Me: Yeah! First battle has been fought!

Lloyd: You mean between Jenova and the others?

Me: Duh!

Lloyd: why are you so mean sometimes?

Me: …I didn't mean anything by it…I'm sorry.

Lloyd: That's ok.

Me: Thanks.

Lloyd: so what do you have planned to happen this time?

Me: you expect me to tell everyone before I even type it?!

Lloyd: oh yeah! Sorry.

Me: "If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died"

Lloyd: is that another of your songs?

Me: yeah. "If Everyone Cared" By Nickelback. It's has a good message in it.

Lloyd: Yeah, it seems so.

Me: Well, enough music. On to the story!

Lloyd: ok. Jen Rem doesn't own ToS, FF, or Ash.

"AHH! Be careful Hojo!" Jenova snarled as Hojo examined the wound Yuan had left on her right side.

"Hmm…it appears to be deep. Why have you not healed it yourself?" the scientist asked, looking up from the stab wound that also had electrical burns around it.

Jenova clinched her teeth and grabbed Hojo's collar. "If I could heal myself, I'd have done it by now!"

"So you are having troubles with the Cetra?" Hojo asked, trying not to anger the Calamity but she was already in a bad mood and flung him to the floor.

"Just heal me already!" she growled, flinching as the pain continued to shoot from the wound. Hojo nodded and got back to his feet, grabbing the surgical needle and thread so he could stitch the wound shut. "Comi!"

The loin-like Remnant stepped forward and bowed his head. "Yes Mother?"

"Have you found the Black Materia yet?" Jenova asked, wincing as Hojo began to close the slash on her side.

"No ma'am. But we have found the location of several Guardian Forces that appear to have been released when Tiamatt died during the battle with Fralex." Comi replied, ignoring Jenova's disapproving glare at the news of the Materia not having been found.

"There! Now I recommend that you keep your movement to a minimum to avoid pulling out the stitches." Hojo warned, cleaning off the needle and putting his supplies away. "I would prefer to not lose my prized specimen."

Hojo suddenly found himself screaming as Jenova began to control the cells Hojo had injected into himself, causing his flesh to seem to bubble as it mutated. Jenova created odd mutations such as extra limbs before reversing the transformation and leaving Hojo gasping for breath on the floor.

"I am no longer your specimen!" She roared, standing up and pressing her foot into the middle of the scientist back as he lay on the floor. "And the only reason you still live is too ensure my plan is a success!"

"Ugh!" Hojo moaned, coughing up blood as Jenova removed her foot long enough to kick him in the ribs before leaving with Comi. "Dammit…I am the reason why she has that body…"

Jenova and Comi didn't hear this as they walked through the corridors of the Mountain Reactor.

"I want you to take a squad with you and capture the GFs for me." Jenova sighed, relieved to be away from Hojo. "I will send others to hunt down Tiamatt's friends."

"As you wish." Comi bowed his head once more and went to search for more Remnants.

Jenova sighed, shaking her head in frustration. "Why won't you shut up?"

Why should we? Afterall we know several hundred songs and we've barely even started! The combined voices of Tiamatt and Madison laughed inside her head.

"…"

"Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead

Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Back to the rule and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

So much to do so much to see
So what's wrong with taking the back streets
You'll never know if you don't go
You'll never shine if you don't glow"

"SHUT UP!!!" Jenova screamed, causing several passing Remnants to look at their leader like she was insane, which in truth, she was.

"Mother, are you ok?" a human Remnant asked, as Jenova cussed at the two people who continued to sing in her head. The next thing the guy knew, he was thrown against a wall, unable to move as sorceress magic pressed him to the wall.

"…" Jenova growled to herself as she walked outside to the launch pad and accessed several Materia in her arm. Within moments, two large angry dragons, a hissing sea serpent, and an ill-tempered chocobo stood before the Calamity.

"Why have we been summoned by the Calamity, Jenova?!" Leviathan growled, snake like body thrashing angrily against the hard blank top of the launch pad.

"I want you to track down and destroy Tiamatt's companions. I believe they are on the western continent near its northern most point." Jenova growled right back at the serpent.

"And why would we do that?" Bahamut Neo roared, beating the air with his wings, as he scratched up the pavement with his claws. "You may look Tiamatt but that doesn't mean that we must follow your orders!"

"My brother is correct." Zero agreed her eyes red with anger as she bared her fangs at Jenova. "You aim to destroy the planet while our goal was always to protect it."

"I'm afraid that you all forget that I hold your Materia." Jenova grinned, holding up her arms to reveal the glowing orbs. "Now go destroy the Symphonians!"

"Wark!" Boco refused to move his spot even as Jenova turned her glare on him.

"You are useless in battle anyways." Jenova laughed, attempting to slash at the chocobo with the bone blade but Boco had returned to the safety of the Materia in a flash of light. "Foolish creature!" Jenova scolded, turning back to face the other summons that still stood defiantly. "Go now before I decide to destroy you instead!"

"Better us then them!" Leviathan hissed, snapping his fangs threateningly in Jenova's face. The woman didn't even flinch as she laughed at the serpent. She then swiped at Leviathan, slicing through the scales that went across his muzzle, causing him to roar in pain.

"You will listen to me, Leviathan. As will the two of you." Jenova snarled, slicing the palm of her other hand to get the blood flowing as she leapt at Leviathan and pressed the cut hand onto the slash on the sea serpent's wound. Leviathan roared as the infected blood of Jenova mixed with his and thrashed violently as his spikes lengthened, and his fins became more like wings. His usually green and blues colors were then replaced with black and silver.

"Leviathan! Fight it!" Zero screamed, watching as her friend twitched and fell to the ground.

