Recap: Inu and co are in FF7 world. Sesshomaru went off on his own. The FF gang is about to explain the "planet is going to die" thing.
(A.N: I am not using the Inuyasha movies as a background for the inu characters, as far as I'm concerned they never happened. I also discovered that the signs I used to indicate that someone was speaking does not appear on I'll have to find another way…)
Sesshomaru P.O.V.
The full blooded youkai had gone out on his own, climbing the shell-stair thing, climbing the cave walls and out into the open. What he found was unexpected. He gazed at the frozen horizon. Every inch of earth was covered in snow and it was cold, really cold. Snowflakes were falling endlessly, driven by a cold wind Sesshomaru's hair and eyelashes were covered with snow.
In what kind of hellish world am I? He thought. Being a Japan youkai, snow was an extremely rare thing which he had seen only once in his life. It was a long time ago, he had been but a small pup, he had always had trouble showing his emotions and voicing his thoughts, but he remembered the one night where he had seen his first flakes. It was before his mom had left them because of that human tramp (Inuyasha's mom), he still remembered his mother's smiling face as she saw the snow. It had been peaceful times.
He focused once again on the landscape. He wondered if there was anyone who lived in these frozen lands. The royal youkai set off to look for signs of life. He saw huge mountains on his right side forming a huge wall. Normally he could summon his cloud-like thing to make him glide over them, but with all the snow it would be impossible to do so. It was impossible for him to pick up scents as well.
He started walking along the chain of mountains' bases, that way he would be sure that he wasn't walking in circles. After a while, he saw something moving just ahead. He doubled his pace only to find what seemed to be a huge red eyed rabbit, holding a carrot as one would hold a sword.
What is this trickery? He thought as he gazed the odd thing. It turned to face him and , suddenly, attacked. Hopping toward Sesshomaru at great speed holding it's carrot as knight do their lances.
Sesshomaru effectively blocked and slashed the rabbit with his poisonous talons. The poison ate at the rabbit skins, disintegrating it completely. Sesshomaru regained his composure. This was no hallucination, it had been weak, but real.
He continued his walk until he saw wooden houses up ahead. There was someone alive in this damn icy land. He went into the village only to see that it was full of humans. Filthy, weak humans. He could not believe it. How could they survive in such conditions?
Children were laughing as they threw each other snowballs and others were sliding down a snow hill. Adults were either talking, repairing a roof or making a snowman. Everyone seemed happy and had a heavy winter coat on. The houses were looking like small manors. It wasn't like the shacks people lived in where Sesshomaru ruled.
The people who were talking noticed him and started looking afraid all of a sudden. Is it possible that they have heard of me? He thought. It was strictly impossible and he knew that. He didn't know what to think of it exactly.
He could only hear a bit of what they were saying "He looks like-" ; "Could it-" ; "…Heard he was scarier than-". Sesshomaru lost his patience.
Sesshomaru leaped gracefully, landing beside the talking humans. He effortlessly grabbed one by the neck and lifted him of the ground. He held him solidly enough to show he was powerful, but loosely enough to let him breathe, a bit.
"What, what are you doing!" Shrieked the other human. His face was as white as the snow that covered everything. His eyes were white with terror and his mouth twisted in a tight frown. "You're him, you're Sephiroth I knew it!" He continued hysterical.
"Who is this Sephiroth? Is he the master of this land?" Sesshomaru asked calmly. He wanted information. He could get it his own way, unlike that foolish half brother of his.
"You're not him? You don't know him? Who are you?" The trembling villager asked, on the edge of hysteria.
"Am I not him. Who is he? Sesshomaru asked, tightening his grip on the poor villager who was, by now, somewhat blue-ish.
"He's the one who wants to destroy the world and send meteor down. He's one of the most powerful men on this planet." The villager blabbered. Sesshomaru looked up and saw a huge red rock, coming towards the earth. The days were now numbered
"Where is he?" Sesshomaru asked. If this Sephiroth was as powerful as this villager claimed, he could be a profitable ally in this crazy world. Anyway, Sesshomaru would have to either reason him or beat sense into him, because the youkai might not care what happened to the rest of the planet, but he still wanted to live…
"He's in the northern crater over there." The villager pointed a crater indeed, but there seemed to be a barrier around it. Sesshomaru was determined. Noting, not even a barrier would stop him from surviving. There was no way he was going to die with the rest of human filth.
Sesshomaru let the human he was holding fall to the ground and "humph"ed. He started walking to the north, the crater.
Meanwhile, Inu and co had just entered the highwind (FF7 gang's plane)
Kagome entered the reunion room, a large, round table stood in the middle of this surprisingly small room. Shippo was on Kagome's shoulder looking bored stiff and about to snooze off. Inuyasha was standing silently in a corner and Miroku was busy trying to grope Sango.
The old, floating man entered the room followed by Red XIII, the huge red, Indian looking cat. The man went to the end of the table, floating over it.
"As you all know, we cannot explain how or why you came here, we do not have all the answers, but the least we can do is explain the situation. You are now on a planet that is in an imminent danger of destruction. I will try to explain as much as I can with my grandfather." The giant cat said, swinging his glow in the dark tail around.
"A man named Sephiroth was an extraordinary SOLDIER, it a military force for the SHINRA, the government. Five years ago, he got a mission, to investigate a mako reactor. A reactor is something that uses mako energy, life, and transforms it in power, like electricity. He was sent there because monsters were attacking the villagers and seemed to be coming from the mountain, where the reactor was. Sephiroth, though he had never met his mother, had always been sure that her name was JENOVA. Once he went into the reactor, he saw a sealed door with her name on it. There were also pods with humans that had been infused with mako energy to become more powerful, instead, they became monsters." The old man paused to cough a bit.
