Chapter 9
Friend against Friend
Cloud, Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Tifa, Yuffie, Vincent, Barret, Cid, Miroku, Shippo, Red XIII, and Kirara were all looking at their foe who was Aeris. Cloud and the others didn't want to admit it, but Aeris was alive. "Aeris is that you" Cloud asked. "Aeris who" Inuyasha asked. "She's Aeris. You know the girl who I told who was killed by Sephiroth" Cloud said. "Oh" Inuyasha said. "If Aeris died then why is she alive" Kagome asked. "I don't know, but I have a bad feeling about this" Cloud said. "Perhaps I can answer that" Kagura said as she appeared from behind Aeris and with her were Jenova, and Kohaku. "Kagura; what are you doing here" Sango demanded.
"I am here with Naraku's new servant to take a jewel shard from this village" Kagura said. "Then you mean that Aeris is Naraku's new servant" Miroku asked. "Correct. Aeris now serves Naraku just like Kohaku dose" Kagura said. "But how did Naraku get hold of Aeris's body and she would never serve Naraku willingly" Yuffie said. "Simple Naraku was given Aeris's body and he had gone into your world to retrieve her soul so he could have it properly revived" Kagura said. "I understand now. That white little girl who was with him must have been going through the lifestream to recover her soul or did Naraku do that himself" Vincent said. "Very good you figured out most of my plan" a voice said as one of Naraku's puppets appeared. "Naraku" Inuyasha said. "You son of a bitch what did you do to Aeris" Cloud said.
"All I did was that I took Kanna into your world and had her recover the Certa's soul. While I was waiting I went on a shopping spree" Naraku replied. "Shopping spree" Kagome asked with a questioning look. "I went around and acquired some Materia, armor, accessories and some weapons for myself. But I can't take all of the credit for myself I did have help" Naraku replied. "Help" Tifa asked. "From me" Jenova said as her eyes started glowing blood red. "You don't remember me do you Cloud, well maybe this form will refresh your memory" Jenova said as she transformed into her Synthesis form. "Jenova, so you're behind Aeris's resurrection" Cloud said as he held out his sword the Ultimate weapon in front of him. "That's Jenova" Shippo said. "Guess she's as ugly as Cloud described her" Inuyasha mocked. "You and Naraku have joined forces" Vincent asked. "Indeed we did. In exchange for helping him gather the jewel shards he would keep me safe from my enemies. Since you crippled Sephiroth he's useless to me, so the Certa here is his replacement" Jenova said with an evil grin.
"So you're replacing Sephiroth with Aeris as your new servant. You know Jenova you and Naraku do make a prefect match because you two are both cold and manipulative bastards who like to use people" Inuyasha yelled out as he jumped to attack Jenova. Sephiroth was about to use the Kaze no Kizu on Jenova, but suddenly he was frozen in place by Aeris's seal evil limit break. "What the; I can't move" Inuyasha said as he tired to move. "Aeris be a dear and destroy them" Jenova commanded. "Yes mother" Aeris replied coldly as she moved to attack Cloud and the others. "Aeris don't make us fight you" Cloud said. "Prepare to die" Aeris said, but in Aeris's mind she was screaming for this nightmare to end. Aeris started her assault with a powerful Ultima spell which knocked everyone off their feet and onto the ground. Aeris prepared to attack again with a much stronger spell, but Aeris was knocked to the ground when Sango's boomerang hit her in the stomach. Aeris was surprisingly still alive as the Certa girl was getting to her feet. This gave the others enough time to get to their feet. "Cloud we have to fight her" Barret said. "We can't" Cloud said because he couldn't bring himself to hurt Aeris.
