By: Psych The Shadowboxer
DISCLAIMER: Don't own FF7. If I did…I'd probably not be having the problem of wondering how I'm going to buy yoohooluver's birthday gift! Haha!
Final Fantasy VII-2: Seed of Chaos
Chapter Two: Life Changes
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- Previously -
She knew only that she was helpless. Then her vision cleared momentarily, long enough to see the creature on top of her holding up a syringe of glistening blue liquid. Then her world went completely black.
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- Present -
A soft groan pierced the air as Halisia struggled with her twitching muscles. She felt only that she had to get up. She most definitely had to get out of the snow, at least. With a sharp intake of breath, Halisia managed to at least sit up. Then she got a good look at her surroundings.
'I'm still in the forest? How? I was expecting to wake up in a lab or something…' her mental voice whispered her thoughts. With a shake of her head, the teenager managed to drag herself to her feet and stumble in the direction she hoped was home.
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- Home -
With the world around her spinning, Halisia wasn't quite sure how exactly she was supposed to open the door to her home. After all, wasn't its motion enough to turn the knob for her? This being thought, Halisia realized just how disoriented she truly was and her logical part began to worry for her…usually normal part.
After about three unsuccessful attempts, the sixteen-year-old managed to get the back door open.
'Why not take the window? It's how you got out…' part of her reasoned. Halisia's consciousness snorted.
'I'd rather live…' her mentality drawled out. By this point she caught sight of a picture on the wall. It was the family portrait of herself and her adoptive parents. This frightened her because it meant that she was halfway to the staircase…and she didn't even remember entering the house! With that in mind, Halisia ran.
The door of her bedroom now shut tightly behind her, Halisia moved over to the full-length mirror on the door of her closet. The sight that greeted her was even more of a blow to her disoriented mind.
Halisia's already long, wavy brown hair was actually about three inches longer…and her bangs had somehow turned silver. Not only that, but her green eyes…they were different. They always had been, but now it was noticeable. They were glowing. Halisia, physically paralyzed from this shock, allowed her mind to travel.
'What did I do last night?' she wondered. She thought about it until her temples began to ache and she felt a shaking rise from her body, up through her chest and into her throat. She knew this feeling well. She was either going to laugh or scream bloody murder. Then her final memory of the night before came back. She remembered nothing after entering the woods behind her home. Now she really did scream…at the top of her considerable lungs.
Hearing this "odd" commotion and being rather rudely awakened by it, Emily and Jacob Carr feared the worst, as most parents would. Perhaps this would explain how their minds cleared so instantaneously upon realizing that they were hearing their darling child screaming her heart out in fear? If not, who knows why they were so clear-headed?
Either way, the two made it down the hall to Halisia's room in record time and stopped dead in their tracks at the image before them.
Halisia, her pale skin the shade of death, was on her knees in front of her full-length mirror. Her long hair, as usual as when she sat like that, brushed the floor. This time, however, they could see in her reflection that her bangs, the two locks of hair that she had never allowed to grow past her chin, were a shimmering metallic silver. They could also see through the reflection that her eyes were abnormally large and…glowing?
"Halisia?" Emily gasped, moving cautiously toward the teenager, who was still screaming. Jacob moved toward his wife, not sure what was causing this in his daughter. He was also not entirely sure he wanted to find out! "Halisia!" Emily's voice raised. Halisia suddenly stopped screaming and turned toward them.
"What's happened to me?" she asked in a whisper, her eyes turning toward the floor as her voice shook. Emily knelt beside the girl and wrapped her arms around her.
"I don't know, sweetheart…but we'll find out…I promise," Emily whispered soothingly into the teen's ear.
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- One Year Later -
Thud!
Thud!
Halisia's bare fists slammed into the punching bag hanging in the corner of her family's basement. She barely felt the pain anymore, but it was still there. The rough material always did a pretty number on her knuckles. Emily hated it, but Jacob had insisted on her learning how to fight after she'd explained the whole "I went into the woods at night and can't remember anything" scenario. The seventeen-year-old halted for a moment and wiped the sweat off of her brow, accidentally leaving a streak of blood in its place.
"Hard to believe that was an entire year ago…" she whispered as she sat down and leaned her head against the wall, thinking back.
After the incident one year earlier, Halisia's adoptive parents had insisted that she be home-schooled rather than returning to school and possibly being tormented about the sudden alteration in her looks. The only ones Halisia had dared to tell the truth were her two best, and only, friends. They had taken it rather well, all things considered.
Added to the fact that she was now at home for school, Halisia had also turned herself into a bit of a hermit. She never really left her house without being forced and spent all of her time either training, studying, or surfing the Internet.
"Halisia! Dinner's ready!" Emily yelled down to the girl. Halisia sighed, rather annoyed at being interrupted in her train of thought. She had become rather irritable ever since the incident. She couldn't help it, though. That being thought, Halisia stood up and was about to leave when her gaze locked onto the swinging bag. With a soft growl and barely a thought, Halisia leapt at the bag and slammed a foot into it. The bag swung powerfully from the force before slamming into the floor. Halisia, however, was already halfway up the stairs.
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Hiya! Okay! Thank you to my first two reviewers: Akenshi & Meralhi. Moving on…
In response to Akenshi's review:
Sorry, honey, but no. I even double-checked with a dear friend of mine who is pretty deep into the plotlines of video games. This is what she told me: "They don't come out and say Seph is Vince's son, but everyone who's played the game and actually thought about it has thought so. Hojo only raised him. That's all." Besides, even if he's not…there's still a such thing as Alternate Universe:grins:
Thanks to those two for being my first reviewers. Much love. The next chapter SHOULD be out soon. No promises! Read & review! Peace.
> Psych the Shadowboxer