Depressed Mizuki - Er... I love you too? Run, Vinnie! Sorry this update took a li'l longer.
Banana Peel - It was kinda fast. This chap's kinda fast too, though.
Gining - I always thought Chaos would be bitter toward Vincent, but not want to destroy him. You didn't think he was a bit OOC?
Plumbob - After reading your review, I re-read my story... I hate it when my reviewers are right sometimes. I'm too lazt to rewrite it all, so I'll just fix it in the next story.
Seras015 - Okies! Glad you're likin' it!
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ShadowCelest117 - Yup, people are gunna hafta read Divine Being: Divinity Neverending.
Divine Beings
Fear is only what you make it out to be.
You just keep telling yourself that, Yuffie Kisaragi. Eventually, you might believe it.
I do believe it! I also believe that I do not, in any way, like Sephiroth!
Your lies do not help yourself... They merely make you weak in the instant that you need strength.
Whatever...
Yes. Whatever, indeed...
Chapter Six
"I'm scared," she whispered so softy that it was nearly lost to the materia's song.
Sephiroth nodded. "So am I."
She swallowed and looked back at the Life Stream pool. "Think it's cold?"
Sephiroth had to crack a smile at her. "Only if you want it to be." She looked back at him oddly, causing him to laugh. "Think happy thoughts, Yuffie," he told her, then began to laugh again.
She started to believe that he was cracking up. His laughter echoed throughout the cavern wonderfully. "Sephiroth, you're getting really weird."
He slowly stopped laughing, then looked at her with his eerie green eyes. "I will not make it back to the Planet we know. I am going to be forever trapped here," he said like a frightened child. She did not know what to say.
"I'm... I'm sure that there's someone-" a thought popped into her mind. If Sephiroth had not died... What about... "Lucrecia!" the ninja said, pumping her fist into the air.
"What?" the general asked, confusion etched across his handsome face. "Who is Lucrecia?"
Yuffie bit her lip as she remembered her one and only meeting with the freaky woman. "She was... is... your mother. The one who actually gave birth to you." Her mind whirred with the possibility of Sephiroth being able to have another chance at life. "She wanted to see you so desperately! Vincent had a thing for her, but she was with Hojo..." She looked up at him slowly, almost afraid to speak the truth about Sephiroth's paternal unit. "Your father..."
Sephiroth looked down at his ninja comrade in confusion. "Mother? Father? But, Jenova..."
Yuffie shook her head vehemently. "No, no, no! Jenova was injected into Lucrecia's womb while she was pregnant with you. Hojo made promises, bu broke them just as quickly. They planted those books for you to find. They just didn't plan on you goin' all psycho-Mesamune on everyone." Her stormy eyes held such faith in her words that he could not call her a liar. He was taken aback by the story, but somehow, he knew that she would not lie to him.
"What about my mother? Is she alive?"
Yuffie scratched the back of her head in nervousness. "I don't know..."
Reina felt as if she was being split open from the inside. She collapsed to the floor of her brother's underground palace, a magnificent structure made mostly of marble. "K-Kais!" she cried out in pain. Her dark-haired twin watched her with a stoic expression.
"You brought this upon yourself, my sister." Gone was the smile that he had worn whilst travelling with Yuffie and company. His hard mask of iciness was the last thing that Reina honestly wanted to see. But here he was, watching her writhe in pain.
Something separated from the divine being, then stood slowly. Reina lie panting on the floor, the pain having stopped, but she looked different once again. Her once black hair was once-again pure white. Surka stood in front of her, looking down at her own hands in disbelief. "Where am I...?" She looked up to see Kais, who smiled kindly. "Can I go now? Can I see Scott?"
"And Michael, if you wish. He died while on a mission... He had a son named Joshua... Joshua now goes by Reno Zanard, and has continued your family tradition of being a Turk. He's twenty-three." Surka smiled, her eternally twenty-three-year-old body beginning to fade. "Sleep, now."
