NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: This is set 5 years after the original game so the characters have been involved in the whole Advent Children & Dirge of Cerberus sequels

It will feature the characters from FF VII as well as other's to be made up along the way, choose your role and RP :D

I'll take cloud Strife...mainly because it was him or Vincent but Cloud just wins

IC:

The sun just broke through the curtains in Cloud's bedroom in Seventh Heaven, he felt as if he couldn't escape from anything..not even the sun

"Cloud! It'sme Tifa...wake up will you..we've a job" Tifa shouted , the door was locked, Cloud wanted some privacy, he had for a while now
Gone was the Cloud who after Kadaj's attempt to bring back Sephiroth was no longer blaming himself for Aeris' death..he felt lighter then..but something had changed in him about half a year ago when he went to Nibeleheim mountains with Barret. he became violent and had to be restrained...no one knew why

A few people in Seventh Heaven attributed his mood swings to his over dependency on drink and the fact that because of Cloud, Marlene lay in hospital...he had accidentally placed Marlene into a coma after she ran out in front of his motorcycle...Cloud was inconcolable...it brought back memories of Aeris...he might have lost another innocent he cared for

"Leave me alone Tifa..please..I don't want to be disturbed..I'm...I'm tired...please just give me some space" Cloud replied, his body clinging to his bed as if he were frightenwd to let go...something just needed to be done before Cloud's guilt consumed him again

He managed to prop himself upright on the bed and walked over to the windos and moved the curtains aside and looked out over the city he lived, on the streets below he could see the hustle and bustle..he looked up, he was thankful that there was o plate there...and thankful Midgar was a dead ruin...a place where its secrets are left buried

The Deep Ground Soldiers....Sephiroth..Jenova....experimentation....Cloud had seen and heard it all before...but maybe that's what was missing...a challenge...a mission to do....maybe Cloud wasn't miserable..just bored

He quickly unlocked the door and brushed past Tifa who had been waiting there dilligently for ages

"No time to speak Tifa... I just realised something..something big..I'll tell you about it later ok, trust me" he shouted as he slammed the door and ran to his motorbike and roared off out of sight...Tifa was just dumbfounded..Cloud seemed happy...

Cloud tore through the open rocky outcrop that led to the dead city... the sight of so much torment and suffering of people, he saw smoke billowing from an outcrop in the ruins

"Looks like someone's been busy here lately" Cloud muttered as he sped towards the smoke, someone had been to the ruins lately, something Cloud didn't like. He kept on having these dreams of Zack in his head...of how he assumed Zack's identity and how Zack was in the otherworld with Aeris but more lately he kpet on thinking about Zack...something was bugging him, in hsi dreams he and Zack were the ones fighting instead of Sephiroth..something that confused him and upset him

"Stupid dreams...they're nothing" He had told Tifa who found him oen night screaming in his sleep just after the incident with Marlene

"Marlene..I'm sorry... I'll do my best for you though" He said to himself as he came to a halt, he walked through the ruins and saw a group of people next to Aeris' church... some of them carrying black materia into the church

"What the hell?" Cloud thought as he ran closer to the church, he slowly opened the church door to see several figures kneeling in a circle by the altar praying to a carved statue...of Sephiroth

"Sephiroth...the remnants... you sons of bitches!" he yelled as Cloud ran towards the mob assembled on the flowerbed, "I'd hate to be you!"

All but one of the gang fled, he was hooded in a robe, and held his hand out to Cloud and began to speak

"So this is what the legendary Cloud Strife has become... a foolish man who clears out dead churches...pitiful..whatever would Zack & Aeris think of you hehehe" the figure spoke, the anger in Cloud's eyes intensified, Cloud swung his sword slicing the Sephiroth statue diagonally before looking back at the figure who now was walking towards the church entrance

"Who the hell are you!?" Cloud asked, the hooded figure stopped and gave Cloud a few words before he walked away

"Ask Vincent... he seems to know why you've been having these dreams...ask him where to find Vance... maybe your answers about Zack will come clear"

Cloud rushed towards the figure before being propelled backwards by the figures unknown power... Cloud's head was gripped by visions of Sephiroth..it was so similar the power and pain he felt

"Ask Vincent..." the figure said as he walked away...Clouds eyes grew weary because of the pain, he passed out soon after