Kingdom Hearts: Saving Life in Another World

by GreenWarrior291

After having defeated Xehanort and managed to have saved Kairi from her fate, Sora disappears into a dark abyss of Darkness. Just as it seems like it'll be an endless sleep for having abused the Power of Waking, an outsider manages to teleport the young keyblade wielder into a different world.

95. Together, we will win!

Chapter 91: Together, we will win!

Sora, Reinhard, and Cloud all jumped up to attack Sephiroth as he charged rapidly towards their position. Subaru noticed this and quickly used the formchange he was in to provide cover by firing a couple of icicles at the one winged angel with Beatrice adding in her yin magic purple projectiles and Emilia adding in her own icicles.

Sephiroth saw this and quickly snapped his fingers with his free hand to create a multitude of dark orbs to block away any long range attacks while swiftly clashing weapons with the three that chose to engage in close combat.

His sword was strong enough to push Cloud and Sora back a bit while Reinhard using all of his divine protections was able to keep up with the one winged angel.

"Is this all you have?"

"Don't underestimate us."

Reinhard responded as he quickly clashed swords with Sephiroth once again. The one winged angel looked at the Sword Saint with a serious expression before the two were once again locked in a stalemate.

The two would swing their swords at each other, countering their attacks but also not being able to land a hit since their attacks were being canceled by the other.

This kept going for a few more swings until Emilia fired a barrage of icicles at Sephiroth, forcing the one winged angel to go on the defense.

Reinhard saw this and took the opportunity to power the Dragon Sword Reid, causing it to glow.

"This time, I'll defeat you, fallen angel."

As Reinhard swung his sword with everything he had in an attempt to eliminate the one winged angel, Sephiroth quickly managed to teleport away from the attack and right behind him.

As he goes for a quick swing towards Reinhard's neck, Felt with her intense speed managed to just barely block away the attack.

"Like hell I'll allow that to happen!"

She tried to push away Sephiroth's sword yet the one winged angel was just overwhelmingly stronger.

Before he overpowered her, Reinhard swiftly added his strength to Felt's, allowing the two together to push away the one winged angel's sword.

This gave an opening for everyone as Sora and Subaru both quickly recovered and jumped up to try and reach Sephiroth.

Arakiya, Priscilla, and Ram took this chance to use their strongest long range attack to try and land a hit on him.

The one winged angel sensed this, prompting him to quickly teleport away from their attacks before they could land.

As he teleported a few feet away from Reinhard and Felt's location, Subaru and Sora both spotted where he was and quickly jumped towards him.

"You are not getting away!"

"..."

Sephiroth turned towards the keyblade wielders rapidly moving towards his position. He stared at the two before blocking the pair's attacks.

"Is that all?"

"Not quite!" Master and Apprentice spoke in unison as they each quickly created separate counterattacks.

Sora pointed Kingdom Key directly towards the one winged angel's direction before shouting:

"Firaga!"

As Sora shouted this, Subaru's new keyblade started to glow as he swung it towards the one winged angel's direction.

"Take this!"

As fire and ice are sent towards Sephiroth's direction in such speeds, he used his wing to protect himself from these attacks.

"Disappointing."

"Don't look down on them, Sephiroth!"

Sephiroth turned towards his left side to see Cloud in blue aura charging at him, prompting a smile to be created.

"Cloud."

Without a second thought, he charges at Cloud's direction before both their swords clash violently with the one winged angel being slightly stronger.

This causes Cloud to be slightly pushed back, almost overpowered only for Sora to quickly glide towards the one winged angel's direction to swing his keyblade towards him.

Sephiroth sensed this and quickly moved his head to avoid getting hit only for Cloud to use this chance to push himself away from the one winged angel's position.

As he was at a distance from his opponent, Arakiya jumps into the fight and tries to land a fatal hit on Sephiroth only for the one winged angel to block this attack with ease.

"Did you really believe you stand a chance?"

"...die."

She pointed her wand straight towards the one winged angel's face before firing a powerful and deadly water attack.

Although for many in this battlefield they wouldn't be fast enough to deflect or dodge the attack, Sephiroth smiled as he showed that his speed was unrivaled compared to Arakiya as he just used his sword to slice up the attack from hitting him.

Once he did this, he moved his sword to block away another of Sora's attacks.

"You are better than this, Keyblade Wielder. I know you can put up more of a fight like before."

"..."

Sora didn't respond to this and continued to throw a barrage of attacks onto the one winged angel.

While he did this, Arakiya was angered by the fact that she was being ignored by this monster. She attempted to use another water attack only for Sephiroth to swing his sword towards her direction.

Right before she could be hit by a fatal attack, Cloud managed to arrive just in time to counter this attack.

"You are not killing anybody! Not on my watch!"

"For how long you can keep that reality?"

"For as long as we are here!" Sora shouted, backing Cloud up and once again providing pressure onto him. "As long as we are all fighting together, none of us will fall!"

With that being said, Garfiel and Rem charged in with Rem swinging her Morning Star weapon towards the one winged angel's head while Garfiel closed in to try and land a hit on Sephiroth's chest area.

As both attacks seemed like it would connect, Sephiroth looked at Rem's attack first and swiftly used a bit of his strength to push away Rem's weapon before dodging Garfiel's punch.

Cloud and Sora both swung their weapons in unison to try and corner Sephiroth only for the one winged angel to once again teleport out of there.

"Again?!"

As Arakiya spoke with an annoyed tone, Cloud turned towards his left side as he immediately knew that Sephiroth would target him once he had the chance.

While blocking this attack, Sephiroth took the opportunity snap his fingers, creating a gravity like attack to send Cloud swiftly towards the ground, crashing down.

As he was stuck to the ground, Sora quickly went on the offense against Sephiroth, surprised by such an attack.

"You won't get away with that!"

"Hm."

Sephiroth smiled as Sora was indeed giving him some pressure...though it wasn't something he can't handle.

He continued to be on the defense until Sora was about to break his guard only to suddenly receive a kick to his gut, catching him off guard.

This attack was strong enough to sent Sora flying a few feet away from the one winged angel while also starting to fall towards the ground.

Before he could fall quickly towards the ground, Subaru managed to glide towards his master and best friend's location before grabbing his arm.

"I won't let you fall like that, my friend."

"...thanks, Subaru." The Keyblade Master said while still holding his stomach area since the kick he took from Sephiroth knocked the wind out of him.

As Subaru was gliding the two to the ground, Reinhard landed back down to the ground first to allow Felt to be somewhere safe before swiftly jumping high enough to reach his opponent.

Once he was within range, he swinged his sword to try and land a hit only for Sephiroth to block it with all of his strength.

The two remained in a blade lock of sorts for a moment before the one winged angel pushed away his opponent, prompting Reinhard to quickly glide his way down to the ground before everyone looked up.

Cloud remained stuck to the ground for a minute before Otto and Louis approached him and help get him back on his feet.

"Thanks." Cloud said before turning his attention towards the one winged angel with his blue aura returning to him.

Sephiroth noticed this before turning his attention towards the others that were joining in on the fight.

"Hm. I wonder if any of you will survive this."

He lifted his hand up before a destructive ball was being formed, prompting everyone to be on guard.

Sephiroth smiled at this as his destructive ball grew big enough to be a supernova, something that had Subaru's attention.

'What the hell can this guy do?!'

As Subaru was questioning the type of opponent they are dealing with, Vincent Vollachia and those with him looked as the Emperor of Vollachia saw this as the best chance to finally intervene.

He along with the Prime Minister and the Star Gazer were on the Crystal Palace where the magical crystal cannon was located, a cannon that can wipe anything out. Vincent turned towards the few soldiers that weren't under any influence but his own.

"Fire."

They nodded as they began to prepare the trump card to the capital of Vollachia's defenses.

Design to deal with any threat with one simple attack, the cannon caused the pinnacle of the Crystal Palace to glow.

Although Sephiroth wasn't facing the palace, he could sense the power from the Crystal Palace's magical crystal cannon.

This caused him to smirk, seeing that this empire had a trump card.

"Clever."

Sephiroth waited for the right moment before the cannon fired its shot, a powerful mana fueled shot that could destroy anything on its path.

The second this was fired, Sephiroth changed the trajectory of his attack to face the cannon's attack head on, knowing full well his supernova's strength would be enough.

Once the supernova and the bright light that was powerful enough to wipe out an entire army connected, the explosion was massive enough to cause many to be blown away from the impact with only a few such as Subaru, Emilia, Priscilla, Sora, Cloud, Reinhard, Felt, and Louis were standing their ground.

As the impact of the two attacks finally settled, the one winged angel changed his attention from his fight with many strong warriors to focus on destroying the magical crystal cannon.

Cloud saw this and immediately started to chase after Sephiroth, knowing that he'll kill those that used the cannon.

Subaru was preparing to follow him only to first check on his best friend.

"Are you okay?" He asked, prompting Sora to respond with:

"Yes. This time, I'm okay." As he got up with confidence, he changed his keyblade from Kingdom Key into Ultima, wanting to make sure that they have the best chance in beating the one winged angel. "We can do this."

"Right!"

Subaru nodded with a confident smile before turning towards Emilia and Beatrice, noticing the two approaching him.

"Are you two okay?!" He asked, worried about them. Beatrice nodded confidently as she's ready to fight by her contractor's side. Emilia nodded with a smile on her face, knowing that they have each other's backs. Right before they all left off to follow behind Cloud, everyone else was beginning to get back up and prepare to follow Cloud as well, each of them wanting to beat Sephiroth.

"Don't think that you guys are going in alone." Waraki said as he and Julius were approaching Subaru, Sora, Beatrice, and Emilia. "We are going to beat this maniac together, as a large ass team."

"Hell yeah we are!" Subaru and Waraki fist bumped before turning towards the Crystal Palace.

---

Vincent, Ubilk, and Berstetz Fondalfon watched as the attack from the magical crystal cannon was not only unsuccessful but was nullified by the one winged angel's supernova attack. This was problematic since now they are a target. He quickly turned around and began to order both his prime minister and his stargazer:

"We should start moving, now."

The two nodded at this with the few remaining Imperial soldiers quickly drawing out their swords, preparing to protect their emperor at all cost.

As Vincent, Ubilk, and Berstetz were preparing to leave the Crystal Palace, a sudden explosion could be heard where the magical crystal cannon was located.

