Fragile Rose Reborn
Note: I hope you all are enjoying my fanfiction. If you are, I'm greatly flattered and happy. I already know of one person reading my fanfiction and liking it, since I showed it to her and she's like one of my best friends. So, thank you my friend and all my other readers! -smile- Anyways, did you all enjoy the plot twist? Did you all even expect it? Why don't you tell me your opinions in some reviews. I'd love that. ;3 -hinthint- Anyways, on with the disclaimer and story! 3
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy 7 or its characters. The mighty Squaresoft/Square-Enix owns it. . . Lucky bastards! Haha, just kidding! I like idolize them, not flame them... or something like that!
Chapter Four
She was running, where she was heading or why she was running was unknown to her. All she knew was that she had to keep running, or else something bad would happen. " Mother! Cloud! Vincent! Someone, help me! " Aeris cried out, before suddenly tripping over some unknown thing. She flew to the ground, her form landing none to gently on the ground. With a cry of pain, she attempted to crawl the rest of the way, for she found herself unable to get up. " What's the rush? There's no need to run, I'm here to protect you! " A masculine voice sounded behind her. Aeris continued on crawling, trying desperately to get away despite the man's words. " Protect... me? From..what? " She gasped painfully, before releasing a cry of pain as she was yanked none to gently to her feet by her hair.
The person turned her around, releasing his grip on her hair and instead gripping her shoulders. Aeris stared in fear and confusion at the man, trying to figure out who he was. Everything began to blur, but one thing was clear. Jade, cat like pupil eyes stared into the depths of her wide fear filled emerald ones. His eyes were the last thing she saw before she awoke. Aeris sat up in bed, eyes wide as she attempted to catch her breath. What did these dreams mean? She didn't understand. It had been at least a month since she had met up with Vincent. He had been true to his word, and escorted her to her parents' home. Once there, they had parted ways. Ever since she had that one dream at the inn, she had been constantly plagued with nightmares.
It was frightening, and confusing. She never understood what these dreams meant, and they also had a man with jade green eyes. Aeris had a feeling that it was Sephiroth, since the first nightmare had him in it, and only he had jade green eyes with cat like pupils. Well, Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz had eyes like him, but they had only been remnants. Aeris tried vainly to get in touch with the Planet, but it would have nothing to do with her for some reason. She noticed the silence of the Planet after her second nightmare. The Planet's absence only made things even more confusing.
Aeris sighed, and got out of the bed, her socked feet carrying her silently across the floors of her home as she walked. The dreams, they were always so real like. She bit her lip as she began to cook breakfast for herself. After eating, she would take a shower. It was a lonely life, but at least she could live in peace without worrying about bothering her friends from their lives. Idly, as she fixed breakfast, she wondered how they were. Cloud and Tifa had probably married, at least, she hoped they had. It was clear that they had feelings for each other. Even when she was alive, she saw the looks Tifa gave him. Unfortunately, while she was alive, Cloud was too busy being obsessed with her that he never noticed Tifa most of the time.
Then there was Barret. She hoped him and Marlene were getting along well. Marlene had been such a sweet and precious little girl. Nanaki, or Red as he was known by his friends, she hoped he was well as well and happy running things in Cosmos Canyon. Ah, Yuffie. The hyper, materia obsessed ninja. Aeris wondered if her father was still alive and if Yuffie was still as obsessed with materia as she used to be. As for Cid, he had married Shera. That she was sure of. She hoped Cid was treating Shera right. Was she forgetting anyone? Oh, Cait sith. He had actually been Reeve, a member of Shinra. Even if had been tricking them the entire time, she hoped he was well. She hoped all her friends were doing fine.
Aeris shook her head as she finally sat down to eat her eggs and bacon that she had just finished cooking. Luckily, she didn't burn them. Aeris wrinkled her nose in disgust at the mere thought of having burned eggs and bacon for breakfast. she cut her eggs up and hastily began eating, eager to finish her meal and take a shower. She needed to feel the pleasure of relief running through her body as the warm, relaxing water rushed over her slender body. Aeris giggled at that, and attempted not to choke on accident. That wouldn't be good if that happened, now would it?
Aeris took a few minutes to finish the rest of her food, before cleaning her mess up. Once all that was through, she trudged to her room to get some clean clothes before taking a shower. Humming a soft tune to herself, she made her way to the bathroom with her clean clothes in tow. She opened the door and flicked the light on, before moving on inside to set her clothing down. Turning, she closed the bathroom door and turned around yet again. Aeris continued to hum as she did all of this, even as she unclothed herself and got in the shower.
She turned the water on, bracing herself for the expected blast of cold water. Quickly adjusting the water to her liking, she began to clean and wash her hair and body. Aeris couldn't help but hum louder, in order to be able to hear herself better over the sound of the running water of the shower. It took about between five or ten minutes for her to shower, and when she was done, she wrung her long hair out as best as she could before stepping out of the shower. She had finally ceased in humming, and hurriedly clothed herself in comfortable clothing before beginning to clean the mess she made in the room.
Once done with that, she exited the room, still toweling her slightly damp towel as she headed for the living room. Aeris then sat down on the couch, and turned the tv on. She flipped it to the news station, idly toweling her hair dry as best as she could so that she wouldn't drip everywhere and on the couch. She listened intently to what the person on tv was saying, her lovely emerald green eyes glued to the tv. " Today, we have information concerning the supposedly crazy rumors about a famous ex-general. It seems that the rumors saying that Sephiroth was alive are indeed true. Authorities are still... " And the rest of what the lady was reporting was unheard by Aeris Gainsborough. She had fainted on her couch.
Author's Notes: Whee, how interesting! More plot twists, eh? Well, kind of. I realize that this chapter is kind of short, but when I write chapter five, I'm going to try and make it longer for you guys. But, if you like the chapters like this and don't want me to try extra hard to write longer chapters all of the time, please feel free to contact me by either my email, AIM, YIM, or even a review. See ya in the next chapter!
