Chapter 2

The battle against the angel of light and One Winged Angel

A night had passed since Sephiroth fell to earth. Sephiroth lay dormant as the snow was quickly covering the area of the impact site. Hojo on the other hand awoke and he emerged from the materia meteor. He was careful not to awake Sephiroth, but once he was out he noticed the change in temperature. Hojo was freezing to death in less than a minute.

"Fuck! Out of all the places we could have landed on. Why couldn't it be some place warm" Hojo asked himself as he walked through the deep snow.

Hojo wandered though the snow as his hair was frozen by the icy weather while his clothes were covered in a thin layer of ice. Hojo finally saw some lights up ahead. Hojo forced himself through the snow as he reached a large encampment. He saw some people walking around the site. Hojo ran towards them as some men were walking out of a building, they noticed Hojo as the mad scientist tipped and fell face first into the snow. The two men ran up to him as they picked him up and they started saying things like "dang sir are you alright? Get this man inside quick and tell Dr. Katsuragi what we found." Hojo was dragged inside one of the buildings and was laid on a bed.

Moments later Hojo was looking up at another man who was looking him over. Hojo figured that he must be the leader of the people here at this camp judging by the way the people were talking to him and how they reacted towards him. "Sir you should be thankful that you didn't die, but I would like to know what in the hell were doing out there" Dr. Katsuragi asked. "I am not sure where to begin, but I would like to know where I am at" Hojo asked. "That is an odd question, but you are at my archeological expedition encampment in Antarctica" Dr. Katsuragi replied giving Hojo an odd look. "Then you are a fellow a man of science then" Hojo asked as the thought of him being in the presence of another scientist poked at his interest. "Why yes I am. I am Dr. Katsuragi" Dr. Katsuragi replied. "I am Professor Julian Hojo" Hojo replied. "Professor Hojo perhaps you would like to tell me what you were doing in Antarctica without the proper clothing you need to survive the sub-zero temperatures.

"I don't think I would be able to give you a proper explanation until I show you something that landed in that snowy wasteland" Hojo said as a small grin form on his face.

"You mean that meteor that our satellites detected a few hours ago. What do you know about it" Dr. Katsuragi asked. "Once I show you what it really is. You will be famous. Trust me" Hojo replied. The next day Hojo led Dr. Katsuragi and his men to where the meteor crashed and he showed them Sephiroth and Jenova. Dr. Katsuragi ran down to the Materia meteor to look at Sephiroth. Jenova was in a large piece of Materia that had broken off after the meteor crashed. Hojo picked up a little round white materia orb that was found next to the meteor. Hojo stuffed the materia into his pocket. After Dr. Katsuragi and his men set up some equipment to examine Sephiroth he and Hojo went back to the camp. Since Jenova was in a part of the meteor that was a bit easier to transport. The men planed to have Jenova shipped off to a research facility for study. Since Sephiroth was too big to transport with the cargo helicopters that were being sent to pick Jenova up; the men at the camp would have to wait several days until a ship comes to pick him up. While they waited for the helicopters to pick Jenova up Hojo and Dr. Katsuragi sat in one of the buildings to have a chat.

"So Hojo tell me all you know about those creatures. Since you were correct that what we found is indeed the most impressive find in centuries" Dr. Katsuragi said.

"That woman you found was called Jenova an ancient or officially know as A Certa. The Certa were a powerful race that possessed mysterious powers. The Certa were a race that were searching for a place called the Promise land. The Promise land was a place of supreme happiness. They settled on my world and some time later a disaster struck the planet and the Certa were whipped out...all of them, but one. Few scientists and I found Jenova buried in a two thousand years old geological stratum. We later had confirmed that she was an ancient and we started the Jenova Project to produce a being with the powers of the Certa. After several years of experimenting we succeed and we produced Sephiroth...the other creature you saw. You see most Certa's were humans but since Jenova we theorized must have been exposed to a high degree of Mako energy, so she changed and she became a more powerful version of the Certa" Hojo was saying until Dr. Katsuragi interrupted him.

"Excuse me Professor, but what is Mako energy and you sound like that you are from another world" Dr. Katsuragi said.

