(Author's Note: Hello! Here is chapter 23! From the way it looks now I might be able to get one or more chapters up then…the end will be here…unless I get a few reviews that want me to continue with this story to go past the end of the game…I'll leave it up to you guys! Oh and sorry that this chapter is so short!)

Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Rueh is Rueh's. Dete and Ezra are mine. Oh yeah! The stuff in italics…it's a song called One More…and that belongs to Journey!

Chapter 23

'Wicked prophets kill... speaking his name
            In the glory of an innocent age
            A king is born to a house filled with rage
            One man's fear is another man's truth, one fear

            The blind suffer at the hands of sin
            Lines are drawn where the boundaries begin
            Ten thousand broken, by the madness within
            Broken…'

"What…is going on? Where am I? Why does my head hurt so? Wait…where? Where's Ca…"

"Don't worry about that one. She means nothing. You need only worry for me…my son."

"Who…are you? Why do I have thoughts of…mother?"

"Because I am your mother…Jenova."

"No…you can't be…my sight tells me you're a monster…"

"Your sight is blinded…trust me…I am who I say I am."

            'One more, cry in the night... one more
            One more, war left to fight ...one more
            One life, cut down by fire
            Once child's, angry desire... one more

            Hearts of stone, pride without shame
            Wicked prophets, kill while speaking his name
            As the heavens, fall from the sky
            Fallin''

With determined resolve they walked down the many different paths. This is the path that they chose for many different reasons but for the same cause. They march on towards the battle ground. Someone would not live to see the next day…that they all knew.

            'Brother to brother, blood on their hands
            Desolation in the kingdom of man
            Holy vengeance is the justice of hell
            Mercy, mercy…

            One more, cry in the night... one more
            One more, war left to fight ...one more
            One life, cut down by fire
            Once child's, angry desire... one more'

"Why…why do I want to fight these people that come? These thoughts in my head are not my own…why?"

"Because it is what I want. Who are you to refuse your mother?"

"How are you my mother? You're just a sick monster…USING ME AS A PUPPET!"

"Don't you use that tone with me!"

"You will not control me any more! You are not my mother!"

"You will do as you are told!"

"No! I will never…NEVER…be used by a monster like you again!"

"You're acting like a little child. Come my son…they come to kill me…"

"Good! I hope they do!"

"…if they kill me then I'll make sure they kill you!"

            'Wings of fire... drums of thunder
            No more, no more
            One more, cry in the night... one more
            One more was, was left to fight... one more

            One life, cut down by fire
            One child's angry desire... one more
            One more, one.'

It took some time but they made it to the place the creature called Jenova was. The battle raged. But…in the end…Jenova was defeated. Before he could stop himself the change had already begun. They battled his first transformation and won.

"Yes…now I can be free…" but then the change began again.

This angelic form they battled yet still they won. The meteor that hung in the sky was lower. Ever so closer to the planet it came. The prayer of the ancient was heard and Holy was released to battle the threat from the sky above. But alone it could not win. It called upon the planet's life blood…the life stream.

"Why won't this end? I don't want to go on!" Sephiroth looked up and locked eyes with Cloud.

'Come and get me,' the thought ran through Cloud's mind. He narrowed his eyes…and fell down to where the last stand would be made.

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