Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Red, and Yuffie made it on to the Shinra ship, now in disguises to get to the place where Sepriroth might've headed to, only to sneak in from Rufus as the new Shinra Preseident next in line. Dudley follows them to the other side lucky to run really fast, en route to Costa Del Sol.)
Yakumo: Wow!
(Yakumo almost fell for she wasn't use to beng on the ship beng her first time for Cloud to catch her.)
Cloud: Be careful.
Yakumo: Thanks, Cloud.
Cloud: First time on a ship?
Yakumo: Well, yes. And that we're wearing these goofy solider outfits.
Cloud: The soon we land, the better we can continue our journey.
Yakumo: Just far to somewhere else from home though...
Cloud: It'll be fun discovering new land.
Yakumo: I guess it does. Should we have a look around while we wait?
Cloud: We might as well. Stay with me.
Yakumo: Okay.
(One of the people they see first was Aerith.)
Aeirth: Umm... It's me, Aerith. Hey, Cloud. Did you see the Airship at Junon?
Cloud: ...I heard it was big, but I didn't expect it to be THAT big.
Aerith: That was REALLY something. Hey, do you think I could get on it?
Yakumo: Aerith...
Cloud: I dunno...It's a Shinra weapon. We probably should've destroyed it.
Aerith: ...Hmm. But just once, I'd like to ride it. Just once, I'd like to ride that Airship.
Yakumo: And it's the first for me as well.
(Next was Tifa, though she hated dressing up.)
Yakumo: You doing well, Tifa?
Tifa: Sort of...But, you know what? I really hate this uniform. Uniforms, soldiers, war. I hate 'em all. They take away the things and people you love...I wish they'd all disappear. Right, Cloud?
Cloud: Yeah...
Tifa: You're right! Uh, yes sir, I'll continue my watch sir! Hee hee...
(Also Red was having troubling fitting in by standing on two legs instead of four.)
Yakumo: Red, is that you?
Red Xlll:... ...It is me. Red XIII. I'm a little woozy, but I shouldn't get caught. Humans only look at appearances anyway. Anyway you look at it, I'd say I make a fine human being. It's pretty hard standing on two feet...
Yakumo: Just hang in there a little while longer, okay?
(Cloud and Yakumo go downstairs.)
Aerith: Hey, Cloud, Yakumo, did you two see Barret? I hope he's not doing anything stupid...
Yakumo: What's wrong with him this time?
(Cloud and Yakumo go back up to the deck, where he finds Barret, dressed like Popeye, peering in a bay window at Rufus and Heidegger.)
Yakumo: There he is.
Barret: Look, Cloud. Yakumo It' Rufus and Heidegger. They're this close but we can't do a thing to 'em...Ummmmmm... Gmmmmmm...How can he... Goin' off laughin' like that? Because of him, Biggs... Wedge... Jessie...! Gggggggh... Ggggh...! Ggggggggghhh!
(He runs away and clenches his fists in anger.)
Yakumo: We know how upsetting you are like Cloud and Tifa too, but this is no time to get upset about it.
Barret:God! I know, but I can't take it anymore! I'm gonna settle things here and now...
(A siren begins to sound.)
"Emergency alert! Reports of a suspicious character found! Those not on detail, search the ship. Report when found! I repeat. Suspicious character found on board! Those not on detail, search the ship. Report when found!"
Yakumo: (Oh, no! Do they know we snucked in?)
Barret: Damn, did they find us? Hey, that don't seem like us. Do they mean... Tifa and the
others!?
(He turns to Cloud.)
Barret: Get off your spikey butt and let's go, Cloud! Come on, Yakumo!
Yakumo: Let's go find the others!
(They hurry to the main deck. Everyone is gathered there.)
Tifa: Everyone all right!?
Yuffie: I know I am.
Barret: You all right!?
Aerith: Huh?
Tifa: Everyone's here... right?
Red Xlll: Seems like we all are.
Barret: Hey, wait. You don't think that suspicious character is...
(They all say it together but Yuffie.)
"Sephiroth!?"
Tifa: Really!?
(Yakumo tries feeling out Sephiroth by touching the ship to sense him.)
Yakumo: I think so...It's hard to tell from this vechicle being made of metal, but I know that bad feeling from anyone. Like him.
Barret: Well, how the hell am I supposed to know!?
Cloud: ...Let's find out.
Red XIII: It's the most logical thing to do. Then, who's going to go?
Yuffie: Are you sure? I don't even like Sepiroth anyway. And besides...He sounds creepy just thinknig about him.
