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Freaky Resurrection

Chapter 2 – Nothing I've never

"I refuse." A certain silver haired girl said through gritted teeth – her voice dripped to the brim with acidic poison, making it sound like a sinister hiss as she glared disdainfully at Aeris' uber pink dress of ultimate doom. "There's no way I'm wearing that!"

"Stop acting like a baby and be reasonable, Sephy." Aeris chided like a mother with both hands on his hips. Too bad it didn't make him look so motherly at the moment. Just…well, gay. "You know we can't move on like this."

"…" Cat-like jade eyes narrowed slightly. Nevertheless, seeing that the brooding girl had yet to say anything, Aeris faked a deliberate sigh and dared himself to go on.

"If you want to wear that bondage gear and show your additional proportions around just for the sake of being molested by whoever uses to be the same gender as you, then go ahead. There's actually no problem with me since I already know you were gay." He said with a charming smile plastered on his face though in fact he was biting the inside of his mouth and tried to stop himself from wincing at the mental image. Urgh. He didn't need that disturbing image right now.

Allowing himself to shudder a little at his own glorious imagination, he could see that his tactic did work. The girl's big bright eyes widened visibly as the same unwanted mental image entered her inner vision. How good it worked, Aeris could just see from what could unmistakably be called an 'impressive flinch'. And for a flashing moment he was sure he heard the girl once a man called the Great Sephiroth make a sound very close to a kicked kitty. Yes, a kitty.

The silver haired-girl bit her lips, curling them into a very thin straight line before voicing her great defeat that would bring to her the worst humiliation in hesitation.

"…But it's pink."

(x)

"Turn around."

"What?"

"I said turn around."

Piercing cat-like eyes stared at him as if he was out of his mind – annoyance clearly showing behind the green depth. "Why do I have to do that? It's not like it's anything I've never seen before." She was used to seeing men dress and undress often in those army days. No pun intended. "Just strip and give me the damned clothes."

Aeris refrained the urge to shriek at her and resorted to hitting the ex-general with his Princess Guard. He didn't have much luck, though. Because it seemed Sephiroth hadn't lost her former agility at all. She was even faster now. Or wait…

Thump.

Maybe she wasn't.

It appeared that…in her act to avoid being hit with a staff by an overly upset six feet braided male, she happened to trip on her own badass trench coat…and fell. Not so gracefully. Say, the extremely loose leather pants just slid off her delicate hips.

Aeris' eyes almost popped out of their sockets at the last sight he wanted revealed before his eyes. And although it was nothing he had never seen before, he couldn't help feeling the situation very embarrassing. Aeris blushed.

"Umm…I didn't know you go commando under those pants."

(x)

Humiliated. She couldn't feel more humiliated. This must be a dream No. It was a nightmare! And she would eventually wake up being very dead and very male in the Promised Land with a pink clad flower girl there for him to torture. But…how could a dead person wake up? Death meant eternal sleeping and sleeping meant more dreams, more nightmares, right? So if she just woke up, it would still be this nightmare over and over again, which only meant one thing.

This was reality. Gah!

Sephiroth felt like impaling herself with the Masamune but reconsidered it as it would bring her to being dead again and the nightmare would start over. There was no way she could escape it. This must be the punishment of her sins. Maybe she should shut herself away in a coffin somewhere in a deserted mansion so that she wouldn't face more humiliation in this cruel world. Away from everything. Yeah, the thought seemed very tempting at the moment.

…Do you think that just sounds too familiar?

Well, anyway, the coffin and the mansion were nowhere to be found right now, so poor, miserable Sephiroth had to tolerate it with the pink dress she was hatefully wearing while Aeris seemed to be a little bit too happy with his new attire. He refused to go commando and persisted to keep his old strawberry-pink panty on, though.

"I feel sexy, oh-so sexy!" He exclaimed, examining himself, twirling this way and that, sending the cape flying. "I'm too sexy for my old dress. Too sexy…" He started singing and dancing around.

"Will you shut up!" Sephiroth gritted her teeth, for she very much thought that the Cetra's stupid dance was tainting the sacredness of her old clothes and if the deal wasn't to get along with the Cetra, she would have impaled him again with her sword. Yes, she could still do that even now that she was a girl.

Aeris raised his eyebrows at the silver haired-girl and reached for the Masamune in Sephiroth's tight grip. Certainly, this sexy attire needed that sword to complete its sexiness. Just when his long fingers was about to touch it, Sephiroth immediately yanked it away out of his reach, glaring maliciously at him as she caressed the ring, I mean, the sword possessively since it was now the only sword she had.

"Masamune. Is. Mine!" She growled, baring her fangs.

Aeris stared at her, blinked and then shrugged. "Alright. But I was just kidding, you know."

(x)

"So where are we going?" Aeris asked, finally breaking the silence as he followed the now-pink-clad girl, who had been very quiet for the past fifteen minutes, deeper and deeper into the apparently deep dark forest.

Silence.

Sephiroth didn't answer.

Aeris frowned a little and opened his mouth yet before any sound could escape it, the silver haired-girl spoke up, voice stern. "Prepare yourself. It's coming."

"It?" Aeris' question didn't need Sephiroth's answer since the gigantic creature ambushing them from behind those large trees, crashing them down in the process was the answer in itself.

Aeris' green eyes widened. He gasped. "How come there's a Black Dragon in a forest! This fic makes no sense!"

It never does, dear Aeris. Now let us continue.

Sephiroth blocked the beast's attack with Masamune while shoving Aeris out of its attacking range. The dragon's huge claws clashed with the magnificent blade in a flash, causing a noise unhealthy to sensitive ears. Then it was the battle of pure strength. Normally, Sephiroth would have won no problem being the legendary SOLDIER and all. However, with all the taut, masculine muscles gone, it wasn't a big surprise she was losing.

