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Before returning to the depths of the ocean, we started to breed chocobos. Again we split up into teams in search of mountain and river chocobos, and not to forget best or very good chocobos. Those who were lucky stumbled upon a herd of Mountain chocobos (the green ones) and in the same herd were the River chocobos (the baby blue ones) at Wutai Island. Sam, Celest, Lynn, Naz and Yuffie were in the lucky group and picked a male green one and a female blue one. They just came willingly without any monsters with them, like they knew we were friends.

On the other hand, my group, with Jacques, Aerith and Cloud, had a little problem, we rounded up a few chocobos and couldn't different shape which were best and which weren't. We brought them back to Billy who said two were female and one was male. The male and one of the female were the best chocobos and the other female was a poor one. We let her go and kept the other two.

We named the male Thunder and the female Storm. Cloud asked me why I named them that, I answered, "I thought these names would fit them best."

When the other group was back from Wutai with the chocobos, they were mated at once while Cloud and Jacques went to race Storm and Thunder at the Chocobo race. They didn't come back till the chocobos were at rank S, the highest rank. By the time they got back, Thowra (the male green chocobo) and Rain (the female blue chocobo) had given birth to twins, both black chocobos but female and male. It was unusual as chocobos only give birth to one chick at a time. But anyway we welcomed the chicks warmly.

By the time they were old enough, after a week, they were raced at the Gold Saucer till the highest rank. They too were given names, Shane (the male) and Meg (the female). Then they were mated with Storm and Thunder.

By the next morning we were dazzled to find two beautiful chicks the color of Gold and both, again were of different genders. This was the first time we had ever seen the legendary gold chocobos. Even in the game I have never managed to breed one but I'm glad to see one. I took my camera and snapped a few shots of each chocobo as a memoir. Hopefully the film will develop well. The chocobos didn't mind me taking the photos and instead of fleeing they posed and danced for me. They were just so loving and adorable, it would be sad to leave them.

When the chocobos were strong enough we brought both the gold chocobos with us. Their names were Spark and Gwen. With them, we retrieved the treasures from hard to reach places. The most precious and powerful of all treasures was the Knights of the Round summoning materia. The other treasures included Quadra magic materia, mimic materia and Mp/Hp switch materia. The chocobos were what we call 'manja' with us. They're big fluffy but act like kitty cats always wanting attention and are very close to us. If only I'm able or allowed to bring one of them with me as I love them so much. The closest one to me and Jacques was Storm. As I was the one who caught her. Shane seemed to grown on Yuffie and my brother. Thowra had seemed to have favored Cloud and Aerith and Meg loved Tifa and Vincent. I don't mean to place favorites but the chocobos seem to grow on a few of us. Gwen was given a lot of care from Sam, Siew Mei and Serena. Spark and Rain were loved most by Barret, Cid, Red XIII and Cait Sith.

Back to business, it was time to get Vincent's final limit break and best weapon at Lucrecia's cave. We used the submarine and Jacques piloted it this time. The ones who went were Cloud, Tifa, Vincent, Jacques, Aerith, Red XIII and me. The cave was smooth and cool, it had a strange magnificence and there was an altar at the end if the cave. Someone was there, surrounded by light and called out Sephiroth's name.

"Lucrecia... you're alive, after all these years? Is it really you?" Vincent recognized the voice of his lost love and walked towards her.

"Vincent... no, don't come any closer." She raised her and signaled him to stop.

"Is my son alive? I never got to hold him and some said he died years ago. But I heard he has been around. Where is he, how is he?" she needed to know and it was she who bore Sephiroth and not really Jenova.

"He seems alive and seeks revenge. Lucrecia come with us I beg of you and who knows we'll see him. Please Lucrecia ..." Vincent pleaded. "No... Don't come any closer..." she tried to stop him, but he came anyway.

Then, in a flash... Vincent's past was shown for all of us to see. He was a Turk accompanying Professors Hojo, Gast and Lucrecia for the Jenova Project at the Shinra mansion. Then Vincent (he had short hair that time), had fallen for Lucrecia, but she had rejected his proposal for the love of science and left him in a million pieces. She ran from him forever.

What made it worse, he found her with Hojo kissing and his heart suffered even more pain. He later found out that Hojo was using her for the Jenova project, but she just wouldn't listen to reason when Vincent told her. When Hojo found out, he shot Vincent and mutilated him. He used him the same way he used Lucrecia but instead turned him into a monster. After the experiment was over, Hojo left Vincent lying on the table and when he woke up, all he could feel was guilt and humiliation. For that he buried himself for 30 years in the coffin. His past was a tragic one, when it was over, we found ourselves outside and Vincent was quieter than usual. That might not have been Lucrecia or could have just been her restless soul. None of us could be sure. We set out to the ocean depths and scavenged to the old Shinra plane.

In the plane, we found Rude and Reno trying to unlock the door to the cargo and helipad area.

"You again, what are you up to this time?" Red XIII caught them by surprise.

They jumped and explained that they were trying to salvage the plane and warned us about the monsters which were experiments are now at large in the plane. We got the message but they wouldn't let us through without a fight. I admit, they were a lot tougher than last time, but, they were no match for us. The evacuated the plane and left us in peace. There were many things in the place to uncover. We split up and were lucky not to run into any monsters till we got Cloud's powerful weapon, Heaven's Cloud, Yuffie's best weapon the Conformer, a Hades summoning materia, a double cut materia and Cid's final limit break the Highwind. The monsters we encountered were deadly and some had no name.

After getting the goodies and surviving attacks from a few of the monsters, we ourselves fled from the plane. Back in the submarine, while making our way back to Lucrecia's cave, we bumped into Emerald Weapon and boy did he grumble. He was a tough opponent. His attacks were as deadly as his looks. We were on the verge of defeat when he crumbled at our feet.

"We... we, we beat him? Oh my god, I never thought we could," I was about to get hyper again.

"Yes, we beat him and without Cloud and Aerith." Tifa continued.

"Yeah, and there's three more to go. Once emerald's gone, Ruby weapon will appear soon, Diamond will come later and we'll have to fight Ultima weapon soon, too." Red XIII stated a few facts.

"We won't worry about that now; let's get back to Lucrecia's cave." Jacques called from the captain's seat.

The sound of Lucrecia's name brought sorrow to Vincent's ever broken heart. Tifa reached out her hands to him but pulled them back as she feared that he would reject them. Vincent sensed her fear and faced her. He took her loving arms and held them tightly never to let go. Vincent was really unpredictable and to think he had gotten over the loss of his first rejected love.

Back at the cave, Lucrecia was gone, but at the altar was Vincent's best weapon, Death Penalty and it was better than the Outsider, his other weapon we found in the downed Shinra plane. He kneeled at the altar to retrieve the weapon and found his final limit break with it. Vincent held them close to his heart and suddenly, after holding it in for so long, tears flowed from his eyes like rain. Tifa accompanied him and held him as he cried. The scene was touching, seeing them together and how Tifa stayed with him through his grief.

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