Berstetz looked terrified as he wasn't sure what to think of this, Vincent continued to walk while preparing to pull out his sword, and lastly Ubilk smiled as he was excited to see how events play out.

The soldiers that stayed behind were suddenly sent flying, all knocked out.

Before Vincent could react to this, Sephiroth suddenly appeared behind him.

"Emperor!"

"So, you are the infamous Sephiroth I've heard about." Vincent spoke calmly and with determination, prompting him to turn towards the one winged angel to have a good view of his opponent.

"You have quite the determination on you."

Despite knowing that Vincent was nowhere near as strong as him, the sheer will he had on his face told him everything he needed to know.

He was looking at a man that had been preparing for his death, having accepted this path.

He moved his sword towards the emperor's neck, curious to see if he was going to do something.

Vincent looked at Sephiroth without any fear, confident that if he wasn't going to be killed right now like it was foretold, then something will come to intervene.

Interestingly, he had two people in mind that he placed his bet on.

"The strong and the fool."

Two warriors of the same kind were what he was thinking but before anything else could happen, someone had opened the door.

Sephiroth took a glance only to notice that someone was rapidly approaching him.

He quickly moved his sword away from Vincent and swiftly managed to block away the attack.

To his surprise, it was the female warrior he had encountered back in the city of Chaosflame, Theresia van Astrea.

"This time we will defeat you!"

"We?" Sephiroth was curious about this. He waited for a moment before noticing an old butler with a sword jump up and attempt to attack him from high above.

This bought Ubilk, Berstetz, and Vincent a chance to get away from the battle starting right in front of them.

As they gained their distance, Wilhelm closed in on Sephiroth's location to try and cut down the one winged angel only for Sephiroth to quickly jump back and block away the attack.

As Wilhelm and Sephiroth's swords clashed, Theresia swiftly charged towards the one winged angel to keep him on the defense.

As he blocked away Theresia's attack, Wilhelm quickly charged in and made an attack of his own.

This pattern would persist as the two were in sync, prompting Sephiroth to quickly summon a few dark orbs around him the second he manages to gain a second of distance from the pair.

The previous Sword Saint saw these dark orbs and immediately went to destroy them with no hesitation.

As this happened, Wilhelm once again charged at Sephiroth, beginning to swing his sword with everything he had.

"For such an old swordsman, you are quite impressive." The one winged angel said this as he was indeed impressed by how Wilhelm was not only skilled with the sword but was moving as if he was in his golden age.

The old butler didn't care for the compliment as he continued to be on the offense with Theresia joining in and adding some pressure towards their shared opponent.

This kept the one winged angel impressed as he hadn't seen such teamwork in a long while...though this was nothing more than a momentary setback.

He continued to block and block until finally saw the opening he needed.

He swiftly changed from defense to offense, swinging his blade right towards Theresia's direction all the while using his wing to block away Wilhelm's attack.

Theresia had one second to react to this, forcing her to jump back to avoid getting caught by an attack that would've been bad for her.

As Theresia avoids this attack, Sephiroth turns his gaze towards the old butler.

He swung his blade right towards Wilhelm's sword with enough force to knock the sword out of his hand.

The old butler was surprised by this but only for a moment as he quickly jumped back to avoid any follow up attacks that the one winged angel was preparing.

Right as Sephiroth swung his sword, Wilhelm was able to barely avoid the attack all the while Theresia got in between the two as she began to block all of his attacks with every ounce of strength she had in her.

This bought Wilhelm a moment to not only catch his breath but also to grab his sword.

Sephiroth saw this and quickly snapped his fingers to create three small fires floating around the old man.

"?"

"Perish now."

As the three fires prepared to explode, the hold man realized this and quickly jumped at the right time to avoid getting caught in the explosion.

Although he didn't take any severe injuries, his right leg got caught and received a small burn mark.

Theresia saw this and was left with a bit of anger towards Sephiroth.

She blocked three of the one winged angel's attacks before taking the opportunity to avoid the fourth.

This gave her the perfect chance to start swinging her sword right towards Sephiroth's head.

The one winged angel swiftly dodged the attack with ease before throwing a counterattack to the former sword saint.

He created a small ball filled with energy and threw it right towards Theresia's direction.

She moved out of the way though she wasn't prepared for the attack that the one winged angel had planned.

The small ball of energy exploded, causing the former Sword Saint to be caught by this explosion.

"Theresia!" Wilhelm shouted before swiftly going towards her. Sephiroth smiled as he prepared to attack the old butler only for a wind attack to be sent towards him.

The one winged angel noticed this and quickly brushed the attack away with his wing before noticing a woman with green hair and wearing a warrior attire standing in front of two knights.

"You are my opponent, scum."

"..."

Sephiroth looked at this woman, seeing that she's ready for another long range attack only for the one winged angel to appear right in front of her.

"What?!"

"Die."

Before he could stab her, Kishida was able to protect Crusch from Sephiroth's attacks.

"You aren't hurting Crusch-sama!"

"Now you'll deal with us." Yabuto said with a smile as he swung his sword right towards the one winged angel's direction.

Sephiroth blocked away this attack easily before blocking Crusch's attack, noticing that she tried to get him while he had left himself open for a few seconds.

As the Sephiroth prepared to attack the three new opponents that have joined in, Wilhelm and Theresia charged right behind him and swung their swords towards his sides.

Sephiroth sensed this and quickly jumped high enough to avoid getting hit by the pair's attacks.

As he was on the air, Crusch took the chance to quickly swing her sword right towards his direction, using her ability One Blow, A Hundred Felled.

As the attack closed in on the one winged angel, he once again brushed the attack with his wing before he began creating a gravity sphere around him.

He smiled as he snapped his fingers to send this attack towards the five new opponents.

As the attack seemed like it was going to land on them, Cloud swiftly jumped in managed to cut through this attack.

"I was wondering when you would catch up, Cloud."

"I told you, you aren't killing anybody." As Cloud said this, he noticed Theresia and Wilhelm walking by his side before Crusch, Yabuto, and Kishida joined their side.

"You don't need to worry, Cloud, you are not alone. We will help you take this monster down."

As Theresia said this, Cloud nodded at her with appreciation before turning back towards Sephiroth. The one winged angel smirked when he heard this, amused by the former Sword Saint's words.

"Isn't that cute? Unfortunately to them, only Cloud can kill me."

"Even if that's the case, we will help him defeat you." Crusch said, confident that they can achieve this. Sephiroth smirked as all he could hear is words, words that he knows deep down won't come true.

"What a joke."

"Shut up." Cloud said as he was the first one to move, wanting to take Sephiroth down as quickly as possible.

Sephiroth continued to smirk as he blocked away the attacks from Cloud, Theresia and the others jumped in and started to swing their swords towards him.

Sephiroth noticed this and easily deflected each of these attacks.

He looked at his opponents and could tell that the biggest threats would be Theresia if he wasn't counting Cloud.

He brushed away Yabuto and Kishida before targeting Theresia while her guard was down.

Before his sword could cut her in half, a warrior with a shield jumped in and participated in the fight, protecting Theresia van Astrea.

"You are not harming Theresia-sama, monster!"

An older female warrior shouted as she started to clash swords with the one winged angel, giving Cloud a chance to try and land a fatal hit on him.

The one winged angel saw this and quickly speed blitz Carol and managed to not only disarm her but also land a slash on her back.

"Carol!"

Theresia and Wilhelm shouted while Grimm was just filled with intense anger towards the one winged angel.

Sephiroth was interested to see how Grimm will fight him with just a large shield.

Grimm charged directly towards his direction and tried to hit him with his shield only for the one winged angel to just teleport out of the way.

"Perish now."

As Sephiroth said this when he appeared right behind Grimm, the one winged angel prepared to create a few fire pillars to burn the old warrior to death only for Cloud to quickly get Grimm out of there just as the fire pillars were summoned.

"I said you aren't killing anyone, Sephiroth."

"..."

Theresia wanted to kill Sephiroth for hurting her friend. As she was about to set Carol on the ground to let her rest, Cloud turned towards her while calling her name.

"Theresia!"

"Huh?"

The former Sword Saint turned towards Cloud's direction as he tossed her a potion.

"Have Carol drink that."

Theresia caught the potion and looked at it for a moment, unsure on what it is but she trusted Cloud.

Sephiroth looked at this with an annoyed expression before swiftly going to attack her and Carol only for Wilhelm to get in between the two.

"I won't allow you to harm them." The old butler spoke with determination as he quickly ended up in a blade lock with the one winged angel. "You will perish here, fallen angel."

"A lot have said something similar but none have come close to beating me."

"Hm. Don't think you are unbeatable."

As Wilhelm gave this warning to his opponent, Yabuto and Kishida both went for side attacks with Yabuto swinging his sword onto the right side of Sephiroth's neck while Kishida aimed for the left ribcage.

Sephiroth sensed this and just used his wing to block away Yabuto's attack while grabbing Kishida's sword with his left hand.

"You two are nothing to me."

"Don't look down on us. We are much tougher than we look!"

As Yabuto shouted this, he quickly attempted to go for another attack with Kishida using his hook hand to try and land a hit of his own.

Sephiroth dodged these two attacks before managing to break the blade lock he had with the old butler.

As he did this, he noticed Sora and the others starting to enter the Crystal Palace.

He started to fly up as he can see that he has a numerous amounts of warriors joining the fight.

As he was near the ceiling of the throne room, Medium was the first to try and reach him by having Rem toss her towards the one winged angel.

Medium was wielding two keyblades thanks to Sora lending her these weapons, Oathkeeper and Oblivion respectively.

"Hm?"

Sephiroth was intrigued by this as he blocked away the attacks thrown towards him by Medium. Yabuto and Kishida were both mesmerised when they saw an amazing female warrior not only jumping into battle but wielding two keyblades like a badass.

"She's so cool." The two knights spoke in unison, eventually realizing what the other hand said.

"Okay, you two. Romance can literally wait until after the fight." Waraki said, happy to see his two friends back in the fight.

Kishida and Yabuto just smiled at their friend, having noticed him before the three turned towards Sephiroth with a more serious expression.

Medium continued to throw as many swings as she could before gravity started to cause her to fall.

Garfiel was there to catch her all the while Rem tagged in and just closed in onto the one winged angel to try and land a hit with Louis and Ram both providing cover.

