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The World from Beyond

For a long while, Cloud couldn't hear or see anything in the darkness, but he wasn't afraid, he felt at peace. It was like he doesn't need to worry about anything anymore, because time is endless here.

However, this peacefulness of his was interrupted by a loud roar of thunder, which caused him to wake up in a startled. He took deep breathes to calm himself down before he studied his surroundings, he seemed to be in a study room of some kind, judging by the shelves of books and the table filled with papers and notes, two armchairs near a fireplace. He slowly got up and looked out the window, it was raining hard and lightning appeared there and hear. He could distinctly see some small houses outside.

His enhanced hearing caught up some approaching footsteps. He quickly ducked and hid behind the table as the wooden door swung open.

'Genesis?' Cloud looked at the auburn hair man stumbling into the room as if he was drunk, he stood up and was to help the man, but when he was about to touch him, two more people burst into the room looking slightly in panic, a man with short grey hair and a woman with brown hair in their late forties, both of them were wearing nightdresses.

'What are you doing here?!' The old man bellowed.

Genesis did not answer as he put his arm over the armchair to support himself. He seemed to be hurt, but the blond couldn't see any injuries on him, so he thought he must be poison or something.

'Father... I need your help...' The First Class SOLDIER said in wry voice.

'Don't call me that! You're not my son anymore!' The older man shouted. Cloud winced at the harshness of the voice while Genesis looked at his father blankly and then his mother, who turned her gaze away from the azure glowing eyes. 'My son is supposed to be the strong and well-known SOLDIER! Not a complete failure of an experiment!'

'Experiment?' The crimson Commander repeated the word. Cloud was as surprised as he is.

'I should have never agree to let Shinra use that Gillian's damn cells into you, while you are still in your mother, look at you now, you are pathetic and we have endure having a failure, or perhaps a monster, like you in our house!'

A long moment of silence passed between them before Genesis said: 'Me? Failure? Monster? No, it's not like that, it's not supposed to be like that...'

'Genesis?' The blond whispered the name hesitantly as he slowly approached the man, but faster than his enhanced naked eyes could see. The ruby rapier was drawn and impaled through the old man's chest.

Bloodlust azure eyes looked at the scared woman standing next to the blond. Without thinking about his safety, Cloud jumped in between the woman and the man, yelling: 'NO! GENESIS! STOP!'

The auburn hair swordsman totally ignored his words and slashed through him, but Cloud couldn't feel any pain at all, he looked down at the spot where the blade had hit him, there is no blood! He turned around to see the mistress of the house laying on the puddle of her own blood, the boy quickly backed away from the corpse and looked down at his own hands. What's going here?!

The blond looked at Genesis as if he knew what's happening to him, but the man said nothing, instead he grabbed the collars of the two dead corpses and dragged them out of the room. Not wanting to stay in the now bloody room, Cloud followed him, but kept himself a certain distance from the man.

When they went outside, the rain pouring down on them relentlessly, but the blond couldn't feel any of the water on him, like he is a ghost. The auburn hair man started digging on the ground next to a strange looking white tree that bend over with the tips of its branches touched the ground and the familiar forms of the Dumbapples. So this must be Genesis' hometown... The Banora Village... Cloud thought with a certain disappointment, the whole place looked sad and lifeless right now.

The spiky hair teen shifted in his spot next to the tree uncomfortably as Genesis carefully placed his parents' bodies into the muddy hole he made and slowly reburied them. Suddenly the crimson Commander groaned in pain, snapping Cloud out of his trance. The boy quickly knelt down beside him and lightly touched the shoulder of the man, only to find his hand passing through the man.

He immediately pulled his hand back and stared surprisingly at it, wondering what's going to his body, but his attention turned back his Commander who groaned in pain once more. Then the boy spotted something on the back of the man, it was moving beneath the clothes and in a blink of an eye, a black wing burst out of the man's back with fresh blood covering it.

A single black wing was once a warm and pleasant symbol for the Ex-SOLDIER, a symbol of protection from Moon, but now he feared it, it looked different from what he had seen, it was like it would swallowed him completely in the darkness.

'I'm...' Cloud heard Genesis said through gritted teeth. Then the auburn hair man looked up at the sky and shouted: 'I'M NOT A MONSTER!'

Even though it's raining right now, Cloud could have sworn that he had just saw the glimpse a lone tear fell from the lost and sad azure eye of the one winged man.