Reina glared at her brother, her eyes no longer aqua, but an awful shade of puke green. The emerald eyes of Sephiroth contradicted her own brown in a hideous fashion, the end result not being very pretty. "You traitor," she hissed at her twin. "I can't believe you! You helped them!"
Kais nodded, eyes watching her warily. She got her first true look at him in fifty years. He was the same as ever. Bronzed skin complimented his dark brown hair, which was tied back neatly, and dark eyes, which held so much wisdom. They were nothing alike, she and him, save for their naturally tanned skin and dark eyes. He was tall and broad-shouldered, whereas she had always been petite and frail-looking. He had always been the one to laugh whole-heartedly at stupid jokes and make friends... Even while she was a commander of an entire army, she had no one to laugh with, no one to talk to... Save for Kais. She despised him.
"I helped them because you are hateful, Reina. Come with me... Give Sephiroth back his body... We can be like the friends we used to be."
She tossed out a hideous laugh that made even Kais shudder. "We were never friends, you oaf! You were always annoying! So damned perfect!" She summoned forth an ancient spell and hurled it at him with all of her anger, hatred, and sadness. He caught the ball of black fire easily and looked at it. She had always been the more evil of his family...
"Then we shall always be enemies," he said in a feathery light whisper, carried off by the slight breeze ever-present in his home. He changed the black fire to a ball of white light and set it upon the ground. "And we shall never recover from this, Reina... And I hope that you know that I tried... That I have always tried... And that I'll never relinquish that hope. That I'll never banish that light that I worked on so hard for so long. You may have given into the darkness that once roamed this land, the darkness that we helped to create originally by all of the fighting, but I have given up on it." His hair had fallen loose of the elastic band and was now spilling over his shoulders as he looked at the ground. Long strands fell into his face, making him look all-the-more imposing when he looked up at her, face still toward the ground. It made her shudder involuntarily. "It is all your realm of darkness, Reina. I'll have nothing to do with it."
Tears formed, but she stood, hands behind her back, the slight breeze causing her hair and long duster to flutter. "And may death come to you soon enough, my brother," she told him, a solitary tear, the last human thing that he thought he would ever see from her, slipped down her cheek.
She vanished, leaving Kais to sigh and hang his head. "Did I do the right thing?"
Sephiroth and Yuffie looked at the pool of eerie green liquid again. "You first," she said with a small smile.
He returned the scared smile and shook his head. "I can't do it alone."
She was startled. The Great Sephiroth could not do something brave without someone there to hold his hand? She was amazed at how different he was without the macho-isms and the Jenova influences. He was kind at times... And gentle, even though he seemed so frightening. And he was a great kisser!
Her hand slipped into his gloved hand and she smiled up at him. "I'll go with you, okay? You won't be alone, I promise."
He nodded, swallowing hard. This would probably be the last time he would ever see her... Better make it count. He bent low and kissed her gently, then pulled away, still gazing into her stormy lilac orbs. She was on the verge of tears. She would make it, why would she cry?
"Let us go, then," he whispered and they walked into the cool green liquid.
She was swallowed by the Life Stream, and lost Sephiroth... She cried out to him, but there was no sound. She stil breathed as normal, but the silence was smothering. She tried to scream out his name, to find him, but the emerald haze about her swallowed up the sound once again. It was suddenly cold.
Think happy thoughts, Yuffie.
She closed her eyes and smiled to herself, hearing his voice inside her mind. She needed him to be there for some inexplicable reason. As she thought this, something happened... She drifted from the Life Stream... Alone.
Eyes opened slowly and stared at a dirty white ceiling. "Yuffie!" three voices said in unison. She was suddenly smothered by Tifa's hug, although she did not pull away. What had happened? Where was she? What about the Life Stream? What about...?
"Where's he at?" she asked quickly, pushing Tifa away. She jumped up, her weak muscles protesting and screaming at her.
