A/N: The story takes place after FFVII: Advent Children, where Geostigma was healed and peace reigns to the planet. This is also a Clerith fanfiction. 3 I'm so hyped with the recent teaser release of the remake so I can't help but to write a fanfiction! Reviews and story follows are greatly appreciated!

Chapter 1: A Maiden's Wish

Aerith was drifting through the lifestream. Waves of memories from people who died were floating around her. As she drifted further, she noticed a different glow that separated from the waves. Intrigued, she inspected closer.

She could see a figure of a small white dragon-like creature in a fetal position. She shivered to have seen something like this amidst of the lifestream. And even more, as she noticed the chains that were wrapped on the creature.

Poor thing… Aerith thought to herself. She couldn't help but to rushed into it and help it unchain. Without any difficulty, Aerith went into the glowing matter and was able to get near the creature. The moment her hand touched the chains, it entangled itself.

Whoa. What did I just do? Aerith was in awe to see what she just did. The creature was slowly waking up. Its moving an inch; its eyes were gently opening. Aerith gasped, "B-beautiful.. those were beautiful eyes."

The small dragon-like creature had a pair of blue sparkling eyes. And they were looking straight at Aerith. "Thank you, young woman." The creature spoke to Aerith as if it didn't belong the lifestream.

Aerith was gazing at the creature completely speechless.

"You must be a Cetra." The creature had a low deep voice that would make you shiver.

"Yes…I am." Aerith answered. This gave her a faint explanation of what was happening. But she wanted to know more.

"I am a lifestream guardian chained by an unknown entity." The creature was trying to enlightened Aerith who wore a very puzzled look, "An entity formed by corrupted souls lurking in the lifestream."

"You...were chained?" Aerith asked.

"Yes. There were a lot of corrupted souls in the lifestream. Scrios is one of them."

"Who is this Scrios?" Aerith was intrigued to know more.

"Scrios wanted to break free so he roam to corrupt as many souls as he can." The creature was gritting between its teeth in anger, "I honestly don't know how and why it came to this, I was caught off guard."

"Oh…"

"I'm still not sure but there's a high probability that he did this, with a powerful companion. I saw someone with him, a silver haired man."

Someone popped into Aerith's mind. It was not far from truth that the merciless Sephiroth can do something like this.

"But thanks to you… I was saved." The creature continued, "You truly are a gift. A cetra."

Aerith blushed. She was being praised for what she had done.

"Only a cetra with a pure heart can break through the barrier and unchain me."

Aerith smiled. "You're welcome. Anyone who have seen you will do the same." A cetra with a pure heart. These phrase made her happy.

"Let me repay your kindness," the creature said in serious tone, "Is there anything I can do that your heart desires?"

Anything that my heart desires? The thought sparkle in Aerith's eyes. There's only one thing she wanted to do - to see Cloud. So she can tell him the words she left unsaid, hear him speak, and do many things together. If only she could ever live again in the upper world.

"You know that you can't hide your thoughts here in the lifestream, right?", Aerith's train of thought came to a halt, "Unfortunately, what your heart desires is quite impossible."

"I know." Aerith knew that she was wishing for an impossible thing. But she couldn't help but to think of these thoughts as these are what she had always longed for.

"I, however, can make an exception." The creature firmly stated. "I owe you one and won't be able to speak as I do now if it weren't for you."

A sudden gush of joy reflected to Aerith's eyes.

"I will grant just as what your heart desired." Aerith's sparkling eyes widened, "In two conditions…"

Conditions? Impossible wishes that were granted usually came with a price. Aerith gulped and waited for what the creature would say.

"One, the person you'll want to see must affirm he wants to see you too." This might look easy as Aerith is pretty confident that if that's the case, then she's sure Cloud wanted to see her too. "That means, he will come to me and say he wanted to see you."

That when things got hard. How can the Cloud she knew would say something like that? The Cloud she knew would keep everything to himself.

"How can he come to you?" Aerith was clueless of the creature's plan.

"I must go to the upper world where I'll open a portal for you. The portal will be opened the moment the first condition was met."

"The second condition is," the creature continued, "The moment you tell him you love him, you will have to return to the lifestream."

And just like that, the joy that reflected to Aerith's face turned to sadness. She won't be able to say her feelings to Cloud after all.

"There are reasons why I have these conditions. There's a limit of what I can do." The creature humbly added. It noticed how the joy turned to sadness in Aerith's eyes.

"I need a balance waves of desires from the lifestream and upper world in order to open this portal for you. And this portal has level of limitations. What your heart desires is to tell him how you feel, which is the main reason of opening the portal. Once this is fulfilled, the portal will then have to close."

"This is a really kind offer." Aerith said in a sad tone. This was not a bad deal actually. She just had to keep the conditions in mind. The desire to see Cloud and be able to be with him again is greater.

"Please do it. I'm accepting this." Aerith firmly accepted the offer and was hopeful of the future ahead.

A/N: I hope you like the first chapter! I'm currently writing the second chapter so if you like it, be sure to follow the story. Reviews are greatly appreciated. Thank you!