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====================================================================== Power of the Turks: Part Four ======================================================================
PART FOUR: George's story ======================================================================
--------------- Disclaimer:
All rights and privileges to Final Fantasy VII and its characters belong to Square Co., Ltd. The characters of this series are used without permission for the purpose of entertainment only. This work of fiction is not meant for sale or profit.
All original characters are the creation of the author. All copyright privileges to these characters are reserved for the author.
--------------- Author's notes:
WARNING: Violence, Adult language and subject matter.
This is a CONTINUATION - ALTERNATE REALITY Final Fantasy VII fanfic. It contains major SPOILERS for the game.
--------------- Text Conventions
( ) are character thoughts
/ /, // // and /- -/ are mental dialogue
[ ] are miscellaneous effects
-- and are flashbacks ======================================================================
All the major executives and a few extra's were at the party. The Shinra mansion had recently been restored and was looking very high class. The lighting and setup was marvelous. The music was a well-orchestrated piano number. Vincent had built the mansion 30 and half years ago. Later Shinra began using it for experiments on the mountain. Something Vincent wasn't too happy with but decided that Shinra could have it for up to five years and formed a lease with Shinra. The president decided that if Vincent would max it at five years than it would be enough. He didn't want to cross Vincent considering his fears of Vincent.
It was a little past midnight and Vincent, Gast, George, Sephiroth, Aeris, Zack, and Lucrecia were all talking.
"So tell me Gast. How did you happen to return," Lucrecia asked.
"Well I think that should be explained by Strife. He knows about it more than me," Gast answered.
"Sure, I'll tell," George started.
"I was just leaving the lab when someone came running down from the mountains shouting that there was a strange sound coming from the reactor. I didn't recognize the man, or anyone for that matter. Someone else was using my house and when I asked about the old residents she told be that they was the old resident. Now she looked to be about 49 and I don't remember any 26-year-old living in my house. In fact I don't remember a 5- year-old living in that house when I bought it. When I asked around and got the same kinds of answers I decided something was wrong with the town.
"I went up into the mountains to see what was going on. Besides I wanted to get away from the town. On the way up I encountered a bluish back creature that looked similar to a Stilva. I decided that it might be a Materia Keeper since the mako reactor on the mountain has produced such a thing. I fought the creature off and continued up towards the reactor. When I got there I saw a strange body lying on the catwalk. I didn't know who it was but considering he was dripping with mako I decided to help. He looked like he was out of breath and was in the mako pool for about 5 years considering the slight materia crusting around him. I figured he had to have climbed out of the mako pool. That would explain his exhaustion and it seemed to me that he was the one making the strange noise. Lastly he looked like his sanity was not too good. And like he was under some ones control and he was doing his best to fight the feeling.
"I chose to bring him down here so I could treat him. But as I was leaving a figure appeared in the mako pool. This person turned out to be female and in the same condition as the man. I searched franticly for a rope or chain so I could climb down to her and get her out. When I found one I tied one end to the catwalk and the other to my waist. I than descended down to remove the girl.
"When I was climbing back up to the catwalk a third figure emerged. This person I recognized to be Professor Gast. He seemed to just form out of the Lifestream. I guess that might be where the others came from."
"Well I'd say the Lifestream must have preserved the two others. It does do that you know," Lucrecia said.
"True, true. When I got the girl up on the catwalk and began to descend Gast woke up. The first thing he did was say a curse to Hojo, than he looked around. When he saw that he was in the mako pool he began to call for help. By that time I was close enough to reach him and responded to his call. When he saw me he stopped calling and a relieved look came over his face.
"I carried him up and examined him. He was not like the other two and was in good health. So I asked him to examine the other two since he was more of a medical doctor than me."
"They had a severe case of mako poisoning from the looks of it. That's all I could think of and decided to get them to care," Gast stated. "He suggested the mansion and I agreed."
We carried them down the mountains and dropped them off in the bedroom. Once we had them in bed we began to examine them more to see what they were like.
