Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid continue on their journey to the North Crater. Like the Turks, Rufus, the Shinra people, or Sephiroth will stop them as long as they stay together as a team. Yakumo wonders something to ask Cait about.)
Yakumo: Cait...Tell me something. Do you know about my family. My Mom, my Dad, Yumi, and...
Cait: Yeah?
Yakumo: ...Did we have an older sister? I was the last child and Yumi came first before me.
(Cait wasn't too sure himself to know that.)
Cait: Well...I don't recall. Sorry.
Yakumo: I figured as much. It's alright.
Cait: I do recall one thing, and one thing only...You did have a step-sister on your father's side. He loved someone else once. But she died...
(This was news to hear about.)
Cloud: Really?
Yakumo: He's telling the truth. I can get some to feel out from him.
Cait: Yep. Don't know who the mother was, she did had a son too. Sadly, she died. Unknown of what though. Her son, also unknown if he's dead or alive today, but he was mad. Probably jined SOLIDER. As for your older sister...She had a new mother to live with when her father got re-married...Yumi was born to become a SOLIDER herself; until she disappeared for the last time her parents say her during the time you were born. I remember that day. She took off to go find her until you three waited for her, and then...You know that story from Cloud from fives years ago. I wish I knew more about her.
(So Yakumo and Yumi did had a half older sister in the family.)
Yakumo: That's right...That attacked from Sephiroth made me forget and Yumi to restore me in time. That makes sense. (So I was right, I do have a half sister. But who is she?)
Cait: And...That's all I can tell you.
(Yakumo hugs Cait.)
Yakumo: Thank you again, Cait.
Cait: Glad to be able to help out.
Red Xlll: What were you in your true human form?
Cait: Me...? I was a scientist to aid others, besides working for Shinra by force...Hated it! As I said before, they force me to do things from a stuff toy in holding my real body hostage, I swear.
Vincent: At least you're being honest this time.
Cait: Hey! Again, they made me because they had Yakumo's step-mother and Marlene as their hostages.
Barret: Which we will save them both!
Cid: No kidding!
Yuffie: And save the world!
Cait: I get it already.
(Yakumo had to know more for Cloud to be there for her.)
Cloud: We'll find more about your past, Yakumo. No need to worry.
Yakumo: I'm fine...Aerith wanted me to be strong for her, and our Mom. The Mom who saved me and took me in. I'm feeling a bit better now, though sad. Still! I can do this for her!
Cloud: Glad to hear.
Yakumo: As for my half older sister, whoever she is...
(She was worried if she turned dark like Sephiroth in being a Mako creature like her, but fully.)
Cloud: I doubt it. But you know that if she has become one...We might have to stop her. Put her out of her misery.
Yakumo: You're right. She won't be dark like he is or that Jenova thing. Cloud, let's fight on.
Tifa: At a girl!
(They hug each other.)
Cloud: And we will. Let's keep on moving then.
Yakumo: Okay.
(They reach a long land bridge; the wind blows so strong it is visible. Two black-cloaks attempt to pass the wind, then get knocked back.)
Barret: Rocks?
Yakumo: No. Just some heavy clocks. The wind's too strong to cross on.
Tifa: We need to cross when the wind is calm, or we'll get swept off!
Yakumo: Then let's do it and stay close!
(They cross. On the other side, we see that the land bridge continues on a long way, twisting in on itself. Hundreds of black cloaks trudge along it, single file. Here and there one jumps off to its death or simply collapses in the way. The others walk over them. Continuing along the land bridge, they reach a point where they seem to be miles above the earth. Standing in the way is Sephiroth.)
Sephiroth: This is the end for all of you.
Yakumo: No!
(There are two black cloaks kneeling on either side of him. With a swing of his sword, they both fall to the ground below. One bounces loudly on a stone protrusion before disappearing into the green mist below.)
Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Him again!
Cloud: Sephiroth!
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Yakumo gets behind Cloud to get Orbit out for battle.)
Cloud: I got you, Yakumo, stay with me.
(They all run forward and confront him. Sephiroth does not turn around.)
Yakumo: How could you do that to those people!?
Cloud: This is the end!
Sephiroth: You're right. This is the end of this body's usefulness.
Yakumo: Watch out!
(The area goes dark. Sephiroth disappears, leaving only a pulsating jet of purple smoke. Cloud's heart pounds in our ears.)
Yakumo: He's gone...! Orbit, stay on stand-by mode! Keep your guard up!
(Orbit does so.)
Cloud: He disappeared!?
Tifa: He might still be nearby...
(It shows all around as they look for Sephiroth. They see no sign; but now there are two jets of smoke. Suddenly, they hear Sephiroth's voice from...somewhere.)
Sephiroth: Our purpose is to deliver the Black Materia to our master.
(Cloud looks around.)
Cloud: Our...? Yakumo.
Yakumo: I'm trying to feel him out! It's hard! My ESP can't keep track on his moment!
Barret: He disappear or what?
Cid: Hey, hey, ! What's goin' on?
(Soon going wildly like a huge earthquake out of nowhere type of thing and feeling. There are now three jets.)
Sephiroth: Those who carry Jenova's cells...
Yakumo: (Jenova's cells...Like his mother? If that's true, then...)
Cloud: Master...!?
(Four jets.)
Sephiroth: Of course...Sephiroth. And...Rei.
(Cloud's heart pounds faster.)
Sephiroth: Heh, heh, heh...
Yakumo: Cloud...!
(Yakumo soon gets more flashbacks about her past to show images of a girl that was her and Yumi's half sister name Rei.)
Yakumo: Rei...Rei! She's my half sister! That was her name!
Cloud: What?
(Soon Cait remembers the rest thanks to Yakumo.)
Cait: Yeah, yeah! She's right!
