Prexistence: a million apologies for this extreme late update. I kinda got writers' block, then I thought of an alternate way of writing this chapter, but it didn't work out well. Then I started school twitch which got in the way of a lot of writing. But I won't give up on this fic ever, I dunt care if it takes me until im 100 years old, im finishing this fic!!!!!

In the cave

"What did you find out Xantara?" Acerbus asked the young black-haired woman who gave a wicked smirk. "So many things, I was able to get into the files before on one of the main computers and discovered something very interesting." A chuckle came from her lips.

Acerbus looked annoyed, and Midas did not look impressed. "Well do you remember your dear mother Acerbus?" Xantara asked him. He rolled his eyes. "Unfortunately yes." He growled. "Well she had a daughter. Who had three children, all of them were girls. Two had children also." She stated, but then was interrupted.

"Just get to the point already. I don't care how many kids there were." Acerbus snarled. Xantara just shook her head and laughed a bit. "You really need to grow some patience. Anyways the one of the three children had a little girl. Her name was Aeris. The other one had a boy named Cloud. Those two are related and don't even know about it. But what is more interesting I found out was that the entire group they have there, they all have a connection to each other." She said proudly of what she had found.

"So what, they are related. They don't know that and I doubt they will ever find out." Midas grumbled. Xantara shook her head. "If you would just listen instead of interrupting me, you would understand!" She shouted at him. "It means that they are related to you also." She told Acerbus. "Yeah, I knew that already. Still don't know anything that we can use to our advantage." He growled and was about ready to walk out of the cave.

Xantara rolled her eyes at him. 'Why do I even bother trying to help him?' She thought to herself. "Well then you do know you are going against your great great great great" She started, but Midas put a hand over her mouth. "Just get to the point." He told her. "Your great great grandson then right?" Xantara asked him as she flipped a piece of hair away from her face.

Acerbus turned around and looked at both Midas and Xantara. "Don't remind me. I don't consider him related to myself." He told her. "Now Midas do you have anything else to add?" Acerbus looked at the young brown haired man.

"Well the ninja is a complete idiot that is all I have to say about her. I don't really remember her talking about her friends' weaknesses, only 'these are my friends and all this other crap.'. He imitated Yuffie. Acerbus stared at Midas like he was stupid. "That is it? Can't even do a job. You could have at least found out something better." He said angerly.

"Yeah well I didn't see you out finding information. I'm sure that stupid scientist had some information you could found out about." Midas shouted at him. Acerbus pulled out half of his sword and Midas did the same.

"Boys knock it off!" Xantara shouted at them both. "We have more important things to do than to waste time fighting." Acerbus glared at Midas, who did the same. They both finally put their swords back into their sheaths. "Let's go."

All three of them were walking toward the exit when Xantara stopped. "Hey Acerbus, I've been wondering. How did you survive being struck down by your mom?" She questioned him. He gave a smirk. "That was easy. She never killed me in the first place. I used the manipulate materia and the transform materia on my brother, Yazoo. The fool never knew the difference. I made him killed Lyran and then he was disposed of. After that I just went into hiding for the time. Until I was able to contact you two."

"Are we done, there is a planet out there that needs to be ruled by us so come on." Midas said as he walked out of the cave, along with Acerbus, not waiting for Xantara.

'Stupid brothers.' She thought to herself as she ran to catch up.

Highwind

Everyone ran out of the Operation room to see Yuffie on her knees in the hall, with broken pieces of red in front of her. "What is that?" Vincent asked as he bent down next to Yuffie and took a broken red piece in his hand. It looked almost like glass, but then he noticed that the red stuff on it started to drip to the floor.

"It can't be." Sephiroth mused to himself. "Well spill it, what the hell is that stuff?" Barret folded his arms over his large chest, looking over at Sephiroth. "It's...my...materia." Yuffie said tearfully as she picked up the pieces to the broken materia. "It was Leviathan." She dropped the pieces and placed her face in her hands.

Everyone stared in shock at the pieces on the floor. "But I thought they couldn't be destroyed." Tifa said aloud. "Why would anyone want to destroy materia, it's more useful when it's able to work still." Zack also said.

"Who do you think could have done a thing like this?" Lucrecia asked as she leaned closer to Vincent, who was now standing up. "It can't be Hojo. We would have seen him or any of his flunkies around here. Maybe that red haired guy we saw back at the reactor, he was able to disappear quickly." Cloud thought out loud.

