Memories

[cetrary]

[ Aerith is in her garden tending to leaves when a few of them fall down. Memories. Well, she kinda expected it'd happen to her eventually too. So, she's not...entirely surprised. Still...the memories distract her enough to get caught up in the garden and her thoughts. ]

Bodyguard hiring is in session.

Hojo is a psycho. He's gross, disgusting, and a terrible person. Talks about dissecting her mother and just being generally creepy.

Aerith in a dress and Cloud is a loser.

Childhood captivity with Shinra. Content warning: attempted murder of a child.

Comments

[heavenlyhonour]

I was First Class along with him and Genesis.

[Aerith's words sound ominous but he doesn't want to run or hide from the truth. So Angeal shakes his head.]

You can tell me, it's alright.

[cetrary]

I'm sorry. I know he probably wasn't always like this. [ And it must suck for the people that knew him to know what he became. ]

I...don't know everything. When he killed the President he had broken into ShinRa headquarters to steal something Hojo was keeping there. He didn't care who he hurt to get it. I...don't think he cares about anyone getting hurt anymore. [ Which was a really bad thing. ] What he's doing, he thinks it's the right thing to do, that it's his right to do it. He's wrong though, so wrong, and if he's not stopped he'll destroy the planet itself.

[heavenlyhonour]

Don't worry about it.

[Angeal listened in silence and he had no reason not to take Aerith at her word. What she said was troubling, horrifying and frightening. He worried about people that wouldn't be able to take Sephiroth on and he recalled the day Genesis fought him in the VR room. So he sighed and nodded once she finished.]

That's pretty serious and troubling.

[cetrary]

It is. I'm...not even sure if we'll be able to stop him. We fought him once but he got away and now we have to find him again. But I know if we don't, things will get really bad.

[heavenlyhonour]

[Angeal grew increasingly concerned as he listened.]

How many of you are there to fight him?

[Of course for things like this he wished he was still alive. And that he and Genesis hadn't parted ways.]

[cetrary]

Five of us total if you count me. Which...is probably not great odds.

[heavenlyhonour]

It takes only one good hit to take someone down. And if there's five of you, just be careful.

[Sephiroth could more than take them all out. But Angeal was only going to offer encouragement here.]

[cetrary]

We will. I know what's at stake and how dangerous he is. Everyone else does too now that we've faced him once.

[heavenlyhonour]

[He let out a long sigh.]

Good idea he's not one that should ever be underestimated.