Chapter 13

I felt refreshed after what had happened yesterday. I rested in a kind woman's house. She thought we were the Princess's warriors, so she let us stay the night.

We rode to the boarders of the Gerudo's Fortress, then dismounted. After jumping over the broken bridge. There was a carpenter standing near a tent. He was looking towards the fortress, like he was waiting for someone.

"Excuse me, are you going to the fortress?" he asked.

"Yer, why?" said Sora.

"Could you find my four workers? They said that they wanted to work for a mighty leader, but I bet they got arrested for trespassing."

"Why don't you do it?" said Sora.

"Good point." I said.

"er . . . um . . ."

"Because he's too damn lazy." said Will.

"Come on guys, let's at least try to help." said Link.

"Yer, well your not the one housing an alien inside of you. That can now take full control of your body."

"Cloud?" said Link.

"I'm sorry, I just don't want to end up like his last vessel."

"What happened to him?" asked Navi.

"He turned to Sephiroth and then I killed him."

"Oh!" said Sora.

"Fine we'll help." I said.

"Thank you." said then man, "Just try not to get caught."

The fortress was full of dark skinned guards, that were all female. This was the Gerudo race, all female. One male born every century and by birthright that's their King. We decided to split up to find the carpenters easier and if we weren't in a group, we would have less chance of getting caught. Quickly, we ran and split up down the different entrances. Eventually, after a lot of stealth, I came to a man in a prison cell.

"Oh thank the Lord someone came for me." he looked to the ground and looked back up, "What the- what is that?" he pointed to the wing.

"er . . . A wing."

"How do you have one wing?"

"I just do … It's complicated. Who are you?"

"My name is Ichiro, but I'm sure there was a guard around here somewhere."

Suddenly, the guard ambushed me. Sephiroth sensed her attack and smacked her with his wing, before her swords could touch my skin. Quickly, she got back on her feet.

"What kind of abomination of God are you?"

"The best kind of abomination." I said swinging my sword at her.

She blocked it and tried a spin attack, which I dodged and I Cross-Slashed her in retaliation. She wasn't quick enough to dodge it and she got a nasty wound on her. Dropping the key, she left.

I opened the door to Ichiro's cell. He gave me a hi-five and ran back to his boss.

On the spur of the moment, Ganondorf materialized behind me. He didn't grab me like he did the last couple of time when we met before. He just stood there, smiling.

"I see you are getting stronger Sep\hiroth." he said.

'Will this douche ever leave me be?'

"No he will not. How did you know that Seph was gaining his strength back?"

"I have spies everywhere."
'Right.'

"You may even become him."

"Impossible! He can't do that, not without me consuming Jenova cells."

"er … I mean he could take full control over your body and never let go."

"Ok then, have you found Zelda yet?"

"No, she is a very good hider. Anyway, we shall meet in battle very soon Sephiroth. Very soon."

Ganondorf vanished after that.

I crept back outside to the gate that lead into the Haunted Wasteland. Trying not to be seen, I climbed up the tall ladder to open the gate. There was a guard up at the top, but Sephiroth hit her with his wing. Knocking her out. Using the lever, the gate was elevated up. With all four carpenters saved we headed out into the vast empty hot desert.

Eventually, we came to the river of sand. Quick sand. Link used his Longshot to get himself across, as for the rest of us. Sephiroth was still a little tired from what he did to Bongo Bongo yesterday, so teleporting over was a no.

"How are we suppose to get across?" said Sora.

"Cloud could fly us across." sad Will.

"Are you mad!? I've never flown in my life."

'Well it's about time you leant how. I've been itching to fly for ages.'

"Seph please don't make me."

'I'm not going to. I'll walk you through it, ok.'

"Fine."

'First your going to need your wing out. Our wings are going to flap in sync.'

My wing sprouted from my left shoulder. The demonic wing relaxed as it came out.

'This next part should come naturally. Close your eyes Cloud and breath deeply. Then flap your wing slowly and I'll copy your flaps.'

I did what he said. Sephiroth's angelic wing was now in sync with my demonic wing.

'Now for every flap, increase how hard you do it.'

My flaps increased with strength every time the wing flapped downwards. With both of the wings flapping in sync, I began to feel an upwards thrust on my body.

'Cloud you can open your eyes now.'

When I opened them, I was ascended a good seven feet in the air. I was flying. I flew around in the sky for a bit, to get a feel for the open air. Then I grabbed Sora and flew him across to the other side of the river. I then picked up Will and flew him to the other side. I landed next to them all by flapping the wings quite quickly in front of me.

"I never knew flight was so free. Thanks Seph."

'No problem Cloud.'

"To the temple!" said Navi.

We navigated through the Haunted Wasteland by using the Lens of Truth and a poe ghost. The blinding sandstorm made it difficult, but we made it through in the end. Even if we nearly lost Sora. The Spirit Temple had crazy Egyptian markings on the front and on the pillars. Link walked into the temple and was back out in near seconds.

"We can't continue." he said.

"Why not?" said Sora.

"There's a small hole that's too small for any of us to fit though and a massive block that none of us will be able to move. Even if we moved it together."

"You need to travel back into the past. To get through." said Sheik jumping down from a pillar.

"Great, another treasure hunt through time." said Link.

"Indeed, now I shall teach you the Requiem of Spirit, so you may return hear in the past."

Sheik pulled out his harp and Link pulled out his ocarina. They played a low pitched song that filled the empty desert with life. Then Sheik disappeared into the shadows like Vincent would do.

Just before Link vanished back to the Temple of Time, I spotted something on the top of two side entrances. I flew up and opened both of the chests. They contained a Mirror Shield and Silver Gauntlets. I flew back down and handed both items to Link. We went into the main parts of the temple and Link pushed the giant silver block out of the way.

Sooner or later, we came to a mirror room. Link went into the depths of the strange room to shine the light on the sun, that was plastered onto the wall. A platform went down, leading into a room with a massive Egyptian statue in it. Link shone the light onto the face of the statue. The face dissolved, which revealed a door that we passed through.

There was an armoured knight sitting in a brick chair. Suddenly, two extremely old witches appeared. They whispered something in the knight's ear and vanished. The knight got up and roared, then he realised he was unarmed. He clicked his fingers and a axe materialized in his hands. He roared again, shaking the axe in his arms.

He swung the axe in front of him, with tremendous power. I Cross-Slashed his armour, which barely scratched it. Will used Octaslash, which did a fair amount of damage. Knocking off one piece of his armour. Link used a jump attack. Another piece fell. Sora used Ars Arcanum, another piece fell. The knight swung his axe at me. I dodged in, but the axe managed to slice some of Sephiroth's black feathers. I retaliated with one last Cross-Slash and the knight was down. All of his armour was stripped and it revealed a Gerudo. She looked at us with a blank expression on her face. Then the witches appeared again.

(insert Koume and Kotake theme)

"You old hags have been using me to do Ganondorf's bidding, haven't you? Are you done using me as a slave?" the Gerudo asked.

"No." said Koume.

"We will continue to use you, until Ganondorf is satisfied." said Kotake.

They both charged up a ball at the tips of their fingers. Then threw it at the woman. She vanished and so did the witches.