Calling Sephiroth lovers: I have a problem… I have a Romantic opposite almost every character in this story, but Sephiroth doesn't have one, so, any of you girls out there wanna be an Original Character in this story to play opposite of Sephiroth?
Kittykatzx93: Nice Going! You guessed it! I actually had chapter 3 done before I posted chapter 2. thanks for Reviewing!
Ghost in the Mirror: Thanks for the review. The reason I made this is because there are so few stories that involve Clortih!
HeartsOblivion: thanks! I like to ad a little different ness in the mix… And boy can I do different.
Chapter 3
She walked up to her picture and slowly slithered her hand behind it. There was a small switch there, Aerith flipped it and she heard the door unlock. She quickly went over to the door and went through it.
Aerith stared at the hallway she entered into. Its design was similar to the libraries but everything was dark and creepy looking. There were cobwebs in corners and dust every where. She saw finger streaks on a nearby table and decided it must be Belle's because it looked freshly made. She slowly started walking down the hallway. The carpet absorbed any sound that her brown boots made and she slightly increased her pace. She looked at the doors as she walked by them. There were claw marks on them and the farther she went the more numerous they showed up. She held up her hand into the air and softly spoke out loud "Princess Guard" A long rod appeared in her hand and she held it in front of her defensively. 'I don't know what made those marks but I don't want to be caught by it' she thought to herself. She continued on her way down the hall and stopped at a large door at the end.
There was a roar from behind her and she spun around in a defensive stance. She wasn't much of a fighter. She was more of a healer. But she could at least hold her ground a little bit. She reached to her watch and pressed a tiny button on the side of it.
Sora sat in the library with Kairi when his watch started beeping. "Sora, why is your Alarm going off?" Sora looked at his watch and looked back up at her. He had to make an excuse.
"I'm late for something… I'll be back soon!" Sora stood up and walked briskly to the entrance. Flipped up his watches face and looked at the mini screen. Having a scientist father and a mother from an ancient race of magic users had it's advantages. There was a pink dot on it. 'she's close by' he started following the signal he was getting and almost ran into a wall… He clicked the button on the side of it and immediately he heard his sisters voice.
"Sora I'm still in the mansion. Go to the east corner, theirs a door there it should be unlocked I'm at the end of the hallway."
Sora ran to the east corner and found the door easy enough. He turned the knob and ran in. it didn't feel like it was a threat. Sora summoned his Key blade and started running down the hall.
Aerith stood with her back against the door. Her rod in front of her as the massive monster came near her. His brown fur ruffled as his hair stood on end like a cat and his blue eyes looked fiercely at her. A voice came from behind him. "Beast. Stop it!" Beast stopped, his hair returned to its original state and he straightened up on his hind legs.
"Belle?" Aerith stood alert looking beyond Beast. And Belle appeared from behind him.
"Aerith" Belle looked at her in surprise, "what are you doing here?"
"I saw you come here so I followed you. I didn't mean to be rude, I was just really curious" Aerith confessed
Belle straightened up and put her hand on Beast's forearm. "Beast, please go back to the room, she's a friend of mine. I'll take care of it"
"I trust you Belle. I'll do as you ask" his voice was ruff but Aerith could hear a second voice under it a smoother voice.
"Thank you, Beast" Bell replied and turned to watch him enter a nearby room. Then she turned around and walked to Aerith. "Beast is harmless, don't let his tough exterior fool you. Please, Don't tell anyone what you saw today."
"I won't, I promise. Because you see, I have a secret like you. I'm a magic user, a healer to be specific."
"I'm here! Where's the emergency!" Sora ran up to Aerith his Key blade in his hand. Belle looked at Sora and then back to Aerith.
"He won't tell either will he?" Belle asked worriedly.
"What's going on!" Sora asked doing one of his characteristic pouts.
"It's nothing, false alarm." Aerith said. "I'll meet you back in the library"
"But, you had me frantic thinking you were in trouble and now you say it's nothing, I was studying with Kairi and you made me leave her!"
Belle stepped in, "let us go back to the library and discuss this in a more suitable place" She ushered them toward the entrance door. She stopped at the door Beast went through and said something to him that neither Aerith nor Sora could hear and continued to lead them down the hallway. Shoving them quickly through the door she quickly shut it behind her self and walked to the closest table. She turned around and motioned them to sit down.
"Belle, what was that creature?" Aerith asked once they sat down.
"That was beast, he was put under a spell by a wizard. We're working on a way to cure him. He's been like this for 3 years now."
"We're" Sora asked curiously "Like theirs more of you?"
"You sat with us at lunch." Belle confessed. "Well… Kairi and I. The rest know but don't speak of it."
"So we found others like us?" Aerith asked excitedly.
"I wouldn't say "like" you" Belle responded quietly, "Kairi and I, our power is like of our hearts, we have empathy for people, and if we wish and have hope for what we believe in we can achieve it. How ever I'm sure there are more magic users in our school. They keep themselves hidden like we do."
