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Freaky Resurrection

Chapter 1 – Revenge is sweet

Aeris and Sephiroth. Sephiroth and Aeris. Both were incredibly beautiful. Both possessed immense mystical power. Both were the last of their kinds. Both had the very same spiked up bangs of doom™. And both were as dead as an overdrugged goldfish on a sizzling pan.

However, despite the stunning alikeness, they were like opposite poles of a magnet – positive and negative. For instance, Aeris was female, Sephiroth was male. Aeris was good and nice and all but Sephiroth was bad and evil and drop-dead sexy...wait, that's not the point. Oh well, anyway, you get the picture.

Yet comparing them to a magnet wasn't quite exact. For whether they would be intimately drawn together was still a question to further investigate. However, things weren't going as smoothly as people out there might thought in the lifestream.

Aeris Gainsborough was fuming. Yes, Aeris. Fuming. Two words that usually wouldn't go in one sentence but indeed she was. She had been in a good mood earlier while she, in her usual pink dress, was picking pink flowers in this beautiful garden of the Promised Land when one certain silver haired, sexy assed-devil, with all his high and mighty gracefulness, dropped in and insulted the pinkness.

What was so wrong if she happened to love pink? It was, after all, a lovely color. Even Cloud once told her that.

And as if reading her mind, the devil smirked, of course, evilly. "I've always known Strife has a tendency to swing that way."

"He does not!" She protested firmly, standing her ground with hands on her hips and stamping her foot once. "If there's anyone I know personally that would happen to be gay, it surely is you."

"Personally?" One silver brow arched up. "I didn't think we know each other that well despite me impaling you with my sword once." Then as an after thought, he smoothly added. "I wouldn't mind doing it again, though."

Aeris went very red in the face at the double-meaning and before she knew it, words spouted from her lips. "You just impaled me because you were jealous, admit that!"

She at first grinned at what seemed to be a good come back but soon realized her fatal mistake. Her killer now had a smug smirk on his lips despite her just calling him gay…not that the insult was new to him anyway.

The flower girl blushed even redder, feeling her cheeks grow hot as she felt the silver haired-man's glowing eyes on her. Now, what she had said, it sounded even dirtier than what he firstly had.

Sephiroth's intense gaze on her didn't help either.

"What're you looking at, you jerk!"

The insult bounced off Sephiroth like it was nothing. The ex-general just looked amused, apparently he was enjoying himself watching her suffer. He grabbed her slim wrist, pulling her closer to him and wrapped one strong arm around her waist, chuckling softly as he thought the girl couldn't turn even redder.

"And they call you a sweet little flower girl." The silver haired-man leant in, whispering in her ear.

Aeris bit her lips and decided to give the ex-general a good stamp on his feet. Too bad, the man was too quick. He abruptly let go of her and stepped back just in time, so that Aeris' brown boot thump the ground instead.

"Oh no…" Her eyes widened in horror when she realized she had stepped on the pink lovely flowers. It was brutally crushed under her own foot…poor pink little flower.

Silence befell the place for a while saved for the quiet chuckle from Sephiroth as Aeris stood trembling. Then…finally…

She managed to cry out a single tear.

"You're so mean! Look at what you've done. My flower, my poor pretty little flower." She even managed a fake sniff and sob.

What was better weapon than a woman's tears, heh.

"Hn. Weak women, they're easily moved by emotions."

Wrong target, dear Aeris.

The brunette stopped faking crying and looked up at him with a malicious glare. If look could kill…meh, they were already dead.

"Some men are just too dumb to feel any emotion. Suit yourself you didn't get a girlfriend."

Sephiroth cocked his head, tugging a silver strand behind his ear. "Ooh, so what are you going to do? Drown me with the pinkness?"

The ever-so-sweet flower girl was losing her usually cheery temper. She looked like she was about to bite. Fortunately, the Planet saved the day just in time.

Calm down, my son and daughter. I did not bring you here for a quarrel.

"But Planet, he…" Aeris was about to protest but the Planet interrupted.

I was thinking of giving you a second chance.

Sephiroth raised his eyebrows questioningly, not believing what he had just heard. "You're saying we are going to live again?"

Yes, I really mean it. But…you two do not seem to get along that well.

Aeris crossed her arms and pouted. "It's not my fault."

Sephiroth apparently wanted to go back to the living world again since he stayed quiet, focusing on what the Planet would say. He had a bad feeling it wouldn't be as nice and smooth as he wished it to be. He was the one trying to destroy it with a giant meteor anyway - Jenova's influence or not.

Sensing what was on the silver haired-man's mind, the Planet then went on.

You can go back. Both of you. But under one condition.

"What is it, Planet?" Aeris asked. She too was eager to be alive again. Who wouldn't?

The usual cliché. It said. You have to get along.

"Oh." Was all Aeris said.

"I'm sick of that cliché." Besides her, she heard Sephiroth mutter under his breath.

Can't help that. But I'm going to make sure you really satisfy the condition.

"How?" Asked the Cetra, blinking.

You'll see.

Despite it being just a voice, they know it was smiling…more of laughing, which Sephiroth was sure meant nothing good. He just knew it. But before he could do anything (not that he could do much since he was already dead) the sight of the Promised Land faded from his sight and the next thing he knew was…

He was drowning. In green, not pink, thankfully. The fluid green substance around him stung his skin and he almost choked as it flowed into his mouth, tasting its familiar taste on the tip of his tongue. He knew what it was.