(His heart pounds still faster and louder until he falls to his knees. The light suddenly returns to the area. Sephiroth is hovering above them, his sword drawn. He descends on the party, knocking them to the ground but Yakumo to shield his strike attack in time. He stands for a moment by the edge of the land bridge, his arms raised to the sky. Then Cloud stands with her, slowly. Sephiroth turns to face them, his sword drawn, and the battle begins.)
Yakumo: Cloud, get up. Here it comes. Orbit, get ready.
Cloud: Right...
(It was up to Yakumo and Cloud to handle this one on their own. Boss battle with Jenova-DEATH. Yakumo powers up Orbit to go fighting the thing from throwing many mecha arms all over the creature to use only one to blocking them all, it tries shocking it; allowing for Clous to stab it. Going crazy to move around, he hangs on to using his ice magic to slowing it down. Not long enough for this Jenova-type to break free afterwards to strike back, leaving Yakumo to use her shield to guard them from its on coming hits from one to another happening so many times. Orbit sees something that it found to throw it to Yakumo to have nad powering it up being a metal staff like...)
Yakumo: This is...Aerith's! I can feel it. She wanted me to have this. In that case...
(Yakumo powers up to remove her shield and strike at the Jenova to create wind around her body to release it like a powerful sonic wave-type of attack.)
Yakumo: (For you, Aerith. I hope you're watching me.) Take this! Auroa Whrilwind!
(She fires a huge blast it to bleed out hard with some many sharp hits and cuts being left out, for Cloud throws his sword right in its long arm to use his thunder magic to shock it. As Orbit grabs hold of it's bodt to be wrapped up all over to send it flying back to the ground hard and dead. The two did it together for love and team work.)
Yakumo: We did it! We did it! I also have a new weapon to use from Aerith...
Cloud: She must be watching over us.
Yakumo: Of course she is.
Tifa: They did it!
(Once Jenova-DEATH has been defeated, the entire party meets with Cloud, Yakumo, and Orbit at the land-bridge. A small black mass floats where Jenova stood.)
Barret: Nice work, you two.
(They spotted it, though Sephiroth escaped from them again.)
Yakumo: (He's gone.) Wait...Cloud. Look at this.
(They see the small black mass that came from the Jenova being.)
Cloud: Jenova's cells...hmm. So that's what this is all about. The Jenova Reunion...
Tifa: Not Sephiroth!? You mean all this time it wasn't Sephiroth we were after?
Yuffie: It is!?
Red Xlll: This is bad.
Yakumo: Cloud, what's on your mind?
(He shakes his head.)
Cloud: I'll explain later. Right now, the only thing I'm thinking about is beating Sephiroth.
Tifa: But Sephiroth is...
Cloud: He's here. the real Sephiroth is just beyond here. It's both incredibly wicked and cruel...But it's releasing a powerfully strong will from deep within this planet's wound.
Yakumo: Yes, he's nearby. Let's continue on. (Surprise we got it back so easily.)
(Cloud walks to the black mass and picks it up. The Black Materia.)
Cloud: ...The Black Materia is back in our hands. Now all we have to do is defeat Sephiroth and that'll be the end of it.
Yakumo: Yes. It'll soon be over, should've seen Rei beng my half sister...No backing down now.
Tifa: We'd better not take the Black Materia any further. Why don't you give it to someone else to hold on to?
Yakumo: Please, Cloud? She has a point.
Cloud: Good idea. Red.
(Cloud gives the Black Materia to Red XIII.)
Red XIII: You want me to take the Black Materia? ...all right, I understand.
Cid: Nice plan.
Cait: Good enough for us.
Yuffie: For once, I'm glad I'm not going afer that type of Materia.
Vincent: I'll do it if Red's unable to, just in case.
Barret: Won't mix with me, that's for sure. Count me out!
Cloud: Don't give it to ANYONE. I'm counting on you.
Red Xlll: Right.
Yakumo: Thank you, Red. (Good idea. He can't be affected from its power than humans do.)
(He returns to Tifa. She nods.)
Tifa: Let's find Sephiroth!
(Cloud turns to face the whole party).
Cloud: Let's get going! Yakumo!
Yakumo: Right behind you, Cloud. Come on, everyone!
(They continue on their journey. Elsewhere...Dudley runs into Rose 'who looks all suited up for battle for the two to work together' to make their way to the others in no time. Cloud, Yakumo, and the others continue crossing the land bridge by staying close. Braving more winds and lightning, they complete another section of the land bridge...when everything all goes white.)
Tifa: What is this? What happened?
Yakumo: We're okay.
Cloud: Calm down, Tifa. Sephiroth is near. Anything could happen.
Yakumo: Hey! I feel something heading this way!
(When the white fades, seeing Cloud approach the gates to his hometown for Yakumo, Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid see it as well to being no dream or illusion to them.)
Yuffie: Wow...
Red Xlll: Haven't we been here before?
Cait: Red, I think you're right...
Vincent: Only it feels real, that it really isn't.
Tifa: Nibelheim...
Yakumo: Yumi's home...? (This was where Sephiroth took Mom and Dad's life!)
Cid: What the hell? Why Nibelheim!?
Barret: Why Niblheim!? Is any of us high on Mako differently or something?
Yakumo: I don't think so, Barret...
(Yakumo's head started to hurt.)
Yakumo: Ah! Cloud! Something's really wrong here...!
Cloud: Yakumo-! Ah!
(Cloud shakes his head sadly for him to feel the same pain that Yakumo was.)
Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Yakumo! Cloud!
Cloud: This is an illusion Sephiroth made up. He's trying to confuse us. It'll be all right. As long as we know it's an illusion, there's nothing to be afraid of. Come on, let's keep going. Yakumo...
(She reaches her hand out to Cloud's. For he and Yakumo pull through the pain together.)
Yakumo: I'm with you, Cloud, all the way until the very end.
Tifa: Yeah, you're both right...Look!
Yakumo: What, Tifa?
(She points to the town entrance. They all turn to look, then scatter to make room. Sephiroth reaches the gates to Nibelheim.)
Sephiroth: All right, let's go.
