Sephiroth's Bane
Dear Readers: This is my first fanfic! Please review so I know if it's any good. The story mainly revolves around Sephiroth, Cloud, and Tifa. This is definitely going to be a CloTi!
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Chapter 1: Nightmares
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"Hello Cloud. It's been a long time…"
"Who are you?" responded Cloud. This feeling, I've felt it before. It's as if… no… it can't be him? He can't possibly be alive
"Come now, Cloud. Have you really forgotten me? The destroyer of humanity, the czar of chaos, the god who ruined your life and those close to you; but, more importantly how could you ever throw away the face of the person who murdered your wench?"
A slow evil laughter began to boom forth rolling throughout Cloud's head, bringing him down to his knees. Stop it. Stop it. I know I couldn't save her. I… couldn't save… her…
This only intensified the laughter as it grew a hundred-fold drowning any thoughts Cloud might have had.
"This is only the beginning Cloud. Soon I will take the other that you hold dear in your heart. Then you shall know a suffering beyond measure as you realize you are alone in the sea of people that inhabit this world. There I will be, watching as you tear yourself apart." As quickly as the laughter stopped, it started up once again; a rolling sea that attempted to drown Cloud in misery.
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The cerulean eyes of the warrior opened in shock. The same nightmare; the one I've been having for weeks. Why now?
He tried to slow his heart rate, but to no avail. He could hear the rapid beating of his heart, threatening to break out of his chest. The thoughts in his mind flew at the same speed of his heartbeat. What does this dream mean? Why is this happening, just when I was starting to settle into my life?
It had been six months since Cloud and the rest of AVALANCHE witnessed the rebirth of Sephiroth. Since that time, Cloud had moved into Seventh Heaven with Tifa, Marlene, and Denzel. As he became closer with his patched-up family he began to feel happiness and joy, emotions that had long been dead to him. He began to appreciate the smiles that would come up on Marlene's face as he came back from his deliveries with presents for her and those on Denzel as he told them the stories of monsters he found on his travels. However, he began to enjoy one smile above the others.
He had always known Tifa to be his childhood friend, but on that day his feelings towards her began to change. He was sitting down with Denzel and Marlene telling them the story of when he got his first chocobo and how Barret had told him that his hair looked like a chocobo. Yuffie started laughing at him calling him chocobo-boy while she was sitting on Cloud's chocobo. Cloud just looked at her then threw a gyshal green about 10 yards away, which caused the chocobo to run at breaknech speed throwing Yuffie off to land on her bum. As Denzel and Marlene started laughing, Cloud glanced at Tifa and saw her smiling at him. He then looked in her eyes and saw something he could not recognize, something that signaled warmth. That day never left his mind.
I have to figure out the meaning behind my dreams before anything can happen. I can't lose Tifa like I lost Aeris. I just can't. Cloud hunched over head on his knees as he remembered the sickening laughter of the nightmare, threatening to destroy his joy and bring about misery.
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Author: There you go the first chapter. Please dear readers, please review, so I can see if I should continue or not. I will post another chapter in a week, if I have enough people that want this to continue.