Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
[Showing the inside of the building where Cloud and Tifa lying down in two beds back at Seventh Heaven for Yakumo to recover them the best she could for the two. And thanks to both Reno and Rude carried them there after she asked for their help. Cloud gets up and looks over to Tifa.]
Yakumo: How are you feeling, Cloud?
Cloud: How's your stomach?
[Cloud touches Yakumo's belly.]
Yakumo: It's fine...
Cloud: It's this wonderful.
[Cloud holds Yakumo for them to kiss each other.]
Yakumo: Cloud, our child will soon be born in this world. I won't let them have it.
Cloud: I know you won't, Yakumo, but listen to me, okay? When the time comes, you know what to do, right?
Yakumo: I do. Don't worry about me unilt then.
Cloud: Try not to.
[Reno and Rude speak up to get to the point of the matter.]
Reno: You know, you're pretty heavy.
Rude: Word there...some kids living with you?
Reno: 'cause they ain't here.
Yakumo: So they took her, Denzel, and the others then? This is bad.
[Cloud doesn't answer and just looks down.]
Rude: And you don't care?
Yakumo: Reno, he does to.
Reno: Just saying...! Sorry, Yakumo.
Cloud: I just...
[Cloud looks back over to Tifa.]
Reno: Sigh...You're a real handful. Excuse us, Yakumo, and watch yourselves.
[Reno and Rude leave the room with Rude slamming the door shut. Then shows the Forgotten Capital with Kadaj, Loz, and Marlene.]
Kadaj: Look at what brother was hiding. Powers forged in the Lifestream. With this Materia, those powers will be ours. As for brother's wife...She's come to us with the child to soon be born.
[Showing back to Edge. It's nighttime and Cloud is looking out the window of Seventh Heaven with Yakumo by he side. Tifa then wakes up soon after.]
Cloud: Reno and Rude are out looking.
Yakumo: They sure do care deep down without admitting it, huh? How are you feeling, Tifa?
Tifa: Fine, Yakumo, just fine. Hey, Cloud? You have Geostigma, don't you? You're going to give up and die, is that it?
Yakumo: Not when I'm around he won't.
[Cloud doesn't respond.]
Tifa: So it is. And your wife is doing all of this for your child to be brought into this world. They'll use it as a weapon of theirs!
Cloud: For me and the children...There's no cure.
Tifa: Yeah, but, that's not stopping Denzel, is it? Don't run! Let's fight it together! We can help each other, I know we can.
Yakumo: Cloud, she's right you know. Listen to her.
[Cloud doesn't respond.]
Tifa: I guess...that only works for real families.
Cloud: Tifa...I'm not fit to help anyone - not my family, not my friends. Nobody. I...I don't know if I can help the only woman that I married and love for our baby's safety.
Yakumo: You're just scared, Cloud, that's all. And it's alright.
Tifa: Dilly dally, shilly shally.
[Cloud suddenly looks up.]
Yakumo: Excuse me, Tifa?
Tifa: Dilly dally, shilly shally!
[Reno quietly enters the room.]
Yakumo: Reno.
Reno: I think she wants you to move on, man.
[Tifa quickly questions Reno on the kids.]
Tifa: Did you find them?!
Reno: No, only a witness. Kadaj's gang took the kids.
Yakumo: I thought I felt them from the church earlier.
Rude: They're at their base now - the Forgotten City.
Yakumo: Cloud, we better go. And don't worry about my safety and our child's. Let just stop them to saving the children. Please...
[Cloud was riding his motorcycle for Yakumo was holding on from behind through the Forgotten City toward where the kids are. It then focuses on Kadaj's speech to the children with Geostigma.]
Kadaj: Mother has given me a very special gift. The power to fight...against a Planet that torments humanity. She gave this gift to all her children. That's right - you and I are brethren. Brothers and sisters chosen when we inherited Mother's mimetic legacy through the Lifestream! But, the Planet doesn't approve of that at all. It is doing everything it can to hold us back. That's why it's racking our bodies with pain and filling our hearts with doubt!
[The children seemed shocked by his words, but seem to be falling right for what he is saying.]
Kadaj: Now I shall heal you. And we will go to Mother together! We will join as a family and strike back against the Planet!
