Wings [One] - Video

[standing_alone]

This isn't how I imagined it would be. [Zack picks up one booted foot.] I could've sworn I was flying. [His brow furrows and he shakes his head.] Was that a dream?

Was it all a dream? [He tips his head back and focuses on the sky.] No...I know it wasn't. He's out there somewhere and I'm -

[Now it gets more confusing. On instinct, Zack reaches for his buster sword...and finds it. But hadn't he given it to Cloud?]

Someone is messing with me and you can bet I'll figure it out! [A small smile follows those words and he swings his sword with ease.] I've got my fire back and I know everyone is...safe.

[For the time being.]

Show me what you've got. [His expression becomes almost sly.] Once a SOLDIER always a SOLDIER.

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[standing_alone]

Mako. [Never heard of steroids.]

He did. Sort of. It's complicated.

[worldofourown]

What's that? [ Never heard of Mako. ]

Enough to be tragic, or just amusing?

[standing_alone]

It's a liquid form of Gaia's Lifestream. [Which makes it highly complex.]

More tragic. [He grits his teeth.] No excuse for what he did.

[worldofourown]

[ It's a Greek and/or Jibberish to him. ]

I have no idea what Gaia is.

...What did he do? Commit a massacre? A genocide?

[standing_alone]

[It just means, if you take Mako into your system with regularly administered doses, you're fine. But if you fall into a vat of it and get lost in the planet's memories, you tend to lose far more than you bargained for.]

That's the planet I'm from.

He was going on about destroying the planet.

[worldofourown]

Whatever for?

World domination? Unpleasant childhood associations?

[standing_alone]

He was hearing voices. Well...one voice. From this entity he called "Mother". We call "her" Jenova.

[worldofourown]

[ Now isn't that interesting. Karl obeys a 'Mother' too. ]

So she was an actual entity? Or was he simply schizophrenic?

[standing_alone]

She exists. But she's...

something that wants to destroy the planet. She sees it as her enemy and Sephiroth became...her soldier.

[worldofourown]

Sounds like mass brainwashing if you ask me.

[ He likes it. He likes it. ]

[standing_alone]

That's exactly what it is. I...

Felt sorry for him. At first.

Not anymore.

[worldofourown]

Did he kill someone important to you?

[standing_alone]

He destroyed a whole town.

I...bet he did worse...after I left.

[worldofourown]

He sounds like an absolute monster.

[ Who knew Seph had it in him. Respect, man. ]

[standing_alone]

You can say that again. No one saw it coming.

[Though they probably should have.]

[worldofourown]

Those are often the most dangerous ones of all.

...But pardon my manners. I didn't catch your name.

[standing_alone]

He was someone we all respected.

Zack Fair.

[worldofourown]

A shocking betrayal indeed.

[ What else is new. And hey. When your own brother helps kill you? Not much. ]

A pleasure. I'm Karl Fei-Ong.

[standing_alone]

One that should've been handled right off the bat.

[Zack had tried his damnedest to knock some sense into Sephiroth, but he had ended up beaten to a pulp for it.]

Were you friends with him, Karl?

[worldofourown]

Hm~?

I wouldn't call it friends per se. Acquaintances at best.

[ Or, y'know. Frequent enemies. ]

[standing_alone]

That's good. I wouldn't get too close to him. Even if he seems sane.

[Sephiroth is simply too powerful.]

[worldofourown]

I'll be certain to keep the advice in mind.

Should he return the City, that is.

[ Powerful. Sane or insane, he was that. ]

[standing_alone]

And if he's talking about Mother, get the hell away from him. [Zack grimaces and shakes his head.] Has anyone else from Gaia been here?

[worldofourown]

I'd get the hell away from anyone who looked like him and went on and on about Mother. [ Snort. ] Not that I know of. You could always check the Hall Of The Missing.

[standing_alone]

Good plan. [His brow furrows.] Hall Of The Missing? [That sounds...bleak.] Where is that?