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Chapter Fourteen

Omega and Chaos

"My…Weiss." Nero's voice sounded as he appeared before his brother. Jeanne pulled back, moving out of the way.

"Get out of me!" Hojo cried. "Omega's host must be pure!" He was ignored, though.

"Silence." Nero ordered him. "Silence. I'm speaking with my brother." He glanced back to Weiss. "Dear brother," He reached forward and grabbed his shoulders. "Let us become one. Let us come together so that none may ever tear us apart."

"Yes…" Claire raised her head at the gasping voice. "Yes…let us…go join them." It appeared that Hojo didn't have as much control as he thought he did.

"Weiss," Nero hugged his brother and he disappeared, resulting in joining inside Weiss' body as Hojo let out more refusals. Weiss then stood up and began to stumble to the large pit of Mako before them.

"Wait!" She pulled away from Vincent, stumbling to the other man. "Weiss…I…I remember it all now. I don't know how it could have disappeared, but I…I'm so sorry!"

Weiss stared at her for a moment before he lifted his left hand, placing it on her head. "It's not…your fault," He smiled at her. "I just wish that…"

"More time?" She asked him, grabbing his hand.

He gave a chuckle and nodded. "More time…" He glanced back at the large pit for a moment. "I'd ask…to come with…" Tears began to firm in her eyes as she closed them, holding his hand to her chest. "But I don't…see you…die."

Claire squeezed his hand. "Isn't there something we can do to heal you? We could-"

"No," He told her. "My time…come. Live for…us both, yeah?"

Claire bit her bottom lip. "Yeah…no problem."

"You…promise?"

She nodded. "You…you can count on me. I'll, I'll show you those fields that you wanted to see."

Weiss squeezed her hand before slipping away. He stumbled forward a bit further before glancing back at her and giving a wave. She waved back and all three of them watched as Weiss faded away, joining the Lifestream.

Everything remained silent for a few moments longer before Claire turned to look at Jeanne. "Who…who was it that they wanted to see?" she asked.

The elder woman closed her eyes. "I'm not sure, but at the same time I think I do know."

"Sephiroth?" Vincent asked.

She shook her head. "He may be a part of it, but I believe that he was more after Genesis."

"Genesis…" Claire closed her eyes.

The Mako energy from the pit shot up, the Lifestream shooting out all across the room. Jeanne had grabbed Claire and dodged out of the way with her in time but Vincent got a full blast of it.

"We have to go," Jeanne told Claire, pulling her down the hall.

"But what about Vincent?" The other woman asked.

"He'll be fine! Now just run!"

They found an opening in the Reactor and jumped into the night air. As Jeanne, holding onto Claire's hand, led them somewhere, Claire stared down at the ruins of Midgar. There didn't seem to be any Deepground soldiers left. In fact, she didn't see anything moving down there and she began to worry about Cloud and the others. But, she told herself, if they handled Sephiroth twice then they would be fine with Deepground. They were all okay.

Finally coming to a halt on a nearby cliff, Jeanne watched as the Reactors around Midgar fired up with that bright bluish-green light. She got flashbacks of her years here as a SOLDIER and watched as the Lifestream flowed out of the middle hatch, reaching to the sky as it gathered together. It began to suck the power out of the Mako Reactors, gathering as much as it could. Her mouth dropped open as a large form, much like the Weapons from three years ago just much larger, formed above them.

"Oh my god," She gasped. This thing was huge! How in the hell were they going to destroy this thing?!

"Vincent!" Claire cried as the said man was flung back from the barrier around the new creature.

A bright, shining light shot out of Omega and fought its way through to Vincent as he floated there in the air on his form of Chaos. It pierced something into him before being dragged back down in strands of darkness. His reply was a huge roar.

Claire slumped down to her knees. "Damn…there's nothing that I'm going to be able to do against that."

Jeanne placed a hand on her shoulder. "You've done far enough, Claire."

"No," She shook her head. "No I haven't. I haven't done enough. He still wants…"

Jeanne went to her knees beside her and pulled her into her arms. "Stop thinking about that. In the end everything will fall into place, understand? It's all like a huge puzzle. But, at a time like this, all you need to be thinking about is staying alive so you can knock some sense into him after all of this is over, got it?"

Claire nodded her head as she hugged the older woman back. Jeanne was always there to clear her mind. Jeanne was always the one that she could count on.

Pulling away from the elder woman, Claire stood up and turned back to the fight, her fists tightly gripped. ~Come on, Vincent~

Jeanne smiled at the other woman and opened her mouth to speak; her phone rang. "Are you finally here?"

"Sorry about the wait." Claire lifted her head at her brother's voice before taking notice of the Mako Reactors that were being destroyed below them.

"Everything's clear over here," Tifa joined them.

"Good." Jeanne closed her phone, watching as another Reactor was destroyed. "Now it's all up to him."

Claire now wore a small smile. "Vince will be fine; he can do it. I…I know he can."

Vincent shot forward through the sky, summoning everything he had to break through the barrier around Omega and breaking through into his body. Fear continued to spread through Claire's body and her knuckles turned white from her grip. She reached up to grab her necklace but then froze.

