Under the Guiltless Sun
Volume II of the Sun series
Tifa's Dairy
October 14, 2005
This is my second entry today, Dairy, I know, but, I'm worried. Cloud just got home. He's in the tub. He has second degree burns on his skin. The power went out. The sun, it's... cooking us, literally. I don't know what to do. We got a phone call from Barret. He said before the power went out, that on the news, they said the ice caps, Arctic and Antarctic, were suddenly melting. Ocean levels are swiftly rising. Is it the End of the World?
Then, he said that he and Marlene are going to go hide out in the basement where it was cooler.
Icicle Inn and Bone Village were swamped in a flash flood.
And I'm so... HOT I feel sick. The villa feels like an OVEN!
Things outside are melting. The flag pole is sticky. Bike tiers are melting into the pavement. Everything seems to be sagging. Spontaneous fires are... increasing. The drouts are getting bad, fast.
I wonder how. I can't even think or write properly. I'm too... hot!
Crops. What if crops are really bad this year?
I need water...
Everything outside looks like a Salvador Dali painting.
Oh, I think I am going to throw up. In a heat wave like this, it's not good to be pregnant.
I think that I may join Cloud in the tub.
Very hot and bothered,
Tifa Lockheart
~
The Shin-Ra mansion was cinder and ash.
The Sun helped burn it to the ground.
Now, it was a large hole in the ground. The basement, the laboratory, everything. Yuffie burned it in a pyre.
Yuffie sat in the lake. She didn't care that her clothes were on. She wept a little, but it was too hot to weep.
The water seemed to boil. She thought she saw some bubbles rise. The wrenching stench of dead fish made her head dizzy and hazy...
She sat in the lake, in the shade.
She wanted to brake down, and weep and sob and morn, but... it was so hot. It was to hot to think, let alone cry.
She wanted to go find a cave somewhere, but she was too bogged down by the blasting, inferno weather, that she couldn't move from the spot she was in.
She was in a forest, several miles outside of Niblehiem, moving on from the whole Vincent ordeal, when suddenly, around noon, it was as if a volcano erupted.
The sun seemed odd... Yuffie was so thirsty, dead fish or not, she began to drink.
~
Nanaki's wife, Nanko, and her best friend, Dayte, watched the sun. Normally, in the sky, it was about the size of a nickel.
Now, it was the size of a silver half dollar.
Dayte sat beside his husband, and squeezed his hand. They were all afraid.
"I hope... Nanaki knows what he is doing," Dayte panted. He took a swig of water.
"His... dream. His vision, Dayte, I wonder if this was the ill omen his vision prophesied, that the sun god would come down, and bring his wrath down upon us in heat waves and drouts. Our crops have withered in under a half our." Nanko ran her copper colored arm across the sweat beads on her forehead.
Dayte's husband glanced at Nanko with his dark, sharp eyes.
"Nanaki dreamed of this?" He asked.
"Itan, my husband, he... he is brave and wise, he will save us... And... I have faith in him, he dreamed of this omen as so he could have warning and save us all."
Dayte, Itan, and Nanko held hands as they sat within the bar, looked out the window and into the sky. They prayed.
Normally, the whole tribe in Cosmo Canyon would come together at a time like this, and dance a ritual rain dance.
But even now, they thought it would be bad luck to be under the rays of the angry sun.
And, they were too tiered and hot to even move.
~
"1."
Tseng held his breath. He didn't know that he stopped breathing.
Elena began to sob, and hold onto Tseng's arm for dear life.
Tseng didn't know that she held onto him. It was his bad arm she sobbed into.
Rude stared at the gigantic screen that held the map and many small, colored light-bulbs.
One by one the light-bulbs near Midgar went black.
Ray removed his hat, and pressed it to his fat chest. He lowered his head respectfully, as if he heard the silent screams several hundred miles above his head.
The ring of scientists with clip-boards and white lab jackets were busy scribbling onto their paper. They were documenting everything.
