Chapter Five: If money is such a problem, well they've got mansions, think we should rob them!
FN: The Get of Fenris and all phrases pertaining to them belong to White Wolf Studios whose material I borrow because I endorse. OWAN: I think he means… I don't know what he means. It's supposed to be a good thing.
Mirri glared up at the huge Shinra Tower and scowled. "You realize that all my explosives are currently sitting under the Sector Seven plate now, right?" Sephiroth nodded and Mirri casually rested a hand on James' shoulder to share a joke with him that Sephiroth had no trouble hearing. "Heh... the things a guy will go through for a beautiful woman." Sephiroth focused on her with the intensity of a laser. "Aeris is a Cetra, that is the only thing about her that maters to me. Besides, rescuing her is not the only reason I'm doing this. Shinra killed a lot of innocent people when they dropped the plate. We can't retaliate against violence like that by destroying another reactor, it would be like putting a band aid on a wound from a nine gauge. We're going to rip out Shinra's heart and cut off its head in one blow." Mirri shrugged casting a look backwards at James. "Sure, whatever works is cool."
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The secretary looked up at the familiar sound of the door opening, and was greeted with a very unfamiliar sight. Three people had come through the door, and all three of them had the glowing eyes signifying mako enhancements.
The one in front was female, and she raised her hands just as blades sprung from the gloves she wore. A moment later the blades launched themselves from the gloves, and the secretary watched in horror as the guards who had come to attention too slowly were killed by those blades. Before the secretary could even act, she found herself on the point of a very long blade held by a silver haired man dressed in black.
She was frozen, and the man's voice slowly registered in her ears. "Go ahead, press the button, sound the alarm. I want Shinra to know I'm here, bring their entire army, I'll destroy them. In ninety seconds if you are still inside this building, you will die. With that the blade was withdrawn, the women slammed the alarm button under her desk, got up and ran for the door.
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James was doing a good job of salvaging the dead bodies of the guards. He now already had two guns slung over his shoulders and several clips in his pants. The lobby was deserted for the moment, but it wouldn't be for long, Shinra would send more guards.
Still Seph was calm and so was Mirri, so James just followed their lead. The elevators opened, and the three of them stepped in. Sephiroth hit the button for the 60th floor, and then they waited. The elevator's lights went out around the 40th floor, and Sephiroth scowled, not that he was caught by surprise. "So they finally cut power to the ordinary elevators. Whatever is waiting on the other side of that door, I want you two to take it out quickly. No playing, understand?"
James and Mirri both nodded and Sephiroth returned his attention to the door. The elevator was too small for him to draw Masamune, so he braced for throwing himself against the door. Masamune's weight helped carry him through the doors, though he was unable to keep his feet.
He dove to the ground... right in front of two guards who had their guns ready. Sadly for them Sephiroth's fall gave his compatriots a clear line of fire. One guard's body soon resembled a porcupine while the other's was Swiss cheese. Sephiroth stood up not long after both guard had joined him on the floor, though they would not be standing back up.
There was a staircase nearby, but a quick check of the door proved it locked. A slice from Masamune changed its mind. All three of them were soon dashing up stair after stair, Sephiroth counting how many flights they had gone up. The stairs would stop at level 60, and Shinra forces would be waiting for them, in minutes things would truly begin.
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James would open the door because he had the best weapon for dealing with multiple foes at long range. On the other side of the huge hallway was a private Shinra elevator that would access any floor they wanted to. Between him and that elevator where guards, SOLDIERS and robotic defenders in numbers hard to count.
James jumped to the side quickly as they began to aim at him, and he fired some shots of his own. James didn't bother to aim, against that many foes so long as his bullets didn't strike the floor or the ceiling they would most likely strike flesh or the robotic equivalent.
Mirri came in next, crossing her arms and launching 10 blades before springing to the opposite side James had come through. Finally Sephiroth came through, and facing odds incredibly in their foes favor, the three attacked without hint of self preservation in their eyes. It was Sephiroth's plan and it made a certain amount of sense.
