The determination for Victory
Disclaimer: Just like for the first chapter I do not own Final Fantasy and any of its content.
Chapter 2: The Revelation.
The party was exhausted after their long battle, Sephiroth was nowhere to be found, but they felt a little better knowing he now was alone, all his mercenaries were now dead.
"Where could he possibly be?!" Cloud shouted out as he held his sword tightly, he had watery eyes, it was the second time he lost Aeris, he couldn't forgive himself the first time, and now he had an occasion to save her again, but he blew it.
"Don't worry....we're gonna find your girl." Said Barret with a forced smile as he placed his hand on his shoulder, but the fact was that Barret too had no idea how to find her.
"You think Sephiroth went back to the North Cave even though it's completely destroyed?" Asked Vincent.
As Cloud was gonna reply what he thought, Yuffie shouted out:
"GUYS!!!!!! LOOK UP!!!!!!"
Everyone looked up to the sky to see the horrifying object that once threatened the planet, and now it was back again. It was none other than the Meteore itself, casted by Sephiroth from somewhere on the planet, this time it was a critical situation because they did not know where to find Sephiroth, the Highwind was completely out of fuel and destroyed, and Cid, even though he was healed, still was in a trauma.
They didn't know what to do, Cloud fell on his knees and started pounding on the ground as he had tears falling on it. Tifa walked to his and placed her arms around him as she had a few tears rolling down her cheeks too. Vincent was standing on a rock, staring at the sky, he stayed calm for some reason.
"Lucrecia.....I'm sorry things had to turn out this way." Vincent thought to himself.
As they were all there, desperate, a large airship was in the process of landing next to them.
The airship looked a lot like the Highwind, but was larger and painted in red, it had the royal emblem on it.
A ladder came down from above and Reeve joined the group.
"I heard of what happened from a messenger who saw the fight, I tried to come as fast as I could, but they just finished this airship." Reeve said to the others.
A few men joined the group and transported Cid to the airship and helped the wounded climb up the ladder, they all rested in a large room in the airship, which was in stand-by. Reeve entered the room.
"So....where did he go?" He asked.
"We have no idea, he had his mercenaries covering him, and now we have no idea where he is, I doubt he is in the North Cave since it is destroyed and cannot be the place which can protect him from the Meteore." Cloud replied to Reeve as he held his right arm in pain, it was cut by one of Sephiroth's mercenaries earlier and took a long time to heal.
"There might be a way to find him..." Said Vincent as he stood next to a window.
"You have some kind of a plan, Vincent?" Asked Barret as he looked at Vincent.
Vincent turned to Reeve and asked: "You did say your messenger saw the fight, right?"
"Right." Reeve replied.
"Well....it's simple, he might just have seen which way Sephiroth headed, after all we didn't see your messenger, meaning he was far away from us, far enough to see everything, including Sephiroth." Vincent said as he turned to everyone.
"You're right! Let's ask him!" Said Cloud as a faint smile could be seen across his face, there was some hope back for him.
Reeve walked out of the room and after a few seconds walked back in with a young man in uniform.
"Well....there he is." Reeve said as he had his hand on the young messenger's shoulder, the messenger seemed very young and always anxious tense, Reeve tryed to recomfort him.
"Do you know what Sephiroth looks like?" Vincent asked to the young messenger.
"Y...yes, sir." Replied the messenger as he stared in amazement to Vincent and the others, he had heard of the Heros before but it was the first time he actually met them.
"Ok....while you were watching us....did you see him, if you did, do you remember in which direction he went?" Vincent asked him as he was takimg a sit next to the others.
"Yes...I remember seeing him with someone who was hidden under a coat, they both headed to the North, straight North, I'm sure of it." The young man replied.
"Ok....thanks for your help." Said Barret as the others were now starting to think of where he could be in the North.
The young man saluted them and walked out with Reeve.
"Ok....when we met him we were at the entrace of the Lost City....so that means he is either still in the Lost City, or the North Cave. Now I doubt he is in the North Cave, it's just a feeling, but I really doubt it. I suggest we all go to the Lost City, in the hidden city, the one where Aeris.........died." Said Cloud as he was getting up.
"Ok....then we'll all go to the Lost City and check it out, but before we do that we should rest, usually the Meteore takes at least 7 days before it enters in collision with the Planet, so everyone should just calm down and get some rest." Barret said to the others as he walked out, heading for their rooms.
The rest of the party followed him, all agreeing with him that it would be better to get some rest before the big day.
_____The next day_____
The sun rose up, as its piercing light went through the glass of the window, the light resting on Cloud's eyes, slowly forcing him to open them, it was early in the morning, Cloud opened his Blue Mako eyes to look around and see the rest of the group sleeping, exept for Vincent who was nowhere to be found, Cloud stretched a bit and yawned as quietly as he could, he got up from his bed and walked to his clothes, putting them on, as he was dressing up, the others slowly woke up.
