Final Fantasy VII: Last Stand Chapter 1: Silver, a final fantasy vii fanfic

Fo: Howdy, I am Fo, I do not own anything that belongs to 'Square Enix'. And I don't own the song 'Silver' by the band 'Nirvana'; which happens to be one of my favorite bands. But I do own the peeps that I have created. Hope you like it.

Taichi: Fo... Are you forgetting something?

Fo: Oh yea! As you could see, I went through each and every chapter and edited them :) I hope you find it better to read ^^

Final Fantasy VII: Last Stand

Chapter 1: Silver

Long ago, there once were two beautiful kingdoms. There was a princess, she had amazing powers; she could feel everyone's emotions and move things with her mind. At the age of 13 she was engaged to a prince. They didn't get along very well at first, but in time they fell in love.

Soon, on the young prince's 16th birthday they were attacked by a group of rebels that hated the idea the son of an alien queen marrying the daughter of the great king of the Cetras that only wished peace.

They were afraid that their children will destroy the earth, with diseases, hate, meteors, monsters, and war.

So they killed the princess' people and the royal family from both kingdoms, but only a few of them survived.

The princess was saved by a creature called a Protector. The Protectors are sworn to protect the royal family. They are angels from the heavens, and even hell. They decided to punish the rebels by making history repeat it's self. The princess was placed in the village temple. In the pond, till it was safe enough for her to live, but a peasant woman thought she was the key to the last of the earth's day, she took the princess' fiance's long sword and killed her. Then the earth raged with freezing rain, floods, droughts, tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes for thirteen years. It is said that the temple sings the princess' melody, that helped her sleep at night. It is also said if you bring a daisy to the temple you will see memories of her life, and you shall become filled with guilt, pain, and sorrow. Because of the injustice on her people, family, friends, fiance and herself.'

-passage from 'Cetra's History'

A young girl with long sandy blonde hair closes a ratty old leather book that she had been reading for the past hour.

She then looks up at the clear blue sky and reviles her navy blue eyes.

She lets out a sigh.

"I wonder what time it is..." she said as she looked at her watch.

Then she lets out a huge gasp when she saw it was late. The girl hurries up off the boulder she was sitting on.

"AH! I'm late! Oh man, Eden is going to break my fingers," she said, as she races to a plane sitting on the water, with 'Nirvana' painted in blue on the left wing.

She opens up the door and plops herself on the seat with pink hearts decorating the fabric, she starts up her plane and buckles up.

And flies up into the afternoon sky to Junon.

"She's late again Luda!" said a woman in her mid 20's tapping her foot.

Behind her stood a girl with bright red hair, she walked up to her blonde friend. And smiles showing her white teeth.

"You know our Mara, she's like a wild horse, she loves to run free, and always will return to the people who love her!" Luda smiled sweetly.

"Besides isn't Taylor late too?" The other woman sighed and looked at her friend.

"I'm just worried about Mara..." she said closing her blue eyes.

"Why? Mara knows how to defend herself and you never complained when she was late-" Luda stopped herself.

Her lime green eyes widened.

"Is someone stalking her Eden?" Eden looked at friend and frowned.

"Luda, I've been noticing three young men at the Honeybee Inn lately, they keep eying Mara... Hehe they are probably just kids just looking for some fun... Hehe" Eden said.

She then saw three other women walking up to her and Luda from the corner of her eye.

One looked about 26, she was pale, with her wavy black hair that hit her waist. The second girl looked exactly like Luda, except her red hair was short and her bangs covered her right eye. And the third girl had dark brown hair that was flipped.

"Ah... Nikki, Keesya, and Max about time dammit." said Eden.

Max looked around and blinked her violet eyes.

"Hey! Where are Taylor, Peggy, and Mara?" she asked.

"Not here yet," Luda said.

Keesya looked over her tanned shoulder and saw Mara running towards them waving her hand.

"Sorry I'm late!" she said while gasping for air.

Eden sighed in relief and smiled.

"Taylor and Peggy are already in the dressing rooms." Mara said while adjusting her headband.

"Okay, lets get going then," said Eden.

The girls walked towards the Honeybee Inn.

On top of the Honeybee Inn stood a man with blazing red hair.

"Yeah, Rude I see her, she's one hell of looker," he said with his cell phone in one hand and a pair of binoculars in the other.

