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Flying was a breeze, even though I had passengers on my back. Jacques and Naz were enjoying themselves too. Once or twice, I caught Naz getting all lovey-dovey with Yuffie and he hated me for it. Well, that's what older siblings are for. Below, we made sure that we didn't lose sight of the snowboarders. After 20 minutes of boarding and flying, we reached the Ice Gate Glacier, an icy prison.

"We'll communicate using the PHS. We're splitting up for now. We'll meet up at Gaea's Cliff." Cid announced.

All of us were divided in twos and each chose their partners, but when it came to Cloud, Aerith, Tifa and Vincent it was exceptional. I put Cloud with Vincent and Tifa with Aerith. They hated me for it but if I didn't, they'd wonder off and might abort the mission. I was with Jacques as Yuffie only wanted to be with Naz. Cait Sith was with Red XIII, and Cid was stuck with Barret. At least this way we won't miss any valuable items that we were to pick up along the way, especially the Alexander summon materia which is very powerful.

Jacques and I went looking for the Alexander materia, Cloud and Vincent hunted for the double cut materia, Aerith and Tifa looked for the mediocre Safety Bit, and the others hunted for the other useful items. Jacques and I barely got through the Central Map area as it twirled around every time we moved. Finally after so much confusion, we made it to the cave where we would find it. There was an old witch there and she found out that we were at the hot springs, the one place she hated. She was just an ordinary snow enemy and we used Fire 3 on her, but her love confuses attack got to Jacques and started attacking me instead.

You're asking for it you monster." I shouted as I showered her with Flame thrower arrows.

Aghhhhh..." she screamed and melted away.

Recovering from the affects of the spell, Jacques kept apologizing. I forgave him, but it wasn't enough for him, so he kissed me.

"I forgive you, really," I said when we parted.

At Gaea's Cliff, we were the second to arrive. Naz and Yuffie were the first and curled up by the fire. They looked so cute together; I didn't want to disturb them. Jacques pulled me to the next room; there we met the owner of the shack. He gave us tips on what and what not to do when climbing Gaea's Cliff. Must never let your body temperature go below 28 degrees Celsius and every now and then we have to shake around and rub our shoulders to keep warm.

When he was finished he left the room. I think it's weird but even though it was warm in the shack I felt cold. Not sure why, but I shivered with cold. We joined Naz and Yuffie by the fire. Naz was surprised to see us together and asked whether we were serious. The both of us didn't answer and he took it as a yes. I asked him if he and Yuffie were together, he immediately said yes.

5 minutes later, the owner of the shack appeared and called us outside. We gathered in a circle and discussed on how we should climb. Barret suggested we go in groups of four and after the first group goes, the following one goes 5 minutes later to meet in the cave. The idea was reasonable and easy to work with. Cloud, Barret, Cid and Red XIII went in the first group and climbed the steep cliff trying to stand the bitter cold. At each ledge there was a flag and it was there all of us had to warm up or else pass out. My group was the second to go, there was me, Aerith, Tifa, and Yuffie. Naz, Jacques, Vincent and Cait Sith were last to go, but luckily it was easy for them to get around as the paths were a little warmer and easier to find. In the cave, in our groups we split up to look for paths. After it was cleared, it was easier to get by. The hard bit was to get through the icicles. Even though they were easy to beat but had quite high defense.

The next big challenge was the Twinhead, a two headed dragon with its own vulnerability. The right head is vulnerable to ice, while the left is vulnerable to fire. This one was tricky so everyone was equipped with aurora and fire armlets and fire and ice rings. With them and the Alexander summon materia; we were invincible at least till the final attack where it shoots a lightning blast that damages us big time. To get to Sephiroth, we needed to pass through the crater and gusts of strong wind with lightning bolts and green gusts. The big layer of general wind was especially annoying and it took us quite a while to get past all three. Before passing through the third area of general wind, we had to fight Jenova.

With all our armor and accessories still on, we were invulnerable to her attacks and beating her was a piece of cake. Our prize was the black materia and someone had to keep it safe. Cloud chose Barret to handle it while, he, Aerith, Tifa and Vincent pursued Rufus, Scarlet and Professor Hojo. I wanted to go too, but Cloud refused and said I should stay behind. The whole area was teaming with energy and everything was crystallized. It was lovely and all were materia. When they arrived after the Shinra personnel, Cloud went ballistic. Hojo said something about a reunion and that Cloud was a failed experiment. Cloud was actually a Sephiroth clone with Jenova cells, his ego and has been exposed to much more Mako energy than the others. He was actually begging to Hojo to give him a numbered tattoo like the other clones and experiments.

"Cloud, what's wrong with you?" Aerith cried as she rushed to him.

"Oh the ancient is here, too. Good, but I'm afraid we won't need you, as we have found the Promised Land," He said aloud.

"This...this is... the Promised Land?" she sounded astonished.

"Yes, and it is rich with Mako energy and with it we'll be rich, Gyaa ha, ha, ha." Scarlet laughed an evil laugh. Rufus just grinned.

Suddenly, the ground rumbled and through the crystallized wall behind us we saw a huge eye of Ultimate Weapon. The Weapons are beasts that are awakened and create mass destruction when they sense the Planet is in danger. In this case they needed to save the world from the Shinra organization. There were five of them. In order, there was Sapphire Weapon, Diamond Weapon, Emerald Weapon, Ruby Weapon and the most powerful of all was Ultimate Weapon. All five were activated at once. The rumbling stopped, for now. Barret suddenly dawdled over bearing the black materia.

"There Cloud, it's safe and I didn't give it to anyone." He felt proud of himself till, Cloud asked for the materia.

"Cloud, what's wrong?" he asked, rubbed his head.

"Nothing's wrong Barret, just give me the black materia." He acted possessed and held out his hand.

"Barret don't give it to him," Aerith, Tifa, Vincent and the rest of us shouted.

We zoomed from our waiting place when we found Barret missing.

"What... what's going on Cloud?" he looked solemnly at Cloud.

Cloud didn't answer and snatched the materia from Barret's large hand. "Hey, what gives?" Barret bellowed as Cloud flew up to the ceiling and revealed something which made us gasp in horror.

There in the middle of the ceiling was SEPHIROTH in the crystallized in the clear aqua crystal!

"Cloud, no...!" Naz, Vincent, Tifa, Aerith and Red XIII shouted while Jacques and I flew to stop him.

Too late... his hand passed through and gave the black materia to Sephiroth! Cloud just curled upside like a bat and didn't want to come down. He didn't even budge when I brought Aerith to see him or when she kissed him. Nearly gave up hope, wanted to float downwards when I saw, emerging from the crystal's reflection, I caught a glimpse of Kujah and the Evil Ansem. They grinned sinisterly at me. I froze with my mouth open, shook my head frantically and looked again, they were gone.

Aerith waved a hand in front of me and pointed downwards Barret and Red XIII signaled to go as the place was caving in. Wanted to get Cloud but a large piece of crystal prevented me from doing so. Rufus scrambled us to the Highwind as we needed to escape. Right before a force field protected the Crater we were in; I crashed on to the Highwind's deck with Aerith in my arms.

We crashed with a boom and what made things worse was the impact made by the force field shielding the Crater. The impact rocked the Highwind even more and nearly threw a few of us off board. Further more, the loss of Cloud even for a moment was unbearable for Aerith and instead of Tifa, she fainted and nearly fell overboard. Cid caught her just in time as he was the nearest to her.

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