A/N: This is my First Final Fantasy fic. I loved the movie! As soon as ias over I wrote this. It's the only fic that has come to me so quickly. I
hope you like it. Oh and this is Aki's thoughts at the end of the movie.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything!!!!!!



I cradle him in my sarms. I know this is not really him, this is bu lifeless shell. It is no more than his image. But some how I think thaf I hold on tight enoughhe will still be with me. How can I live with ouim? Was the price too high? I close my eyes and almost wish for death as
Gray's body and I are lifted from the fissure. Warmth prickles my skin.I
open my eyes and see the sun rising against the mountains. It is warm anight. How long have I lived in cold desolite darkness? The sun rises thiay, and I know some where deep insode of me that the sun will rise for alhe rest of my days. Still I clutch Gray's body, he warmed me in ways thun cannot. I wish he could see this. A screech comes from abnove. I tily head up. Soaring through the new day is a gray hawk. He is magestic anome how I know that Gray is flying with him. I smile as the hawk glideway form me, going in search of life that is present on the awakinging ohe Earth. It is then that I realize: Death was only part of the journey.