Xejicka: Welcome back to the misadventures of me.
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Disclaimer: Xejicka does not own the Kingdom Hearts series, the Final Fantasy series, Amaterasu in whom belongs to rikufanattic or good Sephiroth writing skills.
Xejicka: I actually asked for tips on how to write him and I had to rewrite his part of the chapter. I basically learned it's mind fucker vs. mind fucker.
Thalkxene: And Reno fucker, don't forget about Reno fucker.
Xejicka: Can't forget about the Reno fucker, though it's more like Reno rapist, but yeah, it's Reno fucker.
The Last Day Before Destiny pt. 1
Sephiroth woke abruptly in the darkness. The sound of flowing water penetrated his ears as he grew alert of his surroundings. He was in a small pool of glowing aqua liquid. Mako. "Let this healing nectar soothe you, my dear Sephiroth.," a feminine voice broke through the shadows.
"Good to see you, Fate," the one winged angel spoke calmly.
"Likewise," the mage said as she drew nearer to the edge of the pool. The glow of the mako cast eerie shadows on both people. "So tell me, how was your fight?"
"The fight, pointless for you to ask if knew to," Sephiroth replied.
"Yes, aren't you the least bit curious why you woke in a pool of mako?" Fate asked as she leaned over on the edge of the pool, overlooking the silver haired man.
"You put me in here while I was in the fight. It's as simple as that," Sephiroth answered coolly.
"Great analysis. You're taking it quite marvelously that you were left vulnerable for a short time," Fate said with sangfroid. Sephiroth's slits that were his pupils became thin lines. Fate sensed this. "Did that scare you? I'm ashamed of that," she said with almost sarcasm
"Fear is for the weak. I have no use for such an obscurity," Sephiroth replied.
"If it makes things more comforting in your shameful state, I slain those that intended you any harm when you were immobile. During that time I'm thought a nice spa treatment would do you wonders. Mind if I join?" the mage spoke. She didn't even wait for the man to answer a she quickly dived in.
Only a long sword went through her chest as she dived. Sephiroth held her in the air, a satisfied look on his face. It was then that Fate looked up with an equally ferocious grin. "What are you stabbing at? I gave up my heart long ago," she said as she pulled the sword out of her and she fell into the mako.
"A heartless woman that lurks in the darkness," Sephiroth said coldly with a sadistic grin on his face.
"Not in the darkness, but on my own path. I'm apologize that you the battle didn't turn out like you wanted," Fate said as she relaxed a little. "Someone else I was working with seemed to have done things he shouldn't have and that led to some errors,"
"I received what I wanted in the end. Durus received a part of my power. He no longer has the free access to the darkness he once abused. He'll use his resource until he's dependent on it and I shall easily manipulate him," Sephiroth told Fate who was utterly amazed, but did not dare show it.
"Then you knew it would fail?" Fate asked.
"I merely planned ahead. I'm allowed to do that, you said nothing against it," Sephiroth replied.
"Very true. It's good to see you're not hurt. Not like you could be. You did notice the lack of fatal injuries, I hope," Fate suggested.
"I merely thought luck was on my side, Fate," Sephiroth said as he waved his hand.
"She is not. I adopted that trick you used from a certain ghost. It was the beauty of our deal. You communicate beyond the darkness through one's dreams and sleep. They can take any damage you deliver while you remain untouched.
"With that knowledge, you can go ahead and start your training with our dear Kathleen. You've done it before in the past and curiosity got the best of you. That drive led you to me when a man by the name of Cloud Strife took you down, you came to me. Tonight is a perfect night for the start again," Fate explained. The wind blew as she spoke, putting a chill into the very core of her words.
"How I've wanted to hear that," Sephiroth smiled. He was getting ever closer to his goal.
Fate smiled at him as she looked into the darkness. "You're going to have a lot of company in here soon,"
Hollow Bastion
Amaterasu looked down at Durus. She was sitting in a chair next to him bed. The silver haired youth lied on his stomach, he was sleeping soundly in only a pair of colorful boxers. Two large scars on his bare back were noticeable. "Any changes, Ammi?" Kathleen asked as she walked into the bed room.
"He's still out," Amaterasu said as she stroked his back. A day had passed since Durus was injected.