The man I guessed was 25 years of age and about 6' 1" tall. The girl looked about 22 and was about 5' 3" tall. On further examination we determined that she had been in the Lifestream for a month. We also confirmed my guess about how long the man was in the Lifestream. The Lifestream in the man's cloths looked like he had been in the Nibelhem reactor for the entire time he was in the Lifestream. The girl looked like he came from the north. Gast would you like to go on with the story," George finished.
"Yes I would. When we examined the girls DNA I discovered that she was a Cetra. Her genetics were also slightly like mine. That at the time seemed odd.
"It took them a few days to come to. The girl was the first to awaken.
"When she woke up we asked her who she was and why she was in the Lifestream. She answered that here name was Aeris Gainsborough and that she had no clue why she was in the Lifestream.
"When I heard the name I figured she might be my daughter," Gast finished.
"I had no clue as to when Gast had a daughter so I asked him. He explained that after the Jenova project he began to travel from place to place so that he could study the Planet," George said.
"I had gone to Cosmo Canyon first since I figured that would be an excellent place to start. Indeed I was right. The Cetra or someone with excessive knowledge of the Planet must have taught the people there. That is also where I met a few of the remaining Pyronth kaninths, or Fire-Tail Wolves. I decided to check up on some of my research and found from one of the elders that the Fire-Tail Wolves had evolved from the Cetra due to Jenovan Mutations. It also seams that the beast have a human form that can reproduce from a human or Cetra due to genetic properties. But they halve to be in human form for it to work.," Gast finished.
At the time the people had been listening very attentively. A few more guests had been standing by the door listening to the story. Nanaki was one of them and was glad that he might be able to learn something about himself. Aeris had been sipping a glass of Wutain wine when she heard the last statement. She didn't hear it before while in recovery. The wine soon flew as she spat out what was in her mouth and broke the glass that she was holding.
"You mean to tell me that can actually happen. Good god I can't believe that old bastard could have actually got more specimens. Oh wait. You said human form right," She finished.
"Yes. You done ranting," Gast answered.
"Tee hee. Poor old man must have misunderstood the documents than. So it would have been unsuccessful after all," Aeris said.
"What are you talking about? Did Hojo try to mate you with something," Zack said.
"I would be that thing. I guess Hojo made a flaw in his plan," Nanaki said.
"Well let me continue. After I spent a year in Cosmo Canyon and had helped Bugenhagen set up the observatory and understand things more on the scientific side I left. I moved on to Gongaga. A once peaceful town that had a mako reactor last I saw it. It seems the reactor was destroyed. I do recall meeting your parents there young Zack. They had just married if I'm correct."
"Right. This year should be there 29 anniversary," Zack answered.
"Around then," Gast started, "I found out that I was being searched for by the company. I was taken and placed on a research team for SOLDIER. It was there that I first met Sephiroth. But he was young and was in about as much torment as Valentine went through. I taught him as much as I could in the few years that I was there before I managed to escape from Midgar. He was 7 when I left. I had traveled north and learned of the Northern crater. I decided to see what I could learn from the area and discovered that the Cetra once inhabited the continent.
"I also met up with a young Cetra that was one of the last and fell in love. Her name was ifalna and she taught me many things about the planet, Jenova, and the Cetra. I was corrected on many occasions and began to right the new info down. By the time I was done I was a father. You should probably know the rest if you've been to my house."
"So that's it. Well we all know the relation now," Aeris said, "I also told them my story. I think by now Hojo might be wishing he was a cat if he is still alive."
"She did tell us some perplexing things," George started, "For instance she said the man who killed her was Sephiroth. Now considering she had only been in the Lifestream for a month, and Sephiroth five years, we didn't quite get it.
"She told us of her relation and Gast pulled me into a closet and told me that she had to be his daughter.
"When we entered the room she was sitting up and was clearly awake. She looked up and asked Gast whom he was. It was clear to me that she didn't know him. On the other hand she some how recognized me and I haven't been away from Nibelhem for 30 years. Not to mention that I don't remember any visitors in the 14 years that I was on the surface. Worse of all she called me Cloud."
