Chapter 9
Sephiroth pulled off his cloak clearly ready to fight. He wasn't going to just easily kill them like he had with the others. He had acquired a lot of cuts and bruises on his way down the cliff but clearly was still in a condition ready to kill. Ratchet was surprised how strong he looked although he looked slightly fragile when he was wearing his cloak (which he obviously wasn't) he was very muscular and could quite easily deal a fatal blow without even trying. He jumped up into the air getting a good deal of height and spun around his sword raised ready to come down at Cloud. Cloud lifted his sword to block the blow, he managed to stop it but the force brought him down to the floor. Ratchet stepped in the way so Sephiroth couldn't take a swipe at Cloud only to be picked up and thrown into Squall. Together they smashed into a tree; this gave Cloud the time to get back to his feet though. Their swords clashed in the air sending sparks into the air as it had when they had previously fought in the sky.
"Why should I fear you?" Sephiroth said. "You're quite clearly "armless"" He laughed to himself looking at Cloud's stump of what was originally an arm. Squall had come in from behind to try and slash at Sephiroth. Sephiroth however just did a back flip over Squall, Squall tried to turn around but found Sephiroth's sword waiting for him. He pulled his head back in time to avoid any fatal damage but Sephiroth still cut a deep line across Squall's face sending blood all over. Rinoa gasped from behind the tree she was hiding behind. Ratchet jumped up and went for a hyper-strike at Sephiroth but Sephiroth just kicked out sending Ratchet back to the tree he had just come from. Cloud crouched down and tried to slash at Sephiroth's legs. Sephiroth simply jumped up and kicked Cloud in the face. Sephiroth then quickly spun around to block the attack from Squall's gunblade. Sephiroth then went to attempt to knock the gunblade out of Squall's hand but instead got hit in the stomach by Ratchet's omni-wrench which Ratchet had hurled at him. Sephiroth fell to the ground with a large cut in his stomach which the omni-wrench had done when it hit him. He rolled backwards to avoid the two attacks from Squall and Cloud. He then jumped into the air between Cloud and Squall and kicked out hitting both of them in the face at the same time. Ratchet was going over to pick up his omni-wrench which Sephiroth stepped on to stop him from retrieving it. With nowhere to run ratchet looked away to face the blow he expected. There was no pain instead he heard a loud gunshot. He looked round to see Sephiroth had a large bullet hole going straight through him. Behind him was Vincent a shotgun in his hands. Taking the chance he had he rammed his omni-wrench into Sephiroth's chest. His eye's opened wide and looked surprised.
"This is for Sasha"
"And this is for Aerith" Cloud had come up to the left of Sephiroth and swung his sword, separating Sephiroth's head from his body. Pulling out his omni-wrench Sephiroth's body fell to the floor.
"And so it's over." Squall said.
"What's over?" They all looked around, none of them had said that and Sephiroth would certainly find it hard to speak in his current state.
"Who was that?" Ratchet asked.
"Ratchet? Is that you?" the voice was coming from Sephiroth's cloak, and a small metal head poked out from underneath.
"Clank!" Ratchet shouted, and rushed over to meet his missing friend.