"It's too late for Leviathan. He only listens to me now." Jenova laughed as the great serpent raised his head and hissed at Neo and Zero. "Now, if you do not want to share his fate I suggest you follow my orders and destroy the Symphonians."

"…" Neo glared as Jenova as he lifted from the launch pad. His sister, Zero, nodded sadly before grabbing Leviathan in her talons and following her brother.

Kratos POV

Jenova had escaped, wounded but still able to mock me as she maintained Tiamatt's form. The girl, Madison, and also been reabsorbed into Tiamatt's body, making our group of what was original six, and then four, down to three. I hoped Lloyd's group was doing better then our group.

"Hey Kratos, are you ok?" I looked up at Oblivion, the strange wolf man who was one of Tiamatt's best friends. I could see the worry in his eyes that I was sure was also in mine.

I looked down at Ryukinogami as it lay across my lap and ran my hand over the scarlet dragon pendent that I had found lying on the ground and had attached to the hilt of the sword. "I can't stop thinking about how when Jenova tried to kill me, she couldn't. That Tiamatt had somehow stopped her."

"Jenova couldn't kill you because of the bond you and Tiamatt share. It's too strong for Jenova to handle which is why you are alive now." Terran noted, looking at me with acceptance and understanding.

It relieved me to know that I was accepted by the man who was Tiamatt's father, after all, he had given up everything, a feeling that I knew too well. He trusted me to take care of his only and most prized possession, the only family he had and his only child, Tiamatt. I would not betray his trust after I had been though similar circumstance with Lloyd, who still did not that I was his father.

"Thank you Terran." I nodded to the spirit, a smile spreading on my face at the thought of how close Tiamatt and I had actually gotten since we had meet. But I couldn't help but think about Anna, my late wife and mother of Lloyd. How did she feel about this, about me moving onto to someone else?

"Kratos?" I looked up at the two other men, snapping from my trance.

'Yes?" I asked as if nothing had happened.

"Why were the only one who could even use Ryu back during the fight?" Oblivion asked. "I mean, you shouldn't be the one to die in order to use the sword, it should be me."

"Oblivion, I know you feel like you should take my place but Tiamatt is my responsibility. I would die to protect her." I sighed.

"You think that Terran and me don't feel the same way!?" Oblivion yelled, pointing at himself and Terran. "I have died once for Tiamatt and I would die a thousand more times for her and I know Terran feels the same!" I was quiet as Oblivion yelled, knowing he was right. I guess I was just…jealous. Jealous of the fact that there were two other men who would give their lives for the woman I loved.

"…I'm sorry…" I mumbled, ashamed of my own jealousy towards Tiamatt's father and best friend. "…I just…she means so much to me…I can't imagine life without her now."

"And Tiamatt probably feels the same way about you which is all the more reason why you can't use Ryukinogami." Terran said sternly, glaring at me with icy blue eyes. "Your death would tear her apart." I tried to avoid his gaze as this but I could feel my resolve in using the diamond blade bending.

"So you would rather she lose her father then me?" I asked, still not looking at the spirit.

"I owe Tiamatt for the pain I have inflicted on her." Terran growled. "I will not standby and watch my daughter be controlled by Jenova. I will destroy Jenova with Ryukinogami myself!"

"…" I looked back at him and saw the same determination in his eyes as Tiamatt did back when she was staring down Hojo. "Go ahead and try to use the sword." I held Ryu out to Terran who took the blade and seemed to go into a trance like state. "Terran?"

The spirit didn't respond, even as Oblivion waved his hand in front of his face. "Hello! Hey Terran! You there!?" Oblivion yelled into Terran's unflinching face. "Hey! Anyone Ho-!" Oblivion was cut off as Terran muttered something, Silencing Oblivion.

"I can hear you just fine, Wil." Terran said as Oblivion tried to yell at the spirit.

"What happened?" I asked, curious as to why he had blanked out on the world like he had.

"Hm…it seems that the sword is inhabited by a spirit." Terran replied, looking down at Ryukinogami. "It said that it would not normal switch payment souls but since I am one of the governing spirits, that it will take mine as payment instead of yours, Kratos."

'What?!" I stammered. "You are going to wield Ryu against your own daughter?"

"I must. I have made a deal with Ryukinogami." Terran sighed, looking at the ground in sorrow. "Now we need only to find Jenova." Oblivion was waving his hands in the air and pointing at his mouth as he tried to get Terran to release the spell but he was ignored.

"Terran, I believe Oblivion wants the spell to be released." I pointed out as the wolf king executed as very rude sign at the spirit. Terran turned and noticed the gesture, slapping Oblivion's head as he released Silence. "…"

"Jenova was injured, I doubt she'll attack us herself for a while." Oblivion said, rubbing the side of his head. "Our best bet would be to somehow infiltrate the base."

"But there are only three of us and as I understand it, there are many Remnants." I noted, looking at Tiamatt's pendent that was still tangled in Ryu's hilt. Terran must have noticed how my eyes constantly moved back to the ruby and silver dragon since he unclipped the chain and gave it to me.

"Take care of that, Kratos. Ensure she gets it back." Terran looked at me sternly, closing my hand over the pendent without taking his eyes off of me, till I had the chain around my neck and the pendent sat near the locket that held a picture of Anna, Lloyd, and me. Once he saw that this was done, he turned back towards Oblivion. "You have your wolves stationed nearby correct? Couldn't they help us infiltrate the Reactor?"

"Yes. I believe I have enough of my warriors that we should be able to get to Tiamatt. " Oblivion nodded.

"Let us go then." I said, anxious to get to the Reactor now that we had a plan, even if it was only a faint one…

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