A/N: Here's the new chapter, at last. I hope you enjoy it. As usual, I don't own anything from ff7.
Baller101: Cid is in this one. I hope I got his personality right.
Kya and Kiera arrived at the entrance of Midgar after several hours of walking. Neither one was willing to keep walking.
Kya, knowing how Kiera felt about monsters attacking, kept Kiera close enough to the entrance in case she would have to fight and Kiera would be able to run to safety. Luckily for them none of this was needed. They unknowingly had guardians protecting them from any possible threats, especially threats that would take them from Midgar.
This had lasted for only a few days, long enough for Kya's dreams to start again.
Only this time, the silver flame was worse.
She walked through a small town that seemed like somewhere she had been but wasn't. The houses were close together and encircled a well in the center of town. The only thing that didn't fit her surroundings was a mansion in the distance. It's large size and almost kingly design seemed out of place compared to the simple houses she was surrounded by.
Cautiously, she took a step towards the mansion. But a feeling that something was near by had suddenly gripped her. Whatever it was, it seemed human and also close to being a distant friend she had forgotten.
She turned, her eyes frantically flying from place to place, hoping to find what was watching her. But she found nothing. No one was hiding in the shadows.
Shaking her head she turned back towards the mansion and took a step closer to it. The whole town suddenly erupted into a forest of silver flames. She spun around, hoping there was a way to escape. But the flames blocked every possible exit.
Thinking that maybe she could face whatever (whoever) was waiting for her, she turned to face the mansion. She soon saw a dark figure moving through the flames. She knew it was he. Only he could move through such flames in her dreams.
"You've run for so long." He whispered as he walked through the flames and in better view of her. "So long without me to guide you."
"You didn't guide me. You used me." She tried to growl but only ended up whispering with a sad tone of voice. She was shocked to find that she sounded as though she were going to cry, but no tears came. They could never come when she was near him.
"Used you? I showed you what your life could have been if you had chosen to stand at my side. Your gifts just happened to be a part of it." He slowly began to circle her, his hand straying to her hair. "Do you remember?"
"Remember what?"
"When you first joined me. You told me a vision you had the night before. You said it was why you could find me. You knew I wasn't the Sephiroth you had met before but knew you could help me. Do you remember how?"
Kya searched her memories but still couldn't remember.
"I see his influence on your memories was greater than I had expected. And Tifa was the pebble that started the rockslide. The rockslide that has buried your memories of what you were."
"What I was?"
Sephiroth's eyes seemed to smile with her question.
"You were greater than anyone I had ever known. Your desire to protect me as I waited was greater than your desire to protect yourself. It was because of you that I survived. They tried to kill me but you prevented it. You made sure I would be healed."
Kya closed her eyes, hoping to block out the silver light from the flames.
"There is another you must save, this time." He whispered behind her. "He is my equal and yet below me. He is a copy of me and yet a brother. He is a killer and yet pure and innocent. Much like what you have become."
"I can't do this." She whispered. "I can't go back to what I was, but I don't remember what I was."
"Wait and you will know."
He gently turned her face towards a new figure in the flames. But before she could focus her eyes to see who it was, she awoke.
She would always wake with a slight jerk and the feeling that she had to remember her past in order to survive.
The last time she had had this dream while waiting to escape, was a morning she wished hadn't happened.
She had been walking to a better area to search for Cid's plane when she heard the sound of a motorbike, more specifically Fenrir. She quickly turned back towards her small camp and attempted to hurry back until Cloud stopped her.
"I can't believe she called you." Kya growled.
"She's worried. She said you were acting strange. I have to agree that you are. What's going on?" Cloud looked at the coat she had neglected to take off.
"Nothing is going on. I just needed a vacation and I decided to take Kiera with me."
"Where did you get that coat?" He asked, ignoring her answer.
Kya, realizing he recognized its style, tried to think of a way to answer without alerting him to what she was running from.
"Don't worry about me. I have to get back to Kiera." She took long strides to pass him and soon cringed with a nervous fear when she heard him start Fenrir, even worse when he drove ahead of her.
She immediately moved her strides to a mad run in the hopes that she could at least get back to Kiera shortly after Cloud did. But it wasn't necessary. Kiera wasn't going to leave Kya, not when she believed she needed her.
