Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Somewhere else in the area of a nice looking building, there was another type. Heidegger approaches President Shinra's desk in the Shinra building that it was. Reeve stands by the desk.)
President Shinra: How are the preparations going?
Heidegger: Ha, ha, ha! Smoothly, very smoothly! I assigned the Turks to this.
Reeve: President! Are we really going to do this? Simply destroy a group with only a few members...
President Shinra: What's the problem, Reeve? You want out?
(He gets up from his desk and walks around to the front, by Reeve.)
Reeve: ...No. But, as head of the Urban Development Department, I have been involved in the building and running of Midgar. That's why...
Heidegger: Reeve, you should flush those personal problems in the morning!
Reeve: The Mayor's against this anyway...
(Heidegger shrugs.)
Heidegger: Mayor? He just sits in his building all day feeding his face! You still call that a Mayor?
(He faces the President and salutes.)
Heidegger: Now if you'll excuse me, sir!
(He leaves. Reeve follows after him a few steps, then stops, his arm outstretched.)
President Shinra: You're tired. Why don't you take a couple of days off and go somewhere.
(Reeve exits.)
President Shinra: We'll destroy Sector 7 and report that AVALANCHE did it. Then we'll send in the rescue operation care of Shinra, Inc...Heh, heh, heh...this is perfect.
(Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, and Aerith fall down a chute, landing in a sewer. Cloud gets up and walks over to Yakumo.)
Cloud: You alright?
(Yakumo stands up.)
Yakumo: Yeah. Thanks for saving me earlier.
(Cloud's face turns red.)
Cloud: It's no trouble…Thanks for lending me your powers to lead me to you, Tifa, and Aerith.
Yakumo: You're welcome. I knew you would come for us in the end.
Cloud: I'm glad that sick Don didn't kiss you.
Yakumo: Huh?
Cloud: Nothing…
(He walks over to Aerith and Tifa.)
Cloud: You alright?
Aerith: I'm okay.
Tifa: Man! This is terrible.
Aerith: Well, the worst is over...
(They hear a loud rumbling. Cloud looks around...)
Aerith: Maybe not...
(Yakumo senses danger within the sewers, they weren't the only four.)
Yakumo: Something here! It's feels powerful!
Cloud: Get ready. Yakumo, stay close to me! Aid us when needed!
(Yakumo gets behind Cloud as he, Tifa, and Aerith prepare to fight with some type of creature standing in their way.)
Tifa: Get ready!
Aerith: Here we go!
(Boss battle with Apps. From this creature using water attacks, as Yakumo uses her powers in making a shield to guarding the three in time. It was really powerful. Tifa goes at with her beat rush move, Cloud with his killer slashing sword skills, and Aerith hits hard in using her staff. Working as a team takes skills in winning any battle. Fire and ice seems to weaken it, allow the that thing to get hurt more and lick at them being really gross to remove the spits off of them; she heals them very well to keep on fighting even more without giving us as Cloud finishes the creature Apps up with his Braver move and ends it. Time for them to get out of the sewers to keep moving forward.)
Yakumo: We did it? (My powers are getting better and better.)
Aerith: Amazing, Yakumo! Thanks for aiding us! You're becoming better like me!
Yakumo: You think so? What do you think, Cloud? Was I useful?
(Cloud was amazed by Yakumo's skills, still too shy to admit it, but she could tell from feeling him out.)
Cloud: Impressing.
(With the step sisters looking happy in winning their battle, Tifa was worried about the others.)
Tifa: It's too late...Marlene...Barret...the people of the slums.
Aerith: Don't give up, never give up hope. It's not easy to destroy the pillar, right?
Tifa: ...Yeah...You're right! We still have time.
Yakumo: Let's go. There's still time to do what needs to be done. I feel them out, let's go.
(They work their way out of the sewer, arriving at the Train Graveyard, a vast wasteland of broken trains and rubble. Yakumo notices Cloud was hurt from landing down hard for saving her life from her shoulder to bleed out.)
Yakumo: Oh, no! Cloud, you're bleeding!