Cloud and the others were getting ready, they talked to eachother a bit, Cloud was wondering where Vincent was, he walked on top of the Airship to see Vincent staring at the sun with his eyes half-closed.
"Hey..." Said Cloud to Vincent as he sat next to him. "What's up?"
Vincent turned to Cloud and replied:
"Oh....hey Cloud, nothing, I was just thinking about....stuff."
"What kind of stuff?" Cloud asked, wondering what Vincent was talking about.
"Well....I cannot talk about it, it's buried deep in what's left of my heart, all I know is what Lucrecia knows, and I can't share it with you....I'm sorry." Vincent said as he sighed a bit as he was still staring at the sun. "Look at this....you see....Lucrecia was like the sun, but when Hojo took everything away from her, she became the moon...She didn't even get a normal death, she just wanders around this worl, a ghost, she is trapped."
"I know how you feel, but....think about it....Hojo is Sephiroth's father....there's no way she could have had a good life." Cloud said to Vincent as he sighed too, they both hated Hojo.
Vincent turned to Cloud, he stared deeply into his Blue Mako eyes, it almost scared Cloud. Vincent then replied to Cloud's comment:
"That's where you're wrong, Cloud..."
As he said those words, he got up and jumped off the Airship, running toward the Lost City.
Cloud was still sitting down, completely shocked by Vincent, did he mean that Lucrecia could have had a good life with Hojo? Or did he mean that Hojo wasn't really Sephiroth's father?
If so...then who is Sephiroth's father? Vincent seemed to know an aweful lot about Sephiroth....could he be....Sephiroth's father?!
All these questions troubled Cloud's mind, but they all vapored out for a while as Red XIII walked to him and layed next to him, his flaming tail resting next to Cloud, making him sweat a bit, it was already hot out there, but it was always a pleasure for Cloud to have one of his friends sitting next to him.
"Hey Cloud....we're all ready to go, are you ready?" Red asked.
Cloud turned to Red as he brushed his fur and with a smile replied:
"Yes.....we're back in action, and Sephiroth's death will proove it to the people."
They both smiled to eachother and got up from the top of the airship as it landed on the ground, they all walked out and headed for the Lost City, all nervous but yet happy to have this fight together, Cid was now completely healed, even though some of the crew insisted that he stays in and gets some rest it was impossible to change his mind.
Vincent was at the entrance of the main house, standing in the middle, staring at the house, almost like he was facing Sephiroth.
Cloud stared at him, he remembered the face Vincent had when he had to face Sephiroth before, it was hard to read Vincent's emotions, but Cloud was able to see uneasyness and uncomfort, and he was able to see it again today. It meant only one thing.....Vincent IS Sephiroth's father.
Cloud told the others to wait here as he walked to Vincent and placed his hand on his shoulder.
"I know how you feel Vincent, I understand what you meant when you said earlier....at first I felt sorry for Lucrecia because of her fate, but now....I also feel sorry for you, but we have to kill him.....we don't have a choice, I know how you felt the first time...but I'm sorry, we'll have to go through this again, unless we can make him stop without killing him, maybe we could change him..." Cloud said as he had a faint smile on his face, trying to recomfort Vincent a bit.
Vincent nodded as they both headed in the house, the others following them.
They walked down the stairs to enter the hidden palace where Aeris died before....they all had a strange feeling coming here, but to Cloud, it was a feeling of uneasyness....he could remember perfectly when Sephiroth thrusted his long blade through her stomach without any second thought.
They all were there, but Sephiroth and Aeris were nowhere to be found. They looked around, but couldn't see a thing besides the palace. Suddenly a black glow could be seen on the exact place where Aeris was killed. And Aeris was on her knees just like the first time, Cloud rushed to her, but some kind of a barrage stopped him right when he was going to take her out of the palace, suddenly he looked up to see Sephiroth falling down from above with his Masamune ready to kill, he once again thrusted his long blade through her stomach, exactly the same action as before, Cloud shouted out "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" as he had tears rolling down his cheeks, Sephiroth looked up to him and started laughing at him, as both Aeris and Sephiroth disapeared, the black glow grew bigger and pushed Cloud back, as Sephiroth and Aeris reapeared, this time Aeris was alive, though she was crying.
"Still a puppet...." Said Sephiroth with an evil grin on his face.
Cloud looked up to Aeris, he completely ignored Sephiroth's insult, he was happy to see Aeris alive.
The barrier disapeared, as Cloud realized it, he, in a blink of an eye, drew his large Ultima Weapon and charged at Sephiroth like a mad dog. Sephiroth smirked as he saw Cloud approaching, he pushed Aeris away and walked calmly to Cloud. Cloud started slashing over and over but couldn't hit Sephiroth.
