A brief note: This story takes place several years after the end of FFVII, and I'm going to assume you know what happens.
Mako Ghosts
by E.T. Kornahauser
Introduction
When it comes time for friends, comrades, and schoolmates to part, there is always a feeling of terrible pain in everyones heart. That one last look as they round the corner, or thier airship finally dissappears behind the horizan, makes our insides cring and out eyes spill over with tears. It doesn't matter how you feel about them now, eventually, you'll miss everybody.
Such was in the case here. When the battle was done, and the evil that had plauged the planet for so long was vanquished, no one knew what to do. In fact, everyone aboard the Highwind stood there motionless as they watched the action unfold beneath them like an opening book. It had besieged their eyes, and they could do nothing but gaze as Holy pushed back the evil that dwelled the Midgar. After nearly an hour of watching, Cid gasped out and order to pull back and land somewhere safe. Cloud stood there, firm and steady on the deck. He was waiting and watching for what would never come.
Aeris.
Chapter One
Like Leaves to the Wind
Since that day, the crew of the Highwind, Avalanche, and other assorted rouges slowly and sadly departed. It was like scatering leaves to the wind. Each and every one went their seperate ways. Some went back home, and others, who had no home, traveled to some place they though they would live out the rest of their lives peacfully in. They all considered they'd never see each other again.
Red XIII traveled back home to Cosmo Canyon. He was greeted with a heros welcome.
"There's the cat that saved the world!" said a man as he strolled calmly into town.
"Did you give them hell, you old tiger, you?" said another.
"Can I have your autograph, Mister?" asked a young boy.
He walked into town with his head (and his tail) held up proudly. Having succsessfully taken a great part in saving the world, he thought he deserved it.
Vincent, after deciding not to go back and spend another decade in a crampt coffin, settled atop the cliff above Lucrecias Cave. He built himself a small house, and carved out a small path down the side of the cliff to the cave entrence. Every day, he'd journey down there to 'meet' with his wife. He no longer cried himself to sleep, no longer mourned he death, at least in such a dramatic way. All he did was pay homage to her, and love her with all his heart.
Cid, after getting a taste of the air again, decided to leave the ground perminantly! He and his wife, Shera, moved their belongings unto the great airship. They turned the old Chocobo pen into a bed room, and most of the central hall into a living room, and what was left was turned into a kitchen. As for the meeting room, they just remodeled it and turned in into a dining room.
Yuffie moved back to Wutang. Her father was mildy upset she hadn't stolen any materia from her so called 'friends,' but he soon got over it. Her days of thieft and robbery were over, and she became Wutangs first Materia Expert. She opened up a shop at the base of the mountains. With it, she sold and traded all sorts of materia to travelers, and spent hours telling her cutomers about how she had saved the world from destruction. Most, after hearing what she was like, tried to get in and out of the store as quickly as possible!
Baret moved back home to North Corel with his daughter, Marlene. Now, after prooving he was a hero, the people forgave him. With new supplies shipped in from Nibelheim, they were able to rebuild to town. Barret was elected mayor of the small ex-coal mining town, and his first decree was the re-establishment of the mines. Withen a few years, North Corel would be just as it was before!
Cait Sith gave up his life as a fourtune teller at The Gold Saucer, and bought Rufas's old apartment with his life savings. No one would have thought he had earned that much as a simple entertainer, but he did, and he put it to good use. The house suited him very nicley, and he wondered why old Rufas would have even considered selling it!
Cloud eventually did marry Tifa, though most, including Cloud himself, considered it more of a friendship marriage instead of a true love marriage. Not that Tifa didn't mean anything to Cloud, in fact, quite the opposite. Aeris was, and always would be, his true love, but Tifa was his best friend. The new couple settled atop the old Shina building in destroyed. Now that there was nothing to obstruct it, green vegitation had started to grow over the old buildings. Though there were still some people living in one section of the city that had been partially rebuilt, the roof, the building, and the city was all thiers. Cloud thought they'd eventually rebuild the whole city, just one block at a time. Just as long as didn't turn on those Mako reactors again, it was fine with him.
Nine years have passed since that day when the world was saved. The planets heros have each gone thier seperate ways, some back to their roots, others forged new lives for themselves. However, a new crisis is at hand, and it will bring each and every one of them together to stop the evil before grow to big to be stopped!
