Chapter Three: "Bring Back Aeris!"
"Aeris..." Cloud choked out. "I'm sorry Tifa, but I choose Aeris to live."
Tifa paled a lot but nodded. "I understand. Goodbye, my love."
Cloud slid the blade accross her throat. Tifa's life's blood flowed from her body in a quick stream. Her eyes rolled up in her head and Sephiroth let her collapse to the ground.
"Tifa..." Cloud said, and he felt the tears start to come. He shook them away. He would grieve for her later. "Where is Aeris?"
Sephiroth burst out laughing. "You know, Tifa hadn't told you yet, but she was pregnant."
"She was??"
"Yes... and her baby would be the reincarnation of Aeris' spirit." Sephiroth continued his scornful laughter. "And because of that, and you killed off Tifa... I can't bring spirits back that fast. So, I'm not bringing Aeris back at all. Besides, if I did, she would have no memory of being Aeris Gainsborough, she would only have memory of her newest life in Tifa's womb. She would be a blumbing baby, only an inch long."
"You bastard!" Cloud screamed.
Sephiroth smiled wickedly. "My revenge has succeded. You have lost both women.:
He laughed once more, and then Sephiroth.... Aeris.... vanished forever.
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It had been thirty years since he had left Tifa and his daughter die. Cloud stared out his window in Cosmo Canyon and felt as bitter as ever.
Cloud had never remarried or loved again. He felt his life was over. His old friends had tried to cheer him up, but he stayed in his own little world.
The only two women he had ever loved were gone forever.
Never to return where he would meet him.
The End!
AN: A twist, I guess? Eh? Thanks for reading!!