Sephiroth was apparently able to see all of Cloud's moves, he simply replied to all of his attacks with a punch to the face, which sent Cloud back to the others.
Cloud got up as he held his right cheek which was now all red from the punch, he stared at Sephiroth, his Mako eyes staring at Sephiroth's green Mako eyes. He wondered how Sephiroth got so powerful.
"Enough Sephiroth!" Vincent said as he walked to Sephiroth with his gun in his right hand.
Sephiroth stared at him as he drew his long, seven foot long sword.
But to everybody's surprise, Vincent threw his gun away, the gun went deep in the water surrounding the palace, the one where the Materia "Holy" was.
Sephiroth stared at him and said:
"You know....surrendering isn't gonna prevent your death."
"I'm not surrendering, Sephiroth." Replied Vincent. "I'm just here to talk to you, tell you the whole truth, the one you never knew, first off....you have to believe me....Jenova is not your mother, while the others were sleeping, I sneaked in Reeve's palace, and was fortunate enough to see some of Shin-Ra's top secret files. It seems that Reeve found some of them at the ruins of the Shin-Ra building, I now have confirmation that you are not the son of Jenova, but the cobaye of Project Jenova, led by Professor Gast who was assasinated by Hojo. Now....your real mother is Lucrecia, everyone thought your father was Hojo, even Lucrecia did.....but the truth is....I am your father, Lucrecia and I had something going on, and one night we've had sex.....but she was so scared of Hojo, she tryed to forget everything and denied me. Hojo had a few doubts about me and.....killed me. Now you know everything, stop trying to destroy the worl for someone who is not your mother. Please....Son." Said Vincent as he threw the file to Sephiroth who caught them and flipped through them, his eyes widening at every page he flipped. Everyone was completely shocked by Vincent's revelation.
Sephiroth was done flipping through the pages and sighed a bit, he had a few tears rolling down his cheeks, he looked at Vincent, but not with an evil stare, he looked at him as a son would look up to his father...he dropped his Masamune and walked to Vincent, opening his arms, he held Vincent tightly as he hugged him.
"You're right dad......I'm not gonna be stupid enough to destroy the world for someone who's not even my mother.....you brought the truth for me.....I thank you...." Sephiroth said to Vincent with a smile.
But suddenly he drew a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed Vincent in the back. He aimed precisely so the dagger would go through his heart.
"But I'm gonna destroy the world for myself now." Sephiroth said as he let go of Vincent who fell on the ground hard, he fell on the back which pushed the dagger even deeper in his back.
Sephiroth stepped back an thre Vincent in the water, where Vincent drowned and landed next to his gun.
Cloud looked at Vincent's dead body....he couldn't believe it, he slowly turned his head toward Sephiroth who was laughing like a maniac at the scene.
Cloud's body started glowing in yellow, it was too much for him to bear, his body now entered the Limit Break stage, Cloud charged at Sephiroth, this time he was too fast for Sephiroth to see. Sephiroth didn't even have time to pick up his Masamune, he was already getting slashed by Cloud everywhere, a series of blows, after the serie, Cloud jumped up to deliver one final blow, which concluded his ultimate Limit Break: Omnislash!
Sephiroth fell down, blood dripping down his face, he saw the blood on his black gloves, the color of red reflecting on his green Mako eyes. He stared at Cloud as he got up.
Cloud was surprised to see Sephiroth still alive, last time he died from this attack, but he now was wounded and it was a great occasion to finish him off. As Cloud charged to attack Sephiroth, an extremely powerful energy coming out of Sephiroth pushed Cloud back. Sephiroth's body started glowing as half of his body suddenly disapeared to leave place to large wings, his right arm transformed into a large and strong wing which was one of the mmost dangerous part of his body from now on, his long stands of silver hair were now raised in the air as an aureole surrounded the strands spiked up. His wounds were now gone, and he now had transformed into "The One Winged Angel".
They all stared at the form they once had to face in a terrible battle, the fate of the planet is once again in Cloud's hands, with the help of his friends he was to beat Sephiroth, but it wouldn't be as easy as before, Sephiroth's power was incredibly more powerful than before. Aeris stared at Sephiroth's transformation in fear. The water surrounding the palace was now making waves because of the incredible energy that was coming out of Sephiroth's new body.
"Come on everyone!!!! Let's just kill him one last time and save the planet for good!!!!!" Said Barret as he started shooting a few bullets at Sephiroth.
Sephiroth's vision had changed and he now could see all of their moves, he simply placed his right arm, which now was a wing, and stopped the bullets from hitting him, strangely the wing or Sephiroth himself did not feel any pain.
