Authors Note: I collected some of the pen-names from the site; Laili the Turk (Lesca), bdsproductions (Sephiroth), Baka.Monkey.13 (Aia), and Tirnam'Bas (Tirna). All of their characters will be appearing in this chapters, besides Tirna. We'll meet up with him later, no worries. Thank you all for giving me permission to use your ideas and characters. I love you so much. Thanks for the ratings too.
Once again check out "Life as a Turk" which this story is based on. It is Laili The Turks site. You will not be disappointed!
I don't own Final Fantasy Before Crisis, not even the game. Hell, I don't own Final Fantasy 7 the game, or the movie! I'll probably get Dirge of Cerberus after it comes out if my PS2 gets working. Bah! Now for my writing and I apologize for my lack of skills of editing my own work.
Warnings: Some violence, some gore, some cursing and suggestive themes.
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Fight, over the clouds, over the earth, over sky.
Fight, over life, over blood, over air and light.
Over love, over sun, over another.
Fight, till they die (not all the time) Over what? Over Lies and (greed).
-Right in Two by Tool
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Kaida sat quietly beside a long brown hair pulled back into a braid. They were inside one of the Shinra-issued helicopters. Lesca was the Turk Medic who had been assigned to drop off Kaida and pick up her and Sephiroth. The helicopter stopped on top of Junon. They quickly said their good-byes before Kaida walked out of the helicopter and headed for the building. Surely she'd find the general inside or at least be able to find someone who knows where he is.
She walked across the cement at a leisurely pace. She wasn't in any hurry because she wasn't given an exact time. If Tseng had given her a certain time to be there she'd be prompt- or five minutes late. She considered it, 'fashionably late', which sometimes annoyed her supieurs. Fortunately for them they had learnt this about her and gave her times five minutes earlier than they wanted her. She thought she was late and they got her on time. It was a win-win situation, at least in their minds.
She slipped in through a door and disappeared within the Shinra Headquarters. She walked inside for a while searching for the silver haired General but she had no success. She found herself outside along the strip-mall slowly dragging herself along. She glanced down her hand that held a Midgar-styled throwing star; her prized shuriken. She had bought it given to her by Veld when she became a Turk. It was a 'congratulations' gift for being the youngest Turk to ever join. That was when she was thirteen. It seemed so long ago.
She looked up from it to see Sephiroth not too far away talking with one of the guards. She waved to him and he waved back but he didn't leave the guard. He appeared to be friends with this one more than any of the others.
"Cloud, this is Kaida. Since Zack decided to accept his other mission they sent me a Turk to help with the terrorists here," Sephiroth said with a smile.
"Hunting Susumu?" Cloud asked, directing the question at Kaida.
"Well, more like slaughtering," A bit of a smirk came to her face.
"Don't get too ahead of yourself, Turk. This group is something rotton. They specialize in bombs and the leader has a thing for young women," He shuddered, "That's why I wanted Zack to come with me. How old are you anyway?"
"I'm fifteen right now but I'll be sixteen soon enough," She answered, glancing over at Clouds hair. It resembled a chocobo.
"Damn, Shinra is only bringing them in younger," Sephiroth frowned, expressing his dislike for the company. "They want us to take the leader alive. The Wutain man T-" "Takehiko," She interrupted with a grin, "And don't worry about me General. I can watch my own back."
"I hope so," He said with an eyebrow raised, "Or we are going to have some problems. We better be going now. Take care Cloud."
"Bye Sephiroth, Kaida," Cloud said with a wave.
"Bye Cho- Cloud," She winced, blushing slightly. That was when Sephiroth and her decided to make their escape.
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Thirty minutes later they came across a building with two non-Shinra guards standing in front of it. When the scent of Wutain food entered Kaidas nostril she stopped in her exactly where she was. They had a cover of darkness over them now so it wasn't extremely difficult to stay hidden. There were a couple mako lights lit on the sides but there weren't too many. It had been something that they had been using to their advantage.
Sephiroth stopped a steps length away from her and glanced back curiously. His expression hardened when he also smelt the food. War in Wutai had made him become much more accustomed to the smell than the girl Turk. Kaida readied her weapon but Sephiroth shook his head gently.
"As much as I want to see how well you can use that freakishly large shuriken we can't go rushing in like that. On the back of the building there is a window. We'll have the advantage of surprise then," Sephiroth explained to her in a whisper. Kaida relaxed her arm and gave a curt, understanding nod. Together they slipped out of sight and went into a small street beside them. They moved along until they came across the back of the terrorist building. The window was open and no noise coming from inside but that wasn't enough proof that it was safe.
From each side of the window the two peered in. Several emptied glasses were in the room along with a deck of messily piled cards. Sephiroth looked to her to ask if she was ready. She didn't nod but jumped in through the window. She landed with very little sound and shuriken ready. The general outside followed shortly, glaring at her. He was so used to leading.
