"What's
my daughter's name?"
"Marlene."
"Where
did you first found me?"
"In
the forest near Junon."
"What's
the password to get the huge materia in the rocket?"
"……Enough
of this interrogation stuff, okay? Why can't you just believe that I am Cloud?"
Cloud asked.
Since
Cloud told everybody that he is Cloud in Sephiroth's body, the members of
Avalanche didn't stop firing questions at him. They wanted to make sure he is
the real Cloud.
"Ah
hah! See? I told you that he isn't Cloud." Cait Sith said.
"How
would I remember a thing like this? Come on, trust me, I am Cloud. By the way,
what's the password?" Cloud replied.
"It's
uh….um…Cid, what's the password already?" Cait Sith asked Cid.
Cid
scratched his head for a while, he then shook his head to indicate that he too
had forgotten the password.
"Okay,
so I forgotten the password too. Um…what happened when we first visited Fort
Condor?" Cait Sith popped up another question.
"Will
you guys just stop? Why don't you all let Cloud explain what happened?" Aeris
suddenly interrupted from behind.
Everybody
became quiet at once. Aeris looked at everyone and continued.
"Tell
us what really happened, Cloud." Aeris said.
"Okay,
this is a really long story and although there are a lot of unbelievable stuff,
I hope all of you just listen and keep your question at the end." Cloud said.
Cloud
looked at everyone to make sure everyone was ready. He then started his story.
"After
I was killed by Sephiroth on top of the Shinra building, I felt like I am
something really light and free to go anywhere. Before I know what happened, I
saw streams of green light everywhere and I was following them to an unknown
destination. Then I realized that I was in the lifestream. I kept on flowing
freely and suddenly something disturbed me. A stream of green light approached
me. Then I heard voices. It was Sephiroth's. He was playing with my mind and I
fought back. Soon, a battle of mind power started."
"Fighting
with your mind was a very torturing. Sephiroth kept on telling me thing that I
don't want to hear, showing me thing I don't want to see and torture me slowly.
Trust me, it felt really bad when this happened. Our mind battle was so violent
that it disturbed the flow of the lifestream. Then suddenly, we only found out
that we were not flowing with the lifestream anymore. We were flowing into
darkness."
Cloud
rested for a few seconds and continued.
"Then,
something unbelievable happened. I woke up and in an operation table in a dark
room. Everything that happened just now was just like a dream. At first I
thought was dreaming. But then I realized I wasn't. My hair was long and was
silver in color. I was really shocked that time, I can't believe what was
happening to me. Then, I saw myself standing in front of me. I was like looking
into a mirror, where there wasn't actually a mirror there. I heard myself said
something and he readied his sword to slash me."
"I
tried to move and it is then I felt pain all over my body. The pain was so
intensive that it almost killed me. Then, I heard myself said 'die' and saw his
sword coming right towards me. With all my might, I dodged the attack and fell
onto the floor. I ransack my pocket and found a restore materia. I quickly cast
a cure spell so that I could walk. After I healed some of my wounds, I grabbed
the musamane and blocked the other myself's attack. It was then he cast an
ultima spell and send me flying out of the room."
"I
was once again badly injured. I quickly cast another cure spell and ran away
from him as fast as possible. I kept on running and the other me kept on
chasing. I ran and ran until I was out of the building and was on the streets
of Junon. It was night outside. There was nobody else around and although I
called for help, nobody came to help me. The other me finally got up with me.
He was just a few feet away. 'Who are you?' I shouted. He walked even near
towards me. Then he spoke. 'Don't you remember me?' It is then that I realized
that the other me was Sephiroth. For an unknown reason, we switched bodies and
now he had a good chance in killing me."
Cloud
sat up and took a sip of his coffee, he then sat down and continue his story.
"He
walked until he was just in front of me. He readied his sword and performed a
crosslash on me. With all my strength and my might, I dodged his first two
attacks but was hit by third slash. The slash slashed my leg and I couldn't
move anymore. I was doomed. Sephiroth could finish me anytime now. Once again,
I ransacked my pocket hoping to find a useful materia. I was lucky. The time
materia Sephiroth used on me before I was dead was still there. I quickly cast
a stop magic and it worked. That is how, I escaped Sephiroth."
"Wow.
That was some kinda story. Hm, I wonder how it feels in the lifestream…Oh yeah,
why were you in Icicle Inn?" Barret interrupted.
"Barret,
will you let Cloud finish his story?" Tifa told Barret.
"Nevermind.
I was just about to get to that part. After I escaped Sephiroth in Junon, I
kept on casting cure spells on myself. But my wound were too serious, the magic
of that materia wasn't enough to fully heal me. It was then when I started
hearing voices. The voice told me to go to the Forgotten City. I have no idea
why. Because at that I time I was too curious about what the voices told me, I
started my journey to the Forgotten City myself."
"That
journey wasn't easy. I have to disguise myself as a normal traveler. I went
back to Junon and took a boat ride to a new dock at the south of the Icicle
Inn. I didn't use the sleeping forest route because I don't have the lunar
harp. After that I hitched a ride to Icicle Inn and continued my journey to the
forgotten city. It was then I found Aeris. She took me home and …you know…you
all know what happened after that."
When
Cloud mentioned this part, Aeris lowered her head and Tifa stood up and walked
away.
"I
am really tired after all this. Maybe I should take a sleep first." Cloud stood
up and lay down on the couch.
"Well,
story's over." Cait Sith got up and hopped out of the hall and leaded everyone
out.