Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Cloud,Yakumo, and the others have arrive at the Temple of the Ancients; after traveling in the cart for Dudley to pull them their and still fought hard to train for the up coming fight just in case. They finally arrive to the area for Dudley to wait for them outside of the place. Aerith stands on the rope bridge before it, then falls to the ground.)
Yakumo: Well...This is the place. Aerith, we made it.
(Aerith couldn't believe in it herself to finally see something like this to be all for real.)
Aerith: This is... the Temple of the Ancients...I... I know... I feel it... the knowledge of the Ancients...floating...You could become one with the Planet, but you're stopping it with the strength of will.
Yakumo: For all of our futures, yes. Right, Cloud?
Cloud: Yes.
Aerith: I feel it...I know what must be done here...Follow me.
(Cloud runs over and kneels by Yakumo side and to see if Aerith was alright.)
Cloud: What are you saying? Do you understand?
Yakumo: Yes she does. I can feel it within her. Aerith is the last Anicents...She's the key to getting us inside.
(Aerith gets up and runs further into the Temple, stopping to stand on the stairs leading to the top, she begins talking to it.)
Aerith: You're uneasy... But happy?
(She looks around at nothing.)
Aerith: Because I'm here? I'm sorry...I don't understand.
(She runs back to Cloud and Yakumo. Only a sharp-eyed player will see a black-cloaked figure exit the door at the top of the Temple and slump to the ground.)
Aerith: I want to go inside!
(The go to the top on the Temple and find the black-cloaked figure. He slowly stands up.)
"Black... Materia..."
(He falls down. Aerith kneels by him.)
Aerith: Look...
Yakumo: Who's that?
(Tifa checks him.)
Tifa: Number 9. Another man with a tattoo.
Yakumo: You're right!
(A white glow bathes the area and a translucent body floats skyward. Cloud and the others headed inside the Temple. Inside, they find Tseng slumped against an altar.)
Aerith: Hey! It's Tseng!
Yakumo: Of course we would find him here.
(Tseng slowly gets to his feet.)
Cloud: Tseng? Of the Turks?
Tseng: Uh... I've been had.
(He slumps back down.)
Yakumo: Hey! You okay!? Stay still, I'll try to heal you whether you want to or not!
(Yakumo started to use her healing powers to recover Tseng for him to say something.)
Tseng: It's you...It's not the Promised Land... Sephiroth's searching for...
Yakumo: Sephiroth!
Cloud: Sephiroth? He's inside!?
(Tseng raises a hand toward the altar.)
Tseng: Look... for yourself...
(He lets it fall as Yakumo continues healing Tseng.)
Yakumo: Please, try not to move!
Tseng: Damn...Letting Aerith go was the start... of my... bad luck...The President... was wrong...
Yakumo: That's not true! Aerith's herself! She never ask for this to happen!
(Aerith steps forward, hands on her hips.)
Aerith: Yakumo's right. You're wrong. The Promised Land isn't like what you imagined.
(She faces away from all of them.)
Aerith: And, I'm not going to help. Either way, there was no way Shinra could have won.
(She goes and stands in a corner.)
Yakumo: Aerith...
Tseng: ...pretty harsh. Sounds like something... you'd say.
(Tseng gets up and hands something to Cloud.)
Tseng: The Keystone... Place it... on... the altar...
Yakumo: We got it back.
Cait: By luck, huh?
(They get the Keystone back. Tseng goes and slumps in another corner. Cloud goes over to Aerith, then faces away from her back.)
Tseng: Yakumo...Take care of my team and...Aerith...Stop him...
(Then he was dead, Yakumo couldn't heal someone back to life but to stop the injuries only.)
Yakumo: No...Tseng...! Tseng! Stay with me!
(It was too late.)
Yakumo: We lost him...(Reno, Rude, and Elena. I'm so sorry...)
(Everyone knew how shallow Tseng was, but he cared for Aerith's wealth being deep down for a long time, like a brother to her. She started to cry for Yakumo to be by her side for someone she lost.)
Cloud: You crying?
(Aerith shakes her head and turns around.)
Aerith: ...Tseng's with our enemy, the Turks, but I've known him since we were little...There's not a lot of people I can say that about. In fact, there are probably only a handful of people in the world who really know me.
Yakumo: I know, Aerith, we know...He did stuff but did it mostly for you to save, not to hurt. Let just try to be strong for him and for his other team that we know of.
Aerith: You're right, Yakumo, thanks.
(Cloud and the others go to the altar.)
Cloud: Let's put the Keystone in.
Barret: About time!
(Shows closes to Cloud's shoulder as we watch him put the Keystone in the altar. It begins to glow a bright blue. A secret elevator opens in the floor and Cloud, Yakumo, and everyone else were lowered to a complex maze.)
Yakumo: What is all of this...? (I feel...So much within this entire temple, something big.)
Aerith: Words... feelings... So many of them here.
Tifa: What a strange place. Do you think we're welcome here?
Yuffie, Cid, and Cait: Hope so!
Vincent and Red: We must be.
(Aerith runs over to Cloud.)
Aerith: ...Cloud! I know it's going to be tough, but...Don't give up! Same with you too, Yakumo! We can do it!
(The two sisters hold hands with each other to prove that they're tough and strong than they look.)
Yakumo: Yes we can! Let's get going, everyon!
Cloud: Stay close. You too, Yakumo.
Yakumo: Got it. I'll use my ESP powers to feel our way out. Let's go.
(Cloud, Yakum, and the other eight teams navigate the maze without getting lost in it. From knowing their way around 'with Yakumo guiding them', and fighting many monsters inside, they were doing well. There is a little rabbit-like creature, the Lagomorph from Final Fantasy 6, that he chases until he eventually catches it in a small room.)
