Author's Beginning Note Thingy: So the last chapter had Tifa in it! I've never written for Tifa... but I suppose there's a first time for everything. Yet again, this song is altered for the purpose of fitting the real FF7 story, HOWEVER! Just to give you an idea of how absolutely perfect the original was for this fic, I'll say here and now, I only changed one word... not including the title.
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Sephiroth's Lullaby
The boy was born an experiment, to a neglectful father, and a dying mother. The goddess was outraged, at first, at his existence... how dare they try and replace her... how dare they defile her purity with his humanity... not long passed before the opinion flip-flopped in her mind... she would not let these foolish mortals brainwash her child, her son. He was her son, for he had no other mother...
She regretted that she was, for now, incapable of physically meeting him... but all that would change soon... so soon. She would speak to him in his mind, praise him, raise him as her own... those humans would not have their way with him. He would be hers yet, do her bidding, her will.
As he cried in bed at night, after countless injections, and tests, she would come to him in his dreams, soothing away the hurt, preening it into strength. She would spark the idea of revenge in his mind, and tell him how to exact it. As he lay in the shadows of the night, eyes wide and awake, she would sing to him:
Hush, child,
the darkness will rise from the deep,
and carry you down into sleep.
Child, the darkness will rise from the deep,
and carry you down into sleep.
Son,
I'll shape your belief,
and you'll always know that your father's a thief,
and you won't understand
the cause of your grief,
but you'll always follow
the voices beneath, saying:
Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, only to me.
Son,
your spirit will hate her,
the flower who married your father the traitor,
and you will expose
his puppet behavior,
for you are the proof
of how we betrayed her
loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, only to me.
Child,
the darkness will rise from the deep,
and carry you down into sleep.
Child, the darkness will rise from the deep,
and carry you down into sleep.
Son,
each day you grow older,
each moment I'm watching my vengeance unfold.
For the child of my body,
the flesh of my soul
will die in returning
the birthright he stole:
Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, only to me.
Child,
the darkness will rise from the deep,
and carry you down into sleep.
Child, the darkness will rise from the deep,
and carry you down into sleep.
And after this song, he'd always been calmed... the tears on his cheeks went dry, and he drifted off into a peaceful sleep that would last 'til dawn. Jenova would smile down on her little baby boy, whom she loved so much. She had big plans for him in the future, yes... big, big plans...