Cloud: This? It's nothing.
Yakumo: It is! Stay still. Let me heal you.
Cloud: No, it's fine.
Yakumo: No excuses.
(Yakumo begins to use her ESP to heal Cloud's wound to making it feel better, for Tifa was amazed from it and Aerith loved that work.)
Tifa: Incredible…
Aerith: She always does what needs to be done in caring for others. Cloud seems to grow a liking to Yakumo.
Tifa: I know Cloud, and he doesn't hide his feelings too well from others.
(The two girls laugh, and Cloud looks better for Yakumo to be happy about.)
Yakumo: There, all done. It didn't look too serious. How are you feeling, Cloud?
Cloud: You shouldn't have…
Yakumo: But I wanted to. We're a team after all.
(Cloud had to say this to Aerith, thinking it was a big deal to her and Yakumo to be in all of this but they really wanted to help him out.)
Cloud: Aerith. I got you mixed up in all of this...
Aerith: Don't tell me to go home.
(Yakumo felt something out to see for herself.)
Yakumo: I feel something out from afar, I think…
(Tifa looks around.)
Tifa: Let's see...If we can just get past the trains that are lit up, we should be able to get out of here.
Yakumo: That could work.
(They climb over and through the trains in the Graveyard until they reach the Reactor Tower. Several people are milling around the base of it, and we hear noises of shooting from above.)
Tifa: We made it! The pillar's standing!
Cloud: Wait! You hear something...above us?
Yakumo: He's right! I hear it too!
Aerith: ...gun fire?
(Yakumo feels and hears where it was coming from.)
Yakumo: Up there!
(The view goes up forward to show the tower, slowly panning upward, until we see the top of the tower. Guns are blazing. At the top, we see a flash of gunfire, and then someone falls twenty stories down to land at the base of the tower. It's Wedge. Cloud dashes over and kneels by him. Yakumo was horrified to see someone fall down like that; she felt that he wasn't going to make it.)
Yakumo: No!
Cloud: Wedge! You all right!?
Wedge: …Cloud...You remembered...My name. Barret's up top. ...help him...An' Cloud...Sorry, I wasn't any help.
(Cloud, after a silent pause, stands.)
Yakumo: He didn't make it, Cloud…I'm so sorry…
(Yakumo was upset, even harder on both Cloud and Tifa as well.)
Cloud: I'm going up! Aerith! You look after Wedge.
(Tifa walks to Aerith.)
Tifa: Aerith, do me a favor. I have a bar called '7th Heaven' in this neighborhood. There's a little girl named Marlene there...
(Aerith nods.)
Aerith: Don't worry. I'll put her somewhere safe.
Tifa: It's dangerous here! Everyone get away from the pillar, quickly! Everyone get out of Sector 7!
(They all scatter. Cloud and Tifa climb the tower.)
Aerith: Don't worry, you let me handle this, Yakumo, go with them.
Yakumo: What? I don't want to leave you here.
Aerith: I'll be alright. I'll make sure Wedge and Marlene will get out safely. You be careful.
Yakumo: Okay. Be careful!
Aerith: Same with you!
Yakumo: Cloud! Tifa! Wait! I'm coming with you two!
(They allow it, but on one condition…)
Cloud: Yakumo, shield Tifa. I'll go save the others. Stay close to her.
Yakumo: Be careful.
(She understood the mission leaving Tifa to worry about Cloud even more.)
Tifa: Cloud! Wait!
(Cloud, Yakumo, and Tifa climb the flights of stairs up the side of the tower. Along the way, they meet Biggs, who is leaning over the railing, wounded.)
Biggs: Cloud...so you don't care...what happens...to the...Planet?
Cloud: You're wounded...
Biggs: Thanks, Cloud...doesn't worry 'bout me...Barret's...fighting up there. Go help him...
(Continuing up the tower, they meet Jessie, who is lying on the stairs, also hurt.)
Jessie: …Cloud...I'm glad...I could talk with you one last time.
Cloud: Is that so...
Jessie: ...Is...That so...? Ha...cool...as usual...ex-SOLDIER. ...always...I liked that...in you...
