Now old desire doth in the lifestream lie
And young affection flows in Mako filled mood
That fair for which love groaned for and would die
With sweet Tifa matched is now the bald Rude.
Now Cloud is beloved and loves again,
Alike by the bewitching charm of black skirt
But to his foe supposed he must complain
And she steals love's sweet bait and cause much hurt.
But passion lends them power, time means to meet
Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet.
*Enter Jenova and Hojo of the house of Shinra*
Jenova: At long last, I am free from this treacherous cage.
Hojo: Heheh, why ... yes, you are.
Jenova: --What! You! You are the one who imprisoned me, no?
Hojo: Um, heheh ...uh nooo, that was Gast.. not.. me.
Jenova: Oh.
Hojo: So you won't kill me?
Jenova: I'll consider. Now... where is my son...?
Hojo: You don't have a son. You have a daughter: Tifa.
Jenova: What?! Sephiroth is my son!
Hojo: No... Sephiroth is MY son! *sigh* Look. Here's the down low:
You are simply a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong so --
Jenova: WHAT IS THIS?!
Hojo: I ah... it was all Gast's idea I swear! I'm gonna.. ah.. go prepare for the party now!
*Exit Hojo of the house of Shinra*
*Enter Tifa of the house of Shinra*
Jenova: You, girl. So. You are supposedly my daughter.
Tifa: Apparently, yes.
Jenova: *gasp* I have a brilliant plan! I'll have Rude marry you so that Shinra can grow rich
and pay for the funds of my Sephiroth's impulsiveness!
Tifa: Rude...? I'll look to like, if looking liking move.
But no more will I indart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
Jenova: Excellent. He is invited to the party. You WILL love him.
Tifa: *shudder* Yes'm.
*Exit all*
*Enter Aeris, Barret and Cloud of the house of Avalanche*
Aeris: Booya! We have a party to crash!
Barret: Whoa... Aeris, why d'you have so many flowers??
Aeris: There was a sale at the Golden Saucer.
Cloud: I thought you grew flowers!
Aeris: I did, but the Cathedral was torn down. Besides, buying cheap flowers is a lot easier
than growing your own!
Cloud: This party better be worth missing snowboarding for.
Barret: Snowboarding? You can't even go two metres without crashing!
Cloud: ...
Aeris: Anyway, I'm off to blow up a reactor so you two can sneak in.
Cloud: Sure, we'll use the backdoor. Tell me again why we're doing this?
Barret: Cuz if we don't, Aeris'll sic her lifestream on us.
Cloud: Ah, right.
Aeris: Fie! Let's away. The party will start without us!
*Exit all*
***
*Enter Cloud and Barret of the house of Avalanche into the Shinra party*
Barret: Hey, looks good in here. Ok, Cloud, go work your charm on the dance floor.
Cloud: Whaa?
Barret: Don't be wasting Aeris' efforts! Well I'm off to get drun- uh... drums.
Drums are good.
*Exit Barret of the house of Avalanche*
*Cloud wanders around and dances with several people. He looks across the stage and sees Tifa stage left*
Cloud: O, what a joyously joyous sight! She doth teach the Mako to glow bright! It seems
she hangs upon the cheek of night, like a drop of Mako in a SOLDIER's eye --
Beauty too rich for my Mako-inflamed eyes to lie! Did my heart ever love till now?
Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night!
*Enter Sephiroth and Hojo of the house of Shinra stage right*
Seph: Ugh! Tis that vile villain Cloud of the house of Avalanche! My masamune cries for
some Mako-flavoured blood. Fetch me my masamune!
Hojo: Content thee, Sephiroth and let him alone. After all, he is an experiment like you...
A half-brother, if you will.
Seph: I don't have to listen to the likes of you.
Hojo: True. Alright then, I'll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt.
Seph: Good.
*Return action to stage left*
*Enter Rude of the house of Shinra*
Rude: Tifa, hun, how you chilling?
Tifa: Good good, you?
Rude: I got my head waxed just for you.
Tifa: ... Hey Cloud!
Cloud: Hi Tifa.
Tifa: How do you like the party?
Rude: It's great! The Mako wine going around is GREAT!
Tifa: ... Cloud?
Cloud: Hold on, I'm falling in love with you.