Cloud stared at the scene and swallowed his saliva in fear. His hands were shaking, but he had to fight, even if it was to the death. He charged at Sephiroth and tried to slash his right wing off. Unfortunetly Sephiroth moved his wing away and rammed it into Cloud's face, sending him ten feet away.
"Fools.....don't you realize I have changed since our last encounter? I'm not the same....you can't beat me.
While you imbeciles were resting, thinking that the threat of the Planet's destruction was over, I was training, recruiting mercenaries, planning my comeback. You have no chance to win, for I have a plan, no....not just one, I have many plans, depending on how the situation turns out. But remember one thing.....whatever happen, I will always be there, ALWAYS!!!!" Said Sephiroth to the others as he raised his left hand in the air and casted Fire 3 on them all, burning them to the second degree, it could have been worse, but most of them had protection, Tifa crawled to Cloud who was deeply wounded, not just by the Fire attack, but mostly by the wing attack. Tifa casted Full Cure on Cloud. Cloud got up immediatly and thanked Tifa, he turned to Sephiroth and stared at him, it was no longer about saving the planet.....it was about killing Sephiroth.
Sephiroth stared at Cloud and casted Comet 2 which sent a series of Meteorites at Cloud. Cloud was making his way to Sephiroth, trying to dodge all Meteorites. Every Meteorite striking the floor caused a small explosion, leaving a small hole. Cloud didn't want to look back, his life was on the line. He was now a few feet away from Sephiroth, he jumped in the air, Sephiroth could hardly see Cloud because of the smoke caused by the Meteorites, all he could see was smoke, and suddenly....out of this smoke came out the Ultima Weapon, held by Cloud's right hand, Cloud was in the air. The Ultima Weapon was now like a bullet, shot straight toward Sephiroth, Cloud's desperate attack, if it missed Sephiroth, it was pretty much over for Cloud, Sephiroth would counter attack with a deadly blow, putting him out of action.
Unfortunetly Sephiroth's vision was too perceptive and he moved away from the blade, he raised his right wing high as Cloud was still in the air. Cloud landed on the ground hard, he saw the wing right above him and Sephiroth saw Cloud right under his wing, he now was gonna finish Cloud off and started dropping his right wing. But out of nowhere, a huge lance, which was thrown by Cid, went through Sephiroth's wing, not only going through it, but also pushing it away from Cloud.
Cloud rolled out of the way and jumped high in the air, thrusting his Ultima Weapon through Sephiroth's heart. Sephiroth screamed in pain as he stared at Cloud. Both Mako eyes staring at eachother.
"It's over Sephiroth..." Said Cloud as he panted.
Sephiroth stared at him, staring mostly at his lips as he said those words, but his reaction was quite unexpected by Cloud as he started laughing.
Cloud stared at him, wondering what was so funny to him.
"Cloud....." Said Sephiroth as he smirked a bit. "Like I said....whatever happens, I'll always be there. Don't think you can get rid of the Great Sephiroth just like that."
Cloud pulled the Ultima Weapon out of Sephiroth's back and spinned around with it, slashing Sephiroth to the neck hard enough to cut his whole head off.
Sephiroth's whole body exploded, sending Cloud back to the others, out of the rests of his body was the Black Materia, which was glowing. It levitated and entered Aeris' body. Aeris fell down and fainted.
Cloud and the others rushed to her and tryed to wake her up. She slowly opened her eyes and saw all her friends, she smiled to them and they smiled back. They helped her up. They all looked down to where the Water was and looked down to see Vincent's body laying there. But strangely enough, a smile could be seen on his face..it was a rarity to see Vincent smile. Maybe he was now with Lucrecia and Sephiroth, and the family he, and Lucrecia dreamed about, was now a reality.
They all left the Lost City and to their great pleasure saw that the Meteore was now completely gone. The threat was now over, but Cloud still remembered Sephiroth's words when he said he would always be here, that he had a plan for every situation that could occur. But he tried to forget it, this time Sephiroth was really dead and they could now start their new lives.
But.....Sephiroth was not lying....inside of Aeris' body was the Black Materia, along with a.......baby, growing up next to the Black Materia which was Sephiroth's legacy to his....son.
-End of Chapter 2.
Author's Note: Well.....it might suck, or might not....but know this...right now it's 3 AM, I'm in friggin' North Carolina, in some weird place where nothing goes on, no PS 2 with me, no TV, all I have is my laptop with its DVD Player, and I just have Matrix and Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz to watch for 8 days, all they have to rent are crappy movies like "Saving Silver Man" and all....so as you can see.....I'M IN HELL!!!!! I WANT TO GO BACK TO MIAMI!!!!!!!!
Anyways...thanks for reading, please review, thanks.
