Hey hey hey! How y'all doing!? Well lets see here.... my goal is to finish this fic by next Thursday since I start school then. That's right everyone, school is coming soon, evil evil school. Time for me to sleep all day in school while at the same time try and hide away from my stalkers =0P Damn evil woman don't get the hint I'm not interested in any one of them, they're all weird and slutty! Well anyways, enough about that crap, let's get on with this already nay?
Disclaimer- Yea, Yea, I know, I don't own Final Fantasy Seven. (Crosses arms and looks around) Wonder where Malice is... Haven't seen him since.... (Eyes narrow) Since they got drunk. Probably out getting drunk again.... (Stomach turns) ...Urk!.... ugh.... damn this ship..... (Runs over to the railing and pukes over the side of the ship to the deck below) Ugh... Hope that didn't hit anyone.... (Thinks) Actually, I can think of a few people that I hope it did... Urk.. (Throws up again.)
Chapter 60- Mother Knows Best
Jenova, The Calamity From The Skies, appears once again. Snaking her way out of Vain's corpse where she remained hidden. Unlike all the other forms of Jenova, this one is the most shocking. She almost looks human, standing a measly five foot six inches, unlike a giant monster that towers over her opponents. Her skin appears smooth, unlike the familiar scaly rough skin everyone remembers. Her body looks as if it was sculpted to look like the perfect woman. If her skin wasn't a greenish color and if she didn't have the two long tentacles sprouting from her forehead, she could pass for a human. Her unusual pale blue hair separating at her lean shoulders and continue down till it reaching her small waist.
Her unusual violet lips curve up slightly as her soft emerald eyes glance over to Sephiroth, her eyes hold such a delicate and gentle look that would make anyone who doesn't know better that Jenova is a calm gentle creature. The group know better however, the gentle gleam in Jenova's eyes is merely a mask to cover the vile creature's dark, evil thoughts. Jenova slowly walks towards Sephiroth, causing everyone to back away. Sephiroth remains in his place, his right hand hovering above the hilt of Masamune, slightly trembling. Jenova locks eyes with Sephiroth and raises her hands up towards his face, "My son..." She says, her voice warm and loving. Her hands delicately cups his face.
Her hands feel cold and leathery to Sephiroth, he cringes in disgust before stepping away. "How are you alive? I killed you back in the North Crater." Sephiroth asks quietly. The rest of the group stare at Jenova, each having their weapons ready to strike her at any hostile move she makes.
Jenova's smile widens, "I would of died, had that boy not come along a few hours after Meteor was destroyed." Jenova briefly glances back over to Vain's body before continuing, "I sensed his presence, and the strange materia he was carrying, unlike him, I knew what it was. I offered him a deal and he accepted."
Sephiroth's eyes narrow, "What sort of deal?"
"I offered him power and knowledge. He accepted, the last of my living cells took refuge in his body, there I sat and regenerated."
Sephiroth snorts in disgust and crosses his arms, "Why go on living..... the black materia is gone. Your plan to rule this planet won't succeed."
Jenova smirks and takes a step closer to Sephiroth, causing the dark swordsman to take a step back. Jenova tilts her head to the side ever so slightly, "My own son is afraid of me..." She comments, her voice full of amusement.
"I am not your son. I refuse to acknowledge a hideous creature such as yourself as part of me." Sephiroth replies coldly.
"You speak to your mother so harshly?" Jenova asks in disbelief, "All I ever did is give you my love."
Sephiroth glares, "All you did was control me, used me for your own damn plans. Then when your plans failed and I finally regained control of myself, you found it in your best interest to exterminate me. You give me love? All you've ever given me is misery."
Yuffie scratches her head, "I'm officially confused."
Cloud shakes his head, "Believe me, you're not the only one."
Jenova smirks, "You know the old saying, 'Mother knows best'? I controlled you to protect you from others. If you were making your own decisions you would of made foolish mistakes. And your whole life was misery, long before I came around."