Ram would use the few wind attacks she had left in her while Louis provided close ranged assistance.

Rem would throw a barrage of punches with the one winged angel dodging the attacks before preparing to swing his sword right at the oni girl's head.

Louis took her chance to jump towards Rem's position to block away this attack, allowing Rem to continue her assault on Sephiroth.

She quickly landed to the ground due to gravity but jumped right back up to continue her assault with Ram managing to deflect one of the one winged angel's attacks directed towards her sister.

Rem continued to go on the offensive with Ram and Louis protecting her until Sephiroth finally increased a bit of his speed, managing to land a hit on the former Sin Archbishop of Gluttony by stabbing her in the left arm before sending her flying.

"Louis!" Sora shouted as he quickly ran towards her to heal her with the little magic that had return to him. While this happened, Rem was angered by this and tried to use her morning star weapon only for Sephiroth to quickly land a kick to the girl's gut hard enough to send her flying into a wall.

"Rem!"

Ram shouted with Theresia and Cloud quickly taking this chance to attack the one winged angel, both wanting to prevent him from attacking anyone else.

He blocked away these attacks before pushing the two back with his full strength before finally realizing a sudden explosion all around the area, destroying the entire Crystal Palace as well as causing the entire Empire to shake.

Madelyn and her group had managed to finish their battle when they felt this violent shake from the ground, prompting them to turn their attention towards the center of the capital, seeing a bright light.

Zarestia was still knocked out until this violent shaking from the ground had caused her to regain her conscious.

"Wh-What's going on?" She asked as the ground was shaking. As she was slowly getting up, she looked around until she noticed a bright light shining in the center of the city.

She was tempted to go and investigate but then she remembered that she had her sphere returned to her.

She no longer needs to help...

Pandora and Replica Riku watched from a distance as everything was shaking around them violently and the center of the city had a bright light glowing.

"Should we leave?"

"Why?" Pandora asked, curious about what Pride would respond.

"We could be in danger from that—"

"There is no need to be worried, Pride. We are safe right where we are. The fight won't reach us."

"Are you sure?"

Replica Riku asked, worried that they would be caught.

Pandora just simply nodded as she was amazed by how Sephiroth was somehow holding his own.

Though her interest was on Sora, placing her bets on the Keyblade Master.

Everyone in the Crystal Palace looked as Sephiroth continued to glow with the weather changing to have dark clouds surrounding the city, causing it to rain.

"What...the hell is he...?"

Subaru questioned, never having experienced this in any of the previous loops.

As he was slightly panicking, worried that he might end up losing someone in the process or worse, having to loop back and do this all over again.

Rem and Sora both patted on separate shoulders with the keyblade master first saying:

"Don't worry, Subaru. I won't let you redo everything. You are not alone."

"Yes, just as Sora-kun says. Rem will lend her entire strength to prevent a repeat of events. To preserve Subaru-kun's heart and soul."

Although they were being vague for most hearing this, Subaru understood that the two were basically telling him that they won't let him loop once again.

Although he wasn't too sure that they could do that in the previous loops, this loop might actually be the case.

"No neeeed to look a gloooomy, Subaru-kuuun. You still have eeeeeveryone alive."

Subaru got up as he turned towards his back side to see that Roswaal as joined the battle.

'Where the hell were you in the previous loops?' The boy asked himself in his mind, annoyed that the margrave was finally joining the fight.

"And where were you?"

"Juuuust around."

"...just make sure nobody's lost. Got it?" Subaru questioned, not wanting Roswaal to be the reason he ends up looping back.

Roswaal nodded before going right next to Ram's position to fight by her side.

Ram noticed this and was just doing everything in her power to remain composed as she was extremely happy to have him be by her side.

Rem noticed this and just remained blank, still angry with him for the bad things he had done to her sister and to Subaru in a failed loop.

Everyone looked at their surroundings and noticed that some of the buildings as well as the ground they were in was floating around the sky.

"What's happening?!"

As Felt shouted this, Cloud slowly started to approach Sephiroth's direction, seeing that he's causing all of this with whatever power he has within him.

"Keep your guard up. Sephiroth's only doing this to keep himself from being cornered. He'll do anything to win."

"That may be true, but you have us by your side, kid." Carol said, with her wound was somewhat healed thanks to the potion he had tossed towards Theresia.

Cloud looked at her as she approached him.

She patted his arm, wanting to assure the blonde warrior that he's not alone in this fight.

Cloud nodded as he appreciated this before noticing Sora, Rem, Subaru, and Beatrice all four passing his left side with the keyblade master being the one to tell his friend:

"Don't worry Cloud, allow us to build you a path to Sephiroth."

As Sora said this, he gave Cloud a thumbs up before changing into the formchange of the Ultima keyblade.

Once he fully formchange, he along with Subaru, Beatrice, and Rem charge in towards Sephiroth's direction.

Subaru carried Rem as he quickly jumped into the next platform nearby, using the formchange from his new keyblade to help with the jump.

Rem jumped easily to the next platform with Sora gliding towards the next one.

As the four were approaching Sephiroth's position, the others started to follow suit with Emilia quickly moving fast to catch up with her knight.

Ram followed behind her with Roswaal flying towards the one winged angel's direction, being the first one to reach him.

Roswaal threw six-fold magic towards the one winged angel, forcing him to quickly counter with a shield form by the dark orbs he summoned.

These were enough to counter the margrave's attacks only to keep throwing more magic.

Sephiroth dislike this, seeing magic users as annoyances.

This prompted him to swiftly move his hand towards Roswaal's direction, prompting a platform to move towards the Margrave's direction.

"Watch out!" Ram shouted as she used Al Fura to destroy the portion of the building that was about to hit Roswaal though in the process she began to cough up some blood, having used too much strength.

This was something Roswaal caught on but he also noticed Sephiroth throwing a ball of light covered with fire towards him.

Before he countered this, Rem's flail destroyed the attack while she jumped right towards the one winged angel's direction.

"Protect sister, Roswaal-sama. Please."

"No." Frederica shouted as she was able to catch Ram before she crashed to the ground. As she was carrying a fellow maid and friend, she turned towards Roswaal to tell him:

"I'll take care of her."

Roswaal nodded before turning towards Sephiroth, seeing Rem throwing a few punches towards the one winged angel's direction.

As he dodged all of this attacks, he swung his blade once again towards her direction only for Rem to use the chains from her weapon to protect herself from the attack.

While she did this, Sora closed in and swung his weapon towards Sephiroth's direction, forcing him to change his attention from attacking Rem to deflecting the keyblade master's attack.

As he does this, Rem goes for another punch only for the one winged angel to brush this away with his wing while also managing to land a kick on her once again.

Although this kick was a lot stronger than the last one, the blue haired oni maid was prepared to tank this hit as she took this chance to grab his leg before she was sent flying off.

"Hm?"

"I got you..."

Sora took this chance to throw a barrage of attacks, with his formchange allowing the swords around him to add more pressure onto the one winged angel.

Eventually all of these attacks were enough to break his guard and give Sora the chance to finally land a hit.

This strike was through Sephiroth's chest area, receiving quite an injury though not a fatal one.

Sephiroth looked at Sora with an impressed expression, having always suspected that if someone was going to damage him first that wasn't Cloud, it would be him.

Rem quickly took this chance to try and land a hit of her own by swinging her Morningstar right onto Sephiroth's face only for the one winged angel to counter this by deflecting away her attack and managing to shake her off his leg easily.

As Rem was sent flying onto one of the buildings, Sephiroth swings his blade swiftly towards Sora's direction only for the swords around the keyblade master quickly teleported around the boy to create a barrier that protected him from such an attacks.

As he blocked this, Subaru and Beatrice finally joined in as the pair pointed their hands towards the one winged angel while shouting:

"El Minya!"

With a barrage of purple projectiles being created around Sephiroth, Sora moved out of the way to allow Subaru and Beatrice's attack to land.

The one winged angel looked at this attack unfazed as he swiftly grabbed his sword with both his hands in order to move quick enough to cut down all of the projectiles fired at him.

As he succeeded in this, he swung his long sword right in the pair's direction.

Before the sword could even connect with either Subaru or Beatrice, Emilia created an icicle to deflect the attack.

"You won't harm my knight!"

As she shouted this, she jumped onto one building to another before jumping high enough to reach the one winged angel.

"Emilia! Watch out!"

Subaru shouted as he saw that Sephiroth was swinging his sword swiftly towards Emilia's head, attempting to kill her while she was preparing her attack.

Subaru didn't want to watch Emilia die again, being the original catalyst for Vanitas to take over his body at the beginning of this loop.

Before he could act, the keyblade in his hand had disappeared from his hand and swiftly appeared in Emilia's hand.

This gave the silver haired half elf a second to block away the attack thrown towards her by the one winged angel.

As she grabbed onto the keyblade that popped into her hand with both her hands, she noticed that this keyblade was not only strong but held a specific bond, one shared between herself and her knight.

She also noticed that the keychain this keyblade had was the white flower that's on her hair.

This made her happy as she quickly blocks Sephiroth's first and follow-up attack.

"I won't lose, villain!"

As she shouted this, she had four people enter her mind, Subaru, Puck, Fortuna, and Guese.

These four were very special to her and were counting on her to survive this fight, prompting her to land on the closest building near her before using the strength in her legs to push herself straight towards Sephiroth once again.

The one winged angel looked at her with an indifferent expression before once again swinging his blade to kill.

Emilia saw this and was able to avoid the attack before reaching his position, giving her the chance to swing the keyblade right at him.

Sephiroth was able to dodge this attack though he didn't account for her to create an ice sword with her free hand at the last second before swinging towards his chest area. This marks as the second hit that's been landed on Sephiroth, annoying him.

He looked at Emilia with an annoyed expression before teleporting away from where he was.

"Where did he go?" She questioned as she went to land onto the building she had used to reach Sephiroth.

As she was freefalling, Sephiroth teleported right behind her and was about to land a fatal hit on her only for Reinhard to have quickly gotten in between the two.

"I will not allow you to harm Emilia-sama."

"Neither will I!"

Felt shouted as she was right behind Sephiroth, swinging her large knife towards the one winged angel's direction.

Sephiroth sensed this and was able to move his free hand towards Felt's direction to prevent her from stabbing him.

