Me: (sigh) Finally home! I'm gonna have to switch notebooks in the middle of this chapter! Yeah!
Lloyd: Why are you happy?
Me: I told myself to at least get to the next notebook online before I wrote down more ideas cause I have almost 2 whole notebooks full.
Lloyd: wow.
Me: Hey, while you say the disclaimer, I'm gonna listen to Evan Escence ok?
Lloyd: What? How come you get to listen to music?
Me: cause I'm the writer! Now say the disclaimer or I'll pull Nightfire back over!
Lloyd: (grins) no you won't!
Me: (glares) Are you questioning me?
Lloyd: I know the ultimate way to torture you and I learned it from Nightfire who learned from someone else.
Me: (pales) No… not that! Please don't…
Lloyd: Oh oh DNA in twisted form!
Me: It burns! It burns! Make it stop! AHHHHHH!!! (Disappears in a poof of smoke)
Lloyd: Wow! It worked. Wait does this mean I have to write the story now? Man this sucks!
We were now all sitting a little way from the campfire, watching a video through a hologram display from the GS. Like the music, the movie was from my earth, which I decided to call Gaia while referring to Tiamatt's world simply as Earth. I was quite shocked when I found the video file and decided to watch it. I had some difficulty watching it due to Tiamatt's memories but I could still watch Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children.
"Wow! Look at that sword!" Want a guess who said that? " You actually knew Cloud?" the dual swordsman asked me. I nodded. "Cool!"
"So this is a game in your world but real life for the other?" Raine asked as she watched Bahamut Sin tear through city of Edge.
"Yeah, it's one of my favorite games. I've beaten well… too many times to count. This movie is actually the sequel to the game.' I nodded as Cloud flew upwards towards the blue flaming ball and the malevolent dragon. The paragriff Cloud was cowering on my shoulder as he watched the fight. "Its ok Cloud, Bahamut Sin is dead." He clucked in reply as he snuggled into my neck.
"If Tiamatt's world is a game in yours. What about our world?" Genis asked.
"Um…well…" I rubbed my neck nervously.
"Ha! So that's how your know your way through everything so well!" Lloyd shouted, pointing an accusing finger at me.
"Well, I guess that secret is out." I sighed, "Yes, this is all a game in my world." I knew there would be questions and I noticed Kratos looked nervous.
"So what happens next?" Colette asked. "Do I succeed in regenerating Sylvarant?"
"Ah…well… I wasn't very far into the game, only disc one. I haven't reached the Tower yet but did release the light seal." I answered, still rubbing my neck nervously. I heard Kratos give a sigh of relief and wondered why he was nervous about that.
"Whoa! What else happens?" Lloyd exclaimed as he pressed for more information.
"I can't tell you anymore! I already given to much information as it is." I retorted. Lloyd, Colette, Raine, and Genis looked fairly disappointed. Kratos was apparently spacing out as he thought to himself.
"My Reunion…bet you're dying to watch." I turned back towards the screen and couldn't help but growl as the Remnant Kadaj fell from the ruins of Midgar as he clutched the dismembered head of the Calamity and fused it into his body.
"What is he doing?" Colette asked as Cloud leapt off the destroyed building after Kadaj. The Remnant landed lightly on his feet after the thousand-foot drop and blocked the Buster Sword with a lengthening sword. Cloud's eyes filled with horror as a familiar voice greeted him.
"Good to see you…Cloud." The nightmare grinned as he turned Mako eyes onto the hero and pushed him into the air with the Masamune.
"Is that…" Kratos began, intrigued by the battle that played on the hologram.
"Yes. It is Sephiroth, still possessed by Jenova." I replied sadly. "This was the second revival. I…I mean, Tiamatt never witnessed this. She…I was attacked by Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo when they tried to get Jenova's head from the Northern Cave. I…we…her…Uhh! This is so frustrating! I remember actually seeing the Remnants but the memories aren't mine!" I cried in frustration. Everyone laughed as I rubbed my head in my hands.
"You said you becoming more and more like the real Tiamatt right?" Lloyd asked. I nodded. "Then you can say 'I' and stuff like that when you talk about your memories. I mean, you are the only Tiamatt now."
"Yeah. Thanks Lloyd." I smiled. "I didn't actually learn what had happened till Vincent told me later on when I went to the City of the Ancients."
"That guy in the red cape? He seems like a loner." Genis piped.
"Yeah, Vincent was always like that. He felt guilty for the death of Lucieria and slept for almost thirty years. He then joined Cloud and the others in the fight against Sephiroth because he knew they would encounter Hojo sometime during the fight."
"Thirty years? How is it possible for someone to sleep that long?" Raine asked.
"Chaos, the monster that lives within him, allows him to sleep for eternity. Vincent also believed the eternal sleep as punishment but please no more of this. Let's just watch the movie." I said and tried to change the subject.
"One more thing!" Lloyd added. "Which of us five was your favorite characters in the game?" I glanced over at Kratos and blushed. "I knew it! Hey Genis, hand over the hundred gald!"
