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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. Okay. I know this is short. I'm sorry. This chapter is important, as the plot finally emerges, and I felt that it had to end where it did. (I'm only 370 words short of my 2000+ rule...) Again, I'm really sorry about how short the chapter is... but it has to be this way. I promise that with the plot picking up, the chapters will be consistent in length.
Sukai is the OC created for Riverseithr. Her appearance, mannerisms, and ideas for her inventions belong to River. I'm only playing with her, for now ^-^

Chapter 8: Little Guardian
Harmony walked down the now-familiar street to the school where she would pick up her daughter, and her God-children.
She felt guilty for saying the things that she had. She knew that it was just as hard for Kadaj as it had been for her. He did think he would never see her again... was it fair of her to expect him to live the rest of his life celibate and alone? Would she want him to stay single forever if she died? Because where they both thought she'd never come to Gaia, for those here, she may as well have been dead to them, and they her.
No, it wasn't fair. She still felt betrayed... but could reluctantly understand his reasoning. She pulled a long drag off of her very-well-hidden-secret cigarette. No one knew she was smoking... not even Kiku knew. She hid it well. She had to. Sassi would hang her ass out to dry if she knew. The scars on the Cetran's back showed the reason she hated cigarettes. There was a time, long ago, when she was her father's personal ash tray.
Harmony shook the thoughts from her mind, taking one final drag and tossing the butt to the ground, stomping it out.
A sudden wave of fear, followed by fury nearly knocked her off of her feet. She shook her head. Had Loz startled Sassi? No... She could feel Sassi, and she was fine. Amused about something. This was different. Was it Aerith? No... she'd never been able to feel Aerith's emotions before. That left only two options. Miriam and Fionn.
With a gasp, she took off at full speed down the street, trying to calm down by telling herself that they were probably only being bullied... but if they were, and Kiku saw it, her Guardian blood could cause a major scene.
All of her attempts to calm herself were shattered when she rounded the corner. There in the school yard, a group of men dressed in black were forcing Miriam and Fionn into a van, one of them trying to grab ahold of Kiku and toss her in as well. The little girl was screaming and fighting, using every bit of the knowledge that her Uncle Yazoo had been teaching her, but it wasn't enough.
"Kiku!" Harmony screamed, terrified. "Use your power! Its okay! Do it!"
The little girl turned to the sound of her mother's voice. "They're hurting Miri and Fionn, Mommy! It hurts me!" She cried, struggling in the grip of the man and crying out when her elbow connected, causing the man to drop her. Harmony was on him in a heartbeat, logical thought flying from her mind as she attacked with everything she had. She felt a rush of power that ended just as quickly as it began. It had come from Kiku, the girl intending to use her blood-gifted magic to stop the men surrounding her mother from hurting her. It was stopped short when another man twirled behind her, raising his fist and knocking her unconsious.
"No!" Harmony screamed as Kiku's limp body was thrown into the van. A sudden pain in her thigh had her looking back to the group in front of her, and then to her leg. A red-feathered dart was sticking out of her flesh. She swayed as the effects of the tranquilizer began to take hold, falling to her knees and screaming incoherent cries for someone to help her, to save the children.
One of the men approached her cautiously, kneeling over her prone body as she rapidly lost consiousness.
"You tell them to find us. If you want to see your children again, tell them to give themselves up." He hissed.
With one final insult, he spit at her, standing and climbing into the van, the vehicle quickly becoming lost in the flow of traffic as Harmony's vision went dark.
!#$%^&*()
"Something's wrong." Sassi said, pacing. "They should have been back an hour ago, and Hari's not answering her phone."
"Maybe she took them to see a movie?" Loz offered. "She looked like she wanted to stay away from Kadaj for a while."
Sassi shook her head. "No, she would have called first. This isn't like her! Something's wrong!"
At that moment, the phone rang. Sassi rushed to answer it. "Harmony?" She said.
"Uh, no, Ma'am. My name is Kunsel, I'm a friend of Zack... I found your number in this woman's phone."
"What happened?" Sassi asked, dread filling her.
"Well, witnesses report a fight in front of Edge City Elementary, and when we got there, your friend was on the ground. She's alright, but she's been tranqed. Do you have any idea why she would have been at the school?"