"Jessica wanted me to tell you that dinner was almost ready," Kathleen as she walked next to the girl with the light brown skin. "I can't believe he hasn't woke yet," Kathleen said in some disbeief.
"His clothes are destroyed, he'll have to borrow Reno's," Amaterasu added as she looked at a pile of soiled clothes at the corner of the room.
"Did somebody say my name?" Reno asked as he walked into the room. His face was very red. Kathleen and Amaterasu smirked at him, both trying to hide their laughter.
"Your face is still red?" Kathleen asked.
"It's not my fault, yo," Reno pointed out.
"Yeah it is," Amaterasu said laughing.
"Fate grabbed my ass!" Reno said angrily.
"And you slapped her," Kathleen added.
"Then she slapped you back," Amaterasu also added.
"Then both of you went into a bitch slapping fest until that Asian guy collapsed from laughing so hard," Kathleen finished. She laughed even harder.
"Don't pass out like he did," Reno warned bitterly.
"Guys, get your asses down here for dinner!" Jessica called up from the first floor. Reno and Kathleen quickly exited the bed room, Amaterasu got up. She looked back at Durus.
"What did Fate do to you?" she asked aloud as she exited the room.
The long dinner table was set. Matt, Sara, Logan, Paul and Liam had already sat down. All five looked exhausted, sweaty and hungry form their day of reconstruction of the world. Kathleen, Reno and Amaterasu quickly sat down at their spots as Jessica entered the dining room with a large tray as a moogle by the name of Lee Ann flew in with a large pitcher of tea. Kathleen groaned in disgust, she hated tea.
"It's vegetable pizza, it's really good," Jessica said as she started serving everyone a piece.
"Where's the cheese and why is the sauce white?" Matt asked as he examined his slice.
"It's cream cheese mixed with sour cream. If you don't like it, don't eat it," Jessica pointed out.
"Amaterasu, you never did tell us the whole story about Durus," Kathleen said as she took a bite out of her pizza.
"Kathleen, are you sure that's good dinner talk?" Logan asked as he stopped eating his pizza.
"I don't really care," Paul said as he ripped a piece of his pizza off into his mouth. "This is good,"
"Well, after I delivered the package to the fruit-" Amaterasu went on but was quickly interrupted by an angry Matt.
"I'm not a fruit!" He interjected.
"Keep telling yourself that. Anyways, I walked down to check on Durus, since I visited him earlier. He was unconscious. As soon as I went up to him, he started shaking and screaming, but his eyes remained shut," Amaterasu said, he voice getting ever worried sounding.
"Yeah, that's when Jessica and I came in, yo," Reno added, Amaterasu nodded.
"Then a big, deep cut formed on his back," Matt cut in.
"That was freaky," Liam bluntly added.
"Then Lee Ann came in, saying she saw something like that before. She lifted Durus by the collar and tried to carry him off. Weird, at that instant, it looked like someone cast cure on him and the wound healed. Not fully, but it healed," Amaterasu told everyone.
"We lifted Durus up and carried him as close as we could to here. Then he screamed again. We then found another horrendous cut on him," Sara added.
"We rushed in here and threw the guy onto the table. He bled all over it," Jessica said further. Half of the people at the table stopped eating, completely disgusted with what they were eating on. "I cleaned it up," That did not comfort anyone.
"Then light, out of nowhere, formed out of the wound and sealed it completely," Amaterasu finished. "He's been out since,"
"And you haven't left since, yo," Reno pointed out.
"I saw something like that before, spamdunculous," Lee Ann said.
"Lee Ann, even if you had your memories back, I don't think you saw anything that gory,:" Matt said in disbelief.
"But I have! I saw a girl with a tail fall from a building. I caught her and she landed in a room. Light came in and saved her as well as a guy with a mullet and a blue haired man with scary yellow eyes!" the moogle interjected. Jessica spit out all of the tea she was drinking. It splattered all over everyone. But when splattered is said, it means mostly all over Matt as well as sprinkling a bit on everyone, but especially Matt and what was left of the pizza.
"Y-you caught a girl from a falling building?!" Jessica choked.
"Yeah, it looked like someone stabbed her with a lightsaber, spamdunculous," Lee Ann added. Sara looked at her with wide eyes. Kathleen looked with shock.
"Did you find out her name?" Sara quickly asked.
