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Chapter 3
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Sephiroth travelled in complete silence all the way to Midgar, where their next training session would be. Their truck pulled into the Shin-Ra headquarters basement where the soldiers disembarked; the trucks continued through the basement until they came to a set of steel doors, this was where the general and the recruits disembarked.
"To your rooms, they are on the ground floor" said the general. Sephiroth lead the way only because the others were nervous around him. Men in powder blue suits past them silently meters before their rooms. The other recruits stopped to look at them but Sephiroth shoved his way into their room and got straight into the shower.
"What's his problem?" said a red haired man, one of the ones in the blue suit
"Does it matter?" said a dark haired man who was leading the group
"Nah" said the red haired male
"Then hurry up, Reno" said the tallest of them before walking off.
When the other soldier recruits were in bed Sephiroth exited the shower quietly and got in bed
"Problems?" said a voice from the darkness. Sephiroth started and hit his head against the bunk above. Hojo, a Shin-Ra scientist and the person who had brought Sephiroth up, stepped towards his bed
"No" said Sephiroth looking down at the floor
"Really?" questioned Hojo
"Really" lied Sephiroth looking directly into Hojo's eyes.
"All right then" said Hojo leaving. Sephiroth lay back in bed and wondered what Hojo had been doing in his room, searching for him? This question bombarded Sephiroth until he had finally fallen asleep.
Hojo was sat in one of Midgar's finest restaurants. The general walked over and took the seat on the other side of the table.
"What do you want?" asked the general looking at Hojo
"I'm taking Sephiroth out of soldier" said Hojo
"What!" exclaimed the general
"You heard me" said Hojo "He's progressing faster than we can keep tabs on"
"He's a perfect candidate for soldier" said the general
"He's better than soldier" said Hojo placing his hands upon the glass of water in front of the general, the general looked down, the water began to bubble and steam issued from the glass then suddenly it froze before melting back to water.
"Sephiroth is far better than anything soldier can train" said Hojo smiling at the General who had sat back
"How?" asked the general looking at the glass
"We are getting sidetracked" said Hojo "I am taking Sephiroth out of Soldier for private training"
"It's up to him" said the general reaching for his final straw in the argument "He's of age and so you cannot take him out of Soldier"
"So you expel him" said Hojo
"I haven't got a reason" said the general "Sephiroth stays" Hojo got to his feet
"You'll regret this" said Hojo walking out. The general shook his head and lifted the glass examining it; that was when flames erupted in the glass and it exploded wounding the general.