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Legacy of the Lifestream	By : butabara Category: Final Fantasy VII > General Views: 2387 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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A.N. Okie dokie boys and girls! This is a big one! The build up and explosion we've been waiting for! Hope you all like it! There's a bit of what could be considered slightly graphic violence here, so read ahead only if this doesn't not bother you... BUT... understand that it is kind of a crucial moment, and you may be confused in the future. I DID try to tone it down a LITTLE... but you know how Kadaj gets. XD
Many thanks to Riverseithr for her help on this one! Scattered paragraphs/lines/ideas were her doing!
No beta this time... because I'm insane and I update at 3AM when normal people are sleeping (though atm I know that I am not alone lol) I've run it through spell check... but still. Any mistakes are mine and I apologize! R&R!

Chapter 14: Into an Ambush
Sukai scanned through the names in the file she'd stolen. The holographic image showed that most men there would know next to nothing about the location of the children. However, there was one that might be able to help... but according to the roster, he was not in the barracks. He was above them, patrolling the wall. However, which part of the wall remained a mystery.
'I suppose its time for Harmony to employ her glamour again...' She though with a small frown. She wasn't sure how many times Harmony could cast the magic, or how long it would last as her energy ran down.
She opened up a 3D map of the place looking for shortcuts to the main group. Her eyes scanned the image quickly. 'There' she thought. There was some remodling of the complex and judging by the infrastructure there was a weakened wall. An Ice spell and a small explosive and the wall would now be a hole. The men that were in that area were heading into the southern corridor. If she could get there swiftly she could take out the wall with little trouble.
Instinctively, she glanced up from her work, once again checking her surroundings for a heat signature that should not be there. Swiveling her head, she saw the red-orange-and-yellow forms of Sephiroth and Harmony finally approaching her from behind. From the wavering of the signature, the shapes morphing in and out of the infrared spectrum, it seemed that Harmony's glamour was indeed holding up... so far.
When her teammates reached her side, she had the pleasure of watching in slight awe as the air surrounding the two seemed to shimmer, the wavering of the heat sensor slowly stopping.
"We can talk, if we do so quietly." Sukai whispered. "At the moment, we are the only one's around."
Harmony nodded. "So do we know who we're looking for?"
Sukai pulled up the file and showed it to them.
Sephiroth tsked quietly. "How troublesome. I'm assuming you have a plan?"
"I do." Sukai answered. She opened her map once more, pointing out the area that the others could swiftly and stealthily enter. "I want to get them inside at this point. Once infiltration is successful, we will split off into groups of two, and make our way across the walls. I will show everyone the ID picture of the man we're looking for, and we'll find him. Simple as that."
Sephiroth nodded and glanced back at the image. "Well then, I don't have to assume that you have a plan on how to get them in through that point, because I know that you do... but if you're going to do it, you should go now, while the guard are moving away from that area."
"Right." Sukai answered. You guys need to find a place out of sight. I do not think that the explosion will be big enough to draw attention, but if it does, I would rather have the two of you in a position to offer support, rather than exposed along with me."
Harmony nodded and grabbed Sephiroth's arm. "Got it. One Invisibility Glamour coming right up!"
With that Sukai watched the air begin to haze over again, until all she could see were the faint outlines of heat signatures as Sephiroth and Harmony slowly crept to a shadowed point near the building.
She quickly closed the distance she needed to reach the wall, carefully rechecking her scanns and avoiding patrols. When she arrived she hid behind a corner, watching as two guards stopped in front of the wall. She took a clip in her pocket and silently placed it in her gun. She cast a Silence spell in the area before rounding the corner and firing off two shots of a sleeping potion encased in a hollow point bullet. The two men went down and she went to work.
After she set the small explosive into the now frozen wall she moved the bodies out of harms way and set off the charge. The wall went down and crumbled down before her feet. Not even a second later she was through the newly formed hole, armed with her sleeping bullets and took out as many as she could with them. When she needed to reload she tossed a clip in the air, undid the holding latch to her empty clip, watch it fall to the floor before grabbing the spare clip and shoving it into the gun and continuing her way to the others.