(Watch your tongue Strife. I hope you aren't hinting about my special workshop, Vincent thought.)
"We decided to let her rest and get some rest of our own," Gast said. "The next day we took a blood test of the man. We found that he had a plentiful amount of Jenova cells in his blood. We also found that he was having a bit of a mental struggle. But that was common for someone who had been overdosed with mako poisoning added with that high amount of Jenova.
"Both me and Gast noticed that at that time there was a reddish light coming from the Far East. So we went out side to check it out. To our shock we saw a big meteor slowly drifting towards Midgar at a rate of 500 ft per minute. It was about a mile above Midgar at the time.
"We went back inside to see how the man was doing. When we walked in he arose suddenly and looked like he was having a nightmare. I guess you could call his struggle a nightmare.
"We waited a few minutes before talking to him. When we came close to him he began to demand his sword. When I asked him what his sword was like Gast jumped and showed that huge 6 footer that I found. When the man saw the sword he told us that that was his sword, and that it was called Masamune. When Gast handed the man the Masamune to the man he stated that he recognized Gast. The man even said Gast's name in a delighted tone.
"I decided to let Gast and the man talk and see what we could get out of him. He told us that his name was Sephiroth and that he was 25 years of age. We also learned that he was the General of SOLDIER.
"While Gast was talking to Sephiroth I studied his bodily functions. Most of his functions were normal for his size. I also took another blood sample. What I found was astounding. There wasn't a single cell of Jenova or drop of mako in his blood or body. He was pure to the core. He somehow went from having a critical mix of mako and Jenova in his body to having nothing in a half hour. Could explain why he seemed normal now.
"After a few minutes he was able to walk. He wanted to leave the mansion for some reason. He seemed to be afraid of it. We asked him why and he told us all he could remember. Gast was infuriated at what he heard. He went down into the library and burned all of the books that contained false information. He than replaced them with facts and returned to the room we were in. We decided to tell him what we knew. He was quite astonished at what he heard," George stopped to rest.
"Before you go on Strife, would you mind skipping the next part," Sephiroth said.
"Oh it's not that bad," Gast said. So what if we strapped you down and stuffed a sock in your mouth."
Lucrecia laughed, "Let me guess. Had to do with Hojo, right."
"Indeed," Gast replied, "he almost went insane after hearing that. Well anyways once we calmed him all four of us went outside. We saw that Meteor was starting to tear up Midgar. Aeris told us that 'Holy' wasn't trying to stop it and was helping Meteor. She also said that was a very bad thing for Midgar. Sephiroth was as perplexed as George and I were about that statement. Than I realized that Aeris had the power to help and told her to pray to the Lifestream for help, which it did.
"We watched as Meteor and the Lifestream struggled. To our surprise Holy tried to stop Meteor! But than again Meteor wasn't doing so well. The Lifestream managed to push it away from Midgar but Meteor cam back at Midgar and aimed at Sector 7. But it didn't penetrating the ground when it hit. My guess is that the shelter underneath Sector 7 was holding it back. The next thing that we saw was the Lifestream pushing Meteor up towards the atmosphere and destroying it."
"Well I guess that ends our story. The rest of it was just the trip over to Junon. Nothing else is rally interesting other than a big red monster in the Gold Saucer Desert," George finished.
"So Ruby Weapon is back," Vincent said. Well we better get ready to announce to the people the positions, ranks, and plans."
"Lets go hun," Lucrecia said.
For the rest of the night Vincent and his friends told of the design and the people celebrated. Soon the world would seam at peace and the people would truly be happy...
Or will they.
A/N: I have been working on this story for a wile. I started the rough draft last year. Tell me what you think about my story. Also From here it's going to get crazy. I may also have to adjust the rating in later chapters for gore so consider this an early warning. Please give me a review. Oh up next A Time of Peace.
