Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(And so...That event of Tifa snapping at both Aerith and Yakumo to alomsot hurting them for Cloud to accidentally knock some sense into her, Aerith takes off alone to leave Yakumo and Cloud a message to go where Sephiroth was heading to alone; for she and Tifa care for Cloud too, only something made them act this way to make Yakumo lose all hope for them; so now with Cloud hurt from that monster's control to gettign the Black Mateira - Barret, Cait, Dudley, and Orbit took Ykaumo and Cloud to recover at a nearby INN and away from the empty no more temple. Leaving Cid, Yuffie, Vincent, and Red to watch over Tifa until she calms down to go back with them - she knows what might've cause her feelings to brust that badly when Sephiroth came back to use his powers on Cloud to controlling his body.)
Cid: You were mind control over rage by that sicko Sephiroth's doing!?
Yuffie: Get out!
(Thanks to Vincent, he cleared Tifa's head to get rid of the negitive energy out of her in time before it would've gotten worse.)
Vincent: She's stable. Be happy that Cloud did stop you in time.
Red Xlll: You're not mad a him, Aerith, or Yakumo after all of that?
(Tifa was mad at herself on what she has done, it would make sense from Sephiroth's odd abilities to make her do something awful.)
Tifa: No...When I first met both Aerith and Yakumo, I was jealous for Cloud to fall for the younger one. But seeing Yakumo being so kind to all of us and him, they make a cute couple as long as he's happy.
Vincent: Is that so? That power trigger your inner most thoughts to be release.
Yuffie: Jealousy can be ugly...
(Vincent was trllign the truth there.)
Tifa: Alright...I admit...I guess I was more mad at Aerith, not Yakumo. That Sephiroth...He'll paid for this and what he did to Cloud...! I'll never forgive him! Because of that...Aerith...Why did she...?
Cid: Got us. Maybe she knew of the dangers to handle alone, being the last Anicent and all that.
Tifa: For what though!? Bcause of what I've done, I hurt her feelings and Yakumo's heart of our friendship. She lost the only sister she has to go off somewhere...She might get killed! Why!?
Red Xlll: Tifa, please stay calm.
(So she does, a bit weak from before, but the other four have gotten her back.)
Tifa: You guys are right...
Yuffie: Well of course we are!
Cid: Now that's cleared out, time to lay you down on what happened after the cat fight. So listen up!
(Soon Cid told her on what happened next...About Cait coming back into a second but the same body of a different model, Cloud and Yakumo recovering at a nearby INN where Barret, Cait, Dudley, and Orbit were waiting for them, and what Aerith said to Yakumo and a few other things before she left. Hearing all of this, Tifa knew what she had to do next.)
Tifa: Alright, I know what we need to do next...First, I need to talk to Cloud and Yakumo. Let's go see how they're doing.
(Tifa seems to be a bit better so far. Vincent went with her first to prove that she was a lot better now.)
Vincent: Come, she's alright.
Red Xlll: Then let's go.
Yuffie and Cid: Ah...Okay.
(The five headed to where Cloud and the other five were staying at to leave the temple by taking the ship as a boat left at sea and where they needed to be for Cait to call them up and tell them where they were at. As he, Barret, Dudley, and Orbit 'in its battle mode' waiting for them to arrive and think of on what to do next in finding Aerith.)
Barret: They're coming?
Cait: On their way now. Tifa's feeling better, you wouldn't believe what set her off besides being a bit jealous...
(Cait told him.)
Barret: Sephiroth!? Bastard!
Cait: I know, I didn't see. At least Vincent told me the whole story for him and Red to feel out before she was in a rampage. And now with Aerith's gone...Maybe the samething happen to her.
Barret: The rage of jealously?
Cait: Nope. Thinknig she was weak to do things on her own, that affected her too.
Barret: And not Yakumo?
Cait: Well...Can't say about her. Like she wasn't affected to begin with. Don't know why...
Barret: But Cloud was because...?
Cait: Sephiroth was controlling him of course. Thanks to Aerith and Yakumo's healing skills, he'll be up and at it in no time. So waiting for the others and him to get up, we'll make our move then.
Barret: I hope so. Hear that, Yakumo? We'll find Aerith again real soon. Thanks to you two, Cloud's going to be okay.
(Yakumo thought so fro mthe begining to feel out being Sephiroth's doing all along, but still upset of Aerith leaving her.)
Yakumo: I see...
Cait: How are you doing? Tifa's not mad at you, it was the power and all that crap. Remember?
Yakumo: I do...Aerith...
(The two men stayed quiet for a bit to feel bad for Yakumo to be along again.)
Barret: Yakumo...Look, you can go see Cloud now. Go on. Maybe you had to tell him something for Aerith to say something...I don't know! Just go do it already! He's been sleeping for too long since we got here!
Yakumo: Okay! (I was about to anyways. Cloud needs to hear this from her. And for me to talk to Aerith before...! I just have to!) Excuse me, you two. Dudley and Orbit, stay put.
(Dudley made a noise to understand Yakumo and Orbit lights up to making computer sounds, she goes into the other room where Cloud was sleeping in.)
Barret: Will she be...?
Cait: She'll be fine! She's stornger than she looks.
Barret: Says the man in a cat doll who knew her parents.
