Well, I wasn't going to update until later but I just needed to put my mind on something other then anything else right now (Doubt that made sense) Anyways hope you like this chapter and all, I rewrote it from its original version so I hope it turns out better and all that good stuff. Oh yea, there was a couple of questions in the last chapter. One of them was why Dregon doesn't try to control Cloud again. The answer to that is simple, because he can't. The chip that Hojo implanted in Cloud's head so Dregon could control him got fried by Cloud's strong will. There was other questions but I already answered them once before and don't feel up to answering them again right now.
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Sephiroth- (Walks into the room and spots Zack sitting at the computer with his arms crossed. He walks over) What's wrong with you?
(Doesn't even glance at Sephiroth.) Women are confusing... I think they're all pissed at me now..
Sephiroth- (Crosses arms and raises and eyebrow) Who?
(Shakes head) No one... (Glances up to Sephiroth) You got any advice on women?
Sephiroth- You're asking the wrong person.
(Grins) Oh yea, you have bigger issues with women then I do (Laughs)
Sephiroth- (Glares)
(Takes a deep breath and grins) I feel better now. Now all I want to know is... when the hell does Malice plan on coming back dammit! (Blinks as a thought occurs to him) Oh yea.... I don't own Final Fantasy 7 and whatnot. Almost forgot about it (Laughs) He---y I got an idea! (Grins) I'll make this chapter as an apology! Yea! I'll even throw in something extra special in here! heeheehee
Sephiroth- (Rolls eyes and walks away) I'm outta here.
Chapter 61- Pieces Of A Broken Past
Sephiroth stands posed in his spot, starring down Jenova as blood drips out of his wound. The vile creature remains completely still as she waits for Sephiroth to make the first move, she holds the Black Materia tightly in her right hand. The rest of the group stand by and watch the standoff. The silence is broken by a monstrous roar, a moment later a black streak soars out of the woods towards Jenova. Chaos brings down one of his mighty claws at Jenova, causing her to jump back from the attack. Sephiroth immediately leaps forward seeing that Jenova's attention is directed elsewhere.
Jenova thrusts one of her tentacles forward, trying to smack the demon away. Chaos catch the tentacle with his deadly claws. Jenova raises her left hand and sends out a blast towards Chaos. Chaos is flung away and in his place is Sephiroth, his massive Masamune already in the process of slashing at Jenova . The blade cuts her left tentacle cleanly off. Sephiroth then thrusts his sword forward, trying to impale Jenova through the chest. Jenova dodges the attack and slams Sephiroth away with her remaining tentacle.
"ALL CREATION!" Jenova hears the shout, without bothering to look where the attack is coming from, Jenova leaps into the air letting the blast of energy pass underneath her. She lands on the ground and turns towards Yuffie. The ninja just places a hand behind her head and gives a wide grin. Jenova charges towards Yuffie, dodging the Conformer that the ninja threw in an attempt to stop Jenova. Cloud jumps in Jenova's path but Jenova knocks him away with her tentacle. Jenova raises her remaining tentacle and swings it towards Yuffie. She shrieks in pain as it's cut off by the Conformer from behind.
Yuffie catches the Conformer with her right hand and jumps back away from Jenova, "GAWD! You sure are stupid! Forget the my Conformer returns to me? Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!"
Jenova sends out a blast to Yuffie, knocking the ninja away and causing her to drop the brown materia that she was holding in her left hand. Jenova picks up the brown materia and lifts it high above her head. "Let's see you rid this planet of all the zombies now!" She slams the brown materia to the ground, shattering it to pieces. She turns around as Sephiroth dashes forward. She dodges the Masamune with ease and kicks the dark swordsman in the chest, sending him back a few feet, "That wound is slowing you down Sephiroth." Jenova says with a smirk across her face.
Jenova sends out an earsplitting screech as she feels immense pain throughout her body. She looks down to see a hand covered in her blood coming out of her abdomen. She looks over her shoulder to see Rima with a smirk across her face, her crimson eyes filled in obvious amusement. Rima gives a small laugh, "Now this has got to hurt."
