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Mecha awoke with a start.
She had been dreaming. She had been in a tank, barely alive. A black-haired man was working franticly at a table. She groaned in pain and the man looked at her. She barely heard his words, but the words were kind and comforting to her pained ears. She couldn't feel half of her body. Just pain all over. She tried to look down, but her head wouldn't move for her to look. She opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came. The man looked down and pressed a few buttons, which released a tranquilizing gas into her air mask. She knew nothing more.
She sat against that cool rock panting heavily. She looked about and got up after a moment and picked up her sword. She felt several more tentacles on her back.
"They must've gotten me while I was out..." she counted them. "Seven. I'm done for now... the process has accelerated..." she looked up as the wind blew her hair out of the way of her red eye. She saw the male Jeno that had been there with the first to overtake her. He moved toward her and she raised her sword. He closed the distance enough to talk, but out of the reach of the Mura-buster.
"The process has accelerated yes, but your friends are diligent in their searching. You have one month to birth our mother Jenova. And if it fails I am to destroy you."
"I'm already dead if it's a success!" the Jeno touched her face.
"At least you'll have had one minute of true freedom." She jerked away from his touch. "Such beauty. Even when angry. A perfect thing to be when our mother is born."
"There is no true freedom. Go away."
"I know where you are going Mecha Valentine..." She waited until the Jeno left. She tore towards the ancient city.
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Sephiroth paused outside Bone Village. He knew what time remained. And the others were late. Soon he heard the roaring engines of Cid's airship. He watched it get larger and larger. Soon it was directly above. It began to land, blowing his hair back away from him. Soon Cloud exited followed by Vincent.
"I found something..." Sephiroth held up a red cloth.
Vincent grabbed the cloth and examined it closely, "She was here." He examined it again. The look that came upon his face was one of great worry.
"What is it?" Vincent looked at them.
"We have to get to her as quickly as we can... Cid get us as close to the City of the Cetra as quickly as possible." Everyone looked at him so he continued, "she has weakened greatly. A fight with the Spiketar will have depleted her strength and healing reserves. Therefore we have little time before the Jenova birth. It's very close." Jordan grumbled.
"I'm not going... Marlene is waiting for me back in Costa Del Sol.." Reeve who was usually quiet at these times spoke. Everyone had forgotten he was around.
"You have both of your parents blood. You will be fine.."
"I refuse! I am going back to Marlene!"
Cid spoke, "After I get them to the city."
"No! I'm going now!" Jordan darted back the Highwind and Cid chased him. Soon the airship was gone and so were Cid and Jordan.
"Damn boy," Cloud seethed. Sephiroth looked at him.
"Let's get going. We are going to have to take the long way..."
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She leaned on the wall of the building where her mother was first killed.
"No... I can't stop here.." she staggered down the crystal steps. She sank to a step and rested for a moment, before pushing herself back up to continue. She moved quickly to get down the stairs before she fell down again. She fell to her knees and it took what seemed an eternity to rise back up. Her movements had become so slow and her rests so frequent, that it took days to execute them. She heard boots slamming into the spiral above as she finally reached the platform of her mothers' death. She touched the blood and surprisingly it was wet and not dry. She lifted her hand and traced a circle around the blood. Then she began to chant in the ancient tongue of the Cetra. She tilted her head up towards the ray of light emanating from above. She barely heard the cries of her father as her body was lifted. Her eyes opened and the right had turned red. She was turned in mid-air to face her father. Aeris screamed something as she ran down the crystal steps in her nightgown and robe. She had run all the way from Nibelheim somehow in minutes.
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"Kill it!" Jared yelled when he saw the red-eyed tentacled creature floating in front of them.
"Wait! Look! In her hair!" Vincent grabbed Jared's gun from him.
"Aeris's bow..."
"Come... son of Lucrecia... come.." Sephiroth backed up as Aeris gasped. She tried to stop him from drawing his sword.
"No! Don't kill Mecha!" Vincent grabbed his wife as Sephiroth pushed her back and advanced toward the stones towards the altar, followed by Nanaki and Reeve.
"She isn't our Mecha anymore..." Vincent replied softly to his wife, who began to wail. "she has challenged Sephiroth... it's all over for Jenova has her now..." Sephiroth hopped onto the altar as Mecha spread her arms.
"Come... meet your fate in death."
The three males began to fight with Mecha-Jenova. Mecha-Jenova slapped Sephiroth with a tentacle. Nanaki slashed her and the 7 tentacles with his mega-all materia attached to him. Reeve cast Ultima on her and her tentacles. Sephiroth slashed Mecha four times. A tentacle fell as she double slapped Reeve. Nanaki cast Bio on her. It took no effect and Sephiroth noticed immediately.
