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Amarant: 'He who hesitates is lost.' You should remember that.' Zidane: 'Yeah? Well, I prefer 'my way or the highway.' '.: There's a race against Hippaul on Disc 3, when you revisit Alexandria as Vivi. It's another one where you mash Square and Circle to run.
It's completely unnecessary, though participating in it will trigger an extra Mognet letter (describing an 'amazing sprinter'), and if you win 80 times or more, the letter will name Vivi as the 'amazing sprinter' (otherwise it will say the sprinter's name is Hippaul).: Freya's Jump when used in Trance.: A variation on one of these: Eiko's Fairy Flute can stolen from Hilgigars on disk 2, a full disk before it becomes available in a Mogshop. Not hard - equip Bandit and spend a few turns trying to steal it, right? It is quite the hardest item to steal in the entire game, and Hilgigars isn't an easy boss, either. Most walkthroughs advise just giving up on the Fairy Flute and buying it later. Not necessarily a random drop, but the difficulty and time required in getting the item definitely qualifies.: normal attack does random damage which is either pathetic or higher than any other physical attacker. This makes him/her a capable (if unreliable) Fighter-type character, but his/her specialty is Blue Magic anyway.: Princess Garnet has hair that reaches her butt until she cuts it, and it also has very rapid growth as it grows back to that full length in presumably half a year (though this could be attributed to the devs not bothering to make yet another model for the ending scenes and her hair growning back would be a good indicator that time had passed).: The Burmecian and Cleyran races, to which your dragoon Freya belongs, are anthropomorphic rats.
They avoid, instead being portrayed as a peaceful and civilized race.: Garnet 'Dagger' Til Alexandros XVII. She has light skin and black hair, and is to be a refined and beautiful princess.: Zidane actually gets a couple of these when in Terra.: Dagger is a borderline member — she has a much calmer, shyer personality than most, but she's still a Rebellious Princess. Lecture me again when you are on the verge of death!.: The game averts this with two of the mini-games, as they are required to play in order to advance the story.: The game centralizes this with Vivi. After learning that he's going to die at an early age, Vivi doesn't let it get him down. He still chooses to keep going, because he has friends who need him and care about him.: The series of events surrounding Garnet, Steiner and Marcus run in parallel to during late Disc One/early Disc 2. They finally converge when Garnet and Steiner return to Alexandria willingly.
But are taken prisoner anyway, Cleyra is destroyed by Brahne, and Zidane and co. Use a teleport device to return to Alexandria and rescue Garnet. This has the interesting effect of making the transcend not only space, but time too, as any items you collect as one party are still present in the other party's inventory, even if you pick up their story at an earlier point in time.: Zorn and Thorn. They habitually repeat what the other says (i.e. 'what the other says they habitually repeat'), and their boss reveals they aren't even really two beings just before they merge into a single two-headed body for their final boss fight.: The Odin summon and Steiner's Iai Strike.: Ozma.:, KUJA.
So much so he's the page image on! Taken in, where his main form of offense is slapping people in the face with giant balls.:. Ark, whose attack animation shows it creating a crater that appears to be at least a mile in diameter, deals damage approximately equal to Zidane's Ultima Weapon blade. Nearly every summon in that game is a city-destroying weapon. This is either subverted or reaches its peak when cutscene Bahamut only gives a bloody scratch to Kuja. The second-to-last boss the same spell you barely survived the last time it was used.:.
All of the characters' classes are highly integrated into the plot. Vivi's ability to shoot stuff with fireballs with black magic becomes very important, the hidden Summons inside Garnet are a unto themselves, and Freya, a dragoon, is able to leap to the tops of roofs effortlessly in cutscenes as easily as she can leap into the sky to use her 'Jump' ability.
Sometimes even their personality traits become gameplay mechanics; Zidane, the, has a 'Protect Girls' skill that lets him jump in front of a female party member to protect her. In at least two battles (one of which is mentioned below) the boss is coded to only target specific party members: Your three aside from Dagger in the fight with Black Waltz Number 2 (to the point were he'll cast AOE spells that in every other circumstance would hit all your party members only on those three), and Dagger specifically in a battle with the bounty hunter Lani. We almost flat like pancake!.: Averted when Zidane rescues Princess Garnet from the crumbling castle. She hugs him very warmly, but never actually kisses him.: is a genuine threat—but not only is he obscenely arrogant and cruel, he's ultimately unable to overcome his fear of death. Essentially, he has the mind and air of a wicked genius, but the temperament and personality of a frightened, spoiled child. This mainly shows up in the latter half of the game. It's played in.: Yan's Snort ability.: Steiner's consumed something that he initially found disgusting on two occasions — they both paid off.
Quina's animations are also in a constant state of the 'Sniff Sniff' half of this trope.: While inside of Ipsen's Castle, the lower a weapon's attack power, the more damage it does.: '.: There's one as well, though this one is different from all the others in that she's much younger. Eiko, roughly six years old, plays this role.
She's encountered in Madain Sari, and is the (aside from Garnet), living alone except with the moogles, which can be counted as her. She helps the group get into the and is one of the few examples on this page who abandons solitude and joins the party.: The game did this every ten minutes. At least you get the gear back when the party members return, but that's small comfort when the fancy new super gear you blew all your cash on wanders off before you can use it.
However, the effect means that even when two of your party members decide to split off from the main group, they can use items in the shared inventory and even buy items for the other party members (who are now halfway across the continent) to equip later. The are an exception, however. You can remove Beatrix's armor when she fights alongside Steiner in Disk 3 (although there's no real reason, considering that you'll be able to buy it soon enough anyway), but when Marcus leaves the party after you escape from the Alexandria dungeon in Disk 2, his equipment is gone for good. This is particularly bad if he's got a Mythril Sword equipped, since you need that blade to be able to synthesize some of the very best armor in the game. The Mythril Sword loss is only a problem if the player doesn't think to visit Esto Gaza before going to the Desert Palace. However, you can give Beatrix one of the summoning items and cause it to be.: Zidane reaches for a rung in a ladder the group is rushing up. Garnet is up ahead, and when he grasps something that isn't a rung.
Steiner: Have you seen a young girl around?Four-Armed Man: What? I haven't seen any beautiful girl with long black hair.Steiner: What did you say?!Four-Armed Man: N-Nothing! And I certainly didn't take any money from her!.: First there was a healing spring before the first boss battle in the Evil Forest.
Later, right before the first Black Waltz, there's a split path. On the left is a Moogle, which can save and heal you, and on the right is the cutscene for the boss. The problem is this: you need Vivi to free the Moogle from the block of Ice it's trapped in, but if you went right and then went back, Zidane's alone and Vivi can't help him. It doesn't help that the boss has to be fought with just Zidane, so if you went right first, Good Luck!.: 'The crystal comes back.' .: Early on Blank is turned into stone to protect the heroes from the Evil Forest. He is eventually cured much later in the game. The series' classic Petrify status condition also returns.
Also inverted as mentioned in the above entry. Stone enemies will die if they are hit with a Soft, reverting them from the 'granite' form that they need to live.: The upbeat, optimistic, and very much non-angsty Zidane, male lead, delivers an affectionate barb to his predecessors. 'No, no shall hinder us!' .: Although not a very notable example, there is a scene where the main party has to chase Beatrix who is, long story short, an enemy. She leaves the room and you have to go after her.
But, not only can you take as long as you want talking to everybody, you can actually talk to the Moogle in the room to spend the night in a Tent. And when you leave the room, you'll still catch up with her right in front of the building. It's like a video game version of The Tortoise and the Hare.: has the Protect Girls ability, which, as the name implies, is a variant of Cover that only protects female characters.: When you win the battle against Kuja he casts Ultima to kill off your party, but that leaves him drained off and almost dead — something he probably knows. He didn't succeed, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
Kuja's ultimate motivation is that, having discovered that his lifespan is limited and he's going to die soon, he decides to take two whole worlds with him and erase all of existence if he can last long enough.: Princess Garnet Til Alexandros IX, a white mage princess and summoner, traveling with Zidane, a regular teenage thief. He turns out to be an alien. She trained to be able to escape her castle, and is determined to fix things diplomatically on her own, but for the most part Garnet just makes things worse by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Zidane ends up cleaning after her messes every time.
Garnet has talents, she just really sucks at using them.: If you examine the Moogle's Flute key item (allows you to summon a save moogle on the world map) in the menu, you get a quotation from a character just like any other key item. In this case, the quotation is from lead thief of Tantalus, Baku, and reads 'Hey, let me touch that red.bonbon-lookin' thing on your head. =Baku sleeptalking=.: Zidane's plot-centric trance during the first miniboss in Evil Forest. Averted in one. In order to get the you have to make it to a certain area near the end of the game before someone else does.
If they reach it first, all you find is a note about the sword. The time limit for reaching it? Seems normal, right? Except that it's 12 hours of play time, the area is near the END of the game, and the timer starts from the moment you hit New Game, including every single conversation, battle, and yes, cutscene you've ever seen. You have to pull a to get the sword. This can be mitigated by the fact that FMVs are skipped if you open the console's disc cover, but this is impossible if playing a digital version of the game, such as the one available for download on the. The only saving grace is that you can pause at pretty much any time except when an FMV is running and, unlike some Final Fantasy titles, pausing the game will stop the clock.: In the final dungeon, you can talk to thin air in certain spots to reveal 'spirits' to play Tetra Master with.: Princess Garnet spiked a banquet with sleeping potion in order to knock Zidane, Vivi, Freya and Cid unconscious so they wouldn't try to stop her and Steiner from.: Strangely, this is used a quarter way to halfway through the game when a certain character joins the party as a.
