I hope the last chapter wasn't to over the top… cuz if it was the rest will be WAY over. Last chapter the group defeated Sephiroth and Tarah changed back to good and Tifa died. Sam and Tarah are reunited and the world is safe. Will Kale, Angelina, Tarah, and Sam find a way home? Or will they be trapped there forever. And what evil lies on the path in front of them?
R&R please.
Chapter 6: The Angel and the Demon
( 1 week after the defeat of Sephiroth)
The group had traveled to Nebleim and were staying in the Shinra mansion. They had cleaned it up, and once they had finished Vincent locked himself in the library. Everyone else was relaxing, Sam and Tarah were sitting in the living room on the couch watching TV together, Aeris and Cloud were out shopping, Barret had brought Marlene and Aeris's mom to the mansion, Red was sleeping on the floor next to the couch Sam and Tarah were on, Cait Sith sat deactivate in the corner, Cid and Shera were in one of the many bedroom of the house, and Kale and Angelina, were also in their own bedroom.
Sam: do you want to go home?
Tarah: back to my parents? No…
Sam: would you like to stay here?
Tarah: as long as you're here.
Sam: then we'll stay.
Sam leaned over and kissed Tarah softly on the lips, after a few second he broke away.
Sam: I..
Tarah: ..love you.
Sam: you beat me to it again…I love you too.
Tarah giggled.
Sam: your laugh is so cute…
Now she blushed.
Tarah: don't start that..
Sam: start what?
Tarah: never mind..
Tarah rested her head on Sam's shoulder.
Tarah: soft…
Tarah slowly drifted off to sleep and Sam gently laid her down on the couch and got up. Sam walked to the door leading to the stairs down to the library. She walked down the passage to the door of the library, and knocked.
Sam: Vincent are you in there?
Vincent: I am.
Sam: may I come in?
Sam heard Vincent get up and walk to the door and the lock clicked.
Vincent: come in.
Sam opened the door and stepped in and closed the door behind him. Vincent walked over to a desk with books piled on top of it.
Sam: what are you looking for?
Vincent: it's none of your concern…
Sam: I think I know.
Vincent: then tell me what do you think I'm looking for?
Sam: a way to revive Yuffie.
Vincent: and why aren't you looking for a way to bring back Tifa?
Sam: …
Vincent: well?
Sam: I'm with Tarah… and if she comes back she'll see us together and it'll break her heart I don't want her to go through that.
Vincent: I see…
Sam: I'll help you look.
Vincent shook his head.
Vincent: no… go back to the others I'm ok.
Sam: there's nothing to do up there right now I don't got anything better to do.
Vincent: if you insist…
Sam grabbed a book off the self and sat in a arm chair next to the desk.
( upstairs with Tarah)
Tarah was awakened by the front door closing. She sat up and looked around but Sam was nowhere to be seen. She got up and went to the door. Cloud and Aeris were walking in with bags.
Cloud: can you help bring the stuff in?
Tarah: sure.
Tarah went out grabbed the rest of the stuff then brought it into the kitchen.
Cloud: where's everyone else?
Tarah: don't know.
Aeris: isn't Sam with you?
Tarah: he was until I fell asleep.
Aeris: are you hungry?
Tarah: yes.
Aeris started cooking and Cloud and Tarah went into the living room, sat on the couch and started watching the TV.
Cloud: did Sam tell you about Tifa?
Tarah: he did.
Cloud: I see…
Tarah: you loved her, didn't you?
Cloud: I did and still do.
Tarah: it's my fault she's dead…
Cloud: it's Sephiroth's, he tricked you.
Tarah: I'm sorry for the stuff I did to all of you.
Cloud: don't worry about it…
The two heard the door to the basement open, then a few seconds later, Sam and Vincent started walking down the stairs.
Cloud: see you finally decided to come out Vincent.
Vincent didn't respond instead he picked up his death penalty and his new cape and put it on.
Tarah: what's going on?
Sam didn't respond she just put his black leather trench coat on and picked up his masumane and sheathed it at his side. The two talked to the door and Vincent walked out.
Sam: we are going out… don't follow us… and we'll call tomorrow.
Tarah: were are you going?
Sam: I cannot tell you.
Tarah: then let me come with you…
Sam: no you cannot, you must stay here… I'll be ok.
Tarah: but…
Sam: I love you…
Tarah: I love you too.
Sam: then stay here.
Tarah nodded, and Sam walked out the door.
Cloud: what are they up to?
Tarah: maybe they found something in the library?
