Chapter 13

"How could you let her get away?!!!" Hojo yelled out at Sephira savagely.

"Sir, there was a man there. I... He was too strong for me."

"NO EXCUSES!!! You should have fulfilled this mission easily." The burbling, green skinned monster yelled, spitting specks of guts and slime into the filthy air that plagued the cell so savagely.

"He was too strong for me to handle." Sephira quivered, withholding tears of regret and anger, that had such a fervent desire to be released.

"Where was Zack all this time?"

"Bringing Rufus here." The little, trembling rebel replied innocently.

"I would have thought it to be more of a challenge to retrieve Rufus then Aeris. What is wrong with you?" All of Hojo's distorted features jeered in one huge movement, his tentacles slapping against Sephira's legs feverishly, as muck danced down the side of his decaying face.

"Sir, if you would just listen. This man knew you," The distraught mutineer tried to explain, disgusted with Hojo's actions. This is clearly harassment... Disgusting... Don't personal boundaries exist in his vindictive, merciless mind? No, of course not... He's Hojo...

"Come on. Speak up. Who was this man?" Hojo's face twisted with rage, slime slewing out of his outstretched, boiling nostrils. "No matter the person was, you should have defeated him."

Sephira ignored his yelling tantrum and began to calmly describe the mysterious mans features, "He had black hair, red eyes, a claw to-"

"Claw?!!!" Hojo chocked out brilliantly as blue and orange blood spew from his pores. Sephira watched hesitantly as he attempted to laugh, his body melting like wax, and his bones snapping out of order as they tore through his skin for all to see from the shock of the fact that he hadn't laughed in quite a long, long time.

"Yes, a claw made of metal." Sephira replied flatly, rather disgusted with all of Hojo's natural cycles that went on day after day with his decaying, distorted, monstrous body. Why doesn't he fix that... thing up? Sephira questioned herself, referring to his rugged looking, broken down body. Uh... It's so disgusting looking, makes me want to throw up...

Hojo broke into a fit of what was suppose to be giggles, as he chocked on his tongues, that flapped around so eagerly in the wide hole on his face, that was apparently a mouth. "Vincent? What a coincidence. Did you say he was protecting Aeris?"

"Yes, sir." The bored, specimen replied, kicking at a leg of one of the testing tables, completely bored out of her mind. Will he ever shut up...

Unexpectedly Hojo hurled forward, howling madly with laughter at the news of Vincent actually protecting a girl of no importance to him...but she was of importance to Vincent, Much more than he himself could ever know. Hojo grabbed his side as he slouched over, leaning against the testing table. "Huph...juphhehhehacha...ack... Forget about the man for now. Try to avoid him, but make sure you get the girl. fHupghuglyacklack!!!" Hojo laughed, spitting chunks all over Sephira, of rats, bugs, human parts, syrups, slimes, and other unknown things he may have snacked on for lunch.

"Why can't you get another girl?" Sephira spat out, irritated beyond measure with how gross Hojo really was. Man, this guy is so nasty... gluck...

Hojo stopped dead, "Were you not listening to me? She is the only Cetra that exists, a goddess, and a warrior, smart, beautiful, strong enough to undergo my testing, everything you're not. If I put you through all the testing that I put her through, you'd die in the first week. No real human can survive my testing. I'd make a clone of her if I had to, but there isn't a point to that if the real "thing" is wondering around, NOW IS THERE?" Hojo screeched, puffing his chest out of place, as his eyes bulged out five inches from his sockets that sagged so rumpled onto his twisted, slumping excuse for a nose. Sephira watched in horror, as her stomach turned in protest, begging her to look away from such a horrid sight, Oh!!! That's NASTY!!! Oh!!! That is definitely rated R. Man Hojo, don't you at least have the decency to cover your face or something...? Ew... Uh...

"If I do not have her, there would be no point to this project. Do you understand me? We would have to start this project all over again, and if that is to happen, I'd put you through the worst torture inventible. Just don't screw up your mission again," Hojo yelled, whacking his specimens right cheek with the back of his left hand in his furiously tempered state of mind. "Go! I'll send Kilik to follow after."

Sliding towards the front entrance to Hojo's lab, Sephira flew to the floor as pain tore threw her rugged face. She slowly lifted her trembling hand up to her cheek, now covered with loose tears, to touch the spot where Hojo had so savagely slapped her. Skin, chips of born, acid, guts and slime dribbled down her aching face that had stuck onto her from the impact of the back of Hojo's warped and wrangled hand, upon contact. She slowly raised to her feet, and quickly left the room for the sole desire of getting away from that disgusting, twisted, repulsive excuse for a man, but she didn't dare desert her duties only from fear of what he would and could do to her if she did.

"Kilik!!!" Hojo growled out hideously, twisting and snapping in the direction, his hair slapping the sides of his drooping cheeks, where Kilik appeared slowly from the shadows.

"...Yes sir?" Kilik whispered with pure misery and depression flowing freely through the tone of his voice. From where Hojo stood, you could only see half of Kilik's white face, his chin and his lips, that so slowly formed his words. His dark red hair covered his half closed black shot eyes, that were deep with a drowsy, dazed look, telling all who took sight of them that he wanted to be left alone and free. He was tall, thin and very masculine, but was always ver good tempered, kind and gentle.

"Sephira just left in search for Aeris. You're her back up. Go." Hojo growled, pushing his cheek bone and glasses back in place.

"... Yes sir..." With that said, Kilik disappeared behind the front entrance of the lab to assist Sephira with her responsibilities that Hojo so generously forced upon her.