Author's note: Again, sorry for the delay. We are very close to the ending now, and I think this is the last chapter before the Epilogue and Secret Ending. Let's get to it! Caution: The ending of this chapter will give out spoilers to the scenes of "Sailor Moon: Spirits Within" and "Sailor Moon: Calling", while also giving out spoilers to the final parts of "Kingdom Hearts: Moon Pass Time" and references of "Sailor Moon: Advent Children".

Let's continue on and please remember these notes.

The Bold is the Author's Notes.

The Italic is both memories, thoughts and dreams.

The Bold & Italic are the names of the worlds.

The Brackets (-and Bold-) are the BGM(which will never happen, but one can dream, right?).

I hold no rights to Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy VII, Pokemon or Sailor Moon.

CHAPTER 15: Final Battles.

Continuing from Fragment 64: A soon as Zack answered that he was fine and ensured Cloud who was finally coming out of his Mako Poisoning, the moment of relief was unfortunately cut off when Cloud, still dulled but now awake enough to become alert, widened his eyes in shock which caused Zack to immediately whirl around when he sensed someone was behind them at the same time. Behind him stood an unfamiliar woman in full black, sorcereress like clothes, and was smiling evilly at the two of them.

"Who are you?" Zack demanded, using his entire body to shield Cloud. He wasn't going to let anything happen to his friend. Suddenly the feeling of not being able to be with Cloud anymore re-enforced into his heart and just then he knew, if this woman was as bad as he thought she was, he had to take drastic actions.

Instead of answering, the woman instead told him firmly, "You were meant to die...Allow me to make it up to you!"

Before Zack knew it, the woman thrusted out her hand with some kind of dark magic that wasn't Materia, and the instant she did, he felt the ground underneat them feel strange. Gasping softly, he looked to see some kind of dark energy hole appearing, and his heart skipped a beat in horror. He glared up at the woman only to see her vanish without a trace. He then heard Cloud gasp in shock, which caused Zack to turn to see that the dark energy was spreading to his friend.

(~Final Resolve-Dissidia 012~)

Knowing there was only one thing to do, and with a heavy heart, with his life flashing before his eyes, Zack quickly unsheathed his sword before grabbing Cloud and pushed him three feet away from the black energy. Zack made to follow, but it was already too late. Yelling out in alarm, he felt the dark energy slowly pull him in, leaving him unable to free himself. The only thing he could do was grip the dirt ground's edge of the portal, just enough to at least say his final farewell to his friend, who, pushing himself up weakly, could only stare in horror.

"I guess...this is goodbye." Zack muttered with a sad smile.

"Goodbye?" Cloud repeated, horrified. This couldn't be happening. He had so much to ask and he beginning to feel lost, not to mention confused. Cloud had no idea how long it's been since...the last thing he remembered as...facing Sephiroth who burn't down Nibelhiem.

Zack nodded, "That's right..." nearly slipping before managing to save himself briefly, but knew that, he was slowly becoming engulfed by the Sorceress's dark magic. His time was running out. "...You're gonna...live. You'll be...my living Legacy."

Then he saw the Buster Sword just inches near him. Deciding to do what Angeal had done to him all those years ago when his mentor had died, Zack gripped the hilt of the sword and held it to a horrified, stunned, sorrowed and confused Cloud, as the older man continued, "My Honor, My Dreams,..."

Zack shedded tears as he was almost fully swallowed up by the dark portal, concluding to Cloud, "They're yours now."

Cloud, realising that Zack had sacrificed himself to save him and wanted him to continue the latter's dreams, and was giving up his sword...to him. With hesitation, Cloud gently grasped the hilt of the massive Sword, the same sword he briefly used to defeat Sephiroth, the same sword that had been surprisingly light, and held onto the hilt with both hands as Zack lets go.

"I'm...your living legacy." Cloud realised.

With a final nod to confirm it, Zack finally lost his grip and just as Cloud quickly made to grab his hand to desperately try and save him...it was too late. Zack had been completely engulfed by the Sorceress' dark portal which then vanished, returning the ground back to normal. Cloud, unable to believe what just happened, not wanting to believe that Zack, the best and only friend he ever had, the SOLDIER 1st Class who supported him, befriended him, somewhat mentored him, saved him from whatever nightmares Cloud could not remember...was just gone. The only thing left of his friend now...was his sword.

As it began to rain, Cloud, with the combinations of the experiments he did not know of just yet, the utter confusion of memories, and the shock and horror of the untimely demise of his best friend, gazed up at the sky and could only give out an agonized scream.

Fragment 65: Everything else that happened after that was somewhat fast forward but still clear; Zack had found himself within a cave in the Northern Crater, unable to escape. He tried for several days and weeks, but was held back. He also discovered that Sephiroth was responsible, and had been alive, just waiting. Zack had no idea what was going on, but eventually, he began to sense what was happening to the world in his absence.

