Chapter 7: Sephiroth's Past
Sephiroth, Cloud and Red walk on their own feet all the way to Midgar. Once they get close to Midgar, Sephiroth just stares over the destroyed buildings, cars, machines, etc.
"Damn, Meteor destroyed this place horribly…" he says as he looks over the destroyed junk.
"Yeah, we couldn't do anything with meteor. Only the Lifestream stopped it from taking out everything, but the impact killed millions of people who lived here anyway." Said Cloud. Sephiroth could not believe what he saw. He sighed as he walked over what was left. Cloud walks over the old Shin Ra building and looks over the papers that are scattered all over the ground. Red walks over the destroyed stores. Sephiroth walks into what was Old Sector 6 and notices something that looks familiar. The big sign lying on the ground that reads HONEYBEE INN. He walks closer and stares at the old Honeybee Inn building that has been destroyed.
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8 years ago…
Sephiroth and Zack walk through the stores until Zack notices the Honeybee Inn on his left side.
"Hey Seph! Let's go to Honeybee Inn! Beautiful ladies are in there!" exclaimed Zack as he poked Sephiroth.
"I'm not interested in that. You can go ahead by yourself, though." Says Sephiroth as he tries to walk away from Zack.
"Oh, no ya don't! Come on, don't be shy!" Zack chuckles as he grabs Sephiroth and pushes him toward Honeybee Inn.
"Zack…don't." Sephiroth frowns at Zack.
"Hey boys! Want to enter Honeybee Inn for one night! You two will see the most beautiful ladies in every room!" the man points at the door of the Honeybee Inn.
"Sure, that would be great!" Zack smiles.
"Only perverts go there…I'm not one of them. I'm outta of here." Sephiroth scoffed as he turned around and tried to walk away. Zack grabs him again and pulls him back.
"He will join as well! Don't worry, Sephiroth is my bitch...and...(whisper) He's a virgin too." Zack chuckles as he pushes Sephiroth into Honeybee Inn. The man sweat dropped off his brow in thick beads.
"Zack…" Sephiroth frowned at Zack.
"Oh, hi boys! Come in. I'll show you two to your rooms!" a girl in bee uniform says as she guides Sephiroth and Zack to two different rooms, "Which side are you two gonna take?"
"I'll take the left room and Sephiroth will take the right room!" Zack smiles and winks at a girl in the bee uniform.
"Very well." The girl dressed as the giant bee smiles and unlocks the door to let Zack in. Zack walked in the room and looked back at Sephiroth, "This is gonna be fun!" Sephiroth rolls his eyes and sighs. Zack closes the door and giggles sounded from the room. The girl in the bee uniform guides Sephiroth to the right room and unlocks the door, "Here's your room. Have a nice night." Sephiroth nods and heads into the room. He looks around the room decked out with the huge hot tub, big bed, big music box, and no windows…he blinks, 'No windows? Damnit…I guess I'm gonna be stuck here until morning…' He climbs into the bed and tries to relax.
Zack was extremely excited and couldn't wait for the single lady, or maybe LADIES, that would come in to pleasure him. He whistles a little tune as he walks around and checks out the hot tub. Then he hears the heavy breathing coming from the hallway. The door suddenly opens and closes and the heavy panting is heading toward Zack. He turns around and sees five men stand in front of him.
"Huff, huff, we're here to have exercise with you! We'll get in the hot tub to make you feel good and feel stronger!" a man in a black silk shirt smiles at Zack.
"Wait a minute! What do you mean that you gonna make me feel good!" Zack stared at the man in black silk shirt.
"We'll show you how this gonna be." The man in black silk shirt smiles then grabs Zack to hold him. The other four men take Zack's clothes off, leaving only his boxer. They push Zack into the hot tub, and then they hopped in with him.
(A/N: Hehehe, Cloud did this the same way so he could get the thong. Poor him…)
Sephiroth opened his eyes when he heard the loud screams coming from the left room. He looks at the wall and hears Zack's voice. 'He screamed like a school girl…' Sephiroth stiffed a laugh, 'Good thing that I'm not with those famous five men…'
"SEPHIROTH! HELP! Get your hands off me! I'm not fuckin' GAY!" Zack screamed.
"Nope." Sephiroth called back through the thin wall. "Have fun with the five men." Sephiroth laughed then he closed his eyes.
"WHAT! FUCK!" Zack pant heavily. Sephiroth fell sleep and ignored Zack all through the night. In the morning, Sephiroth got off the bed and walked out the room and knocked on left door, "Zack? You're up?" He waited a moment and stepped into the room.
Zack was lying face-down on the floor. He had almost never slept that night because of the trauma that being "pleasured" by the five men brought him. He was very groggy in the morning. Sephiroth sighs as he sees Zach's unconscious body, still only wearing boxer, he starts to laugh.
