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The Last Words
Moon... Everyone is fine. The future had changed, at least partially.
Angeal had gone back to Banora Village and was helping the farmers working for your family. His mother was quite happy that he had come back to her and things seemed to going quite well for them. Weiss and Nero had gone there too, they told me that they want to know more about you.
Since the President and most of the staff of Shinra, including Hojo and Hollander, had died when JENOVA had taken over. Director Lazard, Rufus Shinra and Reeve Tuesti, the architect of Shinra, had took over the company and made peace with AVALANCHE and Wutai. They are slowly rebuilding Midgar with the help of AVALANCHE, naming the new rebuilt city as Edge, Shelke had been a great help in the reconstruction part with her skill on the computer, along with her sister Shalua. Zack and Kunsel had stayed behind to help too, or rather both of them were trying to catch the attention of Aerith and Tifa, who had been working at the bar Seventh Heaven after the incident. I guess she wants to stay close to me, since my shop was not far from Edge.
Sephiroth and Vincent had returned to Nibelheim with my mother. A few days ago, I had received a letter from my mother. She told me that she, Sephiroth and Vincent had rearranged the Shinra Mansion, so that it could welcome the orphans who are around the world. Of course, I'm pretty sure that Sephiroth and Vincent have made sure that the secret passage and its dark secrets will be lock away forever. And I'm sure that, with my mother's help, they will take good care of the children.
The rest of the teammates in my future self's memories are doing fine, Nanaki had returned to Cosmo Canyon, Cid had the support of Shinra for the Space Exploration Program and Yuffie, well just being Yuffie, traveling around and sometimes giving trouble to everyone.
It had already been five years, since you had joined the Lifestreams...
Kadaj had stayed with me all these years, looking after me and all. I felt like I'm the younger brother than the old one. He helped me out a lot for my delivery shop, Strife Delivery Service.
I'm quite fine...
I had a vision or a piece of memory of Zack, from the future of yours, last night. He read a letter from Aerith to me, it said that it is the 89th letter she had written, but she won't write anymore, she had been waiting for him for four years and that the flowers made people happy all thanks to him.
This is my 5th letter to you and also my last, but that doesn't mean that I want to forget you. I just... Couldn't continue to write anymore...
Every year, when I took up the pencil and wrote something down, I felt that my heart became heavier and heavier, it makes me feel like I'm slowly dying or maybe, the part of you in me is slowly dying and I can't do anything about it... It hurts...
Yet what really hurts me the most was that you never came when I called out your name. I was always alone when I needed you, but still, I continue to love you and remember every detail of you.
I know I'll never be able to forget you. I have loved you for five years, and I'll love you for another five years and another. I know that I would love you forever.
Also, I want you to know is that no matter where you or when you are...
You'll always have a place here in my heart...
And I'll be waiting for you...
August 10th, 0007
Sign, Cloud.
P.S I really want to see the snow with you again...
Gaia's Champion put down his pencil and looked over the letter one last time. He is now at Mideel, the town on the most southern island of the world map, where he had found a quiet inn and finished his last letter to Moon. Tomorrow morning, he will head North-West, towards Banora Village to deliver a package to Angeal.
Ooh...
Everybody's got something they had to leave behind
One regret from yesterday that just seems to grow with time
There's no use looking back or wondering ( or wondering )
How it could be now or might have been
Oh this I know but still I can't find ways to let you go
The dull blue eyes slowly turned towards the window, looking at the red orange setting sun over the wide seashore, the color reminding him a lot of the eyes that haunted him in his dreams for five years.
The blond hair Ex-SOLDIER hadn't aged during those five years, he still remained the same as the day he had defeated the Calamity of the Sky, but with half of his soul and heart torn apart by the death of Gaia's Secret Knight.
I've never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be with you
Maybe, I should have die that day, then Genesis' dream will be realize... Cloud thought as he picked up the letter and an empty bottle on the nightstand before he made his way out of the inn and walked down a small road through the thick wood that leads to the beach. He would have become the hero he had always wanted to be... I don't deserve that title...
Why...? He really wanted to ask Gaia. Why must he be the one who gives everything he have and receive nothing in return?
Somewhere in my memory
I've lost all sense of time
and tomorrow can never be cos yesterday is all that fills my mind
There's no use looking back or wondering ( or wondering )
How it should be now or might have been
Oh this I know but still I can't find ways to let you go
The sun had already disappeared and the dark curtain had already fallen when he reached the beach. He inhaled the scent of the salty water that the cold wind had brought to him and watched the dark blue sea's swirling waves as he waited just like every year.
At first there is nothing, but the howling sound of the wind and those of large crashing waves, then a howl different from the wind rang in the air and the waves suddenly quieted. At the far side of the seashore, threads of the Lifestreams and small fireflies-looking orbs swirled around with a green luminous mist covering them.
Mideel is the island that was the closest the Lifestreams' surface point, second to the Northern Crater at the top north of the world map, where JENOVA had crashed into Gaia two thousands years ago. Every year, whenever he was delivering package to one of these two locations, he would always stopped at the surface point to write a letter to Moon and throw it into the Planet's blood streams.
I've never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be
Cloud stared at the green light for a moment before he rolled up his letter and carefully place it into the bottle. After he was sure that it was tightly sealed, he threw it as far as he can and let it drifted towards the Lifestreams.
'Spirits of the Lifestreams... May this letter reach Moon safely... Please let my words reach him... My last words...' Cloud prayed silently to the wind as he watched the bottle slowly made its way to the green light.
He waited until the bottle was completely engulfed by the mist before he turned around and walked away.
Cloud...
You'll always be the dream that fills my head
Yes you will, say you will, you know you will
Oh baby, you'll always be the one I know I'll never forget
There's no use looking back or wondering
Because love is a strange and funny thing
No matter how I try and try I just can't say goodbye
No no no no
The blond hair swordsman stopped dead in his tracks at the sound of the melodious voice. He really wanted to turn around and see if it is Moon, but he knew that it'll never him, no matter how much he wished and dreamt about it. It will always be a memory that the Lifestreams replayed to him, like a broken recorder that continued to repeat and repeat the same thing.
And hearing that voice again had somehow made him felt sad and somehow angry...
Cloud took out from his shirt the necklace with the broken orb, which had lost its light ever since Moon had died. He stared at it for moment, slightly hoping that it will glow and tell him that the black winged man is near. It's just wishful thinking... The blond thought as he put the red orb back into his shirt.
I've never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby
I never found the words to say (words to say)
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be
He looked up at the starry sky and let out a heavy sigh. Seeing the bright little light reminded him of the little walk he had spent with the auburn hair man, one of his most precious and happiest moment of all.
'Good night... Moon...' Cloud whispered softly as he made his way back to the town. If he had turned around, he would have seen a lone shadowy figure looking at him among the Lifestreams.
A part of me will always be with you...
The song I used is called "Never had a Dream Come True" by S Club 7. I hadn't been able to get an idea out of my mind and couldn't complete the remaining chapters these days, but when I had accidently found this song, it had given me a power boost and now my chapters are almost finish!
Please forgive me if it took me some time to complete the last chapters, but I'm sure that it will be worth the wait.
Thank you everyone who review and read my story!