All of her sword skills and white magic are extremely powerful and you can learn every single one of them for your main party, but you won't get the gear that teaches such abilities until at least at the end of disc 2 and later. The character's abilities are there as a crutch to help Freya and Steiner level up since they had been falling behind due to the plot taking them out of the player's control.: Should you choose to recruit Quina on the first disc, you can do so by giving Quina its favorite food: frog.: Quina Quen is an apprentice chef who at one point helps Eiko prepare a feast for the team.: This is a bit of a theme of the game. Zidane says that he and Dagger are more than, they're a team, and later he and Amarant have a discussion about what being part of a team means. One of the game's Active Time Events is even called 'Team.' .: Garnet in the ending, upon being reunited with Zidane, who she believed to be dead for a year.
Combined with and too.: We have.: AP is used to learn skills and abilities. This game deployed perhaps the most complicated twist of any of them. Each character has various passive skills that can only be equipped permanently once mastered via TP accrual. Of course, once learned, they still have to be equipped, using a third set of points that provides a on the number of skills you can use at one time.: Black Waltz No. 2 when it approaches the party.: Ipsen's Castle fits. It's never directly referred to as a 'temple', but it serves similar purposes and has traps galore.: A fairly spectacular example in Cleyra, a protected by a magical sandstorm: 'No enemy would dare attack us when we strengthen the storm!' 'I think strengthening the storm would be good for me.'
'Strengthening the storm is the best thing you can do right now!' They fail to strengthen the storm. Even worse, the attempt causes the enchantment to break, resulting in there being no storm to protect them.: The Iifa Tree and the Mist are a mild example, because the heroes find an alternative energy source.: Kuja refers to Garnet as 'my canary'.: Female Moogles are pinkish and wear pink halter tops. Except for Eiko's personal Moogle.: Kuja, who decides to destroy all of reality after he finds out he was created with an expiration date.:. The Queen in Treno goes by Stella, but there's also a Bishop (who owns the synthesis shop and the tower Dr Tot lives in), a Knight (who owns the weapons shop and the creatures in the basement), and a King (who's really the main villain, Kuja).
The first and last women in Zidane's life are named Ruby and Garnet.: The game's end theme, 'Melodies of Life,' is also important in-game. Zidane first hears Garnet/Dagger singing it on 'la' in Dali and later in Lindblum. He asks her what it is and she admits that she doesn't know, and can't even remember where she learned it, but singing it comforts her when she feels sad or lonely. Zidane says that it must be a mystical song. He later hears her singing it in Dali and when she stops, he tells her that it's okay for her to keep singing 'Cause it's our song, right?' As they float out to sea on a boat, they hear the song coming from the Wall and hearing it causes Garnet/Dagger to have a flashback and remember some of the details of her early childhood.
Finally, at the end of the game, everyone believes Zidane to be dead, but he comes back. Garnet/Dagger asks him how he survived and he explains 'I didn't have a choice. I had to live. I wanted to come home to you. I sang your song.
The game ends and the full vocal version of the song plays during the credits.: According to Quina, there are only two things in this world: Things you can eat, and things you no can eat.: 'Dagger' is Princess Garnet's alias, though it's weapon rather than her own.: The game has one of the best non-vocal moments ever. Just two (glowing) eyes conveys Black Waltz's realisation that lightning magic+wooden airship=loss of control+mid-air explosion. You get a single shot of his eyes just as he works this out. It's.: Vivi's Doomsday spell, the ultimate black magic that causes shadow damage to all enemies and all allies at once, making it very likely to cause a. There's equipment that can nullify or absorb shadow damage, but they quickly get outclassed by better gear later on and there's no random encounter or boss encounter where shadow damage even happens.
On top of this, you can cause just as much damage to enemies with Flare or abusing the and spending less MP to boot. The, Ozma, has Doomsday in its arsenal and it will cast it while disregarding its own safety. Remember the equipment that could protect you from shadow damage? They're quite useful here.
Though one has to be mindful of its. Ozma will know if your entire party absorbs the Shadow element and, if so, will simply refuse to use the Doomsday spell. Best to have at least one character simply nullify the element, rather than absorbing it.: Zorn and Thorn certainly count. As a bonus, they're also.: Marcus, Cinna and Blank.: Burmecia and Cleyra.: Not just swords, but also staves, rackets, flutes, and forks! Freya also throws her spear during her Jump attack.: Steiner, (and also ) spends a good portion of the game as the to as well as a. He also manages to hook up with his long-time rival in the end (it turned out that she had a crush on him, and then it might actually be mutual).
Still feel sorry for the guy?.: Garland is at the very least 5000 years old, having started the process of assimilating the player's world of Gaia with his world of Terra long ago, through a ridiculously complex procedure too nonsensical to fully explain here, but it's never stated how long he lived before that, or even how long it took him to set up the many things that exist on Gaia that he's used for his work. Ancient structures he built on Gaia can be explored as dungeons filled with. He's watched the growth of all the major civilizations on the planet. For example, he built the massive Iifa Tree and is responsible for the natural phenomenon called 'Mist'.
Given that Mist is the substance upon which the thrives, it's pretty clear that Garland has been around and working for a very long time.:. Chocobo's Hot & Cold. Plot-related examples are the return to Alexandria from Cleyra, and Cid's role in the Desert Palace.: One guy you can talk to asks you if the engine for an airship should go in the front or the back. If you reply that it should go in the front, he throws a fit and says that it should go in the back, because 'putting it in the front provides more stability, but less power!'
This is by another guy standing next to him, who sagely points out that most airship engineers are weird, and wonders why that is.: This was the first installment to show the name of areas when you first enter.: Steiner and Beatrix both have to deal with this when they turn against Queen Brahne after they realize her lust for power has driven her mad. Steiner in particular is extremely conflicted about this. It takes Steiner much longer to realize the truth compared to Beatrix and it isn't until Steiner actually witnesses Brahne's lackeys, Zorn and Thorn, rip Garnet's out of her soul and learning that Brahne wanted Garnet dead and had her soldiers attack Beatrix (someone he had feelings for) for her betrayal that Steiner finally decides to go against the Queen and fight to protect the people he cares about.: Possibly the case. Zidane is a genome, Vivi is a Black Mage, an artificial life form, Garnet is a Summoner, Freya is a Burmecian, Quina is a Qu, and Eiko is a Summoner. Amarant is never said to be non-human, but he has blue skin and rather strange hair, and there are plenty of unnamed but clearly non-human races around in world in the form of NPCs.
It's possible that Steiner is the only outright human in the group.: Eiko (back to form: she's 6).: Nearly note or over, for strict enough definitions of 'human' half the party, making them not really 'token' at all. The other include a tailed Genome (Zidane), human-like summoners note Born with horns in their heads, though Garnet's was surgically removed (Garnet & Eiko), a Black Mage note Which, in this setting, are basically living dolls (Vivi), a Burmecian (Freya), a Qu (Quina) and a blue-skinned man who might be human (Amarant).: eidolon summoner Eiko and Freya. Garnet/Dagger plays with the two types. She's an elegant princess and white mage, but is also an eidolon summoner and shows tomboy traits when trying to blend in as a commoner. At one point, a villager sees her picking up an oglop bug and tells her that girls are usually afraid of them, so she pretends to freak out over it.: Presumably the book that contains Tantarian.: Zidane is actually Garland's 'Angel of Death' originally sent to destroy Gaia.: Elixirs and Dark Matter. The Dark Matter item.
Unstoppable 9,999 damage for zero MP cost, and there are only three in the game. Smart players, on the other hand, will keep it around just long enough so their summoners can learn Odin off it, and then use it on a boss.: When Eiko's personal Moogle becomes the whole-planets-squeezing Madeen.: Adelbert Steiner starts out as the most reluctant member of the party, only going along to protect Princess Garnet. He has a big grudge against Zidane for 'kidnapping' her (it's complicated) and for being a no-good scoundrel, but he eventually realizes that Zidane is actually a good person.: Beatrix's special skill menu named 'Seiken' ('Holy Sword'), despite her being a knight from.: Non-antagonist example: This is approximately what happens when the player tries to use Quina's ability on a not-yet-properly-beaten enemy note To 'Eat', the enemy has to be at 1/4 or less of its Max HP but not completely dead; for 'Cook' (the version of Eat), it has to be at 1/2 or less. So here we have the animation of Quina eagerly waltzing way forward brandishing a fork in his/her attempt to 'eat' the enemy, only to claim 'I no can eat until it weaker!'
A few seconds later. Some enemies such as bosses and humanoids can't be eaten at all; trying this gives a slightly different message: 'I no can eat!' After trying, regardless of the target's HP level.:. It's possible to do this to yourself. Doomsday casts Shadow damage on everything on the field, both your party and the enemies, and being the most powerful spell in your arsenal, it's more than capable of wiping out your entire party along with the enemies.
There are two ways around this: you can either merge the attack with Steiner's sword to focus it on a single enemy, or you can equip gear that will negate or darkness spells to each of your party members. And then there is. If you're unlucky enough, Ozma may cast Meteor at the beginning of the battle, and it will kill your entire party before your first turn.
Similarly, climbing up the vines within Gizamaluke's Grotto leads you to a part of the world map that contain monsters that are at least 50 levels above your party's levels and you won't actually see them on a regular basis until disc 3 or 4. You face off against dragons that can cast Thundaga on your party and wipe them out in one shot or cause the Venom status that immobilizes the victim and has their HP and MP slowly drain. The other kind of monster in the area are large birds that can cast Firaga and Stop on your party. You're given a fair warning by a Moogle in the previous area to not climb up, so continuing anyway puts the blame on you.: There are two disguised as these. First, the Festival of the Hunt in Lindblum, where monsters are let loose on the streets; whoever kills the most wins. A fun competition in between the tense action leaving Dali and the onset of after leaving Lindblum for Burmecia, and an opportunity to receive a prize of your choice (win as Zidane for money, let Freya win for a useful Accessory, or go out of your way to get Vivi to win for a Tetra Master card).