"If we don't she will kill us" Yuffie said. "She's right. IF Naraku is controlling her then she is no long the Aeris you knew. She has been brained washed by him and now she is nothing more than a killing machine" Vincent said. "Alright we'll fight her, but no one kill her understand. Just wound her" Cloud said with a lot of reluctance in his voice. "Please forgive me Aeris" Cloud said as he attacked Aeris with Shadow flare. Aeris was hit hard, but she countered attacked with comet 2. Cloud and Barret were knocked to the ground, but Aeris was attacked by Tifa who used her whole limit break attack chain and Yuffie attacked with Ultima and Red XIII attacked Aeris with his Cosmo memory limit break. Aeris was hit hard by all of those attacks, but she wasn't even breaking a sweat as Aeris used Cure 3 on herself and then she cast Ultima on them. Tifa and Yuffie were hit by the spell and were hit hard, but Red XIII evaded the spell and attacked Aeris head on. However the creature was knocked away when Aeris hit him in the side of the head with her staff.
Aeris unleashed her most powerful attack yet. It was her new summon materia called Dark Gospel. Cloud and the others were brought into another dimension as they saw the angel of death and the angel of destruction appear before them. The angel of death had a flaming sword and the angel of destruction was armed with a scythe. The two angels attacked them without any mercy as the group was sent back to their normal dimension badly injured and on the verge of death. Aeris was about to strike them all down, but she had forgotten about Inuyasha who was never hit by the summon spell, so this enabled the half demon to attack her from behind.
Cloud and the others saw Inuyasha about to hit Aeris with the wind scar and they quickly rolled out of the way. "Look out Aeris" Jenova said as the certa saw the half demon attacking too little too late as Inuyasha unleashed the power of the wind scar and Aeris was hit head on. Aeris was engulfed by the attack and Inuyasha was sure she couldn't have survived that. However Kagura flew over the blast site as she grabbed Aeris. Aeris was gravely injured by the attack so the villains decided to make a hasty escape.
"We'll meet again Cloud" Jenova said as she, Kagura, Kohaku, Aeris and Naraku's puppet fled the scene. Afterwards Inuyasha stood over Cloud's beaten form as Cloud cast a Cure 3 on himself and everyone else. "You guys alright" Inuyasha asked as he put away Tetsusaiga. "We're fine Inuyasha" Kagome said as she got to her feet. "Aeris where did she go" Cloud asked. "She left with Kagura and Jenova" Inuyasha replied. "Out of the enemies we could have face I wished it wasn't Aeris" Cloud said with a depressed look on his face. "Don't worry I am sure there is way we could get her back. We just need to find Naraku's castle that is where they are probably at" Kagome said. "I hope you're right and when we find Naraku and Jenova. I am going to kill them" Cloud said. "Take a number Cloud because most of the people I know want to kill Naraku, so welcome to the club man" Inuyasha said.
"So do you know where Naraku's castle is" Vincent asked. "That's the funny thing. We have been looking for it for quite sometime now" Shippo said. "Then we better get going" Cloud said. "Right; let's find Naraku and end this once and for all" Inuyasha said agreeing with Cloud as he and the others walked in the same direction Kagura and Jenova went.
Meanwhile on board the Highwind elsewhere Sephiroth sat in his wheelchair in the operations room. He was thinking how it was odd to him that not only did his inability to walk was a great inconvenience to him, but the planet had somehow prevented any materia cure spells from healing him and most of his power was suppressed. Sephiroth grew impatient. He wanted results because he wanted his old power back and he wanted Jenova's head on a plate. Suddenly Kadaj walked into the room. "Speak Kadaj" Sephiroth said as he sensed Kadaj's presences in the room. "Sephiroth I have some news for you" Kadaj said as he walked up to Sephiroth and knelt before him. "It better be good" Sephiroth replied. "I think we might have found a way to restore your ability to walk" Kadaj said. "Go on" Sephiroth said as his face showed some signs of interest.
"I have heard talk among some members of the wolf tribe of a woman who can heal most illness and injuries which would seem almost impossible to heal. I think if we brought you to her we she may restore your ability to walk. I know it's a long shot sir, but we have no better leads on another way" Kadaj said. "Dose sound like the chance of her helping me is impossible. However since we have no other ways at this moment I guess this is a matter worth investigating. Take me to her" Sephiroth said. "I know where we can find, so we should arrive at her location in an hour or two" Kadaj said as he went to Loz and Yazu to tell them of the place Sephiroth wished to visit. The Highwind's engines came to life as it flew away into the sky towards its destination. Koga and a few members of the wolf tribe asked if they could come along for the ride. Sephiroth had no problem with this so they came with him.