"Why are we watching her again?" the man felt a hard tap on his shoulder, he turned around to see his boss Tseng with an annoyed look on his face.

"Because Reno, she holds the key around that skinny neck of hers." he said coolly.

Reno let out a nervous chuckle.

"Reno, you will take this needle here, insert the tracking chip into her neck, understood?" he said handing Reno the syringe.

"You got it!" he said with a goofy smile on his face while taking the needle out of Tseng's hand.

Inside the Honeybee Inn's dressing room Mara laid on her bed while looking up at the ceiling lost in thought. Mara frowned.

'Will I ever find you?' she asked in her head, then she closed her eyes and drifted into a slumber.

"Hello..."

"You again!"

"It's been awhile,"

"Can I ask you something?"

"Yes,"

"Who are you?"

"Hmmm...I think that it would be for the best you found out on your own,"

"Sir? Who is the woman that holds a stuffed butterfly in my dreams?"

"..."

"She looks really sad... She also holds a stuffed dinosaur too, do you know her?"

"..."

"Hello?"

"Wake up...Michelle,"

Mara gasped and looked around the room, she looked over to the window and saw a blonde spiky haired young man talking to a toy cat.

She grinned and shook her head.

'Now that's something you don't see everyday,' she said to herself.

She walked over to her window.

Mara opened her window to get some air. Then Mara looked at the young man again, she smiled.

"He is kind of cute..." she said out loud to herself as she stared at the young man.

She shook her head and closed her window and walked to the door that said 'Backstage'.

"So Cloud, the Turks are going to be at the Honeybee Inn, I guess they are after some girl that works there," said Cait Sith.

Cloud frowned, he looked at his arm, then at the door of the Honeybee Inn, he remembered the first time he went inside the Honeybee Inn, and he had to get one of the ladies that worked there to put make up on him to save Tifa. But it wasn't his idea, it was Aerith's plan to make him look like a woman. He sighed and nodded his head. He looked over at the inn again.

'It's been only one year since they built the Honeybee Inn. ' Cloud said to himself in his head.

Cait Sith had to go to baby sit Marlene and Denzel. While Tifa is in Wutai getting goods for the bar. Cloud walked to the wooden doors. After he got in, Cloud took a seat in the corner, while searching for the Turks. A couple of minutes later the lights shut off, and red and white lights shined at the red curtains on stage.

"Greetings! Tonight our ladies have a grand show to perform. Get ready for..." announced the man.

The first person to come out on stage was Eden she was wearing a red mini dress with red heels and gloves to match.

"Enchanting Eden," then Keesya ran out on stage.

Keesya wore the same outfit as Eden, but it was purple and she was wearing fishnets, and next to Keesya was her twin sister Luda, Luda's outfit was yellow with white tights.

"Kinky Keesya and Lovely Luda, " next came out Peggy her blue highlights and black hair matched her blue mini dress.

"Pretty Peggy," after Peggy, Nikki was up, Nikki's dress was black with dark violet lace.

"Naughty Nikki," Taylor stumbled on stage, she got up and fixed her black dress and waved her hand as she blushed.

"Here is our Tequila Taylor," after Taylor, Max came onto the stage wearing a very pale grey dress with combat boots.

"Mighty Max," then finally Mara came out wearing a pastel green dress.

"Last but certainly not least our little Musical Mara!" the audience went wild still waiting for the girls to perform.

Then the bass player started playing.

Mara and Max:

Mom and dad went to a show

Taylor and Eden:

They dropped me off at Grandpa Joe's

Keesya and Eden:

I kicked and screamed, said please, don't go

Taylor, Keesya, and Eden:

Grandma take me home

Peggy, Taylor, Eden, and Nikki:

Had to eat my dinner there

Mara, Eden, and Max:

Mashed potatoes and stuff like that

Luda, Taylor, Eden, Mara, and Max:

I couldn't chew my meat too good

Grandma take me home

Nikki and Peggy:

She said, well, don't you start your crying

Max and Luda:

Go outside and ride your bike

Taylor and Peggy:

That's what I did, I killed my toad

Never take me home

After dinner, I had ice cream

Taylor and Nikki:

I fell asleep and watched TV

Mara, Eden, Taylor, and Max:

I woke up in my mother's arms

Never take me home

Mara and Eden:

I wanna be alone

After Mara and Eden finished the last part of the song, the girls waved off stage, the crowd applauded for their performance. The crowd we eating them up; all the girl's felt a natural high from their performance. The girls said their good byes to each other and went home. Cloud noticed Mara and she looked like someone he knew so he waited outside to talk to Mara.

