Disclaimer: Because now I need a new Disclaimer... I'm getting tired of the old one. Uh Final Fantasy Comtemplation goes to our favorite Square Enix... Uh However I do Own our Evie and things and stuff about her. I don't even own the Plot, because it's Crisis Core's plot. Like seriously. I suck.
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I had almost this entire thing finished except the last 900 words, for like the longest of time. i finally finished it and now I remember to NOT neglect you guys. To those who have stayed with me for so long I forget to thank you. So you have my most cherished Thank You. You remind me to keep going and keep me strong.
"I'm kidding Evie. Of course I would," said Zack with a small smile. I nodded and said goodnight giving a high five as I walked into the inn.
Maybe he'd care about me more if I wasn't in SOLDIER…Maybe I could have been his girlfriend… my thoughts made me feel like a traitor in my own body. Thoughts I shouldn't have thought. It was confusing thinking things I would never think. I chuckled at my feeling of insanity as I walked into my room and pulled Harpenger off my back. I stared at it remembering why I had joined SOLDIER, why I was even Zack's friend in the first place. I remembered the reason why I was in Nibelheim. But even then compared to Zack it seemed useless. I couldn't help but think about him, and I never noticed the fluttering I felt, or the tingling sensation that fell through my hands usually my hands and arms from his touch. I ignore the smile that just refused to be wiped off around him sometimes.
I placed Harpenger against the wall and smiled gently at it murmuring an apology in its direction. I reached back for my shoulder pauldron's to come off. I placed them at the table in the middle of the room. There was only one window and the thought seemed almost depressing. If there was one thing I loved it was a nice breeze and a great view. I enjoyed admiring things. My boots thudded lightly as I snuck my way over to the window to stare out of it for a while. The day grew long and I moved to turn the lights in my room on. I sighed and leaned towards the door to lock it as I changed into the spare clothing Seph had gotten us. I glanced down at the bag… or bags, which were absolutely humongous. I shook my head as I bent down on one knee to pull the zipper around one of the bags and lift the flap. The first was filled to the brim with purely just clothing, the other was chalk full with things, Some of them I swore I didn't even know what they were for until closer inspection.
I pulled everything out and laid it on the floor almost laughing at the things inside of it. There was at least fourteen full sets of SOLDIER uniforms. Those took up a lot of space as it was. Then there were exact replicas of my pajamas, under garments and socks. I smiled appreciating Sephiroth's perfection. The second bag held the SOLDIER armor. Which included the shoulder pauldrons and a set of extra boots. I smiled at these things and promptly put them away before taking the time to go over every one of my SOLDIER uniforms. Each one had to be personally customized for my body or it wouldn't fit on right. With the zipper and the lines that sucked at my body. I smiled to find all of them perfect.
You really outdo yourself Sephy. I smiled wider to myself and picked up one of the many hairties on the dresser. I pulled my hair back just to have it out of my way as I walked over to the mirror to take a good glance at my face. I smiled to myself to see how my teeth were pearly white, how long my lashes were, How healthy my hair was, how perfectly shaped my eyebrows were, and how wide and brightly colored my eyes were. The genetic enhancement made us this way. Everyone except Angeal, who managed to have a peach fuzz. Everyone else I could think of was completely clean shaved. Maybe it was because he was so old…
I shook my head and smiled at the thought of Angeal. I started to pull my gloves off, before removing the rest of my gear from my stomach protector to my combat boots. Without my belts and my stomach protector on my pants stayed on from my hips and even then they slid down anyways. I managed to easy change out of uniform and into my comfortable clothes before slapping myself down on the bed. I sighed in content before remembering that I forgot to close the curtains and turn off the light. i was tempted to just let them stay on instead, but I figured that it'd make it harder to do it. I sat up grudgingly and closed the curtain before trudging my way to the lights. I almost squealed in pleasure as I laid in the bed. But I knew it wasn't home. Home smelt different and there was more room, and more pillows.
I'd make do with this, a bed was better than the truck I was stuck in for half the day.
I woke up to a few knocks on my door. I got up sluggishly nearly crawling to the door as I put a hand to my head. Sephiroth and Zack stood looking at me.
"You should have been dressed by now Evie," I glared at Sephiroth locking eyes with him. His green eyes while they were serious I could see a twitch appear on his face, as if he was tempted to smirk. "Zackary make sure the other cadets are downstairs and ready within the hour."
"What about you?"
