Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
[Elsewhere it shows both Tifa and Marlene entering a familiar church.]
Marlene: Does Cloud live here?
Tifa: I guess he does.
[Tifa and Marlene go over to examine the area with all of his stuff.]
Marlene: What's this?
[Tifa shakes her head. Tifa notices a bandage on a table near his bed.]
Marlene: It's just like Denzel! Is Cloud sick? And Yakumo, is she okay?
Tifa: Why didn't he say something...? (Wait, Yakumo didn't look or seem sick...Wait! Coudl it be-!?)
Marlene: Did he leave because he's sick?
Tifa: He just...wants to fight alone. I'm sure Yakumo's fine too and she went with him to look out for her husband. You know those married couple.
Marlene: Fight?!
Tifa: No, I don't think that he will with Yakumo around.
Marlene: Tifa?
[Marlene looks at her with a concerned face.]
Tifa: Let's go home, Marlene.
Marlene: We can't! Cloud and Yakumo are not here yet!
Tifa: I know, sweetie, I miss them too.
Marlene: Yeah!
Tifa: So, say they come back?
Marlene: I'll go home!
Tifa: Not until he gets a lecture. Yakumo has to listen in from me whether she wants to hear it or not.
Marlene: Uh huh!
[Going back to the Healing Lodge. Reno and Rude are on the ground and Rufus is sitting in his wheelchair and Kadaj approaches.]
Kadaj: Boy, do I hate lying.
Rufus: I apologize. This time you get the truth. The object you seek fell from the helicopter while we were running from you. I'm afraid we were careless.
Kadaj: Is that right?
Rufus: I swear it.
Kadaj: Fine. Then swear on these.
[Kadaj throws down the bloody ID cards of Tseng and Elena on the table. Rufus responds in an angered tone.]
Rufus: ...Why did you do this?
Kadaj: We need mother's power. The Reunion is coming - and we need her.
Rufus: Reunion... (And Yakumo's the key. They know that shes carrying another life within her...! Glad I let her and Cloud leave to still be helping us.)
Kadaj: My brother's and sister's who share Mother's cells will all assemble, and together we will all take revenge on the planet! We've already sent out the invitations - but, you know, someone has gone and hidden the guest of honor. Besides the girl carrying a new life for energy gathering.
Rufus: Invitations?
Kadaj: The stigma. But you know all about that, sir. Mother's mimetic legacy lives on in the Lifestream and makes it happen. She does so much for us and we...we don't even know where to find her. But what can we do? We're just remnants, really remnants of Mother's legacy. Until we find Mother and receive her cells, we can't be whole again! Geostigma and the Legacy aren't enough...for a true reunion.
Rufus: What do you mean?
Kadaj: But, sir! Surely you've noticed...
[Kadaj walks toward Rufus and kneels down in front of him. He begins to do something of a transformation, showing signs of Sephiroth in him. Going back to Cloud and Yakumo on the skirts of Midgar where an old Buster Sword lies, knocked down from Kadaj.]
Yakumo: There it is.
Cloud: You'll be alright?
[Yakumo smiles and hugs Cloud.]
Yakumo: I'm fine. I still can't believe that...You and I, we're going to have a baby. Real soon! Since my body's different from the normal girls having their child.
Cloud: No, we made this. I want this, Yakumo. We'll be a family...
[Cloud kisses Yakumo to making her feel better again.]
Yakumo: Yes, Cloud, we will be a family.
[Cloud then started to see things for Yakumo to feel out with him.]
Yakumo: Cloud?
Cloud: I said I would live out both our lives - easy to make that promise. Sorry, just remembering them...
Yakumo: (Aerith and Zack.) Me too, Cloud, we both miss them.
[Flashback in occurring showing clips of Zack.]
Zack: So, you wanna be in SOLDIER? Hang in there. Hey, you doin' okay? Well, what are you gonna do when we get to Midgar? We're friends. Cloud, run!