Sassi stopped breathing. "My children... were there kids with her? Three of them, two are twins, almost identical, a boy and a girl... the other is a girl, small, all of them have silver hair."
"I'm sorry, Ma'am. There were no children with her. Would you like to file a missing persons report?"
Sassi shook her head. No, this couldn't be happening! "Where is she now?"
"Edge Hospital. They're giving her something to counter-act the tranquilizer."
Sassi hung up the phone. Without a word, she rushed out of the house, a very concerned Loz hot on her tail as he called the dojo. This could not be good news.
!#$%^&*()
Harmony whimpered as she awoke, blinking her eyes against the bright light above her.
"Where am I?" She asked, more to herself. "What happened?"
"We were hoping you could tell us." Came the trembling voice of Sassi. The events of the day all came rushing back and Harmony bolted upright.
"Oh my God! The kids!"
"Shhhh." Yazoo hushed. "Calm down. What do you remember?"
"I-I was at the school... I felt Fionn and Miri, they were afraid... and Kiku was furious. I hurried as fast as I could, and when I got there, some men were trying to get them into a van. I told Kiku to use her power, but they... they knocked her out!" She sobbed.
Sassi sat down and put her hands on her shoulders. "Then what?"
"I felt a sharp pain... in my leg... they shot me with something. I felt so dizzy... and then one of them said-"
"What?" Kadaj cut in, "What did he say?"
"He said to tell 'them' that if they wanted their children back, to give themselves up." Harmony's eyes widened as she put the pieces together. "Who are they? What the hell did you guys do?"
Kadaj closed his eyes and exhaled deeply through his nose.
"They call themselves 'Gaia's Retaliation'. They... they're a group of people who believe that those with Jenova cells are still a danger. They refuse to see all that we have done to earn our redemption. They think that the only way to ensure that Gaia is safe, is to kill us."
"I never thought they'd go this far..." Sassi sobbed. Harmony pushed away from her, wishing for the first time in her life that their bond would allow her to be angry.
"You knew? Why the hell didn't anyone tell me! Didn't you think I needed to know that someone might be after the people I care about?"
"We haven't had dealings with them in over a year! We haven't even heard about any activities!" Yazoo cut in.
"What will they do to our children?" Sassi whimpered.
"They might not know..." Loz offered, trying to be optimistic at least a little.
"I think they do. We've kept the secret protected with out very lives, but someday, they were bound to find out that the Remnant's have children." Sytherea said from across the room.
Harmony exploded. "Why didn't anyone tell me?" She screamed. "If I'd have known, I could have kept her safe! I could have been working with her to help her control her power, I could have-"
"Stop." Vincent said. "This isn't going to help. Get your things, we're getting out of here. We have work to do."
!#$%^&*()
"I had a really great time." Sukai said nervously, glancing at Sephiroth out of the corner of her eye. The two were walking back to the dojo after their late lunch, and Sephiroth was looking and feeling much better.
"I.. I did too. Thank you." He said. He really had. The two had talked about everything. Name the subject, and they had covered it. And he did half the talking! That wasn't like him at all... though it felt... nice. He had offered to walk her back to the dojo, hoping for just a little more conversation before he had to return to Rufus and Reeve at the WRO Headquarters.
When they reached the door, Sukai turned to face him. "Thanks for having lunch with me... and sorry about blasting you."
She looked so pretty, standing there. The buns that she usually wore in her hair had been let down, the long, blue-black tresses tickling at her collarbone. She fidgeted, bringing a hand up and tucking one of her dread-style bangs behind her ear. Sephiroth barely noticed she'd said anything.
"Hm? Oh, you're welcome. I would... enjoy it, if we could do it again." He answered. He took her hand when she tried to fidget with her hair again, bringing it to his lips.
'Oh my Gods, is he going to-?' Sukai thought, her heart pounding. Said organ then plumetted to her toes when Sephiroth abruptly stood, his body rigid, staring into the dojo.
"What is it?" Sukai asked.
Sephiroth released her hand and rushed to open the door. He could feel Aerith's sudden fear and saddness like he'd just been smacked in the head with a brick.
"Something's wrong."
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