"Bio didn't work!" they nodded and Reeve called forth Bahamut ZERO. It hit her hard and she shook. She raised her hands in a countdown to call forth her new summon.
"3" Sephiroth slashed a tentacle. Nanaki with another slash with mega-all. Reeve cast Ultima.
"2!" Sephiroth summoned Hades. The status effects didn't quite work. Nanaki cast big wall. Reeve tried casting Ultima and failed.
"1!" Sephiroth summoned Bahamut Zero. Nanaki slashed again. Reeve placed a Turbo-ether on himself.
"0!" Mecha reached in her pocket and pulled out something round as she floated higher. She rounded that hand in a circle and threw herself toward the ground slamming the round thing down onto the ground. A circle of shadows appeared and swirled around amongst themselves wildly. Something began to appear and two eyes blinked at them. It emerged further and it looked like a giant pained creature. Wrapped in cloth and some was hanging down. Sharp clawed hands flung themselves out and glowed with many colors of light. Bright lights then exploded around them, while skeletal bodies flew around them. The giant creature drew back into the shadows as the light exploded away and the skeletal creatures blew up. Damaging them badly. The three were panting heavily. Sephiroth threw up a megalixer. They all stood as another attack was executed by Mecha-Jenova. All seven tentacles slapped them all as she spun around. Nanaki then cast Demi. It didn't effect her. Reeve cast Regen on the party as Mecha began her countdown again. Sephiroth thought of something. He cast cure as Reeve and Nanaki yelled at him. It stopped her by damaging her badly and causing her to lose concentration. The fight raged on while Aeris wailed. Nanaki called Neo Bahamut. Reeve cast Freeze and it missed. soon Jared, Cloud, Vincent, and even the wailing Aeris joined in wearing the girl down. Soon she fell.
"I have done the unthinkable.. Forgive me for what I must do now..." she began to rise. "You must die..." Aeris gasped at the ferocity in her voice.
"Mecha! Stop this! This isn't you!"
"Quiet woman! I shall kill them and then you. I am not your Mecha." A tentacle slapped Aeris to the side as Mecha-Jenova arose. Sephiroth and Vincent saw this and Sephiroth charged her. He drove his sword through her and she grabbed the sword handle. Sephiroth let go of the sword.
"Mecha.. I'm sorry." The red eyes trained upon his face.
"Og ohv'g uiyk meydg... og xeh fova mik daggovt Qavine gera fa inak..." with that she fell. Sephiroth turned to Aeris.
"What did she say?"
"It isn't your fault... it was mine for letting Jenova take me over..." Aeris replied. Sephiroth blinked.
"I shall pay my respects." Sephiroth picked up Mecha and began to take her away.
"Wait.." Sephiroth turned. "Vincent. Give it to him... Both of them." Vincent stared at his wife. "It's Mecha's right as an Ancient." Vincent nodded and placed the package with the materia into Sephiroth's hands.
"Don't open this. Put it in Mecha's hands and bury her with it." Sephiroth nodded and placed it in Mecha's hands. He walked off with Mecha dangling from his arms. He thought as he took her to the pool where they had buried Aeris that time when he'd killed her. Ancient? Mecha was an Ancient? He walked out of the building and to the pool of water. He began to walk into the water. He held her a moment longer than necessary then placed her in the water. He watched her sink deep within the water.
"I wish you had more of a chance." he walked out of the water and found something shiny and large on the ground. Mecha's sword. The group wandered out to see him holding Mecha's sword.
"Leave it here as a grave marker Sephiroth." Sephiroth nodded and drove the sword into the ancient soil. He then flipped out the Masamune.
"I will never fight with this sword again." then he stabbed it into the soil with Mecha's sword. Cid wandered up.
"Hey where's Mech-? What in the hell happened?" Vincent turned.
"We were too late for her." Vincent's red eyes burned with hostility.
"Eh? I s'pose ol' Hojo's in for it now." Sephiroth looked at Vincent and handed him Mecha's favorite materia. The knights of the round. Vincent took it and pocketed it.
"I'll kill that man." Cloud stopped his red-eyed friend.
"He's locked up for what he's done Vincent!"
"I don't care anymore. He deserves pain and suffering before his demise.." they all left the burial ground of Mecha.
