Note: This is in 3rd person Point of View and takes place during the final battle with Sephiroth's final form.


"This is it!" Barret yelled to the others, bracing himself.

The pink and purple clouds began forming in a sickening spiral. They had been fighting in the North Crater for over two hours straight and now this was it. This was Sephiroth.

The One-Winged Angel floated down, his silver hair curling behind him in the wind. His eyes were a beautiful green that glared upon every member of the party.

His angelic body hovered in the air as the party prepared for battle. Sephiroth stared down at them and a slight smile rose.

"Where's Cloud and Tifa?" He pondered aloud with a satisfied and sarcastic grin.

"Shut the hell up!" Cid yelled up at Sephiroth.

"We're gonna kick your ass!" Barret aimed his gun-arm at Sephiroth and began firing.

"Hahahahaha..." a cold laugh emitted from the floating creature. "Pathetic." Sephiroth slashed out with his bladed wing.

Yuffie narrowly dodged the attack and countered with one of her own.

"You bastard!" screamed Cid and the battle begun.

Sephiroth floated higher into the air and casted Wall on himself.

"Regen All!" Barret cast the materia and watched the bits of magick sparkle around each member.

Everyone's materia was spewing magick all around either protecting someone or attacking Sephiroth, who countered every attack with one of his own more powerful spells. The battle went on...

"Break..." A huge boulder appeared atop Cait Sith's head and crushed him flat into the floor.

"Cait!" Yuffie yelled, searching for a phoenix down, but finding none.

"Dammit! I'm too weak... don't worry about me..." Cait's toy body fizzled and went limp.

"Reeve..." Cid sighed and turned his attention back to Sephiroth and taking a slash in the chest. "Shit!" he fell back and fumbled for an X-Potion.

Vincent began to tremble and growl. Barret recognized his limit break. "Chaos..." Vincent's body contorted into a giant demon, spreading it's bat-like wings out around it. He flew towards Sephiroth, claws itching to rip through the flesh. Sephiroth was thrown down from the sudden attack, but he quickly got back up.

"Pale Horse..." Sephiroth uttered and Yuffie suddenly slumped over, barely breathing from the magickal slaughter.

"Shit! Yuffie, hang in there!" Barret yelled, a red hot summon materia glittering in his gun-arm. "Knights of the Round!!" He roared, fading away as the mythical knights appeared.

The twelve knights attacked in perfect organization, each using their own distinct weapon and spells in their attempt to annihilate the one-winged angel. Then Arthur appeared, the 13th knight, and cut Sephiroth down with a devastating blow.

Cid, Barret, Red, Yuffie, and Vincent re-appeared as the summon ended. Sephiroth smiled, wiping blood from his lip, weakened.

"SuperNova..." the words were spoken and Sephiroth disappeared as the sky opened up to reveal millions of stars. One star seemed to grow brighter and brighter and Red realized it was moving...

"Holy shit!" Cid expressed his awe and fear, his cigarette dropped from his mouth.

The shooting star grew in size and shot past the Planet, seeping deep into the Sun itself, causing it to expand, terminating any planet that happened to be in it's way.

It neared the Planet quickly and appeared behind Sephiroth's majestic figure, raised high in the air. He smiled in satisfaction as the supernova burned through the row of heroes in front of him.

The sky tore open one last time, revealing the stars before snapping shut as the summon ended. The heroes were thrown off their feet from the blast.

Yuffie moaned weakly before collapsing in a heap.

"Yuffie! Don't die on us! ...Where's all of our Phoenix Downs?!" Red yelped in fear.

"No, Yuffie! Dammit! No!" Barret cursed and Cid's anger reaching it's breaking point.

"Highwind," he snarled and performed his ultimate limit break, the Highwind helping him in the attack.

Vincent was still on the floor after the SuperNova attack, his limit break ended and his body growled before returning to normal. He searched his pockets, finding nothing but a hi-potion. Damn! No X-Potions? He quickly used the Hi-potion and hoped for the best.

Sephiroth's wall spell had worn off and Cid's attack did a nice deal of damage. Barret was nearing his limit...

Sephiroth was breathing hard now, his health wearing down. But he smiled again.

"Break..." he snarled.

"No, not again!" Cid moaned.

The huge boulder cracked right into Red's temple, and he stumbled under his broken leg from the attack, howling with pain.

"Damn, he's too strong..." Red growled weakly.

Their potions and Phoenix Downs had been used in the first two battles and during all the battles in the entire North Crater... Damn! Barret frowned, barely alive from SuperNova.

He raised his fist to cast Phoenix, but groaned when he noticed his low magick power. No, he thought, they all couldn't die this way!

"Bahamut ZERO..." RedXIII shouted and fell away as the dragon appeared, circling and launching itself high into the atmosphere.

The dragon spread its double-wings, focusing all of its energy into a single ball of explosive magick and power.

With a powerful beam of light, the magick hurtled straight into Sephiroth, smashing him into the floor and leeching away his health. The summon faded and Red smiled in hopes of victory.

His smiled vanished as Sephiroth's bottom wings flapped weakly, raising back up the one-winged angel.

"Hahaha..." Blood trickled down Sephiroth's face, yet he smiled back at his few foes barely standing. He knew he had won. "SuperNova..." His lips curled into a smile, revealing his gleaming white teeth, before his form faded and the sky opened up.

"Oh shit! Not again!" Cid cursed at the top of his lungs, knowing too well this was his end. He would never fly into outer space again like he dreamed he would... And for a moment he thought of Shera.

"Dammit! Tifa...Cloud! We failed them! Goddamn!" Barret cried out sadly, knowing he was too weak to live through another SuperNova. He had let Tifa down, Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie down. They died for him, and he was powerless now.

Red watched as the shooting star appeared once more in the sky, knowing he was looking at death itself. He couldn't say a word except, "I'm sorry everyone..." he thought perhaps he'd get to see his Grandpa in the Promised Land after all.

Vincent's face remained emotionless, but he pictured Lucrecia's beautiful perfect face in his mind. His last thoughts were of her.

The sun expanded behind Sephiroth's almost defeated floating form, and an evil smile spread across his face. He had won- he knew it.

The supernova flung each hero off their feet, their bodies dead before they hit the ground.

Sephiroth laughed again once the summon ended. All around him were the dead bodies of the pathetic fools who thought they could beat him - Yuffie, Cid, Vincent, Barret, Cait Sith, RedXIII... HA!

Then he noticed, one was not entirely dead...

Barret's crumpled broken body throbbed with pain and he dimly looked up to see Sephiroth peering down at him. Sephiroth raised his wing-blade slowly, then slashed down and ended Barret's life.

In the last moment, Barret wondered if the outcome would have been different if Tifa and Cloud would have been alongside them.

Sephiroth split Barret's body in two, watching the blood pool around his cadaver, and smiled...


The moral is that you should always carry lots of x-potions, elixirs and ethers with you when you venture into the north crater!