Cloud: let's go see if we can't find it.
The two went down into the basement and through the passage to the library. They saw the books piled on the desk and one lone book laying in the seat of an arm chair beside the desk. Tarah picked it up and started flipping through it and Cloud grabbed one of the books off the desk. As Tarah was flipping through the book something caught her eye.
Tarah: Cloud, listen to this, it's a entry about holy meteor.
Cloud: but it's gone…
Tarah: it tells of what happens in the aftermath.
Cloud: well read it.
Tarah: The judgment of Holy Meteor will rain down on the Earth brought by the one winged angel and a girl from another world, when it has passed, a demon named Shiryen will come to pass judgment upon those who have survived, and when Shiryen arrives an angel named Tifena, will be sent to stop it, but alone the angel will not prevail. The demon and the angel will inhabit the bodies of to fallen warriors who died during the judgment of Holy Meteor, one killed by their lover, the other killed a weapon. The loves they left behind are the key to the planet's survival. Those who survive, will face yet another judgment, the heartless, people who have lost their hearts. They will sweep over the planet stealing hearts of humans, if the angel has survived she is the only hope. Those who have survived will have a ten year period of peace then face the final judgment, the Reshin, dragon like monsters, they will scorch the Earth, burning everything in their path. The girl who assisted the one winged angel is the only hope against the Reshin. Once the threat has passed Earth will become the Promise land, and eternal peace will rain down, the people left from the Reshin will be allowed to stay in the promise land for eternity.
Cloud: ….oh…my.. god..
Tarah: so Sam and Vincent went to find the demon and the angel?
Cloud: from what I can tell…wonder who they are?
Then it hit Tarah.
Tarah: Yuffie died because Vincent accidentally shot her right?
Cloud: yeah…
Tarah: the passage said 'one killed by their lover'.
Cloud: you think it means Yuffie?
Tarah: yes.
Cloud: and the other?
Tarah: is said 'the other killed a weapon' so it must be Tifa.
Cloud: we have to get the group together and find Sam and Vincent.
Tarah nodded.
(2 hours later)
They had gathered the group in the living room and told them what they had found, and what they planned to do.
Tarah: we're going to slip the group…
Cloud: Tarah you'll command the one that goes to Tifa's grave.
Tarah: me, why me?
Cloud: no offense to the others but you're the strongest here.
Tarah: fine…I'll do it.
Cloud: Cid, Kale, Angelina, and Red you'll go with Tarah, Cait Sith, Aeris, and Barret you're with me. We'll take the Slipstream and you'll drop my group off at Yuffie's grave, then your group will go to Tifa's grave.
Cid: when we going?
Cloud: now…
Shera: I want to go too.
Cid: it's to dangerous…
Shera: I'm going and that's final.
Cloud: you'll have to be in my group to even it out.
Shera: ok.
Cloud: let's get going then.
The group got their stuff and went to the Slipstream and it took off for Wutia.
( a few hours later outside Wutia)
Cloud's group walked off the Slipstream and it lifted into the air and it hovered over the water next to the group and doors on the bottom of it opened and a small boat fell out of it and into the water. Cloud's PHS rang.
Cid: you can use that to get to the City of the Ancients.
The slipstream took of toward the City of the Ancients.
Cloud: her grave is on a cliff north of the city over the ocean.
The group walked to the cliff when they got up there they saw someone standing near the grave.
: you were not to follow us.
Cloud: we read the book we couldn't let you face this alone.
Barret: you act'n like a fool, vampire boy.
The person turned to face the group.
: I am not Vincent…
Cloud: Sam, what are you doing here, we though you'd be at Tifa's grave?
Sam: Vincent and I decided it would be best if they did not see us at first so we went to the opposite grave.
Shera: so Vincent is at Tifa's grave?
Sam: yes…
Cloud: how do you know when it's going to happen?
Sam: we took the page with the date for when the events accrue out of the book and copied it.
Sam took out a piece of paper and handed it to Cloud.
Cloud: March 27th the angel and the demon will raise…. that's today.
Sam: so it should happen soon.
(with Tarah's group)
The Slipstream was only about 8 miles from the City of the Ancients, the sky in front of them was pitch black, there would be a boom of thunder and a lighting flash every ten seconds.
Cid: think we picked the wrong one…
Cid landed the Slipstream in the canyon outside the city and the group walked toward the lake where Tifa's body laid. As they got closer they saw someone sitting across from them on the other side of the lake, he got up and walked over to them.