[A blue aura can be seen emitting from Kadaj. Denzel and the kids are have a look of awe on their faces.]
Kadaj: Does as I do.
[Kadaj enters the water, emitting his will into it and turning the water black. He then drinks it. The kids enter into the water and drink it as well, putting them under Kadaj's control.]
Marlene: Denzel! Denzel!
[Going back to Cloud and Yakumo riding his motorcycle and heading toward Kadaj's position. Cloud is suddenly thrust from his back and surrounded by a white light. A soft voice then speaks to him for Yakumo to try helping him out.]
Yakumo: Oh, no! Cloud!
Aerith: You two came! Even though you're about to break. That's a good sign. Nice seeing agin, dear sister.
Yakumo: Aertih...?
[Aerith puts her hand on his arm.]
Aerith: So, why did you come?
Cloud: I think...I want to be forgiven, more than anything.
Yakumo: Cloud! Watch out!
[Cloud tries to turn around, but is then back on his motorcycle and being fired upon by Loz and Yazoo. Cloud dodges it, for Yakumo shielding them in time and they both get ready for the battle. Yakumo felt weaken all of a sudden for Loz and Yazoo to grab her from behind.]
Yakumo: Cloud! Help me!
Cloud: Yakumo!
[Kadaj walks forward and signals for the children to come out of hiding and block Cloud and Yakumo's way. Cloud quickly falls off the bike to avoid hitting the children. Kadaj and the children surround him and Yakumo as their hostage for Loz to hit her neck to putting her asleep.]
Loz: Nighty, night.
Yakumo: Ah! Cloud...
[She was out cold but still alive, allowing Yazoo to still her hari, some of her blood, and the Holy ring for their power that they needed and herself.]
Yazoo: We got her, Kadaj.
Kadaj: Nicely done, now keep her alive at all times. we need more energy from those things nad the life within her.
Cloud: Let her go now...!
Kadaj: I'm glad you could make it!
Cloud: I only came for the kids and Yakumo.
Kadaj: See this man?! He's our big brother, but alas, in our happy flock he's what you call a "black sheep." While his bride can still save us that he can not.
[Kadaj raises his sword to strike the defenseless Cloud, but Marlene screams out and distracts him.]
Marlene: Cloud! Yakumo!
[Kadaj turns around and Cloud grabs his sword. A battle between Cloud, Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo ensues with Yakumo's body put into their strong barrier to keep her hold that Cloud couldn't break her out of, and them protecting her body. Cloud, who is in trouble toward the end of the fight, is saved by Vincent. The red mantle sweeps up Cloud and his equipment and quickly gets away. Then switches to some place by a lake area. Cloud and Vincent are sitting there.]
Cloud: See? I knew I'd be no help.
[Cloud rubs his arm and looks to Vincent.]
Cloud: Vincent, what do you know about this?
Vincent: I come here often. I've seen what Kadaj's crew is doing.
[Vincent, moving insanely fast, quickly appears right beside Cloud and grabs his arm.]
Vincent: The stigma. It's a symptom of alien matter infesting the body; the body tries to eliminate it and overcompensates. Inside our bodies is a current, like the Lifestream, that current is what fights off any malevolent intruders. Yakumo's the key to gather or steal the energy in being the only half Mako Enrrgy being left to not be affected by it, they need her. This is very bad.
Cloud: What do you mean by "intruder"?
Vincent: The Sephiroth Gene. Jenova's memetic legacy. Call it what you want.
Cloud: You're well informed.
Vincent: Tseng and Elena - they were brought here half-dead. They must have been brutally tortured. I did what I could to save them, but well, you'll see.
Cloud: Tortured?
Vincent: They had it coming. They got their hands on Jenova's Head.
Cloud: Then when Kadaj says he's looking for Mother...
Vincent: Heavens dark harbinger. The calamity - Jenova. If they wanted to they could recreate Sephiroth.
Cloud: Kadaj...what is he?
Vincent: Hm. I would rather not know.
[Cloud and Vincent both hear someone in the bushes and quickly turn around with their weapons. Marlene comes running out.]
Cloud: Marlene!
Marlene: Cloud! Denzel and Tifa!