Suddenly everything around him vanish like the dust of a wasteland and reformed together to become a large vacant room, some part of the roof, the walls and the pillars were broken and the glasses of the windows are either shattered or was covered by wooden planks. What the hell?! Cloud thought as he stood up and studied his new location.

'The truth is I should have fought Genesis.' The blond heard a familiar voice said behind him, he turned around, but saw nothing, then two foggy figures appeared, their shapes started to become more definite and formed two of the most trusted people who Cloud respected. Yet the man who put his pride and dream above everything had something that shouldn't belong there, two white wings, one as large as the one of Genesis with a smaller one under it, on his right shoulder.

'Honestly, who do you think took care of that?' The raven hair teen who stood behind the winged man said those words almost angrily.

'Angeal... Zack...' Cloud whispered the names softly, knowing that none of them could hear him, but he really wished that they could and tell him what's going around him.

Angeal turned to face Zack and pointed his large Buster Sword towards his apprentice saying: 'Although, what's next is a job only for you.'

'What do you mean?' Zack asked as his eyes narrowed, but they were soon widen in surprise as he jumped back from the gigantic blade that's about to behead him. He held his arm up in shoulder high and told his mentor to stop.

'There's someone waiting for you isn't there?' The white winged man suddenly asked. The blond stared at him in shock, while Zack looked at him with sadness and a slight hint of anger as he pulled his sword off the magnetic strip on his back.

'Angeal, you're not serious are you?' The black spiky hair SOLIDIER asked as he held his sword tightly and ready on his side. Angeal didn't answer and attacked the shorted SOLDIER again.

'STOP IT! BOTH OF YOU!' Cloud shouted as he ran towards them, but he found himself running through them, like they were non-existing people, he whirled around and looked at the two SOLDIERs desperately.

'Good Angeal!' A voice spoke out. Every eye in the room turned to the source of the new voice. A fat bearded man wearing orange shirt and a white lab coat came out of the shadow, who Cloud remembered was called Hollander or Professor Hollander, a rival scientist of Hojo, looking rather too pleased of the situation they are having here. 'Now it's time for our child to take his revenge!'

'Our child?' the blond and the black hair boy said at the same time and stared at the angry First Class SOLDIER.

'SHUT UP! My father is dead!' Angeal bellowed as he pushed Zack back with his sword.

'Then, take your revenge on your mother's behalf.' The fat man said smugly, making Cloud wanted to punch as much as he wanted to beat Hojo like the first time he saw the mad scientist at the ward.

'My mother was ashamed of her past and ended her own life!' The winged man spat at Hollander venomously.

'Ashamed? Unfortunately you are mistaken. I would think she was very prideful about it.' The fat scientist spoke disbelievingly as he paced around like those rich business men who thought they had all the time of the world Cloud saw at Shinra. 'She even used her won name for the project code name. Project G otherwise known as Project Gillian.'

Project G... The blond thought as he remembered what Kadaj or rather JENOVA had said when he had taken the form of the General. So you have finally appeared G. Does this have something to do with Moon and Genesis?

Angeal grabbed the front of the fat man's shirt and hissed: 'Don't you dare speak my mother's name!'

Hollander ignored Angeal's words and continued as he removed the SOLDIER's gloved hand: 'JENOVA cells were injected into that woman Gillain. Her cells were then directly injected into the fetus known as Genesis.'

Cloud couldn't hold back his surprise gasp at what he had just heard as he remembered everything single thing that Moon had told him and the sadness he saw in his eyes. Also Moon is Genesis and Genesis is Moon.

'But Genesis was a failure. I would never accept something like that. Although Angeal.' The scientist continued and looked at the winged SOLDIER with prideful eyes, completely ignored of the anger and sadness that swirling in the blue glowing eyes of the SOLDIER. 'You received her cells directly. You are perfect.'

Angeal shoved the man away and turned around, not looking at Zack as he said: 'Zack, I'm nothing more than a perfect... Monster.'

As sudden as everything came, everything immediately vanished and were replaced by test pods arranged in order, Cloud was back at the Nibelheim Reactor. Now what?! Cloud thought as he looked up at the metal door where above it the name JENOVA was engraved.

'Ever since my childhood I could feel it.' Cloud looked at his left side to see Sephiroth standing next to one of the test pods, looking down at his own gloved hands, scared and confused. 'I was different than other people. I always thought I had some kind of special purpose. But I didn't think it would be something like this. Am I even human?'

