A/N: Before this chapter begins I'd like to point out my recent review

blazeblue; Despite my lack of reviews (And the fact that this paring or well lack of pairing is what keeps people from reading it) I enjoy this story and those who review; who leave good ones (So far that's what i've been getting) take the time to read what I've written and that's enough for me, the few reviews I get drive me, if I had anymore that'd probably drive me more but as for right now what I have is enough. As for my other story...If you mean radiant high...i totally dropped the ball on that one...like I'll come back to it after I either finish this story or Materia of light: Key of darkness first.

Anyways – on with el chapter OH! This one...would've been more descriptive, but this IS rated T So i withheld the amount what happens in this chapter, it was originally worse but i cut a lot of it, to keep the rating intact - even still if you don't wanna read what happens even still you've been warned stabby mc stabbers is here people are gonna get stabbed and cut.


Fear unsettling fear no one had the ability to move Terra, Gippal, Yuna even Tidus gripped with fear, Rikku and Yuffie couldn't even feel his killing intent but the look in his eyes that look stopped them dead in their tracks. The man who took away their parents was right there, standing there and they could do absolutely nothing but stare at him he'd kill them without even a second thought.

Although Sora on the other hand had no fear all he had was complete anger his darkness pushing him over the edge rushing in and attacking the silver haired man with reckless abandon, everything he threw was parried and that same look never left his face.

"She could've been enrolled in our school, she could've been a member of a squad we'd probably be around each other a lot we'd…"

An image of his team and Garnet playing in the sand as the sun started to set crossed his mind, everyone's happy faces smiling relaying how happy they were…

"YOU'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" Mimicking valor form with two blades instead of one they engaged in aerial combat – worst idea he's ever had he had superior reach and was so much faster than him he sent the keyblades chosen into the dirt below in seconds

"If you intend to try and strike fear, you're doing it wrong…" The smirk resurfaced Sephiroth within seconds Gippal was on the ground bleeding Terra flinched looking from the teenagers to his partner and before he could even move the silver demon swooped in impaling him with his blade and leaving him to fall where he stood.

"Stop, Sephiroth!" Cloud dashed into intercept him as he made his way towards the teenagers swiftly rising his blade and slamming it down on Sephiroth they began the time old dance – every attack met with a guard a parry and finally a slash, cloud managed to wound him but, the cost happened to be grave.

Sephiroth's movement blurred stabbing the blonde in key area's that impaired his movement and caused from little to decent amounts of blood to flow he screamed in pain as the cold steel entered and exited his body he fell, unable to move.

He did the most terrifying thing possible to them anyway, Sephiroth smiled.


Tifa finally finished healing Garnet, when she heard the screaming of blade against blade and finally the blood curdling scream from her husband sent her senses into overdrive, her maternal instincts kicking in, she ran, ran towards her husband, ran towards her son, ran towards the man who caused everyone's suffering.

"Cloud!" She screamed as she finally made it over to him, although he didn't respond she cradled his head in her arms as he lazily looked up to her.

"Get the kids…out of…here" It was barely a whisper; she looked over his wounds, nothing too serious he wouldn't die from these wounds Cloud was made of sterner stuff, she gently laid him down and stood a glare formed on her features

"Mrs. Strife, what are you…"Yuna asked her answer was in the form of the woman getting into battle stance

"Wait, Auntie- you, y-you can't!" Rikku pleaded in truth, Rikku felt ashamed she promised alongside her sister to defeat the man who killed her parents and here he stood, and they couldn't do a thing to him, if Cloud couldn't, Sora couldn't, what made them think they could? He was a monster and she was going to fight him.

"I have to protect my son, I have to protect you, so go, go get Garnet and get out of here, I'll fend him off and I'll bring everyone else home, just trust me, okay?" Without a second thought she ran dogging his pitiful attempts to hit her, of course he was just toying around he lazily dogged her strikes and leapt back floating to the ground like a demon of death.


Back at the spot Garnet was left she slowly came to when Tifa ran off

"Wait…don't, leave me…" With her warmth gone she slowly, shakily forced herself to stand her body felt hallow her mind filled with unclear thoughts and her vision – blurred at best she slowly started to walk to the area the warmth went towards

"Sora…where…did the warmth go…where did you go?"