Cait: Ha, ha, you got me.
(Yakumo enters in the room to sit near the bed side where Cloud was sleeping in. Yakumo places her hand on his heart to reach out to Aerith to hear and see what she needed to say to them.)
Yakumo: Cloud. It's me, Yakumo. I know you're better which is good, but...Aerith left after you passed out from saving me from Tifa not...Being herself...So let's hear her out together, okay? Here we go... (Aerith, it's Yakumo. Cloud's here with me too. Please respond.)
(Everything then fades...showing a calm green forest for only Yakumo's voice could reach out to her sister wit her ESP powers and Cloud to be an image to see and hear her. They spotted Aerith pokes her head around one tree.)
Cloud: Yakumo...Aerith...What's going on...?
Yakumo: Aerith! There you are!
Aerith: Yakumo, glad youre here.
Yakumo: Aerith, please don't be mad at me!
Aerith: No...It was Sephiroth's fault, from hurting you, Cloud, Tifa, and me from his strange powers. I had to leave to protect all of you, and I had a reason to. Is Cloud with you?
Yakumo: He is...Aerith, it's going to be okay, right? You're the best sister I ever had, I don't want to lose you.
(Aerith smiles meaning she of course forgives Yakumo, like Tifa was affected in sadness from Sephiroth's powers too.)
Aerith: I know. I love you too, Yakumo, best sister I ever , can you hear me?
(Cloud speaks, though he was no there with her.)
Cloud: Yeah, I hear you. Sorry for what happened. I'm glad it was Sephiroth doing that to all three of us. You, me, and Tifa. Yakumo was very worried about her and you.
(Aerith comes out from behind the tree; we see her profile as she faces to the side.)
Aerith: Yakumo let me see the image on everything after hearing it from Vincent. She's alright. And don't worry about it. Tifa forgives the two of us, and you. I do too. For her and my sister.
Cloud: ...I can't help it...I didn't mean to hurt her, I just...
Yakumo: Cloud. It's okay. She needed it, her heart knew you did the right thing. She wasn't herself.
Cloud: I know, but...
(She goes back behind the tree.)
Aerith: Oh...
(She jumps out from behind another tree on the opposite side of the forest, not visibly walking the distance between them.)
Aerith: Then, why don't you REALLY worry about it? You were when Yakumo was gettig hurt from Sephiroth and when Tifa wasn't herself.
Cloud: I was...I was worried about her.
Yakumo: You were?
Cloud: Of course I was.
Yakumo: (Oh, Cloud...)
(She runs forward and wipes one eye.)
Aerith: And let me handle Sephiroth.
Yakumo: No! You'll be killed!
Aerith: Yakumo, it's okay. I need to do this, I have to.
Yakumo: But, Aerith...
(She starts giggling, turns pure white, and disappears. She comes out from behind yet another tree.)
Aerith: And Cloud, you take care of yourself. And take care of my sister too. Yakumo really loves you, like I did with my Zack.
(She walks back behind the tree, off-handedly leaning back so that we just see her head.)
Aerith: Yakumo, be yourself as a human and not so much of the Mako, okay? Good to Mom for me. And Cloud, don't have a breakdown, okay?
(She goes behind the tree. She drops down from the sky, slowly, puppet-like, landing very softly on the ground. Cloud and Yakumo also float down, closer to the area. They look around.)
Yakumo: Aerith? Where are we?
Cloud: What is this place?
(Aerith puts her hands behind her back and looks skyward.)
Aerith: This forest leads to the City of the Ancients...and is called Sleeping Forest.
Yakumo: She's right. I feel it all around this area non-stop.
(She looks at Cloud.)
Aerith: Pretty cool, huh? It's only a matter of time before Sephiroth uses Meteor. That's why I'm going to protect it. Only a survivor of the Cetra, like me, can do it.
Yakumo: But why not me, Aerith? I'm the last Mako being that can witstand his powers than you! Sephiroth has the powers comapre to a God almost!
Aerith: I know...Yakumo, you need to live more than me. My Mother did the same for me the do the rest for her.
(She turns and walks a distance into the forest. She turns back to faces Cloud and Yakumo.)
Aerith: The secret is just up here.
(She shakes her head.)
Yakumo: It is?
Aerith: At least it should be...I feel it. It feels like I'm being led by something.
Yakumo: Aerith...! Please come back!
(She cocks her head to one side and waves, cutely, femininely, childishly, to Cloud.)
Aerith: Then, I'll be going now. I'll come back when it's all over.
Cloud: Aerith?
Yakumo: Don't go, Aerith! Don't leave me!
(She turns and runs off into the forest, getting smaller and smaller, until she disappears into the bright green sunlight. Cloud starts to run after her, slowly, but does not go anywhere as Yakumo watches everything before her very eyes, again it was all just as in a dream. Eventually he stops, and Sephiroth speaks, from somewhere.)
Sephiroth: Hmm... She's thinking of interfering? She will be a difficult one, don't you think?
(Sephiroth floats down from above, just as Cloud did. He lands, kneeling, where Aerith stood moments before.)
Yakumo: Sephiroth! He knows...!
Sephiroth: We must stop that girl soon. Don't we, Yakumo?
Yakumo: Don't hurt her!