Yakumo: I knew we were following something. Whoever this is...
"nyum... nyum..."
Aerith: No kidding! Phew! We finally caught up to you. I'm sorry. You waited for me. Those are the spirit bodies of the Ancients. They've been away from their Planet for a long time to protect this Temple. Over the many years, they've lost the ability to talk. Actually, they didn't need words from the beginning because there was only one objective for those left in the Temple.
Yakumo: So it knows you're the last Anicent, Aerith?
Aerith: It does alright.
(She goes over to it.)
Aerith: Please, talk to me!
(She shakes her head.)
Yakumo" What's it saying?
Aerith: No good. I don't understand the rest. Are you afraid...? Is it because Sephiroth is in the Temple? Or something else?
Yakumo: I guess we just keep on looking around.
Aerith: Right.
(They leave the room and continue through the maze. They encounter the Lagomorph again, which they follow into a long hallway. Here, boulders with gaps in them roll past, and the player must guide Cloud and Yakumo into the gaps to avoid getting squashed as the others did the same. They reach the end of the room, passing a place in the center where another walkway joins the hallway. This walkway leads to a stone platform with a pool of water, glowing an eerie violet, in the center. As Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, VIncent, and Cid kept on going...Aerith stops to catch her breath.)
Aerith: Phew- We did it!
Yakumo: That was close!
Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: You said it.
Cloud: Everyone all right? That sure took a lot out of us.
Yakumo: It did. Glad Dudley is waiting for us back outside. And Orbit's in its ball mode.
(Something then was making so many flashes for a few moments to stop. Aerith jumps, runs toward the center of the room, then turns back.)
Yakumo: Aerith?
Aerith: Oh no... Cloud. Yakumo. Come quick!"
(She runs off, then comes back again.)
Aerith: Hurry, this way!
Yakumo: We're coming! We're coming! (Must be something imporant that we needed to find.)
(They follow Aerith to the pool in the center of the room. It begins to emit bright, pure purple light.)
Aerith: It's full of the knowledge of the Ancients. No... not knowledge... consciousness... a living soul...
Yakumo: This thing...?
(She looks up and raises her arms.)
Aerith: It is, Yakumo, it is! It's trying to say something.
(She kneels down by the pool.)
Aerith: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
(Yakumo felt it talking to Aerith to sense out from touching the ground.)
Yakumo: It's talking to her!
(She lies down and puts her head almost into the pool.)
Aerith: What? What is it?
(She stands up.)
Aerith: ...Danger? An evil...consciousness? ...show? You're going to show me?
Yakumo: Aerith!
(Everything then goes white, then switches to a room deep within the Temple; the walls are painted with intricate murals. Cloud and the others are in the foreground, gone transparent, so that we can see Tseng standing in the background.)
Yakumo: Cloud. Aerith.
Barret: What the hell?
Tifa: Wicked...
(The others didn't get while they became ghosts to start from the beginning of the temple, but it was showing an image of Tseng all of a sudden were he was killed.)
Cloud: ...What's going on?
(Aerith turns to him and Yakumo.)
Aerith: Wait! Look! It's showing us!
(They all turn to watch for Yakumo to soon understnad what was happening.)
Yakumo: It's showing us the past on what happened to Tseng before he was killed.
Aerith: Yep!
Yakumo: I'm sure of it.
(Elena comes running in.)
Elena: Tseng, what's this? Can we find the Promised Land with this?
(Tseng turns to Elena.)
Tseng: ...I wonder. Anyway, we have to report to the President.
(Elena nods and runs around him.)
Elena: Be careful, Tseng.
Tseng: Yeah...Hey Elena, how 'bout dinner after this job's over?
(She nods.)
Elena: Th... Thank you very much. If I may be excused...
(She runs off. Tseng looks down for a moment, then turns and looks at the wall.)
Tseng: Is this the Promised Land? No, it can't be...
(Going white again. A transparent form of Sephiroth walks past, seemingly right through Cloud, Yakumo, and the others. Flasing again...Sephiroth floats in, behind Tseng. He kneels, his sword straight up, and his body glows white. Tseng turns.)
Tseng: Sephiroth!
(Sephiroth stands.)
Sephiroth: So you opened the door. Well done.
(Tseng walks toward Sephiroth, then stops.)
Tseng: This place... what is it?
Sephiroth: A lost treasure house of knowledge. The wisdom of the Ancients...
(He faces to showing himself up close and raises his arms.)
Sephiroth: I am becoming one with the Planet.
Tseng: One with the Planet?
(Kept on flashing with bright white all over. A second Sephiroth forms, flashing white, arms raised. Shows himself up cloe again...Sephiroth lowers his arms and turns away.)
Sephiroth: You stupid fools. You have never even thought about it. All the spirit energy of this Planet. All its wisdom...knowledge...I will meld with it all. I will become one with it...It will become one with me.
Tseng: ...you can do that?
(The second Sephiroth-form lowers his arms and stares straight at the translucent Cloud and the others.)
Sephiroth: The way... lies here.
(The second Sephiroth form begins to laugh.)
Sephiroth: Only death awaits you all. But do not fear.
(Sephiroth draws his sword and rushes Tseng. With the sound of sliding metal, Tseng falls to the ground for everything to go completly red then.)
Sephiroth: For it is through death that a new spirit energy is born. Soon, you will live again as a part of me.
(The form of Sephiroth goes rocketing skyward, showing the real Sephiroth behind, knelt over Tseng's body, sword drawn, breathing heavily. Going back to the water area back in the temple.)
