Final Fantasy 7 Advent
"How does one become a hero?" "Do you have to die, to be called a hero who saved us all?" "A hero is a person who does what ever he or she can to protect others around them." "But what if that person did bad things as well?" "What do you call this person then?"
Chapter 9: The true hero of the world
Sephiroth grin feeling blood roll down his lips. "When ever a clone is reborn. I will return..." he whispered, as he disappeared into black smoke as when he first appeared. Cloud slowly fell into the ground, landing on his knees.
"Cloud..?" red asked; making sure he was alright. "I'm alright…red…" he whispered slowly standing up. "Just in lots of pain that all…" he said with a shrug.
A loud sound was heard from far away where the seals were. The other turned to see what it was. "Sara!" tifa yelled seeing her fall to the ground not moving. The others ran to tifa to see her lying on the ground, bleed from everywhere on her body.
"The spell did more damage to her then I thought…" red whispered, shaking his head a bit. "What you mean damage to her!" cloud yelled at red. "Cloud…?" tifa said, as cloud quickly picked up her body. He hugged it come to his. "What…happened to her…?" he whispered closing his eyes.
He could hear her softly breathing. "Sara..?" cloud asked not getting an answer. "She still alive..?" tifa looked surprised, red nodded to tifa. "Her. Will is too strong to give up. Even after unsealing and casting the mega spells…" cloud looked up to red. "Then. She will live..?" cloud asked feeling tears rolling down his cheek.
"Yes but…we should get her some place to rest..." "So let's go to Cosmo Canyon…" red started toward the airship. The other slowly followed close behind him.
"Cloud do you want me to carry her…?" tifa asked see how hurt cloud was as well. "No...Tifa I want to carry her…" he whispered and start toward the airship as well.
Tifa felt somewhat sad now. She truly knew Sara had won cloud's heart without really trying. But she felt happy at the same time that Sara had to someone to turn too. She felt mix feelings about the whole thing. She felt happy for Sara but jealous at the same time.
She didn't like feeling this way. Feeling confused and upset about things as they were now. She started to wonder, how long did cloud know her to begin with? Tifa always thought she knew cloud very well. But after being inside of cloud's mind. She understood she didn't know very much about him.
She started to wonder what this girl? What this girl cloud's real first friend? A person that just like cloud for being him self? Tifa always saw some of zack in cloud when she re met him in midgar. She wondered if she liked zack and not the cloud that he really was.
"Tifa!" cloud yelled from the airship. She blinked she couldn't believe she had been lost in thought right there. She had no time for this. They had to get Sara to cosmo canyon quickly. Tifa ran to the airship and quickly started up the rope as the ship started to take off. Tifa looked at the ground a bit the two circles were still there.
The two seals that help destroy sephiroth. Sara was truly a hero? Is that what she would to call? A hero is someone who does what ever they can to protect others. Yes, she truly was. Even those she knew it could kill her. She did it anyways? Yes she was brave, just like a legend hero.
Tifa smiled to her self, she truly thought of Sara as a hero. That many people thought sephiorth was a hero many years ago. But Sara being a hero was much diffence next to sephiorth's. Sephiroth was a war hero, when shinra was battling wutai.
Tifa nodded to her self as she slowly climbed up the rope. She found yuffie waiting for her at the top. "I wonder why you were taking so long to just get up..." yuffie said with a grin on her face. Yuffie hadn't changed at all even those it had been close to 2 years from the battle with sephiroth. She was still her old self, and tifa liked that. She thought of yuffie somehow like a little sister.
"Sorry I guess I was a little lost in thought..." tifa answered yuffie slowly standing up. "Well next time be lost in thought after you're on the airship!" she said pointing a finger at tifa. Tifa slowly smiled.
"Yes I promise I'll do that ma'am..." tifa said with a grin. She knew yuffie hated being called ma'am especially because yuffie would to be the ruler of wutai one day. "Don't call me that!" yuffie yelled waving her arms around. She quickly stops starting to feel sick from the airship moving. "Ugh..." she said kneeing down.
"Feeling sick again..?" tifa asked keeping her smile on her face. "Oh..! Shut up you!" she said waving one arm around and keeps her other hand on her mouth somewhat.
"Do you know where cloud when too?" she asked, even those she knew yuffie could really talk right now. "Ugh...fine! I'll tell you then leave me alone!" She yelled trying to keep her mouth covered as she talked. "He when to the room, cid put in…ugh..." Yuffie said falling into her stomach.
She slowly steps away from yuffie before she could throw up on her. Cid did redo the ship a bit and add a resting room. Or more like a free inn. She heads toward the resting room. She found Vincent outside of the door. He nodded toward tifa, she waved to Vincent.