(Sephiroth appears not to notice the others as he walks further into the town. He is followed by two guards and a young man with black, spiky hair and a huge sword on his back.)
Cid: Cloud's not here...
Yakumo: That isn't him.
(Tifa shakes her head.)
Tifa: Stop... Sephiroth.
(Cloud shrugs.)
Cloud: This is so stupid...
(Sephiroth begins to laugh, covering his mouth in mirth, for flashes of white and all disappear save the party.)
Cid: Hey, Cloud. Let's get back to the real world, huh?
Barret: More like how the hell are we going to get back?
Yakumo: DOn't worry, I'll feel our way out some how.
Tifa: Just stay calm, Cloud...It's just an illusion. Don't worry about it...
Yakumo: Huh? (What now?)
(Going all white again for Yakumo to sense soemthing else coming, they hear the sound of rushing wind.)
Cloud: What's.. next?
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Cloud holds Yakumo in his arms.)
Tifa: Stop it already!
Barret: This is bad...Just like Corel.
Yuffie: Hey look!
Cid: This is terrible...
Red, Cait, and Vincent: ...!
(The white fades to reveal that we are still in Nibelheim. Every building in the town is aflame.)
Yakumo: Cloud! This has to be a review from the past...
Cloud: It is...This is what actually happened five years ago. But...It's probably not me that's going to come out of the Shinra mansion. He's going to try and show us another stupid illusion.
(We see the black-haired young man from before rush out of the Shinra mansion.)
Cloud: See... didn't I tell you?
Yakumo: You were right.
(He slowly walks into the town, his sword drawn. Zangan is outside the inn, while a couple people lie on the ground.)
Zangan: Hey! It's you! You're still sane, right?
(He nods.)
Zangan: Then come over here and help me!
(He rushes over to Zangan. Yakumo sees her burning paretns already dead from being stabbed by Spehiroth's sword first before that and seeing her other self go after him.)
Yakumo: Not again!
Tifa: I don't want to...watch this. Cloud...don't watch.
(The young man turns in place slowly, staring at the burning houses. He shakes his head sadly.)
Zangan: I'll check this house. You check that one over there. Damn it! Why did Yakumo took off!? She'll get killed by his hands!
(Zangan rushes into the inn.)
Cloud: ...What's wrong, Tifa? I told you before, right? As long as we know that it's just an illusion, there's no need to be scared. Yakumo, will you be okay?
Yakumo: I'm scared...But you're right. It just an illusion with some fakes. So we need to be strong.
Cloud: And we will.
(Going completly white again, and Cloud, Yakumo and the others are standing amidst the flames. Cid and Barret both go over to the person laying outside the inn.)
Cid: He... hey you! You alright!?
(He does not respond. Cid and Barret turn.)
Barret: Damn! This was all made up.
Yakumo: This is where my parents were killed, for me to go after Sephiroth alone. Big mistake...I almost died if it wasn't for Yumi who saved my life that day...Yumi...
Cloud: Sephiroth! I know you're listening! I know what you want to say!
(He shakes his head.)
Cloud: That I wasn't in Nibelheim five years ago. That's it, isn't it?
Yakumo: Cloud, Tifa, and I have live through so much pain from this! So why show us of the horror again!?
(A blink of white, a gong of a church bell, and Sephiroth is there.)
Sephiroth: I see you finally understand.
Cloud: What you are trying to say is that you want to confuse me, right? But...even making me see those things won't affect me. I remember it all. The heat of the fire...the pain in my body... and in my heart!
Yakumo: You took so many lives, to my parents, and almost killed me! You try getting my sister's powers! But she died saving my life, Cloud's, and Tifa's after what you've done! She was a force to become a Mako being and I'm half! I won't let her death be invained!
(Sephiroth shakes his head grimly.)
Sephiroth: Oh, is that so? So that's who she was...Made since to see you still breathing, Yakumo. Don't you see, my dear? You are just a human, and the other half of the Mako in being a puppet...you have a very special type of heart of Mako energy of the last kind...and you cannot feel any pain coming near my powers...How can there be any meaning in the memory of such a being? What I have shown you is reality, Cloud. What you remember, that is the illusion.
Yakumo: What!? (A creation!? Me!?)
(Cloud shrugs. He walks right up to Sephiroth.)
Sephiroth: ...Do you understand?
Cloud: I don't want to understand. That time...I found you hurting Tifa, and before that...I manage to save Yakumo from bleeding to death, and aiding Yumi before she saved all of our lives! Yakumo can't be created!
(He turns away from him.)
Cloud: But, I want to ask you one thing. Why...why are you doing this?
(A blink of white. Sephiroth appears in front of Cloud, next to Yakumo, between Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid for his arms were raising. They run to stand beside Cloud.)
Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha...I want to take you back to your real self. The one who gave me the Black Materia that day...Who would have ever thought a failed experiment would prove so useful? Hojo would die if he knew.
(Cloud steps forward to guarding Yakumo for she couldn't handle the truth.)
Yakumo: Wait! Yumi left to become a SOLIDER to be tested on into becoming a monster to find Rei. She was your half sister to fall for another mother after...After yours sadly passed on! My Dad found another to moving on yo have Yumi and me afterwards! She's still alive! She's a Jenvoa creature because she was born with it, as I a Mako from my Mother being a SOLIDER member to survive from. I know...Rei has become that thing and no longer human. I'm still human!
Sephiroth: Still human? Who do you think saved your life besides your sister you got you out alive? After saving Cloud, your so call true love and his best friend Tifa, she got you out of the labs where Hojo awaken your Mako power. Being a half Makoinoid.
Yakumo: No...No!
Sephiroth: Rei wanted to join with me like Mother, she refuse to be with another family of yours to be freed from everything. So, Hojo did so as her finally wish, as I ended hers to save her life. I would've done the same for your Mother, but she's a loss coast to your Father being a nobody, as Yumi was too in the end. She was only a proto-type of ours and died. Wasting her life on your friends, but you, Yakumo, you're different.