(Reaching the top of the tower, they meet Barret, who is fighting the numerous Shinra enemies.)
Yakumo: From Wedge, Biggs, and Jessie…Who's that!?
Tifa: It's Barret! He's alright!
(Yakumo remembers him who was with the two.)
Yakumo: That's right! He's on our side then.
Barret: Tifa! Cloud! You came! Be careful! Keep that girl safe! They're attacking from the helicopter.
Tifa: Better equip ourselves before they attack in full force!
(They equip themselves for Yakumo feels it out to aiding them out.)
Yakumo: Incoming enemies!
Tifa: Here they come!
(A helicopter flies past, and Reno drops from it. He runs over to a mechanism on the side of the pillar and presses a few buttons on it. Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, and Tifa run over. Reno sees Yakumo this time without Aerith for his face to turn read all of a sudden from looking at her.)
Yakumo: (It's that Reno person!)
Reno: (I seen that girl before…) You're too late. Once I push this button...
(Beep.)
Reno: That's all, folks! Mission accomplished.
Tifa: We have to disarm it! Cloud! Barret! Yakumo! Please!
Reno: I can't have you do that. No one gets in the way of Reno and the Turks...
(Boss battle with Reno. Yakumo was on backup from before as the three were ready to take him down. As Reno blocks Barret with some magic-like barrier for Yakumo to remove it off of him; his weapon was deadly for Cloud to have a sword to sword combat, and Tifa using ice as Barret gets back into the game in using fire on him and his Big Shot move. Reno puts the electric shocks on Barret hard for Yakumo to shield the best she could. For Barret had to keep on firing his weapon many times at Reno for Yakumo to freeing the others from his shielding spells, weakening the man, he leaves them in ending the fight just like that.)
Reno: It's time. (That girl…She looks cute.)
(Reno jumps off the edge of the tower to still see Yakumo on the way out to keep thinking about her so much. Tifa runs over to the mechanism and tries to disarm the bomb.)
Yakumo: He escaped! The bomb!
Tifa: Cloud! I don't know how to stop this! Try it!
(Cloud examines it.)
Cloud: It's not a normal time bomb.
(Yakumo feels it out, for Cloud was right, it wasn't.)
Yakumo: This is bad!
(The helicopter hovers up to the side of the tower. A Turk, Tseng, pops his head out the side window.)
Tseng: That's right. You'll have a hard time disarming that one. It'll blow the second some stupid jerk touches it.
Tifa: Please, stop it!
Tseng: Ha, ha, ha...Only a Shinra Executive can set up or disarm the Emergency Plate Release System.
Barret: Shut yer hole!
(He fires on the helicopter.)
Tseng: I wouldn't try that...You just might make me injure our special guest.
(A woman in a pink dress raises her head up in the window, it was Aerith.)
Yakumo: It's Aerith!
Aerith: Yakumo! Be strong for me!
Tifa: Aerith!
Tseng: Oh, you know each other? How nice you could see each other one last time. You should thank me.
(Yakumo got upset to seeing her sister in danger. Tifa keeps her from bay to avoid the danger even further.)
Yakumo: Let her go!
Tifa: Stop, Yakumo!
Yakumo: No! Cloud! Save her please!
(This made Cloud angry.)
Cloud: What are you gonna do with Aerith?
Tseng: I haven't decided. Our orders were to find and catch the last remaining Ancient. It's taken us a long time, but now I can finally report this to the President.
(Yakumo heard of that word before.)
Yakumo: (Ancient…? Aerith!?)
(Aerith leans over the side of the helicopter.)
Aerith: Tifa, don't worry! She's all right!
(Tseng slaps her back into the helicopter. Hard.)
Tifa: Aerith!
Yakumo: Stop it!
(She leans back out.)
Aerith: Hurry and get out! Take care of Yakumo for me!
Tseng: Ha, ha, ha...Well, it should be starting right about now. Think you can escape in time?
(The helicopter flies away, and the pillar begins to explode, sending chunks of flaming steel and concrete falling to the ground.)