====================================================================== Power of the Turks: Part Four ======================================================================
PART FOUR: George's story ======================================================================
--------------- Disclaimer:
All rights and privileges to Final Fantasy VII and its characters belong to Square Co., Ltd. The characters of this series are used without permission for the purpose of entertainment only. This work of fiction is not meant for sale or profit.
All original characters are the creation of the author. All copyright privileges to these characters are reserved for the author.
--------------- Author's notes:
WARNING: Violence, Adult language and subject matter.
This is a CONTINUATION - ALTERNATE REALITY Final Fantasy VII fanfic. It contains major SPOILERS for the game.
--------------- Text Conventions
( ) are character thoughts
/ /, // // and /- -/ are mental dialogue
[ ] are miscellaneous effects
-- and are flashbacks ======================================================================
All the major executives and a few extra's were at the party. The Shinra mansion had recently been restored and was looking very high class. The lighting and setup was marvelous. The music was a well-orchestrated piano number. Vincent had built the mansion 30 and half years ago. Later Shinra began using it for experiments on the mountain. Something Vincent wasn't too happy with but decided that Shinra could have it for up to five years and formed a lease with Shinra. The president decided that if Vincent would max it at five years than it would be enough. He didn't want to cross Vincent considering his fears of Vincent.
It was a little past midnight and Vincent, Gast, George, Sephiroth, Aeris, Zack, and Lucrecia were all talking.
"So tell me Gast. How did you happen to return," Lucrecia asked.
"Well I think that should be explained by Strife. He knows about it more than me," Gast answered.
"Sure, I'll tell," George started.
"I was just leaving the lab when someone came running down from the mountains shouting that there was a strange sound coming from the reactor. I didn't recognize the man, or anyone for that matter. Someone else was using my house and when I asked about the old residents she told be that they was the old resident. Now she looked to be about 49 and I don't remember any 26-year-old living in my house. In fact I don't remember a 5- year-old living in that house when I bought it. When I asked around and got the same kinds of answers I decided something was wrong with the town.
"I went up into the mountains to see what was going on. Besides I wanted to get away from the town. On the way up I encountered a bluish back creature that looked similar to a Stilva. I decided that it might be a Materia Keeper since the mako reactor on the mountain has produced such a thing. I fought the creature off and continued up towards the reactor. When I got there I saw a strange body lying on the catwalk. I didn't know who it was but considering he was dripping with mako I decided to help. He looked like he was out of breath and was in the mako pool for about 5 years considering the slight materia crusting around him. I figured he had to have climbed out of the mako pool. That would explain his exhaustion and it seemed to me that he was the one making the strange noise. Lastly he looked like his sanity was not too good. And like he was under some ones control and he was doing his best to fight the feeling.
"I chose to bring him down here so I could treat him. But as I was leaving a figure appeared in the mako pool. This person turned out to be female and in the same condition as the man. I searched franticly for a rope or chain so I could climb down to her and get her out. When I found one I tied one end to the catwalk and the other to my waist. I than descended down to remove the girl.
"When I was climbing back up to the catwalk a third figure emerged. This person I recognized to be Professor Gast. He seemed to just form out of the Lifestream. I guess that might be where the others came from."
"Well I'd say the Lifestream must have preserved the two others. It does do that you know," Lucrecia said.
"True, true. When I got the girl up on the catwalk and began to descend Gast woke up. The first thing he did was say a curse to Hojo, than he looked around. When he saw that he was in the mako pool he began to call for help. By that time I was close enough to reach him and responded to his call. When he saw me he stopped calling and a relieved look came over his face.
"I carried him up and examined him. He was not like the other two and was in good health. So I asked him to examine the other two since he was more of a medical doctor than me."
"They had a severe case of mako poisoning from the looks of it. That's all I could think of and decided to get them to care," Gast stated. "He suggested the mansion and I agreed."
We carried them down the mountains and dropped them off in the bedroom. Once we had them in bed we began to examine them more to see what they were like.
