The Reunion

FF: Advent's Children belongs to Tetsuya Nomura (Square Enix). TLH/TC belongs to Nickelodeon/Viacom.

Somewhere in an abandoned ruined building, Clyde fighting a man named Kadaj. Kadaj attacks Clyde, who repels him first with the sword in two pieces, and then in one. The second time Kadaj is thrown backwards and ends up clinging one-handed to a ledge on the Shin-Ra building. He still holds Jenova's remains, but loses his katana. He looks up at Clyde who stands above him, waiting. Kadaj throws the box containing Jenova's remains into the air. As the lid comes off the box, Kadaj throws himself after it. He grabs the box, taking out what are presumably the remains of Jenova's head, and discarding the box.

Kadaj: My Reunion. Bet you're dying to watch. (As Clyde jumps after him, Kadaj appears to push the remains of Jenova into his body, over his heart. This seems painful and he cries out. He lands on a lower piece of the building, reaches up and stops the falling Clyde. As he does so, Masamune appears in the air, and Kadaj instantly becomes Sephiroth.)

Clyde's Fight with Sephiroth

Sephiroth: Good to see you, Clyde. (Clyde's eyes widen. Sephiroth repels him with Masamune, and jumps back onto a higher bit of building. The One Winged Angel music starts playing and continues throughout the following fight.)

Sephiroth: Your geostigma is gone? That's too bad.

Clyde: Sephiroth - what do you want?

Sephiroth: The last thoughts of geostigma are dead. Those Remnants will join the Lifestream and girdle the planet - choking it, corroding it. What I want, Clyde, is to sail the darkness of the cosmos with this planet as my vessel, just as my mother did long ago. (Sephiroth raises his hand, and the sky goes dark and swirly!) Then one day we'll find a new planet and on its soil we'll create a shining future.

Clyde: What about this planet?

Sephiroth: Well, that's up to you, Clyde.

(Sephiroth attacks. Weird tendrils of dark miasma appear in the sky, and the scene cuts to Lily and Carlito watching from the window of their room in the 7th Heaven. Carlito's geostigma is affected by the dark energy. Lily hears a drip of water, and thinks of Ronnie Anne.)

Lily: Is it her?

(Cut to shots of the church, and Ronnie Anne praying. Cut back to the Shin-Ra building. Rain and lightning pours. Clyde and Sephiroth battle each other inside the ruined building. Clyde locks swords with Sephiroth.)

Sephiroth: Oh - where did you find this strength?

Clyde: I'm not about to tell you!

(Clyde repulses Sephiroth, and leaps to attack him. Back outside the building they fight some more.)

Sephiroth: I've thought of a wonderful present for you. Shall I give you despair?

(Sephiroth seems to be getting the upper hand. He cuts off bits of building which Clyde has to deflect. Sephiroth stands on a higher part of the building, looking down at Clyde.)

Sephiroth: On your knees. I want you to beg for forgiveness. (Half the top of the building collapses down towards Sephiroth and Clyde. Clyde manages to deflect it, and Sephiroth appears out of the falling debris and attacks Clyde again. Clyde is getting the worst of it, but keeps coming back to the attack. Sephiroth eventually spears Clyde through the chest with Masamune, as he did in the Nibelheim reactor.)

Sephiroth: Is this the pain you felt before, Clyde? (Sephiroth lifts Clyde off the ground.) Let me remind you. This time, you won't forget. (Sephiroth's wing appears. He tosses Clyde into the air and flies after him, wounding him over and over again. When Clyde grabs Masamune's blade, Sephiroth throws him down, and he falls with such force that he dents the building, bleeding heavily. Sephroth is hovering in the air above him. There's blood everywhere.)

Sephiroth: Tell me what you cherish most. Give me the pleasure of taking it away? (He dives for Clyde, about to run him through and finish it. Clyde looks up at him. We see quick frames of Ronnie Anne praying, Lynn, Lily, Carlito and Lincoln. The music stops and the background go white. Lincoln is there, back to back with Clyde.)

Lincoln: So what if it looks hopeless? If it were me, I still wouldn't give up. Embrace your dreams. And, whatever happens, protect your honor as SOLDIER! Well, okay, you never made SOLDIER. (Lincoln taps his own chest) But it's what's in here that counts.

Clyde (struggling to speak): Lincoln?

Lincoln: Well? You need a hand with him?

(Clyde shakes his head, and gets to his feet with great effort.)

Lincoln: You already beat him once, didn't you? This should be a cinch.

Clyde: Yeah.

Lincoln: Clyde. You know what I told you.

Clyde: That's right. I am your living legacy.

(Lincoln vanishes, the music resumes, and we're back in real time. Clyde leaps into the air and attacks Sephiroth, who looks surprised.)

Clyde: I pity you. You just don't get it at all. There's not a thing I don't cherish!

(Sephiroth chuckles. Clyde launches his final attack: The Omnislash ver. 5, his sword splitting into five swords, surrounding Sephiroth. Sephiroth looks shocked for the first time, realising that he may not win after all. Clyde attacks Sephiroth from five angles at once, to devastating effect. Black feathers fly everywhere. Sephiroth is defeated.)

Clyde (looking up at Sephiroth who is hovering in the sky): Stay where you belong, in my memories.

Sephiroth (slowly dissolving in the air): I will... never be a memory. (He closes his eyes and wraps his wing around himself. All the feathers fly away, leaving Kadaj. Kadaj falls to the ground. He tries to attack, but is too weak. He falls, and Clyde catches him. Kadaj is almost spent.)

Kadaj: Brother...

Ronnie Anne's voice: Kadaj?

Kadaj: Huh? (The dark sky has gone with Sephiroth. Healing rain starts falling from bright clouds. The rain no longer hurts Kadaj.)

Ronnie Anne's voice: You don't have to hang on any longer.

Kadaj: Mother! Is that...?

Ronnie Anne's voice: Everyone's waiting, if you're ready.

(Kadaj nods his head slightly in acceptance. He holds out his hand, and slowly evaporates into the Lifestream. Clyde watches, looking sympathetic.)

-The End-