Hi again...the chapters are turning out short because this was originally meant to be a short story, and i was arguing with myself about whether to make the whole thing one long chapter..but that would be long and monotonous, so i split it into smaller sections....
Well...Chapter 2:
Aeris
"I'll take care of it," she said. "Don't you worry." What the hell was she thinking?! Letting Sephiroth have you is fixing it?! She knows better!
The farther into the labyrinth they traveled, the louder the chanting became. It sounded like a chorus was repeating the same thing over and over again.
Sephiroth wants to destroy the world.
No…that's not true. Sephiroth wants to be God. Destroying the world just happens to go along with that. A perk. A perk? What will he be God of if his whole plan about summoning Meteor succeeds? What is his purpose?
We agreed that we would fight him together. Why did she get into his way alone?
They've been running for a while. The path slowly began to rotate into itself, resembling an ominous downwards spiral.
Cloud was pretty sure that he could recite the verse that he was hearing from the walls.
Finally, the path stopped spiraling. They were heading in a straight line. The chanting was deafening in their heads, yet at the same time, it was barely audible. Then the floor of ash began giving way to a more solid limestone as the walls opened outwards into a structure that resembled an enormous stadium. Its size was magnificent. The group's jog slowed to a steady pace as they examined their surroundings.
In front of them were little bridges that seemed to lead from one oversized stepping stone to the next, eventually ending in a stage-like circular surface. Surprisingly enough, there was water under the bridge. But it seemed to be flowing…upstream? The floor was on a tilt, and there was no doubt about it; The water was flowing upstream. Tifa and Cloud came up to examine it, but there was something strange about it. It was uncommonly murky, and it was giving off a bright-green aura. They both looked into the water, but they couldn't see their reflections in it.
Barret seemed to have noticed something, because he ran up to them and threw them both down into a trench-like structure and laid down next to them, not giving them more time to examine the green water.
When Cloud's eyes met his, Barret pointed to the other end of the stadium. At first Cloud couldn't see it, so he looked even higher. And there he was in plain sight.
None other but Sephiroth himself was on a precipice overlooking the entire floor. He was looking at something very intently, but Cloud couldn't make it out, so he inched forward to figure out what was so important to him.
On the circular stage to which the stepping stones led, there seemed to be a brightly colored statue with long, brown hair, and a pink dress.
No. Not a statue.
Aeris.
Seriously, how do you indent....?