Dream/Memory

            Alice shivered against the icy wind. Her noise crinkled, the polluted air annoying her new highten senses. She looked down at the trashed filled streets, annoyed. She caught her reflection in a murky puddle.  IT was a person she didn’t recognize .She touched her face for the hundred times today to make sure it was still her she was staring at. She shivered as she stared down at the glowing Mako eyes; they seemed to devour her as stare at them. It was funny, this morning she complaining about brown ones.

            She winched slighted as she leaned against the apartment wall, the music follow mildly from the other side. She was still sore from the solider project. She sighed. I guessed that was the price to pay for being the solider. Her thought.Hojo had told her as she left that she was his master piece. She shivered at that .After enduring hours of torture that was not what she wanted to here. He head hurt since the minute she left. He injected her with something other than Jenova cells that much she knew. He said it was called “Chaos project” or something .Hojo had said that only one other person was” special” enough to use it .She would put good bet that person was either dead or lock up in one of the crackpot’s labs .So far only side effect was some voice in her head, which was probably temporary .She hoped a lot.

Alice sighed, pounding on the wooden door.

“Zack, Dad hurry up its cold out here!” Her yelled.Zack murmured something that sounded like an apology. She rolled her newly blue eyes .Her phone rang, breaking the unwelcome silence of the night. Alice dug into her pocket, pulling out a purple cell phone.

“Hello?” She said holding it to her ear. She her a muzzled scream from the other line.

“Retrain her!” Some hissed Alice eye raised an eyebrow, almost hang up.

“Hello.” squeaked cautiously

“Good evening Alice” A deep voice hissed. Her eyes narrowed.

“Hojo what do want?” She hissed back in disgust.

“I just wanted to tell you that the Chaos project is highly confidential. Meaning-“

“I know what it means!” She hissed insulated.Hojo cleared his throat.

“In any rate, it’s confidential because the project isn’t…”Alice raised eyebrow.

“Legal?” She filled in. He cleared his throat.

“Any way you can’t tell anyone.” She gritted her teeth. She didn’t like this, not one bit.”

“And if I do?” she said as loud as her nerve a loud. She heard Hojo snickered on his breath. She pictured him flashing his disgusting smile.

“Because I could to very painful things to Zack and your precious father Sephiroth and,” He said giggling “You should always listen to your grandparents.” The line went dead. Alice nearly dropped the phone.

Elxia’s eyes snapped open, dancing wildly left and right. She sighed, she had fallen asleep again. She had never been good at staying up late .Pushing herself up; she got out of the Captain’s Chair.

Her eye sparkled mischievously as a thought in her head.

“Cid would freak if he knew I had been sitting in his chair,” She thought out loud.

“Yes he would.” Elxia jumped.

Cerberus had managed to sneak behind without her noticing. She Scratched head in embarrassment.

“Oh, hi.” Her cheeks flushed .The raven haired man raised an eyebrow.

“Hi.” He responded flatly. Elxia fiddle with her hair.

“Um, anyways. Are you ready to go?” He nodded, sending black strains of hair in his delicate, pale face.

“Right. We’ll go as soon as I polish Masamune.”Instead of responding, his eye shifted in disintrest.She wasn’t that disponted, he was a gunslinger after all.

Vincent’s crismon eyes stared at the infamous 12 foot blade .The blade had taken her away from him, and the blade that was the source of his sins.

Masamune, Sephiroth’s chosen weapon. The child of the woman he protects, and father of he loved now.

With such a bloody past, he wonders if Elxia would use it so free if she remembered its true origin.

She stood the blood stain blade in hand.

            “All set lets go.” Vincent only nodded not trusting him self to speak, his stayed glued to the evil blade the whole time. The sliver haired girl grabbed his hand, her cheeks red as they could be as she did. Valentine hid a smirk, remembering how she never had been that good with men.

            “Don’t let go,”She said shakily. He grunted .After waiting so long just to see her again; there was no way in hell he was letting going now.

She closed her eyes, her chest rising and falling slowly as she held her breath. “Here .we. Go.”

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Elxia shivered the coldness of the dark washing over her .She knew they were all ready have way to Midgar. Now all she had to do was get them safely to the next hall. She opened her eye, walls of darkness surrounding them. A little bit more and they would be safe, one misstep and they fall to their deaths. She sighed, reaching in her pocket with her free hand; she grabbed a black strip from her pocket. She handed it to Cerberus

            “Put this over you eyes,” He took it, wrapping it the best he could.

            “Where are we?” He said trembling

            “About 200 ft above Midgar’s main city.” She said slowly. He gripped her hand harder.

            “Oh.” Elxia smirked.

            “What? Don’t tell me vampires are afraid of heights. “She said mockingly. Cerberus snorted sarcastically.

            “Not like I can die.” He said bitterly.  She raised an eyebrow.

            “You can’t.” She said still moving forward.

            “No he said with even more hostile.

            “Why?” He growled each letter in distain.

“Hojo.”She stopped dead in her tracks. She turned, starting at him with intensely.

“Hojo did that to you?”His eyes shifted, escaping her penetrating gaze.

“And worse.” He said softly

She shivered her mind wondering back to her own painful memories.

A blinding light shined above him. A sharp knife gleamed with blood. The lunatic beamed a crooked smile at him

            “The unbreakable soilder, eh?”Hojo said mockingly “Let’s see how long until the mighty Sephiroth breaks.”

Sephiroth Awoke, starled by his memories. He rubbed his eyes as his pet walked down the long hall, a sliver tray in hand.

            “Bad dream father?” Sephiroth smiled. It both thrilled and frighten him how much her voice like Elxia’s .He took the apple of the tray. He rolled between his fingers.

            “No,” He said taking a bite. “Just recalling some events…Have Kadaj and the others recover from the injuries Valentine gave them yet?” The doll frowned, sitting the tray on the table beside her.

            “No, they are close but sending the fools now would mean their death.”

His sliver eyebrows furrowed.

            “I figured as much.” He took another bite, savoring the bittersweet taste. With one graceful move he crushed it, spraying the juice and red skin everywhere. He gritted his teeth.

            “I would have preferred to wait; But Mother needs Elxia as soon as possible.” He sat up in his throne. “Alice?” he said sweetly. She looked up at him, her eyes to blue to be Elxia’s.

            “Yes father?” She said with no hesitation.

            “Its time.” A savage look glinted in her eyes an eerie smile placed it self on her face.

            “Yes master,’ without ant instruction, she turned to leave.

            “Alice.” He said sweetly. She stopped.

            “Yes father?” She her voice ringing.

            “Have fun.’ She laughed, the sound filling the entire room she left, the door slamming behind her .Sephiroth smirked, licking thee apples remains of his fingers

What an obedient doll he had created.