(Seems that Yakumo told Yuffie about the whole detail that was going on, and what she was starting to remember since they arrive on the ship.)
Yakumo: We have to, Yuffie, we have no choice. In that case...We better change back. No point of hiding anymore.
(Everyone is now in their normal clothes, all seven of them. They stick together this time to see who was the real intruder on the ship that they might think it is 'him'...)
Cloud: ...Sephiroth...All right, let's go!
Yakumo: Stay close, everyone.
(They travel down to the engine room. Dead or dying people are strewn all over.)
Yakumo: Looks bad. He's losing a lot of blood, he won't make it I'm afraid.
"...the Engine Room... a suspicious... character...No... there's no way... that... not a human... That thing's not human..."
Yakumo: (It must be him.)
(In the engine room, they see a captain standing before a control panel.)
Cloud: Is it... Sephiroth?
Yakumo: Cloud?
(Yakumo feels it out again.)
Yakumo: (It was him alright.)
(The captain turns, slowly... then falls over, dead.)
Cloud: No... not Sephiroth!
Sephiroth: ...After a long sleep...
Yakumo: Who said that?
(They all look around for the source of the voice.)
Sephiroth: ...the time...time has... come...
(Yakumo felt the danger comign and Aerith could see it to warn Cloud to move away.)
Aerith and Yakumo: Look, Cloud!
(The figure of Sephiroth arises where the captain stood. Yakumo could sense pain, darkness, and hatred through the man's eyes being really bad.)
Yakumo: So that's...Sephiroth...!
Cloud: Sephiroth! You're alive!
Sephiroth: ...Who are you?
Cloud: You don't remember me!? I'm Cloud!
Sephiroth:Cloud...
Cloud: Sephiroth! What are you thinking!? What are you doing!?
Yakumo: Cloud, maybe he lost his memories too like you and Tifa did somehow five years ago. That's all I can get out of him other than being very powerful than all of us.
Sephiroth: ...the time... is now...
Cloud: What are you saying!? Be more...
Yakumo: Look out!
(The figure of Sephiroth rises, then crashes into Cloud and the others, sending them to the floor. Looking at Yakumo really quick to making her scared, he smirks only to make his escape after that. It soars skyward.)
Yakumo: (What was that just now?)
Cloud: Everyone alright?
(The other six were fine, only for some creature to come out of nowhere.)
Yakumo: Incoming enemy!
(Boss battle with Jenova-BIRTH. As Yuffie and Aerith use their weapons against it and Red slashes it many times, Tifa tries to flamethrow burn the creature. Cloud uses a new item to summon a creature called, Diamin Dust to freeze over the thing being really powerful looking; for Tifa using quake and Barret uses his Death Blow move to summon Dudley and Moggle being his move. Seems to be shooting a type of laser at them for Yakumo to sheild as the others hack 'n slash, fire guns, and fighting skills at it many more times. Lucky that Yakumo was there to shield everyone from the blast in time along with healing them with Aerith's too. Tifa shows off her Beat Down Sumersault at it, more attakcs coming as Barret fires and Cloud slashes may times at it hard. So far so good, for more beats downs, protection, and Tifa's Beat finished it off. Though Sepriroth escaped, they know what they had to do next.)
Yuffie: Wow! Awesome! That was much better than taking Materia!
(A pulsating limb of Jenova, leftover from the battle, lies on the floor.)
Tifa: I've seen this somewhere... before.
(Cloud bends down.)
Cloud: ...Jenova. The arm of Jenova.
Yakumo: It is?
Aerith: Jenova... With this thing?
(The arm vanishes.)
Cloud: So it WAS Sephiroth.
Red Xlll: No doubt about that.
Tifa: He said something about it being time for something.
Cloud: ...Time...is now?
Barret: This doesn't make any sense here!
Aerith: Hmmm... I don't get it. Hey, Cloud. Can you explain it to us?
Yakumo: We have to know. I fee like you might know what it is.
Cloud: I'll try, but don't interrupt me while I'm explaining.
(He steps away.)
Cloud: Sephiroth went off searching for the Promised Land, so he could become the ruler of the planet... That was 5 years ago. Then Sephiroth came back and killed President Shinra. It might have something to do with the creature I saved.
Yakumo: You think she's back?
(He turns.)
Cloud: Hard to say, seems like she hasn't been around for a long time. Maybe she's dead. Then it made me wonder about the girl I saved...Maybe she's part of that even from five years ago. And then just now all of us saw Sephiroth.