"Heh, Zack, get your ass up. You had enough fun with the Wonderful Five men last night. Come on." He turned around and left. Zack groaned and stood up slowly. He leaned against the wall to steady himself as he hobbled out.
'Curse those five men!' Thought Zack."Nothing happened to you last night, Seph?" He asked as he looked at Sephiroth.
"Nope…I slept peacefully. Have fun with the Wonderful Five?" Sephiroth asks as he begins to chuckle.
"Shut up! Next time, I'll get ladies that will make you go crazy!" Zack says mockingly to Sephiroth. Sephiroth laughs,
"Ha, ha, no you won't. You're always telling people 'Sephiroth is my bitch' and that makes them think that you're gay…Ah ha! No wonder the Wonderful Five thought you were gay!" Sephiroth chuckles as he starts to walk away from Zack.
"Sephiroth…I am NOT gay! I have a girlfriend, goddamnit!" Zack growls at Sephiroth but Sephiroth was already gone, "Wait Seph!" he yells as he catches up with Sephiroth.
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Back to present...
Sephiroth smiles as he remembers Zack and his little plan to make him have fun with ladies, while trying to get a little fun out of it himself, but failing as usual. He walks past the Honeybee Inn toward Sector 5. He notices the destroyed church up ahead. He decides to check it out. He walks into the destroyed church and looks around. He finds several flowers on the ground as he walks around. He suddenly remembers something from his past, when he was only a child.
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16 years ago...
A child runs toward the flowers on the ground, and then she kneels down and smells a flower. Sephiroth walked up behind her and smiled,
"Like it, Aeris?" He asked, looking down.
"Yeah! I love it!" exclaims Aeris as she picked the flower. Sephiroth kneels down and looks at Aeris. Aeris was only eight years old when the Turks kidnapped her away from her adopted mother. Sephiroth took care of her from the time he took her out of Hojo's lab and ran away to keep her safe. He couldn't stand the sight of Aeris in the big glass containers, the same ones Hojo kept his monsters in. Aeris was only a child in Sephiroth's eyes, and didn't deserve that treatment. For Hojo, Aeris was merely a guinea pig. He thought Aeris might be the key to the future. Sephiroth thought it was very wrong to treat a child like this, no matter what might be gained from it. He was sixteen years old at the time.
"Hey, Sephy, what this?" She asks as she points at the strange white aura coming out of a flower. Sephiroth looked at it, "Ah, that's my special flower. You see, if something happens to me, this white flower would wither away slowly. But I'm right here with you, doing just fine, so the flower will keep glowing its white aura."
"Oooh. It is beautiful!" Aeris smiles and feels the warmth coming from the flower with its white aura. Sephiroth smiles at Aeris, "It is yours. This is between me and you. It will always be special flower just like you are will always be special to me." Aeris smiles and jumps up to hug Sephiroth.
"Well! You again, Young Sephiroth! I want Aeris back…now." Says a man with long black as he walks in.
"Never. I don't want Hojo to touch her, ever." Growled Sephiroth as he stood up. He picked Aeris up and held her, ready to dash away if he had to.
"I don't want to hurt her either but an order is an order. Hand her over." Says the man with the long black hair. He steps closer to Sephiroth.
"Back off, Tseng!" says Sephiroth as he takes a retreating step back toward the door behind the flowers. He watches Tseng's eyes blink, then opens and closes the door hugging Aeris close to him. Then jumps high into the roof. Tseng runs into the room and looks up at Sephiroth. Sephiroth hops out of the hole and runs away. Tseng sighed and gestured to a troop of guards, "Boys, find him! And don't hurt Aeris, just… just bring her back as well." The guards nodded and ran off through the door.
Five days later…
The guards had searched all through the slums to find Sephiroth and Aeris, yet were ordered back to the Shin Ra building to inform Hojo of their failure.
"Humph! Sephiroth won't be away too long.." Hojo giggled as he flipped through stacks of papers in front of the guards. The guards looked each others then shrugged and left Hojo's office.
"Sephiroth…you should have remembered that you couldn't live without the serum that I've been giving you, I bet that you've become weakened and ill by now…" Hojo giggled.
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Sephiroth holds Aeris's hand as they walk through the town of Midgar. His feet start to feel heavier as his eyes flutter. He feels sweat bead all over his body as he weakens. Aeris gasps and struggles to help him keep his feet as he slumps forward onto the ground.
"Sephy!" Aeris cries as she tries to shake Sephiroth. However, the days spent avoiding the Hojo's thugs had gotten them steadily closer to Aeris's home. The woman who saw Sephiroth lying on the ground ran out of the house and toward Sephiroth.
"Mister, are you all right? Mister?" the woman asks in a panic as she looks over Sephiroth. Aeris looks up at the woman, "Mommy!" she squeals, holding tight to Sephiroth's hand.
"Aeris! He saved you from Shin Ra building?" the woman dashes forward and hugs Aeris.
