"What could be more important then getting these guys?" Zell jumped up from his place on the floor.

"Making sure that no matter how the outcome is their plan won't work," Rinoa placed her hands on her hips.

Everyone looked at each other in confusion. She gestured for them to follow. She led them deep inside the cave toward the spot where a giant crystal rested.

"We have to destroy it,"

"What is it?" Tifa tapped it lightly

"I know! It's the Safrin crystal, right Rinny-nee?"

"Safrin? Don't you mean Saffron?" Cid asked the question of everyone's mind

"That's what I first thought but nope it's Safrin…" Rinoa knew she'd have to explain "Its one of the world's rarest gems. It's made out of a Sapphire and another rare gem called Rinia and then they are combined with the petals of a rose and orchid. It symbolises power and purity,"

"Oh yeah, I can see the petals floating in the middle of it!" Selphie pressed her nose against the crystal

Rinoa pulled each of the girls away from the crystal.

"So men, your job is to destroy it,"

"And why can't you girls destroy it?" Barrett crossed his arms

"Fellas, do you know nothing about women?" Irvine stepped forward "Never in a million years do you ever ask them to destroy something big, shiny and could possibly be made into jewellery,"

The girls put on a sheepish look and nodded slowly.

The boys shook their heads in disbelief and all in turn attacked the crystal but nothing they did made a scratch on it.

"It must be protected somehow," Cait Sith said clawing it viciously

"Well then I guess I'll give it a go," Rinoa walked forward and raised her hands putting her thumbs and forefingers together. Producing an orb of energy she was about to release it when suddenly she felt someone push her to the ground.

"It's Karin!"

Rinoa looked up to see the red-headed women in tears and preparing to attack again. Grabbing her balled up fists she managed to push Karin off of her.

"How dare you?!" she screeched letting tears streak down her face.

Everyone stood protectively next to each other.

"How could you?!" Karin sunk to the floor no intention of fighting

Everyone stood in silence not sure of what was going on.

"I loved him so much and you took him away from me!"

"Desmond" Rinoa whispered incoherently, she gripped onto her rings tightly. Maybe she shouldn't have but she felt sorry for Karin. She couldn't bare the thought of losing Squall but maybe the relationship between Karin and Desmond was exactly the same. Just because people may have an evil heart it doesn't mean they can't love anyone else.

"I don't care anymore…" she heard Karin murmur "I JUST DON'T CARE!!"

Then in a matter of seconds Karin lifted her arms and cast a death spell on herself. And for the second time today Rinoa watched as another human returned to the life stream.

"Well…that was…unexpected," Zell said trying to joke

Rinoa stood her mouth wide open.

"Two down…four to go," Everyone turned to see Honda, Doyle, Remy and Lucas in battle stance behind them.

Honda looked teary eyed whereas the other three stood strong. Remy stepped forward and pointed to Rinoa.

"You're mine!"

Then it happened; the beginning of the end…but for whom. Remy ran toward Rinoa a katana high in the air. Its blade shone red and sliced through the air. Squall jumped in front blocking the attack. He was surprised at Remy's strength and found it difficult to keep his position; his shoulders began to buckle.

Honda and Doyle took this as their cue. The blonde cart-wheeled over the group and landed on top of the crystal. Vincent went to attack her but Yuffie stopped him,

"Leave her to me,"

Vincent was hesitant at first but backed away. Yuffie had managed to grab her shuriken when the girls had evaporated. She twisted it in the air like a baton and stood ready for attack. Meanwhile Doyle had started to fight the others in the group.

Zell and Tifa threw their fist towards him but he managed to dodge every punch and they ended up colliding; knocking each other onto the ground.

Quistis managed to wrap her whip around his feet causing him to stumble into Barrett. Picking him up Barrett threw him to the wall; afterward hearing a loud crunch as Doyle's face felt the impact. As he slipped down Red pulled him by his long coat and started to claw his face. The others didn't give him a chance and they encircled him. Vincent, Irvine and Barrett held their guns to his body. Cid held his spear to his throat.

"What are you all waiting for?" Doyle said, breathing heavily "Go on, strike me down,"

They momentarily looked at each unsurely.

"I knew you were all too weak, you can't stand to kill another being. Well, then I guess we'll just kill Rinoa as none of you seem to care,"

That was it, the end of the line. In unexpected unison Vincent, Irvine and Barrett pulled the triggers on their guns and shot the bullets into his chest. Doyle screamed in agony and then Vincent took the last blow and shot him in the head. Nobody stopped to watch him disappear they just turned to observe the remaining fighters. One thing Vincent noticed was that the other man, Lucas was just standing and watching everything around him.

X X X

"HAAAAAA!" Yuffie screamed as she thrust herself onto Honda. She raised her shuriken high and threw it directly at the blonde's neck. But Honda was too quick and managed to grab the shuriken and throw it back in attack. Luckily Yuffie was too advanced with her own weapon and somersaulted forward grabbing it with ease.

"Nice try," She smirked

"You too," Honda giggled

Yuffie raised an eyebrow with confusion and was shocked to see Honda disappear right in front of her and then approach her from behind grabbing her by the neck. However nothing could keep the great ninja down and with accurate ease Yuffie elbowed Honda in the stomach causing her to back away in pain.

"Argh! That's it!" Now it was Honda's turn to become the gymnast as she darted to the wall and bounced herself off it travelling at a phenomenal speed. She pushed Yuffie to the ground and punched her in the face. The ninja ignored any pain she was in and scrunched up her legs and then released them kicking Honda up into the air. Both girls raised to the floor and stood glaring at each other. A loud male yell was heard but Yuffie identified it as a foe. Honda on the other hand panicked and turned away in the direction of the scream; fearing for the worst. Even though it was against her morals Yuffie used this opportunity to leap forward and tumble Honda to the ground. The villain fell with ease and for a split second lost consciousness. Yuffie ran over and grabbed her by the ponytail, her blood was boiled to no end and she needed to release her fury. Picking up her fallen weapon she used a spike to slice Honda's face repeatedly. Each slice made Honda squealed in agony. When Yuffie started to fatigue she decided to end it. She took a few steps back watching Honda try to lift herself up. Then without even thinking twice she closed her eyes and called for help,

"Shiva, I summon you, lend me your power!"

Certainly She heard her say.

From out of nowhere Shiva appeared in a large ice diamond. Opening her eyes she cracked the ice and lifted her hands to the sky. Collecting pieces of ice and snow she gathered them into a large sphere and then in a blink of an eye released the powerful orb directly toward Honda.

The blonde screamed until soon she was shattered into a million pieces and then each pieces floated into the sky and disappeared.

Yuffie jumped up and down before falling to her knees exhausted. Vincent, Cid, Tifa, Red, Barrett, Zell, Irvine and Quistis came running over to her. Then each stood watching as the final battles took place.