AN: Wow! I just barely manged to get this chapter done and up on time. I got distracted by another story I'm working on, so sorry this chapter is not as long as I would have liked. It was either give you what I had or make you wait another three or four days. I decided to give it to you, aren't I nice? Anyway I would really appreciate a lot of feedback on this chapter espiesally so please, please review!
"Chocobo!" Zack's voice came out as more of a squeak, "I mean Cloud. He has orders to report to Sephiroth's office at the end of every week."
Angeal starred at Zack for only a moment, before all three men bolted for the door.
Rain starred into the green, cat like eyes, terrified at the bright glow she saw in them. It wasn't until she felt the door against her back that she realized she had been backing up and that Sephiroth had matched each of her steps, keeping the same distance between them.
"General, what are you doing?"
No answer. No reaction of any kind.
Every sense, every nerve told her to run. Those eyes they were so familiar, her mind was practically picturing the flames rising around him and the blood flowing as Masamune struck through flesh.
No, another part, the warrior part of her mind calmly deduced. He was had mako shots, remember what that does to a person.
She didn't know from personal experience. After all she had been born with the mako already in her body, but she did remember. Remembered, the screams as Cloud withering in pain, how he had attacked Zack, who had tried to hold him down, to keep him from hurting both himself and Zack.
Zack had held Cloud for hours, days at a time, trying to calm him, talk him through the pain he knew from years of experience. Zack had not always been successful as Cloud had gotten stronger. It was why they both had been eventually confined in the Mako tanks, to keep them from harming each other under the frequent mako treatments.
Mako heightened all the senses. Speed, strength, hearing everything that made SOLIDERS, but it also in the first couple of hours after injection heightened emotions, making them ten times stronger and the need to act upon them.
Knowing Sephiroth he always had them hidden under layers and layers of cold, emotionless responses and a heartless appearance. Emotions though kept hidden did not go away, and Rain knew from the past that those emotions were anger, hurt and immense pain. They had all fueled his desire to destroy the planet even more, when Jenova had taken over his mind. For it was with those emotions SHE had been able to so easily control him.
Another reason it was vital for her to get out of there. All those emotions led to violence, and as the past had proven there was nothing more frightening than a violent General, expect a violet Sephiroth with a momentary lapse of self control.
The results could, had been devastating, on more than just a personal level. He could easily take out the entire city.
Thankfully for her, he didn't look to have Masamune on hand, but that didn't mean anything. Heck, the man could rip her to pieces with his hands if he so choose!
She had to get out, but how? The door was locked, and seeing this was the General's office that would have more meaning then just a dead bolt on the door. What other escape did she have? Window! No, that is crazy they were on the 81st floor! Then again she had jumped from heights like that before, not with the best results, but it was possible. Boy, how she missed Cid in times like this. Despite his bad mouth and sour attitude, he always had a knack for catching her from high places, when she needed him.
No good wishing for things that you didn't have. Just do it!
With a sudden burst of speed she bolted from the door, dodging to the right past him and made a break for the window. She didn't even try to hold back. Even going her fastest there was a slim chance she would actually make it. They might both have enhanced speed, but Sephiroth had the longer legs and if evenly matched that is what it came down to.
She made it past him, obviously her action had surprised him, and made it half way across the office, before she felt a hand in her hair, yanking her back, into the General's muscular chest.
She cried out, grabbing at the fist tangled in her hair with both hands, trying to relive some of the tension. It felt like her hair was being ripped out of her scalp.
Rain then felt another arm snake around her waist pulling her even closer. She gasped when she felt lips on her neck. What was he doing!!! The mouth moved further down to the base of the neck and nipped at it almost playfully, before abruptly biting down hard, drawing blood. Rain jerked, letting out a strangled cry.
Blood! The smell wafted up through his nostrils into his brain, giving Sephiroth momentary pleasure.
"Yes, that's it." A soft voice crooned inside of him, urging the antics of his inner darker self. The part that was connected to her.
She had learned from past experience that this was the time he was most easily influenced. When his guard was down and his emotions ran wild, released from the tight prison he kept them in. If there was ever a chance to manipulate him, it was when the planet's force ran fresh through his veins, it heightened everything he tried to keep hidden.
His already confused and uncertain feelings about the cadet earned this delightful and surprising twist to his usually violet and murderous behaviour. Though the violence was still there, other emotions now coursed through him. Power! Need! Fury! The drive to take! To possess!
How delightful, she could use these feelings to her end. She briefly flashed a picture through him mind, and it eagerly accepted it, acting upon it.
Sephiroth suddenly pulled back and flung the cadet to the floor. He landed on his back hard and he lay there gasping for breath. Sephiroth didn't give him any time to recover, before appearing overtop of the cadet and crushed his lips against Strife's.
She laughed inwardly as the cadet's eyes widen and started thrashing widely. Her son however did not stand for any of it, he simply positioned his body overtop the cadet effectively pinning him with his weight, all the while never ceasing in his molesting of the cadet's lips.
Oh, if only he knew the truth about cadet! What fun he could have, but let him find out on his own.
She waited until just like the blood it ceased to satisfy him, then began to whisper to him. At first he flinched away like he always did when she spoke to him, naughty child. Then with his control momentary down and his desire for more growing, he headed her words.
"Press into the cadet's mind, my son! Find what you want! Take it!"
All SOLIDERS had a connection through the lifestream they had flowing through their veins. It was especially strong after a mako treatment, but the connection between these two was extremely strong, due to the cells they both shared. Her cells! It would allow him not just access to the cadet's mind, but lead him down paths previous barred to him.
