Life Stream
Author's Notes:
2nd Chapter. Not much to say, Ayame get ure butt over anyway, I have important matters to discuss X'D
Thank you all who have bothered to read my fanfic X'D it's terrible but I'm, working on it X'D
Disclaimers:
All FF7 characters belong to Squaresoft and Amano dude XD Don't sue us pls XD
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...Puppet Master...
Aerith stood by the church's flowering altar like she has done everyday, just waiting. The familiar figure walked in and sat in his usual spot.
"Tseng, you know what my-"
"He's caught." She froze. Slowly, she clutched her combat baton, her knuckles growing white.
"I know."
"Do you?" Tseng stood, waiting for a reply. A long silence remained as the dark suited man turned and began to leave, only to stop again hearing her utter the word:
"...Yes."
...Puppet Master...
History repeats, that is something that often happens yet to duplicate the past into the future is something different. This requires tearing out the life force of the past, hurting the planet's surface and forcing open the gates to the life stream, then forcing those life forces into human bodies. This is why the planet cries, imagine your body torn in order to have someone force out part of your spirit, it hurts and by the end you know you have lost something. It may be small, yet it is significant, a part of your which will change who you are.
...Puppet Master...
Hojo stood before the rows of Mako capsules. There had always been a Hojo in Shinra Co. for as long as people can remember. Not once was there a time when he had not been there, he just was just there. His joining and retirement dates were never recorded, whether he had a social life was never known. Shinra hadn't the nerve to question him, he provided power for them as long as they remained ignorant. It was only when Rufus was born that things changed slightly. Unlike most of those before him he was intelligent, scheming and was actually curious about what Hojo does.
It didn't matter.
"Can you hear them Sephiroth? They cry for their children yet they cannot hear." He threw his head back and laughed. He then turned to the silent figure behind him, Sephiroth his emotionless puppet. He wasn't going to let him make the same mistake as before, he wouldn't allow him human emotions. It had set up too many delays last time, controlled objects are always more efficient. Last time it came to a point where he deliberately made him insane...
"It will work this time my son, we just need the last obstacle removed." He turned back towards the capsule, there was something alive in it. It banged through the murky green-blue Mako and demanded release.
...Puppet Master...
Cloud sat by the window, Mrs. Strife could not help but notice that look of longing in his eyes. It had always been there when Cloud believed nobody was taking any notice of him.
"...Why..." She had always assumed that it was the other children again.
"It will pass." He jerked round, only to relax again seeing it was only his mother. "They will understand soon" It was a known fact in Nibelheim that Cloud had social problems.
"I don't need them to understand." His eyes began to brim with tears, catching her off guard. "I just wish they will stop..." She had never expected it to be this serious. As a mother she found herself unable to do anything but embrace him tightly.
"It will be okay...it always has." She kissed his cheek, rubbing his back slightly like she would to a young child.
He always acts like a young child...I always treat him like one.
She let him go as the neighbour's son came into view, calling Cloud down. She knew now it was time she spoke to the parents again.
...Puppet Master...
A majestic looking Chocobo strode across the empty plains, its yellow feathers gleaming under the sun, its expression serious. It was here on an extremely important mission, to find a very important someone. Nothing can stop him. Not even the suspicious looking bag of Gyasha Greens that lay across his path.
...Gyasha Greens?
The bird came to an abrupt halt. Eating a suspicious looking bag of Gyasha Greens was not safe, and it will delay his mission. He knew perfectly well that it wasn't a good sign.
...A nibble wouldn't hurt.
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"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Tifa whispered to Kain as the bird stared at the Gyasha greens. "I heard Chocobos can get quite nasty when angered..." Kain waved it off.
"We can handle it right Lerch? Andrew? Cloud?" Lerch and Andrew nodded, Cloud looked unsure. "Cloud?"
The boy looked up to his friend. "It's not...right..." His friend frowned at him.
"It's a Chocobo! We're supposed to ride on Chocobos!"
"But..." He stared at the ropes and the tranquilizers. "It's still-"
"Cloud are you with us or not?" The boys stared at him. Cloud gulped before nodding as the boys gave a triumphant smile. "Well then, come on!" The boys stealthily moved towards the large bird.
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THAT caught him off guard.
It began to squawk loudly, flaying its wings and throwing his neck from side to side as its powerful legs prepared to kick. Then the ropes came, snaking around his neck, his wings, and his legs. He squawked louder, using its remaining energy on futile attacks until a strange drowsiness over came him. The world went black.
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"What do we do now?" Cloud asked uncertainly, the bird as getting out of hand so he had to knock him out with a few tranquilizers. He hoped it was okay. "It's starting to wake up..." They had tied the bird to a post in a Chocobo pen.
"We'll ride him of course!" Kain replied.
"But-"
"Cloud why are you being such a sissy? We caught the bird right?" Cloud gave a sigh and shook his head. They never listened to him.
"Besides, Tifa, you wanted to ride one before right?" Tifa gave a small jump, and looked up. She wasn't expecting them to ask her.
