The next day, a plane
arrived. Cid and Shera were sitting in the open forest area they had called
their home for a month, when they heard the strange whirring outside. "I'd know
that anywhere…a propeller!" Cid jumped up, grabbing Shera's hand and pulling
her outside, but she was faster and broke away, getting there first. He
laughed, and swept her up into his arms, hailing the plane with one hand and
smiling ear to ear. "We're saved!"
The plane circled a few times,
then landed in their clearing. The pilot stepped out, and took off his helmet…revealing
a familiar brunette head with a green headband and a cocky smile. "Hey, old
man, good thing we happened along, huh?" "YUFFIE????" Cid looked incredulous.
Barrett and Red stepped out after her, and grinned. Barrett cocked a finger at
the plane. "You gonna get in or what? We saw the flames. Dunno how long you've
been here, but you look pretty damn bad." They didn't need a second urging.
Shera and Cid sat in the back of
the plane, and Shera looked out the window, watching the land disappear below. She
leaned her head on Cid's shoulder, and said, "Captain?" "Yeah?" He replied
looking down at her. "Your friends…have come looking for you…does that mean you're
going to have to…leave?" He sighed, and crossed his arms over his chest. "Yeah,
probably. That damned meteor's still up in the sky, and we can't rest till it
ain't there anymore." Shera stared at the ground.
Cid put a finger under her chin
and tilted it up, making her look at him. "But let me promise you something. I'm
gonna come back when this is all over. That's a solemn promise, so you'd better
believe it. I'm gonna come back, and you're gonna wait for me, right?" Shera
smiled. "What else could I do?" "Good
then." He grinned, and clapped her on the shoulder.
She smiled, and thought for a
while about a new life, a life they could lead together. Shera Highwind, she
thought, and loved the ring of that name. Has possibilities, she thought.
