Tainted Souls
Chapter II
The Flower Girl
"The planet must be cleansed", Sephiroth cleaned the blood from his katana as he walked away from the bleeding corpse of the once mighty dog demon, Sesshomaru, "You will soon become one with the planet."
There was only one more thing that Sephiroth needed to complete his journey. The Black Materia, Meteor.
The group known as the Turks continued to follow her, Aeris ran down the street and finally reached the gates to Midgar. She slipped through the bars and continued to run until she reached the solitude of the forests which bordered Midgar. The Forests were much different from the over-crowded slums of Midgar, Aeris stopped walking and leaned up against a tree to rest for a while. As she surveyed her new surroundings she noticed a white object covered in what looked like blood in the distance.
Strange, I wonder what that could be? She asked herself as she approached the object.
When she realized what it was she had found, Aeris gasped, recoiling in a mixture of fear and awe. It was a body, a large man with two swords and one arm lay before her, curled on the ground. He was covered with several wounds, which blood still flowed from. However, even in this battered, bloody state he had to be the most beautiful thing she had ever laid eyes on.
"E-Ex-Excuse me, are you alright?" she asked approaching the corpse slowly, her heart racing. "H-Hang on I'll save you". she knelt down and slid her arms around the demons body and carried him off to a near by cave. It was amazing that the young girl could lift the large demon so easily.
Everything was dark, his wounds still burned with a pain that he had never felt before. Sesshomaru relaxed when something cool was placed over the large wound on his chest. The smell of a strong incense filled his nose and the pain in his wounds went away some. He opened his eyes to see what appeared to be a mortal, hovering above, tending to his wounds.
"Stand back, mortal" Sesshomaru demanded, flashing his claws, jumping to his feet. Pointing his claws at the girls neck he noticed the girl wasn't afraid of him, instead she looked at him with awe.
"Please lie down," Aeris said not afraid of the poisoned claws pointed at her throat, "you're still not fully healed yet, please trust me.."
Sensing that the girl wasn't a mortal, Sesshomaru lay down on the makeshift bed that the flower girl had made for him. When she touched him, the demon was reminded of Rin, and of the promise that he had to fulfill.
Sesshomaru awoke the next day feeling different. He felt…complete. He looked down at where his left arm used to be, Sesshomaru's face filled with shock as he looked down and saw his arm reattached, claws and all. Sesshomaru closed his eyes for a few moments then once again looked down at his arm. It was still there. He moved the newly attached arm and sliced the air with his claws.
"Where are my swords?" he asked the girl who had revitalized him, who had been sitting nearby. Unknown to Sesshomaru the girl didn't take her eyes off the demon even for a second, she watched him the entire night. She couldn't help it, he was gorgeous, probably the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen.
"Over there." she said pointing to a corner in the back of the cave.
Sesshomaru bent over and picked up the weapons and slid them under his belt. He got up and slid on the rest of his clothing. He turned towards the opening at the front of the cave, when he was stopped by the girl who healed him.
"Hey, where are you going?" she screamed following him out if the cave.
"To find the one that did this to me, a man named Sephiroth." he said leaving the cave and the flower girl behind.
"Hey, listen, since I healed you, well, you know. Maybe I…" before she could finish, the group of soldiers who had been chasing Aeris earlier, jumped from the bushes and dove at Aeris. One of them ran off with the girl, the three others surrounded Sesshomaru.
"Pathetic Mortals," Sesshomaru said raising his new arm in the air, releasing a poison into the air that surrounded one of the men. The man writhed around in the miasma. His flesh falling off his bones as the poison went to work. The man's mask dissolved and Sesshomaru looked on as the man's skull became more and more visible by the second as his flesh dripped away. Leaping from the cloud of poison, he pounced on the man that grabbed Aeris and lifted him from the ground by his neck.
