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One-Winged Angel
Hueco Mundo, Las Noches
The Warriors of Chaos gazed at the massive structure with curiosity. This Aizen had some style to make a structure stand out in the desert of eternal night. They went in without a word. Sephiroth looked around and smirked seeing the nervousness of the few Arrancar posted at the entrance. Kefka noticed this too.
"HEEEEEYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Seems like they are scared of us already," the clown mused.
"Silence, clown," said one of the newer Warriors, Seymour. "They are only wondering who we are, not afraid." Seymour was dressed in a dark violet robe and had his light blue hair in a way that made it look like he had two antennae that slid back.
"They will soon learn to fear us," said a man in yellow armor, the Emperor. "If they do not, then they will be disposed of."
"There is no need to scare our comrades into submission," Shuyin, the boy who heavily resembled Tidus, said. "Hollows are just creatures of hate. The Arrancar must feel like they want justice for what the Shinigami had done to their brethren."
"No, they do not," said the man with long silver hair in a long black coat. He looked over at Shuyin with his catlike-glowing green eyes. "Monsters are monsters, nothing more, nothing less. Arrancar do not care what happens to Hollows nor to one of their own."
"Correct," Garland, the armored man carrying the large sword, agreed. "Hollows and Arrancar are creatures of the battlefield, where only the strongest survive. That is their nature." The Warriors of Chaos continued in silence until, for some reason, Sephiroth went off in another direction.
"Where is he going?" Shuyin asked.
A man in a red coat, similar to Sephiroth's, answered as he continued reading his book. "He's just going off to look around. But really, does anyone know what goes on in his head?"
"Eh, you got a point Genesis," Kefka agreed.
"How far is Aizen's meeting room?" Garland asked the guide.
"Not too far," the Arrancar answered.
"Will the Espada be there?"
"Yes sir. Lord Aizen had made sure to assemble the Espada for the meeting."
"Just in case, I bet," Genesis muttered.
The Emperor huffed. "Oh well, at least we shall meet our new pawns."
"They shall be perfect subjects for my experiments as well," a fat scientist in a red jacket commented. "Don't you agree my lord?"
"Yes Dr. Cid," nodded a slim man with long black hair. "They will be fine subjects for any of your experiments. What do you think, Gabranth?"
A man in armor that hid his face under a helm with ram like horns only shook his head. "I prefer not to think of such matters that are not in my field of expertise, Lord Vayne."
Vayne chuckled. "Forgive me then for any offense."
"None taken, my lord," the Judge told him.
"So the dog has a handler, eh?" questioned a young, scandalously-clad, silver haired mage. Gabranth only answered with a huff.
"You should hold off on your insults Kuja," informed the time witch, Ultimecia.
"Whatever do you mean, old crone?" Kuja asked in his usual airy voice. Ultimecia ignored him. Kuja looked around the hall they were walking and saw several Arrancar as they past by. He heaved a deep sigh. "All I see is white and black, it's so dull. There needs to be serious remodeling for this place."
Kefka laughed. "Well, if you want I would LOVE to help you with that. Give this place the ol' Kefka look."
"I'll pass," Kuja muttered.
"The darkness of this place," started a floating woman with two tentacle like things, she was barely covered in red and black clothing and a black cape, "it feeds us with each moment. These, Hollow are definitely ones of the Void."
A man in light green ornamental armor huffed at the Cloud of Darkness's comment. "Your Void is nothing but a fake, but I agree these creatures belong with the Void."
"Now now Exdeath," the Emperor spoke, "don't go and send our pawns into your Void. We need soldiers for the upcoming war."
Genesis wasn't listening to the conversation. 'I hope Sephiroth won't bring the house down,' he thought.
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"This bites!" Apache whined as she Mila Rose and Sun-Sun walked down the hall to Halibel's room. "Why can't we go to the meeting with Halibel-sama?"
"Quit your whinin'," growled Mila Rose. "You're giving me a headache with that whining of yours."
Apache turned on the other Arrancar and shot death glares at her. "What'd you say, cow tits?!"
"What'd you call me flat-chest?!" Mila Rose countered.
"You two need to stop yelling," Sun-Sun told them as she hid her mouth with her sleeve. "It makes you both look weak."
"STUFF IT OUT SUN-SUN!" the other two warned.
