Final Fantasy VII: Armageddon
Chapter 1
Disclaimer- If I owned Final Fantasy VII, I'd be sleeping in a pool of money. Considering that I retire to a small bunk at night, I suppose that all characters, areas, spells, signature attacks, and most of the weapons and magical objects such as the Buster Sword and Materia are copyrighted by Square-Enix.
Author's Note- Hello, I'm vincent214. This is my first fanfic. Just a note, this takes place 5 years after Advent Children... which means 7 years after the game.
"JENOVA!"
Vincent screamed as he awoke. Since the second coming of Sephiroth, Vincent had been haunted with nightmares of matters that were long since done with. Jenova, Sephiroth, things that Cloud, and he himself, had conquered in the past.
Vincent walked out into the now busy and bustling streets of Midgar. Ever since geostigma had stopped running rampant, destroying people by the minute, Midgar was much more of a pleasant place, and a much better place to live. Vincent hid there in dark places, still haunted by his nightmares.
Vincent, on this day, decided that there must be a way to stop these nightmares.
"Cloud..." he thought. "Cloud has felt Jenova in himself... has defeated Sephiroth more than once... these things... that continue to haunt me... he must know how they are dealt with."
Vincent continued down the streets. He was travelling towards the church in which Cloud lived.
Vincent reached the church, but when he went to put his hand on the door to open it... a vision flashed in front of him. In an instant, in a flash, he saw Jenova, Sephiroth, the silver-haired men, and all the children infected with Geostigma, and then... finally... he saw Cloud... a Cloud he never knew.
Vincent recognized the eyes of this Cloud he saw to be identical to Sephiroth's. These emerald-green snake-like eyes were common in those of SOLDIER, those experimented upon by Professor Hojo.
Vincent suddenly pushed the door open, and the visions stopped.
He walked in, and Cloud was nowhere to be found. It was a shock. He even left his shiny new build-it-yourself sword behind! Ever since he defeated Sephiroth for the second time, he never left home without that blade. Something was wrong.
Vincent was a smart guy, he knew at least what wasn't happening. He knew that Cloud had not been adbucted. Nobody could conquer Cloud. Not even he could. But what was happening is a different story. Vincent just could not figure out what was happening!
Vincent decided while he waited he might as well check out Cloud's stock. Just to make sure he isn't hiding something.
Vincent looked in a small desk. There was nothing in it but a few pens, some old photographs, and some blank paper. Vincent looked in a trunk. There was some materia left over in there that Yuffie had found, but nothing else. He continued to look around every little corner of the church. Something was funny, and Cloud may have left some evidence behind. He then turned to the desk again. He opened it up, and picked up one of the papers. Vincent couldn't really tell, but there was something written on that paper, in very small letters. Vincent looked as hard as he could, and considering that prophyric hemophiliacs such as himself have very good eyesight, he could make out the word "Cure."
"Cure?... What does that have to do with anything? He means the spell, Cure? We used that all the time... I bet there's a materia for it in the trunk."
Vincent got up, went to the trunk, and sure enough, he obtained a materia for Cure. He equipped it to his shotgun and chuckled.
Vincent had not fired a shot from that baby in years. Vincent then pondered, "He won't mind, will he? Just one shot at the little box! For practice! After all, he wouldn't want me to get rusty!"
So, Vincent removed all of Cloud's personal effects from the box, and moved as far away from it as he could. He quickly turned and shot the box. He hit it... but it didn't budge. The box merely opened... and then something happened. A small book rose from the bottom of the box. A dusty book, that looked really old. Pages torn at the edges, some of the pages looked wet or burned, a generally old book.
Vincent ran towards it. This was very interesting to him. Perhaps another clue to why Cloud was gone.
Vincent opened the book, and on the first page it said "Cloud Strife Diary, Entry 1."
A diary. A very good way to get information. Vincent began reading entry 1. He read, "Tomorrow I will leave Nibelhiem for the first time in my life. I'm going to work for the Shin-Ra company and become a first-class SOLDIER some day, like Sephiroth!"
Vincent sighed at the irony of this entry, but groaned and said, "This is much too early."
Vincent rapidly turned pages he caught small familiar words in the entries, but quickly identified them as earlier events. It wasn't until much later in the diary where he came across some very interesting things.
He read, "I was afraid things would always be for the worse now, that my life would be constant turmoil, and I would die in constant pain. But things are better now. Sephiroth is gone forever, and geostigma is no more. I know now that sins can truly be forgiven. Aeris and Zack, they forgive me, and that's all I'll ever need."
Vincent sighed and turned the pages. After he turned a few pages he read, "In my dreams I now hear dark prophetic omens. Some of the signs have already appeared. If the world is to truly be safe, I must act on this immediately."
Vincent was now so excited he couldn't stop reading. Cloud was up to something, and he knew it.
He continued to the next entry, "As I am now, I cannot stop the coming catastrophe. There is a storm brewing in the center of the earth, and right now, nothing comes to mind on how to stop this chaos. I will continue listening to the omens in order to find more."
Next Entry, "I now have but one choice. I must complete the ritual of the reunion and merge with Mother. Only then will I have the power to assure his ressurection. He is the only one who can stop this now. I will fight with the sword I recieved from Zack long ago, and once again we will fight side by side as brothers."
Vincent immediately threw the book to the ground, and ran out of the city in a mad search for Cloud.
To be continued...