"Ladies first," She explained and he just shook his head with a sigh. Sometimes she seemed so innocent but he knew she wasn't. This young lady was a Turk and usually they had a lot of blood on their hands. Not as much as his though. He wasn't even going to think how much blood was on his hands.
Inside there were three doors. One headed out to the stairs, the other to the front door, and the other led into another room. The front door and the other room first, and that they did. Fifteen dead men and a deep cut to Kaidas leg later they headed up the stairs. They had killed with very little noise. It wasn't enough to have people running down the stairs or anything. They considered themselves lucky. They didn't want to be out-numbered too greatly.
Their steps on the stairs were silent as could be. Kaida led in front, claiming her shuriken was best to sneak up on someone. Blood dripped freely from her leg wound, leaving a small trail while going up. She stepped onto the last step and looked over. Three men stood in the hallway. Two were guarding while the third was talking casually to them in Wutain. Even though Kaida was against back-stabbing she hated terrorists even more. With great force she sent her throwing star flying. It cut through the talking man, and the two guard were ready in an instant. A smoke bomb went flying and in no time Kaida couldn't see a thing.
Within moments she was pinned up against the wall and her shuriken was removed from her hands by a blonde haired guard. The other guard had his gun to her head, ready to shoot but the blonde shook his head.
"It's about time boss gets a new toy to play with anyway. Her being Shinra scum won't do any good for her but boss will have fun torturing her," He said with a light Wutain accent.
"Yeah, you're right there," The other said in agreement. The smoke began to clear and both the men looked to the side to see Sephiroth standing there. They both temporarily froze. So surprised by the man.
"Sssep-" The man who had Kaida pinned began to say but was knocked out of consciousness by the Turk. She grabbed the seconds gun and pointed it at him. She snapped it out of his hand and shot him.
"You okay?" The general asked, genuinely concerned. She gave him a nod but didn't formally answer until she put a couple bullets in the knocked out guard.
"I've had worse done," She said with a sweet tone and picked up her shuriken.
"Shame," Sephiroth mumbled, "I would've helped you but it was too risky."
"Comprehensible General, he had a gun to my head," Kaida nodded her head to the door the guards had protected. Sephiroth had enough of Kaida playing leader. He had tried not to pull rank, or be sexist but her leg was hurt and she had just been touched.
First thing into the door a shot-gun was shot at Sephiroth. Tiny pieces of lead filled his shoulder and he cried out in pain. The pressure from the blast sent him flying backward into the wall behind him. Kaida jumped in front of him afterwards, and cast a stop spell at the man with the shotgun. The three scantly clad girls around him gasped and jumped out of bed. Each of them held a simple dagger. Kaida frowned. Whoever wasn't killed was to be taken. She couldn't take anymore than one with Sephiroth hurt so she decided that she'd have to kill them.
The three girls ran at her with daggers held in their fist. She used her shuriken to slice each one of them in the stomach. They fell back screaming. After that she took a small gun and shot each in the head. A clean, quick kill to each.
"Don't fuck with Shinra," She slowly said with a sorrow-filled tone. She looked back at Sephiroth who had just gotten up. From her pocket she took her PHS and dialed up Lesca.
"Lesca the slightly insane," The brunette answered pleasantly.
"Hey, start up the engines. I need you down here as quick as possible," Kaida said with urgency in her voice. She trusted her to trance her PHS signal that every Turk phone had. She pocketed the phone and looked over the generals wound. He seemed to be ignoring it as he beat Takehiko with the hilt of his masamune.
"What in the fuck did you intend to do to her?" Sephiroth hissed, she was astounded by his behavoir. Maybe he had really hated what the two guards said outside. "Maggots like you don't deserve to live!" With one final hit with the hilt he was done, and the Susumu leader knocked out.
"Our medic is on the way," She said as she hooked her shuriken to her back, "I'll carry the man." She could see Sephiroth was about to protest but she stopped him by motioning to his shoulder. "You're bleeding bad Sephiroth. Focus on yourself, I'll take care of our hostage." She grabbed a hold of the mans feet and began to proudly drag him off the bed and onto the floor.
"Okay, just don't be gentle with his handling," Sephiroth encouraged.
"I won't," She said with a grin, procedding to drag him down the stairs.
A minute later they were outside in front of the house waiting for Lesca. Kaida noticed Sephiroth beginning to sway slightly. He had lost a lot of blood. She slipped underneath his arm hugged his side. She didn't want him to fall and hit his head. Lesca arrived just after that, and she was out of the helicopter quick. Her eyes widened; she hadn't expected a dying Sephiroth. No one did.
"Shit! Get him in the helicopter quick! We need to get him to Midgar. He has a rare type of blood and they don't have it here," Lesca ran over to her and went underneath Sephiroths other arm. They drug him over and put him in the helicopter. Kaida ran back and drug their prisoner into the helicopter. She jumped into the drivers seat and took off once the doors were closed.
"We have no less than thirty minutes to get him there or he's dead," Lesca groaned as she began to pick the lead out, "I don't want to be responsible for killing the general!"