Yakumo: My God...!
Aerith: Did you see it?
Yakumo: Sephiroth's...A monster...!
Tifa: ...I saw it.
Yuffie: To freaky!
Cid: Wow!
Vincent: This is bad.
Red Xlll: Very bad.
Cait: What've I done...?
Barret: Damn!
Cloud: ...Where is the room with the pictures on the walls?
Aerith: Almost there...
Yakumo: Then we must getting close. Come on!
(Cloud steps away.)
Cloud: Yakumo...Sephiroth is here, right? No matter what he thinks, it's going to end here. I'm taking him out!
Yakumo: And I'll be there with you, Cloud.
Tifa: We're here too, you know.
Barret: Yeah! You meant to say, that we're going to stop him. Us!
Yakumo: Yes. Tifa, Aerith, and the rest of us are here with you, Cloud.
Cloud: I know.
(They all continue on. They do not notice the form of Sephiroth descend, into the glowing pool. Eventually they all shoot out, and the pool stops glowing. Cloud, Yakumo, and the others continue through the Temple. They reach a large, round room shaped like a clock. The floor is fallen away, leaving a deep, dark pit. The spindle in the center of it speaks.)
Yakumo: Everyone. Listen...
"I am the Time Guardian. Ye who seek the knowledge of the Ancients. I control the time, select your path."
(Cloud and Yakumo can spin the clock hands to reach each of twelve doors around the room. After getting the treasure in rooms 4, 7, and 8, he sets course for room 6. Inside, we see another Lagomorph, who spots the party, freaks, and runs into one of many doors. There is one large, central door near the top. Aerith runs over to it and bangs on it.)
Aerith: Hey! It's locked. No good. We have to catch it!
Yakumo: That thing must have it.
(She runs back over.)
Aerith: You must be tired, Cloud.
Cloud: I'll manage.
Aerith: I know, it'll be over soon. Ready, Yakumo?
Yakumo: Let's get that key.
(They start to chase the Lagomorph.)
"The Guard that escaped with the key to the door moves on a set course. Memorize the doors he enters and exits to figure out the pattern and catch him at an exit. Oh yeah, oh yeah... you can jump down to the ramp below and to the left of the screen."
(Catching the Lagomorph, they enter the now-unlocked door. Inside, they find it is the same room the flashback at the pool took place in.)
Yakumo: We did it-! Oh, is his the place?
Aerith: Yes, this is the room with the murals...
(Aerith turns to Cloud, who swings his arms determinedly.)
Cloud: Where are you!? Sephiroth!
(Yakumo feels him out.)
Yakumo: He's here!
(The room flashes white and Sephiroth appears, kneeling at first, then straightening and rising into the air. He seems doubled, as if two Sephiroths are occupying the same space.)
Sephiroth: So cold. I am always by your side. Come.
(Sephiroth rockets skyward. Cloud follows, to the right. He finds Sephiroth admiring one of the murals. He crosses his arms.)
Sephiroth: Splendid.
(He turns and walks toward Cloud. He is limping slightly.)
Sephiroth: A treasure house of knowledge...
Cloud: I don't understand what you're saying!
Yakumo: Cloud...He has power unlike anything I ever felt in my life...!
(Sephiroth starts laughing. Flashing the color of white again and he disappears. Cloud follows again, to the right. He finds Sephiroth, looking at a mural which depicts a huge round object hurtling earthward. He is trembling. He turns and comes toward Cloud and Yakumo.)
Sephiroth: Look well. Same with you, Yakumo.
(Yakumo kept her distances away from Sephiroth to staying close to Cloud's side. But she stay strong in fighting back.)
Cloud: At what!?
Sephiroth: At that which adds to the knowledge of...
(He raises his arms.)
Sephiroth: I am becoming one with the Planet.
Yakumo: You can't! The cuase of that, will destroy everything on this planet!
Sephiroth: Destroy? I want it to be reborn! By my doing...
(He lowers them slowly and begins to laugh. The screen goes white as he shoots skyward once more. Cloud follows to the right again. He finds Sephiroth this time reclining on the floor, leaned against a small altar.)
Yakumo: He's mad, Cloud! His powers are beyond...Too powerful!
Sephiroth: Mother... it's almost time...Soon... we will become one.
(Sephiroth slowly stands. Aerith puts her hands on her hips, almost comically, as they all assume offensive stances.)
Yakumo: Aerith! What are you doing!? Don't go near him!
Aerith: How do you intend to become one with the Planet?
(Sephiroth turns to Aerith and slashes his sword at the air.)
Sephiroth: It's simple. Once the Planet is hurt, it gathers Spirit Energy to heal the injury. All I need to find is the last being with Mako energy by my side as my servant...
(He slashes again, chuckling.)
Sephiroth:The amount of energy gathered depends on the size of the injury. Like the other one from five years ago would made a differnce for me if she have'nt died.
(He thrusts his sword into the ground.)
Sephiroth: So I need to find a new one. I know there's one still left for me to use...What would happen if there was an injury that threatened the very life of the Planet? Think how much energy would be gathered!
(He pulls his sword from the ground. His whole body begins to flash, electrically, as he laughs.)
Aerith: (I hope he didn't meant to get Yakumo. No! I won't let him!) It's fine, Yakumo, we're going to be okay!
Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha. And at the center of that injury and that Mako being, will be me. All that boundless energy will be mine.
(He slashes his sword.)
Sephiroth: By merging with all the energy of the Planet, I will become a new life form, a new existence. Melding with the Planet...Having that Mako to give it's energy...I will cease to exist as I am now. Only to be reborn as a 'God' to rule over every soul.