If they were in among their foes then those foes couldn't fire without worrying about hitting each other, yet James and the other could shoot (and slice) them. Not to mention that the three of them could probably take more wounds then the others without dieing. James found himself between two guards and he fired on them, one gun pointing in either direction like a ship launching a double broadside.
Both men fell to the ground, and James spun around looking for a new target. There where plenty of them, a robot turning to meet him met an untimely end, if it was ever alive. Thus did it continue.
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Mirri danced amid a storm of shrapnel and death. She cut apart what she could reach, and launched her blades when she had to. Then suddenly it happened, among the chaos she saw him. A man in a blue uniform with black chevrons near the neck and wielding a huge blade, he was a first class SOLDIER. All it took was eye contact, and the two had created a small amount of order among the chaos.
The two rushed at each other, and Mirri blocked his descending blade with both hands. Then for a moment the two pushed against each other, seeing who could prove stronger then the other. It seemed and even contest until Mirri cheated.
With a quick shift she left only one hand blocking the blade, and quickly aimed her free hand. Before the SOLDIER could take advantage of his two hands to Mirri's one, he got five blades in his chest. He fell backwards, and Mirri rushed forward, first class SOLDIERS didn't die easily.
With her other hand she separated his head from his body and then spun around fast enough to stick those same blades into a robots chest. New blades loaded back into her other glove, and she returned to the chaos.
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In was incredibly brief and incredibly bloody. It took at most two minuets before it was over. James darting here and there, carefully rationing his ammo since he would have a hard time reloading. Mirri dancing with her blades, and... Sephiroth. With Masamune held in his hands, Sephiroth was the Grim Reaper personified. An angel of death, scythe in hand, mowing down lives like grains of wheat tossed into a thresher.
Bullets whipped past him without touching him, and it was easy to tell which people he had killed. They lay on the floor, their bodies cut in half, and blood only slowly starting to flow from them.
Stepping up to the elevator over the bodies of his former comrades, Sephiroth pulled out a small black card. He put it in the card reader next to the elevator, and the thing sprang to life as buttons lit up and the door opened. He stepped in and his partners followed him. He hit the button for floor 68 and his voice was a low growl as he spoke. "We're going to free Aeris first, then I'll get the president. If any of you see him, bring him to me alive, I'm not saying anything about unhurt.
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Hojo glared at the container, it had been close to five hours now. Five hours after the "light" sedative Tseng said to have given the girl should have worn off. He would see that Tseng paid for holding up the progress of science! Heaven help that Turk is the pure Cetra decided that his "cousin" made a better meal then mate.
Of course it was bad enough that no one besides him could see the value of science. What did it matter if they lost some number or other of SOLDIERS hunting down his male Cetra subject? Let alone the "cost" of equipping those SOLDIERS with the special bullets that Hojo had required. Shinra sent out men without those bullets, they where massacred, and the President blamed Hojo for not making clear what Hojo had explained beyond a doubt.
Nor could he forgive that metalsmith who had complained constantly about creating that collar. Of course that collar was the only thing keeping every single person in the building safe at the moment. Hojo did everything correct, but he was constantly encumbered by the mistakes of others!
Shinra had known of the Half-Cetra's existence, even her very domicile, but it had taken him years to convince President Shinra to go out and do something about it! He heard the "ding" of the elevator opening, and then who he saw getting out of it made his blood go cold.
Sephiroth stepped out of the elevator, and two others, a female SOLDIER and the escaped Project Patchwork. He turned to run off, but he only got a few feet before a blade sliced through his lab coat, and then through his leg.
He went down on one knee, the wound was not life threatening on its own, but the encumbrance it brought with it was. He soon found himself lifted into the air, and held eye to eye with Sephiroth. Sephiroth had always been good at hiding his emotions, but this time that skill eluded him. "RELEASE THEM! You have one chance for a fast death Dr.; I suggest you think about what it's worth to you."