Yakumo: Aerith! Come back!
(Cloud pulls Yakumo's arm to get out of the area in time from going back down.)
Tifa: Once that plate starts coming down its too late. We gotta hurry!
(Barret hops up on the railing of the tower and grabs a hanging wire.)
Barret: Yo, we can use this wire to get out!
Cloud: Yakumo! Hold on to me! Don't let go!
(Yakumo had no choice but to escape with the others and listen to Cloud, Aerith wanted her to.)
Yakumo: I won't!
(Tifa climbs in Barret's lap. Cloud climbs up on his shoulders. And Yakumo was being carried by Cloud. The pillar explodes. The people in the slums panic as the upper plate come crashing down to crush their homes. Cloud, Tifa, Yakumo, and Barret swing on the wire and barely escape the falling plate as President Shinra watches it all from his office window in Shinra HQ, opera music blaring from the stereo. Cloud, Tifa, Yakumo, and Barret come to in the playground. Everything has been demolished; shards of debris protrude grotesquely from the happy face of the children's slide; steam rises from the ground in several places. Thanks to Yakumo's ESP, she use her shield to protect the others in time 'for some of the other people as well'.)
Yakumo: Is everyone alright?
(Right away the three get up looking like they were unharmed.)
Tifa: We're fine.
Cloud: Yakumo?
(Yakumo looked upset.)
Yakumo: I'm fine too, but…Those people took my sister away…
(She got upset for Cloud hated to see her like this. Barret runs over to the pile of debris that was the gate to Sector 7.)
Tifa: What about everyone else?
Yakumo: I think…They got out from below this part…That is all I can feel. This is just horrible…
Barret: Marlene! MAR-LE-NE!
(He runs to one side.)
Barret: Biggs!
(He runs to the other side.)
Barret: Wedge!
(He runs back to the center.)
Barret: Jessie!
(He punches the debris repeatedly.)
Barret: GOD DAMN IT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT ALL TO HELL!
(He stops; his shoulders are hitching.)
Barret: What the hell's it all for!? ARGGHHHH!
(Yakumo could feel so much pain within Barret's heart and anger coming out.)
Yakumo: His poor step daughter… (I don't feel her out. Maybe she escaped in time?)
Cloud: Hey, Barret!
Tifa: Barret!
Barret: ARGGHHHH!
(Cloud, Yakumo, and Tifa run up to him.)
Cloud: Hey!
Tifa: Barret, stop...Please stop, Barret.
Barret: URGHHHH!
(He fires on the pile of debris, sweeping it with bullets...then stops, and falls to his knees.)
Barret: God damn...
(Yakumo hugs Barret from behind to calming him down; she was more upset as he was too.)
Yakumo: Barret, stop! This won't bring those three back! I'm sorry!
(He punches the ground. Soon fading into black and then back. Barret is sitting on the end of the slide. Cloud, Yakumo, and Tifa stand nearby.)
Barret: Marlene...
Yakumo: Tifa, you know it too, right? I feel her out with life in her; Aerith said she helped her out.
Tifa: She did? That's right!
(Tifa had something to say to Barret.)
Tifa: ... Barret...? Marlene is...I think Marlene is safe.
(Barret looks up.)
Barret: ...huh?
Tifa: Right before they took Aerith, she said, 'Don't worry, she's all right.' She was probably talking about Marlene.
(Barret stands.)
Barret: R, really!?
Yakumo: Yes, I'm Yakumo by the way. Aerith's little step sister with powers who aided her, Tifa, and Cloud here. She's okay.
Tifa: But...
Barret: Biggs...Wedge...Jessie...
(Yakumo could feel out Marlene, but not for Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge anymore.)
Yakumo: I'm afraid…I don't feel them out anywhere…I don't think they made it, so sorry…
Cloud: All three of them were in the pillar.
Barret: Think I don't know that?
(He turns, not facing either of them.)
Barret: But...we, all of us fought together.
(He sits on the slide again.)
Barret: I don't wanna think of them as dead!
Yakumo: None of us want to. Believe me…
Tifa: And the other people in Sector 7.
