17

Samara was still tied to boot and also blindfolded as she remained strapped onto a pole just beside a big hole in the ground. They could not really see what's inside the big hole, but it was glowing brightly with undeterminable color because it seemed to reflect all the colors that comes close to it.

Theodore, Lavinia and Kairi were all tied together in another pole opposite Samara.

There were a lot of Heartless surrounding the whole area which seemed like a cave.

Kuja just sat on one rock beside Samara, staring lovingly at his fingernails. "Hmf… my older sister, Jill, never had lovely fingernails such as these. She says long nails get in the way of holding guns! Hmf… What a tomboy!" he pointed out before turning to Samara's hand. "You could use a manicure, dear." He told her.

She just kept quiet. She could not really see what was going on, but the smell and the sounds she was hearing, plus the feeling of her surroundings were enough to tell her where she was and what was happening.

"Why are you doing this?" Kairi demanded from Kuja.

He turned to her. "I thought you'd never ask, Miss Kairi!" he told her before standing up. "Miss Samara here is going to help me become stronger and more powerful than anyone else in the world!" he told her.

"Like, how?" Lavinia asked with a sneer.

"With the use of Mako energy." Kuja declared before staring into the glowing hole in the ground. "My daddy's been exposed to Mako… maybe that's why he is so powerful… and maybe if I am exposed to it and I use it for my own damn purposes, I can get everything that I want… and…" his facial expression softened, "…and maybe he would pay attention to me."

Theodore raised an eyebrow upon hearing that, "Oh that is so despicable!"

Kuja turned angrily to him.

Kairi stuck out her tongue at Kuja, "Yeah, that is so lame! You just lack attention that's why you'r resorting to violence? Man, you need a life!" she told him with a mocking tone.

Lavinia just giggled.

"Why you little bratlings…" Kuja was about to step forward, but he remembered that if he went further, he would fall into the hole, so he stopped. "Oh damn! You almost caused my death! Hmf!" he thought angrily.

"What's the matter, girly-man? Can't handle Mako energy that's why you're using an adaptor?" Lavinia asked with a silly smile on her face.

"Adaptor? Where the hell do you learn such big words?" Kuja demanded.

"You don't know what an adaptor is? And to think you're older than us!" Theodore pointed out.

"I know what an adaptor is, you idiot!" Kuja snapped impatiently before flipping his hair. "I was just surprised that such young kids like you know such words already." He said.

"Oh, we belong to a different generation… probably better than yours." Kairi told him with a wink.

Silence.

"Alright, enough chitchat! Let's get down to business…" Kuja stepped onto the rock and slowly removed the blindfold from Samara.

Samara stared in awe at the glowing hole before her.

Kuja smiled slyly at her, "Alright, Samara… I want you to direct the energy into yourself." He told her.

She swallowed hard. "I don't want to."

"Why not?" Kuja asked calmly.

She did not answer.

Impatiently, Kuja pulled out something from behind him and showed it to Samara and the others. "See this?" he asked.

Samara's eyes widened upon seeing the Paopu fruit. "How did you get that?"

Kuja smiled wickedly. "None of your concern. Now, do as I say… or else…" he began digging a long fingernail into the fruit's surface. A bit of juice seeped out. "You know about the legend of the Paopu? I've heard that sick story a thousand times before… and it sickens me! But anyway, at least it's better than hearing Skurai narrating about the acorns and the cocos." He withdrew his fingernail from the Paopu. "If you take a bite out of this, and share it with Riku, you'll be together forever… but what if nobody else takes a bite out of this pathetic yellow fruit?" he asked with a sneer before forcing Samara to take a piece of the fruit in her mouth. "Eat it!" he said threateningly.

She shook her head.

"EAT IT! Or else…" Kuja mumbled.

A Heartless appeared beside Theodore and made a move to twist his neck. "Argh! Where did you come from?!" Theodore demanded in annoyance.

Samara stared helplessly at her twin brother.

"…your brother dies." Kuja warned with a playful tone.

