Authors Note: Sorry for the delay. Here is the next chapter. And just in case you thought, or caughton, the attacks and skills are from different shows and games. Thanks. Hope you enjoy.


Chapter 12 Moonflow, Turks,

The five walked onwards into the deep dark forest. The area was quite peaceful now. Soon they walked to an area where the light was stronger and saw something amazing. A crystal clear lake with pyreflies swarming around.

"Awesome," said Kadaj awestricken. "This place is beautiful."

Sephiroth had to agree. The lake was crystal clear, reflected the light from the pyreflies on their faces, and a cool breeze ran past the five. It was, nice, for Sephiroth.

Sephiroth turned to Yuffie and asked, "What did you need here Yuffie?"

Yuffie turned her head to Sephiroth with a bizarre expression. She put her hand to her chin and wondered what it was. It really looked like she was having trouble with this question.

'What a blockhead,' Sephiroth thought. 'But you know, Yuffie is pretty nice.'

"Know I remember," said Yuffie slamming her right hand on the palm of her left. "Hey guys, remember when I said I was a Materia Hunter?" The four men nodded. "Well, I have a stash here with some. Would you like some?"

Sephiroth shook his head. "My Enemy Skill Materia is all I need."

Loz shook his head as well. "I'm getting stronger everyday for some reason so I don't need Materia."

Sephiroth shifted his head to Loz. According to Jenova's plan the first part was making Yazoo and Loz stronger secretly. Not good. As for Kadaj the information about him was kept secret.

Yazoo shook his head and gave the same reason as Loz. Sephiroth was getting a little worried. Jenova had planned to make the three silver haired men into her puppets. If that were to happen, then Sephiroth is doomed. He can't keep up with the three as Jenova is controlling them.

Kadaj shook his head. "No thanks, I prefer to rely on my own strength for now. Though I'm not getting stronger than my three brothers."

Yuffie looked a little disappointed but nodded. She said she would be right back and jumped gracefully to a tree, then another, and another, till she was out of sight. The four men went on to their own businesses.

Sephiroth was standing on the edge of the shore looking out to the beautiful lake. Kadaj had taken out his sword and was practicing his moves. Yazoo had sat down Japanese style and closed his eyes. Loz was just walking around.

Ten minutes had passed and Yuffie wasn't back yet. Sephiroth was getting a little worried. He decided to go look for her.

"I'll be back, I'm going to look for Yuffie," said Sephiroth jumping off and onto a tree.

Sephiroth was jumping off of branches very fast. It felt great having some of his power back. Ahead he could smell two scents. One was Yuffie's, the other by the smell of it, was an XIII

Order member. He gained speed and traveled faster through the thick woods. Soon he saw a wide opening with a little hut in the middle. And their was Yuffie and the XIII Order member.

Sephiroth jumped off a branch and landed on the soft ground. He looked at the two. Yuffie was injured, though not a lot while this new guy was barely scratched. Definitely stronger than the ones he fought so far.

The new member turned his head to Sephiroth. "So your Sephiroth. It'll be easy to defeat you."

Sephiroth reached for Masamune. The Order member unhooded himself to reveal a man with dark blue eyes and black hair going every direction in different forms.

"Hold it," said Yuffie looking at the member. "Listen Sephiroth. This guy is Number 3, Xaldin. He controls the wind. But more importand, HE STOLE MY MATERIA. I'm finishing this fight."

Sephiroth looked at Yuffie. His lips turned into a smile and nodded, moving his left hand from Masamune. Yuffie looked at Xaldin with intense eyes. This was gonna be good. And Sephiroth had eagerly wanted to see what moves this ninja could do.

Yuffie threw her 4 point shuiken at Xaldin with intense force. The man responded by throwing his arms in the air. At first it appeared it was to block the Shuiken but it wasn't. A small black tornado of wind came down from the sky and hit the ground in front of Xaldin. The shuiken was blown away headed straight for Sephiroth. The swordsman jumped over it with ease with the weapon breaking off branches as it continued on back.

"I'm not interested in fighting you," said Xaldin in a harsh voice. "I have orders to fight the swordsman called Sephiroth and you won't stop me. Oh, and as for your Materia."

Xaldin held out a closed arm then opened it. And in the palm of his hands were broken fragments. Broken Materia. Yuffie looked horrified as her mouth opened wide. She then put her head towards the ground, hiding her face.

"It..it..took me...ages to...collect the Materia," said Yuffie in a sad voice. "I'll KILL YOU."

Yuffie head went up to eyes that could give Medusa a run for her money. The look gave Xaldin a little bit of a shock. The crushing of her Materia had just sent Yuffie into a rage of anger. And the battle went into her favor.

She jumped off her left leg and in seconds she was within range of Xaldin. Yuffie brought up her right knee and hit Xaldin straight in the face, sending him skyrocketing backwards. Xaldin quickly gained his momentum and got on the ground before he hit the trees.

"I will make you and the rest of the XIII Organization suffer," said Yuffie angrily.