Finally, just when the entire world, the world of Kingdom Hearts, which was shaped like a Heart-shaped Moon within the Planet, Cloud, along with Sailor Moon, Mickey and Loran, and Tifa, a grown up teenaged Yuffie, along with new allies in a gun-armed man, a former engineer, Aerith, a robot Cat riding on a robot-giant Moogle, and a mysterious Ex-Turk in a red cape arrived for the final battle against Sephiroth and Jenova.

Zack did not know what had happened, but when they arrived, it was his exit point. He successfully broke free with a broadsword he found from a dead soldier and managed to free everyone from Sephiroth's grasp, before joining Cloud's new group to defeat the rouge mutated SOLDIER General once and for all. After that, Zack had been told what was happening and that, given Aerith's White Materia Magic of Holy, it was to be enough to stop the Black Materia Magic of Meteor that would threatening to destroy the world after ShinRa failed to stop him.

After the small reunion, everyone made it out just in time only for Holy to do the opposite effect. Just when all hope seemed lost, the planet itself took it upon itself to use the Lifestream to aid Holy and destroy Meteor once and for all, but not without accidently hitting the airship, Highwind, and caused Aerith to fall. Zack attempted to rescue her, but he could only hold onto her and delay their end as Loran also fell. Holding onto the railing, the three of them could only gaze with sad smiles at their horrified friends, knowing that there wouldn't be a thing to save the three of them.

After Zack, Aerith and Loran gave their final goodbyes to Cloud, Sailor Moon, Mickey and everyone else, they lost their grip and the last thing Zack remembered as losing consciousness just as he fell into the Lifestream along with Aerith by his side to their deaths.

A loud gunshot awoke Zack from his sleep as he had witnessed what he quickly assumed was his final memories. Now he remembered; He had died after the original world had been saved. Though he didn't have time to think as more gunshots were heard, and he managed to duck just in time to avoid gunshots from hitting his head full of holes. When he took a quick glance, a large number of men in unusual uniforms with machine guns stood close by, heavily armed and appeared to have been marching their way towards Midgar, and most likely, Edge.

That's when Zack quickly realised that, given his clothes, and seeing how they were not ShinRa, and did not look friendly either, thought that he was SOLDIER 1st Class. Given the number, and sighing as he knew...no one would save him this time, finally came to accept that history for him was repeating itself, only this time...his journey would end here. But he was not afraid. He was not a coward. He was a swordsman who faced dangerous trials throughout most of his life. If he had to die today, he would die fighting.

(~End Final Resolve~)

'Cloud...Sailor Moon...the rest is up to you now.' Zack thought to himself. He hated to have Cloud face Sephiroth again, and hated even more to leave Sailor Moon to solve many mysteries in her future trials, but there was no other choice.

With these thoughts in mind, Zack stood up, placing his sword behind his back, and boldly made his way towards the last battle of his life. As he approached, hundreds of men in dark grey and black uniforms, with unusual symbols with badges on their left shoulders that read "Militas Ultra", all held out their rifles, machine guns and sword, standing steady to fight the foolish lone 'SOLDIER 1st Class' that was attempting to be a hero to save their enemies.

Zack stood a good ten feet away from them, pausing as he eyed them calmly. Placing his hands onto his hips, he shook his head and muttered in exasperation, as though this was a casual day, "Boy oh boy. I guess ShinRa must've been pretty busy."

Whoever these guys were, they looked pretty tough and far too many for Zack to take down without fatal wounds, but he wasn't backing down. Plus, this might help ShinRa to get a break without having to worry about a siege. So, determined to take these losers down, Zack calmly unsheathed his sword and held it in front of him, the same way he did when he faced the ShinRa's army in his previous life.

"Embrace your dreams...and, whatever happens..." Zack told himself.

(~L'Oscurità dell'Ignoto-KH:DDD~)

He paused before continuing, with stronger determination, "...Protect your honor, as SOLDIER!" before racing towards them, shouting to challenging all of them, "Come and get it!"

Before the first three in the large first row of the Militas Ultra men could even fire shots at Zack, the young swordsman immediately went into a full Tornado-Strike, spinning around twice and critically slicing the men's chests with the Buster Sword, killing them instantly and then the full out battle was on. Soon all of them, under the leader of the army's command to fire, shot out gunshots at Zack who either blocked them with the Buster Sword or dodge-rolled out of the way, surprisingly too fast for most of them.

"Take that!" Zack yelled, single-handedly slashing at another one just as he made to attack Zack, only to fall to his death.