Regretfully, Samara took a bit out of the Paopu fruit, chewed lazily on it and then swallowed it.

Kuja withrew the Paopu from her mouth and then patted her head playfully. "Good girl." He mumbled before throwing the fruit into the hole.

Samara's eyes widened.

"Oh my! It means you'll be lonely forever! Ahahahahaha!" Kuja laughed victoriously.

Kairi was staring unbelievably at Samara, watching her reaction.

Theodore was staring curiously at Samara. "Samzy… who's… Riku?" he asked.

Lavinia just blinked.

Samara just stared blankly at the glowing hole

Kuja laughed happily while raking his fingers through his hair. "Ahahahahaha! It's just her little boyfriend, Theodore." He told him before caressing Samara's cheek. "Now, now, dearie… you want the fruit back? Then do as I told you…" he whispered softly.

Lavinia clenched her fists. "NO! Don't do it!" she shouted.

The Heartless made another move to twist Theodore's neck.

"See that, Samara? If you disobey, the more you'll be alone. Everyone is going to die just because of your stubbornness… not just your friends and your twin and your sister… but also your mommy and your daddy." Kuja said with a teasing tone.

Her eyes grew wide upon hearing the last few words.

"Yes, Samara… your mommy and your daddy." Kuja waved his hand across her line of vision gracefully as if hypnotizing her, "Imagine… it's so easy to kill your mommy but I can't understand why my dad wasn't able to do it many years ago… You've heard about it, right? And the fact that your daddy is a ShinRa? Why are you still struggling to protect the ShinRa name?" he asked playfully.

She swallowed hard. She could not stop seeing the horrible visions, from the past way back from when she was not even born yet, in her thoughts all of a sudden.

She looked over to Theodore. She knew one more wrong move, the Heartless would break his neck into two. She knew she had no choice… for now.

Kairi, Lavinia and Theodore gasped in horror as Samara started absorbing the Mako's energy. All the glowing matter in the Mako slowly dimmed until it was just a pile of rock.

Kuja giggled evilly as Samara began glowing with pure energy. Her eyes glowed a sinister glow, making them light up brighter than even Cloud's eyes.

Theodore, Lavinia and Kairi could only watch desperately as Samara started choking. "She's in pain…" Lavinia muttered sadly.

Sure enough, a stream of blood escaping from Samara's long sleeves caught eveybody's eye. More wounds formed out of nowhere as the girl tried to contain all the energy inside her body.

Kuja smiled. "Good girl," he said, patting her head fondly, while his other hand swiftly untied her from the post. He caught her in his arms before she could fall into the pit.

The Heartless moved away from Theodore as he gave them an angry glare. "See what you've done?! Now what are you going to do, you faggot?" he yelled.

Kuja gave him a teasing look. "Where did you pick up such foul language? Oh well," he said, shifting his gaze to Samara, who looked as if her mind was unaware of the physical world. "You are such a beautiful girl… it shall be easy to do the next phase."

"Next phase?" Kairi asked nervously.

"What are you planning to do, you megalomaniac?!" Lavinia screeched. "Can't you see that Samara's suffered enough?"

"Still haven't suffered enough." Kuja sneered. "Besides, your sister's got a very powerful mind. Don't you think that maybe she could just be thinking that this is all in the mind and not actually happening?" he asked before eyeing Samara with a seductive look on his face. "Now… how the bloody hell will I get my share of Mako energy?" he asked as his grip tightened around her.

She just bowed down her head, letting her hair cover her glowing pale face. "Don't hide your pretty face away from me, Samara." He said as he brushed off her hair off her face.

Theodore gasped when he saw that Samara's face had deep wounds on it and she was really bleeding.

Samara looked up at Kuja with a weakened stare. He smiled at her. "Now, kiss me…" he told her.

"Oh YUCK!!!!!" Kairi and Lavinia both reacted in unison.

Theodore's jaw dropped.

"OH MY GAWD!!!??? I thought you're gay?!" Kairi snapped at Kuja.