"I shall remain here to make sure our General here doesn't go back to sleep." Zack smiled at me and ran off. I smiled back until I turned around and fell back into bed. I heard Sephiroth's steps follow me into the room. He closed the door and his boots clanked gracefully along the floor. I heard the slamming of drawers as Sephiroth pulled out my uniform. I ignored him, he knew I wasn't a morning person. I was surprised he wasn;t yelling at me or something. But his tolerance level seemed to sky rocketed, but it was just for me. I think it was because we had sex. Which caused my head to go into overdrive and think about Sephiroth I groaned trying to empty my virgin mind of those thoughts.
It didn't worked especially when I felt an arm wrap around my hips and lift me with ease. I gasped in surprise as I was thrown into the air almost playfully by the Silver haired general. My eyes widened and time seemed to literally stop. I realized it did when I was stuck in the air unable to move. After a moment I landed with a grunt into his arms. I took a deep breath and looked up at him curious as to what he was going to do. A smirk twitched at his finely shaped lips. I said nothing to him as he placed me down and pointed to my clothes.
"No shower?"
"You should have woken up." I groaned taking the clothing. He stood by the bathroom door. " No bathroom either. You would go in there and lock the door showering anyways. You have gotten dreesed before me a few times already, once more won't kill you. Quickly Evelia." I slammed the clothing on the bed and changed. I figured the faster I changed the shorter amount of time he saw me naked. He leaned against the bathroom propping his foot against it casually. He waited for me to fully dress before letting me finished my morning routine. I pulled my fingers through my hair lightly before using a brush he got me.
"you really had them packed everything you could think of huh Sephiroth?"
"I am unsure of exactly how long we are going to be here, it is better to be prepared then not at all. You should know this best Evie. Now hurry downstairs our tour guide should be there soon." I heard his footsteps leave.
"Tour guide?" I mumbled staring at myself in the mirror, "why the hell do we need a tour guide?"
When I got downstairs Sephiroth was still waiting for me to go outside. I smiled gently to myself about this. He lead the way towards a mansion, Zack joined up with us on the way their and the girl and the cameraman from yesterday was there.
As we walked to a stop Zack seemed surprised, "Tifa! You're our guide?" I gave Zack a look. He didn't seem to notice me give him a glance.
"At your service!" She looked to me with a wide grin, which I found to be an odd change of attitude for someone who seemed so upset yesterday. Maybe Zack cheered her up. I know he always does that for me.
"Uh, Evelia Reinhardt, SOLDIER 1st Class." I said gently.
"I know, you two are famous. Tifa Lockhart, pleasure." She was a nice girl and a small smile erupted on my face. She seemed to smile at me a few moments longer until the man far away from us spoke.
"Okay… Say Cheese!" I turned around quickly ending up on Tifa's left and Sephiroth's right. The three of us looked around awkwardly until Tifa tore off her hat calmly. Zack and I locked eyes before We turned with Grins on our faces. He crossed his arms and I took up one of the poses I used for the Midgar paparazzi and news.
It was similar to the one Zack made but my Legs were close to each with my right one behind the left so my feet made an "L". My arms were crossed under my bosom making them stand out more. My right shoulder was prompted up higher than my left and I tilted my head towards my right shoulder with a small smile. I saw the flash and immediately let the pose fade.
"Nobody is a better guide than me in this town." Tifa said as we headed for the mountain. She was going to lead us up to the Mako reactor. Zack instantly rejected the idea of her going somewhere dangerous. Sephiroth seemed to think if he protected her, that she'd be fine. I walked silently with my hands in my pocket casually. Zack instantly feeling the need to keep Tifa protected went into over drive knocking out monsters left and right.
I smiled gently at Zack's stupidity. It was obvious that as the tour guide she could probably handle herself best. I smiled wider when I thought about how much I still cared for Zack. Stupidity and all… Who could I trust more than the SOLDIER before me? I took a deep breath and walked around a knocked out monster tempted to poke it with a stick.
I glanced over at Sephiroth, he was like an older brother to me, and sometimes… he wasn't. He was almost always calm and composed, which makes me wonder how he doesn't get irritated in Midgar with everyone attacking him with Cameras. Thinking back on it now… Sephiroth didn't become particularly famous until the War with Wutai started up some years back. According to Sephiroth he's barely hit his mid twenties. I looked over at the SOLDIER. He always seemed older for some reason. Turns out he's barely ten years older than I am.
I snapped from my thoughts when a monster came flying towards me. Out of instinct I pulled Harpenger of my back in a forward slicing motion. I cut right through the monster and the two sides flung to either side of me. It was silent for a moment and I composed myself instantly, flinging the gunk off my sword and throwing it back onto my back. Then my eyebrows shot up, I coughed awkwardly and walked away. The group eventually followed. The walk up was long, and filled with little insights to the world, and all the things about it.
