~~April 30th, 2019 - Junon~~

When we were walking to Junon, I learned so much about these guys and girls. I'll just write my findings down.

The spiky-haired man's name is Cloud Strife. He's going to be 21, his hometown's Nibelheim, his birthdate's August 19th, and he's after Sephiroth. I thought that was strange, seeing as Sephiroth was killed five years ago. Cloud simply said that Sephiroth was still alive. He said that Sephiroth broke into Shinra's headquarters and stole this thing called "Jenova" and has some sort of plan for it. It's all too confusing for me, so Cloud started telling me the story that took place five years ago. Even after he finished his story, I was still very confused.

The man with the gun-arm's name is Barret Wallace. He's going to be 35, he's from Corel Village (I thought that village got burned down four years ago), his birthdate's December 15th, he has a four year old daughter named Marlene, and he used to lead a group called AVALANCHE whose main goal was to save the planet from the Shinra. Now Cloud's the leader of this group. Whenever Barret talked about his daughter or the other members of AVALANCHE, he looked so proud. I was going to ask him how he got the gun grafted into his arm, but I figured that it wasn't any of my business.

The woman with the brown braided hair's name is Aeris Gainsborough. She's 22, her birthdate's February 7th, and guess what.she's an Ancient! There's only one Ancient, isn't there? Her story's a sad one. She and her birth mother were captured by the Shinra when she was very little. They escaped, but Aeris' birth mother died and luckily, a woman named Elmyra found the both of them. Elmyra promised Aeris' mom that she would take care of Aeris. Aeris was raised around nature (the little nature that Midgar has) and she says that she can hear the planet. As she grew up, the Turks (namely the leader of the Turks, Tseng) began to harass her. The Turks tell her that they want to take her back to Shinra headquarters, but Aeris refuses. She's avoided the Shinra for years, until she met Cloud. Cloud told her that he'd protect her and that's why she's with him. Aeris was captured by the Shinra, and Cloud, Barret and Tifa infiltrated Shinra headquarters to get her back. Aeris can't go back to Midgar for now, and since Cloud promised to protect her, she's journeying with him.

The red wolf-like creature's name is supposedly Red XIII. That CANNOT be anyone's name. Actually, I was surprised that he could talk. Even though he could talk, he didn't say much and seemed pretty quiet, so I didn't ask him a lot.

The tough woman with the long dark brown hair is Tifa Lockheart. She apologized to me for beating me up before I got to say anything. I accepted her apology and got onto inquiring. Tifa's going to be 20, her birthday's in three days, she's also from Nibelheim, she used to own a bar called "7th Heaven" in Midgar, and she's just wants to keep an eye on Cloud. She's strong and brave, and I think she has a thing for Cloud too.

We reached Junon Harbour and we didn't have time to rest. Junon Harbour looked so run-down and upsetting. There wasn't anything that stuck out. We went down to the "beach" and saw a little girl dressed in a yellow bathing suit top, orange shorts and green sandals talking to a dolphin. She told the dolphin that her name was Priscilla. She didn't believe us when we said that we were against Shinra Incorporated and told us to leave. Unfortunately, a weird fish thing attacked us and Priscilla ran into the water to try to save the dolphin.

Cloud quickly took charge and told us what to do. He told Barret and me what to do first, since we were the only ones with long-range weapons. We were supposed to just attack, and use Limit Breaks when we got the chance to. He told Tifa and Red to attack the fish thing with magic. Cloud quickly unequipped one his magic materia and gave it to Tifa just for this battle. He then turned to Aeris and told her to summon Chocobo and Mog, and to heal everyone if needed. Cloud dug into his pants pocket and took out an independent materia and put in one of the slots in his sword.