PART 2
Three years passed and something stirred deep in the pool of pure water. A pair of red eyes opened in the deep recesses. It began to emerge from the pool near the swords. During the three years after Mecha's death Vincent had tortured Hojo many times. But not killed him as he was still needed to cure the Mako testees. Sephiroth had mourned Mecha and everything he did was to protect others. It had almost cost him his life once, but he had sprouted wings and saved himself. The world now renowned him as the Holy angel. Reeve had returned to Shinra under Cloud. Tifa had two more children and now spent all hours chasing them. The twins Maria and Lita, and their older brother Jonathan. Nanaki had found a beautiful creature of his kind to wed named Jial. Their children were on the way. Vincent and Aeris had moved back to Midgar. They had almost divorced from the pain of Mecha's death, but some force kept them together. Mecha's memory lived vividly in their hearts keeping them together. May it be caused by Mecha's spirit, which wandered behind them a lot, or some unknown force. They had stayed bound together. Cid slept a lot of the time with Shera running about his house in rocket town, which had been rebuilt. Jared and Yuffie had gone back home to Wutai and their family was lords and ladies of the land as Godo had passed away. Barret was still angry with Mecha, even though she was dead. And Jordan and Marlene had a child on the way. Cloud worked diligently to keep his family fed and happy. A hand emerged from then pool of water in the ancient city. It was followed by an arm and soon a whole person emerged it had long black hair and red eyes. The red eyes blinked and it's right hand closed around the Mura-busters hilt it freed the sword from the ground and began to pull the Masamune from the soil as well. It looked to the sky and closed its red eyes as it dropped the swords again. It pushed back it soaking wet black hair and revealed a torn red cloth around its head. It removed the cloth and threw it to the ground. It did the same with the torn cloak on its back, revealing a black tail. It looked at the boots on its feet and admired them for a minute or two. Then it grabbed the two rusty swords and crossed them on its back. Then walked away from the pool. It stopped approximately seven feet away and returned to pick up the cloth and cloak. It was going to fix them in Bone Village, along with shining up the swords. It moved south towards the entrance to the ancient city and walked out into the wilderness.
The excavation in Bone village was great and they had found many things. A black haired, red-eyed person walked into Bone Village and wandered to on of the diggers. It helped the man dig a bit, before he scrambled away in fear. It stopped very much hurt by his actions and he returned to it and dug with it. It pointed to a shiny object and the digger brought it up.
"Johnna look!" the head digger walked over to look at the shiny object found. It was a SOLDIER armor plate.
"Who found this?" he commended. The digger pointed to the person still digging. "Let them keep the item." The digger nodded and passed the armor plate to it. It took it graciously and put it at its' side. Soon it had found more SOLDIER armour and stood reveling itself to be a female. The digger stared as she blinked and picked up the items she found. She climbed down the ladder quickly flicking her tail. She walked into the shop and came out later dressed in overalls and a black shirt. She still donned her boots and she was putting on the Shinra Armor plates and belt and things she had found into a bag. She nodded to the digger and disappeared with the swords crossed on her back.
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Sephiroth was cleaning his wings when a cry for help rang out. He ran immediately to the cry and saw what looked like Mecha fighting off some Neo Shinra SOLDIER officers. Neo Shinra was trying to reconstruct the old ways and it was run by Rufus Shinra. He quickly dispersed them with a Fire 3 spell and helped the person up.
"Are you ok?" the person looked at him and grabbed him about the neck.
"Thank you for saving me. You really are an angel.." the soft voice said. It wasn't Mecha, but he patted the woman to comfort her. She soon let go and invited him to dinner. He politely declined and sent her on her way. How he was missing Mecha and her sweet voice. Little did he know he would see Mecha, but not hear her voice speaking words. He walked to his home on the outskirts of Midgar just inside the fence. He was miserable and few knew it. He reached his house and walked inside to find Vincent there.
"Another life saved?" Sephiroth nodded. "You know Mecha may never come back from the dead. It's been three years. You should move on."
"It's not easy, but I'll try. Also the right one hasn't come into my life yet for me to release Mecha from my heart." Sephiroth turned to a window. "I know you miss her too.. and so does Aeris.."
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The girl who had been in Bone village not too long ago was floating towards Midgar on a block of ice and propelling it with spells of wind. Not long after it crashed into the Midgar shore. The girl jumped off the ice and ran towards Midgar. She skidded into the huge gate that marked the entrance to Midgar.
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Sephiroth was in his house when the bang came and he had come out to see what in the hell had caused that noise. There was a black haired girl standing just outside the gate, looking at the large metal structure. He opened the gate with a code and looked at the surprised red-eyed girl blinking at the gateway that now stood open. He was surprised at the surprise on her face. It looked as though this girl had not seen the gates of Midgar before. Everyone in the world over 15 had seen the gates of Midgar as Midgar was the business capital of the world. This girl reminded him so much of Mecha it hurt. Her red eyes rested on him and she blinked. He noticed the two swords crossed on her back. He shook his head. The swords that matched those were in the Ancient city. This girl couldn't have the Masamune and Mecha's buster sword. Her eyes skimmed the wings on his back curiously. Sephiroth was glad that Jenova wasn't bothering him anymore. After Mecha had died Jenova seemed to have disappeared, but that was far from true. She was laying dormant.
