Foreword- I decided that since now I will be using scene separators (~~~) to separate scenes I thought I should explain to you when the scene's separate. The two main places in this chapter are the Highwind and the Mountains. So when the scene changes from the Highwind to the Mountains the three ~~~ marks will appear before the next paragraph so that you won't get lost.

Cloud and company were all overcome with grief over the loss of Tifa. Cloud now regretted fighting with Sephiroth. Yuffie was taking it hardest.

"If...I.........HADn'T...ThROWN.........ThaT.........Last...Ninja...Star..., " screamed Yuffie repeatedly between sobs.

"Yuffie... it isn't totally your fault. If I had told Tifa to run away then she wouldn't have died either," Cloud said, in a failed attempt to cheer Yuffie up, "It was as much as my fault as it was yours. You aren't the one to blame."

Despite everyone's efforts to stop Yuffie's insane crying she kept on wailing. An alarm wailed viciously into their ears. "Uhhh Cloud. We've got a problem here. You may want to come check this out." said Cid's voice over an intercom. Cloud stood up and made his way to the bridge.

"What is the matter Cid?" asked Cloud in an urgent tone. Cid pointed to the main window of the bridge. Cloud's eyes widened.

A huge monster was waiting for them at the edge of the mountains. This monster seemed familiar to Cloud. He couldn't remember where it was from though.

Cid put the Highwind of Hover mode. "So. What are we going to do about this?" Cid asked.

"Well. I have a sort of risky plan. But we have to do it this way. I will have to ride Shiva past the monster and get to the stone. After I get the stone and return then we can blow the monster to bits without risking destroying the stone." Cloud replied after a moment of intense thinking. Cid was taken back by the complexity, yet simple ness, of Cloud's daring plan.

"Well ok. I will distract the monster with the Highwind while you get the stone. Are you sure you can muster enough strength to summon Shiva twice, or even keep her out of the Materia for that long a time?" wondered Cid.

"I'm hoping that it won't take that long. You better alert the others that you are about to start flying very strangely. They may need to get prepared for irregular patterns you will be flying in...especially Yuffie." Cloud told Cid. Cid nodded. Cloud stepped on the hull elevator and was raised to the balcony of the ship. Cloud stepped out of the balcony and pointed the Shiva Materia toward the sky.

Shiva landed right in front of Cloud. Cloud explained what Shiva was going to do. She nodded. Cloud grabbed onto her shoulders and they took off toward the mountains...and the monster.

~~~ Cid's voice pulsated over the powerful intercom system that had been installed on the Highwind. "You guys better get strapped to something because there is going to be some rough flying going on soon."

Vincent looked at Yuffie. She had finally stopped crying. Vincent lifted her into a seat and buckled her in. He did the same for himself. Tifa's body was lying on the floor. The ninja star was still embedded into her skull.

Shiva was right when she told Cid that she could fly pretty fast. Cloud could barely hang on. The monster hadn't noticed them...yet. Cloud was relieved that even though the flight was a very fast on, that it was smooth.

~~~ The Highwind began transforming. It was changing into its stealth mode. This would help its maneuverability when it had to doge the monsters attacks.

Vincent and Yuffie just sat there, waiting for the collisions to begin and their bodies to be rattled. Yuffie began to cry silently again. Vincent sat there with his eyes closed.

The Highwind had completed transformation. Cid smiled and he charged the Highwind toward the beast. He fired one laser blast at the beast to get its attention.

~~~ The blast hit the beast, though little damage was caused. The monster turned and glared at the metal object floating in front of it. The monster didn't like this hunk of metal. No, not one bit.

Shiva was almost past the beast. Cloud cursed when he saw that Cid had fired at the monster. Now the monster was especially mad. What if the monster noticed Shiva? Cloud would be finished for sure. Shiva kept flying at her incredible speed.

The monster picked up the first boulder it could find. He chucked it with all of his might at the floating metal thingy. The thingy dodged this rock easily. This made the monster madder than before. He kept throwing rocks at the flying antagonizer. The machine kept dodging and dodging and dodging. Finally, one rock hit, barely.

~~~ The collision caused the docking bay door, the door that towered over Vincent, Yuffie, and Tifa's body, to open. The Highwind jerked upward, causing Tifa's body to slide over toward the open door. Vincent unlocked his restraining belt and lunged for Tifa's body, which had fallen out of the door.

Vincent caught onto Tifa's flailing arm just in time. Yuffie was screaming in the background. Vincent tried to pull Tifa back into the Highwind when the second rock hit. The second rock, which was smaller and caused even less damage than the first one, did cause Vincent to lose his grip on Tifa's arm.

Tifa's dead body fell slowly toward the ground. Vincent lunged out of the door after Tifa without thinking. Vincent caught up to Tifa's body somehow and grabbed onto it. He mustered all of his strength into transforming into Darkside, which was a hideous flying ogre that Vincent would transform into if he got mad enough.