"And here I thought I might find some quiet," said a calm-toned voice. The three looked down the hall where the voice originated. It came from a silver-haired man in a black trench coat with formfitting sleeves, silver wrist guards, black gloves, pants, boots, and white pauldrons. He stared at them with his winter-green eyes that had a slight glow and a smirk on his face that could match Aizen... This man's very glance got the fraccion of the 3rd Espada an uneasy feeling, more than Aizen did.
"Who the hell are you?" Apache asked, glaring at him and trying her best not to shake.
"A better question is what are you?" Sun-Sun asked, readying her sais under her sleeves.
The man chuckled. "Without knowing who or what I am, you decide to fight me... very well," the man said, referring to the stance Sun-Sun was taking. He lifted his left hand out in front of him and a katana with two parallel blades materialized in front of him. He grasped the hilt firmly with is left hand.
"A Shinigami!" Mila Rose accused, drawing her broadsword.
The man chuckled again. "A Death God? No, I am much, much, more... Now, defeat me, if you can." At his command the three fraccion jumped toward him.
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Halibel sat beside Ulquiorra and Stark at the meeting table while they waited for the 'guests' Aizen had told them about. Halibel was skeptical when Ulquiorra told her that one of them could stop time in it's place. A feat not even the 2nd Espada, Baraggan, could stop time and his aspect of death was time. This all sounded farfetched to the Trecera Espada. Then again, Aizen even seems worried about these newcomers...
"When will these guys get here anyway?" asked Luppi, the newly christened Sexta Espada. Grimmjow was demoted from Espada status and was still fuming over it. You could tell by seeing the killing intent as he glared into the back of Luppi's head.
"Patience, Luppi," Aizen said as he sipped his tea.
Surprisingly enough, Halibel didn't like Luppi. Not that she liked Grimmjow either, more like she prefers him over Luppi.
"Why don't we just kill'em?!" Yammy yelled out. "They're not our allies or anything so why are we going to bother listening to them."
"Yeah," Nnoitra agreed with the Decima Espada, "these guys are just a bunch of weaklings, we should kill them Lord Aizen."
"Are you against Lord Aizen's decision to meet them?" Halibel questioned, glaring at the Quinto Espada.
"I'm just expressin' my opinion sea witch," Nnoitra retorted, earning him a cold glare from Halibel.
Tosen was just as curious as the Espada so he leaned in and whispered to Aizen. "Lord Aizen, why are we meeting them?"
Aizen smirked. "They could help with my plan," he answered in a voice so low that only Tosen and Gin beside him could hear, "and maybe even more."
"Interestin'," Gin mused. The rest of the time, everyone was silent as Aizen sipped his tea.
"There here," Aizen said with a grin after ten more minutes had past.
"FINALLY!" yelled a clown as he pranced into the room. "You seriously need to make a short cut for this place Aizy-boy. Hehehehehe." All of the room's occupants were bewildered by the clown.
"Shut it," a man with floating orbs around him, wearing even more flamboyant clothing than Luppi, said to the clown, "talentless hack." None of the Espada were impressed with the first impression.
"Please, both of you," said a man with wild blond hair and gold armor, carrying a staff, "you need to mind your manners. We are guests after all."
A man covered in gray armor with a large horned helm and wearing a purple cape walked in, dragging a massive looking weapon. "Ah, Aizen," he said with a deep commanding voice as more strangers walked in the room, "it is an honor to finally meet you."
Aizen stood and walked over to the armored man and held up his hand. The gray armored man took and shook Aizen's hand. "I must say, you know a lot about me, yet I know nothing of you, mister?"
"Garland," the gray armored man answered, releasing Aizen's hand.
"It is a pleasure, Sir Garland," Aizen greeted with a grin.
"You know me as a knight?"
"I have taken a look into some western culture."
"I see."
Aizen looked over the rest. "Shall we all introduce ourselves?" Garland nodded in agreement. "Good, allow me to introduce my Espada... The Decima Espada, Yammy Rigalo," the giant man stood and grunted a greeting, "Noveno Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie," the man with an elongated mask stood.
The clown laughed at the 9th Espada. "He must be the freakiest of your lot!" he laughed. He was quickly hushed by the silver haired man.
'And you must be the freakiest of your lot,' Halibel thought as Aizen continued.
