Final Fantasy 7 ~ Children of the Planet
Upon the planet and in the city of Midgar Children played about throughout the various different sectors. Sector 7 was one of these places that was packed with children. Everyday they would frolic around this sector and watched the grown ups and those older than them tend to their duties. As people came and went. They would be fascinated by some of these grown ups and wanted to be just like them
One of these are the group known as Avalanche. The Members of Avalanche were like Super Heroes to them. They had hoped that one day when they grow up, they could join the Avalanche group and fight against monsters and the soldiers of Shinra.
"I am Barrett! I will shoot you all with my gun-arm. *pow* *pow* pow* Die
monsters! Ha Ha!"
A little boy was playing while running around. Taking out his right arm, stretching it out and pretending to shoot as if there was a gun attached to it. Another boy whined.
"Hey! That's no fair! You got to be Barrett last time! I want to be
Barrett."
"Look at me! I found a whole 100 gil dropped on the ground! It's all mine.
I'm going to get some equipment with it and fight off some monsters!"
A girl at the age of 7 came running towards the group of young boys playing. She was showing off her gil to them. With excitement over her face. This girl was a huge admirer of Tifa Lockheart. As the girl ran during the next moment away from the boys towards the nearby shop. The young boys surely knew that the shopkeeper wouldn't allow a kid to buy any weapons to fight.
They kept continuing to play. Until they spotted their heroes run back towards the boy's direction and they were going to their headquarters. This time they spotted a new member with them. This one had blonde spiky hair and had a huge sword tied to his back. All the boys playing around this small little town sector were amazed once they got a glance at this new recruit.
One of the boys quickly took the chance to go forward to ask for his name. The new member of Avalanche replied back,
"My name is Cloud Strife. I'm not a member of Avalanche. I'm just a
mercenary and I'm in it for the Gil. So don't expect me to stick around
that much. I'm also an EX-soldier."
The boys were even more excited once hearing about the new guy. Cloud Strife was now starting to become their new hero. One boy pretended to be swinging around a big sword. Cloud overheard him saying that he was Cloud, an EX-soldier. As Cloud was walking away from them and towards the small headquarters of Avalanche he chuckled to himself with the children's play. In their mind Cloud was their new hero and this satisfied Cloud a bit as he smiled. He thought,
"Him? A hero? Now isn't that something..."
Then this made Cloud think about his childhood memories. Flashes of his memories came to him. He remembered back to the days when he was around the age of these children. He used to pretend and play as though he was Sephiroth. Sephiroth was once his hero back in the days when he was the greatest soldier of Shinra. Now Shinra had become corrupted, and Cloud wondered about Sephiroth.
Cloud remembered once being a child of this planet. Now Shinra was slowly starting to destroy it. The war against Shinra began with the Avalanche and Shinra was announcing them as terrorists that had to be stopped. They were terrorists because of their rebellious acts but it was all for a good cause. Cloud had gotten to the point when he could care less what happened to the planet or anything.
More childhood thoughts came to him now. His past childhood at Nibelheim. When he used to always go over to play with Tifa. Cloud really missed those old childhood days. Then this made him remember about the promise he had made with Tifa a long time ago. She would probably ask him to help her and the Avalanche gang to rebel against Shinra. Cloud thought that if he was paid well he would do anything they wanted him to.
When Cloud almost reached the Avalanche's headquarters, still thinking about his childhood, something in his mind had triggered. This made him remember about a certain dream that had effected him at the time. Now it really seemed to be bothering him. Even though it appeared to be too farfetched to be true, Cloud had remembered that it all began with a corrupt corporation and then the dream was filled with even more chaotic happenings.
A shadow from the depths of darkness crept in his dream, this shadow slaughter many and it was as though they were on a journey to seek ultimate power that would destroy the planet. A member of Shinra? Someone even more evil than the corporation of Shinra? This dream was able to stick with Cloud since during his childhood over 10 years ago because on that very night Cloud remembered awaking and yelling out.
His mother had come immediately to his shouting to see what was wrong. On that very night someone close to Cloud had died. Cloud's uncle had died that night from a monster attacking him. Shaking these thoughts away Cloud merely put aside these memories and thought.
"This is the present now. Nothing terrible will happen. It's only Shinra we have to worry about. I will just pretend this dream didn't exist. Get the
gil so I can leave and live in peace. Everything will all be fine and I
won't ever have to let my childhood memories haunt me... I hope..."
