Mission 3 : [Video]

[argentimperator]

[The PCD is not picking up Sephiroth very well because he's holding it in one hand and moving a lot, but there are flashes of leather, silver hair, and steel. Mostly, what the PCD is picking up is the absolute devastation around him. Sephiroth is out in one of the more urban areas of the Wastelands, and he is destroying it. The mangled corpse of a

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[livingwashersin]

[She isn't saying anything. Well, for now she isn't. Instead Teial settles with watching the video feed, her expression showing worry.]

[argentimperator]

[He knows you're there watching, not-little-sister. He won't say anything until she does, though. It's good that he's out in the Wastes, because he doesn't think she needs to be exposed to the maelstrom of Bad Things that make up his emotional state right now.]

[livingwashersin]

[After another minute of silence she finally speaks up, although her voice is soft-spoken.] ...Sephiroth?

[argentimperator]

Yes, Teial? [He does his best to make his voice gentle with her. None of this is her fault and she's a sweet child.]

[books_n_battle]

*He sounds a bit shaky, not scared but Sephiroth might recognize that Jr.'s upset at realizing the lie too.* Seph?

[argentimperator]

[And Gaia damn it, there's still enough lingering from the event that Sephiroth can't bring himself to be harsh when Jr. sounds like that.] Yes, Jr.?

[books_n_battle]

You gonna be alright? *He might be turning his sword over out of view, trying to decide if he can match that without tapping powers he doesn't want to.*

[argentimperator]

For a given value of 'alright'. We can't go back and I refuse to stand still. That only leaves moving forward. [Even if he's doing it with sheer stubbornness instead of healthy emotional coping.]

[Video]

[reflectivedawn]

[What he really wants to know is how in the hell did he end up related to Sephiroth of all people?

But he had been his brother, even if it was for a short time, and he had been a good one. Not that he had anything to compare him to, but what wasn't the point.

Where? [Sora was gonna have a cow when he heard about this.]

[Video]

[argentimperator]

[It is more than a little disconcerting, to know so much about these people he didn't know at all before. It's worse that there is that moment of reacting to them as family before he remembers that he doesn't have one.]

Here. [x,y]

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[reflectivedawn]

[It takes him a while. Mostly because he had to finish packing his stuff and take it from the clinic back to his house. Home. It seemed like such a forgien concept now. That's what hurt the most. What knowing that for a week he had had a home, a place to go and just be. He had a family at home, and when he went back they would still be there. But Destiny Islands didn't really seem like home in his mind.

And for a week, this had. It was difficult, but he would get over it.

Which might have been the reason he didn't summon his keyblade the moment he ventured into the waste and found the location the coordiantes he had been sent led him too. He simply stood there, waiting for Sephiroth to notice him, arms crossed over his chest.]

Good thing I didn't piss you off last week. [Although he had gotten whomped on the head quite a few times.]

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[argentimperator]

[No Way to Dawn and that wasn't a position that lent itself well to Riku's various special abilities, either. So Sephiroth left his sword down and held almost loosely. Probably just as well; he'd been through several fights more strenuous than he could easily find back where he came from. Even Sephiroth could tire. He dropped lightly from a large chunk of rubble to the ground.]

Hmph. You know perfectly well I wouldn't have hurt you even if you had.

[skyofhope]

[lkajdf! This is soooo disorienting. At first all he knew of Sephiroth was that he was an enemy, then he'd been told about different versions of the very people he knew from home and he was even starting to think of the guy as someone completely different. But now?

Now Sephiroth had spent a week as Riku's brother and this was just too weird. Would it look bad if he continued to stay out of Sephiroth's way? Probably, which is why he was responding to this.]

Do you always end up destroying buildings when you fight?

[argentimperator]

[This Sephiroth might as well be a completely different person. While there's darkness in him, he hasn't been consumed by it. And he really only knows who Sora is because, well, he just spent a week as Riku's brother.]

Of course not. [Derp. He means that in the kindest way possible.] I'm usually fighting in areas where people live. It's rare that I'm in a position to let myself make this much of a mess.

[skyofhope]

[He was getting used to the idea that this Sephiroth wasn't a danger to Cloud...or to him. The fact that there wasn't a giant black wing sticking out of Sephiroth's back helped. Still, the fact that the other can be consumed by darkness isn't gonna keep him away. Maybe Sora can even help.

Well, that news sounds good to him. At least it's not like the last time he had buildings thrown at him. He just sounds curious.] What kinda stuff do you fight? Do you have monsters back home?

[argentimperator]

[He probably needs all the help he can get, not that he would ever, ever admit it.]

We have a fairly broad selection of monsters in the world I come from. [Not home. He's had a home now, and there is nowhere in the world he came from that felt like that.] ...Some of them look like people.