"Enough of this!" Vincent shouts starling everyone. Jenova and Sephiroth turn their gazes to the usually quiet gunslinger. Vincent walks over to the two, his eyes ablaze with silent fury as he stares down Jenova, "I will not allow you to twist the mind of Lucrecia's son any longer. You disgraced her name enough two years ago. No more, Sephiroth shall know the truth about his parents."
Sephiroth's brows lower in confusion as he stares at Vincent, "What truth?" He asks sharply.
Vincent gaze turns towards Sephiroth, the fire in his eyes dieing down into a gentle gaze, "Sephiroth, Jenova is not your mother. You were not produced. Your mother was a beautiful scientist named Lucrecia."
"And how would you know this?" Sephroth demands.
Vincent closes his eyes in thought as he thinks about his past with Lucrecia, "Because Sephiroth, I was there when she gave birth to you. You're father used her as a human experiment..." Vincent's hand and golden claw clench as his thoughts go to the disgusting man. "He injected Jenova cells in her womb while she was still pregnant with you. He toke you away from your mother when you were born."
"My father?" Sephiroth repeats questioningly.
Vincent's gaze with sorrow as he stares into Sephiroth's eyes. "Hojo... Simon Hojo is your father, Sephiroth."
Sephiroth closes his eyes for a second, digesting this information, after a moment he laughs uncontrollably. "Hojo! How ironic!" Sephiroth laughs at his own life, how screwed up it has always been, never knowing about who his parents are. Laughing at the fact he believed Jenova was his real mother. He laughs at the fact that years later he finally finds out the disgusting truth of it all, that the man that experimented on countless people, including Rima, is his father. Most of all he laughs at the fact that to Hojo, he is just another experiment to him, not his child, not his son.
Despite the fact Sephiroth is laughing, making everyone think he lost his mind again. Something unbelievable happens that no one would have expected. Two lone tears escape his eyes and runs down his cheeks. But Sephiroth just continues to laugh, not being able to control himself, 'I'm just an experiment to my father, nothing else.' The thought will always be stuck in his head from now on. It gives him more initiative to kill Hojo, no wait, kill his father.
Reno leans over to Elena to whisper into her ear, "I think he just cracked." He jokes. Elena just sighs in annoyance, she should of known Reno would be as heartless as he always is. He can really annoy her sometimes.
Rima stares at Sephiroth in pity. To find out your father is a man such as Hojo, who wouldn't feel sorry for him. Hojo is just some sick bastard, a worthless bug with no right to live. And this further proves that statement, not only was she an experiment of his but his own son was as well.
Sephiroth wipes his eyes with the sleeve on his left arm as he holds up his right telling everyone to wait. Eventually his laughter subsides and he removes his arm from his face, his face back to the expressionless position as everyone is accustomed to. He glance to his right, to Jenova, her head slightly lower with her eyes closed as a small smile plays across her lips. Sephiroth slowly unsheathes the Masamune, the sound of the blade grinding against the sheath is the only sound in the area. He holds the sword up, staring emotionlessly at Jenova, "Now I'll get rid of you once and for all." Sephiroth slashes the Masamune towards Jenova's head, intending to slice her head off once again.
One of Jenova's tentacles moves swiftly towards Sephiroth, it wraps around his right arm, stopping Sephiroth's attack. Jenova opens her emerald eyes as her tentacle twists Sephiroth's arm back, making him drop the Masamune. Her other tentacle swings over and strikes him from the side, tossing him off to the side. Vincent immediately takes out the Death Penalty and fires the gun at Jenova. The creature gracefully leaps away from him, her tentacles snake around Vincent at the same time and constrict him. She lands on her feet and lifts Vincent off the ground, "You should of kept your mouth shut. Now I'll have to punish you." She slams Vincent onto the ground, then lifts him up and does it again, never letting the dark gunslinger go.
"Alright everyone. ATTACK!" Cloud shouts before charging towards Jenova. Red XIII gives out a beastly roar, a signal for battle before he dashes towards Jenova. Tifa, feeling that some of her energy returned, charges forth. Reno pulls out his rod, ignoring the searing pain of his injuries and follows closely behind.
