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Someone asked me if I loved Sephiroth? Well, I'm not madly in love with him. He is only a game character. I do think he is pretty cool, even though I can't beat him. Any tips, anyone?
Oh yeah, in the story Sephy will start as a child and after a while I'll do a '8 years later' thing. So don't think it's a long and rambling story about the young Sephiroth who sees a ghost. Okay, I'll shut up now because I don't want to give the story away!
Well anyway, for the time being here is the next chapter. Enjoy!
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The small boy watched as the girl spookily stretched a bony arm out of the mirror and then gracefully slunk her whole body out of the mirror so she ended up crouched on top of the dresser. The girl then jumped off, her hair hiding her heart-shaped face, and she stood up to her full height which was a couple of inches taller than Sephiroth.
In one hand was a gleaming kitchen knife.
"I've been like this for ages, do you know how that feels?" She hissed.
"Get the hell away from me!" Sephiroth dived backwards onto the bed, the springs groaning. "What do you want?"
She walked closer to Sephiroth, "I don't want anything, I just want my life back."
"I must be seeing things." He muttered. "Any minute now I'm gonna wake up."
The girl dropped the knife. "Oh, god. I'm sorry, I don't know what I was doing. I mean, how could I kill you if you're like me. You know, a ghost."
"I'm not." Sephiroth replied, bluntly.
"Then how come you can..."
The girl stopped when he saw the way Sephiroth was squinting his eyes at her. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. "You... are..."
"Hollene?" The girl questioned, tossing her ebony hair behind her pointed shoulders. "Who are you?"
"Sephiroth." He mumbled. "I saw you in my dream. You were shot by a crazed SOLDIER with a machine gun."
Hollene looked at Sephiroth in amazement. "How... did you know that?" She gaped.
"I don't know." He frowned. "How did you?" He pointed to the mirror.
"The mirror is my world, if you like. It's exactly this room, only I can use the mirror as I kind of doorway. A ghost's world to the real world. Sounds strange, doesn't it?" She raised her finely-plucked eyebrows.
"Yeah."
"Do you believe me, that I'm really a ghost?" Hollene asked, suspicious.
"I've got enough evidence." Sephiroth replied. "So, what was it like being here when you were alive?"
"I hated it. I mean I had this lovely assistant called Naomi, and she made out like there was no pain involved whatsoever. But then Hojo wanted to try a 'little experiment' on me. He said that he had been searching for years for someone like me, it did not sound good." She shook her head.
"But why are you so different from other people?" Sephiroth said.
"Why do you think?" Hollene gestured to the mirror. "Hello? The Mako would kill me, and bring me back as a ghost. But, he wouldn't totally kill me- he would be in deep trouble if he killed a specimen. I know he has my body somewhere doing god knows what with it. Maybe one day he'll bring me back to life, but that could be decades away.
"Go and see him!" Sephiroth suggested.
"Believe me, I've tried. But nobody can see me. People can hear me though. Say I picked up an object, it would look as if it were levitating. I don't know how you can see me though, I know all specimens have something disturbing about them, they don't just pick random kids and people off the streets. Maybe you can see ghosts." Hollene replied.
"it's something much deeper than that, I know it." Sephiroth muttered. "Hojo just won't tell me."
"So do you see Hojo a lot?" Hollene asked.
"Too much. He's my permanent assistant, if you like." Sephiroth replied.
"Wow, what a bummer." She sighed. "And I thought I had a bad life. I was always causing havoc and demanding out of this place, I constantly wished I were dead. One time, when I was Professor Gast's specimen, I was left alone in the lab for a few minutes while he was called out to deal with an emergency. I found a sharp knife in one of the drawers and..." She showed Sephiroth her scarred wrists. "Professor Gast rushed in just as I did it, and I was rushed into the hospital ward immediately where I was bandaged up and I recovered."
"Oh, god." Sephiroth gasped.
"I wish had died then and there." Hollene continued, "I never planned to die and then come back again like this. That's if I am dead." She quickly changed the subject. "I've been here since I was about five. How about you?"