"Octava Espada, Szayel Aporro Granz," the man with pink hair and glasses stood, "Septima Espada, Zommari Leroux," the dark-skinned man with the bone like mohawk stood, "Sexta Espada, Luppi," Luppi stood, smugly grinning at Grimmjow as he did, "Quinto Espada, Nnoitra Jiruga," the tall man with the eye patch stood, "Espada Cuatro, Ulquiorra Cifer," the one with teal lines under his eyes stood, "Trecera Espada, Tia Halibel," the female stood, "Segunda Espada, Baraggan Lusienbarn," the oldest man stood, "and finally, the Primera Espada Coyote Stark." The last of the Espada stood and lazily waved at the new comers.
"And the others?" the man in gold asked.
"These men are my associates, Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tosen," Aizen answered addressing the other Shinigami present. He motioned toward the blue haired Arrancar with one arm. "This is former Sexta Espada, Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez." He looked at the strangers with a polite smile. "Now introduce yourselves, please."
The man in gold walked up. "My name is Maetus. You may address me as Emperor." Baraggan scoffed at that.
'A wannabe ruler,' Baraggan thought.
The woman with tentacles floated over the table. "We are the Cloud of Darkness..."
A man in dark clothing floated up as well. 'Zemus,' he spoke telepathically.
The large one in light green armor stepped forth. "Exdeath."
The clown jumped on the table and hovered on the surface. "The name is Kefka!" he introduced, shooting out sparks of magic like they were confetti.
The young one in red looked up from his book and spoke. "Genesis Rhapsodos."
The one beside Genesis was the woman in the red dress. "I am Ultimecia."
The flamboyant silver-haired man floated up. "I, ladies and gentlemen, am Kuja."
The light blue haired man stepped forth. "I am Seymour, pleased to make your acquaintance."
The young man beside Seymour spoke next. "Shuyin."
Next was a pudgy middle-aged man in a red tailed coat that wore glasses. "Dr. Cid... Tell me are any of you scientists?"
Szayel answered instantly. "My my, I didn't think any of you would be a fellow scientist."
"Ah, good, good, you must show me to your lab," Dr. Cid insisted.
"Now now, doctor," said the black haired man behind Cid. The man addressed Aizen and the Espada and bowed low. "I am Vayne, and this," he motioned his hand to the armored man behind him, "is Judge Magister Gabranth." The Judge grunted a greeting.
The Espada all sat down and watched the strange beings. "Might I ask as to what you all are doing here?"
"Straight to business," the Emperor mused.
"It is not what we want," Garland informed, making Aizen quirk an eyebrow.
"We are here by the wimzy of the gods," the Emperor explained.
Everyone was silent until Aizen spoke up. "Gods?" he asked.
"To be more specific," Kuja said, "the god of discord, Chaos."
Garland nodded in confirmation. "We are in a never ending conflict against the goddess of harmony, Cosmos... Hueco Mundo, the World of the Living, and Soul Society are all our new battlegrounds..." Garland pointed a clawed finger toward Aizen. "You, Aizen, have been chosen to work for Chaos, as have your Espada."
None of the Espada could believe what they were hearing. A war between the gods? Preposterous!
"I respectfully decline your offer," Aizen said.
"Beg pardon?" Garland asked.
"I want no part of your war," Aizen informed the Warriors of Chaos. "I have other plans in mind."
Kefka couldn't hold back his laughter. He floated and rolled in the air, holding his gut. Kefka spoke after he was done with his laughing fit. "You think you really have a choice in the matter, Aizy-boy?... HEEEEEYAHAHA!!!"
"Fate has cast it's judgement," the Emperor said. "You have no choice but to fight in the conflict like us." Aizen was visibly irritated by the information.
Yammy slammed his hand on the table, nearly breaking it. "Bullshit! There's no way I'm working with scum like them!" he exclaimed, pointing at the Warriors of Chaos. All the Espada seemed to agree with the 10th.
"Lord Aizen," Ulquiorra spoke up, "even if what they say is true, what use are they to us? I do not feel much spirit energy coming from any of them."
Aizen nodded and turned to Garland. "Perhaps a demonstration between one of your warriors against my Espada should take place before we speak of partnership."
"Hmph... whatever makes you feel better when the time comes," Garland muttered. "Then our warrior will be-" He was cut off by two Arrancar, in their released form, bursting through the door of the room. Halibel rushed to the Arrancars' side after recognizing their faces.