A heavy-armored soldier then thrusted out with a heavily armed machine-gun, firing rapidly-fast gunshots which Zack rolled and dodged out of the way, before thrusting his sword behind the enemy, then preformed a powerful double spin attack, hitting armored man twice who, stunned and horrified for having been defeated by a single SOLDIER, then collasped face first onto the ground, before Zack was punched in the back by another shodler which resulted in being sent to the ground.

Leaping back to his feet, Zack then rolled out of the way again, and then, finding an opening on the five other soldiers' backs since he figured out that was the weak point, he slashed at it incredibly hard before they too met their fate of death. Zack then felt impact above him, before leaping out of the way again, then fired an ice-spell which froze a soldier that jumped and made to attack, only to be finished off when Zack did an upper-cut with his sword with one hand. He then flared up his left arm and summoned a fire-spell, blasting three large balls of fire at six soldiers who attempted to rush at him only to be burn't to death before they even reached halfway.

However, four gunshots did hit Zack on the arm before he was forced to leap out of the way and quickly used Curaga despite his wounds still slightly bleeding, but he wasn't going to focus on that. He was focusing on the battle. When five more came running towards him, Zack readied his sword and charged, jumping and striked at them upwards, downwards, left, right, corner-right down, corner-left down, corner-right up, and corner-left down, yelling, "Here we go! Go! Go! Go!" and finished off with a final single line strike, killing his enemies who, like their comrades, suffered the same fate.

Still, fifteen more raced towards him with battle yells, not willing to lose against a single soldier who was doing heavy damage on their comrades. Zack jumped out of the way and blocked most of the attempts before dodge-rolling. He then thrusted his sword in a powerful downward thrust at, at least two of them before leaping out of the way and casted Lightning to shock the rest of the remaining thirteen who were left briefly paralyzed, which gave Zack a chance to stab the Buster Sword into the ground and lifted himself into the air, somersaulting and landed a hard kick into another one of the soldier's faces, sending him flying into the other twelve men, creating a domino effect where they all collasped onto the ground. Zack then twirled his Sword around and around several times to call upon his Tornado Spell before he thrusted it out at 20 other men who were caught into the massive gusts of winds before Zack finished them off with a combination of Fire and Lightning Spells to make a critical effect.

But this was enough to distract him as more gunshots successfully hit him on the sides, causing Zack to yell out in pain before cart-wheeling out of the way to avoid more coming at him, then held up his sword just in time to block the enemies' swords in a heavy clash then swung it to slice one of them at the chest where the Militas Ultra soldier collasped. Zack then knocked the sword from another one in front of him before thrusting the Buster Sword right into the unfortunate soldier's stomach right through his back, then pulled it out and had no time to remose on the fallen man's demise. He then blocked another Militas Ultra soldier's sword downward from the latter's grasp before punching him in the jaw, knocking him out cold or dead. He then saved himself just in time by thrusting out at another one coming from his right and harshly kicked him in the stomach were the Militas Ultra soldier stumbled before crashing into two more of his comrades.

Despite curing himself again, Zack found himself trapped by at least 30 other soldiers that were making their way towards him. Zack grunted before once again thrusting around and around three times to knock back some of them where they suffered fatal wounds, some of them even losing their arms and legs. Mustering up his strength, Zack then leaped into the air before yelling a battle cry as he thrusted downward at fifteen other soldiers in the upcoming group that attempted to kill him, instead getting killed themselves when the young swordsman finished his attack. Unfortunately, he was shot several more times and even though he blocked most of them with his barrier spell, dodge-rolling out of the way from other gunshots, and repeatedly healing himself before finishing them off with slashes, clashes and slices, despite the numbers finally slimming, he was becoming so exhausted that his wounds were becoming too crititcal for a healing spell to fix up and would need treatment if he didn't get out of this soon.

But he still refused to back down. Zack then saw ten more soldiers making their way towards him and despite the Buster Sword becoming heavy in his grip as he was starting to lose his strength, he still had enough to thrust out a powerful slash at five of them when they made the mistake of leaving an opening and leaving their stomachs and chests open, being left with slice wounds where they collasped and bleed to death. Zack then thrusted downward another, side-slashed the fourth remaining one, side-downward cleaved another from shoulder to hip, and repeated the process of the the other two, one by one falling to their deaths. Eventually after repeating this and slowly losing the last of his strength, Zack was left with two last ones who were slowly making their way towards him, thinking that, in his weakened state, they can at least shoot him to death.

That was their mistake. Unwilling to allow these guys to make any reports of his death, Zack grunted before he, to the last two Militas Ultra soldiers' shock, thrusted out at them, knocking away their weapons before slicing them at the exact same time, where they, choking in shock, collasped to the ground, dead. The siege army were at last defeated. All that remained around Zack were hundreds of dead bodies on the ground cliff that overviewed the Midgar Ruins and Edge. (~End L'Oscurità dell'Ignoto~)

But not without a price.

