Someone is going to have a bad day. I lie. Everyone's going to have a bad day. Try not to let it get you down.

Blood splattered onto Yuffie's face. Yuffie opened her eyes and looked at her blood stained hands. The paralyzing fear that Vincent had sacrificed himself went through her mind before she noticed the Vincent was beside her, staring at something. Looking up, Yuffie jerked back in surprise and horror. Mere inches from where her face had been was Order's claw. It was dripping blood. Cas looked over his shoulder at the claw in his body, then to Yuffie and smiled painfully. Blood coming out of his mouth.

"That'll hurt in the morning, eh Miss Yuffie?"

Cas' face twisted in pain as Order pulled his arm free and grabbed Cas by the throat.

"Very foolish mortal. What did you hope to accomplish with that idiocy?"

"I, uhh, think that's obvious."

"Feh. Pathetic."

"Get a breath mint or something. I'm dying here."

"Any last requests?"

"Yeah, one. Stay down! Matra Magic!"

Order was pummeled by a barrage of missiles and knocked to the side. Cas dropped heavily to the ground with a wet thud. Yuffie crawled to his side.

"Anything I can do?"

"Take this" Cas said putting the Eternal in her hands. "And use it. I'll be fine. Go."

"Alright. Vincent help me with this."

"What should we do?"

"Cas said it was a summoning materia right? Let's just summon something."

"Let's give it a try."

Concentrating their energies, Yuffie and Vincent struggled to call forth whatever before Order got itself back into order. Order stood up, rubbing it's blistered skin tenderly. It looked at the couple praying with the materia in their hands. Maybe these two could wait for a later time. All would die at the hands of Order. It was just a matter of time. Turning before they could hurt him more, Order made to get away. Walking away, Order suddenly stopped. He was hovering inches above the ground. Twisting itself around, Order froze in terror.

Yuffie watched something cut a hole in the ground. It was a huge blade. The blade sank back into the ground. Two armored hands popped up from the rift and ripped it open and pull itself up. The hands belonged to a pair of arms and the arms belonged to a heavily armored warrior. His entire body was covered in armor of some type or another. Only his eyes shone out from his dark gray helmet. They were a startling blue. Once standing on solid ground, he reached into the rift and pulled out a sword, and kept pulling it out. When it was finally fully out, Yuffie gasped. It was huge! It had to be at least fifteen feet long! And it looked a lot like Cloud's Buster sword. Whoever he was, he looked up at something. Yuffie followed his gaze. Snowflakes were falling from somewhere. Yuffie touched one. It was warm and dry. Suddenly, a woman dropped slowly from somewhere. She was wearing a white dress with a green scarf around her neck. Her long brown hair hung loose and free. A circlet was on her brow and a white veil covered her face. As with the man, only her eyes were visible, hers being magic materia green. She landed on the ground and embraced the man. Yuffie's mind raced before smashing headfirst into the answer.

"Cloud? Aeris? Is that you?"

They turned and looked Yuffie in the eye. The woman, Aeris nodded. She gestured to where Order was trying to escape and snapped her fingers. Order became suspended in midair. It twisted around to stare at the two ethereal beings suddenly in their midst. Cloud walked towards Order, brandishing his sword. Aeris walked over to Vincent, who had been drained of his remaining strength by the summoning, and lightly touched his shoulder. Vincent stirred and woke up. He looked at Aeris in surprise. Aeris stared at him for a moment, as if telling him something. Then she turned aside and walked to join Cloud.

Cloud pulled his sword into position. Order screamed horrible as it realized it's fate. Cloud nodded to Aeris once and proceeded to attack Order. Neither Yuffie nor Vincent could follow his movements. He cut too fast to be tracked and each blow led into the next and the one previous the first. Order was soon reduced to mincemeat. Aeris held out her hand and a pure white light shot out. Wherever it touched Order's remains, they were instantly destroyed. As the final ashes of Order drifted to the ground, Cloud and Aeris walked to each other. As one, they turned the Vincent and Yuffie, and nodded. Cloud and Aeris embraced once again and vanished.

Yuffie and Vincent stared in abject shock for several hours. At length, Yuffie turned to Vincent.

"What the hell just happened?"

"I don't think it was meant to last." Cas said as he was recovering. "I think it was just a summon. Lasting as long as it was needed."

"So what the hell was that all about? What was it for? What was the point if it all came to nothing?"

"I don't think it was for nothing. Cloud and Aeris are now together forever. And maybe, that's how Aeris wanted it."

"But why drag us into this?"

"Maybe it was Order. Maybe all that has transpired has been to get rid of Order. What do you think Vincent?"

Vincent turned from his thoughts. He had transformed back into his normal self, except his eyes remained emerald.

"I don't think that's all."

"Don't tell me we have to go through all this again."

"No, I mean. I can't explain it. When Aeris looked at me, it was like she was talking to me. All this was for someone who deserved a second chance. She said I'd understand in time."

"So what now?"

"I'd hope you two would wait for me to recover enough to leave this place. I wanna go to Costa del Sol for a while."

"Shouldn't take too long."

"What's that mean?"

"I called Cid and arranged for a pickup."

"You what?!"

"I still have my PHS. I got a call from Shera a couple of days ago. She's marrying Cid in a week. All I had to do was call and arrange a pickup."

"Let's start this at the begining. You had your PHS from the very begining?" "Yes."

"I could have picked mine up, and have just called you at anytime?"

"Yep."

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?!?!"

"I thought you might get upset."

"ARRRRGGGGGHH!!!"

"He took that well."

"Better than expected."

"That's it! I'm calling Cid myself and telling him to take the longest, bumpiest route he can!"

"You're being mean!"

"Whoever this Cid is tell him to hurry up! I'm in enough pain as it is!"

Well someone didn't listen to their horoscope and just look at what happened! Shame shame Cas. And poor Vincent. It does pay to call COLLECT. Remember, just dial down the center, C-O-L-L-E-C-T. I don't own couldn't tell. If I had a nickel for everything I didn't own, I'd probably be able to buy everything I didn't own.