(Theentire area flashes white, then goes completely 's powers go away to come back to reality and Cloud awakens in a bed at the inn at Gongaga village. Barret and Tifa are standing next to the bed. As Cait, Vincent, Cid, Yuffie, and Red were all back together now with Dudley hanging around them and Orbit back into ball mode.)
Yakumo: Cloud-!
(Yakumo almost took off for Cloud to hold her close to him.)
Cloud: Yakumo...We'll get her back. I promise.
(The two see everyone else.)
Yakumo: Guess we're all together again.
Barret: You look like you was havin' a nightmare. How are you feeling?
Cloud: Hey...I seem to be OK.
Barret: That's good. Man, I didn't know what was gonna happen.
Yakumo: He'll be just fine.
Tifa: Ah...Yakumo? Cloud?
(Tifa and Yakumo look at each other to sense out their sadness to forgive one another.)
Yakumo: Tifa...I know. It was all Sephiroth's doing. To you and Aerith. She says she forgives you, and I do too.
Tifa: Yakumo...I'm so sorry!
(The two were crying with tears of joy to be hugging with each other to being friends again.)
Yakumo: It's okay.
Tifa: Cloud, you and Yakumo make a wonderful couple. I was...Almost wrong about you two. I know Aerith was as well. You just keep him happy, okay? Or I have to step in.
Yaumo: I will.
(Cloud pats Tifa o nthe back.)
Cloud: It's fine, Tifa. Just glad to see you feeling better after what I did to you...
(She hits Cloudo n the back pretty hard.)
Tifa: Nah! I'm fine. Pay back on you though. See?
(The two laugh togather with Yakumo too.)
Yakumo: He gets it.
Tifa: Still, it would be different if it worked out, right?
Cloud: ...If things were different on how we could've love if it was just you and I instead, then maybe...We could've.
Tifa: Yeah, if we did...
Cloud: Tifa, I love you as a very good friend. That'll never change. Same with Aerith. But my heart's with hers.
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Yakumo was happy to hug Cloud ofr that since she was his girlfriend now and for real. He hugs her back.)
Tifa: And I'm happy for you and love you too as a very good friend. Both of you. So, Yakumo, when this is over let's all of us with Aerith go to a hot springs, okay?
Yakumo: Sure!
(Yuffie jumps in to join the fun.)
Yuffie: Me too! Me too!
Yakumo: Of course, Yuffie.
Cid: Well, I want to have fun near a spa too.
Red Xlll: Like a real vacation when we're done saving the world.
Vincent: I could try out for one myself.
Cait: As soon as I get my real body back, why the hell not?
Barret: Hell ya! I'm in as well!
Tifa: Okay!
Cloud: Then it's a date.
Yakumo: Until then, yes.
(With that all planned out later on, they got quiet to talk about finding Aerith first.)
Tifa: You know, Cloud ad Yakumo, Aerith is gone.
(Soon things needed to get serious again.)
Yakumo: We know...
Tifa: Sorry.
Barret: Everyone's out looking for Aerith. We all did.
(Cloud sits up in bed and shakes his head.)
Cloud: ...City of the Ancients. Aerith is headed there.
Barret: By herself!? Why did she go by herself!? Hey, we're goin' too.
Yakumo: And we will! It just...Aerith's the only Ancient who can go.
Cloud: She's right. Only the Ancients, only Aerith can save us from Meteor...
Tifa: Then we must go. What'll we do if something happens to Aerith? If Sephiroth finds her, she's in trouble.
(Yakumo and Clous stood silent to give out the bad news there.)
Cloud: Sephiroth... already knows.
Barret: Hey! Why are you still sittin' around?
Tifa: Let's go, Cloud.
Yakumo: Let's go save my sister.
(Cloud shakes his head.)
Cloud: No.
Yakumo: Cloud?
(He holds his head.)
Cloud: I might lose it again. After almost hurting Tifa...She try hurting you, Yakumo, and Aerith. She left because of him, and you gotten hurt. If Sephiroth comes near me again to contrlling my body, I might...
Yakumo: Cloud! I can witstand his powers, so I'll stop him if I have to1
Cloud: But it's too dangerous!
Barret: Yeah, godammit! It's 'cuz of you that Sephiroth got the Black Materia in the first place. It's your damn fault! Tifa wouldn't lost it, if you wouldn't control her or Aerith from leaving sooner!
(Cloud lets go of his head.)
Yakumo: Barret!
Cloud: My fault?
Barret: I know you got problems... hell, we all do. But, you don't even understand yourself. But you gotta understand that there ain't no gettin' offa this train we're on, till get to the end of the line. I'm just proving a point.
Tifa: Cloud, we came this far...Aren't you even going to settle up with Sephiroth?
(Cloud clutches his head.)
Cloud: No...
(He shakes his head.)
Cloud: I'm afraid. Of losing you guys, my friends...It'll happen again. Yakumo might get hurt from anyone of you from his control. If this keeps up, I may go crazy! I'm afraid...
Barret: Just a damn jackass, that's what you are...Yo, jes' think about it... How many people in this world do ya think really understand themselves? People get depressed in life because they don't know what's up. But, they go on living. They don't run away...isn't that how it is?
(Barret leaves.)
Yakumo: Barret? Tifa, what now?