Mara was sitting down brushing her hair when she heard a knock at the door, she got up to answer it.

She let out a sigh as she turned the knob.

"Hel-AH!" Mara shouted as a man fell on top of her, she was on the floor with Reno out top of her gripping his chest, panting.

Mara eyes widened and crawled out from under him and sat up.

"Oh my gosh!" she gasped at the face that was buried in her lap.

She placed her hands on his shoulders, so she can see his face.

"Sir! What's wrong!" Reno clenched his teeth, and let out a painful grunt.

She looked at his chest and noticed he was bleeding.

"Lay down on my bed, I'm in medical school, I'll tend to your injury," said Mara calmly.

Mara helped Reno take his shirt off so she could take a better look at his wound, and helped him to the bed. Reno layed down, still gripping his chest.

"Please move your hand," said Mara very politely, Reno obeyed.

"You've been shot..." she said quietly, she ran to her bag and pulled out a small green sphere.

"This here is my mataria, it's a memento from my piano teacher when I was a kid," she said staring at her mataria, she walked up to the bed and placed her hand over his wound and a blue light started to surround her hand.

Reno was shocked how his wound closed up so fast. While Reno was trying to sit up, Mara collapsed into his lap, shivering, and breathing heavily. Reno looked down and lifted her up with his hands on her shoulders. Mara's eyes opened slowly, she looked at him, and smiled.

"F-feel...Better?" she mumbled.

"I thank you for saving my life Missy, but I have to do my job now," Reno smirked.

Mara's eyes widened.

"E-excuse me?" Reno grabbed her wrist and threw her under him, he smirked.

"You are a very special girl, if my boss is so determined to track you down," he whispered into her ear.

Mara had one tear drop stream down her cheek. Reno's lips were so close to Mara's lips that he could taste her bubble gum. Then Reno planted his lips on Mara's. Mara tried to scream, but Reno's lips prevented her from screaming only yelping. Reno parted and kissed her nose and placed his hands over her mouth from screaming. He took the syringe from his pocket and took the plastic off with his teeth. He looked at her eyes. Then Reno felt a sharp pain in his head. Reno held his head with both hands.

Back downstairs, Cloud hears Reno screaming, and runs up the stairs and burst into the room to see Reno shouting and shaking his head violently, while on top of Mara. Cloud runs to them and he punches Reno.

"Sorry Reno," he said softly.

"Are you here for Reno or the girl?" Cloud asked Rude, with his back turned.

"Reno," responded Rude walking to his partner.

Rude threw him over his shoulders and walked away. Cloud made sure the two Turks were gone, when he was certain he walked over to Mara. He sat on her bed, when he did Mara curled up like a child about to be beating by an abusive father. He pulled her close to him, and held her like his mother held him when he was little.

She shivered and started to cry softly into his chest.

"How old are you?" Cloud asked softly.

Mara didn't respond.

"I'm not going to hurt you," he said.

"I'll be 18 in a week," she said quietly.

Cloud squeezed her even harder. He squeezed his eyes shut and opened them again.

'She's still a child...' he said in his head.

Cloud placed his cheek on top of Mara's head, then all of a sudden Eden barges into the room.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" shouted a very enraged Eden.

Cloud stood up leaving Mara on the bed.

Mara took her chance to grab her things and run to the docks where 'Nirvana' was tied up at.

Eden moved slightly so Mara could get threw.

She walks towards Cloud, they stared at each other for five minutes, then Eden slapped Cloud across the face.

Cloud just stared at Eden for a second, causing the blonde beauty to get even more pissed.

"You are sick!" she glared.

Cloud looked down and walked passed Eden to the doorway. Cloud got onto his bike and drove to see an old friend.

A couple of hours later; Cloud stood by his friend's sword, paying his respects to his old friend; it has been seven years since his death.

"Hey Zack, you are not going to believe this," said Cloud looking at his friend's sword while smiling.

"I saw a girl….. She looks a lot like Mina," Cloud looked at a katana he was holding, the sheaf was a navy blue, with a full moon, along with cherry blossoms as if they were blowing threw the wind, and a silver butterfly carved in the middle.

Cloud smiled as a gazed at the katana in his hands. And then he looked back at his friend's rusted sword.