Upon the planet and in the city of Midgar Children played about throughout the various different sectors. Sector 7 was one of these places that was packed with children. Everyday they would frolic around this sector and watched the grown ups and those older than them tend to their duties. As people came and went. They would be fascinated by some of these grown ups and wanted to be just like them
One of these are the group known as Avalanche. The Members of Avalanche were like Super Heroes to them. They had hoped that one day when they grow up, they could join the Avalanche group and fight against monsters and the soldiers of Shinra.
"I am Barrett! I will shoot you all with my gun-arm. *pow* *pow* pow* Die
monsters! Ha Ha!"
A little boy was playing while running around. Taking out his right arm, stretching it out and pretending to shoot as if there was a gun attached to it. Another boy whined.
"Hey! That's no fair! You got to be Barrett last time! I want to be
Barrett."
"Look at me! I found a whole 100 gil dropped on the ground! It's all mine.
I'm going to get some equipment with it and fight off some monsters!"
A girl at the age of 7 came running towards the group of young boys playing. She was showing off her gil to them. With excitement over her face. This girl was a huge admirer of Tifa Lockheart. As the girl ran during the next moment away from the boys towards the nearby shop. The young boys surely knew that the shopkeeper wouldn't allow a kid to buy any weapons to fight.
They kept continuing to play. Until they spotted their heroes run back towards the boy's direction and they were going to their headquarters. This time they spotted a new member with them. This one had blonde spiky hair and had a huge sword tied to his back. All the boys playing around this small little town sector were amazed once they got a glance at this new recruit.
One of the boys quickly took the chance to go forward to ask for his name. The new member of Avalanche replied back,
"My name is Cloud Strife. I'm not a member of Avalanche. I'm just a
mercenary and I'm in it for the Gil. So don't expect me to stick around
that much. I'm also an EX-soldier."
The boys were even more excited once hearing about the new guy. Cloud Strife was now starting to become their new hero. One boy pretended to be swinging around a big sword. Cloud overheard him saying that he was Cloud, an EX-soldier. As Cloud was walking away from them and towards the small headquarters of Avalanche he chuckled to himself with the children's play. In their mind Cloud was their new hero and this satisfied Cloud a bit as he smiled. He thought,
"Him? A hero? Now isn't that something..."
Then this made Cloud think about his childhood memories. Flashes of his memories came to him. He remembered back to the days when he was around the age of these children. He used to pretend and play as though he was Sephiroth. Sephiroth was once his hero back in the days when he was the greatest soldier of Shinra. Now Shinra had become corrupted, and Cloud wondered about Sephiroth.
Cloud remembered once being a child of this planet. Now Shinra was slowly starting to destroy it. The war against Shinra began with the Avalanche and Shinra was announcing them as terrorists that had to be stopped. They were terrorists because of their rebellious acts but it was all for a good cause. Cloud had gotten to the point when he could care less what happened to the planet or anything.
More childhood thoughts came to him now. His past childhood at Nibelheim. When he used to always go over to play with Tifa. Cloud really missed those old childhood days. Then this made him remember about the promise he had made with Tifa a long time ago. She would probably ask him to help her and the Avalanche gang to rebel against Shinra. Cloud thought that if he was paid well he would do anything they wanted him to.
When Cloud almost reached the Avalanche's headquarters, still thinking about his childhood, something in his mind had triggered. This made him remember about a certain dream that had effected him at the time. Now it really seemed to be bothering him. Even though it appeared to be too farfetched to be true, Cloud had remembered that it all began with a corrupt corporation and then the dream was filled with even more chaotic happenings.
A shadow from the depths of darkness crept in his dream, this shadow slaughter many and it was as though they were on a journey to seek ultimate power that would destroy the planet. A member of Shinra? Someone even more evil than the corporation of Shinra? This dream was able to stick with Cloud since during his childhood over 10 years ago because on that very night Cloud remembered awaking and yelling out.
His mother had come immediately to his shouting to see what was wrong. On that very night someone close to Cloud had died. Cloud's uncle had died that night from a monster attacking him. Shaking these thoughts away Cloud merely put aside these memories and thought.
"This is the present now. Nothing terrible will happen. It's only Shinra we have to worry about. I will just pretend this dream didn't exist. Get the
gil so I can leave and live in peace. Everything will all be fine and I
won't ever have to let my childhood memories haunt me... I hope..."