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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. O.M.G. TWO CHAPTERS IN ONE DAY! This one is VERY important, as it puts the plot back on track and starts to reveal more about Sassi's past. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! R&R!
Chapter 30
"Hey, Sassi?" Aerith said not long after Harmony had left for the waterfall. "Why don't we go to the meadow? Now that we know for sure that you're Cetran, I'd like to teach you a few things."
Sassi smiled at Aerith's excitement. "Sure." She said. "And because its obvious that you can use our magic as well, I can teach you, too. We can trade techniques."
!#$%^&*()
Harmony sighed as she lay back in the lounge chair. "What a long day." She muttered to herself. "I found out that I'm a powerful body-guard for beings from another world, there's more to my relationship with Sassi than I ever thought possible, saw my family for the first time in ten years, and broke my hand on my father's face. And lets not forget became even more confused about-"
"About what?"
Harmony gasped and sat up straight in the plastic chair. "Kadaj! What are you doing here?"
Kadaj slowly glided toward Harmony and sat down on the table next to the chair. "We need to talk. You're running away, again."
Harmony huffed. "I am not running away! I just needed some time to think!"
"Think about what?"
"Everything, Kadaj! You, me, the fact that I'm a Guardian, and Sassi's an Ancient-"
"Dammit, don't talk about her! I'm here to talk about us!"
"Don't start, Kadaj!" Harmony said, getting angry. She stood up and started toward the cave entrance, intending to put some distance between herself and the Remnant. "I don't understand why you hate her so much. What did she do to you? Nothing! She's my best friend, and now I find out that its more than that, and-"
"Its your fault I hate her!" Kadaj screamed at Harmony's retreating form, "All you care about is her!" She froze, facing away from him.
Suddenly, it came to her. It made so much sense. She and Kadaj were... well... not great... but okay, until Sassi came to the cabin and Harmony started spending time with her. 'This is just like with Holly...' she thought sadly, and with a twinge of residual anger and fear. For the second time that day, she lost the ability to control her mouth and the words poured out, bitterly.
"No, Kadaj, its your fault you hate her. You are so possessive, so insecure and jealous of the time I spend with her, even though you know our history, and how much we mean to eachother. You seem to think that I think less of you than I do her. Sassi is Coven. My Mother. My Father. My sister. My friend. She saved my life, Kadaj, and I've been there for her, as well." A thought struck Harmony, and while she should have taken the time to think it through, she ignored common-sense and let the words fly from her mouth.
"She's my Kiku."
Kadaj's head snapped up from its lowered position. How did she... He shook his head, willing his confusion away. "Don't you dare talk about her!" He snarled. "You don't know anything!"
"You lost her, Kadaj. She died. And now, everything that you attach yourself to becomes her. You're so afraid that you'll lose others the way you lost her, that you try to keep people all to yourself. You try to make them yours, completely ignoring what is important to them. You can't do that, Kadaj! You can't treat people this way. You have to come to terms with the fact that she's gone and she's never coming back!"
Kadaj choked back a gasp when Harmony began to speak, his body shaking with rage and disbelief. At Harmony's exclamation, he lost his fragile control over his fury and flew at her, slamming her against the wall of the cave and trapping her with his body, listening to her cry of pain and terror with what he could only recognize as joy.
'Do it.' came the voice in his head. 'Kill her. You know you want to. You know I want to. Don't you still want to make me happy, my son?'
"Mother?" Kadaj asked with a whimper.
'Oh no,' Harmony thought. She knew she had gone too far with her harsh words.
"Kadaj?" She asked carefully, "Are you with me, Kadaj?"
"Not anymore." He said.
Harmony opened her mouth to let loose a spell that would hopefully bring the Remnant back to his senses, at least long enough for her to run for help.
"You utter one word of a banishing spell, sweetheart, and I'll bite those pretty little lips right off your face." Came the raspy voice that had taken over Kadaj.
The only thing Harmony had time to do was think 'Oh, shit!' before she was flung across the cave. She bounced off the opposite wall, groaning in pain, and looked up to watch as Kadaj slowly advanced on her.
!#$%^&*()
"Do you feel that?" Loz asked as he stopped his sparring session with Yazoo.
Yazoo stopped as well, focusing on the familiar feeling washing over his senses.
