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Younger Sephiroth: Chapter Three

Sephiroth was in a large, circular training room. He was surrounded by weights, weapons, and strategically positioned planks, boards, risers, and a dais. All of these things constituted Sephiroth's personal training gym.
Sephiroth himself was in the center of the room, doing one-handed push-ups. And not just any one-handed push-ups, either. He had a gravity machine nearby that increased the gravity in this room by X100 of the Planet's normal gravity. Under such heavy pressure, a normal human would have been turned into a pancake.
But not SOLDIER Second Class Officer Sephiroth. He had been doing a lot of extensive training. Only one more rank to go and he would be the best of the best.
Sephiroth, his 10,000 push-ups finished, stood up, stretched out his arm muscles, strode over to a pile of neatly folded clothes, and started dressing. He had a mission to complete: stop the rebels at Fort Condor.
Just then, a normal soldier in blue armor and helmet came inside the room....and was dropped to his knees under the intense weight of the X100 gravity. Sephiroth shut off the gravity machine and sat down on the dais, awaiting this blundering soldier's message.
"Um, uh..." the soldier began, "Um, uh-huh, yeah, uh, President Shinra requests all members of SOLDIER First and yourself to report to his office, immediately!" With that, the quivering soldier scurried out of the training room.
So, Sephiroth thought, Shinra wants me in his office. Question is, for what? Why interrupt my mission to Fort Condor?

There were currently ten First Class officers and fifteen Second Class officers. Third Class had about one hundred officers, but it was steadily increasing by about one new officer for every two hundred that attempt to join. Sephiroth strode in, Masamune sheathed and at his side.
"Late again, Mr. Sephiroth?" Shinra said from behind his large, 'C' shaped desk. "That is not a very good trait for a SOLDIER officer,"
"You called this meeting and interrupted my training for preparation to Fort Condor," Sephiroth snapped back.
"Forget Fort Condor, Sephiroth," Shinra pulled out a cigar from his jacket pocket and lit it. "You're going to the T.E.S.T. Terminal Examiner SOLDIER Test."
Sephiroth was shocked, a very rare thing. He was going to take the T.E.S.T.!! He might just get into SOLDIER First Class if he passes it! The T.E.S.T. was basically a random number of tortures and battles that a SOLDIER Second Class must pass to get into SOLDIER First Class. First Class officers always threw a big celebration party for those who pass the T.E.S.T. They were probably here to give Sephiroth a victory party if he passes.

Sephiroth now stood inside a narrow passageway, the beginning of the T.E.S.T. Sephiroth heard the bell start ringing. He ran down the narrow passageway, jumping and ducking as the iron spikes shot out of the walls. This entire complex of death traps was located right under Midgar. And only SOLDIER officers and other high-ranking officals knew about its existence.
Sephiroth quickly dove into a roll to avoid a rather large spike that was aimed for his head.

Shinra and Hojo were watching Sephiroth from a large computer monitor. They were in Shinra's office.
"He's very good," Shinra muttered.
"Indeed. I created him to be the best, after all." Hojo said smugly.
"Of course," Shinra agreed, "he is, after all, your biological son."

Sephiroth easily cleared the narrow passageway and ended up falling into a pool of water that was -700 degrees Celsius. Normally, a man would have died of hypothermia, but not Sephiroth. He forced his heart to slow down, causing it to pump less blood into his veins, forcing it to use up less oxygen. His heart was now beating once every hour, keeping him alive under water indefinitely. Sephiroth saw an under water cave about two hundred feet below him. He quickly swam down there, hoping that the pressure wouldn't kill him.
Sephiroth went inside the cave, and broke through the surface of the water. The cave was only half-filled with water; the rest of it was empty. There was a stretch of land near the wet rock wall to Sephiroth's left. The white-haired man swam over to the stretch of land and got on it, glad to be out of the water.
"I guess I should follow this cat-walk," he muttered to himself. Sephiroth started walking long the stretch of land, hoping that he wouldn't slip. The end of the cat-walk opened up into a large steel room.
It was totally empty. A large iron door was in the far wall opposite of the cat-walk. Sephiroth, thinking this room to be yet another trap, ran at top speed down the room, hoping to get to the iron door before the traps started. He did indeed get to the door, but it was too heavy for him to open.
The floor panels began to levitate off of the ground, spinning wildly. Sephiroth had to dodge from side to side as the spinning panels shot toward him, smashing against the door. Sephiroth, tired of the annoying traps, drew the Masamune from its sheath, turned to face the door, and slashed the door open. He quickly ran through the open doorway, dodging yet another panel in the process.

He now came to a huge circular room: his training gym. He stepped into the gym, turned around, and saw that a secret panel in the wall was closing. Sephiroth turned back around, hearing someone clapping. He saw Shinra and Hojo standing there, applauding his skills.
"Congratulations, Mr. Sephiroth," Shinra said cheerily, taking his hand and shaking it, "I proclaim you SOLDIER First Class," Hojo stepped up to Sephiroth, handing him a certificate of achievement.
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