'Unfortunately no. You are a monster.' A voice filled with malice and anger answered.

Cloud turned to his left to see Zack being engulfed in flame hit the metallic steps of the stair as the silver hair man casts a barrier spell to block a fireball. The blond jumped down the steps to see if the injuries on his friend are serious, he let out a sigh of relief when he saw that the wounds were small scotches, they were already starting to heal, only the impact of the magical attack had caused some little internal damage, but it will heal, it just needed more time than the physical injuries. Looking at his friend, he found that Zack had changed a lot, his black porcupine hair was longer and an X-shape scar over his chin, with Angeal's Buster Sword strapped on his back, he looked like just Angeal himself. Could Angeal be...?

The spiky hair blond couldn't finish his sentence, he won't believe of what might have happen and he didn't have time to think about it either, because when he looked up, he saw Genesis landing gracefully on a few steps above him, the top of his coat and his shoulder-guard seemed to be fossilized, cracks appeared here and there. Ages of weariness covered the once youth face and the auburn hair had turned grey and white, just like a dying old tree.

'Sephiroth, you were born out of the JENOVA Project, the greatest monster of all.' Genesis said almost tauntingly.

'GENESIS! So you were alive after all!' Zack shouted madly as he got to his knees, breathing slowly and tried to move as less as he could to let his body recover from the sudden assault.

The decaying man looked down at them, or rather only Zack, since Cloud was non-visible, and smiled as he touched his pale white face and he replied: 'In my current condition can you even say that I am?'

'What does the JENOVA Project have to do with me?' Sephiroth demanded.

The black winged man turned his attention back to the General and explained: 'The JENOVA Project is the general name for the experiment. The experiment that used JENOVA's cells.'

'Using Mother's cells?' The confused man repeated as he looked up at the engraved name on the wall above him.

'Pitiful Sephiroth.' Genesis taunted as he spread his arms wide. 'You've never meet your mother before and the only you ever heard was her name, right?' He sat down on the step. 'I have no idea what she looks like, but what I do know is-'

'GENESIS STOP IT ALREADY!' The injured SOLDIER yelled as he pressed his back against the metal. Cloud looked at the three SOLDIERs back and forth, he knew that all of this were either an illusion or he was a ghost and was seeing things, but he couldn't bear to hear another hurtful word from the once respectful Commander.

'JENOVA is a stratum discovered 2000 years ago. A monster.' The words caused the Great General to back away in fear, like a lost kitten. 'Sephiroth lend me your strength. Otherwise my deterioration won't stop.' Genesis stood up and had the air of the Commander he once was. 'SOLDIER 1st Class Sephiroth.'

The silver hair swordsman snapped into attention, like all SOLDIERs in Shinra did when their names were called, as the winged man continued: 'Angeal was born out of JENOVA Project G. Just like me born a monster. JENOVA Project S was-'

'S...' Zack repeated and Cloud looked down at his friend, knowing full well of what the meaning of "S" might be.

'Was a project created to make the perfect monster.' Genesis finished.

Shaking his head lightly, Sephiroth asked: 'What is there I can do?'

'You have no power to create clones. Nor does gene doesn't spread.' The decaying man said the last words with certain disgust. 'In other words the deterioration won't happen.'

Cloud put his hands over his ears, he really wanted Genesis to stop talking and he had already heard enough of this "Monster" thing he kept mentioning! The man walked passed him as he said to Sephiroth: 'Lend me your cells. "Your desire. The Goddess's Gift shall foster a life."'

Genesis took out a Dumbapple from his coat and offered it to the General who looked at his friend first before he turned his gaze to the JENOVA engraved name. At that moment, Cloud winced in pain and he clawed his arm with the black rash scars, he felt like something was hammering his head as visions of monster and a helmet-like with the name JENOVA on it. He heard the General letting out a soft gasp, making him wondered if he had also saw what he had seen.

The emotionless mask was placed on the greatest SOLDIER once more as he looked at Genesis and asked calmly: 'Are you trying to confuse me with everything you've just said? Or is it, what I have been looking for is the "truth"?'

'Which ever it may be.' Sephiroth slapped the hand holding the dumbapple away. 'Go decay.'

Then he walked out of the room without another word. Cloud couldn't see the face of the General, but he couldn't guess that he was hurt deeply.

'I understand. It's to be expected of a perfect monster.' The blond looked back at the winged man, he might hate him right now, but he also felt sorry for him. '"The end of the world is brought by the duel of the beasts. The Goddess shall fall form the darkest sky. Spreading her wings of light and darkness. She shall lead us to our paradise. Along with her gift."'