(For those of you who don't want to see Tifa getting hurt, skip ahead to the next line separation)

Tifa finally managed a hit to his cheek and she smiled until she saw the look in his eyes – feral but beyond that, she could see, feel the things he was going to do to her, her body shivered and he grabbed her hand

"I hear pregnancy hurts," His smirk grew "I wonder what hurts more…" His blade was aimed at her gut time seemed to stand still as they watched, gritting her teeth, Yuna began shooting at him and Yuffie threw shuriken, Rikku and Tidus ran in attempting to stop the maniac, the first thing Sora saw when his he came too – his mother being stabbed – repeatedly and slowly his friends either – Tidus, slammed into the ground and bleeding, Rikku in a heap with cuts. Yuffie unconscious and Yuna, on her knees crying.

He began to hyperventilate each scream his mother made sent him deeper and deeper into that unending pit that was the anger he felt a pillar of darkness erupted around him as he stood.

"PUT" His voice echoed, anyone else could tell, it wasn't even his voice anymore but he wasn't one to care at this point.

"HER DOWN, NOW" looking at the boy defiant he slowly slid his blade out of her again, inch by painful inch and he wasn't stopping his eyes dilated he vanished blasting the fiend away from his mother he got on top of the man and began pummeling him hitting him over and over his arms became weak after minutes, despite the protest he kept hitting.

Tifa inched closer to her fallen husband the pain in her gut wasn't going away and she could feel herself waning in and out of consciousness but she finally made it, placing her hand against his cheek feeling his warm, she smiled, if this was her last day, she'd die by her husband's side, he'd still be there to raise the boy she loved so much…although despite the fleeting warmth, she…felt sad, the possibility of leaving her boy, her husband alone, with the girls. Tears slid down her face as she looked into her husbands unconscious face


(Yeah, bout here...is where it's fine to read)

"I'm sorry, I…I know you'll need me, I know you…when you wake up when I'm not there, you'll be so angry, but you have…to be strong for Yuffie, for Rikku, and most of all Sora because you know how much it'll break his heart"She shuttered a bit as she tried keeping herself awake

"But, if I'm going to die, I'm going to die in the arms of the man I love…"Her body ceased to move as her vision faded all she saw was a bright light – a field in it, her son , her husband and Aerith alongside her husband and children all with smiles.

"We've been waiting for you, Tifa"

Garnet finally made it to the desolate field and through blurred eyes saw the damage that was caused..

"All, because of me…"She lazily looked over and saw everyone unmoving, finally, she noticed Yuna she forced her body to hers and looked at her

"Y-Yuna, we have to do something…" It came out as a breathless command

"We can't" Yuna whispered more tears fell

"We have to, if…if we don't everyone will die, you're the only one who can use mana right now, please!" Garnet began shaking her, but to no avail, frustrated she stepped back and decided to begin healing on her own, shakily she began to cast healing magic on everyone fallen, Yuna looked to her in confusion.

"Why…" She stood up

"Why bother!? Will all die!" She screamed her tears flew as she shook her head

"I can't give up…all of you risked your lives on me, all I can do…is do the same" Garnet's healing magic reached everyone in her vicinity warmth began filling Tifa's fading body and her will to fight…slowly began coming back

In the white void she took a step towards the group but stopped

"No…No this is wrong" She backpedaled "This isn't where I belong even if you've been waiting…my life is back there I can't be here, I…have to go back to Cloud, to my son" Aerith smiled

"Of course you do, but…before you go," Aerith let a single tear fall "Tell my girls, I love them…please?" Tifa smiled a bit

"Of course, but you know; they know how much you love them; they even tried fighting Sephiroth to avenge you…"Tifa smiled a bit

Aerith looked perplexed "He wasn't the one, who did this. Tifa" Tifa felt her eyes widen

"The one who did this wasn't just one man but –"

Everything began to dim for the woman she assumed consciousness was returning to her

"I don't have much time, listen, the men used Sephiroth, yes he is a part of them but not the leader, he only sent fiends those shadows to do his work he didn't kill us himself, a part of him….a small part of him-"Everything went dark she felt warmth all around her- her eyes slowly opened and a look of trepidation clouded her eyes even as she saw her husband in her line of sight she knew what she heard.

