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Sephiroth gazed around at the battle grounds searching for enemies. His eyes widened as they landed on a woman. The fact that she was in a kimono was enough to keep his attention, the Wutai warrior charging toward her weapon raised as she simply stood there, was enough to have him springing into action.
Masamune just barely beat the warrior's katana to the woman. One strong swing caused the warrior to stumble and with the next one the he was dead, Sephiroth's blade gleaming malevolently with his blood.
"What were you thinking? Do you want to die or could you simply not see him running toward you with his weapon raised? Surly that staff is not mealy for decoration." The words where partially snapped out as he glared hard at the young woman.
She lifted her face toward him and his breath caught as the hat she wore tilted back slightly and reviled the white film that covered her eyes. "Bravo Captain Obvious, I am in fact blind. So, no, I did not see the crazy person trying to kill me, and the staff is actually used for making sure I don't hit anything, oh and useful things like this." With that, she lifted her staff and jammed it down into his foot, hard.
He winced as she spun and began to walk away. Sephiroth growled low, narrowing his eyes at her back.
A flash of red took his attention sky ward where Genesis was jumping off of one of the sky bridges that overlapped the city connecting several buildings together. Sephiroth watched as Genesis flipped and landed on his feet in front of the woman, who promptly took her staff and smacked Genesis in the head with all of her strength.
His hands went to his head. "Owe! What was that for, woman?"
"What else did you think was going to happen when you pop out of now where in a battle field and scare the living daylights out of someone? Good grief! What's with scaring the blind woman?" She through her hands into the air exasperated, almost hitting Genesis a second time.
Genesis blinked. "Blind…You're-"
She lifted her face, hat tilting slightly, allowing him to see her eyes. "Yes, I'm blind, and waving your hand in front of my face is not going to make me see it any more then landing in front of me is going to make me see you." Her tone was dry, with a slight bite to it as Genesis brought his hand down with a slightly guilty look in his face.
"What, pray tell, is a fair damsel such as yourself doing here anyways?" Genesis asked sweetly, in hopes on getting on her good side.
Her jaw dropped. "Damsel? Did you just call me a damsel, as in a damsel in distress?" Genesis opened his mouth to respond and instead ducked with a yelp as she swung for his head. "Hold still you moron!" She swung for him again and he dogged moving toward Sephiroth.
"He has a point." Sephiroth spoke up as Genesis dogged yet another swing and successfully hid behind Sephiroth. "What is a woman, a blind woman no less, doing on a battle field? One who is obviously not Wutai. Do you have a death wish?"
She bent down and picked up a rock from the ground, bounced it in her hand a few times to test its weight then threw it at Sephiroth, and missed by mere centimeters, almost hitting Genesis. "Keep talking imbecile! I only get better!" Another rock was in her hand.
"What did you do that pissed her off so much?" Genesis asked as he moved to stand beside his friend, coming out from hiding before someone saw and he actually was hit.
"I am unsure. It would however, be best if we escorted her off the battle field." Sephiroth's voice held no amount of concern for the woman.
Her hand tightened on the rock as she shoot daggers to where the voices were coming from. "How do I know I'll be safe if I go with you?"
They exchanged looks before Sephiroth spoke again. "I am General Sephiroth and this is Commander Genesis of Shinra Army."
She gave them a small smile. "If that's supposed to mean anything to me, you've missed your mark. I've been a POW of Wutai for over a year, and POW's don't exactly get a lot of information."
Once again they exchanged looks, this time Genesis spoke. "Why were you a POW?"
Before she could answer, a large explosion shook the ground and she only managed to remain standing on her feet by dropping her rock and jamming her staff into the ground.
"General!" a voice yelled from atop one of the bridges. "The building Commander Hewley and the Turk commander was in just exploded."
Genesis had just enough thought process left to pick the woman up and throw her over his shoulder in order to protect her, as they speed toward the demolished building. Sephiroth following close behind, protecting from the rear.
"Dear Planet!" Genesis whispered fear and anguish clouding his voice.
The building had exploded outward, leaving everything around it in ruins where the chunks of the building landed. Bodies of allies and enemies alike littered the ground, dead and dying. Cries of pain filled the air, the battle all but stopping as everyone could only stare in horror at what lay in front of them.
"Put me down." The woman's voice was strong in his ear as she smacked his head making sure to gain his attention. "Quickly you mourn! I can help."
"Tanwen!" A SOLDIER yelled as he raced toward them. "You're alive! We've been so worried. We've even tried to look for you in the chaos of the battle."
Genesis set Tanwen on the ground as the SOLDIER picked her up and swung her around in a crushing embrace.
"You know her?" Sephiroth inquired with an eyebrow raised as he watched the scene in front of him.
"Sir!" he saluted sharply. "Miss Tanwen was the reason a lot of us POWs survived. She's a healer and a great one at that."