Tifa: Cloud... you'll come with us, right? I believe in you. Yakumo does...
(Tifa leaves along with the others as well to wait for him outside of the room. Cloud holds his head.)
Yakumo: Cloud, they're right.
Cloud: What... am I supposed to do? Pull out of here? Pull out? ...To where?
(Showing down. Tifa and Barret are standing by the door to the inn. Tifa faces Cloud's room.)
Tifa: Cloud...
Barret: Wait a minute, Tifa. Give him a little time. He has to decide this on his own. He's got Yakumo on this one after all.
(Tifa turns to Barret. He nods.)
Barret: You believe in Cloud...right?
(He turns and leaves. Tifa looks to Cloud's room again, then follows. Then pans back up to Cloud. He is now sitting on the edge of the bed, his head in his hands.)
Cloud: ...I'm afraid to find out the truth...? But... why?
Yakumo: Easy there, Cloud, I got you.
(He gets up with Yakumo helping him up back on his feet and meets the innkeeper.)
"You awake? Those people were so worried that they stayed by your side until you woke up. You sure do have good friends. Excuse me."
(He leaves the inn. As Yakumo holds Cloud to finally do something before it was too late for the both of them.)
Yakumo: Cloud...
(She kisses him on the lips.)
Cloud: ...!
Yakumo: It's alright. Please don't be scared, you're acting like I was when I learned about who I really was. Please come back to me. As Cloud Strife, the man I fell in love with.
Cloud: Yakumo...Never leave me. I love you too.
(Staring into each other's eyes, the two finally kiss to showing their love was strong and Yakumo will make sure that Cloud is still himself.)
Yakumo: Wow...That was amazing. In that case, let's go. The others are waiting for us outside.
Cloud: But how are we...?
Yakumo: I'll stay by your side in this one and so on, forever...I'm your girlfriend after all.
Cloud: ...Yeah? Nice kiss by the way.
Yakumo: Same here.
(Barret, Yuffie, Cid, Vincent, Cait, Red, Dudley holding Orbit, and Tifa are standing outside, waiting for them.)
Yuffie: Look, they're out.
Tifa: Cloud...I'm so happy for you and Yakumo.
(They see them sealing the deal as a couple now holding each other's hands tightly.)
Barret: Hey, how are you? Finally got the girl, huh? I just wanna know, which is it gonna be? You wanna find out about yourself? Or are you afraid to find out? Either way, you stay around here and about all you can do is worry about it. Even if you do go nuts again when you see Sephiroth... If it happens, it happens. I'll go upside your spikey white head and bring you back to normal!
Tifa: I'll stop myself and anyone else, even Aerith if I have to. If Sephiroth does it again, he'll be sorry. Cloud, it'll be all right. We're all with you.
Cloud: But...
Yakumo: They're right you know. And so will I.
Barret: If it happens, it happens. Don't worry 'bout it.
Cid: I'll smack you around silly if I have to!
Vincent: I owe you two my life. I'll stop him if I must.
Red Xlll: I'll make him beg for mercy.
Cait: I'll stomp on his face it I must!
Yuffie: Kick his ass on my end!
Yakumo: See, Cloud? You're not alone.
(Cloud crosses his arms for a moment and thinks.)
Cloud: ...You're... right. ...He's right, isn't he?
Tifa: Come on, let's go and find Aerith...?
Yakumo: Yes, let's go. Lead us the way, Dudley.
(Dudley drives Cloud, Yakumo 'with Orbit in her hands', Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid in the cart and leave Gongaga village. Yakumo knows that they'll get to Aerith in no time. For Cloud can keep on going to protecting his friends and his new lover Yakumo, for her to do the same for him too.)
Yakumo: (Aerith, like it or not...We're coming for you before Sephiroth does.)
(From crossing the fields, to riding the ship as a boat to reach to the other side, and back on land to walk on they go while training themselves just in case for the upcoming battle.)
(Cloud and the others travel to Bone Village on the northern continent leaving Dudley near the village to wait for all of them to come back.)
Yakumo: A digging working area. I do feel that Aerith was around here a while ago. That's all I can get.
(So to get where they needed to go, they're going to need some help from the people in the village.)
"Welcome to Bone Village, a town for nature lovers. What do you want?"
Cloud: Where is the City of the Ancients?
"The City of the Ancients? Oh, you must mean the Forgotten City."
Cloud: Do you know where Aerith is?
"Are you talking about that girl? I warned her, but she went into the Sleeping Forest anyway."
Yakumo: That's where we needed to go.
"We use the newest system to find buried treasure. We simulate earthquakes by using bombs, and then check the sound waves given off by the tremors. You can awaken the Sleeping Forest if you have the Lunar Harp. Once awake, they say the forest will open a road for you. The girl in pink that just went in also used a Lunar Harp to get through."
Yakumo: Cloud, we need to get Aerith.
Cloud: Then I want a Lunar Harp.
"Ask the guy in the tent below. Excavating is a slow process. The treasures we excavate are stored in the box next to the tent. Remember that. The forest just beyond here is called the Sleeping Forest. Right now the forest is asleep and anyone who wanders in while it's asleep, it confuses. You can go in, but you may never come out...But just now, a girl in pink and a man in a Black Cape went in. You think they'll be all right?"