Disclaimer: Just like for the first chapter I do not own Final Fantasy and any of its content.
Chapter 2: The Revelation.
The party was exhausted after their long battle, Sephiroth was nowhere to be found, but they felt a little better knowing he now was alone, all his mercenaries were now dead.
"Where could he possibly be?!" Cloud shouted out as he held his sword tightly, he had watery eyes, it was the second time he lost Aeris, he couldn't forgive himself the first time, and now he had an occasion to save her again, but he blew it.
"Don't worry....we're gonna find your girl." Said Barret with a forced smile as he placed his hand on his shoulder, but the fact was that Barret too had no idea how to find her.
"You think Sephiroth went back to the North Cave even though it's completely destroyed?" Asked Vincent.
As Cloud was gonna reply what he thought, Yuffie shouted out:
"GUYS!!!!!! LOOK UP!!!!!!"
Everyone looked up to the sky to see the horrifying object that once threatened the planet, and now it was back again. It was none other than the Meteore itself, casted by Sephiroth from somewhere on the planet, this time it was a critical situation because they did not know where to find Sephiroth, the Highwind was completely out of fuel and destroyed, and Cid, even though he was healed, still was in a trauma.
They didn't know what to do, Cloud fell on his knees and started pounding on the ground as he had tears falling on it. Tifa walked to his and placed her arms around him as she had a few tears rolling down her cheeks too. Vincent was standing on a rock, staring at the sky, he stayed calm for some reason.
"Lucrecia.....I'm sorry things had to turn out this way." Vincent thought to himself.
As they were all there, desperate, a large airship was in the process of landing next to them.
The airship looked a lot like the Highwind, but was larger and painted in red, it had the royal emblem on it.
A ladder came down from above and Reeve joined the group.
"I heard of what happened from a messenger who saw the fight, I tried to come as fast as I could, but they just finished this airship." Reeve said to the others.
A few men joined the group and transported Cid to the airship and helped the wounded climb up the ladder, they all rested in a large room in the airship, which was in stand-by. Reeve entered the room.
"So....where did he go?" He asked.
"We have no idea, he had his mercenaries covering him, and now we have no idea where he is, I doubt he is in the North Cave since it is destroyed and cannot be the place which can protect him from the Meteore." Cloud replied to Reeve as he held his right arm in pain, it was cut by one of Sephiroth's mercenaries earlier and took a long time to heal.
"There might be a way to find him..." Said Vincent as he stood next to a window.
"You have some kind of a plan, Vincent?" Asked Barret as he looked at Vincent.
Vincent turned to Reeve and asked: "You did say your messenger saw the fight, right?"
"Right." Reeve replied.
"Well....it's simple, he might just have seen which way Sephiroth headed, after all we didn't see your messenger, meaning he was far away from us, far enough to see everything, including Sephiroth." Vincent said as he turned to everyone.
"You're right! Let's ask him!" Said Cloud as a faint smile could be seen across his face, there was some hope back for him.
Reeve walked out of the room and after a few seconds walked back in with a young man in uniform.
"Well....there he is." Reeve said as he had his hand on the young messenger's shoulder, the messenger seemed very young and always anxious tense, Reeve tryed to recomfort him.
"Do you know what Sephiroth looks like?" Vincent asked to the young messenger.
"Y...yes, sir." Replied the messenger as he stared in amazement to Vincent and the others, he had heard of the Heros before but it was the first time he actually met them.
"Ok....while you were watching us....did you see him, if you did, do you remember in which direction he went?" Vincent asked him as he was takimg a sit next to the others.
"Yes...I remember seeing him with someone who was hidden under a coat, they both headed to the North, straight North, I'm sure of it." The young man replied.
"Ok....thanks for your help." Said Barret as the others were now starting to think of where he could be in the North.
The young man saluted them and walked out with Reeve.
"Ok....when we met him we were at the entrace of the Lost City....so that means he is either still in the Lost City, or the North Cave. Now I doubt he is in the North Cave, it's just a feeling, but I really doubt it. I suggest we all go to the Lost City, in the hidden city, the one where Aeris.........died." Said Cloud as he was getting up.
"Ok....then we'll all go to the Lost City and check it out, but before we do that we should rest, usually the Meteore takes at least 7 days before it enters in collision with the Planet, so everyone should just calm down and get some rest." Barret said to the others as he walked out, heading for their rooms.
The rest of the party followed him, all agreeing with him that it would be better to get some rest before the big day.
_____The next day_____
The sun rose up, as its piercing light went through the glass of the window, the light resting on Cloud's eyes, slowly forcing him to open them, it was early in the morning, Cloud opened his Blue Mako eyes to look around and see the rest of the group sleeping, exept for Vincent who was nowhere to be found, Cloud stretched a bit and yawned as quietly as he could, he got up from his bed and walked to his clothes, putting them on, as he was dressing up, the others slowly woke up.