Sephiroth thought for a minute, "I think I've been here since I was born. About ten years." He replied.
"You're ten? You look much younger, no offence. I'm thirteen, by the way." Hollene stated.
"I won't look young for long." Sephiroth replied. "Soon I'll start my training, the first step to becoming a supreme SOLDIER. That's the reason why I'm here. I don't know why I can become so supreme though." He shrugged.
Just as he finished the sentence, the door screeched open and a middle-aged woman strode into the room carrying a tray with a bowl of murky green steaming liquid. Mako food. She placed it on Sephiroth's bed, not even looking up at him and then exiting the room- the door locking behind.
"What the hell?" Hollene stared at the food. "They give you this crap?" She grabbed the spoon and stirred the gloopy liquid round and round. "But then again, I didn't get much better food. Rice and bread mainly."
"Mmmn." Sephiroth mumbled, deep in thought.
There was silence as Hollene examined the cramped room. "This used to be my room." She said.
"I figured that." Sephiroth replied. "I saw your name scraped on the wall under the bed."
"I was bored." Hollene grinned. "It's hard when you always have to run around and work for hours on end, but it's even harder when you have to sit and wait in a tiny room for hours on end."
"I know." Sephiroth nodded. "I hate Hojo for that, and I hate him now even more than before."
"Why?" Hollene asked.
"Because he gave me the room that someone died in."
"Well technically I didn't die in it." Hollene explained.
Sephiroth rolled his eyes. "You know what I mean."
"I was always trying to escape." Said Hollene, "I made a different escape plan every day. Of course, none of them worked. I just wanted to see my family again, they don't even know that I'm here."
"What do you mean?" Sephiroth questioned.
"I was snatched off the street one day by these SOLDIERS. They said that I was different from other children and I was needed in the building's scientific experiments. I put up a huge fight, kicking and screaming. I was determined not to go." She sighed nostalgically.
There was suddenly a sharp ringing noise in Sephiroth's mind, he fell to his knees and clutched his head shaking it side to side. He could hear heavy breathing and footsteps.
Hollene backed away, looking at Sephiroth like he was a total lunatic. When Sephiroth snapped out of it he rolled onto his side, breathing rapidly in exhaustion on the floor- his platinum hair veiling his face. "What the hell?" Hollene raised one eyebrow.
"The Mako." Sephiroth spluttered, getting up and lying on the creaky bed face-up. "Don't worry about it... er... what were you saying about escaping?"
Hollene shook her head. "I know you were seeing something."
All of a sudden, the door flew open and Sephiroth jumped with fright. It was Hojo.
"Be at the lab in five minutes." Hojo sneered. "And I MEAN five minutes." He exited the room and closed the door.
Sephiroth brushed himself off and got up. He walked over to the dresser and tapped at the mirror in awe. When he saw Hollene give him a funny look he stopped. "I know it only works for you, but I'm just curious."
He picked up a blunt comb on the wooden dresser and tugged it through his waist-length knotty hair. Then he straightened his collar and stepped towards the door.
"You're not really going to go, are you?" Hollene rushed towards him.
"Are you out of your mind? I have to go, he'd go mental if I didn't." Sephiroth replied, hurriedly.
Hollene grabbed Sephiroth. "Don't go, you can't go. Look. Before I went to my first Mako test I had a funny vision like you had a minute ago. In my vision I was in the lab and I fell of something and hit the floor. I became really scared afterwards, even though I was reassured."
Sephiroth brushed her off. "My vision wasn't anything like that, and besides, this isn't my first Mako test." He thought back to his last injection, more painful than usual. "Hojo has been using Mako more strongly on me, but that's nothing. I need Mako to become supreme, that's why."
"You can't go. You're the only one that can see me." She whispered.
"It's not like I'm gonna die." Sephiroth said, awkwardly. "I really HAVE to go now." He darted out of the room not bothering to close the door.
Hollene stood in the doorway and shouted after him. "You don't know what you're in for!"
But he didn't hear.
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sugary-flames: What's gonna happen to Sephy? Please review and I'll update soon!