Jenova narrows her eyes at the vampire, "Not as much as I'm going to hurt you." She backhands Rima on the side of the head, making the vampire stumble back a few feet in surprise. Without warning, Jenova lunges forward and kicks Rima off her feet. Before Rima gets a chance to get back up, Jenova grabs hold of her left ankle and throws her across the field. The back of Rima's head crashes into a boulder, knocking her out.
Sephiroth stares at the unconscious Rima, his brows lower as his eyes light up in silent fury. He turns his fiery gaze back to Jenova. Jenova turns back to Sephiroth and smirks, "What's the matter? Did I anger you?" Jenova laughs.
Sephiroth smirks and clenches his right hand into a fist. A strong gust blows across the battlefield as black mist swirls around him. "You always said I was the chosen one.." Sephiroth begins. "I'll show you the power of the chosen one!" Sephiroth extends out his arms to the side. He lifts his head up and closes his eyes.
Cloud looks around confused as he hears something. 'It sounds like something.... falling from the sky...' Cloud thinks to himself. He looks up and his eyes widen. "EVERYBODY GET BACK!" He shouts trying to get as much distance away from the battlefield as possible. The group doesn't need to be told twice, they immediately run, even Chaos flees from the field.
Jenova looks around as everyone clears away, her brows lower in question before she glances just in time to see five meteors come crashing down. Each makes the ground tremor when they hit the surface. But instead of imbedding into the ground, they hover a foot off the surface. They begin moving around Sephiroth, Jenova manages to keeps out of the meteors paths. Jenova stares at the meteors in confusion as they stop moving.
Sephiroth opens his eyes and lowers his head to stare at Jenova, "You always wanted the Promised Land." He says, getting Jenova's attention. Sephiroth's eyes narrow, "I'll take you to the Promised Land!" He shouts as he raises both his arms up, the meteors all blow up, making Jenova fall to the ground from the explosions. Sephiroth looks up as a huge fiery sphere of energy, about twenty feet in diameter, forms above him. He looks back to Jenova who's now wide-eyed in fear. "Let's see you survive this!" He hurls the huge sphere of energy at Jenova. The explosion makes the land shake violently.
When the dust clears, all that's left is a crater. Sephiroth walks over the edge of the crater and looks down. There's no trace of Jenova left, only the shattered remain of what used to be the Black Materia. The group emerges from their cover and looks to see if Jenova is still alive. Seeing that the creature is gone, for good this time, they put away their weapons.
"So what do we do now?" Yuffie asks.
Cloud scratches the back of his head as he thinks, "We need to bury Zack... it's the least we can do." Everyone nods in agreement.
Red XIII pokes Rima's cheek with his nose, trying to wake her. "We'll need to put her somewhere to recover." Red XIII advises.
"There are beds in the buildings at the east side of this city." Tifa replies.
Sephiroth walks over and picks Rima up before heading towards the buildings. Everyone silently watches as he leaves. Cloud turns around to the two Turks, one of Reno's arms is over Elena's shoulders as she supports his weight, "So what're you two going to do now?" He asks.
"Get the hell out of here. Bastard is dead now. All I want to do is get a drink." Reno says, a small grin across his face.
Elena rolls her eyes at her fellow Turk, "We'll stick with you guys here, at least until Reno's wounds are treated."
"I am not staying any longer then I have to with these fu...."Elena elbows him, "YEOW!! Shit Elena! I'm fucking wounded here! A little fucking sympathy would be nice you know!" Reno shouts.
"Reno... shut up." Elena says as she drags him towards the building that has beds so he can rest.
Cloud shakes his head at the two as they walk off in the same direction Sephiroth went. "Where do we bury him?" Vincent asks as he looks down at Zack. The groups falls silent as they try to figure out the best place to bury their friend.
"I know..." Tifa says.
From Tifa's suggestion. The group ended up burying Zack next to Aerith's pond. As a headstone for Zack's grave, they used the Buster Sword. They drove it into the ground, the sword would not only be a mark of a person's grave, but it would be a mark of a warrior's grave. If anyone were to visit the place, they would know right away that the person buried underneath was a brave and powerful warrior. After burying Zack, Cloud suggested that they should stay the night in the City Of Ancients.