"I feel it, too..." Cloud said as he made his way to the Brothers. "It feels like-"
"Jenova!" Sephiroth said, from across the meadow. He was doubled over, clutching his head in his hand with his teeth bared.
"Where's Kadaj?" Loz said, panicked. Of all three of them, Kadaj was the most susceptible to Jenova's power.
Yazoo felt dread fill him as he realized the implications of Kadaj's absence.
"Harmony!"
With one last panicked exclamation, Loz and Yazoo took off at full speed, Yazoo leading the way to the waterfall.
If Kadaj was there with Harmony, and Jenova managed to take over...
!#$%^&*()
"Well, the van is here, so they must be around here somewhere." The older man said after he and the other eight people with him stepped into the cabin, finding it empty.
"They're probably at the- what was that?" A young woman with black-and-blue striped hair said. "It sounded like knocking in the basement."
The older man got a curious look on his face and walked to the door, giving only a moment's hesitation before swinging it open.
An ugly old man sat on the top step, looking scraggly and tired.
Hojo turned around and grinned internally. His plan had originally been to appeal to Harmony's sense of guilt to let him out of the basement for a while, and then make his escape. He could feel Jenova getting stronger, and longed to witness her defeat of these stupid people. For scientific purposes, of course.
However, this would do perfectly.
"Oh thank goodness!" He said in his 'old man' voice. "I thought I'd be stuck there for hours!"
The older man gave him a questioning look.
"I am Fumio Hojo, one of the travelers that Harmony so graciously agreed to help. They all went to the meadow to spar, and I went down to the basement to... wash my clothes, and the door locked behind me." He lied. They didn't need to know that he was imprisioned there intentionally.
"Oh my, well its a good thing we came early then!" Another young woman said. "I'm Corey, part of Hari's coven. Its nice to meet you!"
"And you as well." Hojo said, turning on his 'I'm a genius scientist' charm. "If you'd like, I'll go to the meadow and tell them you're here. As I understand it, they weren't expecting you for a week."
"Yes, well. We all decided that the sooner we find out how to get you guys home, the safer it will be for all parties involved." The man said. "I'm Austin, High Priest of the Coven of the Moon."
Hojo nodded. "Good to meet you. I'll go and tell them you're here. It should only take a few minutes." He said as he walked to the door.
Waving at Austin's nod, he slipped out into the twilight. "Now," he said to himself. "If I remember right, South is the way to go."
!#$%^&*()
"Kadaj," Harmony said calmly. "Stop this. You're letting her in. That's not what you wanted."
Kadaj stopped his advance. He had tossed Harmony around like a rag doll for the past five minutes. "It isn't?" He sounded genuinely confused.
"No, remember? You told me once that you were content to live your own life, before she came along. Isn't that still what you want?"
"I did?"
'Yes, its working!' Harmony thought. She had spend the last few minutes weaving a silent spell into her voice. With every word she spoke, the tone of her voice worked its way into Kadaj's mind, slowly and subtly closing off his connection to Jenova. Hopefully, it was done slowly enough that Jenova wouldn't notice until it was too late.
"No." That was Jenova's voice. "He does want it. All he's ever wanted is to make me happy. He's such a good boy."
"Really?" Harmony asked. "I thought you wanted me, Kadaj... I thought you wanted to make me happy." She was reaching, she knew, but all she had to do was keep talking, and not piss him - or Jenova - off. Luckily, fortune decided to have mercy on her and pay her a visit, in the form of two streaks - one black-and-silver, one blonde-and-silver - whizzing past her and tackling Kadaj to the wall of the cave.
"Are you okay?" Yazoo shouted over Kadaj's snarling.
"Yes. Hold him still, don't hurt him. He's not himself right now." While Harmony was interested to know how they knew she was in trouble, well, first things first. "Don't let him go until I say. This may make him pass out."
With that she placed her hands on his chest and closed her eyes tightly, her lips moving in a whispered spell. With each element she spoke of, that same element would rush over Kadaj- not harming him, more like feathering against his skin and forcing the foreign presence from his mind.
"I banish you, Jenova, with the power of fire, so mote it be! I banish you, Jenova, with the power of earth, so mote it be! I banish you, Jenova, with the power of water, so mote it be! I banish you, Jenova, with the power of air, so mote it be!"