As Zack had fought, he had also been desperately clinged onto both his memories of his previous life, and the memories of his current life he'd been reborn in. But despite having stopped the army from doing the siege, Zack knew he couldn't move on. With his strength having left him, he collasped onto his back, the Buster Sword falling from his grip where it landed with a heavy clang. Arms spread out, and gazing skyward, all the young swordsman could do now was pant. His wounds were not that fatal, but...something else was preventing him from moving.

When he weakly gazed to his right, Zack felt his heart freeze up when mists of darkness began seeping from his body. So the darkness Terra and Grovyle freed him from was back, and this time, Zack had no strength to fight it. Was it because he'd been furious with the Militas Ultra that the darkness in his heart awakened?

"Even you can't fight against the darkness." A familiar voice spoke sinisterly above him.

As he began to lose consciousness, Zack managed enough strength to gaze up to see that Sephiroth had returned, and was looming over him evilly, the former hero concluding wickedly, "Your heart will sleep forever."

He tried to fight it. He really did. Unfortuantely, Zack's strength at last had been demolished, and just as Sephiroth walked away, the younger man lost consciousness and his world went black.

On Destiny Islands...

It was early in the afternoon, and on the Beach of the Play Island, a twelve year old boy with spiky hair, white and blue t-shirt, long red shorts and yellow shoes was sleeping on the sand peacefully, before his closed eyes began to twitch and unknown to the boy, his chest was slightly glowing.

Within his heart, another Heart of a blonde-spiky haired teenage boy, or who seemed to be a teenager, sensed something was wrong. A friend, another friend whom he hasn't seen in eight years, was about to lost his heart into darkness.

Somehow not willing to let that happen, the said heart glowed brightly, which was reacted in a large Castle, where it's body, revealing to be a still sleeping Ventus who hasn't changed psychically in the past eight years, sheded a tear. Ven somehow sensed in his sleep that something appened.

'Zack!' Ven's unconscious mind and his heart reacted.

Zack didn't know where that light had come from, but he felt it rather than had seen it. He also felt himself floating slowly in mid-air and at first wondered if he was in Heaven. But as he slowly opened his eyes, all he saw was misty darkness, before slowly landed softly onto a giant round glass platform. As Zack looked around, he was surprised to see a picture of himself on the stained glass in the darkness.

The last thing he remembered was losing consciousness as darkness took over his heart. Zack then began to think; was this...was this his heart? He had no idea how he knew this, but it...made sense.

(~L'Eminenza Oscura II-KH:DDD~)

"Another lost heart has interfered with your slumber, Zack." Sephiroth's voice spoke behind him, causing Zack to turn around and to his annoyance and anger, Sephiroth, in his current form he turned into back in the real world, appeared, his masamune in hand, and single wing out. "Give in to the Darkness, because so that you and I can be fully complete!" He demanded.

So the Sephiroth cells still rested inside him, Zack thought, despite his rebirth. Despite this, he shook his head in refusal, before unsheathing the Buster Sword that was again behind his back, holding a tight grip on it as he suggested with determination, "I have a better idea. How 'bout I destory you!" standing in a fighting position.

Sephiroth merely chuckled, "Your darkness is part of me, just as the cells are. If you destroy me, your heart will be lost forever." he pointed out coldly.

"Whatever it takes!" Zack replied, knowing now that the Sephiroth in front of him was just part of the cells that were awakened, but was still a threat. None the less, Zack wasn't going to go down without a fight. "Anything to protect Cloud, Aerith and the others!"

"Hmph. It's always about friends, isn't it?" Sephiroth snorted, not impressed. So the last of his sanity of his rebirth was finally gone, leaving behind the same insane man just like in their previous lives.

"At least friends are real!" Zack argued, continuing with determination and resolve, while having released another thing, that the light came from Ven's heart despite it having been missing, but he felt it; the similiar warmth from the who had become one of his new friends eight years ago.

"I know now, that Ven's heart is still out there, otherwise I wouldn't be here." He continued, "Angeal trusted me with his sword. Everyone I've met are close to me now more than ever." With a final nod of resolve, Zack concluded, "I'm a SOLDIER, at Heart!"

The two then clashed against each other in an attempt to destroy each other; one who wishes to sacrifice himself to destroy the darkness of the opponent who wishes to cast the other's heart into darkness. It at first seemed to be a repeat of the short battle in Midgar earlier before Zack made his way to find Genesis in Banora Ruins.

