Disclaimer: Final Fantasy VII is not mine, I'm pleasuring myself by writing fanfiction and gain no profit from doing so.
Green Pig: Yo! Did you like Part One? Be warned, this story is weird…but me like ^_^
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///I'm///lost///help///me///help///me///help///help///help///
///Where?///Hello?///Where///are///we?///we?///we?///
///Hello?///Hello?///
///Hello?///Hello?///
///Lost///Lost///
///Me///too///too///
///So///dark///here///here///
///And///here///here///here///
///Is///that///you?///you?///you?///
///It's///me///me///me///
///Where///are///you?///you?///
///I///think///I///know///know///know///know///
///Where?///Where?///Where?///
///Lifestream///stream///stream///
///Lifestream///stream///stream///
"Lifestream?"
"It happened before it can happen again."
"You were lucky that's all, you've been experimented on by Hojo; you had a sort of immune system to it, or something." Cid argued.
"And what happened to Vincent after Hojo got to him?" Red shook his head.
"Cloud, it won't happen again. You were just lucky."
"Well maybe Vincent can be lucky too, both Tifa and I came back from the Lifestream, both Yuffie and Vincent could too. We'll wait a week or two and if they still haven't come back to us then we can say they're dead."
"Listen to yourself man, even if they did fall into the lifestream, though it's more likely they were, were, vaporised-" Everyone winced, "-in the blast from the Northern Crater, it's not a hundred percent certain they'll wash up in Mideel. They could come up anywhere, anytime, dead or alive." Cid was right, it sounded like he didn't care if he was being careful about what he said (and it was suspected he didn't) but he was speaking out the facts and not clinging on to hopeless dreams – he had learnt not to do that when Rufas Shinra stopped his space program for good the day he joined AVALANCHE.
"I'm going to Mideel, to wait for two weeks,"
"They-"
"-IF there's no sign after those two weeks are up, then we can assume that they're as good as dead. Will any of you come with me?"
"I'll come." Tifa said clinging onto his hand and smiling, she turned to them all and squeezed Cloud's hand a little. "We have an announcement to make." She said.
"(Here it comes.)" Cid muttered
"Tifa and I have decided," Everyone waited for the moment to snap.
"…To open up a shop in Costa Del Sol and sell all our left over Materia and items!" Barret caught his breath before he made a fool of himself by screaming: CONGRATULATIONS!! And others also looked shocked to hear not what they had quite expected.
Barret opened his mouth, "Well that's-"
"AND, we're going to get MARRIED!"
"-FANTASTIC!"
"CONGRATULATIONS!" Cait Sith leapt up and down and tooted his megaphone, Reeve clapped for them too.
"Wonderful news!"
"Thank you guys!" Tifa kissed Cloud sweetly on the lips and gave him a big hug while Barret tried to look for some wine or champagne, anything good to make a toast with.
"When's the big day?" Red said.
"Er, that's not planned yet." Cloud mumbled full of embarrassment and joy.
"Well am I invited?"
"Of course you are! Everyone is! You're all invited to our wedding!" They cheered, Barret had found some 'Hero's Drink' and decided that it was good enough since it did boost your stats a little and that seemed like a nice idea for such a celebration, he handing out small bottles of the stuff to everyone.
"Three cheers for the happy couple!" He laughed,
"HIP HIP! HOORAY!! HIP HIP! HOORAY!! HIP HIP! HOORAY!!"
Their glasses chinked together and they drank.
"Wow, did I just feel my stamina improve?"
"I think I'm not so tired anymore!"
"This is good stuff! Why didn't we ever use it before?"
"We all thought it was crap."
"Then why'd we buy so much of it?"
"We didn't, I found them in some boxes back there."
"Oh, cool."
"Barret," Tifa smiled, "We'd like you to be Best Man." A grin cracked over the big guy.
"WOW! THANKS!" Cloud beckoned Marlene over,
"You get to be the Bridesmaid." He said, Marlene went red all over and hid her blushing face behind Barret, there was much laughter and celebration to be made - it wouldn't hurt to stay another night at the Chocobo Ranch.
"This is where Cloud and Tifa went wasn't it? After Mideel was attacked by Weapon."
///Yes///
"Did I fall in then? I did fall, then it all went black,"
///You fell into the Lifestream and now, he needs YOUR help///
"He needs me? What for?"
///He is lost///
"Lost…?"
///He is deep with worry and trouble, many lies and much sorrow have ruined his life///
"But you're…"
///Yes///
"…You're so cute!"
///A memory he holds, I'm what he remembers himself to be///
"You want me to help him? Help him come get rid of his problems?" The child with black hair and sparkling blue eyes nodded. Yuffie stood up, it felt so weird because she wasn't standing up from anything onto nothing. She wobbled a bit to establish her balance.
///There/// The boy pointed across to her left and suddenly everywhere was filled with platforms, of a kind, not real yet so THERE. She was standing on the main large platform that led off to three different areas, at the foot of each step up to these areas was a quiet figure of Vincent, were they souls? Illusions? Memories he had within him?
"What do I do? Can he hear me?"
///He is lost///
"So…he can't." She walked towards one of the kneeling figures and poked him gingerly on the shoulder, her finger went straight through and she pulled it back immediately, freaked out, a lot.
///They are his memories///
"But it's him as he is now!"
///He still remembers what he looks like now///
"Where is his physical self? Floating around somewhere?"
///It is…around. LOOK!/// The young memory of Vincent as a child pointed straight up and there he was, Vincent's physical body sealed in what looked like ice.
"Ice…?"
///It has him trapped! YOU must help him escape his prison!///
"ME?!! What can I do? Is this what happened to Cloud and Tifa when THEY fell into the lifestream at Mideel? Did SHE have to help Cloud break out of a case of ice?!"
///Cloud was not trapped, Cloud was just a mess of memories and false truths, Vincent is trapped in his own guilt and still mourns for the loss of his love, Lucrecia///
"Then good luck to him! How can I make him stop missing her? It's not as if I know him well at all! We hardly talk! I've never been on the same team as him, I've always fought alongside Red or Aeris or Cait Sith!"
///You are the only one here to help him! You MUST help him! HELP US!///
"OKAY!!!" Her voice echoed eerily around, it made her feel stupid and embarrassed.
///You are the last thing he added to his wall of guilt///
"What? I am?"
///When you fell before the cave collapsed, he felt guilty that he didn't slow down and protect you like he should have done///
"It wasn't his fault, I was too slow…"
///That's not what he thought/// Yuffie looked up at Vincent encased in ice, like a still from a movie his hair fanned out around him like it was caught in the breeze, she couldn't really make out his position in the ice since the light reflected off so many surfaces it made it impossible to see through. He looked so cold and sad…
///Please, you must hurry, or else his soul will be swallowed by his guilt forever and he will remain in the Lifestream///