Chapter 4

"What the fuck is that!?" Cid quickly casted float on himself with his words mumbling under the rumble. Aeris began to do the same, as Vincent followed. They all stood and they could see the trees begin to fall over the immense rumbling.

"Cid!? Do you have any idea what's going on here?!" Aeris tried to shout over the noise.

"No I thought you did this!" Cid began to look around but found nothing except total chaos. Vincent's face moved into a blank one that seemed to freeze on his face. He then broke a smile at them and through his head back laughing. Cid and Aeris turned in surprise at him and suddenly Vincent set his head down leveled with the others.

"You mortals have no idea what you have just done!"

"What are you talking about Vincent!?" Aeris called to him as a look of fear began to become visible to her face. Vincent smirked at her and gazed at her.

"Aeris? Still alive? Well, not for long, Mwhahahahaha!!!"

Aeris drew back in total fear and Cid walked up to Vincent but was stopped by a powerful red beam that struck in the stomach causing him to flying backwards into a tree. Vincent pulled his gun out and aimed it Aeris and she walked further back the rumbling beginning to get louder still.

"What's the matter, Aeris? Don't you remember me?"

He began to chuckle to himself with his head still leveled at hers. A sudden blast of wind began to pick up swirling around Vincent. His cape flew back and slowly began to turn black, as if paint were being pour down it, His inside outfit began to expand and turn to a evil black as his hair began to grow at an extraordinary accelerating pace and it began to age rapidly to a bright gray. Aeris stood back in shock as his face aged and his eyes turned from deep red to a bright green. Cid looked up at him blinking for a short moment then his eyes shot wide open in fear as he gazed back at… Sephiroth.

"Marvelous? Isn't it Aeris?" Sephiroth stood there and chuckled as the gun in his hand began to stretch and turn to a bright silver musamue blade.

"Maybe this time you should stay dead,"

Sephiroth leveled his eyesight at her as he leveled his sword as well to his waist. Aeris stared at him with what seemed like a noncaring face. She raised her hand slightly in front of her and whispered a small word to him, [I]Holy[/I] a large pale glittering green ball began to form in Aeris's hand as it grew bigger it became more powerful, Sephiroth seemed to laugh at her magic though… big mistake. Aeris opened her hand and the green ball sped off toward's Sephiroth's chest, smacking him hard and sending him into a nearby tree, Cid stood there in confusion as Sephiroth fought himself up, and smirked.

"I'm only getting started, you ppl are pathetic,"

He chuckled to himself and began to levitate above the ground spinning fast and upwards till he was out of sight. Aeris turned to Cid who was staring at the sky in a daze of where Sephiroth had once been. She walked over to him and looked down at him holding out her hand to help him up. Cid ignored her help and pushed the hand away using the tree to support himself.

"What the fuck was Sephiroth thinking?!"

"I don't know,"

"But… but…"

"Calm down Cid, you need some rest, now sit down and get some,"

Aeris turned away from him and walked towards where Sephiroth last stood. And eyed the ground beneath her.

"He is a very strange man… he dies once then comes back thinking he's god or something… he's weird,"

Aeris looked down at Cid where he leaned against the tree tiredly, Aeris turned from him and lifted a hand whispering a full cure spell on him not even seeming to care that she was only using up all her own magic. She carefully concentrated on it and fell to her knees in exhaustion. Cid looked up at her in shock as she fell and jumped to his feet to help her.

"Aeris! What are you doing!? You need those powers damn it!"

Cid reached into his pocket and pulled out a large blue bottle and gave it to her, She looked up at him clearly about to black out and slumped sideways from arms reach of the bottle but grabbed it before she fell. Cid looked upwards and around the area for any sign of Sephiroth or the others but found nothing. He returned his gaze back to Aeris in concern and she had finished drinking the bottle. She now stood over him and looked around raising her staff back to her side.

"I'm fine, Cid, you're the one that needs to relax,"

"Aeris? How did you find me?"

Aeris smiled at him, tilted her head slightly to the left and started to giggle.

"How could I not find you? I could here you screaming a mile away!"

Cid blushed a little and turned his face away from her sight and she laughed some more at him.

"Well, we have to find Tifa, Barret, and Marlene. Big fat ass Palmer got away from them and I was caught by a giant sand worm, they ahhh… ran off without me,"

Aeris walked in front of him slowly dragging her staff along side her and turned back to him.

"Well? Let's go then, before they get too far away,"

Cid looked up at her in agreement and followed after her holding his Venus Gospel high on his shoulder, proudly, then I sudden question began to haunt him…

If Aeris really heard me… then… the others must have heard me too… why didn't they could to help me? Cid thought to himself and began to ponder the question as he followed her unaware of what might happen.