Tifa Lockheart leaned up against the cold wall taking her chance to rest graciously. She held her small baby close to her chest trying to calm down her own breathing. Cloud Strife stood in front of her peering around the wall for a chance to get by the Shinra guards that now surrounded their house. Zell was hiding behind Cloud's legs waiting for when they were going to make their chance to run to shelter.
A beam of light flashed on the ground next to them before retreating back over to the front of the house. The soldier went along its way searching more for the convicts. This was all there was to Tifa's life these days. She always thought her life was bad with Johnny, but now Shinra all of a sudden decided that they wanted to go destroy the saviors of their world. Some Shinra SOLDIERS had already found Vincent Valentine and he was put into jail immediately. No one had heard from Yuffie Kisargi for such a long time that they figured Shinra already picked her up.
All that was left now was Barret Wallace, Cid Highwind, Nanaki, Cloud, and Tifa. They all were being treated like fugitives now for reasons they didn't even know. Every once and a while Cloud heard rumors that they were being hunted because of the fact of what had happened to Midgar. Others were because they were the real reason for Meteor. Whatever the reason was for, Shinra was not going to stop until they were either locked up or dead.
With Shinra constantly at their heals, Cloud and Tifa's lives had become a living hell. Running everyday for their lives was the only possibility. The chances of them surviving this search were likely for the soldiers were obviously not very much into their work that night.
'SOLDIERS are getting weak,' Cloud thought as he watched another guard pass by. 'Most of them look as if they're about to fall asleep on the job. If only the president knew about this.' He eyed the last soldier carefully as it lazily picked up its feet following the person in front of him. His gun was drooping in his arm and his flashlight was barely hitting the ground.
Cloud stepped out from behind his security wall and tiptoed over to another house into the back alley. Zell ran behind him practically hugging his legs the whole way. Tifa was the last to make it through but luckily for her she was wearing a large cloak making her harder to see in the dark.
Tifa's motion stopped quickly when she saw a light flicker back over to her. She stopped dead in her tracks like a frightened deer in the darkness of night with a headlight beating down on it. Her heart was beating too fast to count, but it felt like it was about to explode out of her chest.
"What do you have there?" one of the SOLDIERS asked as he walked over to her. His voice was one of a young man but it sounded weary at the same time. Tifa hadn't noticed anything about it for her fear had taken over her entire body. She felt her knees hit together as she tried to shake her fear off.
The SOLDIER didn't even bother to look under the hood she wore before taking the infant from her. Tifa's hands automatically reached out to try and grab her child back but the SOLDIER quickly knocked her down to the knees. The blow in her head made her feel dizzy as she tried to regain her balance on her hands and knees.
"Do you have a license ma'am?" the SOLDIER asked while looking down at the child.
"A license?" Tifa asked perplexed. 'When did you EVER need a license to have a child?' she wondered to herself.
"I'm sorry. No license, no kid." The SOLDIER walked few feet away with her child. Tifa watched him as he laid her child on the ground and reached for his gun. The Soldier's action was to quick for her to do anything about it before it was too late. Her child lay still on the ground motionless with only a small pool of blood where it seemed to have drowned it in.
Shock overcame Tifa as she watched the SOLDIER walk off with the rest of its crew. The hot tears that filled her eyes and the anger that now dwelled inside her was enough to even make the strongest man fall to their knees in fear. She stood up from her placement on the ground and was about to sprint over to the SOLDIER before she felt an arm go around her waist.
"There's nothing we can do Tifa. There's nothing we can do," Cloud's voice was cracking as he wrapped his arms around Tifa. No words could describe the couple's feeling at the moment. Their child was gone, and so were their lives.
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Tifa sat in a rocking chair caressing Zell in her arms. Cloud constantly paced around the room contemplating their new situation. Cid had come into the room telling them more terrible news.
"There was nothing we could do for Red," Cid started to explain. "He was trying to protect Cosmo Canyon. Last I heard they totally tore it down. Nothing is f*cking left. They went and blasted every last f*cking mountain!" Cid slammed his fist into a table as he thought about his good friend.
Barret stood in the corner of the room tapping his foot in irritation. A few weeks earlier Marlene had been taken away from him and put into a foster home.
"God damn Shinra. They're hunting us down and they aren't going to stop until we give up," Barret said bitterly. "They're going to tear down every f*cking town until they got us."