As he did this, Theresia and Wilhelm both jumped a few platforms and on top of a couple of buildings before charging right towards him.

Sephiroth looked at the two for a moment before throwing Felt to the side and flying away from Reinhard's position.

As he was flying onto one of the buildings in the air, Theresia and Wilhelm both reached him and began to throw a barrage of attacks towards him.

He blocked away these attacks, seeing that Theresia and Wilhelm's swings of their swords were on sync with each other.

He just blocked each attack with some effort before swinging his blade right towards the pair with enough strength to knock them off their feet which sent them flying off the platform they were in.

Reinhard saw this and quickly caught the two after putting away his Dragon Sword Reid.

"I got you."

"Thanks." Both Theresia and Wilhelm said all the while Sephiroth noticed Cloud charging in towards him.

He quickly swung his sword towards the blonde warrior, trying to eliminate him the first chance he has only for Cloud to block away the attack.

As the two were giving it their all against the other, Subaru turned towards Beatrice as he noticed that she was worried.

"What's wrong, Beako?"

"I don't have enough mana to do anything more than a simple shamak, in fact."

Subaru heard this and quickly check to see if he had anymore ethers on him only to see that he had ran out.

'Shit...'

He knew that this was a problem since he can't do much to help Beatrice in giving her mana without running out of his own.

"Here, hold on tight."

Subaru moved Beatrice in order to carry her from his back, wanting to keep her close to him while he thought on how he can assist Cloud in fighting off the one winged angel. He starts to glide towards Sephiroth's position with Emilia and Sora joining him.

"Subaru! Catch!"

Emilia shouted as she tossed the keyblade towards her knight's direction.

Subaru managed to grab it with his left hand before turning forward towards the one winged angel's direction.

As the three were closing in to assist Cloud, he and Sephiroth continued to clash swords before ending up in a blade lock.

"Is this the best you can do? I expected more."

"Shut up."

Cloud pushed away Sephiroth's sword to the side as he tried to land a hit on him only for the one winged angel to tilt his head to the side in order to avoid the attack.

As he did this, he snapped his fingers in order to create a gravity sphere to send away Cloud.

The sphere sent Cloud flying onto a platform with no building, causing him to crash onto the ground, creating a small crater.

Before the one winged angel could even take the opportunity to attack Cloud while his defenses were down, Sora once again started attacking him with every ounce of strength he had in him.

Sephiroth swiftly moved himself into a defensive stance as he blocked away all of Sora's swords as well as blocking Emilia's icicle attacks shot towards his direction.

Subaru swung his keyblade towards Sephiroth's direction, causing icicles to form from thin air and to be sent towards the one winged angel at a rapid pace.

Sephiroth deflected all of these combined attacks, determined to stay alive against these foes though he was slowly losing grip of his defense as Sora's swords were extraordinarily powerful.

This annoyed Sephiroth, prompting him to teleport away once again.

As he appeared a couple feet away from Sora, he began to glow while moving his hand.

"Descend, heartless angel."

A small red glow surrounded Sora as he was hit with a deadly attack, forcing him out of his formchange and back to regular attire.

"Sora!"

Subaru shouted as he watched his best friend and master fall towards the platform Cloud was stuck in.

Before he could go to catch him, Rem took this chance to catch the falling Sora while telling Subaru,

"I'll keep Sora-kun safe! Focus on the fight!"

Subaru nodded as Sephiroth was right about to land a hit on him.

"Subaru!"

Beatrice shouted, prompting Subaru to quickly move his keyblade towards Sephiroth's sword, attempting to block away the attack with all of his strength.

Although this attack was about to overpower him, Emilia was able to assist her knight in pushing the one winged angel back with her two ice swords.

"Thanks, Emilia-tan."

Emilia nodded as the two prepared to attack Sephiroth only for the one winged angel to easily brush the two to the side with a simple swing of his blade.

Emilia was pushed back despite blocking the one winged angel's attack.

As her ice swords broke from the impact and she was sent towards a platform nearby them, Subaru was able to create an ice shield with the assistance of his formchange attire.

This ice shield was swiftly taken care of with ease, prompting Beatrice to quickly use the last magic she can cast in this battle.

"Shamak!"

As she did this in order for Subaru to survive the fight, black dust covered the pair which prompting the one winged angel to pause for a moment.

This gave Subaru enough time to come up with an attack on him.

He held his keyblade tightly which caused the weapon itself to start to be covered in ice.

Once he felt that his keyblade was completely covered in ice, he threw it towards Sephiroth's direction.

The one winged angel saw this and quickly hit the keyblade with his sword.

Although under normal circumstances it would've been a counter, in this case the keyblade exploded the second Sephiroth's sword had touched it.

This caused the ice on the keyblade to be shot in all directions which some of these random shards managed to land on the one winged angel.

As this happened, Priscilla looked at the fight with a smile as Rem landed to the ground while carrying an injured Sora.

She wasn't displeased by this as she can tell that Sora wasn't going to sit back and rest.

Rem allowed the keyblade master to be back on his feet before seeing that he was going to get back up.

"You need to rest, Sora-kun."

"I-I know...but I have to keep fighting...I won't stay in the sidelines...anymore..."

As he was back on his feet and was about to go back into battle, Rem grabbed his arm as she didn't want her hero to get himself killed.

Before she said something, Louis got in front of the two which caught their attention.

"Louis?"

"Allow us to fight on your behalf, Sora-kun~tsu."

"..." Sora watched as Louis was no longer afraid compared to the beginning of this entire fight.

She understands that fighting the one winged angel is basically death if you aren't strong or fast enough to handle him.

Louis jumped up into one platform before jumping to another.

She did this a few more times before finally reaching the one winged angel's position right when Subaru's attack had landed on him.

"Die~!"

As she goes for an attack on Sephiroth, the one winged angel swung his blade to try and kill her right then and there only for her to barely dodge the attack.

Her heart was racing when she pulled this off, feeling the brush of death.

She's still scared of dying after having experience what is to be Natsuki Subaru...but she also understands that if she died, it would make Sora sad.

'We have to survive, for Sora-kun's sake~TSU!'

Determined, she closes in and using every ounce of power in her, she was able to land a kick on Sephiroth's chest.

Although nothing too damaging, Sephiroth took note of this and just waited for her next strike before countering this by grabbing her fist as she tried to land a punch on his face.

As he basically had her, Crusch saw this and knew that she needed to act fast if she wanted to save Louis from being killed.

She prepared to swing her blade in order to use her long range ability only to pause when a sudden dragon passed by her and charged right towards the one winged angel.

Sephiroth paused himself right when he was about to stab Louis's heart as he sensed something different approaching him.

He turned around and to his surprise, a few dragons were charging right at him with Madelyn in the dragon at the front.

"Hm. Interesting."

Having lost interest in killing Louis, he tossed her to the side before waiting to see what Madelyn will do. Madelyn Eschart took out her flying winged blade while telling Sephiroth:

"Prepare to die."

As she confidently said this, her dragon closed in on the one winged angel to allow her to swing her weapon right at him.

He blocked away the attack while also in the process creating a small destructive ball to throw at the dragon's body.

This attack connected and did some serious damage to the dragon Madelyn was riding on, prompting it to screech in pain which only angered the dragon loli.

"How dare you!"

She began to run towards her dragon's tail in order to jump on it to reach the one winged angel, wanted to cut his head off.

As she manages to reach him, she swings her sword right as he swings his, causing both to clash swords.

As they were pushed back, Madelyn began to freefall only for another dragon nearby to catch her while the others began to breath fire at Sephiroth.

The one winged angel wasn't fazed by this and just quickly started to fly past these attacks as he closed the distance between himself and the dragons.

As he was close to one of the dragons, he started to land blows onto them.

As he managed to harm majority of the dragons near him, one attempted to smack him with its tail only for the one winged angel to dodge this attack.

As he does this, he prepares to cut off the dragon's tail only for Crusch to use her range attack to get his attention.

She didn't like the idea of helping a dragon as it makes her think of the one dragon that she wants to break Lugnica's covenant with but considering that they are all fighting on the same side, she knows that she needs to help them.

As Sephiroth was distracted by Crusch's attack since he blocked it away with his sword, three dragons right near him once again shot fire at him.

He notices this and quickly wraps himself with his wing to protect himself from the fire.

He continued to protect himself until the dragons stopped, giving Madelyn a chance to go for another attack once again.

As she goes for another swing, Sephiroth quickly moves his wing back to its original position while managing to knock Madelyn's flying winged blade from her hands.

"What?!"

She was shocked by this, prompted her anger to increase rapidly.

She looked at Sephiroth and immediately saw that he was going for another attack on her.

She moved her body to her left side to avoid the attack though the one winged angel was able to give her a cut on her right cheek.

As Sephiroth was about to do a follow-up attack, Crusch threw another attack towards him while at the same time, Louis had managed to grab Madelyn's weapon to toss towards her.

"Catch!"

Madelyn turned towards Louis's direction, having noticed her shouting.

As she looked at the teen girl, she saw her weapon being thrown towards her, prompting her to quickly catch it in time to block away one of Sephiroth's attacks as he goes for the kill right after blocking away Crusch's attack once again.

As Madelyn was able to protect herself, Priscilla and Al both started to walk right where Crusch was located. Priscilla held her fan right on her face as she analyzed the situation.

"I don't agree with this course of action, Princess."

"Be quiet, fool."

"..."

Al was a bit taken aback by this though he obeyed, noticing that Priscilla was thinking something.

Before he could ask, he along with Priscilla and Crusch noticed Sephiroth starting to create a supernova once again.

As he creates this supernova, the dragons all prepare to attack him which prompted him to also make more dark orbs around him.

He turned towards Priscilla, Crusch, and Al, finding them as the perfect trio to throw this supernova at.

As he throws it towards them, the dragons all shot fire from different directions.

This forces Sephiroth to fly up to avoid the attacks.

While he was doing this, Priscilla and Crusch both prepared to attack the supernova to try and prevent it from hitting them only for Arakiya to jump in between the two while also taking off her eyepatch.

"I won't let anything happen to you, Prisca-sama!"

As she shouted this, she used all of her mana to use a mix between water and wind to push away the supernova, wanting to prevent it from blowing up within range from her princess. While Arakiya was doing everything in her power to push the supernova away, Crusch was a bit curious by what the second divine general had said.

'Prisca?' She was curious about this but for now she had to focus on the fight ahead of them.

