Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(And so, it has finally begun...For Cloud, Yakumo 'having Orbit by her side and Yumi inside of it', Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid to making their way to stopping Sephiroth, Rei, Weapon, and Meteor by using Holy once and for all. They travel as the others along with Rose and Dudley stayed behind. A ways away from the Highwind, they soon reach a steep drop off down into the depths of the cave.)
Yakumo: That's along way down.
Cloud: Looks like we can only slide down. Alright, let's go!
(Cloud holds Yakumo's hand, to her holding Barret's, Tifa's, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid's to staying close without any of them get separated.)
Yakumo: Okay, here we go! (Ready or not, Sephiroth and Rei, here we come!)
(They all slide down into the crater. Cloud, Yakumo, and the others descend into the crater. Sections of the wall fall away inches from their feet as they continued toward the eerie green glow at the bottom. Traversing a long, complex series of platforms and tunnels, they soon reach at a large cavern where the path being long and very odd looking.)
Yakumo: This road is very odd...But I do sense danger further down.
Cloud: Then let's stay together and close without any of us getting lost.
Yakumo: That won't be a problem there.
(And so they continue to move on for everyoen else was as well.)
Cid: We're going the right way, right Cloud? Yakumo?
Barret: All right. Then I'll go...
Tifa: Then I'm going too...
Red XIII: All right, then I'll go...
Yuffie: I'm going...
Cait: Then we'll be okay sticking together. All of us.
Vincent So will I to protect those I care about...
Yumi: Then we'll be just fine.
(Cloud looks around at all the others.)
Yakumo: Okay, let's all stay in a line while fighting off any mosnters we can. One person goes first to the other. So let's give it a try.
Cloud: Now don't any of you die on me. ...Gotta get through to Sephiroth! Let's do what Yakumo said we should do. Stay together in a line.
(And soon they started for Yakumo to hold on to Orbit and Aerith's staff. For whoever goes on ahead first will lead for the last to follow them in a line they'll be in and on guarded.)
Yumi: All ready? Let's get going!
Vincent: It's all over now. With this...
Yuffie: Oh man...'Materia Hunter Yuffie' sounds like the last chapter of 'Materia Forever.'
Red XIII: All life on this planet, indeed the very life of this planet is in our hands...
Cait: I'm so happy to have met you all, really! ...sniff...
Barret: Well...Looks like this is our last big job!
Tifa: Here we go, then.
(And last both Yakumo and Cloud were the two to staying behind them.)
Yakumo: Let's go, Cloud.
Cloud: Right. This will be the end of it!
(And so off they went into in a line they stayed on and staying together to sitll fighting monsters in their way for more training. Entering deeper in a deep cave, or swamp, until they reach another crater deep inside. Golden mist wafts upward from a green glow at the bottom. A series of suspended stone platforms form a path down to the bottom for all of them to see this.)
Barret: Yo, we're a bit late?
Tifa: We thought we would never find out way through.
(Cloud, Yakumo, and the entire party are all gathered at the lip of the final crater in the North Cave. Cloud and Yakumo stare down into the bright glow.)
Yakumo: I agree. I almost didn't felt our way to where we needed to be. It's like a maze in here.
Cloud: This is the center of the Planet...?
Yakumo: It is.
(He speaks to each of the other party members.)
Yumi: All set to go?
Cid: Let's just get this over with!
Tifa: This is it.
Barret: Here, Cloud.
(He hands Cloud a Guard Source.)
Cloud: Thanks.
Red XIII: Cloud, I found this...
(He gives Cloud a Mind Source.)
Yakumo: Cool in finding things for us.
Cait: Hey Cloud, I found this.
(He gives Cloud an Elixir.)
Vincent: Hold on to this.
(He gives Cloud a Last Elixir.)
Yakumo: And you, Yuffie?
Yuffie: ...Wh...what?
Barret: Oh yeah, Yuffie, didn't you find somethin'?
Yakumo: Come on...
(She shakes her head.)
Yuffie: Oh, all right. Here, Cloud.
(She gives Cloud a Last Elixir.)
Yuffie: But I'm the one who found it, so you better give it back to me when you're done with it!
Yakumo: Thank you, Yuffie.
Barret: Awright, this's the last dance!
Red XIII: We finally made it here.
Cait: Well, shall we get goin'?
Vincent: Hmm...Being with you all is not so bad.
(Cloud and Yakumo with everyone else too all prepared to follow the path of stone platforms down into the crater. For the two lovers hold hands with each other.)
Cloud: All right, everyone, let's mosey. I love you, Yakumo.
Yakumo: Time to save the world! I love you too, Cloud.
Cid: Damn! Again! Stop sayin' it like a wimp! Can't you say 'Move out!' or somethin'?
(Cloud rubs the back of his head, then vehemently gestures with his fist.)
Yakumo: Alright, he will...
Cloud: Move out!
(The sound of roaring monsters comes from above.)
Barret: What?
Yumi: No!
Yakumo: Not good. Lots of monsters are heading to where we are!
(The party looks skyward.)
Red XIII: Look at the number...
(They assume fighting stances.)
Cid: %# ^! They're comin' out in force!
Barret: Cloud! You go first!
Yakumo: And leave you guys!? No! I'm fighting!
(Cloud shakes his head quickly.)
Cloud: I'm fighting here too.
Barret: Both of you! Shu'up! It won't do us no good wit' everyone back here!
Cid: Barret's right. You two of us will have to go first. The rest'll catch up with ya later.
Yumi: Then Orbit and I can go with them.
Yakumo: But Oribt...Yumi...We won't leave you guys...!
Tifa: Is this like a practice run before the real thing?
Cait: Yeah, a major practice run...
(Yuffie does a little fighting-dance.)
Yuffie: Heh heh, I'm fine with that. (It's probably more fun than fighting Sephiroth down there.)
Vincent: Hmm, this might be fun to pass time.
(A pause. The monsters' roar above suddenly sounds, closer.)
Red XIII: They're coming! They're already on the floor next to us!
(A deafening roar.)