Hojo just smiled, he might die, but his hand was no so weak as to force him to obey orders. "You're too late Sephiroth, look! My Cetra and half Cetra subjects should soon be breeding to provide me with the subject I desire!" As he spoke the girl slowly began to awaken, and the Cetra began to move towards her. Project Patchwork looked at the glass specimen tank, and then an odd look crossed his face. "You want that... to mate... with her... SICK!"
Sephiroth's face echoed the patchwork's statement. "Give me the password to open that thing!" Hojo laughed as Sephiroth became in touch with his emotion for one of the few times in his life. It was a truly remarkable sight. The Cetra moved away from the being he should be mating with, and looked right at Sephiroth. Then Hojo's worst nightmare became reality.
/8, 13, 10, 13. The Child of Gaia is still very weak, one of you should look after her./ Sephiroth dropped Hojo unceremoniously and dashed over to the control panel. He quickly entered in the passcode, and a moment later a section of the glass tank slid open. Hojo screamed as the Cetra leapt through the opening in the tank and landed on him, knocking him to the ground.
Helplessly he looked up a pair of huge golden eyes, filled with hatred. Large golden eyes, and larger fangs, Hojo grunted in pain as claws dug into his body. /Weave worshipper prepare to learn the ways of the wyld, the weak die/ The jaws began to descend, but they stopped just in time.
Sephiroth had retrieved the half Cetra from the tank, and it was starting to rotate into the floor. Very soon it would release the experimental Jenova lifeform. Hojo felt new hope well up in him, the experimental lifeform was uncontrollable, but the chaos might give him a chance.
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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." It was not as strong a mantra as normal but Sephiroth refused to succumb to doing something foolish like asking questions in this situation. The wolf was obviously on their side, and it obviously had a hatred of Hojo to equal Sephiroth's own, or close to it. He asked no question over why the demented scientist had called it a Cetra, or how it could "talk".
He had only one thing on his mind, the malformed being descending from the ceiling, that would soon be able to escape through the same hole the wolf and Aeris had used. He held Aeris in his hands, he turned to James quickly. "James, take care of her, get her to some place safe, much as any place in this building is, now GO!"
James took Aeris from Sephiroth's hands, holding her in his own two. It seemed an odd thing, but for the first time at that moment Sephiroth realized that James had above human strength as well. He pushed it aside as James went for the elevator, the wolf uttered a low growl and stepped off of Hojo.
Mirri simply loaded blades into her gloves glaring at the monster she would soon be fighting. /I will lend my strength to yours, as much of it as I have while this cursed chain resides around my neck.\ The moment the monster left the cage, the wolf was on it, his jaws tearing out a chunk of its flesh before he jumped away.
As soon as the wolf was away he instantly spit out the chunk of flesh. The thing was already starting to look rancid and it melted into the ground where it lay. /Wyrm, taste the wrath of Fenris!\ Mirri raised her fists and launched her blades at the thing. They struck the monster, but were melted into scrap by the things corrosive blood rather than sticking in the wounds they created to cause further damage..
Sephiroth slowly fingered Masamune as he prepared his strike, his blow would have to be perfect. The monster meanwhile let out a bellow of pain, and began to spray its corrosive blood around. Some of it splashed on the wolf, and in places patches of its fur vanished. Some of it came towards Mirri, but she managed to dodge it.
Sephiroth swirled his black outfit around him like a shield, it had been treated to resist heat, cold, and just about everything else. The coat resisted the acidic blood just fine. The monster let out another bellow, and opened its mouth. New small monsters began to jump from the monsters mouth. Mirri sliced one in half, and at the same time, the wolf crushed another one in its jaws. Acid poured form its jaws, and the wolf didn't spit it out fast enough to prevent it from getting obvious burns in places around its jaws. Sephiroth finally struck.