Priscilla looked annoyed at Arakiya, having said many times that the name Prisca isn't her name anymore.

Al was indifferent at the moment since he was worried that the second divine general might not be able to push away the supernova in time.

"Princess, Crusch-sama, we should move back."

"Don't be such a coward, Aldebaran. Nothing will happen."

"It's...princess, I believe we should get to safety."

"If you wish to run away, do it yourself."

As Priscilla said this, Al was just left silent since he knows that convincing Priscilla on anything is basically impossible.

He looked back up and saw that the supernova was about to explode as it seemed like it was set on a timer by Sephiroth.

'I can't lose here! I need to push this thing away for Prisca-sama's sake! I have to be useful to her!'

As Arakiya was giving it her all in pushing the supernova back only to see that she still doesn't have enough mana to fully push away the supernova.

"No..."

As it seemed like it was about to blow, a sudden wind past by her and managed to add the extra strength she needed to send this supernova all the way towards the sky, far away enough to explode without anybody getting caught by it.

"What was...?" Arakiya paused herself as she saw someone fly past her and just gun it to the one winged angel.

Sephiroth looked at the new opponent that has joined the battle and saw that it was a beautiful woman in a white kimono.

She moved her hand towards his direction to feel a fierce wind attack suddenly be thrown towards him.

He was about to block away this attack only to sense that he needs to dodge this attack specifically.

As he moved out of the way on the nick of time, he quickly created a barrier as she swiftly approached his position.

While this happened, Sora and Subaru both in different location were surprised to see her.

"Zarestia..."

The two keyblade wielders were not expecting the Great Spirit of Murder to make an appearance.

She went for a punch on the barrier in front of Sephiroth only to be caught off guard by the pieces of the barrier to suddenly turn into shards of energy.

These energy shards immediately moved towards Zarestia's direction, prompting her to quickly try to block away the attacks.

As the energy shards were hitting her arms, they eventually caused small explosions that did hurt the Great Spirit of Murder, making her get even more angry towards the one winged angel.

Once this was done, Sephiroth prepared to attack Zarestia while she was still waiting for the counter-attack to end but before he could, Louis and Madelyn jump right towards him to try and blind side him.

Sephiroth looked at the two with a blank expression before easily destroying Madelyn's sword with a simple swing while dodging Louis's kick.

"What?!"

"You are nothing but a spoiled brat." As Sephiroth made this comment, Zarestia threw a barrage of wind attacks right at his direction.

This forced him to teleport out of the attacks trajectory, prompting him to appear behind her.

"Perish."

Zarestia gave an annoyed expression when she heard this, seeing that the one winged angel was preparing to attack her.

She was quick enough to create a powerful wind barrier to protect herself from Sephiroth's fire pillars attack.

As the flames were being pushed away due to her wind sphere surrounding her, her blood lust was just increasing as well as her paranoia of that fateful night.

With the fire surrounding her and reminding her of the night she was being burned alive by her former followers.

This was enough to cause her to explode with a powerful wind being sent all around her, managing to destroy all of the fire pillars Sephiroth had summon as well as forcing the one winged angel to fly away from the attack range.

This gave Crusch a chance to throw her attack while Sephiroth was distracted with Zarestia. Reinhard, Wilhelm, and Theresia all three also took this chance to start jumping from platform to platform to reach the one winged angel to back the Great Spirit of Murder up.

Arakiya also starts to jump up the platforms to go to attack Sephiroth in a close range setting.

Cloud is preparing to get back up, finally starting to break free of the gravity ball Sephiroth had thrown towards him only to feel two people grab his shoulders and help him get back up on his feet. He had thought it was possibly Otto and Garfiel since the two have been keeping a distance from the fight only to see that it was two old opponents from earlier in the fight.

"Allow us to join the fight." The wolf man said as he along with the first divine general started to quickly head towards the one winged angel's direction.

Cloud looked up and just saw how many people were fighting on his behalf to take out Sephiroth.

Sora and Subaru also noticed this with Subaru thinking back on the failed loops, they would easily be cut down by the one winged angel.

'Perhaps Vanitas taking over my body and keeping this monster busy gave everyone an ounce of chance to rest. Maybe this was the best course of action, well that and Reinhard joining the fight.'

Seeing that the path of victory as been opened, he watched as Sephiroth created another supernova to throw right towards Zarestia's direction.

Although Cloud is truly the only one that can eliminate his existence, this one can do just as much damage as Sora and Reinhard.

Having three that can make it easy for Cloud to strike him down is not something he can take a chance on.

He threw the supernova right towards Zarestia's direction only for the Great Spirit of Murder to easily destroy it with a powerful wind attack.

As she successfully did this, she charged right towards Sephiroth's direction with murderous intent.

The one winged angel looked around and saw that others were about to join the fight, which would be bad especially with the two Sword Saints jumping in.

He quickly started to move the platforms all around, forcing many of the fighters away while having three platforms thrown right towards Zarestia's direction, trying to slow her down.

As the platform with half a building closing in on Zarestia, she just easily destroyed it with her wind barrier before charging at the two other ones being thrown towards her.

Once she destroyed the two platforms thrown towards her, Sephiroth swung his sword right towards Zarestia's direction while he was glowing with a dark aura.

As his sword had hit Zarestia's wind barrier, she prepared to attack the one winged angel only to suddenly notice that his strength had increased enough to break her barrier.

Zarestia was snapped out of her blood lust when she saw this, prompting her to try and dodge this attack only for Sephiroth to have landed a hit on her, slashing her back side and injuring her.

"Zarestia!"

Both Subaru and Sora shouted, prompting Sora to quickly use his minimal strength to jump as high as he could to try and reach the Great Spirit of Murder. Rem was surprised by this sudden action from her hero, causing her to follow him as the keyblade master was able to catch Zarestia all the while crashing into a building.

"I got you."

As Sora is still carrying Zarestia, Rem jumps into the building Sora and Zarestia ended up in and was a bit jealous as she sees her hero carrying a beautiful woman. Although the jealousy was there, she also knew that Zarestia was injured by Sephiroth, prompting her to approach the great spirit of murder and began to heal with her water magic.

"Allow Rem to help."

Sora looked at Rem and nodded, appreciating Rem's assistance before turning towards the outside to see Reinhard managing to reach the one winged angel.

"I won't let you get away with that." He spoke in an honorable tone as he clashed swords with Sephiroth. The one winged angel looked at the Sword Saint with a serious expression as the two start clashing swords multiple times, trying to outwit the other.

While they were clashing swords, Reinhard had noticed that Sephiroth was a lot stronger, especially with this dark aura surrounding him.

He continued to swing his blade and clash with Sephiroth's, trying to keep on the same level as the one winged angel until suddenly Sephiroth created a barrier right in front of him, just as Reinhard swung his Dragon Sword Reid towards his direction.

He broke the barrier which caused the broken pieces to turn into pieces of energy.

These pieces of energies moved towards Reinhard's direction in a similar way to how Zarestia had destroyed Sephiroth's shield.

Before the energy shards were about to explode on the Sword Saint, Reinhard was able to avoid the attack as he went towards a platform nearby.

While landing on the platform, Sephiroth pointed his sword directly at the Sword Saint to tell him:

"All shall be one with me."

As he said this in a threatening manner, someone with an energetic tone commented to what he said with:

"Speaking like a true villain. That just makes my entrance even more important."

A blue lighting started to circle the one winged angel, catching Reinhard's attention the most since he knew who this was.

Sephiroth just looked at this blue lighting moving rapidly around him, annoyed by just how many warriors are around and preventing him from having a proper match with Cloud.

He watched as this opponent was continuing to keep his distance while circling him swiftly up until five wolf men suddenly jumped right behind him.

He didn't hesitate to eliminate these five wolf men only to see a sixth one appear from a distance and throw a couple of kunai.

He blocked away the attacks without much problems before sensing the blue lightning appearing on his right side.

This prompted the one winged angel to block away the blue lightning's attack as he was wielding his two kitanas.

"Now that I've returned to the stage, I shall be the one to defeat this angel!"

"Hmph."

Seeing another powerful warrior, Sephiroth strived to eliminate him as fast as possible by pushing Cecilus's sword away and tried to slice his neck off. The first divine general blocked away this attack with the other kitana, protecting himself from the attack.

"Too close!"

Cecilus shouted this with an excited tone since he's clashing against an even more powerful opponent.

"So many strong warriors! How fun!"

"Don't get distracted." Halibel shouted as he threw a few more kunai towards the one winged angel, getting his attention right before he could even land a hit on Cecilus.

The first divine general didn't care for what Halibel had said since he just wants to have a great match with another strong foe.

As he landed on the nearest platform, he quickly recovered and jumped back up towards Sephiroth's direction with his body slightly turning into blue lightning.

This helped move his body fast enough to nearly land a hit on him, surprising the one winged angel on just how strong these warriors can be.

Cecilus quickly turned around to try another attack onto the one winged angel.

Sephiroth was able to block away this attack as well before using his wing to block Halibel's kunai attacks thrown towards him.

As Sephiroth goes to target Halibel by charging right towards him, Reinhard and Araikya both got in between the two with the Sword Saint clashing swords again with the one winged angel.

While he and Sephiroth were on a blade lock, Arakiya took this chance to go for an attack once again.

She uses the remaining mana in her to use a fire base attack to burn her opponent to a crisp.

"Die! Die!"

As she shouted angrily towards the one winged angel, he tanked the attack before pushing Reinhard back with his sudden immense strength. With Reinhard out of the way, Sephiroth went for another swing at Arakiya only for Cecilus to appear in between the two and block away the attack.

"Nobody shall die on this stage!"

"..."

Arakiya was getting angry at Cecilus, hating that she was saved by him. Before she or Sephiroth could act, Cecilus took this chance to grab the second divine general to move her away from the one winged angel's presence.

As Cecilus landed on the platform nearby where Reinhard and Halibel were located, Arakiya shouted:

"Let me go!"

"No need to get mad, we are sharing the stage!"

"Shut up! And let me go!"

As Cecilus lets go of Arakiya, she gets herself back on her feet, wanting so badly to attack him yet she knows that infighting won't help.

She along with Cecilus, Halibel, and Reinhard all turned towards Sephiroth's direction.

Before the one winged angel could attack either of them, Roswaal floated right towards Sephiroth's position to start their battle once again.