"I am getting to that. Mako energy is what the inside of my planet was filled with. It is an unlimited energy source that we call Mako. We heard rumors that Mako energy is like the life-force energy of the planet and it is made out the other life-force energies of other living creatures. To put it simply Mako or the Lifestream is made of the souls of all living things on the planet. When a human or a living creature dies on my world what happens to them after they die? The body decomposes, and returns to the Planet. Their consciousness, their hearts and their souls of both humans and all living things return to the planet to join with the Lifestream. The spirits that return to the Planet merge with one another and roam the Planet. They roam, converge, and divide, becoming a swell, called the Lifestream. The Lifestream in other words is a path of energy or souls roaming the Planet. Mako in simple terms is also known as Spirit Energy. We used Mako energy to help to developed Sephiroth's abilities and my people used it to create super soldiers. Mako energy used on humans increased their strength, senses, and all of their abilities beyond their normal limitations. Sephiroth on the other hand became a being of enormous power. When he was fourteen years old he became a general in the army and ended a war that had lasted for many years in less than a year. Sephiroth was brilliant...Perhaps he was too brilliant. A few years later when he was twenty five he discovered the truth behind the Jenova project and he went mad. He destroyed a village and he disappeared for five more years. We realized that we have created something that was beyond our control. Sephiroth summoned a destructive power known as Meteor by the Certa which was a powerful destructive force. Sephiroth planed to use it to sent meteor crashing into the planet so he would force the planet to unleash its power to prevent Meteor from destroying the planet. We tried to destroy it ourselves, but all of our attempts failed. The planet even called on planet made creatures know as Weapon. They were all destroyed; then a group tried to destroy Sephiroth. They almost succeed in killing him, but Sephiroth had incredible regenerative powers and he healed himself. Sephiroth moved to intercept the Sprit energy that the planet was going to destroy the meteor, and thus Sephiroth was successful in intercepting the energy and he begin absorbing it into his body. Sephiroth was becoming more powerful with each passing second. However Sephiroth's plan backfired. His body grew in size due to the energy he was taking in and he reached the point where he could no long taking in anymore energy without destroying himself. Sephiroth couldn't call off meteor and the planet was going to be destroyed in a few minutes. To save himself; Sephiroth used his power and he called up some of the Lifestream and he used it to cocoon himself in it and then he used the power of the Lifestream to launch himself into space. I was on a building that was falling apart and I jumped off of it to try and escape its destruction. Instead I landed on one of Sephiroth's wings. I was taken off the planet with Sephiroth and Jenova as we were launched into space and a few seconds later the planet was destroyed. I think we drifted for hundreds of years before we landed on this planet. That is my story and if you think I am crazy don't worry I would think so too if I heard someone tell me a story like that" Hojo said.

"We would have thought you were insane, but after you showed us Sephiroth and Jenova that is proof enough that your story checks out. We even found proof that you were inside that meteor since traces of your hair was found, so oddly enough we believe you" Dr. Katsuragi said.

"Excellent" Hojo said.

"In fact what you told me was transmitted to my employers and I should be receiving word from them in a few moments" Dr. Katsuragi said as another man walked into the room holding a piece of paper. "This message is from my benefactors and they are interested in meeting you, so they request that you accompany Jenova to one of their research facilities where they will meet you" Dr. Katsuragi informed him. "I look forward to meeting them" Hojo said. Hojo and Dr. Katsuragi walked out of the room, but none of them noticed that a young Misato had been eavesdropping on their conversation.

Later that day a man was standing next to the materia meteor, and he was drilling a hole into it. The hole was long enough to reach Sephiroth's arm. A moment later the man stuck a needle into Sephiroth's arm and drew some blood from Sephiroth. The figure filled six 16 oz test tubes of Sephiroth's blood as he sealed the contents. Then he stuck Sephiroth with another needle that was filled with another type of liquid. When he was done he ran for the helicopters that were carrying Jenova away. Sephiroth's eye was starting to twitch.

