Final Fantasy 7 Advent
Chapter 20: feeling weak and remembering the Past
"You…got to be joking red!" yuffie yelled toward red feeling sweat roll down her face. Red slowly shook his head at the ninja. "I wish I was…but…that means jenova's the mother of the first humans as well…" red looked very worried over this. "sh-she the mother of the first humans…?" yuffie asked. Red slowly nodded to her.
"Yes…even those jenova was born from two cetra parents…she had no cetra's powers…at all…she hated by many because of this…it says…" red said turning a page. "because of how others looked down on her…she slowly grow hate toward the cetra's…that made her darkness…of her power we saw…" yuffie had a look of shock on her face. But red couldn't really blame her for that.
"…ah…here some English words Ceres wrote about jenova…" red slowly started to read it. "It has been sometimes…now I have seen what my father told me about…at first I did not believe him…" "He told me…mother would one day…strike everyone around us down…killing many…like a mad woman…" "But…I thought father had gone crazy hearing something like this…but soon after my 17th birthday I learned my father was right…" Ceres looked up from the book she had been writing in.
"Father had been right…mother…just needed a 'human' as she called him for her seed…it was all part of her plan…but I wonder what made mother go crazy to start with? What made her go mad like this? Mother doesn't have power likes me or my father do…" "Even those she is a cetra just like I and father are…" she slowly got out of her chair. "Did hate….really change mother? She was so kind when I was little…was that all an act as well?..." Ceres slowly shook her head.
"It was an act wasn't it?" she whispered to her self. "Father couldn't stop her…He did love her even if she did act this way now…he told me so…he loved her with all his heart that he was willing to do anything to free her heart from so great hate she held toward the cetras'…" "It so sad…so many have died so far…how long has this gone on now? Four months? Or is it five?" Ceres asked her self as she headed over to a mirror to look at her self.
"I am of age now…the age that I can cast the mega spells…that were sealed away a lot time ago…you have to be 17th years old to cast these spells…only the very strong cetra's can cast them…but after they do they lose they're life…" "But…I promised father…if he couldn't stop mother…I would…and I will keep this promise…even if it means…that I…" she slowly shook her head. "Even if that means…I leave…my newborn son…and…boyfriend behind…" Ceres slowly looked away from the mirror toward the bed where the baby was crying.
"I only hope…when. this book is found…it can help stop anything like this from happening again…I have wrote some of it in English…for humans…and the other half in cetra's words for my great grandchildren to read when they become of age…I prey…they will never have to cast the mega spells as I will have too…" She slowly closed the book as the house started to shake. A man with blonde hair quickly ran inside the room. "Ceres!" the man yelled toward her. "Yes…I know…she's here…" Ceres whispered with a small smile.
"Take are son…and leave now…" she said pointing to the bed. "What? I can't leave you to fight jenova on your own!" the man yelled toward her. Ceres slowly shook her head at him. "You have too…it my problem now…that father gone…" Ceres whispered tieing her hair back. "Ceres…" the man stepping in front of her. "…I love you alsheak…so please…do this as my last request…" Ceres smiled at him as tears rolled down her cheeks.
He slowly nodded to her; he when to pick up the child lying on the bed and placed him in his arms. "…" he then slowly looked toward Ceres again without saying a word. She slowly nodded to him and headed out of the room. "…I love you…Ceres…" he whispered taking the back door out of the house.
Ceres took the front door outside where she was waiting. Where Jenova was waiting her mother; As soon as she stepped outside she was in shock. She stared at all the dead bodies just laying there on the ground. "How…could she…?" Ceres whispered to her self kneeing down to check one. She slowly shook her head hearing no heart beat. "…dead…may this…person spirit…rest in peace…" Ceres whispered bowing to the poor bodies lying on the ground.
"They will never find peace as long as I am around daughter…" Ceres quickly jumped into her feet and turned toward the voice. "M-mother…" Ceres whispered stared toward Jenova. "I maybe your daughter…but you are foolish as the other cetras' are daughter…!" jenova yelled pointing toward Ceres. "Mother…please…stops this…how could you just kill so many as well as father?" Ceres asked. "…your father was foolish to fall for me…he was nothing but a plan of my master plan…I needed someone to take my seed…to start the curse that will destroy all…people…cetras as well as humans…!" jenova yelled as a dark energy started to surround her.
"w-what? What curse are you talking about!" Ceres yelled trying to hold her ground. "…hmm the curse that was placed on your son when he was born…that runs in the bloodline now…even if I die here…I will be reborn as many times as I need to be…I will be reborn…in the women…of the family…I will take all down with me!" Jenova yelled as she held a hand out toward Ceres. Had everything that happened been part of jenova part? Her having a child at her age been part of jenova's plan as well? "No…your lying they're no curse likes that!" Ceres yelled standing ready for jenova's attack.