The second is at the beginning of Disc 3;, your whole party (sans Steiner and Dagger - who have to deal with Alexandria in the wake of Brahne's death) takes a vacation in Treno, with Zidane partaking in a card-game tournament against players from all over the continent. Once again, winning nets you a useful accessory: the.: The game gives us the Burmecian dragon knight Freya (butch), Garnet (femme) and Eiko (neither).: The village of Dali, which has a Black Mage factory underground.:. Moogles are kupo for Kupo Nuts.
All Qu love frogs. Steiner acquires quite a taste for gysahl pickles.: The BSOD undertaken by the main antagonist by setting fire to an entire planet is done with just the hint of a serene smile on his face. Although it may be more properly described as.: Ark when summoned.: These start to appear in Ipsen's Castle.: The 'Chocobo's Air Garden' will hover over one of six random locations on the world map. Once you've been there, it's current location can be found on the player's map, but before that it's identifiable by the circular shadow on the ground beneath it (hard to spot if it's over water). Zidane's Curse (or, Dirty Pair Rule): An unlucky condition in which every major city in the game will coincidentally wind up being destroyed just after the hero arrives.: An inversion: neither Terra nor Memoria are accessible by foot.: All the characters gather round a table for a meeting.
Except Amarant, who leans against the wall with his arms folded.: From halfway through Disc One until the end of Disc Two is a long one, showing Brahne's bid for power - even going as far as to do it. She actually makes good progress on her goal of owning the entire Mist Continent -.: To prevent Princess Garnet from experiencing this is exactly why Steiner doesn't want her to get involved with investigating whether Queen Brahne was responsible for an attack on Burmecia. Steiner: War is a terrible thing! You must never experience it like I have.: Actually, you get to watch pretty much every city you come to burn.
Several of these where summons are used as weapons of mass destruction. You are generally treated to the complete destruction, or at the very least decimation, of every single town or settlement, and in one case an entire planet, that you visit. Dagger's first hometown, the Village of the Summoners, gets from before the game starts.
Freya's hometown of Burmecia is a charred ruin by the time you arrive, and Cleyra and its population get hit with, whose attack sequence plays out like an atom bomb. Lindblum is treated to a dual attack by Brahne's black mages and the summoned. In a serious, Alexandria is ravaged by Bahamut, becomes a battleground between it and Alexander, before being carpet-bombed by Garland-. Finally, Terra is treated to multiple via Kuja.: Ark's second attack and the eye of the Invincible.: Alexandrian Castle.: The game allows characters to equip various 'killer' abilities (e.g. Demon Killer, Bird Killer) that cause whatever weapon they have to deal bonus damage.
Strangely enough, the aforementioned 'Bird Killer' isn't specifically for birds. It's for any airborne enemy. The description says 'flying enemies', but even the Ozma, a giant sphere with no defining features, is weak to 'Bird Killer'.: Zidane does this for his victory animation when he's equipped with the double-edged 'thief swords'. Freya does this when getting into her 'Ready' animation after an attack is chosen.: Sadly subverted, where Black Mages seem to have much shorter lifespans than regular humans. Played straight in the case Garland, however, though it's not clear to what extent his lifespan mirrors that of regular Terrans, or if he's simply an ageless automaton (given that he was 'created' by them). See.: The game has this trope in the beginning of disc 1. Vivi, and then Garnet are captured by a plant monster and the monster gradually sucks up their HP.
Vivi can cast Fire on the monster on his own while Garnet is helpless. Should either character have their HP be reduced to 0,.: This is Zidane's response when the Earth Guardian tells him that it's futile for the split group to try conquering all four of the elemental shrines at once.: The game features a Zodiac-themed, which involves collecting Stellazzio coins for the amusement of Queen Stella. Collect all twelve and the engravings on them form a love story about who captured the heart of Virgo; suggest the existence of a 13th coin (Ophiuchus) and you'll be tasked with following the clues on each coin (a series of directions) to conclude the story. They point to the location of one of the previous coins, where the Ophiuchus is found with the final engraving. 'Their future was uncertain, but Scorpio and Virgo kissed in the light of dusk.
That moment meant everything.' .: The entire portion spanning Gizamaluke's Grotto to the end of the current disc. This marks the first time the effects of the war are shown in detail, with the Burmecians being slaughtered by the Black Mage assault. The final scene in the disc is also the first glimpse you get of the true antagonist, and it ends with the party nearly getting killed by Beatrix.
It really shows you exactly what kind of game you're going to be in for, despite everything beforehand. To compare, before all of this, the game has an overall light-hearted tone (especially given the art style), with a definite nostalgic overlay.
Aside from the occasional glimpse here and there, it appears to be fairly standard fantasy JRPG fare. Then it takes a sharp left to.: Two, both from Garland:.
'Twelve years ago, I lost one of my most prized Genomes. I created him and sent him to Gaia to disrupt the cycle of souls there. You are that Genome.' . 'I constructed the Genomes to be vessels for the souls of Terra when they awaken. But 24 years ago, I gave life to a Genome that was very much like you. His will was too strong to make him into a proper vessel, and I even considered discarding him.
But then I thought that I should put his strength to use. I sent that Genome as my servant, to disrupt the cycle of souls on Gaia. The one I sent to Gaia might also be called your brother.and his name is Kuja.'
.:. About the time Cleyra gets demolished, pretty much the entire sidestory involving Freya, Fratley, and their entire species gets dropped (apart from a couple who show up in Lindblum during Disc 3 if you saved them earlier in the game and an ATE showing the reconstruction of Burmecia, which Freya states that she'll help with after defeating Kuja).
Bonus points for them being a literal rodent race. Also happens halfway through the game when you lose half of your party (Freya included). They rejoin you without ever mentioning what they'd been up to. Also, a very well hidden quest reveals Garnet's childhood name, to the amazement of the cast. And then it's never mentioned again.: Along with mortality, one of the main themes of the story.
Is Queen Brahne 'evil' or simply misguided?. Are Zidane and Tantalus 'evil' simply for being thieves, or are they heroic rebels?.
Is Beatrix 'evil' for helping Brahne commit the worst of her atrocities, or is she just a loyal subject attempting to serve her queen in the only way she knows how?. Is Kuja evil?
He considers himself a, and delights in mischief, deceit, and death, as well as possessing an attitude that borders on sociopathy. However, he is, he has a very understandable, he winds up switching his views right before his death, and in the end, Mikoto acknowledges that while what he did was far from right, it still demonstrated that the Genomes could be more than their intended purpose.
Is Garland evil? Not only is he responsible for Kuja's, he also gave Kuja the job of bringing war to Gaia in the first place, comitted genocide on the summoners for posing a threat to his plans, countered Kuja's attempt at claiming Alexander by carpet-bombing Alexandria (killing hundreds, if not thousands of people in the process), and his ultimate plan involves the assimilation of Gaia and the death of its people. However, this is all in the cause of allowing the Terrans to be reborn; literally everything Garland does is to accomplish this goal - to the point that Zidane notices that he doesn't seem to have any other goal or aspirations in life. (In fact, Garland explicitly states that this was the reason why he was created.) Finally, following his defeat, he helps Zidane stop Kuja from destroying the Crystal, ultimately saving Gaia in the process.: Two of the sentient Black Mages experience this with a Chocobo egg that they find and incubate within the village.
When a healthy young Chocobo eventually hatches from the egg, its dedicated caretakers are of course excited about the new arrival. Unfortunately, they can't quite understand why should be coming from their eyes — unaware that they are experiencing overwhelming joy for the first time.: with the Black Mages. Ironically, Black Waltz No. 3 holds this attitude towards them.
When Vivi and Steiner angrily confront him for callously slaughtering a group of Black Mages trying to protect Vivi, he brushes it off, claiming many more will be produced anyway.: When looking for Dagger, Zidane asks a moggle if he had seen a 'cute' girl. The moggle says he hadn't, but did see an 'ugly' girl pass by not to long ago. A short time later, it was revealed to be Dagger after all. The game has both fuzzy doll-like black mages, and the rat-like Burmecians and Cleyrans plus a plethora of bit player species whom you don't interact with much.:. The game has fun with this one when Zidane is going over the plan to kidnap Queen Brahne Princess Garnet with the other thieves. Their boss will ask you to confirm their target, and if you pick the wrong reply, he gets cross and asks the question again.
Choose the wrong answer enough times (64!), and Ruby will actually come into the room and tell Zidane to. Calling the save moogle and canceling repeatedly will also cause him to give increasingly annoyed messages, eventually causing him to tell you that 'I'm sharpening my knife, kupo' before he finally starts yelling 'STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT!
At you.: It's always raining heavily in and around Burmecia. Initially this seems to be for dramatic effect, but you'll find it's still raining like crazy there long after the plot has forgotten it.: Soulcage and Stroper. The living avatar of the Iifa Tree, Soulcage, is a particularly nasty boss, too.
Those who try to attempt the logically obvious ' will be unpleasantly surprised.: The game shows some animations of the principle players and their fates some time after the game as Queen Garnet recalls Zidane's sacrifice. Later, Garnet attends a play given by the Tantalus players, one of whom removes his hood at the climax of the drama revealing himself to be Zidane. The ending scene shows other characters in its epilogue: Steiner and Beatrix are now Alexandrian nobles, Eiko is adopted by Cid and Hilda, Amarant returns to his adventuring days along with Lani, Quina keeps being a Chef, Freya and Fratley fall in love all over again, and Vivi dies, but not before leaving a load of clones around.: Kuja, who is.
He's referred to several times in-game as a ', which is a rather mild description for someone who ◊. He even has a matching silver dragon.: The game had Garnet dress as a White Mage, and this was her primary use for the first part of the game.
Once she gets her summons back, however, she's more of a. Is introduced immediately after as the party's white magic specialist.: Garnet/Dagger uses magical 'rackets' as well as staves. She fit this trope to a T until she starts getting her summons back, at which point she shifts to a more offensive-oriented character. Interestingly, this change is also marked by.