Barret: Cloud! Hurry up and make up your mind!
Yakumo: Cloud?
(Cloud grabs Yakumo's hand.)
Yakumo: ?
Cloud: Get Orbit and your staff ready and let's go. They'll be fine. It's up to you and me to stopping Sephiroth.
(Yakumo understood. For she and him will stop Sephiroth and Rei together, and the other seven heroes stayed behind to fighting off a lot more monsters coming at them.)
Yakumo: Okay, then. Let's go. Everyone, stay safe. Orbit and Yumi, time to move out.
Yumi: I'll do all I can to aid you. Remember, when this is all over...
Yakumo: I know. You'll finally move on, we'll make it happen.
Cloud: It'll be okay, Yakumo. Just stay with me. All of you!
(They turn to look. Cloud and Yakumo wave at them.)
Cloud: Later!
Yakumo: Be careful!
(A pause. The monsters sound closer than ever.)
Barret: Yeah, later you two.
Tifa: Be strong for you love! Cloud and Yakumo!
(Cloud and Yakumo descends into the crater. As Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid fight off the monsters made by Sephiroth to stop; allowing the two lovers to continue moving forward to save their energy for the real fight to happen. Leaping from one stone platform to another and fighting massive enemies along the way, Cloud and Yakumo arrived at the bottom. They arrive on a strange crystalline platform seemingly made up of cubes and triangles. The green mist howls along the edges.)
Cloud: Where are we...?
Yakumo: We're somewhere. To fnding one ofthem we must face that is...
(They hear an inhuman howl.)
Yakumo: What!?
Yumi: It's her!
(Jenova, a serpentine woman from the waist up and a huge skull from the waist down, appears from the mist.)
Cloud: Jenova...!?
(Follow by Rei as well looking freaky looking in her Makoinoid form.)
Yakumo: And Rei!?
(Orbit was ready to fight with them.)
Yumi: Don't lose focus here, you two! Fight them.
Cloud: Right. Yakumo, I' can handle Jenova, but I need to borrow Orbit from you.
Yakumo: I'll allow it. Yumi, let's do as sisters do against our half being.
(They assume fighting stances as Jenova rushes toward Cloud and Orbit, while Rei comes up to Yakumo and Yumi for her spirit powers her little sister up.)
Yumi: Let's do this...
(Boss battle with Jenova-SYNTHESIS against Cloud and Orbit and Rei herself against Yakumo having Yumi's powers from within, for a two on two battle. Cloud gives it his all to using fighting skills, his sowrd, or magic, to other Aeons against Jenova for Orbit to be his shield to blocking it's long arms, beam blasts, and other thing to go head to head against one another; as Rei shows off her powers in the flesh for Yakumo not to lose to her of Mako Energy that she has to control for Yumi in spirit only to guide her. Powering up, the two go at it...With fasr skills to striking really hard and quick to being push away from so much for Rei to use her long claws and Yakumo usingh her staff from Aertih's power still within it left out to both use. Creating their own barrier magic to stopping each other their own attacks, for one to hit the other at a time was crazy. So much force. Cloud was hanging in there as well on his end to keep Orbit wrapping all over Jenova before it could try draining them to being shocked double times.)
Yumi: Hurry, Yakumo, you can beat her. I'm right behind you!
(Yakumo gets back up from alost getting stabbed by Rei's claws to her leg, she pulls them out by force to kicking her away in time, for she has grown stronger than before.)
Yakumo: I know you are, Yumi, we will win this.
(Orbit was able to pull Jeonva's two long arms with it's own to be held for Clodu to cut them both apart from it's body. For Rei tries to heal, but as selfish as it was fail in using too much magic to run out also because of Jenova was getting weaker.)
Yakumo: That's the problem with you, Rei. Hojo ruined you and Sephiroth's lives because of him killing your other Mother to become...This thing! A Jenova! You want to do the same without knowing what really happened to you both, just like Yumi, our parents, and half of myself. You weere good to being told right from wrong, were you? I would say I felt sorry, but that's not me you should worry about...
(Yakumo blows Rei away using her staff to fighting back hard for Rei to get weaker, allowing Yumi to go right through her body to destroying her heart from the inside to soon be dead.)
Yumi: This is for Mom, Dad, Aerith, Zack, and your other Mother!
(Just like that, she drops on the ground for looking at both Yumi and Yakumo for her to turn back to her human form real quick, slowly dying to saying these last few things to them.)
Rei: Yakumo...Yumi...I understand now. I saw it all from you two...And...I'm sorry...
(Yakumo understood to touching her hand once more to slowly close her eyes.)
Yakumo: We know. Good-bye, dear sister.
(With Rei fading away now, Cloud was able to use a dragon to summon to burning it without escaping this time...Allowing Cloud to slash Jenova up in half to finall bleed out and it's body split into two and falling off the odd platform to letting out it's last cries too. No more Jeonvas anymore, Yakumo uses her powers in time to float Cloud back up before he fell down too.)
Yakumo: Cloud! I got you!
(Cloud as back up for Yakumo to heal him, herself, and Orbit was doing just fine.)
Yumi: Well, done you two. We have completed some things we took care of already, leaving a few more to go.
Yakumo: We saved Rei the pain, with Jenova, she was no threat to us.
Cloud: Guess you did your part too, Yakumo?
Yakumo: Yes, and so have you.
Cloud: We just need to find out where Sephiroth is...
(The cubes and pillars that make up the platform begin to break up, rocketing skyward past the party. As the last of the platform disintegrates, the party falls down toward the green glow, absorbed in it. Cloud, Orbit with Yumi, and Yakumo fall in slow-motion through blackness. The only light is from a glowing white sphere in the center of the screen. It pulsates with energy as though it were a beating heart. Cloud and his girlfriend continued to fall toward it.)
Yakumo: Cloud, look!
Li...ght...A light...Is this...Is this light...Holy?
(They fall into the light. Then it abruptly changes. The core of the Planet. In the undulating green glow is a round, red stone structure. It forms tendrils, almost but not quite concealing what is inside-a pulsating white sphere. The structure is surrounded by many smaller stone platforms. The entire party rests unconscious on these. After a moment, Barret stands.)
