Wow I'm a terrible person for keeping you all waiting for as long as I have, I will accept any and all hate I get for the wait. I will say this however, Witcher 3 is beautiful. Let's get started.

"He took how much?!" Cinder slammed her hands onto the table in the warehouse they were currently inside, the air around her now shimmering with heat.

The white fang grunt looked rather nervous in front of the woman, whether the sweat dripping down his neck was from fear or the heat rolling off of her wasn't clear. "Two shipping crates. When Gary tried to asked him why he needed so much he just held out his hand and set him on fire. Gary's in the infirmary with second degree burns across his torso."

Cinder stood to her feet and still fuming, almost literally, made her way to a nearby elevator and used it to head down to the third level subbasement. After arriving on the level she wished she began walking down the hallway that lead to a large open room, even from the elevator she could hear cackling laughter. "KEFKA!" Cinder shouted as she entered into the room with engineering equipment littering the area. Against the wall were several table that formed some kind of chemical station. At the very center of the room where the clown currently stood was a large metal sphere with several lines running along the outside, they were glowing with many different colors. The sphere was slightly larger than a basket ball and was being held in the air by a disk on the floor, likely a zero gravity pad powered by gravity dust.

"Oh Cindy, just the person I wanted to see!" Kefka sounded excited as he turned to the demi-maiden. Furrowing his brow a bit he looked like he was moving his tongue around in his mouth. "Huh, saying that tasted bad, but forget about that! Come over here girl." His smile grew wide.

"You took two shipping crates full of dust! Do you have any clue how long it will take to replace that?! We need all that dust for the plan!" Cinder shouted at the barely listening clown.

"Oh calm down, a Schnee freighter is coming into port next week, we can get more then. Now come here." His gaze turned more hostile as he demanded her to come to him.

Cinder hesitated for a moment before moving closer to him. "Where is the dust clown?" She growled.

"I used it, for this." Kefka gesture to the sphere, clear pride in his eyes. "By refining the dust of nearly two dozen different colors and concentrating them in a single form I've finally managed to create my newest MASTER PIECE!" Kefka shouted before breaking out into uproarious laughter. "Though it's still not completely finished." He stopped laughing and his voice completely lost it's cheer.

"You wasted all that dust on making less dust? You're insane." Cinder instantly thought about what she said and knew she'd only stated the obvious. "What is this thing anyway?"

"Oh Cindy, how it must be to be so simple." Now the clowns voice sounded down right wistful. "What I've done is amplify the power of the dust so that it can generate several hundred times more energy than in it's natural state! This 'thing' as you call it is one of my greatest creations, I call it the Ultima Core." Kefka started bouncing around the core. "It will act as the power source for another creation of mine, one I've spent years toiling to create. The dust in this core currently holds enough power to run every Atlas airship for the next five years and still have some power left over."

Cinder couldn't stop her eyes from widening a bit. "That's... actually incredible."

"Of course it is, but it's still not enough. The dust is only the power source for a portion of the intended holder of this core, the remaining energy is what I need you fore my dear." Cinder felt a small chill run up her spine and he cackled again. "Come come, take a look at this!" He pressed several buttons on a scroll he pulled from his shirt and a small opening form on the side of the core. "In order for the core to work properly it needs a secondary power source that will also simultaneously act as a stabilizer to keep the core from going BOOM!" Cinder flinched slightly when he suddenly shouted. "As it is this baby could easily wipe out half of the city if it were to blow."

Cinder swallowed at the thought, especially knowing she was standing next to the thing. "And what do you want from me?" She scowled when she realized her voice almost imperceptibly held a small amount of fear. Kefka was among the few people on Remnant that could make her feel as uneasy as he did, he was completely insane and unpredictable. Add that to the fact that he was terrifyingly powerful in his own right and she found herself on edge whenever she was anywhere near him.

"Simple, I just need you to channel as much of your maiden magic as you can into the core until I tell you to stop. The magic will act as the stabilizer by... well I don't expect you to understand the science." Kefka smiled widely.

Cinder stared at the core for nearly a minute. "And this will help our ladies plans?" She asked the clown.

"But of course! With the power of my creation under our control no one on Remnant will be able to stand up to her grace!" He did a quick jig.

"Fine, tell me what to do." Cinder sighed.

"FANTASTIC! Just place your hand into that opening and onto the glowing center." Kefka looked back to the scroll in his hand. "When I say go, start pumping every ounce of energy you can into the core and don't stop until I say. If you don't give the core a full charge it won't hold it completely and it will lose the energy in a matter of hours, again I don't expect you to understand the intricacies of mixing magic and science in this type of way." Several seconds passed by as Kefka continued to enter commands into his scroll. "Begin!" He commanded and Cinder began pushing as much power as she could into the core. Heat poured off her body and spark jumped along her arms, the air in the room became noticeably thicker due to the energy out put. This continued for nearly a minute and sweat was now dripping down the woman's face. "Stop stop, that's enough of that." Kefka shouted.