Yakumo: Then...It could've been my older sister!
(He walks forward.)
Cloud: Maybe, Yakumo. She might be the big key now than the other one was... He was carrying Jenova with him...This much I do know. He told me he wants to go to the Promised Land with his mother, Jenova...I guess that's about it.
Yakumo: Then...Maybe finding my siter was the one you rescued! We have to find her, she's the only family member of mine that I have left in the world!
Aerith: A SOLIDER like her could be the ones who turn into the creatures in the pods...We might have a chance to stop Sepriroth and fidning her.
Yakumo: That'll be our next big case.
(A voice comes over the intercom.)
"Dock workers- We will be docking in Costa del Sol in 5 minutes. Prepare for docking."
Aerith: Maybe we shouldn't stay in here anymore...
Yakumo: Better get out of here before anyone sees us. Let's go! (Sister, you're alive! I have to find you though, you're in danger!)
(All leave but Cloud. He pauses at the doorway and turns back.)
Cloud: Sephiroth... is alive...The Promised Land... Does it really exist...?
Yakumo: Cloud, we need to go.
(He leaves the engine room with Yakumo. On the world map, we see the Shinra ship dock at Costa Del Sol. Everyone leaves the ship safely without any other guard seeing them.)
Yuffie: Land ho!
(Dudley catches up to them, Yakumo hugs him.)
Yakumo: Yeah! Dudley, you made it!
(He makes a cute noise to being happy.)
Yakumo: Just keep doing what you do, boy, you are wonderful having you around.
Red Xlll: I guess we made it here with our lives.
Yakumo Seems so. We got lucky.
(The area looks really nice like a summer resort area.)
Barret: Damn! Sure is hot here! But I sure feel better now that I can say good-bye to this sailor suit. Yo listen up! Y'all be sure to mingle like regular folks here!
Aerith: Oh, too bad. I liked Barret's sailorsuit. He looked so cute.
Barret: ...What'ya mean "cute "?
Tifa: Right... well, uh...Barret, why don't you use that sailor suit for pajamas? Right, Cloud?
Cloud: I guess.
Yakumo: Ahhh... You look like a bear wearing a marshmallow.
Barret: The hell's that supposed to mean!? This happens to be the most comfortable, so shu'up!
(Yakumo and the others laugh for CLoud to smile to see Yakumo being happy.)
Red XIII: ...puff...puff...Would you kindly hurry? The heat here is drying my nose.
Yakumo: It is hard to have fur all over you.
Red Xlll: It can be hard to witstand this.
Cloud: All right. We'll take a break here and then head off. Don't wander too far off.
Barret: I'll wander wherever I damn well want! Who made him the leader?
Red XIII: It looks like my mane got messed up. I'm going to rest somewhere cool.
Yuffie: Me too. Let's go in a pool.
(Everyone leaves the dock.)
Yakumo: Having fun and watching out for danger, got it.
(A helicopter hovers over the dock. It lands on an elevated pad near the water. Rufus and Heidegger get off the ship. Two sailors begin working on the helicopter.)
Heideggar: What a long boat ride that was!
Rufus: Hmmm...Good work everyone...
Heidegger: Gya, Heh, heh..., ha! Hurry up with that!
"Yes, sir!"
(Rufus and Heidegger walk to the center of the dock.)
Rufus: I heard Sephiroth was on board.
Heidegger: ...Yes.
(Rufus turns to Heidegger.)
Rufus: And it seems Cloud and theothers were on board, too.
Heidegger: ...Yes.
(Rufus flips his hair back.)
Rufus: They all slipped through...You messed up big this time, Heidegger.
Heidegger: I'm ashamed of myself.
Rufus: Is that all you can do...? Give one word answers and apologize for everything?
(Heidegger cowers.)
"Ready for departure, sir!"
(Rufus walks toward the helicopter.)
Rufus: ...Do something. I'll be expecting results.
(Rufus continues to the helicopter. As soon as he is out of sight, Heidegger begins beating up anyone in sight on the dock, throwing sailors into the ocean. The helicopter takes off. Everyone was having fun for a little while, Red and Dudley sitting i nthe shade with water, Yuffie, Aerith, Tifa, and Yakumo playing in the pool, and Cloud and Barret just have themselves a drink for a while. Once that eas done and rest to cleaning themselves up, Cloud and the others continue their job to walk onto the beach.)
Yakumo: That was sure fun. We should do that again sometime.
Cloud: I guess it was fun...As long as you were happy with it, Yakumo.