Despite her superior, Eiko is absolutely not a White Magician Girl. She's aggressive, tomboyish, and her flirting is as cheesy and annoying as Zidane's note In fact, it convinced Zidane to go easier on Dagger in the future.:. Steiner is terrified by oglops, which are squishy but otherwise harmless insects. So is Blank, though not to the same degree (he says he 'can't stand them', but is able to put up with them for the sake of the plan to kidnap the princess). Though when Blank's armour breaks and the oglops are released, both Steiner and Blank begin running around in a panic. Garnet/Dagger later fakes a fear of oglops in order to make her 'ordinary girl' act more convincing.
As part of its many to earlier games, Vivi Orunitia, just like Bartz, has a fear of heights stemming from falling from a great height when he was young (specifically falling out of the cargo ship.).: Kuja, as evidenced by his ridiculously luxurious desert mansion decorated with pristine statuary and wall-to-wall stained-glass windows. He's also got extensive knowledge of theater, particularly.: 'I Want to Be Your Canary' is an obvious parallel to. Asus keyboard backlight timeout. The play is credited to a Lord Avon, as in Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. Also, one of the minor characters in the game is named Puck.
Additionally, in the original Japanese, the king, played by Baku, was named King Lear.: The Black Waltzes that the Queen sends after Garnet have navy blue-feathered wings, matching their cloaks. The child Eiko wears a pair of tiny, decorative wings on her back, which are actually a hindrance due to the villains' fondness for catching her by them. Then, in possibly the strangest occurrence of the trope, the gigantic living castle, grows shining white wings that it uses to defend Alexandria from Bahamut's attack; quite horrifically, Garland's fatal attack on Alexander causes the wings to rot.).: The Black Mages were manufactured in Alexandria as weapons, and are said many times to look just like humans, though we never actually get to see one's face.: A variation. Much of the story is about the characters' finding their purpose or reason for fighting. At the end of the game, a sees your entire party defeated just as the reveals itself.
Whichever four party members are inactive share their reason for fighting or the meaning they have found in their journey together, each reviving one of the active party members for the boss fight that immediately follows.: Amarant uses them.: Lady Hilda. When she discovered that her husband, Regent Cid, had cheated on her, she used magic to turn him into an oglop and he was left that way for quite a while because she ended up getting kidnapped. After she was finally found, she turned him back into human, but not before threatening to turn him into a hedgehog pie if he ever cheated again.: Garnet/Dagger goes through this once or twice. She's certainly unprepared for the responsibility of being a ruler, but her sense of duty is far stronger than her personal desires - for the most part.: Zorn and Thorn, twin jesters that give each other meteor and flare powers during one mini-boss sequence.
The trick is to hit the jester who just received the power before he can use it. Though it turns out they're actually one creature with two bodies.: Kuja wasn't that bad. All he did was destroy an entire planet and horribly manipulate everyone. OK, maybe he was that bad, but you still have to feel sorry for him in the end.: There's Kuja's.
Kuja gets a to the face.: 'Memoria', a mindscape created above the Iifa tree where Zidane and his party face off against Kuja in the final disc; it's a jumble of scenes and buildings gathered from the collective memory of the entire planet, where it's possible to walk through a giant, city-destroying eyeball into the ruins of a town it just attacked, walk up a staircase leading into space, pass through a waterfall and find yourself swimming through an ancient coral reef, or climb a ladder that overlooks the birth of the planet itself. Thankfully, Garland's around to explain what's happening.: The Iifa Tree, whose roots spread worldwide and can be seen protruding in all the continents; grown by the specifically to siphon souls away from the planet Gaia, it also pumps a noxious gas known as the Mist across the continents its roots have infested,. It also houses the gateway to the on Disc 4.: The Mist. When the Iifa tree is destroyed, the mist covering the continents is removed, then when the party returns from Terra, it has returned. Though this is an example of the World-Wrecking Wave having been active before the start of the story.: 'To Brother Gil - Bro, I found the sword, like you told me. But there were two.
One of 'em had a lame name, Something II. It was a dingy, old thing with flashy decorations, something you'd probably like. So I went with.
I'll be back after I find the Tin Armor.' - note from Enkido found when the player obtains the Excalibur II, the.: Since Alexandria is a primary antagonist in the first couple of disks, their all-female army shows up a lot. The protagonists have no qualms about defending themselves against the women, or attacking Beatrix either.: Played with. The party has two children in it, meaning most enemies attack them too. For a looser definition of child, Garnet is only sixteen during the game. Vivi and Eiko. The former is a child physically and mentally, but since he's a, adult workers in Dali promptly kidnap him and stuff him inside a box.
In the latter case, Alexandrian jesters kidnap her and perform a ritual to steal her spells. Due to an RPG format, both are defaultly subjected to physical and magic attacks, especially those from minions.: Parodied.
Zidane as the has a support ability called 'Protect Girls', in which he will take the damage for the female characters in your party, and in says when up against 'A girl? This'll be tricky.' , though this doesn't affect his gameplay.
He also once picks fighting a man over fighting a woman in the storyline. In his own game he has no compunctions about fighting and killing the Alexandrian soldiers when they're invading Cleyra or trying to stop him from rescuing Dagger. As proven with General Beatrix and Lani, he will fight women without a problem, and in some cases flirt with them too. Likewise the Black Waltzes never attack Garnet whenever she faces them in battle. If the male party is defeated against No. 2, it'll cast Sleep on her to end the battle.
And if the same happens against No. 3 (the second time) the monster will attack itself instead.: Treno's slums.: Kuja had no less than two of these.
First, it's revealed that his entire plan revolved around stealing Alexander, the most powerful of all Eidolons (summon monsters). This fails when shows up and blows it to hell. Panicked, his next plan involves using the protagonists to fetch a powerful stone for him and extracting other, lesser summon spirits from a little girl. This fails when her Moogle guardian and proceeds to kick ass.
Kuja then changes his plans AGAIN in order to gain his own Trance power. Kuja finally achieves this and proceeds to. It's too bad that he learns that he's going to die soon anyway, prompting the mother of all.: Soulcage pulls something like this when you fight it, claiming that it has foreseen its death.:.
Justified in the case of Black Mages and the Genomes; they are manufactured. Burmecians and Cleyrans all seem to be in uniforms of some kind — but human civilians have no such excuse (or Morrid really has two other triplets in Lindblum).: There's a status effect known as Heat, which can be inflicted through Quina's Blue Magic attack 'Mustard Bomb.' How this works is that the afflicted will automatically KO if they take any action due to the intense heat surrounding them. If a character has already chosen their next move when they get inflicted with this status, they are pretty much doomed.: The is (along with of the during said scene) where Zidane's talk him out of a.:. All of the Black Mages.
Subverted: except for Vivi, they are all known by their numbers (Mr. 234, Black Mage No. 12, etc.), but this actually serves to humanize them as they begin developing their own personalities.
They deliberately seem to adopt the numbers as their names, even going so far as to introduce themselves this way to strangers. Interestingly, Vivi's name could be represented as the roman numerals 'VI VI', which would translate as '6 6', qualifying him for this trope as well.
Played for laughs with the actor Lowell's fanclub.:. Zorn and Thorn to Zidane when he busts into the Alexandria dungeon to save Garnet, even if you beat the 30-minute deadline. You are too late to prevent Brahne's attack on Lindblum.: Regent Cid is transformed into an oglop and later a frog. By the time the party starts traveling with him on the ship Blue Narciss, the notoriously frog-hungry Quina Quen is the only member of the party who hasn't met him before then. Cid: I'm not worried.
I had more enemies as an oglop.: This happens to a lot of the characters due to the massive property damage over the course of the game, but special mention to the Terrans ( including Zidane), whose home planet gets, and the summoners Eiko and Garnet, whose village was nuked in the backstory.: Zidane always arrives just after the villain has finished destroying the town. If he's lucky, he arrives a few minutes beforehand, and then the town is destroyed.: Part of what helps Dagger get over her is Zidane and company assuring her that she's not to blame for the long stretch of tragedies that have befallen the world. One later, she seems to agree.: The Burmecians are anthropomorphic rodents. The word 'Rat' appears to be a derogatory term for them, but they are mostly on the side of good.: Yet another long-silver-haired individual, Kuja, as well as the blue-haired Eiko.
Also has pink hair. What little of Freya's hair we can see is also white, although since she is a.: Zidane says this almost word-for-word when the Armodullahan appears out of nowhere in an enclosed space. To his credit, he does start running before saying the line.: At the end of Disc 2, Brahne decides to kill Kuja since he has nothing more to give her. Unfortunately for Brahne, Kuja was expecting this and considers Brahne to no longer be useful to him as well. Kuja kills her with ease.: The Qu, large gluttonous humanoids indigenous to swamplands around the globe.: Regent Cid learned the hard way that you shouldn't cheat on your wife.: It is heavily implied that the Black Mage golems have a set expiration date. As does Kuja.: Master Quen discovered that if you imagine it hard enough, you can eat all the food in the world.
But, because he didn't eat real food after that, he ended up dead (and apparently in Qu nirvana).: Freya, Steiner, and Beatrix pull one of these when covering Dagger's escape from Alexandria. Though it's initially unclear whether or not they survived, the party soon learns that they lived.: When Zidane goes back to save Kuja, he asks Kuja 'Wouldn't you do the same for me if you knew I was dying?'
.: After killing, the army of Plant Spiders begin zerging the heroes as the last attempt to capture them when the entire Evil Forest is turning into stone.:. Female Red Mages actually are Grade A. And another one: Kuja.
This is a Final Fantasy 7 fanfiction. I don't own the rights, copyright, or anything to do with it.Warning: there are severe adult themes, including attempted suicide, murder, sex, yaoi (man on man), and general incest (siblings, but not by blood). If you're not a fan of this, or some crude humor that could result from it, please stop reading now.As previously stated, this is a fanfiction.