(Cloud got his sword out to guarding Yakumo for Sephiroth to keep away from her.)
Cloud: Don't!
Sephiroth: A waste of time falling for a weapon, don't you think?
Yakumo: Cloud...I'm not...I wasn't...I couldn't been dead and being made to being awaken...!
Cloud: Hojo!? What does he have to do with her!? And the rest of my past!?
(Sephiroth lowers his arms.)
Sephiroth: Poor Yakumo. Five years ago you were...constructed by Hojo, piece by piece, right after Nibelheim was burnt. After I removed your parents and spotted you, I let Yumi fuse her Mako blood to be in your body to heal, heal to awaken the Makonoid that you really are. A puppet made up of vibrant Jenova cells, her knowledge, and the power of Mako. As Rei has become fully too. The other one that Cloud has been with, that was the fake me. But really an incomplete Sephiroth-clone. Not even given a number...That was also your reality.
(Cloud shrugs.)
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Cloud holds Yakumo in his arms.)
Cloud: No, Yakumo...You're human, half yourself and a Mako. You are you. Nothing more.
Tifa: Cloud...Yakumo...Don't listen to him...Close your ears! Close your eyes!
Cloud: What's wrong, Tifa? I'm not affected by it...I wasn't paying attention to him. Full of crap! Saying that Yakumo was just normal to almost dying for Yumi to saving her to being awaken and escaped to die for!? Not true!
Yakumo: Even if it was all true, I would remember everything from it!
Tifa: All that talk of Hojo constructing you is a lie. Don't we have our memories together? Being kids together, starlit nights...
Yakumo: That's right! Those two were close friends!
(Sephiroth cocks his head toward her for Yakumo to shield Tifa for Sephiroth to cut right through it to break.)
Yakumo: Stay away from Tifa!
Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha...Tifa...Why are you so worried and scared by those words? Hmm...Shall I show everyone here what's in your heart?
(She quickly turns away, without a word.)
Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha...You look like you're not feeling well.
Yakumo: I said don't touch her, Sephiroth!
Sephiroth: Oh, I won't. But she might know something more than you two would...
(He disappears. Cloud and Yakumo turn to Tifa.)
Yakumo: What? Tifa? (Where did he go?)
Cloud: ...Tifa? Is Sephiroth right?
(She doesn't speak for a long time.)
Tifa: Cloud...
Cloud: Why are you so scared? Don't worry about me. I'm all right. No matter how confused I am, I'll never believe a word that Sephiroth says. Yakumo, you don't listen to him either. He's a liar to get your energy, I won't allow it.
Yakumo: I know, Cloud, but...I'm so confused and scared right now!
(He looks at the ground.)
Cloud: Yakumo...It's true that sometimes I can't figure out who I am. There's a lot of things muddled up in my memories. But, Tifa...But you said, 'Long time no see, Cloud' right? Those words will always support me. I am the one you grew up with. I'm Cloud of Nibelheim. No matter how much I lose faith in myself, that is the truth.
Yakumo: I know I feel a strong friendship bound between you two. There's no lie about that part.
(He looks up at Tifa.)
Cloud: That's why you shouldn't be so scared. No matter what anyone else says to me, it's your attitude that counts...Or Yakumo being saved and created to escaping from the nightmare, she is herself. A half human with a heart, not a puppet.
Yakumo: I agree, right, Tifa? Tifa?
(He turns away. Tifa turns back towards him. She shakes her head.)
Tifa: No, that's not true, Cloud...
Yakumo: Huh?
(He shakes his head sadly and turns to face Tifa.)
Cloud: What's not? Aren't I the same Cloud you grew up with?
Tifa: That's not what I meant...I don't know how to say it...Cloud, I need some time...Just give me a little time...
Yakumo: ! (Here he comes again.)
(Everything then flashes white and Sephiroth is standing on the stairs down to the courtyards. All but Tifa and Yakumo turn to face him.)
Sephiroth: Cloud...Don't blame Tifa. The ability to change one's looks, voice, and words, is the power of Jenova. Inside of you, Jenova has merged with Tifa's memories, creating you. Out of Tifa's memory...A boy named Cloud might've just been a part of them.
Yakumo: Wait...Tifa...She did die from that day! Yumi saw it all! You killed her and she brought her back to life...Which wasted all of her energy to die for! That's why...I saved Cloud in time after she saved Tifa's and myself! I...remember...!
(In a blink of white, he vanishes.)
Tifa: Cloud...Please... don't think right now. Yakumo!
(White flash. Sephiroth is behind them.)
Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha...Think, Cloud! ...Cloud? Ha, ha, ha...Oh, excuse me. You never had a name. Yakumo was right. After what I did to her, Yakumo did save her life to mess with your memories and hers...
(Cloud shakes his head.)
Cloud: Shut up... Sephiroth.
Yakumo: That can't be true!
(Sephiroth shakes his head.)
Sephiroth: You still don't understand? Then...
(He faces away and starts to laugh. It is the exact laugh as he might have made upon his first arrival to Nibelheim. He stops with a dismissive gesture and turns to face Cloud and Yakumo.)
Sephiroth: Do you remember the picture that we took before we headed for Mt. Nibel?
(He turns to Tifa.)
Sephiroth: ...Tifa, you remember, right?
(He turns back to Cloud and raises his arms in an almost-happy gesture.)
Sephiroth: But there is no way he would know.
(He shakes his head. Cloud shrugs.)
Sephiroth: Now...what happened to that picture?
(He pretends to look all around, then practically skips over to the dead man lying in front of the inn. The photographer.)
Sephiroth: ...is this it?
(He turns back to Cloud.)
Sephiroth: ...Do you want to see it? It turned out pretty good.
Tifa: Cloud...don't...
(He nods to Tifa.)
Cloud: I...should be in the picture. Even if I'm not in there, no worry. This is just an illusory world Sephiroth made up.