Jenova felt Sephiroth easily slip into the child's mind and was rewarded to hear the cadet scream past the lips that covered them, at the intrusion.
She smiled, letting her conscious just brush the resisting mind, letting her words sink in. "You have treated your mother shamefully. You must be punished, my daughter."
Being slammed onto her back into the floor didn't surprise Rain. If anything she expected it and vaguely searched her mind for anything that could be used as a weapon, though she knew it would be hopeless.
What did surprise her was instead of feeling a blinding pain, she suddenly felt cold, soft lips close over hers and her eyes went wide. All she saw was silver as his hair flowed over both them, then her body started to thrash widely in panic, though her mind was in a completely different state. It was clam and thoughtful. Her first thought strange enough was that he kissed just like he fought, hard and fierce without hope for his opponent to gain the advantage unless he wished it.
Then with horror realized part of her was actually enjoying this! She was after all not blind and despite appearance she was female. She would have to be blind not to notice how attractive and appealing the General was. She just had the added guard of knowing what he was capable of becoming that kept her from being one of those adoring females and would kill to be in her position right now, trapped beneath the object of their adoration. Only this wasn't the General of their poster or television ads. This was what made the man Sephiroth into the worlds most powerful SOLIDER. The side Shinra kept hidden from the people.
The fierce attack on her lips slowly stilled though he did not remove them. She was just beginning to think that he was slowly moving back to his senses, when a foreign mind suddenly ripped through her mind shattering whatever barrier was in place.
She screamed past the lips and turning her head to the side, trying to get away from the mind that seemed to rip through hers with the ease of ripping paper.
Sephiroth shifted his position so he now had both hands on either side of her head holding her in place with a crushing grip.
She screamed again though it made only a muffled sound. It was happening again! That familiar, painful sensation Cloud had experienced whenever Sephiroth had probed his mind and taken control. Rain knew it was only a matter of time before he had control, and everything would be revealed. It was in that moment that a new alien presence filled her consciousness, alien even to Sephiroth's distinct mind.
"You have treated your mother shamefully. You must be punished, my daughter."
Jenova!
Rain felt a sneer cross her lips, even through the icy fear that spread through her like ice material.
Slowly through the foggy reassesses of her mind, the blue haired woman materialized, Sephiroth motionless behind her.
"You didn't actually think you had destroyed me, did you?"
The woman gradually almost leisurely moved forward, "My cells flow through your blood as it does my son." She motioned to Sephiroth, "As long as they do, I will always live on."
The woman suddenly stopped as if hitting a wall, her expression one of pure fury.
"Having a problem Jenova?" Rain mocked.
The creature's head snapped up to glare at Rain.
"You do not have enough cells for a reunion. You do not have control. You might be able to whisper in his mind, but you are not strong enough to do anything else. As soon as Sephiroth's body absorbs the mako your voice will once again be pushed back into the reassesses of his mind."
Jenova screamed and lunged at her, but was flung back by an unseen force.
"You have no control here Jenova. There will be no reunion, not today."
"This is not over!" Jenova raged.
"No, it is not." Rain agreed, "It is far from over."
The woman and Sephiroth disappeared and Rain returned with a start to reality. She felt Sephiroth's mind slowly receded from hers.
Jenova might be gone, but that did not mean the General was, nor was he was in control of himself. She could still feel his pressing weight overtop of her.
She took advantage of his momentary confusion brought on my Jenova's sudden absence and wrenched one of her arms free and for the second time she swung out at the General's face. Putting all the strength in her behind that punch, which was a lot and caused even the mighty General's head to snap to the side. At the same time she brought her shoulder up against him with the swing of his head, throwing his weight slightly to one side. It wasn't much, but enough to let her slip out.
Jumping to her feet, she vaguely heard a pounding behind her along with voices, but her adrenaline was racing to fast for her to take notice. Her only thought was that window and to get out.
Sprinting for it she reached it just as she heard a thundering crash behind her. It was quickly masked by the sound of shattering glass and then she was in the air, falling 80 stories to the ground below.
Zack was pounding on the door by the time Angeal and Genesis came up behind him. The puppy could really move when he wanted to. Zack turned his face frantic.
"It's bolted!"
There could all hear sounds inside though it was impossible to tell from what and Zack was slightly scared to open the door and see just what Sephiroth had done to the Chocobo.
There was a sharp hiss and both Angeal and Zack turned to see Genesis draw Rapier, the long blood red blade a fearsome sight to see. Genesis, of course, never did just pull out a blade. It always had to have grace and drama to every movement.
"Step aside!" He told Zack right before slashing down in two elegant arches, then blasting the severed in with a release of fire material. Never let it be said Genesis simply walked through a door without a grand entrance.
The sight that greeted them was both shocking and relieving. Sephiroth was on the ground looking slightly confused and stunned and the cadet was up and running. Not toward the door like one would expect. Where was he going?
They got their answer as Strife launched himself through the window, shielding his head as glass shattered everywhere.
Surprisingly it was Genesis that reacted first dashing across the room.
Angeal just heard him growl, "Oh, no you don't kid." Before the red haired man leaped out the window after the cadet.
Sephiroth who was on the ground suddenly roared in rage and was abruptly on his feet. A long, beautiful white wing suddenly unfurling from his back, his intention clear.
"Zack grab him!"Angeal yelled.
Zack was already on it and had flung himself at his friend, bringing both of them to the floor, where Angeal helped to Sephiroth down.
They were only just barley succeeding and Angeal thought. Genesis, you better get the kid and then get him far away from here!
AN: So that is it for right now, hope you all enjoyed it. Please, please review!