[End of suddenly has an attack from the Geostigma inside of his body and is forced to the ground in pain. Images of Sephiroth flash through his mind for Yakumo to feel it out as well from him.]
Yakumo: Cloud! I knew you were affected by this Geostigma thing going on!
[Yakumo tries healing Cloud, for him to place his hand on hers to stop.]
Cloud: Don't...! Yakumo, please.
Yakumo: But, Cloud.
Cloud: I'm more worried about your health than mine...! Let just go see Tifa about this...Mess going on...!
Yakumo: That's right. Marlene's friend Denzel's affected too. Okay, but I won't leave your site.
Cloud: And I won't for you either.
[Switching back to Tifa and Marlene in the church. Marlene is picking flowers and Tifa is looking around. The door to the church flies open. Marlene rushes to the door, thinking it's Cloud, but Tifa stops her quickly. Loz enters.]
Loz: Wanna play?
[Tifa and Marlene stare back with no answer.]
Loz: I guess that's a "no."
[Loz walks forward toward them.]
Loz: Where's mother? Where's Brother's bride?
[He approaches the flowers in the church and covers his nose from the smell.]
Loz: Gross. Hey, where's mother?
Tifa: There's no one here.
Loz: Fine. Play with me.
[Tifa pushes Marlene aside, gets her gloves out, and assumes a fighting stance.]
Loz: Heh. This'll be fun.
[A one-on-one fight begins between Tifa and Loz. Tifa gains the upper hand and "beats" Loz.]
Marlene: Tifa!
[Marlene runs toward Tifa and the FFVII victory theme plays in the background. Loz emerges from the debris and answers his phone.]
Loz: She's not here nor the other.
[Kadaj tells Loz not to cry over the phone.]
Loz: I'm not crying!
[Kadaj tells Loz to bring Marlene with him.]
Loz: No, I got it. I'll bring the girl.
[Loz, seemingly unaffected from the battle that just occurred, assumes a fighting stance.]
Loz: All right. Where were we?
[He throws a large row of seats at Tifa and Marlene. Tifa blocks them to stop them from harming Marlene and Loz begins to beat down on Tifa. Loz, having knocked Tifa out, goes over to kill her, but Marlene throws a piece of Materia at his head, distracting him. Loz notices the Materia and heads toward Marlene.]
Marlene: Cloud...
Tifa: Just run!
[Going back to the city of Edge. Denzel is sitting around and a young girl approaches him.]
Girl: You've got the stigma, too?
[He stares at her and nods.]
Girl: Come on, they're going to fix us.
[She takes his hand and drags him to a truck where a bunch of kids are sitting around. Yazoo loads them up and carries them off. Goes back to the church. Cloud and Yakumo have finally arrived and quickly notices Tifa knocked out at in the flowers.]
Yakumo: Someone was here...! Marlene's gone! And Tifa! Oh, no!
Cloud: Tifa! Tifa!
[Yakumo begins to heal Tifa as much as she could.]
Tifa: You're late. Thanks, Yakumo.
Yakumo: Just hang in there, Tifa.
Cloud: Who did this?
Tifa: He didn't say...Marlene!
[Tifa quickly jumps up remembering Marlene, but then falls back down into Cloud's arms while Yakumo was still healing her. Cloud looks around to see if anything is left to give him a clue and finds the box of Materia he had missing.]
Yakumo: It was those guys again, wasn't it? (This is bad...!)
Cloud: Damn!
[Once Tifa was good as new, Yakumo holds Cloud in his arms. Cloud had another rather severe attack from his Geostigma. His arm begins oozing a black substance and he passes out. A white, "heavenly" encompasses and looks down on Cloud, Yakumo, and Tifa in the flowers.]
Yakumo: Cloud!
[Yakumo was soon in pain as well, for Tifa to see her clinging on her stomach again acting up.]
Cloud: Yakumo, your-!
Yakumo: I know... (It's kicking too soon.)
Tifa: You are pregnant aren't you, Yakumo?
Yakumo: ...How did you know that?
Tifa: It's fine. But it's them you need to to protect your child from.