Gotta catch a train [Completed]

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Character(s): Sephiroth, eventually Kadaj and various Turks
Content: While en route to his rendezvous with Rufus Shinra, Sephiroth is intercepted by Kadaj. Insanity ensues.
Setting: Somewhere east of Paixao Central Station, and heading in that general direction.
Time: Mid-afternoon
Warnings: Swearing, violence, and bloodshed. Well, if Kadaj and his summons can shed blood, that is...


Sephiroth had had better days. First, there had been the unfortunate encounter with whatever those creatures had been; then, the strange man named Vincent. They had parted company after he checked something on the journal he carried, which had prompted Sephiroth to do the same. After spending the better part of an hour speaking with a man named Shinra and a person who claimed to be somehow related to him, he'd started moving toward the central station marked on his journal's map.

This whole thing stunk to high heaven. None of it added up; President Shinra, dead? His son in charge of everything? Sure, it would probably happen like that, but that would take -years-.

And now, a person claiming to be related to him, and who was quite obsessed with meeting him. A man named Kadaj, who Shinra claimed was one of Hojo's science projects gone wrong. A man who was supposed to have been created as a replacement for himself, alongside two others...

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... Five minutes?! That was it? That was all he got?! Hands curling into fists, Kadaj did all he could not to glare right back at this... ohh, he wished he could insult him without somehow insulting himself. The worst he could think of that didn't do that was calling Sephiroth ignorant, and he still couldn't say that to his face.

He closed his eyes, very quickly running over his options. There was no way he could compress the entirety of his knowledge into a five-minute interval, and likewise no way that would actually convince Sephiroth. He had to think of a much more direct approach.

Within a few seconds he had it, and his eyes snapped open again while he grinned, obviously pleased with what he had come up with. "Then I'll prove it to you," he said in a purr, bowing his head and concentrating... This had to work, so he knew he'd have to make it as impressive as possible.

At first nothing happened. Then, the air around him began to shake violently, the disruption causing his hair to fall in disarray before lifting slightly upwards. A blue halo of light seemed to settle around him, steady at first but gradually starting to flicker madly. Superimposed over his body, a figure began to appear, significantly taller than Kadaj but which had disturbingly familiar features-- especially to the man this show was intended for. The glow around him intensified, the near-perfect image of Sephiroth over him flashing in and out of view much more rapidly, growing sharper by the second.

Finally, it became too much for Kadaj to maintain, and the image around him vanished from view, the blue light and the energy powering it slowly fading as well. The air grew still, and it was several moments before he seemed capable of rousing himself to speak. "Well?" he asked softly, smiling up at the other silver-haired man a little eagerly. "Now what do you think?"