Cloud and the others were getting ready, they talked to eachother a bit, Cloud was wondering where Vincent was, he walked on top of the Airship to see Vincent staring at the sun with his eyes half-closed.
"Hey..." Said Cloud to Vincent as he sat next to him. "What's up?"
Vincent turned to Cloud and replied:
"Oh....hey Cloud, nothing, I was just thinking about....stuff."
"What kind of stuff?" Cloud asked, wondering what Vincent was talking about.
"Well....I cannot talk about it, it's buried deep in what's left of my heart, all I know is what Lucrecia knows, and I can't share it with you....I'm sorry." Vincent said as he sighed a bit as he was still staring at the sun. "Look at this....you see....Lucrecia was like the sun, but when Hojo took everything away from her, she became the moon...She didn't even get a normal death, she just wanders around this worl, a ghost, she is trapped."
"I know how you feel, but....think about it....Hojo is Sephiroth's father....there's no way she could have had a good life." Cloud said to Vincent as he sighed too, they both hated Hojo.
Vincent turned to Cloud, he stared deeply into his Blue Mako eyes, it almost scared Cloud. Vincent then replied to Cloud's comment:
"That's where you're wrong, Cloud..."
As he said those words, he got up and jumped off the Airship, running toward the Lost City.
Cloud was still sitting down, completely shocked by Vincent, did he mean that Lucrecia could have had a good life with Hojo? Or did he mean that Hojo wasn't really Sephiroth's father?
If so...then who is Sephiroth's father? Vincent seemed to know an aweful lot about Sephiroth....could he be....Sephiroth's father?!
All these questions troubled Cloud's mind, but they all vapored out for a while as Red XIII walked to him and layed next to him, his flaming tail resting next to Cloud, making him sweat a bit, it was already hot out there, but it was always a pleasure for Cloud to have one of his friends sitting next to him.
"Hey Cloud....we're all ready to go, are you ready?" Red asked.
Cloud turned to Red as he brushed his fur and with a smile replied:
"Yes.....we're back in action, and Sephiroth's death will proove it to the people."
They both smiled to eachother and got up from the top of the airship as it landed on the ground, they all walked out and headed for the Lost City, all nervous but yet happy to have this fight together, Cid was now completely healed, even though some of the crew insisted that he stays in and gets some rest it was impossible to change his mind.
Vincent was at the entrance of the main house, standing in the middle, staring at the house, almost like he was facing Sephiroth.
Cloud stared at him, he remembered the face Vincent had when he had to face Sephiroth before, it was hard to read Vincent's emotions, but Cloud was able to see uneasyness and uncomfort, and he was able to see it again today. It meant only one thing.....Vincent IS Sephiroth's father.
Cloud told the others to wait here as he walked to Vincent and placed his hand on his shoulder.
"I know how you feel Vincent, I understand what you meant when you said earlier....at first I felt sorry for Lucrecia because of her fate, but now....I also feel sorry for you, but we have to kill him.....we don't have a choice, I know how you felt the first time...but I'm sorry, we'll have to go through this again, unless we can make him stop without killing him, maybe we could change him..." Cloud said as he had a faint smile on his face, trying to recomfort Vincent a bit.
Vincent nodded as they both headed in the house, the others following them.
They walked down the stairs to enter the hidden palace where Aeris died before....they all had a strange feeling coming here, but to Cloud, it was a feeling of uneasyness....he could remember perfectly when Sephiroth thrusted his long blade through her stomach without any second thought.
They all were there, but Sephiroth and Aeris were nowhere to be found. They looked around, but couldn't see a thing besides the palace. Suddenly a black glow could be seen on the exact place where Aeris was killed. And Aeris was on her knees just like the first time, Cloud rushed to her, but some kind of a barrage stopped him right when he was going to take her out of the palace, suddenly he looked up to see Sephiroth falling down from above with his Masamune ready to kill, he once again thrusted his long blade through her stomach, exactly the same action as before, Cloud shouted out "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" as he had tears rolling down his cheeks, Sephiroth looked up to him and started laughing at him, as both Aeris and Sephiroth disapeared, the black glow grew bigger and pushed Cloud back, as Sephiroth and Aeris reapeared, this time Aeris was alive, though she was crying.
"Still a puppet...." Said Sephiroth with an evil grin on his face.
Cloud looked up to Aeris, he completely ignored Sephiroth's insult, he was happy to see Aeris alive.
The barrier disapeared, as Cloud realized it, he, in a blink of an eye, drew his large Ultima Weapon and charged at Sephiroth like a mad dog. Sephiroth smirked as he saw Cloud approaching, he pushed Aeris away and walked calmly to Cloud. Cloud started slashing over and over but couldn't hit Sephiroth.