"…do you really believe that? Even those my powers…are nothing like the cetras? I don't care if you are my child…you are a problem that is just in the way…if…you don't stop getting in my way…I will put an end to your life as I did to the other cetras…!" Jenova yelled firing some energy toward Ceres. "Uh!" Ceres quickly held her hands out in front of her self but to her surprised the energy made it pass her.
"t-this…energy…I never felt anything like this…" Ceres whispered feeling the energy cutting her body all over like ribbons. She slowly let out a yell. Jenova stood there grinning at the whole thing. "This…p-power…I feel so great of hate inside of the energy…is this really mother power…?" Ceres asked slowly falling into her knees. "Yes…this is my power…the darkness from the heart that can make…" Jenova slowly stepped toward her. Ceres slowly looked up toward jenova. "Mother…" she whispered. "I will teach…humans as well as cetras…they're place…as they all die by my hands!" Jenova yelled holding her hand out toward Ceres.
"…so I guess…they're truly no other way around this mother? Aside from fighting…?" Ceres whispered looking toward the ground. "Yes, there is no other way…if people hate ones that are diffence…I will give you a reason to hate. Me!" Jenova yelled firing some dark energy toward Ceres. Ceres nodded to her self as she closed her eyes. Then as the energy was about to hit her, she quickly opened her eyes as a beam of light came out of the ground.
"w-what…!" jenova yelled jumping away from the area as her dark energy disappeared into the light. Jenova watched Ceres slowly stand up with a growing sword of light at her feet. "w-what…is that…!" jenova yelled. "The mega sword…" Ceres slowly putting the sword out of ground and holding it in her hand. "t-the mega sword…?" jenova asked. "Yes, the sword that sealed away the powerful mega spells a long time ago, this sword…hold's those spells inside of its blade…" Ceres whispered looking toward jenova.
Red slowly shook his head looking up from the book then. "Then…she killed jenova?" yuffie asked. "No…she couldn't they were equal in power…she could only seal jenova inside of her own body…starting…the circle of jenova's reborn…" yuffie stared at red in shock. "Ceres…started that? How could she do that!" yuffie asked. Red slowly shook his head. "I'm sure she didn't know…her hatefully spirit would keep living in the future children of hers…" red sighed closing his eyes.
"w-wait…is the cure in the book then?" red looked a bit puzzled at yuffie. "You know for Sara! If-there is a cure that is…" yuffie said looking troubled by her words she had just said. "…" red slowly nodded to yuffie staring down at the book. "If…there is a cure…" he started to say. "What…?" yuffie asked. "I will not find it…all the other stuff in is the ancient cetras' language…" red slowly looked up to yuffie. "Meaning…only Sara could find it in there?" yuffie asked. Red slowly nodded to her. "Yes…let just hope…she doing alright…" red said walking over to a window looking out of it. "Yes! I'm sure she fine! She with cloud after all!" yuffie started following red to the window. "Yes, your right…" red said with a weak smile. But…if I know yuffie right…then why do I have this uneasy feeling inside? Red wondered.
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"Uh…" cloud quickly looked back to Sara. "You alright…?" he asked sounding a bit worried. She slowly nodded to him. "Yes…I just feel really tired…for some reason…" she whispered weakly. Cloud weakly smiled down at her. "Don't worry…we are about there…then you can rest all you want alright…?" she nodded to him resting her head on his back.
But cloud couldn't help but feel more worried. Why was she so tired? Was it before of the dark energy she killed one of the silver hair men with? Did that energy drain her? She still wasn't filled healed from getting her energy back. He couldn't help but worry about her. He knew this was far from over as well. Two silver hair men we're still alive out there. Waiting to strike at her; But her being like this…she wouldn't be ready for the next attack.
Cloud was unsure of what he could really do. He wasn't even a match for one of the silver hair men. How could he protect her if he couldn't hold them off? Cloud slowly shook his head. If he lost fate in him self now it would be all over. Especially for Sara it would be over. He needed to get her memories back to her as soon as he could. Or she truly would be helpless.
Cloud slowly blinked him self out of his thoughts. He could see land just a bit in front of them now. "Finally…we made it to…Costa Del Sol…" cloud whispered quietly to him self. Sara slowly picks up her head rubbing her eyes. "Hmm…?" she whispered. "We made it, Sara…" cloud whispered quietly as the chocobo made it way into the land. Cloud pulled on the chocobo making it stop right next to the town of Costa Del sol.