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The girl looked this platinum haired man over. This wasn't the man in her memory. This man had a pair of wings and he was better built from carrying a bigger sword than the Masamune. She opened her mouth to say something, but then realized she couldn't speak at all. She had forgotten how. She bowed and stood back up. Sephiroth scanned her and turned away from her. She tilted her head as he walked inside of his house. The gate began to shut. And she turned from it heading eastward towards the chocobo ranch.
The girl had found a name at last. Ashe. She knew it wasn't her name, because it had no feeling in it for her. She was caring for a sick chocobo when a black-haired man with red eyes came up to her. He tapped her and she stood up.
When she looked at him he spoke, "I'm looking for a chocobo." She studied him a moment. She realized she looked like him. She soon pointed to the black chocobo with the name Sephy on the stall that she was caring for. The man looked at it as a woman in pink walked in.
"Aeris! Look!" the woman in pink walked to the man. And stood next to him. He reached his clawed hand out to her for her to take gently.
"What is it Vincent?" Ashe perked up at hearing Vincent's name. She reached in her pocket and pulled out a pink bow. This she had found in her hair when she looked in a mirror in Bone Village. She sighed and walked to the back of the barn to get some medicine for the sick chocobo. Her chocobo. Sephy. She heard Vincent exclaim that only Mecha would name a black chocobo like that. She stopped, bottle in hand and stared at Vincent. She returned to the chocobo and gave it the medicine it needed.
"What's the matter with the chocobo?" Vincent asked Ashe. She pointed at its throat and moved down to its belly area. Vincent was annoyed with this not speaking. He turned Ashe to face him. "Why won't you speak!"
"Vincent please!" Aeris cried. Ashe lowered her head. The owner of the chocobo farm walked in.
"Because she doesn't know how." Vincent let Ashe go and she petted her chocobo fearfully.
"How come? Didn't her parents teach her to speak!" Vincent was seething. Ashe remembered this and shrank next to the chocobo, which ruffled its feathers to comfort her.
"She somehow told me they did, but she doesn't know who they are." Ashe began to cry. The first sound she had made since coming out of the pool. Aeris looked at her and kneeled down while the males spoke.
"What's wrong sweetie? Are you hurt?"
Ashe shook her head.
"Are you afraid?"
Ashe nodded.
"Of what sweetie?"
Ashe pointed at Vincent.
"Vincent!" Vincent paused mid yell.
"What?"
"You are scaring this poor girl!" Vincent listened to her tearful wails.
"Like I care..."
"What if it was Mecha!"
"Mecha is dead."
"So was I!" this calmed Vincent quickly.
"If it is who could have revived her! Sephiroth didn't do it! I revived you! No one has set foot on that ancient soil!" Ashe stared at Vincent and she pushed the pink bow at him and Aeris. The chocobo picked it up and put it in Aeris's hand that was closing into a fist. Aeris felt this and looked at the pink ribbon in her hand.
"Oh my god. How did this get here.." Vincent looked at the ribbon.
"I haven't seen that in years Aeris..." Ashe was holding her chocobo now and crying silently into its feathers. "I'm going to get Sephiroth.."
"But we haven't gotten a chocobo for the memorial to Mecha!"
"This is more important Aeris..." with that he disappeared. Not long after Aeris followed suit. The boss came over to her.
"Are you ok Ashe?" she nodded. The boss stood. His name was Mr. Asheburn.
Sephiroth came with the parental pair as Ashe was caring for a sick chicobo. She sat cross-legged on a wooden box letting it take medicine and Chocobo milk from a dropper. She watched Sephiroth until the chicobo nuzzled into her lap for a nap. She looked down and petted the chicobo. It made a cute whistle at her as it closed its' eyes. It was a black chicobo called Quicksilver Seth. Aeris began complaining about missing Mecha again. Soon they left and the pair of men left talked.
"Vin-cent and.. Ae-ris... missing Mech-ka..." Mr. Asheburn and Sephiroth heard not a word she said, but soon they froze and looked in her general direction. She was petting the chicobo quietly. Sephiroth ran outside the barn calling for Mecha. He was disappointed when he came inside again. She was putting the chicobo with his mother which was a blue chocobo called Sahara. Quicksilver Seth whistled at her and she grinned. He trotted to his mom and cuddled up with her. She shut the stall and wandered outside. She had done well with hiding her tail, but she wanted so badly to free it from its' ties and wave it around. She wandered outside of the farm and accidentally into the swamp with the Midgar Zolom. It reared and readied to strike her. She just grinned. Sephiroth heard the huge snake hissing and ran out of the barn.
