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Angel of Dreams

A final fantasy 7 story

Cloud stood in the Highwind looking out of the window. The adventure was over. Sephiroth was dead, but so was Aries. The loss of Aries had been what pushed cloud to the brink of mental collapsation during his quest for humanity. The love of his life, killed by Sephiroth.

Her cold dead body lies at the bottom of a lake where she was put to her final resting-place. Cloud's eyes began to tear at the thought of her honey brown hair and emerald eyes. He was a human of his own being with emotions unsurpassed. Tifa had tried her best to comfort him but to no avail

The whole crew felt the loss of the happy bright young girl. The blue funk that had set in had lasted straight to the demise of Sephiroth, when she barely became a wisp of a memory. Her and here playful laughter would never be heard again except in clouds heart.

Cloud did rejoice in the glory of Sephiroth's death and he was a true hero, but he wasn't truly happy. No, never again would he be as happy as when he was with her. He decided to lay flowers by the lake and bring her false mother to see her one last time. Cloud parted ways with the few remaining members of avalanche, Sith, Red, and Yuffie. (He gave her some materia as a parting gift)

He stayed with Cid though and Vincent had some unfinished business of his own to do. Cid and Cloud dropped Vincent off by some odd waterfall and Vincent asked them to leave. They obliged, but were still confused. The next stop was to get and tell Aries' false mother.

The two arrived at her front door questioning the situation to follow.

"Do we have to do this?" Cid asked looking at the cigarette in his hand by his side.

"We must do it for Aries, She would want her mother to know." Cloud said. The two knocked on the door. "Yes" the short women said when she answered the door.

"Why hello again" She said recognizing Cloud. Cloud walked right past her and sat down on the sofa not waiting for an invitation. The little woman continued to smile as she sat in the armchair across from Cloud, yet with fear in her eyes.

"Something" Cloud said pausing to sigh. "Something happened to Aries, She was, well um....." Cloud couldn't continue that everytime he thought of her death he fell apart.

"She's gone I suppose" The woman said looking into her lap. Cid nodded in her direction. She picked up the hint. We could no longer see her face because of the angle in which she was holding her head, you could see tears faintly shimmer as they fell onto the outfit she was wearing.

We comforted her best we could but we realized there was little comforting a childless mother. She wailed in agony as she knew her daughter, her baby was gone. She cried to sleep, so we had to move her aboard the Highwind ourselves. Next we went to Aries, at least were she lay.

We could barely see the outline of her body at the bottom of the lake. When her mother finally awoke she asked one of them to retrieve the body for her. Cloud was utterly disgusted! The body was at least 2 months old and would have defiantly started to decompose but he still promised he would.

It was a long swim down to the bottom of the lake, but cloud made it fine. It was very coarse water and cloud didn't dare open his eyes. He felt for her until he found one of her, once soft creamy shoulders, which was still covered in the jacket she always wore. He grabbed her body afraid of wait he might feel in his arms. Her carcass felt perfectly normal which was quite odd. He rose from the water still scared to open his eyes and see her rotted face.

Aries' mother gasped in shock at the realization of her daughter's death, but Cloud also heard Cid gasp, which was quite odd, was the body that grotesque? Cloud opened his eyes and was looking at Cid. Cid's mouth hung open and the cigarette he had been smoking was slowly rolling down his bottom lip till it fell and hit the floor.

Finally Cloud mustered the strength to look down upon her face. What he saw even made him gasp. The fine contours of her face were still there as well as the rosiness in her cheeks. She was as lovely as she had ever been, this was so freakishly odd! Cloud could still see the slit of a hole in her stomach from Sephiroth's blade.

A question than came to him, Why had Sephiroth come in person in the first place? When Sephiroth first confronted Aries he seemed nervous in a way. Maybe he had felt something for her, an impulse? This couldn't be, a creature as heartless as Sephiroth had no human emotions left in his fowl body. Sephiroth had hindered from his attacking us, at least when she was around. In the beginning he could have killed us at anytime yet we had Aries.

He could have taken Aries if she is what he wanted but it almost seemed that he wanted her soul, not her body not even her power did he seem to desire. We must find out why, if he may have loved her, why then did he kill her. He seemed to be pleased with her death yet his eyes seemed to cry out for her. Cloud didn't know how but he would find out what had happened and how Sephiroth knew where she was and why did he kill her.