Yumi: Looks like we're all back together then.
Yakumo: Barret! Tifa! Red! Yumi! Cait! Vincent! Cid! You guys alright!?
Barret: Oww...damn, man!
(Cloud gets to his feet.)
Cloud: Barret!?
(The rest of the party comes to.)
Barret: What...? So everyone's together again...?
(Yakumo and Yumi then sense Sephiroth coming already.)
Yakumo: He's here!
(Suddenly, a ring of white fire shoots from the center of the sphere. The party is levitated, struggling, into the air.)
"Uuuugh...!"
(Sephiroth's face flashes for a split second. His theme begins to play as he vanishes, only to reappear, materializing from the center of the sphere.)
Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: It's him!
Cloud: ...Sephiroth!
Yakumo: Stay strong, you guys! Yumi and I can create a shield!
Yumi: Hurry!
(They do so in time of protectign the others. Then another ring of white fire emanates from the sphere, driving the party further from Sephiroth.)
Barret: Ugh...! Is this...the true power of Sephiroth?
Cid: My... my body... I can't control my body... Uuugh!?
Yakumo: Stay strong...Do it...! (I have to hold this power of his off as much as I can!)
(Sephiroth draws the party nearer with his mental powers, only to torment them with another fire ring.)
Red XIII: My front legs...my hind legs...my tail's about to tear off!
Cait: This is definitely not good...He's way outta our league...
Yuffie: I, I don't know if I can...go on...
Vincet: I cant'...Break through...!
(Soon things flashes up big and the party spins in the air like toys.)
Tifa: Cloud...Cloud...
Cloud: Ugh...ugh...
(Again.)
Cloud: ...there...It's...there...
Tifa: Cloud...?
Yakumo: (He means the Holy...) You see it?
(Again.)
Cloud: ...Holy...Holy...is there...The Holy is shining...Aerith's prayer is shining...!
Yakumo: Aerith...Her spirit is here to help us!
Yumi: It is her!
Tifa: Holy...Aerith...
(Again.)
Cloud: It's not over yet...This isn't theend yet!
Sephiroth: Doubt it. Come here, you!
(Sephiroth uses his powers to grab hold of Yumi's ghost, to pushing Orbit away into a ball to getting hit really hard, and tries absorbing her powers now to be the last Jenova to still complete his task.)
Yakumo: Orbit...! Yumi!? Yumi, no!
Yumi: Yakumo!
Sephiroth: Since my Mother's gone and Rei because of you, I guess you'll have to share your gifts that you have left in spirit for me. And no escaping, there's no point but to obey me since your sister won't...I'll make her by force.
(As Sephiroth puts his arm on Yumi's neck to touching a ghost to using his sword, he gathers enough Mak Energy to power up for everyone to see the horror.)
Cloud: She's being drained...!
Yakumo: YUMI!
Yumi: Sorry...
(Sephiroth soon becomes whole and powering up now than ever. Cloud and Yakumo assembles his party and prepares for the final battle. Sephiroth unleashes a final fire ring that drives the other characters away for Yakumo to shielding them all in a huge bubble.)
"Eyaaaah-!"
Yakumo: No! ...We're not gonna lose! You guys stay put! Cloud and I have this.
Tifa: Be careful!
(She floats up above Sephiroth.)
Yakumo: Sephiroth...You monster! Aerith is here...everyone is here...Cloud is here with us! There's still many things for us to do...I'm not giving up! You took Yumi to ruining her, mine, Cloud, Tifa's, and everyone else's lives. You will be stopped!
Tifa: They won't give up in beating you yet!
Barret: Time that someone more than one person puts you in your place!
(Cid floats up alongside Tifa, Barret, anf the others.)
Cid: Hoo-ok...! I can't be foolin' around in the bottom of this hell hole...I still have lots of stuff to do with my life!
Yakumo: We'll win for us to go home together for me and Cloud to live happily. Right, Cloud?
(Cloud floats directly in front of Sephiroth.)
Cloud: She's right! Aerith's memories...Our memories...We came...to tell you...our memories...Come Planet! Show us your answer! And Sephiroth! To the settling of everything!
Yakumo: You don't scare Cloud or me with your magic!
(Sephiroth goes up next to Yakumo to grab her by the neck with his sword close to in to beg slice open to bleed out.)
Sephiroth: I don't think so.
Yakumo: Ah! CLOUD!
(Cloud stops before Yakumo gets hurt.)
Cloud: Yakumo...! Let her go!
Sephiroth: Don't even try, Cloud. She won't escape from me. She'll become part of me the way Yumi has, we will change this world to make it anew!
Yakumo: Like I'll ever help you!
(Sephiroth holds Cloud up in the air and stuck to move, for he fools with Yakumo to make her part of him like he did to Yumi's ghost.)
Sephiroth: Not even to restore your family.
Yakumo: What-?
Cloud: Don't listen to him, Yakumo-!
Sephiroth: Be quiet, we're talking.
(He gives more pressure of power all over Cloud's body to feel so much pain for Yakumo to see the horror.)
Yakumo: Stop this!
Sephiroth: Then become part of me, or he dies. You do want to see your family again, right?
Yakumo: What do you mean by that...?
(Yakumo couldn't do anything for Sephiroth to stop her body from refusing.)
Sephiroth: That's right...With these powers, I can bring anyone back from the dead. You name it. Aerith, Yumi, your family, the good old sister of mine Rei who was once human, her Mother and mine...Zack. You just say it, Yakumo, and I'll make anything happen if you just say you'll become part of me. Fuse within me as a whole Mako Energy...
(Yakumo couldn't move at all for him to get closer to absorbing her next for Cloud couldn't save her, not wanting to lose the love of his life again.)