"...Yes." she replied, blushing madly and looking away from Cloud's accusing gaze. Kain grinned, he knew of Cloud's little crush over Tifa, that was the only reason why he would put up with them.
"You see! Even Tifa wants to have a ride." Kain turned towards the bird as it began to stand up. He was going to show his father he COULD ride these birds. "Come on, we don't have all day. If our parents find us we won't be able to try." He untied the ropes from the post and walked towards the bird which eyed him steadily.
"Hey Kain! Careful you know how angry those birds can get!" Even Andrew sounded worried. Cloud didn't like the sound of it at all, the bird was dangerous, he was sure however...
"Here I go!" He began to get up on the bird, the bird allowed him to do so. "You see?" He said as he sat comfortably upon its back. "Nothing to it!"
Then it happened, the bird began to run around the pen madly at a frightening pace, squawking and leaping until it threw the poor boy to the ground. Kain gritted his teeth, glaring back at the bird as the others began to laugh.
I WILL ride you!
He tried again, only to anger the bird more and was soon on the floor once more.
"You're useless! Let me have a go!" Andrew cried as he clutched his belly from laughing too hard. Kain snarled at him but allowed him to the so. It wasn't as if Andrew will do any better.
He began to get onto the bird but as soon as his leg was brought over on its back it began to run madly again, flinging him to the ground.
"Useless, don't you lot even know how to train a bird?" Lerch smirked, "I'll show you." He grabbed a long stick from the side, tied the bird onto a post. He rides on as it struggles, then lets the line go. The bird tries again, madly trying to throw the boy off as the others watch him calmly cling on, swatting the bird once in a while to move. However something was wrong.
"Lerch..." Cloud called softly.
"What Cloud?" He grunted as he continued to hang into the bird. The bird looked around madly as it continued its fruitless attempt to fling the boy off, the girl outside the pen caught his eye.
He charged.
"STOP!" What happened afterwards came all too quickly. The bird dashed at the girl, its beak ready to tear her apart. Instead another boy came into view. There was blood, however instead of the girl's head, there was the boy's arm clutched in his beak. "Stop it...Lerch...get off him..." Cloud manages to growl through gritted teeth. He wasn't going to cry out.
The shocked rider dismounted obediently, staring in horror at the other boy's arm. Cloud glared back at the angered Chocobo levelly. "Let go."
The bird glared back, until he saw through the deep glowing blue eyes of the boy before him and let go.
A hand came, rubbing its head, the boy pressed his forehead over the top of the bird's beak.
"Good boy..." The world begin to spin, the trees, the Chocobo pen, Kain, Lerch, Andrew all gaping, then Tifa looking worriedly at him. His hand slid down the waves of feathers, dragging his down with it.
He fainted.
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...Puppet Master...
The same dream once again. Masses of angry green blue light, coiling, glowing, chanting.
"...Why..."
It will pass...They will understand soon...
"I don't need them to understand...I just wish they will stop..."
It will be okay...
...It always has.
The chanting continued. The darkness and green blue light began to fade down to what looked like the ground. This was hard to tell, for nothing but darkness surrounded him, however if he were to have been standing on the ground, that's where the light had sunk into.
Then images came again, the same Nibelheim setting, the small well he would talk with Tifa at odd nights, the road the boys travelled up just for fun, the mansion behind them all.
It all burst into flames. A maniacal laughter rang through his ears, and the same silver haired man stood with his back to him.
The floor began to drip crimson, as if blood fell from the sky. Cloud looked up and watched the blood rain pelting down over the fire stricken Nibelheim. A flood came, and once more he was engulfed in blue green.
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"I'm so sorry Mrs. Strife..." Tifa gave a soft whimper, this was not suppose to have happened.
"It's not your fault Tifa." Mrs. Strife turned, and embraced the girl.
"But it is!" Tifa began to openly weep. It was her fault, she shouldn't have told Kain she wanted a Chocobo, she only did it to grab his attention, instead she made her friend severely injured.
"Hush..."
"Will he be okay?" She said through helpless sobs, the tears threatened to never stop.
"Yes. He will." She looked down at her son, lying in bed. His arm lay by his side, covered in blood soaked bandages. "Everything will be okay...it always has."
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Sorry about the over use of repetition X'D I don't even know if it even worked X'D
The thing crying puppet master, every chance it gets is actually the planet crying beneath all the events occurring above.
The beginning part is after Cloud is captured, however during the talk between Cloud and his mother was all before Nibelheim was brought down. Thus yes the person in the capsule is Cloud...I think I'm gonna give him more freedom this time.
The dream part, you know how when you dream, you sort of mix reality all over the place? Well he's sort of dreaming of the earlier conversation, merged with the upcoming events and what is actually happening below the surface of the planet.
Oh and for now Cloud likes Tifa X'D I don't think I'll jump into shounen ai-ness just yet X'D
I'll try not to use the over repetition again XP as I said it didn't even work X'D