Cloud: Tifa is all right.
Marlene: I wanna talk to her!
[Cloud searches for his phone, but it fell into the lake during the battle with Kadaj. Marlene looks over Vincent.]
Marlene: May I?
[Vincent lifts up his red mantle to show he doesn't have a phone.]
Marlene: You don't have a phone?!
Cloud: Vincent, will you bring Marlene to Tifa? I'm going to go see Shinra and get a few answers. And I need to get my wife back with the children too.
Vincent: I can't do that.
Cloud: But I...
[Marlene now angered lashes out at Cloud.]
Marlene: Forget it, Cloud! Why don't you ever pay any attention to us?! Or to Yakumo who just been kidnapped with Denzel!? Why!?
[Marlene runs over to Vincent and goes under the red mantle he's wearing.]
Cloud: Marlene, please, give me some time. There's a battle to be fought, but it's not as simple as just fighting. Understand?
Marlene: No, I don't!
Vincent: Cloud, are you sure this is about fighting?
[Cloud reflects back to a short while ago when he was in Edge with Tifa, Yakumo, Reno, and Rude for another flashback to be told and shown.]
Cloud: Where are they?
Rude: They're at their base now - the Forgotten City.
Yakumo: That's right, I can feel it. It's nearby.
Cloud: Go.
Yakumo: Okay.
[Cloud gets up from sitting down and faces Reno and Rude.]
Cloud: I have to talk to Rufus.
[Tifa yells, now somewhat angered at Cloud.]
Yakumo: After we stop them and save the children we will, Cloud.
Tifa: She's right! Stop running! I know, even if you find the kids you might not be able to help them. Maybe something will happen that can never be unhappen that scares you, doesn't it?! But you need to think about now, really take it in! Look at you; you think you got it so damn hard!
[Reno and Rude start trying to figure out what to do, feeling they're being in the room when they shouldn't.]
Tifa: Well you hate being alone so let people in! Sure, you don't answer the phone, but I don't see you throwing it away either!
Yakumo: Tifa...
Reno: You go; the base is all yours.
Yakumo: Thanks, we'll do that.
[Reno tells Cloud to go himself right before leaving the room.]
Tifa: Which is it, our memory or us?
Yakumo: Cloud.
[Going back to the white background with Aerith to his back.]
Cloud: But, I let you die.
Aerith: Sigh. Dilly dally, shilly shally. Isn't it time you did the forgiving? Yakumo needs you and the kids, you know what to do as Tifa said. Right?
[Again going back to the present time with Cloud, Vincent, and Marlene.]
Cloud: Are sins ever forgiven?
Vincent: I've never tried.
Cloud: You mean...never tried.
[Cloud looks down, thinking about Vincent's response. He looks up and tells Marlene they're leaving.]
Cloud: Marlene, let's go.
[Marlene nods and smiles and then runs toward Cloud as he looked to Vincent.]
Cloud: Well I'm going to try. I'll phone in the verdict. (Yakumo, hang in there. You and our child. I'm coming to save you.)
[Going back to Cloud's phone falling into the lake where the battle took with Kadaj took place. All of his different calls that he kept but never responded to start to play.]
Reeve: It's me, Reeve. How's work going? I saw your flyer. How in the world do you stay in business? Heh. You never change, Cloud. I see that your life is better with your Yakumo by your side. If it's all right, I was thinking about helping you two out, but I guess call back another time.
Yuffie: Surprise! It's me, Yuffie! ...Fill me in, okay? Tell Yakumo that I said hi!
Barret: Survey is done so I should be able to see Marlene soon. You let her know, all right, spiky?! Yakumo! Watch over her now and Cloud!
Tifa: ...Fill me in, okay?
[His phone finally falls to the bottom of the lake and then dies shortly after.]
Aerith: I never blamed you, not once. You came for me, that's all that matters. Both you, Cloud, and Yakumo.
[Shows Aerith's final resting place in FFVII. The wolf that has appeared throughout appears yet again looking into the water then disappears.]
Yakumo: (Cloud? Cloud, where are you? Please...I'm in pain...! My stomach...Our child...! Please come and save me, Denzel, and the kids! Hurry!