What? Who? Me Run?... never… errr okay yeah. I left in the middle of the night while Kadaj slept in his bed. There was a few hundred gil on the table, more than enough for him to go where ever he pleased. Out side of the inn I opened my cell phone and looked through the numbers. I stopped on one and thought for a brief second. After a silent deliberation I pressed the call button.

"Strife Delivery Service you name it we deliver" Clouds voice was sleepy on the other end. I climbed on my bike.

"Cloud, we have a problem"

"Seraphim…" he didn't seem happy to hear from me "What type of problem could we have?"

"A Sephiroth and Jenova problem" I started my bike and slowly but surely left the beachside city behind.

"Are you sure?"

"The other pieces of Jenova are still out there, Yazoo and Loz are after them which could spell big trouble"

"Look… I don't have time for this now, I have Marlene and Denzel to deal with… and Tifa…" his voice drifted off.

"Trouble in paradise?"

"I don't want to talk about it" he seemed angry but I let it go, his relationship with Tifa was something that I couldn't careless about.

"Okay… Do you have Vincent's number then?"

"Vincent doesn't own a phone"

"Why don't you seem to care that Sephiroth is going to rise again?" there was a lot of anger in my voice, I could almost guarantee the color of my eyes were gold now.

"You should be able to take him… you are the answer to Sephiroth" there was enough contempt in his voice that I could have walked on it.

"Fine… pout, sleep on the couch and do nothing, who knows in a few days time you may end up putting my sword on that hill next to Zaks, and then you can feel guilty and pout some more" I practically screamed into the phone. He was silent for a long time after my rant. "are you still there?"

"I'm here, where are you?" he sounded defeated. I smiled.

"On my way to Gongaga… I'm almost to north coral now"

"I'll see if the others want to help and we'll try to meet you there"

"Thanks Cloud, this means a lot"

"Don't thank me yet…" he paused "This isn't going to be as simple as it was with Kadaj is it?"

"No" as soon as I said it he sighed a big heavy sigh. "Shinra's involved again… Rufus apparently has been planning all along to try and reunite the Jenova pieces… he wants to try and use her to for power or weapons… either way"

"Either way it's not going to end pretty… now what Reno said makes sense"

"What did he say?"

"A few days before the stuff with Kadaj came to a head… Rufus Shinra wanted to see me... Reno said something about restoring Shinra to it's former glory" he laughed "Hey I'm going to let you go… I have to call everyone else… I'll call you back later and tell you who's coming"

"Okay" I closed my phone.

The drive to North Corel was too quiet for my liking. I felt guilty for leaving Kadaj. I shouldn't have left him without a note or anything. I stopped my bike when the sun started to rise. I looked over the lush landscape. It brought back a few memories from two years ago. I passed out on our way to North Corel and Cloud ended up carrying me the rest of the way there, joking about how I was a lot heavier than I looked, Aeris and I spoke often about our connection to the Cetra. I took a deep breath, I almost cried. I had lied before, I hadn't gotten over Aeris' death, I just bottled up my emotions. After all she was like me, the last living person that was the closest thing you could get to me. Unless of course you counted Sephiroth, but he wasn't really alive now was he. But Kadaj was, as was Yazoo and Loz, in some sick and twisted way they were the only people closest to what I was. My phone startled me from my train of thought; I didn't even look to see who it was before I answered.

"Hello?" I practically whispered as I sat on my bike and watched the sun peak over the mountains.

"Seraphim where are you?" Kadaj seemed frantic. Of all the times to not check my caller ID. I sighed; I didn't want to tell him that I had left him.

"Kadaj, I'm on my way to Gongaga" my voice was flat, I was fighting to keep emotion out of this conversation.

"But I thought that we were going together?" he seemed so confused.

"I left enough money so you can go where ever you want, I will call you after I'm done" I clicked my phone closed and started my bike again. Was I pushing him away because I enjoyed being miserable and alone. I was kind of getting used to my moodiness and antisocial behavior, I didn't need some boy to mess it all up for me. So short answer yes long answer no, I could go on a long tangent about how I made an irrational decision bringing a professed child of Jenova on a quest to find and kill Jenova, that would, however be a lie.

The sky grew dark almost instantly; I stopped my bike and looked around. I was near the train tracks from the old mine, and in the distance I could make out Yazoo standing shoulder to shoulder with Loz. His silver hair flying about as the wind grew stronger and those black clouds parted. I could almost make out the grin on his face. Running was not an option; I couldn't take what ever he was summoning with me to Corel. They had finally managed to rebuild. I didn't have any materia, so summoning something in response was out of the question. I drew my Katana and revved my bike. Suicide mission any one? Well actually that would all depend on what came from between those parted clouds, it was Odin. Fear settled into that nice spot in the pit of my stomach where it usually sits when ever I fight something alone, that isn't a random encounter.

"Where's Kadaj!" Yazoo yelled across the train yard. I stopped my bike only a few yards from where Odin sat high and proud a top his horse waiting for Yazoo to tell him to attack.

"Not here" my breathing quickened as I got off of my bike,

"Well I can see that Seraphim, but where is he?" as Yazoo's tranquil yet menacing voice floated to my ears I closed my eyes and tightened my hand on the hilt of my sword.

"Avoiding you apparently" my eyes opened, Yazoo's widened he seemed shocked and semi frightened by my golden snake eyes.

"Oh, so funny… too bad Mother doesn't care for you too much" With Yazoo's words Odin readied his sword. This was an ironic moment, I once said I would hate to be on the other end of Odin's attacks, and now I was. I took a deep breath and Jumped just in time to miss Odin's sword. Every attempt I made to attack failed horribly; every time I sliced he moved or met my blade with his.

I couldn't fight like this forever; I was successful at dodging Odin's attacks but only minutes in and without a single scratch on Odin I was starting to get tired. The bad thing was that a Summons never gets tired. I was bounced about like a ball, the fight was reminiscent of when Cloud fought Kadaj that first time. I didn't have any kind of edge at all, I was fast enough at dodging attacks but when it came to attacking I was always a second or two slow. Everybody knows that when you get tired you make mistakes. And my first mistake could have very easily been my last as Odin's sword connected with my side, it went all down hill from there, though a few of my attacks actually scratched him, I got my ass handed to me. Every time I got close he would punch me with that amazing force and I would loose vision for a moment, only to regain it with fractions of a second left to move. It didn't take long until Odin had me by the neck and I was staring into his skeletal eye sockets. However, what could have been my last moments weren't, instead of ripping my throat out, or something as equally horrible, he threw me against the side of the mountain like he wanted me to stick there. I didn't stick, but I did feel the world slipping away from me.

"Put her on the back of your bike, we'll wait till we have mother to figure out what to do" Yazoo's voice was the last thing I heard before I passed out.