Cloud gazes off into the City Of Ancients. He hasn't been here for a long time. The place still holds that mysterious aura around it. Hiding secrets that no one in the world would ever find. Cloud always liked this place, it's so quiet and far away from civilization, it's not tainted by the corrupt world outside the area. Cloud would give anything to live in a place like this, but sadly there isn't another place like this in the world. Nibelheim used to have that quiet country type place but now it's just an illusion of what it used to be. The only other place that is like this is Cosmos Canyon, but he wouldn't be able to live there.
Cloud sighs and leans against the old building. He's been thinking too much. Then again he will need a plan of action once they finish off the zombies. Without the brown materia they'll have to hunt them down. Who knows how long that will take. With Vain gone or rather Jenova, there isn't really a threat out there now. Everyone can finally get some rest and relaxation after this long journey.
A lot has happen during their journey. A man that Cloud once thought was dead comes back, only to die again. Sephiroth is brought back to life and helps him defend the planet. Barret and Cid die in battle as well as many others out there. Reeve was killed before they even knew what was going on. The Turks lose a member as well and join AVALANCHE temporarily. The old AVALANCHE members, which Cloud and everyone else thought died in Sector Seven, suddenly turn up amazingly enough. Him and Tifa's relationship never amounted to anything, they remained and forever shall be childhood friends.
During the journey he formed somewhat of a relationship with Yuffie, surprisingly enough. If you asked Cloud what he thought about Yuffie a year ago he would of told you that she was just a tomboy in AVALANCHE who had a bad habit of stealing everyone's materia. Though he did remember the time when Yuffie actually didn't act like a tomboy. That was when she dragged him out on a date with him at Gold Saucer. It was actually kind of fun when he realized she wasn't trying to get his materia.
If you asked him the same question now, he really wouldn't know how to answer it. She's definitely not a tomboy anymore, and she doesn't seem to want everyone's materia anymore, then again, she wanted the materia for Wutai and Wutai is destroyed now. He has to admit, Yuffie is a strong person, she remained strong even after everyone in Wutai was killed and the town itself was left in nothing but rubble. Cloud knows how hard that can be on someone since the same thing happened to him.
Cloud has to admit, he sure does have a change of heart very often. When he was younger he had a crush on Tifa, well actually he had a crush up until the point he met Aerith. Then he thought he was in love with Aerith, but that slowly faded away, then it was back to Tifa. Then his feelings changed the moment Yuffie showed up on his doorstep, bloody and beaten. After Tifa had tended to Yuffie's wounds, Cloud wouldn't leave her side until she woke up. Of coarse at the time he didn't know why he felt so protective of her. But he soon realized when he started getting jealous over Vincent for some strange reason. He thought Yuffie liked Vincent for the longest time since she always seems to be happy when he's around and always trying to get a rise out of the gunman. It never really bother Cloud until Vincent started showing the slightest interest in Yuffie. Of coarse Cloud was probably just imagining things. It doesn't really matter now anyway, Yuffie is with him and that's all that matters. Well at least he believes so, they DID admit their feelings for one another so that must mean they're officially together, right?
Cloud closes his eyes and rubs his temples, "I'm thinking to much." He mutters to himself.
"There's a trademark sentence if I ever heard one." A teasing voice says from his right.
Cloud opens his eyes and turns his gaze to the right, seeing Yuffie walk up to him, "What are you doing out here so late?" He asks, ignoring her earlier comment.
Yuffie stops and puts her hands on her hips. She raises an eyebrow, "You know, I could ask you the same thing. I can do what I want you know, I'm not a child." She states.
Cloud crosses his arms, a small grin playing across his lips, "Never said you were." He replies.
"So what are you doing out here?" Yuffie asks.
"Thinking." Cloud says simply.
"About.." Yuffie presses forward.
Cloud shrugs his shoulders, "A lot of things really"
"You're not going to tell me are you?" Yuffie asks.
Cloud turns his gaze to her and flashes her a grin, "Nope."
Yuffie walks over and leans against the building next to him. She gazes up to the stars above. "So... what do you plan on doing after everything is over?" Yuffie asks, trying to strike up conversation.
Cloud lower his head and stares at the ground, "I don't know. That was what I was actually thinking about." Cloud admits. "What about you?"
"I'm going back to Wutai." Yuffie replies without a moment of thought. Yuffie turns her gaze to Cloud and notices his look of confusion, "I know there's nothing there. But I can't leave it as it is. I'll get it rebuilt and have it flowing with people in no time. It's the least I can do for everyone who was at Wutai. I won't let it just become a fading memory in the history books."