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Apache couldn't believe that she, Mila Rose, and Sun-Sun, the fraccion of the Trecera Espada, were all beaten so easily by just one man... If that was what he even was... And the worst part of it was that they all had gone into their released states and this man, this monster, didn't even show one sign of fatigue. Apache watched in horror as the mysterious man sent Mila Rose and Sun-Sun flying toward the door of the meeting room, breaking it down.
Apache looked back at the man as he calmly walked over. The fraccion used sonido to get behind the man but he was faster. The man used something that was neither sonido nor flash step and slammed his fist into the Arrancar's stomach. Apache coughed up blood and spit from the force behind the attack.
'This guy...,' Apache thought as she began to slip out of consciousness, 'what... is... he?'
As if he read Apache's mind, the man looked down on her and responded with a smirk. "What I am is of no importance," he chuckled as he grabbed one of Apache's antlers. "You may call me... Sephiroth."
Sephiroth yanked Apache by the antler as he made to toss her like he did the other fraccion. As he reached the high point of the throw, Sephiroth flicked his wrist and snapped off the antler while Apache was sent through the hole in the door.
"Hmph, it's time to meet the Espada then," Sephiroth told himself as he slowly walked forward with Souba in his left hand and Apache's antler in his right.
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Halibel was horrified when she saw Apache, with one antler missing, come soaring in after her other fraccion. Aizen, the ex-Shinigamis, and the Espada were surprised but didn't care as much as the 3rd Espada kneeling before the fallen Arrancar. The Warriors of Chaos were not at all surprised, let alone startled, by this turn of events. Kefka was laughing madly at the sight of the unconscious fraccion that landed in the center of Aizen's long white table, which was now being stained red from the blood pouring out of the unusual cuts that seemed too close together to stitch up.
"Clean up in aisle three!" the clown joked, earning nothing but a death glare from an angered Halibel.
"Cease with your horrid jokes, clown," Kuja scolded.
"Why?" Kefka questioned. "Those three just got THRASHED! It's PERFECT for my jokes! HEEEEEHAHAHAHA! It's hilar-Whoa!" Kefka cried as a Bala missed him by a hair. Looking down, Kefka saw it was from Halibel. "What are you so angry at me for?" the mad mage asked, chuckling. "I'm not the one who beat the SNOT out of your subordinates... Which makes me wonder why a heartless beast like you cares."
Halibel shot Kefka one last death glare before getting up from from her kneeling position and looking to the busted door. The perpetrator was a man with straight, waist-length, silver hair in a black trench coat and white shoulder armor. He carried a katana with two parallel blades. The most stunning feature of this man was this wintery green, cat-like eyes that seemed to look down on everything they see. Halibel felt a chill run down her spine the moment her eyes met his.
"Don't you think you overdid it," Garland asked without turning to greet the man, "Sephiroth?"
'Sephiroth,' Halibel repeated in her head, committing his name to memory. Aizen and Ulquiorra did the same.
Sephiroth ignored Garland's question and stared down Halibel's glare with his calm, mocking gaze. "Did those weaklings belong to you?" Sephiroth taunted, Halibel only continued her glare. "Why does a heartless beast like you care what happens to others?" Halibel did not respond. "Shall I... rob you of your... 'heart'?" Sephiroth asked, nodding to Mila Rose, Apache, and Sun-Sun on the table. The next moment, Halibel disappeared and reappeared in front of Sephiroth and now locked blades with him.
"Oooooo," Kefka chuckled, "seems like you struck a nerve, Sephy! Haha!"
"You're going to make a mess of things, Sephiroth," Genesis noted more to himself.
The Espada watched as Sephiroth masterfully blocked and parried Halibel's sword strikes. They were surprised that this man was fighting the 3rd Espada and hardly seemed worried. Even Gin, Kaname, and Aizen were surprised by Sephiroth's confidence.
Halibel slashed at Sephiroth with a rage filled strike. He blocked it, but the force sent Sephiroth crashing through the wall, to the sand covered, day-lit, inside of the dome. All the occupants of the room walked to the edge of the newly formed hole in the wall to watch the fight.
"Just who is this man?" Tosen muttered to himself.
"First-class SOLDIER," Genesis answered, walking up behind the blind man, "Sephiroth. Once revered across my and his world as a hero... but obviously, Sephiroth is far from that. He is, in truth, a monster." Genesis watched the fight in silence while Tosen pondered on what Genesis just said.