He dashed forward, and sliced through the last of the three small monsters, and came straight at the huge one. "FURY'S EDGE!" It was a rapid succession of strikes, each one quick so as to avoid letting the monsters blood get on his blade. Then finally he drove his blade home into the cut he had opened with several previous strikes, and the monster fell apart, its acidic blood melting the cement floor.
Sephiroth sheathed his blade and turned to the elevator which was opening again. James was on the floor, his body convulsing with electric shocks. Reno was standing over him with his nightstick.
In his other hand, he had a pistol pointed at Aeris' head, Aeris who was just barely standing on her two feet. "I think I have something that belongs to you. Give up now, or else." Sephiroth released the strap that held Masamune's sheath to his back.
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It was bitter for Sephiroth.
Getting dragged in front of President Shinra like an animal. The wolf apparently had similar thoughts of the situation. They had tossed them in the same cell, something about "two monsters learning from each other" that made him scowl just to contemplate. The handcuffs where not normal, they used opposite electrical charges to hold each other together.
Sephiroth could have torn any metal ones to shreds but with those cuffs on he couldn't pull his hands from behind his back. The cuffs also automatically prevented the person from using any magic, even Sephiroth's own inborn magic; he couldn't do anything.
He had failed them, but he would find a way of out it. There was something about seeing Reno lock Mirri up that had put his mind at rest. "So Catwarrior, you get killed in the morning, last chance to have sex with me!" "In your dreams." "WELL DUHHH!"
If Reno was any example of what they were up against, Shinra didn't have a chance of holding him. /It's funny. You don't seem particularly corrupt Silver Fang, regardless of how strong she is in you.\ "Who is?" /You know of whom I speak.\
That announcement was accompanied by a growl from the wolf's throat. Sephiroth answered that statement with a growl from his own throat that was just as bestial. "I didn't ask for her strength. I was born with it. Just like I didn't ask to be human." /Gaia has little care for what we ask or wish for. You use her strength willingly enough.\ That drew another growl from Sephiroth's throat.
"I use the weapons of my foes against them. I believe in never giving up, and never allowing any rules or conventions to stand in my way." The sound that left the wolf's throat was a cross between a bark and a laugh. /You would find welcome enough among the ranks of Fenris singing such a song of battle. Very well. The Child of Gaia is a helpless pup, and it is the duty of the entire pack to protect her. If you can break my bonds, then I can free you from yours.\
"What bonds?" /This 'collar' that chains me like a common dog. Can you move your hands enough? If you're as strong as you should be, then you can free me of it./ Sephiroth let out a low sigh, his was not to question the logic of the world.
He slowly turned around, and began to bend down on knees. He felt the wolf rub up against his legs, and then he had it. He felt spikes that were sharper then they looked pierce through his gloves and then through his skin. His hands were held together by the cuffs, but he still had some mobility. Enough to close his hands around the collar, and enough to pull the thing in half.
He eased his grip as he felt the collar come apart in his hands, He let go of the collar pieces he held, and they fell to the floor as his skin began to scab over. He turned back around, and the wolf shook out its mane that was no loner encumbered.
The sound that next came from the wolf could not be called a purr, but it was about as close to it as one would ever come. /YES, YES, YES! GAIA FLOW THROUGH ME! ONCE AGAIN BESTOW ME WITH YOUR GIFTS!\ The wolf continued to rub up against Sephiroth's legs, and its voice returned to normal.
/This gift is normally only practiced among Glasswalkers, but when living among the Weave one find sit necessary to consort with goblins. Allow me to direct them into you chains, they should be quite adept at dealing with such pieces of 'technology' by now.\ Even though it was a mental voice, "technology" was slowly sounded out as if a new word. Sephiroth didn't know what the wolf meant, but a moment later he had his results.
The electronic cuffs began to spark, and a moment later, the electric charge between them, died. Not just the electric charge, Sephiroth once again had the ability to use magic, the cuffs were nothing now.