"Is cloud inside?" she asked him and he nodded to answer. "Good!" she said placing her hand on the door. "Umm...it isn't a good idea to go inside…" he whispered closing his eyes. "Huh..?" tifa could hear yelling inside. It sounded like red was telling cloud something.
"What do you mean?" "What do you mean the spell stole her life energy?" He yelled, waving his arms around like a mad man. "Cloud…please tries to keep a bit quieter for her…" cloud sighed, as his head looked toward the ground. "Even if she does live. Her life will be a lot shorter..." red whispered, looking to cloud. "Why. Did she do it then..?" "If she knew what would happen to her..?" cloud asked red. Red didn't know what to say at first.
"Maybe…she felt like she had something to protect…" red whispered walking over to the bed. "Something she cares for dearly?" red finished saying with a small smile on his face. "Red…" cloud whispered following him over to the bed. "Something…she wanted to protect more then anything other..." "And she knew the only way. Was the sealed mega spells…" red shook his head a bit.
"Even those. She could end her life that way…" cloud whispered kneeing next to the bed. Red nodded to cloud watching him. "Take care of her, we should be at Cosmo canyon in about an hour…" red whispered making his way to the door.
Cloud slowly placed his hand on top of Sara's. He stared down at her, he felt like it was his fault. His fault that she was hurt again. "Sara…" he whispered holding into her hand.
She didn't move at all. She was too badly hurt to do so. They had pretty much cleaned up her blood. But she was still in pretty bad shape. She had lost so much blood from just unsealing the spells. Let alone casting them.
"Sara…I'm sorry…" he whispered holding into her hand rubbing the back of her hand into his cheek. That happened when red opened the door to find tifa staring in shock. She truly knew now, that cloud was in love with her.
"Tifa..?" red asking looking up to her. "I'm alright...she needs cloud more then I do..." she whispered leaving the room with red. Red nodded to her, he looked back. "He needs her as well…" red whispered closing the door with his tail.
Cloud kept holding into her hand. He slowly closed his eyes. He found him self slowly falling asleep there. He did forget her for a bit. After those tests were done to him and zack. Cloud and zack never knew what tests were truly done to them. Zack may have known more then cloud. Cloud was more so out of in the whole time.
Cloud could see zack in his dream. He remembers seeing zack pull him out of the tub he had been in. "cloud! Yo! Wake up buddy!" zack yelled smacking him over the head a bit. "Uh…" was all cloud could say for answer. Zack grinned seeing he was alright after all.
Zack slowly stood up putting one of cloud's arms over his shoulder. "We're leaving now cloud just hold on for a bit..." zack whispered as he helped him self and cloud out of nibelheim.
Zack saw a trunk that was about ready to leave. "WAIT!" zack yelled waving his free hand. The driver stopped. Zack quickly ran up to the trunk. "What is it kid?" the driver asked him. "Where is this trunk going..?" zack asked trying to keep cloud from falling over.
The driver somewhat gave him a weird look. "Going to Midgar I have things to drop off there…" he answered, still keeping his foot on the brake. Zack looked happy to hear that. He could take cloud there to rest as well as could get back at shinra Inc.
"Can we get a ride..?" zack asked, hoping it wouldn't be any trouble. "Yea yea sure kid, you and your friend just jump in the back!" he said waving his arm a bit to zack. Zack nodding and threw cloud into the trunk back then he climbed on. "Ready..?" the driver asked, zack gave him a nod.
The trunk started off as cloud quickly sat up started to feel a bit sick. "Hehe still get the moving sickness?" zack asked cloud with a grin. Cloud nodded to zack. "Cloud we should change your cloth. Especially because we are going to midgar…" zack whispered taking some cloth out of his bag.
Cloud nodded a bit and changed into them. "Hey! Not bad!" zack said giving him a wink. "I'm sure she would have thought the same as well..." cloud gave zack a confused look. "Cloud. You don't remember..?" zack whispered; cloud had no idea what he was talking about. "Remember what…?" zack mouth opened he wondered if cloud lost some of his memories from the testing? "Nothing forgets!" he said waving his hand a bit.
But when they got to midgar. Some small soldiers from shinra Inc, surprised attacked them. "Cloud!" zack yelled trying to fight them off on his own. But it didn't go too well. Zack quickly fell to them. "Should we take his body back?" one of the soldiers asks the other. "Nah...no reason too the job done..." the other answered with a shrug. "What about the one lying there…?" the third one said pointing the blonde hair body.
"nah...he pretty much dead as it is...leaves him be..." they nodded and slowly walked away from the two. Cloud slowly got to his knees to find zack laying there on the ground bleeding.