Zack then quickly blocked Sephiroth's fast attacks before forcing himself to back off and leap out the way before he ended up a kabab on masumune and had to only keep on leaping out of the way to avoid in getting killed. Even as Zack saw his chance once Sephiroth got close, he attempted to thrust at him with the blunt-side of the Buster Sword, but ended up missing, before he was kicked in the stomach and collasped to the ground. However, Zack managed to get to his feet and avoided the sword once more, as Sephiroth brought down the masumune whirling arc-hits that crash-locked up with the big sword.

Sephiroth wound for a single-slash, but Zack knew his technique now. He jerked forward into his own slash that cancelled out the masamune's in a ringing echo. He dove to get even footing but Sephiroth blocked him. That thin steel tip whirled in slitting whips. Whizzing hot steel sliced Zack's cheek, and his hand flew to his face as he leapt back. But this time, Zack was ready. He thrusted blunt-side of the Buster Sword which would still do heavy damage and made contact with Sephiroth's side, causing the olde man to grunt in pain due to the attack. The two then continued the clash blades. Sephiroth swung his sword but missed. Zack then ran in and returned the blow with a strike of his own. The Buster Sword scraped against Sephiroth's as he raised it to defend himself.

However, Sephiroth easily launched himself forward, attempting to slice Zack into millions of pieces, but the younger man blocked each attack as hard as he could before dodge-rolling out of the way. He then blasted a fire spell at Sephiroth arm. While it did cause some burns, that only made the crazed man even more furious before he suddenly disappeared in feathers, and as Zack searched around for him, the silver-haired man reappearing above him, mumuring words, "Meteor." as the familiar small chunks of flaming rocks rained down that were the size of Mickey, hurling towards Zack who ended up running to avoid the crashing large rocks of fire that caused vibrations on the platform which made cracks.

Zack was then forced to jump backwards out of the way as Sephiroth raised one arm and brought it crashing down onto the rocky podium where the swordsman stood. Once more he spread his hands and flames began to form, larger and more condensed, but Zack used this to his advantage and summoned Firaga, this time concentrating as fast as he could and made the attack appear behind Sephiroth, hitting him from behind where the silver-haired man hissed at the burns of the Firaga fire balls. None the less, Sephiroth then closed his wing over his torso, and the yellow orb at his waist began to glow. The air around it wavered, and sparks of light formed and were drawn into the orb. A beam of light suddenly burst out of the orb. Zack cart-wheeled out of the way as fast as he could to avoid such attack which the real Sephiroth in their previous life used in his monsterous form used all those years ago.

Sephiroth then suddenly appeared in front of him and made a Quadruple Slash at Zack who had trouble blocking it before he found an opening and immediately thrusted it out at Sephiroth's chest to knock him back, but the crazed man immediately disappeared once more before Zack could even land a single hit. Sephiroth teleported to get to him and Zack only had enough time to block the masamune before he ended up losing his head all together. Zack quickly used a healing potion to at least get half of his health and strength back before he readied his sword and charged, jumping and striked at him when Sephiroth reappeared, Zack striked upwards, downwards, left, right, corner-right down, corner-left down, corner-right up, and corner-left down, yelling, "Here we go! Go! Go! Go!"

Sephiroth wasn't fazed by this and counterparted by using a combination of Firaga and Blizzaga that caused both burns and painful ice freezes at Zack who didn't have time to block them, before he quickly blocked Sephiroth's masamune once more as the silver-haired man teleported in front of him. The two clashed again from side, to up, to down, to side again, and tried to stab each other, but kept on blocking each other's attacks, but unlike last time, Zack had found new inner strength and resolve to not allow his body to become a Sephiroth clone as Hojo had attempted to make of him and Zack 8,000 years previously. Sephiroth then once again hovered in the air and again summoned Meteor to try and destroy Zack once and for all. But Zack, having an idea which is similiar to his fight against Genesis, dove out of the way while having trouble with dodging the multiple sword replicas before deciding that he had to use what magic he had left to save himself from this situation and used his Tornado Ability to stop the Meteor Shower.

To his relief and Sephiroth's shock, the Tornado Spell thrusted up towards him and shot back the latter's Meteor Spell, leaving Sephiroth no time to block or dodge them despite his teleporting but instead was hit repeatedly by his own attack reflected by his enemy's, weakening him and causing him to fall onto the platform before managing to flip mid-air and land safely, but still panted. Zack was becoming exhausted well, making them both realise that this battle would have to end sooner or later. Sephiroth then charged straight towards Zack who immediately turned and raised his sword to block the attack, but still his arms jarred when Sephiroth's sword collided with his. He was trying to force Sephiroth back when his opponent suddenly leapt back of his own accord. Twisting his body around, Sephiroth tried to strike him from the side. Zack only just responded in time to block the blow, and then had to block again as Sephiroth struck him again from his other side.