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Someone asked me if I loved Sephiroth? Well, I'm not madly in love with him. He is only a game character. I do think he is pretty cool, even though I can't beat him. Any tips, anyone?
Oh yeah, in the story Sephy will start as a child and after a while I'll do a '8 years later' thing. So don't think it's a long and rambling story about the young Sephiroth who sees a ghost. Okay, I'll shut up now because I don't want to give the story away!
Well anyway, for the time being here is the next chapter. Enjoy!
o0o
The small boy watched as the girl spookily stretched a bony arm out of the mirror and then gracefully slunk her whole body out of the mirror so she ended up crouched on top of the dresser. The girl then jumped off, her hair hiding her heart-shaped face, and she stood up to her full height which was a couple of inches taller than Sephiroth.
In one hand was a gleaming kitchen knife.
"I've been like this for ages, do you know how that feels?" She hissed.
"Get the hell away from me!" Sephiroth dived backwards onto the bed, the springs groaning. "What do you want?"
She walked closer to Sephiroth, "I don't want anything, I just want my life back."
"I must be seeing things." He muttered. "Any minute now I'm gonna wake up."
The girl dropped the knife. "Oh, god. I'm sorry, I don't know what I was doing. I mean, how could I kill you if you're like me. You know, a ghost."
"I'm not." Sephiroth replied, bluntly.
"Then how come you can..."
The girl stopped when he saw the way Sephiroth was squinting his eyes at her. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. "You... are..."
"Hollene?" The girl questioned, tossing her ebony hair behind her pointed shoulders. "Who are you?"
"Sephiroth." He mumbled. "I saw you in my dream. You were shot by a crazed SOLDIER with a machine gun."
Hollene looked at Sephiroth in amazement. "How... did you know that?" She gaped.
"I don't know." He frowned. "How did you?" He pointed to the mirror.
"The mirror is my world, if you like. It's exactly this room, only I can use the mirror as I kind of doorway. A ghost's world to the real world. Sounds strange, doesn't it?" She raised her finely-plucked eyebrows.
"Yeah."
"Do you believe me, that I'm really a ghost?" Hollene asked, suspicious.
"I've got enough evidence." Sephiroth replied. "So, what was it like being here when you were alive?"
"I hated it. I mean I had this lovely assistant called Naomi, and she made out like there was no pain involved whatsoever. But then Hojo wanted to try a 'little experiment' on me. He said that he had been searching for years for someone like me, it did not sound good." She shook her head.
"But why are you so different from other people?" Sephiroth said.
"Why do you think?" Hollene gestured to the mirror. "Hello? The Mako would kill me, and bring me back as a ghost. But, he wouldn't totally kill me- he would be in deep trouble if he killed a specimen. I know he has my body somewhere doing god knows what with it. Maybe one day he'll bring me back to life, but that could be decades away.
"Go and see him!" Sephiroth suggested.
"Believe me, I've tried. But nobody can see me. People can hear me though. Say I picked up an object, it would look as if it were levitating. I don't know how you can see me though, I know all specimens have something disturbing about them, they don't just pick random kids and people off the streets. Maybe you can see ghosts." Hollene replied.
"it's something much deeper than that, I know it." Sephiroth muttered. "Hojo just won't tell me."
"So do you see Hojo a lot?" Hollene asked.
"Too much. He's my permanent assistant, if you like." Sephiroth replied.
"Wow, what a bummer." She sighed. "And I thought I had a bad life. I was always causing havoc and demanding out of this place, I constantly wished I were dead. One time, when I was Professor Gast's specimen, I was left alone in the lab for a few minutes while he was called out to deal with an emergency. I found a sharp knife in one of the drawers and..." She showed Sephiroth her scarred wrists. "Professor Gast rushed in just as I did it, and I was rushed into the hospital ward immediately where I was bandaged up and I recovered."
"Oh, god." Sephiroth gasped.
"I wish had died then and there." Hollene continued, "I never planned to die and then come back again like this. That's if I am dead." She quickly changed the subject. "I've been here since I was about five. How about you?"