... k.
Tifa! I've come for you! Tell me you love me!
Tifa: *Tears in eyes* My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown and unknown too late!
I must destroy you of the house of Avalanche!
Cloud: You can't kill me.
Tifa: Why not?
Cloud: Well, for one, I'm way stronger than you, and two, because down in your heart you
know you love me!
Tifa: No I don't. ...What's that rumbling?
*The floor breaks away and falls into a giant pool of glowing lifestream. Cloud grabs
the edge and Tifa hangs onto his neck. 30 second close up on Tifa's mouthless face and
blinking eyes as Cloud pulls them single handedly onto the cliff head*
Tifa: *Phewf* ..saved!
Cloud: Now do you love me?
Tifa: Sure.
*Enter Aeris of the house of Avalanche dancing and clutching a glass of Mako wine*
Aeris: Cloud, buddy! How are you liking this party?
Cloud: *looks at Tifa* Pretty dang fine.
Tifa: *glares* And this would be?
Cloud: Err... ah, this is a drunkie I met in Sector Seven while I was ... shopping for my
hair glue.
Aeris: Away! Tis time to be gone Cloud! Jenova of Shinra is coming around!
Cloud: Right. Goodbye Tifa! You are the fairest star in all the heavens and do outshine
all others around you to twinkle in their spheres till they return! The brightness
of your cheek would shame those starts as daylight doth a lamp; your eyes in
heaven--
Rude: But wait! I love you Tifa! ME!
Aeris: Cloud! Let's away!
Cloud: I'll send place and time by Courier Chocobo by the hour of nine!
Tifa: Bye. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say bye till it be morrow!
*Exit all except Tifa of the house of Shinra*
*Enter Yuffie, of the house of Shinra*
Yuffie: That went well.
Tifa: Didn't it though? And to think I was to be married to Rude! What is Mother Jenova
thinking??
Yuffie: You never know. Anyway,
What lamb, what ladybird! Come Tifa, let's away as well it's time for your bath!
*Exit all*
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A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews! They mean so much - This is the first fanfic I've written and the
responses really brightened my day! Thanks!
And young affection flows in Mako filled mood
That fair for which love groaned for and would die
With sweet Tifa matched is now the bald Rude.
Now Cloud is beloved and loves again,
Alike by the bewitching charm of black skirt
But to his foe supposed he must complain
And she steals love's sweet bait and cause much hurt.
But passion lends them power, time means to meet
Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet.
*Enter Jenova and Hojo of the house of Shinra*
Jenova: At long last, I am free from this treacherous cage.
Hojo: Heheh, why ... yes, you are.
Jenova: --What! You! You are the one who imprisoned me, no?
Hojo: Um, heheh ...uh nooo, that was Gast.. not.. me.
Jenova: Oh.
Hojo: So you won't kill me?
Jenova: I'll consider. Now... where is my son...?
Hojo: You don't have a son. You have a daughter: Tifa.
Jenova: What?! Sephiroth is my son!
Hojo: No... Sephiroth is MY son! *sigh* Look. Here's the down low:
You are simply a scientific experiment gone horribly wrong so --
Jenova: WHAT IS THIS?!
Hojo: I ah... it was all Gast's idea I swear! I'm gonna.. ah.. go prepare for the party now!
*Exit Hojo of the house of Shinra*
*Enter Tifa of the house of Shinra*
Jenova: You, girl. So. You are supposedly my daughter.
Tifa: Apparently, yes.
Jenova: *gasp* I have a brilliant plan! I'll have Rude marry you so that Shinra can grow rich
and pay for the funds of my Sephiroth's impulsiveness!
Tifa: Rude...? I'll look to like, if looking liking move.
But no more will I indart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
Jenova: Excellent. He is invited to the party. You WILL love him.
Tifa: *shudder* Yes'm.
*Exit all*
*Enter Aeris, Barret and Cloud of the house of Avalanche*
Aeris: Booya! We have a party to crash!
Barret: Whoa... Aeris, why d'you have so many flowers??
Aeris: There was a sale at the Golden Saucer.
Cloud: I thought you grew flowers!
Aeris: I did, but the Cathedral was torn down. Besides, buying cheap flowers is a lot easier
than growing your own!
