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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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A.N. YAY TWO CHAPTERS IN TWO DAYS! WOOHOO I'M ON A ROLL! Didn't go EXACTLY as I had planned, but I like it this way better - I really hope you guys like it too! R&R!
Chapter 29
"My great-great grandmother was a freak, too." Dolores said, "She had the same wicked power that you have. I knew the moment we found out you were a girl that you'd be just as strange. Just as evil." With every word, those in the room could feel the temperature drop as Sassi's fury became known.
"And you blame her for that? Something she had no control over? You beat her, tortured her, for fifteen years, because you were a stupid whore that couldn't kee her legs closed!" She snapped.
"And you're obviously just as freaky as she is!" Another of Harmony's sisters sassed. This one wore a glittering patch over her left eye. Reno drew her to eyes level and clamped a hand over her mouth as she began to whimper in fear.
"Now that wasn't very nice, honey. Why don't you keep that little forked tongue in check, or I might have to slice it cean out of your mouth." His tone was condescending, reeking with what Harmony could only describe as sensuality unbefitting of the situation. It seemed to get the point across, as her sister - Lily - quieted immediately. Reno kept his hand over her mouth, but twirled around behind her. "Now," He said, "There's more to your story. I want to know how you knew Harmony would be different. I want to know every piece of information you have. Start at the very beginning." As he spoke, he let his hand drift down to lightly rest over Lily's throat. With each second that Harmony's mother and father remained silent, he tightened his grip until the girl he held let out a pathetic whimper.
"Alright! Just let her go!" Dolores said. Yuffie snorted in disgust.
"You'll do whatever you can to save the life of one daughter, but have no problems casting another out? You're pathetic. Pathetic and sad and hollow." Vincent put his hand on her shoulder to stop her threatening advance.
"I suggest you answer the question. I can't hold her off forever." He said.
Harmony's mother scowled at the dark man, but began her story none-the-less.
"All I know is some stupid story passed down in my family for generations. That one day, my ancestor Gawain was returning from battle, only to have a mighty being appear in his path. The being spoke to him, telling him of an important task, one that only he had the heart to accomplish. As the figure spoke, a ring of light appeared, and out of that light came the figure of a woman. She was beautiful, and reeked of other-worldly power. The God-like being spoke again. "You will take this woman as your wife. You will protect her as you protect no other. Worship her as you worship your God, for she is the key to the continued existence of not only this world, but the sister world.
"He then foretold that they would have children with magnificent power, but the power would be limited. If the first born child in each generation was a female, then she would have the power. Not the first female child, only if the firstborn child is female. The gene was dormant for years and years and years. There have been three generations that have produced this abomination, including Lilith over there. Its said that they possess the powers of a mighty God. That when the woman came here from beyond the gate, she was given a task to find yet another powerful being and protect that creature and its family with her own life. She never found any such being. She was a freak, and a failure. Just like you!" She shouted at Harmony, the girl flinching away from her mother.
Harmony choked back as sob as she processed this new information. "You knew?" She whimpered. "You knew all along... and you never told me... you hurt me... you almost killed me...!" At that moment, everything hit her all at once. Fifteen years of physical and emotional torment, despair, and anger all crashed together, making the young witch reel back from the force of it. She stood from the couch, her voice rising.
"Why? Why in the Seven Hells is that my fault? I never did anything but try to make you love me. I've spent years hating myself for this power, even as I learned to control it. I hated it! Hated it because it made me different. Hated myself because for ruining your lives. But that was never really the problem, was it? You weren't upset because you were so young when I was born... You were upset because you knew that I would have ... this. This power. What is wrong with you? How is this my fault? DO YOU THINK I WANT TO BE THIS WAY?" Harmony stopped, gasping for breath.
Her sisters and mother were crying out, sobbing in terror as the room shook from the force of Harmony's now active and out-of-control power. Even her father looked afraid for his life.
"She's a monster!" Lily cried, struggling to get away from Reno so that she could cower behind her father. "Please don't kill us, Lilith! Please... I'm sorry! I'm sorry that we hurt you! Daddy, tell her!"
Weylin gazed at the now-woman before him. He saw his error, his mistake in treating her the way he had. Though he held no regrets, in truth he hated the little demon even more... He knew that he had to say something or she would kill them all.
Sassi stepped forward, intending to stop her friend from the massacre just waiting to happen, but Yazoo's hand on her clothed wrist stopped her.
"Let me go. She'll be upset if she kills them. I don't understand why, I certainly wouldn't lose any sleep over it, but you know Harmony." Yazoo nodded, obviously annoyed, and released her just in time to see Harmony closing in on her father.
"I'm sorry!" Weylin screamed.
All at once, the shaking stopped, the howling winds that had made themselves known ceased, and the errie glow that had overtaken Harmony's eyes receded.
"Sorry?" She whispered.
"You can't really believe him!" Kadaj shouted. "He's not sorry, he's afraid for his life! You son-of-a-bitch, you won't hurt her anymore!" He started toward Weylin, drawing the Souba from behind him and twirling it around with meaning.