"Hey, that guy in the hospital area is missing." Cid shouted as he ran from that area back to the group. "It must have been him." Said Rikara, who was sitting by Red. "He would do that?" Red asked her. "I'm not quite sure, but I got a good feeling it was him. There was always something weird I sensed about him" She growled

Yuffie got up and wiped her face. "That bastard is going to pay for destroying Leviathan!" She shouted as she walked back into the Operation room. "I almost forgot that Yuffie was given Leviathan by her father after defeating him. No wonder she is so upset." Tifa said quietly. "Great now we got another fuckin stop to make." Cid shouted as he reached into his coat pocket to pull out his pack of cigarettes, only to find that they were all gone. He walked back to the Operation room swearing up a storm.

The rest of the group followed them in. They heard a beeping noise on the table near the front of the room. Yuffie was already over there and pushed the flashing red button.

"Hey, are you guys ok? What took so long to answer?" Reeve's voice came from the PHS speaker. "A lot of shit." Barret said as he sat down at the table with the rest of the group.

"My people were able to find the location of where Hojo is hiding at. We got photos of him leaving the mako reactor and heading toward North Corel. We suspect that is where he is going." Reeve told the group.

"Thanks Reeve." Cloud thanked his friend before turning off the PHS. Barret looked extremely pissed after finding out the deranged scientist was near his homeland.

"Alright guys, let's go kick Hojo's ass."

Close to Gold Saucer Area

He fell to the ground, his hands catching his fall before he hit the dirt beneath him. Blood dripped from where his yellow eyes once had been to his hands supporting him. He finally sat down on the ground and wiped his hand over where his scratched eyes were at.

"I know it is scary at first, but you will get use to it. I can guide to where you need to go, that is if you help me first." A voice whispered in the back of his head. "Who are you?" Zethe asked the voice.

"You will know later. For right now all I want to know is, do you accept my offer?" The voice asked. Zethe did not reply to the voice. 'Damnit, I wouldn't have to help whoever this is if I could just see.' He thought, feeling so helpless. 'Well, I guess I could help this thing. It's better than just sitting here and not knowing where I am going.' He also thought.

"So how about it then?" The voice asked once again, starting to get impatient. "Alright, what is it you want done?" He asked the voice curiously. A small laugh came from the voice. "What I desire is plan and simple. All I wish to do is rid this miserable planet of all the summons." The voice replied, pleased that it was finally able to get what it wanted.

"You can't destroy the summons. They protect the planet. What kind of crap are you trying to pull?" Zethe shot back furiously. The voice just laughed at him. "To bad it is going to be you that will destroy them." Zethe was about ready to protest when a surge of pain went through his entire body suffocating him. "About time, now I can get down to business." Zethe said in a demonic voice.

Behind him a wolf growled and moved slowly closer to him, trying its best not to be noticed. It then started in a run at him. When it came closer, it lunged into the air to take him down. Zethe turned around in a blink of an eye and raised his left hand at the wolf. A flash of white light shot out at the wolf. The animal cried out in pain as it was being destroyed. Bits of light floated over the wolf's body, then they floated back over to Zethe's hand. "Now to finally get rid of the other summons. I think I'll start with Ramuh."

End of Chapter 21

Millenia: don't worry ill make sure Prexist updates within the month and it will be MUCH LONGER THAN THIS!! Also I have a family tree, it helps a lot cause this is kinda of confusing trying to explain it, ill post it in the next chapter.

Amethyst Wings: and he will get more eviler as it goes on. And zackie will be helping a lot more , (watches as the plushie gets hugged to death) and as for Zethe, well its kinda hard to find out who he really is, but I left a clue somewhere in this story, dunt remember where but I know I put it. Thanks for reviewin

Water-ice: Don't worry this could never be a Hojo/Aeris fic, that is just plan sick to even think anyone would want to be with em ick. Dunt worry the next chapter will hopefully be up this yr im aiming for.

Nightcrawler03: thanks for reviewin, and when are u going to update! Actually should say that since look at how long it took me to. Thanks for reviewin

Annoymous: (wipes a tear) thanks for the encouragement, I hope you will continue to enjoy the rest of this story (hugs) thanks for reviewin