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Chapter 3: Things're Getting Weird, Trust Me

Okay, first, a dark Sephiroth, who turns out to be his hatred, appears by MY will. Second, a human Metabee shows up JUST in time to block Dark Sephiroth's attack. Just how twisted up was this going to get?

Well, anyway, Metabee was struggling to keep Dark Sephiroth's from making contact with his newly human body, and it was no wonder why. He was blocking the attack with a tire iron. I'm sure it'd get shredded like Swiss cheese in no time flat.

Metabee turned to Cloud and Shadow. "Hey, a little help, if you don't mind!"

Cloud nodded, told Shadow to stay back, and charged. Unfortunately, Dark Sephiroth was prepared for it. He grabbed Cloud with his right hand, and tossed him to the side like a rag doll, WHILE kept his strength on his blade with Metabee.

'Impressive..." I thought.

I shook my head hard. This was no time to be complimenting the enemy! Sephiroth needed help!

I stood up and ran to him, without interruption this time too.

I got onto my knees and gently shook him. "Sephiroth, wake up!" I pleaded.

I looked and saw Metabee and Cloud fighting Dark Sephiroth. I knew they had no chance against him, especially with Metabee having no weapon. I knew they would lose.

I continued shaking Sephiroth. "Please! Wake up! Metabee and Cloud can't keep going any longer! They need you!"

Sephiroth groaned and opened his eyes. "Kilia..?" He said weakly, "What...what happened?"

I helped him sit up. "Well...let's just say, your hatred decided to say 'hi' personally."

He looked at me with a confused look on his face. "What?"

I pointed to the action, and I didn't like what I saw. In such a short amount of time, both Cloud AND Metabee were bleeding badly. They couldn't fight anymore.

I looked back at Sephiroth, his face showed true fear, of his own hatred.

"Sephiroth, you have to help them."

"What? Are you crazy? I can't fight him!"

Was this the real Sephiroth? Someone who was too scared to try?

I grabbed his sword. "You can. You just have to try," I held out the edge of the blade's handle to him, "Don't give up so easily."

He looked at me, then the handle, then back at me. "You're sure?"

I nodded. "I believe so."

He looked at me for a few more moments, nodded, and grabbed the blade. I had to help him to his feet since he was still a little weak from his hatred exiting his soul. He stood, blade at the ready. The fires of battle burned in his eyes.

"HATRED!" He called.

Dark Sephiroth turned, his blood-red eyes once again piercing into my soul.

"Back away from them! Fight a someone your own strength!"

Dark Sephiroth smirked. "And who would that be? You? Hah! Pathetic."

Sephiroth growled angrily. I don't think that, whether or not his hatred was in control, is something you want to say to Sephiroth, EVER.

"Say that, once I've killed you!" Sephiroth shouted.

Dark Sephiroth took that as a challenge. He readied his blade. "Let's see if you can."

They charged each other. Sephiroth slashed, but Dark Sephiroth was way ahead of him. A slash right across the torso.

I gasped. I thought that was it. If Sephiroth died from this battle, I'd never forgive myself.

Sephiroth gasped, and fell to his knees. Dark Sephiroth hovered over him."This is too easy."

Sephiroth, with all of his energy, tried to stab Dark Sephiroth, but again, his opponent was three steps ahead of him. Dark Sephiroth stabbed him, this time in the right shoulder, then in the chest, but not in the heart.

Dark Sephiroth smirked. "Pathetic. For some reason, I'd rather NOT kill you right now." He turned away, "Come back when you've gotten stronger. MUCH stronger."

Dark Sephiroth disappeared in a black cloud. I knew we were fighting an enemy far beyond our league. How could Sephiroth's hatred be so powerful. Was it THAT power-hungry?

I ran to Sephiroth. He was bleeding excessively. I knew he had to be taken to a hospital.

I looked at Shadow. "Come on! Help me! Grab Metabee and Cloud!"

"How is a frail girl like me supposed to carry two guys?"

"Trust me, you're not that frail! Now GRAB!" I yelled, trying my best to drag the now unconscious Sephiroth to the nearest hospital.

"Shouldn't we just call nine-one-one?" Shadow suggested.

'Now there's a better idea,' I thought, 'besides, the nearest hospital was about ten blocks away. No way two girls can get three bleeding boys there in time.'

I stopped dragging and looked at Shadow, who was trying so hard to grab Metabee and Cloud. "Shadow, do you have your cell?" She nodded. "Call for an ambulance!"

She smiled. "Thought you'd never ask!" She said taking out her phone and flipping it open.

"Hang on Sephiroth, Metabee, Cloud, we're gonna get you to a hospital. You're gonna be okay." I started crying. "Please be okay."

I didn't let Firo know what had happened. I didn't want him to worry, nor did I think he'd believe me. I mean, how many times do you hear how you released someone's hatred from their soul and out into the world? Trust me, he would NOT believe me, OR Shadow.

While Sephiroth, Cloud, and Metabee were getting treated for their wounds, me and Shadow were asked to wait in the waiting room. I was crying, fearful that they would die, Shadow was trying to calm me down, but deep down, she knew there was nothing she could do to stop the crying until we knew they were okay. Cloud's been our best friend since last summer, he's like an older brother to me. Metabee, he tried to protect me, how could I ever forget that? And Sephiroth, I felt like we became friends when I told him about my dream. Is that jumping the gun on my part?

Either way, I didn't want anyone to die, no one except Dark Sephiroth.