She folded her pinky, ring finger, and thumb into her palm on both hands. She brought the remaining two fingers, middle and index to each other in front of her face. Yuffie put them in a cross while shouting, 'SHADOW CLONE JUTSU'.

Smoke emitted from at least fifty feet away from both sides of Yuffie. When the smoke cleared there were at least a hundred Yuffie look a likes. Each holding the same position like Yuffie. Both Sephiroth and Xaldin were stunned. The Yuffie's were smiling evilly.

About twenty jumped from their positions and went straight for Xaldin. The member threw his arms in the air where six small tornados appeared and hit the ground. The tornados soon disappeared and were replaced with six lances. They all threw into Xaldin's hands and began wielding three of them in each one of his hands.

When the twenty Yuffies came down and prepared to hit him with their kunai knives they were stopped by the six lances. He laughed and pushed them off. All of them didn't look happy at all.

Xaldin began levitating in the air, higher, higher, and higher. Soon he was a hundred feet in the air laughing loudly. He raised his arms into the air and the six lances disappeared. Soon a large tornado was encircling him and began growing in power. The tornado was beginning to turn into a hurricane as the wind began to become more visible and powerful.

Soon the hurricane began collection rocks, dirt, and fallen trees from the ground. Though Xaldin was creating the hurricane both Yuffie and Sephiroth could see him in the middle, the eye of the storm, untouched.

The hundred Yuffies began running around the large hurricane and formed a circular pattern around the wind storm. Though the hurricane was strong enough to lift trees the Yuffies were staying on the ground easily. Sephiroth caught on to the technique and copied it so he too could stay on the ground.

The Yuffies began making hands signs though this time it didn't take a minute, but about ten seconds. When they were all finished they but inhaled a great deal of air and shouted 'FIRE STYLE, FLAMETHROWER JUTSU'.

Each one of them emitted flames from their mouths and shot it at the hurricane. The flames seemed to being repelled by the force of wind that the hurricane was causing and inside you could here Xaldin laughing. But not for long.

Soon the color of the hurricane began changing from black to light orange, then to orange, then hot red. The hurricane had been turned into a firestorm and Xaldin was no longer laughing. The heat was beginning to overpower Xaldin.

Soon the heat of the hurricane was beginning to affect the environment. Sephiroth could feel it and he was a hundred feet away.

Sephiroth began noticing something. Some of the Yuffies flames were beginning to diminish. Soon some were dropping to their knees and then in a blast of smoke disappeared. And they were going out faster and faster.

Soon the Yuffies were dropping like flies and the hurricane was turning back to normal. Sephiroth thought it was unusual at first but then remembered one thing about the 'Shadow Clone Jutsu'. The more you duplicate the more the power is divided.

Example:1 Yuffie2,000 HP 2OO MP/ 100Yuffies20 HP each 2MP each.

After another minute one Yuffie was left and she was on her knees breathing heavily. The hurricane was know back to it's normal destructive self.

"I told you when we started fighting that you were no match for me," said Xaldin mockingly. "Now let me fight Sephiroth."

"Fine, I'll fight you," said Sephiroth stepping up and holding up his left hand towards the hurricane.

An immense amount of red energy was starting to form in Sephiroth's hand. Soon the hand was bright red. "FIRAJA' shouted Sephiroth. An firestorm came out of his hand and shot at the hurricane, making it into a larger firestorm.

Xaldin was screaming this time. He had no choice but to end the hurricane by dropping the spell. Xaldin came plummeting down hard on the ground. He got up and looked at Sephiroth with pleasing eyes. With a smile he stepped backwards and went into a dark portal.

Sephiroth walked over to Yuffie who was lying on her back. She looked exhausted with her eyes to the sky and her mouth open.

"I don't know why your on the ground, I haven't even broken a sweat," said Sephiroth jokingly. It was RARE moment that Sephiroth joked around.

"Very funny Sephy," said Yuffie insultingly. "Let's go back to the others.

Sephiroth nodded and helped Yuffie up. After that they began to jump on the branches and soon they were back to the others. All three of them seemed like they didn't see the hurricane.

"Hey what took ya guys?" asked Kadaj questionably.

"Oh you know, ran on branches, found Materia, and oh yeah, FOUGHT A XIII MEMBER," said Yuffie sarcastically.

The three men were shocked to here this. Sephiroth began explaining what happened. Afterwards it was decided that they should continue on and watch out for the XIII Organization.

They continued on walking. The next scene they saw was strange. A large elephant size creature with beady eyes and a anteaters mouth was standing in front of them.

"What in Midgar's name is that thing?" asked Kadaj to Yuffie.

"That would a baby shoopuf," said Yuffie cutely.

"That's a baby?" said Loz.

"Let me guess, we have to ride it to cross the lake to the other side," said Yazoo cooly.

Yuffie nodded and ran over to the strange blue creature running it. Sephiroth began observing the surrounding area. It wasn't as busy as he thought it would be. But it soon turned into hell with what Sephiroth saw next.