: you were not to follow.
Tarah: Sam you….
: I am not Sam…
Tarah: Vincent what are you doing here I thought you'd be at Yuffie's grave?
Vincent: we thought it best not to their lovers be the one to see them come back incase you had to kill them.
Tarah: oh…
Kale: not to be the one who always thinks that something bad is gonna but…. the sky makes me think Tifa's the demon…
Vincent: you found the book?
Tarah: we did.
Vincent looked back at the lake.
Red: judging by the way things look.. She is the demon…
Vincent: I do not think she is…
Kale: why's that?
Vincent: in the book it said the angel's name is Tifena…
Angelina: yeah so?
Tarah: take off the 'en' what do you get?
Cid: I'll be damned! Tifa!
Vincent: and Shiryen is a Wutian demon… it was said she will bring the end of the world.
Angelina: but look around…. does it look like a place something good would come from?
: you'd be correct…
The group looked up to see a silver haired man, carrying a long sword, wearing a black leather trench coat, and glowing, cold, blue eyes.
Tarah: impossible…
(Cloud's group)
Barret: we've been wait'n 2 hours… I'd wish she'd come on already!
Aeris: .. The planet's crying…
Sam: what?
Aeris: the planet's crying… the angel's here…
Sam: so the angel is a here?
Aeris: yes…
Sam: that would mean anyone's the demon.
Cloud: is it saying anything about the demon?
Aeris: I can't hear anything…
Cait Sith: A Shinra satellite is picking a large build up of energy near the City of the Ancients…
Barret: Shinra's still around?
Cait: barely…
Cloud: see if you can pick up anything here…
Cait Sith gaze turned blank.
Cloud: Sith?
Green lines flowed for the top of Sith's eyes to the bottom.
Cait: there's no energy build up…. But there was one earlier like the one around the City of the Ancients.
Cloud: where?
Cait: in the ruins of Midgar…
Sam: so chances are it's some innocent person left in Midgar?
Cloud: only thing it could be…
Sam: then we should get to the city of the Ancients as fast as we can…
(Tarah's group)
The man stared over the lake at them.
Tarah: it's impossible… you're…. dead…
: I was…
Vincent: we'll just have to kill you again!
: don't you have something bigger to worry about?
The man's gaze fell upon the lake.
: The demon and the angel will inhabit the bodies of two fallen warriors who died during the judgment of Holy Meteor, one killed by their lover, the other killed by a weapon.
Cid: so what Sephiroth?
Sephiroth: I fit the description of being killed by my lover, do I not?
The group's eyes widened with shock.
Kale: then you're the demon!
Sephiroth: if that were true you'd all be dead…
Angelina:…. He has a point….
Sephiroth walked calmly over to the group.
Sephiroth: it would not be wise to stick around to see her rise….
Cid: I am not gonna let him on my plane!
Vincent: we'll make sure he doesn't pull anything….
Cid: ..GGRR…fine!
Lighting began to come down and strike the lake.
Sephiroth: we'd best hurry…
The group turned and ran through the city. A large black pillar of energy shot up out of the lake and the ground around it and in the city began to crack. The ground shook causing the group to almost lose their balance. The sky turned pitch black, and black lighting crackled off the pillar. The broken pieces of the ground began to lift into the air. The group ran out into the canyon, and were almost to the Slipstream when a large slab of rock fell down and hit the Slipstream causing it to explode.
Cid: NNOO not my precious Slipstream!
Tarah: what now!
Sephiroth: we run to the shore…. Hopefully it's not effected there!
The group ran past the burning wreckage of the Slipstream and into the Sleeping forest. The forest had lost it's green glow and trees were falling all over. The ground still shook and the ground began to break apart as the ran. They ran into Bone Village to see the people running around hysterically. The houses were falling apart. One of the bones fell over and trapped a little girl under it. Sephiroth ran over and started lifting it up.
Sephiroth: someone get her!
Cid ran over and pulled the little girl out.
Little girl: thanks old man….
Cid ignored her.
Cid: let's go!
Sephiroth dropped the bone, the group started running toward the shore, and the villagers followed them. As they got to the shore they turned back and looked toward the City of the Ancients. The pillar had grown larger, large pieces of rock, and trees, lifted into the air and were sucked into the pillar. In the ocean behind them giant waves formed but instead of coming in they moved out. The ground began cracking around them and the cracks extended into the ocean, the water draining into them.
(Cloud's group)
As they had gotten closer to the North continent they saw the black pillar shooting up into the sky, and they saw the ground breaking and lifting into the air. The boat raced toward the shore.