(He looks at the picture. Of course, the young man in the picture has black hair, not blond.)
Yakumo: Wait...(That looks like, Zack! He was with Cloud during the times!) Cloud.
Cloud: ...Just as I thought."
(He nods.)
Cloud: This picture's a fake. The truth is in my memory...Five years ago, I came back to Nibelheim, to inspect the reactor. I was sixteen. The town hadn't changed at all. What did I do...? Oh yeah...
(He nods.)
Cloud: I remember that man being Zack, part of SOLIDER. Close to Yakumo's sister Yumi and lover of Aerith. He died in the fire from getting hurt from protecting Yakumo for me to save, she saved me, once Yumi saved Tifa's life and hers. I remember my Mother before she passed away and Tifa, being my only friend she had...
Yakumo: What did you do at Nibelheim...?
Cloud: I played the piano! We always talk together with her father around! I spent the night and went to the reactor in Mt. Nibel. I was excited about it. Because that was my first mission after becoming First Class in SOLDIER. Zack...You're using his face in the past image to fool me!
(A flash. Sephiroth is gone. Cloud shakes his head for Yakumo to read out his mind.)
Yakumo: Something's wrong...Cloud? What's happening?
Cloud: ...SOLDIER, First Class?
(He shakes it harder.)
Cloud: ...SOLDIER? When did I enter SOLDIER?
(He clutches his head, trembling.)
Cloud: How did I join SOLDIER?
(He falls to the ground, shaking harder.)
Cloud: Why... why can't I remember?
(He rises to one knee.)
Cloud: I'm... I'm...
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Yakumo touches Cloud's head wit her hand to see flashes before his eyes to remember everything like she was too, after that he stands back up.)
Cloud: That's right...
(He nods.)
Cloud: ...I didn't have to worry about it, because I was...Yakumo...
Yakumo: Cloud...Do you...? Do I? What am I...?
Cloud: It'll be alright.
(The screen fades to black. Silence.)
Tifa: ...Cloud? Yakumo?
Cloud: Let's go, Tifa. Everyone. I'm...I'm all right.
Yakumo: Then lead the way, Cloud. (Sephiroth, you won't scare us one bit...No matter how much the truth hurts for me, Tifa, and Cloud. We will be ourselves.)
Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: You sure?
Barret: Is he really?
Tifa: Okay...
(So they kept on going on and out of the illusion with Yakumo's help. From Cloud being part of SOLIDER, but Zack was the higher class ones liek Sephiroth, Tifa died to being reborn, and Yakumo saved in doing so to becoming something different to escaped for Yumi to die for, all comes back to the three of them. Painfully true, for the others to remember and learn by. Yakumo will still be herself to love and have friends to being with her step-mother too.)
Yakumo: Cloud...
Cloud: I'll always love you, Yakumo, always...
Yakumo: Thank you.
(Soon to fade into showing a crystal cave at the Northern Crater. President Rufus enters, standing in the center of the room for a moment, enjoying. Scarlet enters.)
Scarlet: Wow! That's amazing!
(She runs to the center of the room, to the back wall, and back, looking up. Hojo enters just before it shows the past of him to the ceiling of the cave. There is a huge, tree-like, awe-inspiring structure there. Sunlight diffuses through it, into the cave. One large blue stone is nestled in the center of it.)
Scarlet: It's all Materia!
Rufus: The outside is rich with Mako energy, The inside is a treasure trove of Materia. This truly is the Promised Land. The Promise Land, all thanks to her...
Hojo: There is no such thing as the Promised Land. It's a legend...an old wives tale...it's utterly ridiculous.
(Showing back down to show Hojo standing near Rufus. Rufus turns to face him.)
Rufus: Everything as I imagined it to be. Isn't it splendid? It is that kind of dullness that makes you a second-rate scientist.
(The entire room quakes, filled with a rumbling sound. Rufus spins.)
Rufus: What's happening?
Scarlet: It's coming from within the wall! Something's in there! It's moving!
(A huge, emerald green eye winks out from the wall of the cave.)
Hojo: Weapon...Then it really does exist...I didn't believe in it. Just like she was...Aerith's little step-sister who's a half breed Mako, Yakumo.
Rufus: What does this mean?
(Hojo turns to face him.)
Hojo: ...Weapon. Monsters created by the Planet. It appears when the Planet is in danger, reducing everything to nothingness. That's what was stated in Professor Gast's report.
Rufus: I never saw that report...Where is it?
(Hojo searches a bit and holds up something in his hand.)
Hojo: Here, right here.
(The eye winks again.)
Rufus: You keep a lot of things to yourself.
(Soon things go black, as Reno looks for Yakumo and the others on his own without Rude and Elena to notice him gone. Also he heard and learn all about what she really was.)
Reno: (Yakumo...I don't care what or who you are, I love you either way. I'm coming for you.)
(Kept on fading in and out to showing it normally again and we are at the land bridge. Red XIII, Barret, Yuffie, Vincent, Cid, Tifa, and Cait waited for Cloud and Yakumo. The green wind below is rushing past at insane speeds. Red went to go rest up somewhere really quickly before they kept on moving any further to go back and talk to the others about it.)
Yuffie: What's up, Red?
Red XIII: Just thinking about what we saw. Poor Yakumo...I hope Cloud and Tifa will be alright too. It's hard to believe...such a small piece of materia is able to destroy the Planet...
Cid: Not to mention of Hojo sick ways in testing Yakumo out. So mess up!
Barret: It's hard on Tifa. She was killed and brought back to life for this mess?
Vincent: Hard to know what is real or not anymore. And...That power could be dangerous to wield if those are not careful with it.
Cait: And what really happened for Cloud and Yakumo not to remember at all until now.
Red Xlll: I think we all know that...But still...What does this all mean to us?
(The land bridge, the others, everything vanishes in a blink of black. Red XIII is left hovering over the winds below. He looks around for only he was there but not the others.)
