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Sephiroth heard someone call for Seth as the rain began to fall harder than before. He stopped and listened to the cries. Soon, he saw Mecha's rain blinded form stumble into view and slip in the mud. She yelled for Seth and got up from the mud. She put her hands before her and swiped the air around herself. She came within inches of his chest. It was then that he realized the poor girl couldn't see in the thick rain. His visibility was cut too, but not as badly as hers. He removed the glasses as Mecha took another swipe of the air. Her voice called again as he pulled the wet shirt from himself and looked to Mecha. She stopped swiping at the air and sat down in defeat.
"Mecha what are you doing?" he asked as he put the shirt over her head to let her see. He kneeled down and waited for her reply.
"You ran away..."
"You shouldn't have followed me..." he put a hand on her shoulder.
"But Seth!"
"Sephiroth..." he said softly.
"Huh? The one Jenova keeps screaming to?" he nodded as the last bits of his hair turned platinum again.
"Let's get you back to the others or in some shelter. He looked around and noticed that they weren't far from Cosmo canyon. He picked Mecha up and set her on her feet. He led her to the small town. She followed quietly and went to the Inn after he did. She began to dig in her pocket for the amount of Gil to pay for a room, but Sephiroth put the amount down first.
(You idiot!)
'Shut-up Jenova,' they both said hearing one another say so to the voice. He then heard Mecha say to Jenova, 'like I care what you call me... I'll kill you myself if it means destroying this vessel of a body...'
"Come on Mecha let's get some rest.." Mecha looked at him and he led her up to the room had paid for. She noticed the one bed and a couch and quickly made for the couch after pulling off her boots. She lay Sephiroth's shirt over the only heating source in the room and sneezed heavily. Sephiroth snatched a sheet and pushed it into Mecha's hands. She blinked at it and he told her to go in the bathroom and dress in that. She shook her head, but he narrowed his gray eyes at her and she ran into the bathroom and quickly switched her wet clothing for the sheet. She sat on the floor and didn't move. Sephiroth knocked softly.
"What?" she glared at the door.
"Are you all changed in there?" his voice was quiet and patient.
"Yeh... so?" she turned her gaze at the floor. The door opened slowly and Sephiroth looked in at her. She looked up and saw the trademark Mako-glowing green eyes. She pressed against the wall not paying attention to the fact that he had switched his pants for a towel. He noticed she hadn't moved the cloth from her head.
"Mecha..." he kneeled down and moved his hands to the cloth to remove it from her head. She never moved her eyes from his, as nothing in her brain would let her do so. The cloth freed from her head and Sephiroth hung it over the towel rack. He moved to her cloak, pants, and shirt and hung them over the shower bar. He looked near the floor and noticed something that looked like a drenched and potentially dangerous animal near Mecha. He left the room and walked to get his gun from the other room.
(Hahahaha! He thinks it's a dangerous animal!)
Mecha looked afraid and moved her tail behind herself as she heard a bullet slip into the barrel of his gun. He walked back in and noticed that the "Creature" was gone. He went to set the gun down, but he saw the dark spot of her tail under the sheet and quickly reached to Mecha and grabbed it. Mecha squealed in pain as he gripped her tail, which surprised him, causing him to release her tail. She rubbed her poor tail as she looked at him.
"Never seen a tail before!"
"That is your... tail?" Sephiroth was genuinely surprised.
"Yes it is dummy!" he smirked at the insult and patted her head. He grabbed a towel from the counter and handed it to her.
"Dry your tail then.." he left and she dried her tail. She yawned and wandered toward the couch where he was sleeping already. She saw him and moved to the bed. She climbed on it and curled up. She soon was asleep and dreaming.