"Uhhh... I don't know, I forgot. Everyone I saw called her it, experiment, thing and not human. She disappeared after everyone was shot," Lee Ann said. Her memory had worsened over time.
"Do you think it could be Jackie?" Kathleen asked the others "Lee Ann, what did this girl look like again?" the boxer rushed, not bothering to wait for the others to answer.
"She had long black hair, or was it brown or dark brown," everyone started to perk up. If there was one thing that was used to describe Jackie, it was her long hair that people accused of being black. "She also had pointy ears and a tail," the moogle added.
"Son of a bitch," Sara swore angrily. Everyone at the table that had known Sara, gasped.
"You actually cussed?" Matt asked, shocked.
"Forget about the cussing. Sara, was it Jackie that you saw get stabbed?" Logan asked.
"I thin kit was. Keep in mind how far the top of that castle was from where I saw her. It was as if my vision zoomed in on her as she was stabbed. I couldn't really see any detail," Sara replied, her voice saddened.
"It's not like you can zoom in like that," Liam pointed out. "You wear glasses and I doubt they work like binoculars,"
"The same thing happened to me, Liam. I saw my sister's face. Then I saw that bastard, the one that killed her. I swear, I'll kill him myself," Jessica told. Her face darkened with hatred.
"Jessica, you can't do that. You won't do that," Matt said.
"Why not?" Jessica asked with rising anger.
"It's meddling. You're not the one that will kill Xemnas. He will be killed, but not by you," Matt said.
"Why the Hell not? He took the only thing that meant something to me, something that gave me hope, you queer," Jessica cried.
"I'm pissed that Earth is gone, but I'm still hopeful. If things stay the way they are, it will be a year before we can go home," Matt stated.
"I don't c-" Jessica was cut off by Reno.
"We can't get involved. You wanted to be Kathleen's bodyguard and you signed that contract with Fate when she came here today and you knew that," Reno told Jessica.
"It's my sister. She was the only other survivor of my family when the darkness attacked," Jessica said as tears fell from her face. Everyone looked at her sympathetically. They all had lost someone to darkness. Jessica had the hell that was of false hope. Matt finally realized how important Jackie was to Jessica.
"You're not the only one that lost a sibling, yo," Reno said as he got up from his seat and stood behind Jessica.
"I didn't know you had any siblings," Amaterasu said.
"I did. I saw my brother get dragged away by those damn heartless," Reno told everyone as he leaned on Jessica's seat with out realizing it.
"At least we can relate," Jessica said with a weak smile. Something was bugging Paul.
"But what about the tail and pointy ears? Are Lee Ann and Sara talking about the same person? How is that?" Paul asked. This started lots of questioning from everyone to each other. Arguments and small fist fights started to rise to the point that Liam was hit in the crotch by Amaterasu and Jessica and Matt were punching/choking each other.
"Wait! I have some input," Kathleen shouted above the rising voices. Her words were so strong that everyone became silent. "I-I saw Jackie's death. I saw it up close,"
"How wee you able to see her death? You weren't even there if what you told us earlier was right," Logan asked.
"I dreamt and I saw it. I saw Jackie go berserk on the platform, she tried to kill Xemnas. He grabbed her by the head, she looked like she was in pain. He looked like he was yelling at. Then he pulled out a lightsaber-"
"Aerial blade," Matt corrected.
"Stop interrupting her," Amaterasu said. "Go on, Kathleen,"
"He pulled out the blade and stabbed. He ripped it out and threw her off the castle. I dived for her, then I work up," Kathleen finished.
"Kathleen, I'm getting sick of your lying about your psychic shit. We're talking about whether or not Jackie was killed, not what you dreamed," Matt roared.
"I'm no lying! I can have dreams where I see actual events take place. I've had it before, I can even see people's auras," Kathleen argued.
"I believe Kathleen, there's even a scientific explanation behind auras," Sara defended.
"Don't be hard on her, ya fruit. Kathleen, do you remember any details about your dream?" Amaterasu asked.
"It was weird, but true if you ask Fate. When she went berserk, she turned wolf like. Her teeth grew, her nails grew, her eyes turned yellow. She may have had a tail and pointy ears, but I was distracted by how that guy was killing her. It was Jackie, I know it," Kathleen responded.