Barret: This is all screwed up! They destroyed an entire village just to get to us! They killed so many people...
Yakumo: Barret!
Tifa: …are you saying it's our fault? Because AVALANCHE was here? Innocent people lost their lives because of us?
(He stands up and shakes his head.)
Barret: No, Tifa! That ain't it! Hell no! It ain't us! It's the damn Shinra! It's never been no body but the Shinra!
(Cloud steps back, facing away from Barret, Yakumo, and Tifa. Barret faces away and raises his arms.)
Barret: They're evil and destroyin' our planet just to...build their power and line their own damn pockets with gold! If we don't get rid of them, they're gonna kill this planet!
(He turns around.)
Barret: Our fight ain't never gonna be over until we get rid of them!
(Tifa shakes her head.)
Tifa: ...I don't know.
Barret: What don't you know!? You don't believe me?
Yakumo: I do. But think of us first.
Tifa: It's not that. I'm not sure about ...me. My feelings.
Barret: Yakumo, was it? What do you think?
Yakumo: Well, I agree in some of your reasons, but I think of more is by sticking together before we know what we have to do next.
(Barret faces Cloud, whose back is still turned.)
Barret: An' what about you?
(Cloud looks up, still not turning.)
Cloud: ...
(He leaves the playground. Yakumo follows Cloud.)
Yakumo: Cloud, wait!
Barret: Yo! Where's he think he's goin'?
Tifa: Oh! Aerith!
Barret: Oh yeah, that girl. Yakumo's older step sister, right? What's up with her?
Tifa: ...I don't really know...But she's the one I left Marlene with.
Barret: Damn! Marlene!
(Barret runs to the exit of the playground, then stops and turns.)
Barret: Tifa. There ain't no turnin' back now.
(He exits. Tifa heads for the exit, stops and looks back over her shoulder...then exits. Fading away again to fading back in. Cloud is walking along the broken highway, away from the playground.)
Barret: Cloud!
(He turns to see Barret, Yakumo, and Tifa run up.)
Barret: Take me to Marlene!
Tifa: You're going to help Aerith?
Yakumo: Of course we are. Right, Cloud?
Cloud: Yeah...But before that, there's something I want to know.
Tifa: What's that?
(Cloud takes a step forward.)
Cloud: It's about the Ancients. Yakumo, do you know anything about it.
(It was hard for her to even try.)
Yakumo: Well…I heard of the legends, but I never thought of them to being true…Aerith was born differently. I was just found alone in the world all of a sudden when I was in a deep sleep, until she and Mom took me in to become a family…Sorry. I wish I knew more. I wish I knew more about myself.
(Flashes white, as if lightning were striking, then goes completely black.)
Yakumo: Cloud?
"In my veins courses the blood of the Ancients. I am one of the rightful heirs to this planet!"
(Then goes white again...then we are back at the broken highway. Cloud looks down.)
Cloud: Sephiroth...?
(Cloud falls down. Tifa, Yakumo, and Barret run to him.)
Yakumo: Cloud! Are you alright!?
Tifa: Are you okay?
Barret: Pull it together, man!
Cloud: I'm fine…
(Yakumo helps Cloud back up.)
Cloud: Yakumo, does your Mother know?
Yakumo: Maybe…Let's go talk to her. Marlene might be there. Come on.
(He rises back up thanks to Yakumo's help. They all travel to Aerith's house. Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, and Tifa arrive at Aerith's house. Aerith's mother, Elmyra, is standing, facing the wall. They walk over to her. Yakumo might know what she's thinking about right now.)
Yakumo: Mom! I'm home! I brought some of my new friends over and Cloud!
Elmyra: Oh! Yakumo! You're okay!
(The two hugged, for she sees the others to talk to Cloud next.)
Yakumo: Listen, Mom, about Aerith…
Elmyra: I know…I wish I didn't…Cloud...wasn't it?
(She turns around.)
Elmyra: It's about Aerith, isn't it?
(Cloud bows his head.)
Cloud: ...Sorry. The Shinra have her.