Sephiroth was apparently able to see all of Cloud's moves, he simply replied to all of his attacks with a punch to the face, which sent Cloud back to the others.
Cloud got up as he held his right cheek which was now all red from the punch, he stared at Sephiroth, his Mako eyes staring at Sephiroth's green Mako eyes. He wondered how Sephiroth got so powerful.
"Enough Sephiroth!" Vincent said as he walked to Sephiroth with his gun in his right hand.
Sephiroth stared at him as he drew his long, seven foot long sword.
But to everybody's surprise, Vincent threw his gun away, the gun went deep in the water surrounding the palace, the one where the Materia "Holy" was.
Sephiroth stared at him and said:
"You know....surrendering isn't gonna prevent your death."
"I'm not surrendering, Sephiroth." Replied Vincent. "I'm just here to talk to you, tell you the whole truth, the one you never knew, first off....you have to believe me....Jenova is not your mother, while the others were sleeping, I sneaked in Reeve's palace, and was fortunate enough to see some of Shin-Ra's top secret files. It seems that Reeve found some of them at the ruins of the Shin-Ra building, I now have confirmation that you are not the son of Jenova, but the cobaye of Project Jenova, led by Professor Gast who was assasinated by Hojo. Now....your real mother is Lucrecia, everyone thought your father was Hojo, even Lucrecia did.....but the truth is....I am your father, Lucrecia and I had something going on, and one night we've had sex.....but she was so scared of Hojo, she tryed to forget everything and denied me. Hojo had a few doubts about me and.....killed me. Now you know everything, stop trying to destroy the worl for someone who is not your mother. Please....Son." Said Vincent as he threw the file to Sephiroth who caught them and flipped through them, his eyes widening at every page he flipped. Everyone was completely shocked by Vincent's revelation.
Sephiroth was done flipping through the pages and sighed a bit, he had a few tears rolling down his cheeks, he looked at Vincent, but not with an evil stare, he looked at him as a son would look up to his father...he dropped his Masamune and walked to Vincent, opening his arms, he held Vincent tightly as he hugged him.
"You're right dad......I'm not gonna be stupid enough to destroy the world for someone who's not even my mother.....you brought the truth for me.....I thank you...." Sephiroth said to Vincent with a smile.
But suddenly he drew a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed Vincent in the back. He aimed precisely so the dagger would go through his heart.
"But I'm gonna destroy the world for myself now." Sephiroth said as he let go of Vincent who fell on the ground hard, he fell on the back which pushed the dagger even deeper in his back.
Sephiroth stepped back an thre Vincent in the water, where Vincent drowned and landed next to his gun.
Cloud looked at Vincent's dead body....he couldn't believe it, he slowly turned his head toward Sephiroth who was laughing like a maniac at the scene.
Cloud's body started glowing in yellow, it was too much for him to bear, his body now entered the Limit Break stage, Cloud charged at Sephiroth, this time he was too fast for Sephiroth to see. Sephiroth didn't even have time to pick up his Masamune, he was already getting slashed by Cloud everywhere, a series of blows, after the serie, Cloud jumped up to deliver one final blow, which concluded his ultimate Limit Break: Omnislash!
Sephiroth fell down, blood dripping down his face, he saw the blood on his black gloves, the color of red reflecting on his green Mako eyes. He stared at Cloud as he got up.
Cloud was surprised to see Sephiroth still alive, last time he died from this attack, but he now was wounded and it was a great occasion to finish him off. As Cloud charged to attack Sephiroth, an extremely powerful energy coming out of Sephiroth pushed Cloud back. Sephiroth's body started glowing as half of his body suddenly disapeared to leave place to large wings, his right arm transformed into a large and strong wing which was one of the mmost dangerous part of his body from now on, his long stands of silver hair were now raised in the air as an aureole surrounded the strands spiked up. His wounds were now gone, and he now had transformed into "The One Winged Angel".
They all stared at the form they once had to face in a terrible battle, the fate of the planet is once again in Cloud's hands, with the help of his friends he was to beat Sephiroth, but it wouldn't be as easy as before, Sephiroth's power was incredibly more powerful than before. Aeris stared at Sephiroth's transformation in fear. The water surrounding the palace was now making waves because of the incredible energy that was coming out of Sephiroth's new body.
"Come on everyone!!!! Let's just kill him one last time and save the planet for good!!!!!" Said Barret as he started shooting a few bullets at Sephiroth.
Sephiroth's vision had changed and he now could see all of their moves, he simply placed his right arm, which now was a wing, and stopped the bullets from hitting him, strangely the wing or Sephiroth himself did not feel any pain.