Sephiroth: I must do this because it's my destiny. What my father did, disgraceful. I know all about him thanks to Rei and Weapon telling me everything I needed to know and sense it right through you too, Yakumo. I then absorbed Weapon, I could've done the same to Mother and Rei, but they got destroyed leaving me with Yumi's remains and yourself. All I want to do is to change the world with your help. From destroying it with Meteor and then making it better with my powers. But I can't do it alone, I need your help, Yakumo. So join me. Say I'll join you to make it all happen and bringing those you care about back to life. You will do it, right? Say you will.
Yakumo: I...I...I...
Sephiroth: Go on...
(Yakumo then powers up from her half Mako appears powers to start burning Sephiroth's body from touching her.)
Yakumo: I want you dead! Like bring them back to life would make any differences, they want me to keep on living!
(She blasts Sephiroth away from her and saves Cloud in time.)
Cloud: Yakumo, you did it!
Yakumo: I did! Like I would fall for his lies anyways. This ends here, Sephiroth! No more will you take control of me!
(He was mad to powering up.)
Sephiroth: So...You two want to die together than join me!? So be it...!
(Everything flashes all over the place. The rock structure and green haze begin to waver, undulate, and finally collapse in on themselves, leaving the party and Sephiroth suspended in darkness. Sephiroth draws Cloud and Yakumo in to him and transforms. For the other seven watch the whole entire battle to go down t cheering them on.)
Cloud: Yakumo, let's stop him together.
Yakumo: Right!
(Boss battle with Bizzaro Sephiroth. The two gave it their all against Sephiroth from Cloud's skills and Yakumo to hitting him hard to being very large in the form he turned into it was hard to stopping him who's no longer human; from magic that they had, up grading defense spells, healing, skills in fighting, and Yakumo doing very well in using Aerith's staff against him. As Cloud does the rest of the fighting by her side. The two avoid his blast attacks, strength, and his wings trying to slash them to be moving fast to staying together...Sephiroth was trying to have them killed.)
Cloud: Yakumo!
Yakumo: I know! Keep avoiding his attacks!
(Yakumo shields herself and Cloud again from Sephiroth's blast thanks to her shielding, to Cloud using his Trine attack on him. Yakumo felt out one of Sephiroth's weakness in the middle of some orb thing on the lower body for Cloud to stab and Yakumo to breaking the spells from Sephiroth to strike at him none stop as a team like they did before. Almost hitting Cloud for Yakumo to protecting him in time from getting hit on the ground to come back to use a fire magic on him. Nice shot. Yakumo uses her ice spells from the staff to trapping Sephiroth to break fre and use the ice shards on them for Yakumo to break them all away from them in time, same with Cloud with his sword striking hits he was giving out - the others were amazed just seeing this whole thing happen.)
Tifa: Amazing...Love can win anything they fight against.
Barret: That kick ass!
Cid: You said it, Barret!
Yuffie: Go, Cloud! Go, Yakumo!
Cait: Don't give up!
Red Xlll: Save our planet!
Vincent: You can do this...
(And so they did. As Cloud uses his hack 'n slash to rip open Sephiroth's weak point, Yakumo fires another blast from her staff to weaken him to going out and his form ruined. But was it really over?)
Yakumo: We did it! Oh, right. We need to stay on guard.
Cloud: He's changing...
Yakumo: Changing? (He's right!)
(As Bizarro Sephiroth goes down, he transforms again. The battlefield fades to black, then reappears as a spinning, wavering backdrop of bright purple clouds. Sephiroth shows himself as he descends from the heavens. He is Seraph Sephiroth. The final opponent. The One-Winged Angel. An unseen, heavenly choir begins to chant ominously as the ultimate battle for the Planet commences: Estuans interius, Ira vehementi, Sephiroth! Sors immanis, Et inanis...Sephiroth! Veni, veni, venias...Ne me mori facias...Sephiroth!)
Barret: Damn, this is bad.
Cid: Really bad!
(Now things get really serious here.)
Yakumo: Cloud!
Cloud: This must be his true form using Yumi and Weapon's powers combine into one! Yakumo! Stay close to me!
Yakumo: Alright!
Sephiroth: Try to stop me now...For I am God!
(Boss Battle with Seraph Sephiroth. Cloud and Yakumo did the same moves they did before against Sephiroth, only his final form was much more powerful to not being affected by magic, attacks, or anything else for them couldn't strike at him at all. He attacks back using his arm-like sword to shake the ground 'or what's left of it' for Cloud and Yakumo feel out something was bad about Sephiroth's true powers now awakening...Unable to run, defend, or stop from his attacks, he fires a powerful blast 'from the power of Meteor' to reach so long at Cloud and Yakumo really hard. Not only to hurt a lot on them both but they were soon very weak to move or do anything, for Yakumo couldn't heal herself or Cloud to getting out of there.)
Cloud: Yakumo...!
Yakumo: I can't...Heal each other...Cloud!
(Sephiroth comes up closer to do some things to them now for the others to watch the horror happening.)
Tifa: Cloud! Yakumo!
(He soon begins throwing Cloud's body around all over the place from Sephiroth's powers, leaving the other long legs to have Yakumo in the air to cutting her many times to draining her Mako Energy out of her body to feel so much pain. She was more worry about Yakumo than Cloud getting hurt, for her to push Sephiroth off of her, to grabbing Cloud in time to fall on the ground, he fires another blast to miss this time to trapping them with no escape from their spot. For Yakumo tries shielding Cloud's body for another attack that was about to come.)
Vincent: This is bad.
Red Xlll, Cait, and Yuffie: Stop! Get out of there!
Barret: Cloud! Yakumo!
Tifa: Don't die!
Cid: This isn't happening...!
Yakumo: (Cloud...We can't die...!)
(Sephiroth was then laughing for he now knows that he won this battle to finish them off with one final blow from the strike from his hand, that's when it happened...Yumi's body began taring Sephiroth from the inside to be bleeding out in pain for Cloud and Yakumo to see him being beaten, and the ghost was still alive.)
Sephiroth: No...No! What are you doing to me!?
Cloud: It's Yumi...
Barret, Tifa, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Yumi!?
Yumi: I got you...Now!
Sephiroth: Impossible...! I'm in control of this power, not you!
