The Dream

After the letter was read Cloud seemed to snap out of it.

"So, Aries has shown herself again?" he said. "So are we leaving now?' Josh asked.

"No, we will leave tomorrow as planned." Cloud replied "After, we can go to the forbidden forest."

"Ok, Dad" Josh said. By this time, it was nighttime and Ray had to leave.

"Well, I have to go now, bye Josh, later Cloud, later Tifa," Ray said. As he left, Tifa finally snapped out of her trance and said good-by to him.

That night, Josh was lying in his bed, thinking of the Holy materia and about this Aries that he has heard nothing about.

"If Dad was her lover, she must have been pretty hot." he thought as he fell asleep.

Josh dreamed of a girl, 20, wearing pink, and praying at some altar, and when he looked up at her he realized his sword was drawn and he, instead of cutting her, dropped the sword behind him, and stepped back a few steps and watched as the girl looked up and a smile came on her lips and in her eyes was a look of pure recognition. Josh looked up and he saw another person wearing black with a giant samarai sword of doom swoop down and pierce throught her chest just underneath her bosom. Josh stared dumbfounded as her body slumped foreward and her head hung down. She managed to raise her head and stared in shock as she sees a long metal blade through her. Josh looks at her killer and sees that he has platinum hair and green colored eyes and a smile on his face. He pulls the blade out of her chest and her head comes forward with a jerk and unties a glowing materia ball.

"Holy?" Josh exclaimed as the materia bounces down the wooden stumps and into the water. Then, the man looks at him and moves to strike...and Josh wakes up in a sweat. He calms himself down enough to stop sweating but in his cry he woke his father up.

"What's wrong, son?" Cloud asks, Josh shakes his head and says "A nightmare,"

"Well, tell me about it?" Cloud asks and Josh proceeds to tell the dream as he remembered it.

"The girl was definatly Aries, and the man with the silver hair was Sephiroth?" Cloud explained.

"Was?" Josh asked.

"They both died, Sephiroth killed Aries, and I killed Sephiroth. She was the world to me, I...I couldn't...I couldn't live on without her, but I found out that she was in all of us and I went and killed Sephiroth to put my past at rest as well as save the world." Josh was listening very carefully and when Cloud didn't answer

"Dad, did you get to tell her how you felt? Josh asked, and Cloud shook his head and told Josh to get back to bed. Josh contemplated what his dad said before going back to sleep.