Hojo flew away in one of the helicopters that were carrying Jenova away. He sat down inside of the chopper and he was looking down at Jenova. He was laughing while he was thinking "It shall being again." Once Hojo was long gone Dr. Katsuragi and his team made another discovery. They found the first Angel known as Adam. The gigantic creature rose up now that it was awoken by the humans. The scientist watched as the creature took a few steps forward. A few minutes later Dr. Katsuragi and his men tried to change Adam back into his embryo form so they could capture him. However the plan ended in failure and this provoked the Angel to attack them. Meanwhile the materia meteor that contained Sephiroth was broken in half as the One Winged Angel was no where to be found. As Adam attacked the encampment; word of a man in black with a sword had been going around killing the other members of the research team. Dr. Katsuragi feared that they couldn't stop the angel so he grabbed his daughter and took her to a capsule to send her away from here and hopefully she would be safe.

After Dr. Katsuragi got Misato into the capsule and set it to launch in a few minutes. As he turned around to walk away to help his associates Dr. Katsuragi was cut in half by someone armed with a long sword. The blade was the Masamune held by the only man who could use it. Sephiroth was dressed in his usual clothes as he stood in front of the body of Dr. Katsuragi with an evil smile. Flames broke out into the room he was standing in and the flames themselves were almost dancing around Sephiroth. Sephiroth was looking at the body then he began to look up at Misato while doing his famous pose; like the one he did at Nibelheim while standing in the flames.

"I live again. Now on this new world the humans shall fear the name of Sephiroth" Sephiroth said as he burst into laugher.

"Father" Misato screamed as the image of Sephiroth standing there burned its way into Misato's mind. Misato would never forget the face of the man who killed her father. The capsule was launched and the last thing she saw of Sephiroth was that he transformed into Safer-Sephiroth, and he moved to attack Adam. Sephiroth saw Adam as the ideal foe to test some of his new powers he gained from taking in some of the lifestream energy. Adam and Sephiroth fought one another. Misato knew that the same man who killed her father was the in fact the same creature they found in that green meteor. From that day on she would hate the angels, but she hated Sephiroth more than any of them.

The battle between Sephiroth and Adam was like a clash of the titans. Sephiroth attacked Adam with a focused energy attack and blasted Adam's arm clear off. Adam fought back by regenerating his arm then he punched Sephiroth in the face knocking out some of the one angel's teeth. Blood was sent flying into the air as Sephiroth was trying to regain the upper hand.

Sephiroth attacked Adam with his right arm-wing. The feathers on his wing-arm were like a pair of blades that cut deep into Adam's chest. Sephiroth thought he was victorious, but a creature like Adam wasn't ready to go down yet. The angel of light shot back up from the ground and attacked Sephiroth by punching him in the face multiple times. Blood was flying out of Sephiroth's mouth as Adam continue his assault on the one winged angel.

Both creatures were truly powerful equals. It seemed that there wasn't any clear sign of a victor. Adam halted his assault against Sephiroth as he kicked Sephiroth in face causing the one winged angel to crash into the ground. To make sure that Sephiroth stayed down Adam blasted the evil creature with a ray of energy that severally burned the sliver haired swordsman.

Turning his attention away from Sephiroth Adam unleashed his Anti-AT field. As the field began to engulf the whole icy continent Sephiroth got back up. He felt the Anti-field taking its tow on him as the field was already started destroying his own AT field, but before Sephiroth was about to lose his physical form he slammed his right wing into Adam's chest, but the creature light still didn't die as the angel punched Sephiroth right through his chest. As both creatures looked at one another. Sephiroth said these words before he and Adam exploded.

"I will live again."

At that moment both creatures exploded and with it the entire continent of Antarctica was destroyed along with them. No one survived. Not even Sephiroth, but the sliver swordsman was known to have cheat death before. The question is will Sephiroth cheat death again and return.

A/n: Adam and Sephiroth went at it and Now Sephiroth has added killing Misato's dad to his list of crimes. Now things may grow more interesting as my story progresses. By the way I am not sure who are the members of the SEELE committee are, but if anyone could tell me; then that would be nice. I use to know their names, but I have forgotten them. But I mainly want the identity of the head of SEELE. I need it for the next chapter. Now from here on out my story will continue fifteen years into the future. Sephiroth will come back, but whose side Sephiroth will take will be discovered in chapter three and also with the introduction of the new angels that will cause some havoc. Details to how Sephiroth has come back and stuff can be found on chapter 24