Weylin gasped and scrambled backwards, trying to get away from the man intent to kill him.
"Kadaj, stop!" Harmony said forcefully. The Remnant froze. "Harmony, these parasites-"
"I know." She said. "I don't believe him. Sorry. Sorry is just a word, nothing but empty air. It means nothing, because you're not sorry." She paused and took a deep breath, and everyone in the room could feel the static-like energy as Harmony pulled her power in on itself. "But you will be."
Tearing her gaze from her father's, she threw her arms above her head in what Kadaj and Yazoo recognized as a prayer to her Goddess.
"May you find the happiness that you bestow upon others. May you always get what you deserve. May Diana never abandon you to your own lives. From this point on, you will be judged as you have judged me. By the grace of the Gods, of my true mother and father, so mote it be." She said in a low voice. A yellow light seemed to glow from the family of betrayers before settling into their skin. Each wore a positively horrified expression. She turned from the two souls that brought her into a world of hatred and despair.
She took Kadaj's hand and put it to her heart. "Thank you for your protection. It means a lot to me that you would do this to avenge my childhood, and my stolen happiness. Thank you." He only nodded and brought her hand to his mouth. "You know that I would do it again. And again. And again." He placed a kiss on her palm. "Get some rest. We'll take the trash out."
"Don't kill them!" She said, holding a finger up.
"We won't." Yazoo cut in.
"Wait! Lilith, please! Take it back! I'm sorry!" When she received no acknowledgement, she changed her game. "You stupid bitch! You're nothing but a freak! You'll pay for this, you monster. Freak!" Lily screamed as the group were man-handled to their feet and forced into a line where Aerith and Sassi could blink them away.
"Wait." Harmony said. She walked to the line of people, starting with her youngest sister and working her way up. "Fern. Clover. Brooke. Cherry. Ginger. Amber. Violet." She paused at the last one, the name coming out a bit differently than the others. "Lily."
Lily flinched as Harmony's brought a hand up to trace her fingers across the sparkling eye patch.
"I'm sorry about taking your eye. I was young and didn't have control over the power yet." Lilly scoffed.
"Whatever, you satanic whore-"
Harmony cut her off. "As I was saying. I didn't have control then, but I do now. If I could go back and change it, I would. I wouldn't take your eye."
Lily smirked at her sister's supposed guilt, the expression becoming a horrified frown as Harmony qualified her statement.
"I'd take your filthy tongue. All of you," She gestured to her sisters, "You knew that all you had to do was say my name with that bitchy little whine and that would be all Daddy needed to beat me into inconciousness." She turned back to Lily. "But you. You were the worst. You used it as often as you could, for no other reason than boredom."
Her father cut her off. "You take it back, you slut! I'll kill you! I'll kill you and everyone you care about!"
Weylin wasn't given time to hurl more threats.
It happened in a heartbeat. A swipe to the jaw had his head reeling back, a jab to the stomach forced his body to double over itself, and a fist in his hair had his nose grinding painfully against a sharp knee.
"Don't you ever, ever threaten my family! I'll finish what they started and kill you myself you useless waste of space!"
Before another word could be said, Sassi and Aerith closed in on the group, Harmony's past literally disappearing in a blink. They were back before Harmony had even fallen completely to her knees.
"Harmony? Are you okay?" Sassi said, hesitantly approaching her coven-sister. She didn't know if Harmony would be glad to have it over, or furious with her for pushing her into this.
To her everlasting relief, Harmony let out a dry chuckle, lifting her now-purple hand to examine it.
"That felt good." She said. Sassi full out laughed and threw herself at Harmony.
"I am so proud of you!" She said, her voice thick with amusement and conviction.
"Sassi, ow!" Harmony whined, pushing her friend away. Yazoo knelt down and gently took Harmony's injured hand.
"Hm." He said with a low chuckle. "I'm proud of you, too. You actually broke your hand on his face."
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"I don't understand why you won't just let me use the materia on it." Yazoo said some time later.
"I told you, I want to remember this. Every time I feel it throb, every little pinch and cramp, I can remember that this happened when I finally put my father in his place." Harmony answered.
"But are you sure you still want to stay at the waterfall? Now that we know for certain that you are a Guardian, and Sassi is a Cetra, don't you want to discuss it with everyone?"
"I will." She promised. "Later. I never got my chance to think. I know that I'm being selfish, after everything that's happened. But I have more on my mind right now than Guardians, and Ancients, and secret family histories." She shot a pointed look at Kadaj. He had been there to help her, had even made a promise that he always would, but Harmony was unsure if he really meant it, or if it had just been said in the heat of the moment.
"I see." Yazoo said, his voice betraying his disappointment.
"Don't sound like that. I'll be back tomorrow."
With that, she stepped away and, mindful of her injured-and-wrapped hand, and gave Sassi and the other female group members one last hug.
From across the room, Kadaj watched the scene. He heard every word said. He knew why she was leaving again, but he didn't understand why she was leaving again.
With silence that could come only from a Remnant, he slipped out the back door, following Harmony from a short distance.
She'd never be able to sort it out if she didn't talk to him.
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