"I've only meet one other person like us out side of our family, I mean someone with extra…abilities" Aerith explained. "I know I can feel it when they use their extra abilities, especially when they use magic."
"Yes, that's how Beast described it to me." Belle confirmed.
Aerith and Sora slowly navigated themselves through the city streets. Home wasn't that far way. And it had indeed been an interesting day. Aerith fiddled with the pepper spray in her pocket a little more. Sora was here and he was a warrior but she wouldn't want him to reveal he had special powers. That's the quickest way you can become an outcast. "Sora, do you like Kairi?" Aerith asked seemingly out of know where.
"Yeah, I do, she says that theirs a sweet hearts dance in February. I wouldn't mind taking her." Sora responded truthfully. A voice interrupted them from behind.
"Ah, the beautiful Kairi. Her beauty is only surpassed by the beautiful woman in pink beside you. Aerith"
Aerith and Sora jumped and spun around quickly. Aerith slid her thumb over the little notch on the bottle in her hand (pepper spray) making the spray hole become visible. Behind them was the boy who had shown her to her first class this morning. His dark aura was much stronger now then it was this morning. She could feel him emitting a low level of influence power and was careful not to fall into his grasp "Um… Thanks" Aerith quietly said and then added under her breath, "I think"
"Hey be careful that's my sister you're talking about!" Sora broke in his roll of protective brother kicking in.
"Hey, I didn't mean to insult you, I just wanted to complement you dazzling sister." He took a step closer and took Aeriths hand and kissed the top of it. "I've never formally introduced myself. I'm Sephiroth"
Aeriths manors kicked in from the finishing school her mother had sent her to. "Pleased to meet you Sephiroth. Seeing how you already know my name I don't feel a need to introduce myself."
"I was hoping to walk you home, Sweet Aerith" Sephiroth said giving his best smile. Sora watched as Sephiroth tried to make his sister swoon and felt his blood begin to boil. Aerith on the other hand was just trying to get her hand back which Sephiroth was still holding. She wanted to get away, away from his darkness. His skin on skin contact made it worse. His hand was gloved but his fingers weren't thanks to the fingers of the gloves being cut off. She managed to wiggle her hand out of his grip.
"That would be very nice of you, but really I think we'll be fine." She declined to his offer. "if you don't mind I really think we should be heading home now. I'll see you around Sephiroth." She smiled at him nervously and grabbed Sora by his back pack slowly backing away. "Good bye!" she said turning around completely and walking a medium peace away. 'Don't let him smell your fear' she thought to herself as if he were an animal.
Sephiroth watched her walk away. He had used his charm on her and she had easily rejected it. With his is persuasion powers any normal girl would have had mush for brains by now. 'She's strong' he thought to himself. 'Just the way I like them'
Clouds head snapped up as he stopped playing his guitar. He felt something, again. It was the third time today he had felt power being used. Not that it was uncommon. But it was new power well... two of them. The first time it had been a Gentle tug on his chest like a feeling of warmth it lasted only a second or two. The next was a couple moments after the first, it wasn't as warm and inviting as the first but it was close to it. The second one was stronger more reminiscent of a warrior. And then the third that just happened wasn't like the first two. It felt bad, almost evil, he'd felt this power ripple many times before, and knew who it was, Sephiroth. Sephiroth and he had crossed paths many times and none of them had been pleasant. 'it didn't last long, Sephiroths power who ever it was he was directing it to must have got away' he thought to himself.
BEEP…BEEP…BEEP …BEEP ...SLAM! Sora looked up at his alarm clock which was now across the room. "Oops" he mumbled as he rolled out of bed. He walked over to a pile of boxes and started digging through them. Pulling out random cloths and putting them on he went out to the kitchen; leaving his alarm clock laying on the floor. How ever in the room next to his the routine was very different.
Aerith woke before her alarm clock went off and had just finished making her bed. Walking over to her closet she debated what to wear. Her closet was colorful and full of pastels. Her favorite colors pink and red clearly dominated the half the closet. She finally decided on a like powder pink jean miniskirt, white T-shirt and pink long sleeved jean jacket. Turned to her shoe rack on the door and selected her pink and white wedge heeled boots. After dressing she turned to her vanity and quickly spun her hair up into its usual pony tail twist with bangs and spirals and finished off her hair with a pink ribbon. She put very little make up on. Inspected her self over once in her full length mirror on the back of her door and walked out and down the stairs to the kitchen.
"Good morning Aerith" Her mother greeted her sitting a plate of waffles in front of her as she sat down. Aerith looked exactly like her mother. Same light brown hair and Emerald eyes. Sora looked a lot like her too. But he inherited their fathers eyes bright blue.
