THE BURNING
Nibelhiem is burning, it's on fire, and I was on Mount Nibel where I normally take walks when I saw the smoke. I run down fast as I possibly can, I see the house of Cloud Strife, the reason I offered to be a tour guide first, and it's on fire like the others. I race in but I freeze as I stand at the doorway.
Hanna Strife his mother is on the floor, I race inside to check on her praying that she's only unconscious. I find she's dead the smoke stings my eyes and summons tears. Unable to stay in the house I flee only to be greeted with the stench of burning flesh and the dying wails of those I grew up with. Despite the heat I feel an unnatural cold as I remember
PAPA!
As I stand in the burning town I'm conflicted as to what do to. The stench of death overwhelms me I want to help the people of this town! Yet I know that most of them are already dead, nothing I can do will bring them back. At least my Papa has a chance of being alive! As I run through the town their screams for help haunt me and I wonder.
Am I any better than the monster that did this?
I run up to the mako reactor my stomach grows sick and I fight back the bile rising in my throat as I see a man lying at the entrance with a sword by him. I try to tell myself it's not my Papa. As I go to the body I still try to fool myself I try to find minor differences but I fail. My Papa like the rest of my town is dead! I cry! I scream! I curse those rotten bastards!
I curse them! I curse Shinra for putting the reactor here and for bringing Sephiroth here! I curse my town and my family for dying leaving me an orphan of an entire town! I curse Cloud Strife! I curse him for not being here, for letting this happen! For breaking his promise I forced him to make to me!
Rage boils in me as I see his sword lying there. It's sharp and stinks of blood I could use it against him! I pick it up and without thinking I race up the stairs hell bent on getting my revenge! I see Sephiroth rambling, and I curse him again. I lunge at him! He catches me and the next thing I know I feel pain in my chest and I'm falling backwards. I hit the bottom.
Zack the solder who came here with Sephiroth runs past me assuming I'm already dead. I might as well be dead, everything I cherished and loved is dead. As I'm fading I hear Zack impact, I feel the warm blood run down my cheek. My limbs are numb I can't move I can barely breath.
It goes dark then I feel my body get picked up my head lolls limply back in this persons arms. I feel myself go into a sitting position. My hand lays against my stomach, it feels so heavy. I hear a voice apologize. I'm filled with fear! I don't want to die! I can't die! My world goes silent around me. I lay there against something in the mako reactor waiting for the hand of death to take me away. Papa at least I'll be with you soon.