Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII is not mine, I'm pleasuring myself by writing fanfiction and gain no profit from doing so.

Green Pig: Okay I know the reason why you don't get to see Vincent or Yuffie during the final FMV sequences of FFVII is because they are SECRET characters and therefore should not appear just in case you never found them ::BIG BREATH:: BUT… it's a perfect excuse for all Vincent/Yuffie writers out there to get the two together!

SO, here's my story… yes I really should continue with 'Flight to Fall' but I'm running low on ideas there very rapidly; there's so much you could do with eight, sorry Aeris died, SEVEN people and having to make everyone have a say in things, well it gets kinda repetitive saying: 'Cloud said', 'Cloud spoke', 'said Cloud'… I guess I have to practice my grammar and stuff…

I'm going to stick with two characters, maybe three - I can't handle writing about all of AVALANCHE… I think I'm losing my will to write fanfiction, I love it of course but with my GCSE's approaching and my ever slowly increasing social life I just don't have the time or the will because I'm too tied or busy with revision. Man I can't wait until I finally leave school in June! Then I'll have all the time until September to write fanfiction and have FUN!!!!

Okay I think it's time I got on with the fic, I'll just set the scene…

~While the Highwind crashes down into the Northern Crater Vincent and Yuffie appear NOWHERE. With things happening as they are, Cloud and Tifa and all the rest of AVALANCHE assumed that everyone got into the ship before the Crater exploded with Holy, unsuspecting to them though two members of the team got left behind, I don't feel I need to tell you who.  So this story starts, moments after the Highwind began to rise out of the Crater and seconds before Holy unleashed its awesome power to save the Planet…~

I'm stuck, with YOU?

"WAIT!! WAIT!! HEY!!"

"It's too late, they can't possibly be able to hear you."

"WE'RE GONNA DIE!!! I DON'T WANNA DIE!!!!!"

"Yuffie,"

"DAD! I WANT TO OUT LIVE MY DAD AT LEAST!!!"

"I don't expect our actions here have helped bring an end to the ultimate destruction of this planet, merely delayed it a little, but not by much." Yuffie sank to her knees and cried for the first time since she was nine, this felt worse than that last time.

"It's not FAIR!!!"

"………"

"I'm too young to die! I'm only sixteen!! I want a boyfriend before I die!!!"

"………" While she continued to wail Vincent looked up to the hole in the wall of the Crater cavern, there was no other way out other than through the way they had come but, it was a long climb to the top and he wasn't sure they had hardly enough time to get there.  He had a bad, bad feeling about this…

"Are you just gonna STAND there and wait to die quietly??!"

"The hole in the wall,"

"What about it?!"

"Quickly, if you want to live." He sprang upon the rocks and headed to it, Yuffie followed, they went through.  They both recognised the wide-open area with the large glowing ball of white light in the centre.

Vincent said; "we have to run as fast as we can, we don't have any time to waste, not even a second."

"Why? What might happen if we don't?" The whole world around them trembled with a fierce rage that threw them off their feet, it increased its intensity becoming louder and louder, the rocks cracked and shook apart falling around them.

"Let's get outta here NOW!!!!" She screamed, Yuffie sprang up and sprinted as fast as she could but Vincent was already further ahead and leading her quickly through the falling rubble,

"Can't you go a little SLOWER??? I can't see you!!!"

"You must keep up!"

"WHAT??!"

"You MUST keep up!"

"VIIIIIIINCENNNNNNNNT!!!" He skidded to a halt only to hear her voice dropping away and the cave tumble in completely behind him, black rocks blocking out any view.

"YUFFIE!!!" Too late, too late, she's long gone! Vincent made it out before the final rock fell and tripped as he backed from the last area into a swamp.  The walls fell around him, then he heard it; a far off wail, a cry, rising from below and suddenly the ground split apart, the swamp water evaporated into air in an instant, the plants withered and turned to the tiniest particles and then the earth disappeared, Vincent dropped down into the rising light – HOLY.

Holy erupted from the Northern Crater and threw up the Highwind; it was about to break apart. As AVALANCHE fell about the deck and worried about the inevitable, Cid leapt for the lever and pulled.

