Okay, So, I'm super excited for Dirge of Cerberus coming out on the 17th, so you can either expect loads and loads of chapters of this, or me not writing for a while, while I play the game. Haha, so, just be prepared!

Chapter Three:

I sat, nearly pressed against the window of the chopper, my head resting in my hands as the craft followed what seemed to me to be a giant, flying boat.

That man was too young to be my dad.

Twenty-three years?

I'm only eighteen…

Could I really be older?

No, I can't be…I'm too immature to be older.

But then again…I do have a pretty screwy life…

Seven Years Prior…

"I'm sure she'll be fine in your company, Professor Hojo…just please, I know my son is in training as of now, don't let her spend too much time with him." Carolin said as she dropped me off at what appeared to be a science lab…I remember not understanding why I was dropped at a Shinra facility when I wasn't allowed to have contact with them…except for Reno.

"You're Pente, aren't you?" a man with an insidious appearance, and sleek black hair tied into a ponytail, asked, attempting to look friendly with a smile of sharp, white teeth.

"Carolin says I shouldn't be in places like this." I said with the annoying, rude whine of a preteen. "I'm in a Shinra lab."

"That you are." The man said. "I'm Professor Hojo, it's nice to meet you."

"Flattered." I said, trying not to sound sarcastic, as we passed several people in lab coats. "And why do I need to be here?"

"Carolin, your guardian, believes that you should have a series of tests performed to check up on your current state." The Professor explained. "Nothing serious, just a little more than your routine checkup."

"But why did we have to come all the way to Midgar for it?" I asked, allowing my rudeness and annoyance become noticeable. "I had a doctor back in Nibelheim."

"It's just a procedure that needs to be performed to anyone who has been exposed to mako energy at an early age." He said, seeming to realize he let something important slip.

"So is that why I'm not allowed—" Professor Hojo stopped me and opened a door and brought me into a hopeless attempt in making a doctors office look friendly.

"Trust me, this isn't anything serious, it's the same routine I performed on your brother."

Reality

Brother…brother?

BROTHER!

"Rude," I said, catching his attention, because I was too mad to talk to Reno. The large man looked at me through his purple tinted shades, as he took a sip from a Styrofoam coffee cup. "Rude, I have a brother."

Fortunately, Reno had really good control over the chopper, seeing that Rude jumped a bit, spitting out a swig of coffee over the windshield.

"Damnit…" Reno hissed. "Thanks a lot, Cloud! Now she remembers!" He grabbed the controls of the chopper tighter and sped up to the giant flying boat, and requested entrance.

"I have a brother!" I shouted, running up to Vincent, who I'm skeptical to believe is my dad. "Why didn't I ever meet him! Who the hell is he! How old is he! Jesus, why the hell didn't Carolin tell me!"

"Because you would've tried to kill him if you knew his story." Cloud interrupted, answering for Vincent. "Your dad can't answer some of these questions until I answer them first."

" Oh, like I would've killed my brother!" I snapped. "I've been looking for my real family for years!"

"Well, now that you think about it," Reno added. "She has more like…well, a lot of brothers…and sisters too. Damn, I wonder if she has any hot ones."

I swung a kick at Reno. "Jesus, fucking Christ!" I shouted. "What the fuck is going on! Who's my brother? What the hell is this geostigma? What do you mean about 'a lot of brothers?' Mother, fucker!"

"Holy crap! Someone with a mouth worse than Barrett or Cid!" There was a balcony over the large, open sort of alcove we were in, and a girl with short, dark cropped hair was standing on it looking down. "Cloud, lemme talk to her, I think someone needs some girl talk!"

"Yuffie, leave us alone—"

"Don't tell me that it's mantalk, again!" she shouted. "Elena's down there!" The girl stepped back a bit and ran, jumping off the balcony.

"YUFFIE!" Reno greeted walking up to her, arms outspread. "How're my favorite little material thief!"

She smacked Reno to the side and walked past him, and up to me. Yuffie and me had to be the same age. "You're the girl that—"

"Yuffie, no." Cloud said, starting to shoo her away. Yuffie stood her ground and grabbed me by the arm, causing me to cringe.

"Cloud, I'm not backing out on this one!" she shouted, "I was just as involved in that fight with Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz as the rest of you were!"

"No you weren't!" Reno shouted to her from across the room. "You didn't get your ass kicked for hours on end!"

"I like that you're offering help," I winced. "But could you let go of my arm?" Yuffie grinned and let go of my arm, as that bruise looking spot throbbed with pain.

She let out a bit of a surprised shout. "She has geostigma! I thought that everyone was cured!"

"Apparently not, Yuf!" Reno called, seeming aggravated with her. "I see this girl every day, I live with her!"

Cloud looked at both of us with a seemingly shocked expression. "You live together!" he shouted.

"Calm down, Cloud," Vincent said. "Reno's mother is her legal guardian."

"Does that mean you're related?" Yuffie asked.

"No." it was in unison, the sound coming from both me and Reno at once, leaving a single sound.

Rude and Elena who were standing a few feet away from us, seemed to try to cover their laughing.

I could easily hear Elena mention something to Rude about how Reno and I would make a good couple.

"Vincent, stay here with Pente, I need to make sure Cid's on the right track." Cloud said, acting all uptight and heading up a staircase and through a door on the balcony.

