A/N: I know, I know... Beth killed Aeris, yet she is still part of the group, what is up with that? Well, Cait Sith gave away the Keystone and HE is still part of the group. The Turks are allies and now the group has a new reason to fight Sephiroth, the death of Aeris.

Callings...

Cloud and the others regroup at the Icicle Inn a day after Aeris' death. Cloud and the others are trying to get on as they had normally, but Beth herself is unusually quiet and withdrawn.

Cloud has told the others to take a day or two to rest before they continue on. Vincent finds Beth, now better, looking over the snow covered landscape.

"Beth..." He whispered.

"Vincent, I don't feel like talking right now." Beth said, pulling her legs up to her body and sighing as she sat on the large boulder.

"I know it wasn't your fault, Sephiroth controlled you... your eyes... they weren't the same."

Beth looked down at the ground, "I should have died there... I don't deserve to live...I killed the last Cetra..."

Vincent hugged Beth and she put her head in his shoulder. "Shh... Sephiroth will not go unpunished, it isn't your fault. Beth... trust me, the whole group knows that you are not the killer that your brother is..."

Beth turned her head to his and for the first time in years... Vincent felt himself blush. Beth leaned in and smiled, "Thank you Vincent..." Her lips touched his gently. He wrapped his hand around her neck and pulled her in to deepen the kiss. Neither of them noticed the two Turks watching them from behind. Reno and Rude turned around and walked back towards town.

Early the next morning Cloud said that the group was going into the wild, and they would not return for an undetermined amount of time. The Turks explained that they must stay there as not to make Rufus wonder, and Cloud told them to call them if anything came up.

Hours later, the group finds a small house in the middle of the snow-barren wilderness. Cloud walks in and finds that Mr. Holzoff is living out here in the middle of nowhere. He tells the group how to get to the Northern Crater... through the Gaea Cliffs.

Cloud rests for one night and the entire group continues on towards the Northern Crater.

As the group makes it towards the center, Shin-Ra has already been there, with Rufus, Scarlet, Heidegger and Hojo are in the center of the Crater. Cloud is unaware of them.

Cloud continues his way down to the crater, past the windy passes. That's when Sephiroth makes an unwanted appearance. He was killing a few of his shrouded followers and the group startles him. He disappears, but then drops something on top of the group... Jenova.

Jenova was easily defeated again and the group continues on. Only Cloud starts seeing images of things and suggests that the group rests.

Beth is called to in the middle of the night, and she answers the callings. She sneaks into Cloud's tent and steals the Black Materia from him that he had gotten back only days before. She then heads off towards the crater, to the callings of her brother.

The Shin-Ra team is waiting there and Beth appears, Black Materia in hand. Cloud and the group show up just as she is handing the Black Materia over to Sephiroth. The WEAPONS then awaken and an explosion ensues.

A few days later, Beth wakes up to find herself in the northern crater with Vincent and Nanaki. Beth looks at the group and is glad to see that both Vincent and Nanaki don't blame her. She tries to call Cloud on the PHS but to no avail, she tries to call Tifa and Barret, but nothing. Cid then calls them and tells him that he will be there soon.

Cid picks them up and tells them that the crater is on it's way and that Barret and Tifa are going to be publically executed as scapegoats. Beth comes up with a plan to save them, and everyone is in on it. Cait Sith, and Yuffie go off to save Barret.

Tifa joins the group from the part of the building that the WEAPON had blown a hole in and tells the group of where Cloud might be... Mideel.

Beth smiled, "Good, I haven't been home in a while."