"SHIT!" The Highwind broke apart, throwing off all the unimportant parts and was saved by becoming the mini Highwind (A/N: Okay so I don't have a clue what it's called!) it sped away from the eruption and headed for Midgar where Meteor was far into its destruction.

~We all know what happened, Meteor was swallowed up by Holy and the Lifestream, Midgar was destroyed and Cloud and the rest of the gang of AVALANCHE witnessed it all – where they went afterwards is anyone's guess, THAT'S WHY I'M WRITING THIS!!! ::celebrates:: anyway, it's a few days after the planet was saved and already the people are slowly returning to their normal ways of life.  AVALANCHE are still together and they still have the mini Highwind, they've just set it down by Chocobo Ranch…~

"Where do we go now? The world is saved and Shinra is gone, along with its Midgar.  Where will you go?"

"Anywhere with you. I'll never leave you Cloud, I want to marry you, be with you forever…"

"………"

"You two busy?" Cloud and Tifa snapped open their eyes and quickly tried to look not so smoochy.

"Er, no, no we're not at all.  What is it Cid?"

"Well we all wanna know what we're gonna do now, so let's group, c'mon!" He stopped in mid turn, "Oh and, you don't have to pretend you two ain't together.  We all knew that from the start." Cid said winking and walking off. Cloud and Tifa sighed.

"Do we have to go right now?"

"You heard the captain."

"Oh…" She was going to make a comment about him but couldn't think of a witty remark so she just hugged Cloud closer.

"About that…" He began in the softest of whispers for her alone.

"…Hmm?" She muttered quietly.

"… Do you really mean what you said?"

"About what?"

"About, wanting to be with me forever, married."

"Yes… yes I do…" It was a very delicate moment between the two.  Cloud stroked her hair, blossom from the tree they sat under floated down onto the cosy couple enveloping them in a blanket of petals.  Tifa hummed her comfort and brushed his stomach with her fingers, the soft gentle touch of lovers sending them peacefully into slumber.

"Where's Cloud and Tifa?"

"Taking the opportunity to get close while the weather's so beautiful." Cid sang in a sweet voice mockingly – he wasn't the romantic type at all.  They were in the mini Highwind, all of them, all but two.  They had discovered this very soon after Meteor was destroyed and the horrible surprise made the lot of them sick with guilt and sadness for two days, now hey had accepted it and were to hold a small but meaningful memorial service for Yuffie in Wutai with her father Godo and her villagers, but as for Vincent, since they did not know where his home place was and Cloud thought Nibelheim was too full of bad memories for Vincent, they didn't know where to hold a memorial service for him.  Today they all wanted to sort things out.  It was four days after the planet was saved, the refugees from Midgar were moving out of Kalm and off to establish their own patch of land – there was talk of building a new settlement nearby Junon and extending the village below the army base.  Marlene was back with Barret and Elmyra, Aeris' mother, decided to settle down in Mideel where she would be close to the Lifestream and therefore her adopted daughter Aeris.

   Barret, Reeve (who they had met in Kalm when collecting Marlene), Cait Sith, Red XIII (or Nanaki) and Cid leaned by the windows of the mini Highwind.

"Which tree they under?" Barret was peering all over the place.

"That one, but you can't see much 'cause they're round the other side."

"I think this is very rude, spying on them when they're trying to be alone together."

"Pipe down Cat, we ain't spying, we're…" Red raised an eyebrow at Cid.

"…Spying?" Cid turned back to the window and ignored Red.  Nanaki shook his head and stalked away to the large comfy chair they'd found had appeared when the Highwind broke up at the Northern Crater.

"Do you think they're asleep?" Reeve said.

"Absolutely!" Cait Sith hopped on the spot next to its master.

"I'm gonna say it and yer all gonna call me a pansy for sayin' it but, that's just cute." Cid burst out laughing and patted Barret on the back in a mass of tears.

"I knew you was gonna do that."

"Does anyone have a camera?"

"Right here sir!"

"Thank you Cait." Reeve took a few snapshots.

"They're gonna kill you for doing that y'know."

"Nonsense, they'll thank me in the future when they're old and their kids are all grown up!"

"You think it'll go that far?"

"Of course it will, you great fool!" Barret punched Cid in the arm. "Well, I think we'd best make plans now, they could be under that tree fer hours."

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