"You would have loved Mina Kawashima, she was the greatest samurai, she was so beautiful, and I miss her a lot…." he said.

He turned back to his bike with his sight to the hard ground. Cloud took out a picture from his back pocket. On the picture is a girl about 20 years old with short sandy blonde hair, baby blue eyes, a beauty mark on her left cheek, she was wearing a red kimono opened showing a white tube top, she was also wearing black caprice pants, black heels, she was also wearing dangly earrings with stars on them, and a white hair clip that held her bangs to the side. Beside her was Cloud. Then Cloud turned the picture around.

"Mina Kawashima and Cloud Strife," Cloud said out loud, he looked towards the sea and smiled.

And read the rest in his head.

"Cloud, I've been cruel to you, but that doesn't mean I don't care for you, training you was a joy and a honor, I thank you, because you gave me reasons to love, laugh, play, smile, and cry. You don't have to beat yourself when you fail Cloud, my grandfather once asked me 'Why do we fall Mina?' he simply said 'To pick ourselves back up,' take that advice Cloud. Cloud, if you need anything, you know where to find me, or see me. Cloud you taught me life is worth living, I hope you find what you are looking for my friend. God speed Cloud, God speed. Yours truly, Mina."

He put the picture back into his back pocket. And drove towards what's left of Midgar.

As Cloud was driving he spaced out, all of a sudden he saw a woman about his age standing in front of a bunch of ruins, he stopped he's eyes widened.

'I know I seen her before,' he said to himself.

The woman looked about 22, she was wearing a tight black leather turtleneck, a dark blood red corset, tight black leather pants, black high heeled boots that went up to her knees, on her hand was a tattoo of the number 21, her hair was a sandy blonde put up in a half ponytail, her eyes were a silver color, and she wore a black ninja like mask over her mouth. Cloud stared at her for a while.

Suddenly she points towards Midgar.

Cloud looks around, then back at her, but she was gone!

All Cloud saw were butterflies. He shakes his head and heads towards his target.

Midgar

"Hmmm...Hummm, Sleep on a cloud, Slumbering my angel….Lalala," Mara sung softly as she layed down on a bench in the front row of a church.

Mara sits up and turns around slightly and grinned.

"You keep this up, I may start thinking you are a stalker," she jokes.

She smiles warmly as Cloud steps forward from a huge pillar.

Mara walked up to Cloud.

"My mother went to this church, when she was my age," Mara looked at Cloud with a very painful looking smile.

Cloud looked at the flowerbed in the middle of the church. He then caught Mara's gaze he could see in her eyes that she been through a lot, what confuses him is the fact she can hold her head up. Looking on the bright side, yet she is hurting. For a minute, he could have sworn he was staring at Aerith. Cloud heard footsteps at the entrance he looks over to see three young men with silver hair.

"Hello Brother," said the one in the middle.

He smirked when he saw Mara. Confidently he walked up to her inches away from her. Mara felt very nervous, she knew that she has seen this trio before.

"Look at what we have here, Brother picked up the tramp from the Honeybee Inn," he chuckled.

Mara's blood began to boil, there is only one thing that gets her this angry is being called a tramp. Mara struck the man's face hard, leaving a red handprint on both sides of his cheeks. The two stood there stunned.

"Kadaj?" said the young man with hair down to his back.

Kadaj let out a terrifying chuckle that ran chills down Mara's spin.

"Where is Mother at?'" asked Kadaj, turning his gaze towards Cloud reviling his bright green cat like eyes.

Cloud was shocked, if he did not know better Kadaj's grin looked a lot like Sephiroth's grin.

"Loz and Yazoo play with Big Brother for a little while," said Kadaj.

Loz cracked his knuckles, and a huge grin spread acrossed his face. Yazoo took out his gun that doubled as a sword. Kadaj decided to go after Mara. Cloud paced to Mara holding Mina's katana.

"Here," Cloud hands Mara the katana.

Mara shook her head fiercely.

"I can't!" Mara tried to protest, Cloud looked at her.

"I'm not asking you to fight him, I want you to run and hide, use the katana when you have no other choice. Alright?" Cloud said as he stared at Mara with a concerned look on his face.

Mara bit her lip and hugged him.

She took the katana out of his hands and ran to the back door.

Cloud made sure she was out of his sight, and turned to Loz and Yazoo.