When we finally reached the reactor,I had to stop for a minute. I had never seen a reactor outside of midger before. It was huge, even from the outside. Staring at it now, I couldn't imagine what it was like on the inside. Sephiroth was the first up the stairs, then there was me. Zack had yet to walk up the stairs when Tifa called after us.
"I want to go inside and look, too!" Sephiroth turned around to face her, I spun my upper torso, my right foot on the step above my left. He shook his head of Silver hair, and the look on his face meant all business. It was hard to imagine him the way I knew him, looking at him now.
"This is a top-secret facility. Non-Shinra personnel are not permitted inside." Him and his BIG words. I thought to myself my face falling humorously.
"But..!" Tifa tried again...
Sephiroth interrupted her, "Keep the young lady safe." Cloud turned back to look at Tifa and Zack walked up, when she tried to follow, he stopped her successfully. I smirked to myself before flicking my hair away from my face and following Seph inside. I never took the time to examine other Mako reactors. It was a rather large reactor most likely because of all the space in the area.
It was a few minutes until we made it to the central part. The part we were there to investigate in the first place. Walking through the door from the bridge, the doors opened up to a room with a long set of stairs in the center, they led up to a green light, that had a name above it. Zack led the way up, and I followed in the back glancing at the pods that gave off blue lights. Zack walked all the way up the stairs, I followed after a glance to Sephiroth. Zack mumbled to himself as I stared at the name.
This is the name Sephiroth...I stared confused for a few minutes. How does this even make sense...? Zack turned to look at Sephiroth who had walked away rather casually, despite the mention of his supposed mother's name. He looked inside of a pod, and instantly I myself was Sephiroth was all business.
"This is the case of the malfunction. This section is broken. Zack, go seal the valve," after ordering Zack to seal the valved Sephiroth turned back to the pod talking more to himself than anyone. Zack walked away to do as he was told. I watched Sephiroth cautiously. Something seemed odd about him all of a sudden.
While Zack was Sephiroth managed to go through the rows and check each section, but he seemed to be doing something else as well. His walk was different and his hands clenched lightly at his side as he looked at each one.
What is he looking at? I climbed up the stairs to reach him and see if he was alright, but Zack managed to come back, curious as I was. Sephiroth noticed us and moved aside with a click of his shoes. Inside the pod was a blue monster,ugly in ways words cannot describe. I felt my heart shake from shock and Zack verbalized my thoughts.
"What is that?"
"You Average SOLDIER members are mako-infused humans. You're enhanced but you;re still human. But then what are those things? Their mako energy levels are exponentially higher than yours Zack." Sephiroth didn't seem to be talking to me. "Even you Evie, whose Mako levels are much higher than normal SOLDIER members, cannot compare to theirs."
"Are they...monsters?" asked Zack. Sephiroth walked away before answering. His shoulders giving away the fact he was thinking, and most likely not about good things. I bit my lip and my eyebrows furrowed with worry.
"Monster… what is the meaning of that word?" I whispered to no one. My thoughts ran a mess inside my head.
Angeal and Genesis always called themselves monsters, but Zack and I refused to listen. We knew in our hearts that they weren't. There were some enemies we fought were called monsters but those same monsters were also called fiends. So what does Monster mean? I thought about all this until a voice jolted me from my own thoughts.
"Yes. The Shinra scientist Hojo was the one who created them. Abominations spawned by mako energy... that's what monsters are."
Zack just had to push Seph, "You said "average" member. What about you?" Suddenly the Silver haired man shivered, and then twitched. His mind obviously going into overload as he grabbed his head and cringed away. Zack was pushed away when he went to help. We locked eyes and I jumped down from where I was to near him, concerned.
"Could it be… that I…was created the same way? Am I the same as these monsters?"
"People aren't created Sephiroth they're born. You would have looked like that if you were created!" He ignored me and continued, and in exchange I raised my voice by the end of my sentence
"I knew, ever since I was a child… I was not like the others. I knew mine was a special existence. But this… This is not what I meant. Am I... a human being?" Zack and I locked eyes in silent agreement.
"Of course you are!" I argued for his sake more than my own.
"No such luck." two voices responded to him. One was mine own; the other was a man we believed to be dead, Genesis. He continued after I finished. "You are a monster."
He, who excelled with Fire Materia, casted a shot at us; it took me a second to notice the fira headed towards me. Zack was taken down by the shot. He fell back with a cry. Sephiroth deflected the materia, and I managed to dodge it.
I stayed in kneeling position at the floor, ready for another fire materia attack, my jaw clenched roughly, grinding my teeth viciously.