In the background, Red 13 was doing his best to fight the small security and Dr. Stygian.
They were too much for him.
Red 13 was muzzled shut.
The world was ending. It didn't happen suddenly.
It was slow.
So slow.
Heat wave. Heat stroke. Cancer.
Starvation.
The atmosphere was in flames. Holes, there was so many holes in the ozone now a days.
Reno never had a chance to fall in love.
Sephris was glowing. She was strapped into the chair, with so many silver tubes filled with mako sticking out of her. Reno stared at her. She was as beautiful as Red 13 described in his vision. Painfully beautiful. Too wonderful and too perfect to be human. She must have been a goddess.
Reno couldn't take it anymore. He never been in love... he stared at her, his skin was painted in her blue-ish, hazy, aura.
Reno, without realizing what he was doing, walked forward.
The others saw him approach Sephris, but, he wasn't in a hurry. He didn't look like he was going to stop anything.
And, before anyone realized what was going on, Reno bent in, and pressed his lips onto Sephris'.
Sephris' eyes open. She lost concentration.
Her glow began to fade, the more she fell back into reality.
Swiftly, the Earth's gravitational pull yanked back into it's proper orbit. It felt like a heavy Earthquake or shake.
There were no after shocks.
One female scientist grabbed the wall for balance, then, she jot down what happened.
"Oh, Christ," Reno whispered into Sephris' face. "I'm sorry, uhm, what's your name?"
"Sephri-"
"Sephris, what's going on, who- what-" Stygian spun around, and snarled at Reno. Red 13, who sat in a muzzle behind him, smirked.
"Sorry dad, I can't do it, I can't concentrate. And humans are good, uhm, kissers..." Sephris pulled the metal bowl with hundreds of mako tubes on top of it, off of her head.
"No, I won't stand for it! Hook it back up, go on!" Stygian threw his arms to the side in a fit of rage. His long black hair and hawk eyes darted about the room form scientist to scientist.
The handful of scientists shrugged, and in a single file, existed the room. Tseng and Ray moved aside.
"Sorry, Stygian, better luck next time. We don't have the kind of time to be wasting on anymore Sephiroth-like failures. Either destroy the humans, or don't destroy humans, don't waste anymore of our time." The female scientist with blonde hair spoke bluntly in a monotone voice.
"But-but- Sephris ISN'T a failure, she CAN call down the sun! This is all your FRIENDS doing, Ray!" Stygian's bullet eyes snapped to the overweight, red faced cowboy, whom replaced his felt hat upon his bowling ball head.
"Ain't it beautiful? Love saves the world. Bah. Rubbish, See ya, Doc, I didn' think that this was really tha end, anyhoo. I reckon that I didn' see no four horsemen anywhere. Better luck at killin' us next time, Sty."
Ray pushed past Tseng and Elena.
Anti-climactically, he walked away.
There was no big bang.
There was no bells or whistles. They just all walked away. Ray, Tseng, Elena, Rude, and the muzzled Red.
It was just like Ray said.
The world comes close to ending nearly every day.
It's just stupid acts by un-assuming people who have no idea what they are doing that saves it. They were in the right place at the right time.
Stupid people doing stupid things, like, a kiss.
A kiss saved the world. Next time, it could have been a can opener.
Or something equally as stupid and foolish.
Reno was near the last to leave. He dragged his sleeve across his lips, looked at Sephris, and said, "I'll call you."
He too, then, left.
Sephris blushed, and meandered out on her own time.
Dr. Stygian stood in the laboratory. The vein on his obsidian forehead, throbbed.
The lights in the lab began to go out, one by one.
The light directly above him, caste a single, triangular halo over him.
He screamed at the top of his lungs, in bloody, red hot frustration.
His throat burned. His lungs felt soft and saggy.
When he ran out of air, he fell to his knees, and thumped his fist on the floor.
Decades of work and research, went up in a kiss.
He didn't have the patience or energy to try again in the same line of work.
