Final Fantasy Tranquil Beauty (Sephiroth X Reader)

Tranquil Beauty Chapter 17

She sat there contemplating her life. Did she even live a life? Why am I even alive?  As she takes the chill water from the table beside her, the cup cold against her skin she presses it onto her lips to take in the beverage. She was parched and she drank the last drop as if she had never tasted water before. Eyes fall onto her as they watched her every move. Everyone in the room looked familiar, they were the people that were in the photos in the mansion. The one with flaming hair his eyes still looked the same, sharp and tough. The one with silver hair...still stands as if he were some sort of imperial king. He's the one... -the one she couldn't take her eyes off of.

"Ifalna." Genesis whispers.

His voice brought her back to the room. She looked at him, confused. How doe he know my name?  Why doe he speak to me as if there is a familiarity? Do I know him? So many thoughts ran through her mind. 

"Ifalna, we did a scan and found a chip lodged in the back of your head. It's the same one we've found on Hollanders people." Genesis explains.

"A ...chip?" Ifalna stutters.

Just then a wave of pain surges into her head as if her mind was being torn apart. She screamed with conviction the terrible pain echoing, bouncing back and forth. She grasped her head as if holding it together from being torn apart. Her eyes filled with tears as she tried to keep herself from falling apart. 

"I REMEMBER! PLEASE SAVE HER! SAVE HER!" Ifalna wails her palms now pounding her head.

Sephiroth now finds himself by her side holding onto her arms as she struggles to clobber the pain away from her head. 

"Ifalna tell me more! Tell me where she is! Where can I find her?!" Sephiroth pleaded.

"The ...waves... it surrounded us... We were so high...up...up so high as if we were... swimming in the clouds..." Ifalna yelped as she tried to get out as much information as she could because she knew what would happened after the pain subsided.

"Ifalna! Ifalna!....Ifalna..."

The sound of their voices slowly faded as she descended into the darkness but no matter how much she begged and cried she was always thrown into the darkness. No, not again. 

___________________________________________________________________

"How is she?" Genesis inquires.

"She's fine...as far as the eyes could see. According to the scans the chip is sending messages to her brain neurons. We won't know until she wakes up." Aerith sighs as she places a blood pressure cap around Ifalna's arm.

"Do you have any idea what's going on? She looked like she was in so much pain." Genesis says. 

"Yeah. From the looks of it it was as if she was fighting ... fighting something." Aerith sighs as she notes down the result of the blood pressure reading. 

"What the hell is that Hollander up to?" Genesis says through gritted teeth. 

"I don't know but whatever it is I don't like it and we have to figure it out soon." Aerith finishes as she invites Genesis out of the room to let Ifalna rest. 

Since the incident Sephiroth has isolated himself inside the tech room working closely with different factions to help find Y/N. His mind has been running, running around in limbo. His emotions were wired one moment he's angry, a feeling he was well accustomed to, then he's sad, bitter about the whole situation. 

He missed her smile, her laugh, how her eyes would slightly close when she giggled. He wanted her touch, her warmth. All the times he stopped himself from holding her he regretted deeply. He wanted  to embrace her everything. As days passed Sephiroth felt as if he was going insane every conversation is done through gritted teeth and the fury is clearly seen in his eyes. 

"Did anyone find anything? It's been days. We have the best technology and nothing? AM I SURROUNDED BY MORONS?!" Sephiroth voice steady and stern but the fury is heard within his tone. 

The technicians look at each other all lost for words. They were afraid, they all knew Sephiroth was on edge and they didn't want to be the one responsible for pushing him off. They cowered in fear as they try to scan Gaia once again for this island mountain mystery. 

"Sephiroth, you need rest." Genesis says as he walks into the room. 

The sound of the electricity buzzing through the room as the sounds of the keyboards clicking with steadiness made Genesis uneasy. I hate this sound, Genesis thought to himself. Genesis along with Sephiroth had been confined to headquarters as they searched for Y/N. He was worried for her and as much as he wanted to be level headed and calm what he really wanted was to be out in the world physically searching for her. But he knew  the moment he stepped out of the city so would Sephiroth. 

"I'm fine. We need to find her, that is more important than resting." Sephiroth turns to look at Genesis. 

"I know." Genesis agrees, he too exhausted, from helping Aerith with Ifalna, to searching for Y/N with Sephiroth, and working in the lab trying to decipher the messages being sent through the chips.  He knew he was spreading himself thin but no matter the exhaustion he had to find her. 

"GENERAL!" A technician yells out while waving his arms as he gestures for the the two to come over.

"What? Did you find something?" Sephiroth eyes scour the computer screen hungrily for any information leading to Y/N.

"Yes, here look at this." The tech begins to explain, he brings up a 3D map of the an area of the ocean near Costa Del Sol. "There was a magnetic pulse resonating from the bottom of the ocean in this area that was found a few days ago and at first we thought nothing of it, maybe the platelet under moving, I don't know. But after screening the area again we found the same magnetic pulse pulsating at a steady beat which was odd. So we did further investigation and look what we found."

The tech pulls up an orbital image of the location and with each button pressed on the keyboard the view came closer and closer. Up a pillar like island surrounded by crashing waves was a lone mansion sitting on top of the cliff. The live view showed a helicopter preparing itself to land on its grounds and the many hench-mens coming out to greet whomever was riding it. That's why they couldn't find her, she was hidden well enough within colossal waves while also encased in a daunting thunder storm. 

Sephiroth's heart danced with glee, he knew she was there, he felt it. His eyes gleamed with hope what he wanted more than anything was to hold Y/N in his arms and now he is one step closer to her. 

I found you.