Again no more disclaimers if you don't know by now then you need a head check.
Well that's that. Now it's out. Clouds dirty or more or less shiny secret.
Tifa has officially found the box and zack has more than made a return. Koty has unleashed a strange new materia and now comes the healing process.
This will be another cloud moment. Basically filler so don't like it wait for the actual action. Now onward unto the unknown, reader. Please people review. I need some feedback.
Get up.:
"Cloud" there was a voice. Young female and kind. "You said you weren't leaving. Are you going to break your promise…. Go home cloud."
"Who…… where am I" he rose to find white walls. Or no walls at all but sheer white atmosphere.
"You said you were going home. Hehehe" the voice laughed at him "this isn't home….. You don't have to be here. Go on. She's waiting for you"
He found her. Aerith. She was smiling and looked at him with almost a sense of understanding.
"Aerith…. I……. I'm so sorry……. I don't think…….. I could…….. I just couldn't let her go"
"You're not doing it right…. Here let me help" she giggled before her eyes turned a cold mako green.
He saw the scene unfold in front of him. Sephiroth had returned. Zack was standing before him. Buster sword in hand but something strange they were not fighting. They were working together. In front of the men was a great darkness. And on the other side of that darkness was tifa.
She was wounded. Bleeding and pale from lack of warmth.
"What the….. Tifa……" he realized he was dreaming. "It's too real to be a dream………. But…."
Zack and sephiroth both hurled themselves at the woman only to be swallowed by the darkness.
"I don't need you. I can take care of myself" she was injured but her voice was different almost demonic in tone. "Go ahead and leave."
He looked around only to find that the scene had returned to its white.
"He brings disaster. He hunts that which doesn't exist." Aerith was scared now. Hiding like a child behind cloud as a large dark figure approaches him.
"The paradox" he realized the creature from earlier "I'm not gona run from you"
"No……….. He's coming." Aerith had disappeared and now koty stood behind him
"This is the path where our worlds collide. We will be one in spirit. We seek now the same prize. We will give you power strife. Power power beyond your wildest dreams." Koty turns into the creature and now stares at cloud with a pleading look. "Yes power. The power to defeat. The power to defend. The power to abolish your past."
"What……… do you mean my sins will be forgiven?"
"We will give you power to keep that which you cherish so much"
"What do I have to do" he couldn't believe his own words. As if he himself hadn't spoke but some primeval force used him as a conduit. "I won't allow her to suffer anymore."
"We seek the same prize……. Claim her. Yes take her." The creature was not exactly being straight forward. "Take her to us and we shall give her to you…….. Forever"
"Cloud you can't do this….." aeriths voice was heard over the creature's dark laughter.
"Silence witch……" it screamed and aerith was once again nowhere to be found. "Bring her to us….. We will help… you"
"So if I bring her to you you'll keep her safe……."
"Yesssss………. Safe….. Yes very safe…."
"Why don't I believe?"
"Because of the puppet man……. The devil man……. He is dangerous………. You can feel it……….. Can you not" the creature turns from its original form into koty and back again.
"But koty wouldn't do that……. He……. He doesn't seem the type"
"Lies……. He is monstrous….. He wants you to believe his innocence." The creatures hiss was so close to pained that cloud almost flinched at it. "He wants to take her from you…… he wants to separate you from them." The creature then takes on the forms of tifa and then Denzel and then Marlene. "Those that you hold so close."
"I don't believe you……… what are you……."
"We are time. We are order. We are paradox" at these words cloud felt himself being pulled inward towards the monster "we are many we are one. We are that which you most despise. We are that which you cherish."
Then as if out of nowhere he heard a spine chillingly familiar voice "and you are now trying to claim a prey that is not yours." The voice of sephiroth was heard as the creature howled in pain.
"sephiroth." He knew the voice and recognized it as his nemesis. "How."
"Welcome cloud welcome to purgatory." He slashed at the creature and it ran into the distance and disappeared. "But now is not the time. Oh no. we will settle this in another place. But first know that you are mine…… cloud wake up……" the voice turns from sephiroths maniacal laugh to the gentle sobs of tifa as his eyes slowly open.
"Cloud get up……… you can't go…" she was clearly very upset. The slight dampness of his face and shirt told him that she had been crying.
"Tifa" his voice was barely a whisper. "Are…… are you okay"
"Oh god…… cloud……. Don't scare me like that again you asshole." He cursed his luck. Now she was angry with him "no. no no….. I didn't mean that. Just …….. Don't leave anymore please."
"Tifa can I tell you something"
"Sure go ahead" she dried her eyes and pasted a smile on just for him.
"I don't wana get up"
