Final Fantasy doesn't belong to me, it belongs to SQUARE ENIX. On ly this story is my idea.

Final Fantasy 7: Time and Faith Crisis

AU: What if the planet decided to give Cloud a chance to redeem himself and to change the future from the one he has just lived? Especially when there are people to save, can this be done when there are so many obstacles in the way or will he lose himself in the process? Time travel, supernatural Female Cloud A/Z/G/C/V

Chapter 1: Rebirth

Cloud could feel himself floating, floating somewhere between life and death, neither one nor the other. A warm yet strange feeling surrounded him like a thick blanket filled with love and comfort. The last thing he remembered doing was over falling asleep while leaning against Zack's sword and First Tsugi, where he had fallen asleep from overlooking what was left of Midgar. Like all other cities, villages and towns in Gaia were in ruins, everyone was scavenging for whatever they could, for survival. It was disturbing, all of the planets resources had dried up, only he remained from AVALANCHE now, even though he watched over everyone of their descendants, this too had actually come to a stop when the last of each descendant had died. Only he remained the same, since Hojo's meddling, along with mako and Jenova cells, he remained the same in an eighteen year old body, and he hated it.

Wake up Cloud...it's time...your lost...

Eh? That voice was familiar somehow, yet it confused him at the same time. Slowly opening his eyes, he froze, if he was standing he would have properly fall backwards onto his arse, not caring how humiliated he would've looked. There in front of him was the life stream, twisting and turning as calmly as it had always done. Just two questions rolled around his head. What am I doing here, did I die without realising?

Yes and no...You were lost, now you are found...find your place and all will follow your path. Now go and redeem yourself...

"What the hell? Just how am I going to redeem myself when I can-...No...No, don't you there. Don't you dare send me back!" Cloud stated his understanding coming together why he was here. The planet was up to something and he could feel it had something to do with him and something or someone else, and he knew he wasn't going to like this at all.

Go back...change things, paths...to find your forgiveness while changing what you can...we'll help you along te ways as well as other you choose to help...Things will happen, others will not...

"Now hang on just a minute, I have made a life here, watching and learning from others. Saving your life more times than I can recall and you're telling me to go back and bloody change the past. Are you insane or just deranged?"...or are you both? Cloud asked angrily, he did not like being toyed around especially by the planet. Heck over the years he looked as calm as always but inside was a dangerous hurricane waiting to move and clear the path around him.

Calm yourself Strife you won't be alone anymore after this...trust use, it's for your own good as well as others...believe use and yourself...look to these that need you...you can choose people to go along with you, it's your choice who you choose but you must go...

"Whoa, wait there just a minute. You want me to go back, with all my relocation of everything that has happened already, even tell others later. Are you insane! Do you think I am that stupid?" Cloud asked his voice rising as he spoke. What about my swords?"

Your choice who you tell in your own way...go...and save lives...that you can...the swords will be sent to you at a later time they are needed...

"What the hell-"

Time for you to begin now... Next thing Cloud knew he was being thrown backwards into blackness, like being thrown out of a volcano just as it had erupted. The blackness began to mix with colours blurring his eyes before he had to cover them as they became too bright for him to see. A small tingling sensation began to move up his body from his feet, becoming sharper and more painful as it moved upwards, causing him to move into the fatal position while trying to fight of the pain. As it became unbearable, a sharp cry-like scream left his mouth but no noise came out, if it did nobody would have heard it, if they did they would have properly thought a storm was brewing and then all he knew was darkness.

"Congratulations Mr & Mrs Strife, it's a healthy baby girl" Selphine 'the village's doctor' said happily as she gently handled over the new born infant to the couple, quickly showing them how hold the baby right.

"We can't thank you enough Selphine, for everything that you have done for us" Gloria said as she cradled the infant close to her. "You're such a good friend to us." 'Thankyou for keeping my secrets.'

"What are friends for, I'm just glad to see your dreams come true" Selphine answered with a smile as the infant looked around with curious bright blue eyes at the people in the room, trying to figure out who each of them were.

"She's going to be a looker when she's older though I doubt the village will see that, definitely a heartbreaker" Zelman answered looking closely at the infant. "A fighter too, I bet the reactor here is the reason for her eyes though, she's not going to be resistant to it like the other people around here." His brow frowning as he spoke.

"Zelman please, mako is far too dense and pure to be near, Shin-Ra uses it for their SOLDIERS to protect the world and I rather not find out how they do it either" Roland stated as he entered the room.

"Just what the hell are you doing here, why are you here?" Zelman asked angrily, not to happy to see the mayor of Nibelheim.

"Well excuse me for coming to see my sister and newborn niece" seeing the confusion on Gloria's face about knowing the child's gender "I heard you call the baby a her as I was coming here, sorry" Roland answered as he ignoring Zelman's angered glare as he walked over to Gloria. "Blonde hair is rare here in Nibelheim but her eyes even more so, blue, sky ocean blue. But why are her eyes shining like that, it isn't mako is it?" It was then that Selphine felt uncomfortable eyes looking at her for a reason for this.

"I'm afraid I can't explain why that is." Selphine answered sadly as the eyes became less glareful. "But my friend, the doctor, said her first few months are critical" seeing as this seemed to confuse them more as everyone knew that newborns had a higher risk of dying in Nibelheim so she continued." Basically its natural properly due to her environment and...well, the best you can do is guess about what will happen." Silence was in the air as everyone tried to take in the information that they have just been told.

"It sounds like there's nothing to worry about, just a normal everyday child to me" Roland said ignoring the glare Zelman sent his way. "So what are you going to call her, it can't be little one, think about. Little-one Strife and the world will have a field trip."

"Roland!" Zelman growled out in warning daring the man to say something in his defence but was only met with a jokeable smile. "I don't know why I even bother" waving his arms in the air dramatically.

"Cloud."

"Cloud? Why's that Gloria?" Zelman/Roland asked in unison.

"Because its different...Cloud Strife.

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