Chapter 4 He gets inside your head.
The week held many surprises for the guests of Twilight Town. For one, wherever they went with Axel, the people were either utterly terrified of him or they worshipped the ground he walked on. He had been given gifts for what no one but the locals knew. Sora really didn't want to know what trouble Axel had gotten himself into.
Probably beat up someone in a flashy form, piped up Roxas from within Sora. That would be in his style.
Sora, really couldn't argue with his brother's statement. Now that they were one being again, they talked all the time now, of course so did Naminé and Kairi. And then in turn, Roxas and Naminé could converse without the knowledge of Sora and Kairi. Sora thought it was a bit unfair, but there was nothing he could do about it so . . .
The best part of the whole thing was the preparations for the Struggle. Sora, Riku, and Axel had no real intentions of signing up, much to the dismay of the manager of the battles. He had been looking forward to some real exciting fights. Though Sora could really sympathize with him. If it weren't for the facts that they were going to train Hayner to beat Seifer, it would be the same thing as every year. And to everyone's horror, Larxene planned to go in to the competition. The good thing was that she wasn't allowed to use her kunai. She would have to learn how to use those 'useless pieces of shit' as he called them. Though, to everyone's dismay, she could still use her lightning abilities.
Sora wandered the streets of the town. Though he had only been here a few times, he felt very at home. It was calm and peaceful (that is of course, if you didn't count the few pranks that Axel would play on you), and was generally a very happy place. Sure it had its less than nice elements, if you will, but what community didn't. He just wished that more people could appreciate that peace.
Don't we all, bro. spoke Roxas solemnly from within. But we rarely get what we want.
Sora mockingly scoffed. I got exactly what I wanted, and so did you. Kairi and Naminé. Though it is still a bit weird to know that someone inside you is dating the person inside your girlfriend.
Roxas chuckled a bit. Ok, well, more like that we don't get exactly what we want exactly when we want it. I just wanted to meet you and I got to after being locked in a fake Twilight Town, living a lie, get beaten up by my own minions and my best friend. There wasn't much I had to do to meet you, now was there.
The two boys laughed heartily, though to the occasional onlooker, it looked like a spiky haired youth was laughing loudly to himself. Crazy. That's what a few of Sora's teachers thought he was, too. Of course, they first thought it was the wild stories he was spreading around. Then after the 'mouse visits,' they started to believe that he had schizophrenia. They thought that he and another personality were fighting for control of the body. They were half right. Even Sora's mother started to believe them. He hadn't told her about Roxas still being able to talk to him. His father had given him a wink but had never pressed the subject.
After a bit of a grocery run, Sora headed back to Hayner's place. They were officially staying at a local hotel. Well, they had planned to, but his mother had insisted that they stay there. Turns out that his house went above and beyond the word 'house'. It was really more of a small estate in the city. His was one of the richest families in the town, but no one had a big head on that. Nobody was really poor. His dad had just gotten lucky with a scratch ticket he had picked up at a store and got some big bucks. In said house, there were at least ten different spare bedrooms. Two of which were group rooms which had at least five beds if there was large party of random meddling kids in the nearby area. Sora and males would be in one and the girls would be in the other. Hayner would be in his own room and Pence and Olette would go back to their own homes.
Now of course we're all wondering what Sora had gotten from his grocery trip. Why would he need them at this huge house? I'm sure as they are well off enough to have ten extra rooms they would have enough to provide for everyone's needs. Which they did. Course he wanted to get something special for their first night back in Twilight Town. Sea Salt Ice Cream!
Upon entering the 'Hayner estate,' he was immediately assaulted with a fanfare of noisemakers, yells of SURPRISE and other exclamations! The lights were flipped on to show everyone wearing those silly little cone shaped birthday hats. There was a sign in the back with a little design of chibi versions of everyone doing a little peace sign. Axel himself was hanging upside down from a rafter with sparklers in his hands being a makeshift explosive chandelier, all the while looking very sullen.
"Uh, guys," Sora stammered, "you do know that my birthday is not for two more months, right?"
The hall rang with laughs from all save Axel who was having his mouth stuffed with sparklers by an innocently smiling Larxene. Riku gave a good pat on the back. "This isn't for your birthday, Sora."
This definitely piped Sora's interest. "Oh, and if this is someone else's birthday then your timing is off. Wait till they come in."
"No Sora," said Kairi, picking up where Riku stopped while lacing her fingers with his, "this is a party just so we can have a party. No great darkness trying to swallow us whole, no white freaks trying to kidnap us, and nothing to keep any us separated." She have him a quick peck on the lips and took the bag of Sea-Salt Ice cream from him and put in the already ice cream full freezer.
This was definitely going to be a fun night.
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One the other side of town, the stars made their way into the sky and a lone boy walked through the alley ways near the Sandlot. His white half jacket was nowhere in sight. He had discarded it because the slice through the side of it reminded him of his defeat. His hair was now free and the blond locks seemed unkempt, even for Seifer.
"How! Why!" he yelled into the increasing darkness around him. "I'm supposed to be the strongest guy in town! Not some fire freak with weird hair! I fought hard for my respect in this town, and this guy struts in and makes a fool out of me."
