The flow of chapters will be choppy, sorry! Reviews are ENCOURAGING, but with school going as it is, it's going to be hard to keep the chapters coming as constant a pace as I would like. I will try one chapter every week.
HOWEVER, as I'm sure you all know, November 1st-30th are the official dates for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writers Month). If I don't post a chapter during those dates, THAT MEANS I AM ON HIATUS. I WILL be coming back after that month. I will try my best to write at least one or two chapters in November, but I'm going to try to write 2,000 words a day for the NaNo.
Alright, without further ado *ahem* chapter 5!
I DO NOT OWN SEPHIROTH OR FFVII.
Chapter 5: The One-Winged Angel
Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Estuans interius
Ira interius
Ira vehementi
Sephiroth!
Sephiroth!
-Nobuo Uetemasu
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Julie woke up on Suicune's back; her hands were wrapped around the thick neck of the legend.
You're awake!
Even though Suicune was carrying her, Julie felt uneasy. She had no idea why she was on the pokemon in the first place. She looked around and saw Sean, Jo, and Jordan all examining the area around them. Suicune was standing over a pool of green-looking liquid, which resided in a crater embedded in dark brown stone. They were completely surrounded by a large stone wall, which Sean, Jo, and Jordan were examining, presumably trying to find a break in it.
"H…how did I, I mean, we, get here?" Julie asked.
You swooned. Sean said you were acting weird before you did, what do you remember last?
Julie thought for a second, right when she did a massive headache took over, it was familiar. She had felt this pain before.
"This headache!" Julie yelled, "I remember this last…AH!"
Julie let out a shriek, she sat straight up and grabbed her forehead, "No, stay out! STAY OUT!" She started to shake her head violently.
Sean, Jordan and Jo sprinted over to Julie, Megan jumping out of Jo's backpack. Jo hugged the writhing Julie.
"Stay away from her!" Jo yelled, "LEAVE JULIE ALONE!"
Sean and Jordan joined the embrace.
"Whatever this is Julie, fight it! We're here for you!" Sean yelled.
Julie let out a piercing cry as her friends held her tight. After that she stopped shaking and collapsed, her three friends supporting her.
"I think she fought off whatever had her…" Sean said.
Jordan broke the embrace and walked over to the pool of green liquid, he scooped some up into the palms of his hands. He splashed it into Julie's face. She woke up instantly.
"Th…thanks guys." Julie said, motioning for everyone to back away as she stepped off of Suicune. "There was some kind of presence, I could feel it in my brain, and it was trying to take over…"
"That's what it was," Sean said, he looked at Julie, "You were being controlled. When we were on the steps you asked me which villain I was most afraid of."
"What was your answer?" Jo asked.
"I said Sephi…" Sean began; his talking was interrupted by a menacing laugh emanating from the green pool of liquid. The liquid erupted into a large geyser that seemed to flow forever into the void above them.
Sean considered this, "Let's go!" He yelled as he leaped into the geyser, immediately shot up to wherever it led.
Jordan and Jo looked at Suicune (who still had Julie on his back), he nodded back and the four leaped into the geyser after Sean.
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The liquid was freezing. Obviously below the freezing point, Sean thought, which meant it should have frozen, but since he was in The Void, anything was possible. He spun in circles, his body in full control of the rocketing geyser, which seemed to have no control over everything.
He was in the geyser for little less than a minute before he was spat out onto the rock above. The stone was a dark black, almost taking an onyx-like appearance, which now was tainted with a bit of red that came from Sean's blood when he slammed onto his, his knees being torn up.
"Shit!" Sean yelled loudly as he stood back up and looked as the geyser, his friends just now being shot out. All of them let out a cry of pain as they hit the black stone below them, except Suicune, who, now separated from Julie, gracefully landed on the stone.
That was convenient.
Sean grunted, "Not a bad idea, huh?"
"Yeah, well," Jordan began as he walked towards Sean, his elbows bleeding, "maybe we should consider the idea of rocks being at where we land next time."
"Duly noted." Sean said. He began to look around, "I swear I heard a laugh before the geyser…"
He was interrupted by screams from Julie and Jo, who had landed on the opposite side of the still-flowing geyser.
"Go!" Jordan yelled as he, Sean and Suicune split, going around the geyser to see what was going on. Upon reaching the other side they saw Julie and Jo with their weapons in hand, and Sephiroth floating right in front of them.
"Did you enjoy the ride?" The one-winged angel asked in a sarcastic tone.
"It was you!" Julie yelled, "You infiltrated my head!"
"I did." Said Sephiroth, "And I now know that your leader, Sean, will be easily felled by me, for he is penetrated with fear when upon the sight of me!"
Sean had just happened upon the scene, sword in hand, when he heard this. He grunted, "Bullshit." He said, "You just happened to be the easiest final boss in any Final Fantasy game. I knew when Julie asked me who I was most afraid of that it was a trap, so I just told her who I was least afraid of."
Jordan looked at Sean, confused, "You mean…"
Sean smiled, "Sephiroth is too easy."
This made the enemy angry; he unsheathed his seven-foot long masamune and pointed it at Sean's heart, "I will teach you to fear me with the fear I thought you had!"
"Good luck." Sean said, drawing his double daggers and with two pokeballs in hand, "Let's go! Blade! Lunar!"
At that moment Sephiroth tried to slice Sean in half, but was intercepted at the same second by his Scyther's strong blades, blocking Sean's body in an "X" shape.
"Let's beat this bastard!" Julie yelled, and at that moment everybody split to do their own thing.
"Great job, Blade!" Sean yelled as the pokemon threw back Sephiroth's blade. "Lunar, shadow ball!"
