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Prophecy's Refrain	By : butabara Category: Final Fantasy VII > General Views: 1023 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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I really thought that this chapter needed to get the story back on track, and with the encouragement of my beta/co-author/muse thingy-person, I feel that I have accomplished that. Review and let me know what you think!
Chapter 26
"-mony? Harmony! Look out!" She heard Yazoo's call just a moment too late. She hardly even felt it until Loz's uppercut left her flying through the air only to slam into a tree.
"What's your problem?" Kadaj huffed. "You've been distracted all day!"
"I'm sorry!" Harmony grunted through her pain. "I'm just really worried about Sassi!"
Kadaj growled and turned from her, stomping off in the direction of the cabin.
"Hey!" Harmony called, running after him.
"Just shut up and train." Kadaj hissed over his shoulder.
"What's your problem?" Harmony snarled, grabbing his shoulder to turn him around.
He snarled, the sound a hundred times more threatening than Harmony's. Gripping her hand in a move too quick for the woman to comprehend, he spun around, flinging her away from his to land in a heap a few feet away. "What's my problem? What's my problem? Sassi this, Sassi that. Do you even care that if we have to fight Jenova here, you and your precious Sassi will die? You're weak. You have no chance as it is right now!" He snorted. "Sassi. Damn Sassi. Forget Sassi, and focus on what's actually important!"
All throughout his rant, Harmony stared in wide-eyed shock. As he finished, she stood. Turning away from him, he caught sight of a tear threatening to fall from her suddenly very angry eye.
'Oh, shit.' He thought. He reached for her in an attempt to apologize for losing his temper, but she shrugged him off.
Sniffling, she forced as much anger and hurt into her voice as she could. "Get out of here, Kadaj. Get away from me. Get your shit out of my room and get the hell away from me!" With that, she walked away from the trio of Remnants, heading in the direction of the waterfall.
"Well, Little Brother. You certainly fucked up that time!" Yazoo hissed. The use of foul language tipped Kadaj off as to just how angry his older brother really was. He watched as both of his brothers abandoned him in the meadow, both following the angry girl whom had taken them in and given up her whole life just to help them.
One last look from Loz let Kadaj know that as soon as Harmony was comforted, the eldest Remnant would be back for him.
This time, the light that flashed around the Remnant was not the cleansing blue that they had come to expect. A red flash lit the meadow as Kadaj let a scream of rage pour from his throat.
!$%^&*()
Harmony was seething, absolutely teeming with rage as she stalked through the forest. She could hear Yazoo and Loz following her, and was grateful that they kept their distance. She was also grateful that she could hear them at all, as she knew that if they hadn't wanted her to know they were following her, she wouldn't have. She saw the red light out of the corner of her eye and it was as though the final string had been cut. The tears stung her skin as she took off at a breakneck pace, racing to the waterfall as quickly as she could force her legs to move.
'Why am I so upset? I knew what he was capable of!' Was the main through barreling through her mind.
Was it because of her? Because of what she had said earlier? Was he angry because she told him that she didn't want to have sex with him just yet?
Even if he was, he had no right to say those things about her coven-sister. He had even called her weak! In her once again distracted state, she failed to see a broken tree branch jutting out from a fallen oak. One moment she was running quickly enough to be flying, and the next she truly was flying. She hit the ground with a loud cry, crashing through broken branches and thorny bushes.
"Damnit!" She yelled. Could this day get any worse?
Lightening flashing above her was the answer to her unspoken question.
"Harmony?" Came the soft sound of Yazoo's voice. She was shocked at the warmth and concern she heard.
If he had to be honest with himself, Yazoo was shocked by it, too.
"I can't believe he said that!" She whispered, pulling herself to a sitting position. Yazoo watched with anger and despair. She looked so broken, there on her knees.
"Forget what he said!" Loz stated. "He shouldn't have thrown you like that! Its one thing when we're sparring, but to do it out of anger-"
A whimper escaped her throat, making the big man stop.
"He… he just… the way he looked at me… As though he could have killed me and never even batted an eyelash… I know what you guys are, I know what you were like… But I never thought I'd actually see that side of him directed at me!" She choked out a sob.
With a soft sound of concern, Yazoo knelt until he was level with Harmony and pulled her into his arms.
"Shhh." he soothed. "Hari, let me tell you something. I swore that I wouldn't, because it wasn't my place, but I think you need to know."
Harmony sniffled and pulled her hands from her face so that she could see the middle Remnant.
"Kadaj had a sister, once." He started.
Harmony nodded. "I know, he told me… But Reno interrupted before he could tell me any more than that she was dead."
"Yes. You are aware that she was his twin?" Harmony nodded. "Do you understand anything about the bond between twins?" He asked.
"Only in theory." She answered.
"I met Kadaj when I was eleven." Loz cut in. "I had been in the lab for a few years, and then one day Hojo threw this sickly little kid in my cell, and told me that he was my new toy."
Harmony felt a wave of nausea hit her, and swallowed furiously to force it down.
"He was broken, Harmony. He didn't speak a single word for five years. For five years the only sounds that I heard from him were his sobs after Hojo would violate him, or his screams from the operating room when they experimented on him." He paused when he noticed the tears streaming down the woman's face, her hand tightly clamped over her mouth.
"Do you want us to stop?" Yazoo asked. Harmony shook her head violently.
"No! Please, I need to understand." She said, her voice wavering on a sob.