Zack jumped out of the way and blocked the third attempt before dodge-rolling. He then thrusted his sword in a powerful downward thrust at Sephiroth who leaped away before he could even get a scratch on him. However, Zack quickly jumped out of the way when Sephiroth had reappeared behind him and narrowedly avoided in having the Masumune being impiled through his body. After being safely half way away from his opponent, Zack held a tight grip on his sword, aimed directly at Sephiroth who, despite being exhausted, still held a confident and calm expression. Knowing that the battle had to end now or never, Zack swung his sword. At the same time Sephiroth moved, swinging his own sword, bringing it down to meet Zack's head-on.

The two swords clashed. As the blades connected, sparks of light danced along them and into the air around the two swordsmen. Zack gave another yell and pushed on his sword. Sephiroth pushed back, and then his eyes widened in surprise as the masamune was suddenly wrenched from his hands. The blade went flying through the air and out of his reach. Zack didn't stop here, as he darted forward, breaking through Sephiroth's defences, and swung his sword. The Buster Sword glowed as he struck; landing blows again and again without pause or respite. Sephiroth cried out as each blow hit home, unable to defend himself from Zack's attack. Finally, as though burrowing some of Cloud's power, Zack leaped into the air before descending, thrusting the Buster Sword sideways, bringing the blade down right onto Sephiroth's chest.(~End L'Eminenza Oscura II~)

"W-why!?" Sephiroth choked, in sheer shock and horror.

(~Beyond the Door-KH 1.5 HD ReMix)

As Zack had thrusted out the finishing blow, Sephiroth's mouth fell open, and his eyes widened in fear and surprise as he fell backwards. A deep, burning sensation spread throughout his body like wildfire, as though he was burning from the inside. Finally, his eyes slid closed as he began to disappear, as his sword shattered into pieces before fading away. The inner mentalness of the Buster Sword also vanished from Zack's grip, but the younger man wasn't worried. In fact, he finally figured out that this was probably how Ven lost his heart with the struggle against his inner darkness eight years ago.

The beams spread along his arms and legs, until Sephiroth's entire body was aglow with a piercing, blinding light. Tiny crimson balls of energy emerged from within him. More and more drifted out and Sephiroth's body grew smaller and smaller, until there was nothing left of him. The light disappeared, and the imbodied cells of Sephiroth was finally gone, despite the real one still out there, but Zack knew that one day, the real Sephiroth would be defeated once more.

Zack, gazing at the spot where Sephiroth disappeared from, just smiled as his glass platform somehow recovered. He then closed his eyes as he allowed himself to fade into light, before becoming a heart which, like Ven's heart eight years ago, flew off. Ven's heart itself, having floated above Zack's battle, then floated away. Unknowingly to the twelve year old boy back on the Islands, Ven's heart returned into his own heart to continue it's slumber, but not before it heard Zack's voice in graditude. (~End Beyond the Door~)

"Ven...thanks."

(~Sadness*Ventus's Theme-KH:BBS*~)

Back in Traverse Town, Aerith was in the First District approaching the Acessory Shop when she paused, a sudden cold sorrowed feeling sweeping over her. It also unusually began to rain from the never ending night sky. Blinking in confusion, she turned to gaze at it, before suddenly, an unbearable feeling almost consumed her. Somehow, she can sense it; Zack was overcome by darkness and his heart was now lost. Her own heart aching at the sudden and unbearable loss of the young man whom she had quickly had grown to care for deeply, Aerith held her hands together to her chest, as though praying, trying not to cry.

She continued to gaze at the sky, as though pleading for Zack to come back. But Aerith knew, no matter how hard she wished for...he wasn't.

In Neo-Tokyo on Earth in the Solar Universe...

Serena, who having flunked another test and only getting thirty points on her report paper, was gazing at the afternoon sky before she was snapped out of her trance by Molly who was taking her to one of the jewerly stores in town on their way back home from school.

"Didn't you hear me? I said my mom's store is this way." Molly said, pointing at the path leading towards the shop.

"Uh, right." Serena nodded apologetically.

But as the two best friends walked past other stores and buildings, Molly then noticed something odd happening and quickly became concerned. "Serena, what's wrong?"

"Huh?" Serena replied, pausing as she wondered what her friend was talking about, only for Molly to point at her face. Blinking before realising that her face felt a bit wet from a familiar sensation of a tear, the blond-haired teenaged girl reached out her hand to catch it, before gazing at her fingers, realising that it was tear, which surprised her. She had no idea why, but her chest suddenly felt...heavy with deepening sorrow, as though she just lost someone close to her.

Little did Serena know, she too had sensed the tragic end of Zack.

