The plot begins to thicken, but I think I'm losing my sense of detail. Should I be more in-depth and complicated to give you a better visual, or no?
The song: Weapon is by Matthew Good Band. I recommend everyone to find it and listen to it.
Chapter 7
Weapon
Scientists searched the entire laboratories known as Sector Zero, looking for clues and lost artifacts. The hidden sector was like an underground base beneath the building once known as Shinra Inc. Soldiers stormed in and out, carefully investigating to see if all the rooms were clear of possible monsters and creatures that could harm them.
Professor Riley sat knee deep in dust looking at file cabinets when someone shouted that they found another room. He glanced up to find a soldier shouting orders for everyone to stay clear as he and a few of his men walked forward.
A blonde woman with glasses walked over to Riley,
"Another room?"
"I suppose it's just another empty space with dust covering the floors..." Riley said but the sound of grating doors across the floor caught his attention.
"I believe we should go investigate it as well." the woman murmured. Riley nodded and got up following her over to where soldiers warned them to stay behind them in case of any attack. The doors finished moving and to the professors surprise, his face was smacked by a cold chilling musk breeze.
"It seems to be a stone staircase Sir." one of the soldiers observed.
Riley, thinking nothing of it, shoved through and grabbed a flashlight from one of the soldiers. He flashed it at the moss covered rock step and then at the poorly laid rock bricks that made up the walls.
"I'm going down." he stated flatly.
"Professor!" the woman exclaimed, "We can't risk losing you...what if there is something down there?"
He looked up at her,
"There is only one way to find out." And down the stairs he went...
Aerith sat in a blue chair next to Cloud who seemed oblivion to reality. She watched as his breaths came one after the other slowly and every once in a while a nurse would come in to check the monitors.
She had cried the night before next to him and begged for the planet to give her an answer...any help...but no one answered. What was wrong with the voices...why didn't they answer her at all? They were required to speak to any cetra; had she done anything wrong?
A smooth calm flew over her nervous subconscious and she relaxed a bit taking in the warmth comfort of life. Her green eyes, tired though they were, stared at the blonde man. His face had aged considerable over the past two decades with his hair streaked slightly with gray but not enough to show. She smiled inwardly, his hair used to be spiky but over the years it slowly stopped defying gravity. His hair reached his shoulders easily with a few rebellious spikes here and there.
"Cloud..." she said calmly as she looked at the child in her arms. The small babe looked up at her and grabbed a fist full of her brown locks and tugged gently.
"I want to adopt her as my daughter...I will not stand by and watch my best friends child be raised by another. It's the least I can do." he said, his blue eyes bearing softly into hers.
She glanced down at the child whom had settled comfortably within her caring arms, hand still gently tangled within her hair. The little girl blinked a few times and shyly smiled up at her. She couldn't resist that smile...
"I know Cloud...I want her to be ours." she said. Cloud smiled at her and kissed her. The kiss was simple yet it held potent passion, love and she closed her eyes in pure bliss.
Aerith remembered that day...the day when they had taken Ashes in. She looked so much like her...there was no doubt who the father was and the voices told her that the child would bear no ill will. It was an innocent life and if raised correctly, a pure good human being...normal. Ashes was above the qualities of normalcy; she had silver hair like her father along with his superb strength and the wine colored orbs of her mother: Tifa.
A nurse walked in suddenly, a phone in hand,
"Mrs. Strife, there is an urgent call for you." the woman stated. Aerith looked up at the blonde, hesitating before grabbing the phone.
"Hello?"
"Aeris, it's me Reeve. I hate to ask, but we need you at the Ruins. We found something that you might be interested in." he paused, "Unfortunately, I believe that you might be the only person to read the script since you are a Cetra."
"Reeve...I need to stay here with Cloud. I can't go parading around Midgar when his very life is in hands of the planet itself."
"Aerith please, this is really important and I believe we found remnants of an older civilization. Perhaps even older then the Cetra!" Reeve explained.
(Author goes to the bathroom before she pees her pants...back!)