"Its me!" She whispered loudly as she stepped into the small clearing only to be met by gun barrels and sword points. "I found a better way in, and I know where to look for the man we want. I'll explain on the way. Come on, I don't want to leave Harmony and General Sephiroth in there too long."
Zack grinned wolfishly and was the first to fall into step beside her. "So whatter we doing?"
"The man we're looking for is not in the barracks at this time, and we don't have the time to wait for him to go back. At the moment, he's patrolling the walls. We're going to split into groups of two, and each take a lookout tower. Whoever finds him first, send a message via comm to meet at the campsite we decided on earlier."
The group nodded, relieved that they were nearly there, and anxious to finish quickly.
"Where are they?" Kadaj asked, referring to his wayward lover.
"Right here." A disembodied voice echoed from his left as he landed after stealthily leaping through the hole in the wall.
"I'm going with her." Kadaj said, leaving no room for argument. The time he's spent waiting outside, not knowing if Harmony was being protected, was too much for the Remnant to handle.
Sukai sighed, aggrivated. "Fine. But I don't like this. If you do anything to jeapordize this mission-"
"I won't!" Kadaj hissed.
"Fine." Sukai turned from him and began naming off teams, having masterfully taken control of the mission, despite her partner technically holding a higher rank.
"Angeal and Genesis, you two have proven that you work flawlessly together, you take the North-side-center-tower. Yazoo, I'm trusting that you can control the Puppy. You take the West-side-center-tower. Kadaj and Harmony will take the South-side-center-tower, Vincent and Sytherea, the same to the East. Sephiroth and I are going to follow the shadow of the wall. We will try to find this man and let you know if he is nearing your position. This has to go down without a single hiccup. If we're found, we'll have a fight to get out, and we might not make it out with our captive."
Sukai pulled the man's image up on her wrist computer. "This is him. Memorize it." She ordered. Each person did as instructed, nodding and slinking away to take their posts and wait.
When it was just Sukai and Sephiroth, the General turned a lustfilled, impressed smirk to her. "You are quite devious. How is it you became TURK instead of SOLDIER?"
Sukai smiled. "Ask Gege that later. For now, lets focus."
As she turned from him to merge with the shadows, those pesky hormones once again made their untimely appearance.
'Ha. Focus. If he looks at me like that again, the only thing I will be focusing on, will be removing the clothing from his body!'
!#$%^&*()
"You're okay?" Kadaj asked Harmony as they quickly yet cautiously made their way to their post. He tried to make his voice sound as indifferent as possible, but knew he failed when Harmony smirked.
"Peachy." She answered. This was the first real moment alone that the two of them had since the encounter in her bedroom, right before boarding the airship.
"Your glamours held up okay?"
"Of course they did, Kadaj. I may be new to materia, but I'm a practiced and experienced witch. I led a coven for five years, if you recall." Harmony flinched at her insensitive slip. "Sorry." She muttered.
Kadaj didn't hear her apology. He couldn't figure out what was wrong with him! He was absolutely seething, and hardly able to concentrate on their very important mission! Without a word, nor a single concern about hurting her, Kadaj grasped Harmony around the waist, threading one arm behind her, and one hand over her mouth as he jumped from point to point, muffling her cry of shock at the quick movement. They finally came to a stop atop the guard tower they had been assigned to.
Hearing the scuffle of feet below them, Harmony risked a glance, barely jerking back to avoid being seen as the dark head of a woman peeked out at the roof from her place inside the tower.
"Shit!" Harmony mouthed, her eyes going wide as Kadaj slowly, ever so slowly, drew his sword, a wicked, deadly, and utterly jubliant gleam flashing in his eyes.
Harmony thought he'd never looked more terrifying.
!#$%^&*()
"Are you sure?" Sephiroth asked, watching the spinning of the lenses as Sukai zoomed in on her prey.