"That's really weird." Serena muttered, feeling sad and yet she didn't seem sad at the same time. "I feel so sad, like a friend or someone in my family just died. My heart feels hurt, like, really bad."

"Maybe we should get you off to the hospital." Molly suggested, worriedly.

"But this never happened before." Serena pointed out, worried herself, but she felt healthy still. "I just don't get it. Plus, it's not like I'm injured or anything...I...I just don't understand." She shook her head, trying and failing to figure this out.

This only now confused Molly, as she sweatdropped before saying, "You say weird stuff sometimes, Serena." before explaining when she noted on what her friend said, "But, I guess I can understand what it's like. Maybe you'll figure it out someday, like nothing in a book or at school to teach ya."

After a slight pause, Serena then replied, "And you say I say weird stuff. But I guess I can give your advice a shot." before gazing back up at the sky along with her friend, as the early evening Moon appeared in the sky, in it's cresent shaped form at quarter.

Yet Serena did not know that tonight would be the night that her life would be changing forever.

Back in the Midgar World in the Multiverse...

Cloud had searched everywhere for Zack around the area. As he searched through out the ruins, he felt a sudden bad horrible feeling in his gut and heart, before sensing that his friend was close, but at the same, he was suddenly losing him. So the young man followed that feeling and it only got worse when he heard gunshots and swords clanging and yelling and then...nothing. By the same Cloud arrived at the top of the cliff that was strongly familiar, he stopped short as all around the area, dead bodies of Militas Ultra soldiers were scattered all over the place.

He looked around before he gasped in sheer horror and despair, as he saw, near the cliff, was Zack. Cloud, horrified and scared, immediately rushed over before collasping onto his knees right next to his friend's body. Zack was wounded, and he was limp, and no matter what Cloud did, the wounded swordsman wasn't waking up. No. No, not him too! Zack couldn't be dead. He can't be!

Cloud, in sorrow and guilt, began to sob, trying to fight back tears but was starting to lose that battle. The sorrow he felt was because Zack was gone. The guilt he felt was because he failed to find him on time. If only Cloud had been stronger and faster. He blamed himself for everything that's happened.

Just then, Cloud felt something thrust behind him and when he opened his eyes to quickly look up, to his confusion and shock, he found himself on a strange round glass platform, with a picture of himself imprinted on it. The entire platform itself was surrounded by darkness with white mists. He stood up before looking around, wondering where he was, unaware that he was in a place that was all hearts. Suddenly sensing light above him, Cloud looked up to see...a glittering heart in light descend slowly towards him.

Yet somehow it was familiar, and Cloud could only mutter one name. "Zack?"

"Cloud...For...both of us..." Zack's voice spoke through the heart, which floated in front of Cloud who gently held it in his hands, the single heart floating above his palms.

"Both of us?"

"That's right. You're gonna live. You're my living legacy, Cloud." Zack's heart continued, sounding sad yet happy. Sad because this would be the final time they would speak to each other for a long time, yet happy to have the chance to speak to Cloud again for the final time. It was the repeat of 8,000 years ago, only now different. "I know it's hard, but, it's up to you to stop Sephiroth."

Cloud couldn't quite understand, but at the same time, suddenly realised that Sephiroth was still out there, and he no doubt was the real reason of Zack's death-like slumber and his heart having come to him. "Up...to me?"

As though the heart nodded to confirm it, Zack's heart then said, repeating his words to what he told him all those years ago in their previous life despite that Cloud still had no idea about that, but it was probably for the best for now, "My Honor, My Dreams...They're yours now. Take my sword with you."

Zack was surrending his sword to Cloud? To wield it against Sephiroth? Cloud was uncertain, but then...given that he managed to stop him earlier in Midgar Ruins despite not being as strong as Zack, maybe Cloud really is the only one to stop Sephiroth once and for all. The young spiky-blonde haired man had a feeling that it was going to take ages before he could make peace with himself and stop Sephiroth for good, determination to avenge his fallen friend filled up his heart. Cloud knew that nothing can bring Zack back, but he wasn't going to give up on him.

"I'm...your living legacy." Cloud repeated, and somehow, the way he said it strongly sounded familiar, even from his own voice. Why did it sound familiar?

None the less, he decided to worry about that later.

"One more thing...is it alright...If I can stay with you?" Zack's heart asked this time, sounding hopeful.

While Cloud had no idea how it came to be, he somehow understood despite this sounding risky, but it was a risk he was going to take. "Okay." He replied.

"Thanks, man." Zack's heart said.

Cloud then closed his eyes while allowing Zack's heart to float and absorb itself into his chest, absorbing deep into his heart. It felt strange, but at the same time, Cloud didn't feel any different.