Ulquiorra overheard them and thought as he watched Sephiroth and Halibel. Sephiroth's expression confirmed what Genesis said. 'A monster huh?'
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Halibel and Sephiroth both continued to slash, parry, and dodge each others blades in a deadly dance. So far, it seemed to Halibel that she had the upper hand. 'But why is he still smirking?' the Trecera asked herself.
Halibel used sonido to back away from the dance of blades. She planted her feet and pointed the tip of her Zanpakuto at Sephiroth. "Projectile Azul," Halibel muttered. From the missing center of her sword, a bright yellow light shot out toward Sephiroth.
"Is that all?" Sephiroth asked as he lazily slashed the blast away with Souba. "You'll have to do better than that."
"Fine," Halibel responded, using sonido to once again enter close combat with Sephiroth. This time though, Halibel looped one of Souba's blades in the empty center of her Zanpakuto. She then raised one hand and charged a great deal of yellow energy in her palm. "How about this?" Halibel questioned, aiming the Cero at Sephiroth's face. His expression was concealed by his hair. "Cero."
The great yellow blast engulfed the former hero. Halibel felt Sephiroth's sword vanish with it's master and thought the man dead as she glared icily at the large trench of sand her Cero made.
"It's over," Halibel said to herself.
"Heheheh. Is it now?"
"Impossible!" The Trecera Espada quickly turned around to see Sephiroth, unscathed, staring calmly face to face with her. His lips were curved into an arrogant smirk and his eyes seemed to laugh at her. Halibel jumped several feet back from Sephiroth before he could make his attack.
"I already made a cut on you," Sephiroth mentioned, as if he knew what Halibel was thinking. Halibel was about to ask what he meant until she felt her jacket open up, revealing her full mask remnants and her Espada tattoo on her right breast. "Hmph, now I see why you cover up," Sephiroth said, amused.
"And why's that?" Halibel inquired.
That glint of sadistic humor was ever present in the chosen one's eye. "You don't want to see the monster you truly are." Sephiroth blocked the attack that Halibel sent him flying toward a nearby building with. "Hmph, the truth hurts, doesn't it?"
Aizen and his subordinates sensed Halibel's spiritual pressure rise. "It is alright, Halibel-," Aizen muttered
"Attack!" Halibel shouted, ignoring Aizen's rule of not releasing within the dome. "Tiburon!" She became in enveloped in a cocoon-like water cyclone.
"-I'll let this one slide."
Sephiroth watched the cocoon of water burst as he kept heading to the building. He saw that Halibel's mask had disappeared and her whole outfit had changed. Halibel's breasts were still only partially covered, but the part of her mask that covered her face was gone and replaced by lightning bolt shaped marks. Spauldors on her shoulders with ribbon like protrusions on her back that look like shark fins. A spine-like structure was on her stomach that spanned from her waist to the underside of her breast. She also wore a mini-skirt of bones with a black undergarment, white knee-high boots, and white elbow-length gloves. Halibel's weapon was now a large, broad pata weapon, shaped like a shark tooth. The hilt had a hand guard that completely covered her right hand.
Seeing her Resurreccion, Sephiroth chuckled. "Let's see what the shark can do." The moment he said that, Halibel used sonido to catch up and hack at him once more. Sephiroth blocked the massive weapon with Souba, but the force not only sent him crashing into a building, but also shattered the double-bladed katana.
Halibel rose to the sky and fired a La Gota into the base of the building, making it topple on top of Sephiroth. "Stay down," Halibel warned as the structure crumpled.
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"Seems that Sephiroth guy was all talk," Grimmjow growled.
"You think so?" Genesis inquired.
"I doubt a human would be able to have a whole building fall on top of them."
"Grimmjow," Ulquiorra spoke suddenly. "He is not dead."
The former Sexta Espada scoffed. "What makes you say that?"
"He's toying with her," Genesis answered. "Believe it or not, Sephiroth is or at least is one of the strongest Warriors of Chaos... You don't know how strong he truly is until you face him yourself, and now, he will show her what he can do."
Aizen was intrigued by the strength one of the Warriors of Chaos possessed. 'Perhaps it would be beneficial to join?' he thought. 'No, let's see what happens first.'
