For those of you who are curious about my computer... it got ran over.... several times...... by one of those toy jeep thingys that kids drive.... yeah... and then.... golf clubs.... my nephew hates me.... I swear it. Point is, I lost any and everything on that computer. Documents, pictures... ect, ect. About 60+ documents. My teachers didn't believe me when I told them what happened to my essays and stuff. But I digress....

I GOTS A LAPTOP NOW, AND EVERYTHING IS RIGHT AGAIN!!!!

This is the next chapter. Hope you all enjoy, and its Seph's POV again. Its gonna stay Seph's POV while they are out on outing like this.... Zack digresses too much... I can't get in Aeris' mindset that well , and Genesis.... Genesis is Genesis. I could only be him if i was in a very bitchy mood.


Tifa fell silent at the last word, leaving the group silently stunned. Aeris spoke first, her quiet voice seemingly loud over the pure silence that surrounded the group.

"That's so sad." One by one, we all came back to the world of the living. I swallowed, and sincerely hoped that I wasn't the being.

Honestly… it sounded scary. Watching one's lovers fight, then one kills the other, and kills himself. Ugh… talk about a nightmare. As a matter of fact, it probably would become a nightmare, especially since how alike the Lupin was to Zack, and the Phoenix was to Genesis.

"I think it's time we continue." At my words, everyone finally snapped out of it, and we continued on our way, abet, silently.

The materia cave was the first of the two that we stumbled across. I say stumbled because we quite literally stumbled into the cave. It was slightly downhill from where we had been when we had spotted it, and contrary to belief, I am not immune to everything, including slippery ice. Point was, we stumbled into the materia cave.

It was pretty, in a strange sort of way. The walls glowed multi-colors, and looked as if someone melted multiple materia and then mixed them before painting the walls with the still half mixed solution. There were several tunnels that branched off the main cavern, which we stood in. Each tunnel was luminated by the walls. In the center of the cavern we were in, there was a large fountain.

At one point in time, it may have spurted mako, but now it was frozen. The large bright green fixture glowed the brightest in the cave, casting a green glare on everything. It was eerily beautiful. I walked over to the edge of it, and glanced down to where the pool should have been if it wasn't frozen. Some fully created materia sat on the bottom, growing in bunches. The whole 'pool' was covered in materia.

"Ain't that something?" Zack whispered, touching the walls. Genesis nodded in agreement, staring down into the pool as I was. Tifa and Aeris were by Zack, staring at the walls.

"Is it me, or is the fountain a sculpture of sorts?" I gave Genesis a quick look, raising my eyebrows. I could hear Zack turn to look.

"Now that ya mention it… it does. Like an angel or something." I stared at the fountain.

In a way it did look like an angel. I could see a body, a head, and wings spread out behind it.

"Over here, there's a wolf!" Aeris called from down a tunnel. I blinked, as did Zack and Genesis. When had she wondered over there. Curious we followed to find yet another large cavern with a fountain.

Aeris was staring at the fountain, and strangely, I could see the wolf. Tifa wandered into another tunnel.

"A normal human over here!" She called. Zack and Aeris immediately ran off to see it. Genesis held back with me.

"Isn't it a little bit odd?"

"Hmm?"

"We encountered no monsters on our way here, and none so far. Not to mention the strange story involving me and Zack, and now this. What did it say, in the story, that the Lupin was closest too?"

"Wolves."

"And we find a wolf statue made out of pure, crystallized mako. This couldn't have been carved or anything… its natural. And the Phoenix was human. They found a human statue." I pondered over Genesis' words. It was a little strange.

"Hey Gen, you might wanna see this! There's a shit-load of fire and ice materia over here!" Zack called from the other cavern. Genesis gave me another look.

"And the Phoenix was best at fire and ice. Seeing a reoccurring pattern here?"

"Yes. So then, the being must have been the angel, and this is some sort of shrine to the story."

"The story which is most likely truth. Which would mean…."

"There's more to Cloud then we know." Genesis nodded. And Zack called, once more, from the other cavern.

"Seriously, Gen, you'd be in heaven if you'd come and see all this mastered materia." Genesis gave me a look, as if pleading that the conversation he started was over so he could go and see the materia. Reluctantly, I nodded. We could discuss this at a later time.

I glanced once more at the wolf, before following where the others had ran off to.

There was only the three caverns: the angel, wolf, and human. Each one interconnected to each other, but there was still only those three. I had to drag Genesis away from the materia, he really wanted those mastered fire and ices. Unfortunately, I wanted to be back in the village by sundown, and we still had to find that spring, so…. We had to continue.

"I don't think we'll find it today…" Zack muttered, still upset at leaving the pretty, warm, and unique caverns. Genesis mumbled something as well, but I didn't care enough to catch it.

"Seph… maybe we should turn back." Aeris spoke gently as she placed a hand on my arm. "We aren't all enhanced." She smiled, even as she glanced down at herself and at Tifa. I sighed, but consented to turning back. The spring would have to wait.