"Who?" a bewildered Cloud asked, drawing his Ultima Weapon, just in case.
Tifa cast him a look, then took Yuffie by the arm and guided her back to the bed. "Where is who, Yuffie?"
The ninja looked up at her, then at Cloud, and lastly at Vincent. "He... He didn't make it back with me?" she asked meakly, tears forming. "Oh, no... He was gonna become good and everything! I... I..." She collapsed into sobs, making Tifa and Cloud look at her in confusion and amazement. Yuffie cried?
"She needs time alone to think," Vincent told the two. "I will talk with her."
Against tifa's protests, Cloud guided her from the room.
"He w-w-was th-there, Vinnie," she sobbed. For such a tough girl, she looked utterly fragile at that moment. She wore only a tank and drawstring pants and was sobbing uncontrollably. "I promised him he wouldn't b-be alo-alon-alone!"
He sat next to her, taking her in his arms in a brotherly fashion. "Who, Yuffie?" he whispered, rocking her comfortingly.
She stopped and looked up at him with round, innocent eyes. "Sephiroth," she replied.
Reina was halfway through her reappearing act in the villa when the pain tore through her once again. Much to her displeasure, that also meant that she ended up back at her brother's palace. He looked at her curiously as she convulsed and flopped upon the marble floor. It separated, but this form was solid, unlike Surka's semi-transparent form. He did not look at himself in amazement, but looked around instead.
"Where is she?" he demanded, looking for his mystery person. He looked at Kais. "Where is Yuffie?"
He stared at the silver-haired man in disbelief. "Your... Your eyes are... They're..."
"What?" Sephiroth snapped, irritated that Yuffie was not with him.
Reina panted heavily and began to laugh. "They're no longer MAKO," she said through her laughter. "As a matter of fact... I have kept the Jenova and MAKO within myself... And I feel much, much better..."
The two men watched as she stood to her full height of 5 feet. Her eyes were no longer an awful green, but black. Her white hair seemed to be the inverse of her hair when Surka had been within her, having ching-length black bangs, a few black streaks throughout the rest of her snowy hair. Her muscles were more defined than before due to lack of interferance with the Jenova and MAKO. She smiled sadistically.
"Your time has come," she whispered, then vanished.
"She likes to do that," Kais said in a flat voice. He had grown quite tired of it. He looked at Sephiroth, whose eyes were actually a green-tinted hazel. "She's in Costa del Sol." Sephiroth began to walk away, but Kais called to him. "AVALANCHE, in general, will not forgive you as easily as Yuffie did... Be wary."
Sephiroth nodded, his green eyes no longer looking as eerie without the glowing and having a slight brown rim around his pupils, then Kais whisked him from his palace and left him standing down the shoreline from his destination. Sephiroth stood, his Mesamune sheathed, and began walking to find his ninja... He knew that she had something that had brought him back. Did she love him? He thought on this as he continued toward the town, its lights a warming and welcoming sight in the cool night. When did the sun finally set? It had been light when he had landed on the beach, hadn't it?
His thoughts on Yuffie led to another thought; Revenge. Hadn't that been what he had wanted in the first place? He had wanted revenge... But... Without Jenova's cells and the MAKO in him... He just could not find it in him to seek out revenge. Had that, also, been Jenova's need? Had she needed the revenge, not him? Then... Could he convince AVALANCHE of that? Would Yuffie's temporary truce with him be over once her friends began to fight him once again? Would she join them as they fought against him?
He shook those thoguhts from his mind, a determined air about him. He would find her, then they would take care of Reina... After that? Well, only the gods knew what was next...
The End
R: Okay, there is going to be a sequel... When I feel like writing it. This story has been fun and was originally supposed to be all about Surka and Sephiroth, but... I just couldn't do it. So, watch for "Divine Beings: Divinity Never-Ending". Hope you enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed writing it and reading your reviews. Ciao-ness!