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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Tseng didn't know exactly what Rufus intended to tell Sephiroth regarding Kadaj and company, so he decided to opt for what seemed to him to be the smoothest and easiest course of action - deny that they were anything to do with Sephiroth, and merely say that they were crazy. That was usually the best way to get someone to believe you, especially when you said it in the most professional, detachedly sympathetic voice that one could muster - and oh, Tseng had said this line many times before. It was a useful one, when gaining people's trust.

But he was aware, however, that Sephiroth was a little more intelligent than that.

"Kadaj and his gaggle are exactly that - insane." He answered, nodding; "They've caused a lot of trouble in the past, and they rarely talk any form of sense. Although you aren't obligated to take my advice, I would suggest that you attempt to ignore them if possible - Kadaj in particular seems to have quite an obsession with you and your..." Tseng paused for a moment to find the correct word, before finishing smoothly with: "... legend."