Disclaimer: I do not claim to own Final Fantasy VII or even anything to do with Squaresoft. This geos for all the other chapters as well. I can't be bothered disclaiming all of them.

Cloud had his Buster Sword raised above his head and was about to strike.

'No,' thought Aeris 'Cloud wouldn't kill me. Stop now.'

"Cloud!" yelled Cid.

"Stop it!" added Barret.

'Sephiroth,' thought Cloud "Ugh...what are you making me do?"

All of a sudden Sephiroth came flying down from nowhere and impaled Aeris through the stomach with his Masamune Sword.

He drew it out again and Aeris slumped onto the floor and her White Materia bounced off of the Altar and into the water.

"Aeris...this can't be real!" cried Cloud.

/'It isn't'/

"Do not worry. Soon the girl will become part of the Planet's energy. All that is left is to go north. The 'Promised Land' waits for me over the snowy fields. There I will become a new being by uniting with the planet. As will this girl......"

"Shut up," interrupted Cloud "The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don't mean a thing. Aeris is gone."

/'That's really sweet of you, Cloud.'/

"Aeris will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry...or get angry..."

/'Sorry, Cloud.'/

"What about us...what are WE supposed to do? What about my pain?"

/'REALLY sorry Cloud'/

"My fingers are tingling. My mouth is dry. My eyes are burning!"

"What are you saying?" questioned Sephiroth, "Are you trying to tell me you have feelings too?"

"Of course!" answered Cloud, "Who do you think I am?"

"Ha, ha, ha......" laughed Sephiroth, "stop acting as if you were sad. There's no need to act as if you're angry either. Bacause, Cloud. You are..."

But Sephiroth didn't answer his question. Instead, he sicked a Jenova-LIFE on them. Too bad they defeated it too easy.

"Because, you are...... a puppet."

"I'm...... a puppet?"

Next thing Cloud knew, Sephiroth and Jenova were gone. He and the others paid their last respects to Aeris, then Cloud took her to the clear pond outside and lowered her down to the deepest part. It was the best burial they could give her due to the current state they were in. Then they left, to persue Sephiroth.

/'Cloud, goodbye, for now anyway.'/

Aeris didn't waste any time. Blood was only just beginning to seep out of her stomach as she dragged herself up to the surface. (She didn't bleed that easily anyway.) There, she cast a Cure Materia on herself, and silently thanked her precious Underwater Materia that she found in the Temple of the Ancients. She was prepared for this moment, as she had forseen it a while back. Silly Cloud, thinking she was dead. It would be better he thought it that way for now anyway.

Aeris had no idea of what to do now. She had just saved herself after almost being killed by Sephiroth. Now what? She then made one critical decision; it was still nighttime, the path to the Altar would still be open, so she made her way there.

To the left of the path up to the Altar was a set of stairs leading down into the water. There she dove down and reposessed her precious White Materia that Ifalna had given to her, and since she had the Underwater Materia, she swam down through a small tunnel out the bottom. She made it through to a room that had a music box in it, and walked all the way round the outside until she got to the center.

There was what Aeris thought to be a blue crystal, and around it on the ground was the writing of the Ancients. It spoke of the blue crystal to be a projector of important memories held by the most recent Ancients there. Due to her prescence, (it said Ancients could activate this projector immediately) the water began to flow down all around her, then it showed the horrifying scene of Jenova 2000 years back, wiping out a few ancients. One Ancient had obviously made it out of there and recorded this, but then got killed by Jenova as well; it showed Aeris. She knew this because some writing in the background in the Old Ancient language spelt 'Crisis from the Sky'.

Aeris already knew what she was seeing so it didn't phase her much.

'Cloud and the others will stop it, I'm sure,' thought Aeris to herself.

Along the end line of the Ancients' writing, Aeris saw that you have to put a key in the music box to activate the projector. It was directly underneath the Forgotten Capital never to be reached by anyone, and it was in the ocean. She had a strong feeling that Cloud and the others would come to this place again soon, so she found a piece of chalk-like rock and scratched into the ground underneath significant sentences: [key] [in the music box]. Her work was done. She left the projector and the water immediately stopped flowing. Cloud and everybody else had just left the Forgotten Capital, and the music box had also recorded her important memories. Now she decided she wanted to find out more about Jenova. She would have to find Gast's records. She would have to return to her old home.

An hour later, Aeris herself had also made it out of the Forgotten Capital. There were signs that Cloud and the others had been there about an hour ago. Cid's cigarette butt for example. She really didn't want to be seen by Cloud or it would probably destroy him, seeing the critical condition he was already in.

Across the snowy feilds for several hours Aeris trudged until finally, she had made it to Icicle Inn. There were Shin-Ra soldiers everywhere, and to Aeris' surprise, Cloud, confronting Elena of the Turks.

Hiding behind a small building for a minute, Aeris saw that Cloud had won the little 'argument', and went looking round town for info. Tifa and Red XIII were with him.

'Red XIII?!' thought Aeris in a slight panic 'he'd pick up my scent! Crap, I've gotta leave!'

And so Aeris decided instead that if he DID pick up her scent, he'd just be imagining it. After all, she had 'died', right?

She headed towards her old house, and then went inside and flopped onto the old bed she had slept on when she was little.

Later on Aeris woke up and figured she'd dozed off, and heard voices. Someone was in the house!

Silently she got up and slid into her old closet. It was just big enough to fit her.

"Yes Cloud, I'm positive! Something here smells like Aeris!"

"Red, I know she just died, but this is no time to make jokes about it. I'm upset about her death too, you know?" said Tifa comfortingly.

"Tifa, have I ever lied to you guys before? And stop speaking to me as if I'm a small child!" Red XIII was pretty annoyed by now.

'I don't think Red XIII is lying. Heh heh,' thought Aeris, 'But you, Ms. Sunshine, care about me? Yeah right! Stupid bitch would've thrown me to Hojo when she got the chance!'

"Hey you guys, look at this. Old footage." that shut Red and Tifa up. Cloud switched it on.

A while later...

"Oh...my...gosh..." said Tifa.

"Well that explains the Aeris smell. Well, now that we have the information we need, shall we head on?" asked Cloud to the others.

"Yeah," said Red XIII, "Keep on following Sephiroth."

They left.

Aeris then popped out of the small closet she was hiding in, and viewed the footage herself. Nothing she didn't know. She decided to go to the extreme. Took her a while to decide to as well. She was going to sneak into Shin-Ra HQ herself.

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That's the end of the first chapter! I'll try to post the next chapter within the next few days. Please review! It would make me very happy to see your oppinion (If it is a good oppinion) or even if you'd like to suggest what happens next, you can do that too! Always open for ideas. Well, bye!