Mecha awoke with a cry. She got up and moved to her clothes that were now dry and changed into them. She walked by the sleeping Sephiroth. Something possessed her to stop and look at him and that she did. The moonlight peeking in the window hit his sleeping form and caressed it in gentle shadows. She turned and walked to the window and climbed out. She dropped to the ground and walked to the Cosmo candle. The bright bonfire was lit again after the rain stopped. She sat in front of it quietly and thought. Sephiroth had awoken when she stopped and looked at him. He had smirked noticing the way her eyes had slid over his seemingly asleep frame and note the build of his body without realizing it, before slipping out of the window. He had gotten up and moved to the window still only wearing the towel. He chuckled to himself briefly and watched the firelight wash over her face and thought it somehow caressed the curves of her cheeks and the fine points of her nose. She yawned tiredly and curled up next to the fire. He watched her lazily watch the fire, before he turned to pick up his now dry pants. He slipped them on and walked out to Mecha.
"Mecha," his voice uttered softly, causing her to look at him half-asleep.
"Hmm?" was her sleepy reply.
"What are you doing out here?" he picked her up and leaned her on his shoulder. She groaned sleepily in protest, but made no move to get away. He carried her past a few men, who were coming out to try something unpleasant to the half-asleep female. They saw Sephiroth and walked to the candle and sat down and act as if that was all they were going to do. He carried her up the stairs and lay her down on the couch and pushed her hair back from her face so he could see it all. He noticed that the cloth wasn't on her head, but still in the bathroom drying along with the cloak. He felt the scar on her head near her left eye and traced it slowly. She opened her eyes at him and saw him with both for the first time. He smirked and noticed that her eyes weren't both blue. One was the color of Vincent's red eyes. He made a slight noise as if he were laughing for a split second.
(Sephiroth! What are you doing!)
He told Jenova to shut up again and blinked at the sleepy girl. "Can you stay in here now?" Mecha nodded and yawned. He plucked the blanket from the floor where it had fallen and lay it gently over Mecha. He walked to the bed and lay upon it and soon fell asleep.
Mecha sat up after he had fallen asleep and got off of the couch. She took the blanket and covered Sephiroth with it, who snapped his arm out and grabbed her wrist, but not hurting her. He mumbled something and pulled the surprised girl into his arms. He obviously thought she was a plush toy. She made a face, but yawned and fell asleep too. Sephiroth moved his position and dragged Mecha over onto his chest. He then woke up and realized who he had grabbed, and turned a little red. He moved the sleeping form of Mecha to his side and patted her head gently. He figured he had grabbed her when she walked over to lay the blanket over him. He turned his back to her and fell asleep. She curled up and stayed that way until Sephiroth shook her awake the next morning.
"Wake up sleepy.." she woke up and yawned seeing she was curled up. She got up and climbed from the bed and walked to the bathroom and stared in the mirror. She looked at her red eye as she had never done before and touched the vision of it in the mirror. Sephiroth came in behind her and watched her do this. She turned to look at him and noticed his hair wasn't black. She shook her head and cast her gaze to his gaze in the mirror. He felt a twinge of something within and Jenova screamed at him.
(You think that will ever happen! You are stupid! She's created for something far too good for your cells!)
This hurt him deep inside and Jenova knew it. Mecha somehow sensed his distress and turned to him leaning on the bathroom counter.
"You ok Sephiroth?" she reached out and took her cloak and cloth into her hands. She began to fasten both around herself as the conversation between Jenova and Sephiroth developed.
(She cares for Jared and Seth! Not you Sephiroth!)
'She got to know me through Seth.. I'm the same man..'
(But you are different. She knows that you were the evil before she was born. Supposedly dead.)
"Sephiroth?" he looked at her and he couldn't mask that Jenova was cutting him deeply.
She stepped closer and patted his arm. His muscles tightened at the strange touch of friendship from Mecha. She felt this and moved her hand away. His thought lingered on it for what seemed an eternity of slight joy. A touch. Something gentle as the way Mecha had lain her hand upon his arm with each gentle pat.
Then Mecha spoke once again, "I'll help you with Jenova..."
"I... I can't let you," he stammered. The look that followed cut him deeper than Jenova ever could.