Then the battle began! I threw my shuriken over and over, each time hoping that this fish would go down soon. Barret was beside me shooting at the fish non-stop. It turned out that the materia Cloud took out of his pocket was a Long Range materia, which let him attack normally from anywhere he was. He charged towards the big ugly fish and he slashed it over and over again. When Cloud seemed like he felt exhausted from all that slashing and the attacks from the big fish, he gave a little signal for Aeris to use the Restore materia. Aeris got the picture and began to cast Cure on him. I was busy looking at Aeris' floating rod (her rod floats whenever she casts her spells), I didn't realize that the big fish was summoning up a big tidal wave! I held my breath as the wave came crashing down. I opened my eyes under the water, trying to see where the others were, but I couldn't see anything. I thought the wave had killed all of them and I got really angry. This group, they allowed me to come with them. They were really nice to me and offered me food. They offered me friendship, even though I was deceiving them.

I reached my limit. I was angry. My blood boiled. I couldn't hold my anger in. I felt some sort of new power too. I directed my anger towards the big ugly fish and an orangey-yellow beam of light surrounded me. I heard myself yelling, "Greased Lightning!" and I began to attack the fish. I ran up to it, cut it with my shuriken, took the shuriken out of the fish, jumped back to my original place and threw my shuriken at the fish. I fell onto my knees from exhaustion.

Then I saw the colour of pink beside me. Aeris was standing at my side ready to use her "special anger attack" (I learned later from Cloud that it was called a "Limit Break"). An orangey-yellow beam of light surrounded her and she yelled, "Healing Wind!" as she held her rod close.

I felt warm wind blowing strength back into me. I felt re-energized. I felt like I could fight again. I stood up, quickly thanked Aeris, ran next to Barret and began throwing my shuriken again.

Tifa and Red stood behind Barret and me, casting Bolt and Fire over and over. Red didn't look very tired, even though he was casting Fire spells one after another. However, Tifa was starting to look tired and she didn't look like she could keep casting Bolt spells. I searched the pockets of my pants and found an Ether. I packed it before because I thought I'd need it, but I didn't. I gave it to Tifa and told her to drink it all. She looked grateful and gave me a smile of thanks before she drank it. She got back to casting Bolt again.

Before I began throwing my shuriken again, I realized that Cloud wasn't attacking anymore. I looked around and saw the Cloud was trapped in a huge bubble! I hit it with my shuriken, but nothing happened. Cloud looked at me and pointed to his sword. I didn't understand him. He kept pointing at his sword. I looked closer and I realized that it wasn't his whole sword he was pointing to. He was pointing to the magic materia in one of his materia slots. I realized that the bubble will burst when magic is used on it. I looked to where Tifa and Red were and called one of them to use their magic to release Cloud. Tifa ran over and she cast Bolt on the bubble. The bubble popped and Cloud was free! Cloud nodded a thanks to both of us and he ran towards the big fish, leapt up with his sword raised high in the air, and sliced the fish in two.

The battle was over and we did our victory dances. Barret looked at the ground, bent down and picked something up. It was a Power Wrist and he gave it to Cloud.

We looked for Priscilla. She wasn't anywhere on the surface, so Cloud dove underwater to look for her. After a few minutes, he came back with her in his arms. He laid her on the ground, stood up and declared that she wasn't breathing. Just then, an old man came running down the steps and also declared that she wasn't breathing. Well, duh. The old man turned to Cloud and told him to perform CPR on her. Everyone's eyebrows shot up. The old geezer just ran down here and told Cloud to do something without asking him. Like, what the hell?

I thought about it again and I figured that the kid didn't deserve to die. We persuaded Cloud to do it. Priscilla coughed to tell us that she was breathing again and the old man picked her up and ran off with her.

We followed the old man up the stairs and when we walked near the first house in Junon Harbour, a woman made a gesture telling us to walk over to her house. When we reached there, she thanked us for saving Priscilla and offered her house for us to stay in. So here I am, writing in this diary with the help of a flashlight. Cloud's mumbling in his sleep. I guess I'll go to sleep now so I won't wake anyone up.