Chapter Thirty Four

Help from Cetra Ancestors

When the others seen Jessi and Vincent coming back, they stood to greet them. Even though they knew that they had gone to kill Hojo, they were still surprised at how much of his blood covered them.

"Geeze, it looks like you two just got back from a slaughterhouse," Yuffie said as she approached them, "I don't think I need to ask, but he isn't coming back is he?"

Vincent and Jessi looked at each other and he bowed his head and crossed his arms while Jessi blinked at Krissy; Krissy smirked and closed her eyes.

"Only if his mutilated, severed body parts find the rest of his corpse and he revives himself." Vincent said.

"But that will be hard for him to do…without this…" Jessi reached behind her back and held out Hojo's bloody severed head. Everyone gasped and Yuffie let out a piercing scream as she fell backward and scooted away from Vincent and Jessi. Jessi transformed back and was laughing so hard; she had tears coming out of her eyes.

"S…sorry Y-Yuffie. Didn't mean to scare you. Just thought I should lighten the mood a bit."

Yuffie glared at her and got up, the others looked at Jessi like she was a deranged lunatic while Krissy and Alex sat there laughing.

"That's disgusting, get rid of it!"

Jessi shrugged and looked down at Hojo's "head".

"Nah, I think it will be a trophy of mine…no wait, it can be a chew toy for the Behemoth's."

"These cowards don't deserve it." Krissy grumbled and the two monsters whined and lay their heads down; they had flown off when WEAPON appeared and when it had returned to its watery slumber, the Behemoths reappeared.

Jessi frowned as she looked at Jenova's materia.

"We have to get rid of these, you know."
Yuffie's eyes widened, "But…"

"Don't you even think about asking to keep it." Cloud snapped.

Yuffie glowered at him, "But how do you destroy materia?"

"The same way we're going to destroy Jenova, with some help from the planet," Jessi tossed the orb to Aeris, "and also our Cetra."

Aeris caught it and took Krissy and Alex's. "I think I know what you want me to do now."

Jessi nodded, "With some help from Holy and the planet, you can stop Jenova right here. It's just like you said, Dercas is a sacred place with ancient power flowing strongly through it, that's why we need you here."

Aeris thought about the idea then smiled, "Again, you can count on me."

"Good. Krissy, Alex, I need you two to stay here and protect Aeris. She is going to be vulnerable to attack so you need to be on guard."

They nodded and Jessi looked over at Cloud, "Sorry, I'm doing your job…"

"Aw who the hell cares, at least you don't say 'let's mosey' or anything sissy like that."

"Thanks Cid, glad to know you care." Cloud grumbled and everyone laughed.

"Well, lets go save the planet again everyone!"

When the airship stopped at it' s normal spot above the crater Jessi sighed.

"This is going to be a bit more difficult than I thought."

Sephiroth raised his eyebrow, "Why do you say that?"

"…Jenova just created a few friends to entertain us."

"How do you know?"

"I'm still connected to her remember?"

Sephiroth looked at her incredulously, "Is she hurting you, she knows about…"

Jessi shook her head, "Calm down. She's hardly phasing me and she is oblivious to our plan."

He looked at her; he was confused but she smirked. "It's all about control. With a little help from Krissy, I can block Jenova from reading my mind. She gets frustrated about that so she tries to hurt me; I ignore her further, so she got pissed."

"So she conjured up some monsters in her fit to make our mission to stop her difficult," He laughed, "that's just like her."

They turned when the others joined them on the deck; Cid had an angry look on his face.

"That stupid bitch sent a lot of her little $&# up to greet us!"

Jessi looked at Cloud; "None of you are going to like my proposal."

"Probably not but tell us anyway."

Cloud was surprised at how everyone hadn't argued about not being able to go down into the crater. He, Sephiroth and Jessi hid in the shadows, when a few of Jenova's monsters flew up towards the airship Jessi jerked her head and they followed her.

"Do you think they will be allright on their own?" Jessi whispered.

"Why wouldn't they be, they have the Highwind and KOR." Cloud said.

"Yes but they don't have two of their best fighters." She pointed out.

"…Three, you're not up there." Sephiroth said.

"I'm hardly a…"

"You are amazing in battle, give yourself some credit."

"…Thanks. Okay, this is where we go in."

Jessi felt around the wall and activated the door to the hidden lair. They followed her inside and walked down some stairs into a long hallway.

"This is incredible, I wonder how I never knew about this place." Sephiroth said.

"Beats me, I'm more worried at how quiet everything…"

He turned and pulled out his weapon to guard himself just as someone leaped onto him. Jessi and Sephiroth turned and were stunned as Cloud fought off a distorted looking creature. Jessi recognized whom exactly he was fighting.

"Nela!" She said surprised as Sephiroth pulled out his sword.

"Go!" Cloud yelled, "I can handle this, stop Jenova!"

Jessi pulled Sephiroth's arm and lead him away from Cloud. Together they continued down the hallway, past Hojo's lab, and walked down another stairway to a large set of doors.

"Ready?" She asked.

"Definitely."

"Allright, do it now Krissy!" She thought.

The doors began to shudder and creak; suddenly they busted open, revealing a very surprised and angry Jenova.

"Sephiroth! What are you doing here, you're supposed to be dead!"

"Oh no… mother, you're the one who is going to be dead."

Jenova snapped her head at Jessi; "You never told us he was alive!"

Jessi smiled viciously, "You never asked."

She pulled out her sickle and was about to throw it when she felt incredible pain shoot through her head. She cried out and dropped to her knees, gripping her head tightly. Jenova laughed as Sephiroth held onto Jessi.

"Kristen can't help you now, she is occupied with one of my loyal servants."

Jessi screamed as the pain got worse and Sephiroth charged at Jenova.

"Don't be ridiculous," Jenova flicked her wrist at Sephiroth and he was thrown back away from her, "none of you stand a chance of winning."

She laughed as Jessi continued to scream, but stopped when she heard an explosion and felt something slam into her chest. She looked down and seen a deep bullet wound, her blood oozing out of it.

"I beg to differ."

Vincent holstered his gun and walked over to Jessi; Sephiroth got up and smiled at Jenova.

"You were saying?" He said smoothly.

Vincent picked Jessi up and she opened her eyes, "Vincent, what are you,"

"It's almost over, Sephiroth's going to take it from here."

He carried her out of the room as Sephiroth gripped his sword and walked slowly towards Jenova.

"Sephiroth, my son…you don't really want to do this." Jenova said shakily, she was trying desperately to cure herself but couldn't concentrate. Sephiroth drew upon her and her eyes widened. He smiled cruelly as he thrust his sword into her torso; her screams echoed throughout the crater for some time. But eventually, they died out.

Everyone waited for Sephiroth to come back, when he did, they started the ship and headed back for Dercas to thank Aeris and the others for their help.