Chapter 3

Cloud saw Bardock run with Sephiroth is the oppisite direction he had directed him to go. "What the hell is he doing?" Cloud demanded out load.

He took off after them. What is he crazy? Kami, I should've never chosen him to take her. He was always to soft with girls. He narrowed his eyes. If I have to I will go through him to get to Sephiroth. Oh, Aerith, pray to Holy for us, where ever you are.

"Aerith...."

FLASH!

Aerith looked up at him. She was sniling sweet, like he did when he first met her. Her hands were cupped. She had been praying to Holy. She looked peaceful and happy. Then from above he came. His Massume drawn. Silver hair and black cape flaring from the air current. It was so fast, he couldn't do nothing. Sephiroth's sword stabbed Aerith in the back. Her white materia fell from her hair and her head flung back.

Sephiroth withdrew his sword. He lifted his head and looked at Cloud with his evil green eyes, and he smirked. The only one that at the time that could stop him, the last Ancient, he had killed.

FLASH!

Cloud shook out of his flash back. He dreamed about that every night sense it happened. If it wasn't for Tifa he'd go completely crazy. He wasn't going to let that happen again. He wasn't going to let someone else suffer the way he did now. He was going to kill him…her…whatever. Even if his son stood in his way, nothing was going to stop him.

Bardock had Karen by the arm dragging her with him as he ran. Why was he so insistent on letting Karen, the reincarnation of the world's most horrible monster, Sephiroth live? Call it a haunch, a fluke. Something told him that Karen was not the real evil here. That maybe perhaps, Karen wasn't evil at all. She might be the only hope for this world to begin with.

His father was far from site. They lost him in the rocky alcoves. They both stopped and took several long, deep breaths. They were out of breath.

"I really need to work out more," he said.

"Me too," she replied. "I can't catch my breath. Do you think we lost him?"

"Well, these alcoves are too narrow for him the carry his buster sword or anyway of his other weapons with him,'' he pointed out. "And sense he through his materia away somewhere safe, he really has nothing to fight or kill you with."

"That's relieving to know," she chuckled. "Hey, thank you."

"No problem," he said. "Nobody deserves to die, no matter what they did in their past life. Even if the person you were was evil, and you're the reincarnation, that doesn't make you evil. You're a whole new person. And from what I know, Sephiroth wasn't even originally evil. It was The Shinra and Hojo that messed up his head."

"I would've never imagined, that me, Karen, would be the reincarnation of Sephiroth.." She lowered her head. "I read a lot about him, I was always interested in him for some reason. It wasn't because I liked what he had done, but because I was drawn to know. My father said I always had a curious mind. I find that I am as well. But to be Sephiroth, it's almost too much. All the people he killed. I always hated killing and holocosts and things like that. Even if I am a Goth. Angel Sanctuary has nothing to do with that. Setsuna was the reincarnation of an angel who rebelled against God. He wasn't evil though. I find it ironic, don't you?"

Bardock nodded. "Yea Setsuna was reincarnated from the Organic Angel Alexial. You are the reincarnation of the One Winged Angel, Sephiroth. It's like there was a connection with everything in your life. All you're obsessions, everything."

"You."

"Me?"

"I always had a dream sense I was young,'' he explained. "That a brave night with black hair and eyes the color of the sky come a rescue me. I could never see his face. I always asked him at the end of my dream if I could see his face. He told me when my dream became life, I will see him." She looked back at him. "I see you."