Cloud stared at the scene and swallowed his saliva in fear. His hands were shaking, but he had to fight, even if it was to the death. He charged at Sephiroth and tried to slash his right wing off. Unfortunetly Sephiroth moved his wing away and rammed it into Cloud's face, sending him ten feet away.
"Fools.....don't you realize I have changed since our last encounter? I'm not the same....you can't beat me.
While you imbeciles were resting, thinking that the threat of the Planet's destruction was over, I was training, recruiting mercenaries, planning my comeback. You have no chance to win, for I have a plan, no....not just one, I have many plans, depending on how the situation turns out. But remember one thing.....whatever happen, I will always be there, ALWAYS!!!!" Said Sephiroth to the others as he raised his left hand in the air and casted Fire 3 on them all, burning them to the second degree, it could have been worse, but most of them had protection, Tifa crawled to Cloud who was deeply wounded, not just by the Fire attack, but mostly by the wing attack. Tifa casted Full Cure on Cloud. Cloud got up immediatly and thanked Tifa, he turned to Sephiroth and stared at him, it was no longer about saving the planet.....it was about killing Sephiroth.
Sephiroth stared at Cloud and casted Comet 2 which sent a series of Meteorites at Cloud. Cloud was making his way to Sephiroth, trying to dodge all Meteorites. Every Meteorite striking the floor caused a small explosion, leaving a small hole. Cloud didn't want to look back, his life was on the line. He was now a few feet away from Sephiroth, he jumped in the air, Sephiroth could hardly see Cloud because of the smoke caused by the Meteorites, all he could see was smoke, and suddenly....out of this smoke came out the Ultima Weapon, held by Cloud's right hand, Cloud was in the air. The Ultima Weapon was now like a bullet, shot straight toward Sephiroth, Cloud's desperate attack, if it missed Sephiroth, it was pretty much over for Cloud, Sephiroth would counter attack with a deadly blow, putting him out of action.
Unfortunetly Sephiroth's vision was too perceptive and he moved away from the blade, he raised his right wing high as Cloud was still in the air. Cloud landed on the ground hard, he saw the wing right above him and Sephiroth saw Cloud right under his wing, he now was gonna finish Cloud off and started dropping his right wing. But out of nowhere, a huge lance, which was thrown by Cid, went through Sephiroth's wing, not only going through it, but also pushing it away from Cloud.
Cloud rolled out of the way and jumped high in the air, thrusting his Ultima Weapon through Sephiroth's heart. Sephiroth screamed in pain as he stared at Cloud. Both Mako eyes staring at eachother.
"It's over Sephiroth..." Said Cloud as he panted.
Sephiroth stared at him, staring mostly at his lips as he said those words, but his reaction was quite unexpected by Cloud as he started laughing.
Cloud stared at him, wondering what was so funny to him.
"Cloud....." Said Sephiroth as he smirked a bit. "Like I said....whatever happens, I'll always be there. Don't think you can get rid of the Great Sephiroth just like that."
Cloud pulled the Ultima Weapon out of Sephiroth's back and spinned around with it, slashing Sephiroth to the neck hard enough to cut his whole head off.
Sephiroth's whole body exploded, sending Cloud back to the others, out of the rests of his body was the Black Materia, which was glowing. It levitated and entered Aeris' body. Aeris fell down and fainted.
Cloud and the others rushed to her and tryed to wake her up. She slowly opened her eyes and saw all her friends, she smiled to them and they smiled back. They helped her up. They all looked down to where the Water was and looked down to see Vincent's body laying there. But strangely enough, a smile could be seen on his face..it was a rarity to see Vincent smile. Maybe he was now with Lucrecia and Sephiroth, and the family he, and Lucrecia dreamed about, was now a reality.
They all left the Lost City and to their great pleasure saw that the Meteore was now completely gone. The threat was now over, but Cloud still remembered Sephiroth's words when he said he would always be here, that he had a plan for every situation that could occur. But he tried to forget it, this time Sephiroth was really dead and they could now start their new lives.
But.....Sephiroth was not lying....inside of Aeris' body was the Black Materia, along with a.......baby, growing up next to the Black Materia which was Sephiroth's legacy to his....son.
-End of Chapter 2.
Author's Note: Well.....it might suck, or might not....but know this...right now it's 3 AM, I'm in friggin' North Carolina, in some weird place where nothing goes on, no PS 2 with me, no TV, all I have is my laptop with its DVD Player, and I just have Matrix and Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz to watch for 8 days, all they have to rent are crappy movies like "Saving Silver Man" and all....so as you can see.....I'M IN HELL!!!!! I WANT TO GO BACK TO MIAMI!!!!!!!!
Anyways...thanks for reading, please review, thanks.