He turned to her with a sneer, "Aw, shaddup, you bloody…" he trailed off, remembering his purpose, and then turned to Samara again, smiling sweetly at her. "Alright, where were we… ah." He slowly leaned his face towards hers as he lifted her off the ground by holding onto her arms… but he froze when he heard a commanding voice shouting at him, "NO! KUJA! Stop that!"

Kuja's eyes widened. "D…daddy?" he thought silently.

Sephiroth slashed the two Heartless that blocked his way with his Masamune. "You moron! What the #$% are you doing? Are you a pedophile?" he demanded angrily.

Kuja did not move, as if he did not hear anything. He was tired of those harsh words… he just felt numb whenever he heard them.

Riku appeared from behind his father, staring at the whole scenario with wide eyes. Sora had the same reaction.

"Idiot! You're going to kill her!" Sephiroth snapped at him.

"That's the main idea, dad." Kuja said softly.

"Your body cannot support such power! Can't you understand that?! You'll die too!" Sephiroth yelled angrily at him.

Kuja just stiffened. "There's nothing you can do to stop me, dad." He muttered before proceeding.

Unable to think of anything else, Riku just pushed his father aside (because he was blocking his way) with enough force due to sudden adrenaline rush and then ran as fast as he could to Kuja and Samara, clutching his Keyblade tightly with his right hand. He had a very angry look on his face as he decided to throw the Keyblade to Kuja, hitting his head.

Clunk.

The sound of metal hitting bone.

"ARGH!" Kuja shrieked as he accidentally let go of Samara and then fell down to the ground. She fell to the ground, her hair covering her face as she struggled to crawl away from Kuja. She stopped when Riku picked her up from the ground and saw her face.

Cloud's eyes widened upon seeing the look on her face and the bloodstains on her white dress. "Oh damn… Rufus is going to murder you, Sephiroth…" he muttered to Sephiroth.

"Yeah. And Tifa is going to wring your son's neck." Tidus said while trying to control his laughter, but still laughed.

"Will you stop laughing!? We're in big trouble now!" Squall snapped at him, surprising him.

Sephiroth was gritting his teeth in annoyance. "KUJA!!!!!" he yelled angrily.

Kuja just let out a victorious laugh. "There's nothing you can do now, daddy! This is the path that I've chosen… and I'm blaming you for it!" he declared with a demented look on his face… the kind of look that reminded Cloud of the old Sephiroth.

Sephiroth's eyes widened upon hearing that, but he was not able to say anything else.

Kuja slowly got up from the ground, dusting himself as he snapped his fingers to serve as a signal for the Heartless to start attacking the intruders before turning back to Samara. He gasped when he saw Riku holding her. "You! What are you doing!? Let her go!" he snapped angrily at him.

Riku turned to him, eyeing him angrily before turning back to Samara with a solemn look on his face.

She felt so dizzy that she could not see clearly anymore, but she could still see his bluegreen eyes staring back at her. Unable to take the pain anymore, she just closed her eyes, but before she could lose consciousness, she felt something press against her lips.

Kuja's eyes widened in awe. "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" he screamed in anger.

Sephiroth stopped attacking the Heartless and instantly turned his gaze to Riku and Samara… "WHAT THE---?! WHY ARE YOU KISSING THAT GIRL?!" Sephiroth demanded to Riku.

But Riku does not seem to be listening to anyone anymore.

Sora jaw-dropped when he saw what Riku was doing to Samara.

Kairi, Theodore and Lavinia were also stunned.

Tidus chuckled. "Cool! Puppy love!" he mumbled under his breath.

Apalled, Sephiroth punched all the Heartless that attempted to block his way going to Riku. He grabbed Riku by the shoulders and pulled him away from Samara. "What are you doing?! You'll be poisoned by Mako!" he yelled at him.

Samara fell on the ground, almost lifeless. She still glowed with the Mako energy inside her.

Riku fell on the ground, covering his eyes. "I… I can't see!... Agh…" he was yelling in agony.

