Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Final Fantasy VII in this story. So yeahhhh
Chapter 1: Memories
I will……never be a memory.
Those words would always ring in Clouds mind, haunting his thought, dreams, and his very soul. It chilled him to the bone thinking about Sephiroth and the chances of him coming back to kill him.
What if he did, he thought.
Before and after he had defeated Sephiroth for the second time he thought he was beginning to reach an understanding with Tifa, but after that Sephiroth kept haunting him and he went back to usual self. His usual, paranoid self. He would ignore his cell phone, argue with Tifa, and be a lone wolf, fighting his worries and battles by himself.
In fact more problems had arisen after the second defeat of Sephiroth. Shinra did not learn anything from their mistakes and started to process the idea of making more SOLDIERS using the Sephiroth gene. They knew the risks alright; they were just too ignorant to know them.
Cloud awoke at 4 am in a hot sweat. He had the dream again. The thought of being a SOLDIER and facing Sephiroth again. The dream where he was assigned to be a SOLDIER, when he was then injected with the Sephiroth gene. Wasn't being a SOLDIER all in his head though? He couldn't tell anymore and try to go back to sleep.