Part III
"Alright… Everyone ready for this?" Cloud asked, popping a restore into his armor and curing everyone to full health.
Everyone nodded solemnly.
It'd taken a lot out of everyone. Before the healing, many of them sported cuts and stabs to the arms, legs, chest, and abdomen. Many had lost quite a considerable amount of blood.
Wearily, the group clamored into the cavern and followed the line of defending clones, and crackling noises, right to Jenova's lair. Her slitted eyes bore down upon the group as she sat atop her 'baby'. This crystallized mako serpent greeted them, with Jenova at the heart.
So that was how she'd been getting around in the lifestream.
The glowing serpent poised itself for a strike as Jenova manned controls for the creature.
Again, Avalanche and Co. called their summons. She defeated all of them before they 'd had the chance to lay a blow on her.
Avalanche stood… startled at its power, and not really knowing quite what to do next. "Give up, you have nothing left. Don't you get it," Jenova hissed, having her serpent wrap its long tail around her children.
"You belong to me."
The four struggled with all their might; Kadaj scratching and biting at the hardened mako, Loz punching it, Yazoo smacking his gun over it and shooting, and Sephiroth trying his best to cut through it with his Mesamune. Nothing worked.
"Oh, let me show you a little trick I taught it." Jenova cooed, pressing a few of her buttons.
Avalanche watched helplessly as the serpent charged up, releasing its energy through the tail, and into the silver haired men's bodies.
Their heart wrenching screams echoed off the crater wall as their bodies went stiff with electricity. Jenova turned off the power a moment later and chuckled as all four of them went limp.
"Put them down!" Alathia growled, kicking at the serpent's side.
"Very well."
She dropped them, and they landed on the cold stone floor with a sickening thud. Jenova then proceeded to pummel everyone, including the Lilyous… They all lay in a bloody pile, heaped on the stony floor of the dark crater.
Still, her children had not moved.
Alathia and Alexia somehow managed to detransform (if at all possible lol) and crawl over to the men.
Kadaj let out a small whimper as Alathia cradled him in her arms. He squeezed his eyes shut and grasped the sleeves of her jacket.
"I-it hurts." Was all he said.
They were all awake, but dared not move. Any tiny little movement they made sent sharp pains shooting through their body. Jenova's serpent's grip had crushed their ribs, and the electricity made their nerves very sensitive to touch.
Alexia softly stroked Yazoo's hair and listened to his raspy breath.
"I'm not going back…she… I don't want to be used… can't go back… No, no no no no." he murmured, huddling into a small ball.
"Oh, I think you will. You'll come back to me my baby. Who else do you have to go to?" Jenova cooed, jumping out of the snake and using her powers to levitate her children towards her.
Kadaj was taken out of Alathia's arms as well as Yazoo taken away from Alexia.
Sephiroth hissed in pain, as he was the first to reach Jenova.
"Let them go. Its me you want; they're nothing." He growled, referring to his squirming brothers.
Jenova smirked playfully and coolly stroked his long silver hair.
"Don't worry my child. They won't be holding us back any longer. You and I can travel the lifestream… bringing the planet to its knees. And we'll go to the Promised Land together, just you and me. I'll make more brothers for you there. We don't need these… failures."
Loz, Yazoo, and Kadaj began screaming as their bones literally began to cave in. Their evil mother was laughing maniacally as she slowly began making a fist, crushing their bones with her powers… taking her sweet time with destroying her babies.
After a while… they stopped screaming, and Jenova again dropped them on the ground.
Alexia and Alathia's jaws dropped as they saw the events occur. Something snapped within them… this time they could feel the transformation coming on its own. The anger must have triggered it.
Their teeth clenched back the screams as they listened to their bones cracking and literally felt them growing. Their skin burned as it slowly began to change color. The pain blinded them as their eyes changed… finally; the Lilyous fell to their knees, in their complete form and screamed.
You could almost feel the energy passing through the air as everyone's hair stood on end.
So much energy was passing through the Lilous' bodies, it formed craters underneath them. They continued screaming as bright, white light lit the crater, and everything became consumed with it.
When things became visible once more, all of Avalanche stood in combat mode, all healed, all fine. The silver haired men were ok too. Although they were wobbling about uncoordinated and a BIT disoriented, they were all healthy and fine.
Sephiroth held Jenova by the throat… he wasn't holding it tightly, but both were staring at each other angrily.
"You're nothing but mako and a few of your original skin cells… hm." Seph murmured to himself, looking her mako body over.
"Your snake's gone." Kadaj piped in, shaking the dizziness from his head.
The three brothers joined Sephiroth and formed a circle around their evil alien mother.
Sephiroth dropped the alien on the ground, and the men put their hands together. Bright light emmited from their palms and quickly engulfed the silver haireds. When the light finally dimmed, all that was left was charred ground. No more Jenova.
Alathia and Alexia were their normal human form by the end of this. They stood, calmly waiting for everyone to walk up to them.
Kadaj and Yazoo lead the pack.
"What was that!" Kadaj blurted out, hugging her happily.
"… I don't know ." Alathia answered back, being totally serious.
"Mmm, I have a feeling we can't transform anymore." Alexia sighed, dusting off the arm of her long coat. The very last swipe knocked the arm off completely, and she huffed with annoyance.
"Really… so that's it?" Yazoo gasped, looking at her with big dumb eyes.
"Yeah… its all gone."
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The group emerged from the crater a little while later to find it was raining.
"Um, shouldn't it be…ya know… snowing?" Kadaj laughed.
It probably should have… The fact of the matter was… it was healing water. Not only was it raining at the Northern Crater, but all over Gaia. The healing water poured down over the people of the land, vanquishing the Geostigma.
Children splashed about in the pool of water in the sector five church. Yes, Zack and Aeris managed to finish it on time. Everything seemed to be going great.
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