The boss yelled from behind, "Ashe! How many times-!" he was cut off by the snake diving down towards the girl. She had freed her tail and leaped on top of the giant snakes' head. She raised her hand and a sword materialized in it. it was long and thin like the Masamune. He now recognized the girl from Midgar when she had slammed into the gate. She put it on top of the snakes head. And stared at it daring it to move. Mr. Asheburn was about to rush out there, but Sephiroth stopped him. The snake had a million scars, but only one had ever put a Midgar Zolom in a critical position before. Himself. She shoved the sword through and killed the snake instantly. She pulled the sword out and began to cut the snake to bits.
"I think she just killed a feast.." Sephiroth commented.
"What?"
"You two and the chocobo's can't eat all of that alone..." Mr. Asheburn nodded. Ashe carted a big chunk of meat by them grinning. Sephiroth ruffled his wings at the girl and she poked him with a black appendage sticking from her rear. He blinked at the tail and it waved. She carried the meat to the silo and went back for more. Sephiroth tagged along as well. The sword she had used was gone and he longed to inspect the sword. She tried to pick up a large piece of the snake, but couldn't. Sephiroth grabbed it and picked it up. He gave a grin at the girl and walked off as she picked up a smaller piece and trotted back after him. The gathering went on for a few hours, before they were finished. Sephiroth readied to leave before she said something to catch his attention.
"Sephiroth!" He turned and a huge happy look was on her face. Mr. Asheburn was staring.
"My mother be a ark dragon! She spoke!" she backed away from Mr. Asheburn as he jumped for joy. He obviously thought she could say strings of sentences now the way he was yelling about it.
The look on her face was saying, "uh-oh bad idea to speak." She backed into Sephiroth, who lay a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. She was the first female to not cling to him, therefore hindering his wings.
"Calm down Asheburn. She said only a word... not a sentence..." Mr. Asheburn stopped and blinked.
"I'm sorry." With that he walked off. Sephiroth looked at the top of Ashe's head.
"You sound like someone I knew.." she looked at him. "And you said my name even though I never told it to you or Asheburn.." the look on her face said that she really didn't know what he was talking about. He smiled. "You may just be the cure I need..."
She tilted her head at him as if asking why. He looked towards the north. He patted her for a second in thought.
"I'll be right back. Stay here." He disappeared for a moment into Mr. Asheburn's house. He returned later. "Come with me. We are going to the Ancient City."
She knew where that was and groaned. He looked surprised. Then he grinned.
"Don't wanna walk either. So we're gonna fly there." He reached out his hands. "I'm gonna have to carry you." She stepped up to him and let him pick her up. Something seemed familiar about this. She pushed the deja vu from herself and waited to reach the Ancient City. He led the way up the path towards the place to put the Ancient Key. He pointed her towards the ancient viewer. "You will see Mecha there.."
Then he set the key in. She somehow viewed everything of Mecha's death. She watched fearfully as Sephiroth struck Mecha down. Sephiroth's hand appeared on her shoulder. She turned from the sight and Sephiroth led her out.
"I'm sorry... I shouldn't have shown that to you..." she stared at him, calming herself.
She gestured to the viewer.
"That was the girl I cared about. She couldn't control herself at the end so I had to.." She put a red-eyed gaze on him. He thought he saw something of Mecha in Ashe. "Mecha..." she tilted her head and closed her eyes. Then turned away from him and walked to the viewer. She walked inside it frozen on the girls red-eyed gaze and face twisted in pain. She had seen the eyes many times. She looked at Sephiroth in there. His face had been the last thing Mecha had seen before death. She looked closer at the viewer's picture as Sephiroth watched from outside the watery thing. She stared at the viewer until she started slipping into the past life.
"Bio didn't work!" they nodded and Reeve called forth Bahamut ZERO. It hit her hard and she shook. She raised her hands in a countdown to call forth her new summon.
"3" Sephiroth slashed a tentacle. Nanaki with another slash with mega-all. Reeve cast Ultima.
"2!" Sephiroth summoned Hades. The status effects didn't quite work. Nanaki cast big wall. Reeve tried casting Ultima and failed.
"1!" Sephiroth summoned Bahamut Zero. Nanaki slashed again. Reeve placed a Turbo-ether on himself.
"0!" Mecha reached in her pocket and pulled out something round as she floated higher. She rounded that hand in a circle and threw herself toward the ground slamming the round thing down onto the ground. A circle of shadows appeared and swirled around amongst themselves wildly. Something began to appear and two eyes blinked at them. It emerged further and it looked like a giant pained creature. Wrapped in cloth and some was hanging down. Sharp clawed hands flung themselves out and glowed with many colors of light. Bright lights them exploded around them, while skeletal bodies flew around them. The giant creature drew back into the shadows as the light exploded away and the skeletal creatures blew up. Damaging them badly. The three were panting heavily. Sephiroth threw up a megalixer. They all stood as another attack was executed by Mecha-Jenova. All seven tentacles slapped them all as she spun around. Nanaki then cast Demi. It didn't effect her. Reeve cast Regen on the party as Mecha began her countdown again. Sephiroth thought of something. He cast cure as Reeve and Nanaki yelled at him. It stopped her by damaging her badly and causing her to lose concentration. The fight raged on while Aeris wailed. Nanaki called Neo Bahamut. Reeve cast Demi and it missed. soon Jared, Cloud, Vincent, and even the wailing Aeris joined in wearing the girl down. Soon she fell.
