You run into Scarlet

Aiden: Is everyone ready to go

Jessie: finally

Aerith: Relax, Jessie, we don't know what's waiting for us in there

Byleth: You're our mage, Aerith. Do you feel anything

Aerith: I do, and it makes me sick. The only other time I felt this was when we took down that necromancer, but this is far more powerful and darker than that

Mash: You took down a necromancer

Tifa: Barely, we just started as adventurers, and Cloud wanted to prove how good we were. He almost killed us all. We only won because he ran out of mana, which gave us an opening

Jessie: didn't stop Cloud from bragging to everyone about how easily we destroyed him

Aiden: okay enough talk, let's go

Your party make sit way into the living forest

Aerith: It's so creepy here

Aiden: Are you okay? You're trembling.

Aerith: You're a mage type to, right

Aiden: I can use magic yes, though I like using weapons more

Aerith: I can feel **** all around me, it's suffocating

Aiden: I feel it too, but you need to focus

Aerith: I'm trying i really am

Aiden: Maybe this will help

You kiss Aerith

Jessie: What the hell

Byleth: Why are you so surprised

Jessie: They're kissing

Mash: You mean you haven't noticed something going on between them

Jessie: no i haven't. Did you know

Tifa: Yeah, it's no big deal

She says with an irritated voice

The kiss calms Aerith down but also turns her on

Aiden: feel better

Aerith: I thought we were gonna keep our relationship a secret

Aiden: Jessie was the only one who didn't know, and I didn't know a better way to calm you down

Aerith: right

Aiden: so shall we keep going

Aerith: yeah let's

You make it to the middle of the forest and see all the souls being directed to something

Aiden: You feel that too, right Aerith

Aerith: yeah i do

Tifa: srew feeling it, we can literally see it

Jessie: Is that a coffin

You hear people coming

Aiden: quick, let's go behind those rocks

Skarlet: How are things doing

Aiden: so that's her, the person Jade warned me about

Skarlet: Are we on schedule

Shoa's soldier 1: y-yes we are miss

Skarlet: You stuttered

Shoa's soldiers 1: It's no big deal

Skarlet: iI'lldecide that, speak

Shoa's soldier 1: We're one soul short of the day

Skarlet: So we're behind schedule

Shoa's soldier 1: It's just one soul

Skarlet: General Shoa and I came up with this plan. We can't be behind schedule, so which of your underlings fucked up

Shoa's soldier 1: please miss, he's new and broke his foot. Don't punish him

Skarlet: I put you in charge, so the blame is on you

She uses her sharp nails to cut his chest

Shoa's soldier 1: MISS PLEASE DON'T

Skarlet uses her blood magic to pull some of the soldier's blood out of his body through the open wound she gave him

Skarlet: We can't be behind schedule. Luckily, a freshly departed soul stands right in front of me

She turns the soldier's blood into a spike and shoots it in his head, killing him

Aerith: Oh my god, blood magic, one of the forbidden forms of magic

Jessie: I don't think she cares

Tifa: shut or she'll hurt us

Skarlet: You

She points at another soldier

Skarlet: You're in charge now, don't fail me

Shoa's soldier 2: yes miss

She walks to the coffin

Skarlet: Just a little while, and you'll be ready, the perfect weapon to take down Empress Sindell, a couple more souls, and you will rise