Zack, with the help of Vincent, lowered Clouds coffin into the soil in the old church.
It was now almost 6pm and Zack had spent all day getting ready for the funeral and digging a suitable hole. He was wearing a black shirt and black jeans. Zack had also gotten Cloud ready, dressing him in his Black clothes and shoulder pad with a wolf on it. He put Cloud in his coffin and sat his favourite toy chocobo next to his head. The coffin was quite small and made of a reddish looking wood. In the centre of the lid was the same wolf that was on Clouds shoulder pad.
Once Clouds grave was covered over Zack stabbed Clouds fusion sword into the ground next to the grave to act as a gravestone. The grave was in the centre of the flower bed and Zack made sure none of the flowers were destroyed. The only clue anything had happened there was the overturned soil covering the grave and Clouds sword stood in the middle. The flowers would grow back. Tifa had planted some Chocobells (Like bluebells only bright yellow like chocobos) on Clouds grave because they were his favourite flower.
Zack spent the rest of the day sat next to the grave. It felt so unnatural, looking at a grave and knowing that it was Clouds. So much had happened so fast, Zack was struggling to make sense of it all. All he understood was that Clouds blood was on Kadaj's hands and that he had the Geostigma. Kadaj WOULD pay for killing Cloud, but until then Zack had to emotionally recover from the events of the past few days.
Zack woke up next to Clouds grave with a small red blanket over him. He could hear a faint noise coming from under the ground. It sounded like scraping and Zack could almost hear cries for help. "Oh great now I'm hearing things" Zack said holding his head in his hands. But the noise didn't stop. No matter how much Zack told himself it was all in his head or tried to think about something else the noise just went on and on. This didn't happen when Angeal or Aerith died, so why was it happening now?
"Okay there's only one way to prove to myself that I'm making this up" Zack said to himself as he began digging up Clouds grave. It didn't take to long because the dirt was already loose from yesterday. Zack got to Clouds coffin and took a deep breath.
"Its okay, Cloud wont mind. Does this make me crazy? Digging up my best friends grave to prove the noises I hear are all in my head?" When Zack said it back to himself it sounded a lot more like he was crazy.
Zack slowly pulled open the coffin. What he saw made him fall back in surprise. Clouds body was no were to be seen. A little blonde baby was sat up on a pile of Clouds clothes. The baby had big blue eyes and was wearing no clothes. The baby looked just like Cloud. The baby was Cloud.
Zack picked up the baby and sat it on his hip.
"Z...zaaa...zzzz" The baby started making noises and screwing his face up.
"Cloud?" Zack asked still unsure if the baby actually was Cloud. The baby's face lit up and it looked up at Zack. The raven haired dude smiled and the longer he looked at Cloud the happier he got. Cloud wasn't dead!
Zack found himself bouncing up and down shouting "Clouds not dead! Clouds not dead! CLOUD IS NOT DEAD" Over and over again getting louder each time. Cloud was giggling and clapping his hands as Zack jumped around. Zack held Cloud out at arms length and stared at him.
"Cloud you're not dead!But you are a baby now...bet hey this will be fun!" Zack grinned. Cloud looked back at Zack and held his arms out to him. Zack got the message and hugged Cloud as tightly as he could. Cloud shivered a little and snuggled into Zack.
"Aww your naked!" Zack cooed and Cloud flushed red which made Zack coo more and Cloud go redder and redder.
Eventually Zack grabbed the red blanket he had slept with and rapped it around the baby Cloud. The bundle of blonde spiky baby snuggled into the blanket and started falling asleep.
"Z...zaaa...zaackie..." Cloud struggled to say his friends name with his new baby sized mouth. Zack looked down at Cloud.
"What's up kiddo?"
"H..hungwy" Cloud whined, "Can we go hwome?"
"Heh yeah sure" Zack smiled.