Back in Cloud's world Sesshomaru, Rin and Jaken reached Kalm as Sesshomaru, Jaken and Rin were exploring the city. Sephiroth did have to give the humans here credit for their advancements in technology since that was the only good thing about the humans here that Sesshomaru could notice. Sesshomaru entered the Materia shop and was browsing around at their selection of materia. Sesshomaru was looking at an Earth, Poison, Steal, Sense, and Heal materia. Sesshomaru noticed the prices of the materia were in Gil, but that was no problem for Sesshomaru since he killed countless monsters on their way to the town and he had gained a lot of Gil for spending.
"Excuse me sir I would like to purchase one of each materia you have" Sesshomaru said as he gave the man the right amount of Gil to buy them. "Of course sir...Here you go" the man said as he gave Sesshomaru the Materia orbs he bought. "Now which materia is offensive magic and what can the other materia orbs do" Sesshomaru asked. "The Earth materia can spell earth element based spells like earth quake. Heal is more of a white magic based materia with healing spells like Poisona which cures all forms of poison, there is also Esuna which cures all illnesses and finally there is Resist which grants you immunity against all forms of poisons and illness for a short time. Sense lets you scan an opponent for its strengths and weakness. Poison allows you to cast the poisoning spell known as Bio. Steal grants you the power to take items from other foes with ease. Spells like Bio and Earth grow stronger with each passing battle and will eventually reach the point where they can learn more powerful versions of the spell. So use them often if you want them to grow stronger" the store keeper said.
"I see. I thank you for your assistance" Sesshomaru said as he, Jaken and Rin walked out of the town and started on their way towards Junon. However Sesshomaru had heard about the terrifying Midgar Zoloms that can be found near the entrance to the Mythril mines. He heard they were powerful, so he deiced to face a few of them for the challenge.
Friend against Friend
Cloud, Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Tifa, Yuffie, Vincent, Barret, Cid, Miroku, Shippo, Red XIII, and Kirara were all looking at their foe who was Aeris. Cloud and the others didn't want to admit it, but Aeris was alive. "Aeris is that you" Cloud asked. "Aeris who" Inuyasha asked. "She's Aeris. You know the girl who I told who was killed by Sephiroth" Cloud said. "Oh" Inuyasha said. "If Aeris died then why is she alive" Kagome asked. "I don't know, but I have a bad feeling about this" Cloud said. "Perhaps I can answer that" Kagura said as she appeared from behind Aeris and with her were Jenova, and Kohaku. "Kagura; what are you doing here" Sango demanded.
"I am here with Naraku's new servant to take a jewel shard from this village" Kagura said. "Then you mean that Aeris is Naraku's new servant" Miroku asked. "Correct. Aeris now serves Naraku just like Kohaku dose" Kagura said. "But how did Naraku get hold of Aeris's body and she would never serve Naraku willingly" Yuffie said. "Simple Naraku was given Aeris's body and he had gone into your world to retrieve her soul so he could have it properly revived" Kagura said. "I understand now. That white little girl who was with him must have been going through the lifestream to recover her soul or did Naraku do that himself" Vincent said. "Very good you figured out most of my plan" a voice said as one of Naraku's puppets appeared. "Naraku" Inuyasha said. "You son of a bitch what did you do to Aeris" Cloud said.
"All I did was that I took Kanna into your world and had her recover the Certa's soul. While I was waiting I went on a shopping spree" Naraku replied. "Shopping spree" Kagome asked with a questioning look. "I went around and acquired some Materia, armor, accessories and some weapons for myself. But I can't take all of the credit for myself I did have help" Naraku replied. "Help" Tifa asked. "From me" Jenova said as her eyes started glowing blood red. "You don't remember me do you Cloud, well maybe this form will refresh your memory" Jenova said as she transformed into her Synthesis form. "Jenova, so you're behind Aeris's resurrection" Cloud said as he held out his sword the Ultimate weapon in front of him. "That's Jenova" Shippo said. "Guess she's as ugly as Cloud described her" Inuyasha mocked. "You and Naraku have joined forces" Vincent asked. "Indeed we did. In exchange for helping him gather the jewel shards he would keep me safe from my enemies. Since you crippled Sephiroth he's useless to me, so the Certa here is his replacement" Jenova said with an evil grin.