Sephiroth went over to his son and pulled his hands away from the face… and what he saw made his heart sink.

Cloud and Sora ran to Sephiroth and Riku, and what they saw made them freeze.

Kuja growled angrily and rushed to them. He formed an ice shard that covered his right arm, and swung it like a sword. "GET AWAY FROM HIM! I'll get the power from myself!" He lunged forward to stab the shard towards Sephiroth, but it clanged against metal.

Tidus had blocked his way with his sword. "No way, man! You'll have to fight us first!" he said as Squall readied his gunblade too.

Kuja snarled at them. "Stupid maggots, getting in the way!" he cast a spell that was meant to blow them up, but the two swordsmen were still standing. Kuja growled in irritation.

"Eheheheheheh! Tell you what, Kuja, I think that spell's only good enough to blow up a person that's half our size. If you know what I mean…" Tidus teased.

Squall smiled at him. "Yes, yes. It's Zidane." He replied.

Kuja inhaled sharply. "Must… not… get… distracted…" he was muttering to himself.

"Hey, looky, Squally! He's distracted! What's that mean? You should know! Eheheheh!" Tidus laughed out loud.

Squall got what he meant and growled under his breath, "I am not gay…"

"Didn't say nothing! Eheheh!"

At Tidus' statement, Kuja's self-control broke. "THAT'S IT! Filthy laughing hyena boy! DIE!!!" With that, Kuja transformed into his Trance mode: the red-haired and extremely angry Genome.

Cloud and Sora both turned to Kairi, Lavinia and Theodore. "Sora, get them out of here." Cloud instructed. "Yes, dad." Sora replied before rushing towards the three, fighting a few Heartless on his way.

As soon as he got there, he asked them, "You guys alright?"

"Yes but… what happened to Riku?" Kairi asked with a worried look on her face.

"I don't even know! But we really have to get out of here, fast!" Sora told her.

"What about Samara?" Theodore asked.

"I…" Sora was about to answer, but he was interrupted when Lavinia just shrieked because of the too many Heartless rushing at them.

"OH MY GAWD!!!!?????" Kairi exclaimed.

"Ready now!" Theodore aimed his shotgun at the Heartless.

Lavinia clenched her fists.

Kairi just stepped backward. "Oh no…" she mindlessly reached for her back pocket and felt something there. She pulled out a small pouch and took a peek inside. She gasped. "Shurikens?" she asked out loud.

"Huh?" Sora asked, turning to her.

"Then use those!" Lavinia instructed before they began to attack the Heartless.

Kairi was a bit clueless on how to use the Shurikens, but she remembered that before she left Midgar to go to Nibelheim, her father gave her that, telling her, "These are your mom's. I guess she left them here for you. Take them. You're going to need to use it sooner or later anyway."

Determined, she began to recall how she saw her mother throwing those at her father whenever she would be mad at him and yelling curses in Wutaian language. And her father would be yelling, "IT'S SO UNFAIR!"

Although afraid, Kairi gave it her best shot and threw her first shuriken at one of the Heartless coming at her. It did the trick! And even went through the Heartless that she was able to destroy, and went around, destroying more of the Heartless.

"Whoa! Cool!" Sora cheered.

Kairi felt relieved. Finally, she can do something.

Meanwhile, Kuja was already having a fight with Squall and Tidus.

Cloud knelt down before Samara and gently lifted her almost lifeless body from the ground, but she groggily opened her eyes and pushed him away from herself, surprising him. Cloud saw that her blue eyes were still glowing Mako blue. She closed them again as she slowly got up on her own and took a few small shaky steps towards the big hole in the ground. "Samara, where are you…" he trailed off when she fell down to the ground. As she landed, the chain of her necklace snapped and the pendant fell to the ground. Cloud rushed over to her and helped her up, but she refused. She fell back to the ground, her whole body trembling and her eyes giving off a blank stare. She began to crawl towards the hole.