"Yes, yes and this healer has work to do, so if you would be so kind?" She held her arm out to the SOLDIER who looked at Sephiroth.
"If she can help, let her." Sephiroth instructed, as he waved a hand of dismissal.
The SOLDIER nodded and took her arm and placed it on his, she held her staff a vertical line in her other hand. No one moved as he carefully led her toward the middle of the rubble, and very carefully helped her sit down cross legged. A few words were spoken too quietly to hear then the SOLDIER backed away. Ever so slowly power began to build, electricity crackling, the very air shimmering. Without word, it was released.
A wave of green light swept over the entire area.
Small columns of lights began to flare up, green, yellow, red, and black.
"Tanwen says all the guys in green need to be gotten out of here, no medical personal needed. Any one that's yellow is going to have some help, but they're not to be moved until after they go green. Red need immediate medical assistance, and will die if moved." He took a deep breath steadying himself to finish, this was obviously the worst part. "The blacks have no life in them. They can wait until we have taken care of the living."
There was a slight pause then several SOLDIERs and even some of the Wuti warriors rushed in. The two SOLDIER leaders exchanged looks, baffled by the turn of events. Before they could do anything, someone gave a loud shout.
Angeal had been found.
Never before had Genesis ever wanted to throw up as badly as he did the moment he saw the amount of damage done to his friend and the Turk laying a few feet from him.
"The color's getting darker." Someone muttered.
His friend was dying.
Genesis dropped to his feet and began to cast Cura even as the doctors began their own frantic work on him. Sephiroth stood tall beside him, an ever-present guardian, a watchful angel.
A sudden surge of green light all around Angeal had Genesis falling onto his butt in a most undignified manner.
"There are less wounded." Sephiroth's voice broke into Genesis's world, crashing the bubble around him like a rock on glass. Blinking he looked around and saw that Sephiroth was right. All the green lights where gone and medical personal where starting to take over the care of yellow lights as only a few red's remained and those were getting lighter by the minute. The bodies of the dead where now being removed, taken away by both the Shinra and Wuti people.
Angeal's and the Turks where the only ones that still remained, stubbornly, red, though the green light around their bodies had defiantly gotten much stronger.
"It would be much easier if you would allow me to carry you Lady Tanwen." Both SOLDIERs turned to the voice to see that Tanwen was indeed very slowly making her way toward them a SOLDIER on one side and a small Wuti child on the other, tear tracks covering her face.
"I told you that Yuffie and I could make it just fine." Tanwen's voice lacked any real heat, as the sounds of exhaustion slithered through.
"Of course we could!" If the youngster sounded over brave to their ears, no one said anything.
"Almost there," the infantryman said instead.
Genesis moved forward and took her hand from the infantry man's elbow, startling Tanwen slightly. "I have her now. Thank you."
The infantryman saluted than turned on his heels and walked briskly away to help lend a hand to where he was needed.
"Where are you going?" His voice was gentle enough to startle a set of raised eyebrows out of Sephiroth.
"Between the last two." Tanwen's hand shock as she pointed in between the Turk and Angeal
His foot quickly swept the small debris away from the area before he helped lower her to the ground.
Even as she settled in the top doctors appeared beside the two men.
"Dang it all the blackest fires! Why didn't someone get me sooner?" Genesis rubbed his face, realizing he most indeed be tired if he hadn't even noticed one of the doctors was female.
"Never mind, don't answer that." With that, she began to shoot off questions that Tanwen answered, slowly at first then gaining speed, until they were not even finishing their sentences before the other one was speaking again.
Then the doctor turned toward the two leaders. "Why don't you two go get your jobs done, so when we can move them you'll be ready to help."
Sephiroth simply turned on his heal and left, Genesis fallowed after several backwards glances and a quick prayer to Minerva that he wouldn't lose his first friend. Then he cleared his mind and did what he did best, took charge.
In moments he and Sephiroth where working in tandem, side by side. They only paused a moment when they realized that they were also now in charge of the remaining Wuti warriors. There was simply too much work that needed to be done, too many other buildings that had been bombed, leaving wounded, injured, and dyeing beneath their rubble.
Faces of innocents, children, babies, women, and those too old to care for themselves, past by them one at a time, each one made their hearts heavier. Each ear piercing cry of agony when a loved one was found, each muttered prayer, each lifeless child rocked in a mother's arms.
"By Plant," one SOLDIER muttered, tears in his mako eyes. "This isn't war. This is carnage; it's….it's…."
"Destruction. Taking of lives," a Wuti warrior finished from beside him, his own tears running unchecked down his face.
Silently they went back to work side by side.
In that moment, Genesis and Sephiroth looked at one another and a silent vow based between them.
They would find out who was responsible for this, and when they did…
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