Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended! I am but a lone fangirl among many with plot bunnies in her head that must be written down! I obviously do not own Final Fantasy VII or Within Temptation. I am not that awesome.
It wasn't always like this. The fighting. The yelling. The hate. The hunting. Once we were… happy. In our own loving world. I thought nothing could tear us apart, but I was wrong. Something did, something that I least expected would end what we had. You. I know it wasn't your fault. You weren't in control. Something else was, something you found out ate at your mind. Festering for days before you snapped. I don't remember much about that day. Mostly pain. Pain from that crazed look on your face. Pain from seeing Zack, best friend to both of us, dead by your hand, slumped against a tree, blood pooling around. Pain from your sword, run though my abdomen. A strange warmth, maybe it was from all the blood I had lost, but it might have been your gloved hand caressing my face. The smell and creak of the leather will forever be engraved in my mind.
"…I still remember, the smile when you tore me apart…"
Now as I sit here around the camp fire, running my hands over the scar you left. The smell of smoke surrounding me, Tifa and Aeirth asleep on my left, Cid, Vincent and Barret talking across the flames. We are hunting you, the six member of AVALANCHE. I will stop you. Before you burn down another town or hurt another person, I will kill you, I must. "Sephiroth."
"…This world may have failed you, It doesn't give you a reason why…"
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I never meant to hurt you. I wasn't in control. When I found out who, no what, I really was, I wasn't me anymore. They say the truth will set you free. Not in my case. It ruined me. The truth about my father, Vincent, Hojo's experiments on my mother, the JENOVA Project and all of Shin-Ra, it was too much and my mind couldn't take it. I tired to fight it, but it was no use, the darkness won. I don't remember killing Zack, or stabbing you, only a haze of red and black.
"…Its the fear, Fear of the dark, It's growning inside of me…"
When I came to, I didn't know where I was. Somewhere in the Nibelheim mountains probably. It didn't mater, I knew I could never go back. I blanked again shortly after that, and never came back. Until now. My first clear moment in years. And I see you. This time with your sword in my abdomen. And I smile, because its you. And the determined and heartbroken look in your eyes. I reach out and caressed your face, wiping away the wet. I slide as close as I can and give you one last kiss and reach for your hand, prying your stiff fingers from around the hilt of your sword. I can feel myself slipping again, but not into the dark madness, I want you to know that I am me again, at least for the moment here at the end. I whisper your name, and fade into oblivion,"Cloud".
"…Reach for my hand, let's show them we can, Free our minds and find a way, the world is in our hands, This is not the end…"
A/N: Well... I had to write a paper for my creative writing class based on a picture. And me being the nerd that I am picked a Final Fantasey cosplay picture off the internet. I really liked how this came out so I decided to upload it here. Hope you like!
Songs used- 'Angels', 'Its the Fear', and 'See who I am' all by Within Temptation.