***Disclaimer*** I in no way own final fantasy or anything associated with it….but I wish I did. I only own… well, Tara, Jenna, Jun, and Skylar…am I missing anyone? No… okay! Enjoy!

"What the hell! What the hell do you think you're doing?" questioned a very flustered Barrett.

Cloud looked at Skylar's bleeding arm. Having been given enhanced senses, he realized that her blood was giving off a powerful and distinct smell. He couldn't quite explain the smell, but he felt that whatever smell she was giving off was unnatural. It didn't smell bad, if anything it was almost enticing, but it was still undeniably unnatural.

"She's leading Sephiroth to us," he said.

Skylar nodded, "You can smell it."

"Smell what? Her blood?" asked Tifa, who, clearly, felt very uncomfortable in this situation.

"Like my genetic makeup, my blood composition is also skewed. The combination of mako soaked DNA and normal human DNA caused my blood to also become a mix between the two mediums. For those who can smell it, they can see that my blood smells strange, but this is because my blood has Mako in it, which is condensed lifestream, a substance that should not be in human bodies. As a result, my blood smells both wonderful and abnormal. It is because of this that Sephiroth has found me time and time again."

"No doubt that Sephiroth has been enhanced far more than Cloud," said Vincent.

"That," Skylar added, "but he's also had some help."

"Help?" asked Tifa.

As if on cue, the wolf like creatures the group had faced a few years ago, were swiftly approaching the heroes.

Skylar readied herself for a fight, but Jun moved her away.

"We can take this. You have more important business."

Skylar nodded. Looking into the distance, she saw Sephiroth, Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo. The three brothers began to attack the rest of the group, although, it seemed like the brothers had grown stronger from the last time they met. There was, however, something wrong about the brothers. All three of them seemed mindless, like empty shells doing the biddings of Hojo and Sephiroth. Cloud wondered what it could possibly mean, but he knew that this wasn't the time to be thinking about that.

Meanwhile, Skylar slowly transformed. From root to tip her black hair began to turn blond just as her eyes faded into a clear blue. Now, although she looked like Tifa, she had Clould's traits. Everyone was shocked; however, they didn't have much time to process what had happened because they had far more important matters to attend to. When her transformation was complete, she and Sephiroth stood a good distance away from one another, each staring into the other's eyes.

"I see you've reunited with your parents," he said with a voice as cold as ice.

"You won't touch them," Skylar declared.

In a flash, Sephiroth was beside her a strand of her hair in his hand.

"I only need you," he said as he tightened the grip on her hair. Immediately, Skylar tried to kick the man, but he was extremely swift. Lucky for her, so was she. Drawing her weapon, she attacked. Blow for blow it seemed as if the two were equal that was until Sephiroth began to taunt Skylar.

"Why are you fighting so hard? You know you can't save them."

"Shut up."

"If you had saved them, wouldn't you have immediately been brought back to an alternate future?"

"Stop it!"

"Why would you still be here?"

For just a moment, Skylar let down her guard, but this was enough for Sephiroth to get in one good blow. The rest of the group watched in horror as Sephiroth slashed his sword from one end of Skylar's body, to the other. A wound reminiscent of the one he had given to Tifa so many years ago.

Skylar fell to the ground. She could tell she was losing a lot of blood, and she found that her vision was fogging up. She looked up from the now blood stained floor to Sephiroth. She hated this man.

Sephiroth chuckled.

"I remember that look, of course now you have your father's traits, but you still have your mother's features, and this is just too nostalgic." He smirked, "You have the same hate in your eyes."

It almost seemed as if hope was lost, that was until she heard her mother's voice.

"What are you doing Sky? Get up! You can do it, so don't listen to him and win!"

Skylar looked over to her mother, who had immediately gone back to fighting the wolf- monster, but she saw her quickly flash an encouraging smile. She then moved her eyes to her father, who was now fighting with Kadaj alongside Denzel, Jenna, and Barrett. He looked over to his daughter and nodded. He knew she could do it. She was, after all, his child.

With a newfound energy, Skylar attacked Sephiroth. Slowly, he felt himself being overtaken. Then, it reached the point where Skylar was about to deal the final blow. At that moment, Sephiroth ended up next to the old Shera at a speed so fast it was as if he teleported.

"It seems that you are victorious today, but if I'm about to lose, I might as well take this with me."

"NO!" both Jenna and Cid screamed at the same time. In a flash, Sephiroth, the brothers, the monsters, and most importantly Shera were gone.

"Damn, a teleporting Materia," mumbled Tara under her breath.

Jenna slowly made her way towards the spot her mother was last in. Cid, however, was stopped by Tifa, who realized that this moment would be harder for Jenna, so Jenna needed to face this without her father.

Jenna fell to her knees and ran her hands over the place her mother had last been. Little by little, Shera's footprints disappeared beneath Jenna's hands. A lone tear fell off of her cheek and onto the dirt. She couldn't cry. She wouldn't let herself.

Skylar, who had made her way to Jenna, slowly knelt beside her.

"I'm sorry," she said. Tears brimmed her eyes - she couldn't help but to blame herself.

Jenna looked up at her and smiled. Taking Skylar into a big hug, she said, "It's not your fault. It's never been your fault. Sky," she paused, "it's better her than you. It's better any of us than you."

'That's why it's my fault,' she thought. "What will we do?" she asked.

"We're going to kick that womanish guy's ass."

The two girls let themselves let out a quiet chuckle. It was at that moment that Marlene collapsed.

It's been a looooong time my friends. AP exams are coming up and I'm cramming my butt off! Don't worry it'll be over soon… I hope. Yeah, so idk if the story makes sense, but it does to me btw… I don't' know if there's such a thing as transport materia, but let's make believe there is! Rate and review!

Just for reference. I made a slight change here. I totally forgot about the hair changing thing, but I'll be sure to address it next chapter.