Chapter Nine
The Shera had landed inside the Northern Crater and Weiss, Rufus, the Turks and Tifa began the long trek to the center. The place where the final battle with Sephiroth took place. Aeris' body had been put on a stretcher and Elena and Rude took the responsibility of carrying it. Weiss looked at Tifa and grinned. "Why the long face?"
Tifa didn't dignify his question with a response which cause him to hit her. "I can't believe your defiling her body like that."
"That's not all you won't be able to believe."
They walked some more and Tifa looked up to see Vincent following them. They arrived at the center a short time later and Tifa was suprised to see an altar. "What is this?"
"I took the time to prepare this before coming after you and your friends."
Tifa saw that Aeris had been placed in the center of the altar along with multiple orbs of materia. "What are you planning?"
Weiss looked at her and shrugged. "The fact of the matter is that if my master is to be revived he has to have the blood of an ancient as well as their power."
"Why not use Sephiroth's body then?"
"Because after his battle with Cloud Sephiroth deteriorated into nothing."
Tifa smiled and thanked god for small favors. She couldn't deal with Sephiroth being brough back to life. Not again anyway.
Vincent watched from a cliff that had a great view of the center of the cave. "So you plan on using her blood to revive G. Of course." Vincent was about to leap down when he heard a rumbling from above. He looked up and saw that Cloud, Barret, Red XIII, Cid, Cait Sith and Reeve were all getting closer and closer to Weiss. "I knew you'd be here soon. I'll be watching in case you need me." Vincent then disappeared into the shadows.
Weiss had heard the rumblings to and had ordered the Turks to shoot at Cloud and his friends. He grew disappointed when their shots had missed and he was soon face to face with Cloud. "It's been awhile Weiss."
"Not long enough for my taste."
Weiss looked around and saw Cid take out his spear while lighting a cigarette. Cait Sith took out his six dice and began shaking them in his hand. Yuffie had traded in her shuriken for two sais and took a fighting stance. Barret aimed his gunarm at Weiss. Reeve also took the oppurtunity to pull out a handgun. "So this is it?" Cloud unsheathed his sword and said,"I guess so. Let's dance." With that said Cloud raised his sword and brought it down to hit Weiss.