Barret, Cid, Cait, Yuffie, and Vincent: What?
Red XIII: What the!?
(He looks another direction.)
Red XIII: Is everyone all right?
(He makes fighting motions.)
Red XIII: What's going on? Where am I!? Don't leave me alone!
(Tifa comes running in from somewhere in the wind.)
Tifa: Red XIII, are you alright?
(The land bridge fades in again. Barret, Cait, Cid, Vincent, and Yuffie were gone all of a sudden.)
Red XIII: Tifa!
(He runs over to her.)
Red XIII: Something is strange...Why was it dark all of a sudden and where is everybody?
Tifa: Everyone's waiting! Cloud's in trouble!
(A voice from out of nowhere.)
Tifa: Please come. Help us!
(Tifa turns in the direction they had left.)
Tifa: Over there!
(Red XIII nods.)
Red XIII: R, right! I'm not sure I understand...but I'll go if you want me to.
(He runs off. Tifa is still standing there.)
Sephiroth: ...hee hee hee...And remember...
(Tifa's form flickers, then vanishes. It is replaced by Sephiroth.)
Sephiroth: ...the Black Materia!"
(Sephiroth vanishes, as Barret, Cid, Yuffie, Vincent, and Cait flicker back in, flat on the ground. They sit up, slowly, rubbing their heads.)
Tifa: What happened?
Barret: Hey! Where they hell did Red go!?
(Yakumo was worried to look for him and Cloud was confused.)
Yakumo: Where is he? Red!? Red!?
Cloud: The Black Materia...! This is bad. I heard he was going to Tifa.
Tifa: I didn't call for him. I was trying to calm my head after what Sephiroth...Well, that wasn't me!
Cid, Cait, Yuffie, and Vincent: It wasn't?
Yakumo: If that wasn't you talking to Red, then who was...? (Was it his doing again?)
(They had to keep on moving to go find Red, hopefully Sephiroth doesn't do anything bad to him. Showing back to the cave in the Northern Crater.)
Scarlet: Mr. President...I've got a bad feeling about this place...
(Rufus turns to Scarlet.)
Rufus: Hmm...perhaps we should return to the ship now. We need to prepare for the inspection anyway.
(Soon everything flashes into white for a moment, and Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Barret, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid were standing in the center of the cave.)
Yakumo: Hey! We got out of the illusion.
Tifa: But how? And where are we now?
(They see everyone else.)
Yakumo: Cloud, look! It's Rufus, Scarlet, and Hojo! (We need to find Red than stopping them!)
Scarlet: Hey! Where did you come from?
Cloud: ...don't know...
Yakumo: Cloud.
(He turns to Rufus, shaking his head.)
Cloud: I'm fine, Yakumo. This place is going to get rough. Better leave things to me and get out of here while you still can!
(Rufus flips his hair back.)
Rufus: Leave things to you? Hmph...I don't know what you mean.
(Cloud and Yakumo turn away, slowly.)
Yakumo: First off, this place is too dangerous to be in. And second, we need to go find Red.
Barret: She's right! Can we deal with you guys later or something? Give us a break already!
Cloud: This is where the Reunion is happening. Where everything begins and ends.
(Tifa runs in from the rear of the cave.)
Tifa: Cloud!
Yakumo: Red! You're alright! (He isn't hurt. That's good. He must've too the long path as we went here to being stuck in a illusion area of some kind, that's good to know.)
(They take no notice. Red XIII comes running in.)
Red XIII: I'm here to help you, Cloud!
(Cloud stands still for a long moment, then holds his head. He is almost crying. He takes a few steps toward Red XIII, then stops again. Eventually he goes all the way over to Red XIII.)
Yakumo: Red, are you okay?
Red Xlll: What do you mean? I'm fine. I came here to help out.
Cloud: Thanks...Red XIII. Where's the Black Materia?
Tifa: Cloud!
Red XIII: It's safe. I'm holding onto it.
(Cloud looks down.)
Cloud: I'll take it from here. Give me the...Black Materia.
Yakumo: Huh? Why do you need it?
Tifa: You can't hear my voice?
Red XIII: Are you all right, Cloud?
(Cloud nods.)
Red XIII: Then...here you go. I was a little apprehensive holding this thing.
Tifa: No, don't! Please...stop, Cloud!
Yakumo: What's the matter, Tifa?
(Cloud takes the Black Materia from Red XIII.)
Cloud: Thanks...leave the rest to me.
(There is a long pause...then everything all over the place blinks white, and for just a moment, we see Sephiroth, staring.)
Sephiroth: Come on...the Black Materia.
"Please! Just a little longer!"
(The white fades. Cloud walks to the center of the room.)
Cloud: It has to be destroyed...
(Yakumo then sees more flashes in her head for Cloud to see them with her, soon she knows everything coming back to her, the Black Materia had to be stopped by her hands being reawaken as a Mako being or not, she had to stop Sephiroth since Yumi died trying to save her life, Tifa's, and Cloud's. Before he and Rei become one to rule the planet itself. So she grabs it away from Cloud's hands in time.)
Yakumo: No!
(She uses her powers to push Cloud away from the item to hold on to instead.)
Cloud: Yakumo!?
Red Xlll: What are you doing!?
Tifa: Whatever you are trying to do, Yakumo, don't! Please!
Barret, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: What's going on!?
(Cloud tries going over to Yakumo to making her feel better, but she glows up all over again to holding her power in to stop them all from coming any closer even Scarlet, Hojo and Rufus too.)
Yakumo: Stay back!
(They all stopped, for Cloud could see her crying.)
Yakumo: Stay away from me...!
Cloud: Yakumo, why?
