Written by Benoit Goudreault-Emond
Author's note
Well, yet another Aeris resurrection story Yet another "the big villain comes back and tries to kill the planet" story, although it's not Sephiroth or Jenova (I spared you that, at least...). This is my first work of fan fiction, because, well, FF7 is the first Square RPG I've played that I felt had enough depth in its characters. I had tried a Chrono Trigger fanfic at one point, but it wasn't going anywhere--I felt Chrono Trigger answered all the questions (and I was NOT going to bring Lavos back!).
Thanks to Frank Verderosa for giving me an amazing series to read--the FF7 Internet series. Great stuff. Unfortunately, I must shamefully admit I borrowed some details out of your own fanfic: the bar at Kalm, Cosmo Canyon's role, getting rid of Cait Sith (although my Reeve is quite different from his), and Cloud's dreams (which isn't such a detail, but read on). However, the nature of those dreams is, I hope, different enough to be satisfying, and I also believe that what happens to Aeris is an interesting twist to the usual "Aeris is back/everything is now all right" plot. Any other similarities are not intentional; my goal is not to plagiarise, but to entertain. Still, I want to give credit where credit is due; since I read quite a bit of fanfic while writing this, if some elements of it slip in my own text, point them out and I'll freely acknowledge them.
In any case, I hope you'll enjoy. Note: there may be some bizarre sentence structures and some poor choices of words. This is unfortunate. English is not my first language, so you'll have to bear with me. E-mail me your comments at bge@crosswinds.net.
This document is Copyright © 1999 Benoit Goudreault-Emond. You are hereby granted rights to distribute it to whomever you wish in any manner you choose for non-profit purposes, as long as this copyright notice appears in the copy.
By all means, spread this around--I want as much feedback as I can get. No need to ask me permission to put this up on a site (as long as it's unmodified). Just tell me you did so I know your webpage exists.
The characters used in this document are all the property of SquareSoft, Inc. I am borrowing them only for my enjoyment and (hopefully) that of my readers. I thereby acknowledge SquareSoft's property of those characters. The other characters are my property; use them in your own stuff if you wish, but you'd probably be better off creating your own.