He turned to the wolf, and nodded to it. "Thanks, I think it's time we prepare to give Shinra a bit more then they expect when they come to kill us." /We will not be slaughtered in a cage like cattle.\ For a moment the two rested preparing for the next battle.
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"Well James, this sucks." "You said it Mirri." "I mean they took my gloves, and they searched me for my blades." "Yeah, and they took my hat!" "So what do we do now?"
"Well we're going to be killed tomorrow morning, and now we're in a cell, without guns or gloves. I think that what we do is pretty clear. Do you still have it on you?"
"Of course I do! I mean, it's not like they could have taken it from me." "Yeah, I think Reno just searched me to satisfy his male hormones, and not very thoroughly at that." "So you think now would be a good time to do that?" "Well you have it, let's use it."
"Okay, but with these things on, I need you to take off my pants." "Sure James, but then I need you to take off my top." "No problem Mirri." "There you go."
"Thanks. Okay... now I just have to hold it in the right place. Does that look good to you?" "Feels pretty good to me, go with it." ... "Should it be taking this long?"
"In this situation, yes." "Ohh okay, I mean I'm totally new to this kind of thing, and you're always so experienced Mirri."
"Jesus James, it's your own body, you should be familiar with it." "Well yeah, but a guy only spends so much time attending to parts of it." ... "Now we're in business James." "Okay now do me!"
The electromagnetic cuff that previously occupied Mirri's right hand was now residing on the floor. Held directly below it by James, was a red furred tail emerging from his slightly lowered pants. Where a tuft of fur would have been on a normal tail, (as much as a tail growing from a person would be considered normal) James' tail instead had a flame.
A flame that had a moment before been pressed against the metallic cuff like a blowtorch. The cuffs where quite powerless with one burned through and Mirri was thus able to remove two blades in sheathes hidden under her elbows that Reno had thoroughly missed..
A few quick twists of the blades into the cuffs on James hands rendered them as inefficient as Mirri's single one. Mirri then calmly bent down and picked up her bodysuit and put it back on. James meanwhile tucked his tail back down his pants leg where it had been before, and after pulling his pants back up, there was no proof it existed.
"Well now what do we do?" "Now I give you a scratch behind the ears for doing a good job." James was already starting to purr. "I like this plan!"
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Sephiroth rolled over on the prison 'bed' at the exact same time as the wolf stood up from where it had been laying on the ground. /You heard it too? Your hearing is much better than most humans.\ Sephiroth let out a low laugh as he began to press himself against the door. "Yes, I'm just full of surprises."
He was prepared to use fire magic to melt the door's hinges before he knocked it down, but to his amazement the door opened on its own. He stepped into the hallway and stared at his surroundings. The floor was covered with the blood of the two dead guards, guards who had been killed in a very inexpert manor. /Most vicious, an unexpected but pleasant surprise on the field of battle.\
Sephiroth didn't pay much attention to the wolf at the moment, he had only one thing on his mind. At the side of the cell by the fallen guards the groups weapons were piled. Sephiroth raced over to them (careful not to slip on the blood) and retrieved Masamune and returned it to its rightful place on his back.
He then turned to the cell nearby that held Mirri and James, he opened it, James and Mirri were lying on their separate bunks, both already out of their cuffs. Mirri muttered something under her breath that sounded like "about time" and then breezed out of the cell.
She instantly took her gloves from where they had been placed and put them back on. Then she began the laborious task of returning the blades that had been taken from her to their respectful places. While she did that James took the fallen guards guns and strapped them over her shoulders.
Sephiroth took the staff that was laid against the wall and made his way back to the final cell and opened it. Aeris lay on the cold bed but slowly began to get up. Sephiroth tossed the staff to her and she caught it fairly well. "Sorry for being such a burden to you." /You have little reason to apologize Child of Gaia, the weave forces us into our roles and none of us can hope to truly fight it. Trying to extricate yourself from it is like a fly struggling in a spider's web, you only tangle yourself in deeper. It must be cut one strand at a time.\
Sephiroth turned around and glared at the wolf who had apparently followed him out of his cell. Aeris carefully walked out of the cell, slightly stretching as if not quite as ready for battle as those around her were. In the end she seamed satisfied because she looked Sephiroth right in the eye. "Well then, what do we do now?"
