Final Fantasy: Seven Meets Nine

Author's note: Yo. Even though this fanfic is pretty long, it really has no point to it. I did it just out of sheer boredom. So I expect you guys are just reading it for the fun of it or because you were bored too. It's FF7 meeting FF9. I came up with this wacky idea of having Cloud and his gang get a taste of the FF9 world, Gaia. Yeah yeah, it's weird and sounds pretty stupid but whatever. I just felt like doing it. In the beginnig, it starts right after Holy and Meteor meet. I wrote this a year ago, right before there was news leaked out about Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children so yah. (rubs back of head) All I can say is that it is completely different than AC's storyline. This is the first ever fanfic that I made that lasted this long (but is still incomplete) and it's also the first ever fanfic that I've posted on the Net for others to read. I have to warn you though... I don't go into much details into anything in here to describe people or places or things. Too lazy, to be honest with you. The story has a tendency to drag on very slowly, further supporting my statement of how pointless this fanfic truly is. Lots of flashbacks & memories and false theories/misleading conceptions of scientific facts and that of final fantasy 7's. In addition, I tried to make it feel like an IN-GAME kind of story, so you'll be reading through a lot of gestures and actions done by the characters. Tried to keep them in character as much as I could (as much as I know about each character). The only problem here is that it's been quite awhile since I played the game. heh heh hehh I'm a Cloti fan so I touch up on their friendship very very often and where it could possible go. (wink wink)

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Chapter 1 "What Really Happened After"

A big flash spread far and out, reaching to the other end of the planet. Green orbs started to flow out from the ground, circling up to the black sky. Holy had defeated the Meteor. The world had been saved. Cid's mouth was agape, letting his cigar burn, sitting at the bottom of his lip. But soon he regained the power to speak,

"DAMN! I can't believe we actually survived this $&!#!!!"

Yuffie, who was sitting in a corner, crouched with her knees to her chest, ceased her shaking and whimpering, letting her hands part away from her face.

"You bluffin'?!"

She got up and looked out through the huge window of the airship.

"Hey! You weren't! We survived! Most importantly, I survived!!"

Vincent was silent. Cait Sith jumped up and down with joy. Red XIII let out a sigh of relief and bowed his head in thankfulness.

"Yer lucky to be alive, you got that!" Barret called back at Yuffie, "Yeh pesky little piece of $&#&!!" He let out a gruff smile. "What do you guys say we go out an' celebrate?"

Cid just got out of the storage room with a pack of beers, "No need to go out. Ain't no better place to celebrate than the Highwind!!"

Everyone gathered around to grab a beer, Yuffie sneaking in to grab one unnoticed. Vincent stayed where he sat and closed his eyes, deciding a nap would be better.

No one noticed Cloud and Tifa. Tifa watched him intently. It was quite obvious what he was planning to do. Celebrating was far off of what was on his mind. Cloud was staring outside, as if on the moon.

Suddenly, hundreds of green orbs were flying up to the heavens. Both went out to see what was going on.

"What is all this?" Tifa asked, looking all around her.

"Energy bubbles... The Lifestream's spirit," he replied softly.

They both looked up to find that the green orbs were circling around eachother up in the air.

Cloud's face hardened, "They're... using up their energy..."

The energy bubbles soon enough were moving around and circling eachother at lightning speed. There was a green flash that rumbled the earth like it did when Holy and Meteor clashed. Cloud and Tifa, blinded by the light, put up their arms to protect their eyes.

Vincent opened his eyes and the whole party inside the Highwind ceased their drinking festivity.

"Yo what the $&# is goin' on now?!" Barret roared, angry that his celebration was interrupted so abruptly.

They all looked outside and gasped. There was no night sky up above. Instead, it looked like a green, swirl.

"What in the world!!! The hell is that?!" Cid stated.

Outside, Cloud and Tifa, both heads snapped back, were staring at this... new sky, perhaps? Red XIII ran out and joined them.

"Well, it's not exactly a sky of new colour."

Tifa looked at Nanaki, "What do you mean? "

"I can feel a strong energy wave from it. Perhaps it's a portal. To where, I do not know."

Cloud sighed and looked down on the ground. "I can feel it, too."

Red XIII's tail wagged gently back and forth, in deep thinking. "I shall go back to Cosmo Canyon immediately. Maybe Bugenhagen's contraption might give us some idea of what's going on," he said and swiftly ran back to the Highwind.

Tifa looked at Cloud. This was something quite new. She wondered whether he planned to find out what this portal was or to see Aeris. She waited eagerly for his next move. He was still looking at the ground.

Without looking at her, he spoke, "I can still feel her presence... But it's weak." He shook his head. "Why?"

Tifa said nothing. The Highwind's power engine turned on and Tifa looked back at it, then to the blonde haired man.

"We should be going now," she told him. He didn't say anything but simply headed towards the big, flying vehicle at a slow pace, with Tifa behind him.