Koinu: Here I am again with another chapter. Just to let you know, this story is going to be ending soon, just a heads up.
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The Amarimono
Chapter five
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Liz followed Kadaj and Rufus silently. Just as instructed. Again she wore a blindfold, and her sai were hidden within the sleeves of her jacket. For easy use. No more reaching behind her to get a weapon.
Her footsteps were well calculated, each footfall keeping her out of sight of her closest brother. She could easily see Rufus's highly infected aura in front of her. Every so often, a spike of fear would run through it. Rufus thought she had abandoned him. But it was Kadaj's aura that's the halfling concentrated on.
So far, the full remnant seemed not to have noticed her. His aura was filled with overconfidence, but there was a small bit of worry tingeing it. Was the worry for her?
But what was he thinking? He was headed to the thirteenth floor of a building that was still under construction. Did he think that would give him the advantage?
She thought about this. Maybe it did… Rufus would have nowhere to go, no where to run…
"Say, Kadaj. I've got a question for you." Liz raised an eyebrow. Rufus hadn't said anything about this.
"And I've got an answer." Kadaj's voice was cocky as he stood on the edge of the floor.
"You said you needed to have Jenova cell's to be whole again. What did you mean by that?" Behind the blindfold Liz's eyes widened. Now she knew what was going on. Rufus was going to sate his own curiosity, while at the same time getting Kadaj to confess to everything. He was trying to turn her against her brother, so she would have no qualms when she had to fight him.
"Him…He's coming back."
"Sephiroth, the nightmare."
"So they say." Liz stopped listening there. She kept one ear on the conversation, one eye on their auras. But she became submerged in her own thoughts.
Sephiroth… he was coming back… but at what cost? The way Kadaj was talking about it, the slight apprehension in his voice…
Comprehension dawned, and Liz stifled a gasp. Kadaj was going to become Sephiroth. Happiness filled her. He was going to return. But at the same time a great sadness washed over her. He would be taking Kadaj's place, and if Rufus was right, if history was going to repeat itself…
Then they would both die.
The female remnant choked back a sob. Maybe she could stop all this, end it before it began. If she could stop Kadaj, then perhaps she could she could also stop Cloud. They all referred to Cloud as Big Brother, so there was the possibility that they could live in peace… or at in least tolerance of each other.
Kadaj's aura spiked, and Liz's attention was ripped back to them.
"Sorry?" Rufus was replying to something. "Why, I've never had this much fun."
Kadaj turned to him, a smirk on his lips.
Oh no… Oh Holy, or whatever god there is, please don't let him do what I think he's going to do…
"Good…" Kadaj's arm was glowing with power from the Materia that he had absorbed. "Then lets put and end to all this."
"No…" Liz voice came out a harsh whisper. "Not the Behamut…" But it was far too late…
"Liz, now!" Rufus sounded worried; did he think she had left him?
Cursing under breath, she dropped her sai into her hands, and rushed Kadaj.
"What…?" Kadaj's question was more of a startled gasp. The remnant had barely enough time to draw Soba from its sheath to block her blow. "Liz?"
"Please don't be mad…" A tear made its way from under her blindfold to stream down her cheek. She slashed at him again, forcing him back, away from the edge. The last thing she needed was for him to fall.
Kadaj growled. "Why are you doing this?" He dodged away from her blows as they came. "What did he promise you to make you turn on your own family?"
"Freedom…" Liz's voice trembled.
"What?" She could hear the mix of confusion and anger in Kadaj's voice.
"He promised me freedom. The ability to walk the streets without the fear of being followed, every step traced. I can wake up without fearing that I was captured while I slept, I can sleep without being restless…Without nightmares of my past and maybe even future haunting me in my sleep…" She shook her head. "You don't know how that feels because you have your brothers, your all there for each other!" Oh Holy… What have I gotten myself into? I'm fighting my own brother… "But me, I've only had myself! And I can't keep running Kadaj, I can't… And I don't know what will happen to me if you bring him back… please Kadaj, stop this before you get in too deep."
Kadaj caught both her wrists in one hand and with the other pulled away the blindfold. She struggled, wriggling in his grasp, but then stopped. She had never seed that emotion on Kadaj's face before.
Kadaj looked her straight in the eye. "I'm sorry… But I have to make mother happy. You'll see, once we find mother we'll all be happy… we can be a family… But for now, I really am sorry…" There was a burst of pain in the side of her head, and then darkness.
Kadaj gently put Liz's limp body on the ground. Then he stalked over to Rufus, surveying the scene below them. "This is too fun sir!" His voice was full of laughter, but there was a hint of barely controlled malice. "And requests for the next act?" His eyes widened as Rufus stood, throwing the blanket away. A box lay in his hands. "Mother?"
"A good son would have known."
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Koinu: Man... Rufus is such a jerk... oh well. Like I said, there's only one or two more chapter's left, so review!