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Halibel watched unemotionally as the dust of the toppled building began to settle. She growled when she saw, on top of the rubble, stood an unarmed Sephiroth, grinning up at her smugly. "I'll wipe that smile off his face," Halibel growled before she did a series of sonido toward Sephiroth. Halibel was close to Sephiroth when she raised her blade for a finishing blow. Sephiroth only rose both his hands as the blade fell. "DIE!" Halibel yelled as she made to slash... Then a flash of light... Instead of the sound or feel of cutting through her opponent, Halibel heard the loud ring of of two swords meeting and felt her Tiburon stop dead in it's tracks, just above Sephiroth's right palm.
(A/N: Begin theme "One-Winged Angel")
"So close," Sephiroth taunted, "and yet, so far." In his hands materialized an extremely long katana with an average sized hilt that he grabbed with his left hand. "This is my Masamune." Sephiroth pushed Halibel away and began his assault.
Halibel was surprised at this turn of events, he was faster, much stronger than before. 'No,' Halibel thought. 'Was he possibly holding back?'
"How about this?" Sephiroth asked her as he did one strong swing that sent a concentrated wave of energy with it. Halibel tried to hold against it but the wave broke her guard and continued on to slice through a building in it's path. Sephiroth didn't let the 3rd Espada get away with sonido. He got to her with great haste, grabbed her face and shot a point blank fire spell.
The explosion of the spell wasn't meant to kill her, but it sent Halibel inside the building Sephiroth just sliced with his shock wave. Sephiroth was not going to let Halibel catch a break and followed her inside. He slashed his long sword against her pata, creating blue-white sparks like willow-the-wisps. They slashed and hacked at each other, not wanting to give any ground.
Sephiroth changed tactics and channeled energy into his Masamune. He swung at Halibel, intentionally missing, but creating numerous slashing energy streaks to appear from where he cut. Halibel was able to get out of the way before taking too much damage, but still got cuts on all around her body. Sephiroth then went back to regular, swift strikes with his katana.
Halibel defended as much as she could, hoping to win a battle of stamina against the relentless attacker. To her dismay, Sephiroth didn't seem to be tiring at all. Sephiroth broke through her guard and kicked Halibel into a wall and out of the structure. Halibel landed back on the desert sand and looked up at the hole from where she fell to see Sephiroth looking down on her once again.
"On your knees," Sephiroth told her, "I want you to beg for forgiveness." Halibel glared at him, about to attack when the building suddenly got sliced into many giant pieces and began to fall on the Tercera.
Halibel watched Sephiroth jump toward the rubble and slash through, creating more masses of rock to fall on her. Halibel decided to erase the rubble and the swords man. She gathered black energy in her left hand an aimed up to where Sephiroth stood.
"Cero Oscuras."
The black beam fired and blew through the rubble toward the top of the dome. Somehow Sephiroth dodged and went up to the top of the dome. Halibel followed in pursuit. 'He'll pay,' was the thought running through Halibel's head as she went through the hole she created. Sephiroth just stood at the top, gazing at the moon.
Halibel fired another Cero Oscuras at Sephiroth. Sephiroth quickly turned around and slashed a concentrated white shock wave at the black beam, cutting through the Cero. 'Impossible,' Halibel thought in disbelief that the most powerful type of Cero was so easily cut through.
"My turn for a special attack," Sephiroth said as he prepared drew back his Masamune as if he were preparing for a draw slash. Halibel noticed the sky darken and felt the energy Sephiroth was gathering. "Oblivion." That was the last two words before Sephiroth disappeared in a flash of light, after that, Halibel felt something pass through her.
Halibel turned her head around to see Sephiroth with his back to her, holding his long sword out. Then, as if giving a command of execution, he moved his sword down.
It was as if the wind had turned into blades pressed against Halibel's body. Blood gushed out in multiple parts everywhere on the Espada's body, causing her to fall to her knees. For once in who knows how long, Halibel was afraid... hopeless... 'That was the point at the very beginning wasn't it?' she thought.
"Now that you are on your knees..." Sephiroth said, walking up behind Halibel. Sephiroth grasped a chunk of hair and forced her to look up at him, the crescent moon in the back ground. A single black wing sprouted from the right side of his back. "...I want you to beg for forgiveness." In his eyes were not amusement or the arrogant superiority that Halibel saw... it was pure sadistic hatred. But that look only lasted for a moment.