The scenario has changed drastically. Cloud and several others are in high-school, and Sephiroth, Angeal, and Genesis are all various teachers at Shin-ra. For this scenario, Hojo and Lucretia are Vincent's parents.To Change His Tendency'Vincent.' Lucretia put her hands on her hips.
She checked the closet, one of his favorite hiding places. 'Vincent, get out here, now!' The boy appeared as if from nowhere, dressed in black, as he often was. His long hair was swept partially over his face, and his crimson eyes looked sad and empty. Held in his left hand was a knife.Lucretia immediately grabbed Vincent's right wrist. She scolded, snatching the knife from him.
He didn't resist, just blinked slowly while his mother tied a cotton bandage to his wrist. He walked quietly out of the apartment his parents had in the Shin-ra tower and followed her to the small hospital.'
Oh, him again?' Asked the nurse.'
Lucretia sighed. 'Right wrist this time.' Vincent held out his arm, rolling his eyes when they noticed several more cuts up his arm leading to the crook of his elbow. With how deep they were, his whole arm was frozen before the stitches were put in.
It was swathed in gauze before he was returned to Lucretia.' Weren't you and Hojo asked to lock up the sharp objects?' A doctor asked.' I'm not sure how he managed to get this one.' Lucretia replied.Vincent kept an eye on them, casually glancing around. Carefully, he slipped a scalpel off a work set and slipped it in his pocket.
How would anyone understand what he was going through? He sighed and followed Lucretia back up to the apartment. He'd wait a few days, provided nothing happened.Sadly, his thoughts of staying alive faded when Hojo came home. His father had his larger work-bag with him again, meaning Vincent would be asked to 'help'. He was right.' Vincent, get over here and help me with this.' Said Hojo.Vincent came, not fighting back as Hojo grabbed his thick black hair.
Neither person was really his parent. His actual parents had abandoned him on the streets of Midgar, and Lucretia and Hojo had taken him in. All he had to go by was the last name he refused to give up; Valentine. All the legal paperwork listed him as Vincent Crecent, but he still signed things with the Valentine last name.As a result of him not being biologically theirs, Hojo had found it fun to use Vincent in his 'experiments', since he was a leading scientist and doctor for the university portion of the expansive Shin-ra schools.
It had been those experiments that had changed him from having brown eyes to the glittering crimson he now bore. No one believed Vincent that Hojo experimented on him, nor would anyone believe what else went on. His 'brother', one Sephiroth, didn't live here anymore, and was too busy to talk to him anymore. He'd been the only one to listen to Vincent.Vincent found himself made to lie bent over the table.
He could feel the scraping, the knife that actually cut into his flesh, more scraping, and finally the hot laser as it burned his flesh closed. There was a needle in there, somewhere, as well, but Vincent wasn't feeling well. Thanks to his repeated suicide attempts and the 'experiments', Vincent was borderline anemic. Now, he passed out, falling to the floor with a rather graceless thud.OOSephiroth looked up as the class filed in. The Turk twins, Reno and Cisnei, were absent, but Lockhart wasn't. Neither was Angeal's favorite, Zackary, and his friend, the chocobo. Speaking of chocobo's.
He frowned when he saw the slender bird standing outside, tied to the tree again.' The blonde looked over from talking with Zack. 'What did I tell you about the chocobo?' 'Not to tie him to the tree. He's tied to the sign in front of your car.' Sephiroth just sighed and shook his head.
The long, silver braid wavered back and forth, making some of the girls swoon. 'Has anyone seen. Vincent staggered in, dropping to his seat gracelessly. He tried to pay attention to class, but his head was hurting too much.Sephiroth strode over and placed a hand on Vincent's forehead.
'If you're not feeling well you should have stayed home.' He looked up.
'Class is dismissed.' He stopped Vincent. 'What's wrong?' Vincent sighed. He said, trying to wet his lips. Why was he so thirsty?' What about dad?'
Vincent fainted, his lithe body getting caught by the equally lithe, yet also muscular, Sephiroth. The older changed his grip slightly and carried him down to the nurse's office, where Vincent remained for the rest of the day.OOThe door opened and closed with only a slight struggle.' You're late, Vincent.' Lucretia called from the kitchen. She looked out when there was no answer. I wasn't expecting you.'
He shifted the boy flopped over his back. 'Vincent could hardly stand, so I thought I'd bring him home.' Hojo stepped out of his study. 'Sephiroth, how good of you to visit.'
Sephiroth gave Hojo a look. 'I need to talk to you.' Carefully, he put Vincent down on the couch. There was a bit of blood on the bandages on his right arm.' Lucretia asked.
Hojo and Sephiroth joined her in the kitchen.' When did Vincent's eyes turn crimson?' Lucretia asked.Sephiroth already knew the answer, he just waited to see if they knew why, or had even observed the change.' I have no idea.'
Hojo said quickly.Sephiroth's eyes narrowed. He now had a possible culprit.
'It was two years ago.' 'When I started teaching and couldn't spend a lot of time with him anymore. He came to me, rubbing his eyes like they hurt. He had a fever then, too.'
'So, what's your point?' What did you do to him, now? He's burning a terrible fever and hasn't woken up since I took him to the nurse's office.' 'What makes you think your father's done anything to him?'
Lucretia asked, turning from mashing the potatoes.Sephiroth looked at her, his eyes flickering from normal to lizard-like. He gripped his head, sitting down to wait out the horrid pain.'
Asked Lucretia. She came over and touched his shoulder.He gasped, the pain over with. There had to be something wrong with him, but right now, his focus was his poor baby brother. 'He tried to tell me something before he passed out. The only word he got out was 'Hojo'.
I just wanted to hear it from you guys if anything's been happening to him.' 'He's been attempting suicide.'
Said Lucretia. 'That's why all the swords are locked in a safe and all the knives are in a toolbox.' Sephiroth wondered if he should mention the scalpel in Vincent's pocket when a low moan from the living room caught his attention. He got up and walked over to his brother. Vincent looked up. His red eyes were bloodshot, and there was some blood on his lip.
He swallowed and tried to reach for Sephiroth.Sephiroth took the outstretched hand, looking down when he felt something drag over his skin. 'Do you cut your nails?' He asked, looking at the scratches.' Vincent made a face. Something was interfering with his speech.
When he ran his tongue over his teeth, his eyes widened, and he put his hands over his mouth.' Sephiroth sat beside him and brushed a hand through the thick raven hair.Vincent looked up at him. He said, opening his mouth just enough to show his brother that his incisors were longer. Or at least sharper.' It's alright, Vincent.' Said Sephiroth, holding him close. He sighed inwardly.
There were things he hadn't told Vincent, things that had been happening since he'd left the home to live on his own. Perhaps it was time to let his brother in on a few things, but here, and not now.' Sephiroth helped Vincent up, and the pair walked over to have dinner. 'Vincent won't be coming home tomorrow.' Hojo asked, again a little too quickly.' He's going to be staying with me tomorrow.
He's missed quite a few lessons, and his other teachers, Angeal and Genesis, will be over as well, so we can review things with him so he can catch up.' 'Sounds like a good idea.' Said Lucretia. 'Vincent could use the help.' Vincent only palmed his pocket, where the scalpel was.OOSephiroth carefully unwound the braid as he got ready for his shower. The next day was going to be difficult, not only with the classes he had to teach, but also because he was basically going to rat out Hojo to his brother.
He knew what was wrong with his eyes, why they glowed like a predator's and why they flitted and changed from human to lizard-like. It was Mako, a precious energy source that was used almost everywhere but was still an unknown. Just before he'd moved out, Hojo had held him down and used an eye-rinse devise to expose his eyes to Mako.
Sephiroth's eyes had always been blue-green, but now, they glowed when in dark or foggy areas. It allowed to him to see and observe things better, but the headaches he got for it were not worth the perks.Carefully, he stepped into the shower stall and closed the door. There was a lot to do, but right now, he just needed a shower.He screamed as the water hit his chest and face, turning away.
It wasn't water. Someone had switched the pipe for liquid Mako. His back ached, and he managed to get the tap turned off.
Opening the door, he stumbled out into the bathroom. He dropped to his knees. His head began to ache, too. There was a horrible, tearing sensation in his back, and he fell to the floor, his silver hair glittering as it blanketed his unconscious form.OOIt was his good graces it was colder inside. He'd have to thank Angeal for breaking the heater later. It meant that he could hide it, at least for today.Vincent looked over at him as the class filed in.
He nearly jumped as Reno pounced on him.' Wass-up, yo?' 'Get off me.'
Vincent growled.' Aw, the little emo-puppy's pissed.' Teased Cisnei.' Leave him alone.' Said Sephiroth. He tried to sit comfortably in his seat. A hard feat now that there was something attached to his left shoulder.
He glanced out the window to see Zack and Cloud just arriving. As usual, Cloud was on a chocobo, but seemed delighted that there was finally a hitching post for his bird.The bell rang, and the stragglers came running in to class. Sephiroth looked over the class. This was going to be a long day.OO'Hey, Sephiroth, you alright?' Asked Angeal.
He was the workshop teacher, teaching the students how to fix simple things like missing buttons or slightly more complex things like plumbing.' No, I'm not alright.' Sephiroth replied as they headed down to the music class, where Genesis taught. It was also Vincent's last class of the day.Genesis met them at the door. Prefab sprout greatest hits blogspot songs. 'Vincent's just packing his instrument; he'll be out in a moment.'
Vincent said as he stepped out. He rubbed his shoulder.' Come on, Vincent.
You've got some catch-up studies to do.' Said Sephiroth.Vincent followed in silence, noticing the other two teachers were coming, too. So, Sephiroth was only taking him home for academic reasons. Still, he couldn't help but watch his brother's back.After they'd stepped inside, Vincent asked. 'So, is that a new addition?'
Asked Angeal and Genesis.' Your observant, Vincent.' Said Sephiroth. He shrugged his coat off, rolling his eyes when he heard the other two teachers gasp.