Cloud just observed her quietly before noticing the heart-shaped pendant on the ground. He instantly got it and stared at the ShinRa logo, then flipped it to the other side and saw small inscriptions. He frowned slightly. "What is this?" he thought. He turned back to the little girl again and he almost said out loud, "Holy shit!!!" when he saw that she was going to make herself fall into the hole.

"NO! Samara!" Cloud instantly rushed to her and managed to hold onto her foot as she plunged down the hole…

Unfortunately, the area around the pit was muddy. Cloud slipped and fell in with Samara.

In desperation, he embraced Samara as they fell. "Don't open your eyes!" he cried out loud. He felt Samara grip his wrist tightly… and then there was this burning warmth coming from her palm going through his wrist. He cringed in pain… and when he could not take it anymore, he cried out in pain and eyed her. She was staring back at him with angry blue eyes… His eyes widened at her. She smiled.

And the last thing Cloud saw was this blinding light coming from behind her.

Sephiroth turned around when he heard Cloud scream.

Riku was still crying, his eyes closed as he held onto his father. "Dad… my eyes hurt…" he groaned helplessly.

"Shit… Mako poisoning…" Sephiroth muttered under his breath. He knew he had to get Riku to a specialist …someone familiar with Mako and Jenova… and all he could think of was his mother.

"Dad… please stop Kuja. I don't want him hurting anyone," Riku begged.

Sephiroth frowned as he narrowed his eyes at him. He slowly let go of his son and got up, clutching his Masamune tightly before turning to the area where most of the fighting was occurring. "You hang on in there for a while, Riku. And don't you dare die there! I don't want your mother yelling at me for not taking care of you!" he told him.

Riku smiled slightly at what he said. "Yeah…" he replied weakly.

Cloud slowly opened his eyes and gazed around the area. His eyes widened in confusion. "Wh…where am I?" he thought silently as he eyed the whole room. It had red wallpaper, white wall borders and maroon carpet. He could hear someone singing…

A child.

He searched the whole area but all he could see were furniture for a girl's room. A big canopy bed with white curtains and white beddings… a dollhouse… teddy bears and a lot of dolls.

And seated in one corner of the room was a little girl with long black hair holding a teddy bear. The moment Cloud looked at her, she stopped singing and she smiled at him. She instantly got up and rushed to him, showing her the teddy bear. It had no eyes. "Do you love my bear?" she asked innocently.

Cloud blinked. "H…huh?" he responded.

"Do you love my bear?" she asked sweetly.

It was Samara.

Then, the door opened and there was Rufus entering with the usual stiff facial expression on his face.

"Daddy!" Samara cheered happily before rushing to her father. For the first time, Cloud saw Rufus stare at someone with care.

"Hello, sweetheart," Rufus greeted, which surprised Cloud. He had never really heard Rufus mention any words of endearment to anyone else aside from Tifa.

"Daddy! Look! There's a man by the window!" Samara told him.

Rufus raised his eyebrows at her. "What?" he asked before turning to the window. He seemed to be looking at Cloud, but he had this skeptical look on his face before turning back to Samara. "I don't see anyone, Samara." He told her.

Samara blinked. "You don't?" she asked. And she turned to Cloud again.

Cloud smiled weakly at her.

She smiled back at him. "Heehee!" and then turned back to Rufus. "He doesn't love my bear." She told him.

Rufus chuckled lightly… an action that Cloud thought was out of character when it comes to Rufus.

"But I love your bear. Mommy loves your bear too." Rufus told her reassuringly.

"Really?" she asked sweetly with a happy smile on her face.

Cloud just silently watched with a confused look on his face. "What is this?" he asked.

"You want to know what this is?" a low monotonous voice of a little girl asked from behind him. He instantly realized that someone was still holding his wrist. He turned around and saw another Samara.

She was looking up at him with sadness in her eyes. She used her free hand to force one of his palms open… and revealed to him that he was clutching the pendant with the inscriptions facing them. "You want to know more?" she asked.

