Shadow stood up, and stretched her wings. She, along with her companions, found that the vortex had placed them in the middle of a desert. "Where are we?"/P
Sefiroth stood up. "I have no idea. But where are those two dragon men and the tiger?"/P
The group looked about, but the three were gone. "Maybe Jenova sent them to another world?"/P
Cloud stood up, steadying himself by placing a hand on Shadow's side. "Who knows… But we should try to figure out where we are…"/P
Red looked at them. "That is not the only thing to consider. Remember what Jenova said. That the three who betrayed her would forget all that had occurred. We may find ourselves fighting them again…"/P
"Let's worry about that if it comes to a battle…" Cloud looked about. "Right now, we should try to find a way out of this desert."/P
With that, the group set off to the north./P
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"Ruy! You're alive!"/P
"Nina! What happened…?"/P
"We were looking over the ruins at the space station, and then you and Rei just vanished…"/P
"I don't remember a thing." He went to reach up, and grasped his shoulder as a sudden bolt of pain shot though him. "Ouch! What happened?" There in his arm was embedded a huge spike. "How did this get here?"/P
"Ruy! You'll never believe this! I found Tepo!"/P
"What!" Ruy stood up as Rei came towards him, Tepo following close behind. "But I thought he died in the space station…"/P
"Well, obviously I didn't! I'm still alive, aren't I?"/P
The three friends laughed, while Nina looked on in confusion./P
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"I hope this works…" Tifa was grasping the summoning materia for Bahamut ZERO. He was the one who had spoken with Shadow before and she hope he would be able to do it again. "Oh mighty Bahamut, please hear my plea. Come to me now…"/P
Bahamut ZERO appeared before her. "I figured you would call me. I am revealed that the summoning Materia has returned to this world. You wish to know if Cloud is alive, correct?"/P
"Yes…"/P
"I shall see, although it may take some time. Most of us have been seriously weakened by the events of the last few days. Should I find anything, I shall let you know…"/P
"Thank you."/P
With that, Bahamut ZERO vanished./P
HR
UAuthor's note:/U Alright! Finally after over 2 years of writing, I'm finished! As you can tell, I had plans for a sequel, but I'm not certain if I'll write it or not. I haven't had any feed back at all about this fic since I started to write it. Which has caused me to question whether or not anyone is even reading this. If you want to see the sequel, then please let me know.
And for those who saw this from another site, and think I'm joking, well, I'm not. I started this 3 years ago last christmas, and finished in in mid febuary of 2001.