Yakumo: I know, I know all...Cloud, Zack gave up his life saving you, after Yumi came to bring Tifa back to life from dying, she save me, to saving you. Then being a test subject to Hojo to draw blood to awaken my Mako inner self and powers, Yumi got me out to die in my arms...Before Aerith and her mother came along to saving me. And taking me in...I think...I knew all along. I let my emotion without controlling at first get the best of me to erase everything to being me, until Sephiroth...Like Rei, I'll become like her than Yumi almost did and our Mother...I...Hojo made me become Sephiroth's servant without me knowing about it, Cloud. Because he...He was watching you since your powers are one...! I'm so sorry! And for that, I will leave this world next to join Zack and Aerith while I destroy the Black Materia with me.
Cloud: No! You can't!
(Reno comes out of nowhere to over hear it all.)
Reno: No, Yakumo! This isn't the way!
(Yakumo smiles to shielding herself to walk off without saying her good-byes first.)
Yakumo: Reno...Forgive me. Take care of Rude and Elena, okay? Thank you for everything.
Reno: Yakumo...!
(She faces Rufus.)
Cloud: ...Sorry, Rufus, follow the right path, okay? Not your father's.
Rufus: Come again?
(The she faces Red XIII.)
Yakumo: So sorry, Red. Take care of Rose if you see her and Dudley again, okay? Tell Dudley that I love him.
Red Xlll: Don't leave. Please...
Yakumo: But I have to do this.
(She faces the others at a time next.)
Yakumo: Barret, go save Marlene. Be a good father to her. Yuffie, don't steal too much Materia, alright? Be good. Cait, I'm glad you helped us out in the end spy or not. Vincent, I hope you'll follow your path on what you think is right, my friend. Cid, Shera loves you...So love her back. Treat her well.
(They all started to get very sad and started to cry for some of them to see Yakumo go out this way like Aerith did out of nowhere.)
Barret: But, Yakumo...
Yuffie: Don't leave us...You're my best friend in the world...
Cid: Damn you, Yakumo!
Vincent: Change your mind. This isn't the way.
Cait: This isn't the way.
(Next she turns to Tifa to smile for her.)
Tifa: Yakumo...Don't go. You promise to be with Cloud to keep him happy, I'll never forgive you if you do!
(She started to cry much more than the others were.)
Yakumo: Tifa, you're my best friend...Keep Cloud happy in love or as friends, for me.
(Last she goes to Cloud to hug and kiss him.)
Yakumo: And I'm going to miss you most of all, Cloud Strife...My first and only true love that I ever made...I love you, and I always will when I'm gone.
(She kisses Cloud's lips for he didn't want this feelings for her to go away. He lost a friend being Aerith, he doesn't want to lose his one and only true love.)
Cloud: No...Yakumo...! Don't leave me.
Yakumo: But I have to...It's the only way...Please understand. Be happy for me, Cloud.
Cloud: Yakumo...!
(Hojo goes up to Yakumo as she begins walking away without looking back to being really sad not to while holding the Black Materia in her hands.)
Hojo: Ha, ha, ha... this is perfect! It means that my experiment was a complete success! A human saved to becoming a full Mako being! Such beauty...
(He laughs.)
Hojo: What number were you? Huh? Where is your tattoo?
(Yakumo shakes her head sadly.)
Yakumo: No, Professor Hojo...I don't have a number. You didn't give me one because I was a failed experiment. But still, you let me get away with my sister to die in front of me in the end.
(Hojo turns away.)
Hojo: What the-? You mean only a failure like you made it here? But your half older sister Rei...
(Yakumo speaks to his back.)
Yakumo: Professor...please give me a number. Please, Professor...
(Hojo spins to face him.)
Hojo: Please. You...You were different than Yumi was...Lucky one you are, so why bother?
(Yakumo walks up to the edge of the cave to the bottom was really deep down for a fall to drop dead in. Soon to hear a sound of an electrical spark, and catch another fleeting glimpse of Sephiroth's visage, for everything to go completely white all over.)
Rufus: Yakumo...Who...Is she?
Hojo: The real Sephiroth that guided and used Cloud was his clone, the real one is still here who died five years ago. He's here, the real him. I did created the clone self after that event too when I aided Yakumo during the time; Jenova cells and Mako like he and Rei were, with my knowledge and skills, have been combined with science and nature to bring him to life. By her DNA and their mothers. Yumi was a failure, but unlike their half sister Rei and Sephiroth, she was a reborn for her powers to grow like a Goddess.
(A glimpse of the Materia Tree.)
Hojo: ...I'm not wild about the failure part to test on Yumi to escaping us to giving up her life for Yakumo to save, but the Jenova Reunion Theory has now been proven.
(Another glimpse.)
Hojo: You see, even if Jenova's body is dismembered, it will eventually become one again. That's what is meant by Jenova's Reunion.
(Another.)
Hojo: I have been waiting for the Reunion to start. Five years have passed, and now the Clones have begun to return. The fake's gone, for he knows what Yakumo's about to do next for the real one to be awaken.
(Another.)
Hojo: I thought the clones would begin to gather at Midgar where Jenova is stored. But my predictions were not entirely correct. Jenova itself began to move away from the Shinra Building. Yakumo will try committing suicide to save our world and destroying the Black Materia with her before the real Sephiroth gets to her first.
(Everything fades in to showing the materia tree. As Cloud tries to save Yakumo from jumping to her death as the others watch it all.)
Hojo: But being a genius that I am, I soon figured it out. You see it was all Sephiroth's doing. Sephiroth is not just content to diffuse his will into the Lifestream; he wants to manipulate the Clones himself. To the real to awaken and stop her first before she tries jumping off. Just watch. The one thing that I did know was that Sephiroth was at their final destinations.
(Yakumo closes her eyes, tears come out, she smiles, holds on to the Black Materia in her hands, and jumps off.)
Yakumo: Good-bye, everyone...Cloud...I love you...I love you all...
(Cloud goes after her.)
Cloud: Yakumo!
Reno: Stop!
Rufus: She's crazy!
Scarlet: She's can't!
Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: No!