Aerith sighed, her curiosity peaked slightly,
"I'll think about it." she replied. Reeve sighed, knowing fully well he had done all he could,
"Thank you."
With that said, he hung up the phone and Aeris looked over at Cloud whose eyelids fluttered faintly and she laid her brunette head down upon the bedside. 'What do you dream sweetheart? What do you see?'
Here by my side an angel
Here by my side the devil
-Welcome back, Cloud.
A flickering shadow moved slightly at the thought that brushed against his. He looked around himself, submersed in a miasma of ever-changing colors...
Never turn your back on me
Never turn your back on me again.
-Why am I here?
-I could ask you the same thing Cloud.
-Who are you?
A gentle laughter emitted from the darker shades of blues and reds and he swerved around to find someone laying on the green-blue sand. He seemed to be floating over to the person, the flickering images of a person laying there giggling.
-How could you forget me Cloud? I'm sure your abhorrence towards me was not forgotten?
Here by my side it's heaven
Here by my side you are destruction
The fast moving flow of images seemed to slow down and he sat down, his toes in the aqua crystalline sands.
-You are a memory.
-You are absolutely right, Cloud. She giggled.
Here by my side a new color to paint the world (ooh)
Never turn your back on it
Never turn your back on it again
Here by my side its heaven
-How's my little girl doing?
-She's not yours.
-Oh come now Cloud, I didn't mean to leave her alone... Oh Cloud! I wish you could have shared my dream!
He turned away, bearing his sight into a purple reddish cloud swirling above the aqua colored sands.
Careful, be careful
Careful, be careful
This is where the world drops off
This is where the world drops off
Careful, be careful
-You're dream was corrupted.
-I don't believe it was... the slow moving shadow said softly.
The feeling around him softened as the fingers touched his hand that laid pressed against the grains of blue and green. The woman continued,
-I foresaw a dream where we could be together at first...but you loved her. So I dreamt of a world where everything was clean of the agony and pain, the cries, the wails, the desperate prayers of anguish among this planet's fools. We could have been a better people.
-You're dream was selfish and unjust.
Cloud looked dead ahead of him and saw a spark of silver in the distance; rays of gold piercing through the clouds.
And you breathe in
And you breathe out for it
Ain't it so weird
How it makes you a weapon
And you give in And you give out for it
Ain't it so weird
How it makes you a weapon
-You have created a beautiful heaven here Cloud and ironic so, you are a weapon among this beauty. Why do you reject your true calling? She whispered.
-Because I'm not evil.
He stood up not wanting to stay here anymore. Another twisting shade appeared next to the woman he had lost those many years ago. He helped her up and Cloud glanced at the being. He thought he would feel hatred and anger towards him...but he did not. Those alien emeralds looked coldly at him, thier pupils strangely soft.
Never turn your back on it
Never turn your back on it
Again…
Careful, be careful
-Be careful Cloud. The thing you love the most will bring you to hell and there we shall end it all. Don't turn your back on my heaven.
Here by my side its heaven
Here by my side its heaven.
Here by my side…
Cloud stared as they faded out into the oblivion while his unified thoughts unraveled into simple separate thoughts...leaving him once again lost.
-Daddy, why do they make fun of me?
A small child looked up at him, her blood red eyes boring into his with such intensity.
-Daddy, why do they hurt me?
He stared, frozen in shock and surprise as the image before him changed into an older child of eight.
-Daddy, why do you let them hurt me?
The venom was evident in her childish tone...
-Daddy, why did you kill mommy?
Cloud was washed with a strong force of guilt and anguish that coiled around his heart. The child turning the years and now stood before him looking into his eyes,
-You killed mother. I hate you.
The young woman gritted her teeth, her eyes glaring at his betrayal.
-Mother told me her dream. It doesn't hold pain. It holds silent tranquil beauty. Mother said she needs my help. Mother needs me. Goodbye Cloud; You're not my father; You never were.
The girl turned away her image fading leaving an unsettled Cloud in the emptiness.