Yakumo: We'll get her back! Promise!
Elmyra: I know. They took her from here.
Cloud: They were here?
Elmyra: That's what Aerith wanted...
Cloud: Why is Shinra after Aerith?
(Elmyra faces away.)
Yakumo: Mom, I know you're hiding something from us. You found me abandoned, and Aerith's not related to you or I. So please tell us who she is. What is this Ancient thing?
Elmyra: Aerith is an Ancient. The sole survivor.
Yakumo: What? No way…!
Barret: ...What did you say? But, aren't you her mother?
Elmyra: ...Not her real mother. Oh...it must have been 15 years ago Very well, Yakumo, I'll tell you. I'll tell all of you everything about her...During the war. My husband was sent to the front. Some faraway place called Wutai. One day, I went to the station because I got a letter saying he was coming home on leave.
(A train whistle blows, and we see the Sector 7 train station. A train is pulling into the station. The door opens, and bright light fills the screen. We see various people getting off, greeted by their families...Elmyra stands near, watching the people getting off...Then the train door closes. She walks, afraid, to the conductor, who shakes his head. She sits forlornly on the steps to the platform.)
Elmyra: My husband never came back. I wonder if something happened to him. No, I'm sure his leave was just canceled. I went to the station every day. Then, one day...
(Then we see a woman lying on the steps to the platform. A young girl is running around her, crying. Elmyra runs over and kneels by the woman. The young girl runs to her.)
Elmyra: You used to see this sort of thing a lot during the war. Her last words were, "Please take Aerith somewhere safe." My husband never came back. I had no child. I was probably lonely. So I decided to take her home with me.
(A train whistle sounds…)
Elmyra: Aerith and I became close very quickly. That child loved to talk. She used to talk to me about everything.
(We are back at the living room, but some time past. Aerith as a young girl runs down the stairs, then trips on the rug. Elmyra rises from the table, helps her up, hugs her, then Aerith scampers out the front door.)
Elmyra: She told me she escaped from some sort of research laboratory somewhere. And that her mother had already returned to the planet, so she wasn't lonely...and many other things.
(We are back at the living room, back in the present time.)
Barret: Returned to the planet?
Yakumo: Is that so, was she an alien?
Elmyra: I didn't know what she meant. I asked if she meant a star in the sky. But she said it was this planet...She was a mysterious child in many ways.
Aerith: Mom.
(Elmyra turns toward the stairs. They pans up, hiding Cloud and the others, then pans down again and they are gone. Aerith, as a young girl, runs down the stairs. Elmyra is speaking in the present.)
Aerith: Please don't cry.
Elmyra: Aerith just blurted that out all of a sudden. When I asked her if something had happened...
Aerith: Someone dear to you has just died. His spirit was coming to see you, but he already returned to the planet.
Elmyra: At that time I didn't believe her.
(The living room disappears off the left side.)
Elmyra: But...
(It comes back, from the left. Elmyra is sitting at the table, holding her head in her hands. Her shoulders are hitching.)
Elmyra: Several days later...We received a notice saying my husband had died...and that's how it was. A lot had happened, but we were happy. Until one day...
(Tseng is in the living room with Elmyra.)
Tseng: We want you to return Aerith to us. We've been searching for her for a long time.
(Aerith peeks out from behind Elmyra.)
Aerith: No! Never!
Tseng: Aerith, you're a very special child. You are of special blood. Your real mother was an 'Ancient'.
Elmyra: Of course I heard it. That she was an Ancient.
Tseng: The Ancients will lead us to a land of supreme happiness. Aerith will be able to bring happiness to all those in the slums. That is why Shinra would like Aerith's cooperation...
(Aerith comes out from behind Elmyra)
Aerith: He's wrong! I'm not an Ancient! I'm not!
Tseng: But Aerith, surely you hear voices sometimes when you're all alone?
Aerith: No, I don't!
(Aerith runs out the front door.)
Elmyra: But I knew. I knew about her mysterious powers...She tried so hard to hide it, so I acted as though I never noticed.
(The living room, seen from the top down, comes back into view from the top.)