While Roswaal was keeping the one winged angel occupied, Halibel began to comment on their situation:

"If I'm not mistaken, we are only missing the Crazed Prince from Gusteko to have the four strongest in one place."

"That may be true, but we don't need an extra like him. The stage is set for our victory."

"Not without me." Cloud spoke as he joined Reinhard, Cecilus, and Halibel's positions. "I'm the only one who can truly get rid of Sephiroth."

"Then allow us to build you that path." Reinhard said as he held his sword with a tight grip, ready to finish this battle. As he and Halibel prepared to assist Roswaal in taking on Sephiroth, a few other started to approach them.

"Like hell you are going without me, Reinhard!"

Felt shouted as she along with Theresia, Wilhelm, Subaru with Beatrice on his back, and Emilia approaching Cloud.

"Don't worry, Cloud. We will get you to Sephiroth so you can end this fight." Subaru said as he gave a thumbs up. Cloud couldn't help but be reminded of Sora, prompting him to smile before turning towards Sephiroth's direction.

"Let's end this."

Once he said this, Reinhard, Halibel, and Cecilus were the first to go on the attack with Felt immediately following behind while Roswaal was dodging each of Sephiroth's attacks.

As the three strongest of the world were jumping in and getting Sephiroth's attention, Theresia and Wilhelm followed behind.

Before Emilia and Subaru followed next, Subaru turned towards Cloud to ask him:

"Do you have the strength to finish this monster off?"

"..." Cloud hesitated to answer this since he wasn't sure...though considering how hard everyone was fighting, he needed to have the strength. "I'll beat him."

Subaru nodded at Cloud, seeing the confidence he had. He turned towards Emilia as he asked her:

"Are you ready?"

Emilia nodded as she smiled at Subaru, happy that he's by her side. Subaru turned towards Beatrice that's residing on his back.

"Are you ready, Beako? It's going to be dangerous."

"...So long as Betty is with Subaru, Betty will be ready for anything."

Subaru smiled at this response before he and Emilia jumped high up to follow right behind Wilhelm and Theresia.

Cloud looked up as his body was beginning to be surrounded by blue aura.

While this was happening, he began to think about those in Radiant Garden once again.

More specifically Tifa and Aerith, the two people who believe in him the most.

These thoughts prompted him to start moving towards the next few platforms in order to reach Sephiroth and put an end to this.

As he was closing in on Sephiroth's location, Sora and Rem both looked out to see Reinhard, Cecilus, and Halibel attacking the one winged angel from different directions with Wilhelm and Theresia about to join in.

This prompted Sora to want to join in on the fight.

"We have to help them."

"Hm?"

Rem turned towards Sora as he was looking at the fight going on before turning towards Zarestia, seeing that she's recovering.

"...we can't leave her alone."

"You should rest, Sora-kun."

"..."

Sora was conflicted as he doesn't want to leave Zarestia behind but he knows that they will need everyone to face Sephiroth.

As he was conflicted, Zarestia slowly sat up as she felt her back hurting.

She noticed the look in Sora's face that he wants to help but had heard that he doesn't want to leave her alone.

This made her feel...a feeling that is foreign to her.

"Go kid. Go and help them. I'll be okay on my own."

Sora had noticed this, realizing that Zarestia was back up.

He still felt bad to leave Zarestia even with her saying that he can go help the others...but he's glad that she's okay from the looks of it.

He nods at her before going to help the others, which causes Rem to shout:

"Wait Sora-kun, you are still injured."

"I know...but I won't—no, I refuse to be on the side. I have to help them, my friends."

"Then allow me to be your legs."

"Huh?"

Before Sora could question this, Rem carried the keyblade master on her back before having herself and her hero join the others in the fight against Sephiroth.

Cloud noticed this, surprising him for a second before returning his thoughts to defeating Sephiroth.

As Wilhelm and Theresia add their swords into the battle, Sephiroth quickly saw that Cloud was approaching him with a strong blue aura surrounding him.

This alerted the one winged angel of the plan they were making.

"So that's how it is, Cloud."

Understanding the situation, he quickly summoned a barrage of meteors out of nowhere to throw right at every platform as well as where they are at.

Reinhard saw this and knew that many aren't going to survive this kind of attack, instigating him to try and stop this attack.

The first divine general stopped on his tracks for a moment as he smiled with excitement.

"Fascinating. Fascinating!"

He shouted as he quickly took this opportunity to counter the attack by moving so fast that he was able to reach every single meteor to strike it down, wanting to see if he even can pull something like that.

As he succeeded in destroying most of the meteors, the larger one swiftly approached them.

Reinhard saw that the Blue Lightning of Vollachia had manage to destroy most of Sephiroth's attack, prompting him to take care of this threat.

He quickly landed onto one of the platforms nearby before using all of his power to jump high enough to reach the approaching meteor.

While closing in, Reinhard began to power up the Dragon Sword Reid, wanting to use the sword's full power to vaporize the meteor.

As he's doing this, Sephiroth turns his attention to the Sword Saint while his back was turned.

He quickly swings his blade only for Cecilus to get in between the two with his immense speed to block this attack away.

"Your opponent will be the blue lightning, Cecilus Segmunt."

As Cecilus said this with an inspired tone, he began to swing both blades at Sephiroth.

The one winged angel blocked away these attacks while dodging the others thrown by Wilhelm, Theresia, and Halibel. Subaru and Emilia both managed to catch up to Sephiroth's position with the duo attacking from mid-range with Emilia firing icicles from her hands while Subaru used the new keyblade to throw icicles from just swing his weapon.

Rem and Sora eventually joining in with Sora swinging Kingdom Key at Sephiroth while Rem moved both of them to prevent Sora from getting hurt.

Combining all of this was enough to cause Sephiroth to be pushed back, causing Cloud to see that he has an opportunity to land a hit on the one winged angel.

Sephiroth saw this which prompted him to start glowing with a different kind of aura, one that helped increase his strength and speed enough to start overpowering everyone starting with Cecilus.

He blocked away the attacks from the first divine general before managing to stab him in the chest.

This shocked everyone with only Reinhard not seeing this since he's preparing to swing his sword right at the meteor closing in.

Arakiya was the first to react to this by trying to land a hit on Sephiroth only for him to dodge her attack before landing a hit on the second divine general's back.

Halibel quickly reacted by creating a couple of duplicates to have one grab Cecilus, the other to grab onto Arakiya, and the other two to distract the one winged angel.

Sephiroth easily dispose of the two Halibel clones before turning his attention to the real one.

Getting annoyed by these fakes, he swiftly appears within Halibel's location before swinging his blade towards him.

Before it could even land, Theresia and Wilhelm together were able to block away the attack, protecting the Admirer of Kararagi.

Once they blocked the attack, Subaru took this opportunity to glide his way towards Sephiroth.

"Beako, hold on tightly."

"Okay."

Beatrice began to hold Subaru's neck a bit tight as she was worried that whatever her contractor was thinking on doing might lead him to get hurt.

As Subaru was closing in on the one winged angel, he once again began to have his keyblade be covered with ice as this attack did worked on Sephiroth.

The second he was within range, he swung his keyblade right towards the one winged angel's direction only for Sephiroth to just grab his keyblade easily.

'What?!'

Sephiroth looked with a serious expression as he kicked Subaru in the gut, knocking the wind out of him.

As Subaru took this hit, Sephiroth went to stab Subaru's chest area.

The boy noticed this and quickly was able to move himself enough to avoid this attack from hitting both him and Beatrice...however he wasn't able to fully dodge this attack and just ended up getting stabbed in the stomach.

"Subaru!"

Both Emilia and Beatrice shouted as they saw him get this injury before he began to fall towards a platform nearby. Luckily for both him and his contracted spirit, Roswaal quickly flew towards them and was able to catch the two.

"Neeeeed a hand?"

"..."

Subaru and Beatrice didn't like this at all, being saved by the margrave himself, but at the end of the day they can't help but appreciate his help. Roswaal turned towards Emilia's direction to alert her:

"Beeee careful, Emilia-sama. We wouldn't waaaant you to get hurt."

Emilia heard what Roswaal had said, prompting her to turn towards Sephiroth's direction to see the one winged angel charging right towards her. Subaru saw this and his desire to protect his fiancée was strong enough to have the new keyblade to suddenly appear in Emilia's hands once again.

This surprised her again though she took this opportunity to protect herself. As she was blocked away Sephiroth's attack, Roswaal was intrigued by this though he wanted to focus on Subaru for a moment.

He noticed a platform close by him, prompting him to glide towards it. Once there, he set the two down safely on a nearby platform, he turned his attention towards the one winged angel.

"Quiiiite the situation we are in, nooooo?"

"..." Subaru remained silent as he held the wound, he received from the one winged angel.

"What are you on about, I suppose?" Beatrice questioned, not liking the way Roswaal spoke. Roswaal looked at Beatrice for a moment with a kind expression despite the stink eye she was giving him before turning towards Sephiroth's direction once again.

"Tell me Subaru-kun, waaaas this situation something you fooooresaw?"

"What in earth are you—"

"...no." Subaru responded as he slowly got up, catching Beatrice's attention.

"Well then, it seems to me that weeeee have lost a few fighters." Roswaal comments, having noticed Arakiya and Cecilus's injuries and how they were down for the count. "They are important people to you, aren't they?"

Subaru immediately didn't like this comment, remembering the talk he and Roswaal had over a year ago in the Sanctuary.

("You've chosen to save everything. You must not miscarry a single thing. A world of loss must not lead to the future. So long as a future where you accept loss could lead to a future I do not desire, I will invalidate it. Now that the gospel is gone, you are what guides me to my goal, Subaru-kun. Only you, and your path.")

This annoyed Subaru since he knows that neither him nor Sora could do anything to prevent Roswaal from taking...drastic measures.

Subaru quickly used Cor Leonis to check on everyone in the battlefield, knowing that he needs to confirm if Cecilus and Arakiya are okay.

Although Cecilus he can't ready, possibly because he hasn't been acknowledge by him to be an ally, he can sense the light in Arakiya.

Although very low, she's still alive which prompted Subaru to confidently say:

"They'll be fine, Ros. They are divine generals after all, they can take this kind of punishment and still keep on fighting."

As he said this, both Cecilus and Arakiya began to move, both having the desire to keep fighting though for different reasons.

