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Chapter 2: The One Winged Angel

Hojo read over and over his printouts. He was a damned genius, and no one gave a crap! His only consolation was that what he thought was a failed experiment was doing quite nicely. His children had grown into men in under two years, and they were smart… they were too damn smart. But they would never be the warriors Hojo wanted them to be. While they were smart, they had grown emotion, and that emotion was hatred toward him. Hadn't Hojo given them life? He had successfully taken sperm from the dead, and implanted it magnificently into a dead woman. To the normal eye, this was crazy, it would never work, the egg would never take it. That was to the normal eye, not to Hojo. He was a scientist, and he had done it. He kept the girl hooked up to nutrients by sticking a tube down her throat, and the embryo grew under his watchful eye.

There was a knock on the door, and his sons entered.

"Yes?" He asked.

Kadaj pulled a gun. "Hello father."

It was the way he said it that sent chills down Hojo's spine. He reached to call for security.

"Don't bother," Kadaj replied. "They're all dead."

Hojo folded his hands neatly in front of him. "Put that away now. What do you mean dead?"

"I killed them." He said with a shrug. "I want answers, father. You're going to give them to me."

"Fine," Hojo replied. "What is it you want to know, my son?"

"Do not call me your son!" Kadaj hissed, and his two brothers nodded in agreement. "I've been hearing a voice… we all have."

"A voice?" Hojo asked excitedly despite himself. "What does this voice sound like?"

"A deep whisper." Yazoo replied.

"He says he's our real father." Loz added.

"He also says he can give us power." Kadaj told him. He twirled the gun. "I like power. Who is this voice?"

"He is your real father, but I have given you life." Hojo told them.

Kadaj stared at the test tubes. "Does that mean we were created, not born?" There was a pause. In a rage, he shot the test tubes, causing them all to shatter into thousands of glass shards. "I do not call living inside a cell life! I have never seen the outside world!"

"You needn't know about that, Kadaj." Hojo said, stalling for some time.

"And who are you to tell me? You're not my real father! I am going to find him. Goodbye, Professor…"

"Do you all feel this way?" Hojo asked.

Yazoo nodded, and Loz nodded after him.

"Very well then." Hojo said. He knew this was the end.

The people of the planet stayed clear from the place where Sephiroth fell. They thought of it as a place to be avoided. His body had been removed by Hojo and placed back after the three were born. Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo were at Northern Crater. Kadaj placed his had up against the rock wall. "He's here."

"Remove me at once!"

"Yazoo, if you please." Kadaj said.

Yazoo took the tiny pick he had stole from Hojo's lab, and got to work. Kadaj circled him, watchng closely, and stared back at the three motorcycles they had stolen as well. Kadaj smiled as he thought back on Hojo's last minutes of life. How he sort of… gave up. Clearly he wasn't his father. Why hadn't he seen it before? Hojo might not have been his father, but he clearly was a genius. Kadaj held in his hand what looked like a sword, but it was modified to shoot bullets. Pure genius, his creator was. He watched Yazoo work away until he finally blasted the rock wall with his weapon, inches from Yazoo's head.

Yazoo turned to him. "You almost hit me."

"I almost did." Kadaj said. He had blown a hole big enough for him to step through, and he did. There, his father in all of his glory lay on the ground. "Father."

"You must resurrect me… as I will grow stronger, the Lifestream will battle me, trying to keep me from returning. But I will reach the Promised Land, my sons at my side where I so rightfully belong."

The three grinned.

"How do we resurrect you, father?" Loz asked.

Kadaj nearly raised his hand and slapped his brother. How foolish. He grabbed his brothers arms and concentrated…

Before them, the body on the floor began to rise…