Cloud then climbed off the chocobo then helped Sara off of it. "…cloud? You never told me why…we came here…" she said looking up at him. "…" he just stared at her a bit. He didn't know what to say. How could he say the reason? The reason why they came here was to keep her safe—no safe not the word. The right word was more so hiding her from the silver hair men. "w-we can talk about that later…your tired right?" he asked quickly changing the subject. "Umm...yeah…" she whispered looking a bit confused toward him.
"Then let's head…into town so you can rest…" cloud said quickly heading into town. Sara stood there looking lost and puzzled at the same time. "It. it like he didn't want to say…why we came here…" she whispered to her self following him into town. She followed him up some stairs into a big house like place. It had a bed room with two beds in it. As well as a TV room and a kitchen.
"Wow…" she whispered looking around. "Go ahead and rest…" cloud said pointing to the bed room. "But…we shouldn't just go into someone's house like this…" Sara pointed out. Cloud laughed a bit. "It isn't someone house's…it mine…" cloud said with a small smile. "y-you're…?" she said sounding surprised. He had to have some good money then to have a place like this.
Cloud nodded to her. "I don't come here very much…I normally only come here when--..." cloud quickly cut him self off from what he was about to say. If he said hiding or anything like that; she would know something was up. Something wasn't right at all. Then he would have to tell her the truth; the truth why they came here. "When what…?" she asked looking up at him. "…" cloud didn't answer at first. He wouldn't sure how to finish it without her finding out the real reason.
"Why don't you go rest now? I'll tell you when you get up why…we came here…" cloud answered with a weak smile. Sara couldn't help but look a bit confused toward him. "Um…ok…" she whispered stepping into the bed room. But she quickly looked back at him still with a confused look on her face. Cloud kept that weak smile on his face. As best as he could. "Uh…ok…" she whispered closing the door slowly behind her.
But as soon as she did; the weak smile left cloud face. He knew something was wrong with her aside from her not having her memories back. "…why…was she so tired…?" cloud asked him self. But he couldn't come up with answer. "Is…this a sign something is wrong after she got her life energy back…?" cloud whispered to him self making his way to the living room. He slowly sat down on a couch in the living room as he made his way inside. But as he closed his eyes he heard his cell phone go off.
Cloud looked pretty confused as he opened his eyes taking out his cell phone. He checked the number. "Red…?" he said slowly opening it. "Cloud? Are you there?" red asked on the other line. Cloud slowly nodded, "Yes I'm here…" cloud answer hearing a bit of worried in red's voice. "Good, are you in Costa del Sol now…?" red asked. "Yes…I am why…?" cloud asked. "Because yuffie be will coming there with a book Sara needs to look at…" red answered. "A book…?" cloud found him self getting lost.
"Yes, a book from her family she needs to read as soon as she can…or…" cloud started to glare at the table in front of him. "…she dieing isn't she…?" cloud asked worried just to hear the answer. "…I take it she started getting tired…so…it started this quickly…" red started as worried as he was. "…so that is a sign then…" cloud slowly closed his eyes. "Yes, it is…as it said in the book, I believe they're a cure in it…but, I can't read a lot of it…because it is the cetras' Language…" cloud slowly nodded listening to him.
"I see…so only Sara could find it then…but…" cloud slowly opened his eyes looking toward the floor. "But what?" red asked. "…she hit her head…and can't remember anything right now…she didn't even know her name…" cloud didn't hear red say anything at first. Maybe he was a bit angry as well as worried right then. "…you have to get her memories back as soon as you can…" cloud nodded to him self. Yup, red sounded a bit angry.
"I'm sure she could still read the book without her memories but…she wouldn't understand what was happening to her…" cloud nodded again listening to him. "…understood…thanks…for the information…red…" cloud whispered into the cell phone. "No problem…and the ninjas will not come after her again…yuffie made sure of it…" red whispered into the cell phone. "Ok…I take it yuffie will be here in a day or so….?" Cloud felt worried waiting for the book to just get there. "Yes, let's hope…she has the long…to live…" cloud didn't like to hear that out of red; Even if it was true.
"Y-yeah…" cloud whispered back quietly. "…thanks for calling…red…" he didn't want to hear anymore. Even if it was all true, he couldn't take it. "…I know you didn't want to hear any of it…but you needed to know…take care of her as well as your self cloud…" red whispered back quietly. "Will do…bye red…" cloud whispered. "Bye…" cloud closed the cell phone and placed it into the table in front of him self.
"…so, something really is wrong Sara…your dieing…is that just the way…it has to be…?" cloud whispered looking up to the ceiling.
(Author note: you can tell I'm getting close to the end of the story because the chapter keeps getting shorter…)