The Margrave noticed this, prompting his attitude to slightly change from a subtly menacing one to his usual one.

"Seems like theeeey are still alive."

"...yeah, now can you help me out...this stab wound hurts like hell."

"I saaaadly don't possess the ability to properly use water magic, however I was handed this."

Roswaal pulled out a potion, something he had received from someone prior to arriving to the fight.

"This should heeeelp with that wound."

"...thanks."

Subaru took the potion and could feel the pain starting to get dull as well as the stab wound began to slightly close.

As he was somewhat healed, Roswaal turned towards Sephiroth's direction and started to help in the fight.

While he went off to do this, Beatrice was angry with Roswaal after showing a display of threat to her contractor.

"...I don't like him."

"I know, but we still need him. Until Emilia-tan wins, we still need him."

"Why? With your name or the Keyblade Master Sora's name, Emilia can still run in the royal selection, in fact."

"..."

Subaru remained silent as he thought about it for a bit, seeing that Beatrice had a point.

His name is big thanks to Crusch, Waraki, Kishida, and Yabuto for having him as well as Emilia and her camp be credited for defeating the White Whale and the Great Rabbit.

They also have Sora, who is widely known in Lugnica as the one who can match if not outright beat the Master Swordsman.

They now even have Shaula, the Sage's apprentice (or more so believed to be the Sage herself).

This is enough to possibly ditch Roswaal at this point, considering how much of a problem he can be.

Then again, Roswaal knows too much to ditch him as well, knowing that he can loop and each of the Emilia camp's weaknesses.

These thoughts were on his mind but he had to brush them to the side since he has to put his focus on the fight against Sephiroth.

"We can discuss that later, Beako. For now, let's deal with that monster up there."

"Right."

The boy once again carried his contracted spirit on his back before this time pulling out his Rebirth keyblade in order to formchange into the sage like attire.

Once in this attire, he used the shadows to push himself up in order to reach Sephiroth's position.

While he was doing this, Wilhelm and Theresia continued to put pressure onto the one winged angel until Sora and Rem both finally joined in with the keyblade master blocked away Sephiroth's attacks while Rem tried to land some kicks onto him.

As the four were keeping him occupied, the meteor was close enough for Reinhard to swing his sword fueled with loads of mana.

This powerful swing was indeed enough to evaporate the entire meteor though this did leave him open to be attacked.

Sephiroth saw this and took the chance to slice the Sword Saint's head off only for Felt to protect her knight once again.

"You won't hurt my knight!"

"...annoying brat."

He once again was about to overpower the little girl only for Wilhelm and Theresia to back Felt up.

"Leave my grandson alone!"

"You will not harm my grandson!"

Both Theresia and Wilhelm spoke in unison, both having a strong desire to protect Reinhard alongside Felt.

As this was enough to push back Sephiroth, Cloud saw this as an opportunity and quickly charged right at him and swung his blade the moment the one winged angel's guard was down.

Just as he swung the sword, Sephiroth seemed like he took a hit...only to be revealed that it was an afterimage.

"What?!"

Before he knew it, a sudden explosion had gone off which sent Felt, Wilhelm, and Theresia flying off onto different direction with Reinhard having his right side covered with burns.

Before either Sora or Rem could react to this, Sephiroth managed to land a kick onto Rem's face, knocking the blue haired oni out.

Sora tried to attack Sephiroth yet he was unable to as he was disarmed which also prompted the one winged angel to kick the keyblade master on the face, also knocking him out. Sora and Rem were sent to a close floating building and crashed inside.

Emilia saw this happen and wanted to help Sora and Rem but first she needed to help out Felt, Wilhelm, and Theresia.

This prompted her to quickly go and try to catch the three all the while Cloud was left in shock.

"No!"

"Don't you see, Cloud. Neither you or your allies can ever hope to defeat me."

"Now thaaaaat's just arrogant thinking." Roswaal spoke as he quickly started throwing all times of magic at the one winged angel.

This forced Sephiroth to go on the defensive, prompting him to block away many of these magic with either barriers, dark orbs, or with his wing.

With this distraction, Cloud quickly charged at Sephiroth as he began to attack him in close range meanwhile Roswaal dealt with him in long range.

As the unlikely pair were giving it their all, Sephiroth continued to grow in strength.

Every second that darkness was surrounding the one winged angel, the more he gained in strength and speed.

This was something Cloud was aware of since he knows that having darkness at least in this world can help close the gap...but that's not the type of person he wants to be.

He continued to have a blue aura around him, refusing to use the darkness in his heart.

He swung his sword with everything he had in him, wanting to push his opponent back though Sephiroth was slowly gaining the upper hand.

Despite this being a problem, Cloud did not care as he wasn't going to give up.

He had watched everyone giving it their all in hopes of beating Sephiroth despite how futile that task would be.

'Everyone has been pushing Sephiroth back, now it's my turn to finish the job.'

These thoughts and motivations were filling the warrior's heart with light, allowing him to slowly close the gap between the two on his own terms.

Sephiroth saw this and immediately knew that if he needs to do something quickly before Cloud catches up to him.

His first thought was to get rid of Roswaal from the fight since that's keeping him from completely dominating Cloud.

He continued to block away both Cloud and Roswaal's attacks before pushing Cloud away to give him a chance to charge at the margrave.

Roswaal took note of this, prompting him to change from fighting from range to fighting in close range.

Once Sephiroth swinged his sword right towards the margrave's direction, he dodged the attack and began to throw a few punches and kicks towards him.

Some of these attacks were successful and did landed on the one winged angel, surprising him.

Roswaal continued this until he sensed Sephiroth about to cut off his arm, forcing him to keep a distance.

This was a good call on Roswaal's part as he was able to avoid a sudden fire pillars to appeared around the one winged angel.

As Roswaal was able to avoid this attack, Sephiroth teleported right behind Roswaal right as he was going to attack with a powerful fire attack.

"Nice try."

Right as Sephiroth had Roswaal where he wanted, Sora suddenly managed to appear suddenly to block away the attack.

"...?" Sephiroth was surprised to see the keyblade master back on his feet right when he had kicked him hard.

Sora looked at Sephiroth in the eyes with his right side bleeding, showing the one winged angel that he's determined even if he's badly injured.

"Nobody will be lost!"

As Sora shouted this, Cloud took the chance to swing his sword to try and land a hit on the one winged angel only for Sephiroth to move fast enough to block away the attack.

As Sephiroth did this, Roswaal took the chance to create a powerful Al Goa attack to toss towards his opponent's location.

Sephiroth saw this and tried to teleport away yet Roswaal's attack was able to land onto him, doing some damage.

This allowed both Cecilus and Arakiya to add their own attacks, managing to land a few hits of their own with Cecilus slicing a bit of Sephiroth's chest area while Arakiya landed a well firm punch to the one winged angel's face.

This opened for Halibel to close in and stab Sephiroth in the back with one of his kunai.

Sephiroth felt this though he wasn't fazed by this pain.

If anything, he took his chance to stab the real Halibel in his chest area, catching the wolf man off guard.

As he received this injury, Sephiroth quickly pulled the sword off his chest and redirected his attack to Sora, knowing full well that the keyblade master's defenses were extremely low.

Right before he could land a hit on the keyblade master, Emilia jumped right back into the fight and managed to block away this attack.

"I won't allow you to hurt anyone else, villain!"

"Neither will I!" Subaru shouted as he managed to finally reach Sephiroth's position.

He swung his Rebirth keyblade right towards Sephiroth's direction. The one winged angel managed to dodge this attack only for Reinhard to come by and land a hit of his own with his Dragon Sword Reid.

Sephiroth was stunned by this, allowing Subaru to quickly use the last of his physical strength to use invisible providence to land a punch to Sephiroth's face.

This helped stun him for a moment, enough time for Subaru to shout:

"Cloud! Finish it!"

Cloud nodded as his weapon split into seven different types of swords, five flying around the one winged angel, one floating above the two, and the last one being wielded by the blonde haired warrior.

As the blue aura around him and the seven swords intensified, he started to land blows onto the one winged angel, moving to one sword onto another.

He attacked a couple of times until reaching the sword floating above Sephiroth, having one last hit to finish this fight.

Just as Cloud charges for one last hit, Sephiroth attempts to block this off with all of his strength, knowing full well that it'll be the end if he allows Cloud to succeed.

Right before Sephiroth could block away the attack, Sora managed to knock away the sword from the one winged angel's hand.

"Wha—?"

"Cloud...you can beat him!"

"You can do it!" Emilia and Beatrice shouted in unison, both wanting to show their support.

"End the final act." Cecilus added in, excited to see the conclusion of this brawl.

"Ya got this." Halibel said as he was holding his stab wound, knowing that they were at the very end.

Cloud could feel all this positive energy around him, even feeling Theresia and Wilhelm's from a distance, both cheering him on while they were recovering.

Felt also cheered on, yelling out:

"Kill that bastard!"

Reinhard heard this and was still unhappy with the language she was using...though he also had the same sentiment.

Cloud thought once again of Aerith and Tifa but he also started to think of Theresia, Carol, Grimm, Garfiel, Otto, Subaru, Beatrice, Reinhard, Cecilus, Sora, and those that were giving it their all against Sephiroth.

All of their efforts, everyone's sweat and blood, lead up to this moment. He charged right towards Sephiroth's direction with all he has up until he finally landed the hit onto Sephiroth's chest area.

As the sword connected, he and Sephiroth were rapidly plunging towards the ground. As everyone watched Cloud sending Sephiroth towards the ground where the capital once was.

The second Cloud managed to slam Sephiroth to the ground, a powerful explosion could be seen as the platforms and floating buildings were slowly moving towards the ground with gravity taking control once again.

Reinhard, Theresia, Roswaal, Cecilus, Araikya, and Emilia managed to quickly get everyone to safety before some of the buildings and platforms crashed onto the ground.

Kenichi, Naoko, Melty, Salum, Flop, Tiga, and many warriors from the Gladiator island were approaching the center of the city where Cloud was located.

While everyone was heading to check on the blonde warrior, he stood standing as well as Sephiroth.

The two were facing back to back, with Sephiroth looking at the large wound on his chest from Cloud's attack. Cloud turned around with his guard down, confident that this is it.

"Stay where you belong, in my memories."

