Trouble
Cloud Strife stood on the deck of the airship Highwind and helped Barrett Wallace up onto it. He grabbed Barrett's broad shoulders and practically hoisted him up and over the deck. Vincent Valentine, another of the group who defeated Sephiroth, was there to help him to his feet. Cloud looked over the side again and saw his daughter, Aeris Strife, ascending the rope ladder. Cloud dropped to the deck, lying flat out on his stomach, and extended his arm over the side to help her up. Aeris grabbed his arm with her left hand and kept pulling herself up the ladder with her right. Once she was safely aboard Vincent walked across the deck to a phone attached to the wall. He picked up the receiver.
"Cid?" he said. "Everyone's aboard now...wherever you want...no there ain't no-one else to pick up." Vincent hung up the phone before Cid could say anything else. They all held onto the handrails located at the sides of the Highwind as she pulled up and the Highwind started moving.
"So, whassup?" Barrett asked.
"Go to the Operations Room, we're all gonna meet in there." Cloud said.
"Sounds serious."
"It is." Cloud jumped onto the ladder leading back down to the lower decks. Barrett looked at Vincent. Vincent gave him glance as if to say 'we're in trouble'. He jumped down to the lower decks, leaving Barrett and Aeris standing on the deck. Barrett walked over to Aeris, who was watching the landscape moving past.
"Aeris, why don't you go and see Charlie." Barrett said. Aeris turned to argue but she saw the seriousness in her uncles face and quietly went to the ladder leading down. Barrett looked down, over the side and saw Midgar underneath. Or the ruins of Midgar, it was now a ruined city being turned into a technological rainforest, trees and long grass covering the once proud city. He took a breath in and thought about what had happened, back then. What could possibly be going on now. Was Sephiroth back? Was Shinra? Has something else happened?
"Damn." Barrett said softly to himself.
To be continued
Cloud Strife stood on the deck of the airship Highwind and helped Barrett Wallace up onto it. He grabbed Barrett's broad shoulders and practically hoisted him up and over the deck. Vincent Valentine, another of the group who defeated Sephiroth, was there to help him to his feet. Cloud looked over the side again and saw his daughter, Aeris Strife, ascending the rope ladder. Cloud dropped to the deck, lying flat out on his stomach, and extended his arm over the side to help her up. Aeris grabbed his arm with her left hand and kept pulling herself up the ladder with her right. Once she was safely aboard Vincent walked across the deck to a phone attached to the wall. He picked up the receiver.
"Cid?" he said. "Everyone's aboard now...wherever you want...no there ain't no-one else to pick up." Vincent hung up the phone before Cid could say anything else. They all held onto the handrails located at the sides of the Highwind as she pulled up and the Highwind started moving.
"So, whassup?" Barrett asked.
"Go to the Operations Room, we're all gonna meet in there." Cloud said.
"Sounds serious."
"It is." Cloud jumped onto the ladder leading back down to the lower decks. Barrett looked at Vincent. Vincent gave him glance as if to say 'we're in trouble'. He jumped down to the lower decks, leaving Barrett and Aeris standing on the deck. Barrett walked over to Aeris, who was watching the landscape moving past.
"Aeris, why don't you go and see Charlie." Barrett said. Aeris turned to argue but she saw the seriousness in her uncles face and quietly went to the ladder leading down. Barrett looked down, over the side and saw Midgar underneath. Or the ruins of Midgar, it was now a ruined city being turned into a technological rainforest, trees and long grass covering the once proud city. He took a breath in and thought about what had happened, back then. What could possibly be going on now. Was Sephiroth back? Was Shinra? Has something else happened?
"Damn." Barrett said softly to himself.
To be continued