Cloud smiles and nods his head in understanding, "That's a honorable thing to do for them." Cloud closes his eyes as he gets lost in thought. Yuffie silently watches him as he nods his head once, seemingly agreeing with himself about something. He opens his eyes and glances over to Yuffie. "When we finish up. I'll go to Wutai with you."
A smile slowly plays across Yuffie's lips, "I was hoping you'd say that..."
Sephiroth turns from the window and walks away. He heads over to the chair next to Rima's bed and sits down. He stares at the woman through the dark room. His thoughts go to the brown materia, without it, he'll have to do the job himself. After they finish off all the zombies, he'll have to get rid of the last one, himself. He doesn't belong in this world, he knows this. At least he learned the truth about his mother. Knowing that Jenova is not his real mother is enough to make him go happily. It's a shame he could never meet her before she died.
Gentle footsteps bring Sephiroth out of his thoughts. He looks up to see Vincent heading towards the door, 'It may be too late for me to meet her, but I could find out who she really was.' Sephiroth thinks to himself. "Valentine." Sephiroth calls out as Vincent opens the door.
Vincent stops and looks across the room to Sephiroth, "Yes?" He responds.
Sephiroth stands up from his seat and crosses the distance between Vincent and himself, "You knew my mother correct?" Vincent silently nods his head. "I wish to know about her." Sephiroth says.
Vincent stands in his spot, silently contemplating. After a moment he nods his head, "Very well." He opens the and walks out, Sephiroth follows close behind. "Lucrecia was a very beautiful scientist.."
"Brother! Brother! Look!" A little girl runs up to a boy about sixteen years old. He has amber eyes and short black hair. The girl opens up her hands and reveals a bright shiny green orb.
The boy kneels down to his littler sister, "What is that?" He asks curiously.
The little girls shrugs her shoulders, "I don't know... I found it by the glowing rocks."
The boy frowns, "You know you're not suppose go there. It's dangerous. What if something happened to you?"
The girls pouts, "Oh come on, Cyrus, nuttins gonna happen to me."
Cyrus grins at his little sister, "Well why don't we return that strange rock of yours back where it came from." He says grabbing her hand and heading towards the place she got it from.
The little girls pouts again, "Awe do we have to?"
Rima tosses and turns in her bed. She gives out a soft moan in her sleep.
The little girl opens her eyes, "Ah... so you finally awakened, excellent." The little girl directs her blurry vision to her right and sees a man with thick glasses dressed in strange white clothing.
"Professor. The tests show that she's been frozen for two hundred years!" A man says behind the man in front of her.
The man with the thick glasses begins to chuckle silently to himself, "I see... she must of been in suspended animation all this time. I'm glad I found her... who would of thought we would find a child trapped inside the materia." The man puts a hand on his chin, "She must of fallen into the materia when it was still Mako."
"The results show that the child has amnesia. What are we going to do Professor?"
The man with the thick glasses chuckles again as he leans over the small girl to look into her eyes, "How would you like to be my guinea pig?" The man with the thick glasses turns away and faces the other man, "We'll run more tests, I'll be in my lab. Can't let her get her memories back, it may end up killing her. I'll create something to wipe her memories clean when we have to." The man walks away. "Make sure to keep an eye on her."
"Yes Professor Hojo..."
Sweat rolls down Rima's brow, she sub-consciously tosses the covers off her body.
"You will follow the President's orders or else. Gyah Ha Ha Ha!" Heindegger warns.
"That is enough Heindegger." President Shin-Ra says. He glances over to the woman in front of him, "Now miss Hikari, I have a job for you..."
Rima clenches the sheets of the bed in her fists, her knuckles turning white from the strong grip she has on them.
Rima heads into the an old abandon building in Sector Three. She opens the door and stops when she sees someone in there. "You the assassin the president hired?" The man asks.
Rima crosses her arms, "And you must be Sephiroth."
Sephiroth nods his head, "I'll be helping you on these assassinations." He replies.
"Just stay out of my way." Rima says as she brushes past him.
Rima and Sephiroth are both looking out through the window, waiting for their target to appear. Rima turns her gaze over to Sephiroth and smiles, "So who's are target this time Seph?"