Yakumo: So she is special like me…
(Cloud could see how upsetting Yakumo was from hearing all of this.)
Cloud: It's amazing how she's avoided the Shinra for all these years...
Elmyra: The Shinra needed her. So I guess they wouldn't harm her.
Tifa: But, why now...?
Elmyra: She brought a little girl here with her. On the way here, Tseng found them. She probably couldn't get away fast enough. She decided to go to the Shinra in exchange for the little girl's safety.
Cloud: Must be Marlene.
Yakumo: It is her…She's here! She's alright, Barret!
Barret: Marlene! Aerith was caught because of Marlene!? I'm sorry. Marlene's my daughter. I'm ...really...sorry...
Elmyra: You're her father!? How in the world could you ever leave a child alone like that!?
Barret: ...please don't start with that. I think about it all the time. What would happen to Marlene, if I...But you gotta understand somethin'...I don't got an answer. I wanna be with Marlene...But I gotta fight. 'Cause if I don't...the planet's gonna die. So I'm gonna keep fightin'! But, I'm worried 'bout Marlene. I really just wanna be with her...always. See? I'm goin' in circles, now.
Elmyra: I think I understand what you're saying...She's upstairs asleep. Why don't you go and see her.
(Barret goes upstairs.)
Tifa: It's my fault...I was the one who got Aerith involved in this.
Yakumo: No, Tifa. Aerith told me to go on with you guys while she helped out the others, it's my fault.
Elmyra: Don't say that. Aerith doesn't think that. You too, Yakumo.
Yakumo: Then tell me, Mom. What happened to me? I lost my memories when you and Aerith took me in.
(Elmyra looked down for she does remember when she found Yakumo along with Aerith.)
Elmyra: Aerith and I found you when you were little. Just out of nowhere really…Walking all alone, wet, cold, and looking sad to be wondering around alone. You don't remember anything about where you came from, who your parents were, and your gift. Nothing. At least you weren't another Ancients like Aerith was. Still, I took you in and had two wonderful step daughters into my life. Doesn't matter, Yakumo? I love you just the way you are and your powers have gotten so much better. A special little girl that you and Aerith are to me. I wish I can find out more about who you really are too, it's still a mystery to me. Don't be mad about it, okay?
(Yakumo looked sad to try to hide it from Elmyra.)
Yakumo: Oh, I see…Excuse me, Mom; I need to be alone for a bit. I need to think things through.
(Yakumo goes up stairs next, for Elmyra could tell that she wasn't taking it so well or Aerith being an Ancient. So she asks Cloud to do something for her.)
Elmyra: Cloud, if you could…? For my daughter please?
(So Cloud goes upstairs to talk to Yakumo, also sees into the bedroom, where Barret is sitting with Marlene.)
Barret: I'm so glad...I'm so glad you're all right...
Marlene: Daddy, don't cry. Your whiskers hurt!
(Cloud leaves the bedroom. Barret stands.)
Barret: Cloud!
(Cloud turns.)
Barret: You gonna go help Aerith, right? She's done so much for me...If it's the Shinra you're dealin' with, I can't just sit here! I'm comin', too! Yakumo would be super pissed if something were to happen to her step sister. I like her. She cheered me up to know that my daughter was alright and saved your sorry ass since yesterday.
(Marlene runs around Barret to Cloud.)
Marlene: Guess what? Guess what? Aerith was asking me lots of questions. Like what kind of person Cloud is. I bet she likes you, Cloud!
Cloud: Let's hope so.
Marlene: I won't tell Tifa.
(Cloud goes to leave. Only to see Yakumo next in her room, so he knocks on her door.)
Cloud: Yakumo, may I come in?
(Yakumo unlocks the door to sitting back down on her bed.)
Yakumo: It's unlocked.
(Cloud comes in to see how upset Yakumo was.)
