The Beginning of the End
The six days by Tiny Bronco boat to the Temple of the Ancients weren't fun, I had to keep my word to Yuffie, so that was a day flying her around, then Aerith and Tifa wanted to try so that was two more days. Cid thought he'd be funny calling me a poor excuse for winged person that doesn't have any good flying techniques, which he then promptly paid for, think flying and big splash and lots of foul language. Vincent was quiet and no fun, Cloud was like a bloodhound on the trail, Barret was just Barret, Aerith was keenly intent on seeing the temple, Tifa was trying to put the moves on Cloud, Yuffie was suffering from her motion sickness, Nanaki wasn't stimulating to talk to for once, and Cid was driving the boat and was being himself. So, I mostly flew around catching fish until we were overstocked and I became bored senseless, which involves my singing of various songs that might just freak out everyone on board. Cid wound up yelling at me after the second Japanese song I sang telling me to, "speak some fuckin' English so we can't understand what the god damn hell yer sayin'!" I then started to sing some of my favorite Spanish songs just to annoy him and it did, and it took less time than the Japanese songs. Meaning overall, we were tired of the boat, each other as well, and ready to just kill Sephiroth right then and there.
When we finally did get to the Temple of the Ancients, I tried not to yell my opinion of poor wounded Tseng lying on the side of the path, which was: "How the hell do you keep getin' injured on every single fuckin' mission you go on?" Tseng then gave us the Keystone that Cait/Reeve and him stole from us and we went in. It was funny I was expecting the old decaying temple to trigger my claustrophobia, luckily it didn't, and proved to be quite large on the inside. We followed that fast as hell little smurf, and I was about ready to kill it just because I've always hated its mother fuckin' guts, and Cloud tried to get past another little smurf in the door way and it shoved him back into me who was still trying to kill the little annoyance. Yuffie had a large laugh because of that, and also later when I was forced to run like hell through the rolling rocks all because there was no more room left under the hollow rock, which also entertained Cid somewhat. I must say I think, at that moment of running like hell trying to get out from under those rocks, and worrying about my life, I even taught Cid some new curses because, you readers should know by now, when I'm forced into a situation like that I tend to let my mouth loose.
So, on that giant clock we followed our "omnipresent" leader into each of the little rooms. Not to mention that in room VI he forced me to catch the little smurf with the key, well I didn't just catch the smurf, that smurf was in the least disgusting terms a smear on the wall when I was done with it. Then we went on our merry little way and guess who we ran into, Sephiroth, and after he released his hot air we fought a nice Red Dragon. Okay, so it wasn't nice that is until I summoned Bahamut who caused the dragon to promptly defecate himself and, in the words of Demyx, "run, run away"! It was a very funny scene; Yuffie, Cid, Barret and I laughed our asses off. Bahamut did give me a glare before rolling his eyes and dismissing himself.
Cloud grabbed the other Bahamut materia and Cait read the hieroglyphs and I hugged the poor, little, traitorous, robotic, stuffed, kitty, that was super cute. So, we went into room XII and we defeated the Demons Gate rather quickly mostly due to my throwing of knives right into his face. Then Cait read Cloud and Aerith's fortune and the cuddly little robot sacrificed himself to get the Black Materia into materia form. Cloud then jumped down to get the Black Materia, had a seizure, and then became possessed by Sephiroth. Aerith was then the subject to poor woman beater possessed Cloud as Cait Sith number two came along and I briefly wondered how many Cait Siths did Reeve make, I knew there were at least six. Then Cloud passed out and Aerith convinced Cid to drop her off up on the northern continent since Sephiroth had the Black Materia and only Holy could stop it. So, after dropping her off we went to Gongaga knowing that when Cloud came to that he'd want to go after her and we wanted to give her a chance to pray. I tried warning her, but as King Mickey told Sora in Kingdom Hearts 2, "Their hearts have decided, there's nothing we can do to change their decision."