Yakumo: Oh, but I was. That was the best summer fun time ever in this place, we should come back here sometime.
Cloud: If you like to...
Yakumo: Huh?
Cloud: I'll take you here again in the future when we're done.
(Yakumo like the sound of that to hug Cloud a little.)
Yakumo: Aw, thanks, Cloud. Promise me you will.
Cloud: I will.
(As they walk on the beach, Aerith spotted someone familair to her and not a good person to reemember.)
Aerith: Oh! Cloud!
Tifa: Look, look at that!
(Shows Hojo reclining in a beach chair, surrounded by beautiful women.)
Cloud: Hm...? Who, Hojo?
(Yakumo remembers him.)
Yakumo: That's the scientist who try hurting Aerith and Red!
Cloud: Is that man over there, Hojo?
Tifa: Go over and talk to him.
Yakumo: Be careful.
(He goes over to him.)
Hojo: God! What do you want?
Cloud: I want to talk with that man.
Hojo: (Hey, who do you think you are?) Professor Hojo. That scary man says he wants to talk with you. I'm busy right now.
Yakumo: ...But. Too bad. We wish to talk to you.
Hojo: Oh, I remember you all now. Yes, yes. I remember now.
(Hojo sits up, stares at Yakumo, she thoughts he would get Aerith andRed again, not this time.)
Hojo: It's been a long time, Cloud.
Yakumo: Stay back! Stay away from Red and my sister, you sicko!
Hojo: Well, well, this woman you have here's a cute one. Hi...Want to have some fun with me?
Yakumo: Ew, no!
(Cloud got mad.)
Cloud: Hojo...
Hojo: Sometimes you just gotta do something like this. I mean, this kid's playing hard to get with me.
(Trying to pull Yakumo to him, Cloud moves her gently away from Hojo in time.)
Cloud: Leave her alone. Besides...What are you doing?
Yakumo: (Cloud...)
Hojo: My, my, you're no fun. It should be obvious? I'm getting a tan.
Cloud: Answer me!
Hojo: Hmm! I believe we're both after the same goal.
Cloud: You mean Sephiroth?
Yakumo: You see him?
Hojo: More like did you see him? I see... Ha! Ha!
(He stands up.)
Cloud: What is it?
Hojo: Nothing. I just remembered a certain hypothesis...Haven't you ever had the feeling something is calling you? Or that you had to visit some place?...
Cloud: I'll go anywhere Sephiroth is at! To beat him and put an end to all this!
Hojo: I see... This could be interesting. Were you in SOLDIER? ...Heh heh heh! Would you like to be my guinea pig? And this girl to be my bride.
Yakumo: No! I don't want to merry him!
(Cloud draws his sword.)
Cloud: I say keep your hands off of Yakumo!
Hojo: Oh, now what? Are you going to draw your sword?
Tifa: Stop, Cloud! I know how you feel, but you mustn't.
Yakumo: She's right, Cloud! I hate him too, but this isn't the way! It won't do you any good!
(He puts it away.)
Cloud: You're right...
Hojo: Ha! Ha! Ha!...
(He gets off his beach chair and looks at Aerith.)
Hojo: Say, aren't you the 'Ancient'?
Aerith: I'm Aerith. The least you can do is remember my name. I want you to tell me something, Professor Hojo...I know I'm an Ancient. My mother told me.
Hojo: Your mother? Oh, you mean Ifalna. How is she?
Aerith: You didn't know? She died. Also stay away from me and Yakumo, don't experiemtn or touch any of us again. You got it?
(He looks away.)
Hojo: ...I see.
Yakumo: (Wait! Is he helping us out?)
Aerith: Professor Hojo...Is Jenova an Ancient? Is Sephiroth an Ancient? Do we all have the same blood?
Hojo: ...mumble...mumble... head west...
Yakumo: (He is!)
Aerith: He's mumbling slowly... That must mean he's hiding something!
(Hojo gets back on his beach chair.)
Hojo: ...If you change your mind, cutie, I'll be waiting for you.
Tifa: Hey! Answer us!
Yakumo: Tifa.
(He is silent.)
Cloud: ...It's no use. It's no go.
Yakumo: Should we go? He's giving me the creeps.
Cloud: Let's. Come on, we're heading out.
(With Dudley riding them once again, they leave the area to come back for Yakumo one day and headed out for Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Red, and Yuffie headed east next. Just as Hojo kind of said to them.)
Yakumo: Everyone here? Good. Let's move out. Come on, Dudley.
(They leave Costa del Sol and head south, until they reach a mountain pass for Dudley to wait for them. They see a man is resting there.)
