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Note: Another depressing chapter is before you... and well, sorry Storm13...

~*Death, Rebirth and the End of the World*~

~*Chapter 6: Climax to the Circle of Life*~

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Irvine ran through the now wide open door way, shot gun steady in front of him. Selphie could here the sounds of his foot steps crunching upon the destroyed wooden door. She narrowed her eyes at her friend. Though he wasn't a friend, an enemy. There is no right of passage at the gates of Heaven for him. No longer will this Angel of Death slice it's scythe into the hearts of the innocent. Irvine stopped his charge from the door and looked to Selphie. A small smirk appeared on his face as he raised his shot gun to eye level. Thinking quickly Selphie wrapped her nunchuks around the barrel of the gun and pointed it to the ground. The gun fired and blasted a hole through the floor. Selphie released her nunchuks from the barrel and smacked them across Irvine's face, destroying his balance and knocking his cowboy hat to the ground. Just as Selphie did, Irvine let the gun in his hands fly towards Selphie's head. The barrel of the gun smacked the side of Selphie's head. She screamed in pain as she fell to the floor. As she made rough contact with her floor, she held her hand to the side of her head in a vain attempt to stop the bleeding. She stood up on wobbly legs, seeing Irvine trying to reload his shot gun, she made a break for the door. She made her way into the hall and crashed against the wall across from her dorm room. Irvine was soon to follow her. He jumped over the debris of the door. Selphie made her way down the hall in a slow run. The throbbing pain in her head slowed her down considerably. But, Irvine quickly caught up with her. He let one of his hands fall free of the shot gun and let it grab Selphie's arm. He spun her around to find her face a horrified one. Tears of pain, frustration and sadness began to boil in her eyes.

He raised the shot gun over his head and let it slam down onto Selphie's head. She stumbled back into the wall and fell into a slump, blood streaking the way down the wall.

"You were so fun." Irvine slightly mocked. "Now just another victim to befall the cruel and unjust hand of life. And to think killed by another one of your kind. We have truly become a violent race haven't we? But now, with 90% of the population dead Adel and I can become the immaculate entity. Our powers could rival God himself. No more violence would ensue our fair streets, no more abuse, no more rape, no more anything. All the things we once had will belong to us in a matter of hours. 'World Terror' attack is coming, and there is nothing you can do about it. Say good bye to your soul, it will no longer be yours." He told her with a small chuckle.

"I-I don't understand you at all." Selphie weakly told him.

"You soon will, it will be better this way. You and I were meant to be together, one mind, one body, and one soul." Irvine told her as a smirk crossed his face. He raised his now loaded shot gun to eye level and prepared to fire.

"Don't do this." Selphie pleaded quietly.

"We will meat again." He told her with a small boyish smile on his face that she hadn't seen in ages. She smiled as she looked upon his own smile of happiness. The bullet buried deep into the wall and through her chest, yet she was still smiling, smiling the whole way through.....

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"Commander, you have brought the coming of age of the world." A council member told him with a smirk. Cid bowed his head in sadness.

"Yet, you have accomplished your personal mission as well." Another council member added. "You shall soon see Matron." The council member said.

"We thank you for your help in bringing the 'World Terror' attack for us." Another council member thanked.

"The Immaculate being will free us all from the sadness that is our world." A council member told them.

"But you will destroy the correct form of evolution!" Cid complained as he looked to the council members.

"The circle of life is just an inscription set into the minds of the weak. When the weak see it is time to grow, they will grow. We however have grown to acknowledge the fact that life will never end. We must thus combine our souls to become one, inside of the perfect being, Adel." A council member told Cid.

"May we meet again, Commander Kramer." The council member said at the end of the table as he dismissed Cid from the room.

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"QUISTIS!" An operator screamed through the loud sirens of the P.A. system.

"What is it!?" Quistis asked in a hurry as she ran over to the operator who had called her.

"The LionHeart has pulled from the moons crust!" the operator screamed.

"That's impossible!" Quistis yelled in astonishment.

"The LionHeart is headed at an astonishing rate towards our very location!" An operator yelled in a panic.

"But we are completely off course of it's direct route!" Quistis yelled once more in astonishment. "Could it be wanting to make contact with something?" Quistis questioned looking to the screen once more. The screen showed the LionHeart flying towards their world.

"I think it will burn up in the atmosphere." An operator said with a sigh of relief. But he was wrong as the LionHeart sprouted white wings and practically split the atmosphere in two.

"Oh my God." Quistis said with shock as a hand reached to cover her mouth. But a phone call from the phone just to the left of her rang. She snatched the phone from it's hook....