Vincent's efforts to transform didn't seem to be working. If he couldn't transform soon he would die. Vincent concentrated even harder than he had ever before. The ground was rushing up at him. He was hurtling toward the ground at an amazing speed. Vincent began to scream.

Vincent began to glow. Slowly but surely he was transforming into Darkside. The ground was to close! He wouldn't transform in time! Vincent concentrated so hard that veins that he didn't know he had were popping up in his forehead. The tail emerged first. Followed by the darkening and changing of his skin.

The ground was reaching up at Vincent. Vincent didn't realize that the ground was only about 100 feet below him. 75...50...25...too late. You lose.

The last thing Vincent heard was the crunching and snapping of his bones, his eyeballs explode, and his heart and brain make a hideous sloshing sound as they ruptured. Vincent's body popped like a huge balloon filled with blood. Blood exploded from Vincent's body and showered everything that was within a 15 foot radius of where he landed. Vincent was now reduced to a pile of steaming, blood matted hair, flesh, and bones.

Yuffie saw the whole thing. Yuffie was horrified. She screamed at the top of her lungs. She began to cry again. This time there was no way she could ever stop. She had just lost 2 of her best friends each within 3 hours of each other. She couldn't bare it anymore.

~~~ Cloud and Shiva had passed the monster and were now looking for the Oracle's Shrine. Cloud knew what it looked like but had no idea where in the mountain range it was. All of the sudden a pain surged through Cloud's heart. Something had happened at the Highwind that he didn't like. What could it be? Cloud could only guess.

"Shiva.... The faster we get there the better. I think it is more in that direction over there," said Cloud as he pointed toward and irregularly shaped mountain that was about a mile ahead of them. Shiva nodded and took off in that direction.

~~~ Yuffie found the nearest intercom and yelled into it. "CID!...............VIN...Ce...NT...Is.....GONE!!!!!!!!!!!" Yuffie could hardly contain herself.

"What did you say? Yuffie...CALM DOWN! Take some deep breathes. Now... What did you say happened to Vincent?" Cid asked Yuffie, his voice crackling on the intercom.

"He died! He's gone! He jumped out the big door after Tifa and couldn't transform fast enough. He is gone. He's Gone! He's Gone! He's GONE! He exploded when he hit the ground. It was Disgusting....But worst of all HE's GOOOOOONNNNNEEEEEEE! I hate this mission! Why did Cloud make us come along? I hate him for making us! If he hadn't told us to come Tifa and Vincent would still be alive!"

"YUFFIE! GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF! WE CAME ALONG BECAUSE WE WANTED TO HELP CLOUD! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO COME! BUT YOU DID! ANYWAY, IF WE DIDN'T HELP HIM THEN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY UTTER AND TERRIBLE DARKNESS! I KNOW IT HURTS BUT YOU HAVE GOT TO GET OVER IT!" Cid yelled at Yuffie. This brought Yuffie back to reality. Yuffie shook her head and strapped herself into her seat. Tears were rolling down her face.

Up in the bridge Cid had his own set of problems to deal with. The monster was throwing bigger and bigger each time. It was getting harder and harder to dodge the rocks. He even had to vaporize some so they wouldn't hit the Highwind. Cid was the greatest pilot of all time, but even this kind of intense maneuvering was a chore. Cid didn't know how much longer he could keep up this maneuvering. The controls couldn't handle this much strain much longer.

~~~ Shiva was now flying very slowly. There were a lot of falling rocks in the area and Shiva didn't want to hit any. Cloud could no longer see the gigantic beast. This he thought was a good sign. Cloud heard something behind him. He turned just in time to see the arrow that was flying toward him and duck.

The arrow flew by Shiva and Cloud. Cloud suddenly saw numerous bandits emerge from the mountain caves, armed with crossbows. The bandits aimed. Fleh.Shoo! Each one shot an arrow with precise accuracy. Shiva was full of holes. Bluish-purple blood was spilling all over Cloud. Cloud saw an arrow sticking out of Shiva's head. It had shot straight through her right eye and emerged from the left half of her skull. He yanked it out. It was covered with a slimy pink substance...Shiva's brains.

The Materia in Cloud's pocket shattered.... causing Shiva to vanish. Cloud now started falling toward a huge pile of rocks. He picked up more and more speed until...

~~~ The Highwind couldn't stay in the air much longer. Yuffie realized this and put on a pair of hover boots and leaped out the docking bay door. The boots kicked in right away and Yuffie took off toward the mountains where she could feel that Cloud was in trouble.

The monster didn't notice Yuffie which was good because she wasn't even focused on anything except reaching Cloud. If the monster would have swung at her she would have been finished.

