The last Gaghandi was slain just as Tifa turned to stone, Yuffie's attack killing it, but leaving the Wutaian ninja with one stone martial artist, and one still-petrifying Aerith.

"Yuffie, quick, give me a soft!" The flower girl said, the gradual petrification spreading up her body.

"...We're out?"

"Why are you phrasing that like a questio-" 

Aerith's reply was cut off by her petrification completing.

"Cos I wasn't sure, but now I look, we are. Whoops!" 

The Ninja regarded her two trapped comrades. Tifa had petrified blocking a swipe from one of the lizards, her hands crossed, legs poised wide to brace herself, face a mask of determination. Her flesh was grey, contrasting her black skirt, white top, and the short-legged cycle shorts she wore to preserve modesty while high-kicking.

Yuffie wondered why she didn't just wear yoga pants or something but she guessed maybe as an ex-barwoman, Tifa had played her sex appeal up.

Aerith meanwhile, was frozen in her confused state, her pink dress fluttering gently in the wind, but her stone hair was frozen rigid as the rest of her. The fluttering pink flashed some grey of her legs, making Yuffie wonder...

"Okay, so, just gonna go call the others on the PHS, not getting a great signal here, back in a sec," she lied, slipping away out of the eyeline of the petrified pair, and carefully whispering the spell she wanted to use.

Yuffie knew petrification left you somewhat aware, and that normally, you couldn't really use any other status magic on a petrified person or creature... unless you were precise. And it was with precision she cast Stop on the petrified pair, freezing them in both stone and time for the next five minutes.

Yuffie wasted no time in moving in to mess with the pair. Unbuttoning all of Aerith's dress, yanking her bra up to reveal pert breasts, tugging the panties down the smooth stone legs, she would leave the unfortunate Cetra in a rather mortifying position when her time unfroze.

Tifa was not to be spared, though. Though her pose made it tricky to make her position so embarrasing without cutting clothes, Yuffie had an ace in the hole. Carefully aiming, she managed to shrink Tifa, and Tifa alone, with a Mini spell. Her shrinking body saw her white top and sports bra begin to sag around deflating stone breasts, her skirt and shorts loosened around reducing hips. In seconds, a pile of clothing with a small nude statuette stood in the midst of the forest. Yuffie carefully fished the nude and stone Tifa out, before restoring her to normal size.

"...Hm, there's more I can add to this. Aha!"

Casting Mini again, Tifa's clothing shrank down now. She fished the shorts and underwear out, before restoring the skirt, boots, socks, and shirt. Yuffie pocketed the miniaturised clothing, before wandering off to make a genuine PHS call to the others... and waiting.

In their stone forms, they were both now aware of a slightly enhanced chill, but thought nothing much of it. They heard Yuffie returning from wherever she had gone, and wondered why she was fighting back giggles as she sat and waited.

"...So, fair warning, I kinda stripped you two naked, and Cloud will be here any second," Yuffie eventually said.

If they could have screamed in anger, or better yet, been able to move to strangle Yuffie, they would have. As it was, when he arrived Cloud turned a very red shade before quickly covering his eyes and having Nanaki administer the Softs, as Yuffie began to flee.

"...Tifa, put some clothes on before you strangle me!" The Wutaian taunted as the nude fighter chased after her.

"I would but you've stolen half of them!"

Aerith simply sighed and redressed herself, Cloud still blushing, hiding his eyes, and leaving Nanaki puzzled.

"I can't help but think you humans could avoid all this by just not wearing clothes."

"That's not exactly helpful, Nanaki," Cloud muttered, eyes still closed from politeness.