"Whew! Hey! You're actually talking to me."
Cloud: What is it?
"I just passed a guy in a black cape back there. I just tried to tell him that it's dangerous up ahead, and he ignored me!"
Yakumo: Cloud.
Cloud: I know, Sephiroth...
Barret: It had to be him!
Aerith: There was a black-cloaked guy here, too?
Tifa: Let's hurry on.
Yakumo: Thank you for informing us, stay safe.
(They continue on, past the mountain pass, passing a Mako reactor and crossing many mine-car tracks, until they reach a bridge.)
Yuffie: The bridge is up?
Red XIII: Wha? Oh, it's you. There seems to be an instrument in that hut that manipulates this bridge. Perhaps it's best if we rest a moment.
Cloud: OK, then...Let's move on!
(They cross the upper bridge and enter the hut.)
Yakumo: Found the switch!
Cloud: OW! Sure is tight in here...
Aerith: Come on, Cloud, don't let it get to you. Let's see... this is it.
Tifa: Maybe if I turn this.
Barret: ...something should happen.
Cloud: Do it.
(Cloud turns the switch. The drawbridge lowers and the other party members run across.)
Yakumo: We did it! Let's cross.
(Here you have the option of climbing the side of the mountain. At the top, you find two baby birds, nesting on top of a treasure.)
Yakumo: Aw...
Aerith: How cute!
Tifa: Yes! ...how cute.
Yuffie: What should we do?
Cloud: Times are tough... I'm taking the treasure.
(With Yakumo's powers, they get it away from the baby birds slowly. Only for a lot of their feathers to fall all over Cloud's hair.)
Barret, Yuffie, and Red Xlll: Ha! Ha, ha, ha!
Tifa: Oh! Cloud! Your hair looks like a Chocobo!
Aerith: Cloud...
Yakumo: That'll ease them down without a threat. Bye, bye, cuties.
(Cloud sees how Yakumo was happy to get out in seeing the world more with Aerith.)
Cloud: Hate to meet their mother.
Yakumo: We're fine, we're leaving anyways.
(Cloud and the others continue as the mother bird feeds her babies. Crossing a long suspended bridge across a deep gorge, he arrives in North Corel.)
Yakumo: This is some area here...
(Cloud arrives in North Corel. Barret approaches several people there, some dressed in mining outfits. One steps forward and punches him, then steps back.)
Yakumo: Barret!
"Well, lookey here! Never thought I'd ever see your face again."
"They kick you out of another town or somethin'?"
"You destroy everything you touch."
"You got a lot of balls comin' back here!"
"Look at this place! It's all your fault North Corel turned into a garbage heap!"
"Why doncha say something!?"
"Or did ya forget what you done here already?"
(Barret sighs.)
Barret: ...I'm sorry...
"^%$#! You ain't even worth the effort."
"Don't waste your time talkin' to the Techno-freak!"
(The other people disperse. Barret returns to the party.)
Yakumo: Why would they say that to you? Wait...Is this your home town?
Barret: You heard 'em... It's my fault this town was... destroyed...
(He runs away.)
Yakumo: Barret, wait! Come on you guys, let's go follow him.
(Cloud and the rest of the gang go to the Rope way station to find Barret just standing around. Yakumo felt some pain within him that something happened in this village long ago.)
Yakumo: There you are.
Aerith: Barret, what happened?
Barret: Sorry.
Cloud: What happened?
Barret: My hometown used to be around here.
Red XIII: What do you mean, 'used to'?
Barret: It ain't here no more. Heard it got buried... in just 4 years.
Yakumo: Four years ago?
Yuffie: What happened then?
Aerith: But how could those people say those terrible things?
Barret: An' it's my fault. ALL my fault.
Red Xlll: If you tell us what happened to you, we would understand. Take your time.
Yakumo: Please, Barret...
(Barret allows the others to see his sad past with Yakumo's help. As Cloud hold Yakumo's hands, she does with Barret, Tifa, Aerith, Yuffie, and Red join in to see and hear it all.)
Barret: Might as well.
Yakumo: Then let's do what we did before. Everyone, gather around.
(It changes to a shot of Corel, many years ago. Idyllic. A cat and dog play with a young child. Barret speaks over the scene.)
Barret: Corel was always a coal mining town. It's so dusty, but calm and so poor... a real small town, this one. That's the first time I ever heard the word "Mako reactor" mentioned since that time...
