Authors note: Sorry about the delay, but I'm working on this fic on a full scale now, so there would be little time to put the next chapter up, hopefully. Read and Review!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, nor Final Fantasy 7.
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"Why are you being so nice to me? If the others like you said are going to treat me rough."
"That is the way I am. Just because you look like a dead person, don't mean you're exactly like him. People shouldn't judge people by the way they look, especially you."
"If you would have known my background, I'm sure you wouldn't be saying that."
"Oh. .I'm sure you're nothing like that demon Sephiroth."
"Sephiroth?"
//?//
"Yeah. The whole mess got started in his home town Nibelhiem. When his mother or what ever controlled his mind. Then he started killing people left and right like he is everything in the world and kill whatever he like. I tell you, that man was crazy."
//. . .//
"Was he that bad?"
"Bad? He was like the evil of all evil."
//. . .Why?//
"Last night, we've created a life form from Sephiroth remaining cells and unknown clone, called 2654. You are probably wondering why I put a 'Special' number on this one. 2 stands of and 'R' meaning restante to all illness. 6 stands for 'I" meaning invisible for battles. 5 stands for 'K' kaos for worlds and 4 stands for 'U' meaning taking over many universes. We will called this cell or Sephiroth son 'Riku'. . . . . . . .what the. . . . that's impossible."
//Why me?//
"What do you mean that I'm the demon son?"
"That's what I said."
"Wait a minute. . you think I'm Sephiroth's son? Give me a break."
"You've just read it. You saw your name in the book, did you not?"
"That does not necessarily true. It could be anybody's name."
"You say that, but I know your heart believes it."
"You don't know anything about my heart."
"Then why are you getting upset?"
"I'm not getting upset! I just believe it could be anybody but me."
". . . .your denying the facts."
"What facts?! There is no facts proving that I'm Sephiroth's son. What is with you people? Just because I look like somebody, doesn't mean that I'm his son."
//Why all of this happening to me?//
"What the hell you want with me?"
"Your heart."
"My heart?"
"Yes, your heart. Your dear poor heart. I want it."
"What do you want with it?"
"To get rid of the pureness and just leave the darkness."
"Why?"
"Because you are the key."
"The key?"
"Yes. You have been the key to darkness the whole time, even when you was born."
//. . .I don't understand. . .//
"Because you are the key"
//A key?? Why?. . .why. . .?. . .someone. . . .tell. . .me. . . why. . .did I go?. . .Tristy. . .tell me why. . .cause. . .I don't know anymore. . .//
"What's wrong hun??"
"Nothing. . . .I'm just getting second thoughts, that's all."
"Second thoughts? Like what hun?"
"Like a gut feeling not to go there and forget about the whole thing."
"Well, if you have that feeling, just don't go."
//I've shouldn't have went//
"But I have to. . .in order to find what I'm looking for."
//Just to get caught. . .just to learn a false life?//
"Oh really. . . I don't want you to get hurt on your trip there. Can you promise me that?"
//I tried. . .but. . .I couldn't//
". . . . . .I wish I could. . .but I can't. . ."
//I am weak . . .darkness has overcome me. . .I'm just a puppet. . . . .just a puppet? Tristy. . .forgive me. . .//
Riku slowly opened his eyes. He coughed a soft cough as he carefully was glancing around from where he was at. Jade green mist was flowing about like fog on a sunny day. Sparkles ranged from blue to ultra white. Silent cries of voices was about singing back and forth. The crystal green aura was surrounding the lithe boy, covering his body in warmth. He struggled to sit up to see the sight before him, just to realize that, he had on no clothing. Shivering at the thought, he began to hug his legs close to him with his head propping on his pale knees. His eyes followed the mist swirling a bout in a beautiful rhythm like the goddesses of the heavens was dancing. The boy let out a deep sigh. Yes he must have figured by now that he was dead or something like that. There is no place like this that is this heavenly, but then again how would he know? He never been a place like it. Perhaps he isn't dead, maybe he's dreaming instead. If it was a dream, it was a strange one, Riku thought. Bring his head up again all he saw was green and emptiness. Emptiness that spread across the horizon that seemed endless. His eyes soften with no hope of finding anything, he decided to get up and walk around since he will never know if he would sit there and do nothing. What feel like aeons of walking around, he stopped. Over in the corner of his eye, he saw a shadow. He spun around quickly to meet a young woman. Brown hair that was tied tight in a braid, green crystal eyes, wearing a pink dress that button down in the front with sliver buttons, brown leather boots, a string that tied around her neck, and a smile to make the planet shake. With her hands clasped behind her back, she began to speak.
"It's good that we finally meet."
"Finally meet?"
"Yes." Riku pondered for a while before continuing.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Aries. Nice to meet you."
"You're not Jenova?" She chuckled at the boy for saying something so silly.
"Hardly."
"Then. .who are you??"
"I'm a sprit of Centra. We are currently in the Lifestream."
"Lifestream?" Aries nodded.