'Come off it, you already knew about the Mako that changed my eyes.' 'He did that to you, too?' Asked Vincent.Angeal looked at Vincent.
His eyes were the same color as Sephiroth's. 'There's no need to hide it from Vincent.' Sephiroth said.
He looked at his brother. 'Hojo tested me, too. Doused my eyes in Mako to see what it would do to me. I used to have bad eyesight, you remember my glasses?' Vincent nodded.'
The Mako cured me, made my eyesight better. It was a scientific marvel. When Angeal was brought in to the hospital after being attacked by monsters, they were sure they would have to take his eyes. But thanks to the experiment done to me, his eyes were saved.
Aquatic blue became the sign of those whose eyes were healed by Mako.' And then, the headaches began. Other patients committed suicide to end the pain. There were only five who didn't, that the medical teams managed to save. I was one of them.
Angeal was another. They found Genesis clawing his throat. Zackary Fair was found having a seizure.
The only one not affected was a kid in a chocobo pen. Do you know why?' Vincent shook his head.'
Chocobo droppings.' 'The chemicals in chocobo droppings counteracted the effects of the Mako that was in his eyes.
But they couldn't take him away from the chocobos. One particular black one wouldn't let them remove the kid. So they studied him there. Put the other four in with him. Each one was adopted by a chocobo that they still have to keep.' 'Chocolina's not going to be happy.'
Said Genesis.' Vincent asked.'
His chocobo.' 'But what's that on your back, Sephiroth?' Sephiroth stretched, letting the black appendage move.
He said casually. 'Some ass switched the water tank for one with Mako last night, and this is the end result.' 'You do know Hope's going to want to nose – er, beak, that.' Do all the chocobo have weird names?' Vincent asked.' Cloud interpreted their names.
It wasn't our choice.' 'That kid is a born chocobo-whisperer.' 'They say one of his parents was a chocobo, and that's why his hair sticks out the way it does.' Said Genesis.' Vincent, what did you mean when you said Hojo did it to us, too?'
Angeal asked, trying to get back on subject.' My eyes turned red from the Mako.' Vincent replied.' But Mako turns just about anything blue.'
Said Genesis.Sephiroth motioned for them all to sit in the living room. 'Is there anything else that's been happening, Vincent?' Mostly on my blood. Hojo keeps saying that there's something wrong with me, that tests that would have normal results are coming up strange.' 'Well, the fact your eyes turned red is a strange fact.' Said Angeal.' I think he's looking for my heirloom.'
That caught Sephiroth. My real family. They were killed because of it.' Vincent didn't look comfortable.
'My twin sister was taken captive because she was a mage, like my mother.' Sephiroth put a hand on Vincent's shoulder.
'Who took her?' He asked.Vincent swallowed before looking at him.
'Why didn't he take you with her?' Asked Genesis.' I'm not a mage. I have no skills with the Materia, so I was left alone.
Your mother saw me and took me in, adopted me to be your brother.' Vincent palmed his pocket again. 'I keep trying to see her.' Asked Angeal.' Yuffie, my sister. They have her at the medical wing, trying to find where. Where it is.'
'Why would they have her in the medical wing?' Genesis asked. 'What is this heirloom?' Vincent looked like he was going to be sick. 'It's red Materia.' 'A specific kind.'
'Vincent, do you have it?' Sephiroth asked.Vincent closed his eyes. He wanted to answer Sephiroth truthfully, but he was afraid.
He sighed and looked at Sephiroth. 'Don't be afraid.' He said, taking his older brother's hand. 'Just look at my eyes.' Sephiroth wasn't sure what was going to happen, but he did as instructed.
There seemed to be a swirl of light and colors, and then he found himself looking at something. A child looking up at his bleeding mother. He convulses as she touches his chest, then lies there, almost dead.
His mother collapses, her hand on the girl that was nearby. Two teams come rushing in. One takes the boy; the other is led by Hojo and takes the girl somewhere else. The girl is tortured, but she refuses to say what they want to know. Three years of fighting, before she finally loses her resolve.
One word leaves her mouth before she falls into unconsciousness: Vincent.Then, the vision was over. Vincent dropped like a stone, unconscious. Sadly, the scalpel had slipped in his pocket, and now impaled him in the leg, close to the hip.Sephiroth gasped, almost as though he hadn't been breathing. He rolled the younger over. Angeal and Genesis looked from Sephiroth to Vincent.
'I'll call the hospital.' Said Genesis.Sephiroth scooped Vincent up. 'There isn't time.' He hurried out, holding Vincent close. He was well aware of the fact that his younger brother wasn't breathing.The nurse looked up. He's not breathing!'
Sephiroth practically shouted. 'He fell over, while we were talking.' The nurse motioned for him to put Vincent down. But Sephiroth refused to let them just take Vincent without him there. 'He's still a minor! There has to be someone there to make the choices for him!'
Said the nurse. She placed the breathing mask on Vincent's face, trying to force air into the boy.
'He's barely taking it. I have to call a doctor.' Sephiroth took Vincent's hand, noticing that the nurse had left the scalpel, and hadn't even mentioned it.
'Vincent, it's alright. I'm here for you.' He leaned closer. 'I love you.' He looked up as the doctor came in. He said.Hojo looked startled.
'I didn't think you'd still be here. And what happened to you?' 'No time for that. Vincent needs help.'
Sephiroth glowered at Hojo.' In good time.' Hojo walked over. 'So, what was the issue?' 'He's not breathing!' 'You're so overly dramatic, Sephiroth, just like your mother.'
He removed the mask from Vincent's face and fit a tube down the boy's throat directly to his lungs. A machine was connected to force air into the boy. 'I don't see what the fuss is about.' He muttered as he rather roughly removed the scalpel. 'He's much easier to deal with if he's not moving.'
He stitched the wound shut crudely, then proceeded to check over Vincent's chest.' I never said there was anything wrong with his chest.'
Said Sephiroth.' Oh, go hug your chocobo.'
Hojo snorted. 'It's a precaution, nothing more.' Vincent shifted and tried to breathe on his own, struggling when he couldn't. The machine was adjusted to let him try to breathe while giving him a higher oxygen rate.
While this would have normally made one drowsy, Vincent became more alert. And he reacted violently.Before Hojo knew what was going on he found his face smashed into the wall.
Vincent snarled, his face twisting into something inhuman. His hair bristled, and his eyes glowed. 'Where is Yuffie?' The little mage whelp?'
Hojo laughed. 'She died shortly after telling us you had the Protomateria, boy.' Vincent snarled again, only to stop when a pair of strong arms held him. 'Please stop, Vincent.' It was Sephiroth.
I know you hate him, but he's still my father.' Vincent settled, turning and leaning on Sephiroth. He whispered. 'I'll stop, but only for you.'
'What happened to the tube that was in your throat?' Sephiroth asked.Vincent shrugged. 'I'm better, now, so can we go back to studying?' He asked, trying to sound innocent to what they'd really been talking about.' Yeah, let's go.' OO'Did you mean it when you said that?' Vincent asked.
He seemed nervous.' When I said what?'
Sephiroth asked. 'Looks like Angeal and Genesis went home.' 'When you said you loved me?' Sephiroth looked at him. 'Yes, but.'
He was startled when Vincent kissed him. 'But, Vincent.' 'We're not related by blood, Sephiroth, so it's alright, isn't it?' Vincent asked. He leaned close to Sephiroth and kissed him again. 'Besides, I am eighteen.' Sephiroth asked.'
Vincent shed his shirt as he licked Sephiroth's ear. He could feel a heat rising in his body, a desire to be with the other. He quickly rid Sephiroth of his shirt as well.Sephiroth returned the kisses, helping Vincent strip them of their clothes. Almost as soon as they were bare, Vincent arched close to him, rubbing their hardened lengths together.
His breath came in desperate, wanting gasps as his hands played down Sephiroth's chest. Sephiroth's hands wandered down Vincent's slender hips, stopping a moment before pushing a finger into his entrance.Vincent gasped, leaning into Sephiroth's chest. The intrusion had been sudden, but not unwanted. He snuggled closer to Sephiroth, leaning upwards for another kiss. He bit at the older's lower lip, moaning softly as a second finger slid in and began to stretch his entrance. He'd wanted this, dreamed of it for months, and now, he had it.Sephiroth held Vincent close, looking lovingly down at the younger as they kissed again.
He carefully lay Vincent back on the couch, sliding his fingers out of him as he did so. 'I love you, Vincent.' He whispered as he slid his hard cock into the other.Vincent cried out.
The feeling wasn't at all what he'd expected. It hurt, like he was being split apart. He bit his lip, trying to will the pain away as Sephiroth moved deeper into him. His hands reached for some kind of comfort, gripping his lover tightly.'
Are you alright?' Sephiroth asked.Vincent nodded, not wanting to chicken out. He felt Sephiroth stop, waiting for him to adjust. It took only a few seconds before the tight ring of muscles relaxed. He whispered.The pain shot through him again as Sephiroth began to move.
He tried to not cry out, but it was impossible. Just as he was about to plead for him to stop, Sephiroth's member brushed against a bundle of nerves, making Vincent cry out in pleasure rather than pain.The older seemed to know what he'd hit and angled himself to strike it again. Wave after rapturous wave cascaded over Vincent, and he began to gasp for air between pleasure-filled cries.Sephiroth wasn't about to leave his brother unattended, either, and wrapped his long fingers around Vincent's length, massaging it as he continued to ram his own into the younger's body.Vincent was on the edge of bliss. He felt a tightening in his stomach, and his seed spewed everywhere, causing his body to tighten on Sephiroth. Moments later, he was filled with the other's love seed.He must have dozed off, because the next thing he knew, Sephiroth was carrying him to bed, where he was snuggled close to the other's chest.OO'You were gone all weekend.'
Said Lucretia as Vincent came home from school. She crossed her arms. 'Where were you?' 'With Sephiroth.' Vincent replied.