"No begging?" Sephiroth chuckled. "Then... I'll rob you of what you cherish, and give you the perfect gift... despair." He let go of Halibel's hair, the moment he did let go, she tried to attack one last time. That only ended up in him stabbing her in the stomach with Masamune and lifting her up.
"You are the second person to know the pain of being impaled like this," Sephiroth told Halibel while she was still conscious. "Do not fret, soon you, as will everything else, will become one with me." He slid the blade out of her stomach, resuming knee position again. He raised Masamune high over Halibel's head.
'Forgive me,' Halibel pleaded, 'Apache, Mila Rose, Sun-Sun... be strong.'
"Farewell, Espada number three."
Halibel closed her eyes and waited for the blade to cut, but what came was the ring of swords. Halibel reopened her eyes to see Garland, Genesis, Aizen, and Ulquiorra with their swords out. Genesis stood in front of Halibel and blocked Sephiroth's sword with his own.
"That's enough, Sephiroth," Garland told the One-Winged Angel.
"Hmph, very well." With that Masamune disappeared from Sephiroth's hand and he began walking back to the hole in the dome. He stopped just before Genesis.
"Still trying to be the hero?" Sephiroth inquired.
"The world needs a new one," Genesis answered, lowering his weapon.
"Hmph, and you think that it's you?" Sephiroth looked at Halibel, still on her knees with her head bowed low. "Looks like my work here is done." Sephiroth continued walking and jumped down the dome.
Aizen sheathed his sword and looked over to Garland. "About your offer..."
"Hm?"
"I'll join, but I wish to speak with Chaos."
Garland chuckled. "Chaos, is wanting to meet you. But first, let us find rooms to rest."
Aizen nodded. "Very well... Ulquiorra."
The 4th Espada took his eyes away from Halibel and turned his attention to Aizen. "Yes, Lord Aizen?"
"Show our guests to their quarters."
"As you wish, Lord Aizen." Ulquiorra bowed low before using sonido to get to where everyone was at.
"Sonido," Garland muttered. "That technique could come in handy to me." With that he and Aizen left Genesis and Halibel on the roof of the dome.
Genesis looked down at Halibel and sighed. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a small hardcover book titled LOVELESS and a blue apple. Genesis kneeled down and held out the apple on top of the book to Halibel.
The Espada looked up at the man with green eyes similar to Sephiroth, but kinder in a way. Halibel looked at the book and the apple then back at Genesis, giving him a puzzled look. 'Why?' she wanted to say but her voice couldn't work at the moment.
"Just take them," Genesis said, almost impatiently. Halibel complied, using her left hand to shakily grab the items. "Sephiroth really did a number on you huh?" Genesis commented, seeing the shape Halibel is in. "Don't worry about your fraccion, I tended to some of their wounds so they won't bleed out. Souba might not be Sephiroth's deadliest sword, but the wounds it leaves are almost impossible to stitch up..." Though she didn't look back, instead focusing on the items he gave her, Halibel was grateful.
"Cura." The moment Halibel heard the word she felt a healing green light come over her, easing her wounds. "You might want to reseal your sword." With a nod, Halibel complied and after a minute or so of healing, she could stand and walk, although a little stiff.
Genesis began to walk away, leaving Halibel with the blue apple and the LOVELESS book. Then he stopped and spoke.
"When the war of the beasts bring about the world's end
The goddess descends from the sky
Wings of light and dark spread afar
She guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting"
"What was that?" Halibel asked Genesis, speaking to him for the first time.
"LOVELESS, Prologue," he answered. "I thought you might enjoy my extra copy along with the dumbapple." With that, Genesis walked away, reciting one more phrase.
"Legend shall speak
Of sacrifice at world's end
The wind sails over the water's surface
Quietly, but surely"
"Are you sure you want to meet Chaos?" Garland asked as he and Aizen stood before the Hogyoku.
"Yes," Aizen answered without hesitation. "I would like to know who I am working for."
"Hmph. Very well, but know that he is still not yet recovered, so you won't be meeting him face to face." Garland raisied his hand over the Hogyoku and poured his energy to form a window that showed, surrounded by hellfire, a shadowed figure, with glowing red eyes.
"Who dares disturb my slumber?"
Well there is the new chapter, hope you enjoyed and please Review.