Yuffie felt a great amount of heat behind her....followed by hearing a bone shattering explosion. She turned in horror to see that the Highwind was no longer in the sky. She had no idea of whether or not Cid was alive or not. She figured he would be since Cid new when to escape and when to fight.

Yuffie turned back toward the mountains and shot off toward the direction that she knew Cloud was. Tears fell from her cheeks, but Yuffie's eyes were filled with determination. She wasn't going to lose Cloud. She promised herself this.

~~~ Cloud awoke surrounded by the bandts who had killed Shiva. He was lying on a bed of leaves. He stood up. The bandits all drew out swords. Cloud grabbed the Oracle Sword just as the first bandit lunged.

Cloud dodged this first attack easily. He swung at the bandit just as another lunged. Cloud could barely block each swing.

Pretty soon all of the bandits were swinging at Cloud. Cloud managed to deflect all of the attacks. He also couldn't land any attacks on the bandits. Until one bandit didn't use his brain.

Cloud grabbed this bandits arm and swung him in front of the nearest swinging sword. The bandit screamed just as his comrade severed him in half. Cloud smiled as the blood flowed over his feet. He threw the top half at another bandit who fell after it collided with him.

Cloud quickly stabbed his sword into the Bandit behind him. The juices that filled his stomach and intestines spilled onto the ground with a splash. Cloud stabbed the guy's eyes out with two daggers that he carried with him. The bandit screamed in agony, one hand holding his open stomach, while the other grasped his face. Blood poured everywhere from his quickly dying body.

After Cloud took out two of the bandits some more arrived. It was now thirteen to two. Cloud didn't mind these odds. The bandits didn't work as a team...this would be their downfall in the end.

Cloud used the daggers that he used to stab the eyes out of the one bandit he threw both of them at 2 different bandits. Both collapsed to the ground grabbing their torn throats. Fresh blood entered the now growing pool. Cloud was enjoying this.

Cloud leaped back onto a rock and took out a Fire Materia. Another bandit fell to the ground. This bandits only recognizable body parts were his hair and arm. The rest had been reduced to scorched flesh. The blood around the smoking corpse began to bubble as it grew hotter.

Cloud reached into his belt and pulled out a small bladed whip. He wrapped this around a guy's neck, and pulled. The tightening blades slowly severed his throat while at the same time ripped his head right off of his shoulders.

Cloud turned around and faced the last nine bandits. He whipped at the underarm of one of the slower bandits. The whip's blades took off the bandits arm with ease. Cloud didn't want the bandit to feel uneven so he did the guy a favor and took off his other arm as well, before sending the whip right through the guy's throat.

Cloud picked up a sharp rock and flung at with all of his might at the strongest looking bandit. The other bandits flinched as they watched the rock cave in the bandit's forehead. Cloud rushed over and pulled out the rock viciously, revealing the bandit's punctured brains. A lot of the bandit's brains entered the blood pool that filled the small ravine.

Cloud found another dagger this time using it to slice one of the bandits right down the middle. The body's two halves fell to the ground, becoming a major ingredient to the pool of death that was swiftly forming at the bandit's feet. The internal organs were still throbbing when they spilled out of the body and into the blood.

There were now only 6 more bandits. Cloud grabbed one of the bandits by the neck. Cloud now had blades on his hands. He plunged his hands deep into the bandit's soft flesh and tore the heart right out of chest. He threw the body down. He squeezed the heart. It popped like a small water balloon filled with blood. The blood gushed over Cloud's face.

Cloud found a long sharp stick. He jumped into the air. He lunged down on one unsuspecting bandit. The bandit screamed in terror just as the stick slammed into his mouth. The stick emerged out of the bandit's other end. Cloud took his sword and cut him in half after the bandit was good and bleeding.

Cloud grabbed another bandit. He took the bandit's neck in his hands and flailed the bandit around sharply then quickly reversed direction. Cloud liked the sound of the bandit's neck snapping in two. He threw the bandit into a pile of sharp rocks, which quickly embedded the bandit's skin and added even more blood to the giant pool of red.

Cloud remembered how he had killed Sephiroth and decided to do the same thing to one of these bandits. He stuck his sword into the ground and in one marvelous strike, slammed 2 of the bandit's heads into the blade of his sword. The two heads split in two instantly. The pool was getting thicker thanks to all of the brains that were being added to the recipe card.

The last bandit tried to run but failed when his back erupted like a bloody volcano. Cloud was surprised to see that ninja stars were lying on the ground in front of the bandit, who was now more or less in three pieces. Yuffie suddenly appeared and launched about 30 stars into the already dead body of the bandit she had killed.

Yuffie looked at Cloud after she had regained control and nodded. The two figures walked toward the shrine without saying a word.

So now Cloud is even closer to his goal than ever before. But at the same time several miles away, Tifa's bodies eyes opened...

Afterword- I hope this chapter was bloody enough for ya! I enjoyed writing it! Please Review! And, as always, thanks for reading!