"No, wait." Aeris screamed, but it was too late, Sesshomaru squeezed the man's neck until he blood spewed from his mouth. Sesshomaru threw the lifeless corpse at the soldier charging at him, his gun blade pointed at Sesshomaru. The corpse hit the doomed attacker and the both hit the ground with a thud. Sesshomaru walked over to the downed man and thrust the Tokijin through the man's head to make sure.
The final standing soldier turned his weapon at Sesshomaru and Aeris, he pulled the trigger of his fully-automatic weapon. Bullets sped through the air and headed straight for Aeris.
The demon lunged in front of the bullets and with god-like speed drew both swords and in a few strokes managed to somehow slice every bullet into pieces. The man, panicking, grabbed the heavy weapon strapped to his bag and fired two grenades straight at Sesshomaru. The Demon grabbed Aeris and threw her to the side. The grenades made contact with the Demon and detonated on contact. The soldier rejoiced over the successful hits.
"That was for my comrades, asshole," he laughed and walked over to Aeris, who was now in desperately trying to get away, "You were a lot of trouble to get a hold of, I think I deserve a reward. I'm gonna take my time with you! Come here." The man grabbed Aeris and started groping her posterior. He forced their lips together, Aeris beat of the man's chest with her fists in protest. The man brought his hand back, Aeris flinched, she knew what was coming. The man back sided Aeris with his hand. The metal studs on the glove left Aeris' face bruised and battered. Her mouth was filled with the taste of copper, small amounts of blood flowed from her mouth. The soldier punched her in the stomach, she fell to the ground gasping for air. She lay on the ground for a few moments, forcing some air into her lungs.
"Stop, you bastard." Aeris screamed, crawling away.
"AWW, come on, love! We're just getting started, I'm gonna make you feel so good. Scream like the bitch you are." the aroused soldier reached down and unzipped his pants. Aeris screamed for help, none came. She looked over at the sizzling crater the two grenades created, where the ashes of Sesshomaru lay. She wished he would save her, wished he would come back from the dead and kill this pervert.
The soldier pulled his knife from the sheath attached to his shoulder. He grabbed Aeris who was still on the ground. He cut open Aeris' shirt with the polished blade. Her white, silk bra was now exposed. He reached for the bra and ripped it off, exposing Aeris' perfectly firm chest. He massaged her left breast tenderly, kissing her neck.
"Please, stop." Aeris screamed at the man. Punching him in the head.
"Shut up, Ancient." he brought his fist back an prepared to shatter her nose when he felt a hand grab his arm with a strength that was unknown to the doomed soldier.
The man turned around. There behind him was a man who should be dead, two grenades hit him dead center, how was he still alive?
Sesshomaru grabbed the arm holding Aeris' breast and tore it off at the elbow. The man screamed as blood poured from his arm. A horrifying aura emitted from Sesshomaru. His eyes glowed blood red. He let go of the man, who in fear tried to run from the beautiful subjugator. Sesshomaru ran after the man and with one graceful wave of his arm the man slid in half, his intestines lying on the ground. The man tried to crawl away even though he would probably die from blood lose in a few minutes. Sesshomaru picked the man up by his head and lifted him so that the two were eye level.
"It's your turn to scream like the bitch you are." he threw the man who smashed into the mountain side, his head breaking into billions of tiny pieces, covering the mountain in bits of bone, blood, and brain matter.
Aeris lay there in horror at the events that just unfolded in front of her. What was this guy, and how did he survive those high powered grenades. Just one of those things could have blown a Giga Beast to bits. Yet this guy withstood two of those things.
Sesshomaru reached down and picked up the brown jacket that had fallen off of Aeris. He handed the jacket to her, trying not to notice too much.
"Thanks." Aeris took the jacket from him.
"Be careful from now on." the demon looked down at the girl on the ground in front of him. He felt a strange connection with her.
"So as I was saying…" Aeris got to her feet like nothing had just happened. She pulled her clothes back on and looked at Sesshomaru. "I was wondering if you know, if you might be my body guard, I know I'll go on a date with you if you do."
"Follow if you must, but don't get in my way, if you do you will face my wrath. These men are connected to Sephiroth some how."