Sam: so it's true… my angel… is the demon…
Cloud: we don't know that yet…
Kale: it could have been the other one!
Shera: it'll be ok Sam…
Cloud: we have to hurry the other group could be in trouble.
The ocean roared around them, every time the boat hit a wave it went flying into the air. Then everything went quite, all they could hear was the engine of the boat and their breaths. The waves calmed, the pillar was gone, and the sky was blue.
Sam: it's over…
Aeris: the planet… it's scared…
They could see a group of people standing at the shore and turned the boat toward them.
(Tarah's group)
Tarah: it's Cloud!
Sephiroth: STRIFE WHERE?
Vincent: we must hide him until we explain to Cloud that Sephiroth is good… hide in the crowd.
Sephiroth hid behind few of them as the boat pulled up, and Cloud's group walked up.
Cloud: we should go…
Cid: we found the angel…
Tarah: more like he found us…
Vincent: you must not hurt him….
Cloud: why would I hurt him?
Vincent: come on out…
Sephiroth walked out from the crowd.
Cloud: SEPHIROTH!
Sam: HE'S ALIVE!
Sam and Cloud drew their swords. Aeris slowly backed away in fear.
Sam: it's because of you Tifa's dead!
Cloud: We're gonna kill you!
Tarah stepped between Sam, Cloud, and Sephiroth.
Sam: Tarah move!
Tarah: with out him we'll all die…
Cloud: don't make us hurt you….
Aeris moved next to Tarah.
Cloud: Aeris… why are you defending him?
Aeris: because the planet is telling me to do so…
Cloud lowered his sword, but Sam went into his fighting stance, his eyes were glowing brighter then usual.
Sam: don't make me say it again… move…
Tarah: no….
Sam charged toward Sephiroth and swung his sword at him Tarah moved in the way and brought hers up to block when the two swords clashed there was a shower of sparks.
Sam: Tarah stop…
Tarah: do you want this planet to die!
Sam: they're all video game characters!
Tarah: so is that what Tifa is to you!
A hurt look appeared on Sam's face.
Tarah: she won't want you to do this…
Anger appeared on his face again and he put more pressure on the clashing sword slowly pushing down.
Tarah: what are you doing!
Sam: what does it look like?
Sam pulled back his sword and swung it and cut deep into Tarah's torso.
Tarah: Sam…why….
Tarah fell to her knees holding her wound trying to stop the blood, but it was covering her hands, and spilling onto the ground.
Sam: you were in my way…
Tarah looked up at Sam and everything went black as she fell over and hit the ground with a thud. Sam's gaze lifted up to Sephiroth.
Sephiroth: you… killed your own girlfriend…
Sam: shut up….
Kale: you killed her!
Sam: it's your fault Tifa's the way she is…
Sephiroth: it yours… because you failed to protect her…
Sam: charged at Sephiroth and went to swing but Kale blocked it.
Kale: you killed Tarah….
Sam: why do you care?
Kale: she was your girlfriend… don't you care about what you just did!
Sam pointed his left hand at Angelina.
Sam: good bye sis….
Kale: NNOO!
A red ball of energy formed in Sam's hand then flew at Angelina and exploded when it hit her. When the smoke clear they saw Angelina lying on the ground in a growing pool of her blood, her clothes torn to shreds, and bloody gashes covered her body.
Kale: ANGELINA!
Kale ran over to Angelina and put her head in his lap.
Kale: don't leave me!
Angelina: I love…you..
Kale: I love you too…
A hot tear rolled down off of Kale's cheek and hit Angelina's cheek and rolled to the ground. A smile slowly came onto Angelina face, and seconds later her head fell to the side and her eyes closed. Kale sobbed holding her close to him.
Cloud: you…. You're a monster…
Sam: I'll be back….
A black angel wing shot out of Sam's back and he flew into the air and toward the City of the Ancients.
Tarah: ..help…me…
Sephiroth leaned over Tarah and pulled out a cure materia.
Sephiroth: full cure!
A pillar of light surrounded Tarah and the wound on her torso disappeared, then the pillar of light faded.
Tarah: is he gone?
Sephiroth: he is…
Kale: can you help Angelina?
Sephiroth went to Angelina and used the materia, with no result.
Sephiroth: I'm sorry….
Sephiroth a hand on Kale's shoulder.