The man I guessed was 25 years of age and about 6' 1" tall. The girl looked about 22 and was about 5' 3" tall. On further examination we determined that she had been in the Lifestream for a month. We also confirmed my guess about how long the man was in the Lifestream. The Lifestream in the man's cloths looked like he had been in the Nibelhem reactor for the entire time he was in the Lifestream. The girl looked like he came from the north. Gast would you like to go on with the story," George finished.
"Yes I would. When we examined the girls DNA I discovered that she was a Cetra. Her genetics were also slightly like mine. That at the time seemed odd.
"It took them a few days to come to. The girl was the first to awaken.
"When she woke up we asked her who she was and why she was in the Lifestream. She answered that here name was Aeris Gainsborough and that she had no clue why she was in the Lifestream.
"When I heard the name I figured she might be my daughter," Gast finished.
"I had no clue as to when Gast had a daughter so I asked him. He explained that after the Jenova project he began to travel from place to place so that he could study the Planet," George said.
"I had gone to Cosmo Canyon first since I figured that would be an excellent place to start. Indeed I was right. The Cetra or someone with excessive knowledge of the Planet must have taught the people there. That is also where I met a few of the remaining Pyronth kaninths, or Fire-Tail Wolves. I decided to check up on some of my research and found from one of the elders that the Fire-Tail Wolves had evolved from the Cetra due to Jenovan Mutations. It also seams that the beast have a human form that can reproduce from a human or Cetra due to genetic properties. But they halve to be in human form for it to work.," Gast finished.
At the time the people had been listening very attentively. A few more guests had been standing by the door listening to the story. Nanaki was one of them and was glad that he might be able to learn something about himself. Aeris had been sipping a glass of Wutain wine when she heard the last statement. She didn't hear it before while in recovery. The wine soon flew as she spat out what was in her mouth and broke the glass that she was holding.
"You mean to tell me that can actually happen. Good god I can't believe that old bastard could have actually got more specimens. Oh wait. You said human form right," She finished.
"Yes. You done ranting," Gast answered.
"Tee hee. Poor old man must have misunderstood the documents than. So it would have been unsuccessful after all," Aeris said.
"What are you talking about? Did Hojo try to mate you with something," Zack said.
"I would be that thing. I guess Hojo made a flaw in his plan," Nanaki said.
"Well let me continue. After I spent a year in Cosmo Canyon and had helped Bugenhagen set up the observatory and understand things more on the scientific side I left. I moved on to Gongaga. A once peaceful town that had a mako reactor last I saw it. It seems the reactor was destroyed. I do recall meeting your parents there young Zack. They had just married if I'm correct."
"Right. This year should be there 29 anniversary," Zack answered.
"Around then," Gast started, "I found out that I was being searched for by the company. I was taken and placed on a research team for SOLDIER. It was there that I first met Sephiroth. But he was young and was in about as much torment as Valentine went through. I taught him as much as I could in the few years that I was there before I managed to escape from Midgar. He was 7 when I left. I had traveled north and learned of the Northern crater. I decided to see what I could learn from the area and discovered that the Cetra once inhabited the continent.
"I also met up with a young Cetra that was one of the last and fell in love. Her name was ifalna and she taught me many things about the planet, Jenova, and the Cetra. I was corrected on many occasions and began to right the new info down. By the time I was done I was a father. You should probably know the rest if you've been to my house."
"So that's it. Well we all know the relation now," Aeris said, "I also told them my story. I think by now Hojo might be wishing he was a cat if he is still alive."
"She did tell us some perplexing things," George started, "For instance she said the man who killed her was Sephiroth. Now considering she had only been in the Lifestream for a month, and Sephiroth five years, we didn't quite get it.
"She told us of her relation and Gast pulled me into a closet and told me that she had to be his daughter.
"When we entered the room she was sitting up and was clearly awake. She looked up and asked Gast whom he was. It was clear to me that she didn't know him. On the other hand she some how recognized me and I haven't been away from Nibelhem for 30 years. Not to mention that I don't remember any visitors in the 14 years that I was on the surface. Worse of all she called me Cloud."