"I'm staying with Kya." Kiera sternly told Cloud. "She's afraid to be alone."
"Kya's never afraid to be alone." Cloud answered, thinking he could prove to the little girl that Kya was capable of taking care of herself. "She's strong and doesn't want to put you in any trouble."
"But I'm not in trouble, she is. I have to protect her."
Cloud was becoming ever more curious by the minute.
"We have to protect each other." Kya said as she hastily walked past Cloud. She hid the fact that she was tired from running and lifted Kiera onto her hip. "Right Kiera?" She added, glancing at Cloud as she did so.
The sound of a plane landing interrupted their unpleasant meeting and made Kya relieved to tell Kiera to get her bag.
"Why the hell did you have Tifa write to me when it's so damn slow. It would have been easier to have her call." Cid yelled as he climbed from the cockpit.
A memorable smile crept across Kya's and Kiera's lips.
"Don't cuss around Kiera, cid. I don't want her picking up any of your bad habits." Kya said, knowing it would be some torture for him.
"Dammit, Kya. What do you think I am?" He asked in response.
"An old man that can't control his tongue." She mumbled.
Cloud walked to Cid and asked, "Will you keep an eye on her, Cid? She's hiding something, we don't know what."
"Well that's proof that she's hiding it pretty damn good. Don't worry Cloud. I won't let you down." He then looked to Kya and Kiera and yelled, "Get your…butts on this plane. Don't want to have come out here for nothing."
Kiera ran to Cid and happily climbed in the plane with his help.
Kya was a little hesitant to allow him to help her, but knew she couldn't climb in on her own.
Before Kya was in, Cloud asked one more time, "What's going on Kya? I can help you if you tell me."
"No one can help me." She answered and moved out of his sight.
The trip to Rocket Town was longer than Kya had expected. She wondered if Cid was purposely taking the long way or if something was wrong.
Out of curiosity she left Kiera where she was sleeping to talk to Cid.
"Hey, Kya." He said unusually cheerful for a greeting to her.
"Hi. Why are we taking so long?" She replied with an uneasy tone in her voice.
"I wanted to talk to you about what's been going on. So I thought I'd waste more gas than needed."
"Thanks for the effort, but no thanks. Nice plane, by the way. It's better than your old one. People can actually fit in it." Kya tried to go back but was stopped by Cid's voice.
"Sit down. I said I was going to talk to you."
Kya, frustrated more than ever, sat in the co-Pilate seat and listened.
"I know we haven't gotten along very well but I still can tell when something's wrong." He explained, making Kya reconsider listening. "I've only seen you act like this once. And that's when we were about to fight—"
"Are you going to suggest that I'm acting this way because I believe that Sephiroth is back?" She interrupted.
"Well it's either that or you're brain is going back through the past. Now, tell me what it is. I know you chose to have me fly you to Rocket Town for a reason."
"I can only tell you that there are some things I need to find out and I'll only be able to do that in Rocket Town."
"Which is?"
"I have to see if there's anything left of my mother there. It's the closest thing I have to a hometown and I hope there's something I can learn from her past."
"The only thing you're going to learn from another person's past is another person's past. What are you expecting to learn?"
"Who I am."
Cid thought for a moment.
"I can tell you who you are. You're a thickheaded girl who thinks she's protecting herself by running. Not to mention you also have a mouth that can spit out insults faster than I can fly. The truth is you already know who you are. And you don't need me to tell you so."
"No." She answered. "Vincent would be a better choice." She looked at him with a devilish grin.
"Ah, damn it all to hell. Buckle yourself in if you're going to stay."
She did as he ordered and quietly said, "Thank you, Cid."
"What're you thanking me for?"
Kya smiled. "I'm thanking you for helping me when you don't know the reason."
"Close your eyes and sleep, kid. It's going to be a while before we land."
Kya refused to sleep and only looked out at the clouds rushing by. She soon began to wish she could jump out into those white cottony clouds and disappear from the world. But she knew that could never be. He would always find her. He would always lift her from the darkness she hid in.
Sephiroth knew Kya had left Midgar. Just as he knew the three had discovered where she was headed and were going to meet her there.
He looked down to the floor, his memories of her flowing through his mind. She was greater then than what she had become. She had no fear and never cried.
"I will restore you to your true self." He whispered. "But not without a sacrifice."