of yours? Like you're any match for a SOLDIER?" Aerith laughed, then like a wildcat, she pounced on Aeris, sending her sprawling onto her back, the rod uselessly lying on the other side of the cell.
With a trained fist, she began to pummel Aeris into a pulp. Blood splattered her fist. Aeris tried to protect herself, but Aerith was too strong. Hojo suddenly entered. "Stop it! You cannot hurt her!"
He ran over to the cell and clicked a collar around her neck. As Aerith pulled her arm back for another punch, Hojo pressed a button on a remote control. She fell backwards with a shriek and tried to claw the collar off. Tears spilling over her lashes. Sephiroth started forward.
"How did you get out of the cell little Cetra?" Hojo quizzed.
"Fuck off."
"Language my dear..." He pressed the button again causing her to curl up in a tight ball. "Now, how did you get out of my cell?"
"Screw you Hojo..."
"How many times do you want to be electrocuted? You know the more you do this, the less strength and life you will have until you finally faint. It is then that I will be able to do what I first wished."
"Get...a life..."
He shook his head and held the button down for a longer period. A trickle of blood began to spill from her eyes like tears. "Tears of blood, there is not much more that you could possibly take little Cetra...What is it that stops you from doing as I ask?" He finally released the pressure on the button.
The blood tears continued to fall as she curled into a tighter ball. She muttered her response so softly that the word was barely heard by even herself, yet Hojo seemed to have heard. He grabbed her by her hair and dragged her back to the cell with Sephiroth after closing Aeris' cell door. His attention so heavily on Aerith that he didn't notice Sephiroth's masamune being slid out of the sheath ever so carefully. As soon as the door opened, Sephiroth made his attack.
Masamune sliced the air around it before connecting viciously with Hojo's side. A look of shock passed over the professor's face as the blood began to stain his white coat. The blood dripped to the floor, pooling beneath. Sephiroth pushed the blade in further, sickening snaps and the sound of Hojo's muscles being cut to pieces as the blade eventually protruded from the his right. Sephiroth pulled his sword out letting the professor fall to his hands and knees coughing up blood. Even as he gasped for his last breaths, Hojo had enough time to laugh triumphantly.
"What are you laughing about...?" Sephiroth ordered, the tip of his sword nicking the delicate skin near the jugular.
"If you kill me...You kill her too..." Hojo laughed indicating with his eyes to Aerith, the collar still around her neck.
"You lying scheming bastard!" Sephiroth was ready to take his head off at that point if it weren't for the reputation of Hojo being a man of his threatened word.
"That collar is only able to be removed by me!" He choked on more blood.
"Let me ease your suffering..." Sephiroth let his sword take off his lying head, the snaked tongue hanging from his mouth. In a buried hatred, Sephiroth began to hack him to pieces. A part of his bloodied scalp clinging to the cell wall Aeris lay in. She screamed as it trailed down the glass before her leaving a bloodied memory.
His rage finally subsiding, he noticed the blood splattered across the walls. The remains of what had once been Hojo scattered across the floors, walls and equipment on his desks. He looked down to Aerith lying in her bloodied tears. The door flew open and Reno entered, his gun raised.
"What the fuck happened here?" When he saw Aerith on the ground he ran over to her. "What the fuck is this? A dog collar?" He reached out to grab it but Sephiroth threw it away.
"Don't touch it..."
"What, you think this thing makes hers yours now?" He glared at Sephiroth who stared at him in shock. "Oh don't act so shocked. I've seen the way you watch her...I'm just shocked you haven't done anything to her."
"It's something Hojo created..." He saw Reno reach out and rolled his eyes.
"Fuck!" His hand snapped back faster than lightning.
"It's electrically charged."
"No shit sherlock."
Sephiroth took a breath and put his gloved hands on the collar and began trying to pull it apart. The electricity passing through his body was incredible, he was amazed Aerith was able to stand the power of it. Then again, she was stronger than she let on. He could see the power surrounding her, taste it almost whenever she was near him...Maybe that was why he let her become as high a rank as she was. He pulled his hands away after a moment longer. This was going to be tougher than he first thought.
"Step aside freak..." Reno ordered standing and aiming his gun for the collar.
"That won't work. It will only take the charged ion particles and convert it to electrical energy."
"It's worth a try..." He pulled the trigger, the bullet exploding from the shaft hitting the metal collar where he had spied a pin. The collar was visibly weakened. "Now try your strength again."
Sephiroth once more put his hands on the collar and began to pull with all his strength. It was a tough metal alloy, almost as tough as his sword...Almost. The satisfying snap echoed through the bloodied room. Reno bent down and scooped the now unconscious Aerith into his arms. Sephiroth stood and began out after them.
