Cloud's True Feelings

Chapter Four: Part 2 of the Nibel Episode!

(Wow I'm actually updating at a reasonable rate now. It's a miracle!! So anyway, here is the continuation of chapter two, when Cloud was describing basically, the TRUE version of the "Kalm Town Flashback." Oh, by the way, it's been forever since I played this part in the game, so I'm sorry if I get some stuff wrong...I'm just going off of what I remember! I think the next chapter I'll be doing will deal with when he went on his first mission with Avalanche. Whoot. Please look forward to it!!)

Well, I got a bit side-tracked talking about that Chocobo, didn't I? Tee hee...I just thought it might be nice to take a little break from chattin' about S-S-S-Ssssssssss.....um...HIM. Speaking of HIM, they're a crappy band! Haha!!!

Anywhodolidoo...Back to Zack swoons and S-S-S-Sephiroth. The ride to Nibelheim took a lot longer than we'd thought because of the scary, cold rain. I wasn't having any fun, since I was all soaked after having to get out and fight that big ol' dragon. It was cold in the back of that truck too. So I was shivering the whole time. Zack sat next to me and kept me warm. It was so nice of him! I love you, Zack!

S-S-S-Sephiroth didn't really seem to like the fact that we were cuddling the whole way there though. He kept giving us the "Death Glare." That's this really creepy look that he used to give people when he was A) just plain old angry, and B) when he was jealous of something.

Could it have been B?

....Naaaaah.

Once we got to the town, the sun was shining its happy face down on us, and my clothes were all dry again! Leo quickly ran off to the bar and S-S-S-Sephiroth said some stuff about Nibelheim that just kinda went in one ear and out the other. Zack was paying attention though. He always did. He was so smart!!!

S-S-Sephiroth skipped off to go do some exploring and left Zack and me to do whatever we wanted for a little while. He said that later we were supposed to go up into the Nibel Mountains, which looked SCARY!!!

They were really tall and pointy, and from where we were, they just looked completely black...Reminded me of something you'd see in a low-budget horror movie where they use card board for mountains or something.

Tee hee hee!

With nothing else to do, I went back to the house where I had grown up to say "hi" to my Mommy. Zack came along. Mommy still looked the same as she had when I had left to join SOLDIER. I hadn't told her that I was just a normal lackey and that I wasn't cool enough to be in SOLDIER like Zack and S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-Sephiroth.

Mommy, of course, knew right away because she recognized the uniform I was wearing and she started laughing at me. But then she told me that she was proud of me anyway and gave me a lollipop. She offered Zack one too, but he said he didn't like candy.

Who doesn't like CANDY?! Jeez...Oh well. Zack is still awesome!!!

We stayed at Mommy's house for a little while and told her about working for Shinra and stuff. Mommy didn't seem particularly interested. It made me sad!! I knew that Zack would comfort me though.

When we left Mommy's, I spotted an old friend of mine; Tifa Lockhart!!! I was surprised to see her, but then I remembered her saying that she wasn't planning on ever leaving Nibelheim and stuff.

Her opinion sure changed, huh?

Eep...She's giving me the "Death Glare" right now!!!! Stop it, Tifa! Stop being like S-S-S-S-Sephiroth!!!

Well. Anyway...

Tifa told us that she was going to be our guide into the mountains and stuff. She also had a very cute cowboy hat! Before we could leave, a guy came up to us and asked if he could take S-S-S-S-S-S-Sephiroth, Zack, and Tifa's picture. I wasn't in it. Leo and I had to stand off somewhere else so we wouldn't ruin S-S-S-S-Sephiroth's reputation and make people think he was a loser, like Leo and I are.

...Were...I'm not a loser anymore!!

After the guy took a few pictures, we were on our way! The mountains didn't look like scary, cardboard mountains up close. Instead, they looked like REAL, SCARY mountains. And of course, there were monsters and stuff everywhere, but S-S-S-S-S-Sephiroth and Zack took care of them easily.

While we were romping up the mountain, I kept hearing this weird voice saying "Rnrndoode." At first, I thought it was my imagination, but it kept getting louder and louder, and then S-S-Sephiroth and the others noticed it too.

Before any of us had time to say "Supercalafragilisticexpealadocious," this frumpy, hairy, weird looking thing pounced on Leo! He was screaming "RNRN DOODE!!!!!" and started throttling poor Leo.

As Zack and S-S-S-S-S-Sephiroth pried him off, the hairy thing said "RN CHOW!!!" I was so scared!!

S-S-S-S-Sephiroth was gonna kill him, but Zack, being the passionate, merciful, handsome, good-at-sex, person he is, told him not to. So, S-S-S-S-Sephiroth agreed and told the frumpy thing to leave.

It did...And it took Leo, kicking and screaming with him. Zack, Tifa, and I all thought we should go after him, but S-Sephiroth said that we had no time to waste. I was really really scared, but I decided to act like I wasn't. So the four of us continued up the mountain, and I could hear Leo's screams all the way to a rickety old bridge.

Tifa told us that the bridge wasn't very sturdy, well, DURH. Eep, Sorry, Tifa!!! I didn't know you're reading this over my shoulder!!! No!!! NOT THAT!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

A phoenix down and 5 hi potions later

U-Um...So yeah...Tee hee...Where was I?

Oh, the bridge, that's right.

S-S-Sephiroth just started strutting across it like one of those anorexic, heroine addicted models, and we all followed, me clasping Zack's hand the whole time. Before we reached the other side, the ropes snapped and the bridge fell, us along with it!!

When I came to, there was a bird sitting in my hair, and had, apparently, laid some eggs in it! EWWW!!! I shooed the bird away and picked the sticky, smelly eggs out of my once beautiful, now disgusting, hair. Somehow, I managed to survive the accident with no wounds, which was totally awesome!

I got up and went to look for the others, who I found quickly. They were all, already moving on. When I caught up with them, I saw that S-S-S-S-Sephiroth looked really annoyed, Tifa just looked at me, and Zack gave me a hug. Yay!

There was a cave near where we had all landed, so we moseyed on in there and had a look-see around. Tifa was making a big deal about the material that was forming in the cave. It was all green and glowy! I wished that I had a camera so I could take pictures, but then I remembered that I wasn't a tourist and stuff.

After that, we kept going, and then found a scary looking broken down Mako reactor! That was what we had been looking for the whole time, and I hadn't even been aware of that. Hee hee! Isn't that funny?

S-S-S-S-Sephiroth began to head inside, Zack following. Tifa wanted to go in too, but I wouldn't let her. That was my job!

Tifa and I sat on some rocks and related stories of what we'd been up to after we split up. I told her about moving to Midgar and having to live in the train station until I got a job, and she told me about studying martial arts with that Zangan or whatever his name is guy. It was spiffy.

But then bad stuff started happening...Like, really REALLY bad stuff.

Stuff so bad, that I don't even want to write it down!

I'll just say that people got hurt. Really bad.

It wound up that Tifa got hurt, Zack got hurt, S-S-S-S-S-Sephiroth went NUTS!!!!!! And nothing happened to me really...Fixed my nasty hair though.

So, that's about it for now!

Love you all!!

Ciao!

(So there's the end of chapter four. How romantic. Keep in touch! XD Chapter five will arrive soon.)