Mako Ghosts
by E.T. Kornahauser
Introduction
When it comes time for friends, comrades, and schoolmates to part, there is always a feeling of terrible pain in everyones heart. That one last look as they round the corner, or thier airship finally dissappears behind the horizan, makes our insides cring and out eyes spill over with tears. It doesn't matter how you feel about them now, eventually, you'll miss everybody.
Such was in the case here. When the battle was done, and the evil that had plauged the planet for so long was vanquished, no one knew what to do. In fact, everyone aboard the Highwind stood there motionless as they watched the action unfold beneath them like an opening book. It had besieged their eyes, and they could do nothing but gaze as Holy pushed back the evil that dwelled the Midgar. After nearly an hour of watching, Cid gasped out and order to pull back and land somewhere safe. Cloud stood there, firm and steady on the deck. He was waiting and watching for what would never come.
Aeris.
Chapter One
Like Leaves to the Wind
Since that day, the crew of the Highwind, Avalanche, and other assorted rouges slowly and sadly departed. It was like scatering leaves to the wind. Each and every one went their seperate ways. Some went back home, and others, who had no home, traveled to some place they though they would live out the rest of their lives peacfully in. They all considered they'd never see each other again.
Red XIII traveled back home to Cosmo Canyon. He was greeted with a heros welcome.
"There's the cat that saved the world!" said a man as he strolled calmly into town.
"Did you give them hell, you old tiger, you?" said another.
"Can I have your autograph, Mister?" asked a young boy.
He walked into town with his head (and his tail) held up proudly. Having succsessfully taken a great part in saving the world, he thought he deserved it.
Vincent, after deciding not to go back and spend another decade in a crampt coffin, settled atop the cliff above Lucrecias Cave. He built himself a small house, and carved out a small path down the side of the cliff to the cave entrence. Every day, he'd journey down there to 'meet' with his wife. He no longer cried himself to sleep, no longer mourned he death, at least in such a dramatic way. All he did was pay homage to her, and love her with all his heart.
Cid, after getting a taste of the air again, decided to leave the ground perminantly! He and his wife, Shera, moved their belongings unto the great airship. They turned the old Chocobo pen into a bed room, and most of the central hall into a living room, and what was left was turned into a kitchen. As for the meeting room, they just remodeled it and turned in into a dining room.
Yuffie moved back to Wutang. Her father was mildy upset she hadn't stolen any materia from her so called 'friends,' but he soon got over it. Her days of thieft and robbery were over, and she became Wutangs first Materia Expert. She opened up a shop at the base of the mountains. With it, she sold and traded all sorts of materia to travelers, and spent hours telling her cutomers about how she had saved the world from destruction. Most, after hearing what she was like, tried to get in and out of the store as quickly as possible!
Baret moved back home to North Corel with his daughter, Marlene. Now, after prooving he was a hero, the people forgave him. With new supplies shipped in from Nibelheim, they were able to rebuild to town. Barret was elected mayor of the small ex-coal mining town, and his first decree was the re-establishment of the mines. Withen a few years, North Corel would be just as it was before!
Cait Sith gave up his life as a fourtune teller at The Gold Saucer, and bought Rufas's old apartment with his life savings. No one would have thought he had earned that much as a simple entertainer, but he did, and he put it to good use. The house suited him very nicley, and he wondered why old Rufas would have even considered selling it!
Cloud eventually did marry Tifa, though most, including Cloud himself, considered it more of a friendship marriage instead of a true love marriage. Not that Tifa didn't mean anything to Cloud, in fact, quite the opposite. Aeris was, and always would be, his true love, but Tifa was his best friend. The new couple settled atop the old Shina building in destroyed. Now that there was nothing to obstruct it, green vegitation had started to grow over the old buildings. Though there were still some people living in one section of the city that had been partially rebuilt, the roof, the building, and the city was all thiers. Cloud thought they'd eventually rebuild the whole city, just one block at a time. Just as long as didn't turn on those Mako reactors again, it was fine with him.
Nine years have passed since that day when the world was saved. The planets heros have each gone thier seperate ways, some back to their roots, others forged new lives for themselves. However, a new crisis is at hand, and it will bring each and every one of them together to stop the evil before grow to big to be stopped!