Red XIII continued: "Sephiroth had always known that he was different and seeing this disturbed him. He locked himself in the SHINRA's mansion's basement. He knew the government kept documents there. He read everything that he could find. From these books and research notes, Sephiroth gathered that 2000 years ago an ancient race had roamed the Planet, with the ability to find a land of supreme happiness. They had, unfortunately, completely died out; however, a living specimen believed to be of Ancient, or Cetra, descent was found confined in the geological stratum. It was named JENOVA, and around it the JENOVA Project was built. It sought to replicate the powers of the Cetra in the next-generation SOLDIER members, who would not only have superior magic strength but would also be able to lead Shinra Inc. to the Promised Land, where a seemingly infinite supply of Mako would be sure to exist. Sephiroth was the first of these super-SOLDIERs. Sickened, Sephiroth isolated himself in the mansion."
"One day, he came out. He was different. He soon set the whole village on fire killing countless habitant. He had decided to join his mother and help her find paradise. Help her find what rightfully belonged to her. What Sephiroth doesn't know is that JENOVA is not really a member of the Cetra nor is she his real mother. His real mother was a woman named Lucrecia. During an experiment she was injected with JENOVA's cells and then gave birth to Sephiroth."
"Yeah, but why is he so dangerous? Why is the planet dying?" Miroku asked, taking in all this information.
"I was getting there" The old man said. " While Sephiroth was at the reactor his body was badly damaged. It was transported to the northern crater and sealed in mako. His mind was strong enough to have a physical form. With it, he claimed to black material and made it merge with his body. He was now able to summon a meteor to crush the planet. You see, if the planet is damaged it shall concentrate it's mako energy on the wound to heal it thus giving it power. Sephiroth wanted the planet concentrate ALL of it's energy on the problem, him. He thought that it was the way to paradise, to help him mother. Aeris, the girl Tifa and Cloud were fighting about, was the last descendant of the Cetra. She sacrificed herself to help us. The ancients were able to use what we call the white materia, it uses the power of the souls of the dead and has formidable power. She died activating it and something is stopping the materia of having it's effect."
"Wow…" Was the only thing they could say. All of this was required information for them to go about in this world, but it was still shocking beyond words.
An employee came into the room and said: "We're going back to cosmos canyon to spend the night. Okay, everybody?" Everyone nodded in response even though some of them didn't know where that was.
Once they got to destination, RedXIII's grandfather left to go to his observatory on the top of the small mountain. Meanwhile, the others were going to the inn (Which magically has a room for everybody on the contrary of the game where there was only one)
Kagome sat on her bed, hearing the mattress squeak. This city smelled dirty, like a forest after some heavy rain. They were more evolved then her own modern Japan and in some way less. It was a much more magical world, then she had ever thought what with all this paradise and mako thing…
She sighed. When was she ever going to get home? Was she even going to survive? Her mind kept drifting from one topic to the other when she finally thought about Tifa. That girl had gone through something hard, something so much like Kagome herself had gone through. It was almost eerie. She had always heard that love triangles were everywhere. There was one in pretty much every romance novel on earth. She knew it wasn't very common that it was with a dead girl though. Kagome knew how lonely it could get…
But, does she know that she's not alone. Kagome thought. It seemed important that Tifa knew that someone understood her. That someone would be beside her and who knew…
Kagome jumped out of bed, dressed up and decided to go see Tifa. It wasn't all that late too so she was pretty sure that Tifa was awake. Kagome stepped out into the well-lit corridor. She walked down to Tifa's room and knocked on the door.
"Who's there?" Came a sleek voice. It wasn't drowsy or anything. Conclusion, Tifa had not been sleeping.
"Um… it's me Kagome." She said, her voice coming out way too high pitched. She wondered what was wrong with her vocal cords.
The door opened in from of her. Tifa was standing on the other side, dressed in her usual attire: short, black skirt with a tight belt, a white t-shirt with leaved her belly exposed and long black gloves. Tifa's chocolate brown eyes felt like they were drilling holes in Kagome's soul.
"Come on in then." Kagome did as she was told and sat down on the bed. Wouldn't that be suggestive? You come into her room and first thing you do, you go on her bed. Her mind told her. She blushed a bit. Where the hell had THAT thought just come out of.
Tifa quickly brought her attention back on the reason of her visit. "Oh, um. I just wanted to say, um… You know what you said back in the city of the ancients… about how Cloud chose a dead girl over you?"
"Yes, what about it?" Tifa said, sitting down on the bed beside Kagome.
Kagome felt the temptation of touching Tifa, touching her hair, it looked so soft. "I went through something similar." Kagome said. "Inuyasha, the one with the kitty ears, his first love was a miko named Kikyo. I am actually her reincarnation. I know, it sounds weird. When Inuyasha thought she was dead, he loved me, he didn't exactly said it, but I knew. When she came back…" Kagome paused to bite back tears" When she came back, I was only a copy of his undead first love. I was nothing once again. He chose the dead over me." Kagome looked deeply into Tifa's eyes and said:" I just wanted you to know that you weren't alone. Other people suffer because the memories of the dead eats away at the present."
"Kagome, I…" Tifa said as she ,slowly, got closer to Kagome. Kagome put an arm around Tifa and got closer as well.
Just then, Cloud burst into the room. Tifa and Kagome literally jumped away of one another. Both blushing furiously.
"Haven't you ever heard of knocking!" Tifa yelled at Cloud. She was still beet red, Cloud thought it was from rage of course.
"We have an emergency, a Weapon (Big, ugly, powerful monster) is on it's way to attack Midgar!" Cloud said.
Both girls followed Cloud, ready for battle.