"But I'm already involved in this... she never stops talking... I can hear almost every word... I know of your plans. I know it all Sephiroth... except that you were you when you said you were Seth.." she turned her back to him again and stared into the sink.
"Mecha, please," his voice faltered on each syllable. The rise and fall of her shoulders soon told him that there was something more than being able to just hear Jenova. Something Jenova had hinted herself.
(Go ahead Mecha cry! Cry those lost tears forever!)
Sephiroth was really getting tired of Jenova and her hatred. But nothing could prepare him for what he heard next.
(My rebirth will be complete once the perfect mate has come!)
"Leave me alone..." came the sad whispery reply strait from Mecha's mouth. She raised a hand and wiped her face. "I will destroy you Jenova. Then maybe I can live happily... dad and the group have trained me to fight without dying... I don't need your cells anymore..." Sephiroth stared at the top of Mecha's mirror head with an open mouth. The argument between what he believed to be his mother so long ago and someone he knew only when she hadn't spent those months in the hospital was very confusing to him. He wanted to interject, but didn't know how. Who would he defend? Jenova was manipulative in many ways. One being very clear. The cells within his body.
"Mecha?" her head began to rise very slowly. He watched it rise for what seemed an eternity, before he caught sight of a blue eye. "How could I have known?" she turned to face him.
"You couldn't! No one could!" her face was red and pain filled. "It was to be held until my death! I cannot let this creature take what should be mine away! I have until my next birthday before she is going to force me! I knew it was inevitable! Why else don't I want to be the leader? Because I knew that you guys would have to kill me if the journey takes too long..." She began to exit, by trying to push past him, but he put an arm out to hold her back.
"Mecha, please-."
"Let me go.. "he brought his arm around Mecha and pulled her next to his side.
"I feel as if I have a duty to fulfil.."
"What duty? To stop me from fulfilling my destiny of stopping the rebirth?"
"I'm going to get Jenova.." she looked up at him with the blue eye, her hair had fallen over the left side of her face again. Anger and hurt were mixed into the stress filled look and she pushed past him in the moment of his stunned surprise. He soon heard the sound of booted feet as Mecha crossed the floor, after putting on her boots. The sound of the door opening before he realized what was going on.
"Go get the others, I am going on alone... farewell on your mission Sephiroth to destroy Jenova... may the fate of the planet be with you and help you stop the evil once and for all..." he moved quickly towards the entrance as the door slowly closed.
"Mecha! Wait!" the door closed. He hurriedly dressed himself and threw open the door. He raced from the inn, throwing the key to the Innkeeper. He stopped outside. Mecha wasn't far off, standing at the edge of the town. She turned and looked at him for a moment. A wind blew and lifted her black hair exposing her red eye. Their eyes met for a brief moment before she ran off, cloak flapping behind her. He began to run after her, but was too late. She was gone. "Mecha!"
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Vincent looked out of the door for the fifth time that day. He was becoming more and more furious by the day. Mecha and Sephiroth had been gone for weeks. It was far past time for the mission to begin. He pointed at Jared.
"You are the leader..." Jared blinked, then nodded. Then he, Cid, Jordan, Marlene, and Nanaki began to head out. They went through the town and bean to buy supplies fir the trip. Potions, Hi-Potions, Phoenix Downs, Ethers, and anything useful on the trip in the items shop. Next was the weapons shop. Everyone bought weapons more powerful than they previously owned. A gun for Jared, shuriken for Jordan, a new lance for Cid, gloves for Marlene, and the special hairpin for Nanaki. They soon walked out of Nibelheim and boarded the Highwind.
"How long will it take to get this done?" Jordan inquired of Cid.
"Not sure there Jordy, but we also gotta find Sephiroth and Mecha.." Cid replied hesitantly
"Sephiroth doesn't seem as bad as you were telling us he was like Cid..." Jared noted.
"Yeah... I noticed that. He seemed to be fightin' with himself." Cid got the ship running and all three moved to the deck with Marlene and Nanaki and watched Nibelheim get smaller and smaller.