Yakumo: (Sephiroth's inside already!?) We have to hurry!
(Cloud and Yakumo go talk to the man in the tent.)
"The Lunar Harp is somewhere in the ground here. We could excavate it for you if you want to."
Cloud: We like to start diggin'.
"It's not just the Lunar Harp you're after. We else are you having us dig for?"
Yakumo: Well, we need it and we need to get inside.
"All right! Then I'll lend you some of my staff. Show us where you want to dig!"
Yakumo: Okay. Good luck, Cloud.
(Cloud digs for the Lunar Harp. Cloud sets the staff and then set off the bomb. Kaboom! The staff spins to face a spot in the top left. Cloud selects the Dig Point.)
"Now, the staff will dig here. The result of the dig will be placed in the town treasure box overnight."
(That night, the staff digs in the chosen spot. If you picked the spot correctly, the next morning Cloud finds the Lunar Harp in the treasure box.)
Cloud: We got it?
Yakumo: We did. Come on.
(Lunar Harp in hand, Cloud, Yakumo, and the others enter in the Sleeping Forest. As soon as they enter, we see that it is the same forest as in their dreams. They progresses further into the forest. Reaching a clearing, the very air glows an ethereal green. Cloud and Yakumo look around.)
The Sleeping Forest awoke...
(Fades in green. Cloud, Yakumo, and the rest of the team are treated to some beautiful, idyllic scenery as he travels through the Sleeping Forest. On the other side on the forest, they arrived at the Forgotten City. The houses, streets and walls are made of shells and coral, as if the city was once beneath the ocean. It is completely uninhabited. In one of the houses, they find several beds.)
Yakumo: Cloud. From the image we had with Aerith.
Cloud: This is the place.
Yuffie: Wow...
Red Xlll: Amazing.
Vincent: Indeed.
Barret: Look at this place.
Cait: Cool!
Cid: Yeah, and it looks pretty comfortable.
Tifa: Shall we take a break here?
Yakumo: We might as well.
(They all rest for the night. The scene shifts to later that night. Cloud is awake, and standing away from the others. He looks up.)
Yakumo: Cloud?
(Yakumo felt something else compare to the other that Cloud was feeling out as well.)
Yakumo: (Someone else is here? Where?)
Cloud: I feel it...
Yakumo: Me too. And something else with it...
(The others come in. Cloud and Yakumo must have woken them up.)
Cid: Do you know what TIME it is!?
Yakumo: Sorry, but I feel something and Aerith's energy.
(Cloud turns to them.)
Cloud: Aerith is here...and so is Sephiroth.
Barret: They are!? Who's the other third being thing!?
Cid: Wa, wa, wait a minute. You serious!?
Tifa: But how can you tell, Cloud? We know Yakumo can.
Yakumo: He knew from instinct.
Cloud: ...It's not an excuse. I feel it in my soul.
Cid: Shit, Cloud, we can't be sittin' around on our asses.
Cloud: ...right. Let's hurry and find Aerith.
Yakumo: Right.
(They leave the house. On their way there, Yakumo comes across a Moogle trapped under a giant bolder that Sephiroth kept it out of his way and was stuck getting out.)
Yuffie: A Moogle?
Yakumo: Poor girl. This is what I must've felt. Let's get her out, Orbit.
(She summons Orbit out to help her use the ESP powers to lift the giant rock off the female Moogle. For Barret, Cloud, Cait, and Tifa 'being a few strongest people aided her.)
Cloud: Come on! Keep lifting!
Yakumo: Right!
Barret, Tifa, and Cait: Lift!
(And so they did in freeing the Moogle in time to get out and for Yakumo to heal her.)
Yakumo: Good, you only got a cut. Doesn't look serious. All better.
(She was happy to make a noise and fly around with joy to shake Yakumo's hand.)
Yakumo: Welcome, Rose. Yeah...I'll call you Rose. Look, you need to leave. It'll be dangerous here. Go back the village and my friend Dudely a Chocobo will be there. Wait for us. Okay?
(She understood and takes off for Yakumo feels out that this Moogle name Rose will be alright.)
Barret: Again, how the hell does Yakumo know these things?
Tifa: Magic?
Cait: She's the one with ESP powers after all.
Cloud: Yakumo, let's go find Aerith now.
Yakumo: Let's hurry then. (At least that's one down in feeling the third being out. She'll be fine.)
(Reaching the intersection near the entrance of the Forgotten City, Cloud and Yakumo look to the north.)
Yakumo: Aerith.
Cloud: Aerith's voice... Coming from there?
Yakumo: It has to be her!
(He rushes north. Passing through a tunnel, they all reach a secluded, calm, mirror like pool. Sunlight shines from above, though it is still midnight. He continues. He enters a small, spiral-shaped building. Taking a long, glass stairway there, he reaches a huge, elegant, crystalline city, suspended in space. Continuing on, Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid find a small shrine. Aerith is kneeling inside it.)
Cloud: Aerith?
Yakumo: It is her. We made it! (Thank goodness.)