He just stared unbelievably at her.

And the area just seemed to glow brighter and brighter… until he could not see anything anymore.

He closed his eyes.

And when he opened them again, he saw that he was in an operating room-like place. He saw that Rufus was standing outside the door, looking at someone…

Cloud turned around and saw that Tifa was lying on an operating table. There were two doctors, and one nurse. He recognized the two doctors: Hojo and Lucrecia.

Lucrecia had her back to Hojo while preparing the anesthesia. "Nurse, can you assist me here," she told the nurse. The nurse approached her.

While they were busily preparing the anesthesia, Hojo was doing something else… he was getting something from his pocket.

Cloud's eyes narrowed at him.

Tifa was already yelling in pain.

Lucrecia turned back to her. "Oh here we go! Heehee! Sorry 'bout that, Mrs. ShinRa!" she said with an apologetic smile on her face before injecting the anesthesia into the I.V.

After a few moments, Tifa was already asleep.

"Does President Rufus know that she's gonna have twins?" the nurse whispered excitedly as Lucrecia turned back from Tifa.

Lucrecia just giggled. "I don't think so. But it's going to be a surprise!" she whispered back.

Cloud just stared in horror as Hojo brought out another syringe and placed inside the pocket of his jacket that was more accessible for him.

Tifa opened her eyes again.

"Oh hello. How do you feel?" Hojo asked her.

She smiled weakly. "N…numb." She mumbled.

"That's alright. We can't give you a G.A. so we just gave you something that will make your lower body numb so you wouldn't feel any pain. Now when we say 'push', you push, alright?" Lucrecia asked.

Tifa nodded nervously.

Cloud observed as the delivery began, but then he decided to look at the little girl standing beside him, who was still holding his wrist tightly. She was staring angrily at someone… and it was Hojo.

Cloud just turned back to the others again when he heard two babies crying.

Tifa exclaimed, "Oh my goodness! They're twins!"

Lucrecia laughed happily, "Surprise!" she said.

"You didn't tell me when I had my ultrasound?" Tifa asked.

"It's supposed to be a surprise!" Lucrecia explained.

And to Cloud's horror, he saw Hojo inject the contents of the syringe into the newborn baby girl's arm.

The baby seemed to shriek, surprising Lucrecia, Tifa and the nurse.

Hojo instantly stopped injecting JENOVA cells into the baby and hid the syringe again in his pocket.

"Hojo, what are you doing?!" Lucrecia demanded angrily at him.

"Uh… nothing. Just checking for abnormalities." Hojo replied.

She instantly walked over to him and snatched the baby away from him. "I'm not allowing you to touch her." She sneered.

Cloud looked outside from the window of the door, but saw that Rufus was already talking to someone… Tseng. Rufus was yelling at him, "Well then go tell them that I'm canceling the meeting! Can't you see that my wife's giving birth?!"

Cloud realized that nobody saw what Hojo had done to the baby girl.

Samara bowed down her head as tears fell from her eyes… Cloud turned back to her. "Samara…" he said softly.

Cloud opened his eyes when he heard noises from above him… He instantly sat up and looked up. He groaned in annoyance when he realized that the hole wasn't even that deep… a person as tall as Sephiroth could easily jump off from the inside the hole and then out of it… but unfortunately, he's not as tall as Sephiroth.

He realized that Samara was still holding his wrist tightly so he gently removed her hand around his wrist… and saw that her hand left a hand-shaped burn around his wrist. "Yikes!" he exclaimed in surprise as he moved away from her. He was panting hard. "What was that I saw… was it a dream?" he thought. Then he felt that he was holding something else… and he opened his palm and saw that the pendant was still there. Slowly, he returned his gaze back to Samara… she was still lying on her stomach on the ground… and she was holding this star-shaped object with her right hand.

The Paopu fruit.

Kuja glowered at his opponents. "Dad… you've decided to fight me too…" he growled.