Sephiroth: she's in a better place…
(with Sam)
Sam stood next to the lake were the pillar of darkness had been earlier. The lake was ice and a woman stood in the middle, she had two wings that looked liked Vincent's Chaos wings on her back and was carrying a long thick sword that seemed to glow black, she was wearing a black tank top and black pants, and had long silver hair.
Sam: Tifa?
The woman turned toward him, it was Tifa.
Tifa: Sam…
Sam ran to her and hugged her.
Sam: I thought I'd lost you…
Tifa: no…
Sam: you're the demon?
Tifa: yes…
Sam: I want to help you kill them…
Tifa: I was going to ask you to join me….but it seems I don't have to.
Sam nodded and looked into Tifa's eyes.
Sam: do you still love me?
Tifa: yes… and do you love me?
Sam: yes.
Sam leaned down and kissed Tifa on the lips wrapping his arms around her, and her wrapping hers around him.
Tifa: remain calm my love.
Tifa continued to kiss Sam. Sam's black angel wing shot out of his back, and a black aura surrounded him and steadly grew larger and his eyes turned from blue to red, and black electricity crackled around him. Then Tifa backed up.
Tifa: how do you feel?
Sam: like a whole new me….
Tifa: I love you…
Sam: I love you too.
The two flew up into the air and toward the group.
(Cloud's group)
Cloud: the demon will probably kill Sam…. then come for us… we need to get going…
Sephiroth: let's stay just for a few minutes…
Cloud: we can wait…
Cloud spotted two dots in the distance.
Cloud: it's Sam and he's got the demon with him!
Tarah stood up.
Tarah: let's go!
The group ran into the boat and sped off. Sam and Tifa were right behind them.
Cloud: they're gaining!
Vincent took out his gun and fired at the two, Barret soon stood up and started firing at them with his Missing Source, and the Shera joined in with her shot gun.
Sephiroth: that won't do much good!
Cloud: then what do you suggest?
Sephiroth stood up and raised his arms over his head and a large white energy orb appeared over them.
Sephiroth: scatter shot!
Thousands of small orbs flew out of the orb and at Sam and Tifa and continued to do so until the orb vanished. When the smoke cleared neither Sam nor Tifa were anywhere to be seen.
Barret: I think the son of a bitch killed them!
Sephiroth: they're not dead… we should get away from here….
Red: but to where?
Sephiroth: Wutia… there's a princess there that needs to be revived.
Vincent: a what?
Sephiroth: their princess was killed… she will play an important part of this… if you read father in the book she was mentioned… she was the first to be killed by her lover… but didn't turn out to be the angel… her part is unsure… but she is needed..
Aeris: how do you know?
Sephiroth: the planet… is telling me…
Aeris: you can hear it too?
Sephiroth: I can… clearly…
Cloud: why should we trust you?
Sephiroth: I don't expect you to trust me Strife… after all I've done… I don't even know how they could call me an angel…
Cloud: got that right.
Aeris: shut up Cloud.
Cloud: what?
Aeris: don't be mean… he was controlled by Jenova…
Cloud: what about when he summoned Holy Meteor Jenova was dead then!
Sephiroth: when you killed her.. Her consciences came into me and took over… that's how I changed into Safer Sephiroth… because of her. She was still controlling me when Tarah killed me…. But when I died she was thrown out of me…
Tarah: so when I killed you… Jenova was driven out of you?
Sephiroth: yes…
Cloud: I don't trust you…
Sephiroth unsheathed his masumane, and Cloud stood up with his hand on the handle of his ultimate weapon ready to draw it. Sephiroth fumbled with the case over the materia in the hilt of his sword and when he final got it open he pulled out the black materia.
Cloud: I thought it was destroyed when it was fused into the Holy Meteor materia then crushed?
Sephiroth: the black materia is like normal materia to an extent… it can be mastered… and like all materia when it's mastered it makes a new one this is the result…
Tarah: you mastered the black materia?
Sephiroth: yes.. Is that so hard to believe?
Cloud: yeah…
Sephiroth handed the black materia to Cloud.
Cloud: why are you giving this to me…
Sephiroth: if I were evil would I give you what?
Cloud: I guess not…
Sephiroth: plus it brings back to many bad memories…
(A/N: the demon and the angel are awake… Angelina's dead, and Sam's gone crazy…. Tifa and Sam are out to destroy the world but can the angel stop them? In the passage it said the angel alone will fail… could this really be the end? Or will they live to face the next judgment? What will Tarah and Kale do now that one of their loves are dead and the other out to kill them all? The next chapters will tell.