Sephiroth was silent for a second, feeling nostalgic on this line.

"I will never be a memory."

As the one winged angel said this, he began to fade away. Cloud saw this and didn't felt a thing except relief.

He's finally beaten Sephiroth after so long though he waited until Sephiroth fully disappeared before collapsing to the ground.

"Cloud!" Carol shouted as she along with Grimm were the first two to approach him.

"...Carol...Grimm...good to see you..."

As Cloud said this with a small smile, he lost consciousness as his body had finally taken enough punishment.

Carol and Grimm approached Cloud to check up on him, seeing that he's still alive.

As the two were taking care of him, Vincent looked from a distance with the stargazer and the prime minister behind him.

"Is it over?" The Prime Minister asked.

"It seems so."

"Then what will you do with me?" The Prime Minister asked, knowing that he will be punished for betraying the Emperor for the sake of the Empire. Vincent remained silent before turning towards Ubilk.

"As the great disaster passed?"

Ubilk looked at Vincent for a moment before looking at the sky, curious as well.

"A disaster yet to come, one that'll gather the strongest to take it down."

"What does that mean?"

"That means we will need to prepare."

As Vincent said this, he turn around as he approached the remains of the Crystal Palace, knowing that he'll need to plan for the eventual disaster to come.

Ubilk and Berstetz followed behind Vincent while Cecilus and the others started to reach Cloud's location.

Subaru saw this while he and Sora were helping each other walk, prompting the two to fall to the ground.

"Subaru!" Beatrice shouted, worried for her contractor.

"I'm okay, Beako. Just feeling relieved."

"...yeah." As Sora said this, he turned to see Louis and Rem approaching him, both wanting to give him a hug while Zarestia was in the back, watching from afar.

As both Louis and Rem jumped onto Sora at the same time, they crashed onto the keyblade master.

"Sora-kun!"

Both were worried that Sora would've been killed by Sephiroth, Louis having seen the boy that believed in her giving it his all despite taking so much punishment while Rem had awoken and noticed that Sora wasn't with her.

"It's okay. It's okay. We all made it, together."

Louis and Rem were both on the brink of crying before hugging Sora tightly once again. As Sora was giving the two headpats, Subaru just smiled at this before hearing Beatrice say:

"Now that this is all over, I suppose. There's something I need to do."

"Hm? What's that Bea—"

Before he could finish his sentence, Beatrice had slapped him in the face with her shoe once again.

"What?! Why?!"

"Who told you to go and make a contract with Shaula, in fact?!"

"..." Subaru paused for a second before recalling what Beatrice had said when they made their contract.

("Put simply, merely by preserving a contract with Betty, the contractor exhausts practically all of their capabilities as a spiritualist. So... erm, being that you're in a contract with me, Subaru, you can't contract with any spirits except Betty, I suppose. That applies be the spirit minor or lesser, in fact")

"...right...but—"

"No buts! You owe Betty more than an apology!" As Beatrice shouted this, a thought came into Subaru's mind.

"...um...Beako, when I was possessed by that jerk Vanitas, was our contract effected in anyway?"

"...a little but you were still in there, so it didn't have too much effect."

"What kind of effect?" Subaru questioned as he had a bad feeling all of a sudden.

"Nothing concerning to Betty. She believed you were okay, why do you ask such thin—?"

"MAAAAASTER!"

A sudden voice shouted from a long distance, catching everyone's attention.

The Emilia camp were the only ones that knew who this was.

A bunch of trees were being sent flying all over the place until a woman with light attire appeared as she was racing towards Subaru's location.

"MAAA~STER!"

"Sh-Shaula?!" Subaru said as he suddenly saw her rapidly approach him and crash right on top of him and Beatrice.

"G-G-Get off, I suppose!" Beatrice squirm as she was trying to free herself from Shaula, who was hugging Subaru with such strength.

"Master! Master! You're okay! I was sooo~ worried!"

"Sh-Sh-Shaula...pl-ease, let me go..."

As he was being squashed by her, most laughed or giggled at this with Emilia being a bit jealous at this.

Sora smiled at what was happening to his friend before laying down, taking a good look at the beautiful sky as the clouds began to leave with the sun shining through.

This caused him to be reminded of Destiny Island.

"I'm glad...Sora, don't ever change."

"Huh?"

Sora got up as he was caught off guard by the sudden voice of Kairi.

"Are you okay~tsu?" Louis asked, having noticed the sudden jolt from the keyblade master.

Rem had also notice this, giving a look of concern.

Sora looked at Rem and Louis before giving a smile.

"It's nothing."

As he said this, he looked back up at the sky as he thought back to what Priscilla had asked him.

("You spoke of being a hero, a guardian of light but what does that mean to you? What value is being this hero bring to you?")

("Being a guardian of light, a hero, is to protect those I care about.")

'Don't worry Kairi, I won't change.'

---

While everyone was in the now destroyed capital, Pandora and Replica Riku both were watching from a distance.

Both were indeed impressed by the way Cloud had defeated Sephiroth as well as how many it took to beat him.

"Seems like they took care of that monster."

"Indeed. Once again, Sora proves to be a strong warrior."

"Yes...of course." Replica Riku said in an annoyed tone, something the Witch of Vainglory had notice.

"There is no need to be jealous, Pride. You are strong, important, and a reliable person. There's no need to compare yourself to anybody when you have no equal."

"...I'm still not Riku." The Sin Archbishop of Pride said this with a more annoyed tone, knowing that he'll always be just a replica. The memories he has are fake thanks to Namine's actions, making it harder to accept himself. Pandora closed her eyes as she began to tell her Sin Archbishop of Pride:

"I understand your concerns but there's no Riku in this world. You are the only Riku here, meaning you are no replica. You are Riku. You are Pride."

"..."

Replica Riku looked at Pandora's eyes, being bewitched by the way she was speaking which prompted him to just turn around and create a corridor of darkness.

"We should head out, Pandora-sama. There's nothing more to watch here."

Pandora smiled by what Replica Riku had said and just nodded at him before following Pride towards the corridor of darkness.

As they were leaving, Pandora turned around to look at the direction Sora was at.

She had a different kind of smile when thinking of the keyblade master as she felt what she believed to be love. Regardless, she could think to herself,

'I can't wait to see you again, Sora-kun.'

As she said this, she followed Replica Riku into the corridor of darkness, leaving the Empire of Vollachia.

While they were leaving, Todd, Jamal, and Larkin were able to get away with Larkin returning when he thought it was the right time to grab Todd and Jamal.

As he was able to rescue his fellow comrades while Rowan went off to check on the others, he carried Jamal while Todd walked on his own.

"Be glad, I won't ever come to save either of you again."

"..." Todd remained silent as he was angry at the three knights. They interfered with his objective to check on Katya. Though the biggest person he blames is Natsuki Subaru, having viewed him as the biggest threat he has ever met.

'Natsuki Subaru.'

All he knows for sure is that he needs to eliminate him the next chance he gets, viewing him as a bigger threat than Sora.

"What now? We have no place to go to." Larkin questioned, wanting to see what the annoyance of an ally will say though to his surprise, he just remained silent. The archer noted that his conscious ally was in deep thought.

As the two were walking aimlessly for an hour, with no real plan, a sudden dark portal appeared.

Larkin dropped Jamal as he pulled out a knife, the only weapon in his arsenal while Todd stood standing, thinking of ways he could ditch Larkin and Jamal should that help him in surviving.

Before he prepared to leave his comrades for dead, a sudden woman in a wheelchair appeared.

"...Katya?"

"Todd?"

"It's indeed you." Todd's mood swiftly change from cold to caring within a millisecond as he prepared to approach his fiancée.

He was only stopped when a sudden dark looking keyblade had been placed right on Katya's neck.

"What?!"

"Now Now, if you don't move, I won't have to harm this young lady."

The voice spoke out as he walked out while gently pushing Katya's wheelchair to reveal as the old keyblade master, Xehanort.

"You." Todd said as he wished he had his axe with him. "What the hell are you doing to my fiancée?!"

"There's no need to be hostile, after all, I would like to recruit the three of you for my cause."

"Your cause? The hell are you spouting?" Larkin said, distrustful of the old man, especially since he's wielding a keyblade.

"What the old coot is saying is we need a few more people on our ranks." Another person spoke out, making Larkin and Todd realize that they are surrounded by a group. The two turned towards their right side to see Xigbar as he had his weapons out and ready in case they tried something.

They then turned towards their left side to see that there was another one of the black coat people with a keyblade. Due to the two not being in the best conditions to even consider escaping, let alone fighting, they both lowered their guards.

"Okay. What do you want from us?" Todd said, wanting to negotiate since Xehanort was threatening Katya's life right in front of him. Xehanort noticed this calm gesture Todd was showing, making him aware that he has his attention which prompted him to respond to Todd's question with:

"You three become my vessels."

"Vessels? The hell we will—" As Larkin was completely against something like this, Todd interrupted him.

"Elaborate. Do you mean your minions?"

"Yes and no." Young Xehanort responded. "Consider it as a part of our soul being placed in your own."

"Come on Todd, let's that's not trustworthy." Larkin said as he pulled his knife once again only for Xigbar to shoot the knife off of his hand with one of his guns.

"Let's make this clear, you can either accept this from your own accord or else."

With this threat laid out, Todd Fang did not hesitate to accept as he knew that if he didn't, Katya will suffer. Larkin hated this but considering that he would rather be in control of his own fate than a puppet, prompting him to just accept the offer.

"That's a good boy." Xigbar said as Xehanort allowed Todd to be with Katya. The moment he saw this, Todd rushed towards Katya's side. As the two lovers reunited, she had noticed her brother unconscious.

"Will Jamal be okay?"

"...yes, he's just resting. We barely escape the hell that was the capital."

"I'm grateful."

"Okay love birds." Xigbar said as he approached the two. "We don't have all day. Let's get out of here."

Xehanort looked at the two Vollachian soldiers that were conscious before turning towards his younger self, assigning him to carry the unconscious Jamal.

Young Xehanort nodded and quickly approached the unconscious Jamal's body to take him with them as they all enter the corridor of darkness.

Once everyone was in, Xehanort looked back and sensed the fighting having died down.

This prompted him to think to himself:

'We will meet again, Sora.'

As he thought this, he turned back towards the corridor of darkness and left the area, knowing that this battle has been won in Sora's side.