Sephiroth gives a half smile, never taking his eyes from the window, "Our target is Lady Kisaragi... She's Wutai's strongest warrior, the president wants her dead before the war breaks out."
Rima nods her head before giving a short laugh, "The president is afraid of one person?"
Sephiroth laughs, "Yes he's a cowardly bastard." Sephiroth's brows lower, "That's her." He says suddenly.
Rima looks out the window and spots their target, "She has a little girl with her." She notices, "Shall we kill her too?"
Sephiroth shakes his head, "The child is of no importance" Sephiroth hands Rima her sniper rifle, "Just the target..."
Rima twists a silver lock of Sephiroth's hair between two of her fingers as they lay in bed. Rima lifts her head up from Sephiroth's bare chest, "So what're you going to do once we take care of the last assassination?" She asks.
Sephiroth rubs a hand on the side of his neck, "First I'm going to get a rabies shot." He jokes.
Rima stares at the teeth marks on his neck, "Sorry about that... I don't know what came over me." She rests her head back down on Sephiroth's chest. "So what are you really going to do?"
"Well the war is against Wutai is inevitable, the president will most likely have me command the army. After that I'm going to leave Shin-Ra. Got more then enough money to last me a couple of life times. I'll get a place somewhere in Junon and drag you with me." Sephiroth chuckles.
Rima lifts her head up and smirks at Sephiroth, "I'd like to see you try..."
"Here we are." Cyrus says as they reach the mystical glowing cliffs, "So where did you get it?" He asks his little sister.
The little looks around, "Um.... I don't remember." She responds quickly.
Cyrus gives her a look that plainly says I-don't-believe-you. He shakes his head and looks at the strange glowing cliffs, he tilts his head to the side as he notices a huge crack in the cliffs, "That must of happened during the last quake we had." He comments.
The little girl tilts her head to the side in confusion, "Quake?" She repeats, the shiny green orb in her hand begins to glow. The little girls gasps and holds it up, "Look!"
Cyrus turns around and stares at the green orb in confusion. A mystical green light surrounds the little girl. The ground begins to shake violently. The cliff begins to crack more, it cracks all the way to the ground. The ground underneath Cyrus begins to crack and open up. He begins losing his balance.
"Cyrus!" The little girl yells in fear as the ground opens up. A mystical green glow comes from the bottom of the crack.
Cyrus falls backwards down towards the strange green glowing stream. "SERIA!!!" He shouts as he falls.
"Cyrus!" Seria looks over the edge to the strange glow below. She doesn't hear a response from her brother.
Villagers arrive to find out what caused the quake. "What happened!?" One villager asks.
"I saw everything!" A villager comes from behind a tree near the cliffs. The villager points to Seria, "That little girl is a witch! She caused all this! She even killed her brother. I say we burn the little witch before she causes more trouble!"
Seria gasps, and before the villagers realize it, she's up and running away from them. "BURN THE WITCH!" She hears come from behind her. She drops the shiny rock and runs into the woods, the villagers close behind her. The only thing going through her mind is her brother's shout when he dropped to the glowing stream below.
"SERIA!!!"
Rima gasps and quickly sits up in bed. She blinks in confusion as she tries to figure out where she is. She feels something wet on her cheek, she brushes her hand across her cheeks. 'Tears..' She realizes. Seemingly without reason at all, Rima covers her face with her hands and does something she's down only a few times in her hellish life, she begins to cry. She feels something cold poke her in the arm making her look to her side. Through her tears she sees the blurry figure of Red XIII
"Are you alright?" Red XIII asks concerned. Rima just wraps her arms around the beast's neck and continues to cry, desperate for comfort from anyone near by, someone to take the pain of her broken past away. Red XIII rests his head on her shoulder and lets Rima cry into his this fur.
Awe.... Red XIII can be so cute some times! Just like a dog lol heh heh. Well I hope y'all liked this here chapter. It would be longer but (Shrugs) I don't feel like typing more ya know? Seems Rima is remembering a few things eh? (GASP) Rima and Sephiroth assassinated Yuffie's ma!!! heeheehee, I couldn't help myself from putting that in there. It was too good to resist, no? Well anyways, give a review and tell me what y'all think! TTNC!