(Sephiroth begins to pulse with energy, faster and faster, until his whole body glows an evil white.)
Aerith: An injury powerful enough to destroy the Planet? Injure... the Planet? And anyone having the Mako energy from within?
Sephiroth: Behold that mural. The Ultimate Destructive Magic... Meteor."
Cloud: That'll never happen!
Yakumo: We will never let you do that!
Sephiroth: Really? Then try, try to stop me...If you can. Wake up!
(Everything flashes in white as Sephiroth rushes past Cloud and Yakumo, flying through the air.)
Yakumo: Cloud! Aerith! Everyone! Wake up!
(The white fades. Everyone looks around the room, for Sephiroth.)
Yakumo: Cloud?
Cloud: Where are you! Sephiroth!
(Cloud runs off.)
Aerith: Wait! Cloud!
Yakumo: Wait for us!
(Cloud is standing before the mural of Meteor as the others catch up with him. His body flashes with the same electricity that Sephiroth's had moments before.)
Aerith: Cloud!
Yakumo: Cloud! Get out of there! Ah!
Yuffie, Red Xlll, Cait, Cid, and Vincent: Yakumo! Cloud!
( Yakumo tries getting Cloud out and getting electrocuted as well with turns his head slightly toward them, then goes back to the mural.)
Aerith: Yakumo!
Tifa: Hey, Cloud!
Barret: You two alright?
Yakumo: I'm fine...Are you okay, Cloud? Cloud?
(Cloud turns his head again to them, then back to the mural. Again he turns, then back. He starts laughing.)
Cloud: Ha, ha, ha... Black Materia. Ha, ha, ha... Call Meteor.
Aerith: Cloud! Get a hold of yourself!
Yakumo: (Oh, no! He's being posses by Sephiroth's double!) Cloud!
(Cloud brings his hands up and clutches his head, and we see that the white energy is really another double of Cloud, just like Sephiroth's double before. The double disappears, briefly.)
Cloud: Cloud...I'm... Cloud...
Yakumo: Snap out of it!
(Yakumo tries healing Cloud to get the double out, only to reappear around Cloud's body. He shakes his head.)
Cloud: How should I? Yakumo!
Yakumo: (Not going to lose! Won't lose anyone! Won't! Won't!) AAAAHHHH!
(Yakumo screams out loud to put more into her ESP powers of healing on Cloud who soon begins to move his arms and legs randomly, assuming many different poses. The double does the same, and it is very apparent that the double is moving as another entity, totally separate from Cloud. Eventually he stops, and the double seems to disappear into Cloud. He hugs Yakumo for saving his life.)
Cloud: Yakumo!
Yakumo: Cloud! You're okay!
(The others were happy to see Cloud broke out of Sephiroth's spell in time.
Cloud: ...I remember! I remember my way.
Yakumo: You do? My powers must've help you out mix with Sephiroth's double who almost took control over your body.
Aerith: Phew...That was way too close! Good work, Yakumo.
(Cloud turns and walks toward Aerith.)
Aerith: ...Cloud.
(Cloud shrugs.)
Cloud: Mm? What's wrong? Is something wrong?
Yakumo: The double's gone. It's no longer around this room.
(Aerith shakes her head.)
Aerith: ...It's nothing so don't worry about it.
(She nodded towards Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid.)
Yakumo: See?
Aerith: Right, Cloud! It's nothing.
(She turns back and leans toward Cloud)
Aerith: Sephiroth got away.
Cloud: ...Don't worry about it. I understood what he was saying.
(He looks up at the mural.)
Yakumo: The drawings on this wall?
Cloud: So this must be Meteor, right?
(Aerith nods. The others both look at the mural too.)
Tifa: Is something going to fall from the sky?
Barret: Looks like it to me.
(Aerith walks up to the mural.)
Yakumo: Then it must be true.
Aerith: ...this must be magic. Just what Sephiroth was saying.
(She turns.)
Aerith: The Ultimate Destructive Magic, Meteor. It finds small drifting planets with its magic.
(She turns to Cloud.)
Aerith: And then collides with them. This Planet might get wiped out entirely...
(The room goes dark. They all try to keep their footing as it begins to shake back and forth.)
Cloud: Sephiroth!?
Yakumo: (He's back!) Everyone! Stay together!
(Sephiroth speaks to them from somewhere outside the room.)
Sephiroth: Ha ha ha... It is not me.
Yakumo: Incoming enemy attack! Let's go, Orbit!
(Yakumo releases Orbit to control in battle, as the other nine join in. Boss battle with Red Dragon. With Yuffie and Red giving it everything they have to move quickly to strike, Barret and Vincent fired away at it, Aerith and Cid use their staff weapons, Tifa and Cait punched and kicked the dragon many times; as Cloud slashes at it next to Yakumo throwing her many punches to the gut with Orbit doing so. Yakumo shielded them from its fire breathing attacks to Aerith using her fire magic, as Cloud summons a Aeon type of horseman to shoot off a beam at it from the skies to be weaken for the others to get it hard without the dragon fighting back this time. As Yakumo and Orbit finish it off together to fire many beams at it for Cloud to make his go flaming hot from his sword to cutting it down. They done it, all ten of them.)
Yakumo: Aerith! We did it!
Aerith: We sure did, Yakumo! Now let us heal...
(They all recover from the battle thanks to Aerith and Yakumo healing them. There is a red Summon materia floating nearby.)
Cloud: Any sign of Sephiroth?
(Yakumo felt Sephiroth no longer in the room where they were.)
Yakumo: Not in this room...He might gone somewhere else.
Aerith: He disappeared.
