"Sanura...are you okay?" Reno questioned, his arms wrapping around the young girl who sat crying in an alleyway, not far from Rufus, where Tseng and Elena stood guard. The sound of his voice had her on her feet in an instant, hand swinging to slap him across the face hard enough to stagger into the alleyway. "HEY! What the hell?!"
"You let me think you were DEAD!" She shrieked, leaving Rude to wince as he walked past to crouch down by Rufus, murmuring something that had both Rufus and Tseng straightening suddenly.
"What? She's alive?!" Rufus's voice was shocked, and full of relief. Both men turned as they heard a voice from not far away – though they couldn't understand her words, they knew that voice belonged to Seraphina.
Kill him...I no longer have any use for him... The voice in her mind had been with her since she first lost grasp of her sanity so long ago, and given in to the Jenova cells in her body. It had lead her to find and guide the three men she now considered brothers, but unlike the voice, she was guiding them out of love...and hesitated – she knew this body belonged to Kadaj. ...very well...damage him so he begins to die and abandons that child's body...then, you can save the child yourself...
"Yes, Mother..." She whispered, leaping out from the shadows of a building to drop to her feet between Cloud and Sephiroth, her blade one that Sephiroth knew had been a gift from Genesis...but though it had once shimmered white, the blade had become tainted and black, seeming to suck in the light around it. "...now...die... Failure."
The word startled him, but as she leapt forth to attack, he saw that the spirit behind those eyes was not his sister – nothing close to it, it was obvious she was not under her own control. This angered him enough to fight back, and he found that his little sister was not weak by any means...until she found herself staring up at him as they locked blades.
"...Brother! I won't stand by and watch you kill Kadaj! He has become my baby brother, he and Yazoo and Loz! I won't let you kill them!" She cried, throwing him back and leaping forward to strike. This moment in which Jenova lost control of his sister gave him the chance to twist Masamune and smack her across the side with the flat of the blade, sending her to crumple to the ground, and leaving Cloud to resume his attack.
"Sister!" The cry came from Yazoo as both he and Loz rushed to her side, only to find she had struck her head and was completely unconcious.
"...We have to get her out of here...it's too dangerous, Yazoo..." Loz's voice was very gentle as he lifted her in his arms, both men darting away until the sounds of the battle behind them faded a bit, and they were no longer in danger of being crushed by falling debris.
"Is she okay?" Yazoo whispered, as both men dropped to the ground from the roof of a house, and Loz kneeled and adjusted his sister to look for a wound on her head – finding it, he shook his head.
"No...she's bleeding, Yazoo...do you have any healing materia? I don't...Kadaj said they would be useless...and I didn't listen when she told me..." He choked up, tears forming in his eyes. "...one of us might get hurt."
"Neither did I..." Yazoo was beginning to cry as well, only to blink his tears back to see Seraphina's eyes open to look up at him.
"...did...Brother hurt one of you...?" Her voice was rough, her hand extending towards Yazoo, tears in her eyes. "...here...my...healing materia...I'm not...strong enough..."
"Big sister!" Loz cried, as Yazoo reached out his hand to withdraw the materia from her flesh, both men wincing as she let out a cry of pain. As Yazoo pushed the materia into his skin, Loz lifted her to sit on his lap, his arms wrapping around her as she began to collaspe, holding her up so that Yazoo could heal her.
"...Kadaj..." She whimpered, before falling still, unconcious again, though she was breathing evenly now. Both men looked to each other, and as Loz gently lay the woman on the ground again, they nodded.
"...let's go...we have to try...for her..."