(Watch your tongue Strife. I hope you aren't hinting about my special workshop, Vincent thought.)
"We decided to let her rest and get some rest of our own," Gast said. "The next day we took a blood test of the man. We found that he had a plentiful amount of Jenova cells in his blood. We also found that he was having a bit of a mental struggle. But that was common for someone who had been overdosed with mako poisoning added with that high amount of Jenova.
"Both me and Gast noticed that at that time there was a reddish light coming from the Far East. So we went out side to check it out. To our shock we saw a big meteor slowly drifting towards Midgar at a rate of 500 ft per minute. It was about a mile above Midgar at the time.
"We went back inside to see how the man was doing. When we walked in he arose suddenly and looked like he was having a nightmare. I guess you could call his struggle a nightmare.
"We waited a few minutes before talking to him. When we came close to him he began to demand his sword. When I asked him what his sword was like Gast jumped and showed that huge 6 footer that I found. When the man saw the sword he told us that that was his sword, and that it was called Masamune. When Gast handed the man the Masamune to the man he stated that he recognized Gast. The man even said Gast's name in a delighted tone.
"I decided to let Gast and the man talk and see what we could get out of him. He told us that his name was Sephiroth and that he was 25 years of age. We also learned that he was the General of SOLDIER.
"While Gast was talking to Sephiroth I studied his bodily functions. Most of his functions were normal for his size. I also took another blood sample. What I found was astounding. There wasn't a single cell of Jenova or drop of mako in his blood or body. He was pure to the core. He somehow went from having a critical mix of mako and Jenova in his body to having nothing in a half hour. Could explain why he seemed normal now.
"After a few minutes he was able to walk. He wanted to leave the mansion for some reason. He seemed to be afraid of it. We asked him why and he told us all he could remember. Gast was infuriated at what he heard. He went down into the library and burned all of the books that contained false information. He than replaced them with facts and returned to the room we were in. We decided to tell him what we knew. He was quite astonished at what he heard," George stopped to rest.
"Before you go on Strife, would you mind skipping the next part," Sephiroth said.
"Oh it's not that bad," Gast said. So what if we strapped you down and stuffed a sock in your mouth."
Lucrecia laughed, "Let me guess. Had to do with Hojo, right."
"Indeed," Gast replied, "he almost went insane after hearing that. Well anyways once we calmed him all four of us went outside. We saw that Meteor was starting to tear up Midgar. Aeris told us that 'Holy' wasn't trying to stop it and was helping Meteor. She also said that was a very bad thing for Midgar. Sephiroth was as perplexed as George and I were about that statement. Than I realized that Aeris had the power to help and told her to pray to the Lifestream for help, which it did.
"We watched as Meteor and the Lifestream struggled. To our surprise Holy tried to stop Meteor! But than again Meteor wasn't doing so well. The Lifestream managed to push it away from Midgar but Meteor cam back at Midgar and aimed at Sector 7. But it didn't penetrating the ground when it hit. My guess is that the shelter underneath Sector 7 was holding it back. The next thing that we saw was the Lifestream pushing Meteor up towards the atmosphere and destroying it."
"Well I guess that ends our story. The rest of it was just the trip over to Junon. Nothing else is rally interesting other than a big red monster in the Gold Saucer Desert," George finished.
"So Ruby Weapon is back," Vincent said. Well we better get ready to announce to the people the positions, ranks, and plans."
"Lets go hun," Lucrecia said.
For the rest of the night Vincent and his friends told of the design and the people celebrated. Soon the world would seam at peace and the people would truly be happy...
Or will they.
A/N: I have been working on this story for a wile. I started the rough draft last year. Tell me what you think about my story. Also From here it's going to get crazy. I may also have to adjust the rating in later chapters for gore so consider this an early warning. Please give me a review. Oh up next A Time of Peace.