His Umbreon shot a glob of shadow at Sephiroth, who sliced it in half with his blade.
"You fool! Do you believe that such a petty move could defeat me, a master of the darkness?" At that moment Sean saw a hint of purple appear in front of him. He called back his pokemon and jumped backwards right as a dark fire erupted in front of him, burning part of the front of his shirt and hurling him into the ground beneath him.
"Sh…shadow…flare…" Sean said through gritted teeth. Sephiroth laughed.
"Now you have a taste of what I can do!" He flew above the cringing Sean, hovering right above him and pointing his masamune at his heart. "It's too bad you won't see the full extent of my power!"
"PIKA!"
As Sephiroth thrust down his sword, Megan tackled him in the side, effectively causing him to lose grip on the sword and making him drop it right next to Sean. Jo ran up to him, her brass knuckles around her fists, and pulled him up.
"Close call." She said.
"WATCH IT!" Sean yelled as he shoved her away, causing her to dodge a fireball attack. They turned to see Megan fleeing back to Jo, and Sephiroth's sword returning to his hands.
"Cute," The angel said as he thrust his sword into the ground, "But let's see how well you two can handle THIS!" A tremor burst through the stone beneath them and a crack formed in-between Sean and Jo; it quickly made a large gap between them, effectively cutting them off through the use of a giant fissure.
Suicune ran to Jo's side as Julie and Jordan appeared by Sean's.
"Now you are all separated!" Sephiroth said, laughing, "You are doomed to die!" He rushed at Jo, swinging his mighty sword at her. She thrust her fists at it, her brass knuckles making contact with the metal long before the sword could hit her. A loud CLANG emanated from the contact.
"How…" Sephiroth began, but was cut off by a thunderbolt that surged through his sword and into him, sending him rocketing onto the other side of the fissure.
Great job, Jo! Suicune said, Can you repair this fissure? We need to get back together!
"It'll take me a bit, but I can." Jo sat on the stone beneath her and concentrated, closing her eyes to close out all other distractions, and slowly the stone beneath her began to move.
Meanwhile, Sean, Julie and Jordan were busy fighting Sephiroth, who had recovered from Megan's attack and was now clashing with Julie, her staff desperately trying to withstand his sword.
"You can't beat us…" Julie panted as she tried to force Sephiroth's sword back, "We're too strong and have come too far to die here!"
Water surged around Julie's body and was launched at Sephiroth; who merely flew back and froze the water before it hit him.
"You aren't to interfere with us and our plans for The Void!" He yelled as the ice before him broke and turned into needles, "I have no choice but to eliminate you all here!" The needles launched at Julie, but were instantly melted by the fire from Kyuubii, who leapt in front of her to block the attack. Jordan was perched on his pokemon's back.
"You aren't to interfere with our plans to help our world!" Jordan yelled, jumping off of Kyuubii's back with his pole in his hand, "We're going to eliminate YOU!"
His pole and Sephiroth's sword clashed in the air, Sephiroth thrusting his sword downwards to knock Jordan to the ground. He pointed the masamune at Jordan's neck, "Die!"
"No!" Sean yelled as he tackled Sephiroth; the angel once again losing his sword to the same trick.
Jordan lept onto his feet, and he and Julie together picked up the heavy masamune, both of them having the same idea in mind. The fissure between them and Jo was almost closed, so they both launched the sword into it, sending it into the abyss right before the ground closed beneath them.
Sean was wrestling with Sephiroth, him using his powers of electricity to help him keep the angel at bay.
"My masamune!" Sephiroth yelled as he watched his sword fall into the abyss below.
"You're done, Sephiroth!" Sean yelled, now having Sephiroth pinned and his dagger at his neck, "Give it up, now!"
The angel just laughed as he glowed a dark black, "Fool…" Sean was sent flying off Sephiroth by an unknown force, landing right before his friends, now re-united.
Sephiroth floated above them, only about twenty feet away.
"You have impressed me…" said the angel, "But now experience my ultimate attack…SUPERNOVA!"
Sean's pupils dilated, "Take cover!"
The four drew their swords and created barriers with their respective elements as a large explosion erupted in front of them, Suicune's ice also trying to suppress the attack.
The world went white for a split second, but it was soon known that the friends survived the attack. Their barriers had protected them from the full force of the attack.
As the dust that arose cleared, Sephiroth knew that his attack didn't work. At that moment he knew he was defeated.
"But…how…" he muttered as he fell to the ground in a very dramatic fashion.
Suicune walked in front of him, "Together, these four are unstoppable." And at that point, a combined elemental attack burst forth from the friends, missing Suicune and hitting Sephiroth dead-on. When the attack ended, there was nothing to be seen of the One-Winged Angel.
"We did it!" Sean yelled, high-fiving his friends, "I can't believe it!"
"I thought you said you were the least afraid of him?" Julie asked.
"I was." Sean replied in a satisfied tone, "That doesn't mean I wasn't afraid."
"Oh," Jordan said, "Good. Because I feel a wet spot and I'm not sure that was from the liquid we jumped into."
"That wasn't liquid, we didn't get wet." Jo said.
"It was the lifestream." Sean replied, "I think there's a lot more truth to Final Fantasy games than what we can see."
We can discuss those things later. Suicune said, now in front of the group, for now, we have to continue. I'll lead.
And together, the group followed Suicune into the blackness before them, venturing across the seemingly endless stone land below them.
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Fun Fact: I actually find Sephiroth to be the most overrated FF villain, simply because he was so easy to beat. However, I DID listen to One-Winged Angel while writing this, it was really fun.
I hope you liked it! PLEASE REVIEW! I miss those.