"So, Vincey," Reno said, acting irritating by adding an "ee" sound to his name. "How's it to see your kid, again?"

"I wasn't expecting her hair to be such a normal color." He observed. "But, it still has some of the same shine."

I looked at Yuffie. "Vincent…he's really my dad, huh?" I asked, nudging her.

"Well, that's what Cloud said." She answered. "He said something about Kadaj talking about 'Sister.'"

"And why me?" I asked. Yuffie shrugged.

"Cloud won't say, Vincent won't either. He seems to kind of go all, 'Emo Man' when we asked him." She said.

I giggled at the phrase Emo Man.

"So, then…" I groaned and started for the stairs. "I'm askin' him!"

I heard Reno yell "Crap" really loudly as he ran after me. "Pente! C'mon, you gotta stay here!" he shouted.

"RENO SHUT UP!" I shouted, opening the door and stopping in my tracks. "Cloud…what do you mean by 'Sister?'

He was looking out a giant open window that showed a scenic view of the world below us. "Sephiroth…" he muttered, as I felt a strange sensation build up inside me.
"Who?" I asked, knowing the name was extremely familiar, I couldn't place from where though.

"Sephiroth." Cloud said again. "You're lucky. You've never met him." He was leaning against the side of the giant window at a spot where it curved. "Vincent told me that Professor Hojo didn't want you exposed to him…"

"Professor Hojo was my pediatrician." I corrected him, seeing Cloud look at me with gleaming mako eyes.

"That's probably what you were told." He said. "He was a doctor, but not a pediatrician."

"What's this Sephiroth have to do with me?" I asked, standing just a few feet behind him. "It's not like—"

"Tell her Vincent." Cloud said, as I turned around to see him standing just inches from me, red eyes looking empty and emotionless.

"Have you ever heard of the possibility for twins having different fathers?" he asked. "That's your case. Half twins, perhaps, two different fathers—"

"My mother was a whore!" I shouted, giving up, seeing Vincent send me what I thought was a death glare.

"No, she was part of an experiment with JENOVA cells." He corrected. "And part of that experiment was to impregnate her." He went on, explaining about how he and my mother were in a very passionate, sexual relationship, and how Professor Hojo was only slightly informed, but yet succeeded in planting a second child in my mother, literally days before my mom became aware she was pregnant with me.

I had two dads…and one mom…And I had a twin brother out there somewhere, who was somehow five years older than I was.

"Sooo…this Sepharoast—"

"Sephiroth." Cloud and Vincent corrected.

"Right, Sephiroth, he's my…brother?" I asked, noticing Cloud was growing more and more annoyed with me.

"You share JENOVA cells with him." Cloud said. "Technically, the two of us are the last real links to him. Sephiroth had replicas made of him, clones if you want to call them that, but from our knowledge, we've disposed of them all. Even JENOVA herself."

"But, explain to me how I'm younger than my younger twin?" I asked. "By five years."

"Professor Hojo was a sick man." Vincent hissed. "He believed that you were going to interfere with Sephiroths development." Vincent crossed his arms, a slightly clinking noise when his hand touched his long, golden replacement. "He took you, as just an infant, and imprisoned you in one of those…tombs. When the time was right, he released you, and placed you in the care of a childhood friend of mine—"

"Carolin was your friend!" I shouted. "She'd rather eat me alive than raise me!"

Cloud laughed and mentioned something about the town being filled with actors.

"I see he ignored my request then…" Vincent sighed, running the clawed hand through his hair.

"What about my memory?" Vincent smiled.

"I know what you're talking about." He said. "I believe it was a dream we shared while we were both encased in those coffins. I was imprisoned in one for many years. That's how I can explain being your father. As for the memory, it's false, trust me on that, they were nothing more than an image placed in your mind by the technology of Shinra."

"We need to get you to Midgar." Cloud said, leaving his position of leaning on the glass and heading towards the door. "Tifa's got a room set up for you and Reno—"

"WHAT!" I shouted, following him out the door. "Why do I have to share a room with Reno!"

I stopped seeing Reno standing in my way. "Cloud told me that there's only one bed." He said, quirkily raising and lowering his eyebrows.
"Then you're sleeping on the floor." I grumbled, pushing past him, as he grabbed me by the hand.

"Pente," he said, looking at me with a smile. "I don't want you getting hurt."

"Thanks, Ren," I muttered as I started up towards another flight of stairs as Reno walked next to me. "I'm just…AAAARH!" I grabbed my hair by the roots and slammed my head into Reno's shoulder. "I'm so confused! Why the hell couldn't I have had a normal life!"

Reno laughed and jokingly put his arm around my shoulders. "Pente, what is normal anyways?" he asked. "Lookit me, my hair is naturally this color! Rude…he's in love with his fricken' sunglasses! Cloud! How the hell did he get his hair to stay like that! Yuffie's a NINJA!"

I smiled. "Alright, alright…I get it." I laughed, as I grabbed the doorknob of my temporary room.
"See, things aren't all bad." He said, as I opened the door, "But they…might get worse…." He backed up a bit, and I looked in to the room.

It was red, with a heard shaped bed, dim lights and a hot tub in the corner. I looked at Reno who was starting to back away more.

Somewhere on the ship…Cloud was laughing.