'He'll pay for this, I'll make sure of it!' I thought, rage growing inside me.

A nurse with short brown hair tied back in a bun came out. I instantly thought at least one had died. I stood up. "Are they-"

She put her hand up and smiled. "They're just fine, Miss. They're awake if you want to go and visit them."

Right as she said that, I was off like a shot. I turned each corner until I came to the directory because I realized that I didn't know which room they were in!

I walked up to the desk. "Um...excuse me, where is Sephiroth, Cloud Strife, Metabee staying at?"

A male nurse looked at me, then looked at what seemed to be a sign-up sheet for patients. Shadow must've wrote their names while I was bawling my eyes out.

"Ah, here we are. Room two-three-one."

I bowed. "Thank you," and was off.

By the time I got there, I had another nurse with me. I had so much trouble finding the room, I got someone to guide me. I turned to her. "Thank you."

"You're very welcome." She replied, and she left, closing the door behind me.

I looked, three beds were aligned horizontally from the room instead of vertical. In the bed one the right, was Metabee, on the left, was Cloud, and right in the middle, was Sephiroth. He smiled at me, and I swear my heart started beating a thousand times more than it was supposed to. I ran to his side.

"I'm so glad you guys are alive. If...if you had died...I..." I began to cry again.

Sephiroth patted my head with the only had without its shoulder in a sling. "It's alright. At least I would've died doing something I wanted to do, not what HE wanted me to do."

"Yeah, besides, I had a feeling we weren't gonna win against him." Metabee said, acting like he had just won the lottery.

I looked at him. "Then, why did you try and fight him?"

"Because, my partner's daughter was in danger. What else should I have done? Left you to die?"

I shook my head. I had a feeling that, no matter what anyone had said, Metabee wouldn't have left. I guess his morals were stronger than I thought.

I turned to Cloud, asking the same question. He smiled. "I couldn't let my little sister get killed. What kind of a brother would I be?"

That answer made me feel very good. We were officially family...sort of. I looked at Shadow, asking her what she would have done. She smiled her usual smile. "I would've tried to save you, what else?"

I started crying harder. All four, two being my greatest friends, the other two I barely knew, were willing to protect me. I had a feeling they would be willing to protect anyone innocent, and we were gonna have to, with Dark Sephiroth on the loose. We had to gather our strength, and I was gonna have to find out more about my new power.

I looked at Sephiroth. "What did I do anyway?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I brought Dark Sephiroth into our world. How?"

He shrugged. "I don't know. Did he tell you that?"

I nodded. "When I asked him who he was, he just said, 'You should know, you brought me here,' and I didn't even know how."

"I'm probably the wrong person to ask then. I think he was bluffing."

"What if he wasn't?"

"Then what I thought was correct. You DO have power hidden deep inside you. Strong power, if used to its full potential."

Metabee looked confused. "Hold on, what're you talking about? Are you saying you KNEW Kilia had this kind of power this whole time?"

Sephiroth nodded. "I had a feeling she did, yes. I believe it has to do with her bloodline."

"Almost everyone on my Mom's side had some kind of psychic power." I blurted out without thinking. "My Dad's side has this deal with turning into wolves whenever the sun sets, and on the night of a full moon, they become a man-wolf."

Everyone was speechless after I said that. Sephiroth was the first of them to speak up. "You mean, like a werewolf?"

I shrugged. "Sort of. The only difference is that they don't go into a blind rampage. They KNOW who they are, they KNOW everything. They have full control of themselves."

"What else do they have." Sephiroth asked.

"Not much else. They can communicate with animals, they have special abilities that relates to a wolf, you know, like the howl."

"The howl?"

I nodded. "Yeah, the howl is turned into a supersonic howl that can blast anybody away. It's like a tornado picked them up. It's awesome! I've seen Firo do it before and it was really..." I gasped and realized I was about to blow Firo's cover. He would NOT have liked that, trust me.

Sephiroth got a gleam in his eye that said, "I win," and asked, "What about this Firo?"

I put my face onto the sheet. I blew it! "My REAL big brother, Firo, inherited the wolven powers from my REAL Dad's side of the family. I, most likely, inherited whatever psychic power I would get from my Mom's side."

"I KNEW that was why Firo was supposed to get home before sun set!" Shadow shouted.

I looked at her. "You did not!"

"Oh...right." She rubbed the back of her head. "Well, I knew it was SOMETHING."

"Yeah, you thought he got tired early." I turned back to Sephiroth. "Anyway, whatever power I got from my Mom's side, there's no way it could've released your hatred."

Sephiroth looked confused. "Why not?"

I put up my index finger. "Well, first, there's the fact that no one in my family's ever been that strong. Second, it's a power no one has ever gotten. It's just not there."

"What else do you want to tell us about your mother's bloodline?"

'Frankly, I didn't want to tell anyone about either one of our bloodlines.' I thought sourly, but said more anyway.

"Various psychic powers run in the family, in women only, however, you can only have one kind of psychic ability."

"Why not all?" Cloud asked.

I shrugged. "It's just never happened, for some reason."

"What if, YOU are one with every psychic ability known to man, and those known only to your family?"

I looked at him. "That's crazy! I'd be going against my mother's bloodline!"

"What if it isn't?"

I guess he was right. I couldn't exactly count it out. But one thing I knew for SURE was I would have some HARD explaining to do to Firo when I got home.

"Firo's gonna kill me for sure, trust me," was all I had left to say after all of that.