Her eyes, distance and clarity heightened by the powerful lenses before them, carefully scrutinized the man. She dragged her gaze across his cheek, smiling and giving a thumbs up at the scar that ran over his left eye, from brow to chin.
"Yeah, that's him." Sukai pulled her wrist to her mouth, speaking softly. "Darkness and Sanguine. I've located the target. He'll be in your range in twenty-five seconds, coming from your right. There are two other's. Copy."
"Copy. Target spotted." Came Vincent's rugged voice. "I have him in my sights. Sanguine will cover the others. I'm taking the shot."
A quick flash confirmed that Vincent's tranquilizer dart had indeed been fired, and the shadow falling not twenty feet away confirmed the hit. Not that anyone thought Vincent would miss. That was just absurd.
Two other flashes lit up in rapid succession as Sytherea used the confusion to hit the other guards with a low-level bolt, meant to confuse, paralyze, and render the men unconscious... with the added bonus of most likely destroying the memory of what happened.
"Target retrieved. Regroup at the predetermined location." Sukai sent out to the others.
Just as she and Sephiroth reached the Southern end, ready to make their way back to camp, the sound of shouting reached their ears.
"Gǒupì, they can't have found out already!" Sukai hissed.
"I don't think that's the enemy..." Sephiroth said, silently adding his own curse. "That's Harmony's voice."
!#$%^&*()
"Stop!" Harmony cried, the whistle of the Souba deafening. Her shock and dispair were more powerful than any emotion she'd felt in years as the Remnant vaulted off of the roof and into the room below, the sound of air being sliced, followed by the choked gasps of the people below as their lives were swiftly ended seemed to be the only thing that Harmony could hear.
The scuffle of the battle had drawn attention, more and more guards swarming the Southern tower. Harmony hissed and drew her sword, swinging herself into the room and blocking blades meant to slay her ex-lover. She fought the sting of tears as she looked at the bodies of those Kadaj had killed. They were rapidly piling up as the Remnant fought his way out onto the wall, Harmony staying as close as she dared.
"Stop!" She screamed again. "Kadaj, stop killing people!"
Kadaj paused at the utter horror and desperation in her voice. Of course. Her silly Wiccan Rede.
With cruelty that he had not embraced in over seven years, he turned to face her as he roughly thrust his sword backward, making sure she could see the blade piercing his enemy's body to the hilt, before savagely tearing it out of the doomed woman's rib cage.
"You. Can't. Live. That. Way." He said, accentuating every word with another jab or slice. "Your rules mean nothing here! Do you think they'll hesitate to kill you, just because you refuse to kill them?" He hissed and twirled his sword so quickly that the blade couldn't even be seen, effectively blocking the bullets that had been fired in his direction.
Harmony let out a sob as he continued. "I won't let your stupid faith get you killed!" He snarled. He took a step toward her, slashing at the man behind her, intent on running her through as she dropped to her knees.
"Please..." She whimpered, "Please... stop..."
Kadaj growled low in his throat. Lifting her, he slid his arm under her shoulder and jumped from the wall, coming to land beside the livid forms and Sukai and Sephiroth as the two reached the blood-soaked ground.
"What did you do?" Sukai nearly shrieked.
"Made sure there are at least thirty less GR on our asses." Kadaj said dryly.
"Do you realize what you've done?" Sephiroth's anger was so obvious, that even Kadaj swallowed thickly in momentary concern.
"Why don't you enlighten me?" Kadaj asked.
They didn't have to. As they spoke, moving toward the break in the wall, they were very quickly surrounded. At least seventy GR soldiers, above them on the wall, and before them, blocking the hole that was their escape.
"You idiot. You fucking tempermental shit!" Sukai cursed in Common - a sure sign that she was very angry, indeed.
Sephiroth glanced around him. He knew that he could get out with little to no problem... but he would not leave his teammates behind. With a sigh, he gave Kadaj the unnecessary answer.
"We're trapped."
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