"I have done the unthinkable.. Forgive me for what I must do now..." she began to rise. "You must die..." Aeris gasped at the ferocity in her voice.
"Mecha! Stop this! This isn't you!"
"Quiet woman! I shall kill them and then you. I am not your Mecha." A tentacle slapped Aeris to the side as Mecha-Jenova arose. Sephiroth and Vincent saw this and Sephiroth charged her. He drove his sword through her and she grabbed the sword handle. Sephiroth let go of the sword.
"Mecha.. I'm sorry." The red eyes trained upon his face.
"Og ohv'g uiyk meydg... og xeh fova mik daggovt Jenova gera fa inak..." with that she fell.
She opened her eyes to find Sephiroth holding her. She blinked at him. She was ready to say something.
"Mecha.." her voice cut into Sephiroth like a knife through hot butter.
"What?"
"Mecha..."
Sephiroth thought a second before speaking, "O... dinal Mecha... xogs... edd.. fu.. saekg... zyg... og... oh gofa... gi fina iv.." (I... loved Mecha... with... all.. my.. heart... but... it... is time... to move on..) Ashe paled and her eyes went wide. She grabbed him in a hug around his neck. She was happy he learned to speak Cetra. Sephiroth had no idea why she did that.
"Pagke! Devtyeta!" (Cetra! Language!)
"O rvix gxi... xsi hcaer... zaggak Pagkoev... gsev O li..." (I know two... who speak... better Cetrian... than I do...) she nodded and grinned.
"O pev gaeps uiy zaggak Pagkoev.." (I can teach you better Cetrian) he nodded, but told her in Cetrian that she needed to learn English. She crossed her arms and shook her head.
"Oh alright have it your way."
"Gsevr uiy." (Thank you)
It was raining and Sephiroth watched the girl sleeping. He was wondering why she had said Mecha. He sat up and saw something familiar. The way she slept. Curled in a ball with her tail wrapped around herself. When he'd seen the tail, he thought it was some special power of agility that she had. He had refused to believe Mecha had revived. He reached out and touched the long hairs draped over her arm.
She mumbled something like, "Sephiroth, xsaka eka uiy... doma ohv'g kaed evufika... O xevg gi dona eteov..." he drew back her long hair and looked on her sleeping face.
"Don't worry Ashe... everything is real..." with that he lay down with an arm over her to keep her warm as it wasn't much of a house they were in, but at least it would keep them dry.
Ashe awoke with Sephiroth at her back. She dared a look at his face. It was peaceful and actually cute. She decided it was too much of a risk to stay next to him and slowly replaced herself with a pillow under his arm and moved towards the wall hole and looked out of it, sitting and twitching her tail.
"Sephiroth, doggda li uiy rvix O ef Mecha... O miyvl iyg xsav uiy hsixal fa fu ixv laegs ghskiyts e naoxak."
Sephiroth awoke soon after to find that Ashe had slipped from his grasp
"Ashe.. why are-?"
"Mecha.. O ef Mecha. Ashe oh qyhg e vefa..." (Mecha.. I am Mecha. Ashe is just a name..) Sephiroth stared at the back of her head.
"Mecha!" she cut the red-eyed glance at him.
"Uaes." (Yeah) Sephiroth got up and walked to her. He looked down at the top of her head. He looked as if he were concentrating on something.
"You can't be Mecha. Mecha is dead."
"Haa Mecha'h laegs gskiyts Mecha'h auah. Gsav uiy pev cehh qyltafavg gi xsi O ef.." (See Mecha's death through Mecha's eyes. Then you can pass judgement to who I am.)
"How can I?" he cried exasperated. "I am not Mecha!"
"Pedf lixv.. O xodd hsix uiy six gi diir gskiyts Mecha'h auah." (Calm down.. I will show you how to look through Mecha's eyes.")
"Show me.." she stood and looked at him.
"Eka uiy hyka? Haaovt gskiyts evigsak'h auah pev za mkotsgavovt." (Are you sure? Seeing through another's eyes can be frightening.)
"Get on with it Ashe.."
"Edkotsg..." (Alright) she grabbed his hand and pulled him to the viewer.
