As the young boy wondered the streets he kept hearing a voice. It kept saying the same thing I shall not remain a memory. The boy walked, walked, and walked. He had no reason to walk or to stop so he continued. It was blistering cold, and the wind was blowing but still over all of this the voice continued to grow louder and louder. "I shall not remain a memory" the voice was getting more and more maniacal and synical with ever repetition of the sentence. The boy wandered aimlessly shivering madly, he saw a large building ahead of him. It was in shambles. As he neared the beginning of it he saw a large sign. The letters were worn, but he could just barely what they read. SHINRA HQ. At this he heard a laugh so evil it would of scared the devil him self. He turned and in the center of ruined building stood a silhouette of a man. He was tall, with long hair. In his left hand the man held a long sword. The boy stared at the man, and the man stared back. As a flash of lighting struck in the blink of an eye the man was at the boy. He lifted him up by is collar, and the boy saw his eyes, the eyes of pure hatred of everyone and everything. At this the dream was over.
Cloud bolted up. Sweat dripping from his face. "Why am I having these dreams" he asked himself. He had finished his enemy Sephiroth several months before. "Am I afraid that he was not lying?"
"I do not know, Cloud, but there is no use in worrying your self to death about it" whispered a familiar voice in his ear. He jumped and looked around it was his childhood friend Tifa. She was one of the few people Cloud trusted with his life. She had saved his more times then he could remember.
"How did you get in here? Wait... that's right you live here... Woah I'm out of it. Sorry Tifa did I wake you?" he stood up and walked to the window and looked out. He really was not looking for anything particular he was just trying to get away from the ensuing conversation about his dream. He knew the lecture he was about to receive he had received so many times before. "Cloud, Sephiroth is dead you killed him he cant come back, blah blah blah" he said in his head chuckling. He could not deny that he had feelings for Tifa and if he somewhat enjoyed hearing her voice even though it was always negative about him. He looked at as 'her' thing for him cause no one else had the guts to yell at him for something as simple as having a dream about someone that has caused his life to be a complete hell. Just as Cloud predicted Tifa's lecture started.
"Cloud, why do you have to worry about him? You killed him remember? He cant come back!" Tifa was starting to get emotional this time because she could tell that Cloud was thinking about something else. "CLOUD!?! Hello? You there?" she jokingly said. Cloud remained as a rock staring at the window, now with a much more intense look. She could tell something was wrong. She walked over to him and hugged him. "Cloud what is wrong?" she worriedly said.
Cloud remained ever still not averting his gave from what he saw out the window. It horrified him. Outside he saw, the sword from his dreams and the same one Sephiroth used the Masamune. He remembered from his days in Shinra's army, no one but Sephiroth was ever able to master the masamune. "Tifa" cloud whispered, "Look down there". Tifa kinda laughed at the Idea but still she lent her to a position where she could see out side and gasped.
"That, that is, his sword isn't it? How did it get here? Who... Could know... " she spat out. The rest of her thought was interrupted.
The glass of the back door had been broken and stranger was limping in the house. Cloud grabbed his Buster sword from beneath the bed. "Tifa stay here! I'm gonna do deal with this." He crept to the door and opened it slowly.
"Cloud!!! No let me go with you!" It was too late Cloud was already half way down the hall near the stairs. "Stupid Cloud " she pouted "should of let me go with him, I wonder if he forgets that I was there the first time we fought Sephiroth... How could he? Why wouldn't he let me go with him? What if it was him! I do not know if he could fight him again." She ran over to the dresser to get out her gloves, but then a blast of bullets broke the silence and Cloud yelled.
To be continued...