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"Quistis," Seifer began as he looked on at the body of Adel in the Command Post.

"What is it!?" Quistis yelled back.

"Adel seems to be bleeding more rapidly." Seifer told her. A gasp was heard from the other end of the phone.

"The World Terror attack." Quistis cried. "Seifer, you can't let the LionHeart touch the blood of Adel." Quistis told him.

"What? Why?" Seifer asked a bit surprised.

"Because I did some testing on Adel's blood and I figured out that Adel's blood type IS the 'Primordial Soup'!" Quistis told him slightly shocked at that fact as well.

"Wah?" Seifer said, unable to speak much of anything else.

"The LionHeart cannot touch the blood because it was the instrument used by God to mix the 'Primordial Soup'. If they touch once more they will deal the final ultimate form of evolution, the Immaculate Being! The Immaculate Being will then use the power of the LionHeart, the one who has touched the LionHeart and God to destroy the world!" Quistis told him in one long breath. "Now I must go an prepare!" Quistis told him and with that she hung up. Seifer up in disbelief at the bleeding body of Adel.

"YOU FUCKER!" Screamed Seifer as he chucked the phone to the head of Adel. Adel's head moved up and its eyes moved upon his. Seifer stumbled back in shock but before he could fall a sharp pain jabbed into the skin of his back and it pushed him forward. He spun himself around to find Commander Kramer with his hand out, which had stopped him from falling.

"I see you want to stop the LionHeart." Cid said with no emotion as he stared on at Seifer.

"Of course, you gotta help me, we will all die if we don't!" Seifer yelled. With his outburst Cid began to laugh, and laugh. "What's so funny!?" Seifer screamed.

"I'm going to let the World Terror attack take place." Cid said with a smile.

"Why!?" Seifer screamed in astonishment.

"Because I want to see Matron for all eternity." Cid told him.

"You can see her now!" Seifer yelled at him.

"You fool, she is just a clone of the real Matron. The one you grew up with was also a clone, a complete an accurate copy of the true Matron." Seifer was shocked by Cid's words. But was most important now was the world itself.

"Then just kill yourself no the entire planet!" Seifer screamed.

"No, for you see if I do that I am not granted into the gates of Heaven, where Matron lies. Only with the killing of the planet can I, or anyone else, enter that gates of Heaven without dieing an un-sinful life." Cid told him, still no emotion showing in his voice. "But in order for the World Terror attack to commence, every soul in Garden must be released from his or her prison, the body. I have thus ordered the World military to come and rid our bodies of our souls by telling them that everyone here is involved in the destruction of the world, they fell for it and they are now on their way. But alas, in order for you to not stop the LionHeart-" Cid was about to finish until Seifer pulled a gun from his pocket.

"I will not let you do this. You gave me the operation device to blow this area of Garden to ashes with just a few clicks." He reached into his other pocket and pulled from it a small palm pilot. He pressed his thumb down upon one switch but before he could press his next commencing button, it flew from his hand with a gun shot following. Cid held a gun, a smoking gun.

"Every time a fool dies he is killed by another fool. This is no exception." Cid said as he aimed his gun to Seifer's chest.

"I shall die in the face of a fool but I shall not be the fool, the fool is the one who thinks he his the fool, and thus murders the one who is opposing the idea of stupidity, himself." Seifer told Cid with a a glare.

"Wise words from the reject." Cid said with a smirk. Seifer's glare deepened and so did his rage.

"I shall not die with hate, I shall die with pride." Seifer told him as he pulled a knife from his pocket. He threw the knife to the control panel. The lights on the ceiling sparked and went out. The two were now left in just the melancholy light of the moon shining from behind Seifer.

"The light of the LionHeart with the moon fits this occasion perfectly." Cid said as he pulled the trigger unleashing a bullet. The bullet wound its way through and out Seifer's chest. Seifer flipped back over the railing of the top command post and spiraled down into the pool of blood. A large splash was made and Seifer's body floated to the top, back first....

Ironic how he died at the very place which life was started

In my blood lies the key to all living things

The key to heaven

And the key to the destruction of all things that I have created

The world is no more than a living piece of rock floating mindlessly in orbit

Rocks have no value.

They hold the life

But the world does not make the life

The one who gives life shall be last standing

Not one who protects...

I will be the last standing, the world will no longer control what is mine

.....All is mine.......

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A/N: I'm having alot of fun writing this story!! I find it very intriguing how I have set up my own plot and how I am playing through it.... In any case....

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