Loz nodded and continued. "Then one night, he had a nightmare. He kept calling for 'Kiku' and saying things like 'No, she's still in there, save her, save her.' I wanted to let him sleep, so that I could hear him talk some more, but I just couldn't listen to him crying like that. When I woke him up and asked him what he was dreaming about, he broke down and told me everything."
Harmony held her breath, sensing that this was the crucial information that she needed.
"Yazoo, you tell it. You know the story too, and I can't get through it without crying and messing it up." Loz said, looking slightly ashamed.
Yazoo nodded with a soft smile. "Its okay, Loz." He looked down at the woman he still held in his arms. "Kadaj and Kiku always knew that they were adopted, but didn't know who their real parents were. It was discovered later, that they were lab babies. Kadaj doesn't know anything about his birthparents. For the first four years of his life, he and his sister lived with a foster family. One of the scientists felt sorry for their mother when they were born, and so she snuck them out and gave them to a friend of hers.
"They were well off, living in Banora. As Kadaj would tell it, he and his twin were inseparable. They ate together. They bathed together. They slept in the same bed. If one was hurt, the other would injure themselves in the same way so that they could feel the same thing.
"When Kadaj was four, ShinRa found them. They came and tried to take them away. When they set fire to the house, Kadaj was the only one that they retrieved. They were only interested in the male twin, thinking that the female child wouldn't hold up to their experimentation. They made him stand outside and watch the house collapse, and made him stand and watch as they brought out the body bag with his sister's body in it.
"So they didn't appear to be completely heartless to the public, they allowed him to see her funeral service.
"So you see, for all of his life, he had known that the only family he had was his sister. They had, and needed only each other. When he lost her, he lost half of himself. He has never truly recovered. I think he craves that connection, but fears it deeply. Even our relationship. The only thing that held us together for so long was our mutual suffering, and our devotion to Jenova. She spoke to him more than either of us. She promised him that she could help him see his sister again. I don't think he ever realized that she meant to kill him, as well."
"So what you're saying," Harmony interrupted, "Is that he's jealous."
Yazoo stared in awe. "How did you get 'jealousy' out of that?"
"Well, you said he craves and fears love, basically…"
Yazoo nodded. "So when he's found someone who accepts him, he doesn't know how to handle it, and becomes possessive, because he doesn't want to lose it like he lost her."
"You're right." Loz said. "I never thought of it like that before, but it makes sense."
Yazoo nodded. "Will you come back to the cabin? Sassi should be back soon." He said.
Harmony hesitated, and Yazoo felt dread fill him.
"I'll come back long enough to gather a few things. I think it best if I stay in the cave behind the waterfall for a while. Both Kadaj and myself need some time to think."
Yazoo shut his eyes in frustration. He didn't understand why things had to be so difficult. But at the same time, he knew that he had no right to try to talk her out of it.
"I'll get it for you." He said, trying not to sound as irritated as he felt. "Just tell me what you need."
!$%^&*()
"Thank you, Yazoo. Please tell Sassi where I am? And if there's trouble, you know where to find me. If you have any problems at all, bring the rest of the group here. I'll bring my cell to be charged in a couple of days."
Yazoo nodded his understanding. Giving the woman one last hug and whispering his hope for her safety, he left the waterfall, going straight for the meadow where he was certain he would have to stop Loz from seriously injuring their little brother. It was, after all, personal for the eldest Remnant whom had found himself smitten with the very woman Kadaj had defamed.
!$%^&*()
"Back off, Loz! I said I was sorry!" Kadaj growled at his older brother.
"Yeah but here's the thing: I don't think you meant it!" Loz growled right back. He was so angry that he couldn't even land a blow on Kadaj's quick form… this only serving to anger him even more.
"Both of you stop this idiocy right now!" Yazoo all but screamed as he stomped into the meadow.
Kadaj scowled at his brother. "Why should I? He attacked me!"
"And you're lucky we don't tag-team your spoiled ass!" Yazoo snapped back. "Your temper-tantrums are getting old, Kadaj! We dealt with them before because it was necessary to accomplish what Jenova wanted us to accomplish. But no more! We are not in the labs anymore. We are not under her control anymore. There is no excuse for your fits! Harmony has given up her entire life to help us. And what have you given her? You've hurt her, Kadaj. And not just emotionally. You threw her. Loz is right- Sparring is different. You didn't throw her in an attempt to better her combat skills. You threw her with the intent to really harm her. And not only that, you have insulted the one person she is closest to. For someone who claims to want to be with her so badly, you're sure doing everything you can to make sure she hates you! She refuses to stay in the cabin right now. She's-… out in the forest somewhere."
Kadaj had never heard Yazoo speak to anyone like that before. If he was angry with someone, he killed them. Plain and simple. Kadaj thought that after everything that his brother had just said, he might have preferred a physical fight.
Then, the last thing he said registered in his mind.
"What do you mean? She out there by herself? Sleeping in the forest? Alone?"
"What?" Came the enraged voice behind them. The three men turned to see Sassi, along with the rest of the group, standing only a few feet away.
Sassi zeroed in on Kadaj. "What did you do?" She whispered in a deadly voice.
Thunder clapped ominously as Loz rushed to answer his lover's question in his brother's place.
Kadaj was not a man afraid of many things. He could count the number of things that could make him flee for his life on one finger.
Right now, it was the look in Sassi's eyes as she pulled her gloves from her hands.
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