Reno, Rude, Riku, and Elena were next to a ShinRa helicopter. He walked over. They noticed him quickly and Reno walked to him. They got to each other they stared at each other with glaring eyes.

"Hey Sephiroth," said Reno turning in frown upside down. "How's it going?"

"What?" asked Sephiroth shocked. "Aren't we enemies?"

"Nope, not anymore yo," said Reno smiling normally. "The ShinRa company has more problems right now. Like defeating the XIII Order and protecting the people of Spira."

'The XIII Order again,' thought Sephiroth to himself. 'There pretty active right now. They've tried to kill Seymour, me, and probably the Turks.'

"Just this morning it was discovered that some of their own members had infiltrated our company," said Reno walking around. The way he was describing it was like a general. "We found out that they all have one thing in common right off, their names. They all have a 'X' in it. So me and Rude tried taking out Axel and his three buddies that were with us. They escaped."

"And let me guess, the three elites, Lexaeus, Zexion, and Marluxia tried to kill the president."

"Got it right in one shot yo. And, they succeeded. They fled before anyone could kill them. So the president's son took over a couple of hours ago. The sacred city of Bevelle is having a ceremony for him in a couple of days. We're headed over there now to protect him. All of the Turks are."

Sephiroth noticed Yuffie running up to him followed by his three brothers. The four gave Reno a odd look.

"Well Yuffie, what's the story?" asked Sephiroth making her attention shift to him.

"Oh, well it seems that Summoners Yuna and Aeris have reserved the shoopuf," said Yuffie smiling weakly. "They'll be in here in about an hour. But they won't let us on."

Sephiroth shifted his eyes unto Reno which made blink at him a couple of times.

"Reno, I know this is sudden, but will you take over the Moonflow to Guadosalam?"

Reno put his hand to his chin and gave a serious look in thinking. He shifted his eyes to Sephiroth. Then smiled. "Of course. Right know we need all the allies we can get."

Sephiroth smiled. "We'll be your allies as long as our enemy is the same one."

Reno laughed a little and gestured them to follow him. They did and went in the helicopter. The other Turks came inside as well. It was a pretty big helicopter. They all could fit in.

The helicopters propellers gained speed and lifted the machine into the sky. They turned and went in the direction of Guadosalam.

"So Reno, what info do you have on these guys?" asked Sephiroth through the noise of the helicopter.

"You mean the XIII Organization?" said Reno fully knowing that's what Sephiroth meant.

"Well, I know that there are thirteen members. I don't know their ranks or position. It's weird.

Oh, but we do have one piece of information that's quite valuable. XIII Order member Number 1, is called the Superior. We got a video of him attacking HQ. And...he killed two hundred men in less than a minute. And we got the impression that he's holding back."

Sephiroth eyes went wide for a second then returned to normal.

'Two hundred men in one minute,' thought Sephiroth. 'Even for me as I was in SOLDIER, a feat like would be impossible. I would have to be in my One Winged Angel state to that. This guy, I hope I don't encounter him yet.'

"Oh by the way, let me introduce you to our new member," said Reno gesturing his hand to the pilot of the helicopter. "His name is Zack."

Sephiroth turned his head to the pilot to see if it was the Zack he knew. It was. Strong build, wild spiky black hair, blue eyes, and a large Buster Sword on his back.

In minute later they landed and let Sephiroth and his group out of the helicopter. Reno and Zack came out as well. Reno went to check the helicopter while Zack wanted to speak with Sephiroth alone.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" asked Sephiroth when they were at least twenty feet away.

Zack looked at Sephiroth with a smiling face. Completely moveless. "I've been sent from the council to keep an eye on you." Sephiroth's eyes went wide. "Don't worry, I have the memories of my past self. I don't intend to stop you. But, I have some information that may be useful."

Zack came close enough to whisper the information in his ear. "Larxene, the girl you defeated by using her own speed against her. She's thinking about turning against the organization. Just a thought."

Zack turned away while waving at him as he ran to the helicopter. Sephiroth looked at Zack unblinking, wondering what else the council was doing.

XIII ORGANIZATIONS HQ

Xaldin walked in, battered and bruised. He fell unconscious afterwards. Larxene walked over to him.

"Well, Sephiroth IS good if he defeated Xaldin," said Larxene with an evil grin.

"Yes he is," said Axel walking up behind Larxene, startling her a little. "You know the assassination worked for once."

"Really, that's surprising," said Larxene, not caring.

"Yes but guess what? Number 1 is the Superior."

"What? Are you sure? Then what was that voice we all heard in the conference room?"

"It was the man himself, speaking to us telepathically. Just thought you should know."

And with that Axel left with Larxene alone with the unconscious Xaldin.

"What's the Superior doing?" said Larxene out loud.

'HM, this makes my idea of Sephiroth stronger a better idea every second,' thought Larxene. 'I'll still try to kill him with my full potential, but if not I'll make him go up to 100 of power before I die.'