Chapter 2
 
 

As Sephiroth looked at the new Midgar, he felt that he belonged here, in some strange way. Then, suddenly, a vistle blow. Workers came from everywere, and started skylifts, machines and then they got to work.

They seemed to construct a big tower  *Shinra Building*  and some worked with a railway.

Sephiroth walked away from the edge of the pillar, and balanced on an iron balk to get to the big plate that was covernig half Midgar. When he reached it, he carefully tried it, to see if it would hold. It did, off course, and Sephiroth walked closer to a big house. It had a big sign. the sign read  "SOLDIER`s Headquarter"

"Oh, Great!" Sephiroth thought. "I have founded the SOLDIER`s Headquarter! Wonder if I can see them practice?" He climbed over piles of trash and garbage and got closer and closer to SODLIER`s Headquarter. The building was buigger than he first thought, he noticed when he stood under one of the big windows. Here, the "ground" was asphalted, and it really looked like a real city. There were some shops to the left, a supermarket on the right, and big buildings that looked like ordinary houses, but bigger. As Sephiroth trie to climb up to the window to look inside, someone grabbed his neck.

Ouch!" Sephiroth screamed. "Let me go! let me go!" He started kicking and rumbeling to get loose from the police officer that had grabbed his neck.
"I dont think so, young man. First, I must see your card, doesnt I?"
The police shaked Sephiroth and suddenly turned him upside down.
"Cause you do have a card, right?"

Sephiroth turned his head.
"No, I dont. Now let me go so I can get out of here!"

The police looked at him with troubled eyes.
"If you dont got a card, then how did you get here?"

"I climbed a rope at the pillar." Sephiroth started to get tired on hanging upside-down. "Would you at least turn me around?"

The police let Sephirot` go, and with a BASH! he bumped into the ground.
"OUCH! Carefull, you jerk!"
The police then grabed hik in the neck, and pulled away with him.
"What?" Sephiroth shouted. "You dont need to..ouch!" The police pulled Sephiroth to a house that looked like a police station.

"A Police Station?!" Sephiroth shouted. "What are you doing to me?"
The police didnt seem to care about him, he continued inside and then sat Sephiroth on a small chair. he then took a phone and dialed a number.

"Yes, hello. Ive founded him. Yes. Yes. Yes, hes right here....At once? OK, just aslong as I get the reward."
The police hanged up, and then took a couple of handcops, and locked Sephiroth to the chair.
"HEY! You creep! Take them off!"
The police smiled.
"I dont think so. The Shina will soon come and get you, Sephiroth." Then he leaved.

Sephiroth sat on his chair, really confused. Why would Shinra want him? And how could the police know his name?
Before he had a time of thinking on it, the door opened. Three millitaries entered the room. One of them unlocked his handcops, and the other ones grabbed his arms. Sephiroth didnt dare saying anything. The one that tooked his handcops of searched through Sephiroth`s clodes, and founded the piece of metall.

"This could be a bad wepon used the right way." He then took a steady grip on it and bended it. Then he throwed it away.
"Okay, lets get going. President Shinra wanted him directly."
 
 

As they walked through the streets, people turned and looked at Sephiroth. They seemed to admire him, strangelly.
Sephiroth discouvered that he liked being admired. The people seemed to have such respect, and they really looked as if they...
"NO!" Sephiroth screamed at himself inside his mind. "I cannot let them do this to me! I cannot let them make a Shinra of me!
I must struggle against them!"

One of the guards looked at him.
"Strange huh?"
The other guard looked at him. "What?"
"That Shinra wants this littl runt to join SOLDIER. Not even i managed to get in there."
"Yeah...my brother went to SOLDIER. He passed the tests, but then...they wanted to do things with him. Wanted to shower him......with Mako."
"Mako? Must be that Hojo fellow´s experiement, huh?"
"Guess so."

Sephiroth didnt want to belive what he just had heard. Shinra wanted him in SOLDIER! Him! And he used to dream that he trained with SOLDIER and that he got to be one of them. The dream came true! But what was that about Mako?

Before Sephiroth had time to think of it, the guards throwed him into a van that they had parked a bit from the police station. It was dark inside, so Sephiroth couldnt see where they were going. Suddenly, the car stopped. Sephiroth heard voices outside.

"Okay, Tseng. As the newest members of the turks, you will now get your first mission. Take this boy, I think his name´s Sephiroth, to President Shinra. Then take orders from the President. if he doesnt give you any, return to base. Understood?"
"Yes, sir."
"Good. Now, start your mission."

The doors to the van opened, and a young man in a blue suit grabbed Sephiroth.
Sephiroth tried to make resistance, but didnt have a chanse against the well-trained man.
"Your powers arent great yet, punk!" The man, Tseng, violently pushed Sephiroth into the tower that the workers had built on this morning, when Sephiroth had climbed the pillar. Tseng pushed him into an elevator, were he locked Sephiroth with handcops to the elevatorpanel.
"That`ll hold ya."

The elevator slowly moved upwards, as Sephiroth strted to pull in the handcops.
Tseng saw him.
"Stop that, you little runt!" He gave Sephiroth a slap with the back of his hand, and Sephiroth fell backwards.
"I didnt warn ya, kid."
Sephiroth felt blood drip from his noose. His neck hurted. maybee he would get a whiplash. But, as usual, the blood soon stoped. As did the elevator.

Tseng locked up Sephiroth, and pushed him infornt of himself towards a big stair. He pulled Sephiroth up the stair, and finally, they were in a big room. In front of them was a big desk. The back of a chair was seen behind it.
"Mr.President?"
The chair turned, and President Shinra looked at them.

"Yes, turk?" He coldly looked at Tseng.
"I have the boy here, Sephiroth."
President Shinra looked at Sephiroth.
"Ah, yes. Well done, turk. You`ll go far in this job. But now, you can go."
Tseng bowed and turned around. he then disappeared down the stair.

Sephiroth stood alone with President Shinra.
The President raised from the chair, and walked around the desk.
"So, youre Sephiroth."
Sephiroth noded.
"Yes I am."
The Presidenbt looked at him.
"That wasnt a question." He hited Sephiroth, who flew backwards.
"How does it fell? Geting beaten? I have hearde that you didnt get much spanking down there, huh?"
Sephiroth rose. "I didnt got spanked because IO kept away."
The President suddenly looked angry.
"Are you talking back to me?!"
Sephiroth smiled.
"Maybee I am." Then, with a scream, he jumped at President Shinra. With all his power, he kicked the President in the stumach.

The President bended, fighting for air.
"You...."

Sephiroth`s second attack knocked the President`s cheek, and the President walked backwards. Then he charged, grabbed Sephiroth`s neck, and throwed him into the wall. Sephiroth lied on the floor, unconscios.

"Hojo!"
The Presidents voice reached the laboratory by the phone.

"Yes, sir?" Hojo`s voice came from the speaker.
"Youd better get here, now."
"At once, sir"

After two minutes, Hojo were there.
The President showed him Sephiroth.

"Is this the boy?"

Hojo walked towards Sephiroth.
"Yes, it surtenly is. Hell be a stunning officer in the war, sir."

The President smiled.
"Good! then, take him away and do what you have to do with him!"

But then, Sephiroth awoke.
"Huh....wha....."He said as Hojo approached him.

"Come here, my boy. Dont be shy....."
Sephiroth reached for Hojo.
"F...f...father....?"