Cinder fell to her knees panting sweat now soaking her dress. "Did that do it?" She asked looking up at the clown who had a noticeable scowl on his face.

"No, the energy readings plateaued at sixty two point four eight one percent, DAMMIT!" He shouted before throwing the scroll at the wall destroying the device. "I should have expected this from someone with only half a maidens power, useless. Now I'll have to wait until we have the full maidens powers, this is why I hate working with amateurs." He grumbled to himself before making his way over to a nearby table with a computer on top.

"Excuse me?" Cinder growled at hearing the clowns words, eye glowing in anger.

"Are you still here?! Get out, I've got better things to do than babysit some weakling." He shooed her away without ever looking back.

Cinder stood still for several moments before walking to the door, heat once again pouring off her body. "I hate that damn clown." She seethed.

Elsewhere

Sephiroth sat quietly reading his book as the bullhead flew through the sky, lying on the seats across from him was a snoring Auron. They'd been flying for nearly six and a half hours and they still weren't completely sure as to where they were heading nor their objective, only that Gabranth would be calling them to explain their mission once they arrived.

Closing his book Sephiroth looked out the window at the ocean below, he didn't know where they were going but he did know they'd been flying north, possibly a bit northeast. Moving at their current rate of speed and taking into account the time they'd been flying and he could guess with a good bit of certainty that they were somewhere over the Atlasien ocean between Sanus and Solitas. "Dreams of the marrow hath the shattered soul, pride is lost, wings stripped away, the end is nigh." Sephiroth recited to himself as he watched the waters below, the waves were large and the water was dark.

The ship lurched to the side suddenly causing the former SOLDIER to grab onto some rail to steady himself, Auron on the other hand was thrown to the floor waking him with a grown. "We're now entering into a storm and a nasty one at that, expect some turbulence. Also begin preparing to disembark, we'll be arriving at our destination in about half an hour." The pilot spoke over the intercom.

"Son of a bitch." Auron grumbled as he picked himself up off the floor. Looking to Sephiroth who was now looking out the window at the pouring rain and lightning. "So have you heard from Gabranth yet?"

"Not y-" He was cut off by his scroll ringing. "Speak of the devil."

Opening the message he read it aloud. "You two are being sent to a small classified Island in the Altasien sea. Atlas recently found ruins located on the island that are believed to hold a powerful magical artifact that predates any of the current kingdoms by at least two hundred years. We lost all contact with the research team sent to excavate about three days ago. While you two look into this I will be dealing with something the White Fang is planning at the docks." Sephiroth finished before pocketing his scroll. "Not a lot of detail." The former SOLDIER frowned.

"Eh, it's not like we can't handle ourselves." Auron shrugged as he laid back down on his seat.

The two sat in silence for several more minutes while they waited, Sephiroth began checking over his gear when the ship lurched once again only this time far harder sending both men falling from their seats. "THE FUCK!" Auron shouted getting to his feet.

"We're under attack! Unidentified attacker, I can barely see in this stor-" There was another loud crash and the ship began a violent nose dive.

Sephiroth ran to the cockpit door and yanked it open only to find the entire front portion of the missing, looking like it had been ripped off and the pilot was nowhere to be seen. Down below Sephiroth could see the ocean approaching very quickly, turning to Auron he shouted. "BRACE!"

Beacon

"I feel like I'm gonna die." Russel groaned as he dragged himself along side his equally exhausted looking teammates.

Cardin sent a glare at the mohawk sporting boy. "No shit, we all feel that way." He snapped at the boy. They only just finished their assigned train for the day by Sephiroth which consisted of going into the Emerald forest and kill twenty grimm each without the use of dust or their semblances. "Hopefully tomorrow will be easier, Schnee said he'd send me our task in the morning."

"I swear that guy enjoys torturing us." Dove groaned.

"Maybe, but it's working." Sky threw in. "Yesterday I used that aura meter that he gave us and my aura has already increase by nine points and we've only been at this for about a month now."

"Now that you mention it I have noticed my stamina getting better." Russel thought aloud. "Hey ins't that Belladonna?" He asked noticing the girl now standing in front of the Beacon statue.

They watched as she raised her hands to her bow and pulled it off revealing a pair of cat ears. "Dude no way!" Cardin gasped catching the girls attention instantly causing a look of terror to appear on her face. Cardin was about to say something when he noticed the tears in her eyes, then he remembered that Blake a Sephiroth had a relationship of some kind.

"Cardin please don't tell." She took several steps away from the group who'd stopped about ten feet from her.

Cardin was quiet for several moment as he thought about what to do, finally he decided. "You okay Belladonna?" Asked sincerely.

I'm very sorry about the long wait, I started writing this chapter a LONG time ago and then completely forgot I ever started it. I'll try to get more out quicker. Leave me a review and tell me what you all think. Thanks for reading.