Yakumo: Let's hunt him down. Orbit!
(Orbit understood Yakumo's orders to aiding them. They grab the materia, a Bahamut summon, and go to the altar. There is a tiny model of the Temple floating above it.)
Cloud: What is this?
Yakumo: Some type of building floating of some kind...
(Aerith leans forward.)
Aerith: There's something written on it.
(She pulls back, surprised.)
Aerith: ...B.l.a.c.k... M.a.t.e.r.i.a.
Cloud and Yakumo: Black Materia!
Tifa, Barret, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Black Materia!?
(Aerith shakes her head.)
Aerith: Hey! ...Black Materia. What should we do, Cloud?
Yakumo: We have to take it. Cloud, we need it.
(He goes to the model and gives it a shake. The entire room shakes as well. He shrugs.)
Aerith: Wait a minute. I'll ask!
Yakumo: (She's talking to the room...)
(She faces away. The room begins to glow white and pink.)
Aerith: I don't understand...
(She walks away a few steps.)
Aerith: What?
Cloud: Really!?
Yakumo: No wonder why I felt a strong energy from within it.
(She comes back. The room stops glowing.)
Aerith: They said that the Temple itself is the Black Materia.
Cloud: What do they mean?
Aerith: So, this whole building is the Black Materia?
(Yakumo felt it out again being all true.)
Yakumo: It is...!
Cloud: This huge Temple? This is the Black Materia!? Then no one could take it.
Aerith: Hmm, it's pretty hard. You see this is a model of the Temple. And inside it is a device, which gets smaller each time you solve a puzzle. As the model becomes smaller, you become smaller too. Until it's small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
Cloud: So, if we solve the puzzles, the Black Materia will get smaller and smaller and we can take it out?
Yakumo: That can work!
Aerith: Yes, but there's one thing...You can only answer puzzles inside the Temple. So, anyone who solves the puzzle will be crushed by the Temple.
Cloud: I see... the Ancients didn't want dangerous magic to be taken out of the Temple so easily...
Yuffie: Too dangerous for me to handle!
Tifa: Let's just leave it, OK?
Yakumo: But we can't stop here! We came so far.
Cloud: No. She's right. We've got to think of a way to get it out. Because Sephiroth has lots of different flunkies. It's nothing to him to throw their lives away to get the Black Materia.
(He turns to the altar.)
Cloud: This place isn't safe.
(He touches the model. The room gives a small tremor in response.)
Aerith: So what are we going to do?
(Cloud thinks for a moment, until Cait thought of something to say to Cloud for everyone else to hear it.)
Cait: I overheard the whole story! Don't forget about me being quiet and left out here...Everything you said makes perfect sense! You can use my stuffed body for the future of the Planet.
Yakumo: You mean...? No! Cait, real or not, we need you! (We're mad, but we don't want you to die because of this...)
Cloud: We can't let Sephiroth get his hands on the Black Materia. And we can't let the Shinra get theirs on it either.
Cait: But Cloud. There's really nothing else you can do. Everyone, please trust me.
Yakumo: Cloud...
(Cloud places his hand on Yakumo, to show and tell her not to worry at all.)
Cloud: Please understand, Yakumo...I guess we have no choice. He wants to, we have to.
Yakumo: I know, but still...
Cait: All righty then! Leave it all to me! Please hurry, you've got to get out of there! I'll go when the time's right to get over and done with.
(Cloud nods. They all leave the room in time. Cloud, Yakumo, and the others headed out of the mural room. At the clock room, the hands are instantly set to 6 and 12, allowing him passage to room 12. Inside, he checks the exit door.)
Cloud: It's warm...
Yakumo: Too warm...
(The room starts to shake.)
Yakumo: Cloud!
Cloud: This isn't good...
(Aerith, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Vincent, Cid, and Tifa get away from the door, just as a Giger-esque alien creature bursts out of the wall behind Cloud and Yakumo.)
Aerith: Cloud...Yakumo...behind you!
(Boss battle with Demon's Gate. Guess they had to fight it to get out for Cait to do what needs to be done. Fighting the demon won't be so easy to do, but still Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid give it their all with Orbit to aiding them to in Yakumo's control. As Tifa and Cait 'giving it his all punch and kick hard at it', same with Yakumo using her powers with Orbit, Yuffie and Red slashes away like Cloud was too, Barret and Vincent firing, and Cid and Aerith hitting at the demon hard; as Barret summons their dragon to blast right at it hard along with Aerith's Beat with it. Avoiding the blast from below it can create to it's sharp claws, Yakumo shields them all for Orbit to punch at it away at it did the same back. Continuing to heal and protect to fighting back...Cait in his suit step in to kept on fighting the dragon many times to firing misses and using lighting attacks 'for he was on a roll today'; to using his slot move skills to fire a huge ice beam to free the demon up, allowing Yakumo to use Orbit's sharp claws and Cloud's sword for together they turn the ice dragon into pieces to shatter all over. They have won.)
Yakumo: Way a go, Cait!
(After the battle, Cait Sith after his battle he had in helping out the others, he was ready while hopping up and down.)
Cait: Well, that took us a while to beat, but it was worth it. Now I'll handle the rest!
(He spins around.)
Cait: Well, everyone...Take care of yourselves!
(Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Vincent, Cid, Cloud, and Yakumo will miss him. Aerith turns to Cait Sith, then looks down.)
Aerith: Cait Sith...
Yakumo: (Please come back when you get your real body back...) Aerith, we need to go.
(She runs over to Cloud.)
Aerith: Come on, Cloud... Say something.
Yakumo: I don't think there's nothing we can do to save him if we tried.
