A/N: You know? I don't care what people said about how good to be a high school student. In my case, high school is very hard. My senior said: better get the lowest rank than not get into the second year at all! And fyi, I was thinking: you've got to br kidding me. Hey, but I want to be a doctor and that's a path I have to choose. That's my sprit (Ganbatte!). Wish me luck!
And don't worry cause I still update more espcecially this one... I want it badly to make it done! I actually hate hiatus story espscially when it is in climax or on the way to climax, sucks!
Thank you, who ever you are reader, for review...
UPDATED 20/02/10! For noticeable grammar error...
Disclaimer: still the same, I don't own Final Fantasy VII, Square Enix does...blah blah blah... :P
They're going to Forgotten Capital to drop the children to Elmyra's with Fenrir. Cloud is driving while Denzel is sitting in front of him, Marlene at his back and Tifa is in behind holding baby Zack.
Finally, they arrive at Elmyra's house. Aerith's lovely step-mother greets them with smile. Cloud and Tifa tell her about Deepground invasion. She feels kinda sad, heard about the massacre incident that happen in Gaia again, and god…it's not even a year already!
"And who is this little guy?" Elmyra asked.
A raven bundle in Tifa's arms squirmed, "He's Zack. We told you in our last letter."
"Yeah, I remembered. Can I hold him?"
"Sure," Tifa handed over Zack to Elmyra. She was first afraid that her son would cry but it seems he enjoyed sleep in Elmyra's arms. Tifa smiled and felt glad about that. At least she knew her son would hopefully well while she leaves him.
"Elmyra…," Cloud started, "…the reason why we're coming here, we want to make sure the kids will safe and sound while we fight against Deepground and we knew this is the only place they probably don't know it's exist. So, we want to seek them refugees in here as the safest place we ever knew," the sounds of children laugh heard from the outside.
"Cloud, Tifa. I'm happy that you make this decision. You already let go of your own burden and do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love whom you still have them now. Especially you, Cloud… You finally let go of her death completely," though not their own mother, like her step-daughter, she's like mother figure to them.
"Yes," Cloud nodded. Zack made a 'goo' sound, Elmyra smiled at the sight of it.
"So, when will you leave?" she finally asked.
"We will leave this afternoon, as fast as we could. Reeve will inform us if anything happen" Cloud replied.
"Okay then. Once again, I only can wish you luck and safe," Elmyra said.
"It's okay Elmyra. You'd done many things for us," Tifa said.
At the end of the morning, Tifa is giving all of children clothes and baby stuff and message to Elmyra what they can eat, what they can't, what they can do, what they can't, what they have to do with all of their stuff, their chores, and sort of. She's also telling her about Zack's stuff which makes Elmyra giggles, thinks about take cares of little baby that she doesn't for a quite long time.
Tifa holds Zack. Her mind is thinking about a thousand chances that she probably won't see her son's face again. Deeply in her mother heart, she doesn't want to leave her son.
"Zack," she whispered to her 3 months old son, "…mommy have to go for a while. So you have to stay here with Denzel and Marlene, okay?" she kissed her son's temple and tried hold her tear. Her husband watched her from behind.
"Be a good boy," she whispered to Zack's ear.
Cloud took Zack from Tifa's arms and kissed his temple too. He smiled to his son before gave him back to Tifa who gave him to Elmyra.
"Kids, be nice to Elmyra! We'll buy lots of ice cream when we back," Tifa said.
"Yes Tifa! We will wait for you!" Marlene said.
"We promised to be a good kid. We won't make any trouble," Denzel said.
"We will help Elmyra take care of Zack too," Marlene said in her soft innocence voice.
Tifa and Cloud hugs the children.
"Thank you, Denzel…Marlene…"
They are continuing their journey to re-built city of Junon, not far from Midgar too. In fact, it's exactly next to Edge.
When they arrived all they saw is dead city. People still terrified about Deepground though they have WRO to protect them. They are leaving their home to safer place as they think.
They don't need a long time to finally reach WRO headquarter. The place is big, though not big as Shinra was. Reeve built it 3 years ago to help people and made redemption to all of his sin. He was one of the Shinra Electric Company employees. He left his mother, the only family he had to become a part of the company that many people hate because what it had done with the planet, sucked the lifestream.
Reeve assist with Dr. Shalua. She used to be one of the Shinra's scientists too. She stopped working with Shinra since her 9 years old sister disappeared a long time ago and she ought to find her, ought until she left her job. In her journey, she seemed to lost her left eye, and one of her arm. She already gone through many things that we can't ever imagine.
"Welcome, Cloud. Tifa," Reeve greeted them.
"Reeve..." Cloud shacked Reeve's hand, "...what's the status?"
"We already contact others AVALANCHE member. We tracked their base. And we got information from our intelligent that their base is located under Midgar?"
"In Midgar?" Cloud puzzled.
"No. Under Midgar," Reeve repeated slowly, "we had sent Vincent to Nibelheim, assumed some information we could find there."
Cloud nodded. 'Nibelheim...'
'Hey Cloud, wanna play with me?'
'Promise me, you'll save me when I'm in danger...'
'Cloud, you came'
Nibelheim, thousands of memories flash back into his mind.
"Cloud?" a familiar feminine voice awaked him from his thoughts.
"Nibelheim. Last time we visited it's very different now," Cloud said, "other information, Reeve?"
"I guess that's all I can give to you for a while. Your friend will come at tomorrow morning. I also prepared a room for both of you."
"Thank you, Reeve," Tifa said her thanks with sweet smile.
"Thanks Reeve. We appreciated your every help," Cloud said before they left their place to their room inside headquarters.