In the meantime John and Nora were on their way to the Knights Materia Cave, Cloud and the others were inside the Temple of the Ancients.
They were walking down a passage when Aerith asks, "What do you all think that John and Nesiara meant with someone without good intention would bring this temple down?"
"I think it's related to the Materia that is inside this Temple. Someone that wants to misuse it will most likely be buried with his greed and never return outside," says Cloud as he already read what would have happened and why the Temple was breaking in itself.
He also knew that Cait Sith was a traitor that turned into a good guy later on and since John was allowing him to enter it seemed that he talked to Cait Sith already about it making him relax quite a bit.
"We should just make it fast and get out of here before something goes south," says Zack as everyone nods.
They begin to move when suddenly they appear in a Labyrinth that broke the laws of gravity as ghosts seemed to walk around in it making Barret say, "Am I dreaming or can you all see them too."
"Ghosts," says Cloud as he draws his swords thinking that they might be like the Gi when Aerith stops him.
"They don't have any bad intentions towards us," says Aerith as she stopped Cloud who sighs and puts his sword back.
"You are right," says Cloud as he remembered what the book said and takes a deep breath before saying, "We should still look out just in case."
Everyone nods as they tried to find the exit of the Labyrinth. They wander around through it while following the ghosts as the ghosts didn't make it easier for them because sometimes they would just turn around in the middle of their way changing their mind confusing some of them.
This went on for an hour until Tifa says, "I found the exit."
Many turned towards her seeing her beside it when Cloud asks, "Can you find your way back to the entrance so you can guide everyone to the exit?"
"I can," says Tifa as she began to walk back to the entrance while everyone else did the same.
"If only we could fly in here," says Yuffie as she tried but something was blocking her ability to fly.
"The Temple is something resembling a test. That's why John and Nesiara didn't allow Kieron and the others to enter it since they could cheat in many ways," says Cloud while Cid only sighs in relief.
"I was thinking we would never leave this fucking Labyrinth," says Cid as the group regrouped and they followed Tifa towards the exit.
They exit the Labyrinth and arrived what seemed to be the next test for them. They looked up only to find a boulder coming towards them when they all evade it and Cloud asks, "Did you all see that?"
"You mean the hole in it," says Vincent as Cloud nods.
"I think we have to use the holes to climb this room up to get to the next room," says Cloud as everyone was quite confident in managing that.
They rushed in pairs to not waste much time as Cloud went with Zack first. Then Tifa and Aerith and so on as everyone manages to get up to enter the next room as Cid says annoyed, "Why do we have to pass through all those tests."
"It's to see if we are worthy of getting the Materia that the Cetra hid in this Temple long ago. It must be quite powerful if they have that many trials for us," says Zack as he looked at everyone when Cloud nods.
"That's right as John said only someone worthy of their legacy will be able to get the Materia out of this Temple," says Cloud as he was looking twice in every corner to be sure that nobody was before them there.
Vincent on the other hand was keeping his eyes on the rear to watch out that no one was following them when they arrived at the next room.
They were surprised as the room was circular and somehow looked like a giant clock instead of a room as everyone was confused about how to solve this trial when Vincent says, "The first was patience the second was body and this must be the mind."
"Do you know how to solve this?" asks Cloud as Vincent shakes his head.
"No, but maybe we have to do something with the shadows on the floor. How about we enter the room it is pointing to before we break our heads," says Vincent as he walked on the shadow that suddenly turned white and the floor collapsed leaving only two hands of the clock remaining as a floor.
"Well, how about we go to the middle of the room first since that didn't disappear with the rest of the floor," says Cloud as everyone nods before moving while feeling a little uncomfortable because of the pit they could see.
"Don't worry the hands can hold our weight," says Vincent as he was the first that arrived at the middle when the other moved slowly until they arrived in the midst of the room.
They were thinking about how it worked when Aerith touched a mechanism and the hand that pointed at the entrance moved clockwise one forward when Vincent says, "We should try six and twelve. They are the most probable ones."
"There you are right. Six and Twelve are the most probable ones but we can't be sure about that," says Cloud as Aerith touched the mechanism again.
"It can't hurt to try it," says Aerith as she moved both hands until they pointed at the twelve and six and the group splits up to see when Cloud's group finds the exit.
"It's over here Vincent was right," says Cloud as Aerith's group turned around to join Cloud's group.
They were now in a great hall as they find a stone wall with some engravements that showed a story while a Black Materia was in the middle of the engravements.
"Is that for what we came for?" asks Zack as he looked at the Materia.
Cloud looked at him and saw that Zack was quite sane compared to himself when they were in the Shinra Building as Cloud sighs in relief as he walked towards the Black Materia when Aerith's hand was on it before he could while she smiles and stretches her tongue out.
"Let me safeguard it until we are out of here," says Aerith as Cloud nods since Aerith was the purest of them all.
She takes the Black Materia out of the wall and nothing happened when Cloud says, "We should return to the others. They must be worried sick about us."
In the meantime, Nesiara and the other two were watching over the Temple when Nesiara says, "I have a bad feeling about what John wants to show Nora."
"What could possibly go wrong? She is with Dad after all. He should be able to deal with any situation right," says Kieron with confidence as Nesiara normally didn't have that feeling.
"You can't know that. There are many powerful beings out there that can kill me and your father just by thinking it," says Nesiara when Yui hears something and turns towards the noise.
"We have guests," says Yui as she was ready to transform when people in black tunics walked out of the wilderness and walked towards them when Kieron only smiles and takes his Lightbringer out.
"Should I take care of them?" asks Kieron as he looked at his sister and mother.
"You can but don't kill them. If they are here that means that Sephiroth wants to control them to get the Black Materia," says Nesiara as she was holding Queen at that moment.
Kieron rushes at them using Lightbringer's long reach to bring them all down when suddenly one of the clones turned into Sephiroth and attacks making Kieron block the attack.
"It has been some time," says Kieron looking at Sephiroth as he prepared for the incoming attack.
"Time is irrelevant to me," says Sephiroth as he rushes at Kieron who blocks once again before ramming his spear into the ground.
Sephiroth looked confused as he wanted to taunt Kieron for targeting the ground instead of him when suddenly the ground under him began to shake and spears of light penetrated through the ground making Sephiroth jump to evade the attack when Kieron appears beside him.
He strikes with his spear against Sephiroth and says, "It seems this body of yours is more sturdy than the last one."
Sephiroth blocks it as he is sent flying towards the ground from the force behind the spear when Kieron was smiling at him while he says, "But it isn't sturdy enough."
Kieron rushes at Sephiroth while saying, "How about you rest in peace and never return."
As Sephiroth evades the attack and slashes at Kieron who turned into smoke making a wooden log appear that was cut in two when Sephiroth feels someone touch his foot when something pulled him into the earth making Kieron appear in front of him.
"I don't know why but this trick somehow always works in this world," says Kieron as he looked at Sephiroth who was buried in the earth with his head only out.
"I will return," says Sephiroth as he leaves and now a sucked up clone was left behind in his place.
"I swear he could make a fine ninja with his appearing and disappearing," says Kieron while looking towards his mother and sister who only sigh at Kieron.
"Let's shackle them up and bring them somewhere safe for them until Sephiroth is done for," says Nesiara as she used magic to summon some chains to bind the clones.
Then she sends them to Nibelheim into the Mansion before releasing them as she blocks any entrance and exit of the Mansion so they can't escape without help.
"So twenty are done and god knows how many we still have to go through," says Nesiara as they looked at the entrance of the Temple finding the group return with Aerith holding the Black Materia.