"So you're replacing Sephiroth with Aeris as your new servant. You know Jenova you and Naraku do make a prefect match because you two are both cold and manipulative bastards who like to use people" Inuyasha yelled out as he jumped to attack Jenova. Sephiroth was about to use the Kaze no Kizu on Jenova, but suddenly he was frozen in place by Aeris's seal evil limit break. "What the; I can't move" Inuyasha said as he tired to move. "Aeris be a dear and destroy them" Jenova commanded. "Yes mother" Aeris replied coldly as she moved to attack Cloud and the others. "Aeris don't make us fight you" Cloud said. "Prepare to die" Aeris said, but in Aeris's mind she was screaming for this nightmare to end. Aeris started her assault with a powerful Ultima spell which knocked everyone off their feet and onto the ground. Aeris prepared to attack again with a much stronger spell, but Aeris was knocked to the ground when Sango's boomerang hit her in the stomach. Aeris was surprisingly still alive as the Certa girl was getting to her feet. This gave the others enough time to get to their feet. "Cloud we have to fight her" Barret said. "We can't" Cloud said because he couldn't bring himself to hurt Aeris.
"If we don't she will kill us" Yuffie said. "She's right. IF Naraku is controlling her then she is no long the Aeris you knew. She has been brained washed by him and now she is nothing more than a killing machine" Vincent said. "Alright we'll fight her, but no one kill her understand. Just wound her" Cloud said with a lot of reluctance in his voice. "Please forgive me Aeris" Cloud said as he attacked Aeris with Shadow flare. Aeris was hit hard, but she countered attacked with comet 2. Cloud and Barret were knocked to the ground, but Aeris was attacked by Tifa who used her whole limit break attack chain and Yuffie attacked with Ultima and Red XIII attacked Aeris with his Cosmo memory limit break. Aeris was hit hard by all of those attacks, but she wasn't even breaking a sweat as Aeris used Cure 3 on herself and then she cast Ultima on them. Tifa and Yuffie were hit by the spell and were hit hard, but Red XIII evaded the spell and attacked Aeris head on. However the creature was knocked away when Aeris hit him in the side of the head with her staff.
Aeris unleashed her most powerful attack yet. It was her new summon materia called Dark Gospel. Cloud and the others were brought into another dimension as they saw the angel of death and the angel of destruction appear before them. The angel of death had a flaming sword and the angel of destruction was armed with a scythe. The two angels attacked them without any mercy as the group was sent back to their normal dimension badly injured and on the verge of death. Aeris was about to strike them all down, but she had forgotten about Inuyasha who was never hit by the summon spell, so this enabled the half demon to attack her from behind.
Cloud and the others saw Inuyasha about to hit Aeris with the wind scar and they quickly rolled out of the way. "Look out Aeris" Jenova said as the certa saw the half demon attacking too little too late as Inuyasha unleashed the power of the wind scar and Aeris was hit head on. Aeris was engulfed by the attack and Inuyasha was sure she couldn't have survived that. However Kagura flew over the blast site as she grabbed Aeris. Aeris was gravely injured by the attack so the villains decided to make a hasty escape.
"We'll meet again Cloud" Jenova said as she, Kagura, Kohaku, Aeris and Naraku's puppet fled the scene. Afterwards Inuyasha stood over Cloud's beaten form as Cloud cast a Cure 3 on himself and everyone else. "You guys alright" Inuyasha asked as he put away Tetsusaiga. "We're fine Inuyasha" Kagome said as she got to her feet. "Aeris where did she go" Cloud asked. "She left with Kagura and Jenova" Inuyasha replied. "Out of the enemies we could have face I wished it wasn't Aeris" Cloud said with a depressed look on his face. "Don't worry I am sure there is way we could get her back. We just need to find Naraku's castle that is where they are probably at" Kagome said. "I hope you're right and when we find Naraku and Jenova. I am going to kill them" Cloud said. "Take a number Cloud because most of the people I know want to kill Naraku, so welcome to the club man" Inuyasha said.