The words shot through Tifa like a gun in her head. There was absolutely nothing that they could do except run. But even that wasn't going to work. Innocent lives were being killed because of them now.
"What can we do?" Cloud asked as he walked over to a window. He stared off into the abyss of the night pondering the situation carefully. He had no more tears to shed anymore and he had nothing else to give. All his hopes had died when his daughter died.
"We either turn ourselves in and save innocent lives, or we run and still die," Cid said bluntly. The answer was clear as crystal but it was still hard to accept. Tifa felt more tears start to fall as she looked down at her son.
"Tifa, I know this is hard for you, but I know of a place that he'll be safe," Cid offered from the good of his heart. Tifa didn't even have to ask whom he was talking about. The child she held in her hands hadn't done anything to deserve the life of running from the government because of his parents. She nodded her head in agreement before hugging onto her child.
Cloud looked back at Tifa and wasn't even able to force a smile. So much sadness was locked up inside him right now that not even a miracle could lift his spirits. All hope was lost and it seemed as if all of his hard work in the past was for nothing. All the adventures that he had didn't even come close to his decision he had to make. His legs carried his slumping body over to Tifa and he placed his hand on his child's sleeping face.
"All I wanted to do was to make the world a safe place," Cloud said solemnly. "We all saved the world from Meteor. We destroyed Sephiroth. And all we get for payment is more loss and pain. But right now, the only one that is going to suffer the most, is the one that is going to be left be left behind."
"I'll be meeting Shera again soon," Cid tried to cheer himself up. Shinra SOLDIERS had stoned her to death one afternoon when she was walking home from the grocery store. The only reason why they did what they had done was because she knew Cid Highwind. Rage was built up in Cid from that, but his own hands could never stop Shinra from their massacre. "We might want to start heading over there now. The walk is long and with Shinra on our heals, it's going to be hard."
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Cid had been right. The walk was long and dangerous. Lucky for Tifa, Zell fell asleep in her arms twenty minutes before they reached the small house by the bay. She thought that she had already shed all her tears but as she walked up to the front porch of the house, she felt them start pouring out again.
"Excuse me?" a lady with raven black hair asked as she walked towards them from the side of the house. "May I help you?"
"We're in a bit of a bind right now," Cid answered knowing that the truth was hard for Tifa and she would be barely able to say what she wanted to.
"I'll get it Cid," Cloud jumped into the conversation quickly. "Cid told us about you and how you take in lost children. Well, mine isn't lost, but he will be soon. I'm begging you to take my child under your roof." The lady stood in shock from the offer for the man seemed to be in his late twenties and looked like he could be making a good life.
"I'm sorry, but unless there is a good reason I..."
"There is a good reason. These people here and I are being hunted down. Shinra is stalking us, destroying every city until we are found. They already killed one of my children and I'm not going to let it happen again." The sound in Cloud's voice was serious and low.
"All right. But I need to know what to tell the child about his real parents once he's old enough," the lady agreed.
"Tell him that his grandfather was in SOLDIER, and if he ever wants to know the truth go to a small house in Nibelheim. I doubt that will be the name of it anymore, but I'm more that sure a small house will still be standing there. His questions about his parents will be answered there." Cloud smiled his unique smile that had somehow caught onto Zell. "Oh, and his name's Zell. Z-E-L-L."
Tifa watched with sad eyes before turning and walking away with Cloud by her side. The toughest part of their journey was solved; now the only thing that was left was to walk into the abyss of the small future the two still held together.
Author's note: There ya go. Short and sweet. Well, not really, but that's okay! The next part in this "series" should be longer because it's going to be about how Zell finds out about his family. MWA HA HA HA HA!! The ideas of a writer come to life!! Oh, and maybe some day I'll make this a little lengthier, but there wasn't much more I could add. I could add more on about why Shinra was trying to kill them, and stuff like that, but we'll see what happens. Right now I still have 3 more parts of this to write and then afterwards I'll probably go through and revise the entire thing so that way it
1.) Makes more sense
2.) Is put more into a chaptering type of a story
3.) It might actually look like a series!!
Okay, enough babbling. I hope you enjoyed and I hope you'll encourage me to finish it!!