Jenova sees the four charging towards her. She lets out an earsplitting screech, making then stop to cover their ears in pain. She swings Vincent around and hits them all away. Vincent struggles to break free from Jenova's grip, blood runs down his face, and falls to the ground. Elena fires her handgun, Jenova casts barrier to protect herself, the bullets deflect of the magical force field. Jenova then casts a Bolt 3 spell at the blonde Turk.
"Take this!" Yuffie shouts before sending her Conformer flying through the air. It whizzes through the air towards Jenova. Jenova quickly puts Vincent in front of her, making the Conformer hit him instead of her. It strikes Vincent in the back making him grunt in pain. "Oh GAWD, I'm sorry Vinnie!" Yuffie immediately apologizes as she catches the Conformer.
Rima puts her rifle away and get down on one knee. Her shoulder slowly move up and down as she takes deep breaths. Her nails dig into the ground as they grow longer, her red hair gets turns black as her amber eyes disappear as they're replaced with crimson orbs. Rima smirks, showing off her long fangs. She pulls two daggers out of her trench coat, "You're bloody mine!" She shouts as she leaps to her feet and begins charging towards Jenova.
Jenova swings Vincent, who's still constricted by her tentacles, at Rima from the side. The vampire sees the attack and leaps off the ground, letting the tentacles and Vincent, pass underneath her. Rima takes the opportunity to throw the two daggers at Jenova. Jenova leaps out of the way and slams Vincent into the vampire. Rima soars through the air like a baseball being hit like a bat.
Vincent grits his teeth as he slammed into the ground again, he loses his grip on the Death Penalty, it falls to the ground. Vincent closes his eyes as he tries to concentrate. Chaos feels Vincent calling him and immediately appears in his mind. Vincent doesn't waste any time in letting Chaos take control. Vincent squirms in his constriction as his body begins to transform. The crimson cloak is ripped to shreds as Chaos appears. The tentacles around Chaos tighten as they hold the demon there. Chaos opens his mouth and bares his sharp fangs, growling a warning to Jenova. Jenova opens her mouth, baring her own razor sharp fangs as she hisses at the demon.
The tentacles get even tighter as Jenova tries to crush the demon. Chaos begins to cackle before he lowers his head and sinks his teeth into one of the tentacles. Jenova shrieks in pain. She swings the demon around before throwing him into the woods. Jenova brings the tentacle that the demon bit to her face as she blows on the wound trying to sooth the sting. "You tricky demon." Jenova says.
Sephiroth pushes himself up on his elbows and shakes his head trying to stop everything from spinning around in his head. He glances across the battlefield and watches as Cloud charges at Jenova, swinging the Ultimate Weapon continuously, trying to land some sort of strike on Jenova. Jenova bats him away like a fly with one of her tentacles. Sephiroth scans the area, his eyes land on his trusty Masamune. He quickly jumps to his feet and runs over to his Masamune, he picks it up and stares across the field to Jenova.
'She'll be perfect for me to test my new abilities..' Sephiroth smirks at the thought. His huge black wing flaps once behind him, showing everyone Sephiroth's excitement. Without another moment's hesitation, Sephiroth dashes across the battlefield towards Jenova, the Masamune drawn back ready to strike at its target.
Chaos shoots out of the words and soars towards Jenova, he dodges and spins out of her tentacles' paths and slashes at Jenova with one of his mighty claws. Jenova leaps backwards to dodge Chaos's attack, unbeknownst to Jenova, Rima was there waiting. The vampire thrusts two of her daggers into Jenova's back. Jenova let's out an earsplitting shriek before spinning around and knocking Rima away. Her tentacles reach to her back and yank out the two daggers. Chaos charges forward, his eye wide with the thrill of battle. Jenova leaps to the side as Chaos reaches her, "Die you beast!" Jenova says before she extends her right hand, a red blast of energy shoots out of her hand and strikes the demon. Chaos roars in pain as his body blown away by the explosion.
