Cold Sins
Darkness…silence…nothingness…there was nothing else around him but
darkness "Am I dead?" Cloud said softly, looking about the darkness. Then it was like a
wall slammed into him. Thousands of screaming voices, burning his ears and his mind,
he fell to his knee, grabbing his head in pain, trying to shut out the voices, but they
wouldn't stop, they just kept growing in numbers. "Shut up…shut up…SHUT UP" he
yelled at the top of his voice. The darkness around him shattering like glass, and all that
he saw was the spray of blood fly over him. Cloud gasped and took a step back, wiping
the blood from his face. Shaking his head lightly as his eyes stung, wiping the blood from
them quickly. He looked up to see were the spray was from. And when Cloud did that his
eyes went wide with horror, seeing the body of Ifrit and Shiva lying upon the ground,
their bodies broken and gashed open. Cloud quickly ran towards Shiva first, kneeling
down quickly by her side. But he watched her eyes, seeing the fear in them, watching her
trembling, as he got closer to her. Cloud shook his head faintly, trying to tell her that it
would be all right but all that came from his mouth were words that he wasn't trying to
say at all. "Bleed….for…me…summon" he looked down at his hand, seeing the sword
appear in it slowly, as if it was summon it self, then he quickly looked to Shiva, watching
her mouth the words "No". Cloud tried to stop himself, but he couldn't control his body
watching as the sword rose above his head and then down quickly, impaling Shiva down
upon the ground.
Cloud quickly opened his eyes and sat up quickly, his breathing quickly, grabbing
his chest in pain and falling back down upon the bed. Tifa was quickly by his side trying
to keep him from sitting back up again. "Calm down Cloud…it was only a dream" She
said. Cloud's eyes were darting around as beads of sweat rolled off his brow. Slowly his
breathing started to come down, his eyes focusing upon Tifa. "It…was a dream?" he said
lightly under his breath. As if trying to reassure him self that it was. Tifa slowly ran her
hand over Cloud's cheek. "Shhh…its okay…you've been asleep for the past few days"
She said, watching Cloud with a worried look in her eyes. Cloud let his head fall to the
side, remembering the dream as if it really happened, but he swallowed hard as he saw
Vincent standing their watching him. Tifa looked up and saw Vincent, she smiled softly
"Hey…come on in" She tried to keep a kind tone in her voice, but the fact was that
Vincent really creeped her out. Vincent just turned away from them. "A child is
dead…and all you care about is Cloud" Cloud closed his eyes slowly, feeling his heart
beat faster as he heard about the child. Vincent looked back towards them with blood red
eyes. "Its another sin upon you Cloud" With that Vincent turned away from them,
walking out of the room. "Creepy dumb ass" came from behind the curtain next to them.
Tifa quickly pulled it away, seeing Barret their looking at the doorway. "Don't even
know why he hangs around here" He sighed and sat back in the bed, closing his eyes.
"Tifa when you leave, just leave the light on, I don't want that thing coming in here"
Barret swallowed hard, relaxing back in the bed. Tifa look back at Cloud slowly. "Just
rest Cloud, soon you can get out of here and we'll have a night out okay…" She just
winked at Cloud and walked out of the room, blowing him a kiss and leaving him with a
smile. Cloud closed his eyes and just trembled there in the medical bed, his thoughts
racing back to the child, and the worlds that Vincent said ringing in his ears.
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Cloud opened his eyes, staring at the ceiling above him, running his hand over the
bandages upon his chest, breathing softly and thinking to himself. "What is happening to
me…it…feels like I'm going out of my mind" he said as he pulled himself up slowly and
sitting back against his pillow. He sighed softly, but his time of relaxing and reflection
were quickly interrupted. Hearing the sound of footsteps coming down the hallway. He
swallowed hard as he watched the door, hearing the knob turning slowly. He watched as
the light flooded into the room, blinding him for a small second. He watched, waiting,
seeing nothing but the lights on in the hallway. He closed his eyes, shaking his head "Get
a hold of yourself Cloud" He opened his eyes, his head snapping up as he saw the Child
standing their, staring at him, blood falling from the poor boys lips and staining the floor
beneath him. Cloud's heart began to race, his mind racing with one thought. "How…".
The child moved slowly, walking towards him, then he looked back to the door, seeing
Vincent standing there, holding one of his guns. He opened his mouth to speak but it was
to late, seeing the flash of light and hearing the deafening sound of the gun going off. He
felt a spray of blood, its cold feeling as he streaked down his face, feeling the last of his
breath running out of him. He looked quickly to where the child was standing, seeing
nothing but the body of a monster. "Th…the child were is the child" Cloud said staring at
the monster. Vincent just walked over to the dead body of the beast. "There was no
child…" Vincent said as he reached down with his large metallic arm grabbed the body,
lifting it from the floor, breaking its bones by crushing it some more. "…just a
beast…and your sins" The body of the monster disappeared as Vincent burned it with a
simple spell. Vincent just turned walking out of the room, leaving cloud there with the
monsters blood upon him. He watched Vincent reach for the knob and close it. Watching
as the darkness swallowed him up again, leaving Cloud their, to his thoughts.