"Zack..?" cloud asked shaking him a bit. "Cloud…don't forget her. Or you will make her cry again..." zack said with a grin, as he slowly stops breathing. "Zack?" cloud yelled shaking him. But he didn't get answer. "ZACK!" he yelled, he shook his hands into the sky.
Cloud quickly opened his eyes finding he was in the resting room. "I guess I felt asleep..?" he whispered as he looked to Sara. Who was still the same way. "So. He was talking about Sara…" he whispered holding into her hand again. "Sara…I will not forget you again. I promise..." he whispered closing his eyes.
Cloud then heard a knock on the door. "Cloud..?" it was tifa. "We are about to Cosmo Canyon!" she yelled, he slowly nodded. "Thank you for the heads up tifa..." cloud answered her slowly opening his mako blue eyes.
Cloud slowly stood up looking down at her. "It time to go..." he whispered pick her up into his arms. He stared down at her a bit. She was a heroine. A heroine of the world for what she did. Cloud smiled a bit then nodded to him self.
Vincent opened the door for him. He nodded to Vincent in thanks. Vincent nodded back as well. Vincent normal never talk but it didn't bug him. Cloud slowly made his way up the stairs to the deck.
Tifa was up there with yuffie. As cid came into the speaker. "We are about to land at Cosmo Canyon!" he yelled, yuffie waved her hand a bit at the speaker. "Yea yea...We hear you Smokey the bear..." she whispered, rolling her yes. "WHAT WAS THAT?" cid yelled back to yuffie.
"Nothing at all Smokey..." yuffie answered with a grin. Tifa couldn't help but smile listening to yuffie and cid fight like normal. But tifa slowly turned around to see cloud holding into Sara there. Holding her in his arms. She started to feel jealous again.
"Tifa..?" she felt someone touch her arm. She saw yuffie behind her. "You alright..?" yuffie whispered ignore cid yelling for the time being. "Yes. I'm alright yuffie..." she said smiling weakly.
"I'm not Smokey the bear!" cid yelled at yuffie from the speaker. "Then stop making forest fires!" she yelled kicking the speaker some. "Don't $# kick the speaker!" he yelled back to yuffie.
Cloud rolled his eyes a bit listening to cid and yuffie yell at each other. He sighed a bit knowing they would never change. He was glad something would never change. But something. He wished would change. He slowly looked down at Sara again.
He wondered if she still hated him. From what he did to her years ago. If she did, he wished that would change. "Cloud..?" red said shaking him a bit. Cloud quickly blinked to see red standing in front of him. "Sorry..." he whispered, red sighed. "We are here…" Cloud nodded and followed him down the rope into Cosmo Canyon.
"Cloud I want to run some test on her after we get her on the breathing machine..." red said as they enter where red grandfather lived when he had been alive. "Some test..?" cloud asked placing her on a metal bed. "Yes. I want to make sure everything in her body is working, it unknown if just her life was shortens or even more things happened as well…" red said shaking his head a bit. Placing a machine on her mouth. "But for the time being I see only her having trouble breathing..." cloud slowly nodded to him.
"Just tell me if and when you learned anything..." red nodded as well as cloud left the room. Red made sure cloud was truly out of the room before taking out an old book of his grandfather's. "If I am right something is wrong as it is..." he whispered to him self turning some pages.
Red started to read a paragraph. "Hmm let's see here…" he said putting his paw under the paragraph. "After the holy cetra casted the mega spell to destroy the evil one…" "It is said none of them lived…" red blinked just reading those two lines. "As I thought…" red whispered looking up from the book and to Sara.
"She shouldn't have lived. But she did?" "Why..?" red whispered he wondered if he saw it wrong. He when back to the book to read it again. But he didn't it truly said no cetra had lived from the mega spell. Red didn't understand; how could she live then?
Red looked more into the book and found out something. That something being only one cetra in history lived from casting the mega spells. She was said to be the first cetra in this world her name was Ceres. "Ceres..?" he whispered looking over the page that had a drawing of her.
"She looks like…" he said to say. He looked over to Sara. "She looks like Sara…" red wondered if Ceres could have been her great great great grandmother. Red understood how she lived now. Her powerfully will save her from dieing. That and cause of her family's bloodline.
Red slowly nodded to him self. But he still had to check to make sure everything in her body was working right. He put an x-ray machine in front of her and started it up. He didn't see any bones broken. And all her insides looked fine.
"Hmm...I guess her just having trouble breathing. Cause of how weak her life energy is..." he whispered turning off the machine. Red knew it was better not to tell cloud. Not to tell cloud what he found out about the cetra in the book.
As well as not tell Sara as well. When ever she did wake up that was. From what he could tell. It could take around 6 months or years for her life energy to filly heal again. And that was if she was lucky. And for cloud, red sure hope she was lucky.