"So do you know where Naraku's castle is" Vincent asked. "That's the funny thing. We have been looking for it for quite sometime now" Shippo said. "Then we better get going" Cloud said. "Right; let's find Naraku and end this once and for all" Inuyasha said agreeing with Cloud as he and the others walked in the same direction Kagura and Jenova went.
Meanwhile on board the Highwind elsewhere Sephiroth sat in his wheelchair in the operations room. He was thinking how it was odd to him that not only did his inability to walk was a great inconvenience to him, but the planet had somehow prevented any materia cure spells from healing him and most of his power was suppressed. Sephiroth grew impatient. He wanted results because he wanted his old power back and he wanted Jenova's head on a plate. Suddenly Kadaj walked into the room. "Speak Kadaj" Sephiroth said as he sensed Kadaj's presences in the room. "Sephiroth I have some news for you" Kadaj said as he walked up to Sephiroth and knelt before him. "It better be good" Sephiroth replied. "I think we might have found a way to restore your ability to walk" Kadaj said. "Go on" Sephiroth said as his face showed some signs of interest.
"I have heard talk among some members of the wolf tribe of a woman who can heal most illness and injuries which would seem almost impossible to heal. I think if we brought you to her we she may restore your ability to walk. I know it's a long shot sir, but we have no better leads on another way" Kadaj said. "Dose sound like the chance of her helping me is impossible. However since we have no other ways at this moment I guess this is a matter worth investigating. Take me to her" Sephiroth said. "I know where we can find, so we should arrive at her location in an hour or two" Kadaj said as he went to Loz and Yazu to tell them of the place Sephiroth wished to visit. The Highwind's engines came to life as it flew away into the sky towards its destination. Koga and a few members of the wolf tribe asked if they could come along for the ride. Sephiroth had no problem with this so they came with him.
Back in Cloud's world Sesshomaru, Rin and Jaken reached Kalm as Sesshomaru, Jaken and Rin were exploring the city. Sephiroth did have to give the humans here credit for their advancements in technology since that was the only good thing about the humans here that Sesshomaru could notice. Sesshomaru entered the Materia shop and was browsing around at their selection of materia. Sesshomaru was looking at an Earth, Poison, Steal, Sense, and Heal materia. Sesshomaru noticed the prices of the materia were in Gil, but that was no problem for Sesshomaru since he killed countless monsters on their way to the town and he had gained a lot of Gil for spending.
"Excuse me sir I would like to purchase one of each materia you have" Sesshomaru said as he gave the man the right amount of Gil to buy them. "Of course sir...Here you go" the man said as he gave Sesshomaru the Materia orbs he bought. "Now which materia is offensive magic and what can the other materia orbs do" Sesshomaru asked. "The Earth materia can spell earth element based spells like earth quake. Heal is more of a white magic based materia with healing spells like Poisona which cures all forms of poison, there is also Esuna which cures all illnesses and finally there is Resist which grants you immunity against all forms of poisons and illness for a short time. Sense lets you scan an opponent for its strengths and weakness. Poison allows you to cast the poisoning spell known as Bio. Steal grants you the power to take items from other foes with ease. Spells like Bio and Earth grow stronger with each passing battle and will eventually reach the point where they can learn more powerful versions of the spell. So use them often if you want them to grow stronger" the store keeper said.
"I see. I thank you for your assistance" Sesshomaru said as he, Jaken and Rin walked out of the town and started on their way towards Junon. However Sesshomaru had heard about the terrifying Midgar Zoloms that can be found near the entrance to the Mythril mines. He heard they were powerful, so he deiced to face a few of them for the challenge.