Then a vision came to her mind. She was in a pool of blood, her blood. Her face was frozen in an odd expression, she could not tell what it was. Her vision was almost nonexistent, as if she saw something too glorious or hideous. Even her hearing had faded. Yet she heard the muffled sound of a man screaming. A gunshot went off as she felt blood splatter all over her paralyzed body. Then the muffled sound of a person falling and another person yelling and other muffled sounds followed.
Kathleen looked gravely at her plate. 'I'm going to check on Durus," she said as she quickly got up from the table. She went up the stairs silently as everyone watched her leave.
"Lee Ann, do you know what happened to the girl after she was shot?" Matt finally asked, remembering that he too was shot.
"Nope, I hung around with a boy that looked like he was attacked by a toilet and a guy with a mullet and a giant guitar, until the moogles found me," Lee Ann went on. Amaterasu decided to check on Durus as well. She left the table and went upstairs.
Kathleen was in a chair next to Durus' bed. Amaterasu walked next to Kathleen. "He's still sleeping. How can something knock him out so hard?" the boxer asked.
"I'm still trying to figure that out. I saw Fate inject him. When I went back to find him, he looked like he was in a fight," Amaterasu answered.
"He's pretty muscular," Kathleen pointed out.
"He really is. You wouldn't have guessed it by what he wore," Amaterasu added, a grin formed on her lips.
"I say we hide the shirts before he wakes. He could be shirtless and hot!" Kathleen happily suggested.
"What about Reno?" Amaterasu asked as she started to laugh.
"Shirtless men!" Kathleen shouted gleefully as she stood up from her chair.
"Yay!" both girls squealed. It was then that Kathleen grew a devious smirk. She looked at the sleeping Durus , then down to his boxers. Amaterasu stifled her laughter that was about to escape her. The brunette reached down and grabbed the rear end of the sleeping replica.
As Fate, Luck and Vicis would have it, the silver haired neophyte bodyguard woke up.
"Shit," Both girls uttered.
"Ungh," Durus groaned as he looked up at the two girls. "Where am I and why does my back hurt, a lot?" Kathleen sighed in relief that he wasn't concerned with the butt grab.
"Durus, are you aware that it looked like someone tried to kill you? Did you even feel it?" Amaterasu asked. The replica remembered his dream, he remembered the promise.
"Yeah," he looked out the window, it was dark outside. "How long was I-"
"All last night and all today. Jessica is a new bodyguard now. Fate told us to tell you that Lady Luck felt bad for you and you don't have to wear frilly underwear anymore. I don't know what she meant," Kathleen told Durus.
"I lost a bet with Fortuna, enough said," Durus looked up to Kathleen. "Do you feel safe?" the girl looked at him weird.
"Of course I do. Why would you ask that?" Kathleen asked, slightly confused. Durus looked out the window again and noted the position of the moon.
"It's getting late. You should go to sleep. Ill watch over you," Durus said as he got up from the bed. "are there any clothes I ca wear?" Amaterasu pulled out a set of navy pants and a white collared button up shirt.
"It's Reno's. There was nothing else. Your clothes were ruined. I've been wondering what's with the tattoo on your wrist though," Amaterasu said. Durus looked at his wrist. The tattoo of Vexen's sheild showed clearly. How he despised that mark as a reminder of his birth.
"It's nothing. I'll take a shower," he said as he walked to the door of the room. "Kathleen, get some sleep and don't let yourself fall into stupid contracts or issues,"
Xejicka: Damn you, Sephiroth! You are too hard to write. I liked writing Xemnas better. Now he was fun.
Thalkxene: We're going to let you reviewers know that there will be Reno molestation jokes and they won't stop.
Xejicka: I would like to thank my buddy rikufanattic for letting me use her useful character. I would also like to give credit/thanks to a writer by the name of Jediempress. I could not get through the Sephiroth scene without her help and advice.
Thalkxene: We're going to give out a prize to the person who can guess which ghost Fate was referring to. It could be a picture request, odd advice. We don't do drabbles because we don't have the inspiration for it. And there's also the option of having a character dedicated to you!
Xejicka: I love adding characters and I do find a use for them, don't worry. We'll get the next chapter rolling as soon as possible.
Thalkxene: Review!
Xejicka: Just to let you know, we do appreciate suggestions and I hope you can guess which nobodies Lee Ann the spamdunculous moogle talked about.