Yumi: I'm sick of everyone hurting my sister and me for Mako Energy to rule this world, well not anymore! You want it to become a God, Sephiroth, you can have mine! Suffer!
(Yumi continues draining Sephiroth until he stopped moving and breathing.)
Sephiroth: STOP! You can do this to me...! Stop it!
Yakumo: Yumi's draining him. Sephiroth's dying. She wasn't absorbed, she was drawn into his body. It's working!
(Sephiroth kept on screaming in pain, until finally he goes down for the count to being no more, it looked like that he was finally dead. Seraph Sephiroth was no longer breathing for Yumi or Yakumo to feel out from him anymore. Yumi finished him off for them, for the form cracked like a broken shell. With a great flash of light, his body begins to break apart. Rays of light emanate from his body as he disintegrates into tiny particles that are absorbed into the purple clouds behind, above, everywhere. Soon to fade to black as Yumi was whole again and no longer a ghost to start healing both Cloud and Yakumo fully again as the other seven came back down to check on them.)
Yakumo: Yumi, you did it.
Yumi: It's alright. He's gone now. Let me heal you, Yakumo, and Cloud. Just hold still.
(They started to feel better.)
Cloud: Thank you.
Yakumo: But why are you whole and not a ghost?
Yumi: My time has come to an end, must be one more power for me to us before I move on. So...Why not? Glad to see you two one more time.
(The two hold hands as Yumi continue to heal them. Fading in again - Cloud, Yakumo, and the others are gathered near the stone pathway at the lip of the final crater. All are exhausted from the stress of the journey; Barret leans against the far wall, Yuffie lies panting on the ground; Cait Sith is drooped over his stuffed Moogle; Red XIII rests, his head on his paws; Vincent stands in his usual 'Vincent pose', arms crossed, distant; Cid sits, leaning forward, dozing. Cloud gazes down into the green glow of the crater to stand by Yakumo's side. As Tifa stands behind them, watching the two.)
Yakumo: Cloud. Yumi. Everyone.
(Cloud and Yakumo got up together for Yumi to finish the job for them to still hold hands with each other.)
Cloud: I'm here, Yakumo. At the end, this was all we could do. Well, for us to do for your sister to do the rest.
Yakumo: Yes. It was a close call and it was scary.
(He looks up. Barret stands.)
Yumi: Everyone else are fine.
Barret: Wait! What about Holy? What's gonna happen to the Planet?
(Cloud turns to look at him. He shakes his head.)
Yakumo: He's right. What happen to it? Did it stop Meteor?
Cloud: That...I don't know. Isn't the rest up to the Planet?
Tifa: ...You're right. We've done all that we could do.
Yumi: I wish I knew what happened to it as well. Forgive me.
(Cloud looks at her for a moment, then looks around at the others.)
Cloud: All right, everyone. It's no use thinking about it. We'll leave all our worries here.
(He raises one fist.)
Yakumo: Right, once Yumi's done. We'll start a new life.
Cloud: We will, Yakumo. Let's go home proud.
(He lowers it. The others all rise wearily and begin to trudge back to the exit of the crater. Cloud and Yakumo walk together for Tifa to follow them for a few steps when it all of a sudden goes white. Cloud stops in his tracks. Tifa turns.)
Yakumo: Oh, no! (It can't be!)
Yumi: (How's this-!? No, no! I have to finish this! Only they can save the world now...)
Tifa: What happened?
(He lowers his head.)
Yakumo: Cloud, it has to be!
Cloud: ...I feel it...Yakumo feels it too...!
Tifa: What...
(Going completely white, longer this time, with the sound of rushing wind. Cloud shakes his head.)
Cloud: He is still...here.
(Again. Cloud falls to the ground, clutching his head for Yakumo to stand by his side, and we see Cloud's double, white and ghost-like, fall with him.)
Cloud: Still...
Yakumo: Cloud! Stay with us!
(Still gong all white all over.)
Tifa: Cloud!? Yakumo!?
(It fades. Cloud is in tremors, still tightly clutching his head.)
Cloud: He's...laughing...!
Yakumo: Cloud!
Yumi: Yakumo! Cloud!
(Cloud's double removes from his body and spins off into the distance. Going double white once more. For Yakumo and Yumi to be pulled away with him too for the other couldn't do anything but watch.)
Barret, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Yumi!
Tifa: Cloud! Yakumo!
(Everything then fades out. Cloud and Yakumo 'along with Yumi' rocket headfirst through a strange tunnel. The very air moves out of his way as they shoot faster and faster. The walls of the tunnel seem to be intangible; made up of air or steam or thoughts. Cloud can almost glimpse past memories as he travels for Yakumo to see them; for split-seconds we hear the sweet piano of Aerith's theme or the low cello and clangs of church bells of Sephiroth. The tunnel ends and Cloud and Yakumo float through a vast black space; bright blue tendrils of whatever untouchable stuff this world is made of waft past. They entered another tunnel, this one of stone, then water, then air. As the tunnel ends, Cloud and Yakumo open both of their eyes and sees exactly who they had expected. Sephiroth, he was still alive. Cloud narrows his eyes as he and Yakumo were healing now thanks to Yumi's help and they prepare to square off against his archenemy in the depths of his subconscious.)
Yakumo: How is he still alive!? Yumi, get out of here!
Yumi: No...I'm almost done...
Sephiroth: Cloud...Yakumo...This ends here and now. You however...You're done.
(Sephiroth begins stabbing Yumi over and over again with his sword to really injured her body to soon fade away and her Mako Energy was draining out of her, only like losing a lot of blood. For she was finish healing them to leaving the world for good for her body to be destroyed in front of Cloud and Yakumo's eyes.)
Cloud: Stop this, Sephiroth!
Sephiroth: This is what you get for betraying me...
Yumi: Almost there!
Yakumo: Yumi, stop! We're healed!
(Yumi's body was going dark to fly off to being done. Seeing them alright, she says this to Yakumo before Sephiroth gives her the final cut down.)
Yumi: Done...Cloud and Yakumo...Love each other and live on...
