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Genesis raised an eyebrow as Vivi talked about the woman that he’d seen in his dream who had needed help. “You didn’t say anything about a lich before. What’s this about a lich?” He demanded, giving Sephiroth an odd look as the man quietly admitted that a dream had drawn him here as well. “Apparently no beautiful woman for you though.” Genesis rolled his eyes as he took the lead down the street. “Or did the great General Sephiroth warrant a visit from the mysterious lich itself?”
Honestly, Genesis had no idea what a lich was, but it sounded like a dramatic evil king in a play or something. He could get behind that. “There are no dreams, no honor remains,” he lamented as he casually threw Fire down a side street. He hadn’t seen any of the undead down that way yet, but you could never be too careful. And it wasn’t like it mattered if this whole city burned to the ground anymore. That might even be preferable since it would take care of the problem.
Vivi went on to talk about how he had come here to try to help the woman in his dreams, and he scowled faintly as the boy sadly admitted that no one would help him. “To be fair, if you had knocked on my door in the middle of the night because of a fever dream, I wouldn’t have come either,” he said, though he felt a reluctant sort of almost pity for the kid anyway. Ugh. Just their luck to find some kind of orphan experiment with nowhere to go.
Sephiroth seemed uncomfortable and asked about their estimated time of arrival, and Genesis dramatically threw up his hands. “Our ETA? Really? Can you act like we’re not in the military for five seconds? We’ll get there when we get there, Sephiroth. Or we could fly if you’re in a hurry.” He didn’t really expect Sephiroth to agree to that, but he had missed being able to needle the man at every opportunity.
Vivi asked what they were doing in the city if they weren’t there to help the woman in his dreams, and Genesis took a long pause, glancing at Sephiroth out of the corner of his eye. He knew exactly what had brought him here and woken him up in the middle of the night, because he could still feel Jenova’s pull, though it had lessened significantly since he had been in Sephiroth’s presence. Too bad the man was probably horrifically in denial. Maybe it was better that he didn’t remember the last time that Genesis had tried to tell him the truth. And Sephiroth called him the dramatic one.
“Oh yes. We just love to help out.” Genesis waved a hand as he crossed the street with the boy in tow. “I have quite the intuition for these things.” He paused to hop over a crack in the street before turning to glance at Vivi.
“More importantly. Do you have something you can do when we get to a town, or do we have to drag you somewhere?” Like an orphanage. Or Zack’s house. The last one would be worth it purely for the man’s expression.
”Can you act like we’re not in the military for five seconds?”
Sephiroth blinked and glanced to him. Not in the military? It hadn’t been an unreasonable thing to ask -- not when they were still in hostile territory. Sephiroth’s eyebrows twitched with irritation. ’We’ll get there when we get there.’ Sephiroth wanted to scold him for his carelessness, but said nothing. As much as it pained him to admit, he didn’t have authority here.
Perhaps if Genesis had engaged him, the conversation might have shifted. As it was, the boy used the silence to ask the exact question that Sephiroth had tried to escape. ’Why are you here?’
Once again, his eyes shot to Genesis. Genesis stayed quiet for longer than he should have, hesitant in a way that his usual impulses wouldn’t allow. He glanced to Sephiroth with something like caution before he shifted his demeanor entirely. ”Oh yes. We just love to help out,” he said. “I have quite the intuition for these things.”
Sephiroth’s eyes narrowed. He knew something. Genesis would have burned the place down before deciding to help out of charity, and he’d have burned himself before he admitted it. For whatever reason, the question had caught him off guard. Genesis wasn’t usually so terrible a liar.
”Intuition,” Sephiroth repeated coolly. Genesis would recognize his challenge for what it was.
The conversation shifted again. Perhaps too quickly. Genesis had no desire to linger.
”He’s capable with magic.” Sephiroth glanced to the child, whatever he was. He’d seen him cast fire from his vantage point in the sky, and it hadn’t been a weak spell at that. The boy had his own defenses. They had no reason to escort him once they’d left the city’s limits. ”He won’t need protection.”