Harmony fought the wave of fatigue that tried to overcome her, watching with worried eyes as Kadaj snarled and bucked against his captors, his eyes wild and almost afraid.
Finally, he stilled. He slumped down in Yazoo and Loz's grasp, his eyes fluttering closed leaving him looking more like a sleeping angel and less like an alien-possessed killing machine. Harmony gently lifted his head and pulled each of his eyelids up before checking his pulse.
"He's out. He'll wake up in a few minutes. I suggest we get back to the meadow, where the other's can help us if she rebounds too fast."
The Remnants nodded and Yazoo allowed Loz to swing their youngest brother onto his back. Lifting Harmony and doing the same to her, the two Remnants raced back to the meadow to find a group of strangers whispering heatedly with Sassi. Yazoo slowed and allowed Harmony to slide off of his back.
"What's wrong?" She said, walking to the group. She inclined her head to the older man wearing the black robe, and turned her attention back to Sassi.
"We have a big problem. These guys came early, as you can see, and when they got to the cabin, they let Hojo out of the basement and sent him to get us." Sassi threw a scowl at the group behind her.
"He said he locked himself in and offered to tell you guys we were here! How were we supposed to know that you locked him up 'cause he's crazy?" A blonde woman said.
"If you had called us before, or even waited for Jodee and Melissa, someone could have told you!"
"So he's gone then?" Harmony said. Sassi nodded.
"The trees showed him heading north about fourty-five minutes ago. When he didn't come back, Corey came looking, thinking the 'old man' may have fallen and hurt himself."
"Shit, what do we do?"
"Well," Rufus cut in, "I don't know about the rest of you, but I think that Hojo is going to go to your military. He's shown in the past that he cannot resist Jenova at all. He'd do whatever it took to get in on whatever your military is planning, including-"
"Giving up our location." Sephiroth finished.
"Shit!" Harmony cursed. "What the hell are we supposed to do? We don't have anywhere else off the radar!"
Sassi lay her hand on Harmony's arm, forcing the brunette to look at her. "I know where we can go. They might try looking, but it would take months to get the documentation in place to be able to come after us."
Harmony thought hard, racking her brain for Sassi's meaning. When it finally came to her, her eyes widened considerably. "You mean...?"
"Yeah."
"Are you talking about what I think you're talking about?" Austin asked. The two women huddled in close with the coven and their voices became hushed, some even going so far as to use sign language. It was a brilliant idea. It would give them plenty of time to finish their mission, and Sassi had the resources to get them there.
!#$%^&*()
Kadaj woke to find Loz and Yazoo standing over him. Groaning, he tried to sit up. Yazoo's hand on his shoulder kept him in place.
"You should stay down. Harmony said you'd probably be dizzy for a while."
"What hap-...Oh Shiva, no..." He said as the memories came back to him. He forced Yazoo's hand away and stood on shakey legs. "Where is she? Is she okay?"
Yazoo nodded solemnly and gestured to the other end of the meadow where Harmony was deep in a discussion with a group of strangers.
"Who is that?" Kadaj asked.
"Her coven." Was Yazoo's clipped answer.
"What's your problem?" Kadaj shouted. "I know I freaked out but you can't blame me for that!"
At the commotion, Harmony's head turned toward the Remnants and she held her hand up to silence the woman she was talking to. With a few more nods and rushed whispers, the group disbanded, Harmony making her way toward Kadaj with a purpose, and a slight limp.
"Are you okay?" She said cautiously.
Kadaj let out a rueful laugh. "I should be asking you that."
"I'm fine. It was my spell that trapped her in the first place, she's weak to my power, in a way."
"I didn't hurt you, did I? You're walking with a limp."
"No more than you do when we spar." Harmony answered flippantly, shrugging it off. She turned to walk off, stopping when Kadaj grabbed her arm.
"I'm sorry. Not just about... that... but about..." He sounded so unsure and almost annoyed with himself as he searched for the right words. Well, he knew the right words, he just couldn't bring himself to say them.
"We'll talk about it later."
Kadaj gave her a hard look. "Are you still-"
"Running away? No. We will discuss this later. But right now, we have a problem, and we all need to get back to the cabin. We have to get out of here as soon as possible. We're going to the Lunar Ranch for a couple of nights, and then..."
Kadaj waited with impatient anticipation for her to finish.
"We're going to Ireland."
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