"My honour…my dreams…they're yours now"

And thus my last energy was spent. Cloud's face had faded from view, my Mako eyes now useless and gone. My body screamed its last, and finally it ended. I expected nothing, nothing at all. I was gone, but I was still there. I opened my eyes again, no longer blurred, no longer spent. I saw the sky, clouds above me while the still living Cloud was no longer in view.

Cloud…my friend.

I no longer felt the sadness that filled me moments before. I'd wanted so much from my life, to become the hero that as a child I had dreamed of becoming. But, I felt the peace of knowing that I was a hero to my friends. Cloud, Cissnei, Tseng, Aerith, Kunsel. Now, I was no longer that hero. My story had ended and I was moving on.

'That girl said the sky frightened her. But, that looks so liberating'

My spirit wished to the sky for my own wings, my own flight and it was answered. A white feather floated down to me and suddenly again Angeal was there. My mentor, my friend. In an instant I forgot the pain I felt losing him. Joy flooded my spirit as he held his hand out to me. I felt light, my heavy heart was long gone. I slipped my torn bloody glove into his clean hand and rose up, high and away from the dampness of the sodden bloody ground.

The ground below me looked stark and barren, and the sky wide open. My living legacy stumbled slowly and weakly away with the huge Buster Sword in tow.

'Don't worry buddy, you'll get used to the weight.'

I flew, I don't know for how long, and then my flight was over. I felt the planet's pull. The open blue evaporated behind me, and a green hue lit the way ahead. I remembered Aerith and her talk of 'returning to the planet'. I was joining the Lifestream.

I heard the waves ripple in a sea of voices, as all of the lives that ever were and ever would be joined with mine. Then I heard the cries and my peace ended once more. The planet was in pain. Screaming. Moaning. Crying. I could feel it. The reactors were ripping the souls of the Lifestream out and the planet was suffering so much pain. It was different to the way I'd felt as the bullets ripped through my body. It felt like fire, hot and tearing, burning and ceaseless. I did the only thing I could, I willed my thoughts out to those I loved, giving one message…

'Shinra…you have to stop'