Volume II of the Sun series
Tifa's Dairy
October 14, 2005
This is my second entry today, Dairy, I know, but, I'm worried. Cloud just got home. He's in the tub. He has second degree burns on his skin. The power went out. The sun, it's... cooking us, literally. I don't know what to do. We got a phone call from Barret. He said before the power went out, that on the news, they said the ice caps, Arctic and Antarctic, were suddenly melting. Ocean levels are swiftly rising. Is it the End of the World?
Then, he said that he and Marlene are going to go hide out in the basement where it was cooler.
Icicle Inn and Bone Village were swamped in a flash flood.
And I'm so... HOT I feel sick. The villa feels like an OVEN!
Things outside are melting. The flag pole is sticky. Bike tiers are melting into the pavement. Everything seems to be sagging. Spontaneous fires are... increasing. The drouts are getting bad, fast.
I wonder how. I can't even think or write properly. I'm too... hot!
Crops. What if crops are really bad this year?
I need water...
Everything outside looks like a Salvador Dali painting.
Oh, I think I am going to throw up. In a heat wave like this, it's not good to be pregnant.
I think that I may join Cloud in the tub.
Very hot and bothered,
Tifa Lockheart
~
The Shin-Ra mansion was cinder and ash.
The Sun helped burn it to the ground.
Now, it was a large hole in the ground. The basement, the laboratory, everything. Yuffie burned it in a pyre.
Yuffie sat in the lake. She didn't care that her clothes were on. She wept a little, but it was too hot to weep.
The water seemed to boil. She thought she saw some bubbles rise. The wrenching stench of dead fish made her head dizzy and hazy...
She sat in the lake, in the shade.
She wanted to brake down, and weep and sob and morn, but... it was so hot. It was to hot to think, let alone cry.
She wanted to go find a cave somewhere, but she was too bogged down by the blasting, inferno weather, that she couldn't move from the spot she was in.
She was in a forest, several miles outside of Niblehiem, moving on from the whole Vincent ordeal, when suddenly, around noon, it was as if a volcano erupted.
The sun seemed odd... Yuffie was so thirsty, dead fish or not, she began to drink.
~
Nanaki's wife, Nanko, and her best friend, Dayte, watched the sun. Normally, in the sky, it was about the size of a nickel.
Now, it was the size of a silver half dollar.
Dayte sat beside his husband, and squeezed his hand. They were all afraid.
"I hope... Nanaki knows what he is doing," Dayte panted. He took a swig of water.
"His... dream. His vision, Dayte, I wonder if this was the ill omen his vision prophesied, that the sun god would come down, and bring his wrath down upon us in heat waves and drouts. Our crops have withered in under a half our." Nanko ran her copper colored arm across the sweat beads on her forehead.
Dayte's husband glanced at Nanko with his dark, sharp eyes.
"Nanaki dreamed of this?" He asked.
"Itan, my husband, he... he is brave and wise, he will save us... And... I have faith in him, he dreamed of this omen as so he could have warning and save us all."
Dayte, Itan, and Nanko held hands as they sat within the bar, looked out the window and into the sky. They prayed.
Normally, the whole tribe in Cosmo Canyon would come together at a time like this, and dance a ritual rain dance.
But even now, they thought it would be bad luck to be under the rays of the angry sun.
And, they were too tiered and hot to even move.
~
"1."
Tseng held his breath. He didn't know that he stopped breathing.
Elena began to sob, and hold onto Tseng's arm for dear life.
Tseng didn't know that she held onto him. It was his bad arm she sobbed into.
Rude stared at the gigantic screen that held the map and many small, colored light-bulbs.
One by one the light-bulbs near Midgar went black.
Ray removed his hat, and pressed it to his fat chest. He lowered his head respectfully, as if he heard the silent screams several hundred miles above his head.
The ring of scientists with clip-boards and white lab jackets were busy scribbling onto their paper. They were documenting everything.