'He was helping me with my studies.' It was partially true. During the day, Sephiroth had helped him study, and had introduced him to Hope, a half-grown chocobo who looked like a silver punk-rocker. The chocobo had taken a liking to Vincent, offering him one of the bird's prized feathers. When asked what it meant, Sephiroth had said it was a gift, that only people trusted by a chocobo received one directly from the bird itself. He'd then shown Vincent the silver feather he carried in his pocket.' And what of your last suicide attempt?'
Lucretia asked.' 'Don't play dumb with me. I know you were at the hospital with a scalpel jabbed into your body.' Vincent replied. Again, not the whole truth, but it would be better if Lucretia didn't know what they had been talking about.Lucretia sighed. 'The final exams are coming up.
You'd better pass. Otherwise it'll look bad on Hojo when you start helping him around the lab.' Vincent asked.' It's been decided. You're going to be helping Hojo around the lab and will become the scientist Sephiroth was supposed to be.'
'But I don't want to.' Lucretia glowered at him.
'And what did you want to do? Teach at some school? Parade around with your girlfriend?' Vincent didn't know where that last accusation came from. 'What do you mean?
I don't have a girlfriend.' Lucretia yanked his head to one side and touched the bruised flesh. 'Where did you get this, then? I doubt you can make hickeys on your neck like that yourself.'
Sephiroth, in the heat of loving passion, had left him with a love-bite. 'Ran into a nail.' Lucretia asked.' Vincent snarled back, pulling his face away from Lucretia;s grasp. He stood there, trying to regain control. He knew that if he got to upset, the Protomateria would act up, cause changes, and then he'd be a test subject.
He suddenly grabbed his head.' Lucretia's tone changed to someone worried.
'Vincent, what's wrong?' He groaned, dropping to his knees. Without meaning to, he began to claw at his face.' Lucretia got him to stand and hurried him outside the building to a fenced-off yard. There were several chocobo in there, including the silver Hope and red Chocolina.
The chocobo's began to wark and pree, causing the boy sleeping on the haystack to get up.Cloud looked over, then motioned for Lucretia to let Vincent in. He turned to the black chocobo and whispered something to it, then looked back.Vincent carefully stepped into the pen. He'd heard of people being pecked to death by the birds if they didn't like the person. His head ached so badly.Chocolina, a gorgeous red with gold-tipped wings, warked and looked at him.
She lowered her head to look him in the eyes, then raised her head again, looking around. She warked again, and a few more chocobo came over, while she returned to her nest.Hope was among this group, and it honestly looked like a bunch of punky teenagers.
They were all chocobo just getting their feathers instead of just the down. Hope warked at him, remembering him from his visit with Sephiroth. Hope pulled a green one aside, and Vincent guessed it belonged to someone else.Vincent put his hand out, palm up. He was holding a few greens, which the chocobo loved.
A few pecked at the greens, and then, they stepped aside. Vincent looked up and swallowed.The chocobo now looking at him was a full grown adult. He was a solid black with an odd ring of red feathers across his brow and red wings. It looked at the other chocobo, and they walked away.
The large bird lowered its head and looked Vincent in the eyes with its own golden-red.Lucretia gasped. 'Vincent, get away from that one!' She heard more than saw Sephiroth and the other two teachers come running.' What the heck?' Asked Angeal.Cloud walked over, watching the staring match. He never said anything when he was in the pen. It was like he was in a whole different world.
His clothes were different, too. They were rough, almost ragged and ratty, and they could quite easily see the strange markings across his arms, and the necklace with the feathers around his neck.The huge black lay down, nipping Vincent's shirt and pulling him close. Vincent did as he was asked, and the bird drew him near, so he was lying against the soft feathers. The chocobo looked around, then warked at Cloud.Cloud almost immediately made a trilling sound, which excited the other chocobo. He turned and tugged on Sephiroth's hand, then on Genesis and Angeal.' So, which chocobo picked Vincent?' Asked Sephiroth as he climbed into the pen.Cloud looked back.
He only ever said intelligible words when asked as long as he was with the chocobo.' Genesis looked back at the bird that kept Vincent protectively close. He smiled as Chocolina came over and tried to pull him to her nest. 'They're beautiful, Chocolina.' He said, in admiration of the four little chicks peeping around in the nest. 'May I hold one?' The red chocobo nodded, watching as Genesis picked up a bright red chick that had a small tuft of black on its head.
The chick whistled and looked around, then fluttered over to Genesis's shoulder.Chocolina warked at Genesis as he tried to put the chick back.' Did I do something wrong?' Cloud seemed to appear near the nest.
'She's giving you the chick.' 'It's become a fight for food, and there isn't enough for all the chicks. She wants you to have that one, so she knows one's safe.' Genesis nodded, letting the chick up on his shoulder again. It slid down this time, making itself comfortable in his chest pocket. He looked up at Chocolina.
'I'll take good care of the chick.' Chocolina preed at him.' She says she wants you to name the chick.' Genesis looked down at the little ball of fluff. 'Loveless, after my favorite poem.' He said.Chocolina seemed pleased, then looked over at where Chaos had suddenly wrapped a wing over Vincent protectively. All her feathers bristled, and she made a loud warking noice.Cloud looked over.
He quickly ran over to his black chocobo and made some sounds. The chocobo warked back, and Cloud made a loud trilling noice. This time, the chocobo started to clump together, those with human companions herding them into the group.Angeal tried to settle his chocobo, but to no avail. The green bird seemed antsy about something, and pressed Angeal closer to the middle.' What's wrong?' Asked Sephiroth.' I'm not sure.'
Said Genesis. 'But it has Cloud spooked.' He looked over. 'Damn, it's Rufus.' 'And his father.' Added Angeal.Cloud snapped his fingers, and two wolves came to his side.
He snorted at one, and it snapped at President Shin-ra.' Call it off.' Said the President.Cloud's blue eyes narrowed. 'What do you want?' 'I'm here to get a bird.' 'They are not your to pick and choose at leisure.'
Cloud returned. 'My family is not your plaything.' You still believe the birds to be your family.' Sneered Rufus.
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'Well, they're my birds. You just showed up in the pen one day.' 'I believe the last of 'your birds' died in the pit you constantly throw these poor creatures in for fights.' 'These are my birds.' 'Well I still want one, and if you value their lives, you'll let me have one. Or should I cut off the precious greens they eat?' Cloud said nothing.
Sephiroth noticed that the strange symbols on Cloud's arms were glittering in a strange pattern.' Glad you see it our way.'
Snorted Rufus. 'I want the red and black one.
The big one with the red wings and ring of red on its head.' 'You can't have it. He's no longer mine to give.'
That ill-tempered bird belongs to someone else?' The two wolves were shot and killed in an instant, and the president had Cloud by the throat.The black warked at Cloud questioningly, but when Cloud didn't respond, it remained where it was.' Who has the bird?'
The president asked.Cloud tried to answer, but he couldn't breathe. The president noted this and loosened his grip. 'The chocobo in question is nesting.' Cloud returned. Anyone who even knew only a little about chocobos knew to never disturb a nesting bird.' Then I want the green.' Will you continue to only pick from those that are already taken?'
'You're thicker than I thought.' 'Why you little.' Rufus climbed over the fence and came at Cloud. While the chocobo hadn't attacked the President because he had a hand on Cloud, they thought nothing of going after Rufus.Cloud made a loud warking sound, and the chocobo stopped.
'Get out of the pen, both of you.' 'These birds are not for your entertainment.' 'We're not leaving until we get one of the birds.'
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Said the President. He noticed the marks on Cloud's arms. 'Hello, and what's this?' Cloud said nothing.'
Rufus, get back to the car.' The spoiled brat son did as he was asked, angry that he didn't have a bird to toss to the fight pit.Cloud watched as the President circled around him. 'What do you want?' 'Those marks on your arms are interesting.' Said the President.
He made a hand signal, and Cloud's hand came up to his neck. He pulled the dart out, but the drug was already in his blood.' If the birds know what's good for them, they won't attack.'
Cloud made a soft noise to the black chocobo before dropping unconscious. His thin body was picked up by one of the security officers, and he was taken away.' What's going on?' Asked Angeal once the chocobo moved to let them walk around again. He petted his green bird.
'Lucretia, what's going on?' 'I'm not sure.
I stopped being a scientist when I found out I was pregnant with Sephiroth. I have no idea what they could want with Cloud.'
She looked around. 'Where's Vincent?'
Chaos moved his wing, showing Vincent shivering near his side. He put his wing back over the boy as Lucretia came close, but he made no move to attack her. This changed when Sephiroth suddenly dropped like a stone, a sleeper dart imbedded in his neck.Angeal ran to his friend's side, only to drop to the ground with him. Genesis fell soon after, trying to land so the baby chocobo wouldn't be hurt.The armed infantry regiment of the Shin-ra security force came over.The chocobo knew they would never be able to defend their people against those guns. The only ones that stayed with the fallen were the chocobo that had adopted them.
Even then, they could only watch as the three men were taken.' Where's the boy?' 'The one called Vincent.' Chaos ruffled his feathers, but remained sitting.One of the men grabbed Lucretia roughly. 'Where is the kid?' Chaos knew Lucretia meant something to Vincent when the boy under his wing gasped. He moved the feathered appendage, but held Vincent back a moment.
It looked the boy in the eyes for a moment, then watched as he left to keep Lucretia safe.' Vincent said. 'I'll come quietly if.
If you promise to leave Mom and chocobo alone.' The infantry officer led Vincent away into a truck, where the other three had been so rudely tossed.OOZack was already there when they arrived. It was to Vincent's better graces that Angeal and the others were up, because the boy started sputtering indecipherable words at them.' 'What is it?'
'They have Cloud!' Zack cried, his first intelligible word since they got there. 'They're doing something weird to him.' Said the soldier.' You promised not to hurt the chocobo.' Said Vincent softly. He sighed as they were marched over to a large testing room.Cloud screamed as they shocked his body again.