(As Yakumo begins to fall down, the tree does something odd; the blue stone slips, then falls down, sending small stones to the floor below. Showing that the stone is a cocoon for Sephiroth. His body sleeps inside it, perfectly preserved, sleeping, waiting. Then switches back to the floor. Rufus and Scarlet have left. The entire room quakes violently.)
Hojo: Did you see it! It's Sephiroth! So he IS here! He senses Yakumo would do this to herself!
(They all turn to face him.)
Reno: No way...
(Sephiroth gets out to reaching out his hand to the falling Yakumo before Cloud to grab her hand in time to disappear before his very eyes.)
Cloud: Yakumo!
Yakumo: ! Cloud-!
(The others with Hojo and Reno still around to seeing this happening.)
Tifa: Where did she go!?
Cloud: Yakumo!? Yakumo!?
(Cloud or the other team members couldn't find her anywhere.)
Hojo: This is perfect! Both Jenova's Reunion and Sephiroth's will! They won't be diffused into the Lifestream, but gathered here! Mwa, haa, ha,...Rei was the body, he is the mind, and she'll be the heart!
(Tifa shakes her head.)
Cloud: To become something with the Black Materia! No! Not Yakumo!
Tifa: What are you so happy about, Professor? You know what this means, don't you? Yakumo has the Black Materia! Sephiroth is going to summon Meteor! Every single person is going to die!
(Rufus comes back in.)
Rufus: Whatever I say now is too little...too late...We must evacuate. Scarlet!
Scarlet: Yes, sir!
(They all turn to face Rufus.)
Rufus: I want you all to come with me. There is still much more I want to hear.
Cloud: No! We can't leave her!
Rufus: I'm afraid it's too late for Yakumo now!
(Points up to show Yakumo who goes out cold to be lifted by Sephiroth and the Black Materia already being taken out of her hands and into his again.)
Red XIII: There they are!
(Once in Sephiroth's hands, he points it up for Jenova being Rei like his mother reaches out with strong powers to show as he uses his sword to stab Yakumo in the heart for Rei Mako to use her long energy-like hands to go into Yakumo's body to drain all of her Mako energy to be screaming in pain for Cloud to watch it all happened, for he could break free.)
Cloud: No-!
(Sends him flying. Reno does it too to do the same.)
Reno: Leave her alone!
(He goes flying too, for he couldn't do it either.)
Tifa: Cloud-!
Cloud: Yakumo!
(Cloud reaches out to Yakumo, it was too late for Yakumo's entire body turns dark all over to pass out and seeing the others with Reno and Cloud once more.)
Yakumo: Cloud...I'm sorry...Ah!
(She was out for Sephiroth was whole with Jenova fully completed now to being Rei and his mother into one.)
Cloud: YAKUMO!
(The blue stone becomes a liquid, and the Black Materia into it to going inside. The Black Materia fuses with Sephiroth's body wit the entire mind, body, and heart to become whole to being inside of him now. His face maintains its expression of calmness as his whole body begins to spark with energy. The materia tree and the stone crumble to the ground as the others rush out of the cave and onto the airship.)
Rufus: Let's go!
(Soon Barret and Tifa pull Cloud out of there in time afraid to leave Yakumo, they had to.)
Barret: Get the hell out of here!
Tifa: Come on, Cloud!
Cloud: No! No! I won't leave her!
Reno: Damn it! Yakumo!
(Reno had no choice to in helping the others get Cloud out of there and they do. Soon Scarlet, Hojo, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, Cid, and Rufus all leave the place for Jenova's entire body to appear as her vines wrap Yakumo's body to glow liquid-like blue type of feeling all over her body to change as Sephiroth laughs.)
Sephiroth: Yes, yes, yes! Yakumo, you re the key for me to create a new world. Just you and I. We are one like Mother and sister Rei. Now...With the Black Materia gathering all three things that I needed to gather, I no longer need Cloud, I have you, my dear. Now...You'll aid me in becoming a true Makoinoid that you really are! Forever!
(Sephiroth laughs. What happens next to them was unknown. As the airship flies away with everyone else in it to watching the horror, a beam of energy shoots from the northern craters, nearly knocking the party off the airship. As the beam grows and grows, we see what is inside it. The Weapon being Rei herself int oa full Jenova type. It rises from the crater, dwarfing the airship as it releases a beam of pure energy from its maw. The Weapon creates a barrier of energy around it as it rockets off across the continent. The airship flies off. Tifa falls from the shaking event for Cloud to catch her in time.)
Cloud: Tifa...
Barret: I don't believe this is happening!
(As Dudley and Rose arrive on the ship thanks to Reno's help, they see Orbit in its ball form to hold on to meaning that Yakumo wasn't with the others but with Sephiroth carrying her away as Weapon takes off with them. For Rude and Elena drive the ship as Scarlet, Rufus, Hojo, and the others watch it horror.)
Tifa: Yakumo...Come back to us...
(With Tifa reaching her up to calling back Yakumo, it was no use. Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid could only do was to watch it al happened for Yakumo to be taken away. Sephiroth 'the real one' is back to turn Yakumo into his slave as a full Mako being to go off and change the Planet with Meteor with Weapon being the soulless Jenova to being very dangerous...Cloud was crying, unable to save his true love to watch her real self fade away. He then sees everything go into darkness to pass out after calling out to her.)
(Yakumo: Good-bye, everyone...Cloud...I love you...I love you all...)
Cloud: Don't go, Yakumo...YAKUMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(With that saying it very loud to the top of Cloud's lungs to pass out in front of the others.)
Barret: Cloud!
Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: No, Cloud!
Reno: Damn it! This isn't happening!
(With Reno crying a lot more too, and Tifa gets back up to be by Cloud's side she too cries with him.)
Tifa: This can't be happening...
(From the skies, Yakumo's body slowly turns into a water-like body being all blue all over to her eyes glowing up brightly yellow to look not so normal. What has she become the same as Yumi was but much different and dangerous. She was now being controlled by Sephiroth to do as she's told to. This was not good at all.)