Rima leaps forward again, her claws imbed themselves into Jenova's shoulders, before Jenova gets a chance to react, Rima bites into Jenova's neck. Jenova's tentacles a wrap around Rima's waist and yanks Rima off of her. She slams Rima into the ground, much like she did to Vincent. Jenova holds the vampire up as she checks her neck. Jenova's eyes narrow in anger, "You'll pay for that." Jenova extends her right hand out to blast her in the same way she did Chaos. Jenova's eyes go wide as her left tentacle is cut off of Rima.
Jenova shrieks before tossing the vampire away and turning to attack Sephiroth, the one who cut her tentacle. Sephiroth smirks before leaping over the attack and charging towards Jenova, he leaps forward and swings his mighty sword. Jenova jumps back in time, dodging the attack. Sephiroth's wing straightens out behind him and he presses forward, slashing at Jenova continuously. Jenova dodges each strike, seemingly able to read Sephiroth's every move. Sephiroth's eyes narrow, "Dodge this.." He lunges forward, spinning like a tornado with the Masamune extended out. Jenova draws back, caught off guard from the unexpected attack. She manages to get far enough to dodge the brunt of the attack.
Sephiroth begins dropping to the ground and that's when Jenova makes her move. Her right tentacle wraps around his neck while what's left of her left one wraps around his chest, pinning his arms to his sides. She pulls him close baring her fangs as a warning for the others to back off. The group, who decided to try and help Sephiroth after watching the fight for a few moments, follow the unspoken command and back away. Sephiroth struggles in his constriction. Jenova looks up to Sephiroth's face and smirks, "If only you didn't gain your soul back, you wouldn't feel the pain."
Sephiroth spits on Jenova's face, "Just die you disgusting creature. You'll never rule this planet, not with a pathetic army of zombies." Slowly a smirk plays across Sephiroth's face, "Your only chance at that is gone, it no longer exists. Your dream to have the Promised Land is a pathetic illusion. Only the Cetra can have it and their all dead."
Jenova laughs, shaking her head in disbelief, "My sweet boy Sephiroth..."
"I'm not your boy, you vile creature." Sephiroth says coldly.
Jenova pulls him closer so they're face to face, she smirks at the dark swordsman, "You don't realize it yet, do you?" Sephiroth remains silent, "Tell me, why do you think I made Vain bring you back?" She asks amused. "One of them was to kill those wretched humans." She says, indicating to AVALANCHE, "But there's another reason why I brought you back." Sephiroth's brows lower in question. Jenova lifts her hand up, drawing it back, as if ready to strike, "You have something I want!" She thrusts her hand into Sephiroth's side.
"SEPHIROTH!" Cloud yells horrified as he watches Jenova dig her hand into Sephiroth's left side.
Blood gushes out around Jenova's hand, but Sephiroth doesn't cry out in pain, despite the pain he's in. He won't give Jenova that satisfaction. Jenova's eyes light up, "This planet shall be mine and you pathetic humans shall perish once and for all!" She throws Sephiroth off to the side, clutching something in her hand. Everyone's eyes widen in surprise as Jenova holds the Black Materia in her hand, Sephiroth's blood dripping from it.
"The black materia was inside Sephiroth!?" Tifa says in disbelief.
Sephiroth pushes himself to his feet, his right hand pressed against the hole in his side while his left grips the Masamune. His eyes lock onto the black materia in Jenova's hand, Sephiroth hold up his sword, "I'll kill you before you get the chance to use it again."
Well, well, well, well, WELL. Aint't this nifty? Manage to squeeze some gore into the fight heh, heh. It's a good thing Jenova needs to be in North Crater to use it, well good thing for the group at least, bad thing for Jenova. Unless she knows something they don't (Grins) Heh heh, as you can see this battle ain't over yet! I would of continued it till it finished but I don't want to end the chapter right when the battle ends, I have something very evil in mind for the ending of the next chapter, MWAHAHAHAHAHA! All is not safe for our nice little group. Evil is my favorite state of mind, heeeheeeheee, MWAHAHAHA heeeheeeheee Nyuk Nyuk.... Nyuk? What the hell is a Nyuk? (Shakes head) Anyway's Review y'all! TTNC!