Disclaimer: I do NOT own FFVII or anything like that, k? I'm just a fic writer.



Pain. That was all he could remember. Pain and darkness. Sometimes he wondered if it was all worth it. Why not just end it all?

But there was a voice inside him. Telling him. there was a reason. Somewhere. And he listened to that little voice. He wasn't sure why.

He sat alone, leaning against the cold stone and looking at the valley.

They were going to save the planet.

"Why?" he wondered allowed.

"Why what?" Startled, he looked around to see Nanaki. He didn't realize that creature was there.

". Nothing. I was just thinking aloud."

"But why what?" Nanaki walked over to the caped man and looked into his blood-red eyes.

After a long silence, Vincent spoke, "Why do we have to save the planet?"

"So we can save the people on it!"

"Why must we save these people? Why don't we just die? It's going to happen sooner or later."

Nanaki was startled. "Because. the point of life is to live!" He couldn't understand why such an intelligent being didn't understand it.

"Why live? It's foolish. There's nothing there. nothing but pain. And darkness. this world is in horrible shape."

"." Nanaki was silent. After a moment, he got up and walked off.

Once the creature had left, Vincent stood up and walked to the ledge of the cliff. Staring down and the land, hundreds of feet below, he smiled. Then, taking one last look at the Highwind, he stepped off the cliff.