In the background, Red 13 was doing his best to fight the small security and Dr. Stygian.
They were too much for him.
Red 13 was muzzled shut.
The world was ending. It didn't happen suddenly.
It was slow.
So slow.
Heat wave. Heat stroke. Cancer.
Starvation.
The atmosphere was in flames. Holes, there was so many holes in the ozone now a days.
Reno never had a chance to fall in love.
Sephris was glowing. She was strapped into the chair, with so many silver tubes filled with mako sticking out of her. Reno stared at her. She was as beautiful as Red 13 described in his vision. Painfully beautiful. Too wonderful and too perfect to be human. She must have been a goddess.
Reno couldn't take it anymore. He never been in love... he stared at her, his skin was painted in her blue-ish, hazy, aura.
Reno, without realizing what he was doing, walked forward.
The others saw him approach Sephris, but, he wasn't in a hurry. He didn't look like he was going to stop anything.
And, before anyone realized what was going on, Reno bent in, and pressed his lips onto Sephris'.
Sephris' eyes open. She lost concentration.
Her glow began to fade, the more she fell back into reality.
Swiftly, the Earth's gravitational pull yanked back into it's proper orbit. It felt like a heavy Earthquake or shake.
There were no after shocks.
One female scientist grabbed the wall for balance, then, she jot down what happened.
"Oh, Christ," Reno whispered into Sephris' face. "I'm sorry, uhm, what's your name?"
"Sephri-"
"Sephris, what's going on, who- what-" Stygian spun around, and snarled at Reno. Red 13, who sat in a muzzle behind him, smirked.
"Sorry dad, I can't do it, I can't concentrate. And humans are good, uhm, kissers..." Sephris pulled the metal bowl with hundreds of mako tubes on top of it, off of her head.
"No, I won't stand for it! Hook it back up, go on!" Stygian threw his arms to the side in a fit of rage. His long black hair and hawk eyes darted about the room form scientist to scientist.
The handful of scientists shrugged, and in a single file, existed the room. Tseng and Ray moved aside.
"Sorry, Stygian, better luck next time. We don't have the kind of time to be wasting on anymore Sephiroth-like failures. Either destroy the humans, or don't destroy humans, don't waste anymore of our time." The female scientist with blonde hair spoke bluntly in a monotone voice.
"But-but- Sephris ISN'T a failure, she CAN call down the sun! This is all your FRIENDS doing, Ray!" Stygian's bullet eyes snapped to the overweight, red faced cowboy, whom replaced his felt hat upon his bowling ball head.
"Ain't it beautiful? Love saves the world. Bah. Rubbish, See ya, Doc, I didn' think that this was really tha end, anyhoo. I reckon that I didn' see no four horsemen anywhere. Better luck at killin' us next time, Sty."
Ray pushed past Tseng and Elena.
Anti-climactically, he walked away.
There was no big bang.
There was no bells or whistles. They just all walked away. Ray, Tseng, Elena, Rude, and the muzzled Red.
It was just like Ray said.
The world comes close to ending nearly every day.
It's just stupid acts by un-assuming people who have no idea what they are doing that saves it. They were in the right place at the right time.
Stupid people doing stupid things, like, a kiss.
A kiss saved the world. Next time, it could have been a can opener.
Or something equally as stupid and foolish.
Reno was near the last to leave. He dragged his sleeve across his lips, looked at Sephris, and said, "I'll call you."
He too, then, left.
Sephris blushed, and meandered out on her own time.
Dr. Stygian stood in the laboratory. The vein on his obsidian forehead, throbbed.
The lights in the lab began to go out, one by one.
The light directly above him, caste a single, triangular halo over him.
He screamed at the top of his lungs, in bloody, red hot frustration.
His throat burned. His lungs felt soft and saggy.
When he ran out of air, he fell to his knees, and thumped his fist on the floor.
Decades of work and research, went up in a kiss.
He didn't have the patience or energy to try again in the same line of work.