"Morning Mom, Dad" Aerith looked over to her little brother who was about 3 inches from having his face fall into his breakfast. "Sora" She finished. Sora jumped and looked at her with drowsy eyes.
"Morning Sis." His head slowly started to fall towards his plate of syrupy waffles. Aeirth watched in amusement waiting for his face to connect. She looked at her father. He was reading the morning paper and she could only see his black hair sticking up over the paper and his fingers holding it up.
"Dad, aren't you going to have breakfast?" She asked noting only a cup of coffee in front of him.
"I already did, princess"
"Oh, so what's new with work?" She asked him ignoring the nickname from her childhood. She took a bite of waffle and watched Sora out of the corner of her eye.
"Same old things" he responded reading his paper. Aerith decided to drop the conversation there. Obviously her dad wasn't in a chatty mood today. She turned her attention back to Sora. He was so close to his plate, he was getting closer by the second. Then it happened, his face hit his waffles directly and he jerked up, Syrup running down his face. Aerith started laughing. And her parents looked over to see Sora now fully awake and licking the syrup around his mouth.
"Oh Sora, go clean your self up, and put on some cloths that match! What will the neighbors thinking seeing my children wearing miss-matched cloths?" His mother chided. "And don't drip on my clean floors!" she yelled after him as he walked toward the bath room. Aerith giggled more at her brothers' antics. She reached to the middle of the table and grabbed and apple out of the fruit bowl. Knowing Sora was going to be hungry by the time they reached school. Sora walked back in clean and wearing new clothes. Black shorts, and a silver T-shirt. "That's much better, thank you Sora." His mother grinned.
"Sure Mom." Sora smiled and looked at Aerith. "you ready to go?" Aerith nodded her head and tossed him the apple. He caught it with ease but looked at her strange as she stood up and walked to the front door picking up her book bag from beside it.
"You haven't ate, I though you might need something to keep you going until lunch" she explained.
Aerith and Sora went their separate ways once they reached the school. She walked to her locker and opened it. And unloaded her books into her locker. "Hey, you're here early." Aerith turned around to see Rinoa standing behind her.
"Yeah, I hate to be late and I can always use some extra time to study before tests and such" Aerith responded back to her grabbing her first 3 periods books.
"You wanna walk around with me for a while?" Rinoa invited, "I have to drop some papers of to someone first, but after that I can show you what ever you missed yesterday"
"I'd like that, thanks Rinoa" Aerith responded walking next to her friend.
"How did yesterday go?" asked Rinoa
"It was pretty good except for the Chemistry homework. But then Tifa and I worked together on it so it wasn't that bad. Then this guy Sephiroth tried to hit on me. I don't really like the why he was acting though."
"Yeah you might wanna stay away from Sephiroth, he's a bad egg. And speaking of chemistry homework, that's what I'm doing now. I just copied Cloud Strife's homework, which he copied off of Jane Porter"
"Cloud? The Cloud that sits beside me in chemistry?"
"The one and the same, why? You have a crush on him?" Rinoa teased.
"I was just wondering. He sits beside my first period also. Pre Calculus" She blushed
"Yeah I'm sure" Rinoa teased once again. They approached Cloud who was standing with Vincent and Leon. "Hey, Cloud, here's the home work I borrowed, thanks a lot" she said to Cloud while handing him the papers.
"No problem" Cloud said as he shoved his papers into a black binder. "Hi Aerith" he said looking over at her.
"Hi Cloud" she smiled at him.
Rinoa watched the two interact and looked at Leon. She winked at him and turned Cloud Again. "Hey Cloud, Aerith was just telling me she forgot how to get to her first period class, think you could show her, I would but I have to go the opposite direction" Aerith looked at her surprised. What did she think she was doing?
"Sure" Cloud complied taking a step up to Aerith. Aerith turned her head to Cloud and smiled again. "Come on" he said to her as he took her elbow and directed her away from the group.
Rinoa smiled as she watched them walk away. "Aerith seemed a little surprised that she didn't remember where her class was." Vincent interrupted her plotting. Rinoa turned and looked at him.
"Oh come on, Can't you see how they like each other?" she quipped
"I don't think saying "Hi" is necessarily the greatest proof you have that two people like each other." Leon argued. As Vincent shook his head in agreement.
"All you need is women's intuition" Rinoa countered back. "Now if you excuse me, I have to meet up with Tifa and Rikku" she walked in between the two friends and ran her fingers across Leons' jaw, "I'll see you around" she whispered in his ear.
End of chapter 3. So… whatcha think? I know it didn't have Cloud and Aerith together until the end but hey, what's wrong with a little suspense? I did put some almost action scenes. And it's kinda like those Horror movies. What you don't see is what's usually the scariest. Ok, I'm making excuses...
Usually when they do those stereotype groups they don't have them leave and meet others in other groups. I'm trying to get across that no matter how you're labeled, you can still be a nice person. Anyways… Review Please:D