For a moment everyone's eyes where on Sephiroth, James', Mirri's, Aeris', and the wolf's. If it was a test of his leadership, and Sephiroth wasn't afraid. "We go back through the lab, and we kill President Shinra. Then we can take his private elevator back down to the motor pool, steal some vehicles and escape."
There was a brief nod among them, and then Sephiroth began to lead the way down the hall to whatever waited for them.
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It was all very weird in James opinion. No more living guards, just lots of dead ones. They all seamed to have died pretty messily given all the blood sloshing about. Of course there were some dead scientists as well, the cells where on the same floor as the lab, for reasons that James didn't want to contemplate.
Finally coming to a certain part of the lab that they hadn't seen before, Sephiroth stopped. A door stood in ruins in a corner of the lab. He looked at the ruined door and walked closer to it. When he saw what was inside he beat his hand against the wall in anger, and frustration. "Too late, too late, someone freed her, damn them to hell, I was too late!"
James was going to ask who Sephiroth was talking about, but now didn't seem to be a good time. /We should go. This place reeks of every kind of taint and corruption imaginable. This place has been touched by the Wyrm, like I've nothing I've felt before. Not to mention it seems to be home to every type of weave worshipers imaginable. This place, the very pinnacle of this unhallowed caern. The evil in it... I can't find words...\
Sephiroth turned away from the wall. "Never mind, we have to keep moving. We don't have the weapons we need to destroy this place, for now we must work on staying alive."
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President Shinra was dead. A huge blade had been shoved in his back, and he lay sprawled out over his desk. It was just one of the many things that she had seen today that made Aeris shiver. From the look on Sephiroth's face however he was feeling an entirely different set of emotions.
The other woman, Mirri Aeris was fairly sure, and the other man, James apparently didn't understand and neither did the wolf. Sephiroth slowly approached the president's body and ripped the blade from his back. He tossed it on the ground unceremoniously. "First her, and now this. Five years worth of trouble coming back in one day. Don't ask me about it now, I'll get around to explaining later. For now only one thing matters, this..."
As he spoke Sephiroth fished around in the dead president's suit until he finally removed a black card. He walked over to an elevator on one side of the room, and put the card in. The elevator opened and he stepped in. Thankfully the thing was grand enough to fit all five of them in, though to wolf seemed somewhat unsure of the device. Sephiroth hit the lowest button on the wall and the elevator began it's painfully slow descent down 70 levels.
It was a painful silence that filled the elevator, and even Aeris was bound by it. The odd thing was that as the ride went on, the wolf's uneasiness seamed to diminish, but Sephiroth's increased.
He began to finger the blade strapped to his back, even though there was no foe in sight, and Aeris doubted there was even room for him to draw it in this elevator. His hand went up and down the blade, even though the sheath was between his fingers and the metal. Eventually the door opened and Sephiroth stepped out into the Shinra motor pool, his hands no longer fingered his blade, his face no longer showing signs of vexation, once again he was in command. "Mirri, hotwire something that can hold you four. I'm going to go find a motorcycle."
Mirri nodded walked over to a truck, and without further delay, drove her fist through the front windshield. Her gloves apparently where much tougher then they looked, because the glass didn't scratch them. She then reached over, and opened the door. She hit a lever inside and the hood of the vehicle opened up. She spent a few moments leaned over the front of it, messing around with the wires inside, and then finally the thing roared to life.
She stood up and nodded to everyone else. "Okay, all aboard that's getting out of this place!" She took the driver's seat as James got into the shotgun position. Aeris got into the backseat as did the wolf, thankfully there was room for both of them. A moment later they took off with Sephiroth hanging behind them on a motorcycle ready to intercept pursuit.