Sephiroth thought for a minute, "I think I've been here since I was born. About ten years." He replied.
"You're ten? You look much younger, no offence. I'm thirteen, by the way." Hollene stated.
"I won't look young for long." Sephiroth replied. "Soon I'll start my training, the first step to becoming a supreme SOLDIER. That's the reason why I'm here. I don't know why I can become so supreme though." He shrugged.
Just as he finished the sentence, the door screeched open and a middle-aged woman strode into the room carrying a tray with a bowl of murky green steaming liquid. Mako food. She placed it on Sephiroth's bed, not even looking up at him and then exiting the room- the door locking behind.
"What the hell?" Hollene stared at the food. "They give you this crap?" She grabbed the spoon and stirred the gloopy liquid round and round. "But then again, I didn't get much better food. Rice and bread mainly."
"Mmmn." Sephiroth mumbled, deep in thought.
There was silence as Hollene examined the cramped room. "This used to be my room." She said.
"I figured that." Sephiroth replied. "I saw your name scraped on the wall under the bed."
"I was bored." Hollene grinned. "It's hard when you always have to run around and work for hours on end, but it's even harder when you have to sit and wait in a tiny room for hours on end."
"I know." Sephiroth nodded. "I hate Hojo for that, and I hate him now even more than before."
"Why?" Hollene asked.
"Because he gave me the room that someone died in."
"Well technically I didn't die in it." Hollene explained.
Sephiroth rolled his eyes. "You know what I mean."
"I was always trying to escape." Said Hollene, "I made a different escape plan every day. Of course, none of them worked. I just wanted to see my family again, they don't even know that I'm here."
"What do you mean?" Sephiroth questioned.
"I was snatched off the street one day by these SOLDIERS. They said that I was different from other children and I was needed in the building's scientific experiments. I put up a huge fight, kicking and screaming. I was determined not to go." She sighed nostalgically.
There was suddenly a sharp ringing noise in Sephiroth's mind, he fell to his knees and clutched his head shaking it side to side. He could hear heavy breathing and footsteps.
Hollene backed away, looking at Sephiroth like he was a total lunatic. When Sephiroth snapped out of it he rolled onto his side, breathing rapidly in exhaustion on the floor- his platinum hair veiling his face. "What the hell?" Hollene raised one eyebrow.
"The Mako." Sephiroth spluttered, getting up and lying on the creaky bed face-up. "Don't worry about it... er... what were you saying about escaping?"
Hollene shook her head. "I know you were seeing something."
All of a sudden, the door flew open and Sephiroth jumped with fright. It was Hojo.
"Be at the lab in five minutes." Hojo sneered. "And I MEAN five minutes." He exited the room and closed the door.
Sephiroth brushed himself off and got up. He walked over to the dresser and tapped at the mirror in awe. When he saw Hollene give him a funny look he stopped. "I know it only works for you, but I'm just curious."
He picked up a blunt comb on the wooden dresser and tugged it through his waist-length knotty hair. Then he straightened his collar and stepped towards the door.
"You're not really going to go, are you?" Hollene rushed towards him.
"Are you out of your mind? I have to go, he'd go mental if I didn't." Sephiroth replied, hurriedly.
Hollene grabbed Sephiroth. "Don't go, you can't go. Look. Before I went to my first Mako test I had a funny vision like you had a minute ago. In my vision I was in the lab and I fell of something and hit the floor. I became really scared afterwards, even though I was reassured."
Sephiroth brushed her off. "My vision wasn't anything like that, and besides, this isn't my first Mako test." He thought back to his last injection, more painful than usual. "Hojo has been using Mako more strongly on me, but that's nothing. I need Mako to become supreme, that's why."
"You can't go. You're the only one that can see me." She whispered.
"It's not like I'm gonna die." Sephiroth said, awkwardly. "I really HAVE to go now." He darted out of the room not bothering to close the door.
Hollene stood in the doorway and shouted after him. "You don't know what you're in for!"
But he didn't hear.
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sugary-flames: What's gonna happen to Sephy? Please review and I'll update soon!
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