(There are five columns forming a path to the shrine, no wider than Cloud. Below them is a pool of pure, blue water. Cloud and Yakumo leap onto the first column. The others move as if to follow, but Cloud waves them away. He leaps across the other columns and reaches the shrine. He steps onto the stairs leading up to the glass platform where Aerith kneels. The screen goes red for a moment. Cloud shakes his head and reaches for his sword...then shakes his head again and continues. He stands before Aerith. She does not move.)
Cloud: Is she...?
Yakumo: She's gathering her energy to do her job to stop the commit.
(Yakumo then felt some danger lurking in the area.)
Yakumo: Cloud! It's him-! Ah!
(Soon her body with Orbit's, Cloud, and the other seven members couldn't move at all from the oncoming power holding them back like a powerful gravity.)
Cloud: I can't...move...
Yakumo: Aerith...Aerith...Move! Get out of there...!
Aerith: Cloud. Yakumo. Tifa. Barret. Red. Yuffie. Cait. Vincent. Cid. You all came.
(Aerith kneels in the small shrine. We see now that she is praying. She looks up for the first time and see both Cloud and Yakumo. She smiles. Beautifully., soon for something to come falling down. Coming from the bright white light from above comes a black figure. It falls faster and faster. We see that it is Sephiroth. His sword is drawn. Faster he falls, straight for Aerith.
Sephiroth: (Now...Mako. Show me your true powers...)
Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Aerith! Look out!
(But it was too late, the sad part just happened before Cloud, Yakumo, and everyone else's eyes to see the horror. Sephiroth's sword pierces through Aerith's body.)
Aerith: Yakumo...
(The next few moments seem like hours. Cloud's heart pounds in his ears as Yakumo started to cry to see her sister getting stabbed in front of her... and ours as well. Sephiroth, his sword through Aerith's body, just stares at Cloud. His eyes glitter, cat-like, a sly smile on his lips. With a great noise of grating metal, he pulls his sword from her body. Aerith falls forward, her eyes wide open in shock... but the smile does not leave her face. Then her eyes close. As she falls, her hair ribbon comes undone and a small materia, glowing a pale green, falls from it. It bounces once, emitting a small, pure sound against the glass floor. It bounces again, and again, until it falls off the platform into the clear water below.)
Yakumo: AERITH!
(Aerith's body falls forward. Cloud catches her before she hits the floor, cradling her in his arms. Yakumo tries to heal her, but sadly she was already dead to even try. Sephiroth stands, looking skyward, his arms spread.)
Cloud: ...Aerith!
(He gently shakes her body.)
Cloud: This can't be real! Yakumo...!
Yakumo: Aerith! Stay with me! Please! Come back! Don't stop breathing! Don't close your eyes on me! No! AERITH!
(Yakumo started to cry by her sister's side in sadness she was in. For Orbit to go into ball mode again as Tifa holds on to it for her. She, Yuffie, Barret, Cid, and Cait begin to cry as well as Vincent and Red felt very upset for not saving Aerith in time because of Sephiroth's powers holding them back in being so strong to withstand. Cloud sees Yakumo upset to feel her pain to get really mad now.)
Yakumo: NO!
Cloud: Yakumo...! I'm so sorry!
(In truth, deep down Cloud was really crying. It looks like it was all part of Sephiroth's plan to killing her tom make a new world from her powers when she dies as he explained earlier.)
Sephiroth: Do not worry. Your sister's free now, Yakumo, I have freed her. No longer must she suffer as a last Ancient. Soon the girl will become part of the Planet's energy. All that is left is to go North. The 'Promised Land' waits for me over the snowy fields. There I will become a new being by uniting with the planet. As will this girl...Now, Yakumo, let out your anger to me. Let out that energy so I can make you feel better, do it for me. And for her.
(Cloud stands up for Yakumo, for something within her started to spark from being upset, sad, and angry on what Sephiroth has done.)
Cloud: ...Shut up.
(He bows his head closer to Aerith, trembling. He abruptly looks up to Sephiroth.)
Cloud: The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don't mean a thing.
(He slowly turns his head back to Aerith's sleeping face.)
Cloud: Aerith is gone. Aerith will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry...or get angry...You made Yakumo cry...!
(He holds her body closer to his and bows his head forward.)
Cloud: What about us... hat are WE supposed to do?
(He gently rests her on the floor.)
Cloud: What about my pain?
(He trembles.)
Cloud: My fingers are tingling. My mouth is dry. My eyes are burning!
(Sephiroth moves for the first time. He slowly lowers his arms and looks at Cloud.)
Sephiroth: What are you saying? Are you trying to tell me you have feelings too? For that Mako girl?
(Cloud quickly stands up to face Sephiroth.)
Cloud: Of course! Who do you think I am!? I love Yakumo! Now she's sad because her only step-sister was killed by your hands!
(Sephiroth starts to laugh.)
Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha... Stop acting as if you were sad. There's no need to act as though you're angry either.
(He rises into the air, looking down at Cloud.)
Sephiroth: Because, Cloud. Yakumo is...
(He rockets, spinning, high up into the air. His body becomes a tiny green sphere, which lands at Cloud's feet. The screen glows red. Cloud covers his eyes.)
Cloud: No. Stand your ground, enemy coming!
(Boss battle with Jenova-LIFE. Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, Cid, and Cloud himself give it everything they had to fighting the being, but it was too strong to handle all together. With Yakumo getting up to placing her hand on Aerith's face one last time...Her body begins to glow brightly red to look and take her rage out on Sephiroth.)