As soon as those words left the lips of the man, everything around Cloud faded and he was now floating over the Lifestream. Am I seeing the future? Of what might happen or is it already happening?

That is the future that would happen if no one stops the Calamity. A strong power-willed voice echoed in the air. The blond looked around to see where the voice might have come from.

Part of the Lifestream started to form together a young and beautiful blond hair woman, wearing a strange golden armor and white cape draped over her shoulder. Cloud immediately put his hands up in a fighting stance as he asked: 'Who are you?'

The woman didn't answer. Instead she snapped her fingers and the Lifestream beneath Cloud shot up, binding the arms and legs of the Ex-SOLDIER. My identity is no longer an importance for you, because you will cease to exist soon.

'What do you mean? You'll kill me?' The blond shouted as he struggled to break free from the threads of the Lifestreams.

Not quite, your soul will cease to exist, but your vessel shall remain for Gaia's Champion. The strange woman spoke into his mind as she walked gracefully towards him. Your existence is no longer needed in this timeline.

'I don't understand a thing you are telling me, nor will I accept to not exist!' Cloud yelled as he struggled harder on the restraints.

You want to save Genesis, Angeal and Sephiroth. The spiky haired boy looked at the woman surprisingly. The woman made a small gesture with her hand and image of a gargantuan red armored being appeared behind her holding a giant sword that's almost the size as it is, another monster materialized on her left, it had the upper body of Angeal and it was covered with different silver and black parts of other monsters, and to her right, an insane-looking Sephiroth. Unfortunately you can't change their fate, it is their destinies to discover their origins and return to the Lifestreams. Just like you.

The stranger placed her hand on his forehead as she whispered in his mind. Do not worry. Gaia's Champion will assure that the planet remain safe from JENOVA. Everything will turn back to the way it should be soon. The beasts shall return to the Lifestreams and the Knight shall be left to guard this world secretly.

Cloud suddenly felt lightheaded and his legs started to buckle underneath him, it was like his strength was slowly being sucked out by the gentle hand. Everything about you shall return to the way it should be.

A vision appeared in Cloud's mind, he was slowly walking towards his room with his friends and his "brother". Then one by one they started to vanish into thin air, leaving him all alone in the corridor. This is what everything supposes to be... I was never supposed to know any of them... I'm nobody... I couldn't help them or anyone else...

'You did well, Zack.' Another voice echoed in the mind of the boy. Cloud found himself standing in a broken large room where Zack knelt next to Angeal who lay on the floor, almost like a broken mannequin, his face and his shoulder-guard was covered with small cracks, several cuts and bruises on his body. The broken man pulled his large sword up to the spiky-haired teen. 'I'm counting on you for the rest.'

Zack choked back a sob as he carefully took the sword from his dying mentor's hand.

'Never forget your pride.' Angeal reminded his apprentice with a small smile, looking at him proudly before his eyelids fell over the dulled blue eyes. Hold on to your dreams. If you want to be a hero you have to hold on to your dreams and also your pride. The dead man's voice echoed in the raven hair teen's mind, but Cloud could also hear it.

The scenery change into a pitch black darkness where Sephiroth who floating in the air without his trademark black coat all bloody, and Cloud had to blinked his eyes a few time to make sure he isn't seeing things, but he is indeed standing in front of the General with the great Buster Sword in his hand tainted with the fresh blood of the silver hair swordsman.

The silver hair man stared defiantly at him before his eyes soften and a smile was formed on his lips as his body slowly disappeared. Soon darkness took over everything in Cloud's vision, leaving him in completely blind in the dark.

All I want is your forgiveness... The soft gentle words reverberated in Cloud's mind as tears started to form in his sapphire blue eyes, finally realizing the meaning of Moon's words. Moon, or Genesis, was the one the cause of all the destructions and the death of many people, especially the people who he cared the most. The truth that he had revealed had drove Sephiroth insane and he had burned his entire village to the ground, and maybe the reason why Angeal suddenly had two white wings was also caused by him and that he pushed the raven hair SOLDIER off the edge, making Zack ended the man's life for him, all those innocent lives were taken because of a single word "MONSTER". Then he remembered the dying images of Zack and Kadaj in his arms. Are those Moon's fault too?