He had a chain around his leg, and there was another around his neck.' Come on, kid. Make the marks do their work.' Said the scientist.' Said Vincent suddenly.Cloud looked at him, his blue eyes wide with fright. 'Chaos told you?' He asked barely more than a whisper.Vincent nodded.'
Well, we have the others, guess we don't need to just play with this one, now.' Said the scientist.' We're supposed to wait for the guy in charge.' Said another.' I'm here, I'm here.' Hojo appeared.
'Ah, Sephiroth, so good of you to finally join me in my work.' 'Go fuck yourself.' Sephiroth returned. 'What do you want with us?' He was aware of the fact that he couldn't slug Hojo because his hands were chained to the wall. But he other options.Hojo walked over and gripped the feathers of his wing.
'So, this is what happens when your back is doused in Mako. How interesting.' Sephiroth growled low in his throat.Hojo tightened his grip, making Sephiroth grit his teeth to keep from shouting.
'Listen to me, boy. Made you what you are, what you will become.
You are, and always have been, my pet project.' Sephiroth kneed him one in the groin. 'As I said before, go fuck yourself.' Hojo continued along.
'I see Gillian kept her end of the bargain. You've grown into a fine specimen, Angeal. Hollander would be proud to know the genetic manipulation didn't disfigure you. Angeal didn't say anything.Genesis was shaking, however, by the time Hojo managed to saunter over. 'You're a genetic disappointment, I'm afraid. Sick at every illness that walks through, weak in body and spirit.
Your only strong suit is your memory. Like a camera, able to recall every detail of every little thing.' He forced Genesis to look up at him. 'We'll fix the other parts, don't worry about that.' He reached Vincent. 'You know what I want from you. But I'm sure you'll be just like Sephiroth, stubborn to the end.
I have ways of making you behave.' He then walked up to Zack. The half-breed. Not quite a success, but not entirely a failure.' He tilted Zack's head up. 'Continuing to work on you is going to be fun.'
Zack swallowed and watched as Hojo reached Cloud.' You, I'm not so sure about.' 'You can talk to chocobo, command them to your will.' His hand traced down one of Cloud's arms. 'These markings are very intricate.
I'll enjoy studying them.' Cloud made a low noise in his throat that sounded like a pissed-off chocobo.' Well,' said Hojo, turning to look at them all, 'Let's begin!' OOSeven days. Each day was a blur of pain. Chunks of skin removed, blood taken, shocks when they fought back.
If Hojo didn't get the results he wanted, they were whipped as well.Zack nearly died. He collapsed, hanging by his wrists, unable to hold himself up after the fifth day. He now lay inside a cage, like an animal.Angeal was almost the same. If it wasn't for the fact that his shackles were around his legs and throat they probably would have been as rough with his as they were Zack. The neck collar was off him, now, and he lay docile and obedient on the floor.They all did, now. The last two to fall had been Vincent and Cloud.
Cloud had collapsed first, crying out like a wounded chocobo. He remained where he fell, his breathing labored, still struggling every time they came to test him.Vincent never lost his calm demeanor, and it irked Hojo to no end. Cx programmer crack.
He hadn't even flinched when his precious sister, Yuffie, had been walked out in front of him, parts of her body made of machine. His only words to her were, 'I kept my promise.' Her lack of a response told him she was already dead, that it was only a puppet of his sister standing there.
When he'd fallen, it had been from exhaustion. Six days of staying awake, standing there, had taken its toll, and he collapsed.It was now the eighth day. Through all the pain and torture, Hojo had managed to get the results of the tests. He had the answers he wanted, from most of them. Only Vincent and Cloud remained mysteries to him.Cloud's DNA was everywhere, not allowing Hojo to pinpoint exactly what he was or where he'd come from. If something pointed to a monster, something else pointed to being human, and something else to being a common houseplant.
His blood was similar. One vial said chocobo, another said human, and another said monster.
Nothing with the boy was consistent.As for Vincent, he'd been subject to X-rays, MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, and the Protomateria never showed up once in the results. And blood work did the same thing Cloud's did; pointed everywhere but at what he truly was.' Tell me, boy.' Said Hojo, walking over to Vincent. 'If I were to tear into your chest and grab your heart, squeezing it until it could no longer beat without a struggle, would the Protomateria appear?'
'Not the way you want it.' Vincent replied. 'You'll never be able to get your hands on it.'
'I NEED that Materia.' Hojo growled.' You can't use it. It would only dissolve.' Hojo backhanded Vincent.
'Toss him in the cage with the others.' Vincent was dragged to the large cage where the other five lay. He crawled over to Cloud.
'Can you help us?' Cloud asked.Vincent pointed at the marks on Cloud's arm.
'That's my mother's writing.' 'She was a mage with amazing skills.' 'But only a mage can undo the charm.'
Cloud whispered.Vincent smiled at him. 'I can do it. The Protomateria.' Cloud nodded. 'What do you need me to do?'
Vincent looked over. 'Take Zack, Angel, and Genesis out of here.' 'What about Sephiroth?' 'I'll take care of him.' Cloud nodded and stood. 'You do know I'm not quite an adult yet.' 'That's fine.
As long as you can run.' Vincent stood as well, motioning for the others to stand with them.'
What's going on?' Asked Zack.Vincent's right hand glowed red. 'I'm getting us out.' 'Dad's going to wonder about this.'
Said Cloud, right before the symbols on his arms lit up.At first, they didn't notice anything, until Zack noticed he was starting to look up at Cloud. The blonde's hair started to look more segmented, and seemed to travel down his back, which was bowed forward. Clouds skin began to peel upwards, in segments, and turn the same color as his hair. His face elongated, becoming hard and bone-like. His feet split and became hard, with claws. And then, it was over.A loud screech filled the room. A chocobo's screech.Cloud looked back and knelt, letting Zack, Angeal, and Genesis on his back.
As Vincent had guessed, there was no room for anyone else.' Zack, you look grossed out.' Said Angeal.' I had wet dreams of doing a chocobo.' Zack said, still shocked that his best friend was actually a bird. 'I'm going to throw up now.' Cloud looked back quickly at that and gave him a 'not on the feathers' look.And then, Vincent.
His hair bristled again, and his face elongated into a muzzle. His pale skin darkened to a midnight black, and claws grew from his nails. From his back spread two insidious looking wings, red as blood.
A wicked, whip-like tail stretched behind him. And a red slit formed in his chest, glittering like a forbidden jewel.'
This is just weird.' Said Genesis. He checked his pocket for the baby chocobo, who had survived by eating half of whatever he'd gotten for food. 'Hold on tight, Loveless.' Vincent let out a thunderous roar, which tore through the cage bars and bent them outwards. He grabbed Sephiroth and sprinted forward, snarling and scaring any scientist into getting out of their way. They reached an outer wall.
But there was something, or rather, someone, in the way.Hojo.' So, that's the power of the Protomateria.' 'Give it here.' Vincent let go of Sephiroth, turning to face Hojo. 'You experimented on unborn children, not one, but three that were conceived relatively close together.
And you forced an experiment on two young teenagers to see what you could create, knowing it would kill them to birth what you had wanted. You never expected one to live, nor have twins. So you killed her, destroyed her daughter, to get at the son you wanted.
Now, you die.' It was over in a moment. Vincent tackled Hojo, shattering the wall behind him. The pair fell down the nearby ravine, the last thing the others heard was Hojo's dying scream.Cloud grabbed Sephiroth in his beak and ran, carrying them all to the safety of the chocobo pen. There, he let them go.Lucretia looked up. 'Where's Vincent?'
It was obvious she'd been worried, and that Hojo had told her nothing. 'Where's Sephiroth?' 'I'm here, mother.' Sephiroth walked over and held her tight. 'I'm right here.'
Lucretia clung to him, still crying. 'Hojo said you were dead.
That Shin-ra had taken you all to the fight pit and let you die at the hands of monsters.' 'It's alright. Sephiroth felt his mother tense. 'What is it?'
'What is that?' Lucretia asked, pointing to something in the distance.A figure was walking over, a large blood-red cape over their shoulders. Long hair flowed behind the person, and black clothed their body. Something golden glittered on the left arm and looked almost sinister.Chaos looked over and warked. All the chocobo looked over as well.The figure came close enough for them to see that it was male, and he wore a red band over his forehead, laced through his hair. He stopped in front of the large golden chocobo before finally speaking.'
I think you looked better as a human.' He held up the golden claw on his left hand, and there was a soft glow.
The chocobo began to get smaller, his beak vanished into his face, and the feather smoothed out into skin. His feet closed together, and the claws vanished. Marking appeared on the arms again, but the plumes on the top of his head stayed fluffy and spiked.' Thanks, Vincent.' 'But the way, I think Dad's taken a shine to you.' Sephiroth eyed the large Chaos.
'That's your father?' He asked.Cloud nodded.
'Racer's my mother.' He said with a smile. He looked at Genesis. 'And you take good care of my sister and that chick, got it?'
Genesis blinked. 'Sister as in. Cloud nodded again. 'We're from the same nesting.
Hope and Delight are my half-brothers.' 'So that's the green one.' Said Vincent. 'But, then, which one picked Zack?' Cloud replied. 'I couldn't tell him, though, that I was reason he didn't get sicker from the Mako in his eyes. So I asked Snow to act like he'd picked Zack.'
'Dumb question.' Said Zack, finally managing to half-wrap his head around all the new information. 'That night, you know.' 'It's alright.' 'As long as I stay human, it's not weird.' Lucretia looked tentatively at Vincent.
'You used the Protomateria, didn't you?' Vincent replied. 'It, uh, changed a few things.' He looked down at the claw.'
Where's Hojo?' Said Vincent. 'I'll tell you what happened. But it starts a while ago.
Back when Sephiroth was first conceived.'