Hey, she might be stronger than usual females, being formerly enhanced with Mako and all, but battling in sheer brute strength against a big bad hungry-as-hell dragon was completely another story.

The Black Dragon roared in triumph as it succeeded in pushing the soon-to-be its meal back. It swept its powerful tail toward the pink meaning for the kill but Sephiroth saw it coming. Using her new-found improving agility, she flipped to the side, letting the dragon's tail collide and down the old tree behind.

She might not have the brute strength she used to have but she didn't lose her touch on her sword skill. The Great Sephiroth wasn't a war hero with just his inhuman brute strength alone.

Tightening her grip on Masamune, she raised it up to her eye-level – her favorite pose. A smirk identical to her male self formed on her lips. This was a little more challenging. "Come on."

The Black Dragon stomp its foot in frustration, wanting to have its first meal in past three days fast. It cast Dragon Force on itself to boost its physical and magical strength…

Only to be dispelled.

"Guess you need a hand?" asked a deep voice, apparently belonging to a certain braided man in sexy black leather. His beautiful green eyes sparkled with amusement as his lips curved up into an all-too-familiar smile.

Sephiroth raised one elegant silver brow, eyes still locking on the dragon to predict its next move. "From a man wielding a girly staff?" Her lips also curved up a little into what seemed like an amused smile, though.

Aeris bit back the retort and decided to play along with the silver Satan in pink. He shrugged.

"From a man wielding a girly staff."

Sephiroth's smile widened.

"Brace yourself. Now it's gonna strike."

(x)

"I've never known dragon's meat could taste this delicious." Aeris said in impression as he finished the first slice of his share. Of all the things he thought of as their first meal after being alive again, he had never expected it would be dragon's meat.

Honestly, eating a monster saved for a Chocobo, which looked relatively close to achicken, to him, was uncanny.

"Have you ever tried Bomber Penguins'? Those are pretty tasty stuffs." Sephiroth said as she ate her share of the meat.

Aeris gave her a weird look.

"What?"

Aeris' face became even more weird that it looked quite funny.

"What?"

And even funnier.

Sephiroth frowned. "Are you trying to make me choke to death?"

Aeris stopped that weird look and blinked. The way he functioned was like a computer – blinking meant clearing former action. Beep! Performing weird look action erased, next command: giggling.

Aeris burst out giggling.

"What?" Sephiroth demanded, now looking slightly annoyed.

Aeris shook his head, still giggling. "Oh, nothing, Sephy. Really. It's…" And giggling. "Nothing." And more giggling.

The silver haired-girl glared daggers at him but the more she glared the more the Cetra giggled. In the end the girl decided to stop glaring. "Hn. Stupid Cetra." She snorted and proceeded to finish her first meal.

She wanted out of this silly pink dress of doom as soon as possible. The sooner, the better. And she would deal with the even sillier deal later.

(x)

They had eliminated some more monsters along the way out. They didn't have another meal, though. Still, even if Aeris' stomach could stuff more delicious monster's meat in, it wouldn't spare him the discomfort of hearing Sephiroth complain about how her additional proportions always, as Sephiroth had put it, annoyingly bounced up and down whenever she made a swift move.

It wasn't his fault that the flower girl wore no bra, was it?

Whatever.

He was glad that finally the ordeal was over. They were now out of the deep, dark and scary albeit resourceful forest.

Aeris looked around, trying to decipher where in the world map she, I mean, he was in. Out of the forest, she, urgh, I mean, he could see lots and lots of steep mountain and up on one of those mountains, beyond a vast plain, he saw an old wooden bridge, which would take them across the mountain to…well, another mountain.

"We're in Wutai, it seems."

Aeris turned around to look at his companion, a little surprised. "You've been here before?"

Sephiroth merely glanced at him. "In case your short term of memory fails you, I was, once upon a time, a Shinra SOLDIER general who happened to be in charge of the little war going on here."

Aeris slapped his forehead for his forgetfulness.

"Ooh, yeah, you're right."

Guess being dead for some time caused him some warps in memory or maybe it was just because the willowy girl standing with him here was something he could hardly relate to the big bad meanie and ever-so smexy general. Wait. The smexy part wasn't supposed to be there.

Anyway, they were in Wutai, which meant he could pay Yuffie a visit there. He didn't know what the ninja's reaction might be seeing him, let alone his current companion. Gender switching wasn't something as ordinary as, in his opinion, crossdressing either.

Talk about crossdressing, he felt a little twinge in the pit of his stomach.

He missed Cloud. He didn't know how the blond was doing right now. His friends might not remember him but he still wanted to see them badly. He wanted to talk to them, asked them how they were doing, what he had missed - even teased them a little bit like the flower girl used to do.

What did Cloud do after the Planet had been saved?

Did he and Tifa get together?

How were Barret and Marlene?

How many materias had Yuffie now got?

Had Cait Sith finally gotten his fortune telling right?

Had Vincent stopped sleeping in the stinking coffin?

Had Cid stopped cursing and swearing?

Had RedXIII managed to get rid of his fleas?

Gods, he missed them very much.

How long has it been since my death? What if they don't remember me? What if they don't believe my story?

His head drooped in despair.

"…Don't worry. They will know it's you once you meet them." Came a calm female voice, which sounded strangely sweet and gentle to his ears.

Aeris looked up, slowly meeting the silver haired-girl's deep green eyes. "Sephiroth?"

"There's no way one could forget the horror of the overwhelming pinkness given that you still has that ribbon on."

Aeris' handsome face faulted and then turned into a full-fledged glare. He took out his Princess Guard and tried to whack the girl, who was a foot shorter, on her pretty silver head, meaning to crack open a little of her skull.

Too bad Sephiroth was very quick.

She ducked.

To be continued…