Sephiroth: That's it...
Yakumo: Sephiroth...I...I...I won't ever forgive you...! You hear me!? Never!
(Everything then goes into black.)
Jenova: Because...Yakumo's my little sister.
Cloud: She's...Your sister...? Yakumo!
(She screams out very loudly to power up; leaving the others to be blown away but not hurt as her body glows up to losing her clothes and her hair becoming long to push everyone away to come at the Jenova creature alone.)
Yakumo: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
(Firing a beam-eave type of cannon blast to destroy the other Jenova in seconds to become nothing but dust. As she flies up to go after Sephiroth to punch him many times and kick him down to the ground, he stabs her. Not hurting Yakumo too deeply, she begins beating the crap out of him many times until she sees him bleed to death.)
Sephiroth: This won't hurt at all, Yakumo. Go ahead. Give it your all and your energy all to me! Do it!
Yakumo: Aerith! Aerith! You killed my sister! DIE!
(Seeing the horror for everyone else, even for Cloud. He didn't want Yakumo to become like this, he loved her normal self to have back again and to save her from Sephiroth before he drains her completely. So he runs over to her side to stopping Yakumo, this is what Sephiroth also wanted her to do.)
Cloud: No...No...! Stop! Yakumo's sister save hers, Tifa's, and my life! Yakumo! Stop this!
Tifa: Cloud!
Vincent: Don't go!
Tifa: But Cloud! Yakumo!
(Tifa tries stopping him, but Barret stops her for the others to wait and watch for Vincent puts his hands out - Yuffie, Red, Cait, and Cid couldn't do anything now.)
Barret: Are you crazy!? You'll get killed out there!
(She didn't listen to still hurt Sephiroth as he continues draining her, soon Cloud pulls her away from him and his sword right out of her body in time to heal.)
Sephiroth: No! What are you doing!?
(Yakumo was struggling and screaming to go after Sephiroth, because of her powers all bright up it was burning Cloud from holding her. Soon he hugs her from behind to calming her down with him crying with real tears coming out.)
Cloud: Stop! Yakumo! No more...!
(She soon had her eyes coming back to stop moving and hears Cloud's voice to see what she was doing.)
Yakumo: Cloud...?
Cloud: Aerith's dead...I should be the one crying. No you...! Because of Sephiroth...He try to kill you...I know you're mad at him, but...I want us to beat him together, just not like this...Come back to me!
(Yakumo looks at her hands to be bleed from punching Sephiroth so many times for him to heal completely. She then cries to stop glowing and going back to normal half naked for Cloud to still hold her from behind.)
Yakumo: Cloud...I'm sorry...Aerith...!
Cloud: It's okay...
(The two hold each other to kissing with tears of sadness to show on how much they'll miss Aerith. Sephiroth gets up to floats away in time to grabbing on to something on the way out.)
Sephiroth: Damn you, Cloud...I almost had it! You may have stop my creature and the energy I needed from her, but I will come back for Yakumo's powers and it'll be mind! This isn't over! Just you wait...
(Sephiroth flees after that. As the other members come running to Cloud and Yakumo side for Vincent to cover her up in time.)
Tifa: Cloud! Yakumo!
Barret: They're okay! But...
Yuffie: Aerith...
Cid: Poor kid...
Red Xlll: She didn't make it.
Cait: If only Sephiroth didn't show up...
Vincent: We know. None of this didn't have to happen in the first place.
(They all went over to Aerith's body to say their good-byes even for Tifa to feel really bad for her and Yakumo feeling upset.)
Tifa: I forgive you, Aerith...Sorry.
(Soon everything fades a little. Aerith's body is resting against one wall of the shrine; everyone one from Tifa 'feeling really upset', Barret liked her for saving Marlene', Cid felt bad, Yuffie upset about it, same with Red, Cait was crying hard, and Vincent to hiding his emotions really got him hurtful from within. After that, Cloud walks over to Aerith. He gently picks her up and carries her to the secluded pool for Yakumo to follow him.)
Yakumo: Aerith...
Cloud: Yakumo. I know, it's sad...Say good-bye to her.
(Yakumo hugs and peeks a kiss on Aerith's head to leave her flowers in her hands.)
Yakumo: God-bye, Aerith. You were the best sister ever.
(Cloud slowly lowers Aerith into the clear blue water. He releases her and slowly backs away. She floats on the surface for one brief second, then her face sinks beneath the water. Her hair fans out around her body as she descends into the deep, peaceful water.)
Cloud: Farewell, Aerith, I'll take good care of your sister. And...Thank you. For everything...
(Fades again as Cloud embraces Yakumo in his arms to be there for her, as the others do the same in staying by their side. They were happy to have Yakumo back to her normal self again, only to feel upset in losing her sister Aerith who saved her and took her into her new home from fives years ago. Hours later...Cloud and the others are in one of the spiral-shaped shell houses in the Forgotten City. Cloud is facing away. Took a while for Yakumo to calm down to fall asleep to finally waking up feeling tired from all that emotion she was dealing with and was still sad a little.)
Cloud: How are you feeling?
Yakumo: ...Fine...Orbit?
