Saturday, April 17, 2004

Nothing much is happening today. I just finished reading a FF7 fanfic online. It was pretty sad cuz it takes place after the end of the game itself. Aeris returns( with Sephiroth, who is no longer under Jenova's control, and her cousin Tayeko, a fellow ancient who was Sephiroth's friend but he doesn't remember her.)Cloud obssesses over Aeris once more, much to Tifa's dismay.
Tifa, full of sorrow, leaves without saying a word to anyone. She meets up with Zack, who is also alive, and she helps him to regain his memory. When he hears of Cloud and Aeris, he is devastated, and finds himself falling for Tifa.
Eventually, Zack and Tifa are caught by the Turks and taken to Rufus Shinra, who is still alive and is trying to regain public favour. The only way he can do this is by marrying Tifa, or having a child with her. After all, she was one of the Protectors of the Planet. Tifa is unwilling, so he takes her by force.
Cloud an the others are watching the news when they see Tifa at a press conference, and Rufus announces that they are to be married. Cloud knows something is wrong, and he goes off to find Tifa alone. Aeris tries to stop him, and he casts the Sleep spell on her.
Eventually, when Tifa is rescued, she says she wasn't feeling well. Aeris, using her Ancient skills, can sense the presence of another life in her body. In other words, Tifa's pregnant. Cloud throws a fit because he knows it's not his child, but Tifa is too embarrassed to tell him about Rufus. Zack is accused as being the father, as he and Tifa had spent some time together in a Junon inn.
Meanwhile, Hojo is alive again and has restored Jenova in a human-like form. Jenova takes over Cloud again, causing him to attack Tifa, by slashing at her stomach and almost killing the baby.
Tifa is rushed to the hospital, where they remove the child and place it in an artificial womb. The baby has lost some blood, and if Tifa gives up any more, she will die. Zack volunteers, and the others find that even though his blood is a match, he is not the father. They didn't have the courage to tell Cloud at the moment.
Cloud eventually recovers from his guilt and finds the courage to face Tifa again when her wounds were sufficiently healed. Initially she is very afraid of him, but she slowly begins to trust him again. That was the most touching scene in the entire story. Cloud enters Tifa's hospital room, where she is packing her things to leave. As soon as she sees him standing there, she drops everything she has and takes a few shaky steps away from him as he makes his advance. She eventually finds herself against a wall and sinks to her knees, crying "Please, don't hurt me, Cloud." Cloud comes over to her, a single tear also escaping his eye at the thought that he had harmed Tifa so badly that she was afraid of him. He went over to her and grasps her hand in his, and tells her that everything is okay now, and that he loves her so much and would never hurt her again. Then a mushy kiss and hug scene follows.
Meanwhile, Sephiroth finds himself falling in love with Aeris' cousin, Tayeko. Jenova tries to take over his mind again, by somewhat questionable means -let's just say if she's his mom it's kinda like incest- but he's in love with Tayeko and he refuses.
Eventually Avalanche forms an alliance with Shinra and the Turks in a desperate attempt to stop Jenova. They travel to an alternate galaxy via a rocket-I forgot to metion that Jenova whisked Sephiroth, Aeris and Tayeko off to that galaxy- and along the way Zack decides to tell Cloud and Tifa the truth: he's not the father. Tifa is at first afraid to tell Cloud for fear that he will be mad at her again, but he reassures her that it will be fine, and that all she has to do is be honest with him. When she tells him the truth, he threatens Rufus.
Everything turns out fine in the end, and everyone is coupled off, except for maybe Cait Sith, Reno and Rude. There was this one point during the story where Yuffie goes out with Reno, and he recruits her to the Turks. She allows Tifa to escape from Shinra HQ, and she was fired.
Red XIII meets another survivor of his species, and Lucrecia returns to Vincent. Barret meets a dancer called Dion. Of course, there's Cid and Shera, Zack and Aeris, and Sephiroth and Aeris' cousin, who end up getting married at the same time as Cloud and Tifa in the end.
I'll probably post later.

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