When he opened his eyes again, Cloud found himself back in the real world, glancing around before realising that he must've gone deep into his mind...or deep into his heart. The sky had turned dark and it began to rain. The young man gazed back at Zack's motionless body, before realising that his chest was rising and falling slowly. That's when Cloud somehow understood, but still didn't quite understand. He then gazed at the fallen Buster Sword, and remembering Zack's request, slowly picked it up by the hilt, along with a fallen item from the man's pockets; the Starshard.

While Cloud had no idea what to do with it, he still gazed up at the sky, tears falling at the sudden loss, remembering all the times he spent with Zack; Visions of his dreams leading up to the events of Nibelhiem, and also his memories of the time when he and Zack first met for real, when Zack had been worried about him, Tseng and Reno when Genesis attacked, when the two of them had spend some time after Angeal's death where Zack had cried for his loss, and finally, to Zack pleading with Cloud to finish off Sephiroth in Midgar.

And also a secret Zack shared with Cloud; the former having come from another world, and his Starshard having been his key to travel to places on his quest. That's when Cloud realised, given Sephiroth's abilities, the man could also travel across worlds with Darkness. Knowing now that he would have to leave not only Zack and Tifa behind, but also his home world in order to begin his quest to find and stop Sephiroth, no matter what world he was in.

With a nod, Cloud stood up, saying for the final time to Zack's comatose body, fighting back more tears that threatened to leak, "I'll find Sephiroth, and settle with him. I promise." He said, before turning to leave, pausing long enough to give his final farewell, "Goodnight, Zack."

Holding a tight grip on Zack's Buster Sword, Cloud then walked away, determined to keep to his promise. This was the beginning of his own struggles that lie ahead of him and in just a short two years time, he would meet someone who would be one of his main keys to finally understand the truth of the events that happened.

He paused at near the entrance of Midgar Ruins before gazing up at the sky. He would find Sephiroth, and settle the score once and for all.

No sooner had Cloud left on his quest, a single black feather descended from the sky and landed beside Zack's sleeping body which was then scooped up by a remosed and surprisingly guilt-ridden Genesis who held him Snow-White style.

"Even if the Morrow is barren of promises, Nothing shall forestall my return. To become the dew that quenches the land, To spare the sands, the seas, the skies, I offer thee this silent Sacrifice." Genesis quoted, before gazing at Zack's peaceful sleeping expression, and muttered, "One day, Zack, your heart will return."

Extending his single wing, Genesis then took up with Zack's body in his arms, leaving behind the world for somewhere no one would find them in. This was the starting point of the events that could see the ending result in three years to come.

Tifa had spend days searching for Cloud, only to find herself just outside of Kalm. None the less, as she was about to leave to continue her journey, suddenly she sensed something very unusual. Confused, she glanced up at the sky after it finally stopped raining, but then...somehow, she sensed that Cloud was leaving.

Leaving behind everything to find Sephiroth, the monster who caused this mess.

With renewed determination, and realising what was happening, Tifa nodded to herself. She would find Cloud, and protect him in everyway she can. She didn't know how yet, but she would follow him...even to other worlds, no matter what it took. (~End Sadness*Ventus' Theme*~)

He was dreaming in a never-ending sleep. Zack didn't know how, but as his heart was now sleeping within Cloud's own heart, Zack's subconsciousess would be spending the rest of his time dreaming. But as he awoke, he smiled as new memories of previous life came to him;

Helping helping Cloud and a super-formed Sailor Moon to return to the world of the living after the two of them entered the Lifestream after the fight against Sephiroth's remnants. Waving a goodbye to them from the entrance of the Church in Midgar with Aerith before the two of them returned to the Afterlife in the Lifestream. Aiding Sailor Moon to help Reno transfere some kind of spirit into the body of a woman from the future. Coming back to life with Aerith who was sent back to the living to help aid Cloud and the others to defeat another enemy who was the cause of the previous two events that landed Sailor Moon and Mickey, along with their allies, to travel back in time three more times.

With these memories, Zack smiled. Maybe there is a chance he can see everyone again, when his heart returned to his body someday without hurting Cloud. Until then, he would have to wait. In his mind, he saw smiling and warm expressions of everyone he met on his journey and through out his life in his rebirth life;

Angeal, Cloud, Aerith, Yuffie, Leon, Kunsel, Mulan, Hercules, Meg, Phil, Pegasus, Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, Reno, Rude, Tseng, Elena, Cissnei, Mickey, Terra, Ven, Aqua, Jason, Grovyle, Queen Serenity, and lastly, Serena as Sailor Moon.

The image of Serena gave Zack new hope. Starting today, her journey was about to begin.

"Sailor Moon...good luck."

A/N: The Epilogue/Ending is next up! And then it's the secret ending after that. See you real soon!