"Hey! Wait! You can't just leave me in here!" Aeris bashed her weak fists against the glass.
Reno and Sephiroth turned to face her. "You said before you had friends that would come get you out..." Reno snickered and left.
"But..." Her hopes faded as Sephiroth vanished out the door too. She looked around the room, her stomach queasy. "It's so...I think I'm going to be sick..."
A/N
Aih...Another lame chapter. It wasn't exactly what I had planned, but I PROMISE the next one will be better. I promise upon the great General Sephiroth himself...
Warnings: An interesting picture of Hojo...Or, what WAS Hojo
Chapter 3: Hojo
Sephiroth sat against the glass wall, his mind caught in a web of thought. He had been meant to go to Nibelheim...But Hojo had wanted him for something else then. He thought of escaping, at one point tried to take his own life...But it never worked. As much as he wished he were dead, he couldn't give up his life. People thought of him as a strict general, but they only ever saw one side of him. Like all other men, he had his wants, needs and desires; however, every time he found the object of his desire, she was surrounded by other men, possessed already. He raised his gaze to find Aerith standing on the bed trying to pry the air-vent out of the wall.
"What do you think you are trying to accomplish by that Gainsborough?"
She turned her head over her shoulder. "Well, as I said before, if I can get this stupid...Fucking...Goddamned vent off! I might be able to get through and get rid of the bottle." She growled in between tugs. "Grr! Is this stuck on with superglue?"
"Something like that. I told you, there is no way to escape these cells."
"There has to be SOME way..." Aerith stooped back to the bed's surface and grabbed the thin sheet then stood up once more tying the sheet around a vent. "Help me with this would you?" She jumped off the bed the sheet in her hands as she approached him.
He raised an eyebrow understanding her intentions and took the offering. Together they began to tug on the sheet. "It's going to rip..."
"We might be able to get the vent out before it rips...It's coming..." Aerith's voice gave away the pre-emptive expectation she thought.
"The sheet will rip before that happens..."
"No it won't!"
Sephiroth shook his head. "You've always been such a hard head."
He wasn't sure whether she was turning to yell at him or otherwise, but the sheet ripped, the strength with which they were pulling sending them backwards becoming entwined in each other. Aeris laughed from the cell beside them. "You are such a fool Aerith."
Aerith struggled out of the tangled mess and ran over to the wall Aeris leant against. "I swear, if you weren't in that cell, I'd seriously kick that scrawny ass of yours. And look at that, a stick for a weapon? How pathetic can you be?"
"I may not be a fighter but I am capable of looking after myself in the slums."
"Yeah, I bet you can really swat those flies away..." Aerith growled.
Sephiroth shook his head again. He couldn't believe that they hated each other so much, wouldn't you be more interested in your clone? Not trying to bash it to bits? Considering they were almost identical - save for the fact Aerith had mako green eyes and slightly lighter hair, their personalities were exact opposites...Although they both enjoyed bashing the other verbally.
"At least I'm not a whore!" Aeris yelled.
Sephiroth twitched, he saw Aerith practically turn to dust and crumble to the ground. He knew she was not a whore...But there had been some particularly nasty rumours going around Shin-Ra base for a while. Aerith's face turned bitterly serious.
"I swear, I'll get out of this goddamned fucking cell and come over there and fucking kill you!" Aerith grabbed onto the vent with both hands, then continued to walk up the cell walls till her feet were either side of the vent and began to pull like there were no tomorrow.
"You can't get out Aerith. Didn't you hear your other boyfriend over there telling that to you? Or are you just deaf?" Aeris stood cockily with one hand on her pink dressed hip.
"General Sephiroth, is...Not...My...Boyfriend!" The vent flew from its place in the wall and fell with Aerith still attached to the floor. She scrambled up madly, jumped back onto the bed, putting her hands through the vent, and began to pull herself up. "Sephiroth...A hand?"
Without further word, Sephiroth pushed her up and through the vent, Aeris now backing away from the vent and the door. "Now we'll see just how well you can swat those flies..." Aerith growled approaching the door of Aeris' cell. She pressed the button swinging the door open.
Aeris held her staff before her. "You come anywhere near me and I'll let you have it..."
"You think you can hit me with that stick of yours? Like you're any match for a SOLDIER?" Aerith laughed, then like a wildcat, she pounced on Aeris, sending her sprawling onto her back, the rod uselessly lying on the other side of the cell.
With a trained fist, she began to pummel Aeris into a pulp. Blood splattered her fist. Aeris tried to protect herself, but Aerith was too strong. Hojo suddenly entered. "Stop it! You cannot hurt her!"