"Why are you bringing me here?"
"Uiy eka diirovt gskiyts Mecha'h auah." (You are looking through Mecha's eyes." ) She pointed at the viewer as she said this and he walked inside. She muttered something and the viewer showed everything through Mecha's eyes. Sephiroth walked out.
"I had no idea how painful it was for me to strike her in the end."
"Six xaka uiy gi rvix gsoh Sephiroth." he sighed and she patted his upper arm. (How were you to know this Sephiroth?)
"I still say you are not Mecha..."
"Fyhg O hsix uiy six O pefa gi za?" (Must I show you how I came to be?) he cut a glance at her. "Mkif gsa ciid uiy zykoal Mecha?" Sephiroth blinked at her. (From the pool you buried Mecha?)
"Show me then..." she nodded and he stepped back in. This time she followed. He saw every little part of her awakening and climbing from the pool. "Where are the swords then Ashe.."
"Sollav..." (hidden)
"Hidden! Why!"
"Hi vi iva xiydl anak rvix..." (So no one would ever know)
Sephiroth awoke again.
"ASHE!" Ashe looked at him.
"Uaes?" (yeah?)
"I just dreamed you were Mecha."
"O ef vig Mecha.. uiy rvix gseg.." (I am not Mecha.. you know that..) he sighed.
"I still wish she was alive."
"Have they told you to let go?" he was stunned at her speaking other than Cetrian.
"They told me so many times." Ashe looked at him.
"Then you must... it may be the only way you can survive otherwise." Sephiroth nodded and got up. He moved behind Ashe quietly as he thought. She looked away into the rain and blinked.
"Keov... six caepamyd og oh." (Rain... how peaceful it is) Sephiroth nodded.
"That it is Ashe..." she turned to look at him as he sat next to her. Her red eyes blinked slightly as she looked into the rain. Sephiroth raised his arms in the yawning gesture as Ashe slowly closed her eyes into a meditative state. He brought his arms down and grabbed Ashe around the neck gently pulling her into a friendly headlock.
"He-ey! Sephiroth! leggo! Sephiroth laughed a little. The first laugh he had let go since he before he joined SOLDIER. This surprised the girl, since he hadn't laughed since she had met him. He let her go and she scrambled a few feet away blinking at him in confusion. He grinned at her, a true grin, and she tilted her head and let loose a grin as well. Sephiroth dropped his grin. It was Mecha's grin across the face of this red-eyed female.
"Mecha..." Ashe's grin dropped as well.
"You're having trouble dealing with your memories... I shall leave you now..." she stood and hopped out of the house and began to wander away.
"Ashe! Wait!" he jumped up and jumped out of the house opening his wings and flying after her, but she was gone. "Ashe!" he flew around trying to find her before he found her soaked to the skin under a tree that had no leaves. He landed and walked to her. He stretched a wing out and covered her in it.
"Who's there?"
"Sephiroth.."
"Oh.. ok.."
"Can't see in the rain can you?" she shook her head a little and her hair fell over her left eye. Sephiroth stared. "You remind me more of Mecha each action you take.." she looked up at him.
"What if I were?" Sephiroth cut a half smile at her.
"Then I'd be the happiest man in the world..." Ashe thought a minute and began to piece things together.
"I think there is a connection between your Mecha and my past..." Sephiroth shook his head.
"Can't be. Can it?"
"It is possible... I seem to remind you a lot of her..." Sephiroth nodded a little. "What does- I mean did, she look like?"
"About the same as you except a red cloth and cloak." She nodded.
"Then I must go back to the ranch." Sephiroth became confused. "Only for a moment. There is something there..." he nodded and picked her up. He then set her on her feet. She began to walk towards bone village, before Sephiroth scooped her up and flew back to the ranch.
She stared in the house mirror after they got to the ranch with a red cloak on her back. It wasn't secured yet as she wasn't quite finished with the cloth on her head. She hid her tail and fixed the cloak. Now it was time to walk out to Sephiroth. She stepped over to him and looked at his sitting form. He was asleep and she sat down staring out a window waiting patiently for him to awaken. She began to think of something long past.
3/27 15:52
Sephiroth has responded to the Mako testing. Now his reaction to the cells of Jenova are quite interesting. He died within hours of the initial injection, but revived in a matter of minutes. It was well past my wildest expectations. My son. A super SOLDIER for Shinra's army. He must undergo more testing! Several thousand cc's of both Jenova's cells and the Mako will round him up to about six times his strength of his small five year old body. I am very pleased with the testing my son has endured for the sake of science. His mate for creating the super SOLDIER I need is still being formulated as we speak. Maybe I will use a normal child, just as we used him. I have formulated about 50 women named Andromida. Each have different last names, but the effects to the Darkstar are much better than the rest. She is a rather young specimen, but her specs for being able to revive again and again will help her complete her objective. If she terminates herself, by anything I have not covered I will use the data collected to inject another female experiment. My love is not for Sephiroth's mother, but Jenova. Jenova is life. Jenova can rule with me and my son at her side...
