A/N- I feel like there's poison pumping through my veins… and I'm slowly withering away… I'm sick but still editing :sighs: hope you like this. That last chapter was so bad I couldn't do anything to fix it… o well. Enjoy. Hopefully I can fix this one.
Chapter 10: Home
The two boats reached land (or rather, rock) a few moments later, and the women were dragged off separately with their designated group.
Alathia followed behind her captors absentmindedly. She was busy inspecting the trees along the trail they were following. These trees weren't glowing with lifestream like the others. They were dark, just like the trees would be at home.
"Are we there yet?" Alathia asked, annoyed.
They'd been walking for five minutes and they'd seen nothing spectacular.
She noted that monsters were nowhere nearby. Alathia also realized that she had no idea where they were headed.
"Where are we going?"
"Home." Yazoo purred and smiled at her.
"Well, seems like HE enjoys it there." She thought, smirking at how strange he was.
Were all the men around here this weird?
Ten more minutes passed. She saw nothing, mostly because of how dark it was. She whimpered, slightly fearing what could be lurking in the dark, and wedged herself between the two men.
" 'Sup beast?" Kadaj joked and patted her back.
A moment later, she finally saw the outline of a house.
"Woah…" she whispered as the two men rushed to the door.
"Why do you live all the way out here?" she asked.
Kadaj looked at the ground shamefully.
"Well, every time we've lived somewhere else its been destroyed." Yazoo explained, watching his little brother fooled with his gloves.
"People don't like the way we look…"Kadaj trailed off.
He seemed a little upset by it.
"We look like Sephiroth. The video game about this place was extremely accurate. And that got people questioning EVERYTHING…and then the movie came out. It was…rather off, but DID scare people. They knew what we were capable of and…kinda drove us outta town a lot. Hehe." Kadaj finished explaining.
"We are monsters…much like you are a beast." Yazoo teased before entering the home.
Alathia gasped when she entered. There was NOTHING in it! No furniture!
She stared at the two, who were beaming at her.
"So what do you think?" Kadaj asked proudly.
"Aw, I can't hurt their feelings! Besides, he might attack me again…" Alathia thought just before opening her mouth.
"Its beautiful…" she smiled and looked across the empty entrance.
"Ya really think so? We did it ourselves" Yazoo boasted, and dragged her across the floor.
Kadaj stood in the center, where their was a platform, and held his hands towards the ceiling.
Alathia heard an electrical charge come from his arms as he began to glow a light blue. She ducked down, as did Yazoo when she heard something similar to the hum of a generator. A moment later, blue orbs made their way out of Kadaj's fingertips and flew about the house.
They made their way around the home; lighting small coned torches everywhere.
"…WOOOOAH!" she exclaimed sincerely this time.
Kadaj twirled, laughing and watched Alathia as she gawked at the beautifully lit home.
"It took us a few weeks to make all this. We carved and made all the designs ourselves! It turned out better than we thought" he exclaimed, clearly proud of himself.
The home was actually very beautiful, even if it had no furniture. It was large, and gothic.
Yazoo and Kadaj showed her around excitedly.
"Oh it was my idea to use gargoyles! And all the spiral designs are Kadaj's handy work. See! Doesn't it feel cool?" Yazoo rushed Alathia around, making her touch everything.
They were too busy to notice Sephiroth, Loz and Alexia walk in and sit down on the floor.
"See, I bet you're sorry now! You attacked…an artist." Kadaj posed superiorly.
Alathia rolled her eyes and walked into the downstairs bedroom.
The movie was totally wrong about these men. Well, Even if they were potential psychos, they were, extremely approachable.
"Again, why are you so odd?" she laughed as they entered the room behind her.
Alathia's heart broke as she saw the condition of the room.
"This is our room." Kadaj spoke softly.
"Do two of you sleep to a bed?" Lindsay asked weakly.
"Yeah, its not so bad. We like it that way. It feels…safe. I share with Yazoo, Loz shares with Sephiroth." Kadaj said, sitting on the end of what resembled a bed.
Alathia felt horrible. These grown men lived in fear of the rest of the world, and hid themselves away from it. They barely had anything, unless it was "hand made" by themselves. They lived in this beautiful house, and yet…had nothing. The beds looked old and there was a lone dresser for all of them to share.
She cocked her head to the side, in thought as she watched Kadaj lie down on the bed happily.
Alathia was sure Sephiroth was scared of no one. He'd have no problem destroying everyone. Perhaps he just stayed in hiding so he could protect his brothers?
A/N2- :shakes head shamefully:… no I couldn't fix it.