"You placed a bet on that?" Kratos gave them a stern look. Lloyd grinned as Genis counted out the money. Kratos sighed, shaking his head. I laughed and turned back towards the movie, still slightly embarrassed.
Cloud and Sephiroth leapt easily through the ruins of Midgar as they're battle continued. Lloyd's eyes went wide as he watched Cloud's sword burst into seven individual blades and Cloud began his final Limit Break, grabbing a different blade each time he slashed the Nightmare. I noticed the entire group's eyes' widen in shock as Sephiroth revealed his single black feathered wing and, after wrapping the wing around himself, disappeared in a flurry of feathers as Kadaj fell the ground.
"Was he an angel?" Colette asked, turning to me.
"Whose ever heard of an anger angel?" Lloyd snickered.
"…" Kratos' eyes gazed over slightly at that comment.
"No, Sephiroth wasn't an angel. He was, however, called the One Winged Angel, due not to the wing, but because Sephiroth was once a great hero who fell to Jenova and tried to destroy the world. Though some researchers believe him to be a real angel due to a mutated form he took during the Meteor Incident." I stated.
"Hmm… interesting. You wouldn't by chance have a picture of this form would you?" Raine asked. I sighed and turned the movie off to scroll for a picture of Safer Sephiroth. Sure enough, it was in the photo file and showed it to Raine. "Interesting. He does appear to be some sort of mutated angel but this is because of Jenova, correct?"
"Yes. Jenova obviously can allow rapid mutation of the body or cells of those she controls or of herself for that matter. It was she who caused the transformation so Sephiroth is not a true angel." I nodded, but noticed that Kratos was once again nervous. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Kratos lied, walking away from the campsite.
"What's bugging him?" Lloyd asked. I shrugged my shoulders, disturbing the sleeping paragriff from his sleep. With a squawk of complaint, Cloud leapt off my shoulder and settled down in Colette's lap.
"Watch Cloud as I go talk to Kratos ok?" I asked Colette as I walked away. I could hear Cloud tease me as he made loud kissy noises and heard the others laugh. Shut it Cloud!
Dilly-dally, silly sally! You know you want to! The griff taunted.
I said shut it! I yelled silently at the bird as I looked around for the mercenary. I couldn't find either Kratos or Noishe but luckily the wind was on my side and I could just scent them out. I would be able to catch up with them but not on my own.
A materia glowed red as I put my palm to the ground, sending out a shock wave. Within a minute, Boco stood ready in front of me. After getting a saddle out of the rotator, I leapt onto the chocobo and took off after the missing mercenary. I sat tucked down low against the golden bird as he ran top speed after the scent. After about ten minutes of running at over 50 miles per hour (I love my Class S racer), we finally caught up with Kratos and Noishe.
"Tiamatt! What are you doing out here?" He yelled as Noishe came to a halt.
"Kratos, I came looking for you, that's all. I was worried when you suddenly took off like that. What's wrong?" I replied, sliding out of Boco's saddle.
"…I just need some time alone." Kratos replied quietly, looking away from me.
"Kratos, some thing is wrong. I can tell it." I tried to press for answers.
"Tiamatt, please, I just need sometime alone." He answered, still refusing to look at me. "I promise I'll be back by sunrise." With that, Kratos took off once more, not looking back.
"Kratos…" I said softly as I watched him ride away. "What's wrong?"
"Warble!" Boco rubbed his feathered head against my cheek and I turned around to face him, putting on a sad smile as I got into the saddle and returned to camp.
Third Person POV (somewhere out on the Asgard Plains…)
A blonde haired man in white stood out on the open plain, watching a man in purple ride towards him on a large green and white wolf like creature.
"Hello Kratos." The man greeted. Kratos stopped Noishe and glared at the man.
"Lord Yggdrasil, what are you doing here?" Kratos asked. Yggdrasil grinned.
"I have a new mission for you." Yggdrasil grinned, "And a deal if you refuse." Kratos continued to glare.
"What is it?"
"Bring me Tiamatt or I'll take Lloyd as a new member of Cruxis." Kratos' heart froze.
"Yggdrasil, please do not make me do this." Kratos asked.
"Kratos, you are one of the Seraphim, a high ranking member of Cruxis. Do as you are told or you will lose both of them." Yggdrasil ordered. Kratos looked down at his feet, as he knew he was trapped.
"Yes, Lord Yggdrasil." The Seraphim replied sadly.
"Good. I'll be waiting at the Tower." Yggdrasil then teleported away, leaving Kratos to think over what he had just agreed to do.
Me: There You go people! There is Kratos' role in the capture of Tiamatt.
Lloyd: How'd you get back?
Me: (shrugs) Don't know, don't care. Anyways..
Lloyd: Why does that Yggdrasil guy make Kratos choose between Tiamatt and me?
Me: I can't tell you! Ok, now please read and review! Thanks!!!