The Labyrinth
(Sephiroth vs. Berserkers)
Northern Africa in a jungle filled with wild beasts and unseen dangers. The day is hot and everything is quiet. However, a figure moves through the forest with the speed that it's difficult for its shadow to catch up. It is none other that Sephiroth. Using his super human powers, he runs at top speed of 100 miles per hour without breaking a sweat. He continues to run through the jungle until all of a sudden, he comes to a screeching halt. When he fully stopped, he came face to face to what looked to be a cavern that opens into the ground. He stood and looked into the cave for a few seconds, and then he lifted out his shard of Soul Edge from a pocket under his cape. He held the shard close and closed his eyes to concentrate. After a brief meditation he opened his eyes and begun his advance into the cave.
As he got deeper, the cave got darker and it began to get hard to maneuver his Murasame. Further into the cave, the walls and floor started to even out, but it got too dark for even Sephiroth to see. So Sephiroth held out his open hand and focused his energy to his palm. A bright ball of Lifestream emitted from his hand and lit up everything around. It was now that Sephiroth saw that the wall and floor were perfectly crafted by human hands. Sephiroth wasn't there for the scenery, so he just continued down the narrow corridor. After a few hundred feet of walking, he finally came to a large circular chamber that branched out into seven different paths. Sephiroth stepped forward and looked at all of the paths. Seeing nothing out if the ordinary, he closed his eyes and focused his senses. In a few seconds, he came to, looked at one of the tunnels, and proceeded down it without hesitation. After a distance, he encountered the same obstacle, but he countered it the same way. He would run into quite a few more of these in the tunnel, but would over come all of them. However, after traveling for some time, a lone figure would step forward out of one of the tunnels he bypassed.
After the long maze, he would finally come to a large corridor that had a strange red light at the end. It was so bright that Sephiroth dismissed his glowing ball of lifestream. He looked around the tunnel and noticed hundreds of the giant suits of armor with giant axes lined up against the walls. He figured they were just for display and advanced towards the end of the tunnel. As he advanced one of the suits of armor's head slowly moved as if watching Sephiroth, for it was a living suit of armor called a Berserker. Sephiroth got an ill feeling and swung his head only to find the Berserker's head was in its original position. So he continued oblivious to the threat. As he is facing the other way, the same Berserker quietly steps off his post and stealthily advances toward the unknowing intruder with ax in hand. He closes in on Sephiroth, lifts his ax and prepares to deliver a single fatal strike. Sephiroth suddenly stopped and shook his head.
"You know, you can't really surprise someone from behind when you're in a loud piece of junk like that."
The Berserker gave a quick grunt in surprise, but then gave out a battle cry and slammed his ax on top of Sephiroth sending dust and debris in the air. At first it looked like a clean cut, but when all the dust settled, there was no sign of the white haired swordsman. He looked up to see that Sephiroth has jumped in the air and was doing acrobatics above him. As he descended Sephiroth quickly drew his Murasame and sliced at the Berserker's neck and landed a successful cut. Sephiroth landed on the floor gracefully with his Murasame held out, while the Berserker flails around with no head. Sephiroth decided to turn around to see his nemesis, but he caught a glimpse down his armor and was shocked to see that there was no body inside.
"What! A living piece of metal?"
The Berserker regained his balance and hunted down his head that was lying on the floor. He picked it up, brushed the dust off it, and placed it back on his neck. When his head was back on his shoulder, he turned towards Sephiroth, grasped his ax, and readied himself for another round. Sephiroth looked at him in agitation.
"So, I can't kill you the old fashion way can I? Well you should have stayed down and made me forget about you because even though you are nothing but metal, you are not enough to stop me."
At that, he heard a huge boom behind him. He turned around to see the other Berserkers in the hall had turned their head, got off their post, and held their axes ready for combat.
"Hmm. I knew that was too easy. Well at least I know something important is down here for me to go through this much trouble."
Before he could finish, the same Berserker thrust his ax at Sephiroth. However, he sensed it coming and dodged out of the way and retaliated by cutting off his ax-wielding arm. He then turned around to see the other Berserkers charging him. He quickly ducked, jumped, and dodged to avoid the flying axes, while slicing if arms, legs and heads trying to make them all stay down permanently. He knew that his weapon didn't stand a chance blocking a direct blow from one of the Berserkers giant axes, so the best he could do was dodge their strikes, and slash back at them. At one point, he leaped on top of on of the Berserkers head. The other Berserkers slashed at him only to dice up that Berserker. Sephiroth then appeared on the far wall and started to wall run to the exit of the tunnel. Axes sliced at him only to get stuck in the wall not even coming close to the quick Sephiroth. He would jump in the air, flip and spin over the Berserkers, and finally land on the other side of all of them. All of the Berserkers charged again, but Sephiroth clenched his free hand. Lifestream began to flow from his fist, and then he slammed all that energy into the ground with his hand emitting a strange spell wheel on the floor. At first nothing happened, but then the ground beneath the army of Berserkers began to shake. The Berserkers tried to stay up but eventually fell over. Then the floor under the Berserkers began to rise up. The floor rose up at great speed and slammed into the ceiling. Every single Berserker was crushed instantly. Only one of there heads rolled from the magic earth attack. After a slight pause, Sephiroth lowered the floor to its original spot showing all of the Berserkers crushed flat. Sephiroth stood victorious after his first fight in this new world. He turned around and continued down the hall, he passed the surviving helmet, which gave a slight twitch, but Sephiroth immediately sliced it in half, and continued his walk down the fiery tunnel to the next shard of Soul Edge.
