Chapter 18

The Secrets of the Certa

Cloud, Misato and Fuyutski reached the temple at the heart of the ancient city. They looked inside of the entrance way for any kind of traps. Cloud picked up a rock and he tossed it down the pathway to see if it would set off any traps. Nothing happened so the group started walking into the temple.

After going only a few feet into the temple the group pulled out flashlights to light the way. One solider walked ahead of the group, but when he stepped on a stone panel a large spike ball fell down from the ceiling and it smashed the soldier's skull. Once the spike ball had done its work it pulled itself out the soldier's head and it returned to its original position. Then his body fell to the ground.

"Holy shit!" Misato shouted as the pool of blood created from the soldier's body was growing larger.

"That spike ball trap is probably one of the first few traps here so everyone watch it." Cloud warned as the group continued forward. They were all careful to watch where they were going. Soon afterwards another soldier went ahead to check the floors, but he accidentally set off another trap. Two crystals came out of the wall and a thin green beam of light shot through the guard and it cut him in half. The beams continued moving towards the others, but Cloud used a Fire 3 combined with an all materia to destroy the crystals.

"These traps are getting more dangerous the deeper inside we go." Fuyutski thought as Cloud took point and they continued walking down the dark pathway.

Meanwhile somewhere deep inside the temple was a lake of lifestream energy. The Certa had indeed brought some lifestream energy from another planet and it was stored here. Something was swimming inside the lake of energy. The figure in the lake was moving towards the shore of the lake to surface. Sephiroth rose up out of the lake of energy as he used his hands to push his hair away from his face. He walked up to a fallen stone pillar to put his coat on. Once he was done he walked over to a laptop with a small camera attached to the side of it. He turned it on and a video screen showing Ritsuko's face appeared.

"Ah Sephiroth. Cloud and the others have entered the temple. They may reach the library soon if they survive the traps." Ritsuko reported.

"If they do then you know what to do. But did you plant the N2 bombs in the city as planned. If they find the library we will leave this city and blow it sky high with them on it. This city has long out lived its usefulness to me." Sephiroth said to the blonde woman.

"Don't worry. It may not come to that, but if it dose we will be long gone when we blow this floating island up." Ritsuko informed Sephiroth confidently.

"Then let us hope so then." Sephiroth said as he turned off his computer screen.

Meanwhile inside the pathway Misato, Cloud, and Fuyutski reached a large chamber. At the end of the chamber was a large metal door. Cloud picked up a rock and he tossed it across the ground and it bounced off the floor multiple times until it hit the metal door.

"I think it's safe?" Cloud said as he walked across the floor carefully.

"Then why are you walking so slowly. Let get over there." The solider shouted as he ran to the metal doors.

"You stupid son of a bitch get back here now." Fuyutski roared.

But it was too late for the poor soldier because a creature's head emerged from the wall followed by some claws. Before the soldier knew it the upper half of his body was bitten off. What was left of the solider dropped to the floor exposing some of his insides. But at the moment no one was paying attention to the solider due to the huge creature what seemed to be part of the wall above the metal door.

"Oh shit!" Misato yelled as she pulled out a gun and she started shooting at the demon gate.

"A demon gate; I saw a monster like this one guarding the temple of the ancients on my world. This means that library is right behind it." Cloud informed Misato.

"How do we get by it?" Fuyutski asked as he backed away from the demon slowly.

"I'll kill it." Cloud answered as he jumped into the air and he started attacking the demon with his sword. He cut into one of the demon door's arms. The demon screeched out in pain as Cloud pulled his sword out of its arm. He leaped up to the demon's head and he stabbed on of its eyes. The demon tried to fight back against Cloud by trying to swat him to the ground with his other arm. But Cloud was just too quick of a target for it.

Cloud landed back on the ground in front of it as he raised his hand to use a spell. "Ultima!" Cloud shouted out as the demon gate was hit head on by the spell. The demon gate smashed the ceiling with its fist causing some parts of the ceiling to fall down towards the group, but Cloud destroyed them all with another Ultima spell. "Onimislash!" Cloud yelled as he jumped forward towards the demon gate and he started hacking it apart with his most powerful limit break.

The Demon gate was reduced to a pile of chopped up steaks within moments. The Demon gate was destroyed and the door it was protecting made a clicking sound. The door was unlocked. Cloud put away his sword then he turned to the others. "That takes care of the traps now." Cloud said as stood in front of Fuyutski and Misato. Only Misato and Fuyutski were the only members of their group left.

"Then let us proceed." Fuyutski said as he walked up to the door.

"Thanks for taking that monster gate thing down." Misato said as she and Cloud started walking towards the doors.

"No problem." Cloud answered as he ran up to the door and he started pushing it open.

