The
ancient soldier that escaped Vincent grasp ran without turning back into an
alley. He checked the surrounding and make sure where he was, and started to
make his way to warn the others.
He
was running down the alley when he suddenly heard a noise. He was shocked to
hear this, he looked around and saw nobody. He started to panic. The noise was
probably made by the monster that took the life of his two friends. Now he was
after him.
He
put his hand into his pocket and ransacked for a materia. He was going to
charge up and dish out everything he got to defeat Vincent. But he was shock
when he felt nothing inside his pocket. His materias were gone! All of them! He
doubled check with all his other pockets but found nothing in them too. He was
as vulnerable as glass without any form of magic!
"Looking
for this?"
The
ancient soldier heard a voice from above and looked up. He saw a young female
ninja sitting on the railing of a balcony. She was holding a materia in her
hand.
The
young ninja jumped down and landed in front of the ancient soldier. She held
the materia in front of the ancient soldier, moving it left and right again and
again in front of him, annoying him.
"Come
and get it."
The
young ninja said and had a smirk on her face. The ancient soldier got so fed up
that he leaped towards her and tried to get a grip on the materia. But the
young ninja just flicked her boomerang upwards and hit the ancient soldier. It
sent him flying high up and she didn't saw him return.
"Happy
trials!"
The
young ninja cried out and waved at a dot get further and further. She then
looked in her backpack. Six glowing materia inside, now adding another materia
into the bag. Seven materia on this guy. Not bad for a start.
"Hey
pest."
The
young ninja turned around and saw four figures approaching her. It was the
turks and Vincent.
"Howdy,
Guys!"
Obviously,
this young ninja was Yuffie. For some reason, she tailed along with the Turks,
even though her father forbid her to do so.
"I
thought..."
"Yea,
yea, yea. I know, I know. My father asked me to stay in Kalm. But I didn't want
to, when I can find piles and piles of materias here. Anyway, I did help you to
get rid of that fellow, right?"
Yuffie
snapped out before Elena could even finish asking.
"You
know that she was tailing us all the time?" Reno asked Vincent. Vincent just
nodded as a reply.
"Say,
What do you say if I join you guys?"
Yuffie
suddenly asked. The Turks felt awkward when they hear this. Yuffie was a real
pain in the a$$. But they still had to let her follow, if something happened to
her, how are they going to tell Godo?
"You
can come along, but no tricks, or I will..." Reno said and pointed his
nightstick at Yuffie. He then turned around and led the others out of the
alley.
"I
will go scout ahead. Call me when you need me." Vincent said and disappeared in
a flash. The other looked around and couldn't find him. Vincent was good in
this kind of job.
"Now,
where to?"
Elena
asked Reno for directions again. Reno scratched his head and then shrugged. He
then slowly walked into alley.
"Beats
me. I guess we will just follow the signboards." Reno replied and continued
walking.
Elena
stood on her position for a while and thought for a moment. Then she realized
something. Reno didn't know the directions to the power generator. Now they
will have a bad time looking for place.
Aeris
looked around her surrounding. This place looked familiar, too familiar. It was
the city of her race, and also the place where she...
She
closed her eyes and continued walking forward. Her worst ordeal took part in
this place, she never wanted to visit this place again, but faith force her to.
She was the only person that could summon holy, to save the planet from her own
race, to stop her own race from destroying the others, by destroying her own
race.
Aeris
heard Cloud calling out for her. She opened her eyes and saw Cloud and Tifa in
front of her. Cloud asked her for directions. Aeris pointed towards a lane and
the two walked into the lane with a fast pace. Aeris kept up by running a
little. Although she was tired from her chocobo ride throughout the night to
the city of the ancients, she still pushed herself a little further to
accomplish her mission. She was the only one that could stop this war. She just
had to do what's right.
"Are
we here?"
Cloud
stopped in front of a crystal building and asked Aeris. Aeris looked at the
building and nodded. Although she hadn't be to this part of the ancient city,
she could feel that it was this place. It was an ancient's instinct. She could
feel things that others couldn't.
"So
far so good." Tifa said and entered the building. She looked inside the
building and stared with awe. This place was beautiful. She had never saw such
a magnificent sight before. She just stood there admiring the ancient's
artwork.
"Come
on, we have no time for this." Cloud rushed and asked Tifa and Aeris to go.
There was a war going on, they don't much time to lose.
"Up
there!" Aeris shouted and pointed at a huge crystal at least fifty feet high
sticking out of the surface. There was a stairway leading to the top of the
crystal.
"Let's
go!"
Cloud
shouted and ran towards the stairway. Cloud climbed up the stairway quickly and
left the two others behind. He just wanted to make sure everything went fine.
He wanted to make sure that nobody will stop them on the top of the crystal.
But
Cloud got the shock of his life when he reached the top of the crystal. He saw
a throne in the middle of the top and there was someone sitting there, smiling
at him. It was himself, his body, with Sephiroth in it.
"Ah,
you finally came. I thought you will never come." Sephiroth said and grinned at
him.
Cloud
was glued onto his spot when he saw Sephiroth. At this time, the two girl reached
the top and saw Sephirotb too. They were shocked at first, but then they
prepare themselves for battle, and settle this once and for all.
"So,
it was really you behind all this?" Cloud asked Sephiroth.
"Cloud,
what a fool you are. You have no idea what you are capable of doing. Until I
possessed your body and made full use of it. My, my what a fool you are."
Sephiroth
said shook his head. Cloud looked at Sephiroth firmly. He didn't know what
Sephiroth was talking about.
"I
am now in your body and I possess all the strength you have. I can easily
defeat you."
Cloud
said and drew his Masamune out of its sheath. Cloud was ready to attack at any
moment now.
"Ah,
the strength of my previous body, so powerful but yet so puny compared to
yours. Lets see, for example..."
Sephiroth
stopped and lifted up his hand. A blue glow surrounded his hand and it got
brighter every moment, then it flashed.
"Freeze."
The
glow suddenly disappeared and Cloud heard shouts behind him followed by
clashing noises. Cloud turned around and saw Tifa and Aeris each trapped in a
block of ice. Unlike the usual freeze spell, it didn't broke up after it was
cast. It trapped them in there, making them useless in battle.
"What
had you done to them?" Cloud shouted at Sephiroth and readied his sword.
Sephiroth only smiled back and slowly stood up. He drew an enormous sword out
of its sheath that was once Cloud's, and hold it with only one hand. An evil
smirk was formed on his face.
"They
are okay, they will not interfere with our unfinished business. That's all.
They will be release, after you defeated me." Sephiroth said and swung his
sword as a warm up. He jumped a little and then he cracked his fingers. After
that, he readied a fighting stance.
"You
knew that I was going to defeat you, right?" Cloud tried to scare Sephiroth
with his words. But it didn't work. Sephiroth still felt very confident.
"You
have no idea what your body is capable of doing." Sephiroth said then he dashed
toward Cloud like a flash of lightning. Cloud brought up his sword and ready to
block Sephiroth's attack. The one on one battle of the century was about to
begin.