My lack of knowledge and skill of remembering towns and places really shows in this chapter. Please just go with the flow.
Chapter 17
The temperature was going down. I didn't really notice until my breath was turning into mist. Raito was sleeping, and so was Light. I groggily sat up straight. It was dark. It wasn't this dark earlier. Neither were the clouds so dark. What was going on?
Then I remembered that we were in Light's creation of Edge. Since this Edge was a creation of his mind… was he having a nightmare? He was twitching a bit, but that could have been as if he was in pain.
I stood up and walked to the end of the street, where it looked out upon the town square. I saw something crouched fore over, rocking back and forth on its heels. I wanted to turn around and run, but I suppressed that urge when I realized it was a little child. I slowly walked towards it. It was sobbing, rocking back and forth. Why was I so scared? I felt bad for the poor thing because I was scared of it. Stupid me.
"Hey," I said softly. It didn't hear me and continued sobbing. "Hey, what's wrong?" I reached out towards it to pat it's head, but the sobbing slowly turned into something else. Chuckling. It sent chills up my spine. I froze. It seized my hand, maniacal laughter coming from the child. I screamed.
Light
Sen was in pain.
I woke with a start and hit my head against a low plank. I swore.
"Godda…" I stopped myself in case she was in the room. Wait, room? The room was fairly simple, with just a bed, a window, a bookshelf which was far too low, and a chair in the corner. Sen wasn't here.
I wasn't wearing what I remembered I had been wearing. Instead of my dirty, bloody clothes, I was now dressed in clean pajamas. I quickly stepped out of the bed and opened the door, feeling uneasy. Where was she?
It was dark outside. I went to the top of the stairs and then recognized where I was. I was in the house of Tifa and Cloud. There was a faint light and noise coming from the living room. I reached out with my mind. There were four minds in total and they were all at ease, besides one. They seemed a bit slow, besides that same one again. Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockheart, and Sen Nakamura. One part of my mind told me she was suffering, while another told me that Sen Nakamura was completely at ease. This was so strange. I turned around and walked to a closed door. Behind one was Tifa. She was sleeping. Behind another was nobody. Where was Denzel? Something was off. I didn't know what yet though. Behind the last one was Sen. I opened the door.
She lay calmly in her bed, her mouth slightly open, breathing in and out slowly. I felt myself calm down a bit, but something was still wrong. I walked to the bed and knelt down. She didn't move. I brought my hand through her hair. She stirred a bit.
She screamed.
Not really. In my mind, I heard her scream very clearly. It hurt me. It wasn't possible. Sen was right here in front of my face, sleeping peacefully. What was going on?!
I shook her.
"Sen. Sen! Are you okay?!"
She sheepishly blinked and looked at me. God, she was so cute.
"…Light?" she groaned.
"Yes. It's me. Are you hurt? Is something wrong?"
Her eyes weren't right. They were focusing on something in the distance. They were dull, and not greenish hazel like they usually were, more on the brownish side.
"No," she said.
Why didn't she attack me with a hug?
"Oh. Okay."
She just sat there. I knew then for sure.
I grabbed the top of her head and twisted her around. She squealed. I brushed back the hair on the back of her head, searching for a thick, hairless line of scar tissue. I didn't find a scar, but I found a lump on the back of her neck. A chip. This was a copy of Sen, and a bad one too.
I released it, trying to keep my face calm. It sank back on the pillow, frowning stupidly.
"I'm sorry," I stammered. "Go back to sleep."
The frown disappeared and the clone rolled over. Soon, it's breathing became easy.
My mind quickly processed all that had happened. Either I was still stuck in my creation of Edge or Mori and his little minions had taken over Tifa and Cloud's house. I chose option one, seeing as option two seemed a bit unrealistic. I was stuck in my own mind. How could I get out? Well, they could get in. Mori. Mori had Sen.
I felt my fist clench. That sick bastard better not have touched her. I told myself to calm down and think of a way out of here. They could get in. How could they get in? Did they have a portal or something? My mind. They went through my mind. My mind was probably weaker when I was healing. It couldn't have been too easy to break through those barriers. Now how to get out? I created this Edge to keep Sen safe. That was the only reason. Raito had been there. Only because he's half of me. He had to come. Since I created it to keep Sen safe, could I close it to keep her safe? Was that how it worked?
Sen screamed again.
I left the clone's room, because looking at it made me sick. I went to my own "room" and sat on my bed. That's it. That has to be it. Otherwise, I'd be stuck in this thing forever. I couldn't let that happen. Not while Sen was in so much pain. I pinched my eyes closed and focused on her. I forgot everything. Everything but her.
The smile she gave to only me danced before my closed eyes.
I suddenly felt like the bed gave way. I yelled. I started falling. I opened my eyes. The room started shattering, the pieces started to fall into the black void. I pinched my eyes closed again. I seemed to fall for forever until I landed on something.
The same bed I had been staying in earlier gave way under my weight and snapped. The plank fell on my head and we all crashed to the floor.
I yelled.
"Son of a bitch!" I rubbed my head and ground my teeth. I heard quick footsteps and the door swung open. Tifa stood there. I could tell she was the real one, because she looked rather pissed off. Then her face broke into surprise. A clone couldn't contain that much emotion. Especially the crappy clones from Mori. I guess ruining life was his specialty, not creating it.
"Light! Where is Sen?! Are you okay?"
"I was hoping you would know." I staggered upright. "Sorry for breaking your bed."
"It's fine. She's not with you?!" She grabbed my shoulders in a maternal way, frantic about her other child.
"No!" I said as she shook me back and forth. "Mori's got her, I'm pretty sure."
There were more footsteps and Cloud appeared as well.
"What the hell..?" He looked to the closed window, then to the ceiling. "How'd you get in here?"
"That doesn't matter right now. I need your help."
"What's wrong?"
"It's Sen. She's gone and I'm almost certain Mori has her." I gently pushed Tifa off of me. I didn't like people touching me.
Cloud hesitated. He cast a glance at Tifa. I could tell what he was thinking. He was weighing the risk of losing Tifa against Sen's death. He wanted to help Sen, but Tifa would want to go as well. He did not want to risk losing Tifa. I understood. I would have never let Sen leave our house if I had my way.
"Do you have a plan?" Cloud asked then. Tifa and him would both be upset by Sen's death. My death too, because I wasn't planning on living in this world too much longer if she wasn't a part of it.
"Not yet." My mind was working on one though. "They got completely destroyed by Bahamut SIN, so they probably moved to a different location."
"You know what Bahamut SIN is?!" Tifa cried out in surprise.
"I know a lot of things. They'd go to a place where Mako is." Cloud beckoned for us to follow him. We sat at Tifa's bar and he slapped down a map.
"They wouldn't go very far. As soon as Mori would get his hands on someone, he would want to operate on the person immediately." I eliminated faraway towns with a red marker I'd found. "He doesn't like sun or rain. He prefers neutral weather." I eliminated more towns. "Which have reactors?" Cloud jabbed at several places on the map. "I'm guessing he's in Kalm, then."
"Hey, whatever you say. When do we leave?"
I threw the marker against the back wall.
"We leave now."
Sorry all, school has been eating up my life.
I'm going to add a second part to this, because my story isn't over yet, even though it's really unpopular and sucky
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