Sephiroth: Die.
(The last stab to the heart, really hits Yumi hard.)
Yumi: Ah-!
(Then her entire body fades away for good for Yakumo to be crying. Cloud felt her pain to finally pass on, but go out in a painful way in the end to saving their lives.)
Sephiroth: Now...Shall we finish this, you two?
Cloud: Sephiroth...I'll never forgive you on what you've done! This ends now!
Sephiroth: Come on.
(They see Yakumo glowing up, to her staff, looking like herself, only to be shown in a black-like swim suit to sobering half her body, but was glowing up all rainbow-like color all over her body to look angry to be staring at Sephiroth, from anger and sadness she was in. Cloud moves aside for her to stop him first to use her good and own Mako Energy to finish this.)
Cloud: Yakumo...! (I feel the anger from within her. All this to take it on Sephiroth...Yumi...)
Sephiroth: Your Mako Energy...How-!?
Yakumo: I told you, Sephiroth, I make the calls with my powers. You can't control me no more! You kill my sister in spirit to pass on painfully! Now I kill you...! DIE!
(Battle sequence with Sephiroth. The two face each other. Cloud, leaning forward, his sword-grip tight with anticipation. Sephiroth, shirtless, holding his Masamune at eye level, catlike. Soon switching rapidly between the two, their eyes filled with hate as they glare at each other, their swords at the ready. Yakumo goes first.)
Sephiroth: I feel so much power from her...! Getting stronger!
Yakumo: Let's go...I'm going to enjoy making you suffer!
(Yakumo changes Cloud sword into a new one with power to wield from her. As she Trying to use his sword, only for Cloud to come in to cutting his into tiny pieces, he was now afraid. Unable to move because of that, gave Yakumo the chance to fire many blast at Sephiroth many times without him fighting back to being so fast at it.)
Yakumo: This is for my Mother, Father, Yumi, Rei, her other mother, Zack, Aerith, and all that you killed!
Cloud: Now's my chance!
(Yakumo said that while blasting at Sephiroth to feel weak, leaving Cloud and his inner energy steadily climbs until his Limit is prepared. He leaps into the air and summons a Limit he hadn't known up to this point- an Omnislash. Sephiroth barely moves as Cloud comes screaming down at him, his sword dealing two, five, a dozen, twenty blows, fire burning behind each and every one. With the final stroke, Cloud leaps into the air, gathering energy. Light streams into the sword, reaching a pinpoint, and Cloud brings it down. Sephiroth stumbles, clutching his chest, then falls to his knees. His piercing, hateful eyes continue to stare at Cloud.)
Sephiroth: But, how...!?
Cloud: Thanks, Yakumo. You and I did it.
Yakumo: No, Cloud, we did it together. Now, let's finish him.
Cloud: I'm here for you. In the name of Aerith and Holy of the White Magic, give us the power!
Yakumo: To helping us win! Let my Mako Energy half breed of mine be use for good against evil like this man, let's finish this to saving the world!
(The two combined their powers into one of sword and staff combine to powering up, as Cloud and Yakumo release it.)
Sephiroth: Yakumo...She's Holy. The power's within her!
Cloud and Yakumo: Retro...Elapse! Fire!
(They fire one last beam at Sephiroth to have a cutting feel into his entire body to burn and bleed all over to finally finish him for good to slowly die by their power, of love.)
Sephiroth: Now I...I...I understand...Love is the key...The key of winning...I wish I knew sooner...What I fool I've been...
(Sephiroth, bloodied, a expression of shock and horror on his face, rises, flailing, into the air. Rays of white light emanate from his body to letting out a one last painful scream, increasing in intensity for a few moments before Sephiroth disappears, somewhat anticlimactically, in a small shower of glowing red embers. Yakumo then grabs Orbit back into its ball mode to being normal again and passing out for Cloud to catch her in time.)
Cloud: Yakumo, it's finally over.
Yakumo: Yes, Cloud.
Cloud: Meaning...You have Holy within you?
Yakumo: I do, the gem on your hair pin became another gem for my ring. Our ring for our marriage. For you and I.
(The two kiss and Yakumo hugs Cloud.)
Cloud: It's beautiful...Yumi, we did it. Thank you for everything.
Yakumo: Rest in peace, Yumi, we've avenge you at last to rest in peace this time. Say hi to Mom and Dad for me, my sister, good-bye.
(Cloud and Yakumo then watches their rival vanish, panting from the intensity of the battle, a slight smile of victory on his face for Yakumo to smile even more with him. His attention is abruptly removed from the now empty air to the area around his feet. Green tendrils and droplets of lively energy snake upwards around his and her bodies as he watches with wonder, raising both of their hands in an attempt to touch the intangible green. A second presence, this one pink, joins the green as they coil themselves around Cloud and Yakumo, the only light to be seen in the darkness. They bring more and more of themselves reeling inwards, forming a tight sphere of brightness around him before they dissipate, leaving only streams of green weaving into a column around them. Cloud and Yakumo watches them as they waft upward.)
Yakumo: Cloud, look.
Cloud: ...Lifestream?
(They too float lazily outward, dissipating, leaving only green spheres, dancing around Cloud and Yakumo. The air above, around them, in them, takes on a bright green-white glow. Aerith's theme begins to play softly in the background. Cloud and Yakumo then gazes upward, the green dots still bouncing happily. He raises his hand first to meet that above him. Moving out to show the green light pouring down around Cloud and Yakumo from above, a perfect column until it washes out along the ground at his feet, as if it were solid. One fragile, graceful hand reaches down from amidst the source of the light, toward Cloud's hand, as Aerith's theme continues. Cloud smiles broadly in his joy, at last united with Yakumo and everyone else.)
Yakumo: It's Tifa!