No... I refuse to believe that... Moon... Is not like that... NO IT'S NOT TRUE! Cloud shouted in his mind. A halo enveloped him, cutting loose the restraints on his limbs and pushed back the armored woman. The Ex-SOLDIER fell to his knees, clutching his head in pain.

That's enough! Stop this Minerva! Cloud looked up to see someone standing in front of him, he couldn't see his face, the man had spiky gravity-defying blond hair just like his, had perhaps the same height as he does, he wore turtleneck sweater vest with black pants and combat boots. A black cloak covered his left arm, with a small pauldron, and black half-skirt covered his left leg, he also wore leather gloves and. A large sword, that looked like it was pieced together from different sizes of swords into one, was strapped in the harness attached to his waist.

Are defying Gaia's will Cloud Strife? The woman said sternly. Cloud was about to respond, but the man answered instead.

Yes, because I cannot accept you erasing his existence so you could put me in his place at his time. Just because he is my past self, doesn't mean we're the same. Cloud tilted his head to one side and caught the glimpse of the man's face. His mysterious savior was just like him, exactly just like him, every single detail of his face, only the sky blue eyes were different, they are older and had a General-like gaze in them. Now he is very confused of what's going on around him and he really wanted to faint, but he can't, not until the threat is gone and he got all the answers to his questions.

Both of you are not the same, of course. Your powers are far more powerful than his-

He is just as strong as I am. The spiky hair teen's look-alike interrupted. He's even stronger than me.

Nonsense. The power given by Gaia to you, as her Champion and Savior, had the potential to evolve along with you. He does not have that ability. The woman called Minerva pointed out. Cloud was completely speechless, still digesting the fact that he had some sort of twin beside him.

So what if I had that kind of power, I had still lost myself in the darkness, but him. The man pointed at Cloud. He didn't lose himself, even if he didn't know what's going or what might happen, he still continues to fight for what he cares and cherishes the most. This proves that he is as strong as I am, maybe even stronger.

The woman looked unconvinced by his twin's words. The warrior took a step forward and stared at her challengingly, with his hand over the hilt of his sword. If you still insist to erase him, then you'll have to fight me.

Minerva seemed to be ready to take on the challenge as a long golden staff materialized in her right hand, but both either entities could make a single move, a loud howling sound rang around them. The golden hair teen looked slightly alarmed by the sound, but the woman and his twin looked unfazed and then Minerva knelt on the Lifestreams. I will comply with Gaia's wish. She said before dissolving into threads of the Lifestreams. Cloud let out a relief sigh, seeing that the danger of being erase is gone.

Need a hand? The blond looked at his look-alike who held out his hand to him with small smile, which he took without hesitation. When he got up and staring at the man in front of him, it felt odd somehow. It's almost like looking into a mirror, isn't it?

'Yeah, I had to agree.' Cloud replied as he let go of the gloved hand. Now that he got a good look at his twin, they really resembled just like the reflection of a mirror. 'Euh... I want to ask... Am I dead?'

Well, you aren't exactly dead, more like in between life and dead, so no, you are not dead. The words don't comfort Cloud one bit. After all, he might be alive for now and be dead in the next.

'Well then... Could you tell me why that woman tried to erase for Gaia's whatever Champion? Why am I here? And what do you mean by "my past self"?' The young blond decided the change the subject, not wanting dwell into thinking if he might be turning into a zombie or something labeled as "undead".

First, the Gaia's whatever Champion you are talking about is me, but I don't care about that title anyway. Second, you are here, because you got shot from behind and fell into the Lifestreams. Yazoo really seems to enjoy shooting people from behind. And for your last question, I'm you from your future and you are me in my past. Also, we don't have much time to talk more in details.

Cloud took a few minutes to comprehend the information that his "future him" gave. First, he will become the planet's Champion in the future, for what reason, he doesn't know nor does he care. Second, he'll probably get a mako poisoning problem from the wound he had received even if he could get back among the living. Third, HE IS TALKING TO HIMSELF RIGHT NOW! Not really himself, but him from the distant future. GAIA! He is really going to end up in a mad house if more strange things appeared! Last, but not least-

'What do you mean we don't have much time?' The younger blond asked.

JENOVA is already making her way towards Midgar, she is planning to destroy Gaia from that location, seeing that it was the weak spot of the planet. Minerva had pulled me out of my time before it'd vanished... Hearing the sad tone of his twin, Cloud muttered a small apology. It's not your fault. It's only a matter of time before your actions might affect my timeline anyway. Minerva thought that I would be more useful than you are for the upcoming battle against JENOVA, so she tried to erase you and put me in your body.