Yakumo: Look, Cloud, I'm not mad at Mom, nor I ever will be. Same thing about not knowing about myself with any memories of it. I'm just upset to learn what Aerith really is and the danger she's in from Shinra's doing. Terrible people. Those three friends of yours…! I know I have to go with you, Tifa, and Barret to save her and stop those bad Shinra people. I want to be useful after you're doing so much for me. To protect my Mom blood related or not and Marlene's future. Even everyone else's all over this planet. Sorry…This is too much coming from someone like me. You must think I'm annoying, huh?
(Cloud feeling shy could feel how Yakumo's was feeling, so he reaches his hand out to hers to be held tight to her surprise for him to be doing that.)
Yakumo: Ah!
Cloud: Yakumo, you're not annoying. I owe your sister so much to pay back my debt…Because I felt like it. And you…For some reason I feel right wanting you with me. But safe.
Yakumo: You're asking me to come with you guys?
Cloud: I don't think I can do this alone. You're useful aiding me, Barret, and Tifa. And if so…I'll…Help you find out about you some out.
(Yakumo was so happy to hear that from Cloud to be smiling again and hugs him. To him, he kind of liked it.)
Yakumo: Oh, Cloud! This makes me so happy! I'll listen and be useful for you guys, I promise! We're going to save Aerith! Yeah!
(Cloud smiles a little for Yakumo to see.)
Yakumo: Are you smiling…? Aw, so cute! In a nice way…
Cloud: You think so?
(The two stared into each other's eyes to look blush all over them, Cloud changes the subject.)
Cloud: Remember, Yakumo, keep doing what you're doing. Stay close or with the others, and you have nothing to worry about. We'll find your memories on who you are soon; can you wait for a little while?
Yakumo: Okay, I'll try to. Aerith comes first. Shall we get ready to go then?
Yakumo goes up from her bed while holding Cloud's hand.
Cloud: Yeah, let's go.
(The two were all good to go. As they head downstairs and Barret tells Marlene to stay safe with Elmyra in her home, the four teams were about to head out in saving Aerith from Shinra.)
Yakumo: Mom, I'm fine. I have to go with them to save Aerith, please…
(Elmyra understood to only hug Yakumo to tell love and care for her always.)
Elmyra: Of course, Yakumo. Be strong. I'm sure Cloud will take good care of you.
(Yakumo blushes.)
Yakumo: Oh, Mom…
(Tifa was all set to go as well.)
Tifa: You're going after Aerith, right?
Cloud: Yeah.
Yakumo: Me too.
Tifa: I'm going with you.
Cloud: We're going right into Shinra headquarters. ...You gotta be prepared for the worst like Yakumo is.
Tifa: I know.
Yakumo: Are you sure?
Tifa: Right now, I feel I have to push myself to the limit. If I stayed here…I'll go crazy.
(Barret runs downstairs. He speaks to Elmyra.)
Barret: Sorry, but can you take care of Marlene a bit longer?
Elmyra: Yes, I don't mind.
Barret: This place is dangerous now. You better go somewhere else.
Elmyra: ...You're right. But promise me that you'll come back to her. Don't get yourself killed.
Yakumo: We'll be alright. I'll protect them. You two get somewhere safe, love you Mom. Bye! (I will find out about myself. But first, Aerith, we're coming to save you. Wait for me, Big Sister.)
Elmyra: Bye, Yakumo. Be careful out there. Love you too.
(Cloud, Tifa, Yakumo, and Barret leave Aerith's house and stand in the yard.)
Tifa: How do we get to the Shinra Building?
Barret: There ain't no train that goes up there anymore...
Tifa: Well, let's just go to Wall Market. We might be able to find something there.
Yakumo: Then let's go there. Come on!
Cloud: …You heard the lady.
(As Barret and Tifa were surprised to see Cloud holding a girl's hands to being shown as he and Yakumo stick together. As the four were on their way to stopping the people of Shinra in saving Aerith in time and get payback to those who have falling 'as Elmyra takes Marlene somewhere safe afterwards', the next fight won't be so easy; between Shinra, Turk, Ancients being Aerith the last survivor, and learning about her past, to finding Yakumo's later on with Cloud's help, what will become of them next? Into the Wall Market area they headed to in getting to where they needed to be.)