He ran over to the cell and clicked a collar around her neck. As Aerith pulled her arm back for another punch, Hojo pressed a button on a remote control. She fell backwards with a shriek and tried to claw the collar off. Tears spilling over her lashes. Sephiroth started forward.
"How did you get out of the cell little Cetra?" Hojo quizzed.
"Fuck off."
"Language my dear..." He pressed the button again causing her to curl up in a tight ball. "Now, how did you get out of my cell?"
"Screw you Hojo..."
"How many times do you want to be electrocuted? You know the more you do this, the less strength and life you will have until you finally faint. It is then that I will be able to do what I first wished."
"Get...a life..."
He shook his head and held the button down for a longer period. A trickle of blood began to spill from her eyes like tears. "Tears of blood, there is not much more that you could possibly take little Cetra...What is it that stops you from doing as I ask?" He finally released the pressure on the button.
The blood tears continued to fall as she curled into a tighter ball. She muttered her response so softly that the word was barely heard by even herself, yet Hojo seemed to have heard. He grabbed her by her hair and dragged her back to the cell with Sephiroth after closing Aeris' cell door. His attention so heavily on Aerith that he didn't notice Sephiroth's masamune being slid out of the sheath ever so carefully. As soon as the door opened, Sephiroth made his attack.
Masamune sliced the air around it before connecting viciously with Hojo's side. A look of shock passed over the professor's face as the blood began to stain his white coat. The blood dripped to the floor, pooling beneath. Sephiroth pushed the blade in further, sickening snaps and the sound of Hojo's muscles being cut to pieces as the blade eventually protruded from the his right. Sephiroth pulled his sword out letting the professor fall to his hands and knees coughing up blood. Even as he gasped for his last breaths, Hojo had enough time to laugh triumphantly.
"What are you laughing about...?" Sephiroth ordered, the tip of his sword nicking the delicate skin near the jugular.
"If you kill me...You kill her too..." Hojo laughed indicating with his eyes to Aerith, the collar still around her neck.
"You lying scheming bastard!" Sephiroth was ready to take his head off at that point if it weren't for the reputation of Hojo being a man of his threatened word.
"That collar is only able to be removed by me!" He choked on more blood.
"Let me ease your suffering..." Sephiroth let his sword take off his lying head, the snaked tongue hanging from his mouth. In a buried hatred, Sephiroth began to hack him to pieces. A part of his bloodied scalp clinging to the cell wall Aeris lay in. She screamed as it trailed down the glass before her leaving a bloodied memory.
His rage finally subsiding, he noticed the blood splattered across the walls. The remains of what had once been Hojo scattered across the floors, walls and equipment on his desks. He looked down to Aerith lying in her bloodied tears. The door flew open and Reno entered, his gun raised.
"What the fuck happened here?" When he saw Aerith on the ground he ran over to her. "What the fuck is this? A dog collar?" He reached out to grab it but Sephiroth threw it away.
"Don't touch it..."
"What, you think this thing makes hers yours now?" He glared at Sephiroth who stared at him in shock. "Oh don't act so shocked. I've seen the way you watch her...I'm just shocked you haven't done anything to her."
"It's something Hojo created..." He saw Reno reach out and rolled his eyes.
"Fuck!" His hand snapped back faster than lightning.
"It's electrically charged."
"No shit sherlock."
Sephiroth took a breath and put his gloved hands on the collar and began trying to pull it apart. The electricity passing through his body was incredible, he was amazed Aerith was able to stand the power of it. Then again, she was stronger than she let on. He could see the power surrounding her, taste it almost whenever she was near him...Maybe that was why he let her become as high a rank as she was. He pulled his hands away after a moment longer. This was going to be tougher than he first thought.
"Step aside freak..." Reno ordered standing and aiming his gun for the collar.
"That won't work. It will only take the charged ion particles and convert it to electrical energy."
"It's worth a try..." He pulled the trigger, the bullet exploding from the shaft hitting the metal collar where he had spied a pin. The collar was visibly weakened. "Now try your strength again."
Sephiroth once more put his hands on the collar and began to pull with all his strength. It was a tough metal alloy, almost as tough as his sword...Almost. The satisfying snap echoed through the bloodied room. Reno bent down and scooped the now unconscious Aerith into his arms. Sephiroth stood and began out after them.
"Hey! Wait! You can't just leave me in here!" Aeris bashed her weak fists against the glass.
Reno and Sephiroth turned to face her. "You said before you had friends that would come get you out..." Reno snickered and left.
"But..." Her hopes faded as Sephiroth vanished out the door too. She looked around the room, her stomach queasy. "It's so...I think I'm going to be sick..."
A/N
Aih...Another lame chapter. It wasn't exactly what I had planned, but I PROMISE the next one will be better. I promise upon the great General Sephiroth himself...