GaPA; Great and Powerful Author (Mwa ha ha ha ha)
Sephiroth heard distant voices, all moving in one rhythm, up and down, singing. He stealthily followed the trail of noises until he came upon something he did not expect. A pack of chocobos had joined in song. Which is very odd considering chocobos don't talk and they certainly don't sing!
"… breathe never again
Down with Shinra
AVALANCHE will die
Raise the Chocobo Empire
We'll be known across the skies
Hojo, sure he now stands tall
We all know he screws up now and then
Soon, very soon he'll fall
He'll breathe, he'll breathe never again
Down with Shinra
AVALANCHE will die
Raise the Chocobo Empire
We'll be known across the skies
Cloud he's quite the man slVt
He thinks he can get two women?" (Then a chocobo soloist sung out.)
"and he stole my haircut" (the chorus joined in again.)
"He'll breathe, he'll breathe never again"
Down with Shinra
AVALANCHE will die
Raise the Chocobo Empire
We'll be known across the skies
The song ended and the chocobos were quiet for a while. Sephiroth decided to keep silent, stay in the shadows, and hope for an encore; a mistake he would soon regret.
"Kidnap the Sephiroth, lock him up real tight Throw away the key and then Turn off all the lights" (1)
If they honestly thought the great Sephiroth was going to stand there and be plotted against by a bunch of oversized feather brained animals, they had another thing coming. He reached for Masamune only to find that it wasn't in its sheath. The chocobos had become aware of his presence organized and stared him down. There cold blue eyes narrowed and some began charging toward Sephiroth the others followed the example. To his surprise Sephiroth found himself running from the pack.
He rose quickly from his bed, breathing heavily. Sweat ran down from his forehead which made his hair stick to his face; he rolled his eyes and thought to himself, "Just great! That's gonna take an hour to fix." It was still dark out; he knew he wouldn't get to sleep even if it was only a dream. He sighed and rolled on to his side, there was something about that dream that made it feel very realistic. Some awkward tangible quality made this nightmare different than the rest, more frightening. Which angered and perplexed him because he knew it was only a dream and chocobos were pathetic things to be afraid of. Not that he was normally afraid of them but this dream it was just too weird.
He shrugged off the dream and tried to catch some more sleep, if possible. He watched the soothing moon sail between charcoal clouds. "heh… charcoal… clouds… heh… fire… Cloud" this seemed to calm him down. His eyelids became heavier and he blinked slowly, but just as he was about to fall into a pleasant blood bath of a dream he saw a glimmer on his window sill, some object reflected by the moon. His curiosity was piqued and he walked toward the item.
"Keep it down in there!" the lady next door screamed. She was a light sleeper and let everyone suffer for it. Was it honestly his fault that the apartment walls were paper thin? If she didn't like noises she should have never choose to live in the city. Then again if he didn't like her he could just move or get thicker walls, he made a mental note. Sephiroth never told her what he thought about her because truth be told he never bothered to learn her name and referred to her as Crazy Lady # 7. Truth be told Sephiroth isn't very creative. He ignored CL7 (GaPA; truth be told I'm kinda lazy) and kept walking toward the window. He saw something that shocked him; a long golden feather.
(1) Nightmare Before Christmas
So who is the mystery woman? What's a golden feather doing on Sephiroth's windowsill? Only one way to find out.
Author note; Short I know but more to come that is if I get enough encouragement (hint hint) Please review, thank you for reading!
Author's note as of June 11, 2006; I replaced the content with an edited version of the same chapter. Nothing major was changed, but the formatting on the poem was driving me insane. Maybe I can finally get some sleep now, huh? Oh and that whole Cloud line, it kept takingthe word I wantedout, I had to change it a bit so the 'V' is supposed to be a 'u'. Get it?