A/N: Hello everyone, I just wanted to thank all of you who voted on my poll that had been up for a while now. (I may have only gotten one vote, but that's okay) I'm not for sure if I'll do another one though, but anyway the winning pairing was Sly Cooper x Aerith Gainsborough. Anyway the summary for the story is what if Sephiroth decided to get rid of Aerith in a different type of way instead of killing her? And what if the young woman ended up in Paris and was found by a certain anthropomorphic raccoon? Of course this is all I'm going to say since I don't want to give away too much. So I hope you will enjoy this story.

I don't own anything.

Last Of Her Kind

Aerith Gainsborough slowly opened her eyes after she was finished with her prayer. And as she began to stand up onto her feet a man with spiky blonde haired asked, "So do you think your prayer got through in time?"

"Don't worry Cloud, I know it will work." The brunette reassured her friend, as she started to walks him and the rest of their group.

But before she even reached her friends she heard the blue eyed young man's voice again as he shouted, "Aerith, look out!"

Hearing this caused the young woman to look up and see a sliver haired man with a very long sword come towards her at a great speed. She closed her eyes expecting the sword to stab her in the heart. After feeling nothing make contact with her body however, she slowly opened her eyes and saw the tip of the sliver haired swordsman's sword was almost touching her chest. She proceeded to move her gaze to said swordsman as he let out, "You know I should kill you. It'd be the easier way to insure you do not interfere with my plans." She watched as he slowly turned his head back so that he was looking at her while he added, "But I realized that doing something like that would be far to easy." A slight grin spread across his face as he ended with, "I am only saying this because there is yet another way I could get rid of you without having to waste my time killing you."

The green eyed healer looked on as Sephiroth turned his head away and snapped two of his fingers together. Aerith did not look behind her as she already knew a portal of some sort had been made since she could clearly hear the odd type of sound it made from behind her. She then felt the tip of the long sword push her back into the vortex. And as she stared at her friends she kept her gaze on both Cloud and Tifa as she let out, "Tifa, please take good care of Cloud."

Soon after she had said this the young woman found herself surrounded by the portals blue and white mix of colors. And before it completely closed she saw the blonde haired swordsman running towards her with his hand extended outward while he shouted, "Aerith!"

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Cloud continued to stare at the now empty place where Aerith had stood as he pulled out his sword and glared at the swordsman as demanded, "Why did you push her into that portal?!"

"Would you of rather seen me kill her?" Sephorith calmly shot back with, as he gave him a cold emotionless stare.

The blonde haired young man's anger grew as he swung his large sword at his enemy as he shouted, "Where did that portal send her?! Answer me!"

"I'm sorry to tell you this, but even I do not know where the girl was sent." The sliver haired young man replied, as he jumped back away from Cloud. He then turned away from him while he went on with, "Of course where she ends up is no concern of mine." He proceeded to let out a light chuckle before he jumped into the air and ended with, "Goddbye Cloud, the next time we met I hope you will be ready to perish."

Hearing such a comment caused the young man to ball up his free hand into a fist as he coldly let out, "Sephiroth, I'm going to make you pay for what you've done. Mark my words."

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Aerith mentally sighed with relief when she saw the portal she was in had come to an end. Her landing however, was not very pleasant as she landed on cold hard pavement with her hands and knees. The brunette lifted her head to take a look around at her surroundings. When she did this though the only thing that came into her mind was that she was in an alleyway….somewhere. She slowly tried to stand up onto her feet, but once she was up she leaned up against a nearby wall as she let out, "This is not good at all. I cannot sense the nature around me and I also have no idea where I am." Soon after she found herself becoming very warm and while she placed her hand onto her forehead she added, "And I wonder how I got this fever? If I do not find a place to rest then I fear my condition will get worse." The young woman began to slowly walk out of the alley she was in. But as she did this she heard a sound of footsteps approaching in her direction which filled her with hope for help while she asked, "Hello? Is anyone there?" Her eyes widen when she saw a figure run past her causing her to extend her hand outward a little as she ended with, "Sir, please wait."

The green eyed young woman felt her fever become a bit more worse as she saw the figure stop his running making her see nothing but the person's eyes which were hazel as it asked confirming the person to be a man, "Huh? Hey I've never seen you around here before. So, what's your name?"

Aerith found herself becoming even more light headed from the fever as she felt herself let go of the wall and slightly fall forward as she whispered, "My name is, Aerith…."