(Cloud rubs the back of his head.)
Cloud: I'm not good at this.
(Cait Sith stops hopping and spins around to face Cloud.)
Cait: Mmm, I understand. I feel the same too.
(Aerith claps her hands.)
Aerith: Why don't you read our fortunes?
Barret, Tifa, Yuffie, and Cid: No it!
Red Xlll: Just in case...
Vincent: And hope for us to meet again in your real form.
(Cait Sith does his fortune-telling dance.)
Cait: Say, that's right... I haven't done it in a while, huh? I'm so excited. Right or wrong, I'm still the same 'ol me. Now, what should I predict?
(Aerith claps her hands, then stands over by Cloud.)
Aerith: Hmm, let's see how compatible Cloud and Yakumo are!
Yakumo: Aerith!
Aerith: What? I'm just trying to help you out.
Cait: That'll cost ya. Exactly one date, Aerith.
(She turns back.)
Cait Sith: Here I go! Oh...It's a good one! Indeed they will be together...
Yakumo: Yeah! Okay, now do Aerith's. How will she be once we finish our journey and save the world?
Cait: I'll try.
(Cait Sith does his fortune-telling dance, then stops hopping and faces away.)
Cait Sith: Oh! Oh...This isn't good. I can't say it...
Yakumo: What is it...?
Tifa: Do tell already! Don't keep us waiting!
(Cait Sith turns to Aerith and Yakumo and starts hopping.)
Cait Sith: Is that so? Then I'll tell you. Looks good. You are perfect for each other! For you and Cloud. They show a great future! Cloud, I'll be your matchmaker, preacher... I'll do whatever you want me to! You just call me when it all happens!
(Cloud tells Cait that by holding Yakumo's hand.)
Cloud: I will.
Yakumo: (Strange...Cait looked upset when he predict Aerith...) Cait, what about my sister? What was wrong?
(Cait Sith turns to the doorway, still hopping. He stops and sadly slumps down.)
Cait: I...I can't say... (Keep your eyes on her, if you don't...It won't be pretty on her end. Maybe on yours if you're not careful, Yakumo.)
(With him looking at Yakumo, she heard Cait in her head to read his mind. She didn't like the sound of that.)
Yakumo: What...?
Cait: Oh, never mind that! Just you two stay strong and be happy, alright?
Yakumo: Cait. Thank you...
Cait: No need to worry about me, Yakumo. I can tell you this much...I was close to your father as friends, for your mother was a SOLIDER who escaped in become a Mako being. I was a scientist once was my true form who worked hard before...Shinra happened...I knew them for a long time...You're a half breed of the last Mako's out there. That's all I know about them.
(Yakumo then all along, leaving her and her older sister Yumi as Mako beings and half human from within them. She tries not to cry and goes out with Cloud without looking back if Cait comes out of this alive or not.)
Yakumo: Thank you, Cait. That's all I wanted to hear!
Cait: Glad I told you in time, Yakumo, you take care with Cloud, Aerith, and everyone here...Thank you for believing in me, knowing that I was a spy. This is the final, final farewell!
(He hops off to the altar room. Aerith and Yakumo watch after him. The screen fades to black.)
Aerith: Be strong Cait Sith!
Yakumo: Let's go! (Good-bye, Cait, until we meet the real you again...)
(As all nine escape the temple for Dudley to wait for them outside of it, Cait Sith hops along the altar room.)
Cait: She told me to 'Be strong.' I feel so happy.
(He trips and falls.)
Cait: Owwww...
(His Moogle rights itself, and he climbs back onto it, rubbing his head.)
Cait: What happened?
(He starts hopping again, then does his happy victory dance.)
Cait: I can still move more.
(He hops to the altar.)
Cait: This must be it! The Ancients sure did a great job making this.
(He turns to the camera and dances for a moment.)
Cait: I can protect the Planet too! I'm kinda embarrassed...
(He starts hopping.)
Cait: There's plenty of stuffed toys like my body around, but there's only one me!
(He does his victory dance.)
Cait: Don't forget me even if another Cait Sith comes along.
(He turns to the altar.)
Cait: Good bye, then! I guess I'm off to save the Planet...
(Everything then goes white. Cloud, Yakumo, and the others stand outside the Temple of the Ancients. Watching. Showing to the top of the Temple, as a great black ball of energy consumes it, sparking. When it fades, there is nothing left of the Temple but a great pit. Cloud and Yakumo go to the edge of it; there is a small black sparkle at the bottom.)
Yakumo: Cloud, look. We got it.
Cloud: That's the Black Materia...
Barret: Then I'll keep watch here.
Tifa: I'll wait here too.
Yakumo: Let's go get it. Aerith, come on.
(Cloud and Yakumo make their way to the bottom of the pit, followed by Aerith. They go over to the Black Materia.)
Yakumo: It's the real thing, I can feel it.
Cloud: As long as we have this, Sephiroth won't be able to use Meteor.
(They finally got the Black Materia.)
Cloud: Mmm? Can you guys use it?
(Yakumo touches it, but using any of her ESP will make her get shocked all over.)
Yakumo: I wish I I could, but my powers are too weak for me to use it right now. Sorry...Anyone else?
Aerith: Nope, we can't use it right now. You need great spiritual power to use it.
Cloud: You mean lots of Spiritual energy?
Yakumo: Seems that way.
Aerith: That's right. One person's power alone won't do it. Somewhere special. Where there's plenty of the Planet's energy..
Yuffie: But where at...?
Cid: Oh yeah!
Red Xlll: The Promised Land!
Aerith: Yes! There!
Vincent: That would make sense.
Cloud: The Promised Land? No, but...