(Tifa gives it back to her.)
Tifa: Right here. In good hands.
(She hugs Yakumo to truly become friends now.)
Yakumo: Thank you...
(Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid better be nice around Yakumo today after Aerith's sad passing. Same with Cloud to cheer up his woman.)
Cloud: (Yakumo...Never again. I won't let Sephiroth do it again or get you...) Everyone, listen to me.
(He turns.)
Cloud: I'm Cloud, ex-SOLDIER, born in Nibelheim. I came to settle up with Sephiroth.
Yuffie: Okay...? And you're telling us all of this why?
Tifa: ...What's going on?
Barret: Start talking already.
Cloud: I came here by my own free will...Or so I thought. However...
(He gestures with his hand.)
Cloud: ...To tell the truth, I'm afraid of myself.
(He turns away for this part got Yakumo's attention.)
Cloud: ...There is a part of me that I don't understand. That part that made me give the Black Materia to Sephiroth. That had something to do with Yakumo being a half breed Mako. Something's not right about all of this.
(He cringes away from...something.)
Cloud: If Sephiroth didn't try slowing us down, Aerith might've been...There's something inside of me.
Yakumo: No, Cloud...
(Yakumo finally spoke up.)
Cloud: Yakumo?
Yakumo: There's a part of me...Jenova said I was her sister...There's something that this thing knows compare to me and Yumi. I know what I try to do to Sephiroth and I destroyed his creature in seconds. I did all of this to make Aerith go and get herself killed...Tifa try hurting us and herself...And you almost did the same. It's because of me.
(He turns back and shakes his head.)
Cloud: No, Yakumo. You're wrong. You are you. And that's why I should quit this journey. Before I do something terrible. For your sake as well.
Yakumo: What? Why?
(He raises one fist. He is shaking.)
Cloud: But I am going. You're going with me to listen and stay close, we're a team and I'm your boyfriend. We had to do this together. He destroyed our hometown hometown five years ago from your parents and Yumi giving her life to you, Tifa, and me to live on; he killed Aerith, and is now trying to destroy the Planet. I'll never forgive... Sephiroth.
(Yakumo hugs Cloud for him to hold her so deeply.)
Yakumo: Neither will I, Cloud. We just have to. He needs to be stopped.
(He stops shaking but does not lower his fist.)
Cloud: Then...I...Or rather...We must go on.
Yakumo: Yes. And if I...
(Cloud kisses Yakumo on the lips.)
Cloud: It won't. I will keep you the same. I promise.
Yakumo: Thank you, Cloud.
(He lowers it.)
Cloud: ...I have a favor to ask all of you. Will you all come with me?
(He looks up and shakes his head.)
Cloud: ...to save Yakumo from doing something terrible again for me if I can't?
Cid: Well, we'll face it when that happens.
Barret: I don't even know it either, man.
Vincent: Are you sure?
(Cloud shakes his head.)
Cloud: I don't know how Aerith tried to save the planet from the Meteor. And I guess now, we'll never know. But...!
(He nods.)
Cloud: We still have a chance. We must get that Black Materia back before Sephiroth uses it. Let's go.
Yuffie: In that case...I'm in!
Tifa: Me too.
Cait: I want to save the world no matter what. It became the part of me.
Red Xlll: I'm also in. All of us are, Cloud.
Yakumo: We're all in this together then. So am I. I will stop Sephiroth with Cloud's help and my friends, I will control my inner Mako within me. You guys ready then?
Tifa, Barret, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Let's go!
(Then everything goes black after that. The others rest for a bit for tomorrow they leave to continue on with their journey first thing in the morning. Yakumo tries to sleep through again to try to stay strong for Aerith, for Cloud comes over to help her fall asleep again, only this time...)
Yakumo: Cloud?
(He comes into bed with her holding her close to him. Places his hand hr breast, using the other to rub her leg and her butt gently to her surprise.)
Yakumo: Cloud, what are doing? Umm...
(He leans into Yakumo's ears.)
Cloud: I love you, Yakumo. Please...I want you.
Yakumo: But I don't know how...
(Cloud started removing his clothes for doing the same on Yakumo.)
Cloud: Then let me show you.
Yakumo: Cloud...! Oh, Cloud! I love you.
(Cloud and Yakumo got themselves undress to holding each other to kissing all over to lie down in bed. To dance around in, touching each other all over their bodies, dancing with their tongues within their mouths, kissing all over the body to one another, and Yakumo liking the feeling from Cloud to really have the most loveliest of sex they ever had to falling in love with each other.)
Yakumo: (Cloud...How I love this feeling so...I will still be, I only had Aerith once as my step-sister and Yumi from long ago too as Mako who saved my life. I will live on for them and for my real parents too. Mom is still waiting for me to come home real soon. Cloud, never leave my side. Love me on who I am, and nothing more. Please...Love me...)
(For that happened all night for them, for a new day in stopping Sephiroth and still save the world will happen soon enough. Sephiroth witness Yakumo's true power to almost having her Mako energy, but have some of Aertih's after killing her was some he needed to getting to her next. He laughs knowing that this was only the beginning. Still...What did the Jenova meant of her Yakumo were sisters? Wasn't Yumi who was a SOLIDER one and died in saving three lives from five years ago?)