A/N- Edited. Enjoy
Part 4
Yazoo kicked at the dirt uncomfortably as the two rested outside the cave entrance. Kadaj held the shattered pieces of material in his hands and stared at them idly.
Jenova'd sent one of her clones to stop them from getting the materia, and succeeded. Even though they'd destroyed her minion it was too late. The clone crushed the ball of material in its hands just before Kadaj landed the final blow. Crushing their last hope of defeating their insane alien mother.
"Don't worry Kadaj, I'm sure we'll find something else." Yazoo tried to comfort.
"Sephiroth said it was our last hope. Here's all that's left of it. A few shards of rock. What're we gonna do now? Jenova's not waiting any longer. We're… we're in for." Kadaj sighed, letting the broken material slip out of his hands and tinker on the ground.
Yazoo couldn't disagree. He shook his head and sighed heavily.
"C'mon, let's go. There's nothing here for us." Kadaj murmured, getting up and walking to the bird.
The ride home was silent… the return, not so.
"Oh fuck!" Kadaj spat, blocking a blow from yet another clone.
As soon as the two had gone through the hole, they were ambushed.
"Shit!" Yazoo yelped, bending back to avoid his head being cut off, and losing his balance, and falling into the water.
The clone smirked at his surprise, but was soon surprised himself. Kadaj's Souba punctured its abdomen and protruded from his stomach. The clone fell to its knees and melted into the ground as a black liquid.
"…ew…" Kadaj snapped, and dove into the water with his brother.
The two frantically swam to the Petrified Forest and were greeted by a very battered Loz, Yuffie, Red XIII, and Cid.
"C'mon, Sephiroth need help at the house." Red XIII growled, leading the way with a slight limp.
Black liquid littered the ground as well as unconscious bodies of Avalanche members… and Alathia & Alexia.
As much as the men wanted to stop and help, they could not. Sephiroth's body was not on the ground and everyone could see sparks flying in the dark house from the windows.
He was still fighting.
Everyone was engaged in battle as soon as they'd entered the house. Swords clashed, sparks flew, bullets fired, gunpowder riddled the air, and fire was everywhere!
Energy blasts blew holes in everything, catching the real wood on fire.
Geostigma was getting the best of the three brothers.
"Wah!" Cid yelped, being tossed into a wall and landing in a heap on the floor.
"Cid!" Yuffie screamed, only to be blasted into a heap with him. Loz was shocked with electricity and fell in a smoking pile on the floor. Red jumped at the fierce clone with a throaty growl, only to be shot down by one of its energy blasts. A small yelp was heard when his body hit a wall and landed with a thump on the floor.
"Kadaj, Yazoo Look out!" Sephiroth tried to warn… but it was too late.
A clone had snuck behind the both of them as they stood next to each other, and proceeded to send electricity through their bodies.
Ear piercing screams escaped their lips as sparks of the power jumped from their tensed skin. Their weapons fell to the ground as their muscles froze from the current passing through their bodies. Seph watched in horror as the clone stopped, and smoke escaped from his little brothers' mouths.
They fell to the ground with a whimper and didn't move. Sephiroth was the last one standing and was quickly being closed in by six or so clones of himself. In a last attempt to free himself, he rushed forward at one of them… only to be stopped by excruciating pain running all through his body. The geostigma brought him to his knees this time.
Seph panted, body exhausted from the endless amount of fighting he'd been doing. Shadows loomed over his stooped form as Sephiroth heaved and ground his teeth in pain. A mesamune replica landed in front of him as a heavy booted foot kicked his chin up to face the clone. Seph blinked the sweat and blood out of his eyes and glared up at… himself. It smirked back, mako eyes glowing in the darkness and mouthed, 'puppet' down at the defeated man.
The six replica mesamunes were raised above Seph's head and he closed his eyes… waiting for the rush of pain to fill his body.
The house suddenly began to rumble and shake, causing the clones to snap their attention from their prey. A rush of water bursted up from the depths of the earth, destroying the house and everything in its wake.
The water rushed over Seph's body, gently caressing the weakened warrior and drowning out the pain. Everything went dark as the comforting water swirled around his limp form.
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AND THEY ALL DROWN! THE END! Kidding.
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The water glistened with lifestream as it slowly poured back into the entrance lake. The black goo from the clones was gone, and everyone began to wake.
"F-ing #$&#$! My cigs are soggy! Damnit Aeris! You and your water's gotta but in and ruin my damn cigs. We were doing fine without ya!" Cid griped as he put a soggy cig into his mouth and tried to light it.
The water gurgled and a tiny stream of it shot in his eye in response.
"Neah!" A loud scream emanated from two girls waking up from their recent pummeling.
"My hair!" Tifa and Yuffie screeched in unison, feeling the chunks of clone hanging in their hair.
Barret and Cait Sith walked up to the other two and laughed at their problem. The girls huffed back in response, but soon busted out laughing as the two malfunctioned. Barret's arm short-circuited and began sparking. Cait Sith had such a spasm that he slammed his face right into the soggy dirt. Cid followed the shouting and joined in the complaining.
Pretty soon, everyone was reunited: silver haireds bitching about having absolutely nothing yet again, Tifa & Yuffie having a conniption over their hair, Barret's arm sparking, Cait Sith randomly seizing, Cloud & Vincent picking chunks of clone off their outfits, Red shaking himself off (sending another wave of complaints), and Alexia & Alathia sat picking the chunks of it out of their shirts and hair.
Even if everyone was complaining… secretly they were very grateful for Aeris's help.
"Hey, I'm not in pain anymore! We're healed!" Kadaj cheered happily.
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"Did you get that materia Kadaj?" Seph asked slyly.
When he received no response he merely mumbled, 'don't count on not feeling pain for very long." and smiled at him through gritted teeth.
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"Where have you been all day? I dug this hole all by myself, no help from you!" Zack spat as Aeris came waltzing in.
"I was out saving the day while you were playing in the dirt." Aeris shot back angrily.
The two went at it like none other, while two little children walked in.
Aeris saw them before they'd even made it to the hole.
"Oh, ya know what? I'm tired of having to re-dig that hole." She mumbled, going into water form and blasting the innocent kids with a rush of water.
They screamed and cried, running out of the church and hiding behind a dumpster.
"What was that?" the little boy cried, wringing out his sopping wet shirt.
"I-I don't know! But it didn't want us near that hole! Hey… no more pain! I'm healed!" the near toothless little girl shouted, looking at her arms in surprise (where the Geostigma used to be).
The two smiled at each other in disbelief and continued to dry themselves off.