(We are now at the village headman's house. Many people are gathered there, including Barret. Scarlet, with two of her bodyguards, is standing near the door as if she just walked in. Dyne is sitting on the couch. The village headman walks over to him.)
Village headman: What are we going to do? The only one against this is Dyne.
Dyne: I am definitely against it, no matter what. There's nothing to talk about if you're thinking of throwing away our coal! Our coal's been protected for generations. Our fathers, and theirs before them, risked their lives for it. We have no right to throw it all away so easily!
Barret: But listen, Dyne. No one uses coal nowadays. It's the sign of the times.
Scarlet: Right, everything is Mako, now. It'll be all right, Dyne. Shinra, Inc. will guarantee your livelihood once the Mako Reactor is completed.
Barret: Listen. Dyne. I don't want my wife, Myrna, to suffer anymore.
(Dyne makes pleading gestures, then slumps forward.)
Dyne: I know how you feel! I feel the same way too, damn it! But even so, I won't give away our coal mines!
(The village headman puts his hand on Dyne's shoulder.)
Village Headman: Dyne... you've got to understand.
(Dyne looks at the village headman, then at Barret. He holds his head and starts to cry. Everything soon goes to black as Barret continues speaking.)
Barret: That's how the Corel Reactor was built... and completed. We all thought it would bring us an easier life.
(We then see the town of Corel in flames. One person falls four stories from a water tower. As it pans across the town, we see various townsfolk panicking, then dying.)
Barret: It happened when Dyne and I were out of town for a few days. Corel was burned down by the Shinra troops. All the townspeople...All my relatives...Everyone...Everything...
(Goes into black again. Going back at the Rope way station. Cloud walks around to Barret.)
Yakumo: How awful...Barret, it wasn't your fault, it was them. So sad...
Cloud: Shinra troops? What for!?
(Barret turns away.)
Barret: There was an explosion at a reactor. Shinra blamed the accident on the people. Said it was done by a rebel faction.
Yakumo: Then it was their fault! Doing that to the people is wrong, not them!
Barret: Was another reason why I kept Marelene as my daughter after her real father Dyne died.
Tifa: That's so terrible!
Barret: Well, I guess that's true. But more than Shinra, I couldn't forgive myself. Never should have gone along with the building of the reactor...
Tifa: Don't blame yourself. We were all fooled by the promises Shinra made back then.
Barret: That's way... that's why I get so pissed off! Not only did they take advantage of me... But I lost my wife, Myrna, too...
Yakumo: Sorry for you loss, Barret, I really am. Like with my parents...
(The ticket vendor at the Rope way station suddenly speaks.)
"Hey everyone! If you want to go to the 'Gold Saucer', hurry and get on!"
Cloud: Let's go on.
Yakumo: Wow, a real rope way ride.
(Cloud grabs Yakumo's hand to bring her inside the thing.)
Barret: Dyne was my best friend. We was close ever since we was kids...
Tifa: I never knew until today.
Aerith: ...Very sad to lose someone you love.
Red Xlll: He'll be fine. Give him some time to cool off.
Yuffie: I feel sorry for Barret a bit, but still...He should've not trusted those Shinra Inc. people in the first place. Just saying...
(Cloud and the others board the Rope way and ride to the Gold Saucer. Yakumo makes sure if Barret will be alright.)
Yakumo: Excuse me, Cloud.
Cloud: Alright...
(She sits next to Barret.)
Barret: Not now, Yakumo...
Yakumo: Barret, it wasn't your fault. You need to stand up for the people. They just got upset because they too lost their love ones, from your friend, and your wife. But you did save Marlene, right? SO that should count for something. I lost my parents, but I know that deep down that my sister's out there somewhere for us to find before Sephiroth does, like that female creature...I know she saved Cloud and Tifa on that day and her. So cheer up after you let it all out. I don't like those people either...I know how you feel, really.
(Soon Barret started to cry to hold Yakumo.)
Barret: Oh, God! *snob* I miss her! I missed Dyne! I'm so glad I have Marlene in my life! *snob* Thank you, Yakumo...
(She confronts him until he feels better without the others watching but Cloud.)
Yakumo: It's alright, Barret, let it out. (We'll get back those people, that's for sure. For you, my friend.)
(And with that, Barret was feeling better to continue on. As the seven ride all the way up top to a fun place to play, a type of theme park and casino for all ages known as th Gold Saucer, that was in the skies. That high? What awaits for Cloud, Yakumo, and the others next once they get in and stopping Sephiroth for good before Turk or Rufus with the bad Shinra people? It'll be something else, also fun in the next one.)