(Tifa stretches her hand towards Cloud and Yakumo, perched on a narrow ledge on the wall of the Northern Crater. Massive boulders and debris crumble from the walls around her as the Northern Crater begins its collapse. She is too far away. Cloud falls. Cloud snaps to his senses as the tiny rock ledge he is balanced on slips further, cracking beneath his feet, inches from tumbling to the green Mako ocean at the bottom of the crater. Tifa falls for Yakumo to use her ESP powers to catch her in time for falling to go back up, leaving her to fall down instead. Her platform crumbles away, sending her plummeting headfirst towards the sea of green. With lightning speed, Cloud rushes toward the wall of the crater, his feet somehow finding the tiniest footholds, leaps toward the crater wall, catches Yakumo by the waist as she falls past, and grabs a handhold at the lip of a larger rock ledge, leaving him dangling precariously by one hand, Yakumo held tightly by his side.)
Tifa: Yakumo! Cloud!
Yakumo: We're okay!
(Yakumo kept holding on to Cloud for she throws Orbit to Tifa to hold to until they both climb back up. She shows her the ring.)
Yakumo: Tifa! We got the ring! See!?
Tifa: I'm so happy for you two! Better invite me to the wedding as the bridesmaids!
(Tifa smiles for Cloud says something to Yakumo next.)
Cloud: ...I think I'm beginning to understand.
(Yakumo looks up at him.)
Yakumo: What?
(She holds on tighter and leans her head against his chest.)
Cloud: An answer from the Planet...the Promised Land... I think I can meet her...there.
Yakumo: Aerith? I thought I felt her out as well too.
(Yakumo looks up at him, then closes her eyes and leans her head back down.)
Yakumo: Yeah, then let's go meet her.
(Cloud begins to pull the two of them up to the ledge for Tifa to helping them out. The Mako pool begins to glow white, shifting colors. Cloud, Yakumo, and Tifa make their way up and sit down. Cloud looks at his girlfriend.)
Tifa: Welcome back, you two. You guys did it! You stopped Sephiroth!
Yakumo: We did...
Cloud: Hey, where is everyone?
Yakumo: Over there.
(It shifts to show Cait Sith, Barret, Vincent, Yuffie, Cid, and Red XIII reclining on another ledge across the crater. Barret looks up and waves.)
Barret: Heeeey!
Cid: What up!?
Red Xlll: Yakumo. Cloud. You two are safe.
Cait: Nice final move you two pulled off together!
Yuffie: We did it! We saved the world!
Vincent: And we're still alive too.
(Tifa happily waves to them.)
Yakumo: They're okay!
Tifa: I'm glad you're all safe!
(Moving behind the others. Barret looks at Cid.)
Cid: They all seem to be safe, too.
Barret: But...now what're we going to do?
(He looks out across the crater. Red XIII rises to his feet.)
Red Xlll: Thanks to Yakumo awakening the Mako Energy within her, Holy should be moving soon, and that means this place will...
(Cid stands and looks up out of the crater.)
Cid: Oh, Lady Luck don't fail me now...
Yakumo: What...? (Something coming! What is it this time!?)
(He gapes and his cigarette falls from his mouth. Cloud, Yakumo, and Tifa, then the rest of the party follow suit and look up to see the Highwind come crashing down. It shoots nose-first into the crater, crashing into the walls and dislodging more rocks and debris before finally coming to a stop, wedged between the stone walls, the bikini-clad woman painted on the side still winking and smiling vacuously.)
Yakumo: Everyone! Let's get out of here! It's dangerous!
(They had no choice but to go back into the ship as Rose and Dudley were waiting for them back inside. Shifting again to the area outside the Crater. The Mako inside glows, grows, and explodes from the crater, sending a circle of energy outwards as it blasts skyward in a perfect white column. The force of the explosion propels the Highwind out of the crater, spinning wildly. Moving then to the deck to show the party as they slide this way and that and struggle to hold on to the railing as the ship flips in the air. Cid catches hold of a steel pipe bolted to the floor.)
Cid: Shit!
Yakumo: Hold on tight! Cloud!
(Yakumo and Cloud hold hands to holding on to each other and for her to surround everyone else in a barrier in time.)
Cloud: Just hold on to me!
Yakumo: I will! Stay with me, you guys! Don't get out of the shield!
(Cid then pulls himself up and stretches to reach a lever marked 'Emergency.' He pulls it and the Highwind transforms again into a sleek craft resembling a jet plane more than a blimp. With the extra control, the ship rolls out of the Mako explosion and screams off toward the horizon.)
Cid: Stay put, you guys! Because we're getting the hell out of here!
Yakumo: Aerith! Help us!
(Moving on next to the view is blocked by fog until it passes through it, revealing a birds-eye view of Kalm village. The camera continues downward, swinging to show the lone window in the tower, the tallest building in the city, the shutters closed. The scene shifts to the room inside. Marlene is seated at a small table. The table is clear except for a single mug and Marlene's hands. She stares at them, twisting them in worry. Suddenly, she looks up.)
Marlene: The flower girl?
(She turns and looks inquisitively at the shutters. She rises and swings them open to see red fire consuming the world. Meteor hangs low in the sky. It has almost reached the earth, so close that its fire is beginning to scorch the land. Shifting to Midgar. Then looking up past steel beams and towers at Meteor as red tornadoes of flame begin to touch down. They sweep through the city, mercilessly smashing massive metal structures like so many straws. Shinra headquarters is no exception. The columns of fire cut swaths of destruction through the metropolis, razing filthy slums and upper-class residential zones alike.)
Yakumo: I want...I want to use my powers to save lives...I has to be done, no matter what it takes...
(For Yakumo to keep on praying, Holy finally comes. At first merely a white pinpoint in the distance, then growing, accelerating toward Meteor, a mighty wave of white magic. It rushes in between Meteor and Midgar, clipping the tip of what used to be Shinra headquarters. Shifts briefly back to Kalm village. Marlene, still watching from the window, squints and holds up a hand to the blinding white light. Then moves to show Bugenhagen's observatory, Meteor and Holy so huge as to be visible even from here, the other side of the world.)
Yakumo: Please, Aerith, I can't control Holy without your help without or without my powers...!