He kicked a trashcan. He paid the noise no head, nor the cat that shrieked when it was knocked from inside the can. Oh, yeah, he was pissed off! No one should have the glory except him! He'd worked too hard to be upstaged by some outsider! This wasn't how the world worked. Seifer was always supposed to be on top. Period. There wasn't any loophole. That was it. But yet that Sora boy and this Axel guy beat him without any effort. Axel almost killed him. And gave him a nasty scar on his left side.
"You are weak."
Seifer turned immediately. He had heard that voice. It was cool, calm, collected, dark, ominous, and it sent shivers up Seifer's back. He couldn't tell where it was coming from. It seemed all around him, yet the sentence seemed almost like it had never happened. Like it was a ghost in his memory.
"I am no ghost. You are."
There it was again! But now a face came with the voice. He was very serious faced with an angular face with long silver hair that seemed to float around him. He wore black leather with multiple straps and the leather bulged out at his waist like huge red tipped black claws. There were two other very noticeable features about this man. Protruding from his waist and his left shoulder blade were wings! Black raven wings. They didn't look fake and the way they seemed to move when he walked seemed to suggest that they were real. And attached to a belt at his waist was an insanely long katana. The slight curve seemed to last forever. But no matter how strange this man looked in Seifer's opinion, he felt his blood freeze, and his heart stop with fear. Seifer was paralyzed. His brain was screaming for him to run and never to look back, but his body wouldn't react. Nothing seemed to be going his way.
"W-Who are you?" he managed to stutter out. That was the best he could do.
The man seemed to chuckle. "What a pity. You showed too much promise to just freeze up on me."
"Who are you?" he said again, it definitely sounded much braver than he felt.
The man laughed again, but more inhuman. "I am the chosen one of Jenova. I am Sephiroth."
Seifer racked his brain to see if he had ever heard either of these names. Nope. "Never heard of you."
Sephiroth scoffed. "I am not surprised. This town is very secluded; you wouldn't know the goings on of Midgar. I have been watching you for some time. You show great promise for even greater power. Yet you are hindered."
At the word 'power,' Seifer's eyes lit up. He was definitely interested. "What do you mean hindered?"
He smiled. "You are kept down by the light. If you open your heart to the great engulfing darkness, the power will overflow. You are now weak. The light's champions have shown you how weak you are with your light. Cast it away! You wish to become strong; I will teach you. The darkness can overwhelm anything." He held out his black gloved hand. The silver haired swordsmen smiled ever so slightly. "What do you say, Seifer?"
Seifer didn't notice that he had never given his name. He never noticed the yellow eyes forming all around the alleyway. He never saw the black and red heart symbols all around the place. Nor did he see the white and grey creatures. He only saw Sephiroth. The man who would lead him to power. The power to crush those who would dare challenge his superiority.
He grasped Sephiroth's hand tightly. The world went dark after that. Seifer could only see himself grasping Sephiroth's hand in agreement. "It is done!" he said, with a wicked smile coming on to his face.
Darkness began to wrap itself around Seifer's legs! He tried to call for help but it seemed his voice had betrayed him. He had never feared anything like this before. Not even the blade of Axel. No, this was much worse. This was cold, evil and it was devouring him!
The darkness grew into his body; seeping though his cloths like water. Seifer fell to the ground trying to scream, but all vocal ability had left him. He struggled to grab a hold of anything.
In these few second, he felt pathetic. He didn't feel superior to anyone. But that didn't matter, he would fight this! It had no right to overcome him! He would fight! FIGHT!
"Why struggle?" the cooing tone of Sephiroth came as he bent low before Seifer, a smug smile spreading across his flawless face. "You wanted this. You wanted the darkness to give you power and it will. But you must accept it. Good day to, you mister Seifer." He stood up and walked away, disappearing into the endless night.
"SEPHIROTH!" Seifer screamed, his voice finally returning to him. He said no more after that. As the darkness wrapped over his mouth and consumed his whole body.
The shadow receded to show a Neoshadow Heartless moving about. He twitched around then sank into the ground leaving a black cloaked husk.
No one else heard any of this.
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Random appearance of the greatest Final Fantasy villain ever! Or is it? Guess you'll have to find out . . . Well, now that school is out, I am getting as much done as possible and I just started a new job, but shouldn't mess with my writing schedule at all as the boss lets me type when no customers are in. My best friend's grandmother is the boss. That is fiendslayer if you're wondering. Now, we move on. I am going to out on a limb and say it was somewhat awkward writing the first part for some reason but the moment Sephiroth came in, it all seemed to flow. If anyone can tell me why, I'd really like to know. And, does anyone know any good pictures of a cloaked person and not Organization XIII.
Now, YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG! But seriously Reviews!
Flowergirl220- thanks for editing, it's good that I let you see this one so just in case, how is Axel a pervert? He betrayed Larxene and let Sora kill her because in his orders from Xemnas to remove all traitors the Organization. He had Sora and a Vexan-made-Riku-Replica kill her and had Sora kill Marluxia. He killed Vexan himself and had Riku Replica kill Zexion. The real Riku killed Lexaeus. That killed off all the members in Castle Oblivion. And that's Hayner's mom who is the overprotective room. And I had no intention of redoing an entire chapter seeing as only the end was needed. Axel's past will be reviled later along with Larxene's along with multiple others. And I will apologize as much as I need to and as I left this story to rot for a year, I needed to apologize.
Fiendslayer- can I get a wolf coat too? And if anyone can find me and fiendslayer, I give you all cookies! And maybe a pickle.
Good so everyone, so long farewell, and may life's road lead us to great things.