~That's right~ She told herself. ~I…I gave it back to him~

The night was cold. Claire should have gone inside earlier but she just wanted to stay outside for a little longer. She had already come to terms with what she was fighting for. She had walked inside to talk to her brother but she found him and Jeanne in a…heated conversation, and so she just came back outside. She was starting to grow tired though and-

"Claire," The blonde jumped and turned around, her heart rolling rapidly. She calmed herself down at the sight of the man in red.

"Vincent, what are you doing back already?"

"I…I was going to go see Lucrecia," Vincent answered her truthfully as he stared at the rocks beneath them. "But I…I just wanted to stay here…with…with you."

"With me?" She sounded surprised and pleased at the same time.

"Yes. I, I want to apologize to you. About what happened in the cave and for the last few days. I was being-"

"An ass?" She grinned as she shoved her hands happily into her pockets.

He shot her a look. "Yes," He then turned to leave but stopped. "I'm sorry. I was just-"

"Don't apologize," Claire told him softly. "Just don't ignore me like that ever again, all right?"

"All right."

"Promise?"

Vincent looked at her like she was crazy. "What?"

"You gotta promise me, Vince." She answered.

He stared at her for a moment before giving a sigh. "Here," Vincent dropped a chain into Claire's hand. "It's not much, but it's…" He fell quiet then before walking into the aircraft.

Claire watched after him for a moment before lifting up the chain. She smiled. Hanging off of it was the three-headed dog figure that would normally be hanging off of his gun. That must have been his way of promising, right? If so, she accepted it.

"Vincent," She began, clutching her hands together. "You better not die, you bastard."

Just then, Chaos came shooting out of Omega's chest. She stood there, watching the entire battle. Watched as Chaos flew around Omega, like a flea on a dog, shooting and attacking it and its little minions. She wanted to go help but she knew there was nothing that she could do and she would just get in his way, resulting in something horrible that she didn't even want to think about. So was going to force herself to stay right here and pray for everything to be all right.

"Claire." The woman turned from the battle to see Cloud and the others of their little band had joined her and Jeanne. Even the Turks were all there, Rufus included, watching the events before them. Jena was there, helping Renee with her three children as Cid smoked and Tifa had left Matt in Zeke's arms. She gave a soft smile before turning back to the fight.

"Claire!" The voice cried and the woman felt a pair of small arms wrap around her waist. She glanced down and smiled again.

"I'm glad you're safe, Barry." She told the kind.

"You too," He then glanced over at the fight. "Vincent…he's the one out there fighting, isn't he?"

"Yeah…" She answered him.

"He's…he's going to come back, right?" Barry looked up at her. "I'm…I'm going to get to see him again, aren't I?"

Claire looked down at the boy as the threat of tears could be seen in the corners of his eyes. "Barry, I…"

"What's wrong, Claire?" Tifa asked her friend.

"I just…I don't want to see everyone leave again," Claire rubbed her eyes dry but more tears just flew in. "Why…why can't we all just stay together? We could make a new town and live there. It's just…it's just not fair! I miss you all so much!"

"Claire," Renee gave a soft smile at the crying girl before glancing at Cid. The man rubbed the back of his head. "I know how you feel, believe me. It was strange going back to the usual things and not having you all there as well but that's part of growing up. No matter what age you are, you still do it; even Cid's still growing up, though it doesn't seem to be helping," She teased. Cid snorted as the others all chuckled. "Trust me, we might not get to see eachother everyday but that doesn't mean we're not friends anymore. You ever need any of us, just give us a call. We'll come running. And don't worry, we'll all come together again. In fact, I think birthdays and reunions are in order for our group, what do you think?"

Claire gave a laugh, smiling at the older woman. "I feel like an idiot, now."

"You shouldn't," Yuffie joined in with her aunt. "If you didn't say anything I'm sure that somebody else would have; I've been thinking about it myself, actually. You boneheads are in my head almost every day now."

What Renee had said was right. No matter what, they were always together and always were going to be together.

"Yes, Barry. Vincent's going to be all right. He'll come back to us; he always does." Cloud moved up beside his sister and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. His grip gave her a comforting feel and it also boosted up her confidence. "Everything's going to be just fine."

A light crawled up Omega, as if freezing it before blue waves formed and the Lifestream shot back out into a pair of wings. It slowly took off into the sky.

"Omega's ascending!" Reeve cried. "But that would mean-"

"Come on, Vince." Claire prayed, watching as the man shot past Omega and came to a flaming halt before it. She couldn't see what happened next but a huge shockwave passed over the entire planet, making them all quiver as gasp as the light died down, revealing nothing but the stars as a mass of Mako and Lifestream rained down on them.

Claire pulled away from Barry and Cloud both, moving forward as her eyes searched the sky, looking for him. "Vincent?" She cried out. Only three red dot-like forms of energy fell down towards them. She moved forward to try and catch them. They landed in her hand, forming the Cerberus necklace in her hands again. Tears crowded her eyes again as she took a tumble to her knees. "No," She shook her head. "No." She clutched it to her chest and threw her head back. "Vincent!"

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