(Moving back to above Midgar. Meteor continues its slow, slow descent toward land. As it reaches Holy, dots of ember and tongues of flame lick upwards along its red-hot surface and Holy glows pink around its edges rather than white. Shifts to the ground outside Midgar, looking up at Holy, the remnants of homes and buildings below. A red spot forms on Holy's underside as Meteor brushes it. Then, all of Holy begins to burn red and a huge, perfectly round hole opens above Midgar. Its diameter is exactly the same as that of the city. Then moves to just outside Shinra HQ. The air begins to burn red and the last framework of the building begins to explode as Meteor's wrath pours through.)
Yakumo: Aerith...! If you can hear me, please...Help us!
(Shifting up to the sky. The Highwind continues to circle at a safe distance from Midgar. The party, assembled on the bridge, watches the destruction through the bay window. Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, and the others all stand together near the panel. Barret comes over to stand behind them.)
Barret: Wait a damn minute!
(He looks over at the rest of the group.)
Barret: What's going to happen to Midgar?
(He slams his fist down.)
Barret: We can't let that happen!
(Cait Sith begins to gesture frantically. He looks down at the floor, shaking his head.)
Cait: I had everyone take refuge in the slums, but the way things are now...
Yuffie: We're gong to die!?
Vincent: I hope not too...
(Cait wipes a tear with the back of one of his white cartoon gloves. Red XIII comes forward, the red fire below further reddening his coat.)
Red Xlll: It's too late for Holy. Meteor is approaching the Planet. Holy is having the opposite effect.
(Shifting again to show Meteor and Holy still decimating Midgar. Then again shifts back to Red XIII, slowly zooming in on his one good eye, glittering in the light.)
Red Xlll: Forget Midgar, we've gotta worry about the Planet.
(The Highwind continues to circle. Shifts to show Cid working frantically at the control panel, then to show Cloud sitting on the railing in front of the window, his back to the destruction outside, as Tifa continues to watch fearfully along with Yakumo. Cloud looks at her. Moving to show her face. Her eyes widen in surprise.)
Tifa: What's that!?
Yakumo: Aerith...
Cloud: It is her in spirit!
(Next it shows a sky view of a remote, mountainous area of the eastern continent. A tiny pinprick of green light is visible in one dark moor. Shifts down to ground level. The green light grows and one bright tendril of the Lifestream worms its way out from the ground. A large hole opens in the ground around the stream, revealing the Lifestream boiling just below the surface, one thread escaping into the air.)
Yakumo: (Aerith...) Holy! I wish to protect this Planet by getting rid of Meteor to offer my Mako Energy to it!
(Yakumo releases all of her powers with Holy and Aerith's spirit to making it all happen in that wish. Shifting to another location in the mountains. Another strand of the Lifestream is emanating from the ground curving gracefully in Midgar's direction. It shifts again. Two more. They grow. Then three. Then four. Then five. Again and back to the bridge of the Highwind. Cloud, Tifa, Yakumo, Barret, and the rest of the team are gripping the railing at the very front, watching with wonder as more and more arms of green burrow out from the ground.)
Barret: What the hell IS that...?
(Then closes in on Cloud, an empty expression on his face.)
Cloud: ...Lifestream. Yakumo and Yakumo are making this happen.
(The Lifestream emanates in three more spots, twisting together as they move along the ground. Shifted back to Kalm village. A light comes on in one window, then another opens, and another. Within moments, every soul in Kalm is leaning out one window or another, watching silently. Then moves to show Marlene once more, leaning on the highest windowsill in the town, her eyes wide, but expressionless.)
Marlene: It's coming.
(The Lifestream continues to rush from the earth. It is streaming from nearly every spot on the ground now, turning the earth into a massive pool of green. Midgar continues to crumble. A tidal wave of green closes in on the city, arms of Lifestream swaying and undulating gracefully, marching along. The air is nearly a solid mass of green. The camera swings up, past Meteor, chunks still dislodged from its surface from its encounter with Shinra No. 26. The camera swings up, up, higher and higher above the earth. The entire continent comes into view, spewing Lifestream from every crack and pore, a thousand-mile-wide net of green light covering everything, closing in on Midgar, Holy, and Meteor. Yakumo has done it for seeing Rei, Aerith, Zack, Yumi, and her parents in spirit to see her once more to smile and wave to her.)
Yakumo: It's been done. I used Holy...Thank you, everyone. You too, Aerith, I'll tell Mom you said hi to her.
(They soon disappear after that. Showing back to each party member in turn. Barret. Red XIII. Cait Sith. Yuffie. Vincent. Rose. Dudley. Orbit. Cid. Marlene. Tifa. Cloud. Yakumo. All squeeze their eyes shut from the sheer power of the blinding green-white light. The Lifestream surrounds Meteor, adhering to it, dissolving it.)
Barret, Tifa, Red Xll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: It's...Over...
Aerith: Thank you, everyone...Yakumo, live on for Mom and for Cloud.
(Orbit lights up to being happy as the same for Rose and Dudley making noises. Soon showing Aerith in the darkness, her eyes closed. Green embers floating upward around her. She opens her eyes and looks directly at you, a sweet, kind smile on her lips. Cloud and Yakumo hugged each other knowing now that their future will look brighter on them for a new tomorrow. Since Meteor was finally destroyed by Holy's powers of the Lifestream, Yakumo's powers, and the spirit of Aerith now part of the world in spirit, everything was finally back to normal for Shirna to be no more as Rufus was still alive to getting out of the rubble thanks to Yakumo's powers saving him from the blast in time, where he goes to now was unknown...Cloud and Yakumo hold each other to kissing since they'll now get married.)
Cloud: Yakumo...
Yakumo: Cloud...
Cloud: We did it. The Planet's saved thanks to you and Aerith using Holy.
Yakumo: Yes, but...It was more in believing in yourself, can make anything happen as it already did.
Cloud: I love you, Yakumo.
Yakumo: I love you too, Cloud.
(With their love to winning the war to finally end to the world being saved from the Lifestream making Meteor disappear...What's to happen to them now? Soon to find out more next time to know. Good ending so far, huh? Almost there. :D)