Yakumo: It's for real? But, Aerith, we can't-!
Aerith: Sephiroth is different. He's not an Ancient.
Cloud: He shouldn't be able to find the Promised Land.
(Soon things flashes up all white. When it fades, we see Sephiroth standing at the edge of the pit.)
Sephiroth: ...Ah, but I have.
(He floats up, over the pit to everyone's surprise to see him out of the blue, not good.)
Yakumo: It's Sephiroth!
Sephiroth: I'm far superior to the Ancients. I became a traveler of the Lifestream and gained the knowledge and wisdom of the Ancients. I also gained the knowledge and wisdom of those after the extinction of the Ancients. And soon, I will create the future along with my Mako's energy.
Aerith: I won't let you do it! The future is not only yours!
Yakumo: (Aerith?) If she doesn't want you to have it, Sephiroth, then neither will I!
(Sephiroth floats higher.)
Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha... I wonder?
(Going all white again.)
Sephiroth: Wake up!
Yakumo: Watch out! Cloud!
(The entire area fades to the bottom of the pit. Cloud clutches his head and falls to the ground. Sephiroth tries controlling Cloud again for Yakumo to shield the others but him to be healed again using her powers.)
Yakumo: Not again! Cloud, stay with me! Fight it!
Cloud: No...Sh... shut up!
(Sephiroth floats to the ground. He kneels down.)
Sephiroth: There, Cloud... good boy.
Cloud: The... Noise...
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Yakumo was giving it everything she has got. Seeing Cloud's double standing straight as Cloud writhes on the ground below it. Eventually Cloud stands up and melds with the double.)
Cloud: Wa... aaaa...aaa...
(The powerful shock wave pushes Yakumo away.)
Yakumo: Ah!
Cloud: Y...Y...Yakumo! Nooooooooooooo!
(Cloud begins to run, in slow motion, to Sephiroth. It takes almost half a minute for him to make the few feet to Sephiroth. Cloud's double just stands where Cloud once had. Cloud gives the Black Materia to Sephiroth. Sephiroth stands up and begins to laugh.)
Sephiroth: ...Well done.
Yakumo: Stop it!
(Yakumo's powers goes crazy to have Orbit to stab through Sephiroth's heart really deep, only to have no affect in killing him to pull the long arm right out of his body. He floats away to leave with the Black Materia in his hands.)
Sephiroth: You...You injured me...! (Wait! Can't it be!?)
Yakumo: Give us back the Black Materia! Now! Orbit, get ready...!
(Sephiroth had no time to waste to flee while he still had the chance to. Going white once again as Sephiroth rockets skyward. Moving above the pit. Cloud falls and clutches his head, trembling. Aerith and Yakumo go over to him.)
Yakumo: Orbit, stand down. He escaped...Cloud!
Aerith: Cloud, are you all right? Yakumo?
(She recovers herself already.)
Yakumo: I'm fine. He got Cloud to controlling him, but he'll be alright. Thank goodness.
Cloud: Yakumo... Are you...?
Yakumo: I'm fine. I was more worried about you.
(The two hold hands for Cloud to wrap his arms around Yakumo's waist.)
Cloud: I'm glad, but...I gave the Black Materia to Sephiroth...? You almost had him...
(He straightens for a brief moment, then falls at Yakumo's feet.)
Yakumo: Cloud. I'm sorry...
Cloud: No, it's alright...
Yakumo: Aerith, can you heal him for me this time?
Aerith: On it.
(Aerith begins healing Cloud for Yakumo to keep him feeling better after Sephiroth use that power on him.)
Cloud: Wha... what did I do... tell me, Aerith.
Yakumo: Cloud, it's okay. It's not your fault.
(Yakumo bends down to him.)
Aerith: Cloud... be strong, OK? For your woman.
(Cloud starts writhing on the ground.)
Cloud: Urrrrrrgh... What have I done!?
(Aerith kneels down by him.)
Aerith: Cloud... you haven't done anything. Like Yakumo said, it's not your fault.
Cloud: No...No...!
Tifa: That's it...!
(Cloud stands up slowly...With Yakumo helping him up to feeling weak. As Aerith tries to help, Tifa comes in looking really mad.)
Tifa: You...!
Aerith: Tifa?
Tifa: It's all your fault! You did this to Cloud!
(She punches Aerith to fall to the ground, but Yakumo stops her.)
Yakumo: Stop it! Leave my sister alone!
Tifa: Sister? You two aren't even related! You two mess up Cloud, my Cloud!
Yakumo: Aerith said you were just friends!
Tifa: So I lied...!
Yakumo: At least my brain is bigger enough to know on who took care of me as a sister than the size of your boobs!
Tifa: Take that back...
Yakumo: Say your sorry to Aerith first.
Tifa: Take it back!
Yakumo: No! You need to stop!
(She punches Yakumo hard to keep on doing it to her, as Cloud and Aerith try pulling her away.)
Aerith: Cloud! Help!
Cloud: Stop it! Tifa! She was trying to help you! What's gotten into you all of a sudden!
TIfa: Cloud's mine! Cloud's mine! Cloud's mine!
(Yakumo was crying in pain to keep Orbit and Dudley out of this mess.)
Yakumo: You two, stay back!
(Cait Sith 'the new him in a same but improved body' has arrived. Barret, Yuffie, Red, Cid, and Vincent were frantically by the edge of the pit)
Tifa: Cloud-! Love me! Get over your sadness and love me! Not Aerith or Yakumo! Love me!
Yuffie, Cid, and Red: Cait!
Barret: You're alive!?
Vincent: No, he's in a brand new suit like his old one. But he's back.