Oh, and if anybody is wondering why I wrote such a strange story, is because I always hear about how Zell could have been Tifa and Cloud's son, grandson. I never ever ever ever saw a story about it though that could make it be a possibility so I decided to try and make it so!!
A beam of light flashed on the ground next to them before retreating back over to the front of the house. The soldier went along its way searching more for the convicts. This was all there was to Tifa's life these days. She always thought her life was bad with Johnny, but now Shinra all of a sudden decided that they wanted to go destroy the saviors of their world. Some Shinra SOLDIERS had already found Vincent Valentine and he was put into jail immediately. No one had heard from Yuffie Kisargi for such a long time that they figured Shinra already picked her up.
All that was left now was Barret Wallace, Cid Highwind, Nanaki, Cloud, and Tifa. They all were being treated like fugitives now for reasons they didn't even know. Every once and a while Cloud heard rumors that they were being hunted because of the fact of what had happened to Midgar. Others were because they were the real reason for Meteor. Whatever the reason was for, Shinra was not going to stop until they were either locked up or dead.
With Shinra constantly at their heals, Cloud and Tifa's lives had become a living hell. Running everyday for their lives was the only possibility. The chances of them surviving this search were likely for the soldiers were obviously not very much into their work that night.
'SOLDIERS are getting weak,' Cloud thought as he watched another guard pass by. 'Most of them look as if they're about to fall asleep on the job. If only the president knew about this.' He eyed the last soldier carefully as it lazily picked up its feet following the person in front of him. His gun was drooping in his arm and his flashlight was barely hitting the ground.
Cloud stepped out from behind his security wall and tiptoed over to another house into the back alley. Zell ran behind him practically hugging his legs the whole way. Tifa was the last to make it through but luckily for her she was wearing a large cloak making her harder to see in the dark.
Tifa's motion stopped quickly when she saw a light flicker back over to her. She stopped dead in her tracks like a frightened deer in the darkness of night with a headlight beating down on it. Her heart was beating too fast to count, but it felt like it was about to explode out of her chest.
"What do you have there?" one of the SOLDIERS asked as he walked over to her. His voice was one of a young man but it sounded weary at the same time. Tifa hadn't noticed anything about it for her fear had taken over her entire body. She felt her knees hit together as she tried to shake her fear off.
The SOLDIER didn't even bother to look under the hood she wore before taking the infant from her. Tifa's hands automatically reached out to try and grab her child back but the SOLDIER quickly knocked her down to the knees. The blow in her head made her feel dizzy as she tried to regain her balance on her hands and knees.
"Do you have a license ma'am?" the SOLDIER asked while looking down at the child.
"A license?" Tifa asked perplexed. 'When did you EVER need a license to have a child?' she wondered to herself.
"I'm sorry. No license, no kid." The SOLDIER walked few feet away with her child. Tifa watched him as he laid her child on the ground and reached for his gun. The Soldier's action was to quick for her to do anything about it before it was too late. Her child lay still on the ground motionless with only a small pool of blood where it seemed to have drowned it in.
Shock overcame Tifa as she watched the SOLDIER walk off with the rest of its crew. The hot tears that filled her eyes and the anger that now dwelled inside her was enough to even make the strongest man fall to their knees in fear. She stood up from her placement on the ground and was about to sprint over to the SOLDIER before she felt an arm go around her waist.
"There's nothing we can do Tifa. There's nothing we can do," Cloud's voice was cracking as he wrapped his arms around Tifa. No words could describe the couple's feeling at the moment. Their child was gone, and so were their lives.
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Tifa sat in a rocking chair caressing Zell in her arms. Cloud constantly paced around the room contemplating their new situation. Cid had come into the room telling them more terrible news.
"There was nothing we could do for Red," Cid started to explain. "He was trying to protect Cosmo Canyon. Last I heard they totally tore it down. Nothing is f*cking left. They went and blasted every last f*cking mountain!" Cid slammed his fist into a table as he thought about his good friend.
Barret stood in the corner of the room tapping his foot in irritation. A few weeks earlier Marlene had been taken away from him and put into a foster home.
"God damn Shinra. They're hunting us down and they aren't going to stop until we give up," Barret said bitterly. "They're going to tear down every f*cking town until they got us."
The words shot through Tifa like a gun in her head. There was absolutely nothing that they could do except run. But even that wasn't going to work. Innocent lives were being killed because of them now.
