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Chapter 6

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Hojo was stood upon the balcony looking down at the recruits, he smiled there was no white hair in sight. Vincent strolled through the doors and instantly looked at the recruits; he frowned when he saw that Sephiroth was not there. He walked over to Reno and the others and began talking to them when Sephiroth came strolling in. Vincent smiled lightly as he heard Hojo curse.

"You're" started Vincent but his words were cut short by Sephiroth hitting him hard in the throat. Sephiroth jumped kicking Reno in the throat as he ran forwards. Sephiroth grabbed the Death Penalty and shot Tseng through the hand as he drew his baton. Sephiroth ran at Rude and jumped headbutting him and breaking his nose. Rude stumbled back and tried punching Sephiroth who dodged it and punched Rude in the kidney.

"Wait!" shouted Vincent. Sephiroth whirled around

"Yes?" asked Sephiroth. Vincent smiled

"I guess you've proved to me, by beating up the Turks" said Vincent "That you shouldn't be in Soldier"

"What!" shouted Sephiroth

"You should be in the Turks" said Vincent "but seeing as there is enough of us, you can stay in Soldier training, if you want"

"Of course I want" said Sephiroth

"Then get back in line" said Vincent putting out his hand. Sephiroth thanked him again and handed him the Death Penalty.

"Tseng, go get that hand looked at, same with your nose Rude" both Turks left the room

"As for you lot" said Vincent turning back to the recruits "Sephiroth's proved that you can take out people bigger and a lot more trained than yourselves"

"So what are we learning today?" asked Tom. Before Vincent could answer a man in a wheelchair rolled into the room heavily bandaged.

"I don't think anyone could teach these brats" said the man in the wheelchair

"General" said Vincent bowing slightly

"Mr. Valentine" said the general

"Do you want me to teach something to the class?" asked Vincent

"Today you can take control yet again" said the general.

"Sephiroth" said Hojo who had just stepped onto the training floor "We have to be going"

"Where?" said Sephiroth

"Nibelheim" said Hojo

"What for?" asked Sephiroth

"That is not important" said Hojo "We just have to go"

"I want to stay and finish my training" said Sephiroth

"Who are you going to stay with when the holidays come in two days?" asked Hojo "I am off to Nibelheim tonight" Sephiroth looked around, his mouth opening and closing.

"That is not fair" said Sephiroth "I want to carry on"

"Who's going to fund your training?" asked Hojo. Internally he smiled, Sephiroth had no other choice.

"I'll take him in" said Vincent "Your son will be a very good Soldier and so your selfishness will not affect his training"

"You can't do that!" said Hojo "He's my son, he's coming with me"

"Apparently not" said Vincent "Would you mind staying with me, Sephiroth?" asked Vincent looking down at the recruit. Sephiroth shook his head

"It would be an honour" said Sephiroth. Hojo gritted his teeth

"Sephiroth, come here now!" shouted Hojo

"You can't just order him around" said Vincent

"Don't get involved, you don't want what happened to Lucrecia to happen to you" snapped Hojo. Vincent froze

"Don't you DARE say her name" shouted Vincent. The recruits stepped back from the Turk.

"Then stop interfering" shouted Hojo "Unless you do want to end up like your beloved" Vincent drew his rifle and pointed it at Hojo.

"From this range I will not miss, so back off" said Vincent. Hojo was unabashed

"What good will that do?" asked Hojo smiling

"It will give Sephiroth new insight" said Vincent. Hojo cursed, Sephiroth would certainly turn against him if he found out that Hojo was not a full human.

"That's him" said the general looking at Hojo "He did this to me!"

"What?" said Vincent "How?"

"His magic!" shouted the general. Vincent looked up but it was too late, Hojo was already powered up. Flames shot in his direction but Vincent and Sephiroth dodged them. Vincent shot Hojo twice in the chest. Hojo laughed and attacked again. Reno rolled aside as flames had almost doused him. Vincent shot Hojo twice, yet again. Again Hojo walked forwards firing flames at Vincent.

"Recruits!" shouted Sephiroth, he knew exactly what needed to be done "To the armoury, now!" Vincent slid his key card to Sephiroth who sprinted towards the set of blue armoured doors. Vincent and Reno continued to dodge the flames.

"Sephiroth" said Tom as Sephiroth took down the rifles from atop a shelf

"Yes?" replied Sephiroth loading his gun

"What is going on with your father?" asked Tom

"He's not my father" said Sephiroth "Not anymore" The recruits loaded their rifles and turned back to Sephiroth

"I guess you're in command" said Tom

"Then let's move out" said Sephiroth "Alpha team; we're leading the attack, Beta Team; cover us until we reach Vincent and Reno, Delta Team; Protect Vincent and Reno as they return to your side" the recruits roared in agreement and followed Sephiroth back into the training room.

Vincent and Reno continued to dodge attacks from the heavily bleeding Hojo. Reno ran forwards and struck Hojo across the side of his head knocking him backwards. Laser fire travelled the length of the room hitting Hojo. Vincent looked over to see Sephiroth and his team running towards them while the others covered them. Sephiroth slid onto one knee shooting Hojo

"Get back to the others" said Sephiroth not looking at Vincent

"You were born to do this" said Vincent smiling. Sephiroth raised his hand and indicated to Delta team who moved further to their left to help Reno get clear of Hojo. Sephiroth scooted over and helped Reno get away from Hojo.

"This is one hell of a training session" laughed Reno. Tom pushed the general in his wheelchair to the others.

Gunfire slowed and finally halted. Hojo was stood on one side of the room, Soldier-in-training on the other.

"Is that all you've got?" asked Hojo

"We have more" said Sephiroth "But I don't want to have to use it"

"Oh come on" said Hojo "No son of mine would back down"

"Then I guess I'm no son of yours" said Sephiroth and indicated to his friends who came across the room with a large black box.

"Not strictly Soldier issue" said Sephiroth "But it will do"