Mecha sat up in utter surprise. Sephiroth was awake.
"Vincent! What are you doing here!"
"What?" she asked in confusion and her hair fell in front of her left eye.
"Ashe!"
"Yeh?"
"You are- I mean you look exactly like Mecha."
"Maybe I am Mecha..." she stood and shook her head. "If I'm not then I must be a good imposter..." She turned to see Sephiroth on his knees with his hands on his face.
"Sephiroth?" he looked up at her with such pain that she backed up a few steps. He stood and came towards her. She continued to back up until she backed into a wall. Sephiroth stopped just in front of her. She winced as he lifted his hand. She then felt a gentle touch on her face.
"Mecha... I thought I'd never see you again.." a tear slipped from her eye as he knelt closer to her. She raised hand to wipe it away when she felt his gloved fingers do it for her. "Don't cry..." her eyes opened and she stared at him through blurred vision. Her knees released themselves and she slid towards the floor. Sephiroth put his hands under her arms picking her back up and putting her head on his shoulder. He felt her hands close with the pain her emotions were causing.
"You waited 3 years? For someone who is dead?" he hefted her up a little to carry her properly as she was leaning on him. One arm holding her around her back and the other holding up her legs. He carried her away from the ranch and towards his house, while the chicobo, Quicksilver Seth, his mother, Sahara, and Sephy followed.
He lay her down on his bed and went outside to accommodate the chocobos. When he walked inside Mecha was curled up and sleeping. He ran his hand over her head pushing back her hair and looking at the scar her left eye had suffered so long ago when the Highwind had crashed into the area of Mideel. She awakened to find him looking kindly at her.
"What are you doing Sephiroth?" he snapped out of his look and smiled at her.
"Nothing dear Mecha." He stroked her hair not knowing whether to tell her how much he missed her or not.
"It can't be nothing..." his smile broadened.
"It's just that I missed you so much these three years."
"You shouldn't have waited for me to resurrect... I half expected you to be married with a child by now..." he ruffled his wings.
"But no one could compare to how you affected me..." he removed his hand and she sat up. He sat down next to her and wrapped an arm and a wing around her. He pulled her next to him as he put his other arm around her. She watched his other wing lift itself and go around her.
"Mecha." Mecha opened her eyes and sat up. Sephiroth had a snack for her. "I figured you were hungry."
"Thanks..." he handed her the food he brought and she munched it idly. When she finished her food, she looked at the floor and a wing tip lifted her face to looking at him.
"Mecha... it's been three years. Do you know how much I've missed you?"
"You shouldn't have stayed in the past with me. You should have moved on..."
"I couldn't have Mecha! It was so raw! I knew that you'd come back someday!"
"Do you know why I came back?" Sephiroth shook his head. "It was because you refused to move on. Your connection with me through Jenova never broke. She was dormant until my resurrection. Sephiroth, please, love someone the way you cared for me... They will need it more than a dead female who cannot give love back..."
"But you're here with me now..." he reached to her with a hand.
"But my life now is shorter than before..." his hand hesitated.
"You have to stay! You can't leave me again!" he was frozen with the denial that she was going away again.
"If you really want me back ask my father how he brought my mother back... But you're being selfish right now."
"You can't blame me!" he threw his arms and wings around her. "I just. It's been three years." Mecha sighed.
"You can't keep destiny from repeating. You will end up fighting me again..."
"I'll break it!" Mecha pulled away and walked across the room.
"You can't... Jenova is the only one who knows how to break the cycle." Sephiroth almost flew into a rage, before Mecha stared him down. "And in order to do this I'd end up killing the whole world!"
"How do you know this!"
"You remember how I acted before you impaled me with the Masamune?" Sephiroth nodded. "That's how.." Mecha turned and stared out the window she was nearest to.
"How will you break the cycle?" Mecha shrugged.
"Only time can tell how I will break Jenova's hold and be freed of her grasp."
"But Mecha! You promised to help me!" he cried.
"I did? Yes I did!" she turned to him. Sephiroth looked at her.
"So you can't leave yet..." Mecha sighed and turned to the closest window.
"I suppose I can't." she turned to Sephiroth. "But do this.. When it is time for me to finally go, I want you to let go and find someone. Promise me you will..."
"I promise Mecha." Mecha began to smile and patted him.
"Tell my parents I love them and give this sword I made to the one you find." She handed him the sword. "She will call it... Masa-." With that she fell not finishing the sentence. Her body began to disintegrate into nothing.