"What can we do?" Cloud asked as he walked over to a window. He stared off into the abyss of the night pondering the situation carefully. He had no more tears to shed anymore and he had nothing else to give. All his hopes had died when his daughter died.
"We either turn ourselves in and save innocent lives, or we run and still die," Cid said bluntly. The answer was clear as crystal but it was still hard to accept. Tifa felt more tears start to fall as she looked down at her son.
"Tifa, I know this is hard for you, but I know of a place that he'll be safe," Cid offered from the good of his heart. Tifa didn't even have to ask whom he was talking about. The child she held in her hands hadn't done anything to deserve the life of running from the government because of his parents. She nodded her head in agreement before hugging onto her child.
Cloud looked back at Tifa and wasn't even able to force a smile. So much sadness was locked up inside him right now that not even a miracle could lift his spirits. All hope was lost and it seemed as if all of his hard work in the past was for nothing. All the adventures that he had didn't even come close to his decision he had to make. His legs carried his slumping body over to Tifa and he placed his hand on his child's sleeping face.
"All I wanted to do was to make the world a safe place," Cloud said solemnly. "We all saved the world from Meteor. We destroyed Sephiroth. And all we get for payment is more loss and pain. But right now, the only one that is going to suffer the most, is the one that is going to be left be left behind."
"I'll be meeting Shera again soon," Cid tried to cheer himself up. Shinra SOLDIERS had stoned her to death one afternoon when she was walking home from the grocery store. The only reason why they did what they had done was because she knew Cid Highwind. Rage was built up in Cid from that, but his own hands could never stop Shinra from their massacre. "We might want to start heading over there now. The walk is long and with Shinra on our heals, it's going to be hard."
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Cid had been right. The walk was long and dangerous. Lucky for Tifa, Zell fell asleep in her arms twenty minutes before they reached the small house by the bay. She thought that she had already shed all her tears but as she walked up to the front porch of the house, she felt them start pouring out again.
"Excuse me?" a lady with raven black hair asked as she walked towards them from the side of the house. "May I help you?"
"We're in a bit of a bind right now," Cid answered knowing that the truth was hard for Tifa and she would be barely able to say what she wanted to.
"I'll get it Cid," Cloud jumped into the conversation quickly. "Cid told us about you and how you take in lost children. Well, mine isn't lost, but he will be soon. I'm begging you to take my child under your roof." The lady stood in shock from the offer for the man seemed to be in his late twenties and looked like he could be making a good life.
"I'm sorry, but unless there is a good reason I..."
"There is a good reason. These people here and I are being hunted down. Shinra is stalking us, destroying every city until we are found. They already killed one of my children and I'm not going to let it happen again." The sound in Cloud's voice was serious and low.
"All right. But I need to know what to tell the child about his real parents once he's old enough," the lady agreed.
"Tell him that his grandfather was in SOLDIER, and if he ever wants to know the truth go to a small house in Nibelheim. I doubt that will be the name of it anymore, but I'm more that sure a small house will still be standing there. His questions about his parents will be answered there." Cloud smiled his unique smile that had somehow caught onto Zell. "Oh, and his name's Zell. Z-E-L-L."
Tifa watched with sad eyes before turning and walking away with Cloud by her side. The toughest part of their journey was solved; now the only thing that was left was to walk into the abyss of the small future the two still held together.
Author's note: There ya go. Short and sweet. Well, not really, but that's okay! The next part in this "series" should be longer because it's going to be about how Zell finds out about his family. MWA HA HA HA HA!! The ideas of a writer come to life!! Oh, and maybe some day I'll make this a little lengthier, but there wasn't much more I could add. I could add more on about why Shinra was trying to kill them, and stuff like that, but we'll see what happens. Right now I still have 3 more parts of this to write and then afterwards I'll probably go through and revise the entire thing so that way it
1.) Makes more sense
2.) Is put more into a chaptering type of a story
3.) It might actually look like a series!!
Okay, enough babbling. I hope you enjoyed and I hope you'll encourage me to finish it!!
Oh, and if anybody is wondering why I wrote such a strange story, is because I always hear about how Zell could have been Tifa and Cloud's son, grandson. I never ever ever ever saw a story about it though that could make it be a possibility so I decided to try and make it so!!