Through Clouds Eyes
Chapter 7
Fire, beams flying everywhere, buildings crashing down and me barret and tifa flying out of sector 7 like a bat out of hell. We were all lying on the ground I finally gained strength enough to talk to tifa. "Ya know I think this is beginning to be a bad habit for me". Tifa looked over at me and chuckled for a while but it was kind of a sad chucked. Barret got up and ran to the sector 7 entrances where fire and chunks of buildings closed the entrance and the entire sector. "malare! Malre!" barret was hysterical running all over. Randomly shooting and pounding on everything in sight. Between tifa and me we got him to sit down and tifa told him abut Aeris and malarie but then it dawned on us all at about the same time. "Biggs, wedge, Jessie. They were all in the pillar". I stated the fact but it still was a hard reality. "Think I don't know that? But we… all of us we fought together. I don't want to think of them as dead!" barret was trying to deal with loosing his team and tifa and I weren't doing much better at it. "they killed so many people." Tifa was still at a loss to do anything. Barret then started in again "The shira they killed the whole sector just to get to us". "So are you saying that because AVELANCHE was here that's why people died". Barret looked really angry at tifa. "No tifa, hell no! it's the shinra! It's always been the shinra they're killing the planet jess to line their own pockets with gold. But their ain't no turning back know". Tifa seemed shocked at that and her only response was "I don't know". "What you don't believe me". "No I just don't know about me, my feelings". "An what about you!" baret was angry and yet sad and I didn't or couldn't deal with him so I walked away I had the hard task ahead of me of telling Elmira Aeris's mother of what happened to her. I began walking to sector 5 where the Elmira was. They caught up to me about halfway there. Barret was really mad but I didn't care. "yo! You going' after Aeris." "yeah barret but I got a question first"? but before I could ask I passed out. I then heard a voice like a wind across a snowy field. "I am an ancient! Through my veins flows the blood of the ancients. I am one of their rightful heirs to this planet". The next face I saw was tifa's. I smiled and got up happy to have here there. It seemed like we were losing ourselves in our eyes just then barret had to start shouting. "Yo Cloud pull it together man"! I got up and started walking towards sector 5. In what seemed like seconds we reached aeris's house and I just stopped for a second. Tifa tapped me on the shoulder "Its alright cloud, well be there". I then opened the door and saw Elmira crying. "cloud wasn't it"? "yes, Elmira I'm sorry the shinra have Aeries". "I know they took her from here". She then stopped crying. "They took her from here", I was really shocked how could they take her from here wouldn't she be able to fight them off. She turned around and said "she wanted it this way she came here with a little girl but the shinra caught her she probably wasn't fast enough to run away so she exchanged herself for the girl's safety. Barret then stepped forward, "A little girl, excuse me but that's my daughter!" Elmira's gaze turned hard in an instant, "you're her father!? How I the world could you leave a child alone like that!" barret looked extremely apologetic and looked up at her, "look I want to be with malare. But I gota fight cause if I don't the planets gona die so i'm gona keep fighting but I wana be with malerie always you see now i'm runin circles?" there was desperation in barrets voice and for once I really felt for the man because I new he was sincere. I was worried about Aeris and tifa but not for the same reason I was worried about Aeris because she was in the shinra's hands and who knows what they would do to her but I was worried about tifa because she would think that I loved Aeris. I had to talk to her. While I was thinking barret ran upstairs and tifa was sitting disconsolately in a heap on the floor I knelt down and summoning up all my courage I asked if she would come outside because I had something to tell her. Meanwhile in my head it was like to huge giants were bailing. What if she rejects you? But what if she doesn't? But if she does you'll be crushed do you really want to take that risk? All this was going on as I walked with tifa and sat with her out on some stairs and I began, but inside I was holding my breath, "Tifa I want to tell you something and if you don't… feel the same way I will understand. But I want… you to know that I am not going after Aeris because I love her but because it's my fault she got into this mess but I… I.." tifa looked at me with those bright burgundy colored eyes I remembered in a flash all about what we were and that she had encouraged me every step of the way even now she looked at me with a kindness a hope that I didn't understand but It gave me the courage to continue. As I spoke it was barely a whisper, "I..love you." I waited on her word but instead got an action! She hugged me and kissed me with such passion that I knew that it was right… meant to be and I was so happy I had never been so happy in my entire life but quickly I regained myself. I pulled back even though every cell in my body urged to go on and I quickly spoke so as not to let her think otherwise, "not yet we cant do it here we shouldn't I want to but not at aeris's house we have to do this mission first and then I will be with you and we will tell barret and even Aeris if you want to." She smiled desire radiating from her entire being but she nodded understanding patients even support she had always been there for me and I now new she would always be there in the future.
