(Author's Note: Well…this chapter is short! Very short…so I'm posting 2 chapters today instead of just one…oh well. Enjoy chapter 20!)

Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Neither is Rueh. Dete is.

Chapter 20

Revelations

                                    -1 Week Later-

Dete slowly regained consciousness.

"Dete! How do you feel?" Rueh asked.

Dete smiled weakly. "Okay…I guess…"

"What happened?" Vincent asked.

"Where's Sephiroth?" she asked.

"We don't know. We found you in Nibelheim," Rueh said.

"What happened?" Vincent asked again.

"I remember fires everywhere…the well almost collapsed on me…Sephiroth saved me then…" a look of pain flashed across her face.

"Relax…Sephiroth saved you? How come we found you hurt?" Rueh asked.

"Sephiroth said something…about his mother…Jenova…he wasn't making sense…he turned to fast for me…then…he…"

"Did he do this to you?" Rueh asked quietly.

Dete nodded weakly.

"Why would he do this?" Vincent asked.

"He's gone mad…whatever Hojo was experimenting on him with made him go crazy. He said he had been hearing strange voices," Dete said softly. The other 2 were quiet.

"You rest. We'll try to figure out what's going on," Vincent stood up.

Dete nodded. "I'm hungry," she said.

"Well I guess we better get you something to eat," he said.

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                                    -3 Weeks Later-

It didn't take long for word of Nibelheim's destruction to get around. Sephiroth was sighted in a few places and destruction seemed to follow. Dete was almost completely healed. A few days later a barrier appeared around the Northern Crater and a huge red object appeared in the sky.

"It's called Meteor…I'm a Cetra…with my powers I can stop it…if I don't it will destroy everything," Aeris told them all.

"How do you stop it?" Vincent asked.

"By a prayer. I can tell the planet to release Holy who can stop Meteor," she said.

"Where do you need to pray? Or could you do it anywhere?" Red asked.

"There's an alter in the Forgotten Capital…that's where I need to go," Aeris stated.

"Well then…let's go," Vincent said.

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(A/N: Well…you can probably see that the next chapter is not going to be good…Aeris fans BEWARE!)