'Then why didn't you let her do that then? I wasn't as strong as Spehiroth, or as smart as Angeal might be, I don't have Zack's natural instinct or as tricky as Genesis!' The Ex-SOLDIER shouted at the older blond, knowing that he is only skill was ice magic, which is proven to be utterly useless against JENOVA when he fought that centaur-like creature at the abandoned mansion.

Are you deaf or something? Didn't you hear what I had said to Minerva, like in a few minutes ago? The older Cloud asked as he ran his hand through the back of his yellow hair. When you had lost both Kadaj and Genesis, you should normally be unconfident and scared of everything after facing something like that, but you still continued on your way with more determination than when you want to join SOLDIER.

Gaia's Champion let his own past self some times to digest his words before he continued. Back then, I had lost myself in those insane experiments of Hojo, pieces of myself had broken off from my whole soul, making me incomplete. When Zack died, at the outskirt of Midgar, he had given me part of himself to complete me temporally, until I could find the lost pieces of my own puzzled soul. Yet you, you haven't lost yourself or let yourself be broken into piece, you kept dragging on and on, for your own purpose, but me? I had taken too much time to fix myself and in the process, I had hurt other accidentally more than I did to myself.

A moment of tensed silence followed, the younger Cloud was trying to understand what usefulness he could be of being able to survive from an almost psychological breakdown over and over again, while the older one was trying to keep his memories in place. Their mental organizing was interrupted by a sudden howling sound similar to the last one echoed around them.

Looks like it's time for you to leave. Cloud's older twin said as he pulled out his large broad sword from its harness and handed to him. Take First Tsurugi, my power, my memories, everything that you'll need eventually in the battle.

'Now wait a second!' The young blond shouted as he pushed the sword back to its owner. 'You are the one who should go back, not me. I don't know a thing about JENOVA, other than she is an alien and a threat to the world. Besides, you know her weakness more than I do and you have probably beaten her couple of time if that Minerva had decided to erase me for you take over my body.'

Twice or thrice, if I count the time I threw her into the Lifestreams. Gaia's Champion answered as he pushed his sword to his younger self again. But that's not a perfect reason why I should go. And your timeline is a complete stranger to me, I don't belong there.

'You did say that I'm your past self. So what's so difficult to just imitate me?' Cloud asked as he shoved the blade back.

I can't smile. I... Kind of forgot how... This had caused the younger blond to stare at his counterpart suspiciously. Well, I remember how to smile, but I don't really like to smile, it makes me looks like Zack.

HEY! THAT'S VERY MEAN CLOUDY! A new voice joined them, both blond hair men looked to their left to see a raven spiky hair man in 1st Class SOLDIER uniform known as Zack Fair pouting at them, or to Cloud's older twin to be exact. And Gaia sent me to tell you guys to make your choice already, or the body won't be able to handle the pressure of the large amount of Lifestreams in it and THAT is not something that not any one of us wants to happen.

We have already made a choice. The older Cloud replied sternly before he turned his attention back to his counterpart. Listen Cloud, you and I are more different than you think. And- He placed his gloved hand over the younger boy's shoulder. Kadaj will probably kill me if he knew that I'm not really you. They need you there as much as I am needed here where my friends are.

Without giving him time to think of a reply or a protest, the Savior of Gaia shoved his most precious sword into the hands of his younger self. Cloud looked at the weapon in his hand, feeling the blade's strength running through his fingertips, like telling him it had already accept him as its new master and was ready to fight beside him.

Just remember Cloud. You always have friends close to you. You aren't fighting JENOVA all alone. The older blond said as he backed away. Say hello to mother for me.

See ya Little Spiky! Zack shouted enthusiastically as the Lifestreams started to gather around the Ex-SOLDIER.

If Cloud could, he would punch some reasoning into this alternated Zack's skull hard, because being called Spiky, Chocobo or Cloudy is already worse enough, putting "little" before them is even worse! Since he couldn't move anymore, he could do nothing more than to sigh mentally in annoyance and praying that the Zack in his time would grow up one day or another as he slowly fell into an exhausted sleep.


I think this might be longest and the hardest chapter that I had ever done! And I got tests coming up! The next chapter might not be upload very soon, so I apologize for now, but I'll try make the next one better! Thank you everyone who had read "The Endless Cycle"!