After a few seconds of pushing the door. The door flew open and three walked inside. Inside the next chamber they found that it was filled with small crystals attached to the walls and it had a large pyramid shaped crystal located in the middle of the room. "Is this the library?" Misato asked as she looked at one of the crystals stuck in the wall.

"If this is the library then they have some pretty weird looking books then." Cloud replied.

Fuyutski was looking at one of the crystals, but when he touched it he suddenly started hearing a beautiful woman reciting what sounded like poetry. Misato touched one and she heard a man's voice accompany by some images in her mind. Judging by what she was seeing it looked like some kind of play. Cloud touched the large crystal at the heart of the room. Upon touching it Cloud saw something being displayed in his mind that was so interesting that he shouted "Misato, Fuyutski I think you guys should check this out."

Fuyutski and Misato walked up to the large crystal and they put their hands on. Unlike all of the other crystals this one contained the Certa's entire history. Each of the crystals in the library contained a part or a record of the Certa culture such as poetry, plays, stories, and etc. As Fuyutski and the others kept their hands on the crystal they allowed the images of the Certa's past to fill their minds.

"In the beginning Lillith gave birth to all living creatures, the Angels and us the Certa. During the first one hundred years of our existence on this planet we Certa and the Angels existed harmoniously. All of us, but one. She was born an Angel, but she wasn't like the others. She had her own dark intentions. One day the abomination known as Jenova attacked both the angels and the Certa. She had planned to remove the strongest of us so she could rule over all life, but in the end she was thwarted when the angels and Certa used their combined powers to banish Jenova into the cold recesses of space. But most of the planet's species were lost during the battle so this day was called the first impact. Jenova's evil caused the angels and the Certa to no longer trust one another, so as time passed some of the Certa had decided to look for a place of supreme happiness called the Promise land. Those who stayed began to fall away from the ways of the Certa and thus they evolved into humans. During their travels the Certa settled on a planet they found where the planet itself was a living entity. The Certa stayed on the planet and they were flourishing, but a large objected landed on the planet. The object injured the planet badly, but the worse thing to happen was that it was soon learned that it was Jenova who injured the planet. The evil creature unleashed a virus into the Certa population. Most of the Certa went insane and became monsters, but those were survived ran away while a small few sealed Jenova away. But Certa race was damaged beyond repair. Our raced was dieing so we used some of the energy the planet had to make our capital city float above the clouds and to keep it hidden. With our city hidden safely in the sky our history will live on in this library. But if humans evoke the wrath of the angels then second impact shall happen and give rise to the Dead Sea. However if the third impact happens then the entire human race shall be merged into a signal prefect entity. The entity shall be the one who controls the third impact. However if an evil creature controls the third impact then it will mean the beginning of a reign of chaos in the universe, but if this happens then an angel not born an angel will have to do battle with the evil being until only one remains. Then the victor shall be the controller of the third impact." Crystal informed the three. Cloud, Misato and Fuyutski removed their hands from the crystal.

"So that's it then. That is why Sephiroth wants to cause the third impact. If Sephiroth is in control of the third impact then he will be merged with humanity." Cloud said, but after he finished his sentence Cloud heard the sound of a woman laughing.

The group looked up to see Ritsuko standing on a balcony high above them. "Ritsuko!" Misato shouted upon seeing her.

"Ah Cloud, Misato and Fuyutski how nice to see you all again." Ritsuko greeted with a smile.

"What are you doing here Dr. Akagi?" Fuyutski demanded.

"I am here with some of those men you killed and Sephiroth." The woman answered back.

"You're with Sephiroth. Where is he?" Cloud shouted.

"He has already left, but I would suggest leaving this place since it will disappear very soon." Ritsuko noted as her image started to fickler.

"What the hell?" Misato said as she picked up a rock and she threw it Ritsuko. The rock went right through her. "It's some kind of hologram!" Misato shouted stating out the obvious.

"That's right, and you have five minutes to leave before you will be seeing some serious fireworks." Ritsuko said as the holographic image of her disappeared.

"We better leave I have a bad feeling about this." Cloud said as he started to back away slowly.

"Good idea." Fuyutski agreed as he, Misato and Cloud started running out of library.

Meanwhile outside of the temple. A black helicopter was seen leaving the city. On board of it were Sephiroth and Ritsuko. Sephiroth pulled out a remote control device and he pushed a few buttons on it. "There the N2 bombs shall detonate in three minutes. We will be long gone from here by the time they blow up." Sephiroth said as he crushed the remote control in his hand.

"Will they get out in time?" Ritsuko asked.

"Even if they escaped the temple they won't be able to escape the shockwave from the explosion." Sephiroth answered as the helicopter flew away.

A/n: I hope the history explanation was good. I have a good thing going here and I would like to keep it that way.