"Where's the other freak at?" smirked Cloud.

Cloud took out his sword. For a while now Cloud tried to avoid fighting. However, something in him wanted to fight, maybe he feels Mina's fighting spirit possessed him or for him to protect Mara. On the other hand, maybe both.

Mara did what Cloud told her to do. Run and hide. Mara hid in a small hole, just enough room for someone about her size.

"No need to worry sweetheart I don't bite, hard." Mara could hear metal scrapping against the rubble.

She moved back further, until she hit a wall and closed her eyes praying that he would not find her.

"Come out, where ever you are." Mara started to shiver; she let out a small whimper.

Kadaj stopped in his tracks, and looked towards Mara's hiding place.

"Ready or not here I come," he said softly, Kadaj placed his katana on the ground slowly and stood in front of her hiding spot.

Mara clenched Mina's katana. Kadaj knelt down.

"Boo!" Kadaj shouted, then Mara screamed, and then she started swinging the katana still in its holder and then Kadaj grabbed her wrist.

Mara had tears streaming down her face. Kadaj then yanked her out of the hole, falling backwards with her on top of him. Kadaj then licked her throat, which made Mara shiver.

"I always thought you were the shy type," Mara stood up and started to run.

Kadaj was too fast for her, he wrapped his arms around her thin stomach. Mara started crying even more.

"SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!" she shouts, but she knew no one would come, she cried even more.

Kadaj turned her around face to face. Mara's hair was covering her face. Kadaj unzipped her sea foam green jacket like short dress. Then he shoved his hand down her black mini dress, then he frowned and looked at her.

"Did you loose the key?" he asked with rage in his eyes.

Mara started to quiver. Then Kadaj started kissing her cheek.

"Don't touch me." she said coldly, giving Kadaj something to laugh at.

Then Kadaj slapped her making Mara fall to the ground. Kadaj stood above her looking down at her. He grabbed both of her arms and stood her up. He backed her up into a wall and took both of her wrists. He planted his mouth onto hers. He jammed his tongue into her mouth. He let go of her wrist and took her arms. Mara escapes from Kadaj's lips, she wanted to run, but Kadaj would catch her anyway.

She wished she could run.

A huge grinned crept onto Kadaj's face.

"You are very beautiful," he said.

Mara spitted at him, and then he slapped her again. He kissed her cheek. He squeezed her arms tighter and tighter. For some reason, Kadaj loves, seeing her cry, her pain, and getting her pissed off.

So he slaps her a third time.

"Asshole!" she snapped as she held her cheek.

Now she was enraged.

Kadaj kissed her lips again.

"You belong in a zooney bin you jerk!" she screamed.

All Kadaj could do is only giggle.

"Zooney bin, eh?" he whispered into her ear.

He then began to nimble on her ear.

"Let me go! Let me go! Let me GOOOOO!" she screamed as loud as she can.

She doesn't want this man that should be in a zooney bin touching her.

Then he kissed her lips. He then pushed his tongue back into her mouth. And then he took a very deep breath after he finished kissing Mara.

"I'm having so much fun!" he exclaimed dropping her and holding his arms out as he shouted at the sky.

Then Mara kneed him in the wing wong area.

"Bitch!" Kadaj leaned over in pain.

He got back on his feet and ran after her.

Cloud, is having a hard time fighting the two brothers. Yazoo jumped in front of Cloud and Loz stood behind him. Cloud was surrounded.

"You know that young lady that was with you, she's kind of cute," Yazoo grinned.

"I wonder what Kadaj is going to do with her," said Loz.

Then all of a sudden, the doors slammed open. Kadaj was furious.

"Let's go!" ordered Kadaj.

Loz and Yazoo didn't questioned him they followed Kadaj to their motorcycles, as Cloud stood there dumbfounded. Then he felt a pair of small arms wrapped around his waist trembling. He knew who the arms belonged to. They were Mara's.

"Who are you?" she murmured into his back with a blank stare in her eyes.

"My name is Cloud," he said not moving his position as he rested his hand on her's.

"Cloud, don't follow me again," she said without any emotions in her voice letting go of him.

She placed Mina's katana next to his foot and walked to her airplane.

End of Chapter

Fo: OoOoooOo... Can't wait for more eh? Well next chapter will be more with one of the three silver haired hotties!

Taichi: Fo...I hate you...

Washu: This chapter was named after the song by the band called 'Nirvana'.