Cloud: This party better be worth missing snowboarding for.
Barret: Snowboarding? You can't even go two metres without crashing!
Cloud: ...
Aeris: Anyway, I'm off to blow up a reactor so you two can sneak in.
Cloud: Sure, we'll use the backdoor. Tell me again why we're doing this?
Barret: Cuz if we don't, Aeris'll sic her lifestream on us.
Cloud: Ah, right.
Aeris: Fie! Let's away. The party will start without us!
*Exit all*
***
*Enter Cloud and Barret of the house of Avalanche into the Shinra party*
Barret: Hey, looks good in here. Ok, Cloud, go work your charm on the dance floor.
Cloud: Whaa?
Barret: Don't be wasting Aeris' efforts! Well I'm off to get drun- uh... drums.
Drums are good.
*Exit Barret of the house of Avalanche*
*Cloud wanders around and dances with several people. He looks across the stage and sees Tifa stage left*
Cloud: O, what a joyously joyous sight! She doth teach the Mako to glow bright! It seems
she hangs upon the cheek of night, like a drop of Mako in a SOLDIER's eye --
Beauty too rich for my Mako-inflamed eyes to lie! Did my heart ever love till now?
Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night!
*Enter Sephiroth and Hojo of the house of Shinra stage right*
Seph: Ugh! Tis that vile villain Cloud of the house of Avalanche! My masamune cries for
some Mako-flavoured blood. Fetch me my masamune!
Hojo: Content thee, Sephiroth and let him alone. After all, he is an experiment like you...
A half-brother, if you will.
Seph: I don't have to listen to the likes of you.
Hojo: True. Alright then, I'll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt.
Seph: Good.
*Return action to stage left*
*Enter Rude of the house of Shinra*
Rude: Tifa, hun, how you chilling?
Tifa: Good good, you?
Rude: I got my head waxed just for you.
Tifa: ... Hey Cloud!
Cloud: Hi Tifa.
Tifa: How do you like the party?
Rude: It's great! The Mako wine going around is GREAT!
Tifa: ... Cloud?
Cloud: Hold on, I'm falling in love with you.
... k.
Tifa! I've come for you! Tell me you love me!
Tifa: *Tears in eyes* My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown and unknown too late!
I must destroy you of the house of Avalanche!
Cloud: You can't kill me.
Tifa: Why not?
Cloud: Well, for one, I'm way stronger than you, and two, because down in your heart you
know you love me!
Tifa: No I don't. ...What's that rumbling?
*The floor breaks away and falls into a giant pool of glowing lifestream. Cloud grabs
the edge and Tifa hangs onto his neck. 30 second close up on Tifa's mouthless face and
blinking eyes as Cloud pulls them single handedly onto the cliff head*
Tifa: *Phewf* ..saved!
Cloud: Now do you love me?
Tifa: Sure.
*Enter Aeris of the house of Avalanche dancing and clutching a glass of Mako wine*
Aeris: Cloud, buddy! How are you liking this party?
Cloud: *looks at Tifa* Pretty dang fine.
Tifa: *glares* And this would be?
Cloud: Err... ah, this is a drunkie I met in Sector Seven while I was ... shopping for my
hair glue.
Aeris: Away! Tis time to be gone Cloud! Jenova of Shinra is coming around!
Cloud: Right. Goodbye Tifa! You are the fairest star in all the heavens and do outshine
all others around you to twinkle in their spheres till they return! The brightness
of your cheek would shame those starts as daylight doth a lamp; your eyes in
heaven--
Rude: But wait! I love you Tifa! ME!
Aeris: Cloud! Let's away!
Cloud: I'll send place and time by Courier Chocobo by the hour of nine!
Tifa: Bye. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say bye till it be morrow!
*Exit all except Tifa of the house of Shinra*
*Enter Yuffie, of the house of Shinra*
Yuffie: That went well.
Tifa: Didn't it though? And to think I was to be married to Rude! What is Mother Jenova
thinking??
Yuffie: You never know. Anyway,
What lamb, what ladybird! Come Tifa, let's away as well it's time for your bath!
*Exit all*
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A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews! They mean so much - This is the first fanfic I've written and the
responses really brightened my day! Thanks!