Sephiroth stared at him coldly, gripping the Masamune in one hand. Somehow, Kuja had managed to injure his own father… and it really made his father very angry. "Alright… looks like you're gonna be grounded for life!" Sephiroth snarled angrily at him.

"Go ahead! I don't care! You never even gave a damn about me!" Kuja snapped with a hurtful look on his face.

Squall and Tidus blinked. "Is this about family?" the latter demanded.

Squall scratched his head. "If this is just another family matter, I'm getting out of here! This is so lame!" he told them.

"What does it look like to you, a battle between me and Zidane?! Nah-uh!" Kuja snapped as he flipped his own hair. "This is because of daddy! This father is not the greatest father alive! I don't know what I ever did to him but… but he hates me!!! He doesn't even care what happens to me!!!"

"What?! What the hell are you talking about? I treat everyone of my children equally!" Sephiroth snapped back.

"Oh yeah?!" Kuja said, stomping one foot forward. "I bet you didn't even notice that I was captured by Hojo, because you never bother to look for me in the house! And my horrible siblings know that you ignore me… they pity me, but bother me anyway… Only Jilly and mommy ever cared about me in that home…" he said, almost bursting in tears.

"Oh my god." Squall said, not being a fond listener of the lamentations of a whiny ignored child.

Sephiroth just stood dumbfounded as Kuja continued, "But mommy always seemed to have problems of her own and have these hysteria attacks… and Jilly began seeing Carlos, and I never had anybody to talk to… and worse, Dante seemed to bully me even more… and Skurai didn't want to hang around me… and Riku moved to Destiny Islands…" he sniffled. "And I didn't want to move back to Gaia because that horrid Zidane still lives there!"

Tidus wanted to laugh out loud at the way Kuja's dramatizing everything, so he held back his laughter and ended up snorting.

"So… Daddy…. It's all YOUR fault that I wanted to destroy Planet! YOU! Understand! HAHAHAH! How does it feel to be the primary reason of the Planet's demise! AHAHAHAH…"

Chomp.

Silence.

"AAAAARGH! LET GO OF ME!!!!!" Kuja began to scream.

Sephiroth and the others were in awe when they saw Lavinia's jaws were locked onto Kuja's right arm and even when he was already swinging it so that she would let go of it, she just bit harder.

"Oh! That's just her way of saying hello! Eheheheh!" Theodore pointed out gleefully.

Squall raised an eyebrow.

Tidus laughed at the situation.

Sephiroth scratched his head.

Riku could not really see clearly but he could hear them. He smiled slightly before finally losing consciousness.

Sephiroth took Lavinia's biting of Kuja's arm as an opportunity to finally sieze him. He grabbed Kuja by the other arm and that's when Lavinia let go of him and kicked him where the sun doesn't shine.

"AAARGH! OF ALL THE PLACES, WHY THERE?!?!?" Kuja demanded angrily at her.

"Nyah-nyah! Look what you've done to my pink dress! This is my favorite! You dirtied it when you tied me up on that dirty pole over there! ARGH! You should've disinfected it with alcohol before you tied me up there! It's soooo disgusting! Yeeech!" Lavinia sneered angrily at him.

Sephiroth dragged his son over to one of the rocks and he sat down angrily, placing Kuja over his lap and began to spank his butt. Kuja yelped in pain. "Ow! DAD?!" he cried out as tears filled his eyes.

"That's what you get for attempting to do such a stupid thing! You ingrate!" Sephiroth spanked him again.

Kuja began to cry.

Lavinia was dusting herself. "Hmf! Guess I'll have to buy another one." She muttered frustratingly as Theodore, Sora and Kairi approached her. "Are you alright?" Kairi asked with a weak smile on her face.

"Are you sure you didn't give him rabies?" Sora asked her.

Lavinia just smiled sweetly. "Nope!"

"Hey!" they were interrupted when they heard Cloud's voice from the hole.

Sora, Squall and Tidus rushed over to the hole and peeked inside. They saw Cloud carrying Samara in his arms. He smiled weakly at them. "A little help, please?" he asked.