Barret: Oh, same thing right?
Cait: Yes! I'm back-! Oops! This looks like I came at a bad time! I'm Cait Sith No. 2. Right pleased to meet you all! I know what's going on from my old mode...Let's stop the fighting first off.
(Tifa continues beating on Yakumo to be crying for Cloud to stop and save his woman and his best friend with Aerith helping him out.)
Barret: Hey, Cloud! Aerith! Get Tifa away from Yakumo! Crazy #$#& !
(Cloud stops and falls to one side. Soon everything goes completely white all over for Cloud's head was hurting him.)
Cloud: Everything is white...What did I do? I don't remember anything...My memory... since when...? If everything's a dream, don't wake me.
(He, Aerith, Barret, Cait, Red, Cid, Vincent, and Yuffie all pull Tifa away from Yakumo to almost go back for her until...)
Yakumo: STOP!
(Her powers send Tifa flying for Aerith to shield her from the blast to get hit instead.)
Cait: Oh, boy...
Yakumo: Cait? I knew you would come back...
Cait: Better than ever really.
(Aerith helps Tifa up to punch her, only for Cloud to kick her down. He didn't mean to do it that rough, only to calm her down long enough to not hurt anyone anymore.)
Cloud: This has to stop, Tifa! Ah-!
Yakumo: Cloud! I got you!
(Cloud then goes out for Yakumo to catch him in time, making Tifa even angrier just seeing the two being real close.)
Tifa: ...!
(Aerith then slaps some sense into Tifa to finally stop to go down on her kneed to think about on what just happened just now. She felt bad, but she was still mad at the two girls but Yuffie.)
Aerith: Yakumo, I need to go somewhere alone.
Yakumo: Go? Where to?
(She touches her head for Yakumo to sense on what she was about to do next where Sephiroth will be.)
Yakumo: No...! Aerith! Don't-!
Aerith: I have to. You see Mom again, tell her that I'm sorry and I love her. Take care of her for me, okay?
Yakumo: Aerith!
Aerith: Stop!
(Yakumo stopped talking for Aerith to yell back at her step-sister.)
Aerith: You...Stay here. Don't follow me. Be happy with Cloud, and make up with Tifa, okay? I have to go alone before I might lose it. That would've been me instead of her...Almost falling for Cloud, I made up in being jealous of you...Just a little!
Yakumo: But why?
(She walks away from anyone else unable to do anything to stopping Aerith at all on this one.)
Aerith: Take care. Give that image out for me to tell Cloud everything...Good-bye forever, Yakumo. I still love you as my little sister that I ever had...Good-bye, everyone. And Tifa...I'm sorry too!
(Aerith runs off, for Tifa started to cry in anger to release it all on her.)
Tifa: Go on then! Go on your own to stopping Sephiroth! Be my guess! We don't need you anymore than we deal with a Mako anyways! Go on, get!
(She throws a rock on the ground hard to break from her strength to soon begin to cry out. Yakumo kept Cloud company to carrying him somewhere for him and the others to rest.)
Cait: Barret, let's take care of Yakumo and Cloud. I know of a shelter nearby.
Barret: Got it. Tifa needs some time to cool off. Yuffie, you think you, Red, Cid, and Vincent can handle her?
(Yuffie stands tall in doing so.)
Yuffie: Just leave it to me!
Cid: Wait! Since when were we babysitting!?
Red Xlll: Since now...
Cid: But...! I never sign up for this!
(Barret and Cait helped Yakumo up to carrying Cloud thanks to Dudley aiding them and Orbit finding the location.)
Barret: Come on, Yakumo, he'll be find after some rest.
Yakumo: And the others?
Cait: They got Tifa under control. Never seen her act this way until now...
Barret: And I thought she was on her thing. But jealousy...Damn, girl!
(Yakumo didn't see Aerith anymore after walking in far distances away from everyone else.)
Yakumo: Aerith...Why is she leaving us...? Aerith! Where are you!? What's gotten into you all of a sudden!? Aerith!
(Barret, Cait, Dudley, and Orbit walked Yakumo away from the area with Cloud.)
Cait: Come on, let's go. We'll find Aerith after we recover. Promise.
Yakumo: (Oh, Tifa...Aerith...Cloud...Why?)
(With Yakumo praying for Aerith's safety and Tifa to feel better to being her old self again...Cid, Vincent, Red, and Yuffie stay put with Tifa until she felt better as Cloud gets treated by Yakumo with Barret, Cait, Dudley, ad Orbit going somewhere in a nearby INN to meet up with the others there with the temple was gone into a Black Materia, being nothing left but a hole in the ground.)
Tifa: (What have I...Done...? What happened to me...?
(With Tifa feeling upset and normal again, what did cause her to act this way? For Vincent and Red wonder for themselves.)
Cid: There, there, Tifa. You'll be fine. Yakumo will take care of Cloud, you know that.
Yuffie: Tifa...Want some cookies? They make me feel better.
(With the five chilling out for a while in the now empty area, just until Tifa was herself in a while for Yuffie to bother her for a bit and Cid was kind of bored but felt bad on what have happened today.)
Yuffie: Tifa! Come on! Eat something at least! Hey!
(Soon from the outskirts of the entire fields above it, Sephiroth was watching over Yakumo to be smiling and laughing a little on something that he learned about from her today from hurting him a bit 'as he was slowly recovering...)
Sephiroth: At long last, I have found you...The last Mako being. You will lend me your energy...We'll make this world into a new you and I...
(Better ending there than Cloud beating up Aerith, huh? Bet none of you didn't see that part coming, didn't you? Anyways...What will happen next?)