"Yes. We are in the very central of life and death. The Lifestream holds the mightiest spirts that fought with the man who brought Meteor to destroy the earth. With holy and the power of the Lifestream, the Meteor did not stand a chance, neither did the great man of evil Sephiroth." Riku did not bother to look at her anymore. He took his gaze away from the goddess, and stared at the green mist.
"Why am I in the Lifestream? If I'm not dead?"
"To learn about the past."
"To learn about 'the past'?" she nodded.
"Yes. To lean about your birth an-"
"Sephiroth?" Riku said cutting her sentence off. Aries bowed her head and nodded. She was about to say something, until Riku chuckled and spoke again.
"You know, it's kinda funny. . .cause everyone I meet says almost the same thing. . .Even my crazy 'grandmother'. I want to keep on denying it. . .but I knew that . ." Taking a deep breathe to calm his nerves, he sadly continued.
"When Jenvoa put her dark spells on me. . .I felt a presence in my heart. I felt the pain, the suffering, the agony, and the betrayal. .the same pain that I went through when Ansem took over my body. He was sad. . .sad because he knew everything was over. His job, his wife, his friends, and. .a child that he will never see again. I'm sad at the fact that I've never known him before, and yet some how, I knew the pain going in his heart." Aries looked up at Riku and saw a tear running down his cheek. He wryly smiled with his eyes covered by his sliver hair. She went over to the boy and hugged him gently, stroking his hair. The ex-general son didn't mind a hug. And besides he needed it from all of the things he went through.
"Tell me. .is he really my. .?"
"Why won't you see for your self?" The boy gave a blank look. Aries pointed out behind him. Riku slowly turned around to see paths out of nowhere appeared. There was 6 paths leading into something different. A military base, a tall building with the words 'SHINRA', a hospital, a town, a snowy mountain and a unknown path that was covered up by some mystical force. Riku looked at them all and then back to the young girl.
"What is this?"
"This is a place that you will answer all of your questions. This is the place where you are going to learn everything." Aries knew that this is going to be tough on Riku, but it has to be done, she thought. Riku stepped out form her caring arms and stared at the paths. He didn't know which path to go to first, but for some reason, some odd reason, he was going down to the hospital path. Slight breeze was flowing by gently make him shiver. Then suddenly he stopped in front of the invisible door getting a bad feeling like he was going to learn something that would shock him, but he went through anyway.
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Sephiroth, who was wearing his usual black leather Soldier outfit, long white hair was down his back and some bangs in the front, was sitting at his desk working on some huge paper work. Yes, he was at work at Soldier. And the paper work, was all reports on messed up duties that people or people in general training. He held his head from the pounding headache he had for the last 2 days straight. The office was fairly big, but it wasn't enough working space from all of those damn papers. Plus there is only, only one window to boot and one sofa that is really cheap which he rarely sat on.
// So that's Sephiroth//
Not thinking about it anymore, he got some pain reliever out the corner of his desk and nearly dropped them when his best friend bust open the door in shear panic. The younger mane was wearing a navy blue uniform, with a brown strap over his shoulder, brown boots, long black spiky hair and green eyes that can light up the moon at night. The General looked at him crazy, but before he could say anything, his friend pulled him out from his desk, causing many papers to fall, and tried to rush him out the very skinny doorway.
"Zack?! What is the meaning of this?! Would you stop that?!" The silver haired man gripped away from his best friend grip. Now he was angry. Why would his best friend come in like everyone is going die in twenty-four hours and start to rush him out the door? It didn't make sense, Sephiroth thought.
"There's no time!"
"What do you mean?"
"It's your wife!"
"My wife? What's wrong with her? Or what happened to her?"
"She's in the hospital!"
"The hospital? Why she's at the hospital?"
"She's having a baby!" That made the older man heart jump through the roof. He couldn't believe it. Just couldn't believe it.
//. . .huh?//
"She's . . .what?"
"She's having a baby." The man went from angry and annoyed to one happy person. He smiled ever so sweetly. Today was the happiest day in his life. Sephiroth recklessly pushed Zack out the door and ran through the narrow hallway, towards the elevator. The long black hair man rubbed his chest lightly from the pain. He waved good bye to the older man and said be careful while driving. Sephiroth did the same and yelled out to Zack to take care of the camp. He ran down to the parking lot, hopped in his car and drove off like a mad man.
//?//
At the hospital, after about 30 minutes of driving down the La Costa highway, Sephiroth went to the check in counter, and hurriedly went to the room where his wife was. When he finally reached the door, he heard a cries of a baby. Smiling at the thought, he opened the door quietly to find his wife and his newborn in her loving arms laying in the bed. Needles here and there in her forearms, her eyes locked on to his eyes and smiled gently to him.
//That woman. . .I know that woman.//
He went over to her, and place a gentle kiss on her forehead. She smiled back softly and looked at the baby.
//I know her. . .I know who she is. .//
"It's a boy. A beautiful, beautiful boy." she said while sniffing over her proud and joy. Sephiroth smiled an ear to ear grin.
"What should we call him?"
//. . .that's. . .//
"We should call him. .Riku. Yes, Riku is his name."
//. . .Tristy. . .//
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A/N: Well, shocking huh? Please review!
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