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Sephiroth's fears proved unfounded. Whatever the hell was going on in the Shinra building, it was keeping them busy and no one followed them. They rammed through the checkpoint, James spraying bullets towards the guards post. Then they where clear of Midgar, though they didn't stop the vehicles till they had reached the safety of the woods close to the city.
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They all got off their respective vehicles, and they all let out a grateful sigh, they were done fighting for now. Sephiroth leaned the motorcycle against a tree as he got off. "Well we're out of Midgar. I guess we might as well go around and get to know each other some, for what it's worth, we're going to be fighting along each other for as far ahead as I can see.
I'm General Sephiroth. I spent my entire life fighting. I disappeared five years ago, when I was tossed into the Nibelheim mako reactor. I don't feel like discussing the particulars of that event at the moment. Suffice to say what I saw in that town was enough to make me hate Shinra from the bottom of my heart."
James instantly picked up the ball. "My name is James Firecat!" As he spoke, he removed his hat, showing off his cat ears. "I was 'born' with these, and they're quite effective. I can here a mouse squeak and pinpoint its exact location. I guess I was made by Shinra so as to serve as a biological weapon and commando.
I'm about... sixteen months old. I was created in a lab underneath lower Midgar, but before they could really do anything to me Seph... iroth came along and killed them all. Then I went with him, because I really didn't see any other choice in the matter. I guess I'm fighting with him because a guy does what a guy knows best."
Mirri picked up after James. "My name is Mirri Catwarrior. I was born in Corel, but I left at a relatively young age to fight in the Wutain war. I fought well enough to become a first class SOLDIER and earn the title of Seraphim by fighting at the side of General Sephiroth. I'm fighting because life isn't worth living without raising some hell now and then."
Aeris looked slightly hesitant but she began as well. "My name is Aeris Gainsborough, I was adopted when I was young, I'm not sure what happened to my real parents. I can sometimes... hear voices, and Shinra has always had Tseng and the others keep a close watch on me. I never thought it would come to anything, but I guess I was wrong. I'm here, because I don't want to be afraid any more."
All eyes turned to wolf, who clearly could understand being the center of attention. /My name is Alexander Diamondclaw, I am a Cetra and I long since stopped counting my age. I was born in Cosmo Canyon, my grandparents where part of the first flight of the Cetra. These descended directly from those who fought the Wyrm's corruption but been stricken with her taint and died. My grandparents went south to escape the disease, when they where still young.
My parents are both dead now, my father gave his life defend our caern. Though we have left our frozen homelands, we are still disciples of Fenris, the wolf god of war. I have but one wish for my life, to deal death to those who have been corrupted by the Wyrm.
You are a strange pack to follow into battle. A Ragabash Bone Gnawer, a Theurge Child of Gaia, an Ahroun Black Fury, and a Philodox Silver Fang, who has much of her strength, but as of yet none of her corruption. I will follow you Silver Fang as my alpha. However know that the moment my nose detects corruption from you, you will never find rest till you find yourself breathing without a throat. Get of Fenris do not dally with words, if you fall under her spell, you will die.\
That statement was followed by a growl from Alexander's throat. A growl from Sephiroth's met it. "I will slit my own throat first." /Very well then, my name is Alex, for I will run and hunt with you. Besides, this Child of Gaia needs someone to guide her through her first change. Even if we of Fenris share little with them, they are our kin, and I will leave no kin behind./
That announcement was greeted by the same word coming from three different human throats (and James' whatever that counted as). "WHAT!"
FN: Bet that got your attention. As a side note, if you want to be better able to understand "WHAT THE F?" "Alex" is saying, you should go to White Wolf, and read about Werewolf the Apocalypse, not Forsaken the good set where a werewolf can take shotgun slugs without getting scratched.
OWAN: We have multiple reviewers! I'm so thrilled! Twilight Perfection is going on a 2-week hiatus, as I will be unable to edit and post in that time.