Mako. Obviously, he was in the lifestream.

Alive.

He looked left and right for the Cetra girl. Everything was green, so he didn't see anything clearly even with his Mako-enhanced eyes and he had to squint. There, not so far away from him, he could make out the girl's long brown hair and her not-so-hard-to-miss pink dress.

Certainly, the shock might frighten her, being a weak little girl she was and he was sure she wasn't used to bathing in intense concentration of Mako like him. It sure must be painful – even those of the first class SOLDIER barely stood it.

Sighing inwardly, he swam toward the struggling Cetra.

And indeed Aeris was struggling. She had heard about Mako treatment from her ex-boyfriend before and had quite a picture of how it would feel like; however, experiencing it for real was completely different, for it was more painful than anything she had physically felt in her previous life, including Sephiroth's Masamune in her stomach.

She felt like screaming but couldn't since the green liquid would get into her mouth and she was sure it wouldn't taste so nice, so when help arrived in the form of a blur of black and silver, she gladly received it without a protest. Grabbing her companion's hand, she let him drag her toward the upper surface where she could make out a glimpse of brilliant daylight.

(x)

After a while, they finally broke the green surface, breathing in a deep air to bless their poor lungs since they weren't blitzball players that could stay in water for like eternity. Soaking from head to toe, they teetered up the shore in exhaustion. Sephiroth didn't know why his armors felt so heavy all of a sudden. Not to mention his clothes that seemed as if they had doubled in size over a haste swimming. He frowned. It wasn't like the mini spell could affect him could it?

His short train of thought was interrupted with a sharp, startling gasp from behind him. Feeling something nagging at the back of his mind, giving him nerves, Sephiroth slowly turned…and became dumbstruck.

There, before him, was undoubtedly Aeris, for there was no way he could have mistaken the braided brown hair, beautiful emerald eyes and the uber pinkness that was her…only it wasn't a 'her' he was staring at.

(x)

There was no word in Barret's or even Cid's tongue that would describe the feeling Aeris was feeling at the moment. She was shell-shocked! Utterly shocked! She did have a feeling that 'something' the Planet was talking about wouldn't be so nice since it wanted to convince them they were to get along but never had she expected this!

Her eyes were wide like saucer as she looked at her own body. It was no more a curvy, pliant form of a woman but instead strong and firm muscles of a man.

She was now a 'he'.

Still, 'he' was thankful, he wasn't that muscular. The memory of Dio and his spandex still gave him creeps for some obvious reasons.

It was then when he landed his eyes on his companion that another jolt of shock jabbed him right at his sanity even though he had already suspected it.

Sephiroth was no longer a 'he'.

His companion now stood a foot, yes, a foot, lower than him with 'her' long silvery hair almost sweeping the ground from the big loss of height. Her face was rounder and now possessed a softer quality only a female had. Her luminous green eyes were bigger albeit still sharp and had that strange glow from former Mako enhancement.

And her pale complexion, now losing all the trace of masculinity, made her look so fragile and small…and a little bit weird in her old attire that looked like a big heap of black leather.

For a big moment, all Aeris could do was only staring. Then, finally, his lips broke into a grin. "Hehe." Which turned into a giggle. Yes, the usual giggling. "Ehehehehehee."

"What's so funny?" The silver haired-now-girl snapped, not at all finding the situation as amusing.

"Look, Sephy, you insulted us women and now you're one of us. Ehehehe."

Sephiroth crossed her arms, narrowing her eyes. "Do I have to remind you that you're no longer a woman?"

Aeris stopped giggling. He seemed to be thinking for one brief moment, and then hopped toward the shore. Looking at his reflection in the water, he could see a face that was no longer the Aeris Gainsborough he had known all his previous life. Still, this face he saw bore some similarities that reminded him of the flower girl.

His big green eyes had become narrower. He still had the same delicate nose and lips but his face was a little more sharp and angular. His hair was still long and in braid, though.

"Wow, I am hot. If I were still a girl, I would want to date me." He said eventually, earning a look that clearly said 'you're nuts' from the silver haired-girl.

"Aww. Come on, Sephy, it isn't that bad." He said, turning back to the frowning girl. "Just come here and take a look. You're quite pretty."

Sephiroth glared a dead glare that would scare even the finest first class SOLDIER to break down like a cry baby wanting to see his long-lost momma. "Do I again have to remind you of the problem we're having?"

Aeris blinked. "That I'm now bigger and taller and stronger than you?"

"That's not the point! I refuse to be a girl for the rest of my life!"

Why the hell can she be so calm? Or is it really just all air in her head? Argh! Annoying Cetra.

"Well," Aeris shrugged and smiled sweetly. "Since it bothers you that much we'll have to try to get along."

Sephiroth groaned and muttered under her breath. "I should have stayed dead."

Alas, Aeris heard her. "It's up to you, Sephy. I can enjoy this while it lasts." His smile widened into a grin.

Ah, revenge is sweet, thanks Planet!

"Enjoy being a man in a pink dress." Said Sephiroth sourly. "You're the gayest man I've ever seen."

Aeris blinked as the girl grabbed her enormous sword, which happened to just be there, and began walking away…which happened to be a difficult task since her clothes were too big for her.

"Where are you going?" Aeris asked, watching the girl struggle with the trench coat.

"Elsewhere." Sephiroth replied coldly, not even turning to look at the brunette.

"…"

"…"

"…Do I have to remind you that your chest is fairly exposed, Sephy?"

To be continued…