Vivi had to think for a second as Genesis asked what a Lich was. "Well," he began trying to remember the details, "Zidane told me it was like some big skeleton creature, but it was alive and able to talk. It sounded really scary, but different than the sick people here." Vivi looked around as if one of the zombies was going to jump out and accost them at the mere mention of them, but thankfully none did. The further away from the temple they got, the less it seemed that they appeared with just a few a shambling in the alleys that Genesis was making short work of with his fire.
Vivi stayed quiet as Genesis would comment that he wouldn't have come either. But it wasn't like he had asked a stranger. He'd asked someone he thought had changed even just a little bit, but maybe that had been too big a thing to ask. Maybe Kuja just needed baby steps. Perhaps letting him go instead of holding him over Zidane's head was the first of those steps. Vivi nodded hoping that his assumption was true as the trio rounded another bend in the road.
"Really!" Vivi almost squeaked as Genesis talked about helping people out wit his intuition. "I need to learn how to do that, so I can help out where I can." Still, maybe he should figure out where he was meant to be in general first, but perhaps it could be a momentary distraction from such a broad idea. He'd wait to do the heavy thinking for after this ordeal and the puppies were safe and sound.
"Look it's the entrance," Vivi said with excitement as he sped up as the gate ahead was open. Vivi turned when Sephiroth would acknowledge he could take care on his own from this point forward. "Mr. Sephiroth is right Mr. Genesis," Vivi would look up to the red haired man after looking at Sephiroth his eyes alight with glee, "We should be fine from here on out. Thank you both for helping me out. I promise I'll get these guys to a good home." Vivi began to waddle down the path before turning around. "I hope I get to help you guys out in the future. Have a good night!" With that Vivi would journey down the road back to the village he had come from
Back in the village inn, Vivi talked to the innkeeper who was busy with all the refugees that had fled from the temple's village. She was surprised the kid had survived, but promised she would find them all good homes. "No," Vivi shook his head, "They have to stick together. They're a family." Later that night as he slept in a cot so people worse off than he could use the bed Kuja hadn't returned to, Vivi began to fall asleep as he appologized to the woman of his dreams. "Maybe next time, I'll be able to help more." he said quietly to himself as a sense of calm took him into his dreams.
Sephiroth eyed him like an angry bird of prey, which wasn’t a hard comparison to make with his slit pupils. Genesis pursed his lips and met his gaze directly. “Oh yes. I’m just full of intuition on the topic.” He wasn’t going to willingly regale him with tales of his parasitic alien mother, but if Sephiroth was determined to freak out and burn down a town, then that wasn’t on Genesis. Not like this city couldn’t use some razing anyway.
As they came up on the town where Genesis had been staying, Sephiroth pointed out that the kid had enough magic to look after himself. Rolling his eyes, Genesis was about to inform him why that really wasn’t the point, when Vivi suddenly agreed with Sephiroth that he could look after himself. Calling him ‘Mr. Genesis’, Vivi waved at them happily and wished them a good night before running off with the box of puppies. Genesis narrowed his eyes and watched him waddle off into the darkness, torn between relief and annoyance.
“From now on, you may only refer to me as Mr. Genesis,” he informed Sephiroth as he stretched out his wing before folding it against his back. “Also, what do you think? Definitely one of Shinra’s lab rats?”
Yawning, he wondered irritatedly what time it was. It had been the middle of the night when he had first left the inn, and that had to have been hours ago. He wouldn’t have been surprised to see the sun creep over the horizon at any moment.
“I have a room in this town if you’d like to come catch a few hours of sleep with me,” he offered to Sephiroth. “But alas! Only one bed. Whatever will we do?” Throwing a smirk over his shoulder, he started walking off in the opposite direction that Vivi had disappeared down. “My friend, do you fly away now? To a world that abhors you and I?” There was really no better time for Loveless than right before sunrise, after all.