"Yeah, yeah! He got me out of that horrible glass thingy!" Aeris tries to explain her time spent in the glass chamber. The woman sighs in relief then looks at Sephiroth.
"Aeris, go get a wagon to carry him into our house." The woman tells Aeris as she nods and runs off to find a wagon. The woman lays her hand on Sephiroth's forehead and feels the heat and sweat that seem to flood from his body.
"Oh, my…he has a horrible fever! He needs a cold bath to bring his temperature down." The woman says. Aeris comes running back with a wagon and pulls it up next to Sephiroth. The woman grunts as she lifts a moaning Sephiroth onto the wagon then pulls it back into her house. The woman struggles to carry Sephiroth into their bathroom and helps him lie in the tub. After a few minutes of laying in the cool water, Sephiroth wakes up with a gasp. "Mister?" Whispers the woman anxiously. Sephiroth shivers and looks up at the woman.
"A…Aeris? Is…is she okay…?" the woman smiles and nods. Sephiroth sighs in relief. "I…I'm cold…" Sephiroth shivers in his cold bath. The woman looks over Sephiroth,
"You have a terribly high fever! This cold bath should cool you down for a bit." Sephiroth nods. Later, once he had stopped shivering from the fever and now shivered from the cold, he was moved to the guest room and laid down on the bed. The woman removes all Sephiroth's clothes, except his boxers. Then she lays a blanket over him. Sephiroth falls asleep within minutes.
3 days later…
Sephiroth feels much better thanks to the care of Aeris's mother, the effects of his addiction to Hojo's serum seem to have faded over the last 8 days. The weakened state he was in let Sephiroth's body break off it's dependency of the drug. Sephiroth walks down to the living room and finds Aeris and her mother sitting at the table.
"Thank you very much for all that you've done for me, Elmyra. I have to go back to the Shin Ra building. Don't worry, they won't find Aeris here, since they don't know this is Aeris's home." Says Sephiroth.
"Oh, no problem. Thank you for bringing Aeris back to me. I'll keep her safe here for the time being." Elmyra replies. Aeris slips off her chair and runs to Sephiroth. Sephiroth kneels down and hugs her.
"Aeris…will you take care of your mom while I'm gone?" Sephiroth smiles as he looks down at the small little girl in front of him. Aeris nods seriously,
"Yeah, I will! Can you visit us later?"
"I'll try, if I can. I have to go back to the Shin Ra building for now though. You will be safe here, and don't forget to water the flowers for me." Sephiroth chuckles. Aeris smiles, "I will!" she says as she hugs Sephiroth tighter, with small tears forming in her little eyes. Sephiroth sighs and lets Aeris go. He stands up slowly and leaves Aeris's house. He looks back at the house and sees Aeris waving through the window. Sephiroth smiles and walks away.
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Back to the present…
Sephiroth stares the flowers for almost an hour as he remembers Aeris when she was a child. He notices the flower that has the white aura coming out of it is much smaller than before. He kneels down and looks over the flower.
Aeris…I'm sorry that I haven't visited you since I left you. Forgive me, Aeris. I haven't had a chance to see you since Hojo put me in jail. Damn him. Cloud told me that you were alive and were with Cloud's team. You also saved the planet by pleading to the Lifestream. I'm so proud of you, Aeris. I wish I could see you again.
As Sephiroth stares at white flower, he hears a strange sound moving toward him. A cold wind blows through the broken sections of the roof and down through his silver hair. He looks up and around, sensing something's wrong.
"Sephiroth…"
Sephiroth gasps as he spins around to look but no one is there, he looks around wildly looking for the speaker.
"Sephiroth…I forgive you…"
Sephiroth is shocked to hear the voice. He knows that voice from the past.
"Aeris!" he looks around.
"Don't worry, Sephiroth…I'm glad that you are all right and friends with Cloud…"
"Aeris…Why? Why did you let Jenova kill you?" Sephiroth chokes back his emotion and stares down at the floor.
"That's what I do…you told me a story about a scorpion and a swarm. A scorpion said, 'That's what I do' so I followed that story in order to save the planet. Thanks to you for teaching me so much when I was young…"
Sephiroth closes his eyes and remembers the story he told Aeris when she was so young.
"….."
"Go to the City of the Ancients…I want to show you something there…"
"City of the Ancients; that's where you were killed by Jenova. What is it that you want show me?"
"I'll show you when you get there…no hurry though…I'll always be here, and there, for you. Once you are able to walk again, go there…" The voice begins to fade out. Sephiroth's eyes widen, "Aeris! Don't go…please…"
"Remember, Sephiroth…go to my city…You will see…" The voice fades out leaving Sephiroth alone with his thoughts once more. "I will go there when my leg is better, Aeris." Sephiroth promises himself as he leaves the crumbling church.
...To be continued. Chapter 8 coming up!