The fallen members of the group slowly came to one after the other and Sora was still hitting Sephiroth unfortunately for the teen he grew bored and stopped his fist and flung him backwards.

"If…you want to win, you'll have to trust me, Yuna, come here, help me" Garnet commanded,

Slowly she stepped towards the princess mana flowed around the two.

"Focus on Sora" The mana began to erupt


"BAHAMUT!" A ball of darkness hit the fallen teen and he felt something – power an enormous amount of it pour into him he began to levitate scales coated his body and claws covered his hands and feet glowing rings of purple energy circled his dilated iris's a roar left his throat as mana coated his body

He dashed Sephiroth as wings flew out of his back grabbing him and crushing his arms.

"YOU DIE NOW! MEGA-"

"Wait, Sora, that'll kill you too, don't!" Garnet pleaded but it was too late and they all knew it he was beyond all comprehension

"-FLARE!" The explosion was probably cataclysmic to anyone close enough to it, the lavender color soon turned pitch black and nothing was there but a giant hole in the ground and the brunette, his power faded and his enemy gone he stood there with a glazed look in his eyes.

"Sora…Sora are you okay, son speak to me" Tifa slowly sat up and tried making her way towards her son but she couldn't

He turned to her, after a second he made a step towards her


"M…Mom!?" It was a whine all the care and concern in his voice as it cracked sent tears spilling down her face as Sora ran to her holding her as tight as he could she slowly returned the hug as he sobbed into his mother's neck all the while the only thing that clouded her thoughts were the words Aerith said before she returned to consciousness.

"A small part of the leader of darkness…lies within your son and it's growing every day without the limiter inside him – he'll be come, the harbinger of chaos"


It took them five days to get back none of them getting much sleep but the next day as school started – which they all had the same classes because of being in said teams although one empty seat remained

"Now, students, we have a new student who will be joining our little hero spawn here hopefully you'll treat her well because she insisted on being on his team, much to our counsel's dismay, please welcome Dagger" A girl with the same frame as the girl he saved days prior…she went home and made sure she'd be safe – with an uneasy heart they left her back in her home town, this girl…looked exactly like her.

As soon as she saw him she smiled, her eyes glazed over with tears and she ran to him, clasping her body against his and her lips as well his eyes almost shot out of their respective sockets. Whistles and shouts and even swears were uttered and all the while, Sora had one thing on his mind, when she finally broke the kiss he looked her dead in the eye.

"How'd…how'd you get here, how'd you even…get out of that castle?!" Sora shot up

"Oh, uhm…I….ran away from home, I – I couldn't bare to be away from all of you, I had to come of course…they may send someone after me, but – I couldn't be away from all of you for another minute!" She pouted…and Sora began massaging his temples

"Dad…is going…to kill me"


In Hojo's lab Vanitas's and the mad scientist had the same look smiles ear to ear and thoughts racing.

"Soon, you two will be able to return to where you belong and become one, aren't you happy? He became the harbinger" Hojo laughed manically

"Soooon" Vanitas hissed


In an Aerial cargo ship miles above the town of Hallowed destiny a woman stood atop her ride with a simple parachute strapped to her back – her mission simple, find and return lady Garnet by any means

"The man I looked up to, admired is in this town…I wonder if I'll cross his path" She smirked

"Lightning, you ready?" She smirked

"Yeah, course, mission start" Lighting let her body fall from the plane

"I hope we get to meet, Cloud Strife"


Act: I End

A/N: This chapter was going to be so much longer, but I figured if I drew this out it'd end up being terrible, and, there were a few things i intentionally left out on the road home that will be brought up later on (If I let it all out now it'd be a major spoiler for things to come) anyway…Sephiroth is not dead it'd be a godsend if he'd die so easily but no, Next chapter I'll have out soon and I honestly can't tell you if it'll be as long as my previous or not, but I'll try.